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Chapter fifteen: Ready to say I love you?
"Tea...Tea...are you in there?" she vaguely someone say.
She slowly opened her eyes to find her friends right above her.
"Are you all right, Tea?" Tristan asked her.
Tristan was dressed in his motorcycle outfit, which completely freaked Tea out.
"Honda? Why ARE you going dressed like that?" she asked.
"Huh?" everyone said.
"You okay, Tea?" Joey asked.
"I'm fine Jou. My head just really hurts," she told him as she rubbed it.
"Honda? Jou? What is she talkin' about?" Joey asked everyone else.
Then Tea realized it.
'Ah! I almost forget! Shadi brought me back to the future. Now everyone's going to think I'm going nuts or something because I forget that I'm here again! I gotta stop this now,' she said in her mind.
"Tristan, Joey, it's all right now. I'm fine. I just had a really weird dream. We were all in it and we had different names. So, but it's okay now. I promise that I'm okay," she lied to them while also realizing that she was on the couch of Grandpa's house.
"Are you sure you're okay Tea? You took a pretty nasty fall," Grandpa reminded her.
"Yeah, tell me about it," Tea said quietly while rolling her eyes.
She quickly looked to them and said, "I'm fine, really Grandpa. I'm okay now."
Suddenly Tea heard footsteps slowly coming into room.
"Is she all right now, Joey?" Tea heard a very familiar voice say.
"Tea's fine. It's just she woke up sayin' all of these weird names and having this psycho dream, but I think she's come back to realty now."
"Weird names and a dream? What's that all about, Tea?" the voice said.
The person had finally entered the room.
The person turned out to be Yami, but Tea remembered that the others didn't know that he wasn't the real Yugi.
Yami obviously switched spots with Yugi when he found out she was in trouble. So it really didn't surprise her.
"Yugi..." Tea said weakly.
Yami walked over to Tea and kneeled down next to her.
"Tea, are you all right now?" he asked.
As Tea looked into Yami's eyes she couldn't help, but think of the Yami from her past.
'I'll keep my promise to you forever Yami. I'll never forget you. I promise that you will always be in my heart Pharaoh Yami...' she said to herself.
"Tea...I said are you all right now?" Yami asked again.
Tea snapped back into realty.
"Uhhh...Yes, I'm fine. I was just lost in thought for a minute, that's all," she told him and smiled.
Everyone just shrugged.
"Okay Tea. If you say so..."
*********
That night Tea was outside on her porch.
She was holding a cup of tea and looking up into the stars.
'Oh Yami...the stars back in Egypt look so much better than they do here. I just wish that you could have come back home with me and see why I wanted to come back.'
She closed her eyes and looked back to when she was in ancient Egypt.
Seeing all of her past time friends made tears come to her eyes.
'Oh, I miss them all so much... They were such wonderful friends. I wish that they could have all come back with me. They would have loved the future just as I loved the past...'
Though, someone soon disturbed Tea's memories by saying her name.
"Tea...?" said the voice of Yami.
Tea slowly opened her eyes to find him about 10 feet away from the bottom of her porch.
"Yami...what are you doing here?" she asked as she quickly wiped her eyes.
"I thought you could use the company," he quietly said.
"Well, sure. I could always use the company. Come and sit down with me," she offered.
Yami hesitated a bit, though decided to just sit down with Tea anyway.
"Are you feeling okay Tea?" Yami asked her once he was settled down.
Tea giggled. "Do you have to keep on asking me that, Yami?"
"I'm sorry Tea. I guess I was just worried about you while you were unconscious. It really scared Yugi and I."
"It did?"
"Of course it did. You were out for nearly an hour once you fell off that ladder. I'm sure that once you woke up you wish that you never were on that thing."
"Actually...I was glad that I fell off that ladder. It changed my life to tell you the truth."
"It did? How? Was it from that dream Joey was talking about to me?"
"It wasn't dream Yami. I felt that it really did happen."
"What was it about?"
Tea sighed and then smiled at her mysterious friend.
"You wouldn't believe me if I told you."
"Try me..."
"Okay...if you say so..."
Then she took a deep breath in and out and started the story.
"As you can remember I took a pretty bad fall from falling off that ladder earlier, right?"
"Right."
"Well, supposedly the next time I woke up let's just say it wasn't in Grandpa's house."
"What?!"
"Okay, the next time I woke up from that fall I was in Egypt. I was in ancient Egypt and I was back in the time when you were pharaoh."
"Really?"
"Yeah, and everyone was there. You, me, Yugi, Joey, Tristan, Bakura, Mai, Serenity, and everyone else you can imagine. It was so cool. I couldn't believe at first. I actually thought that was going crazy. Seriously."
"You go crazy? Your story might sound a little crazy, but you're not. Believe me..."
Tea looked at him gently and said, "I do."
They looked at each other for a minute then Yami asked, "Are you going to continue?"
"Oh, yeah....right. I almost forget. Well, also when I was back there we all had different names. Well...at least most of us did."
"What do you mean?"
"Like Joey's name in the past is Jou and Tristan's name is Honda."
"That's interesting. Who else?"
"Oh, Serenity's name is Shizuka and Bakura's name is Ryou."
"And what about you? What's your name in the past?"
"It's Anzu..." she trailed off.
"Anzu...That sounds really pretty Tea."
"Thanks."
"Tell me Tea. What exactly happened while you were visiting my past life as pharaoh?"
"A lot happened actually. I was there for over a week so you know that a lot could happen in a week. Anyway...when I first got there I pretended to be the girl that I was in the past so the others wouldn't find out that I was from the future."
"Did anyone figure out the truth?"
Tea smile soon faded.
"Yes...one person did."
"Who? Was it Yugi?"
Tea placed her cup down on the porch and stood up, without looking at him.
"You did, Yami. You were the one that figured it out."
"I was? How?"
Tea looked at him after saying this.
"You're seriously asking me that question?"
"I guess."
"You were just your old self. You got suspicious of me and eventually knew what was going on with me."
"Did the others find out later?"
"Yes, they all found out the truth."
"Who told them?"
"I was the one that told him."
"What else happened while you were there?"
"I was sent to the Shadow Realm."
"You were what?! How did you survive? How did you come back?"
"You saved me."
"Oh..." he calmed down.
"It's all right Yami. I was glad that you saved me. If it wasn't for your past self I would still be there right now."
Yami remained quiet for a minute then decided to ask Tea something else.
"Tea, if having the fall brought you to ancient Egypt then how did you get back?"
"From Shadi. He used the power of the Millenium Key to send me back here or rather woke me up."
"Was it hard to leave?"
"Yes, it was."
"How hard do you think?"
She quietly said, "You have no idea how hard it was..."
"Why? I mean, I know that they're our friends from the past, but you only knew them for a week, right?"
"No...I have known them for the past 5,000 years and each one of them holds the spirits of the friends that we have today. Those people that I met in ancient Egypt are my friends and they will stay my friends forever. I made a promise to each and every one of them that I would never forget them. Though, I especially made that promise to you."
Tea hadn't realized that she had said to him until the way he was looking at her. Tea gasped and covered her mouth for a few seconds while Yami started to become very interested.
"What did you just say?" he asked.
Tea ignored the question. "Let's go on to the next part of the story, okay?" she said then started to tell him more, but Yami quickly stopped her from going any further.
"Why me?" he asked in a much more serious voice.
She stopped talking about her story and sadly whispered, "I can't tell you."
"Why not?"
"Because you wouldn't understand," she simply said.
Yami studied her for a few moments.
He saw that she was a little shaken, but looked firmly at him.
Yami got up from the porch and walked over to her. "What are you hiding from me, Tea?" he said in a low voice, his eyes were locked on hers.
"I can't tell you," she repeated.
Yami walked behind Tea, making her shake even more. "Please, just tell me what's going on. I want to know," he continued his mysterious ways with her.
"Why? So you and Yugi can go on telling about it. Forget it!" she started to fight back, keeping her ground.
"Please Tea! Don't do this. I won't tell Yugi. We can keep this between ourselves," he told her.
Tea turned around to him and looked at him.
"Doesn't Yugi hear everything we're saying to each other? I thought that he did."
"He does...but only when I want him to."
"How do I know that I can trust you to not tell Yugi what's going?"
"Because I know that you trust me and you do, don't you?"
Tea went completely shocked after Yami said those words.
'That's something that Yami, from my past, would say. Oh...why does this Yami have to be so much like him? Though, in other ways they're quite different.'
Yami continued to stare at her, waiting for an answer. "Don't you?" he asked again.
Tea escaped from her thoughts and said, "Of course I trust you Yami, but...this happens to be a personal matter to me and I'd rather not tell anyone about it," she explained.
Yami looked a little shocked.
"Fine...I'll leave you to your personal matters then..." he said and then started to walk away.
"Yami, wait! Don't go like this. I really would tell if it wasn't so personal to me. Please understand....please..." she said though soon drifted away when her head felt like it was spinning.
She started to get weak in the legs and she felt like couldn't stand up much longer.
'What's...going on? I feel so weak...'
Yami looked back at her, to see why she had stopped speaking to him, when he saw that she was starting to pass out.
"Tea!" he said as he ran back to her.
"Yami...I don't know what's going on..." she said as she slowly passed out.
"Tea, hold on!" Yami said to Tea as he caught her from falling on the ground.
"Tea...! Tea!" she barely heard him say before she passed out completely.
*************
"Hello? Is anyone here?" Tea called out.
She looked around to find herself in an endless world of clouds.
"Where am I? Please, is anyone out there? Yami? Yugi? Anyone?"
* No answer *
"Hello!" she yelled out.
"Hello Tea," someone said behind her.
She whirled around to find-
"Yami! What are doing here?" she said.
It was the Yami from her past. She could tell by the way he was dressed.
"Is that anyway to say hello to the pharaoh of Egypt and the one you love? I think not," he said while smiling.
Tea smiled back and ran over to him.
Tea pulled him into a tight hug and said, "Oh Yami! I've missed you so much! Oh, I'm so glad that you're here with me."
Then something dawned on her.
She let go of Yami and asked, "Yami, why are you here? Why am I here? Where are we?"
Yami laughed. "You know, you ask a lot of questions."
Tea looked at him. "Well, don't mind me from wondering where we are."
"We are both in your dream," he answered her.
"My dream? You mean that whole feeling weak and passing out thing was just for a dream?"
"Yes, it was."
"Why?"
"Why don't you tell me why you're so distance from me, in the future, all of a sudden?"
"Well, that's because I- Hey, wait! How did you know about that?"
"Isis told me. She saw it in the future for me."
"You just couldn't see me leave, could you?"
That's when Yami stroked her cheek for a few moments and then placed two fingers underneath her chin.
"What do you think?" he asked in a seductive way before gently kissing her lips.
The kiss was sweet and gently.
Softer than the ones they had back in ancient Egypt.
"I'll take that as you missing me a lot," she replied once they broke the kiss.
Yami smiled.
Tea wrapped herself back in Yami's arms and snuggled against him.
"Oh Yami...you have no idea how much I've missed you."
"I think I do."
"I wish that you could come back to the future with me. You'd love it there," she told him.
"You know that I would in a heartbeat, but I can't and we both know that."
Tea held onto Yami tighter. "I know Yami, but...it's just not the same like it was."
Yami let out a sigh. "I've felt that way too. I wish that could be with you forever..."
"So what do we do?"
"I guess that this is goodbye again..."
"Yeah...I guess it is."
"Tea, before you go can you a make promise to me?"
"Sure. What is it?"
"When you return to the future can you tell my future self how you really feel about me?"
Tea let go of Yami and looked at him a little confused.
"What do you mean, Yami?"
"I know that if you truly love me then I believe you love him too. Because we are both the same."
"But you're so much more distance from me in the future. You never really talk to me and I only usually see you when something's wrong."
"I know that if you show him that you care then he'll return his feelings for you."
"How do you know?"
"Because he loves you just as I do. I'm probably just a little harder to get through in the future. Now do you promise?"
Tea smiled. "I promise."
"Tea, one more thing before you go."
"What?"
"Acu bchu mise nuw cla nuh," Yami said something in another ancient language.
Tea giggled. "What does that mean?"
Yami smiled once more. "We will see each other again." (Clue to what's going to happen later!)
"Thank you for always being there for me Yami. I'll never forget you."
"Neither will I."
They were silent for a few moments then Tea said, "I love you Yami."
Tears started to form in his eyes. "I love you too."
Then Tea slowly wrapped her arms around Yami's neck and kissed lips.
Yami was a bit surprised, but kissed her back, having one hand on her neck and the other around her waist.
A few minutes later they broke the kiss and Tea slowly fell into Yami's arms.
"Goodbye my pharaoh..."
"Goodbye my love..."
And then Tea closed her eyes, which ended her dream...
*********
"Tea...! Tea! TEA!" she heard Yami yelling for her from a distance.
Tea opened her eyes to find Yami only a few feet from her face.
"W-what? What's going on...? Ah! I'm back!"
Yami had Tea's head on his lap on her porch couch.
"Tea, what happened to you? You just passed out for some odd reason. That really scared me."
Tea slowly got up and sat next to Yami.
"I..." she began to say. "I was in this dream where clouds were covered everywhere and you were there, Yami."
"I was?"
"Yes and...I think I need to lie down again," she was still feeling very dizzy and weak.
"Oh, here. Lay back down," he offered her to lie on the couch again as he sat down on a chair next to her.
"I guess I haven't been having the greatest day, huh Yami?"
"Tea...I haven't been helped to notice that the things you've been doing lately have involved me a lot. Am I not correct?"
Tea slightly flushed.
"Well, what can I say? You are a good friend. Both you and Yugi."
"Thank you Tea. That's very sweet of you to say. Though, speaking of Yugi I'm sure he'd like the chance to talk to you now, if you don't-."
"Yami, wait a second. Can I talk to you about something...in private?" Tea said, cutting him off.
Yami stared at her, shocked.
"You mean without Yugi listening to us?"
"If it isn't a problem, I would like that."
"Oh...well, I'm sure it's not. Let me just ask Yugi."
Yami closed his closed and went into Yugi's soul room.
"Hey Yami. How are things going? Is Tea all right now?"
Yami nodded. "She's fine, though...she wants to talk to me in private about something. Do you think I should?"
"Sure. I mean, Tea might tell you more about her dream or whatever it was that she did in ancient Egypt. It's worth a try."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes! Now go and talk to her. She can't wait forever, you know." (Now what does that remind you of reviewers? Maybe that was something Yugi said to Tea in chapter 12. Hmmm...) ^_~
"All right! I'm going," he snapped at him.
Then Yami opened his eyes.
"Can I talk to you now, Yami?"
"Yes, it's all right now."
"Before I say to you what I want to say may I ask are you feeling a little weird around me?"
"No, I'm fine," he lied to her.
"Are you sure?"
"Yes, I'm sure."
"Okay..."
"Now what did you want to talk to me about?" he asked, wanting to get this over with.
"I...I-I wanted t-to know..." she stuttered.
Yami stared at her confused. "Wanted to know what?"
'God I hope Yami was right about this!' Tea said to herself in fear.
"I-I w-w-wanted to know h-how you felt ab-about me," she told him, getting all nervous about it.
Yami looked shocked. "You wanted to know how I feel about you?" he asked, trying to make sure he heard her correctly.
"Yes..." she said looking down.
'Why is she asking me that?'
'Why don't you ask her?' Yugi cut in.
'Yugi! What are you doing?'
'Waiting to see what you're going to do next.'
'Tea just asked me how do I feel about her.'
'Yes, I know.'
'So what do I do?'
'I can't tell you that. It's something you need to find out.'
'I don't know how I feel about her.'
Yugi looked at him, unconvinced. 'Yami, Tea's been our friend for years and now she wants to know the truth. You can't just not know how you feel about. That's like impossible.'
'Well, I never really gave it much thought in the past. I mean, sure, she's a great friend, but...I don't know.'
'Just talk to her Yami. I think you need to listen to what she has to say.'
'Oh, all right...I'll talk to her. See you soon Yugi.'
'Good luck.'
"I'm sorry that I asked you that Yami. I didn't mean to do that," Tea said sadly and started to walk back into her house.
"Tea, hold on a minute."
She stopped and turned around to him.
"What is it?"
"I...I want to know why you asked me that. What's going on with you?"
Tea slowly walked down to Yami and sighed.
"Yami, what I'm about to tell you is something you will never believe, but what I'm going to say is in fact true."
"What's that?"
"Back when I was in ancient Egypt you were pharaoh, as you already know, you had a lot of friends, but there was one in particular that you liked the most."
"Who?"
"You fell in love with a girl named Anzu, but you never got the courage to tell her how you felt about her."
Yami stopped to think about that for a minute.
"Wasn't the girl named Anzu..." then he gasped. "...YOU!!!"
"It's true. You were once in love with me in ancient times, until that day..."
"Until what day?"
"Until the day I came."
"What happened?"
"I took over Anzu's body and lived her life."
"And I was the one that figured out first that you weren't Anzu anymore, right?"
Tea slowly nodded. "Yes, that's correct."
"But what does this have to do with you?"
"Once you knew who I was...you started to fall in love with me."
Yami just stared at her.
So Tea decided to continue.
"Then later on I found out that was in love with you too, but our love was soon torn apart when I got the chance to come back home."
'Yami was in love with Tea?' Yugi said.
"I was in love with you? How?" Yami said.
Tea blushed. "I don't know. You tell me."
Now it was Yami's turn to blush. "I-I don't know neither. I guess I must have really liked you."
"You guess? Well, then how DO you feel about me?"
He wouldn't answer. "Does this mean you don't like me?" she asked.
"No, it's not that. It's just...I don't how what I feel for you." Yami got up from his chair and walked towards. "For me, it's hard to learn to love because I've lost so much in the past."
Tea got up and said, "It doesn't hurt to try."
"So what are you telling me? Do you..."
"Yami, I haven't been able to admit it to anyone, but I've had a crush on you for the longest time now and I just want you to know it."
"You do?" he looked at her gently.
"I'm sorry if you don't feel the same and I made you feel bad, but I love you, Yami... I love you," then she started to walk away.
She almost made it to the door when Yami touched her arm, preventing her from leaving.
She turned around to meet him in his eyes. "Tea, wait...I have something to tell you."
"Don't worry Yami. I don't blame you for hating me if you do. I'm sorry that I said that to you. I'll be going now."
"Tea, wait a second. I don't want you to go. Let me tell you something."
"What?"
"I have a confession to make. I do remember Anzu and everyone else in the past. When I got my memories back I saw how I was so love with this girl that was just like you and that scared me. I'm sorry that I lied to you."
"Why did you though?"
"Because you are Yugi's friend and I didn't want to take that away. What I'm trying to say is that I've been hiding my feelings about you also. I don't hate you and I would like to try and become more than a friend to you."
"Really?"
"Really."
Then Tea ran over to Yami and gave him a hug, which startled him a bit. "Oh, Yami! Thank you! Thank you for telling me the truth. That means so much to me."
"So does this mean..." he didn't finish because he got lost in her eyes.
Tea smiled. "What do you think?" she asked before slowly moving in to kiss him.
Yami was surprised at first, but kissed her back anyway.
Once Yami broke the kiss Tea told him, "I love you Yami and I always will."
Yami smiled and replied back, "I love you too." Then kiss her lips once more.
As Tea kissed him back the second time she couldn't help, but think of something.
'Thank you Yami. You and everyone else gave me the courage to do the one I was afraid of all long. Thank you. I'll never forget you and you will always be in my heart. Whether I'm in your world or mine because both you and the Yami from my time will be the same to me because I love you.'
***Reviewers, this is the BIG news. Now, I plan to do this on votes, but if I get enough votes to agree with me I'm willing to do a...SEQUEL!!!! What do you think? Should I do a sequel? I was thinking I should and in the story the Yami from the past could come the future and blah, blah, blah....You get the idea. Please tell me what you think in your reviews and I hope you liked my story. Thanks for reading!
~Shining Friendship ^_^
~*~ The final chapter is up reviewers! I hope that this was a good fanfic to read and I want to thank you all for reading and reviewing it. Enjoy the last chapter. - Shining Friendship
Chapter fifteen: Ready to say I love you?
"Tea...Tea...are you in there?" she vaguely someone say.
She slowly opened her eyes to find her friends right above her.
"Are you all right, Tea?" Tristan asked her.
Tristan was dressed in his motorcycle outfit, which completely freaked Tea out.
"Honda? Why ARE you going dressed like that?" she asked.
"Huh?" everyone said.
"You okay, Tea?" Joey asked.
"I'm fine Jou. My head just really hurts," she told him as she rubbed it.
"Honda? Jou? What is she talkin' about?" Joey asked everyone else.
Then Tea realized it.
'Ah! I almost forget! Shadi brought me back to the future. Now everyone's going to think I'm going nuts or something because I forget that I'm here again! I gotta stop this now,' she said in her mind.
"Tristan, Joey, it's all right now. I'm fine. I just had a really weird dream. We were all in it and we had different names. So, but it's okay now. I promise that I'm okay," she lied to them while also realizing that she was on the couch of Grandpa's house.
"Are you sure you're okay Tea? You took a pretty nasty fall," Grandpa reminded her.
"Yeah, tell me about it," Tea said quietly while rolling her eyes.
She quickly looked to them and said, "I'm fine, really Grandpa. I'm okay now."
Suddenly Tea heard footsteps slowly coming into room.
"Is she all right now, Joey?" Tea heard a very familiar voice say.
"Tea's fine. It's just she woke up sayin' all of these weird names and having this psycho dream, but I think she's come back to realty now."
"Weird names and a dream? What's that all about, Tea?" the voice said.
The person had finally entered the room.
The person turned out to be Yami, but Tea remembered that the others didn't know that he wasn't the real Yugi.
Yami obviously switched spots with Yugi when he found out she was in trouble. So it really didn't surprise her.
"Yugi..." Tea said weakly.
Yami walked over to Tea and kneeled down next to her.
"Tea, are you all right now?" he asked.
As Tea looked into Yami's eyes she couldn't help, but think of the Yami from her past.
'I'll keep my promise to you forever Yami. I'll never forget you. I promise that you will always be in my heart Pharaoh Yami...' she said to herself.
"Tea...I said are you all right now?" Yami asked again.
Tea snapped back into realty.
"Uhhh...Yes, I'm fine. I was just lost in thought for a minute, that's all," she told him and smiled.
Everyone just shrugged.
"Okay Tea. If you say so..."
*********
That night Tea was outside on her porch.
She was holding a cup of tea and looking up into the stars.
'Oh Yami...the stars back in Egypt look so much better than they do here. I just wish that you could have come back home with me and see why I wanted to come back.'
She closed her eyes and looked back to when she was in ancient Egypt.
Seeing all of her past time friends made tears come to her eyes.
'Oh, I miss them all so much... They were such wonderful friends. I wish that they could have all come back with me. They would have loved the future just as I loved the past...'
Though, someone soon disturbed Tea's memories by saying her name.
"Tea...?" said the voice of Yami.
Tea slowly opened her eyes to find him about 10 feet away from the bottom of her porch.
"Yami...what are you doing here?" she asked as she quickly wiped her eyes.
"I thought you could use the company," he quietly said.
"Well, sure. I could always use the company. Come and sit down with me," she offered.
Yami hesitated a bit, though decided to just sit down with Tea anyway.
"Are you feeling okay Tea?" Yami asked her once he was settled down.
Tea giggled. "Do you have to keep on asking me that, Yami?"
"I'm sorry Tea. I guess I was just worried about you while you were unconscious. It really scared Yugi and I."
"It did?"
"Of course it did. You were out for nearly an hour once you fell off that ladder. I'm sure that once you woke up you wish that you never were on that thing."
"Actually...I was glad that I fell off that ladder. It changed my life to tell you the truth."
"It did? How? Was it from that dream Joey was talking about to me?"
"It wasn't dream Yami. I felt that it really did happen."
"What was it about?"
Tea sighed and then smiled at her mysterious friend.
"You wouldn't believe me if I told you."
"Try me..."
"Okay...if you say so..."
Then she took a deep breath in and out and started the story.
"As you can remember I took a pretty bad fall from falling off that ladder earlier, right?"
"Right."
"Well, supposedly the next time I woke up let's just say it wasn't in Grandpa's house."
"What?!"
"Okay, the next time I woke up from that fall I was in Egypt. I was in ancient Egypt and I was back in the time when you were pharaoh."
"Really?"
"Yeah, and everyone was there. You, me, Yugi, Joey, Tristan, Bakura, Mai, Serenity, and everyone else you can imagine. It was so cool. I couldn't believe at first. I actually thought that was going crazy. Seriously."
"You go crazy? Your story might sound a little crazy, but you're not. Believe me..."
Tea looked at him gently and said, "I do."
They looked at each other for a minute then Yami asked, "Are you going to continue?"
"Oh, yeah....right. I almost forget. Well, also when I was back there we all had different names. Well...at least most of us did."
"What do you mean?"
"Like Joey's name in the past is Jou and Tristan's name is Honda."
"That's interesting. Who else?"
"Oh, Serenity's name is Shizuka and Bakura's name is Ryou."
"And what about you? What's your name in the past?"
"It's Anzu..." she trailed off.
"Anzu...That sounds really pretty Tea."
"Thanks."
"Tell me Tea. What exactly happened while you were visiting my past life as pharaoh?"
"A lot happened actually. I was there for over a week so you know that a lot could happen in a week. Anyway...when I first got there I pretended to be the girl that I was in the past so the others wouldn't find out that I was from the future."
"Did anyone figure out the truth?"
Tea smile soon faded.
"Yes...one person did."
"Who? Was it Yugi?"
Tea placed her cup down on the porch and stood up, without looking at him.
"You did, Yami. You were the one that figured it out."
"I was? How?"
Tea looked at him after saying this.
"You're seriously asking me that question?"
"I guess."
"You were just your old self. You got suspicious of me and eventually knew what was going on with me."
"Did the others find out later?"
"Yes, they all found out the truth."
"Who told them?"
"I was the one that told him."
"What else happened while you were there?"
"I was sent to the Shadow Realm."
"You were what?! How did you survive? How did you come back?"
"You saved me."
"Oh..." he calmed down.
"It's all right Yami. I was glad that you saved me. If it wasn't for your past self I would still be there right now."
Yami remained quiet for a minute then decided to ask Tea something else.
"Tea, if having the fall brought you to ancient Egypt then how did you get back?"
"From Shadi. He used the power of the Millenium Key to send me back here or rather woke me up."
"Was it hard to leave?"
"Yes, it was."
"How hard do you think?"
She quietly said, "You have no idea how hard it was..."
"Why? I mean, I know that they're our friends from the past, but you only knew them for a week, right?"
"No...I have known them for the past 5,000 years and each one of them holds the spirits of the friends that we have today. Those people that I met in ancient Egypt are my friends and they will stay my friends forever. I made a promise to each and every one of them that I would never forget them. Though, I especially made that promise to you."
Tea hadn't realized that she had said to him until the way he was looking at her. Tea gasped and covered her mouth for a few seconds while Yami started to become very interested.
"What did you just say?" he asked.
Tea ignored the question. "Let's go on to the next part of the story, okay?" she said then started to tell him more, but Yami quickly stopped her from going any further.
"Why me?" he asked in a much more serious voice.
She stopped talking about her story and sadly whispered, "I can't tell you."
"Why not?"
"Because you wouldn't understand," she simply said.
Yami studied her for a few moments.
He saw that she was a little shaken, but looked firmly at him.
Yami got up from the porch and walked over to her. "What are you hiding from me, Tea?" he said in a low voice, his eyes were locked on hers.
"I can't tell you," she repeated.
Yami walked behind Tea, making her shake even more. "Please, just tell me what's going on. I want to know," he continued his mysterious ways with her.
"Why? So you and Yugi can go on telling about it. Forget it!" she started to fight back, keeping her ground.
"Please Tea! Don't do this. I won't tell Yugi. We can keep this between ourselves," he told her.
Tea turned around to him and looked at him.
"Doesn't Yugi hear everything we're saying to each other? I thought that he did."
"He does...but only when I want him to."
"How do I know that I can trust you to not tell Yugi what's going?"
"Because I know that you trust me and you do, don't you?"
Tea went completely shocked after Yami said those words.
'That's something that Yami, from my past, would say. Oh...why does this Yami have to be so much like him? Though, in other ways they're quite different.'
Yami continued to stare at her, waiting for an answer. "Don't you?" he asked again.
Tea escaped from her thoughts and said, "Of course I trust you Yami, but...this happens to be a personal matter to me and I'd rather not tell anyone about it," she explained.
Yami looked a little shocked.
"Fine...I'll leave you to your personal matters then..." he said and then started to walk away.
"Yami, wait! Don't go like this. I really would tell if it wasn't so personal to me. Please understand....please..." she said though soon drifted away when her head felt like it was spinning.
She started to get weak in the legs and she felt like couldn't stand up much longer.
'What's...going on? I feel so weak...'
Yami looked back at her, to see why she had stopped speaking to him, when he saw that she was starting to pass out.
"Tea!" he said as he ran back to her.
"Yami...I don't know what's going on..." she said as she slowly passed out.
"Tea, hold on!" Yami said to Tea as he caught her from falling on the ground.
"Tea...! Tea!" she barely heard him say before she passed out completely.
*************
"Hello? Is anyone here?" Tea called out.
She looked around to find herself in an endless world of clouds.
"Where am I? Please, is anyone out there? Yami? Yugi? Anyone?"
* No answer *
"Hello!" she yelled out.
"Hello Tea," someone said behind her.
She whirled around to find-
"Yami! What are doing here?" she said.
It was the Yami from her past. She could tell by the way he was dressed.
"Is that anyway to say hello to the pharaoh of Egypt and the one you love? I think not," he said while smiling.
Tea smiled back and ran over to him.
Tea pulled him into a tight hug and said, "Oh Yami! I've missed you so much! Oh, I'm so glad that you're here with me."
Then something dawned on her.
She let go of Yami and asked, "Yami, why are you here? Why am I here? Where are we?"
Yami laughed. "You know, you ask a lot of questions."
Tea looked at him. "Well, don't mind me from wondering where we are."
"We are both in your dream," he answered her.
"My dream? You mean that whole feeling weak and passing out thing was just for a dream?"
"Yes, it was."
"Why?"
"Why don't you tell me why you're so distance from me, in the future, all of a sudden?"
"Well, that's because I- Hey, wait! How did you know about that?"
"Isis told me. She saw it in the future for me."
"You just couldn't see me leave, could you?"
That's when Yami stroked her cheek for a few moments and then placed two fingers underneath her chin.
"What do you think?" he asked in a seductive way before gently kissing her lips.
The kiss was sweet and gently.
Softer than the ones they had back in ancient Egypt.
"I'll take that as you missing me a lot," she replied once they broke the kiss.
Yami smiled.
Tea wrapped herself back in Yami's arms and snuggled against him.
"Oh Yami...you have no idea how much I've missed you."
"I think I do."
"I wish that you could come back to the future with me. You'd love it there," she told him.
"You know that I would in a heartbeat, but I can't and we both know that."
Tea held onto Yami tighter. "I know Yami, but...it's just not the same like it was."
Yami let out a sigh. "I've felt that way too. I wish that could be with you forever..."
"So what do we do?"
"I guess that this is goodbye again..."
"Yeah...I guess it is."
"Tea, before you go can you a make promise to me?"
"Sure. What is it?"
"When you return to the future can you tell my future self how you really feel about me?"
Tea let go of Yami and looked at him a little confused.
"What do you mean, Yami?"
"I know that if you truly love me then I believe you love him too. Because we are both the same."
"But you're so much more distance from me in the future. You never really talk to me and I only usually see you when something's wrong."
"I know that if you show him that you care then he'll return his feelings for you."
"How do you know?"
"Because he loves you just as I do. I'm probably just a little harder to get through in the future. Now do you promise?"
Tea smiled. "I promise."
"Tea, one more thing before you go."
"What?"
"Acu bchu mise nuw cla nuh," Yami said something in another ancient language.
Tea giggled. "What does that mean?"
Yami smiled once more. "We will see each other again." (Clue to what's going to happen later!)
"Thank you for always being there for me Yami. I'll never forget you."
"Neither will I."
They were silent for a few moments then Tea said, "I love you Yami."
Tears started to form in his eyes. "I love you too."
Then Tea slowly wrapped her arms around Yami's neck and kissed lips.
Yami was a bit surprised, but kissed her back, having one hand on her neck and the other around her waist.
A few minutes later they broke the kiss and Tea slowly fell into Yami's arms.
"Goodbye my pharaoh..."
"Goodbye my love..."
And then Tea closed her eyes, which ended her dream...
*********
"Tea...! Tea! TEA!" she heard Yami yelling for her from a distance.
Tea opened her eyes to find Yami only a few feet from her face.
"W-what? What's going on...? Ah! I'm back!"
Yami had Tea's head on his lap on her porch couch.
"Tea, what happened to you? You just passed out for some odd reason. That really scared me."
Tea slowly got up and sat next to Yami.
"I..." she began to say. "I was in this dream where clouds were covered everywhere and you were there, Yami."
"I was?"
"Yes and...I think I need to lie down again," she was still feeling very dizzy and weak.
"Oh, here. Lay back down," he offered her to lie on the couch again as he sat down on a chair next to her.
"I guess I haven't been having the greatest day, huh Yami?"
"Tea...I haven't been helped to notice that the things you've been doing lately have involved me a lot. Am I not correct?"
Tea slightly flushed.
"Well, what can I say? You are a good friend. Both you and Yugi."
"Thank you Tea. That's very sweet of you to say. Though, speaking of Yugi I'm sure he'd like the chance to talk to you now, if you don't-."
"Yami, wait a second. Can I talk to you about something...in private?" Tea said, cutting him off.
Yami stared at her, shocked.
"You mean without Yugi listening to us?"
"If it isn't a problem, I would like that."
"Oh...well, I'm sure it's not. Let me just ask Yugi."
Yami closed his closed and went into Yugi's soul room.
"Hey Yami. How are things going? Is Tea all right now?"
Yami nodded. "She's fine, though...she wants to talk to me in private about something. Do you think I should?"
"Sure. I mean, Tea might tell you more about her dream or whatever it was that she did in ancient Egypt. It's worth a try."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes! Now go and talk to her. She can't wait forever, you know." (Now what does that remind you of reviewers? Maybe that was something Yugi said to Tea in chapter 12. Hmmm...) ^_~
"All right! I'm going," he snapped at him.
Then Yami opened his eyes.
"Can I talk to you now, Yami?"
"Yes, it's all right now."
"Before I say to you what I want to say may I ask are you feeling a little weird around me?"
"No, I'm fine," he lied to her.
"Are you sure?"
"Yes, I'm sure."
"Okay..."
"Now what did you want to talk to me about?" he asked, wanting to get this over with.
"I...I-I wanted t-to know..." she stuttered.
Yami stared at her confused. "Wanted to know what?"
'God I hope Yami was right about this!' Tea said to herself in fear.
"I-I w-w-wanted to know h-how you felt ab-about me," she told him, getting all nervous about it.
Yami looked shocked. "You wanted to know how I feel about you?" he asked, trying to make sure he heard her correctly.
"Yes..." she said looking down.
'Why is she asking me that?'
'Why don't you ask her?' Yugi cut in.
'Yugi! What are you doing?'
'Waiting to see what you're going to do next.'
'Tea just asked me how do I feel about her.'
'Yes, I know.'
'So what do I do?'
'I can't tell you that. It's something you need to find out.'
'I don't know how I feel about her.'
Yugi looked at him, unconvinced. 'Yami, Tea's been our friend for years and now she wants to know the truth. You can't just not know how you feel about. That's like impossible.'
'Well, I never really gave it much thought in the past. I mean, sure, she's a great friend, but...I don't know.'
'Just talk to her Yami. I think you need to listen to what she has to say.'
'Oh, all right...I'll talk to her. See you soon Yugi.'
'Good luck.'
"I'm sorry that I asked you that Yami. I didn't mean to do that," Tea said sadly and started to walk back into her house.
"Tea, hold on a minute."
She stopped and turned around to him.
"What is it?"
"I...I want to know why you asked me that. What's going on with you?"
Tea slowly walked down to Yami and sighed.
"Yami, what I'm about to tell you is something you will never believe, but what I'm going to say is in fact true."
"What's that?"
"Back when I was in ancient Egypt you were pharaoh, as you already know, you had a lot of friends, but there was one in particular that you liked the most."
"Who?"
"You fell in love with a girl named Anzu, but you never got the courage to tell her how you felt about her."
Yami stopped to think about that for a minute.
"Wasn't the girl named Anzu..." then he gasped. "...YOU!!!"
"It's true. You were once in love with me in ancient times, until that day..."
"Until what day?"
"Until the day I came."
"What happened?"
"I took over Anzu's body and lived her life."
"And I was the one that figured out first that you weren't Anzu anymore, right?"
Tea slowly nodded. "Yes, that's correct."
"But what does this have to do with you?"
"Once you knew who I was...you started to fall in love with me."
Yami just stared at her.
So Tea decided to continue.
"Then later on I found out that was in love with you too, but our love was soon torn apart when I got the chance to come back home."
'Yami was in love with Tea?' Yugi said.
"I was in love with you? How?" Yami said.
Tea blushed. "I don't know. You tell me."
Now it was Yami's turn to blush. "I-I don't know neither. I guess I must have really liked you."
"You guess? Well, then how DO you feel about me?"
He wouldn't answer. "Does this mean you don't like me?" she asked.
"No, it's not that. It's just...I don't how what I feel for you." Yami got up from his chair and walked towards. "For me, it's hard to learn to love because I've lost so much in the past."
Tea got up and said, "It doesn't hurt to try."
"So what are you telling me? Do you..."
"Yami, I haven't been able to admit it to anyone, but I've had a crush on you for the longest time now and I just want you to know it."
"You do?" he looked at her gently.
"I'm sorry if you don't feel the same and I made you feel bad, but I love you, Yami... I love you," then she started to walk away.
She almost made it to the door when Yami touched her arm, preventing her from leaving.
She turned around to meet him in his eyes. "Tea, wait...I have something to tell you."
"Don't worry Yami. I don't blame you for hating me if you do. I'm sorry that I said that to you. I'll be going now."
"Tea, wait a second. I don't want you to go. Let me tell you something."
"What?"
"I have a confession to make. I do remember Anzu and everyone else in the past. When I got my memories back I saw how I was so love with this girl that was just like you and that scared me. I'm sorry that I lied to you."
"Why did you though?"
"Because you are Yugi's friend and I didn't want to take that away. What I'm trying to say is that I've been hiding my feelings about you also. I don't hate you and I would like to try and become more than a friend to you."
"Really?"
"Really."
Then Tea ran over to Yami and gave him a hug, which startled him a bit. "Oh, Yami! Thank you! Thank you for telling me the truth. That means so much to me."
"So does this mean..." he didn't finish because he got lost in her eyes.
Tea smiled. "What do you think?" she asked before slowly moving in to kiss him.
Yami was surprised at first, but kissed her back anyway.
Once Yami broke the kiss Tea told him, "I love you Yami and I always will."
Yami smiled and replied back, "I love you too." Then kiss her lips once more.
As Tea kissed him back the second time she couldn't help, but think of something.
'Thank you Yami. You and everyone else gave me the courage to do the one I was afraid of all long. Thank you. I'll never forget you and you will always be in my heart. Whether I'm in your world or mine because both you and the Yami from my time will be the same to me because I love you.'
***Reviewers, this is the BIG news. Now, I plan to do this on votes, but if I get enough votes to agree with me I'm willing to do a...SEQUEL!!!! What do you think? Should I do a sequel? I was thinking I should and in the story the Yami from the past could come the future and blah, blah, blah....You get the idea. Please tell me what you think in your reviews and I hope you liked my story. Thanks for reading!
~Shining Friendship ^_^