'Not Really You'
Chapter five: Questions and answers
***Hey, I'm back with the fifth chapter! I hope the last chapter was good. Let's just get right to the point and see what happened after Yami kissed Tea.
Tea stood there for about minute not making a move or a sound.
"Tea… are you going to say anything?" Yami asked, getting worried if he did the right thing.
Tea put a hand to her lips a few seconds then said, "You… You just kissed me, Yami… B-but why?"
Tea was still in complete shock of what had happened.
"I love you Tea," Yami said.
"But I thought that you loved Anzu. What happened?"
"I love both of you Tea."
"What?! How can you love both of us?" Tea asked.
"I just do," he simply said.
"But Yami! I'm suppose to go back to the future and if I go back you'll probably never see me again."
"Tea, I love you. I see that now and I want you to stay with me. Please stay with me," Yami begged.
Tea sighed and looked down then looked back up at Yami.
"But… I have to go back. Japan is my home. I have all of my friends and family back in Japan. I can't stay here. I just… just can't," then Tea ran off crying.
"Tea wait!" Yami called out, but she was already gone.
***
*Tea's Point of View*
I still couldn't believe that Yami would used the words…
The three words 'I love you.'
It was the words that I feared someone would say while I was here and tear me apart with guilt.
The words I truly did not want to hear from anyone.
But I was especially afraid of Yami saying the words and now he has.
I don't know what I should do anymore.
I mean, I want to go back home, but what will happen if I can't get back.
There has to be something that can get me back home.
I've already regretted coming here when Ryou and Yami wanted me to love them and I turned them away.
I don't want anymore of that to happen to me while I'm here.
I don't want to hurt the new friends that I have learned to trust and care for while I've been here.
I just want to get back home.
*End of Tea's Point of View*
***
Early the next morning Tea sneaked of the palace.
She wore a blue cape with a hood over her Egyptian clothes so one could recognize her.
'Maybe I can get some answers to get back home from someone outside of the palace,' Tea said to herself as she ran off.
She ran and ran until she stopped at a large place that seemed to look a lot like a temple.
'I wonder if I can get some answers here…' Tea thought.
Tea slowly entered the temple, as quiet as could be.
Though, she wasn't in far of the temple when suddenly she felt about half dozen hands on her body preventing her from going any further into the temple.
"Let go! Get away from me! I haven't done anything!" Tea screamed to the people that had captured her.
"Stop! Let her go! NOW!!!" said a voice in the shadows.
They shadowy figures let her go, but roughly.
"Who's there?" Tea asked, scared.
The unknown person came out of the shadows to reveal who he or she was.
The person came out of the shadows and took put down the hood of his cape.
'It's Marik!' Tea said in her mind.
"It is I, Priest Malik of the Temple of Ra, Anzu," he stated then walked up to her.
'Malik…? God, does everybody have different names in ancient Egyptian!' she asked herself.
"It's been awhile since I last saw you, Anzu. Where have you been all of this time?"
"Oh… Just busy that's all."
'If you call trying to get back home busy, but then I'd like to call it a desperate situation,' Tea said in her mind.
"Are you here to see my sister?" Malik asked.
'Ishizu? Maybe she can help!' Tea thought.
"Yes, if that's all right with her of course," she answered.
"I'm sure sister won't have a problem of you coming to talk to her, Anzu. Please follow me."
"Thank you Malik. That's very kind of you."
"I just wish you could have been like that at home," Tea said under her breath.
Malik and Tea went deep into the temple until they stopped at a large door.
"Isis is in here, Anzu. Please wait here while I go and see if she will talk to you," Malik told her and opened the door.
After Malik opened it he went to his sister and went on his hands and knees while Tea stood at the doorway.
"What news do you have for me my brother?" Isis asked Malik as he came to her.
"Sister, I have brought Anzu to come and see you. She wishes to speak with you at once."
"Oh, have you?" Isis asked in a somewhat interested voice.
"Yes Isis. Shall I let her come in?" Malik asked his sister.
Isis looked to Tea and said, "Yes, bring her in and leave us to be alone," Isis commanded her younger brother.
Malik got up from the ground and said, "As you wish… my sister," then Malik walked over to Tea.
"Isis will see you now Anzu. Good luck!" then he closed the doors.
'Thanks… I'm going to need it,' Tea said to herself before walking over to Isis.
"Hello Isis," Tea said as she walked to her.
"Hello Anzu. It is such a surprise to see you my friend. You haven't been down here in months. I was starting to think that you had gotten us… or maybe you haven't been here to us because you really aren't Anzu, are you Tea?" Isis asked as she closed her eyes.
'She knew! Isis knew all along, I bet. She must have foreseen me coming to Egypt!' Tea knew.
"How did you know? Did you see into the future of my arrival with your Millenium Necklace, Isis?" Tea asked.
"Yes, Tea. I have been excepting you for quite some time now. How long have you been here now?" Isis said.
"Today is my fourth day here Isis," she answered.
"And do you like it here?" Isis asked her.
"That's why I'm here. I need your help," Tea told her.
"Yes, I too sensed that too, but I wanted to see how you were holding up first."
"Well, I've been doing pretty well these past couple of days, I guess."
"Then why the sudden urge to leave, Tea?"
"Because this isn't my home, Isis. You very well should have known that from the start because of your Millenium Item."
"Is that truly the reason why you want to leave Tea? Because Egypt isn't really your home. Or are you just making an excuse to leave before you fall in love to Yami, just like he has for you?" Isis questioned her.
Tea stared at her.
'It's like she knows my every thought. Like I can't keep a single thing away from the powers of her Millenium Necklace,' Tea said in her mind.
"Isis, I have to return to Japan! It's where I live! I can't just stay in ancient Egypt for the rest of my life. It isn't where I belong!" Tea stated loudly.
"Please! Just tell me! What do I have to do to get home?" Tea begged.
Isis looked down and said, "I cannot help you. I am sorry."
"Why not? Are you saying that I'm stuck here forever?" Tea asked in fear.
"No, I'm not saying that. What I am saying is that you need to figure out how to get home on your own."
"What do you mean by that?"
"Tea, you can't get home by a spell book or the magic of a Millenium Item. It's something inside that will get you home. A feeling... a fear that you must over come to in order to leave Egypt."
"What?! What is it? Please tell me!" Tea begged some more.
"I still cannot tell you Tea. It's something that you will need to find out on your own and soon enough."
"So what you are saying is that the only way I can get home is by solving a mystery that I don't even know about?"
"You could say that," Isis answered.
"Great… This is just great!" Tea said sarcastically.
"I am sorry that I cannot help you any further Tea."
Tea looked to Isis for a second and said, "Actually… I think you can…"
***
"Where's Anzu, you guys? I haven't seen her anywhere in the palace or outside. I'm starting to get worried," Shizuka said as she sat down for breakfast.
"What? You haven't seen Anzu anywhere!" Yami asked.
"Yeah, and I've checked practically everywhere in the palace," Shizuka said.
"Where could she have gone Yami?" Yugi asked.
"I don't know Yugi," Yami stated truthfully.
"Do ya think she's still in the palace?" Jou asked.
"I don't think so Jou. Like I said, I've checked pretty much everywhere in the palace. I was just praying that one of you might have seen her. Have any of you?"
They all shook their heads.
"Oh no! What if something terrible has happened to Anzu?! What if she's been kidnapped?!" Shizuka feared for her friend.
'What if what I said to Tea made her run away last night? She could be in danger,' Yami said to himself.
Then they all heard a noise from the throne room.
"That's the front door!" Honda said.
"Come on! Let's go and see who's here!" Mai exclaimed.
Then they all ran to the throne room.
Once everyone got there, there stood Tea, Isis, and Malik.
"Hey guys! What's up?" Tea said nervously.
They all just stared at Tea.
"I'm going to take it that you didn't tell the others that you went to the Temple of Ra, Anzu," Malik said.
"Errr… I… uhhh… guess I forgot to tell you guys that I was going out," Tea said nervously again.
Then everyone fell over.
"What do you mean you forgot to tell us?" they all said.
Then everyone was starting yelling.
Isis and Malik sweat-dropped.
"Is it always like this Anzu? Because if it is I'm glad I don't come here all of the time," Malik said to Tea.
Tea giggled and Yami once again got angry, in jealously, for the way Malik was acting around Tea.
Yami grabbed Tea's arm and said, "Tea, I see you in the hall right now."
"Okay," and Tea went along with Yami.
"What do you mean you went to the Temple of Ra, Tea? Why didn't you tell me that you were going? You scared us all," Yami asked.
Tea looked sadly, and said, "I'm sorry Yami, but I need to find some answers to my problem and it just so happened that I bumped into Malik and Isis."
"Are they from the future too?" he asked.
"Yes," she answered.
Yami shook it off and asked, "What did Isis say to you while you were there?"
"I told her that the only way she could get home to the future of Japan is if she had faced a fear while she was here. Though, I not allowed to tell Tea what the feeling is, but it has to be the one certain fear will send her back. I explained that to her earlier," Isis explained when she walked into the hall.
Tea seemed confused.
"But there's something I still don't get from that. I have a lot of fears. How can just have one that will send me back?"
"You just do. It is just the way it works. That's how the gods saw it before they sent you here."
Tea sighed.
"Now why have you brought me to the palace Tea? You asked me to come here and answer you something else, but you only would if I came here. So what is it?" Isis asked.
"Just answer me this… Am I Anzu or not?"
Yami looked to Isis.
"Is she?" he asked also.
'I sense that this particular question is important to both Tea and my pharaoh,' Isis said to herself.
Isis walked over to some of the stone carvings on the walls and closing her eyes again.
"You very much are Anzu," she answered.
"But you said earlier that I wasn't your friend Anzu. I thought that had indicated that I wasn't Anzu," Tea said.
Isis laughed, slightly and turned around to Yami and Tea.
"What I meant earlier was that you were not the one that knew me. Anzu knew, not you."
"I do know you… but just from the future, so I guess you're right."
"Tea, you are Anzu and Anzu is you," she told her.
"Then where did she go when I came here?" Tea asked while Yami kept a focus on Isis, waiting for her to answer.
"Can't you see? She never left. Anzu lives within you and you live within her. Anzu is the person that you are now and you are the person that Anzu is 5,000 years from now. You are both connected. Just like everyone else here is too. We all came back in the future for specials reasons, " Isis told them.
"Why was I sent here? This still doesn't make any sense to me. I have to overcome a fear in order to get home. What does that all mean?" Tea stated.
"My Millenium Necklace will only tell that you were sent here for one of your fears to be overcome. That is all that I can say."
"But..." Tea drifted.
"You know that I may not say, it is for you to find out. Though, I am afraid to say that you don't live up with what you were brought here to do... you will never return to Japan or the future."
Tea went completely scared.
"Do not be alarmed my friend. You will get home. I have much faith you. Just as I had faith in Anzu, I know that you will accomplish your goal."
"How do you know?"
"I just know."
"B-but what if I don't?"
"You will! Just believe in yourself, Tea. Find out what you need to do in order to have the experience of the feeling that will send you home and your lesson will be learned."
"But what is it? What must I learn to do while I'm here? How will I ever be able to find it?"
Isis just looked at her and Yami still did not say anything.
Tea walked a little away from them while Tea looked sad again.
"My hope of going home is getting smaller as the minutes go by every day. Do you know how hard that will be to figure out?"
Neither of them said anything.
Tea sighed again.
"In time you will learn, my friend. In time you will learn..."
***That's all for chapter five. What do you think Tea has to do now to get back home? I'll give you a clue… She has been rejecting this feeling all throughout the story. I'm sure you all know what Tea needs to do in order to get back to Japan. We'll just have see if Tea figures it out ^_^.
Hope you enjoyed the fifth chapter! Please review!
Chapter five: Questions and answers
***Hey, I'm back with the fifth chapter! I hope the last chapter was good. Let's just get right to the point and see what happened after Yami kissed Tea.
Tea stood there for about minute not making a move or a sound.
"Tea… are you going to say anything?" Yami asked, getting worried if he did the right thing.
Tea put a hand to her lips a few seconds then said, "You… You just kissed me, Yami… B-but why?"
Tea was still in complete shock of what had happened.
"I love you Tea," Yami said.
"But I thought that you loved Anzu. What happened?"
"I love both of you Tea."
"What?! How can you love both of us?" Tea asked.
"I just do," he simply said.
"But Yami! I'm suppose to go back to the future and if I go back you'll probably never see me again."
"Tea, I love you. I see that now and I want you to stay with me. Please stay with me," Yami begged.
Tea sighed and looked down then looked back up at Yami.
"But… I have to go back. Japan is my home. I have all of my friends and family back in Japan. I can't stay here. I just… just can't," then Tea ran off crying.
"Tea wait!" Yami called out, but she was already gone.
***
*Tea's Point of View*
I still couldn't believe that Yami would used the words…
The three words 'I love you.'
It was the words that I feared someone would say while I was here and tear me apart with guilt.
The words I truly did not want to hear from anyone.
But I was especially afraid of Yami saying the words and now he has.
I don't know what I should do anymore.
I mean, I want to go back home, but what will happen if I can't get back.
There has to be something that can get me back home.
I've already regretted coming here when Ryou and Yami wanted me to love them and I turned them away.
I don't want anymore of that to happen to me while I'm here.
I don't want to hurt the new friends that I have learned to trust and care for while I've been here.
I just want to get back home.
*End of Tea's Point of View*
***
Early the next morning Tea sneaked of the palace.
She wore a blue cape with a hood over her Egyptian clothes so one could recognize her.
'Maybe I can get some answers to get back home from someone outside of the palace,' Tea said to herself as she ran off.
She ran and ran until she stopped at a large place that seemed to look a lot like a temple.
'I wonder if I can get some answers here…' Tea thought.
Tea slowly entered the temple, as quiet as could be.
Though, she wasn't in far of the temple when suddenly she felt about half dozen hands on her body preventing her from going any further into the temple.
"Let go! Get away from me! I haven't done anything!" Tea screamed to the people that had captured her.
"Stop! Let her go! NOW!!!" said a voice in the shadows.
They shadowy figures let her go, but roughly.
"Who's there?" Tea asked, scared.
The unknown person came out of the shadows to reveal who he or she was.
The person came out of the shadows and took put down the hood of his cape.
'It's Marik!' Tea said in her mind.
"It is I, Priest Malik of the Temple of Ra, Anzu," he stated then walked up to her.
'Malik…? God, does everybody have different names in ancient Egyptian!' she asked herself.
"It's been awhile since I last saw you, Anzu. Where have you been all of this time?"
"Oh… Just busy that's all."
'If you call trying to get back home busy, but then I'd like to call it a desperate situation,' Tea said in her mind.
"Are you here to see my sister?" Malik asked.
'Ishizu? Maybe she can help!' Tea thought.
"Yes, if that's all right with her of course," she answered.
"I'm sure sister won't have a problem of you coming to talk to her, Anzu. Please follow me."
"Thank you Malik. That's very kind of you."
"I just wish you could have been like that at home," Tea said under her breath.
Malik and Tea went deep into the temple until they stopped at a large door.
"Isis is in here, Anzu. Please wait here while I go and see if she will talk to you," Malik told her and opened the door.
After Malik opened it he went to his sister and went on his hands and knees while Tea stood at the doorway.
"What news do you have for me my brother?" Isis asked Malik as he came to her.
"Sister, I have brought Anzu to come and see you. She wishes to speak with you at once."
"Oh, have you?" Isis asked in a somewhat interested voice.
"Yes Isis. Shall I let her come in?" Malik asked his sister.
Isis looked to Tea and said, "Yes, bring her in and leave us to be alone," Isis commanded her younger brother.
Malik got up from the ground and said, "As you wish… my sister," then Malik walked over to Tea.
"Isis will see you now Anzu. Good luck!" then he closed the doors.
'Thanks… I'm going to need it,' Tea said to herself before walking over to Isis.
"Hello Isis," Tea said as she walked to her.
"Hello Anzu. It is such a surprise to see you my friend. You haven't been down here in months. I was starting to think that you had gotten us… or maybe you haven't been here to us because you really aren't Anzu, are you Tea?" Isis asked as she closed her eyes.
'She knew! Isis knew all along, I bet. She must have foreseen me coming to Egypt!' Tea knew.
"How did you know? Did you see into the future of my arrival with your Millenium Necklace, Isis?" Tea asked.
"Yes, Tea. I have been excepting you for quite some time now. How long have you been here now?" Isis said.
"Today is my fourth day here Isis," she answered.
"And do you like it here?" Isis asked her.
"That's why I'm here. I need your help," Tea told her.
"Yes, I too sensed that too, but I wanted to see how you were holding up first."
"Well, I've been doing pretty well these past couple of days, I guess."
"Then why the sudden urge to leave, Tea?"
"Because this isn't my home, Isis. You very well should have known that from the start because of your Millenium Item."
"Is that truly the reason why you want to leave Tea? Because Egypt isn't really your home. Or are you just making an excuse to leave before you fall in love to Yami, just like he has for you?" Isis questioned her.
Tea stared at her.
'It's like she knows my every thought. Like I can't keep a single thing away from the powers of her Millenium Necklace,' Tea said in her mind.
"Isis, I have to return to Japan! It's where I live! I can't just stay in ancient Egypt for the rest of my life. It isn't where I belong!" Tea stated loudly.
"Please! Just tell me! What do I have to do to get home?" Tea begged.
Isis looked down and said, "I cannot help you. I am sorry."
"Why not? Are you saying that I'm stuck here forever?" Tea asked in fear.
"No, I'm not saying that. What I am saying is that you need to figure out how to get home on your own."
"What do you mean by that?"
"Tea, you can't get home by a spell book or the magic of a Millenium Item. It's something inside that will get you home. A feeling... a fear that you must over come to in order to leave Egypt."
"What?! What is it? Please tell me!" Tea begged some more.
"I still cannot tell you Tea. It's something that you will need to find out on your own and soon enough."
"So what you are saying is that the only way I can get home is by solving a mystery that I don't even know about?"
"You could say that," Isis answered.
"Great… This is just great!" Tea said sarcastically.
"I am sorry that I cannot help you any further Tea."
Tea looked to Isis for a second and said, "Actually… I think you can…"
***
"Where's Anzu, you guys? I haven't seen her anywhere in the palace or outside. I'm starting to get worried," Shizuka said as she sat down for breakfast.
"What? You haven't seen Anzu anywhere!" Yami asked.
"Yeah, and I've checked practically everywhere in the palace," Shizuka said.
"Where could she have gone Yami?" Yugi asked.
"I don't know Yugi," Yami stated truthfully.
"Do ya think she's still in the palace?" Jou asked.
"I don't think so Jou. Like I said, I've checked pretty much everywhere in the palace. I was just praying that one of you might have seen her. Have any of you?"
They all shook their heads.
"Oh no! What if something terrible has happened to Anzu?! What if she's been kidnapped?!" Shizuka feared for her friend.
'What if what I said to Tea made her run away last night? She could be in danger,' Yami said to himself.
Then they all heard a noise from the throne room.
"That's the front door!" Honda said.
"Come on! Let's go and see who's here!" Mai exclaimed.
Then they all ran to the throne room.
Once everyone got there, there stood Tea, Isis, and Malik.
"Hey guys! What's up?" Tea said nervously.
They all just stared at Tea.
"I'm going to take it that you didn't tell the others that you went to the Temple of Ra, Anzu," Malik said.
"Errr… I… uhhh… guess I forgot to tell you guys that I was going out," Tea said nervously again.
Then everyone fell over.
"What do you mean you forgot to tell us?" they all said.
Then everyone was starting yelling.
Isis and Malik sweat-dropped.
"Is it always like this Anzu? Because if it is I'm glad I don't come here all of the time," Malik said to Tea.
Tea giggled and Yami once again got angry, in jealously, for the way Malik was acting around Tea.
Yami grabbed Tea's arm and said, "Tea, I see you in the hall right now."
"Okay," and Tea went along with Yami.
"What do you mean you went to the Temple of Ra, Tea? Why didn't you tell me that you were going? You scared us all," Yami asked.
Tea looked sadly, and said, "I'm sorry Yami, but I need to find some answers to my problem and it just so happened that I bumped into Malik and Isis."
"Are they from the future too?" he asked.
"Yes," she answered.
Yami shook it off and asked, "What did Isis say to you while you were there?"
"I told her that the only way she could get home to the future of Japan is if she had faced a fear while she was here. Though, I not allowed to tell Tea what the feeling is, but it has to be the one certain fear will send her back. I explained that to her earlier," Isis explained when she walked into the hall.
Tea seemed confused.
"But there's something I still don't get from that. I have a lot of fears. How can just have one that will send me back?"
"You just do. It is just the way it works. That's how the gods saw it before they sent you here."
Tea sighed.
"Now why have you brought me to the palace Tea? You asked me to come here and answer you something else, but you only would if I came here. So what is it?" Isis asked.
"Just answer me this… Am I Anzu or not?"
Yami looked to Isis.
"Is she?" he asked also.
'I sense that this particular question is important to both Tea and my pharaoh,' Isis said to herself.
Isis walked over to some of the stone carvings on the walls and closing her eyes again.
"You very much are Anzu," she answered.
"But you said earlier that I wasn't your friend Anzu. I thought that had indicated that I wasn't Anzu," Tea said.
Isis laughed, slightly and turned around to Yami and Tea.
"What I meant earlier was that you were not the one that knew me. Anzu knew, not you."
"I do know you… but just from the future, so I guess you're right."
"Tea, you are Anzu and Anzu is you," she told her.
"Then where did she go when I came here?" Tea asked while Yami kept a focus on Isis, waiting for her to answer.
"Can't you see? She never left. Anzu lives within you and you live within her. Anzu is the person that you are now and you are the person that Anzu is 5,000 years from now. You are both connected. Just like everyone else here is too. We all came back in the future for specials reasons, " Isis told them.
"Why was I sent here? This still doesn't make any sense to me. I have to overcome a fear in order to get home. What does that all mean?" Tea stated.
"My Millenium Necklace will only tell that you were sent here for one of your fears to be overcome. That is all that I can say."
"But..." Tea drifted.
"You know that I may not say, it is for you to find out. Though, I am afraid to say that you don't live up with what you were brought here to do... you will never return to Japan or the future."
Tea went completely scared.
"Do not be alarmed my friend. You will get home. I have much faith you. Just as I had faith in Anzu, I know that you will accomplish your goal."
"How do you know?"
"I just know."
"B-but what if I don't?"
"You will! Just believe in yourself, Tea. Find out what you need to do in order to have the experience of the feeling that will send you home and your lesson will be learned."
"But what is it? What must I learn to do while I'm here? How will I ever be able to find it?"
Isis just looked at her and Yami still did not say anything.
Tea walked a little away from them while Tea looked sad again.
"My hope of going home is getting smaller as the minutes go by every day. Do you know how hard that will be to figure out?"
Neither of them said anything.
Tea sighed again.
"In time you will learn, my friend. In time you will learn..."
***That's all for chapter five. What do you think Tea has to do now to get back home? I'll give you a clue… She has been rejecting this feeling all throughout the story. I'm sure you all know what Tea needs to do in order to get back to Japan. We'll just have see if Tea figures it out ^_^.
Hope you enjoyed the fifth chapter! Please review!