"Aibou should be home soon," Yami muttered to himself as he hurriedly threw on a jacket and shoes before rushing out the door of the Kame Game Shop, his Millennium Puzzle clanking on its chain to the same loudness of the bell. "I hate the fact that his bus stop is 2 miles away but, I can't do anything to the school system or else, well never mind the powers of chaos and the Shadow Realm." He sighed as he continued to bolt through the normally crowded streets of Domino City, his tri-colored hair whipping around his face as he quickly brushed his blond bangs from his eyes. His crimson eyes glowered as he whirled around to a corner before turning past to run through an abandoned archway, but quickly opened once more to their normal, authoritative glow.

A pair of eerily green eyes watched from afar, fusing with the darkness of the alleyways before vanishing completely. All that followed…was a scream.

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"Yug'," an overly exuberant voice shouted into the ears of a small teenager whose only response was an annoyed chuckle.

"Jonouchi, you could try to not give me a permanent deafness in one ear," Yugi laughed as his large amethyst eyes sparkled with his childish nature. "I'm pretty sure Kaiba can even hear you on the 100th floor of his building."

"If I could, I would put it off as a mutt howling because his master forgot his bone at home." A curt voice spoke with sarcasm as a tall brunet with crystal like blue eye brushed past, purposely shoving Jonouchi as his gravity defying trench coat billowed in the wind.

"I'M NOT A DOG MONEYBAGS!!" Jonouchi shouted and proceeded to run after the brunet, raising his fists and threatening to knock the smug smirk off the CEO's face. Yugi only sighed as he watched the two proceed to banter back and force, pushing and shoving before both entered a sleek, black limo and drove off.

"Hey Yugi," a shrill girlish voice laughed as Anzu appeared next to the small boy, ruffling his tri-colored hair causing the boy to squirm with giggles.

"Anzu stop it." Yugi laughed as he responded to the grin on the girl's face. "What are you doing here?"

"I decided to stop in this way because I'm on my way to Honda's and saw you walking on your own so I decided, for the sake of friendship, to drop in and give you some company."

"Thanks Anzu, but you really didn't have to. Yami-kun normally meets up with me in the next block or two."

"Yami huh?" Anzu giggled. "You two seem to be getting along quite well, not that you didn't have a strong bond before, well, now that he has a body of his own."

"He's like my big brother so of course we get along better for the most part." Yugi smiled. "It is a lot less awkward because he isn't considering himself a voice in my head that might drive me insane."

"Heehee," Anzu smiled.

"Also, he has his memories now so it won't feel so empty through our mind link when I discuss memories."

"Mmhm, um…" Anzu started.

"What?" Yugi asked with a slight edge of concern in his voice.

"You said Yami normally meets up with you in a block or two but well," Anzu bit her bottom lip as she began to look around at her surroundings.

"Yeah." Yugi began to look around also. "We normally meet up at the Java coffee shop."

"Yugi, we just passed there 5 minutes ago and I didn't see Yami…actually, the shop was closed."

Yugi's eyes widened at the statement and looked behind him. Sure enough, the coffee shop was there and it was closed. There was also no tan, royal, and leather-clad pharaoh in sight. "I'll call him through the mind link."

Anzu nodded as watched thoughtfully as the smaller version of the missing pharaoh closed his childish eyes and concentrated. Suddenly, the latter collapsed with an obvious pain laced expression spreading around his features.

"YUGI, what's wrong?" Yugi didn't respond as he quickly picked himself up and ran. "YUGI!!" Anzu raced after the smaller, bolting through the streets, passed closed shops, under an archway and finally, she stopped in front of an old abandoned shed on the outskirts of a derailed train station. She saw the door slightly ajar and a small shadow inside.

"Yugi, what are we doing here? This place has been empty for years now." Anzu walked in and saw what made her heart stop and the world freeze over. Yugi was kneeling in front of a floor that was littered with shiny sparkles. Focusing her panicked eyes, she saw the sparkles were golden and in different shapes, some drenched in a deep maroon color. Yugi had a handful of which tears were dripping at a steady pace onto them, while fingers fumbled with desperation to put them together. There lay, on the floor, parts drenched in blood was the smashed, golden puzzle, of the great Pharaoh Atemu.