Kristy Selean: Okay, first I want to say to Bakura LOVER, I'm sorry if I
said raider. I thought robber, raider, same thing, so I wrote it. If it
upset you, I'm sorry. Please accept my apologies. As for the requests of
truth or dare again, I may or may not do it depending on the story line so
please don't be mad at me if I don't do that again. If you really want me
to do another one, I'll try to include it in the epilogue or just make a
story completely separate from this and take requests for it. Oh yeah, if
I do that, it won't be posted on ff.net simply because I want to follow
their policies. Sorry for the inconvenience.
You Stay Out of This! Chapter 5
Yami was having a dream again, but this time, it was different. He could hear them. The voices were so clear and the pictures were so vivid. The scents of rubble, sweat, and blood flooded his senses as he saw what was going on. The flame-lit walls bounced back a shadow of someone who was running. He could clearly see someone panting with tri-colored hair running and beside him was a young girl. Yami instantly recongnized his younger self but pondered at who the girl could be. Her chains on her wrists represented that she was a servant if not a slave. However, her clothes marked that she was of a higher position than an ordinary slave. Yami watched them running until they came to a panel near a wall. A secret entrance opened up from a wall nearby.
"Go! Young Pharoah, we don't have much time before the Queen sends for you!" the girl whispered frantically.
"I don't understand why I should be afraid of the Queen."
"The Queen... has her ways of... dealing with people. They are invited to her bed and are then executed the next morning at dawn. Oh, please, Yami! Go before it's too late!"
"I'm coming back for you."
The servant girl quickly shoved him through the entrance in a desperate attempt to get him going. Yami saw himself almost trip but turn around and grab the wrist of the servant girl. She turned to him with fear clearly marked on her face.
"Why don't you go with me?"
"The Queen will know that if I am gone, you are not present. Please, Yami! I hear them coming!"
With this, Yami saw his younger self cup her hands quickly before running toward his freedom. The servant girl looked back at his fleeing appearance before quickly closing up the panel. Yami followed her as she tried to calmly walk back to her headquarters. She had barely made it back to her room when there was a knock on the door. The servant girl widened her eyes when she realized that the guards must have been there.
"One moment."
The servant girl quickly scribbled down a letter of some sort. Then she took an artifact that Yami had never seen before. It was a golden crystal ball that held the eye of horus on it. The servant girl finished writing the letter, buried it under a loose floorboard, and found a knife in a nearby cupboard. She quickly cut off some of her hair and, reciting a spell, put it into the crystal ball. By then, the guards had already knocked down the door. The servant girl whirled around only to be speared, right through the heart. Yami turned away from the grotesque picture and looked outside only to see his younger self returning with an army. Yami trembled. His younger self had failed to rescue this girl who now lay dead on the floor.
*~*
Yami woke up again. This time, it was a lot harder to open his eyes. Yami realized that he was sweating and headed over to the bathroom to wash himself. Yami looked into the mirror to notice that there were wet drops that had managed to streak down the sides of his face from his eyes. Tears. Yami had cried in his own dream.
'Did she mean that much to me? Wasn't she just a servant girl? Why did I cry? I know this has to do with my past, but what was the point of it exactly?'
Yami shook his head. It was better to forget about it instead of having to have his thoughts haunt him. After washing up, Yami absent-mindedly headed over to Yugi's room. Yami opened the door and stepped in, hoping to talk to Yugi. Yami blinked in the doorway, finding Mai asleep in Yugi's bed. Before he could try to process the information, the door that connected Yugi's room to a bathroom opened. (I don't know if Yugi really has a bathroom connected to his room, but for this story's purpose, let's just say he does. ^^) Yami saw a very familiar face walk out in a bathrobe, shaking out her hair. Aishana stared at him puzzled while Yami just turned away.
"Ehm.... Sorry. Wrong room."
Yami walked out of the room and closed the door. He noticed his face was a little hotter than before, and he knew exactly the reason why. Forbidden love was such a bittersweet story. Aishana in Yugi's room finally sent the message back to his brain: the sleepover. The boys were still asleep downstairs. Yami didn't want to wake Yugi up, but this dream had to be told to him. What if that crystal ball was another millennium item? And who had it? Yugi had to know. By the time Yami reached the floor, he noticed that Yugi's sleeping bag was empty. Yami then headed over to the kitchen.
"Good morning, aibou(partner, companion)."
Yugi looked up at him. His eyes were red and puffy. Yami noticed that he held a cup of ice and a liquid. He prayed that Yugi wasn't trying something stupid only to find out that it was water. Yami sighed in relief as Yugi peered up at him. For once, the bouncy little version of himself wasn't... er, bouncy.
"Yugi, what's wrong?"
Yugi hesitantly told him of the events that happened the night before. Yami listened intentively, even though he knew that he had spied on them and had seen it all. After Yugi spilled out the entire story, a few more tears slipped out of his eyes.
"I know I should be happy I have a chance, but I guess I was disappointed."
"Yugi..."
"But Yami, that's not all of it."
"What do you mean?"
Surely, Yami had heard incorrectly. There was more to the conversation? Yami knew he was the last one to leave, so it was highly unlikely that there was more that was discussed. Still, Yami's curiousity got the best of him.
"I had a dream."
Yami instantly recognized the dream that Yugi was telling him about. It was the exact same one that he had had the night before. The same nightmare that had been plaguing his mind for who knows how long.
"I just... When I saw her die, I don't know why, but it hurt so much. I couldn't bear it. She just looked so much like Aishana..."
Yami's eyes widened as his senses snapped to reality. Of course! Why didn't he recognize it? The servant girl's resemblance to Aishana was clearly present. The only difference was that the servant girl looked a little more Egyptian than Aishana did.
"Then that explains where the eighth millennium item is."
"Yami? An eighth millennium item?"
"Yugi, go help Aishana pack. I believe she should be done changing by now."
Yugi's eyebrows shot up as a picture had filled his mind. Yami sighed and explained that he went into Yugi's room and found Mai and Aishana instead before remembering the sleep over. Yugi nodded and headed upstairs to help Aishana pack and, hopefully, wake up Mai, without getting killed, that is.
*~*
"Mai? Mai, please, wake up!"
"No... beauty... sleep..."
"Mai?"
Aishana lifted her hands up in surrender. Trying to wake up Mai was like teaching a crocodile to be polite. In other words, pretty hard. Luckily, Yugi came to the rescue and helped wake up Mai. They resorted to threatening to throwing her make-up out the window for her to crawl out of bed and take a shower. Aishana continued packing while Yugi helped her heistantly.
'If what Yami said was true, then something's not going to be right about Aishana.'
Nothing seemed unusual as they packed, but when Aishana reached for a circular bundle, hiding was not an option. The cloth unraveled itself to reveal a clear gold crystal ball that had the eye of horus on it. There was definitely no denying it now. Aishana was the culprit and she was caught red-handed.
"Aishana..."
Aishana sighed. It was time that they had found it. Now all she had to do was explain, and it wouldn't be long before her mission would finally be complete. Aishana watched the floor as Yugi picked up the circular object and examined it.
"It was an heirloom. I've had it ever since I was born."
"Aishana, is it a..."
"Millennium item?" Aishana finished for Yugi who reluctantly nodded his head. A small smirk creeped up her face as she answered.
"No. It gives me dreams concerning the Egyptian past and the future with the millennium items, but it's not one of them."
"Then what is it's purpose, might I ask?"
The two whirled around to find Yami in the doorway, waiting for his answer. The water was still running in the shower while Mai "sang" to an unrecognizable tune. Perhaps we should actually call this screeching. With that discomfort in the background, Aishana motioned to Yugi and Yami to Yami's room. Yami closed the door while the three of them sat down on Yami's bed.
"Yugi, have you been having dreams lately?"
"Yeah. They're really complicated and weird."
"What did you see?"
Yugi explained the vision of the servant girl and the escape of the young pharoah. As soon as he finished his story, Yugi's eyes were brimming with unshed tears. Aishana looked at him, puzzled while Yami just turned away.
"Yugi?"
"I'm sorry. It's just that... she looked so much like you, and I couldn't help but feel sad."
Yugi winced back the tears. He couldn't cry now. Not with both Yami and Aishana watching him. Besides, what would they think of him then? Yami had already seen how he could be, but he had never cried twice over the same thing. How would they respond? After slight hesitation, Yugi realized a firm, friendly grasp on his shoulder. He opened his eyes to turn to his comforter.
"Thank you, Yugi. I'm honored that you care about me that way."
Yugi smiled.
*~*
After a quick breakfast, everyone parted their ways except for Aishana who stayed with Yugi and Yami. They had much to discuss concerning that golden crystal ball that was emblazened with the eye of horus. After gathering around a few chairs and a table, the three of them continued their discussion.
"So what does this one do?"
"Like I said earlier, it lets me see visions of the Egyptian past and the future of the millennium items."
"Aishana, do you remember your past?"
"Only slightly, Yugi. Only slightly."
"Could you do a reading on someone else's past?"
"I just might. Who's past should I read?"
"Could you read Yami's?"
Aishana pulled out a deck of Duel Monsters cards and asked Yami to pull out his own. Aishana shuffled them and cut them into three piles each. When there were two rows of three piles facing each other, Aishana told Yami to relax his mind and try to reach out to his past. Yami closed his eyes in concentration and let his mind drift back to the dream. Three cards from Yami's deck flipped over on the table on their own. Yugi's eyes widened with amazement as Aishana's deck did the same. The eye of horus began to glow on the puzzle and the crystal ball.
"Yami, close your eyes and keep thinking of your past, your memories, your destiny."
With that, Aishana was zapped into Yami's mind just as Shadi did to Yugi. Wandering around in the puzzles that were in his mind were hard, but Aishana held up her perseverance. After almost falling in the loose floor just as Shadi did, Aishana resolved to call out to Yami instead.
"Yami, lead me. You have to help me find your past."
Yami's image reappeared in front of Aishana, only this time, not even the dark corridors could hide the sincere look on his face. A deep frown with a mixture of sadness and curiosity was etched across the face of the pharoah who closed his eyes in surrender. Aishana knew that he wouldn't be playing his mind games anymore.
"All right. I'll help, but, I can only do so much."
Yami's image lifted a hand which let the room melt into a room that had two doors. One was the entrance to his mind, and the other was the way out. The door to the left had a bold, golden sun on it and the other had a mysterious, silvery moon. It was going to be a hard pick.
"But, Yami-"
"I can only do so much."
With that, he faded away, leaving Aishana to choose. Aishana looked at the golden object in her hands, the ornament that had guided her into Yami's mind, the golden ball. The ball floated away from her hands as Aishana closed her eyes in concentration. The ball would have to choose for her. The ball swayed one way and other, to one door and the other, back and forth continuously, making Aishana lose her patience.
"Come on! Which one?"
The golden ball still went back and forth as if it couldn't decide either. Suddenly, a loud cackling filled the room of Yami's mind. It was him - the younger pharoah.
"You can't find me! I will never let you! My secrets are only for Yugi and me!"
With that, Aishana's concentration broke, making the golden ball fall back into her arms just as the room of Yami's mind darkened and was filled with a bleak air. A putrid smell filled the air as black smoke came up from behind Aishana, making her choke and cough. The next thing that Aishana could remember was having some sort of force yank her out of Yami's mind.
"Aishana, what happened?"
Aishana and Yami's eyes fluttered open to find their present state. Yugi was watching them, worry sketched all over his face. Yami sighed. He knew Aishana couldn't get to it even though she was so close. Aishana started to cough again because the effects were so current.
"I'm sorry." Aishana managed to say between coughs. "Something's not right in there."
"It's okay. It's not like anyone else was able to do it other than Yugi. Well, maybe next time I'll have better luck."
"Yeah. Maybe next time I could be more prepared and think about it. I'd better go. It's about time I head back."
Yugi and Yami escorted their friend to the door and waved goodbye before sitting back down again. Yami had a dark look on his face, the one that made Yugi know that he was in deep concentration.
'He never acted like this since that time that he saw the tablet with him and Kaiba dueling. I wonder what's going on?'
Yugi's thoughts were interrupted when Yami asked him a question.
"Yugi, why did you have Aishana read my thoughts?"
"I just thought she could get across the barrier that blocked you from the past that I couldn't get to. Then we would know what we're dealing with and how to deal with it."
"What if it's something bad, just like last time? I don't want to go through that again."
Yami let his head fall into his hands while Yugi put a comforting hand on his shoulder. It was just too stressful to handle at the moment. Another item of some sort that's not a millennium item, a girl who looked a lot like Aishana in the past of his dreams, and another chance that he may have had to duel Yugi for the control of the world - it was just too much.
"Yami, we wouldn't let that happen. Even if it did, I have full confidence that everything's going to be all right so don't let down your hopes either."
Yami didn't reply.
*~*
Yugi's watch beeped. It was twelve in the afternoon as he and Yami were walking down the street. After the escapade of trying to regain the memories, the two of them went grocery shopping to refill the refridgerator from the sleepover and to get their minds off of what was happening.
"Feeling any better?"
"Well, a little."
Yami fell silent again. Yugi sighed as he walked with is counterpart. Somehow, they were going to have to find a way to figure out this whole deal an soon. Just as they passed by a building, a dark purple light whizzed behind them. Yami felt something snap and whirled around, making Yugi stop and search as well.
"W-what is it, Yami?"
Yami searched again, his eyes scrutinizing every point of his surroundings. Luckily, the street didn't have any pedestrians around except for the two of them. After scanning the area with cars still passing them by on the street, Yami gave up his search.
"What was it, Yami?"
"I don't know. I was sure that I felt...never mind. It's nothing. Let's go."
Yugi gave a puzzled stare at Yami before nodding and continuing their walk home. Yami's face fell into a serious gloom as he pondered over what it was that happened.
'I don't want to worry Yugi, but I felt something or someone. Whatever it was, I know my senses snapped. What was it anyway?'
The two counterpart bodies didn't realize their purple persuer. Behind the warehouse that they had just passed, a tall figure stood watching them, his turquoise eyes, gleaming: the Dark Magician.
*to be continued...*
Kristy Selean: Yay! And the plot thickens... *insert evil laugh here* ^- ^ As for the two doors, you'll find out. Yes, Yami's past, er, the past that I gave him, will be told sooner or later. Sadly, this story doesn't have that many chapters to go before it's gone. At max, this story will be 15 chapters, but no more than that, and I definitely expect fewer. Well, thanks for reading and reviewing *hint hint* my first Yugioh fic!
You Stay Out of This! Chapter 5
Yami was having a dream again, but this time, it was different. He could hear them. The voices were so clear and the pictures were so vivid. The scents of rubble, sweat, and blood flooded his senses as he saw what was going on. The flame-lit walls bounced back a shadow of someone who was running. He could clearly see someone panting with tri-colored hair running and beside him was a young girl. Yami instantly recongnized his younger self but pondered at who the girl could be. Her chains on her wrists represented that she was a servant if not a slave. However, her clothes marked that she was of a higher position than an ordinary slave. Yami watched them running until they came to a panel near a wall. A secret entrance opened up from a wall nearby.
"Go! Young Pharoah, we don't have much time before the Queen sends for you!" the girl whispered frantically.
"I don't understand why I should be afraid of the Queen."
"The Queen... has her ways of... dealing with people. They are invited to her bed and are then executed the next morning at dawn. Oh, please, Yami! Go before it's too late!"
"I'm coming back for you."
The servant girl quickly shoved him through the entrance in a desperate attempt to get him going. Yami saw himself almost trip but turn around and grab the wrist of the servant girl. She turned to him with fear clearly marked on her face.
"Why don't you go with me?"
"The Queen will know that if I am gone, you are not present. Please, Yami! I hear them coming!"
With this, Yami saw his younger self cup her hands quickly before running toward his freedom. The servant girl looked back at his fleeing appearance before quickly closing up the panel. Yami followed her as she tried to calmly walk back to her headquarters. She had barely made it back to her room when there was a knock on the door. The servant girl widened her eyes when she realized that the guards must have been there.
"One moment."
The servant girl quickly scribbled down a letter of some sort. Then she took an artifact that Yami had never seen before. It was a golden crystal ball that held the eye of horus on it. The servant girl finished writing the letter, buried it under a loose floorboard, and found a knife in a nearby cupboard. She quickly cut off some of her hair and, reciting a spell, put it into the crystal ball. By then, the guards had already knocked down the door. The servant girl whirled around only to be speared, right through the heart. Yami turned away from the grotesque picture and looked outside only to see his younger self returning with an army. Yami trembled. His younger self had failed to rescue this girl who now lay dead on the floor.
*~*
Yami woke up again. This time, it was a lot harder to open his eyes. Yami realized that he was sweating and headed over to the bathroom to wash himself. Yami looked into the mirror to notice that there were wet drops that had managed to streak down the sides of his face from his eyes. Tears. Yami had cried in his own dream.
'Did she mean that much to me? Wasn't she just a servant girl? Why did I cry? I know this has to do with my past, but what was the point of it exactly?'
Yami shook his head. It was better to forget about it instead of having to have his thoughts haunt him. After washing up, Yami absent-mindedly headed over to Yugi's room. Yami opened the door and stepped in, hoping to talk to Yugi. Yami blinked in the doorway, finding Mai asleep in Yugi's bed. Before he could try to process the information, the door that connected Yugi's room to a bathroom opened. (I don't know if Yugi really has a bathroom connected to his room, but for this story's purpose, let's just say he does. ^^) Yami saw a very familiar face walk out in a bathrobe, shaking out her hair. Aishana stared at him puzzled while Yami just turned away.
"Ehm.... Sorry. Wrong room."
Yami walked out of the room and closed the door. He noticed his face was a little hotter than before, and he knew exactly the reason why. Forbidden love was such a bittersweet story. Aishana in Yugi's room finally sent the message back to his brain: the sleepover. The boys were still asleep downstairs. Yami didn't want to wake Yugi up, but this dream had to be told to him. What if that crystal ball was another millennium item? And who had it? Yugi had to know. By the time Yami reached the floor, he noticed that Yugi's sleeping bag was empty. Yami then headed over to the kitchen.
"Good morning, aibou(partner, companion)."
Yugi looked up at him. His eyes were red and puffy. Yami noticed that he held a cup of ice and a liquid. He prayed that Yugi wasn't trying something stupid only to find out that it was water. Yami sighed in relief as Yugi peered up at him. For once, the bouncy little version of himself wasn't... er, bouncy.
"Yugi, what's wrong?"
Yugi hesitantly told him of the events that happened the night before. Yami listened intentively, even though he knew that he had spied on them and had seen it all. After Yugi spilled out the entire story, a few more tears slipped out of his eyes.
"I know I should be happy I have a chance, but I guess I was disappointed."
"Yugi..."
"But Yami, that's not all of it."
"What do you mean?"
Surely, Yami had heard incorrectly. There was more to the conversation? Yami knew he was the last one to leave, so it was highly unlikely that there was more that was discussed. Still, Yami's curiousity got the best of him.
"I had a dream."
Yami instantly recognized the dream that Yugi was telling him about. It was the exact same one that he had had the night before. The same nightmare that had been plaguing his mind for who knows how long.
"I just... When I saw her die, I don't know why, but it hurt so much. I couldn't bear it. She just looked so much like Aishana..."
Yami's eyes widened as his senses snapped to reality. Of course! Why didn't he recognize it? The servant girl's resemblance to Aishana was clearly present. The only difference was that the servant girl looked a little more Egyptian than Aishana did.
"Then that explains where the eighth millennium item is."
"Yami? An eighth millennium item?"
"Yugi, go help Aishana pack. I believe she should be done changing by now."
Yugi's eyebrows shot up as a picture had filled his mind. Yami sighed and explained that he went into Yugi's room and found Mai and Aishana instead before remembering the sleep over. Yugi nodded and headed upstairs to help Aishana pack and, hopefully, wake up Mai, without getting killed, that is.
*~*
"Mai? Mai, please, wake up!"
"No... beauty... sleep..."
"Mai?"
Aishana lifted her hands up in surrender. Trying to wake up Mai was like teaching a crocodile to be polite. In other words, pretty hard. Luckily, Yugi came to the rescue and helped wake up Mai. They resorted to threatening to throwing her make-up out the window for her to crawl out of bed and take a shower. Aishana continued packing while Yugi helped her heistantly.
'If what Yami said was true, then something's not going to be right about Aishana.'
Nothing seemed unusual as they packed, but when Aishana reached for a circular bundle, hiding was not an option. The cloth unraveled itself to reveal a clear gold crystal ball that had the eye of horus on it. There was definitely no denying it now. Aishana was the culprit and she was caught red-handed.
"Aishana..."
Aishana sighed. It was time that they had found it. Now all she had to do was explain, and it wouldn't be long before her mission would finally be complete. Aishana watched the floor as Yugi picked up the circular object and examined it.
"It was an heirloom. I've had it ever since I was born."
"Aishana, is it a..."
"Millennium item?" Aishana finished for Yugi who reluctantly nodded his head. A small smirk creeped up her face as she answered.
"No. It gives me dreams concerning the Egyptian past and the future with the millennium items, but it's not one of them."
"Then what is it's purpose, might I ask?"
The two whirled around to find Yami in the doorway, waiting for his answer. The water was still running in the shower while Mai "sang" to an unrecognizable tune. Perhaps we should actually call this screeching. With that discomfort in the background, Aishana motioned to Yugi and Yami to Yami's room. Yami closed the door while the three of them sat down on Yami's bed.
"Yugi, have you been having dreams lately?"
"Yeah. They're really complicated and weird."
"What did you see?"
Yugi explained the vision of the servant girl and the escape of the young pharoah. As soon as he finished his story, Yugi's eyes were brimming with unshed tears. Aishana looked at him, puzzled while Yami just turned away.
"Yugi?"
"I'm sorry. It's just that... she looked so much like you, and I couldn't help but feel sad."
Yugi winced back the tears. He couldn't cry now. Not with both Yami and Aishana watching him. Besides, what would they think of him then? Yami had already seen how he could be, but he had never cried twice over the same thing. How would they respond? After slight hesitation, Yugi realized a firm, friendly grasp on his shoulder. He opened his eyes to turn to his comforter.
"Thank you, Yugi. I'm honored that you care about me that way."
Yugi smiled.
*~*
After a quick breakfast, everyone parted their ways except for Aishana who stayed with Yugi and Yami. They had much to discuss concerning that golden crystal ball that was emblazened with the eye of horus. After gathering around a few chairs and a table, the three of them continued their discussion.
"So what does this one do?"
"Like I said earlier, it lets me see visions of the Egyptian past and the future of the millennium items."
"Aishana, do you remember your past?"
"Only slightly, Yugi. Only slightly."
"Could you do a reading on someone else's past?"
"I just might. Who's past should I read?"
"Could you read Yami's?"
Aishana pulled out a deck of Duel Monsters cards and asked Yami to pull out his own. Aishana shuffled them and cut them into three piles each. When there were two rows of three piles facing each other, Aishana told Yami to relax his mind and try to reach out to his past. Yami closed his eyes in concentration and let his mind drift back to the dream. Three cards from Yami's deck flipped over on the table on their own. Yugi's eyes widened with amazement as Aishana's deck did the same. The eye of horus began to glow on the puzzle and the crystal ball.
"Yami, close your eyes and keep thinking of your past, your memories, your destiny."
With that, Aishana was zapped into Yami's mind just as Shadi did to Yugi. Wandering around in the puzzles that were in his mind were hard, but Aishana held up her perseverance. After almost falling in the loose floor just as Shadi did, Aishana resolved to call out to Yami instead.
"Yami, lead me. You have to help me find your past."
Yami's image reappeared in front of Aishana, only this time, not even the dark corridors could hide the sincere look on his face. A deep frown with a mixture of sadness and curiosity was etched across the face of the pharoah who closed his eyes in surrender. Aishana knew that he wouldn't be playing his mind games anymore.
"All right. I'll help, but, I can only do so much."
Yami's image lifted a hand which let the room melt into a room that had two doors. One was the entrance to his mind, and the other was the way out. The door to the left had a bold, golden sun on it and the other had a mysterious, silvery moon. It was going to be a hard pick.
"But, Yami-"
"I can only do so much."
With that, he faded away, leaving Aishana to choose. Aishana looked at the golden object in her hands, the ornament that had guided her into Yami's mind, the golden ball. The ball floated away from her hands as Aishana closed her eyes in concentration. The ball would have to choose for her. The ball swayed one way and other, to one door and the other, back and forth continuously, making Aishana lose her patience.
"Come on! Which one?"
The golden ball still went back and forth as if it couldn't decide either. Suddenly, a loud cackling filled the room of Yami's mind. It was him - the younger pharoah.
"You can't find me! I will never let you! My secrets are only for Yugi and me!"
With that, Aishana's concentration broke, making the golden ball fall back into her arms just as the room of Yami's mind darkened and was filled with a bleak air. A putrid smell filled the air as black smoke came up from behind Aishana, making her choke and cough. The next thing that Aishana could remember was having some sort of force yank her out of Yami's mind.
"Aishana, what happened?"
Aishana and Yami's eyes fluttered open to find their present state. Yugi was watching them, worry sketched all over his face. Yami sighed. He knew Aishana couldn't get to it even though she was so close. Aishana started to cough again because the effects were so current.
"I'm sorry." Aishana managed to say between coughs. "Something's not right in there."
"It's okay. It's not like anyone else was able to do it other than Yugi. Well, maybe next time I'll have better luck."
"Yeah. Maybe next time I could be more prepared and think about it. I'd better go. It's about time I head back."
Yugi and Yami escorted their friend to the door and waved goodbye before sitting back down again. Yami had a dark look on his face, the one that made Yugi know that he was in deep concentration.
'He never acted like this since that time that he saw the tablet with him and Kaiba dueling. I wonder what's going on?'
Yugi's thoughts were interrupted when Yami asked him a question.
"Yugi, why did you have Aishana read my thoughts?"
"I just thought she could get across the barrier that blocked you from the past that I couldn't get to. Then we would know what we're dealing with and how to deal with it."
"What if it's something bad, just like last time? I don't want to go through that again."
Yami let his head fall into his hands while Yugi put a comforting hand on his shoulder. It was just too stressful to handle at the moment. Another item of some sort that's not a millennium item, a girl who looked a lot like Aishana in the past of his dreams, and another chance that he may have had to duel Yugi for the control of the world - it was just too much.
"Yami, we wouldn't let that happen. Even if it did, I have full confidence that everything's going to be all right so don't let down your hopes either."
Yami didn't reply.
*~*
Yugi's watch beeped. It was twelve in the afternoon as he and Yami were walking down the street. After the escapade of trying to regain the memories, the two of them went grocery shopping to refill the refridgerator from the sleepover and to get their minds off of what was happening.
"Feeling any better?"
"Well, a little."
Yami fell silent again. Yugi sighed as he walked with is counterpart. Somehow, they were going to have to find a way to figure out this whole deal an soon. Just as they passed by a building, a dark purple light whizzed behind them. Yami felt something snap and whirled around, making Yugi stop and search as well.
"W-what is it, Yami?"
Yami searched again, his eyes scrutinizing every point of his surroundings. Luckily, the street didn't have any pedestrians around except for the two of them. After scanning the area with cars still passing them by on the street, Yami gave up his search.
"What was it, Yami?"
"I don't know. I was sure that I felt...never mind. It's nothing. Let's go."
Yugi gave a puzzled stare at Yami before nodding and continuing their walk home. Yami's face fell into a serious gloom as he pondered over what it was that happened.
'I don't want to worry Yugi, but I felt something or someone. Whatever it was, I know my senses snapped. What was it anyway?'
The two counterpart bodies didn't realize their purple persuer. Behind the warehouse that they had just passed, a tall figure stood watching them, his turquoise eyes, gleaming: the Dark Magician.
*to be continued...*
Kristy Selean: Yay! And the plot thickens... *insert evil laugh here* ^- ^ As for the two doors, you'll find out. Yes, Yami's past, er, the past that I gave him, will be told sooner or later. Sadly, this story doesn't have that many chapters to go before it's gone. At max, this story will be 15 chapters, but no more than that, and I definitely expect fewer. Well, thanks for reading and reviewing *hint hint* my first Yugioh fic!