Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ You're All I Need ❯ Chapter 1

Disclaimer: Sadly, I still don't own Yugioh just this story if it can, in fact, be called that.

From the Author: This is the long awaited sequel to my first Yugioh fic Is This Real...Or Not? It's basically Yami's thoughts about Yugi after the confrontations with Shadi. How I actually managed to turn this fic out I honestly have no idea but it appears that I do my best writing while depressed. Don't ask about the title, I really couldn't think of anything and just decided to take a phrase from one of my favorite songs Simple and Clean from the game Kingdom Hearts. Any ways, on with the fic!

/blah/ is Yugi talking down the mind link without knowing it

//blah// is Yami speaking to Yugi

You're All I Need

I remember when he was first given the puzzle. When I first sensed him I thought he was like all the others, heartless and greedy. Then I felt his loneliness, something I had begun to think only I understood. I discovered his innocence and purity after that. Gods his innocence. I couldn't help but crave more.

I watched him after that, or at least became more aware of him. I felt his pain every time he worked on the puzzle after getting beat up. I couldn't help but feel my anger rage out of control but his gentle forgiveness was a balm to my soul and eased my fury.

I'll never forget the day he completed the puzzle. I'll always remember the intense grief he felt when he found the last piece missing soon to be replaced by blinding joy at having it returned safely. When he slipped that final piece into the puzzle it was as if the whole world exploded taking me with it before things settled down once again and I found myself sharing my other's body and our consciousness bound together. I found I understood the strange world that I was flung into thanks to my other's memories.

I was enraged by some of the memories that I saw. How could any one harm such an innocent being? Again his gentleness soothed my fury and reigned in the beast that had been unleashed. I vowed then and there that I would always protect him from harm, including the things I did to protect him. I soon expanded that vow to include his friends and family as will once I found out how loyal he was to them. I was actually glad that his former bully became his friend since it made my other happy.

I was glad he didn't question his lapses of memory to deeply, it made protecting him easier. Besides, he needn't know of such horrors as what I did to ensure his safety and that of his friends. Despite this I was mildly surprised that he questioned it at all but then my other is quite smart.

Two more friends came into my other's life, the second of less significance than the first but still to be regarded as important. Then again, everyone is important to my other, that's just one of the things that makes him who he is. I was appalled that my other's acquaintance would even suggest that he part with our puzzle. The fact of the matter was, though, I was terrified to be without my other's light for any length of time. He was a friend of my other's less important friend, though, so his request was granted and the puzzle was spirited away to only the gods know where.

I couldn't help but feel an intense unease grow within me the longer the puzzle remained in that man's possession; my other is smart but also quite naive at times. So I waited and remained in tune with the puzzle and my other as well as I could. I was greatly troubled at the feeling of another magic besides my own in such close proximity to my other but could do nothing since the puzzle was still in that fool's possession.

I was quite annoyed that foolish Egyptian man was able to enter our minds. I assured myself that I would make him pay for this intrusion and arrogance. I somehow knew that this man was the source of the magic I felt earlier so I knew to be cautious, but this was my soul room and in the end I reigned supreme here.

The relief I felt when the puzzle was returned was beyond description. I was finally no longer confined to the chilling darkness that fills my soul room. I wouldn't wish such darkness on any man, but then again I have done worse in my day.

I had hoped that would be the only time either I or my other would be forced to face that man but I was mistaken. If he truly believed that he could harm my other's friends then he was greatly mistaken. He would surely pay with his defeat. I had been furious when he dared to use the female in our games, but I let nothing through to my other as always; he needn't know. Unfortunately, I allowed my control to slip and my other was exposed momentarily to our final game.

I couldn't help but sigh to myself when it was all over and all of my other's friends were once again safe and whole. While they had moved on, the damage to my other had been done. He began to question his memory lapses and I know he has gotten a new awareness of me now that he didn't have before.

I can feel his mind reaching out to me now without him truly even knowing it trying to find the answers to the questions that arose from the Egyptian's cryptic statements. His mind is trying to find me even now as he contemplates on what he had been told. I can hear his mind whisper its uncertainties.

/Am I insane?/

//No, you're not.//

My brow furrows and my eyes blaze with my fury. Curse you Shadi for doing this to my other, for making him question his very sanity. Things were fine until you came along.

/Now I'm not so sure./

//I'm here.//

My other, please stay strong as you always seem to do even in the worst of times. I promise someday your questions will be answered.