Chapter 13 - Connections Established

A few minutes later, the rest of the gang awoke to find a smirking Seto Kaiba and a blushing-so-furiously-it-was-hard-to-tell-she-was-not-a-beetroot Crimson Streaks glaring at each other.

"What happened?" was the first question out of Téa's mouth.

"He kissed me!" Crimson cried. Yugi, Joey, Téa, and Bakura gaped at Kaiba.

"Correction. You kissed me." The staring and the Look passed to Crimson.

"You kissed first."

"But the fact is... you did end up kissing me."

"But you first!"

"It doesn't matter the order. It can be confirmed that I kissed you and you kissed me." Crimson muttered something under her breath and crossed her arms.

"Ya guys made out 'tin the Shadow Realm??" Joey demanded. "Wha'?"

"It was minor," Kaiba said.

"Minor? Minor!" Crimson was about to explode. "You know, with all the dreams I've been having, this is not the best thing to do to me!" Kaiba chuckled. Crimson clenched her teeth.

"Well, talk about exciting," Bakura said. "I surely didn't expect this."

"You think any of us did?" Yugi asked. Crimson glared at her friends and pouted.

"I hate this," she moaned. "I want to go home. First we had to escape from a madman's castle that happens to be infested with crawling vines, then we travel to the Shadow Realm to rescue people that we have no idea where they are, and lastly, the Seto Kaiba kisses me just like the dream I had just now."

"You dreamed that he would kiss you?" Téa asked. "Talk about crazy."

"It's not the first time," Crimson informed. "I've been having scary dreams for six months. The majority of them had been the same one repeated. Though, recently I have had quite a few different ones."

"Funny," Kaiba said. "For the past six months, I've been haunted by the same dream too."

"Such a coincidence," Crimson said sarcastically, glaring at him.

"You know, so have I," Yugi said. Crimson, Kaiba, and Yugi all stared at each other.

"This is creepy," Bakura said. "But...it would be even more creepy if it turns out that you all had the same dream."

"That would never happen," Crimson assured him. "It was too crazy."

"We can't be sure unless we all hear it," Téa reasoned.

"Yeah...we'd neva' know!" Crimson sighed.

"Fine, I'll tell ya'll the shortest form I can make it into." The others made a circle as if it was the start of a story time period. "Let's see...first there's this lady - who is probably me - who is crying while this guy - who looks incredibly like Yugi - throws pots at her."

"Uh..." Yugi interrupted. "My dream was that I'm throwing stuff and yelling at this black-haired woman who's pleading my forgiveness."

"I'm nowhere near the picture," Kaiba stated. "My character is pacing in my chamber because I am afraid that I will lose my honor."

"I was afraid of losing my honor too," Yugi said. "Cause my younger sister was pregnant without marriage." Kaiba stared at him.

"I was afraid of losing my honor cause I made her pregnant."

"I was the one who was pregnant. I mean, the person in my dream. It's not really me... right?" Crimson looked around nervously.

"I have no earthly clue what all this is about," Téa said. "But maybe you guys should tell anything more you know about those people."

"Well..." Crimson thought for a second. "My character looked a lot like me. She was supposedly the younger sister of the Pharaoh Atem and the girlfriend of the High Priest Seth."

"That would be me," Kaiba said. For once his voice wasn't so proud.

"Uh...what?"

"I was the Pharaoh!" Crimson gave the two boys a terrified look.

"It's a small world...isn't it?"

"So let me get this straight," Bakura said. "Yugi was the Pharaoh in the dream, Crimson was the princess in the dream, and Seto was some High Priest?"

"Go on wit' 'de dream," Joey urged.

"Okay..." Yugi continued. "Next, I told Bianca, the woman, to go away."

"I, I mean Bianca, went away."

"My character heard that she went away."

"Next, my attendant told me she went to the Nile River."

"Bianca went to the Nile River and drowned herself."

"My character was informed of her death and went immediately to the Pharaoh..."

"Continue..." Téa trailed off as Kaiba, Crimson, and Yugi looked at each other and shrugged.

"I'm afraid that's all we know," Crimson said. "Except for the bits and pieces of other dreams."

"Yes," Yugi said. "Ever since we met Crimson, my dreams have started to show more about me trying to stop Bianca from meeting with Seth."

"I remember something that happened a while ago," Seto said. "In Duelist Kingdom when I first met Crimson. She told me her name was Bianca for no apparent reason."

"Now you know why," Crimson replied.

"Yeah, I thought it was kind of strange too, being as Crimson is her real name."

"Well...no actually it isn't." Everyone suddenly turned to look at her. Brushing back a strand of her hair, she continued...

"Perhaps it has come the time when I should tell y'all the truth. I kept it hidden because I thought it wasn't important, but then I figured out with the dream and all it really was. Maybe this might help you answer some questions."

"I don' get it! Wha' are ya' sayin'?"

"Well, to start off, my name is really Yasmine. I'm in reality, related to someone you might not expect."

"Who?" Bakura inquired.

"Yugi." They all gasped and looked at their short friend.

"What? But how...how..."

"When I was young I did live with Yugi and our parents. But one day there was this flood and I was separated. By the time they found me, I had been adopted and situated with a new family. They thought it would be best if I stayed. It was three years that I lived with them after all.

"I had been searching for you, Yugi, for quite some time. When the first time I realized that the person in my dream was you, I almost couldn't wait to come to Duelist Kingdom. I felt the answers to all my questions were waiting here.

"Boy was I right. I never had so much as an adventure. I realized that the farther I got into figuring out my past, the more would be revealed. I learned things that I never thought I would. Unfortunately, it wasn't always easy.

"I've come across too many challenges in my life. My Millennium Anklet was the start of everything. It started my dreams and all the horrible accidents. I've been able to control it now for a while, but it wasn't always this way." Crimson sighed and looked around. Téa and Bakura just looked shocked at the news. Joey was staring at her like she was an alien. Yugi and Kaiba were giving each other wary glances.

"Yasmine Motou, huh?" Kaiba said. "Well, some things are just meant to happen whether you like them or not. Anyways, I'd rather have a Motou kiss me than a Wheeler." Crimson fumed.

"Ha! Very funny! I suppose you think this is a joke!" she demanded angrily. Her tone made everyone snap to attention. "Don't you get it?"

"It probably is a joke, for all I care. Right now, getting back Mokuba is all that matters to me."

"So it true then," Yugi said. "I was the Pharaoh in the past, you were Bianca, and Seto was Seth. Then it all pieces together." Crimson glared at Kaiba.

"Unfortunately so," Kaiba said.

"Now I know why Bianca committed suicide," Crimson said sarcastically.

"That brings up another point," Bakura said. "If what you all said about the dreams was true, and history truly does repeat itself... what do you think would happen this time?"

"You're right," Yugi said. "Destiny put us together to figure this out. I'm afraid the same things are going to happen."

"Then..." Crimson trailed off. Her eyes widened at the meaning. "Oh no! We have to do something. I can't die, and you two can't fight like you did. Oh! We have to prevent the past from being repeated!"

"But how?"