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I ran through the rain as I was getting closer to the game shop. The rain was getting heavier and it was dark out but I kept going anyways.
"Yugi said this was important." I said running some more.
I had on my green jacket, that was now soaked, and my blue jeans wear wet. I had just put on my tennis shoes and ran out. My black shoulder length hair was wet and wavy down my back while my electric blue bangs stuck to either sides of my face. My necklace was swaying from side-to-side as I ran to Yugi's house.
It was big and sliver and was crafted as the Egyptian symbol for life. It had a red ruby circle in the center of it and the sound eye of Horus at the bottom. It had carvings of a design on it and was held by a silver chain.
My golden brown eyes looked up at the sign as I stood outside of the store panting. I went in and took my shoes off as Yugi's grandpa came in to see who it was.
"Why Tamaya your soaked! Why were you running in the rain?" He asked coming up to me. I shook my head and some water dripped from my hair. When I finally could breath normally I smiled.
"Yugi called me and asked me to come over. He said it was important." I explained wiping my bangs out of my face. Yugi's grandpa laughed a little as Mrs. Muto walked into the room.
"Tamaya! Your all wet! What have I told you! If you need a ride over here just call and we will pick you up." She scolded me. I smiled sheepishly.
"S-sorry. I forgot." I admitted rubbing my head. She sighed and got a towel.
"You're a great friend Tamaya, but I'm sure you don't want to do that again. You get sick very easily." Gramps said slight concern in his voice. I sighed while Mrs. Muto rubbed my hair and wiped off my wet face.
"Yeah I know Gramps. Thanks Mrs. Muto." I said.
She rang out my hair out and made sure it was dry. She smiled.
"I asked you to call me mom." She wiped off my face softly.
"Now your hair is dry. But your clothes are all wet still." She said pointing at my jacket.
"I'm fine really. It's just water. Besides I have an extra pair of clothes you made me bring over remember." I said walking upstairs to Yugi's room. She sighed.
"Make sure you change first young lady!" She called making me laugh.
"Yes ma'am." I walked into her room and went to the closet were my clothes were hanging.
Solomon Muto was Yugi's grandfathers name. He was also the owner of the shop. He's nice and lets every call him Gramps or grandpa. I rarely ever called him Mr. Muto or grandpa. Just Gramps.
Mrs. Muto is like my own mother. She treats me like her daughter and always makes me call her mom. She's very protective of Yugi and I since we grew up getting bullied. I got in a lot of fights for Yugi and I. It usually lead to me protecting Yugi and then getting suspended. She's very important to me. She's very kind, but she's scary when she's angry. Yugi's friends very rarely see her. I'm the only one that sees her daily.
I put my wet clothes in the clothes hamper and made sure the ones I had on didn't look like I just ran ten blocks through rain.
Which I did.
I had on a black t-shirt that said "gamer girl" on it. I had on normal blue jeans and plaid black and white knee high socks. I had put my hair up in a high pony tail after I brushed it and my bangs framed my face. I had a bruise on my cheek from getting beat up earlier and also a cut on my eyebrow. I put my bracelets back on along with my necklace. I had on two gold bracelets on either arm while a silver chain hung from my wrist loosely and an black arm band on my left arm.
I held the necklace in my palms. It was very special to me because Gramps gave it to me for my eighth birthday. I cried for the first time in a long time on that day. That was actually the first time Yugi saw me cry. I haven't cried since though.
Gramps said that he found the necklace in the same tomb he found Yugi's puzzle in.
'Yugi still hasn't finished that puzzle either huh?' I thought walking down the hall to his room.
I got to his door and knocked. I heard someone crying and I got worried. I put my hand on the door.
"Yugi are you okay? It's me Tamaya." I said.
I heard moving around.
"Come in." I heard Yugi say.
I walked in and saw Yugi sitting on his bed with his back to me. I shut the door behind me and sat at the end of the bed.
"Yugi why did you call me over here so fast?" Yugi turned around to me with an golden upside down triangle in his hands and tears down his face. I looked at the triangle, it was almost the same size as my necklace. I went wide eyed.
"You finished the puzzle Yugi! Finally after eight years!!" I said happily. Then I saw some tears fall on the puzzle. I looked at Yugi's face but his golden bangs covered his eyes.
"Y-Yugi what's wrong?" I asked voice slightly shaken. Yugi rarely ever cried. I mean he cried more than me, but he was just fine at school!
"I'm missing one. I can't finish it now. " He said quietly. I looked at the puzzle as he turned it around and showed me a huge piece missing.
"W-what no!" I said I took the puzzle from him and looked at it. I looked at Yugi and he was out of it with tears in his eyes. That got me angry.
"Yugi Muto! Don't you dare give up on this puzzle!" I yelled making him jump slightly.
"But Tamaya I-"
"No! You have been working on this Millennium Puzzle for eight years! I have been helping you through the whole thing! If you give up now….If you give up now that's just a waste of all those years together! You are my best friend and also the strongest person I have ever met." I said looking at him smiling.
He sat there thinking about the things I said. I huffed frustrated and got up grabbing his black jacket putting it on.
"W-Where are you going!? You can't go anywhere while it's raining! We also have to figure out a way to pay that Officer Trudge back!" He said getting up quickly.
I smirked at him. We were about the same height. I was and inch taller though.
"I'm going to make my best friend happy again. We'll have to worry about that later." I said running out the door and down the stairs. He was behind me.
"Wait Tamaya!" I didn't listen to him.
I slipped my black tennis shoes on and headed out the door.
"Where do you think your going Tamaya!?" I heard Mrs. Muto yell. I looked over my shoulder with my bangs sticking to my face again.
"I'll be back soon!" I said running again.
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I ran all the way to Domino High.
'If it's anywhere. It has to be here.' I thought going up to the fence and jumped it. It had stopped raining as I walked down the sidewalk and passed the water pool thingy. I sweat dropped.
'What is that thing anyway?' I thought.
I shrugged and kept walking until I heard the water moving. I looked back and Joey Wheeler was standing there soaked to the bone looking at me with confused eyes.
"Joey?" I asked in amazement. He looked at me some more before he nodded his head.
"Yeah. Tammy what are you doing here?" He asked walking toward me. I frowned.
"Well I could ask you the same thing-" I looked at Joey's hand and he was holding the last piece to Yugi's Millennium Puzzle.
"Y-You stole the last piece!?!" I yelled pointing at his hand. He took a step back.
"W-What no!! Well I did but you gotta let me explain Tammy-!" He stuttered. I usually laughed at his Brooklyn accent but I couldn't right now. I balled my fist up.
"And here we were getting beat up for you today when you and Tristan got your asses kicked!!! I thought you were our friend Joey!!" I yelled making him flinch.
Then I laughed humorlessly.
"Wait no. You always bullied Yugi and I! I knew I shouldn't have become even close to being your friend." I spat out at him. He just flinched again.
"Okay I did deserve that, but you just gotta let me explain!!!"
"Well get to it! Because I would just love to hear this story." I said sarcastically taking a seat on the bench. I crossed my legs and crossed my arms over my chest with a furious expression.
Joey paced back-and-forth in front of me while he told me what happened.
"Well I took it this morning cause Yugi was acting like a baby when Tristan and I was playing monkey in the middle with him. Then I threw it in the canal. I took it cause I wanted to show him he needed to be stronger."
"That's why he has me! I'm always there for him!" I interrupted but he shook his head.
"He needs to learn how to be strong for himself. Anyways that's when me and Tristan ran into that Trudge guy. He beat us up saying that he was Yugi's new body guard. That when Yugi came and stopped him. After that Trudge tried to hit Yugi and you got punched instead because you ran in front of him remember?" He said looking at me.
I nodded some not really knowing where he was going with this.
"Yeah I was there for that part." I said rolling my eyes. He sighed.
"Well that got me thinking. I felt bad and went to get the piece that he needed. I don't know what I would do if you two have to pay that 2,000 dollars by tomorrow and then get all beat up because of me. I'm really sorry Tammy." I softened my gaze and smiled.
"Joey, that was very wrong of you, but also very right of you to go to so many lengths and get the piece of the puzzle. You have no idea how tore up Yugi is, but in this process I think you made him stronger." I said.
I walked up to Joey and gave him a tight hug. I felt him tense up but I didn't let go.
"I think the real reason why you bullied us was because you were afraid of Yugi getting in serious danger." I said. I felt him slowly hug me back. I smiled.
"But now. You are my friend. No matter what." I said pulling back.
"R-Really? T-Thanks Tammy." He stuttered out. I nodded.
He held out the piece to me. I shook my head.
"I think you should give it to him in person. You won't have to tell him what you did. And quit calling me Tammy." I said walking back to the fence.
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On the way back to the game shop we talked about things we liked, things we disliked, Duel Monsters, and he talked about his past.
"Wow Joey. I'm really sorry about you sister." I said placing a hand on his arm. He looked down at me.
"Nah. I know that Serenity will always be with me." He said grinning. I laughed.
'I guess Joey isn't as bad as I thought. Looks like Yugi was right about him.' I thought glancing at him.
"Hey Tammy," I twitched at the nickname. "Why do you always wear that necklace?" He asked me pointing at my necklace. I played with it.
"Well Yugi's grandpa got this for my eighth birthday. He got it in Egypt with Yugi's puzzle. It means a lot to me." I said softly with a content smile on my face. Joey mouthed an 'o'.
"What about your family?" He asked me. I flinched slightly at the mention of 'family'.
"Tamaya!" I heard. I looked up to see Gramps standing outside. Joey got a little nervous. I waved slightly.
"H-hey Gramps." I said smiling sheepishly.
Joey walked in front of me and put the puzzle piece in Gramps hand.
"Joey what are you-" I started but he ran off with his bangs covering his eyes. I sighed and took the piece from Gramps.
"So you found it did you?" He said smiling. I nodded slightly.
"I sort of did. With some help of Joey Wheeler of course." I said looking at Joey's back. I walked into the game shop taking off my shoes and went up to Yugi's room.
I didn't bother knocking and came in to see him sitting at his desk.
"What am I gonna do? Tamaya is right. I can't just give up." I smiled and walked up behind him.
He picked up the puzzle and started to look at it. I put the last piece in his hand.
"There you go Yugi. Now finish the puzzle already." I said grinning. Yugi looked at me with a shocked expression.
"How did you-"
"Someone……helped me find it down at the school." I explained crossing my arms.
"H-how could I ever repay you?" He said happily. I laughed a bit.
"By putting the damn puzzle together already!" I said. He laughed.
'I'm so happy my friend is back.' I thought smiling.
"Okay!" He put the last piece in the Millennium Puzzle and it started glowing and there was this huge gust of wind.
"W-what's happening?" I asked startled. Yugi stood up from is chair holding the puzzle away from him.
"I-I don't know!" He yelled over the wind. There was this bright light and I covered my eyes.
I opened my eyes and there were these things around us.
"AHHH!!! MONSTERS!!" I screamed looking at Yugi. There was this light coming from the Millennium puzzle. Yugi yelled as he was engulfed in a bright light. I covered my eyes.
When I opened my eyes Yugi was standing there with a third eye was on his forehead. He looked very serious. He stood in front of me as he looked at the little brown fur ball of a monster that tried to attack us. I screamed as it came closer and Yugi held a protective arm in front of me. The puzzle started glowing again.
"Shadow creators, be gone! I command you! Return to the dark realm from whence you came!" His voice was deeper as he commanded the monsters to go away.
There was a huge gust of wind and a golden light whirled around the room and us. I closed my eyes as the light went back into the Millennium Puzzle leaving the room empty of any monsters and back to the way it was as if nothing happened.
Yugi turned to me as I stared at him in amazement. He looked so different. His eyes were more serious and he had golden highlights in his hair. He was also taller than me.
I looked at the puzzle and it started glowing again before my vision blurred and I was engulfed in darkness. My unconscious body fell forward as I collapsed. "Yugi" caught me before I hit the ground and lifted me up.
"Now time to go deal with Officer Trudge." He said.
He set me on the bed gently. He looked at me for a moment and traced the cut caused by Trudge along my left eyebrow.
"He will pay for hurting my friends." He said jumping out of the window.
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