C.A.: Sorry I've taken so long between updates!
Anhai: Why have you taken so long anyway? I don't like An not liking me!
C.A.: Writing an angry Hikari is hard! And FF.net chose today to start acting up. And stop complaining. Besides there's only three chapters and the epilogue left so there.
Koriku I know that was sick, I was trying to get him to kisser and that was what he ended up doing. *Shudder* Stupid Bakura Muse. (Bakura Muse: *Shrug* I don't see what the problem was.)
Yana Reviewer's Block? Could be worse, could be writers block, ^_^ The fact your taking the time to try and say anything about this story makes me happy. (Seto: Some people are easily pleased. C.A. : HEY!)
Iokawen Yeah I think Ryou and Bakura are great they should show up more in the show, Ryou in particular The song was Amazing by Aerosmith, From the Album 'Big Ones'.
Disclaimer: 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: Mild swearing.
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The White Metals
Silver.
Chapter Twenty-one : Yami's and Museums. _______________________________________________________________________________
They all climbed into the taxi, actually it looked more like a mini bus. An and the Kiaba brothers sat in one row then there was Joey Tea and Tristan. Yugi and Ryou sat in the back.
"Ryou are you sure Bakura isn't going to cause any trouble?" Yugi asked.
"You just don't trust me do you?" Ryou sighed.
"No it's the opposite really." Yugi said. "I know how hard it is to go against your Yami, your saw the state I was in after I stopped Yami in that Duel with Kiaba, yet you do it on a regular basis."
Ryou smiled. "Thanks Yugi, that means a lot, and I should tell you that I don't think he's given up on getting the other items but at least for now he's not thinking of that, and he hasn't even threatened me"
"Any idea what caused this turn about?"
"Well before that last shadow game he started I punched him and he came back before yesterday and before An sent him back to the shadow realm I shouted back at him and I think I impressed him or something, he said that was all he wanted from me from the start, me to fight back." Ryou said. "I think in a twisted way he was trying to help me with the beatings."
"Sounds crazy to me." Tea said turning around to look at them from over the back of the seat.
"Your telling me, I don't care as long as it's stopped." Ryou said.
"We're here." Kiaba said as the taxi pulled to a stop.
Everyone got out of the taxi and they walked into the museum. Yugi let Yami take over so he could have a real good look, no one save Yami and An notice Ryou do the same for Bakura.
"An what does this say?" Yami asked pointing at the sign below a stone tablet.
"It just says this was found in the tomb and believed to be the life story of the female guard." And looked up at the tablet and had to bite her cheek to stop laughing.
"What is it?" Yami asked as Bakura walked over and looked at what was getting the attention.
An pointed at one part of the tablet, it was a calving of Anhai, the Pharaoh Yami and the high priest, which looked suspiciously like Seto.
Yami was the tallest.
Bakura wisely locked his jaw shut. Yami just glared at An who shrugged. Yami turned back to the tablet.
"What's this about you using magic to trick the guards into thinking you were a male to get into training under the same Jackal?" Yami said.
"Huh?" Bakura looked at the tablet. "Losers probably couldn't face the fact that a girl could tick them."
"Hey An!" Mokuba said coming to them. "They have Anhai's mummy here."
The group followed Mokuba when An heard a laugh and looked over her shoulder. Joey had found the tablet and were calling Tea and Tristan to look at it.
"Here it is." Mokuba said.
An felt Anhai's feelings at seeing her own dead body and for a moment her anger at the sprit faded and she left Anhai look for herself.
It looked like a typical Mummy, laying in the stone coffin. All bandaged up some of the bandages no longer covered the fingers and parts of the face. The skin had turned a very dark brown and the fingers still had finger nails, a few stands of red hair poked out of some of the bandages. Anhai thanks to the discovery channel had seen what had become of most of the non royal mummy's, even some of the royal mummy's themselves. They had degraded beyond all recognition some had even stopped looking human. Her own body however it seemed had nothing but the best. She turned to Yami her eyes bright from withheld tears.
"Thank you."
Yami just nodded.
Kiaba walked up to them. "Hey have you seen that Tablet? It actually makes you look tall."
Yami glowered at Kiaba and walked off. Kiaba smirked and walked away in another direction.
Anhai gave An back her body and An looked at the mummy herself.
"Feels weird doesn't it?" Bakura asked, for both of you.
An nodded.
"I know how you feel, Ryou was watching the TV when someone was going on about carvings on walls and he pointed out some ancient graffiti. Which I remember carving myself." Bakura said.
An smiled. "Thanks Bakura."
Bakura shrugged and walked off. An looked at the mummy for a long time, she noticed that she could see Anhai's ears too, but the lobes and fallen off, probably because if the weight of the gold earrings that were now laying at the bottom of the coffin ether side of Anhai's head. She watched shocked as they glowed a dark purple and vanished.
She couldn't feel any surprise from Anhai, and she didn't want to cause anymore fuss she deicide not to tell anyone.
An hour later everyone was back in the taxi on the way to the remembrance dinner.
"Kiaba just why did you have your own invitation?" Bakura asked, the other still hasn't noticed it wasn't Ryou.
"I funded Andrews work."
"Oh right."
"Bakura, are you going to let Ryou out at all tonight?" An asked with a deliberate and total lack of Tact.
Everyone looked from An to Ryou Bakura and back in total shock, save for Yugi since he had known already.
Bakura huffed. "Fine."
And now that everyone was watching they saw him change back to Ryou.
"Er...Yugi did you know?" Tristan asked.
Yugi nodded.
"Why didn't you tell us?" Tea demanded.
"Yami and I wanted to see if he would behave." Yugi said.
"Bakura said he's leaving the puzzle till last now, he wants to get the other items first." Ryou said.
"We're here" An said before they could talk any further.
As they eat the very rich and expensive food people would get up and say how nice Andrew was, how caring, smart, sweet, kind...
It was starting to drive An up the wall, finally she decided to get up and talk herself.
"An are you sure about this?" Kiaba asked.
"Yes Seto." An said walking up to the podium.
She took a deep breath. [I want to thank everyone for their kind words, but none of you have mentioned the real Andrew Vet.]
Everyone looked up at her wondered what she was on about.
[My brother was everything you said, but, he once told me that he never wanted to be one of those people that after he was gone everyone was talk the best of him and think the worse of him so this is what I have to say, Yes he was smart and kind and everything but he had one hell of a temper, once in the orphanage where we grew up. Some horrible brat, I can't remember his name stole my teddy bare and stuff from some of the others. My brother, and a boy who would become his best friend.] An smiled at Seto Kiaba. [Knocked seven bells into the kid. Only for him to turn around and shout at me for letting myself be robbed anyway.]
Some of the people laughed.
[We liked playing games and he would always go on this huge ego tip when he beat me and then complained when he go beaten. Especially when it was me.] A few more light chuckles came from the room. [He got in trouble with our adoptive parents before, because I got into a fight in school, I had a black eye, fat lip the works, all because Andrew hadn't stepped in, then again if he had, they wouldn't have had two black eyes each. They didn't know he had been teaching me self defence, that's the kind of man my brother was, he wouldn't do anything for anyone, but he would make sure you could do it yourself." An put a lock of red hair behind her ear. "How many others have experienced that?]
A few people including Seto and Mokuba raised their hands.
[See, if you hadn't thought about how he wouldn't do thinks for you wouldn't remember how he helped you do it for yourself. You need to remember the dark to remember the light, the whole person.] An looked down. [Please, that's what he would have wanted, to be remembered completely not just in part.]
An stepped down to applause.
"Couldn't have said it better." Seto Kiaba said.
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Eventually the went back to the hotel. An said she wanted some time alone and headed to her own room.
There she lay on the bed and closed her eyes.
When she opened again she was in her soul room. It looked the same as last time save there was a huge crack in one wall. Was it because she was at odds with Anhai?
"No." Anhai said from the door way, not quiet entering the room.
"That's from out side the club, when you nearly collapsed." Anhai said worriedly. "Can I come in?"
An frowned, she walked up to the wall, the closer she got the more cold and afraid she felt.
"An?" Anhai said she sounded scared now as An rested her hand against the wall, even though she was shivering uncontrollably. "Let me in please!"
The wall crumbled on the other side she could see a corridor and what looked like her mother... Pain shot though An head and she pulled away and clamped her hands over her head.
She felt Anhai hug her and pull her away from where the wall had become a mound of rubble.
An pushed her away and looked back at the rubble only to see that the wall had repaired it self.
"No!" An ran back to the wall and started thumping it, kicking it, ramming against it with all her might. She finally turned back to Anhai. "I know what that was Anhai. That was a memory. That was the corridor to Andrew's Study, and that was my mother. You did something to her didn't you? DIDN'T YOU!"
Anhai back away from her enraged light.
"Did you kill her?" An asked her hands were fisted at her side and her whole body was shaking with and unhealthy rage.
"No." Anhai answered.
An closed her eyes and took a deep breath. "Did you hurt her?"
"It might have hurt, yes." Anhai answered.
"I'm going home." An said turned away.
"WHAT!"
"You heard me I'm going home, maybe there you won't be able to repair that wall blocking me from the memories I need to see." An said vanishing from the room.
Anhai fell to her knees in her lights room and wept. "An...those memories will cause you more pain that not knowing."
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