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C.A. *Munching Cookies* Look I did it! I Updated all my stories in one day! Oh and didn't anyone wonder why happened to An and 'Wings' *Giggles* in the graveyard? And if anyone is hoping Y.Bakura is okay, well he will be back, it's a bit like the hokie pokie here, (Put Bakura in take Bakura out, in out in out shake him all about!?

Y. Bakura: *Munching cookies* How much sugar did you have in your Tea C.A.?

C.A. Not telling :p and I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh!

"Blah" = Japanese

[Blah] = English

Blah= Welsh

/Blah/ = Telepathy.

Blah = Thoughts, emphasis, un-translated welsh.

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Warnings : Talk of past attempted suicide

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The White Metals

Silver.

Chapter Eight: Deep Thoughts And Graveyard Memories.

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An was starting to wake up. That had to be the craziest dream in history.

"An I know you're a wake." Seto? An cracked her eye open she was in Yugi's room, Seto, Joey, Ryou, Tea and Yugi were all there but something looked wrong with Yugi, he looked more like...

"Giant Yugi wannabe? I must confess no one has called me that before." Yami said.

"It wasn't a dream was it?" She asked carefully. Sitting up.

"No." Ryou said holding his head down.

"Then Anhai?"

/I'm here. /

An yelped and clamped her hands over her temples.

"I think we just found where she is." Seto said angrily.

/I'm sorry I didn't mean to scare you. /

"All right, Wings here." An nodded at Ryou. "Promised me an explanation so spill it."

Yami sighed and let Yugi take over. An shook her head when she saw this, it was probably a good thing she was already sitting on the floor.

"See my puzzle and the ring hanging from Ryou's neck." Yugi asked. An nodded slowly.

"Inside of each of them is a spirit."

"The one inside the puzzle is good and the one inside the ring is bad?" An asked.

Ryou nodded. "To put it simply. I thought my Yami had been sealed for good but..."

"Don't worry Ryou we'll kick his butt anytime anywhere for ya." Joey said.

Ryou smiled a little, but it didn't reach his eyes.

"How did I get dragged into this, why do I suddenly have a what did you call them...a Yami?"

"You've had her for a while." Yugi said. "You remember in the park, when you had you backpack stolen?"

"The day I first met Ryou? Sure I caught the thief and got old of my bag, he hit me I fell to the floor, you started coming and he ran off." An said.

Yugi shook his head. "He ran off after Yami-An, I mean Anhai, stopped him kicking you in the stomach and punched him in the face. And it was my Yami that got you your inhaler, not me."

"That explains why I didn't feel the asthma attack coming on, I thought I had panicked or something."

/I'm sorry./ Anhai said in her head. /I still don't understand the problem with your chest. I was there for as short a time as possible. /

An looked up suddenly locking eyes with Yugi.

"So you saying that any holes in my memory could be because of this Yami?" She asked.

"Well that was how it started with me, times when I was in big trouble I would blackout then be okay when I came to, that was because my Yami had taken over and got me out of what ever mess I was in."

An caught Seto's eye. He gave and almost invisible nod

"So...just because one is bad doesn't the one in my head is?"

"If yours was bad you'd know it." Ryou said, he still hadn't looked up. "I sure do."

An narrowed her eyes. [You...He...He beat you up like Mary beat me up right?]

Ryou looked up surprised. [Yes.]

An looked down at her bandaged arms. Did he know about that too? Had he gone through that too?

An sighed. "I...I need to go home now."

An left Seto left after her.

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That afternoon Ryou lay on his bed watching he ceiling as if he expected it to drop down on him like in the films. He was just trying not to think to much. Thinking kept leading to questions.

Like why had he agreed to take over Kiaba in the shadow game? He had risked his life to take hers the way she wanted to go. No. He didn't risk his life he had thrown it away, he had gone to the graveyard he had died and so had An.

Not that she had looked to upset when he had joined her in the graveyard. She had been was walking along the gravestones trailing her fingers along the top of them. Like some child would with a fence. She had a almost peaceful look on her face as she took in the surroundings.

"Ryou? Why are you here?" She had asked when she noticed him.

"Spell cards go to the graveyard after use." Ryou said.

"Of course..." An looked like she could have hit herself for forgetting. "But then why did you..."

"Look out!" Without thinking Ryou pushed An down as the Reaper of Cards came from seemingly nowhere. It's scythe had missed his wings by a hair.

Wings! Ryou wrapped An in his arms as flew. He had never really flown before but he tried, he didn't have a choice. He didn't really have a good hold on An as they shot into the air. He had a grip on her under the arms she had to wrap her arms around Ryou's chest.

The Reaper of Cards however wouldn't be a very good Reaper if he couldn't catch any card that happened to have wings. He was to scared and caught up in flying to see where he was. Above him. An shouted a warning and Ryou tried to turn away, the scythe cut him down his side just along the base of his angel wing.

He dropped An. "An no!"

"Ryou!" An was still reached up to him as if he could reach down and catch her but everything was going white.

The next thing he was back in the game under his card. He looked out to see the angry Blue eyes of Seto as the Blue-eyes White-dragon.

Then the Mystic Elf was back too. Yami must have called her back just before she hit the ground.

Which would explain why she looked so surprised to be there and not a red smear between the gravestones. Ryou guessed that was why An had started calling Ryou 'Wings' it was his wings that had saved her. But it was him that had sent her to the graveyard in the first place. His Yami that had trapped her in a card.

It made sense for An to avoid him. But it still hurt, and he didn't know why. Why had he been willing to go to the Graveyard for her in the first place?

It had been her eyes.

That determined look in her eyes. A look he had only seen on Yami-Yugi and Seto Kiaba as they duelled each other and Pegasus for the souls for their loved ones. A look he would never truly understand because he didn't have the love or the courage needed. To take that sort of action, to risk so much without knowing if they would succeed. Then again hadn't he done just that when he had taken over Seto Kiaba as the Blue-Eyes? It was different when he had taken over the Lady of Faith. That had just been a final gesture before what he thought was going to be his death. Hadn't that been what An had done? A final gesture? Sacrificing herself? So why had he helped her?

Ryou turned on his side, inspecting the wallpaper. He was going around in circles now. It wasn't as if it mattered. An wasn't talking to him now so why should he care why he had done anything for him? Because he just did that's why.

Not for the first time he wished his Yami wasn't a homicidal maniac. He really needed someone to talk too.

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That night An, finally got the courage to 'talk' to Anhai.

/You did it didn't you?/

/What?/

/When I...tried to...kill...myself...you unlocked the bathroom door. I remember locking it but the door wasn't damaged so no one had broken it open./ An said. /You saved my life./

Silence, it was the first time anyone had admitted what An had done to get into hospital and admitting it made it seem more real, And it wasn't just her life she had almost ended...fuck, she had been selfish.

/Would you rather talk more, face to face?/ Anhai asked

/Can I do that?/

/Close your eyes./ Anhai gently ordered.

That was easy she was already in bed.

"You can open them now." Anhai said.

Even before she opened her eyes she knew she wasn't in her bed room. It was colder and the bed she was on was less comfortable.

An looked around her room. It was dark, there was a small amount of light coming in from somewhere but it wasn't even enough to see clearly by. An could just make out that there were pictures of her friends on the wooden wall. There were three on the floor. The frames broken and the glass shattered. Anhai sat on the bed near her feet. Those pictures where of her old school friends in Wales. Mary and her brothers Malcolm and Mathew.

"What is this place?"

"It's your soul room. It reflects what's in your heart." Anhai said. "I have one to, we live in one body, I guess this is the minds way of coping, if you wanted to you could stop me from coming in here, or even lock me in my room and stop me from using your body."

"Why are you here?" An asked. "Why are you in my head?"

"I'm not sure I don't really understand my existence. I should be in the land of the dead." Anhai admitted. "The item that holds my sprit had been worn by others and we didn't have soul rooms. I have powers I didn't have when I was alive, and I don't understand them. The others, they...with out a soul room to keep my power in, away from the person...they went crazy."

"Am I..."

"No your not crazy, and your not going crazy ether. Some gaps in your memory some of which you haven't noticed are my fault but not all, the doctors weren't wrong, well not completely wrong."

"So what are you?" An asked. "Or should that be 'we' ?"

Anhai smiled and smoothed An's fringe out of her eyes. "You are a wise one sometimes."

"No I'm not, I done something stupid." An held up her bandaged arms. "I done something stupid twice three times if you count the shadow game."

"You can be forgiven those, well...the first and the last a least, those were under extreme circumstances." Anhai said. "As for what we are, we are two halves of the same soul. I'm your Yami and your my Hikari. I guess your me reborn, and I'm your past life."

"I don't buy that." An said.

"Why not?"

"I saw you move, your a fighter, I'm pathetic, run a block or two and I can breath. I bet you never tried to kill myself before."

"Well...that was because of my father. He was to me what your brother was to you. When he died I thought I had nothing left. Yet I knew that he was waiting for me, and I knew how upset he would be if he found out I had killed myself to see him again."

"What you your brother say to you, if he saw you now?"

"Huh? Oh, Ryou said that to you in the Hospital didn't he?"

"Yes, but...was that really Ryou or Bakura?"

"Who do you think?"

"I don't know."

Anhai pushed An down on her bed and kissed her forehead. "Sleep."

Anhai made to leave the room.

"Anhai?"

"Yes?"

"You've been keeping the nightmares away haven't you?"

Anhai nodded and closed the door. Eventually An fell asleep.

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An had been very quiet the last few days she hadn't spoken to Yugi or his friends for ages. They had seen her playing Patience or drawing in a note book. She had showed Seto something which had made him laugh, it had looked like a game card. But in reality they had no clue how she was. So when Tristan found her sitting on a bench in the park drawing one Saturday morning he walked over to talk.

She had fallen asleep sitting up.

The note book was open.

Who knew that An was such an artist. She had drawn Seto as the dragon and he now knew what Joey had meant by not knowing how An could tell it was him, but at the same time Kiaba's eyes seemed to dominate the dragon showing just how she had known. She had drew Joey too, he looked like a Flamed-Swordsman in-training really. Tristan turned the page and laughed out right.

There was Yugi as the Dark Magician. She had drawn him perfectly. What had made Yugi look worse than he really was, was that An had a sketch of the 'real' Dark Magician next to him.

"Finished looking through my personal stuff?"

Tristan looked up to the angry red eyes of An. Well it could have been worse, It could have been Yami-An, no wait, Joey had said she was call Anhai right?.

"Sorry." Tristan said. "I came over to see if you were alright and I saw the sketches and..."

Angry eyes took one a hint of fear.

"How much did you see?" An asked.

"Joey, Kiaba, and Yugi." Tristan said. "I notice Seto is the only one you made look intimidating."

"It's not my fault that Joey isn't the same physical build as his favourite card, or that Yugi makes a cute Dark Magician." An complained. "Besides Seto isn't the only one I made look okay, and with Seto it wasn't hard, The only difference between him and the dragon was his eyes."

An got up putting her pencils in her bag.

"Who else did you make look good?" Tristan asked.

"None of your business." An walked away.

Tristan followed. "I bet it was Yami, we all think your Yami and Yugi's Yami had something going in the past."

"I haven't even drawn him yet so get lost before I call my Yami and make you get lost!"

Tristan stopped dead, he had never ever heard An talk to anyone like that. An hugged the book to her chest and ran off.

She ran right into Ryou. She stepped back and Ryou held her to steady her.

She broke from his gentle hold and ran past him. Tristan walked up to Ryou.

"Did she say anything to you?" He asked.

Ryou shook his head. "What was she upset about?"

"I looked in her note book." Tristan sighed. "I didn't think she'd get so worked up about it."

"So just what has she been drawing in there?"

"The shadow game, Joey Kiaba and Yugi as their cards." Tristan said.

Ryou paled.

"Come on Ryou it wasn't your fault." Tristan said. "Besides those pictures were incredible, you should have seen Yugi."

Ryou smiled but it didn't reach his eyes, he looked in the direction An had run.

"When do you think she'll talk to us again?" Ryou asked.

"Don't know."

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There's a new character coming but don't worry if you don't like her she's only there for a few chapters, An needed a partner in crime for Joey and Seto. ^_^

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