Something just wasn't adding up that was what he had first thought just weeks after the strong gaps in his memory...he had bits and pieces of his life missing, blank spots where there should be memories and he had no accidents that could have caused it...so why? Then there were the dreams...he had simply shrugged them off at first after all vampires were fiction much less vampires that had such deep and cautious red eyes. And since when does the undead make a person feel anything but fear? Or have a tan?

But he had these dreams every night for the past two years, the same one growing in detail each evening and they all ended the same. Pleading with the vampire not to do what ever it was he was doing right then and that's when he woke up.

They were easy enough to dismiss at first as his subconscious mind giving him dreams of a false explanation to help him at least asleep...but then when they continued every night relentlessly he started to wonder if they were more than dreams and with the fact that Jii-chan also experienced dreams of a tan vampire who resembeled an ancient Pharaoh whose tomb had been found but the body never discovered it gave it even more merit.

But the question was why the vampire had taken his memories away regardless of his pleading, why he had acted so rashly that he hadn't allowed Yugi to talk to him, to tell Atem what he thought wasn't true. He hadn't feared the vampire, he never had, he never would and if the man had only read his thoughts he would have known that...it was the opposite actually, Yugi had gotten very attached to the man...even developed feelings for him.

But what could he do now?

Atem wasn't likely to return anytime soon if ever after thinking he effectively wiped Yugi's memories clean...and he would probably run if he found out Yugi was nearby..but he had to try anyway. The question is..where was he supposed to start...? The only place he knew of was where he had first met the vampire in that alley but when he got there, there was no sign of the man or the female he had breifly met before...what was her name? Shaiya?

It would have been simple to pin the blame on her, after all Atem had promised he wouldn't leave and then she came and everything changed...but he knew that wasn't fair. The woman didn't seem to completely trust him in spite of her compliments and the secret smiles she casted at her brother but he didn't think that she would deliberately sabotage the relationship between him and the Pharaoh...if anyone was to blame it was him for rushing out of the room and getting sick after the ancient vampire told him what he woke up to find. But it wasn't disgust in Atem or fear that made him run out, it was disgust in the vampire that turned him, it was sympathy, his stomach couldn't handle the scene that was told to him with his mind knowing that it had been so hard on his friend and was still hard on him to this day. It was inner demons he had locked away instead of facing.

So the answer was clear, he had to find him and set him straight. He had to show him he didn't fear him and wasn't appaled by him...he had to get his vampire back...somehow.

A knock on his door pulled him from his thoughts and he spoke a simple "come in" as he watched his grandfather walk into the room, sympathy clear on his face and in his eyes.

"Thinking of him again Yugi?" the old shop owner asked knowingly to which Yugi sighed and nodded his head.

"Its been two years grandpa. He's not going to come back on his own and I can't just leave it as it is knowing what he must be thinking. We were the first humans he opened up to and allowed to get close to him. Thinking what he did the day he tried to take our memories, he probably regrets it everyday."

Solomon sighed at that and put a hand on his grandson's shoulder, he suspected that there was more to it than Yugi was letting on, suspected it wasn't just to clear up a misunderstanding that the boy wished to find him. He had seen the way the two of them looked at one another, the way they stared and then turned away in embarrassment when caught, but he wouldn't voice his suspicions, a least not yet. That was not the reason he had come.

"You know my boy I happen to know that a person always tends to find their way back home from time to time," he started and held up his hand to silence Yugi's next words of denial. "Not a new one, but their birth home. Do you see what I'm saying?"

Yugi only blinked owlishly at him for a moment, clearly confused before understanding started to dawn in his eyes which made Solomon smile as he stood up.

"I've already gotten us tickets to Egypt and booked our hotel. Be ready to go early tomorrow morning."

The teen could only watch silently as his grandfather left the room, hardly able to believe what he had just heard for a while but then a huge smile graced his lips and he stood up in excitement quickly rushing to the closet and pulling down his suitcase to quickly pack what he would need for the trip.

They were going to Egypt!

They were going to find Atem!

AC: Well, here it is, chapter 1 of Darker Than Black 2 Resonance. I'm sorry its so short, I'll try to make the next chapters longer I promise.

Yugi: Finally we're back! -Celebrates.-

Heba: -Grumbles.- Took you long enough.

AC: Hey that's not my fault! I tried to get back soon but we moved and then I had to get a laptop and we couldn't get internet for a while and...

Heba: Yeah, whatever... -Looks around.- Where's Ate?

AC: -Grins.-

Heba and Yugi: Where is he?!

AC: Not telling, you two will have to find out just like the readers.

*A note flutters in in Atem's handwriting.*

Note: AC does not own any of the mentioned characters or Yu-Gi-Oh and makes not profit from this fanfiction.

...And its about time authoress!

AC: It appears I'm being ganged up on...anyway please comment below to tell what you think so far and vote if you enjoyed it. \^^/