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'Not Really You'
~*~ Hi! I'm back with chapter 14. This is the chapter where Tea decides if she wants to go back to the future or not. Let's see what she decides...
WARNING!!! You may need a tissue by the end of this chapter. This is a very emotional chapter.
Chapter fourteen: Don't want to say goodbye
"What?!" Tea yelled out to Shadi.
"It is true Tea. Your time to leave the past has come," Shadi told her.
"You're joking me, right? I mean, I couldn't just leave like this...I can't just leave now. You must be joking. Please tell me you're joking, Shadi."
"I do not lie Tea. I am telling you the truth."
"How...? I haven't even tried facing a fear yet. So how can I go home right now?"
"Ah, but you have..."
"She has?" Yami asked.
"I have? What fear have I overcome?"
"Tea, do you remember back in the future when you told herself that you didn't want anyone to know that you liked Yami as more than just a friend?" (Its in chapter one)
Tea blushed after Shadi said this.
"Yes....I suppose I remember saying something like that to myself before I left the future..." Tea said while having the feeling that Yami was looking directly at her and was indeed correct with her feelings.
As she looked over to Yami, she saw that he was staring her.
Making her feel completely nervous.
"I'm glad that you remember that because that's the key source of the fear you needed to overcome," Shadi continued to explain to her what was happening.
"I'm not exactly understanding what you're telling me. Could you explain to me exactly what I overcame to get the chance to go back home?"
"You overcame your fear of telling Yami how you truly feel about him. That was what the gods wanted you to accomplish. Not to be afraid to express your feelings to someone you love."
"So that's it. You're just going to send Tea home after everything we've gone through?" Yami asked with building up frustration.
Shadi looked at his pharaoh and smiled.
"Not to worry my pharaoh. The process is not over yet. There is still time for Tea to chose."
"What process? Still time for me to chose what?" Tea asked.
"None of this is making sense Shadi. Tell us more about what's going on," Yami demanded.
"It is really quite simple my pharaoh. Tea was brought here by the power of gods, as you Isis informed the both of you. Now when Tea was brought here she was to learn the lesson of never doubting love and now is her time to return home as Isis promised to her all those days ago."
"The gods brought me here to fall in love with Yami and then have the only way for me to get home by forgetting about him?" she asked while starting to get angry as well.
"That you must learn on your own..." was all Shadi would tell her.
"But Shadi...The gods can't just tear Yami and I apart like this," she told him.
"Not after everything we've gone through together. We love each other and we don't want to lose each other like this," Yami told Shadi as well.
Yami walked over to Tea wrapped her in a tight hug.
"They can't do this to us Yami...They just can't..." Tea said sadly while holding on to him.
"More is about to reveal itself my friends, but first in order to do that we must be with everyone..." Shadi told the both of them.
Then another bright light was shown in front of them.
The next time Tea and Yami opened their eyes they were in the throne room.
"We're in the throne room? Why?" Tea asked as let go of Yami.
"We're not the only ones in the throne room Tea," Yami said while pointing at all of their friends.
Also inside the throne room was Yugi, Ryou, Jou, Honda, Mai, and Shizuka.
"What's goin' on here?" Jou asked with a sleepy look on his face.
"Yeah! What's going on? Who brought us here anyway?" Mai demanded.
"I did," Shadi told them.
"Shadi? What are you going here?" Yugi asked his friend as he ran over to him.
Shadi immediately looked to Yugi.
"You have learned much of Tea's current situation from Yami my young friend, is that not correct?" Shadi said to him.
"Yes, I have. Though, not to be rude or anything Shadi, but what do you have to do with it?"
"I am the one that's suppose to send Tea home."
"What?!" Yugi and the others called out.
"You mean Tea's faced her fear already?" Yugi wondered.
"Yes, she has Yugi. You wouldn't believe what it is," Yami told him in a very bored voice.
"Huh?"
"What's the point to all of this anyway Shadi? Why is everyone here with us?" Tea asked him.
"Yeah, we were trying to sleep," Honda yawned out loud.
Though, Ryou had to disagree.
Ryou slapped him (lightly) on the head then said, "That's not what's important right now Honda. The fact is Tea's gotten the chance to go home now and we're all invited to say goodbye and see her leave. Is that not correct, Shadi?"
"You are indeed correct Ryou. You seem to know a lot about the situation also. Is that true?"
"Yes, he does. I was the one that filled Ryou in on it when we were stuck in the Shadow Realm together," Tea explained.
Shadi just nodded.
"So you're not making this up, Shadi? You're just going send Tea off to the future right when she was just finally accepting this place?" Yami asked again.
Shadi looked at Yami.
'I sense that the pharaoh really does care about this girl. Even more than I thought he would. Isis told me that the pharaoh's feelings for this girl were strong, but never have I felt such love for a person before. We will just have to see what Tea decides for herself...' Shadi thought to himself.
"The choice is up to Tea, my pharaoh..." then Shadi looked to her.
"The choice is for you alone Tea, but think wisely. Because once you make a choice you can't go back on your word. You have the choice to either stay here, in the past, with all of your new friends or go back to the place where you lived in the future. You can go back to Japan, but remember, if you do you can never come back here. Or if you decide to live here, you can never go back to Japan and return to the life you once had...."
Tea started to get her nervous feeling again.
'I don't know if I can do this! Decide to live the past, 5,000 years from my time with new friends I've made or go back to where all of old my friends and family were in the future. I don't know what to do anymore...'
"Tea..." Yami heard him say from behind.
"Yes Yami..." she said very nervously back to him.
"What are you thinking?" he asked.
"I don't know what I'm thinking Yami. I'm so confused. I mean, when I first came here I thought that it was worse day of my life. But then...I got to know each and everyone of you. I saw that all of you guys have the spirits of my friends back home and that's what kept me going around here and if you guys weren't here I don't know what I would have done. You all mean so much to me know and I don't know what I would have done without all of you here if I had never gotten the chance to back home to Japan," Tea finished with tears in her eyes.
"Oh Tea!" Mai and Shizuka said as they came over to Tea.
"Now you listen to us Tea," Mai told her.
"No matter what happens you will always be our friend. Whether you return to your home or not you will always be in our hearts now. We promise," Shizuka told her.
"That's right Tea. We'll always remember you," Jou agreed.
"Do you know how we'll always remember you?" Ryou asked her.
Tea shook her head.
"Because just as how you see us in your friends we'll see you in Anzu," Yugi told her.
"Oh, you mean it you guys!" Tea asked them.
"Totally!" Honda said.
"Thanks you guys. You're the best!" Tea said then they joined together for a group hug.
All except for Yami.
He just stood there as his friends told Tea that they would always remember her if she left.
Though, he wasn't like the others.
Yami DID care if she went back to the future.
He didn't want to see the girl he loved go like this.
Not after everything...
"So this is it Tea. You're just going to leave me after what's just happened between us?" Yami said in the middle of their group hug.
Everyone stopped and looked to Tea as she looked directly at Yami.
She slowly walked over to Yami, quietly.
Once Tea stopped in front of him while he place a hand on her face and another on her waist.
"Please Tea...Don't go...You can't go after what just happened. I mean, I love you..." he ended his sentence in a whisper.
Tea sighed before replying back to him.
"This was exactly what I was fearing before I knew that I loved you Yami. I knew that you would do this once I was able to go home."
"But Tea...you can't leave me..."
Tears started to trickle down his face.
"Yami, I don't know what to say to that. I mean, we both knew that this day would eventually come and now it has."
"Tea, you have the chance to stay here forever... Can't you see that? Don't you want to be with me?"
"Of course I want to be with you Yami, but think about Anzu. This is her world. Not mine," she told him.
"But it can be. This can be your world. You can stay here and be with me and everyone else. You can live in Egypt and live a life you never thought possible."
A tear started to slide down Tea's face as he was saying this.
"No...I can't...I can't stay here. It...It wouldn't be right."
"Who cares about the right thing, Tea? I want you to stay with me, please!"
Tea looked at him.
"Yami, listen to yourself. 'Who cares about the right thing?' This isn't the Yami I knew when I first met him. He wouldn't let his guard down for anything. He wouldn't do anything without first considering others people's feelings. And...he wouldn't make the wrong choice. You need to think about our friends. I know that even though they all really care about me...they really want their friend Anzu back and I know that deep down inside...so do you."
"But I don't want to lose you..." Yami said while more tears came down his face.
"You never will Yami. I'll always be with you..."
"How? Where?" he asked.
"In here..." then she placed one of his hands onto his heart.
"I'll always be in your heart and you'll always be in mine."
Then Yami started to calm down.
Yami closed his eyes and then suddenly someone started speaking to him, in his mind.
'Tea speaks the truth Pharaoh Yami. You need to understand that,' Yami recognized that to be the voice of Isis.
'I understand, but why does she have to leave Isis?'
'Yami, you and I both know that this is not where Tea truly belongs. She belongs back in the future with her friends and family. That she where her heart wants to be.'
'But I thought that she loved me... What happened? Did Shadi do something to change her mind?'
'He did not do anything my pharaoh. He was just brought there to do what the gods foretold and what Tea wants. To send her back to where she belongs. This is what Tea has wanted from the beginning, remember?'
'How does she know that that's what she wants?'
'She just does... My pharaoh, I know that this is hard on you, but you must think of her and what she wants. If you truly love Tea you will let her listen to her heart and follow it. You must let her go in order to make her happy.'
Yami said nothing after that.
He just stood there, motionless, thinking about what Isis told him.
'What if Isis is right? What if the only way to make Tea happy now is by letting go home...' Yami said to himself.
'You know what the right thing to do is my pharaoh. Now prove it to the girl the girl you love. I wish you the best of luck...'
'I will do the right thing Isis. Thank you for telling me and goodbye...'
Then with that said Yami opened his eyes.
Yami sighed and said, "You will always be in my heart too Tea and I want you to know that I'm going to miss you when you leave."
Tea smiled at him and gave him a big hug.
"Thank you for understanding Yami. Thank you so much. I promise that I'll never forget you. Never..."
"Thank you Tea. I promise that I won't ever forget you either. Like I said before, in my eyes you and Anzu are exactly the same," he said as he lifted her chin to met his eyes.
Tea let go of him a minute later and said, "So are you and the Yami from time too and every time I see him I'll think of you also. Always remembering that I've met the Yami my future and my past."
"I'm glad."
Shadi smiled to see that things worked out between Yami and Tea and was ready to ask, "Are you ready to go back home Tea?"
Tea looked to him and said, "I'm ready when you are."
"Good," was all he said.
"So...I guess this means goodbye Tea," Yugi said as he and rest of gang walked over to her and Yami.
"Yeah, I guess it does...Oh, I'm going to miss you guys so much! Are you sure you can't come with me?"
"We're sure!" they all said.
Then everyone laughed.
"Okay then...well, I guess we better say goodbye..."
Mai and Shizuka rushed right over first. (Big surprise!)
"Now remember not to forget us when you go back there and remember to do some girl talks with your other girl friends when you back in the future, all right hon?" Mai asked as she gave Tea a hug.
"I promise not to forget that Mai."
"And promise to always think of us when your looking at your friends," Shizuka said as she gave Tea the next hug.
"I definitely won't forget that Shizuka."
"I want you to always remember that you have a past and memory with us in your lives Tea. I'm really going to miss, but I want you to be happy," Ryou said.
"I'm going to miss you so much Ryou, but don't worry. I am happy. Thank you for all of your help while I've been here," then she gave him a hug and a kiss on the cheek.
"Just being a good friend," he said back to her as he blushed.
"A uh, don't forget about us either, all right?" Jou told her.
"That's right. You can't forget about us," Honda agreed to his best friend.
"Believe me Jou and Honda. You guys are definitely not going to be easily forgotten. In any case I won't be able to forget you guys anytime soon."
"Good to hear it," Jou smiled.
"And remember Tea, you should never be afraid to admit the truth to someone. No matter how much it seems unbearable to tell," Yugi told her next.
"I'll never forget it Yugi. Thank you for teaching me that," she said softly as she bent down to give him a hug as well.
"Your welcome Tea."
Then Tea looked to Yami.
Yami walked towards her this time.
"Tell me something Yami. Why is it that usually the last person you say goodbye to seems to hurt the most?"
"Because it's the one person you care about the most," he told her.
"I'm really going to miss you Yami. As I've told you countless times I don't know what I'd do without if you weren't here to help me through all of this."
"I don't know, but what I do know is that I'm going to never forget you...Tea Gardner," he said as tears started to come out again.
"And I'll never forget to you either Pharaoh Yami," she said back as tears were running down her cheeks.
Then they hugged each other again.
"Please...Please tell me again that you'll never forget me," Tea begged.
"I promise to you by the power of Ra that will never forget to you Tea."
"Oh, I'm going to miss you so much Yami! I don't know what I'm going to do without you in the future."
"Just remember that every time you see the face of the Yami from your time you will think of me."
"I will. I know that I will. Just as long as you do the same when you think of Anzu."
"It's a deal."
Then they let go of each other and stared into each other's eyes.
"Thank you for letting me be apart of your life Tea. I'll never forget my memories with you."
"I won't either."
"The time has come Tea. You must leave now," Shadi told her.
"All right. I'm coming," Tea said as she walked towards him with Yami by her side, holding her hand tightly.
Then Shadi used the power of his Millenium Key to show a large door with shining light in front of them.
"You may enter now Tea. The portal door will send you back to the future. I promise you that. I wish you the best of luck and I hope you will be happy where you are going, " Shadi told her then backed away to her leave.
"Thank you Shadi," Tea said and looked back at Yami.
"Well, there's no turning back now. I'm finally going back home."
"Are you sure that this is what you want?" Yami asked her.
"Yami!" everyone said.
"All right! All right! I get the picture. She wants to go home," he said then looked at the door that was to send Tea home.
Then looked back at her.
"I'll never forget you Yami. I promise you that."
Yami just stared at her.
She knew what he was thinking.
He still didn't want her to go.
"Yami...I need to leave. I need to return to my home. It's where I belong. It's where I need to be."
Yami touched her cheek softly again.
"Please Yami...Not again. This gets me every time and you know it-," she said, but couldn't finish her sentence because Yami pulled her into a kiss.
Tea placed her hands gently on his face and kissed him back.
They kiss for minute and then Tea broke it.
Yami stared breathlessly at Tea, but never letting her go.
"I love you Tea. No matter where you go or how far you travel I will always love you."
Tea gave him another hug then said, "I promise I won't either. No matter how many years I fly by into the future for me it will never stop me from loving you. I'll never forget you..."
"Neither will I..."
They stared at each other again.
Tea nodded her head and swallowed hard.
"I need to go Yami. I need to leave," she said as she walked up to the portal door.
Yami then walked up with Tea again and wrapped an arm around her waist and kissed her one last time.
"I love you," he breathlessly said once he broke the kiss.
"I love you too," Tea said.
Then Tea looked at the portal door.
"I'm going now," she told him.
"Please...never forget me..." he said.
"I'll never forget you Pharaoh Yami. You will always be in my heart..." then Yami slowly go of Tea's hand, as she wanted.
"Goodbye..." she said one last time.
"Goodbye...my love..." Yami said as she was leaving and cried when left through the door to the future.
~*~ That's all for chapter 14. *tear* That had to be not only one of the saddest thing if I've ever written, but one of the saddest chapter I've ever read. I seriously cried through like all of the ending of the chapter. I couldn't believe myself, but it was so sad I thought.
Please understand reviewers that this was way the story had to go. There is one more chapter left. In the last chapter Tea will return to the future and....I can't spoil it for ya, but it should be good and remember I also have one more thing in store for all of you reviewers. I'll tell you at the end of the next chapter, but I'll talk you all this much. It's going to make you all VERY happy. Hehehehehe. Talk to you all soon! Thanks and please review!
'Not Really You'
~*~ Hi! I'm back with chapter 14. This is the chapter where Tea decides if she wants to go back to the future or not. Let's see what she decides...
WARNING!!! You may need a tissue by the end of this chapter. This is a very emotional chapter.
Chapter fourteen: Don't want to say goodbye
"What?!" Tea yelled out to Shadi.
"It is true Tea. Your time to leave the past has come," Shadi told her.
"You're joking me, right? I mean, I couldn't just leave like this...I can't just leave now. You must be joking. Please tell me you're joking, Shadi."
"I do not lie Tea. I am telling you the truth."
"How...? I haven't even tried facing a fear yet. So how can I go home right now?"
"Ah, but you have..."
"She has?" Yami asked.
"I have? What fear have I overcome?"
"Tea, do you remember back in the future when you told herself that you didn't want anyone to know that you liked Yami as more than just a friend?" (Its in chapter one)
Tea blushed after Shadi said this.
"Yes....I suppose I remember saying something like that to myself before I left the future..." Tea said while having the feeling that Yami was looking directly at her and was indeed correct with her feelings.
As she looked over to Yami, she saw that he was staring her.
Making her feel completely nervous.
"I'm glad that you remember that because that's the key source of the fear you needed to overcome," Shadi continued to explain to her what was happening.
"I'm not exactly understanding what you're telling me. Could you explain to me exactly what I overcame to get the chance to go back home?"
"You overcame your fear of telling Yami how you truly feel about him. That was what the gods wanted you to accomplish. Not to be afraid to express your feelings to someone you love."
"So that's it. You're just going to send Tea home after everything we've gone through?" Yami asked with building up frustration.
Shadi looked at his pharaoh and smiled.
"Not to worry my pharaoh. The process is not over yet. There is still time for Tea to chose."
"What process? Still time for me to chose what?" Tea asked.
"None of this is making sense Shadi. Tell us more about what's going on," Yami demanded.
"It is really quite simple my pharaoh. Tea was brought here by the power of gods, as you Isis informed the both of you. Now when Tea was brought here she was to learn the lesson of never doubting love and now is her time to return home as Isis promised to her all those days ago."
"The gods brought me here to fall in love with Yami and then have the only way for me to get home by forgetting about him?" she asked while starting to get angry as well.
"That you must learn on your own..." was all Shadi would tell her.
"But Shadi...The gods can't just tear Yami and I apart like this," she told him.
"Not after everything we've gone through together. We love each other and we don't want to lose each other like this," Yami told Shadi as well.
Yami walked over to Tea wrapped her in a tight hug.
"They can't do this to us Yami...They just can't..." Tea said sadly while holding on to him.
"More is about to reveal itself my friends, but first in order to do that we must be with everyone..." Shadi told the both of them.
Then another bright light was shown in front of them.
The next time Tea and Yami opened their eyes they were in the throne room.
"We're in the throne room? Why?" Tea asked as let go of Yami.
"We're not the only ones in the throne room Tea," Yami said while pointing at all of their friends.
Also inside the throne room was Yugi, Ryou, Jou, Honda, Mai, and Shizuka.
"What's goin' on here?" Jou asked with a sleepy look on his face.
"Yeah! What's going on? Who brought us here anyway?" Mai demanded.
"I did," Shadi told them.
"Shadi? What are you going here?" Yugi asked his friend as he ran over to him.
Shadi immediately looked to Yugi.
"You have learned much of Tea's current situation from Yami my young friend, is that not correct?" Shadi said to him.
"Yes, I have. Though, not to be rude or anything Shadi, but what do you have to do with it?"
"I am the one that's suppose to send Tea home."
"What?!" Yugi and the others called out.
"You mean Tea's faced her fear already?" Yugi wondered.
"Yes, she has Yugi. You wouldn't believe what it is," Yami told him in a very bored voice.
"Huh?"
"What's the point to all of this anyway Shadi? Why is everyone here with us?" Tea asked him.
"Yeah, we were trying to sleep," Honda yawned out loud.
Though, Ryou had to disagree.
Ryou slapped him (lightly) on the head then said, "That's not what's important right now Honda. The fact is Tea's gotten the chance to go home now and we're all invited to say goodbye and see her leave. Is that not correct, Shadi?"
"You are indeed correct Ryou. You seem to know a lot about the situation also. Is that true?"
"Yes, he does. I was the one that filled Ryou in on it when we were stuck in the Shadow Realm together," Tea explained.
Shadi just nodded.
"So you're not making this up, Shadi? You're just going send Tea off to the future right when she was just finally accepting this place?" Yami asked again.
Shadi looked at Yami.
'I sense that the pharaoh really does care about this girl. Even more than I thought he would. Isis told me that the pharaoh's feelings for this girl were strong, but never have I felt such love for a person before. We will just have to see what Tea decides for herself...' Shadi thought to himself.
"The choice is up to Tea, my pharaoh..." then Shadi looked to her.
"The choice is for you alone Tea, but think wisely. Because once you make a choice you can't go back on your word. You have the choice to either stay here, in the past, with all of your new friends or go back to the place where you lived in the future. You can go back to Japan, but remember, if you do you can never come back here. Or if you decide to live here, you can never go back to Japan and return to the life you once had...."
Tea started to get her nervous feeling again.
'I don't know if I can do this! Decide to live the past, 5,000 years from my time with new friends I've made or go back to where all of old my friends and family were in the future. I don't know what to do anymore...'
"Tea..." Yami heard him say from behind.
"Yes Yami..." she said very nervously back to him.
"What are you thinking?" he asked.
"I don't know what I'm thinking Yami. I'm so confused. I mean, when I first came here I thought that it was worse day of my life. But then...I got to know each and everyone of you. I saw that all of you guys have the spirits of my friends back home and that's what kept me going around here and if you guys weren't here I don't know what I would have done. You all mean so much to me know and I don't know what I would have done without all of you here if I had never gotten the chance to back home to Japan," Tea finished with tears in her eyes.
"Oh Tea!" Mai and Shizuka said as they came over to Tea.
"Now you listen to us Tea," Mai told her.
"No matter what happens you will always be our friend. Whether you return to your home or not you will always be in our hearts now. We promise," Shizuka told her.
"That's right Tea. We'll always remember you," Jou agreed.
"Do you know how we'll always remember you?" Ryou asked her.
Tea shook her head.
"Because just as how you see us in your friends we'll see you in Anzu," Yugi told her.
"Oh, you mean it you guys!" Tea asked them.
"Totally!" Honda said.
"Thanks you guys. You're the best!" Tea said then they joined together for a group hug.
All except for Yami.
He just stood there as his friends told Tea that they would always remember her if she left.
Though, he wasn't like the others.
Yami DID care if she went back to the future.
He didn't want to see the girl he loved go like this.
Not after everything...
"So this is it Tea. You're just going to leave me after what's just happened between us?" Yami said in the middle of their group hug.
Everyone stopped and looked to Tea as she looked directly at Yami.
She slowly walked over to Yami, quietly.
Once Tea stopped in front of him while he place a hand on her face and another on her waist.
"Please Tea...Don't go...You can't go after what just happened. I mean, I love you..." he ended his sentence in a whisper.
Tea sighed before replying back to him.
"This was exactly what I was fearing before I knew that I loved you Yami. I knew that you would do this once I was able to go home."
"But Tea...you can't leave me..."
Tears started to trickle down his face.
"Yami, I don't know what to say to that. I mean, we both knew that this day would eventually come and now it has."
"Tea, you have the chance to stay here forever... Can't you see that? Don't you want to be with me?"
"Of course I want to be with you Yami, but think about Anzu. This is her world. Not mine," she told him.
"But it can be. This can be your world. You can stay here and be with me and everyone else. You can live in Egypt and live a life you never thought possible."
A tear started to slide down Tea's face as he was saying this.
"No...I can't...I can't stay here. It...It wouldn't be right."
"Who cares about the right thing, Tea? I want you to stay with me, please!"
Tea looked at him.
"Yami, listen to yourself. 'Who cares about the right thing?' This isn't the Yami I knew when I first met him. He wouldn't let his guard down for anything. He wouldn't do anything without first considering others people's feelings. And...he wouldn't make the wrong choice. You need to think about our friends. I know that even though they all really care about me...they really want their friend Anzu back and I know that deep down inside...so do you."
"But I don't want to lose you..." Yami said while more tears came down his face.
"You never will Yami. I'll always be with you..."
"How? Where?" he asked.
"In here..." then she placed one of his hands onto his heart.
"I'll always be in your heart and you'll always be in mine."
Then Yami started to calm down.
Yami closed his eyes and then suddenly someone started speaking to him, in his mind.
'Tea speaks the truth Pharaoh Yami. You need to understand that,' Yami recognized that to be the voice of Isis.
'I understand, but why does she have to leave Isis?'
'Yami, you and I both know that this is not where Tea truly belongs. She belongs back in the future with her friends and family. That she where her heart wants to be.'
'But I thought that she loved me... What happened? Did Shadi do something to change her mind?'
'He did not do anything my pharaoh. He was just brought there to do what the gods foretold and what Tea wants. To send her back to where she belongs. This is what Tea has wanted from the beginning, remember?'
'How does she know that that's what she wants?'
'She just does... My pharaoh, I know that this is hard on you, but you must think of her and what she wants. If you truly love Tea you will let her listen to her heart and follow it. You must let her go in order to make her happy.'
Yami said nothing after that.
He just stood there, motionless, thinking about what Isis told him.
'What if Isis is right? What if the only way to make Tea happy now is by letting go home...' Yami said to himself.
'You know what the right thing to do is my pharaoh. Now prove it to the girl the girl you love. I wish you the best of luck...'
'I will do the right thing Isis. Thank you for telling me and goodbye...'
Then with that said Yami opened his eyes.
Yami sighed and said, "You will always be in my heart too Tea and I want you to know that I'm going to miss you when you leave."
Tea smiled at him and gave him a big hug.
"Thank you for understanding Yami. Thank you so much. I promise that I'll never forget you. Never..."
"Thank you Tea. I promise that I won't ever forget you either. Like I said before, in my eyes you and Anzu are exactly the same," he said as he lifted her chin to met his eyes.
Tea let go of him a minute later and said, "So are you and the Yami from time too and every time I see him I'll think of you also. Always remembering that I've met the Yami my future and my past."
"I'm glad."
Shadi smiled to see that things worked out between Yami and Tea and was ready to ask, "Are you ready to go back home Tea?"
Tea looked to him and said, "I'm ready when you are."
"Good," was all he said.
"So...I guess this means goodbye Tea," Yugi said as he and rest of gang walked over to her and Yami.
"Yeah, I guess it does...Oh, I'm going to miss you guys so much! Are you sure you can't come with me?"
"We're sure!" they all said.
Then everyone laughed.
"Okay then...well, I guess we better say goodbye..."
Mai and Shizuka rushed right over first. (Big surprise!)
"Now remember not to forget us when you go back there and remember to do some girl talks with your other girl friends when you back in the future, all right hon?" Mai asked as she gave Tea a hug.
"I promise not to forget that Mai."
"And promise to always think of us when your looking at your friends," Shizuka said as she gave Tea the next hug.
"I definitely won't forget that Shizuka."
"I want you to always remember that you have a past and memory with us in your lives Tea. I'm really going to miss, but I want you to be happy," Ryou said.
"I'm going to miss you so much Ryou, but don't worry. I am happy. Thank you for all of your help while I've been here," then she gave him a hug and a kiss on the cheek.
"Just being a good friend," he said back to her as he blushed.
"A uh, don't forget about us either, all right?" Jou told her.
"That's right. You can't forget about us," Honda agreed to his best friend.
"Believe me Jou and Honda. You guys are definitely not going to be easily forgotten. In any case I won't be able to forget you guys anytime soon."
"Good to hear it," Jou smiled.
"And remember Tea, you should never be afraid to admit the truth to someone. No matter how much it seems unbearable to tell," Yugi told her next.
"I'll never forget it Yugi. Thank you for teaching me that," she said softly as she bent down to give him a hug as well.
"Your welcome Tea."
Then Tea looked to Yami.
Yami walked towards her this time.
"Tell me something Yami. Why is it that usually the last person you say goodbye to seems to hurt the most?"
"Because it's the one person you care about the most," he told her.
"I'm really going to miss you Yami. As I've told you countless times I don't know what I'd do without if you weren't here to help me through all of this."
"I don't know, but what I do know is that I'm going to never forget you...Tea Gardner," he said as tears started to come out again.
"And I'll never forget to you either Pharaoh Yami," she said back as tears were running down her cheeks.
Then they hugged each other again.
"Please...Please tell me again that you'll never forget me," Tea begged.
"I promise to you by the power of Ra that will never forget to you Tea."
"Oh, I'm going to miss you so much Yami! I don't know what I'm going to do without you in the future."
"Just remember that every time you see the face of the Yami from your time you will think of me."
"I will. I know that I will. Just as long as you do the same when you think of Anzu."
"It's a deal."
Then they let go of each other and stared into each other's eyes.
"Thank you for letting me be apart of your life Tea. I'll never forget my memories with you."
"I won't either."
"The time has come Tea. You must leave now," Shadi told her.
"All right. I'm coming," Tea said as she walked towards him with Yami by her side, holding her hand tightly.
Then Shadi used the power of his Millenium Key to show a large door with shining light in front of them.
"You may enter now Tea. The portal door will send you back to the future. I promise you that. I wish you the best of luck and I hope you will be happy where you are going, " Shadi told her then backed away to her leave.
"Thank you Shadi," Tea said and looked back at Yami.
"Well, there's no turning back now. I'm finally going back home."
"Are you sure that this is what you want?" Yami asked her.
"Yami!" everyone said.
"All right! All right! I get the picture. She wants to go home," he said then looked at the door that was to send Tea home.
Then looked back at her.
"I'll never forget you Yami. I promise you that."
Yami just stared at her.
She knew what he was thinking.
He still didn't want her to go.
"Yami...I need to leave. I need to return to my home. It's where I belong. It's where I need to be."
Yami touched her cheek softly again.
"Please Yami...Not again. This gets me every time and you know it-," she said, but couldn't finish her sentence because Yami pulled her into a kiss.
Tea placed her hands gently on his face and kissed him back.
They kiss for minute and then Tea broke it.
Yami stared breathlessly at Tea, but never letting her go.
"I love you Tea. No matter where you go or how far you travel I will always love you."
Tea gave him another hug then said, "I promise I won't either. No matter how many years I fly by into the future for me it will never stop me from loving you. I'll never forget you..."
"Neither will I..."
They stared at each other again.
Tea nodded her head and swallowed hard.
"I need to go Yami. I need to leave," she said as she walked up to the portal door.
Yami then walked up with Tea again and wrapped an arm around her waist and kissed her one last time.
"I love you," he breathlessly said once he broke the kiss.
"I love you too," Tea said.
Then Tea looked at the portal door.
"I'm going now," she told him.
"Please...never forget me..." he said.
"I'll never forget you Pharaoh Yami. You will always be in my heart..." then Yami slowly go of Tea's hand, as she wanted.
"Goodbye..." she said one last time.
"Goodbye...my love..." Yami said as she was leaving and cried when left through the door to the future.
~*~ That's all for chapter 14. *tear* That had to be not only one of the saddest thing if I've ever written, but one of the saddest chapter I've ever read. I seriously cried through like all of the ending of the chapter. I couldn't believe myself, but it was so sad I thought.
Please understand reviewers that this was way the story had to go. There is one more chapter left. In the last chapter Tea will return to the future and....I can't spoil it for ya, but it should be good and remember I also have one more thing in store for all of you reviewers. I'll tell you at the end of the next chapter, but I'll talk you all this much. It's going to make you all VERY happy. Hehehehehe. Talk to you all soon! Thanks and please review!