C. Authoress: Take it away Mokuba!

Mokuba: Right, C.A. would like to thank StarKitty, And Lynn-Chan again, But don't worry about this story, it's already finished and saved, it's her new 'For The Want Of Friend,' that She's posting as she writes.

Seto: That means she can turn this in to a Lemon? YES!

C, Authoress: I could always Edit it.

Yami: Why are you focusing so much on YOUR character instead of MY Yugi?

C. Authoress: Because I want her to have depth to her, so....so...She'd be worthy of being in the same story as your Yugi.

Yami: You mocking me?

C. Authoress: Would I?

*Yami leaves.*

An: Good save.

C. Authoress: Thanks

Seto: So when I'm I making an appearance?

C. Authoress: Don't you start!

An: She doesn't own Yu-Gi-Oh! but she does own me. I don't like the thought of being owned.

"Blah" = Japanese

[Blah] = English

Blah= Welsh

/Blah/ = Telepathy.

Blah = Thoughts, emphasis, un-translated welsh.

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THE WHITE METALS

SILVER.

CHAPTER TWO : YAMI - AN.

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That night An wasn't having a peaceful night sleep. She tossed and turned in the grip of a nightmare

[Andrew...Mom...?] She tossed her hair again. [Mom...!]

Nightmares tend to be worse when they are based on real events.

A soft silver and gold glow warmed the room.

/Shh young one. No one can hurt you now, no one wants to hurt you here. /

The nightmare vanished replaced by a dream of safe warm blackness. An was finally getting some true rest.

A few moments later Matt looked in on her he had heard her crying out. He smiled when he saw her sleeping peacefully. Matt left her to sleep. He had been staying up later than normal to make sure she had stopped having nightmares. Strangely now she would start having a nightmare and stop halfway through. Matt supposed that meant he should go back to his normal sleeping pattern but she was his niece and she had been though so much.

She still wore the scars,

Both physical,

And mental.

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That day was Saturday and An felt better than she had in weeks, months even. Yes she had, had that damn dream again but it had finished before it got to the really bad part. She decided to go out to the park Matt had shown her a few days ago. She picked up her small back pack full of the things she might need, shop keys extra money for bus fare, mobile phone, medication a map since she didn't know her way around yet.

She left a note on the fridge to let Matt know that she was out. He had been sleeping in recently.

An hour later An was in the park. It should have only have been a half hour walk but An got lost She had found a tree to sit under and think, she tried to think of something nice but it didn't work. She missed Andrew so much...

She didn't notice the shady bloke walking towards her.

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Yugi, Ryou, Tea, Joey, and Tristan had gone to the park. Yami Yugi had chosen the place it was early and the place seemed deserted.

"I don't know how." Yami said having taken control of Yugi for the meeting. "But An is connected to the Shadow Games."

"I don't know man, I mean everyone one connected to the shadow games are like incredible at Duel monsters. And okay she's not to bad but she's not great ether." Joey said

Everyone save Yami glared at him thinking bighead, just because you beat her.

"I haven't seen a millennium item on her ." He added meekly.

Ryou shook his head. "You never saw my ring until it was to late the first time we met."

"But we've already played a game with her the perfect chance to turn it a shadow game and she didn't" Tea pointed out.

"Just because she might have a Yami doesn't mean she'll try to get the puzzle." Ryou said

"Why not all the other Item holders wants it." Tea commented.

"She hasn't said anything about your puzzle." Tristan argued.

"HEY YOU!"

So much for the park being disserted.

They turned to see An chasing a man with a small backpack, and unless the man liked baby blue backpacks with purple butterflies on them it belonged to An. She looked like she could drop any second yet the look in her eyes said she wasn't going to let herself drop. Yugi recognised it from when she was playing Tristan and Tea, Yami knew it from somewhere else too but where lay just on the wrong side of recall.

Taunting him.

The five of them were running after the thief too. But An was still the closest. She reached forward and took hold of one of the backpack's straps. The thief turned and slapped her. An fell to her knees but didn't let go of her bag. There was a flash of silver and gold, as the sunlight had reflected off something.

The man went to kick her An's other hand caught his foot.

She looked up and Yami got a good look at her eyes.

That was not An in there.

/I guess you were right. / Yugi admitted as they got close enough to hear what she was saying.

"You...huf-huf...shouldn't pick on...huf-huf... little girls." She said still short of breath from An's run.

The thief sneered. "And what is a little girl like you going to do?"

Yami-An punched him across the face.

That Yami-Yugi found very familiar, the memory danced tantalisingly closer yet still out of reach. Yami-An didn't seem to be catching her breath not that the thief noticed. He looked at her in shock before noticing the five other teens getting closer and ran away.

Yami-An looked at Yami and smiled before she fell to her knees as she changed back to An.

She still hadn't caught her breath. In fact it seemed to be getting more ragged. One hand was clutched at her chest the other gripped around her throat is if she was trying to choke herself, or trying to stop something from choking her.

/What's wrong with her! / Yugi asked.

"Everyone give her some room she can't breath." Yami ordered as he knelt by An.

She had taken her hands from her throat and chest and was struggling with her backpack. She couldn't seem to open the zip, she shook her head getting wild red hair out of her face her gasping was taking on a pained, panicked sound.

Yami took the bag off her opened it and upended it so the contents came spilling out.

A purse, mobile phone, a set of keys and other things fell out one, a blue L shape was what An was after. She grabbed it with both hands before taking the cover off the smaller part of the L revealing a mouth piece. She rammed it to her mouth and breathed in though it. Yami heard a hissing sound from it when she breathed in.

Instantly An breathed out. Yami realised that save from speaking Yami-An hadn't breathed out ether. Had the Yami caused this breathing problem? Was that why she had taken control for such a short space to time?

She breathed in and out a few more deep breaths before repeating what she had done with the device before. She glanced at Yami with a look that said 'Thank you.'

Ryou stepped forward and knelt by An too. "Are you okay now?"

"Yeah." An breathed picking up her other things and put them in her bag. "Just an attack, I shouldn't have panicked like that it just made it worse."

"Just an attack?" Tristan asked meekly.

"I thought you was going to die!" Joey shouted.

"An Attack of what?" Tea asked.

"Asthma right?" Ryou suggested.

An nodded.

"Yeah, it's was the shock from being robbed and it and the running." An coughed. "Defiantly the running, Running is a bad, bad thing to do."

"You sound like Joey in P.E." Tristan said.

Joey shot Tristan a glare.

An smiled. She turned to Yugi, Yami had given him control again and she done a double take. Had she noticed that it was a different Yugi who had opened her bag?

"Thank you." She said. "For getting the inhaler."

/Guess not. / Yami said.

She stood up. "I think I had better head home."

"We'll walk you." Joey said.

"No it's okay really." An said.

"We insist." Ryou said.

An blinked. In all the excitement hadn't she noticed the extra member of the group? After all she had spoken to him.

"I'm Ryou Bakura." He said introducing himself.

"I'm An, the amazing collapsing girl."

Joey and Tristan started laughing as the group began walking. In side the puzzle Yami was still chasing the memory. He could barely remember Egypt he couldn't even remember his own family, it was a puzzle which he and only one or two pieces too, and the puzzle could have hundreds or maybe thousands of pieces, or even a million pieces.

One thing he knew for sure.

Yami An wasn't used to having a weak body. Maybe if they found out what item she had been sealed in would help.

Yami sighed Ryou had been right, they hadn't seen his ring until he was pulling them all into the shadow realm. The truth was they knew nothing of this new Yami save that she was in An. There more unanswered questions now too.

Why had she smiled at Yami?

Did Yami-An know Yami from the past?

Was she smiling a Yami at all?

She could have been smiling at Yugi and the others because they were coming to help. Yami was back to square two.

Square one was An had a Yami.

Square two was Yami-Yugi knew her from somewhere...He thought.

Well they were heading to where she lived now, maybe they could find some answers there.

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Seto: So now that you've done this chapter when am I appearing?

C. Authoress: Oh for goodness sake! Okay your make a smallish appearance in the next chapter and appear more after it happy?

Seto: Yes.

Mokuba: What about me.

C. Authoress: *Face fall*

Mokuba: Big brother, do you know where the smelling salts are?

Seto: *Sighs* I'll go get them.

Mokuba: Please review.