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oh snap, can i be yami?

so should we just start and wait for other people to join or what?

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"aibou..."

The spirit of the puzzle appeared, translusently, to his young charge. he had sensed the young ones feelings of discouragment. He had noticed that yugi had been feeling this way a lot lately, but he couldn't figure out why.

"something is bothering you. what is it?"

he asked as he walked beside his best friend, his gaze downcast towards the ground like it usually was when he was concentrating on something, and right now it was yugi.

"..and what is prom? its been on your mind lately."

yami looked down lower, kind of feeling bad for prying into yugi's mind without the others permission. he had just been curious about why yugi was feeling the way he did, and whatever was bothering him had to do with that word.

yami listened intently as yugi explained what the prom was, and he smiled. It seemed like a big deal, and it also seemed that yugi was excited about it. did yugi have a date? yami couldn't be it for obvious reasons, and he sighed. he wanted to do something special for the small boy, but being just a mere spirit, it made things difficult.

though all his thoughts about prom and yugi's possible date vanished from his mind when he heard yugi's next words.

"an answer?"

he asked, not understanding at first before he thought about the words more and a smile came to his lips. Yami never really showed his excitment like yugi would, jumping around and such, but he had a large smile covering his face that could express that same excitment that any amount of jumping and laughing and running around could show.

"lets go and see her then, aibou!"

Atem stood there, listening to ishizu through yugi's ears and smiled. he could have his own body. he could be seperated from yugi and be recagnized by others as his own person. Yugi can finally have his life back not to mention atem can as well.

"egypt?"

atem's intrest peaked higher when he head ishizu mention his homeland. he wouldn't mind seeing how it changed. he wouldn't mind being back in his homeland, and the land of his fathers.

"it would be nice to go home again."

he said as he looked excitedly at yugi.

"lets do it aibou."

he said, not realizing yugi worry in yugi's heart

Atem closed his own eyes when he felt a sort of tugging on his soul, and before too much longer a new sensation over came him. he could feel things, and not psychically like he would through yugi, but physically. he felt a pressure on his cheek, a soft pressure that sent chills down his spin. he reached up and grabed whatever had been touching him, apply the pressure to his new skin. once he found the source, the hand he opened his deep crimson eyes and realized he was looking right into yugi's violet ones. yugi's pale skin, contrasted by atems egyptian bronze skin.

"ai..aibou..."

he smile slowly found its way to atems lips as he realized he was finally really free from the confinds of the puzzle. he had his own body after 5000 years

Atem looked at yugi a bit confused. he had made such an assumption so quickly. He blinked as he watched yugi start to head off for the door. Did a feeling of hurt come through their slowly dying link? or was the link gone and the feeling of hurt eminated from the small boy.

"you might want to talk to him, pharaoh. perhaps going to egypt can wait a little while. i think you're still needed here."

Ishizu said, obviously seeing yugi's hurt as he left. so it wasn't just atems link with yugi that signaled something was up. Ishizu noticed to. Atem blinked and ran after yugi, catching up to him outside. he grabed the others wrist to stop him from walking any farther, yugi having not stopping when he called after him.

"aibou...."

he said twirling the boy around so he faced him.

"...im not going to egypt. At least not now. I would like to go someday, but i wasn't planning on leaving Domino."

he said, trying to give yugi a reassuring smile.

"come on yugi, you're my partner. i wouldn't leave you behind. what kind of friend would i be?"

he asked at his comment, hoping yugi would get a small chuckle from it too. He then sat on the top step to the museum, pulling yugi's arm gently to get him to sit beside him as he looked over at the setting sun.

"one day ill go back to egypt, meet the men ishizu was talking about, and everything. but when that day does come, you'll come with me, wont you? after all, we've been together with everything else. heck, you even followed me into my own memories. So its only fitting that you and i would go to egypt together to visit the modern version of my home."