Note: if you hate boring beginnigs, skip the first chapter then when I post the second.

Amane:
All right, if I'm going to be telling most of this story you're going to have to know me and you're going to have to know this from the beginning. I am Amane Bakura, I am (or was) a twelve year old girl in the 6th grade, I have (had) an older brother, Ryou (a.k.a. Bakura), who was in the 8th grade (getting ready to go to High School). My father is an archaeologist who also owns Domino Museum (but we don't live in Domino). My mother usually stays at home most of the time and she also worries about Ryou getting into a good high school, and Leon is Ryou's friend with whom he plays Monster World a lot (ok and I have a little crush on him) I think that's about everyone so here's what happens;

It was a Friday afternoon and I was in my room writing poems (but I can't write well, why does Ryou get all the writing talents?). All the things I wrote are 1/3 good 2/3 horrible! I had a stanza in the first poem I liked, but the second one was written like a five-year-old's poem. *sigh Oh well. Maybe with time will come skill. I made a few more adjustments to one of my poems even though it did no good. It was 3:45 pm right now, so in about fifteen minutes my mom and I would go get Ryou (he's at a friend's house) and come home before Father comes home from his trip to Eypt. I couldn't wait, he left a week after Ryou's birthday (Sept. 9) and had been gone for two months. I admit it, I cried a lot during those two months, and luckily Ryou and mom understood (thank God!). Well I had turned on some music to keep my brain from completely frying from trying to write so much and looked at the ceiling for no particular reason. Before I fell asleep my mom called me and told me we had to get Ryou from Leon's so I had to leave my place of solitude (I should write about that).

Mrs. Bakura

4:00, time to get Ryou from Leon's. I went to get Amane, who was lying on the floor in her room (why does she always hide like that?) and told her it was time to leave. Amane and I talked on the way there but when we got there and I asked Amane to get Ryou, she suddenly went silent. That was unusual, I can never get her to be quiet and now she wouldn't say a word.

"You don't want to?" I asked her.

"Urm..... no thanks." was her answer. I noticed she was slightly blushing and I understood the whole thing.

"All right." I said getting out of the car.

Amane

I wanted to stay in the car to avoid making a fool out of myself in front of Leon but now I had managed to make a fool out of myelf in front of my own mother. How humilitating, at least no one would know.... for a while. I watcher mom knock on the door and talk to Leon's mother outside the house while waiting for the boys. My guess was that they were talking about high schools but that's just my guess. Ryou and Leon came out and said their good-byes. Then Leon looked over at me and waved at me. Well so much for hiding, I returned the wave to Leon and waited for Ryou and mom.

"Hey, Amane." Ryou said when he got into the car.

"Hey." I said. That's pretty much all Ryou and I said on the way home since mom kept talking to him (remember, he's in the 8th grade and my mom's a worrywort) about school, homework, tests, all that stuff. I didn't really listen since I was going to see my father later that evening. Later that evening:
It's 5:15, only fifteen more minutes until dad gets home! I can't wait! As soon as dad gets home we ere going to have dinner but until then Ryou and I were talking in my room. We talked about for a while, I even got a couple of tips for my writing too! I liked talking with Ryou, I had no clue that it would be one of the last times we could talk together like that.

Ding-dong.

"Dad's home!" I yelled as I sprinted towards the door with Ryou close behind me. By the time I got to the door, mom and dad were already hugging. "Ryou, Amane, what's new?" Dad asked. There as nothing else to do but join in the happy reunion, soon Ryou joined as well. It's so hard now to think that that moment was one of the last times we were together as a family.

At dinner, father gave us gifts he got from Egypt. He got mom a sculpture of Anubis, Ryou a golden ring called the Millennium Ring, and myself, a simple silver necklace with a charm that was an Anhk. I'm not terribly fond of jewelery, but I loved this necklace and put it on right away.

Ryou
Father's finally home! I missed him so much. He's been gone for two months. He came back with gifts for all of us. A sculpture of Anubis for mother, a silver necklace for Amane, and I got a golden ring. "You know the guy called that the 'Millennium Ring'". Father said.

"Hmm......" was my reply.

"Ya, the guy also said it had something to do with Duel Monsters." Father said.

I nearly choked, "Duel Monsters? You mean that new card game Pegasus made? (Father nodded) That's impossible!"

"Impossible, but convincing, so I bought it for one million yen!" father said.

"ONE MILLION YEN?!" I said (ok yelled), "You've got to be kidding me!" "And I am." father said, "I got it because I knew you were meant to have that thing. Call me crazy but-"

"Crazy." Amane said with a chuckle.

"Thank you, Amane," Father said, "call me crazy but that's the truth." That's now the truth I wish weren't true.