So, I've asked which story to write next and since SonAmyFanGirl wanted me to do Yami and Tea/Anzu, and I was dying to do so, I'm going to start a story about them ;) Hope you'll like it.

Disclaimers: I do NOT own Yu-gi-oh or any of these characters, this is just fanmade. I also used some quotes of season one because I like them, and no, I don't own them either.

Warning: The story doesn't really follow the series, it's a bit AU, but of course the characters, duel monster cards and such stay the same. I only don't want Tea and Yami to know each other in the beginning ;) I might be switching POV's from time to time so I'll indicate it with their names.

Chapter one: Birthday boy

Tea:

"Please Joseph, your warriors could never beat my harpies." Mai Valentine was dueling with my best friend, Joey Wheeler. As always, she was on the winning hand, but even I could win from Joey. He really wanted to learn the game but somehow he didn't have the patience or the techniques to be a duelist. But if he practiced hard he would become a great one, someday.

"Alright Mai, that's it. I've had it with you!" He smashed his fist against the table and gritted his teeth. As always he was getting angry. He didn't like to lose and certainly not to a girl. But with Mai it was different in some sort of way, he liked Mai, a lot. His chances with her were quit low and he knew that, since almost every boy in school liked Mai but she didn't seem to pay attention to them, at least not to all of them. Seto Kaiba was a jerk but she liked him, for his money. He on the other hand didn't pay any attention to her, he simply didn't have the time to fall in love or to have a girl walking after his wallet. Seto was one of the only real smart ones in our class but he was cocky too. His parents had died a few years ago and he had to take care of his little brother, Mokuba now and be in control of Kaiba Corp at the same time.

"Hey musclehead, calm down a bit will you." I looked up into Tristan's brown eyes, he was Joey's best friend. They were always there for each other but they had their arguments and a lot of them were about Joey's little sister Serenity. Tristan was in love with her and Joey didn't like it, not because it was Tristan, he just didn't like the idea of any guy coming near his sister, he had always been the protective one.

"I don't get it," Joey said. "It's the fourth time I'm losing to her, the fourth!" He shook his head which was now buried in his hands.

"Actually Joey, it's the sixth," I said. He looked over to me and sighed.

"This is so much fun!" Mai laughed at Joey, who stood up and took his deck, walking away from us.

"Come on Joe, it's not that bad. You're just a beginner and you don't have the right cards yet," Tristan shouted while running after him. He always was the one to calm him down.

"Hey Tea, want to go the mall or something?" Mai asked while packing her bag. Well actually it was more like a purse, somehow she seemed to get all her books into the thing. But she didn't mind if she broke it, she had enough money to buy a new one. Of course she was one of the most popular girls in school. She had long blonde hair and violet eyes, a lot of boys had a crush on her. I on the other hand was just a normal girl. Brown, shoulder-length hair and blue eyes, no one noticed me. Yet Mai was one of my friends although we fought too sometimes but we could forgive each other easily.

"No thanks, I have to go somewhere."

She shrugged her shoulders and walked off the playground towards her car. She had a nice car, a violet convertible, it matched her eyes. I didn't envy her, I didn't want to have a nice car, I preferred to take the bus. I didn't want to get in the spotlights, at least not like this, I wanted to become a professional dancer. It had been my dream since I was a little girl, going to New York and becoming a dancer was the only thing I could think about. I grabbed my books and walked to the bus stop while looking at my watch.

"I hope I won't be late," I murmured to myself. I had promised Mr. Solomon and Yugi to be on time, I had to make it.

A paper hung on the side of the bus stop and to my surprise there weren't any busses today leaving for Domino City so I decided to take a taxi. After five minutes I finally saw one driving through the streets. I put my hand in the air and the cab driver stopped. When I slid myself to the left side of the car I put my bag next to me.

"Game Shop please," I said to the man.

He nodded and we drove through the streets. My grandfather had been a good friend of Mr. Solomon and that's how I met Yugi. Today was his sixth birthday, I was like a big sister to him and of course he wanted me to come over and celebrate it with him. He had told me about his big brother, but I hadn't seen him before, he was traveling to become a duelist and apparently he had succeeded, at least that's what Mr. Solomon told me last week. I could still remember Yugi's excited face when his grandfather had told him he would give a little party. My grandpa died a few months ago so he couldn't make it, but he would be there with us in our hearts.

It was a sunny day and a lot of people were cycling or going for a walk. If I hadn't been so late after Mai and Joey's duel I would've probably taken a walk too. The driver didn't talk to me but I didn't want to talk, I liked these silent moments, just sitting in the car and watching everything pass by.

After about ten minutes the taxi stopped, I thanked the man and paid him for the drive. Big balloons in all kinds of colors were attached to the windows of the shop and the sign 'closed' hung on the door. I knew the door was open, because they were expecting me but I still knocked before walking inside.
As soon as I had opened the door Yugi ran towards me, opening his arms for a hug.

"Tea!" he yelled and Mr. Solomon appeared in the shop too.

"Hey there birthday boy." He snuggled himself into my arms and hugged me.

"Let the girl breath," Mr. Solomon said and Yugi blushed while letting me go.

"I'm sorry Tea, I'm just so happy. All the people I love are right here," he exclaimed.

"Is that so?"

"Yeah, my big brother came home about an hour ago," he said with a smile on his face.

I turned around when I heard some footsteps on the stairs. A boy around my age walked down and he looked just like Yugi. He had the same strange, wild, dark and red hair with blonde strokes in it. A pyramid like necklace hung down his neck and he looked at me with his deep crimson eyes, as if he was realizing something.

"Yami, this is Tea!" Yugi said while taking my hand and dragging me towards his brother.

I blinked a few times and stopped staring at the young man.

"Yami Muto, the duel king is your brother?" I asked the little boy. Suddenly I wondered why I had never seen the resemblance between the two. I had seen Yami on TV, dueling all kinds of people but I never realized Yami Muto actually was the brother of little Yugi.

He took a step forward and shook my hand but he seemed confused.

"Yes, that's me," he finally said.

Yami:

I walked into the living room and saw Yugi looking through a deck of cards. So my little brother and I shared the same passion. I put my grey suitcase down as silently as I could and walked over to him.

"Hello bro," I whispered in his ear while grabbing his little shoulders.

At first he was startled but then his arms were around my neck and I lifted him up in the air.

"Yami! Yami! You're finally home!" he shouted and soon my grandpa came inside too.

"Yami," he said while he walked over to me and give me a hug. We stood there about five minutes, all hugging each other until Yugi started to talk again.

"You know that today is my birthday, right?" he asked.

"Of course I know." I rolled my eyes. "You don't think I'd forget my own brother's birthday."

He shrugged his shoulders. "You weren't here the last two times."

He was right, I hadn't been here. A part of me just couldn't come back, he reminded me too much of mom. But after dueling all these different persons and traveling the world I had become a better person, a stronger person.

"Hey, what's that?" grandpa asked while pointing to my necklace.

"I got it in Egypt, it's called the millennium puzzle," I said.

He examined the pyramid with the strange eye and Yugi was jumping up and down, still being excited because I was home again.

"You should unpack, Yami," my grandpa said. "We're having a little party for Yugi in about 45 minutes, one of his friends is coming over. Her name is Tea Gardner, she was the granddaughter of one of my friends."

"A friend?" I asked Yugi. "Now tell me, do you like this friend?"

"Uhu! She's like my sister!" Yugi exclaimed.

"Your sister? Do you have a crush on me too since I'm your brother?" I asked, teasing the boy.

He blushed a bit but shook his head. "I would never fall in love with Tea, but she is really nice. She always makes cookies with me because grandpa isn't very good at it."

I smiled, wondering how a six-year old could make cookies but I went to my old bedroom to unpack. To my surprise it was still the same but grandpa wouldn't have the heart to change it, I knew that. The unpacking took me half an hour and I put Yugi's birthday present in my pocket before walking back to the living room.

Yugi was watching a show on TV and grandpa was closing the shop, he closed it earlier today so we could all celebrate.

"Yami!" he shouted from downstairs. "Could you please make sure the table is ready, and could you take a look at the cake in the oven?"

I decided to go to the cake first, I didn't trust my grandpa's cooking skills completely but it seemed okay to me. It needed another twenty minutes or so, so Yugi and I were cleaning the table and putting plates onto it.

Grandpa came back upstairs to help us until suddenly we heard a knock on the door. "That must be Tea," he said.

Yugi was already running down the stairs and grandpa followed him.

"Tea!" I heard him shout and I decided to go downstairs as well.

"Hey there birthday boy." The girls voice was not like I expected, she didn't sound like a six-year old at all. She sounded like a young woman and somehow her voice seemed familiar.

"Let the girl breath," grandpa said while he laughed.

"I'm sorry Tea, I'm just so happy. All the people I love are right here," my brother exclaimed.

"Is that so?" The girl asked again. I was almost in the shop and I smiled too, knowing that my brother loved me.

"Yeah, my big brother came home about an hour ago."

She turned around when she heard my footsteps on the stairs and I looked in two beautiful blue eyes. Suddenly I could feel something inside of me, it was like a strange power and when I blinked the girl was wearing other clothes, Egyptian clothes. She wore a long white dress and there was a brown belt-like cloth around her waist, to accentuate her figure. Her clothes didn't seem very intact, they were a bit filthy but she looked beautiful in them. Her hair seemed a bit longer too, her skin was tanned but her blue eyes were still the same.

"Yami, this is Tea!" Yugi said while taking her hand and dragging her towards me. Yugi had pulled me out of my daydream and she was normal again.

She blinked a few times and looked down at my little brother.

"Yami Muto, the duel king is your brother?" she asked him. So Yugi and grandpa hadn't told her who I really was. Probably to protect me from all the fans in town but I would have to face them someday, since I was going back to school. I had followed lessons with teachers over the whole world since the Duel Tournament rules were that everyone under the age of eighteen needed education. We all got taught at the large arena's so we had to see a lot of things in little time.

I took a step forward and took her hand in mine to shake it.

"Yes, that's me," I finally said.

She smiled but suddenly she started sniffing in the air.

"Mr. Solomon, are you baking again? I'm think that something is burning."

"The cake!" he shouted while running up the stairs, leaving me with Yugi and Tea.

"So, why haven't you told me that your big brother was the most famous guy on the planet," she asked him.

"I don't know. I thought you knew because his surname was Muto and well, we kinda look the same. I thought you were smarter than that," he teased her.

"Says the boy who isn't even able to read!" She ruffled his hair and they both laughed, they were indeed like a brother and a sister.

"Hey, that's not true! I can read duel cards!"

"Because your grandpa told you what belonged with the picture." She rolled her eyes and took his hand while walking up the stairs.

"Are you coming, Yami?" My little brother asked.

I nodded and followed them. Even the way she walked seemed familiar to me, it was as if I had seen her walk all my life. Her voice was like an old melody, a lullaby and her eyes were of the most beautiful kind of blue I had ever seen.

"I think I was right on time," grandpa sighed while taking out the cake. A little crust was on top of it but it did seem good.

"Next time wait for me to come," Tea teased him while taking the cake out of his hands. She gently put it on the table and walked over to a cupboard and took out a big knife to cut the cake into pieces. It was as if she was at her own home, walking through her own kitchen.

"Tell me Tea," I begun, trying to start a conversation. "How does it come my little brother likes you so much?"

She looked over to Yugi and smiled. "I don't know, he is a real sweety and I used to babysit him all the time. I guess one day I saw through his annoying self and started to like him."

"Hey!" Yugi screamed. "I'm not annoying!"

"When you were a little kid, you were. You never wanted to sleep unless I held you in my arms or if you could sleep in my lap on the couch. I don't know why you always were able to make me go your way. Probably because you're so cute. Who could resist that lovely hair of yours and your violet eyes. I mean, even Blanchet can't look so sad as you can." She ruffled through his hair and they all laughed.

"Blanchet?" I asked.

"Tristan's dog. He's a friend of mine."

"I see. Does he go to school with you?" I wanted to know more about this girl and her life, and of course I wanted to know who my new classmates would be.

"Yes, Tristan is in my class. And so are Mai Valentine and Joey Wheeler. Seto Kaiba is one of my classmates too, I guess you know him." She took a bite of the little piece of chocolate cake and seemed to enjoy it.

"Joey Wheeler, I think I remember him. He has a little sister with reddish-brown hair, doesn't he? The others I'm not familiar with but I know Seto Kaiba. His firm produces lots of equipment for dueling matches." I took a bite too and I must say that grandpa's cooking skills had improved.

"Yeah, but he's a bit cocky and he doesn't like anyone at all. Although Mai likes him, but that's just because he has a lot of money. I should warn you, she might come after you too and she's really beautiful, she has long blonde hair, violet eyes. She's tall, skinny and knows a lot about fashion." She looked down to her plate, pocking her food as if she was thinking about something.

"I like brunettes." I didn't know why I said it, it just flopped it out although I never really thought about hair colors before.

She looked up and me and smiled while trying to hide the little blush on her face.

Tea:

"It's time for your birthday presents, Yugi," Mr. Solomon said.

Yugi jumped up and down and leaded us all to the couch. A big wrapped box was standing on a coffee table and it seemed as if he wanted to attack the wrapping paper.

"Is this yours?" he asked his grandfather who nodded once.

He opened the big box and I could see one of the latest models of Kaiba Corp's duel disks. Yugi smiled and almost hugged his grandfather to death.

"I saw that you already had a deck so I decided to give you something to make it stronger," Yami said. He reached into his pocket and I could see the glimpse of a rare and strong card. The Dark Magician. I had seen Yami using it before but he had a purple one while the one he was giving Yugi was a red one. I could hit myself against the head.

"Whoa, thanks bro!" Yugi hugged his brother and reached under the coffee table to get his deck and he put the card on top.

"I guess mine isn't so good anymore," I said while shrugging my shoulders. I too took a card out of my pocket and gave it too Yugi.

"A red dark magician girl," Yami said. "There are only three…"

"Of them in the world, I know." I smiled but Yugi shook his head.

"I can't take this Tea, it's much too expensive," he said.

"Don't be silly, I got it just for you because I know you like the dark-type. It's a special card for my special little brother." He smiled and thanked me, hugging the air out of my lungs.

When he let go of me again a yawn escaped his lips and I looked on my watch, it was already ten o' clock.

"I guess you should go to sleep," I said to the little boy. He nodded, too tired to argue with me and gave us all a hug before walking to his bedroom, holding his new and improved deck into his hands.

"I should go too, Mr. Solomon, my mother is going to pick me up any minute now."

He smiled at me and hugged me before I walked down the stairs. Yami followed me and insisted on waiting with me outside until my mother came.

"Hey Tea," he said when we got downstairs. "Would you like to walk to school with me tomorrow?" His question came out of nowhere, but I didn't mind. It was nice to have some company.

"Actually I don't live in Domino City, I live right out of town."

He nodded. "I'll wait for you then, we can walk from there."

I smiled at him. "I would like that."

"I'll ask my grandfather where you live, he knows it, right?" he asked while raising an eyebrow.

"Yes, he and Yugi visit almost each Sunday to come over for lunch," I said.

He smiled and waved goodbye once my mother's car appeared around the corner.

Yami:

I ran through an old building, the walls had a dusty, orange color and I could hear someone screaming. The further I ran, the darker it became and I felt water under my feet. When I looked down I was startled by my own reflection. I wore a white cloth around me and I had white shoes on. Some kind of gold jewelry, a crown, was on my head and it had the same emblem as my millennium puzzle. Another necklace was hanging across my chest, made from the same golden material as my wristbands and the bracelets around my legs. I heard a long scream this time, I was getting closer. A long purple cape flew with the wind I caused by running. Lights were getting closer and I ran into the room, seeing Tea in a dark corner of the room, while someone was hovering over her. She wore the same clothes as I had imagined her in when I first saw her but her beautiful blue eyes were now scared.

"Atem!" she screamed when the figure leaned closer to her face. Her eyes went blank and she fell down on the ground while an evil laughter haunted me in my head.

"Good morning everyone, it's seven o'clock and the sun is already shining on this beautiful Tuesday morning. It's still one week until the new…" the announcer on the radio said.

I was bathing in sweat although I was just wearing my boxers. Something in my dream had seemed so real, as if it was more a memory than my imagination and I took my millennium puzzle from my nightstand before walking to the bathroom to get dressed.