Winning Without Gods (A Yu-Gi-Oh Fanfiction)DONE!

Chapter 34: Honda's Deed

Manga Reference: Similar to Yugioh Zero look. Jounouchi is talking about the time in the comics before Duelist Kingdom.

Night Time

Yuugi was sharing with Anzu now and Hikaru. It looked like Anzu was over the hump about keeping Yuugi back a distance. Jounouchi kept Mana with him in his room. The other room had Malik and Isis sharing. Rishid had taken to sleeping downstairs. Bakura and Mokuba went to their own place. As long as everyone else was gone before the morning sun, it should be okay.

Yuugi tried to offer something to Atem. His other self knew that Masika’s fate hadn’t weighed well on him. Atem assured Yuugi that he and Anzu could share rooms and have Hikaru with them. Jounouchi offered that Atem could help with Mana if he wanted to feel more involved, since he was such ‘a great friend’. 

Atem’s confused feelings right now, didn’t mean he wasn’t happy for Yuugi. As he once said to himself, as soon as Anzu came back, he announced that she belonged to Yuugi. She understood the importance of it, and she didn’t rebel.

Perhaps after this whole fiasco is over, Anzu will stay married to Yuugi. They might have a real wedding besides just ‘Pharoah saying it is to be so’. Yuugi’s dream come true? Yuugi never spoke of children, only Anzu in the past, but he seemed to be okay with the thought of fatherhood. He did well with Hikaru.

Which, in that grey day, was about the only thing Atem could focus on to keep his concentration. There was something good to fight for. His friends. Jounouchi to get back to Mai. Honda to be brought back. Yes, he tried to concentrate on the good. The positive. Otherwise, if he didn’t think of those things . . . his mind drifted toward . . .

I’ll set him on fire, I’ll sting him with scorpions, I’ll electrocute him, I’ll cook him alive, and he will experience the sensation of death so many times that his soul will be shattered to pieces! Everything, every blasted punishment or curse he had ever dished out! It was Set’s fault, he rushed everything! He rushed Mai, he rushed Anzu, and he turned a blessing that would have been given in nine months regardless, into a curse killing Masika!

His mind was in a terrible state. He hadn’t known Masika extremely well but, Yuugi seemed to always call it right. There was someone like him, suffering like him, that he could bond with. They understood each other, whether Bakura liked it or not. Even coming back to life, so many things others couldn’t comprehend. They both moved through it. Now, the thought . . . on the whole . . . that she had been dragged to a hell as a sacrifice, it just . . .

He wiped his eyes. This display of emotion wasn’t something he often did. Being alive, things always hit so much harder. 

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Afterlife

“Whoah. That was a scream.” As Honda wandered around on the horse. He watched as out in the distance, just a short ways, there was a vivid light that seemed to emerge. He did his best to make it over there. He used to deal with extraordinary things in his youth just about as well as he used to fight. He was ready for anything coming at him.

Except that. Honda looked back away. “No, I have to help. Get over it.” He went into a little stone area. It had large stones that were like headstones but nothing was on them. Then there were smaller stones on the ground. Not helping man, gotta look.

Beside that, was the big dilemma. “Poor Anzu.” Honda went to her aid. “Hey there. Don’t worry, I’m here too.” He took off the strange cloak of his outfit and put it over her. She was glowing oddly, she probably needed it more. “Anzu?” Her hands started gripping the sand. “It’s okay. I’m here. You don’t have to go through this alone.”