Chapter One: The Date

Anzu Mazaki walked to the school door, and saw that it was raining.

"Oh great! It's raining!" she exclaimed.

She stood there, staring out into the rain.

Yugi Motou spotted her and ran up behind her. "Hi Anzu!"

She yelped. "Yugi! You startled me! How are you?"

"I'm okay. I'm just not sure how to help the spirit of the puzzle." Suddenly his face lit up. "Are you free tomorrow?" he asked, with some sort of strange grin on his face.

"Yes." she replied warily, not exactly sure what the look on his face was for.

"Excellent! See you then!" He ran off.

"Wait! Yugi! What's the plan!" she yelled after him.

"11:30 tomorrow, at City Hall! Thanks Anzu!" he yelled back. He disappeared around the corner.

Anzu stared after him in confusment. "Okay, what did I just agree to?" She asked herself, very confused and more than a little scared.

The Next Day

Yugi raced towards City Hall and paused as he rounded the corner. He spotted Anzu and looked down at the Millennium Puzzle. "Okay Yami. This is where you take over." he said, quietly and smugly. There was a flash and a taller, more mature looking "Yugi" appeared, holding the Puzzle he wore around his neck, looking quite confused.

"Yugi!" he cried. "This isn't a duel! I'm not supposed to come out! You know that!" He could hear Yugi laughing in his mind. Then, suddenly, Yugi's presence was gone with a single pasting shot. Have fun, Yami!

While he yelled at the Puzzle, Anzu heard him and looked over. Yami felt someone watching him and looked up to see Anzu watching him, and straightened up.

"Uh, hello." he said awkwardly.

Shortly, in a fast food restaurant, Anzu watched Yami as he stared out the window, and pondered what to do next.

'Oh I hope I can help the Spirit.' Anzu thought to herself. 'Well, here goes nothing.' She put down her coke.

"So, um, what do you want to do today?" she asked.

Yami tore his gaze away from outside and looked at her. "Forgive me, Anzu." He said. "It's just that there is so much about my past that I don't know."

"Well, today I was looking through some magazine and I found that an Ancient Egyptian exhibit is here." she said.

He perked up. "Now that could be interesting." he said.

Anzu pulled out the magazine. "And look," she said, pointing to a picture. "This stone has the same symbol as the Millennium Puzzle!"

Yami got a glimpse at her rings. There was something about them that seemed to call to his memory. "Um, Anzu? May I see your rings for a moment?" He asked.

"My rings? OK." Anzu replied. She tried to take them off, but couldn't budge them.

"Hey! Why won't they come off?" she cried.

"Anzu, look at the symbol on them, when they're put together. What do they resemble?" he asked her quietly.

She looked and almost fainted. "Oh my gosh! It's the Millennium Symbol!" she exclaimed. "How could not have noticed!"

"You mean you didn't know?" Yami asked, surprised.

"No!"

"But, then, how did you get them? Where did you get them?"

"Well, I just found them on the way to City Hall. I was over there to meet you, when I tripped, I think over a rock." she said. "I looked around to see what it was, and I saw something sparkling on the ground. I went over to it and it turned out to be a ring."

"A ring?" Yami asked. "Not three rings?"

"I'm getting to that." Anzu replied. "Later I saw another ring sparkling, but this time the ring I had found earlier was there along with a purple beaded necklace, the one I'm wearing now in fact. So I figured something weird was going on, but something inside me compelled me to pick them up and put them on. As soon as I did put them on, though, more appeared. The green necklace, then another ring, and then a diamond necklace. And that's how I got them."

"Just on the ground?" he asked. When she nodded, he shrugged. "Oh well. I doubt we'll ever understand these Items. But I have a feeling that we're going to need those rings and the Puzzle to discover my past."

"Well, how about walking around town for a bit?" Anzu asked." We might just find some answers."

"Sure, why not?"

They went all over town: the music store; the park; and a new card shop where Yami bought a pack, which was when Anzu realized that Yami is happiest when dueling so she brought him to the arcade. They went inside and were immediately blasted with music coming from their left.

They went over to the crowd and squeezed through, and stared in confusion at what they saw. Finally it was Yami who realized what it was. "I get it! It's a dance duel." He said.

There was a stage on which there were buttons that two people were stepping on in what looked like a dance competition. Judging from what the crowd was yelling, Anzu and Yami were able to determine that the better of the two was "Johnny Steppes."

The duel ended quickly, and Johnny appeared to be the victor.

"All right! Who wants the honor of being Johnny Steppes next victim!" he yelled out.

"You know, this guy really needs someone to teach him a lesson."Anzu said in a tone that Yami, had never heard her use before. He didn't like it.

Johnny suddenly pointed at her and said "You there! Girl in the pink! How 'bout you? You want to be embarrassed next?"

"Just ignore him, Anzu." Yami said quietly to her, azure eyes had narrowed and Yami was left speechless as she threw off her jacket, which flew up in the air as she raced up the stairs, and came down In his arms.

"What are you doing Anzu?" he called to her in confusion.

"Having some fun!" she replied "Hey miss you're cute!" one spectator yelled out of nowhere.

Yami heard this and pouted (A/N: girls try not to faint I'm already struggling! XD)

"How 'bout this? I win; you have to go out on a date with me!" Johnny said to her.

"Get over yourself, Johnny because you're not going to win!" Anzu retorted, irritated.

'Get ready to rock!' the computer announced, 'Let's dance!'

While Johnny pulled his usual moves, Anzu pulled off moves that she knew Johnny could never do. She swirled and twirled, dancing in a way that made the crowd cheer for her instead.

"Get a load of that girl!" one person yelled. "She's better than Johnny! And she's hot!"

Yami, just staring at her, heartily agreed, although he was very careful to hide his thoughts from Yugi, just as a precaution. He knew how much his vessel loved to spy. He was amazed at how beautiful she looked when she danced. There was such joy in her face when she danced. He couldn't help himself being drawn to her. He just didn't understand why his heart was thumping so hard, or why he wanted to simply take her into his arms and kiss her into oblivion. 'WHOA! Where did that come from? I don't like Anzu do I?' Yami argued with himself while blushing a bit.

Meanwhile, Johnny was thinking 'There must be a glitch in the machine. It's supposed to give me the points! I guess it's time for me to pull out my signature move.'

Johnny pushed his elbow into Anzu's face, which she dodged easily, he thought. 'Too easily.' So he aimed a kick at her shins, which she also avoided quite easily.

Yami noticed this and smirked. 'Heh…you're good Anzu.' (A/N: actually said by Yami in the anime) XD

"Hey! Play it clean, Johnny!" Several spectators shouted, angry.

Suddenly, his foot slipped on one of the buttons, and he crashed down to the floor. Anzu quickly finished off the duel, then raced over to him. He tried to stand up, but found that he had sprained his ankle, and quickly fell down again.

Anzu knelt beside him and said, "Let me see it."

So Johnny rolled up his pants clutched her necklaces and murmured strange words. Slowly, the pain in his leg vanished.

"Stand up." She told him.

He did, and found that he could without wincing. "Are you some kind of witch!" he yelled, panicking a little.

Anzu suddenly felt something painful in her back; it was as if something was trying to get out.

Yami heard something in his mind. It was a voice saying 'Oh my gosh! What's in my back! Oh, I wish I had something to cover it up!' He realized with a start that it was Anzu's voice. 'I can't see! Somebody help!' He quickly ran up the stairs and handed her the jacket.

"Thanks." Anzu murmured, "We have to go. Something's-"

"I know," he cut her off. "Come on!" He grabbed her hand and ran off in the direction of the warehouse at the back of the arcade. They reached the sheds and threaded their way through the workers, Yami leading Anzu since she couldn't see anything. Finally they reached a place where they couldn't see or hear anyone.

And just in time too.

To be continued…

Whoa first chapter done! I would like to thank shadow elf warrior for letting me adopt this great story!

Yugioh is not mine! If it was atem would be with anzu for sure!