The True Room - A Yu-Gi-Oh! Season 0 Fanfic

The True Room

Yuugi stood, tense, in the hall between soul rooms.

He was engaged in a very intense staring contest with the looming dark door to his other self's soul room.

The door was shut tight, and Yuugi didn't doubt that there were defense mechanisms in place to ward off unwanted visitors.

He always knew his darker half was skeptical of others, but was it something more than that?

His other self was currently engaged in a very serious shadow game with some low life who had made multiple offenses against Yuugi in the past few months, and Yuugi himself knew that the game would take a while.

'Come on Yuugi! You're not gonna learn ANYTHING about the other personality you helped create without going in!'

'But what if he doesn't want me there? It's an invasion of privacy-'

'He'd do the same thing if he didn't already know every single little detail about you! Just go in!'

Having successfully convinced himself, Yuugi steeled himself and opened the large metal door with a hefty shove.

Peaking in, Yuugi slowly slipped inside, the perfect image of timidness.

Looking around, Yuugi wasn't sure how surprised he was that it shared a likeness with an Egyptian Tomb. The winding staircases almost giving the Hikari vertigo just looking at them.

Taking a few steps inside, he jerked violently at the large bang resonating behind him as the metal door slammed shut on it's own.

'Ugh, come on Yuugi! You're not scared of a measly DOOR are you?' He mentally scolded himself for reacting to the door-slam, shaking his head to readjust his focus.

The place was clearly designed to confuse and drive out any intruders. A defence mechanism Yuugi doubted his own soul room would ever achieve!

'Okay... so... skeptical and paranoid?!' Then he remembered Shadi and scowled to himself.

'So there must be his REAL soul room somewhere, right? How am I supposed to find it before he finishes his game?' Yuugi looked around, not seeing any sort of entrance or opening to his other self's true soul room.

"This is hopele-" Yuugi cut himself off, thinking.

'Okay, okay, so to find my other self's soul room, I should THINK like him...'

It's worth a try, he figured, amethyst eyes analysing the twisted stair cases again.

'He likes games more than I do, so he would probably make his soul room a game! So... what are the rules? And how do you win?'

Yuugi looked around once more, trying to find any oddities. Anything out of place.

He didn't see anything.

'Looking around, the place looks like a maze to make the opponent think finding the true room is a hopeless endeavor. He's capitalising on the Human's reliance on their sight to navigate unknown territory...'

Yuugi inhaled slightly before shutting his eyes.

'If you lose your sight, you rely on touch to navigate... so that's out too.' Yuugi began ignoring the feel of the stone beneath his feet, imagining himself floating.

As he expected, the ground disappeared beneath him.

'Without your sight and touch, the two main senses Humans use to learn their surroundings, you are left with... Smell, Hearing, Taste, and Proprioception.