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"Blah" = Japanese

[Blah] = English

Blah= Welsh

/Blah/ = Telepathy.

Blah = Thoughts, emphasis, un-translated welsh.

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Warnings: This is a song flick (chapter whatever) of An questioning her religion, no offence meant to religious people. Oh and I don't own the song. It's Alanis Morissette's Forgiven. It's kind of sad too if you ask me. The translation for the welsh is at the bottom, but you can probably guess what it means anyway.

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The White Metals

Silver.

Chapter Ten: Pen-Blwydd Hapus Andrew.

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Yugi was worried about An, she wasn't in school today, and he remember the reason she wasn't in school last time.

/But Seto Kiaba is here. He wouldn't be if there was something wrong with An./

/I guess./

Joey was watching Kiaba too probably thinking the same thing. He saw Tristan he looked worried to. Tea was watching Ryou who was twirling his pen in his hand, a sad worried look on his face too. The break for bell when and Kiaba was waiting for the group by the door to the class room.

"Is An okay?" Ryou asked.

"As well as can be considered." He was ticked that no one had told him about Anhai.

"So why isn't she in school?" Yugi asked.

"Because of what today is, listen, I know your not going to believe me." Seto growled. "Mill is meeting you after school. An's agreed to meet you all in the arcade. You can all see how well she is for yourself."

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An woke up late but it didn't really matter, it was Monday but she wasn't going to school. Matt had already called the school to let them know and he had kind enough not to ask questions once she had promised that she wasn't going to do something stupid and yes she did want the day off because it was the Tenth of November.

Even Mill had agreed not to follow her, she had insisted that she'd meet Yugi and his friends out side school and she'd walk with them to the games arcade and she would be very, very angry if An wasn't waiting there by the entrance. An hour and a half later An stepped into a building she hadn't entered for a long time. Back home it wouldn't have taken five minuets to find one of these buildings, nope she sure wasn't in Britain anymore.

/What's this place?/ Anhai asked. She didn't ask what today was, she already knew that from An's mind.

"Can I help you young lady?" Said a Priest.

"Err no sir...I mean father..."

"I think you haven't been in a church for along time."

/What's a church?/ Anhai asked.

"What brings you back to the faith?" The Priest asked.

An looked down to her feet.

"My brother..."

"Your in morning." The priest stated seeing the back armband.

"Yes...my brother today's..."

The Priest nodded. "I understand. You can see our Prayer Candle's from here."

"Thank you father." An made her way to the candles.

Anhai stayed silent as An prayed. She hadn't prayed in years and she fought to remember the whole welsh version of the Lords Prayer.

She had been praying at home for her lost family for weeks, months now but this day was important.

She was there for three hours before she finally decided that she should leave. Once she had left the church Anhai made herself known again.

/That is your religion? What happened to Ra? How could your brother be buried with out mummification?/

/I'm Welsh, British, that makes me a Christian. My adoptive mom is, was, I don't know maybes she's still is ether way she's Christian. The religion is the dominate one in Britain./ An said. /If you believe in Ra and the other Egyptian gods that's fine But they are not the Gods I believe in. /

/So be it but what happened to my religion?/

/I don't know. I maybe in Egypt some people still worship your Gods./ An said.

An walked into a card shop and bought a birthday card. She wrote inside.

'Pen-Blwydd Hapus Andrew.

I've done some daft things lately and I'm sorry if I worried you but it's okay. I still miss you I guess I always will won't I? I know now that although you can never be replaced or forgotten I can have a new family. Not of blood but of friendship. Uncle Matt has been taking good care of me. So has Seto and Mokuba. I have made some new friends and some really weird things have happened to me, but I think you know about Anhai don't you? You want Seto to be happy too don't you, you told be before that you want him to find someone else...you wouldn't mind if I sped things up a bit would you? Well I don't you would, and I'm going to have fun doing it to, enough for the both of us.

I love you Brawd.

An.'

An sighed. She guessed she had better get going.

An pulled her CD player and started listening. She had developed a liking to Alanis Morissette recently.

You know us Catholic girls can be
We make up for so much time a little too late
I never forgot it, confusing as it was
No fun with no guilt feelings
The sinners, the saviours, the loveless priests
I'll see you next Sunday.

We all had our reasons to be there
We all had a thing or two to learn
We all needed something to cling to
So we did

That was true for her. She wondered what Andrew would think of her return to faith? The faith had rejected he for the most pathetic of reasons.

I sang Alleluia in the choir
I confessed my darkest deeds to an envious man
My brothers they never went blind for what they did
But I may have well have
In the name of the Father the sceptic and the Son
I had one more stupid question

Three hours praying she was supposedly praying to God, but the thought ran false to her. Stupid question. Was this just a crutch? And if it was would it be right to keep going to the church. Isn't a false belief in God blaspheming? If she thought she was blaspheming did that mean she really did believe in God?

/Do you always become a philosopher when your depressed?/ Anhai asked.

We all had our reasons to be there
We all had a thing or two to learn
We all needed something to cling to
So we did

What I learnt I rejected but I believe again
I will suffer the consequence of this inquisition
If I jump in this fountain I will be forgiven

Maybe that was all she wanted, forgiveness.

/A reasonable desire./ Anhai said.

/I guess, but its something that's rarely given./

We all had our reasons to be there
We all had a thing or two to learn
We all needed something to cling to
So we did

/Who do you want forgiveness from?/ Anhai asked.

An wiped tears from her eyes. /I don't know, my brother, my mother, God if he is real...heh...don't ask for much do I?/

We all had delusions in our head
We all had our minds made up for us
We had to believe in something
So we did.

/You know I think believing in my gods is easer. If you don't like one you worship the other./

An bit her lip. It wouldn't do to start laughing. She would get more than a few odd looks. Well weather her new found faith was true or not she still had plans for the birthday card. An went to find a quiet place.

She found an abandoned building she made her way to the third floor. She lit a small fire. She threw the card into it and watched it burn.

It was a common belief she was practicing. The burning of letters to send them to the dead.

"Pen-Blwydd Hapus Andrew" An said as she watched the burnt fragments blow though the broken windows. "Have a great one, where ever you are."

/An I'm sorry to interrupt, but what's the time?/

An looked at her watch.

"Argh! There're going to kill me!" An took off running.

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Mill Yugi and the others had been waiting for An for ten minutes.

"Where is she?" Mill muttered.

"Maybe we should go looking for her?" Ryou asked.

"Here she is."

An came running around the corner full pelt. She ran right into Ryou gasping a wheezing.

"An! You shouldn't have been running we would have waited." Ryou said.

"That wasn't what he was saying a second ago." Tristan pointed out.

An steadied herself by holding on to Ryou as she fished her inhaler out of her jacket pocket and used it three times before she could even try to speak.

"Sorry...lost.....track of.....time."

Tea looked around. "Hey where's Mill?"

Mill had gone to the vending machines she came back with bottle of Dr Pepper. She held it out to An. She seemed to drink half the bottle in two gulps.

"Thanks." An seemed to have finally caught her breath.

"How far did you run?" Yugi asked.

"Err." An answered.

"An." Mill threatened.

"I don't know the name of the place...there was a building about to be knocked down near by."

Yugi's eyes widened. "You ran that far? You couldn't even run halfway across the park before"

"My Asthma has been getting better slowly." An admitted she wore a small sigh. "Doctor said it must have been because I've been under less stress than before."

"Less stress?" Tristan asked in disbelief. "What happened to you before we met you?"

"Yeah I mean how can being beat up and laying motionless in a hospital bed be less stress?" Joey asked.

"Well I was well rested when I got out of the hospital, and..." An caught her self. "Look I'm here so what are we doing?"

"What do you think?" Mill asked. "I'm going to beat you at Tekken 4."

"Why should you beat me at Tekken 4 you've never managed to beat me at any other Tekken game ever realised." An said sticking her face in Mill's.

"Well I'm going to beat you this time I've been practicing."

/She really is feeling better./ Yami told Yugi. /She's accepting what ever it was that had hurt her so badly./

An beat everyone save Yugi and Joey. Ryou refused to play. An might have began to recover from what she had suffered, but Ryou hadn't started to recover from the damage dealt by his Yami.

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Translation.

Brawd -Brother

Pen-Blwydd Hapus - Happy Birthday.

Yugi: *Big Cute eyes* Please, PLEASE review! Hello? Anyone there?

*Silence*