'Not Really You'

*** Chapter four is finally up! ^_^ Let's see what's going on in the story now.

Chapter four: A jealous pharaoh

The next day Tea felt a bit better.

The fact that Yami knew who she really was had relieved some of her stress of being in ancient Egypt.

Tea was walking to the wash room when she had accidentally bumped into someone.

"Oh I'm sorry." Tea said then looked up to see who it was. ". Yami!"

Yami stood in front of her, smiling slightly.

"It's all right Tea. I know that you only bumped into me by accident. It's not a problem," Yami assured her.

Tea smiled.

"Thanks Yami, but can I ask you favor before I leave you?"

"Sure. What is it that you want me to do?"

"Can you just call me Tea when it's just you and me from now on? I don't want the others to know that I'm not their friend Anzu. At least not yet. I'm still not ready to tell the others. I hope you understand."

"Yes. If it's truly what you want. I'll keep it a secret," Yami said while having flashbacks of telling Yugi about Tea and knowing that he was lying to her.

"Thanks Yami! That's so sweet of you. You're such a good friend," she told him.

Then she gave him a light kiss on the cheek and walked off to the wash room.

After Tea left Yugi appeared from around the corner, a huge smile was across his face.

Yami turned to him and asked, "What's so funny? Why are you smiling that, Yugi?"

"I guess what I said to you finally caught up with you, Yami."

"What? You mean Tea kissing my cheek just now? That was just to show her thanks for keeping a secret hidden until she was ready to admit the truth to everyone else."

"And have you?" Yugi asked while walking up to him.

Yami looked down slightly and said, "No. I haven't. Because I've already told you what's going on, you know that."

"So you're going to just lie to her like that?"

"I am until she feels comfortable here. She's still a little afraid of being here, Yugi."

"Ohhh. So what do you plan to do next?"

"I'm not sure yet," Yami answered.

"Well, let's just hope that Tea learns to like this place soon because she may be here awhile."

"Let's just hope."

*** Everyone was in the throne room that afternoon.

Tea was sitting on the floor, talking to Mai and Shizuka about how much fun she had with them the day before when suddenly the large palace door had slowly opened.

There stood the of the smiling person that looked similar to Tea's friend Bakura.

"Hi everybody," Ryou said and walked in with some stuff.

"Hi Ryou!" Mai and Shizuka said as they ran over to him in a hurry.

"Hey guys. It's great to see you both," Ryou said happily as he gave a hug to the girls.

"Ryou, what's up man?" Jou said as he, Yugi, and Honda walked over to him.

"Nothing much, Jou. I'm just glad to be back from my trip," Ryou answered.

"That bad, huh?" Honda said coolly.

"No, it's just I like being here with you guys more than being a historical trip around Egypt."

"You've got a point Ryou. I'd rather be here too," Yugi stated while they all laughed.

After everyone stopped laughing Ryou turned his focus on Tea.

Everyone remained quiet while Ryou slowly walked over to her.

Tea was still sitting on the floor from having her discussion with Mai and Shizuka.

"Hello Anzu. It's great to see you. Can I help you up to say hello to me?" Ryou said quietly as he gave out his hand for Tea to take to stand up.

She wasn't sure at first if she should take it, but she decided to take it a few moments after Ryou offered his hand out to her.

Yugi turned to see how Yami was taking all of this.

Yami didn't look too good.

He looked quite angry at how Tea took Ryou's hand and trust so quickly.

'How dare Ryou do that! He doesn't even know who she really is! I'm the one that knows Tea, not him!' Yami was fuming on the insides.

Yugi just smiled.

'Maybe Yami will now start to realize what I was talking about last night,' Yugi thought to himself.

"I missed you Anzu. Did you miss me at all?" Ryou asked gently.

'Miss you? I don't even know you. This pretending I'm Anzu thing is harder than I thought it would be,' Tea complained to herself.

Tea, however, put a smile on her face and said, "Of course I missed you Ryou. You're one of my best friends. I could never forget about you."

Then she gave him a hug as he hugged her back with a bright smile on his face.

Yami looked completely shocked.

"How could Tea say that! She doesn't even know Ryou. Unless, she's just acting again. but what if she isn't? What if she likes the Ryou from her time more than she likes me?' Yami thought.

Then it dawned on him what he had just said.

'Me? Why would I care about that? It's not like I like her in 'that' kind of way.' then Yami looked over to Yugi.

Yugi had on a smile that showed that he was still trying to prove his point to what he was saying the night before.

'See Yami? Wasn't I right? I knew you'd be jealous of Ryou,' Yugi spiritually told him.

'Yugi! It is not what you think!' Yami yelled to him in frustration.

Yugi's smile went even bigger.

'Then why did you look so uptight and frustrated when Ryou was talking to her?' Yugi asked.

'I was not uptight!' Yami said angrily.

'Chill out Yami! God! For a guy that doesn't like Tea you sure feel protected of her,' Yugi told him.

'Well that's one person's opinion,' Yami said to him and made no further contact with Yugi.

Off in the corner, Mai whispered to Shizuka, "It looks like I was wrong, Shizuka. I think Anzu might actually like Ryou more than Yami."

Shizuka giggled.

"Yeah, I think you're right Mai. Anzu might actually him more than Yami," Shizuka whispered back.

"Well we'll just have to see what happens," Mai said.

*** That night, Tea was looking through some magic books in the library to see if she could find anything that might be able to send her back into the future.

'There's nothing here! I can't find anything that could help! I could be stuck here for the rest of my life if I don't find something to send me back to the future,' Tea said to herself, all worried.

Though, someone coming in the library soon disturbed her.

"Hello? Anzu, are you here?" said the unknown voice.

'Oh no! Somebody's coming! I better hide these books and fast!' Tea thought.

She quickly put them on a shelf, stacked, and picked up another book and pretended to read it.

The person that came into the library was Ryou.

"Oh, hi Ryou! I didn't hear you coming. I was reading a book," Tea lied as she placed the book down on the table to look at him.

He smiled.

"That's all right Anzu. I was just coming to check up on you, that's all."

"Oh well, here I am. perfectly fine," Tea said a little nervous.

But for some odd reason Ryou couldn't notice.

Instead he walked closer to Tea and sat down with her.

"Ryou, what are you doing?"

"What? Can't I have some alone time with you? We are friends, aren't we?" he asked.

"Well. yes, of course we are. I just thought that you would be-," Tea was cut off from Ryou leaning in fast and kissing her hard.

Tea so shocked of what had just happened that she couldn't move.

Then after a few seconds of taking in what was happening Tea pushed Ryou away.

"Ryou! Why the heck did you do that?! You don't just come up to a girl and kiss her like that! What were you thinking?" Tea demanded.

"I thought that you would like that Anzu. I mean, I thought that you liked me."

Tea looked at him.

'I guess Ryou thought Anzu liked him when she was here. And if he did I sort of don't blame him for trying, but I wish he hadn't done it that way. That wasn't the right way for Ryou to show his feelings towards me. or rather Anzu, but. he does look sorry for sneaking that kiss up on me like that. I guess I shouldn't blow my temper up at him for making a simple mistake.'

Tea sighed.

"I do like you Ryou, just not in that way. I'm sorry if I hurt your feelings for not feeling the same way."

Ryou turned away.

"No. I'm sorry Anzu. I shouldn't have done to you. That was way out of line and I hope you can forgive me."

"Yes I can forgive you Ryou. I wouldn't be your friend if I didn't forgive you," then Tea laughed.

"Thank you Anzu. You truly are a great friend to have, you know that right?"

"I know. but I only know that because you guys tell me that all the time. It's the only way I know if I'm being a good friend or not," Tea said.

"Well either way I know for a fact that you are a great friend," Ryou told her while standing then helping her up and gave her a hug.

"Thanks."

*** *Yami's Point of View*

I was walking through the palace after dinner to check on everyone.

Mai and Shizuka were laughing and giggling with their little girl talks in Mai's chambers.

Yugi, Jou, and Honda were outside, in the garden again, playing a game.

'I wonder where Tea and Ryou are.' I thought to myself as I continued to look for them.

I was walking by the palace's library when I had finally found Tea.

She was searching through many different kinds of books at the time, when suddenly we both heard someone coming into the library and calling her name.

I quickly looked to Tea to see what she was going to do next.

She had quickly gathered up all of the books that she was reading and stacked them on a shelf.

Then she grabbed another book out of nowhere and sat down right before the person came.

The person turned out to be Ryou.

I had for some reason started to growl when I saw Ryou near Tea again.

'What's HE doing here?' I asked myself in a somewhat angered voice as I continued to see what was going on.

Now even though I couldn't hear what was going on I had a pretty good idea of what might had been going on.

Tea seemed quite shocked to see Ryou there, but went along with her usual greetings.

Though, to my despise, Ryou seemed to be quite glad to see Tea anyway.

Ryou must have made a quick conversation with Tea, I guessed, so he could sit down with her.

I growled even harder the second time, seeing Ryou sitting next to Tea, his eyes completely focused in on her.

Although, to my surprise, I saw in Tea's eyes that she was a bit nervous with Ryou sitting down with her at first.

Which I thought was a good thing. until Ryou did the one thing that was able to tear my heart in half right then and there.

He. had. kissed her!

Ryou kissed Tea directly on the lips with no warning.

After I saw what had just happened I could only watch for a mere few seconds to see what Tea might have done.

Though, she didn't do anything.

After I watched it for about 5 seconds I turned and walked away from the scene.

I fought back the tears as I left for my chambers.

Fighting back the tears was one of the hardest things I ever had to do.

Though, even though I fought back the threatening tears forming into my eyes, I could not let go of the image of Ryou kissing Tea.

I wouldn't let it go.

The pain of watching what happened between my two friends was enough to want to kill myself.

I ran.

I ran to my chambers, in fear of running into someone like Yugi.

I couldn't take another lecture from Yugi right now.

Especially when I knew now that I had put it all into denial as he walked away every time, knowing that in my heart. I was lying to him and to myself.

*End Yami's Point of View*

*** "Yami, where are you?" Tea asked as she walked into his chambers later on that night.

"Come on Yami! I know that you're in here! I've looked for you everywhere else in the palace. Now come on out!" Tea demanded.

Not a sound was made.

"Yami." escaped from her lips.

'Oh where is he?! I've looked him everywhere! He can't be anywhere else. I checked every other place the palace. Or maybe. he's avoiding me. but why? I haven't done anything wrong. Why would he be avoiding me?'

"What is it, Tea?" Yami asked from behind her again.

Tea gave out a little gasp of surprise and said, "You really need to stop doing that Yami. It could really frighten a person, like me."

"Why are you here?" Yami said in a rough voice.

Tea seemed quite surprised as to why he was acting like this.

"Since when do you have an attitude for me coming into your room, Yami?"

"Since I saw you kissing Ryou earlier!" Yami loudly stated.

Tea just stared at him, motionless, for several moments.

"You. Y-you were spying on me, Yami. Why would you go and do a thing like that?" Tea suspiciously.

"I wasn't spying on you Tea. I was just passing by and I saw you kissing Ryou," Yami lied.

Tea looked directly and knew that he was lying.

"That isn't true and you know it!" Tea said, angrily.

Yami noticed the change in Tea's voice and started to fight back as well.

"Know. Know! What I want to know is why you can't even let me go near you after everything I've been doing for you, but you let Ryou kiss you!" Yami yelled.

"How would you know? You SAID that you didn't see the whole thing, right?"

"I saw enough! Enough to know that I mean nothing to you!" Yami yelled again and stormed out of his chambers.

Tea went wide-eyed as Yami left the room.

'Is Yami jealous of Ryou?' she asked in her mind.

"What do you mean by you mean nothing to me?" Tea asked while she followed Yami out of his chambers.

"You know what I mean, Tea! You're just trying to act all innocent towards me so I can forgive you, right?" Yami asked as he continued to walk away.

Though, Tea walked in front of him and looked right into his eyes again.

"Of course you mean something to me, Yami. You mean a lot to me. You're my friend and I wouldn't have gotten through all of this already if it hadn't been for you," Tea looked softly at him.

Though, Yami didn't take her words seriously.

"Yeah, well go and say to someone else! Like Ryou! I'm sure he'd love to hear you say that since he's already gotten everything I've ever wanted," Yami said as he walked away from Tea.

Though, Tea wouldn't let him get away that easily.

She grabbed his arm to prevent him from going anything further.

Yami was getting angrier by the second now.

"Let go of me at once Tea!" Yami demanded.

"No! Not until you tell me what's going on with you! Why are you acting like this?" she yelled back.

Yami pulled away from Tea's grasp and turned around to her.

"I have nothing further to discuss with you Tea! So Goodbye! Forever!" then he walked off again.

Not even caring to look back and see what Tea had looked like from what he had just said to her.

Tea stood there in shock for several moments as Yami walked down the hall.

"Fine! See what I care! It's not like you ever cared about me!" then Tea started to walk off in the other direction, crying.

When Yami heard Tea cry he remember about what had happened the night before.

How Tea was so scared, that she had no one else to turn to, and how she had finally started to like where she was staying.

Yami knew that he couldn't just let Tea walk away crying like that.

Not when he truly did care about her.

"Tea, wait! I didn't mean what I said! I don't want you to leave. I lied," Yami said as he turned around to her.

She stopped as soon as he said that and looked at him unhappily with a tear- stained face.

"Oh really! Why the sudden change? Are you not letting me go because you want me to help you find the girl that you love? Well save it, because I am not going to let you just use me to help you find your girlfriend!" Tea told him.

Yami looked down.

"She's not my girlfriend. At least not yet anyway. I had never told her that I loved her, Tea. I was going to soon enough, but then you came and then I knew that I couldn't anymore."

"Well then I'm sorry that I mess up your plans," Tea said coolly, but meanly.

Yami walked up to her and put his hands on her waist.

"Tea, please listen to me! You really need to know why I've been acting the way I have," Yami said.

Tea looked away from him and said, "Why should I?" and turned around so her back was facing him.

"The truth is that I was jealous of Ryou and I took it out on you. I knew that I shouldn't have, but thought that you liked Ryou more than me and that scared me," Yami let out the truth to her.

Tea turned her face around to look at him.

"But why? I thought that you loved Anzu," Tea wondered.

"Because of this." he gently said.

Then he whirled around to face her, grabbed her back the arms, and kissed lightly on the lips.

A few moments later he broke the kiss he gave to her as she stood there, knowing that the great pharaoh of Egypt had actually kissed her.

***That's it for chapter four! I hope it was a good one! Yami was getting jealous of Ryou. Tea and Yami fighting. You know, I really didn't like that part though, but it was made up when Yami finally kissed Tea. Didn't you like that? He, he, he, he, he. That was cool. Anyway, I don't know what I'm going to do for the next chapter, but I'll think of something good for it. I hope ^_^. Please review!!!