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'Not Really You'
*** Chapter eleven is up! I hope you enjoy it! Thanks for reading! ^_^
Chapter eleven: Memories can lead to the truth
****Tea's Point of View****
I ran away from Anzu's room and Yami that night.
I ran from the palace.
I didn't know what to do anymore.
If I stayed there any longer Yami would have done something like try to kiss me again and then making me feel worse for being there.
At this point I no longer wanted to be in ancient Egypt.
Being here had finally driven me crazy now.
I kind of knew it would eventually and now I have.
I mean, it's like one minute Yami gets all worked up that I'm back from the Shadow Realm and in the next Yami's trying to make me see that I love him.
Though, I know in my heart that I can't do that.
No matter how much he means to me... I just couldn't do it.
Isis said to me that I needed to overcome one particular fear and then I would be able to go home, but it's so much harder than she described to be.
I don't even know where I should start.
How will I ever find it?
The gods put an impossible task for me to do here in Egypt and I'm probably the only one in this world that knows it.
Oh how I wish I was home...
****End of Tea's Point of View****
****Yami's Point of View****
What have I done?
Now Tea probably won't even speak to me again after this.
I guess I shouldn't have done that to her.
Though... I know that I'm right.
I mean, Tea told me that she was sorry that she was getting so close to Ryou and she almost let me kiss her the another day.
Actually, she probably would have let me kiss her, if only Bakura hadn't come back.
But maybe I'm wrong.
Maybe Tea doesn't love me like I thought she did.
So what do I do now?
Should I give up what I feel so strongly about?
Or should I just be a good friend to Tea and help her get home?
Home...
I do forget that this isn't her home.
It's Anzu's home.
I miss Anzu so much, but I don't want Tea to go.
I love her... and I always will.
I just wish that she felt the same about me.
****End of Yami's Point of View****
Tea decided that the only place she could go for now was the Temple of Ra.
'I hope someone is still awake,' she said to herself.
She walked in to find it pretty quiet.
Not that she was surprised.
It was the middle of the night and everyone was supposed to be sleeping.
'At least this time I'm not being attacked by anything.'
Tea soon found herself in a room with many candles and an altar at the top of a bunch of stone steps.
At the altar she found scriptures of a text of writing that she was unaware of.
'I wonder what this all says. Maybe someone could tell me-," Tea's thoughts were cut off from a very familiar voice that she had heard before.
"Who's out here?" the voice said.
'I better go with my cover up name just in case it isn't Isis,' Tea told herself as she walked away from the altar.
"It's me, Anzu Mazaki, from the pharaoh's palace," she responded.
"Mazaki? What the heck are you doing here at this time of night?" said the voice.
Then Tea finally figured out who the familiar voice was.
"Seto! Is that you?" she asked.
"That's High Priest Seto to you, Mazaki!" he stated to her once he came out of the shadows.
'It is Kaiba! Ishizu was right! Kaiba does come from ancient Egypt also.'
His outfit looked like the one on the stone tablet that she and Yami saw in the future.
"Now I'll ask you again. What are doing here at this time of night?" Seto asked, while his patients were growing very thin. (Big surprise! Not!)
"I couldn't sleep all right!" she lied.
"I'd find that hard to believe."
"Why?"
"Because I can tell that you're lying Mazaki!"
"Why don't you call me by my first name for once Seto? I mean, it's not that hard. It wouldn't kill you to do that every once and while."
"It isn't your decision for what I call you, Mazaki. You forget that I'm in a higher rank then you are so you should keep your mouth shut and talk only when I allow you to."
Tea rolled her eyes at him.
'Yami was right... This guy is no different here then he is at home.'
"Now I will ask you one more time... What are you doing here? Oh, and this time, why don't you actually tell me the truth?"
Tea stared hard at him.
"Fine! I'll tell you! I had a disagreement with Yami so I left the palace, ok?"
Seto laughed after she said this.
"What's so funny?"
"I'm glad that you finally came to your senses Mazaki. I knew it was only a matter of time before you got sick of the pharaoh."
"What are you talking about?"
"What I mean is I'm glad that you finally forget about that washed up pharaoh of yours. I was surprised to see that you stayed around the pharaoh for so long. I also don't see why you and all of your pathetic friends actually like the pharaoh. All he ever cares about is showing off and himself."
Tea was starting to get angry.
"That's not true Seto! He's not like any of those things. Yami has a heart of gold and really cares about me and the others!"
"Oh yeah? Well if he cares about you SO much then why has he been disagreeing with you and why are you here?"
"I..." Tea was speechless.
"That's what I thought. Yeah, he really seems to care about you. Always disagreeing with what you feel, always saying that he's right, and always forcing you to believe things that you don't think are right. Yeah Mazaki, you keep thinking that he's a great friend."
"How do you know about all of that?"
"I'm not stupid Anzu! You honestly think I don't know what that pharaoh thinks like? He's not THAT hard to figure out."
"Just stop it Seto! You're making things worse for me!"
"Good. Maybe now you can think about how great a friend Yami really is while you're here. Maybe you'll see that he isn't as great as you thought he was. Though, while you're doing that I'm going to bed like normal people do when it's late out. See you around."
Then Seto walked off for bed.
'What if Seto is right? Maybe Yami isn't as great of friend as I thought he was. I mean, he tried so hard to make me see that he was right and I was wrong. Maybe I should just find my will home without his help.'
"I just don't know what to do anymore," she said out loud.
"Tea? Is that you?" Isis called out.
"Isis, what are you doing up?" Tea asked when Isis walked into the room.
"I would have to ask you the same thing."
"I came here because I've been having some trouble at the palace."
"I thought you would. My Millenium Necklace told me that you would have troubles with Yami while you tried to figure out a way home."
"It's just that he's making this so much harder then it has to be."
"Is he?"
"Yes... So that's why I came here tonight. To get away from him."
"Tea, you must understand that Yami is trying his hardest to help you get home while having the feelings for you not to leave."
"And that's exactly why I'm not going back there again."
"You need to think clearly. I know that in your heart that's truly not what you want. I know that you want to say good-bye to Yami before you leave Egypt and it's only a matter of time before you go back to Japan. You need to work things out with Yami before it's too late and you miss the chance to make things right between you two."
"No! I've made up my mind and I'm not going back there Isis."
"Why not?"
"Because I can't love him! Don't you see that if I fall in love with him I won't want to leave or he won't let me leave?"
Then Tea turned around and cried.
Isis put a hand on her shoulder and said, "But you do love him, don't you?"
"What?"
"You say that you can't love Yami, but the fact of the matter is that you do love him. I know that you do."
Tea turned back around to face Isis.
"Why does everyone keep saying that? I mean, you've been saying it, Ryou's been saying it, and Yami's been saying it. Why do all of you guys keep saying that?"
"Because it's true and you're the only that doesn't see it," Isis explained.
"Isis if I loved Yami I'd have to feel for him like no one else does, I'd have to see him like no one else does, I'd have to care about him like no one else does..." Tea drifted away after that.
Tea just stood there, shaking.
"Tea? Are you all right?"
Tea wouldn't say a word.
'What if I am...? What if I do...?'
"Tea, I believe it's time you look into your past with Yami, here in ancient Egypt."
Then Isis used the powers of her Millenium Necklace and a bright light was shown in front of Tea.
It got so bright that Tea had to close her eyes.
When Tea opened her eyes again she stood in the air, watching memories with her and Yami in them.
*** "Anzu! You're all right! Oh thank Ra! I was so worried that something terrible was going to happen to you if you didn't wake up." ***
*** "I know because. Okay, this may be hard to believe, but I'm from the future." ***
*** "I'm sorry that you have to go through with this, Tea. It wasn't right that you pulled away from the people that you love. I wish that I could help you, but I have no knowledge of how to transport people into the past or the future. Though, I truly wish that I could.... for you." ***
*** "I can't kiss you... I don't even know you... Okay, yes I do, b-but that's another story." ***
*** "I saw enough to know that I mean nothing to you!" ***
*** "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!" ***
*** "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." ***
*** "Tea, I love you. I see that now and I want you to stay with me. Please stay with me."
*** "You know what Yami? Forget get we ever had this conversation. No, how about instead we just forget we were ever friends. I'm sure that's what you want!"
*** "I'm so sorry Yami! I never took you seriously with how you felt! I never understood that you would be so hurt for what Ryou did the other night or how when I kissed him on the cheek you would get all upset about it or about any of those other things. And... And I'm... I'm so sorry Yami. I promise to you that I never truly meant to hurt you! Please forgive me! Please!" ***
*** "I promise to you that I'll never forget about you Tea. I know I won't because you're in my heart now and.. because I love you so much and I..." ***
*** "Tea...Please don't go...Please don't leave me... I need you..." ***
*** "I guess that I must admit that my feelings for Yami have become quite strong, but I don't think strong enough yet to hold me back from going home." ***
*** "Tea, look at me. This is reality. You ARE here, I love you, and I know that you love me too. You can't hide your feelings from me and it will destroy you sooner or later if you keep on denying it. You can't cover up how you feel about me with pointless facts that we live in different time frames or that we live in different countries. You need to listen to your heart Tea! You must listen to your heart! What does your heart tell you?" ***
*Flashbacks are over* (Unfortunately, but they are good ones, don't you think? ^_~)
Tea opened her eyes and saw Isis standing next to her, like before.
"Do you see the truth now Tea?" Isis asked.
Tears welled up in Tea's eyes again.
"Oh Isis! What have I done? I've turned Yami away so many times and he continues to come back for me, trying to make me see that we love each other. Now I've have probably pushed him to the edge and he won't believe me when I finally admit that he was right all this time!"
"So does this mean..." Isis drifted.
"Yes, I love Yami. I love him too... and now I know it for sure!" she said softly.
"Then I believe you know what you must do in order to make things right between you and Yami. Am I right?"
"Yes, I do. Thank you for helping me out Isis. I would have never figured out the truth if I hadn't actually seen the truth before my eyes. I promise to make things right between Yami and me from now on. I'm going to go tell him the truth no matter what happens in the future," then Tea gave her hug and left the Temple of Ra for Yami.
After Tea left the Temple of Ra Isis said something to herself.
'The time for Tea to leave Egypt is nearing. I can feel it.'
*** YES!!!! Tea admits that she DOES love Yami. Maybe not to Yami, but she does admit it to Isis so at least it's a start. Wasn't it great to go back and see all of those memories Yami and Tea had together? It was just the thing Tea needed to figure out the truth and believe me, she's been waiting LONG enough to find out. Anyway, thanks for reading reviewers and please tell me what you think. See you all in the next chapter! ^_^
'Not Really You'
*** Chapter eleven is up! I hope you enjoy it! Thanks for reading! ^_^
Chapter eleven: Memories can lead to the truth
****Tea's Point of View****
I ran away from Anzu's room and Yami that night.
I ran from the palace.
I didn't know what to do anymore.
If I stayed there any longer Yami would have done something like try to kiss me again and then making me feel worse for being there.
At this point I no longer wanted to be in ancient Egypt.
Being here had finally driven me crazy now.
I kind of knew it would eventually and now I have.
I mean, it's like one minute Yami gets all worked up that I'm back from the Shadow Realm and in the next Yami's trying to make me see that I love him.
Though, I know in my heart that I can't do that.
No matter how much he means to me... I just couldn't do it.
Isis said to me that I needed to overcome one particular fear and then I would be able to go home, but it's so much harder than she described to be.
I don't even know where I should start.
How will I ever find it?
The gods put an impossible task for me to do here in Egypt and I'm probably the only one in this world that knows it.
Oh how I wish I was home...
****End of Tea's Point of View****
****Yami's Point of View****
What have I done?
Now Tea probably won't even speak to me again after this.
I guess I shouldn't have done that to her.
Though... I know that I'm right.
I mean, Tea told me that she was sorry that she was getting so close to Ryou and she almost let me kiss her the another day.
Actually, she probably would have let me kiss her, if only Bakura hadn't come back.
But maybe I'm wrong.
Maybe Tea doesn't love me like I thought she did.
So what do I do now?
Should I give up what I feel so strongly about?
Or should I just be a good friend to Tea and help her get home?
Home...
I do forget that this isn't her home.
It's Anzu's home.
I miss Anzu so much, but I don't want Tea to go.
I love her... and I always will.
I just wish that she felt the same about me.
****End of Yami's Point of View****
Tea decided that the only place she could go for now was the Temple of Ra.
'I hope someone is still awake,' she said to herself.
She walked in to find it pretty quiet.
Not that she was surprised.
It was the middle of the night and everyone was supposed to be sleeping.
'At least this time I'm not being attacked by anything.'
Tea soon found herself in a room with many candles and an altar at the top of a bunch of stone steps.
At the altar she found scriptures of a text of writing that she was unaware of.
'I wonder what this all says. Maybe someone could tell me-," Tea's thoughts were cut off from a very familiar voice that she had heard before.
"Who's out here?" the voice said.
'I better go with my cover up name just in case it isn't Isis,' Tea told herself as she walked away from the altar.
"It's me, Anzu Mazaki, from the pharaoh's palace," she responded.
"Mazaki? What the heck are you doing here at this time of night?" said the voice.
Then Tea finally figured out who the familiar voice was.
"Seto! Is that you?" she asked.
"That's High Priest Seto to you, Mazaki!" he stated to her once he came out of the shadows.
'It is Kaiba! Ishizu was right! Kaiba does come from ancient Egypt also.'
His outfit looked like the one on the stone tablet that she and Yami saw in the future.
"Now I'll ask you again. What are doing here at this time of night?" Seto asked, while his patients were growing very thin. (Big surprise! Not!)
"I couldn't sleep all right!" she lied.
"I'd find that hard to believe."
"Why?"
"Because I can tell that you're lying Mazaki!"
"Why don't you call me by my first name for once Seto? I mean, it's not that hard. It wouldn't kill you to do that every once and while."
"It isn't your decision for what I call you, Mazaki. You forget that I'm in a higher rank then you are so you should keep your mouth shut and talk only when I allow you to."
Tea rolled her eyes at him.
'Yami was right... This guy is no different here then he is at home.'
"Now I will ask you one more time... What are you doing here? Oh, and this time, why don't you actually tell me the truth?"
Tea stared hard at him.
"Fine! I'll tell you! I had a disagreement with Yami so I left the palace, ok?"
Seto laughed after she said this.
"What's so funny?"
"I'm glad that you finally came to your senses Mazaki. I knew it was only a matter of time before you got sick of the pharaoh."
"What are you talking about?"
"What I mean is I'm glad that you finally forget about that washed up pharaoh of yours. I was surprised to see that you stayed around the pharaoh for so long. I also don't see why you and all of your pathetic friends actually like the pharaoh. All he ever cares about is showing off and himself."
Tea was starting to get angry.
"That's not true Seto! He's not like any of those things. Yami has a heart of gold and really cares about me and the others!"
"Oh yeah? Well if he cares about you SO much then why has he been disagreeing with you and why are you here?"
"I..." Tea was speechless.
"That's what I thought. Yeah, he really seems to care about you. Always disagreeing with what you feel, always saying that he's right, and always forcing you to believe things that you don't think are right. Yeah Mazaki, you keep thinking that he's a great friend."
"How do you know about all of that?"
"I'm not stupid Anzu! You honestly think I don't know what that pharaoh thinks like? He's not THAT hard to figure out."
"Just stop it Seto! You're making things worse for me!"
"Good. Maybe now you can think about how great a friend Yami really is while you're here. Maybe you'll see that he isn't as great as you thought he was. Though, while you're doing that I'm going to bed like normal people do when it's late out. See you around."
Then Seto walked off for bed.
'What if Seto is right? Maybe Yami isn't as great of friend as I thought he was. I mean, he tried so hard to make me see that he was right and I was wrong. Maybe I should just find my will home without his help.'
"I just don't know what to do anymore," she said out loud.
"Tea? Is that you?" Isis called out.
"Isis, what are you doing up?" Tea asked when Isis walked into the room.
"I would have to ask you the same thing."
"I came here because I've been having some trouble at the palace."
"I thought you would. My Millenium Necklace told me that you would have troubles with Yami while you tried to figure out a way home."
"It's just that he's making this so much harder then it has to be."
"Is he?"
"Yes... So that's why I came here tonight. To get away from him."
"Tea, you must understand that Yami is trying his hardest to help you get home while having the feelings for you not to leave."
"And that's exactly why I'm not going back there again."
"You need to think clearly. I know that in your heart that's truly not what you want. I know that you want to say good-bye to Yami before you leave Egypt and it's only a matter of time before you go back to Japan. You need to work things out with Yami before it's too late and you miss the chance to make things right between you two."
"No! I've made up my mind and I'm not going back there Isis."
"Why not?"
"Because I can't love him! Don't you see that if I fall in love with him I won't want to leave or he won't let me leave?"
Then Tea turned around and cried.
Isis put a hand on her shoulder and said, "But you do love him, don't you?"
"What?"
"You say that you can't love Yami, but the fact of the matter is that you do love him. I know that you do."
Tea turned back around to face Isis.
"Why does everyone keep saying that? I mean, you've been saying it, Ryou's been saying it, and Yami's been saying it. Why do all of you guys keep saying that?"
"Because it's true and you're the only that doesn't see it," Isis explained.
"Isis if I loved Yami I'd have to feel for him like no one else does, I'd have to see him like no one else does, I'd have to care about him like no one else does..." Tea drifted away after that.
Tea just stood there, shaking.
"Tea? Are you all right?"
Tea wouldn't say a word.
'What if I am...? What if I do...?'
"Tea, I believe it's time you look into your past with Yami, here in ancient Egypt."
Then Isis used the powers of her Millenium Necklace and a bright light was shown in front of Tea.
It got so bright that Tea had to close her eyes.
When Tea opened her eyes again she stood in the air, watching memories with her and Yami in them.
*** "Anzu! You're all right! Oh thank Ra! I was so worried that something terrible was going to happen to you if you didn't wake up." ***
*** "I know because. Okay, this may be hard to believe, but I'm from the future." ***
*** "I'm sorry that you have to go through with this, Tea. It wasn't right that you pulled away from the people that you love. I wish that I could help you, but I have no knowledge of how to transport people into the past or the future. Though, I truly wish that I could.... for you." ***
*** "I can't kiss you... I don't even know you... Okay, yes I do, b-but that's another story." ***
*** "I saw enough to know that I mean nothing to you!" ***
*** "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!" ***
*** "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." ***
*** "Tea, I love you. I see that now and I want you to stay with me. Please stay with me."
*** "You know what Yami? Forget get we ever had this conversation. No, how about instead we just forget we were ever friends. I'm sure that's what you want!"
*** "I'm so sorry Yami! I never took you seriously with how you felt! I never understood that you would be so hurt for what Ryou did the other night or how when I kissed him on the cheek you would get all upset about it or about any of those other things. And... And I'm... I'm so sorry Yami. I promise to you that I never truly meant to hurt you! Please forgive me! Please!" ***
*** "I promise to you that I'll never forget about you Tea. I know I won't because you're in my heart now and.. because I love you so much and I..." ***
*** "Tea...Please don't go...Please don't leave me... I need you..." ***
*** "I guess that I must admit that my feelings for Yami have become quite strong, but I don't think strong enough yet to hold me back from going home." ***
*** "Tea, look at me. This is reality. You ARE here, I love you, and I know that you love me too. You can't hide your feelings from me and it will destroy you sooner or later if you keep on denying it. You can't cover up how you feel about me with pointless facts that we live in different time frames or that we live in different countries. You need to listen to your heart Tea! You must listen to your heart! What does your heart tell you?" ***
*Flashbacks are over* (Unfortunately, but they are good ones, don't you think? ^_~)
Tea opened her eyes and saw Isis standing next to her, like before.
"Do you see the truth now Tea?" Isis asked.
Tears welled up in Tea's eyes again.
"Oh Isis! What have I done? I've turned Yami away so many times and he continues to come back for me, trying to make me see that we love each other. Now I've have probably pushed him to the edge and he won't believe me when I finally admit that he was right all this time!"
"So does this mean..." Isis drifted.
"Yes, I love Yami. I love him too... and now I know it for sure!" she said softly.
"Then I believe you know what you must do in order to make things right between you and Yami. Am I right?"
"Yes, I do. Thank you for helping me out Isis. I would have never figured out the truth if I hadn't actually seen the truth before my eyes. I promise to make things right between Yami and me from now on. I'm going to go tell him the truth no matter what happens in the future," then Tea gave her hug and left the Temple of Ra for Yami.
After Tea left the Temple of Ra Isis said something to herself.
'The time for Tea to leave Egypt is nearing. I can feel it.'
*** YES!!!! Tea admits that she DOES love Yami. Maybe not to Yami, but she does admit it to Isis so at least it's a start. Wasn't it great to go back and see all of those memories Yami and Tea had together? It was just the thing Tea needed to figure out the truth and believe me, she's been waiting LONG enough to find out. Anyway, thanks for reading reviewers and please tell me what you think. See you all in the next chapter! ^_^