C.A. *Sets of Party poopers* This is the half way mark!

Mokuba: Thank you to Lynn-Chan And Sci fi fan for reviewing! Oh and Mill is leaving the next chapter anyway, she was just there to show that not everyone in Wales thinks she's a murderess.

C.A.: Yugi's got a crush Yugi's got a crush!

Yugi: DO NOT!

C.A.: You will by the end of this chapter.

Yami: Do I get to tease him about it?

C.A.: Yeah.

Yugi: _

Yami: ^_^

C.A.: Since your in such a good mood can you do the disclaimer and stuff?

Yami: Sure.

C.A. doesn't own Yu-Gi-Oh!

"Blah" = Japanese

[Blah] = English

Blah= Welsh

/Blah/ = Telepathy.

Blah = Thoughts, emphasis, un-translated welsh.

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Warnings: Yugi's got a Crush!

Yugi: NO I DO NOT!!!!

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The White Metals

Silver.

Chapter Twelve: And The Earth Moved.

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Joey entered the shop an out later trailed by a meek Mill and An. A glowering Seto Kiaba followed behind all of them.

"Big brother!" Serenity ran to her brother and hugged him.

An turned white.

"I'm taking An home, come on Mill." Seto said pushing the pale An out of the shop. Mill kept apologising to Seto as she too left.

Yugi sighed, it couldn't be easy on her seeing that. After all she used to have a big brother too.

"So Joey what were you doing at Kiaba's?" Yugi asked.

Joey turned red. "Nothing much, Serenity what are you doing here?"

"I wanted to see my big brother, but you weren't at home." Serenity said. "Dad thought you might be playing over here so I went to look for you."

"Oh....So how are you eyes?" Joey rubbed the back of his neck. "Did the operation work?"

"It worked great, that's why I came you told me so much about your friends that I wanted to really see you and them." Serenity smiled. "I hope there all as nice as Yugi."

Yugi blushed beetroot red. Joey not being the most observant of souls didn't notice.

"Yeah Yugi's great, if it wasn't for him I never would have got the money for your eye operation." Joey said making Yugi look like he was going to catch on fire.

He thought he could hear Yami laughing, if it wasn't for the fact Yami never laughs he would have sworn he was trying to smother a fit of hysterics.

/Ask Joey why Seto Kiaba came in with him./

Yugi did, this time Joey turned red. "Well err, he was giving An a lift back so Seto offered to drop me off here too."

Something was wrong with that answer, if he just dropped Joey off why did he come in? And why did An and Mill look like whipped puppies?

Probably not the best analogy to use around Joey considering how it reacts when ever Kiaba calls him a dog.

And did Joey just call Kiaba, Seto?

Yugi Joey and Serenity looked around as suddenly the selves started shaking. Yugi barely caught some of the games that fell of the shelves. In just a few seconds the floor was covered in Games and Duel Monsters booster packs.

The earth quake lasted three seconds.

Yugi let go of the display he had been holding up. Once the shock of the earth Quake had worn off he looked around.

"It's going to take me ages to clean this up. Grandpa is going to have a fit at this mess." He sighed.

"We'll help." Serenity said.

"Yeah..." Joey looked at the door as if he wanted to check on something or someone else. "I'm going to see if An and Mill are okay, after all they've never been in an earth quake before."

Joey disappeared.

"Well, where do you want me to start?" Serenity asked.

"Err...."

/Tell her to pick up the booster packs./ Yami advised.

"Oh yeah, can you pick up the Booster Packs, put them in their display boxes if you can find them too."

Serenity nodded.

/Aren't you meant to turn the gas off after a quake?/ Yami asked.

/The pipes wouldn't have been damaged in small one like that./ Yugi told Yami as he went into the kitchen to see how badly the china had faired.

/That was a small one?/ Yami asked, he didn't sound worried or shocked it was just a question.

/You've never been in an earthquake ether have you?/ Yugi asked picking up a dust pan and brush since half the plates were smashed on the floor.

/Not that I remember./ Yugi heard Joey coming back in. He went back out to the shop.

"Were the girls okay?"

"Yeah he's okay, I mean they're okay, they're okay." Joey turned red again.

/I see what An meant about him not being able to bluff./ Yami commented.

/What do you mean?/

The phone stared ringing.

"Hello?"

"-YUGI ARE YOU OKAY?-" Yugi had to pull the phone away from his ear, Serenity and Joey could hear what Solomon had said too.

"Yeah I'm okay Grandpa, the shop is a mess though...."

"I don't care about the shop!" Solomon was still shouting but it was safe for Yugi to put the phone back to his ear. "It can burn to the ground as long as you are okay!"

"I'm fine Grandpa." Yugi repeated. "It wasn't that big of a quake, just knocked stuff of the shelves. Are you okay?"

"-I'm fine...listen I have to go, I'm on a pay phone and there are others who want to phone home. I'll see you as soon as I can get home. Bye-" Solomon said.

"Okay Grandpa, bye."

Yugi hung the phone up.

"Er...Serenity do you want to phone your parents?"

This time Joey was watching Yugi closely. Had he seen the blush? He wasn't very good at hiding them he must have seen it. Yet Joey didn't say anything.

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That afternoon the fuss about the earthquake had died down Joey invited everyone, even the Kiaba's over to his home to meet Serenity. It was a little crowded but no one seemed to mind. They sat in the living room on the floor around the T.V. They had MTV playing.

An's mobile started ringing. She looked at what ever name was displayed on the screen a paled slightly.

[Why don't you answer it out side? I can see by your face who it is.] Mill said

An nodded and walked out to the hall, Mill following, they sat on the stairs was An answered.

[-Took you long enough, I thought you weren't going to answer.-] Came a hard female voice.

[No no...] An said. [Of course I was going to answer...I just wanted to get some where quiet first, err, why are you calling though? have you found anything out about Andrew and my mom?]

[-No. Sorry Miss Vet, there have been no new developments this end.-] An looked away from Mill's questioning look. [-We heard about the earthquake you had over there, I wanted to check that you were okay.-]

[Officer Sally I...] Mill took the phone off An. [Mill!]

[Listen to me officer] Mill said. The officer on the other end of the phone call in Wales sighed, she'd been though this before. [My friend here is trying to get on with her life, she doesn't need coppers phoning her up where ever she is, what if her friend's were here? In fact they are, in the next room, you heard what her other 'friends' back home did don't you? Do you want that to happen again?]

An snatched her phone back, glaring at Mill. [I'm sorry for that Officer]

[-That is okay, but you will phone us if you think of anything that will help us find out what happened to your brother and mother won't you?-] The police woman asked.

[I've already told you I would, but I can't remember anything that will help.] An said. Mill snorted. [I'm coming back to Wales for a week next month anyway for my brothers exhibition, if I remember anything then I'll go to you right away okay. ]

[-Okay An.-]

The police woman hung up and they started heading back to the others, not noticing that Ryou looked lightly pale, everyone had heard mill shouting down the phone, but only Ryou had understood. /What happened in Wales that the police would bother to phone her here in Japan?/

"Sorry about that." An said. "So what were we doing?"

and everything went back to normal, Ryou thought it was best to leave An's past in the past but he still couldn't help wondering.

An had brought her game cards and they Joey, Seto, Yugi, An, and Tristan were playing fish. Ryou, Tea and Mill had been playing but they were out of the game.

Yugi had never played this game before and it looked like he was going to be next. An was incredible she had wiped out Mill in one turn and had taken half of Tea's cards too. She was smiling about it but her eyes seemed to be getting darker with each turn. Suddenly the game turned. Joey took three of her cards, then Yugi took another two and Seto took her last one.

An looked almost relieved she kept rubbing her upper arm where she wore her black armband.

"You okay?" Ryou asked as she moved to sit by him.

An looked at him surprised.

"Yeah...I'm still getting used to Anhai." She whispered.

"She was helping you? But you didn't turn into her."

"I think she was yeah, it's confusing."

"Hey An not like you to lose like that at Fish, your the card queen." Mill said sitting on Mill's other side.

"I was distracted, besides Yugi is the King of games." An said, He beat Seto at Duel monsters and Mokuba showed me a tape of him beating Duke Deviling at dungeon dice when he didn't even know how to play before."

As if on cue Joey moaned as Yugi took his last card.

"I think he just figured out how to play fish too." Ryou said.

There was only Seto and Yugi left.

"Oh I want to watch this." An said and scooted closer to the game again.

Joey and Tristan started to head to the kitchen, just as the China on the shelves started to rattle. Another earthquake had started.

Serenity ran to her brother in the door way.

Yugi, Tea, and Mokuba ducked under the table. Seto Kiaba knelt by the table not quite willing to give up his dignity and dive under unless it was absolutely necessary.

Mill didn't, she tried to run for the exit.

[Mill don't!] An ran after her and managed to tackle her to the floor in the doorway to the hall. Mill was terrified and clung to An. She winced as Mill's fingers bit into the soft bandage on one arm, the other arm was safe in it's cast.

An herself looked like she was ready to bolt too. Ryou headed towards the doorway too. Mill was screeching in fear, Ryou saw that An had tears down her face. Ryou noticed the soft bandage was slowly turning red. He pried Mill's fingers from An's arm.

The Quake lasted about ten seconds this time. The last one must have been a foreshock. Joey held Serenity close and kept an eye on Seto kneeling by the table, it wasn't a tall table there was Mokuba Yugi and Tea had to lay on their stomachs to fit under it, Seto wouldn't let himself look daft by doing the same. He held Mokuba's hand under the table however still offering support.

Mill's behaviour surprised Joey, she hadn't been like this this morning.

Once the earthquake ended An led Mill to the front door and asked Tea to stay with her as she went to the bathroom.

Seto looked at Joey then to An.

Joey nodded and Seto went after An.

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An took the bandage off her arm and held it under the cold water tap. Washing away the blood that seeped form the long deep cuts that ran from the inside of her elbow to the centre of her palm. Mill's death-like grip had partly reopened it.

"You okay?" Seto asked walking in.

An nodded and started rewrapping her arm since the water was now running clear.

"How's Mokuba?"

"Handling this better than Mill." Seto Kiaba said as An walked past him out of the bathroom.

"Mill has never been in a real quake. In case you've forgotten I cried my eyes out after my first earthquake." An said.

"She was fine this morning."

"Thing's were different this morning." An said as thy reached the front door.

Mill looked up and saw the red stain on her bandage. "God An I'm sorry."

An waved off her apology. "It's understandable."

"No it's not." Mill said. Seto looked alike he agreed.

"No offence." Joey said. "But what made you panic like that?"

"I'm scared of being buried alive, so when the quake started this morning I was okay cause I was outside, but just now...It's stupid I know buildings here are made to last though an earthquake but I still felt that the house could fall." Mill explained. "I guess it's a good thing that I'm going home the day after tomorrow."

The phone started ringing.

"Can you get that for me Yugi?" Joey asked

Yugi nodded.

A few seconds later Yugi's grandfathers voice could be heard from the phone.

"-YUGI ARE YOU OKAY?-" Yugi himself was again holding the phone away from his ears so he wouldn't go deaf.

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There you go and the next chapter is goodbye to Mill and An starts having problems with Anhai. Please please Review, I'll give you chocolate.