Me: Mehehe this is an awesome chapter I love it!

Yami: You would.

Me: Aw stop it! It's a good un!

Yugi: Remember, you're gonna do your YGOTAS special next chapter?

Me: Oh yeah, about that. I dunno if I will do it for Chapter 10 cos it'll ruin the flow of the story, so I may do it at the end as a kinda epilogue. Ok? Enjoy Chapter 9! (it's my fav to date!)

Yugi walked slowly in front of me, the Millennium Puzzle pulsating softly with a golden glow. The further we got into the labyrinth of doors and stairs, the colder it got. My breath curled before me like mist, pure and white. I looked at Yugi, who had paused at a cross road. In ways, he was like my mist. Pure. It was evident he still had a lot to learn. I think it would kill him to know how evil Yami really was inside. Not now, but, in Season 0, before he and Yugi properly met, he would easily kill people, without fear, without mercy. He would blind men, trap them inside cards, do anything he had to.

But it was always for his friends. That's the reason he always gave. It was to save his friends.

When the two of them merged with me that day, I had felt part of his old self. The way Yami spoke was hard, steel like. I didn't like to think of him that way, but it was how he was.

Yugi on the other hand, was the one who always saved Yami. Saved him from himself. He was the one, who in the end, had cured Yami of his evil. Not entirely, but mostly. Yugi had made Yami hide all his evil inside him.

I felt a twinge inside me. I looked to the side at a large, unassuming door. I felt a burning pain rising from my gut into my chest. I turned, and took slow trembling steps towards it. Was this it? Was this the door?

"Penny for your thoughts!" Yugi said cheerfully, turning around.

"Oh, nothing." I smiled weakly.

"Pre duel jitters? I get 'em too. But, I've only ever dueled with Yami, not against him, so I wouldn't know what it's like."

I looked at the door again. "Don't go in there," Yugi said, suddenly serious.

"What's there?" I asked.

"Yami's worst memories. He locked them away. Forever. He swore he'd never open it again."

So that's where I knew it from. Second volume of YU-GI-OH Millennium World, when Yugi and the gang find themselves inside again. Yugi opens it and witnesses for a second time their duel with Kaiba, when Kaiba dared Yami to kill him, and Yami nearly did. That was one of the few times I was scared by Yami, and so was Yugi, who was the one who ultimately stopped him. That was what made Yami realise he needed to stop the evil games he played with his victims.

"He shouldn't forget them altogether. He just needs to learn from them." I stepped toward it again.

"Don't open the freaking door Jenna, I swear to Ra," Yami's voice boomed suddenly.

"I wasn't." I withdrew from it guiltily.

"Hurry up and find me already!" He commanded.

"Okay, okay keep your starfish wig on," I mumbled in annoyance, moving back to stand next to Yugi. "Where to next, short stuff?"

Yugi closed his eyes in thought, the Puzzle glowing a little brighter. "This way." He turned right, eyes still shut, as if in a trance. I followed obediently, the Duel Disk feeling heavy on my arm.

"How do you carry this thing around all the time?" I asked, making conversation. Yugi didn't reply, deep in concentration, so I contented myself by looking at the view, which there wasn't much of, just stairs and doors, the same as always, on and on and on...

"I don't carry it most of the time," Yugi suddenly replied. "Yami does." He hesitated. "I think Yami is trying to make the most of having a body again. Oh, I don't mind," He anticipated my thoughts. "I've had mine 17 years, he's not had his in 500,00 years. I'm all to happy to let him use mine because, I love him, y'know." He turned and looked at me. I felt a rush of warmth run through me, a little fuzzy feeling you get after Disney films.

"Yuge, a lot of people think you and Yami are like, um well..." I felt embarrassed.

"Together? Oh ew, Jen! Are you serious?" He rotated a 180 to face me. I nodded.

"It's not like that. He's part of me, the other me. It's like... Well, he's my brother. My- not so older brother. He always has my back, and I love him for that. He'll always be there for me, and I'll always be there for him." He cocked his head and smiled, eyes curved upwards.

He didn't know. He didn't know that they'd have to part ways, one day. And I didn't have the heart to tell him. I didn't want to make him go through the pain twice.

I knew he was torn when Yami left. I knew it was heartbreaking. A part of his soul was being taken away.

For a moment, I felt a little hate towards Yami. How could he do that to his best friend? But, then again, would you rather go on to eternal happiness, or stay trapped inside someone else's body?

It suddenly hit me that, I too was going to lose them. At one point, after they had fulfilled their purpose for being here, they would be able to go home. Would they go at all? Well, duh, of course they would, stupid girl...

"Jenna, are you alright? You're crying." Yugi asked with concern. I wiped a salty tear from my cheek with a shaky laugh.

"Mm-hmm. I'm ok. Nervous." Yugi nodded. "Yugi?"

"Yeah? What is it?"

"Where are we going?"

"I dunno," Yugi glanced briefly at the gold Puzzle. "But, the way we are going feels right."

"Keep going!" Yami's voice encouraged. "You're warm."

"It doesn't feel it!" I complained, rubbing my bare arms, scratching myself with the Duel Disk at the same time. I lowered my voice. "Do you know where Yami's True Room is?"

Yugi bit his lip, shaking his head. "No. Never found it. What do you think is in it?"

"Yami, at present." Yugi brightened.

"Maybe that's where we are going!"

"Ooh, you're good!" Yami praised. "But you're wrohhhnnnnggg!"

"Crap," I mumbled. "Ah well! I'm sure it'll still be a cool room!"

"Oh yeah, it's cool! You'll like it!" Yami gave that childish laugh again. "Aaannnndddd! You're getting warmer!"

"Good, I'm bored."

"So am I," I could almost imagine Yami's face. "Hurry up!"

"You must be used to servants waiting on you hand and foot, Your Majesty!"

"I don't-remember that..." Yami said softly, his voice very young again. Yugi's head dropped a bit.

"I'm really sorry pal."

"S'ok. Just get here."

Yugi's step quickened. "You got a lead?" I quizzed, jogging up to him. He nodded.

"Think so. Maybe." He rounded another corner, and the ground crumbled beneath us.

"Ahcrap ahcrap ahcrap!" I yelped as I dangled from the edge of the precipice. "Yami, you massive douche!"

Yami didn't reply, though I thought I could hear faint chuckling. "Creep! Nearly killing me! Sonuva..."

"Oh Jen! Language!" A voice sounded below me.

"Yugi?"

"Yeah?"

"Are you hanging onto my leg?"

"Yeah."

"How much do you weigh?"
"That's a little personal Jen..." I could imagine him blushing.

"Be consoled, you weigh almost nothing."

"Damn," He mumbled.

"That's a good thing mate."

"Not really. It means I easily get kicked around at school."

"Not when I'm there to save you." Yami's voice said,a little louder, and from below. "Let go, I'll catch you."

I could tell Yugi was hesitating.

"I've always got you Yugi. I promise." Yami's voice reassured him softly.

"Not both of us at the same time?" Yugi asked finally.

"I'm not that strong, partner." Yami's bemused voice replied. "One at a time." I felt the grip on my leg loosen, and there was a long pause before a dulled thud.

"Is it a long fall?" My voice trembled as I spoke.

"No," I looked up in surprise to see Yami standing above me, arms crossed.

"This is a bit of a Shadi moment. Please don't let me die." I begged.

"I didn't let Shadi die. Do you think I'm gonna kill you?"

"Can you make your mind up soon, because this is really awkward!"

Yami laughed, and held out his hand. I gripped it, and he hauled me up. As my feet landed on the ledge, part of it crumbled away, and I fell into Yami, bowling him over onto the stone walkway. I stared down into his violet eyes for a moment, before I felt my cheeks begin to burn.

"You can get off me now," Yami reminded me. "I think you've cracked a rib."

"Sorry!" I leapt up, before frowning. "Hey! You don't have any rids, you liar!"

"Oh? Did you want to continue?" Yami raised his eyebrows.

"Uh, ah no!" I babbled, going beetroot red. Yami gave a cocky grin. "Do not give me the Egyptian Pharaoh charm!"

"I wasn't," He said, leaning back on his hands and looking me up and down. I scowled, and his face grew serious. "I wasn't, genuinely. I don't know where that came from... I'm sorry."

"No problem." I said absent mindedly. Inwardly though, I was having different thoughts. I knew the Pharaohs had a bit of a reputation with the women; was Yami really so different? Mind you, he didn't even remember his past, so he wouldn't know, but then again, this may all have been coming out of his subconscious...

Suddenly Yugi ran up, breathless, his pale face flushed pink. "Yami you big brute! You know I have shorter legs than you! Stop running ahead!" He looked at us excitedly. "So! Are you gonna duel now?"
Yami rose almost regally, and dusted off his shirt. "I think not."
"YAMI!" Yugi and I chorused.

"I think Jenna has had enough excitement for tonight. She still needs her rest. Maybe tomorrow, ok?"

"You meanie! I travelled all this way, and we aren't duelling!" I pouted. Yami held his hand for the duel disk, which I gave him back. "Can I still keep the mystery card?"

"For now," He nodded. "But I'll want it back."

"Of course."

"Come on Yugi," He turned around, and Yugi trotted after him.

"How do I get back?" I yelled.

"Go to sleep!" Was all I got in way of reply as they disappeared from sight. I flopped down onto the walkway with a sigh. I squeezed my deck, and then suddenly flicked through it. What had he given me?

But there was nothing. Nothing I didn't own. Except... I fanned out my deck on the ground and searched through. And there it was. Pot of Greed.

"But, I have a Pot of Greed," I mumbled, holding them side by side. That's when I noticed. The famous line that all the Yugioh characters seemed to quote every time they played the stupid card, was circled with a black pen.

"This card lets the player draw two new cards from their deck."

"No, why would he give me that?" I wondered aloud. "Oh well. It's not like he was going to give me a God card now was he? But I can dream. And talking of dreaming..."

I gathered up my cards, and lay down on my back, the cold stone seeping through me. "G'night guys," I whispered. And the darkness swept over me.