Solving the Puzzle from the Inside

Main Points:
Yugioh Canon Adjacent, Legacy!verse
Chapter Summary: Yugi finds himself somewhere familiar.
Word Count: 320
Rating: teen

              Yugi wakes up and he’s in a place he hasn’t been in a while.  He’s in the labyrinth of his mind.  Or, well, Yami’s mind, since it was the Puzzle.  Which he no longer had, so how…?  “Yami?” he calls, and then remembers.  “Atem?”
              It’s silent and cold, like a real tomb.  He doesn’t have to search every door; he knows he’s alone.  He opens one anyway, and a cold wind blows.  It’s almost nostalgic, but why would it be nostalgic for him?
              He closes his eyes, and suddenly he’s sitting on a throne in Ancient Egypt, surrounded by people he met once.  But he thinks and he knows them, like he knows Joey and Téa and Tristan.  He blinks and, again, he’s back in the labyrinth.
              It’s like it’s trying to tell him something, but what.
              Treat it like a puzzle.  You can figure it out.
              He’d always called Yami ‘Other Me’, and Yami had done the same.  Not often, but he still had done so.  Yami had taken on his appearance, but he’d thought it was because they shared a body until they’d been shown the picture of the Pharaoh on the stone tablet.  Still, he’d been thinking it was just coincidence.
              Really, I should know better.  It’s never coincidence.  Not with me.  I’m getting a little sick of that, but I can’t really change it, either.
              The solution was quite possibly that simple, and it’s just been waiting here for him.  He feels like denying it, but there was a call and he answered, like he had when the Millennium Puzzle had called him to Egypt.  Except…that hadn’t been him, had it?  My head hurts, but…I can run, I can hide, I can try to deny my birthright, but in the end, it will find me all the same.  We were just pieces of a puzzle, now whole.  Now if only he can figure his way out…