Non-standard disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh or it's characters, if I did, I'd be rich enough to be selling the manga, now wouldn't I?

Now I know I've been away for awhile, illness and a month long vacation will do that you know, but now I'm going to answer some long overdue questions, here we go

DarkCatXX wants to know what 'Baka' means, easy enough, it means 'stupid' or 'idiot' n.n

kdk wants to know who the main character is, and that is a secret for the moment, sorry n.n; But i can tell you the general year, somewhere around 7000 AD, only because i haven't narrowed it down for myself yet

Darkened Soul1 wants me to keep writing, and heh, guess what? ON TO THE STORY!! _ ___________________________

Frowning absently he walked down the street, dozens of old style earth cars streamed past him unnoticed as he silently spoke to the unseen spirit drifting casually at his side, a good six inches above the sidewalk as he smiled at his hikari for some reason.

"I still don't see why you think this is so funny Yami, I'm the one going to all the trouble of tracking down this store, and going through all that irritation of setting up a bank account for the currency that I'll no doubt be needing soon...... Why didn't you tell me you knew where a game store was?"

"Because you didn't ask aibou, no need to scowl like that, you'll get wrinkles."

"I'm not scowling!" He blinked at several girls dressed in fuku (1) staring at him like he was crazy, obviously he had become distracted enough to speak outloud instead of in his head.

"Aahhh.... just talking to myself?" Smiling nervously he sidestepped the small group and quickly walked past them, mentally cursing the spirit drifting along at his side.

"Smooth, aibou, very smooth....." Yami smirked as he hovered along, turning a little to hide his mirthful expression.

"One of these days Yami, one of these days."

Stopping in his tracks he turned to look up at an impressive looking, hand painted sign hanging above one of the stores. 'Turtle Game Shop' was printed in bright, cheery letters of red bordered with yellow.

"Looks like this is the place, unless this town has more than one turtle game shop. Heh, I'd better keep my mouth shut, or it'll come true."

Grinning to himself he walked over and opened the door, a bell tingled softly to announce the entrance of a customer as he stepped inside and glanced around quickly. Rows of comic books and visual novels were shelved along one side of the store, the other half held thousands of cards, some in packs, some in pre-made decks, others in little boxes or clear, hard plastic protectors, all inside a half dozen or so glass display cases.

"Welcome to the Turtle game shop young man, would you like soem help, or are you just browsing today?" A pleasant old man wearing an orange bandana to hold back his spiky grey hair smiled from behind the counter holding the store register.

"Ah, well, I'm here to....." He cocked his head to the side for a moment, pausing in mid-sentance. "To purchase a magic based power deck, with at least two multi-creature trap cards."

The old man blinked in surprise at the request, whoever this young man was, he was in the market for a serious tournament deck, only skilled duelists asked for that sort of deck, and they prefered to construct the deck with their own cards.

"I'm afraid that I don't pre-make those sort of decks young man, though I can help you construct one from the cards I have for sale here, if you'd like?"

Yami frowned as he nodded his approveal to his hikari, obviously this geezer didn't have a deck allready made to give away, though he could probably guess why not, he was a few months too early for this event, and short one regular sized aibou. Why did he have to go for the extra large size anyway? His current aibou was nearly two feet above the average size for japan anyways.

"That'll be fine, I know a few of the cards I'll be needing, one swords of revealing light, one mirror force, a burning land, a maha vailo...." Yami jerked around to stare at him, a maha vailo was not part of the list he had given him, what was he thinking? "A black pendant, an axe of dispair, three pot of greeds, a megamorph....."

Yami smirked as he drifted over to examine the display cases, obviously his hikari had been doing some reasearch, with those cards he could create a very powerful monster indeed.

"Three white dragons, a three headed dragon, a-" A sputtering sort of cough interuppted him.

"T-three white.... you must mean Blue Eyes White Dragons... and a three headed.... my boy, those sort of cards aren't up for sale, and even if i did have them, i doubt you'd be able to affor those kind of cards....."

"Indeed" Yami drifted over to hover at his side, staring at the old man intently, if he had that sort of reaction, that must mean that the three Blue Eyes were......

"In that case, I'll need a curse of dragon, a Red Eyes Black Dragon, a winged guardian of the fortress, a dark magician, a dark magician girl, kanan the swordmistress....."

As he continued to rattle off cards the shopkeeper struggled to keep from fainting, the boy was running the bill into the hundereds! How did he intend to pay for all of this? He stared for a moment at the long haired lad before him, there was something familiar about him.... if only he could remember what......

"Reborn the monster, a magic jammer, a mystical space typhoon, a penguin soldier, a polymerization, a raigeki, a spell binding circle, a trap hole, a-"

"Yugi! Yugi my boy! I allmost didn't recognize you with your hair died like that! Don't you remember your own grandfather?"

Yami blinked several times in confusion, as did his host, Yugi? Then that would mean....

"Eh? Ah hah, jiji (2)" Again Yami blinked, he had not expected this odd turn of events to come about.

"When did you come to earth Yugi? Why didn't you call?"

"Ahhh, I would have jiji, but I was on a dig, or rather, I was looking for a dig as soon as I hit dirtside. And did I ever find something, take a look at this....." Trailing off he slipped the millennium puzzle out from under his shirt, the burnished gold glinting softly in the store lights, making the hieroglyphics seem to shimmer faintly.

"Yugi my boy, I think we'd better have a talk, let me just close the store and we'll go up into the house." Frowning, grandpa Motou walked to the front and locked the door, flipping the sign over to 'Sorry, We're Closed"

A blonde haired teen in a beaten green jacked stopped two feet shy of the door and blinked at the sign, rubbed his eyes, and blinked again.

"I coulda sworn...... Aw man, just my luck....."

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(1) Fuku- the traditional sailor suit most, if not all, schools make the female students wear

(2) Jiji- an informal japanese way of saying 'grandpa'

Well, there you go, the big secrets out, the unnamed host has been lil' ol' Yugi Motou all along, but I'll just bet you're all wondering why he didn't recognise his own grandfather huh? What about why he wasn't on earth all along? I know at least ONE of you is thinking 'whats up with his hair?' well, you'll all have to wait for my next chapter! C&C welcome, 'cuz I'm BACK BABY!!