Yugi turned around to face Tea. He had been dreading this moment since the beginning of the week.

"Yes." He replied. "My name is Yugi Mouto."

"I see." Tea said. "I don't really know what to say. It's not everyday that the person you love says that they are actually someone who you barely know."

"I'm sorry." Yugi said. "I never really understood how many lies I would have to tell when this whole thing started. I didn't want to lie to you."

"But you did, all through the week you said that you were Yami." Tea said coolly. Yugi flinched but then Tea smiled. "You did a great job too if no one even noticed." Yugi relaxed.

"It was hard." He said. "Especially the first couple of days."

Tea paled suddenly. "Oh my goodness. The night of the part I.and you." She put her face in her hands, remembering what she had done in Yugi's room.

"Don't worry." Yugi said. "I didn't see anything."

"No you didn't." Tea recalled. "In fact you were a perfect gentleman about it. More so than Yami."

Yugi didn't know if he should tell Tea that Yami liked Serenity. "Yami and I are really very different on the inside, despite our looks." He said simply.

"Yes, you are." Tea replied. "And to tell the truth, I had more fun with you this week than I have with Yami my entire life. You treated me like an equal, not just some other girl. You were kind to me. I feel terrible that I prefer you to Yami."

"You do?" Yugi asked, too excited for words.

"Yes. I don't know what to tell him." Tea said.

"But everything is fine, because he told me that he prefers Serenity!" Yugi said.

"He what? The bastard cheated on me?" Tea exploded. "I will kill him!"

"I wouldn't say that too loud if I were you." Yugi said, noticing a guard looking at Tea suspiciously.

"You're right." Tea simmered down. "And I guess in that I cheated on him too, even though I didn't know about it." She smiled. "So, the things you said when we were in hiding, was that Yugi saying them or Yugi pretending to be Yugi?" She asked, taking his hands in hers.

"Believe me when I say that that was one hundred percent Yugi Mouto." Yugi said. "I never lied to you Tea. I was open with my feelings for the first time ever when I was with you."

"But I think you still have a long way to go before you are an open book." Tea said saucily.

"Maybe you could help to decipher my text then." Yugi replied, as they walked off hand in hand. "I think that we should try to find Yami and Serenity, we all have a lot of discussing to do."

"Serenity!" Yami called, running after her. But the slim girl was surprisingly quick and Yami nearly lost her several times in the bustling streets. Finally he rounded a corner and lost sight of her. "Serenity!" He called again, walking aimlessly around. She had looked really upset and Yami had to talk to her. Without realising it he found himself walking towards the oasis where they had sat a few nights previously. There he saw Serenity, sitting alone by the pool.

"Serenity, I'm so glad I found you." He said, walking up behind her.

"Leave me alone." She said, not turning around. Yami was taken aback by her response.

"Serenity, what's the matter?" He asked. She jumped angrily to her feet and faced him.

"What's the matter?" She asked hotly. "You lied to me. All this time I thought that you were Yugi, and really you were the stuck up prince who tried to hit on me at the palace. Was this your way to try and get with me?"

"No. Please you have to listen to me." Yami begged.

"It all makes sense now. I thought that I knew Yugi well, I should have smelled a rat on your first day here when you tried to rape me!" She continued.

"Just let me explain." Yami said.

"And everything you said to me was a lie. You were a lie. I bet you never told me one word of the truth. This was just some game to you wasn't it? Well this was my life, not a game!"

"But I did tell you the truth. I told you that I loved you!" Yami said. Serenity stopped berating him as this startled her. She turned away.

"You lied to me before. How can I ever tell if you are telling the truth?" She asked sadly.

"I never lied to you." Yami said wretchedly. "And whenever I couldn't tell you the truth I felt terrible. Please Serenity. Do remember when we were last here?"

A flicker of a smile crossed Serenity's face. "Yes, you told me about Chiquita and Hubero." She said fondly.

"But I also told you on that night that I was being me. I told you that no matter what happened I had never been trying to be some one else when I was around you. That was me, this is me!" Yami said.

"No. You were just trying to be Yugi." Serenity said. "And you took me in didn't you? I bet that the real you is very different from the one I saw the other night."

"No!" Yami implored her. "Serenity, this whole experience has changed me. I was vain and intolerable when I first came here. But this experience humbled me. I'm a different man than I used to be, and you have helped me to be a better man."

"How can you prove it?" Serenity asked.

"I can't, at least not to you. Because nothing I can ever do would be good enough to be worthy of you." Yami said. "But I know that I am a changed man. For example when I found out that someone was trying to kill Yugi I was angry, and not because Marik was actually trying to kill me, because I didn't want Yugi to get hurt. And when we were evacuating the caves. The old me would have got out first but I waited to make sure that everyone else was safe first."

Serenity shook her head and turned away. "I don't know who you are anymore." She said finally. Yami walked over to her and forced her to look at him. "Does it matter who I am, as long as I have been myself?" He asked.

"I guess not." Serenity replied. "That evening when we were last here. I remember that you promised me that you were telling the truth. I believe you now. What's in a name? It's just something by which you call someone you like."

"Do you like me Serenity?" Yami asked.

"No." She said. Yami's heart sank. "I don't like you. I love you." (AN - Sorry about the cheese!)

As Yami hugged Serenity tightly he heard clapping. They turned around to see Yugi and Tea walking towards them.

"About time too." Tea said. "We were beginning to think that you two would never make up." She smiled at Yami. "Hello Yami. Welcome back. I actually came back here to finish our relationship, if we ever had one. I guess you won't be too upset about that!" She joked.

"I shall pine after you for months Tea!" Yami joked in return, hugging his friend.

"Hey Serenity." Yugi said nervously, not knowing what kind of reception he would get.

"Yugi!" Serenity hugged Yugi. "I'm so glad you are OK. I wouldn't want to lose one of my best friends."

"Friends?" Yugi asked gratefully.

"Let us be honest Yugi. We were never really much more than close friends." Serenity said. "I prefer it this way."

"I think we all do." Yami replied, putting his arm around Serenity. "I'm just glad that this all worked out OK." He said as they walked back towards the palace.

"I'm going to miss life in the palace though Yami." Yugi said. "And Seto."

"Well, maybe you won't Yugi." Yami replied. "It will take some convincing but I will clear it with my father for you and your grandfather and the Wheeler's to come and live in the palace. I have a feeling that if we research our roots we may find that we are related. And then you and I have to talk to the palace council; I want to make a few adjustments to the law. Starting with wages for work and the height of rent payments."

They smiled as the walked through the city. They stopped outside the palace and looked up at its majestic towers. "I have a feeling that with this experience under my belt, my reign as Pharaoh will be a successful one." Yami said as, shoulder to shoulder, they walked into the palace.

AN - Finished! That was by far my longest fanfic EVER!!! Still, I got over a hundred reviews, which was one of my aims, so thank you too all of my reviews. I'm going to take a short break from YuGiOh fanfics for now to finish off some other fanfics that I left tailed off. But I will be back soon with a new idea so keep reviewing. In the meantime PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE read and review some of my other stuff! Thanks, bye for now!!!