My Reason For Being Is You, a Yu-Gi-Oh fanfic

My Reason For Being Is You

By: Pichu Star

Revision 1.0 (1/15/05): Revising this fic, along with all my other ones.

This was my very first attempt at a Yu-Gi-Oh fanfic. Despite its short length, I was surprised at all the reviews I got on it. (shrugs) It was written almost two years ago, but it's still a fairly well-written piece, considering my writing has improved greatly since then.

I hope you enjoy this. It's from Yami Yugi's POV.

Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh.

I am the dark spirit of the Millennium Puzzle. I was once a pharaoh of Egypt, but now I’m just a magical essence in this Millennium Item, a yami. I guess I can be called Yami Yugi. But it makes me feel unimportant, like I’m not my own person. Oh, well.My previous life is of no matter, anyway.

I lay dormant within the Puzzle, waiting for a host, the person who would release me and whom I would merge with. I was cursed being a spirit of the Millennium Puzzle, for it meant I couldn’t pass on into the afterlife. But maybe that was a good thing, for I would never have met Yugi.

Yugi Mutoh is the name of the boy who solved the Millennium Puzzle. He unlocked the magic, and set me free. I became a part of him, but I didn’t let him know who I was right away. I decided to observe young Yugi, and see what he was like. Then I could work with him or totally control him, whichever I preferred. And what I saw made me see the whole world in a new light.

Never before had I realized that such a gentle, kind person could ever exist. And he was my partner, my aibou. He was caring to all of his friends, and even in the face of danger he wouldn’t back down. Instead, he stood up to them, fighting to protect his friends, even if it meant he got hurt in the process.

I was quite impressed. Yugi was rather short for his age, so I had expected him to be overly shy and wimpy, I guess. But he wasn’t really like that, and I admired him for it. So I decided to help him out. Whenever Yugi used the powers of the Millennium Puzzle, he merged with my mind (even though he didn’t know it at first), and I gave him helpful advice or strategy ideas whenever he played Duel Monsters. But I mostly let him do what he wanted. He was quite skilled in the game due to the fact that his Grandpa taught him all the rules and strategies of the game. I myself quite enjoyed watching and helping Yugi duel, for it reminded me of the Shadow Games I had played in my past life. In fact, I think that’s what it is based off of.

Yugi didn’t realize that he had an ancient spirit inhabiting his body for a while. He first acknowledged my presence when the yami of one of Yugi’s friends, Ryou Bakura, took us all to the Shadow Realm and dueled me, with our souls and the Millennium Puzzle on the line. I won, but now Yugi knew that I was there with him. But he didn’t take it badly. He just accepted it casually, as if he knew I was there all along. Maybe he did.

The day I hurt Yugi is a memory I would like to erase, but what happened, happened. I can’t change it. Seto Kaiba challenged Yugi to a duel for the right to enter Pegasus’s castle in the tournament. Kaiba was dueling for the chance to save his brother’s soul from Pegasus. Yugi was dueling for the chance to save his Grandpa’s soul. It seemed that Yugi would lose when Kaiba brought out the Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon, but, with my help, he—we—devised a strategy that brought down the dragon. However, Kaiba then stood up on the wall of the castle top, risking a fall to his death in order to assure his win. He knew Yugi would be compassionate and lose rather than risk hurting another person. I, however, wasn’t as compassionate as Yugi. I was willing to go on and win, no matter what. I’ve always been a person who was willing to win no matter what. It was only the fact that Yugi struggled against me that he managed to save Kaiba’s life.

Yugi was hurt by the loss of the duel, but he was hurt even more by the fact that I had tried to take control, to go all the way in the name of a win. He vowed at first that he would never duel again, but with the help of his friends, he got enough confidence to go and continue the tournament. But he was still highly suspicious of me, and would not take my advice, even when he was losing a match to the duelist Mai Valentine. Fortunately, it was when I apologized for my actions and sincerely pledged my heart to helping Yugi that he trusted me once more.

Now, in this battle against Pegasus, the creator of Duel Monsters, I realize that everything is here to be won and to be lost. The souls of Yugi’s Grandpa and Seto and Mokuba Kaiba are at stake. If we lose, they are lost forever, Yugi’s soul will be captured as well, and the Millennium Puzzle will be his. Losing is not an option. We were losing early in the match due to the fact that Pegasus could read our minds and our cards, but Yugi thought up a strategy that brought us back in the game. We used this “Mind Shuffle” strategy to prevent Pegasus’s Millennium Eye from reading our thoughts.

But Pegasus is not to be beaten easily, as we soon found out. He took us to the Shadow Realm, where Yugi’s mind could not deal with the stress of handling our monsters. Yugi continued to be brave, though. He tried to continue on with our strategy so that Pegasus could not gain the advantage again, but he couldn’t. With Pegasus’s last attack, Yugi’s soul was gone. I tried to reach out to him once more, but couldn’t.

I can’t describe the amount of guilt I feel for this. Now it seems hopeless, that I can’t win this duel. If I lose, all is lost. But I must find a way to keep fighting. I can’t give up; I can’t let Yugi’s sacrifice be in vain.

Oh, gods, no! I can’t say that. Yugi is everything to me. He is my whole world. Without him, I am nothing. He has taught me more than I would have ever learned in ten lifetimes. I have got to find hope; I have got to believe that Yugi will be all right, that I can win this duel.

As I silently shed tears, I look for you, Yugi. Where are you now? Please come back to me. Please speak to me and tell me you’re ok. For you are my reason for being… you are the light of my life…

And that's it... obviously, this was written after the episode where Yugi disappears during the duel against Pegasus in the Shadow Realm (Duelist Kingdom arc).

When writing, the fic was not meant to be yaoi, but if you would rather perceive it that way, then by all means, do. You're the reader, you take what you like from it.

I have no other intentions of writing any more Yu-Gi-Oh fanfics--this and my other one-shot are the only ones you'll probably ever see from me. The Yu-Gi-Oh section of fanfiction. net frightens me... Anyways, I have enough fanfiction I'm working on as it is.

I hope you enjoyed this little one-shot. Please review below... thank you... (flies off)

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