Chap. 2 – Someday

It's already been three weeks since Ann had moved to Domino. Like every day, she was with the acompany of Yugi and the others. Full of curiosity, she decided to ask about Yugi's nacklace.

"Um... Yugi, can I ask you something?"

He looked at her and said:

"Sure Ann!"

"Well... What is this necklace of yours? You wear it every day."

Tea was near there too. She looked at Yugi seriously. He thought for a minute and then said to Ann:

"Hmm... I think you can know now... But you won't tell everybody, will you?"

"Oh... You can say anything to me, I won't tell anybody," she whispered, with a curious expression.

"This is called 'Millenium Puzzle'," he started to tell, "It came from the Egypt. My grandfather gave me it in pieces, like a real puzzle, saying if I put togheter all of them, I could keep it to me. But it's not a common puzzle," Yugi looked at the relic, though for a moment and sighed, keeping on talking: "I's a 'Millenium Item'."

Ann was paying attention, fascinated.

"'Millenium... Item'...?"

"Yes," he nodded, "there are objects from Ancient Egypt that have supernatural powers. In the total, there are seven relics, each one with a different force. You may be thinking this is really weird..." he looked at her seriously, "but what I'm going to say now it's more unbelievable."

Ann was listening even more excited.

"Inside my Millenium Puzzle..." Yugi continued, "there's a spirit. He's like an... 'another me', a second personality. Every time there I'm going to duel, I can call him to help me, using the Puzzle. In the past, he helped me to defeat Pegasus at the Duelist's Kingdom. In exchang for that, he wants me to help him to discover his past, because he doesn't remember. I hope you're not thinking I'm lying or that I'm going crazy," he looked at her worriedly.

Ann still was very surprised by the whole story, but smiled and said:

"No way! This is story is fantastic!"

Yugi and Tea exchanged looks and smiled too.

"It's so good that you believed us, Ann!" Tea said, cheerfuly, "we were scared that you could not be our friend anymore because of this... you're very kind."

"For now, the only people who knows about this are us, Joey, Tristan, Kaiba and Bakura..." Yugi explained.

"Oh, don't worry,I will keep it a secret!" Ann said.

"Great! We knew that we could trust you!" the boy smiled.

Then all of them shook their hands and smiled.

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It was almost evening. Yugi was in the interval with the others, while Ann was in the classroom packing her things. Behind her, she heard some boys talking.

"Hahaha, look how weird he is! With this WHITE HAIR," one of them said teasingly.

"And he's so quiet and good, he looks like a girl!" another boy said.

In the middle of the circle, Ann saw of who they were talking about.

'Bakura!' She thought frantically.

He was silent, looking at the ground. While the boys humiliated him, he left the class running, without saying a thing and still looking at the ground. Ann got very annoyed with the group of boys and walked over to them, saying:

"Aren't you ashamed?? He hasn't done anything to you and you keep criticizing him!!!"

"Hey girl, don't get involved! You're new here," the first boy said.

"I can get involved if I want!!!", she said angrily, running out of the class to go find Bakura, "And if you keep doing that, I'll go talk to the principal!"

She ran down the corridor, leaving the guys there with stupid looks on their faces. She started to look through the corridors to find the boy. Then she found him sitting on a stair, his back on her, with his face in his arms. Ann hesitated and stopped right behind him.

"Is he crying...?", she thought. Curving a little, she said, "Bakura? It's everything all right...?"

Keeping his back on her, he raised his head, incrediblely surprised. 'She's... worried about me?' It couldn't be. Only a few people already had worried with him.

Ann became worried when he didn't answer. She was about to ask him again if he was all right, when he suddenly turned aound and threw himself, hugging her.

'What...?', Ann widened her eyes, surprisingly. She had never been hugged by a boy before, especially in that way! Looking down, blushing, she saw that he was really crying, and besides that, he was blushing a lot too.

They satyed that way in silence for a minute, until Bakura left her and got up, fiercely.

Both ashamed, Ann continued to look at him in a surprised way, while he took his hand to the back of his head and said, "Umm... er... I'm sorry... I wasn't..."

"Okay... that's all right. No problem...," she said, blushing, "I... I think Yugi's calling me, so I... I'm going, OK?"

"OK... goodbye", he said.

"Bye bye...!", she said goodbye too, totally red, and ran out with her bagpack, without looking back.

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While was running, Ann continued thinking about what had just happened.

'But why he did that...? I was just asking... Oh, this... never happened with me before!'

In the back of the school, Yugi and the others were waiting for her.

"Hey Ann! Why is your face so red?", Joey asked.

"Oh... It isn't nothing." She stopped and joined them.

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While he saw the girl going, Bakura stayed there quietly. Then he turned and walked to the other side, going away.

'Damni't, why did I did that?!', he thought.

Stopping, he stayed in silence, thinking. Without realizing it, the reflection of Yami Bakura appeared by his side evilly grining.

'So... my little host is in love with that girl, huh? Huhuhuh... so I think I'll have to introduce myself to her! HAHAHAHAHAHA!'

End of the 2nd. Chapter