"This is it, young Pharaoh. Are you sure you want to go back to your own time? Your friends seem… heart broken, your high priest especially." Through the darkness which had surrounded the pharaoh all this time after leaving his friends, he'd heard this voice and sought it out. He was only now conscious; he didn't know where he was, or how much time had passed since he left the world of the Duel monster cards. He remembered it well though. Better yet, he remembered his friends. Joey, Tristan, Yugi, Bakura, Solomon, Tea… Seto…

Ah yes, Seto… He could never forget Kaiba even if he wanted to. He was in all his past, his most trusted friend and his greatest rival. He smiled in remembering the blue eyed brunet. It was exactly a happy smile, but it wasn't exactly a sad smile either. It was somewhere in between as though something was very off in his mind and heart. The memory of the teen smirking at him made him happy, but something… something about the cocky, arrogant bastard made him sad to remember him. It felt as though his chest was closing in on his heart and crushing it slowly and in the most painful way possible. He felt an odd sensation of claustrophobia and he couldn't really focus.

"Well, young one? What do you want? For your favorable loyalty, even when you could not remember, we wish to grant you the thing you want the most. My king, we can see what you want, even if it is blocked from your sight. We will choose for you, because it is clear to us you cannot see it yourself. You'll need to find out what it is though. We do wish you to stay, but you wouldn't be happy here, so we're sending you back to Yugi, with your own body." another voice said. The voices were shrouded and he couldn't recognize them, though they slightly sounded familiar.

"You're… You can do that?" Yami asked his eyes wide in shock, but immediately narrowed them in suspicion. Something wasn't right. "Let me ask you this… How much time has passed since I left?" He asked, his figure reforming in the darkness, his pharaoh clothing on and his skin darker then when he was in Yugi's body.

"Just three years has passed, my dearest King." This voice sounded much like Joey. "Dark Magician, please see to it, the Pharaoh gets back to that time in one piece and in no worse condition then he's in now."

"With pleasure," The purple haired male in violet robes came next to Yami. "Pharaoh, Remember no matter where you are, call me and I will do what I can to help. Dark Magician girl feels the same." His misty blue eyes held sincerity, though he did not smile. He never smiled it seemed, much like a certain billionaire he knew. The magician raised his staff above his head and Yami felt his body feeling weaker and weaker as his energy left him. He felt tired and began to collapse when the same magician caught him. The last words the pharaoh heard before going unconscious were from the dueling monster. "I'll take him and Dark Magician Girl. We will accompany him and take care of him…"

He awoke in a back alley with the full moon high, bright and shining in, what he assumed to be, outside Yugi's grandfather's game shop. He recognized it from anywhere. He stood, shaking his head and breathing. It had been a long time. He wondered how everyone had changed in his time he was gone and what everyone was doing now days. He himself chuckled at the thoughts.

I'm starting to sound like an old man… He needed to get into different clothing. Ancient Egyptian clothing was comfortable and all, but it didn't exactly let him 'blend in' as he hoped to do; only as his own person this time and not in the shadow of his Aibou. No more would he be called 'Yugi Motou'; he was Atemu, Pharaoh of Egypt. Atemu Yami is what he'd go by.

Digesting a breath of air, Atemu made sure his legs wouldn't give out on him when he walked before taking his first steps on his way to Solomon's shop. His body was still fairly weak from the time travel, but he was able to walk; for a little while if only. Coming upon the door, basked in velvet white moonlight, he knocked on the door, knowing it was far too late for any costumers to be thinking of buying playing cards.