Author's Note: I do not own any characters or anything of the time, it is owned by Kazuki Takahasi not me

I finally got the chapter up! :D If you were wondering why that's because I never thought of a plot for this story. (I'm such a good authoress, right...) Then I was more interested in my other story so I didn't really give any care for this one. Though, now I'm done with my other story so it won't take like 3 weeks to write between chapters.

Please Note: In this story Mana is related to Atemu and is passing conversation. It is a little effective to the plot but not really, in the anime/manga it is not mentioned of her relationship to Atem. It is said he is her only associate rather than her teacher so there's an air of mystery around her so I find it possible for them to be related.

Enjoy the chapter! Please review on how it is, I appreciate it. ^^


Out of The Castle

"N-no, we can't do that, my father would forbid it!" I protested. Yugi had asked if we could go out to the village now that we were allowed to be together.

"Come on, Atemu." Yugi pleaded, "Your father said we could be together so let's venture together, nothing bad could happen." Yugi ended his counter with a smile. I was still afraid of what could happen, seeing as I was royalty someone might kidnap me.

"I'm not sure about this." I stated looking downward. I felt a hand on my shoulder and looked up to see it was Yugi.

"Please? You could always trust me, Atemu… no matter what." I heard Yugi say in a soft voice. I could feel my heart beating fast with a blush creeping on my face.

"Um… O-ok." I stuttered. I saw excitement dance in Yugi's eyes before grabbing a hold of my hand and leading me out of the door.

Once we were outside in the garden we both saw a man guarding the entrance. I felt a tug at my arm and saw Yugi dragging me behind a vase. I saw Yugi lean over to the side and pick up a piece of gravel. He soon sat right up again and threw the rock to the opposite side of where we were sitting. I was relieved to see he didn't hit the guard but then notice his intention soon after. I saw the guard step away from his post to go search what made that noise. We soon ran for the entrance and I was finally out of the place that I was forbidden to leave from birth.

I gazed in awe at all of the surrounding buildings of the village, they were so amazing. There were many merchants that sold locally caught fish, honey and fruits. The local ziggurat and palace stood tall among other things and looked truly magnificent.

"Um, Atemu?" I heard from behind me and looked to see Yugi, "I asked you if you really never saw the outside." I guess I was in absolute ecstasy at all the sights that I didn't hear Yugi.

"Yeah. My father wouldn't let the 'defenseless prince' out to see the outside world." I told Yugi. I saw Yugi look around a bit before facing me again with sparkling eyes.

"Want to maybe, you know-" Yugi started twiddling his thumbs, "-go buy some merchandise? With you being royalty and all, you must have a lot of money, right? Right?" I didn't know what to give Yugi for an answer since I didn't know what this 'money' was that he talked about. Though to make him happy I nodded, "Perfect! I mean, um, that's good." He ended. I think it was just me but I could of sworn he said something about this boy named Joey, picking, bad habits and something about Brooklyn. He must have had a friend named Joey that picked on his best friend Brooklyn that he just remembered…

Yugi soon took my hand and we walked towards one merchant that sold fish that was caught in the Nile River. Once there he talked up to the merchant, "Could we get some sushi- I mean one fish, please. I'd like the uhhh…" I saw Yugi stall on what he wanted. As a foreigner he must not know of the fish here so I wanted to help him out.

"Well Yugi, I like Nile perches, Eels and Catfish." I smiled brightly in his direction, happy to be of help. I saw him look at me with his face a bit red and nod before mouthing 'thank you'. Though, it did leave me a bit stumped at why he looked red, maybe he… no, we're just friends.

"Okay, I'd like one Catfish please, merchant sir." I saw the merchant look weirdly at Yugi for his foreign word of 'sir'.

"Alrighty then-" The merchant started, "-what do you have to barter?" I saw Yugi freeze in place and soon lean towards my ear and whispered.

"I thought you said you have a lot of money. Why does he want to barter then?" I blinked at his words and gave him an answer soon enough.

"I didn't know what money was so I nodded for your question to make you happy. Bartering is what we do around here, unlike your foreign birth and living place." I whispered back to Yugi. We soon both recomposed ourselves and I look at Yugi for a little bit. I decided what I'd barter was the ring that I was given from Mana that was worn on my ring finger. I gently slid it off my left hand and gave it to the merchant.

He analyzed the piece of gold closely before trying to bend it. To his happy prevail, it kept solid like how real gold should and a smirk tugged at his lips, "Mighty fine. Pleasure doing business today for such a nice piece of gold." He soon put the gold ring to the side with a little clunk coming after, probably from a pile that he made. He picked up a flint knife and started skinning the fish from the inedible parts of the fish. After, he cut the fish up for different servings and wrapped it up in papyrus before putting it in a basket made of reeds. He handed it to me and I signaled Yugi to follow me to where I wanted to go.

"Um, Atem…" Yugi started. I could feel the words pierce me for what I knew he was going to ask, "-why'd you choose the ring to barter? You could of use one of your arm bangles, the ring looked like a lot in value." I let out a sigh and faced Yugi to give him my answer.

"That's because Mana gave it to me… In my land the royal family has to be with one in their bloodline and Mana is indeed a relative. I find it rather grotesque but I'll have to do it anyway though I don't want that for many reasons. For that she can be childish, non-caring for her lessons, she's my relative and…" I refrained myself from telling Yugi the last reason. If I did and he didn't accept it then it would be disastrous to our friendship.

"And…? What's the final reason?" Yugi urged me. I pretend-coughed a bit into my hand to hide my arising blush. He looked at me with such pleading eyes that I was just not sure to break it to him. I turned away from him, refusing to look face to face with him.

"I'll tell you once we get to where we're heading. The sun is dusking so I want to get there before it gets too late to see." I stated. We walked in utter silence before we were at our destination.