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This story shows Yuugi going through the five stages of grief as he writes to Atem.

Angsty/Fluffy. Maybe a little hint of Yaoi, if you look REALLY hard, but other than that, no.

Denial is usually only a temporary defense for the individual.
This feeling is generally replaced with heightened awareness of positions and individuals that will be left behind after death.

Dear Spiri-
Dear Pharao-
Dear Ate-

Dear Yami,

Let me start off by apologizing for calling you 'Yami' even though we went through—for lack of a better word—hell to find your real name. I know that I should call you by it, and that you deserve to be called it, but to me you are always Yami. You will always be Yami. Period. End of that. Let's move on.

Okay, this is just…weird. Anzu told me I should write to you—even though there is no possible way you can receive this letter where you are, but anyway—she says I need to get my words out there instead of bottling everything up inside and stacking it all together until I explode. She says it'll make me feel better. I think she's just quoting Oprah. She's gung-ho over that woman. I don't get it—I mean, she is pretty wise, but some women treat her like she's God. Oprah, I mean, not Anzu. Oh, dear, deffinitely not Anzu. If Anzu was God, everything but dancing would be a sin. No offence to her, but one can only take so much. I'm getting off subject. Anyway, Anzu thinks it's great that I've grown up and blah, blah, blah—I'll spare you the rant. But I think I'm awful. I'm not cut out to be the king of games. I feel like…like I stole your title.

I wasn't going to do it. Write to you, I mean. I think that it's…pretty foolish. Because you can't be gone. Like gone, gone. There's no way. We went through so much, and then that's it? It's just asinine to even start to think that—after everything—you'd just leave like that. Like poof, snap my fingers, and away you go. Like how the genie in Aladdin appeared and disappeared. Wait, you didn't see that, did you? Well, that sucks. It's a good movie. Wow, I keep getting off track. The Yami I knew wouldn't do this to me—just leave. He wouldn't just give a thumb up and walk away. He wouldn't, because that's like giving up, and there's no way in hell that you would ever give up something, ever!

Remember the duel? I bet you do. "A winner should not be on his knees," you told me. Man…I was happy when you said how proud you were of me. It was like you finally saw me as an equal. You know when little kids practically worship their hero? They love them, they want to be them, and they'd do anything to get that hero to see them. That was like me, always trailing after you. But I didn't mind being in your shadow, Yami, not really. There's nothing wrong in letting someone else have the glory—you know I'm too introverted to be in the spotlight anyway.

When I first released you from your prison—I call it that because that it what it is; a dark, complex, terrifying prison—I would've given anything to get rid of you. People around me were getting hurt, I was blacking out and losing my memory, I could feel that darker side of you waiting to consume me. I still don't understand it. I think…I think the darkness just drove you insane, and it was part of my duty to bring you back. And I did. You became…something amazing. Something I could strive to be.

I'm probably not making much sense, am I? I can't get myself to say what Anzu thinks I should. Because…well…you cannot be gone. You'd never turn your back on me. We're connected. Two halves of one. You can't live without half your heart, right? One can't live without the other. So…that means that you didn't go. So…what, then? I just imagined the whole duel? Then why is the puzzle gone? Why does everyone keep walking around with these sad looks? I just don't understand. I am thoroughly confused, which really sucks. The Yami I know would've fought tooth and nail to stay. Or does that mean I didn't know you as well as I thought?

My hand is cramping up. I'm just going to go to bed for the night…sort this all out later. I'm positive that a headache is coming on.

-Yuugi

P.S – Anzu is wrong. Everybody is wrong. You're not gone, and there is no point in me writing this letter or any other letter if your still here.

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