Puzzleshipping Ficlet from Tumblr

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*Note: Not edited in the slightest.
Originally posted here on August 5, 2015.


Anonymous asked: puzzleshipping, fourteen?

Super short thing~ just to let you know, I haven’t written anything in like a year and a half at least and it’s been forever since I’ve watched Yu-Gi-Oh! so yeah~! I hope you like it!

They haven’t really discussed exactly what the consequences of the duel will be. Everyone’s, of course, wondering how life will be if Yugi wins. Yami will be gone, finally able to rejoin all those he didn’t remember he had lost all those thousands of years ago. Since Yugi completed the puzzle, they’ve all become such good friends, been through so much together, and they’ll all miss him.

But the thing is that nobody else has had to share brainspace with him. So while everyone else is wondering what they’ll do after Yami is gone, Yugi is faced with being alone in his head, his body, for the first time in so long. And he wants to help Yami get home, he really does, but he wonders if he’s even strong enough to defeat the Pharaoh. Yami is confident in him, and he’s grown so much from the timid kid he was, but there’s still that doubt.

And then when the duel is almost over, and Yugi has those last few moves to make to defeat Yami, he doesn’t know if he can. He knows he has so many friends, he won’t be alone, not physically at least. But going from having someone so close your very souls are connected to being utterly alone is daunting.

And while Yugi knows that Yami is ready to go, he doesn’t know if he can do it. He doesn’t know if he can let Yami go. Yugi feels so selfish for feeling that way and can’t look Yami in the eyes. Who is he to keep Yami from his loved ones?

But when he hears a soft hey he looks up to Yami’s smiling face.

“Yugi, it will be alright. You will be alright. It doesn’t matter where I go. I’m with you, okay? Always,” and Yami’s smile is gentle, and his eyes are full of love and pride.

Yugi smiles, nods his head as his lips form a quiet yeah and is finally able to stand tall and finish the duel.