Author: Story Number Six is finally here

Yami: Sadly

Yugi: Oh Yami, don't be such a pessimist. It might not be so bad

Yami: You don't know Dark Magician Girl2k2

Author: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh so don't sue me because it's not nice and it makes me sad (

The Idea

It was a warm and sunny day in Domino, Japan. At the turtle game shop, Yugi was lugging a small suitcase up to the living room upstairs. "D- D-D-Dora! D-D-D-Dora! D-D-D-Dora! Dora the Exporla!" sang the TV cheerfully. Yami was flipping through the channels and just *happened* to like that song. "Hey Yugi." Yugi sat the suitcase on the table and informed Yami, "This was in the guestroom. Let's look inside!" Yami eagerly came over and unlatched the first latch just to come upon another latch.

He frowned and unlatched that latch, just to come upon a keyhole. "Oh! I was looking for this for ages!" Yami told Yugi like a two year who had gotten candy. He went into his soul room and came out with a key. Yami unlocked the lock and opened the suitcase. It was near empty, but it did have a tank top with the millennium symbol on it. It also had a headband. "That is the crown," Yami informed Yugi, pointing to the headband.

Yami put the tank over his regular shirt and tied (don't ask) the band around his (big) head. "Wow, now you look like a pharaoh! I mean, you look more like a pharaoh," Yugi whistled. Yami sunk into his favorite chair, looking heart-broken. "Yami?" Yami looked started then shook himself. "Yugi, I just remembered my friends, and I wonder how they are doing now. I want to go back to Egypt a year after I broke the puzzle!"

Yugi was silent in a thoughtful way and after about two minutes he said, "There must be a way. You told me a long time ago that if you got all seven millennium items then you could unlock the portal to your world in anytime you wanted!" Yami's expression went to pure delight then faded. "But Yugi.how could we get six items? Ryou has one and all the rest belong to the Istar family! You know Shadi, Malik, Isis, it is pure impossible." Yugi got a funny look on his face and Yami groaned. Drat that old man for teaching Yugi heart of the cards.

One hour later, Ryou came with a very unwilling Bakura. "Ryou, can I see your ring for just a second? We are gonna need it."

Ryou motioned for Bakura to give him the eye after he had handed the ring to Yami. Bakura got a horrified look on his face, which soon changed to delight. If I can't fight, at least I can try to injure the pharaoh. "Yami, let us make a deal. If you can do a flip with the little running up the imaginary wall thing down the staircase and land in the same chair you are in exactly like you are now, I will give you the millennium eye. Deal?"

Yami nodded and went to the top of the staircase. What Bakura didn't know, was that Yami had Destiny as his caretaker. Yami found his center of balance and did a flip down the stairs, and did a backward hand spring to his chair. "Ta-Da" Yami said, "now hand it over." Ryou nudged Bakura and he threw the eye at Yami's (big) head. Yami caught it and went off to call the Istars.

"What are you trying to do again?" Bakura asked Yami as he came back into the room. Yami told him, but before he could finish, Yugi' grandpa called out, "YUGI! Some guy in a turban, a weird boy and a girl who looks like a goddess are here!" Yugi ran downstairs, stalked by Bakura.

An hour later, Yugi and Bakura came up with arms full of items. Here, are all five! Yeah! Now we have seven, so now I can leave this place!" Bakura yelled with glee. Yami snorted and said, "Odd, the perfect opportunity to steal the items and you aren't." Bakura's expression changed to horror. Yugi and Ryou laughed. Yami began to activate the power of the items, but then Yugi stopped his giggling and got a scared look on his face, "Yami," he whispered. But Yami didn't here him, so Yugi ran up to the chair he was sitting in and tackled him off.

"What was that for??" Yami asked angrily. Yugi was pale, and he weakly responded, "You told me that if all seven items power ere activated at the same time, then you would have to leave me forever. Don't do it Yami, please don't." Yami sighed and muttered something crossly as he picked up the necklace. He activated the necklaces and the puzzles magic and let them pull at each other.

After about thirty minutes, the portal started to open. You could see glimpses of the Egyptian sun and the ruins of a shrine. After ten more minutes, it opened completely. "I think I am going to go in with Yami," Bakura yawned. Yami looked happy that he wouldn't have to go alone. The phone rang and Yugi answered it, "Hullo, Turtle Game Shop, May I help you?" Yugi nodded and told Yami that he was going out with Ryou, Tea, and Joey. Yami and Bakura were already through the portal before he finished speaking. "Meet me back here in an hour" Bakura told Yami and he stalked off somewhere. Probably to steal something out the tombs, Yami thought. He walked towards the city were he grew up. After he climbed the mountian, he was shocked by what he saw.

The city was a mess. The streets were empty, and it was silent. He could see the ruins of the card shop and dueling grounds. The palaza had disappeared completely. What twanged at his heart the most was the sad jumble of rocks that was the palace. He walked into the dueling grounds, hoping to find either Jono, his best friend, or Teana, his girlfriend.

Yami got what he wanrted but he got it in a different way then he expected. When he entered the dueling grounds, no one was there, and as soon as he turned to leave he heard a voice calling out his name. He whirled around and saw Jono running up to him. "Yami! You're alive!" Jono panted. "What happened?" Yami asked his best friend. Jono glanced around the ruins once bfore saying, "It's a sad sitution. When Heishen firgured out that you were gone, he got pissed off. Nad when we told we didn't know, basically, he destoryed the city."

Yami absorped this information and sat down on the remains of a dueling table hopelessly. "But," Jono started. Yami looked up hopefully as Jono continued, "But the duels go on at a secret location nearby and there is hope still. You can save Egpyt from this whole mess. We have a chance. We have you."

Jono led him to the new location and Yami immedietly Yami liked it even more then the prevois one. On the roof (this was underground) was a model of the puzzle that gave off more light than the moon. Then, there were dueling tables and the people slept here as well. The doors were magicial, and they looked like tablets of whatever monster that person had chosen and only opened with that person's touch. Jono walked up to a room that had a picture of a Protector of the Throne.

Yami knew what was going to happen before it happened. The door opened and a familer face peeked out and said dully, "Oh it's you." Jono smiled and stepped aside, revealing Yami standing nervously behind him. Teana's face shone with happiness and she tightly hugged Yami until Jono chuckled, "you might want to let go. I think Yami's choking." And so he was. When Teana let go, he gasped a couple of times for air and Teana told him, "You're back! I suppose Jono told you our situtaion. You worried us so much!" She shot a nasty glare at Jono.

It wasn't that they were family enemies, it was just that Jono and Teana had a hard time getting along with one and other. They usually quarreled and hardly agreed on anything. In fact, Yami was the only thing that was keeping them from totally killing one and other. Yami invited them to go back to Domino to discuss something.

Yami held out his hand before they went and mentally asked Yugi if it was all right. When he had his permission, he went on to the portal. When they all tumbled out a minute later, Jono and Teana looked confused, but said nothing. "Yami.." Teana began. Yami didn't like her tone of voice, for it usually meant that she had and idea he may not like.

"Yami, I was thinking," she started. "You were thinking? That is a miracle" Jono chuckled. Teana hit him in the head and continued, "Yami, I was thinking that you should come back to Egypt and stay. We need you and well, please help!" Yami didn't like this idea. He buried his head in his arms, confused. He loved Egypt and he wanted so much to help but..Yugi. He couldn't leave Yugi.

"Hey Yami, we need to get back, come back to Egypt when you have made your choice," Jono said, standing up. Yami nodded and watched his two friends disappear and Bakura appear. "Well, well, well, the pharaoh still doesn't have any wits does he? Honestly, I don't see why you would want to say with your abiou, just get all seven items, take 'um to the tombs and leave!" But Bakura found it hard to leave his abiou too.

An hour later, when Yugi and Ryou returned, Bakura and Yami were glaring at ach other and throwing objects at the other's head. "Bakura," Ryou began. Bakura slumped in his chair and glared at Yami. "So, what did you guys talk about?" Yugi asked carefully. Yami didn't answer, but instead busied himself sorting out his deck. Ryou got the message and dragged Bakura out.

"What were you guys talking about?" Yugi asked again. Yami sighed and replied, "They asked me if I wanted to stay in Egypt." Yugi looked like he was about to cry. "B-But, you won't leave me? Yami? YAMI?" Yami stared at Yugi with sad eyes and replied honestly, "I-I don't know Yugi. I don't know."

"NOOOOOOOO!"

Yami sank down in the chair guilty. Yugi had run up to the room and Yami was left with the feeling of someone who had stolen candy from a baby and realized what they had done. When Yami started to make dinner, for he was the best at cooking surprisingly, Yugi had still not emerged from his room. And Yami felt no desire to try and get him to come out.

When dinner, stir-fry, was done, Yugi finally came out. But when he did get his food, he carried up to his room, not saying anything. Yami sighed and called Isis. "Istar here, Marik speaking." Yami scowled at the telephone and said in his roughest voice, "I must speak to Isis." He heard random sounds from the phone and he finally heard Isis mature voice saying, "Yes? May I help yo-" Yami interrupted her and asked if he could borrow the necklace?

After Isis dropped off her necklace, he took his puzzle off of his neck and let the necklace and the puzzle pull at each other. After a while, they opened the portal and Yami went through. He didn't feel like hanging out around that, that place with Yugi as miserable as he was. Seeing something in the sky, he whistled to it. The Curse of Dragon came soaring down and gave a mighty roar. Yami climbed aboard.

The ride to the city was refreshing, with the Curse of Dragon swooping. By the time he had reached the city, he was feeling much refreshed. He knocked on the door of the Dueling Grounds, and he saw Bryan, one of Jono's friends, face peeking through. HE looked delighted when he saw Yami.

After Bryan had let him in, he went to find Jono and Teana. And he soon found them, dueling. "WHAT??" Jono yelled, "YOU BEAT ME WITH SHINING FRIENDSHIP??" He began to furiously look through the scrolls about that duel and said with disbelief, "I can't believe it!" Teana wore a smug smile on her face and greeted Yami.

Jono grunted something, for he was still in a very bad mood. "Seeyaki (hello)," Teana told him warmly. Then converting to English, for Egyptian was only used formally most of the time, she asked, "So did you make a decision?" Yami only thought a moment before saying yes.

Jono cheered up when he said this. "Uh, huh, uh, huh, take 'dat Heishen ya slime ball." Even Teana didn't was too happy to be resentful. Yami was as happy as his friends, until he realized on thing. Yugi. He thought of Yugi at the game shop. He had to go back tonight, and tell him. And since the portal was opened, if Yugi and his friends took a trip to Egypt, they would be able to see him.

"But Yami, why? I don't understand." Yami had been trying for the last hour or so to get Yugi to understand that he would be leaving, not musically forever, but for at least a month. Yugi just didn't get it. But Yami had to leave..Yami would explain later.