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[note_atem]

Who: Atem, Yuugi, and Kaiba [THAT CAN BE POSTING ORDER TOO I GUESS?]
What: Atem and Kaiba were having nap time. Yuugi wants Pink bandages so they have to wake up now. Or something.
When: A few hours after Atem and Kaiba conk out, and maybe one or two after Yuugi and Jounouchi get attacked? TIMEFRAME WHAT
Where: The arcade
Warning: lots of hilarious

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[pintsizeduelist]

Yuugi wasn't going to the woods with those creatures everywhere. Like hell he was. Once Jounouchi was alright and he passed out and.. woke up sometime later, he really needed to know where Atem was.

So, he headed to the arcade, still wearing his ripped work shirt and with cuts and bites and pushed open the door.

"Mou hitori no boku! Are you in here?"

[shutupandduelme]

There was no one in the front of the arcade, though the machines were on and the token dispenser was ready to read LPs. It was silent besides that, and the back office door was closed, as it usually was whether Kaiba was there or not. If Yuugi looked closely, he would probably see the faint light from the hibernating laptop inside.

If he listened...he might have heard a shuffle or two. Yuugi's call had gotten through the wall into the back office, and Kaiba was stirring.

He was still trained to react to voices, especially when he was doing something as vulnerable as sleeping. It just wasn't enough to make him fully aware just yet. With a frown, Kaiba started to shift himself awake.

[note_atem]

Yuugi's voice failed to reach him at all. His body refused to acknowledge anything at all except the shifting underneath it. He needed this sleep, badly. Not just for the days he spent wandering around outside but for the energy he depleted when he'd used the puzzle. He just wasn't ready to get up yet, not even close.

He snuggled closer to the only warm thing close enough, the almost calm and familiar thing he remembered falling asleep to. His fingers curled lightly in the front of Seto's shirt unconsciously, almost afraid of losing him in his sleep.

[pintsizeduelist]

Panic that was already there started to grip at him, and he felt even more woozy, having to lean against the air hockey table to stay upright. He gripped onto his pendant to try to keep himself focused. Okay. They had to be somewhere, right?

Atem had to be somewhere and he was fine but this being unable to see him thing plus the whole thing with everyone being attacked and Ichigo and Jounouchi was leaving him a little high strung. Plus god only knew how he managed to pull off how he saved Jounouchi, and even then his body didn't want anything to do with being awake..

He just had to know Atem was okay.

Maybe it was delirium. Exhaustion. Blood loss. Stress. All of the above.

He noticed the flickering light on the laptop and moved toward it, using machines to steady himself.

LOLWALKING HOME THREAD

[note_atem]

He was glad that the arcade was still in the mall. It meant they had at least a little stretch to clear before they were outside in the cold. More time for him to wake himself up, as well.

More time to talk.

"I'm sorry for my absence lately. There's no real excuse for it." Other than that he'd been feeling sorry for himself. But that wasn't a real excuse and Yuugi deserved better.

WOOOO

[pintsizeduelist]

"You don't have to apologize to me." Yuugi understood it, at least. Sort of. Of course it hurt and reminded him of how useless he was, but he trusted Atem. Always.

"I think I understand."

[note_atem]

"I do, though. Grieving over something that's so far in the past causing me to jeopardize what my future entails is not alright." His future on this island, anyway. It was the only one he had left. And with these people, that was only truer.

Yuugi was his future, technically. Everything he'd tried to instill in himself would live on in Yuugi's future, most likely. Their memories and what they'd learned together. Giving up on that for makeshift time about things he couldn't change wasn't the right thing to be doing.

[pintsizeduelist]

"But its important to you. It affected you personally. You can't just... forget about something like that." Yuugi took 'future' as 'his life on the island' since his confidence levels kept him from taking it further than that. Him and Atem were two completely different people. To say they shared the same soul... Yuugi didn't feel deserving enough to do so. Even if all he wanted was to be on the same level as him, he still looked up to the former Pharaoh.

"And anyway... it might be a long time, but its not a long time for you." He remembered vaguely how odd the passage of time felt in Atem's nightmare. What could have felt like a day or two could have easily been years.