Well here's the next chapter. Sorry it took so long to update. Well enjoy.

Me - Yami can you do the disclaimer please.

Yami - Its about time you updated, the cupboard was getting really crowed

Me - Aw poor little old you, now do the disclaimer please

Yami - Ya ya, Neko doesn't own YU-GI-OH which is a good thing since we would all be still in the cupboard

Me - ~ rolls eyes ~

Resurrection

Chapter 9

Dark thunder clouds rolled across the black folds of the nights sky as Layla sat, eyes closed, with in the small garden of the palace, small fluttering fireflies danced across the water of the small stream that ran through the garden, looking like fallen stars, swaying from side to side along the cool nights breeze, moving like dancers with in a moon lit ball.

Her med length white servants dress also danced gently with in the soft breeze as a loud roar of thunder rolled across the sky, followed by a flash of lightning as the heavens opened. Layla lifted her head towards the sky, slowly opening her eyes, a small smile appeared upon her pale pink lips as the ice cold rain drops ran down her pale skin, sending small waves of shivers down her spine.

To anyone else, a thunder storm would frighten them, but to Layla, it seemed to sooth her very soul, calming and relaxing every muscle with in her body, closing her piercing blue orbs once again as the cool rain water ran down her skin.

"What are you doing out here?" a strong male voice said from behind her as she turned to face the owner, opening her eyes once again to see Atem leaning on the door frame to the garden, his arms crossed over his bare chest as a small smirk appeared upon his lips.

"I love the rain" Layla smiled, standing up from the small stone bench as she spun slowly around in circles, her arms held out to the sides as she tilted her head back, letting the rains water run down her neck.

"Your going to make yourself sick" Atem chuckled, walking out into the garden as he gently took hold of her hands, stopping her from spinning as she looked at him.

Since the day Atem was hurt by the falling statue, Layla found herself opening up completely towards him, even thou she knew she shouldn't and he was her Pharaoh, but the strong mixture of emotions she felt seemed to over take her common sense, feeling the same as when they where children before their worlds moved apart.

"Do you never make time just to be you? No title, just to do what you want to do" Layla asked, looking deeply into his crimson eyes.

Atem just looked at her, trying to think of an answer to her question, but he couldn't think of one, he couldn't remember the last time he just had fun.

Layla smiled, moving her hands out of Atem's as she moved towards the stream that ran through the garden, stepping into the cool water as another roar of thunder echoed through the sky, followed by lightning.

Atem walked slowly towards her, unsure of what she was up to, standing by the edge of the stream as Layla splashed cool water up into his face, giggling at the surprised look across his face as he stepped into the stream, returning the favour with a playful smirk.

They continued to splash water up at each other, laughing as the heavy rain continued to fall. Layla moved around to the side of Atem, but lost her footing, reaching out for him as she fell backwards, landing upon the soft wet ground by the side of the stream, Atem landing on top of her.

The both of them just looked at each other for a moment, Atem's forehead resting upon hers as they started to giggle, soon turning into full blown laughter before it died down.

Atem slowly brushed aside a few strains of hair from Layla's face, running his hand softly down her cheek as she starred deeply into his eyes. Atem felt like he was drowning with in her piercing blue orbs, unable to bring himself to the surface but he didn't care, he longed to be lost in those eyes as he moved closer towards her.

His warm breath hit her soft skin as she shivered slightly, his lips gently pressing against her own. Layla slowly moved her hand into Atem's hair, wrapping her fingers around his locks as their kiss deepened. Running his tongue along her bottom lip gently, longing for entrance as she gasped before she let a small moan escape her.

Atem mapped out every inch of her mouth as he pulled her up towards him, pulling her onto his lap as they broke apart, resting his forehead on hers as they panted lightly for breath, looking deeply into each others eyes. Wrapping his arms around her waist, Atem pulled her closer towards him, not wanting to lose the warmth she was giving him.

He longed to keep her for his own, forever to be by her side, to make her his and it didn't help that the heavy rain was causing her white dress to becoming more see through by the minute.

Sighing lightly, Atem buried his head into her hair, hoping for this one moment to never end.

Alex slowly opened her eyes, blinking a few times to adjust to the light with in the room, rubbing her forehead lightly with her finger tips, trying to stop the impending headache she was feeling to become ant worse, confusion and frustration ran through her as she shook her head to try and remove the feelings but nothing seemed to help.

Sitting up slowly with in the warm covers of her bed as she lifted her top half way up her stomach, looking down at the finger shaped bruises before rolling her eyes.

Sighing, Alex climbed out of the bed and made her way towards the bathroom, feeling more confused then ever.

"Yami, Yami wake up, we're going to be late for the hundredth time" Yugi yelled, poking the lump under the quilt, hard, only getting a loud growl from the person underneath.

Rolling his eyes, Yugi walked out of the room, sighing heavily as he closed the door behind him. Letting out another low growl, Yami flung the covers of himself as he felt his frustration rising at the constant clouded memories and the unknowing of what was happening. He needed answers but was unsure as to where to get them, maybe Alex knew more then what she had told him but he couldn't just out right ask her, he didn't want to hurt her or push her away, he needed her in his life.

Getting up off the bed as he walked towards the closed door, taking deep breaths to try and calm his rising anger as a sharp bolt of pain ran through his body.

A slow flow of blood ran down between his fingers of his right hand as Yami looked down at his blood stained knuckles before looking up at the small hole with in the door.

Sighing, Yami made his way towards the bathroom, taking a quick shower, bandaging his hand as he quickly got dressed, making his way down stairs.

"What happened to your hand?" Yugi asked, rising an eyebrow as he looked down at the white bandage around his hand but got no answer from Yami.

"He had a fight with the door and the door lost" Solomon spoke up, walking past the both of them as they looked at him, with only a nod in agreement from Yami to Solomon's comment.

"How the hell do you do that grandpa? It freaks me out" Yugi yelled before laughing as the two of them headed out of the house, making their way towards the school.

Alex rolled her eyes and sighed, leaning back against the row of lockers behind her, looking through the endless sea of students, trying to find a flash of white hair from Ryou, with every thing that had happened to her, she wasn't in the mood for any more games and standing by the lockers left her open for a run in with Kaiba.

"Hi, have you been waiting long?" a gentle voice said as Alex turned her head to the left to meet a pair of soft brown eyes looking at her.

"Not long, so what did you want? Not to be rube but I'm not in the mood for games" Alex stated flatly, crossing her arms over her chest.

Smirking, Bakura moved a little closer towards her.

"How's that voice in your head? Does it hurt? Oh and another thing, my names Bakura, Ryou's just the body I share" he whispered, smirking wider at her reaction.

Alex felt her muscles tighten, her eyes wide as she looked into his now narrow eyes, she hadn't told anyone about the voice that haunted her mind but some how both Bakura and Malik knew.

"H..how d..do y…"

"I know because I do Layla, your going to open the gate of souls and there's no one, not even Atem, I mean Yami can help you" he hissed, gripping onto her elbow tightly as she tried to move, his every word seemed to make her every muscle twitch.

"Why did you call Yami, Atem?" Alex asked as calming as she could.

"I take it that Yami hasn't told you, looks like the Pharaoh doesn't trust you" he hissed, sounding more like a snake then a human but loving every reaction he was getting from her.

"Ever wondered why that voice and Yami are so familiar to you but you can't quite put your finger on it, its because you have already lived this and now its time to do what you was born to do" he continued.

"Fuck you Bakura or who ever you are, its not fucking funny any more" Alex snapped, pushing him away from her, only to be slammed back into the lockers with Bakura now standing in front of her.

"Get off me" she hissed but Bakura only smirked at her.

"Now what are you going to do? Threaten me? Kill me? We're in the middle of the fucking school, so let me go" Alex snapped, trying to sound aggressive but failing as her body continued to shake slightly as Bakura chuckled deep in his throat.

"Alex" Yami yelled from down the hall as Alex took a quick look at him before pushing Bakura away as he walked off down the hall.

Exhaling like she had held her breath the whole time as Yami and Yugi came closer.

"Alex, are you alright?" Yugi asked, concern held with in his voice.

"Ya, I'm fine, I just need to erm, go to the staff room" she lied, pushing past them as she made her way down the hall.

"Do you want us to come with you?" Yami yelled after her.

"That's ok, I'm fine" she yelled back, forcing herself to smile as she turned the corner, running into the girls bathroom.

She was far from all right, in fact, she was freaked out but she couldn't tell them, they would think she was crazy.

"What was all that about?" Yugi asked, puzzled.

"I don't know but we should go and find out, I don't like this one bit, I hate to say it but I think we are heading for trouble" Yami stated flatly with only a nod from Yugi as they headed towards the class room.

Malik leaned back against the cold metal wall of the dark empty warehouse, his arms crossed over his chest as he narrowed his lavender eyes towards the entrance as Bakura slowly walked in.

"Your late" he snapped as Bakura shot him a cold glare.

"Have you done as I've asked?" a dark male voice whispered from with in the shadows with only a nod from Bakura.

"The time is almost here, it won't be long now till her soul is broken, there is one more thing to take care of, Ishizu must never tell her the truth about her past, take care of it" the dark voice commanded before fading into the shadows.

"I'll take care of Ishizu" was all Malik said, smirking at Bakura as he left.

Alex sighed, for what felt like the thousandth time that day, looking down at her note pad upon her desk. She had spent most of the day coming up with ways to avoid the others but she couldn't keep it up forever, she just couldn't bring herself to talk to them, the questions they would want answers to.

She loved all of them, they had been nothing but kind to her but the only way she knew how to keep herself safe was to push them away, hating herself more then ever, they had all welcomed her with open arms, even Tea had changed towards her but in the back of her mind, she was doing the right thing, pushing them away was the only way to keep safe from what ever was happening to her.

Sighing again, Alex gently rubbed her temples with her finger tips as the voice with in her mind began to whisper, growing louder by the minute.

~ Not now, please not now ~

Closing her eyes tightly shut, biting down hard on her bottom lip, forcing herself not to scream but the pain running through her body was becoming unbearable, the only thing she could think of doing was to run.

Jumping up from her seat, Alex raced out of the class room, almost knocking down the startled teacher as she past, running out into the schools parking lot as the scream she had been holding in finally escaped her lips.

Clapping her hands to the sides of her head as she prayed for the pain to end, it was like nothing she had ever felt before, killing her slowly from the inside as it slowly died down to nothing more then a whisper.

Falling to her knees, Alex panted heavily, drawing in the oxygen she so craved as she wiped away the blood from the corner of her mouth, going stiff as a pair of gently hands landed on her shoulders.

Holding her breath, Alex slowly looked up into a pair of concerned crimson eyes looking at her.

"What's wrong? What's going on Alex?" he asked, pure concern towards her held with in his voice but she didn't answer, she couldn't answer him because she didn't know what was going on, how would she start to explain, looking up at him for a moment before slowly getting to her feet, Yami holding onto her waist to keep her balance.

"I'm fine, I just need to go" Alex whispered, looking up into his eyes, feeling herself slowly drowning into a sea of crimson as a slight blush crossed her cheeks before she quickly dropped her gaze.

~ Get a God damn grip girl ~

"What's going on Alex? What did Malik and Bakura want?"

"It was nothing"

"Alex, you can trust me, I just want to help you"

"Why?" she asked, not really sure as to why she did but waited for an answer but none came.

Yami just looked at her, he couldn't tell her how he felt, mentally kicking himself, remembering all the times he had told Yugi to tell Tea how he felt and now he was doing the same as Yugi did.

"I..I can't do this" Alex whispered, moving out of Yami's grip as she ran out of the school grounds, not giving Yami time to follow as she continued to run, panting wildly as she raced towards the one place that she hoped held all the answers,

Domino Museum.

Well there's the end of that chapter. Hope you enjoyed and please review.