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Chapter 10

Mana couldn't sleep. She looked over at the clock. 1:14 am. She moaned and turned over. She wanted sleep. She needed sleep. But her mind was restless. And why shouldn't it be? She never thought that she would see…that. Well, she didn't get to fall in love when she was alive. She was sad at that point, because it is every girls dream to be embraced by a man. Someone who cared. Someone who would accept you, stay with you through the good and bad times.

She sighed as she stared up at the ceiling as if it would give her the answer to help her troubled mind. Imaged kept flashing in her head. She moaned even louder this time and turned back over as she dug her face into her pillow. Her face dug deeper and deeper into her soft pillow.

She couldn't escape.

No matter how hard she tried. But then her mind went from hating the image to thinking about it on it's own free will. Thinking about it, she remembered seeing that he looked pretty strong. A good amount of muscle.

What did he do for a living? She thought to herself.

She laughed to herself when she thought about the conversation she had with Tea.

Flashback!

"Um, Tea?"

Tea shot her a glance and asked, "What is it?"

"I was thinking. When I first got here, I thought Yugi would be the prince, er, Pharaoh of this place. Like the ruler. But now that I think about it, he isn't, is he? I mean, he doesn't act like it. I mean, no. That sounds bad…"

Tea laughed. "Yeah, I get it. And no, he isn't the 'ruler' of Japan. Let's see, we would be called in your time, village people? Peasants? Just normal people trying to make it through life, one day at a time. Enjoying life to it's fullest."

She said, getting an off distance look in her eyes.

End Flashback!

Those words echoed through her head.

"Enjoying life to it's fullest." What did that mean? Did she enjoy life? She thought. Thinking back, I remember having a lot of fun with Pharaoh when we were kids. Mahado, Pharaoh and I would always play games. We would laugh and smile. But…were we living life to it's fullest? Did we really enjoy life? Sure, our lives were not normal. We lived in a palace and practiced magic and dealt with monsters and such. But to live life to the fullest, do you need to live a normal life?

She was now back to being on her back. The covers were at her feet.

She was feeling hot. Tired. She wanted sleep. But non was coming to her.

"M-Mana…?"

She felt herself jump. She looked over to see Tea looking at her.

"I-I'm so sorry! Did I wake you?"

Tea wanted to laugh but all she could make out was a smile.

"No. I was up thinking about things…" She looked away for a moment but then reconnected the eye contact.

"Why were you awake?"

Mana smiled a weak smile and looked back to the ceiling. "Thinking."

"About what? If you don't mind me asking."

Mana looked at her with tired eyes. Tea could tell that she wasn't able to sleep all night long. "I…I was just thinking about…life."

"Life?"

"…Yes. What you said earlier, about living life to it's fullest. I just…well…I don't know if I did. If I was really enjoying life."

"What makes you question that you didn't?"

"What?"

"Just because we live different life style doesn't mean that we both aren't…or didn't…live our lives to the best. You lived in a palace, right?" Mana nodded. "Well, what did you do there?"

Mana looked into space, then a smile displayed on her lips. "Well, when I was a kid…I would play with Mahado and Pharaoh. I was at the palace because they thought that I had an unusual level of magic ability. It wasn't much, but it was better then the average person. Same story with Mahado, only his was much greater. And of course prince…I mean…pharaoh was there because he was the prince of Egypt." She laughed to herself. "When we first got there, everyone was really shy. We were only six or seven. I remember him telling me that we were the only other kids in the palace. I asked him how he didn't die of boredom. 'Games.' He told me. I didn't know how you play a game by yourself, but he showed me what he meant. Things like puzzles and problem solving type games. He was really good at them!"

Tea smiled back at Mana. "That's funny. Because Yugi also did that."

"Really?"

"Yeah. He was also lonely but he was really smart and would pass time with puzzles. Then when he found the millennium puzzle he said that took up a lot of his spare time. It took him seven years to solve it."

"Wow. That's amazing. The puzzle must have been really hard."

"Well, there are a lot of pieces. Yugi said that sometimes you had to hold some pieces while trying to get others on so it wouldn't fall apart."

"Jeez. I don't think I could ever solve something like that!"

"I know. I guess it takes a brilliant mind like Yugi or Atem."

There was a moment of silence until Tea spoke up, "You really got to know Pharaoh, didn't you? It sounds like as if you guys had fun! And then you got to help save the world! If anything is living life to the fullest, it's that!"

Mana sat up, leaning against her bed. "Yeah. I guess so…thanks Tea." She said happily. "What about you?"

"Hm?"

"What were you thinking about?"

"O-Oh. That…I was just…" Tea also sat up, looking at the wall ahead of them. "I…I was just…thinking…about this…situation."

"What do you mean?"

"Well, it just seems…odd."

"Odd? How so?"

"Well, when the Pharaoh was in the puzzle and stuff, things like this happened all the time. I mean, first it was Pegasus with Duelist Kingdom, then it was Marik in the Kaiba Corp tournament, and then we actually went into his memories with Zork." She paused and let out a heavy sigh. "It seems like this stuff always happens to us. No matter what we do, no matter where we go, the world is always in trouble and it is always up to us. Sometimes I just wish that we could run away from it all. Be someone else. I just…" She paused to let a tear fall. "I just wish…" But she could bring herself to finish.

It was stupid of her to wish, she thought. Just then she felt Mana embrace her in a hug.

"I'm sorry. All those things happened because of your connection to the past, didn't they?"

Tea hesitated, and then nodded.

Mana spoke with a weak voice, "I'm so sorry…"

---Next day! ---

Mana woke up with a yawn. She looked over at the clock that said 9:10am.

She groaned in annoyance.

She stayed up late with Tea and wanted sleep. She slowly sat up, rubbing a sleepy tear from her eye.

She let out another long yawn and then looked over at Tea. Gone.

"Tea?" She asked. No answer. "Tea?" She asked again.

"Just a minute!"

She sighed with relief. She didn't want to be left alone. She was still nervous being in a totally different country with people she barely knew. Of course she easily opened up to Yugi, but after last night…well…let's just say she wasn't too excited to see him. And she knew that he wouldn't either. I mean…she saw his…thing. The thing that makes a guy…a guy. Well, you get the idea.

"Just thinking about that night makes me…" She couldn't finish her sentence. She started blushing a very dark shade of red.

"What night?" Tea asked.

"Huh?" Mana turned to see Tea staring at her, causing her to turn even redder, if possible.

"Did something happen? Why is your face all red?"

Mana quickly stuck her pointer finger at her face and said, "Me?"

Tea looked confused and slowly said, "Yeah…"

"No, no! I'm fine! Don't worry! Nothing happened!" She laughed nervously and started shaking her hand, trying to shack off the subject.

"Of you say so…" Tea looked over at her blue and black duffle bag.

She opened the zipper and pulled out a pair of light blue, jean Capri's and a very light yellow shirt that had sparkles on it and faint image of a girl's face in white. At the bottom of the shirt it said, "Hamasaki Ayumi" (A/N: She was a very famous singer, born in 1978) She was about to ask who that was, but then she decided not to. She didn't want to bother Tea about EVERYTHING in this country.

She felt so…naive.

But she let it slide as she quickly took out a pair of white shorts that had a small, silver chain belt that had little silver beads hang from it. Then she put on a black spaghetti strap shirt.

After seeing that Mana was done, Tea said with a happy voice, "Well. I guess now that we're dressed I guess that we should go see the boys."

Mana gulped.

Great. NOW she has to see Yugi. She was so into her thoughts that hearing a sudden sound made her jump.

"Wha-what is that?" She asked nervously.

Tea tried her best to hold back her laugh but she bet that her face looked pretty twisted in doing so. "It's okay! It's just my cell phone!"

Mana calmed down now that she knew that Tea knew what it was, but that didn't solve for what it was.

"So…what's a cell phone?"

"Hmm? Oh. A cell phone is a way to talk. It's like a phone only people take cell phones with them when they aren't in the house."

"O-Oh."

"Moshi Moshi?" Tea answered politely. "Yes? Uh-huh."

Mana could hear Tea sound more and more irritated. 'What's wrong…wait…what did she say? 'Moshi Moshi'? What the heck does that mean?' Tea wondered.

"Yeah. Yugi…can't answer the phone now. That's why the phone was off. Yeah. Okay. BYE." Tea shut the phone and gave off an annoyed shrug.

"I-Is something wrong?"

Tea sighed, "It's just this girl. She is obsessed with talking to Yugi. She's totally in love with him and is extremely jealous of the fact that I'm one of his best friends."

Mana cocked her head. "What's her name?"

"Rebecca." Tea sighed. "But…I'm not gonna let her get me down. Let's go, shall we?"

Mana gulped and put a nervous smile on her face, "S-Sure!"

'Oh gosh! Just pretend that it didn't happen! That it didn't happen!'

They walked into the boy's room without knocking, which shocked Mana a bit, but remembered what Tea said about 'being one of his best friends'. When they entered they were shocked to find no one was there. They looked around until yet again Mana found a note. But this time she was able to read it.

She turned to Tea, "Um…I found another note."

Tea sighed, "Don't tell me they're at the hot springs AGAIN…"

Mana shook her head and read,

"Girls.

Got emergency call from work. Got to run.

Call you later.

PS- Please look after of Khoi."

Mana looked up to see Tea's face paled a bit. Mana was unsure what they meant.

'What do you think that they meant, Mahado?' "I don't know. We never did find out what he did for work."

She nodded and decided to ask what he did for a job.

"Umm…Tea?"

Tea got knocked out of her trance. "Y-Yes?"

"Uh…what exactly does Yugi do for a job?"

Tea smiled a bit weakly and said, "He's in the army."

"The…army?"

"Yes. Didn't Egypt have an army?"

"Yes…but I mean…how can he manage to have so much free time?"

Tea sighed and said, "It's a complicated thing. You see, Tristan, Joey and Yugi are pilots. They fly things called planes. I can show you a picture later. Anyways, they are on reserve. Meaning they only go to work if they have to. They get paid for it…but they also have to work a separate job to get enough pay to live. They have this job called being a 'sweeper'. (1)(A/N YES! I am stealing this from Black Cat! And you can't stop me! BWAHAHAHAHAHA!…so yeah…) they get posters that show the picture of a criminal and how much money they get if they bring him back to the main police alive."

Tea walked over to Yugi's things and started digging threw them. Mana walked over to get a better view of what Tea was doing. She was a bit shocked to see what she was pulling out.

First she pulled out this weird black thing that was folded in half. Tea opened it and it showed a card with a picture of Yugi on it. It also had a small golden shield on the top half of what Tea said was his badge to prove that he was a sweeper.

Then she pulled out something that Mana had no idea what it was. It was black and made of metal. She then also pulled out something that she said went around Yugi's arm. It had little metal things called bullets that he can use incase he runs out.

Mana asked, "What does he need bullets for?"

Tea looked down at the thing called a gun, "It's for self defense. A gun is a thing that is meant to kill. So the people he goes after have guns and they more likely then not shoot at him. He can use this to shoot back." Tea looked up towards the ceiling giving off a daydreaming face, "But Yugi has never killed a man. Same story with Joey and Tristan. But the criminals don't know that. They surrender because they are scared that they might shoot and kill him."

Mana was speechless. What could she say?

"So…" Tea started talking again, "This means that it must be serious if Yugi got called into work."

Tea felt her cheeks get warm from the tears falling down.

Mana was trying to comfort her. Tea continued talking, "You know…he found Khoi that way. Threw work. Khoi was going to be left behind but then Yugi found him and took him back with him from a city in a far off country. The country was under attack and we were in an alignment with the country so they went on a rescue mission. I guess that they didn't notice Khoi and if it weren't for Yugi, he would have died. The poor boy was really scared and didn't remember anything about himself. They were going to put him in an adoption but then Yugi stepped in and said that he could live with him. That's why Khoi is with him. Khoi, for a long time, was in a deep phase of depression. He didn't have any friends or family. The family part is what really got him. He would cry for hours at Yugi's house and we would try to comfort him as much as we could. But, he really only trusted Yugi. And even that trust was fragile. It took many months, but we finally got Khoi to come out of his shell. He was still upset about not having a real family though, so Yugi said that Khoi could call him his brother. Well, Khoi really liked that idea so ever since then they called each other Brothers."

At this point Yugi's words were echoing in Mana's head.

"I made a promise to…my...brother…"

"He's my brother."

He really did care about his 'little brother'. He wouldn't just call him his brother around Khoi, but to everyone. She smiled and thought about how Atem was like that.

He was kind to her always. Like when Mahado died and the stone slab was brought back to the palace of how he fused with his monster. She had cried in front of the whole palace and Atem comforted her. Both Yugi and Atem were both really kind people. Even if Yugi is a bit more of a goof ball then Atem.

That reminded her of how much Yugi smiled. Why didn't Atem smile that much? She wished that she knew.

Finally, Tea whipped her tears away and said, "Well, it's about time that we left the hot springs place. Yugi could only afford to pay for one night stay. Lets get all of their stuff and…"

Then it hit her.

Yugi drove them there.

It was his car.

He probably took it.

She groaned and mumbled something under her breath that Mana couldn't catch.

She sighed and said, "I guess I need to ask for someone to pick us up."

She reached into her pocket and got her phone. Mana saw her pressing the numbers, the same way Yugi did with his phone. It rang and rang, until someone finally picked up.

She could hear the person on the other line speaking, "Hello?" The voice said.

"Rebecca?"

"Tea?"

"Yeah. Um…listen. BIG favor to ask you."

"What is it?"

"Well, I need you to pick up me and Mana at the hot springs place. Think you can do it?"

"Uh…Yeah. I think Gramps just got the rented car…hang on…" She heard Rebecca yelling out to her grandfather, "Gramps! Did you get the car? …Where are the keys?" She heard some rustling and then she spoke into the phone again, "Okay. So just two of you?"

"Yes. But we have the luggage of five."

"FIVE?"

"I'll explain later."

"O-Okay. Be there in a few minutes."

"Thank you." Tea flipped the phone shut. "Well, we better get the stuff out there and wait!"

It only took Rebecca about seven minutes to get there. They loaded up and on the way to Yugi's place to drop off the boy's things Tea explained the situation. They quickly unloaded the things and then headed over to pick up Khoi and then back to Yugi's grandfathers because that was where Rebecca and her grandfather were staying. When they finally got to the game shop, they quickly got out and went inside. They were greeted by two elderly men.

The Egyptians about gasped when they saw who Yugi's grandfather was.

"Siamun…you're Yugi's grandfather?"

"Well, they do look alike…"

The ghosts all thought while looking at Atem and Siamun, making both feel a bit nervous.

But their thoughts were interrupted by Khoi sighing and saying, "How many girl friend's does Yugi have?"

All three girls blushed and Simon and Arthur just chuckled to themselves.

"So, Yugi and the boys left you two high and dry?" Simon asked, a bit confused as to why Rebecca had to pick to two up.

They sent Khoi to watch TV so they could explain everything. Tea sighed and said, "Alright. I want everyone to listen because I'm tired of explaining this…"

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Sorry it's been a while since I've updated. I decided that this story is taking WAY too long so the next chapter something MAJOR is going to happen so stay tuned!