PP: In my other story I had a request for short Author's notes. As long as no one complains in this one....MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! You shall suffer at the hand of my lame humour!!!

YPP: Hey, torturing people is my specialty!

PP: You just lost your job.

Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh, ok? I don't own it, now buzz off.

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Yami is the spirit within the millennium item, and Hikari is the rea person.

//Yami talking to Hikari or vice versa unless outside of soul chamber//

/Zuzumea's thoughts in the dream/

~*Start/end of a dream*~

Zuzumea barely paid attention during class that day. Luckily, she didn't need to, since it was Sports Day. All they talked about was sportsmanship. It would have been very boring if Joey and Tristan didn't keep cracking stupid jokes. Not to mention they got detention for making funny faces when Sensei was talking about the Olmypic Games of 1998. Yugi did his best, but she wouldn't let them off the hook. Zuzumea smiled as she had a fleeting suspicion of Yugi being the teacher's pet, as she "adoringly" agreed to move the detention to tomorrow.

After school, with a slight shudder, Zuzumea noticed that Bakura was coming along as well. She didn't know that much about Ryou Bakura yet, but she had a sense of foreboding. "Is Ryou coming along as well?" She asked Yugi, trying to hide the coolness in her voice. He acknowledged it with a nod. "They're regulars at Grandpa's shop." He replied cheerfully. "Joey and Tristan mostly look at cards. I think Tea likes Tristand and Bakura likes to check in with Duel Monster news." He paused, obviously thinking about whether he should tell her more or not. "Another girl, Mai Valentine, comes here a lot as well." He said finally, blushing. No more was discussed.

"Why do you live with your grandfather?" Zuzumea asked. As soon as she said she wanted to slap herself. What an unsensitive question! What if the parents were dead, or divorced, or if Yugi was adopted? But it wasn't as bad as she thought. "They're archeologists." He stated simply, his voice losing a bit of its happiness. "They come home twice a year, on my birthday and on Christmas. Sometimes I wish my birthday was closer to Christmas so they could skip the space in between and stay here, but that's impossible." He looked a bit embarassed, and showed her the pay phone near the school.

"Sure honey!" Her mom told her when she asked for permission. "Just be back around six, all right?" Zuzumea grunted, then quickly caught up with her friends. Tea looked at her goodnaturedly. "Do your friends have a nickname for you?" Zuzumea winced slightly, but no one took notice. Nobody at her old school liked her that much. She kept dropping hints about the future, without telling them why. When it came true, they branded her a freak. "You can call me Z." She told the group. How she missed her childhood friend Zoey. They were the Z-team.

"Cool name!" Joey commented enthusiastically. "So, uh, Z, do you play Duel Monsters?" Tristan poked him in the ribs. "Of course she does, you doofus, she has a millennium item! All item bearers duel! Am I right, Yugi?" Zuzumea smiled as talk turned towards the load of homework they'd been given. "Grandpa! I'm home!!!" Yugi hollered as he threw his schoolbag beside the coatrack in the Kame Gameshop. "Yugi, come here!" A raspy but lively voice called to him from the back room. The others hastily set down their backs and hurried to the back room.

"The well-known inventor of Duel Monsters, Mr. Maximillion Pegasus who was recently beat by a twelve-year old, Yugi Motou, has taken ill at a private hospital in Swiss." The TV announcer stated, shuffling his papers. "Doctors confirm that Mr. Pegasus will recover in two or three months. Until then, no new Duel Monsters prducts will appear, but he does intend to design some new cards as powerful as the all-mighty Blue Eyes White Dragon, of which there are only four. Three of these cards are in possession of the formere Champion, Seto Kaiba, who was alson beaten by Yugi Motou. A new line of game products will be published in corporation with Duel Monsters, called Dungeon Dice Monsters. More on that later tonight. In Bangledesh..."

Mr. Motou switched the TV off and turned to the friends. "Do you know what got into him?" He asked Yugi, who shook his head, although he looked nervous. He was looking at Joey. "Dungeon Dice, huh?" Joey nodded darkly. "So *duke* Devlin made it with Pegasus." He muttered sarcastically. For a while there was silence, as all of them presided over their own thoughts. Zuzumea, for one, didn't know what they were talking about, and was just about to say so when Mr. Motou saw her.

"A new face!" He exclaimed happily. "So Yugi, who's this new friend of yours?" He inquired. Yugi grinned and introduced her. A second later, they were interrupted by a bell in the front lobby. Mr. Motou pushed past them and glanced at his shop. A little boy around Yugi's age, with black hair and a blue bandanna was standing ther, looking around. "Mokuba!" Yugi called when he saw who it was. Another girl walked out from behind him. She was wearing purple skirts, a white top and a purple jacket to match. Blond hair billowed down, almost completely covering her earings. "Mai!" Yugi called once more.

The group filed out. As everyone was caught in the rush, Zuzumea stopped Yugi for a while. "'Um..." she began, not sure on how to do this. "Um, my Yami wants to talk to yours...." She muttered awkwardly. A surprised expression came across his face, but he nodded. After everyone was settled down, he told his friends to grab a drink while he showed her the house.

They made a break for upstairs. Locked in Yugi's room, which was decorated with pictures of Duel Monsters Holograms, his friends, (of Seto Kaiba looking extremely murderous with ice cream splattered over his coat) of Dark Magicians, and other things. He sat down on his Dark Magician bed and motioned for her to do the same. "I'm assuming you know how to summon your Yami?" Zuzumea asked. "Or do you just talk with him in your soul chambers."

Yugi noddd, and for a second they were both blinded as two look-alikes appeared beside them. "Thank you, Zuzumea." Phire Phoenix/Asophyre said. "If you don't mind, I'd like to talk to the pharaoh alone. The Hikaris shrugged. Yugi gestured for Zuzumea to go first, then he locked the door behind him. True to his word, he led her around the house.

***In Yugi's locked room***

Asophyre swept a bow.

"Long time, no see, my lord." She said calmly. Yami seemed totally taken aback by her forwardness. True, he had hoped to talk to her, but not this soon. After all, in ancient Egypt, they were lovers, even betrothed. But Bakura had ruined it all.

"Hello, Asophyre, or should I say, Phire Phoenix." Yami whispered.

Asophyre nodded, then proceeded right onto business. "What are we to do with him?" She asked matter-of-factly. "Bakura, I mean." Yami sighed. "He's already tried to take over several bodies. He currently resides in Ryou's body, and I have reason to believe that he stole the millennium eye from Pegasus. Shidi was already inquiring about him." (A/N: I know in the series, Yami doesn't know too much about other item-bearers, but let's just say he had a memory loss during the three thousand years and now he remembers everything, all right?)

Asophyre both shuddered and smiled. Shidi was her mentor in the palace, while Pegasus was always trying to court her. "The present Pegasus is in love with the memory of his late wife, Cecilia." Yami informed her, breaking into her thoughts. She grinned at him sheepishly, recollecting his ability to read her mind. She had a particularly weak mind, and when they formed the two extra millennium items, hers, the pen, was linked to the puzzle. "Don't tell me you've forgotten our special link." He said, reading her thoughts once more.

She was just about to reply when a cold void swept through the room and Yami Bakura (hence on Bakura) appeared.

"So...." He said silkily. "Welcome to the future, my dear."

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PP: Longest chapter in a long time. First chapter in a long time in this story.

YPP: Good, you've stopped singing.....(refer to my Harry Potter story, chaper 23, when it's out)

PP: Oh yeah, Medecine go down, Medecine go down.....Under the sea, Under the sea, darling it's better....

YPP: SHUT UP!!!