A/n: Sorry for the long wait guys. PARCC testing is coming up so what better way to prepare students than the stress them the hell out and swamp them with tests and work? Ugh! Thank you Scarred Sword Heart, Stephiel9816, Nobody, piccolaYugi1 and Guest.

Scarred Sword Heart- Agreed. Even in the manga he seemed to regain most of his sanity after 1 chapter :/

piccolaYugi1- I'm sorry I'm not sure what you mean by 'the history'. Can you be a bit more specific? Thanks :).

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"Yuugi is somethin' wrong?"

Yuugi snapped out of his thoughts and looked at his friend Jonouchi. Anzu and Honda were there too looking at him with slight concern written on their faces.

Their was something wrong. Something seriously wrong but as to not worry his friends Yuugi lied.

"I'm fine guys," Yuugi replied hoping his friends would buy it.

"Are you sure you've been more quiet than usual," Anzu replied crossing her arms.

"Yes I'm sure just tired."

"Me too. Classes seemed to just drag on today and never end not to mention their was an emergency beautification members meeting after classes," Honda said.

"Oh what did someone step on a flower?" Jonouchi snorted obnoxiously.

"For you information it was about-"

"So did you guys hear some kids pranked Mr. Brown. They hid in the ceiling tiles and when he walked into the classroom they poured paint all over him," Anzu interrupted as she really didn't want to hear about Honda's club duties.

Jonouchi and Honda exchanged looks before they burst out laughing.

Anzu blinked, "Was it something I said?" (A/n: For those of you who are lost remember a chapter ago when I mentioned they were doing a prank involving paint and a ladder?)

As the conversation continued Yuugi retreated back into his thoughts.

'Why do I keep passing out? Is there something wrong with me?'

After a couple more hours of playing games and chatting the four decided to head back to their dorms. When Yuugi got to his he plopped down on the bed and looked at his puzzle that hung from his neck.

"I just don't know what to do. Weird stuff is happening and I feel so lost."

Yuugi pressed the puzzle to his forehead and felt it's cool metallic texture on his skin. A tear fell out of one of Yuugi's closed eye's do to his frustration.

"I just wish somebody could give me an answer."

Suddenly Yuugi felt something on his shoulder. It was vague but it was there. The boy opened his eyes and looked his side the see another person standing there not looking at him but straight ahead instead. Yuugi flinched back causing him to fall off the bed. He laid on the floor, his hands supporting him so he could get a better look at him. That guy, he looked so familiar. That's when it hit Yuugi.

"Y-you're the guy from my dream! You're Yami!" He exclaimed getting up.

Yami smirked and leaned against the wall now facing Yuugi.

"Looks like you did remember my name. Well done." The spirit spoke.

That's when Yuugi noticed something different about Yami. He seemed kind of transparent. You could see through him but at the same time it was a bit hard to do so. Almost like a ghost. Almost as if Yami could read Yuugi's mind he said,

"This form you're seeing is just a projection of the puzzle. Only you can see me. If anyone were to come in right now they would think your talking to the wall."

Yuugi turned his back towards Yami and started hitting his head against the wall. Yami raised an eyebrow.

"What are you doing?"

"I'm going insane. I'm going insane," Yuugi mumbled as he continued to hit his head.

Yuugi continued to hit his head on the wall until he heard a fist pound on his door.

"HEY STOP THAT BANGING! I'M TRY TO SLEEP!" He heard an angry voice yell before the owner of the voice stomped away.

Yuugi seized his head banging. He sat on his head and started to pinch his arm.

"...ow….ow…"

The spirit raised drifted towards the bed and sat down next to Yuugi looking at his arm curiously.

"What are you doing now?"

"Trying to wake myself up...ow…" Yuugi said nonchalantly as he continued to pinch himself.

Yami rolled his eyes and grabbed Yuugi's hand. Yuugi could have resisted if he wanted to but decided not to and instead just kept his gaze down on the carpeted floor.

"Yuugi this isn't a dream. One you solved the puzzle I was unleashed and became bound to you,"

"So you're telling me that this is real?" Yuugi asked.

"Yes."

The two were silent. It was a lot to take in and even though he was naive Yuugi still wasn't entirely convinced.

"So um...how come you never showed yourself to me earlier?"

"You never asked."

Yuugi's reaction to the answer must have been funny because Yami chuckled and tried to ruffle Yuugi's already wild hair, however do to him being most transparent he was pretty unsuccessful. Another silence filling the room and it was kind of unsettling, until Yuugi decided to ask a question.

"Do you want to play a game?"

"What game is it?" Yami questioned.

Yuugi slid off of his bed and walked over to the trunk in front of it. Yami watched curiously as Yuugi started to move things around.

"Ah-ha!"

Yuugi pulled out a large brown box with the word GAMES scribbled on the side in black marker. He dropped the box with a thud due to it being heavy and opened it up revealing its contents. Yami walked over and peered inside. Yuugi seemed to really like games especially ones that involved strategy. Yami also noted that most of them appeared to be single player.

"What's this?" Yami asked pointing to a box that showed 2 boys dropping red and black circles into a yellow grid.

"Oh that's connect four. What you do is you drop your color pieces into the slot on top of the yellow part. First to get four of their color in a row wins. Do you want to play?"

"Sure."

After Yuugi set it up the two started to play. Yami couldn't really pick up his pieces let alone drop them into place so he simply just pointed where he wanted his piece to go and Yuugi dropped them for him.

"You're quite the opponent I must say," Yami suddenly said 5 minutes into the game.

Yugi smiled, "Thanks. You're not too bad yourself."

Yami suddenly smirked, "However I think you made a grave mistake."

Yuugi tilted his head, "Huh?"

"Drop my piece there," Yami said pointed to the farthest left slot. Yuugi did so and couldn't believe it.

"Why didn't I block that? Wow I never lost connect four to anyone except my…"

Yuugi stopped abruptly. Yami looked at him expecting him to finish. Instead Yuugi said something else.

"You know it's kind of late and I'm tired. I better get to bed. Good night Yami," Yuugi said jumping into bed as Yami disappeared back into the puzzle. Once Yuugi was sure Yami was gone only then did he start to cry.

'Grandpa, I miss you so much.'

A/n: Well this took a dark turn. Anyways let me know what you think and if you're wondering why updates for this story in particular are taking so long, I have 2 reasons. 1 Is that I did say in the beginning that I would not be updating this one as frequently as my others. The other reason is because I just haven't been feeling very motivated recently. If you guys know a way to make me more motivated to write more chapters please let me know. Anyways tell me what you think and see ya later!