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'Here For You'

~*~ Hey everyone! I'm back again with chapter nine. So tell me, is the story getting interesting or what? Anyway, I hope you like this next chapter. Thanks for continuing!

Chapter nine: Needing help

Tea was so shocked of what she had just heard that when she was walking backwards she bumped into a tree. Hitting it lightly, Tea still had a hand covered over her mouth. Her eyes stared into his, never leaving them for a second.

Yami began to get the same uncomfortable feeling that he got back in ancient Egypt when he told Tea for the very first that he loved her. Only this time he really didn't know what to expect.

"Tea, believe me when I say that I wanted to tell you this in the beginning. I never meant to make you wait this long and find out. Though the more I thought about it the more I wanted to see that you liked having me here first."

Tea wouldn't answer back. The shock of everything was still going through her mind.

Which really began to get Yami worried.

"Tea, please say something," he begged her.

She slowly took her hand off of her face and placed it down by her side.

"How could you keep something like this away from me, Yami?" she asked, but said nothing else.

Slightly relieved that Tea finally said something Yami continued to tell her more about his decision.

"I wanted to know that you loved me enough to accept me to be part of your life, Tea. I love you and-," Yami was suddenly cut off.

"You lied to me!"

"Well-."

"Yami, how could you lie to me like that? Of course I love you, and you know that, but how could you do this?"

"I didn't lie to you, Tea."

Tea started to look angry. "Yes, you did. Holding the truth back from someone is the same as lying, Yami, and you should know that also."

Yami was shocked by her tone all of a sudden.

"Excuse me, Tea, but do you forget who you are talking to?"

Tea looked at him even harder. "I know who I'm talking to, Pharaoh Yami, but I don't think you know who you are talking to."

Yami just looked at her, not saying anything.

"If you've already forgotten you said that I was the girl you loved back in ancient Egypt," she informed him.

"I haven't forgotten about that, Tea."

"Then why do you always do this to me?"

"Do what?"

"Lie to me! You lied to me about not telling anyone that I was covering up as Anzu in ancient Egypt. You lied about never having the chance to come here. And..." Tea look at him straight in the eyes, almost crying at him. "...now you lie to me about this..."

"Tea...I only lied to you because-."

"Why? Because you felt it was the right thing to do. Because you felt that was the only choice you had. Because you felt you couldn't trust me enough to know the truth. So what is it, Yami?" her voice was getting higher and higher.

"I never meant to hurt you, Tea. I was only trying to help," he said in low and calm voice.

"Well, you didn't, Yami. I told you when you first got here that love and relationships depend on trust. And it is quite obvious now that you don't have that with me."

"......"

Tea looked hard at him for one more minute then said, "I'll be at Yugi's until this afternoon. I'm going to talk with him about yesterday and then I'm going home. When you feel you can love me enough to no longer lie to me anymore then come and find me, but until then I have nothing further to discuss with you."

Then she started down the road.

"Tea, wait! Please, don't leave yet! I love you!" he yelled after her.

She stopped and stood there for a moment. Then she turned around to face him.

"Then why don't you show it every once and awhile?" she said back then turned around again and left him to be.

Yami shutting his eyes tight. Making tight fists in his hands.

Saying only one thing in his mind... 'What have I done?'

*********

Tea walked over to Yugi's for the second time that morning.

Trying very hard not to think about what happened to Yami and her earlier.

Yugi sat on the couch in the front room. Waiting for Tea and Yami, his arms crossed over his chest.

He was dressed now. His head looked up at the door as he heard it open.

"Done talking with Yami?" was the first thing he said to her once she walked in.

She sighed while closing the door. "At least for now."

"Then why are you so down about it and where is he?"

"I left him outside. I just found out that he lied to me about something when we were talking earlier so I left him out there to think about it."

This didn't surprise Yugi at all, though he acted like it did.

Getting up from the couch and walking over to her, he asked, "What did he lie to you about, Tea?"

Tea looked in his eyes and then looked away. "I don't want to talk about it, Yugi. It's a long story anyway."

"So are you mad with him?"

"Yes. In a way I am mad at him and I should be for what he did to me."

Yugi didn't say anything.

Tea looked down at Yugi. "Just like I should mad at you for what you did to me."

Yugi closed his eyes for a moment. "Yes, you're right. You should be mad at me for what I did to you. I wouldn't blame you for hating me."

Yugi looked down sadly and stared at the floor in sadness.

Tea face softened. "I don't hate you, Yugi. I could never hate you."

He slowly looked up at her. "You mean that?"

"Yes," Tea's face softened up more. "Yugi, you're my best friend and could never hate you for expressing your feelings to me..." Tea drifted in her last couple of words.

Thinking about what she had just said and finishing her sentence.

"...even though what you did after that was without a doubt completely wrong."

Yugi nodded his head. "I know what I did was wrong and I never should have done that."

"Then why did you?" she asked softly.

"I don't know. I guess after awhile I just got really jealous of Yami. I've liked you a long time, Tea and I'm not going to deny that to you."

Tea smiled at him. "I'm glad that you had to courage to tell me the truth. Because I really wasn't mad that you said you loved me. I was mad at what you did after that."

"Can you ever forgive me for making that mistake, Tea?"

She smiled at him again. "Of course I can. I wouldn't be your best friend if I didn't forgive now would I?"

Yugi walked over to Tea a little bit more so that he could hug her.

Smiling his thanks, he said, "Actually knowing that you do forgive me for what I did would probably make you the best friend to have in the whole world."

"I must admit that you're right about that, Yugi," someone said from behind them.

Tea and Yugi both spun around to find Yami just walking in the house.

Tea looked at him suspiciously. "And how would you know about that, Yami?"

"Let's just say I had some sense knocked into me to finally figure this out."

*********

"Let's try to never fight again, okay, Yami?" Tea asked that night on her porch couch.

Tea felt a pair of strong arms wrap around her waist and having her being pulled towards him.

"I wouldn't picture it any other way, Tea. From now on we both need to be honest with each other."

Tea smiled. "Good."

Yami reached over and gave Tea a small kiss on the cheek. Tea knew what it meant.

"I love you too, Yami."

Now Yami smiled. "Thanks."

Tea leaned against Yami more and closed her eyes. As she sat in Yami's arms she couldn't help but think about the Yami from this time and how she missed him.

FLASHBACK ~*~

"Yami, can I see your Dark Magician Girl card again?"

"Sure. Let me get it for you."

'The next thing he said to me was one of the sweetest things I had ever heard from him,' Tea said to herself (during present time).

"She reminds me of you..."

'Though I wasn't quite sure what to think of it at first.'

"Do you really think so...or are you just trying to flirt with me?"

"Both."

'I was so amused by the way he was acting.'

"How does she remind you of me?"

"She's just as beautiful as you, for one thing."

'He just kept using his charm on me to make me melt with his words.'

"What else?"

"You're just as strong as her and just as spirited as her."

'I was actually surprise that he would say that.'

"Well, thank you."

***

"I would never like another girl the way I like you, Tea. I promise you that."

'I felt like I was the luckiest girl on the world.'

"That's good to know."

***

"Oh, Yami...please kiss me..."

"Tea...I love you so much..."

"I know... I love you too."

"I could stay like this forever with you, Tea....."

"So could I."

'I knew I could and I knew I wanted to. I really did.'

END FLASHBACKS ~*~

A tear began to trickle down Tea's cheek.

Yami noticed how quiet Tea was so he decided to see why she was.

"Tea, is there something wrong?"

She didn't respond back.

Suddenly a tear landed on Yami's arm.

'Is that a teardrop? Is Tea crying?' he thought to himself.

Yami cranked his head over to see what was going on with Tea.

He immediately saw tears going down Tea's gentle face. Staring down at herself for some reason.

"Tea, why are you crying?" he asked her as he moved over to the other side of the couch to see her face.

"Because *sniff* I miss *sniff* the Yami *sniff* from this time *sniff* so much."

Yami grabbed her hand and held it tightly. "I know you miss him, Tea and I know you love him too, but what can we do?"

"I *sniff* don't know, Yami. I mean, *sniff* I love you both the same *sniff* and I know that will never change, but *sniff* why can't..." Tea didn't continue her sentence.

Yami had a pretty good idea why.

"Why can't you be with both of us at the same time? Is that what you were going to say?"

Tea nodded her head.

Yami wrapped his arms around hers and held her close.

"I know how you feel, Tea. I mean, if you and Anzu were both here then everything would seem so perfect."

After Yami said those words Tea had a flashback of what Isis told her and Yami back in his palace.

Finally calmed down completely, Tea asked, "Yami, don't you remember what Isis said to us that day back your palace?"

FLASHBACK ~*~

"Now why have you brought me here Tea? You asked me to come here and answer you something else, but you only would if I came here. So what is it?"

"Just answer me this. Am I Anzu or not?"

"You very much are Anzu."

"But you said earlier that I wasn't your friend Anzu. I thought that indicated that I wasn't your friend Anzu."

"What I meant earlier was that you were not the one that knew me. Anzu knew, not you."

"I do know you. but just from the future, so I guess you're right."

"Tea, you are Anzu and Anzu is you."

"But then where did she go when I came here?"

"Can't you see? She never left. Anzu lives within you and you live within her. Anzu is the person that you are now and you are the person that Anzu is 5,000 years from now. You are both connected. Just like everyone else here is too. We are all people from the past and the future."

END FLASHBACK ~*~

"Yes, remember that day quite well in fact. But what does that have to do with anything?" Yami asked her.

Tea sighed. "I don't know. I guess I just really miss the real you. Of course I missed having *you* around, but there was just something about the you from this time that got me interested in *you* in the first place."

"Well, there were things about Anzu that I liked to get me interested in you also, Tea."

Tea leaned against Yami. Starting to feel cold she let him wrap his arms around her again.

"So what do we do now, Yami? I mean, should you go back ancient Egypt? Should I come with you? There's so many questions that we need answered now that we're going to need help."

"I wish I knew, Tea. I guess I don't know how I much I need Isis around for help until she's gone, huh?"

Tea suddenly gasped. 'I think I just got an idea on how we can get help.'

Tea got up and left Yami for a moment.

"Hey, Tea, where are you going?" he asked as he followed her in the house.

"We're going to need help and there's only person right now that could help us."

Then she picked up the phone and Yami asked, "What are doing, Tea?"

"Phoning a friend."

"And who would that be?"

"Just a sec and you'll find out."

Tea pressed something on the phone and said, "Yes, hello. I need to make a collect call to Egypt."

'Egypt? Why would she call there?'

"To who and where? Cairo, Egypt and it's to a family called the Ishtars," Tea answered.

Yami stood in shock.

"Yes, I'll hold. Thank you, " Tea replied back to the operator he heard her say.

"You're going to call Malik and Isis, Tea. Are you crazy?" he asked quietly.

Tea gave him a look. "We need help, Yami. And here in the future their Malik and Isis's names are Marik and Ishizu."

Tea suddenly got back on the phone.

"Hello, Ishizu. Is that you?" she asked.

"Oh, great. How are you?"

"I'm glad you, Marik and Odion are doing so well. Yugi, me, and the others are doing fine here too."

'Who's Odion?' Yami asked himself again.

"Okay, I'll get straight to the point. I need you to fly out here to Japan."

Yami guessed that Ishizu was asking why.

"Because I need your help something...and the Yami from the past is here in the future."

~ That's it for chapter nine. I hope it was another good chapter. As you can all see that I'm going to put Ishizu in the story soon. Do any of you think I should put Marik, Odion, or Shadi in the story also? If you do please tell me in your reviews. Thanks for reading!

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