I know I only got one review but I don't want to disappoint that one reviewer. You know who you are and I thank you from the bottom of my heart. Here for you is Chapter Two of Bloodstone.

Disclaimer: I only WISH I owned Yugi-oh seing as I don't I'll just borrow and put them through a vigerous torture session. MWAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!

Chapter Two: Helping Hand

Someone gently nudged me. My eyes fluttered open. They looked into purple ones. I sat up straighter and looked down at the old man that I had rescued last night.

I took in a breath and looked around. "I hope you slept well." He said with a small smile.

I stretched my arms above my head to get all the kinks out of my shoulder. "I slept fine. Not as well as I'm used to but.."I shrugged.

He laughed. "Well it looks like Bakura has come and gone. We might as well leave before the

doctors begin to come in."

I nodded, got up, and followed after the old man. He held his hands behind his back and hummed a silent tune. We waited for the elevator then proceeded to go down stairs.

The morning day was bright and sunny. It felt like a good day to be out and about. I smiled and tilted my face to meet the sun. "How did you find me?" He asked.

I looked down at him and was briefly reminded of my pharaoh. "I was about to leave the hospital when I heard some shuffling sounds. I went to investigate and there you were lying on the floor."

"I thank you. My name is Solomon Moto." He fidgeted slightly.

I looked about. No one in sight. I closed my eyes and called the power from within. I opened them and the everything around us froze. "I am one of your distant nieces, Alexis, and I have come to visit you. I will be staying at your home for some time."

His eyes were vacant as he nodded. I closed my eyes and the world began to move again. He closed his eyes. He smiled and reopened them. "Well, Alex, let's go home."

I smiled to see that the spell had worked. It would have to be renewed in about two weeks. Hopefully, I would be done with my chore by then.

We stopped by in the park and bought a hot dog. . He opened his store and I walked in after him. I looked around. It was a medium sized. It's walls were lined with glass cases and they held the figures of the ancient playing cards. There were also some glass cabinets that held cards. She looked at them. Most of them had the same look as the ones in the dark corridor of the pharaoh's ancient city.

"Your room is upstairs. Follow me." Nami took a door in the back of the store. It lead to a stairway which lead upstairs to the living quarters. The stairs opened up to the living room, which was small with a sofa and a tv in front. The tv was up against the back wall. He lead me down a corridor to the right of the tv. To the left of the tv was the kitchen. "This is my room." He gestured at a closed door. "This is Yugi's room." The door was opened and from what I could tell it was of normal colors.

"And this will be your room." He stopped at one of the last doors in the hallway and opened it. It was in pastel purple. Very nice. "It hasn't been used for a very long time. I hope you don't mind."

"It will due, Uncle." I walked in and could almost feel the presence of a woman. "I'll be right back. I've gotta go collect my stuff."

He nodded and left the room. I stood in the middle of the room and twirled. I stopped and walked out. He stood in the middle of the kitchen beginning to prepare for dinner. "I'll be back."

I ran down to the harbor where my private boat was situated. My captain had already undocked my luggage. "Good Day, madame. Hope everything went well."

"It did, Louis. I found who I was looking for." I picked up the duffel bag and the suite case.

"Will you be needing me to stay?" He looked anxious.

I smiled at him, "No, you can go on home. Your wife must be worried." He smiled sheepishly. He bowed his head and boarded his boat.

I walked more sedately home. The day was just to beautiful to pass up but the packs were getting too heavy so I picked up my pace. Only to find out that someone was following me. I stopped at an intersection and realized that it was too quiet for the park. I was soon surrounded by four men in purple cloaks with a gold eye.

"We would like to have a word with you, Ms. Moto." One of them said moving towards them.

"What if I say no?"

"Then we'll have to use force." They lunged towards me.

I used the duffel bag and smacked the first two guys that attacked. I picked the suite case up and used it to shield a punch. I kicked out and got another one in the stomach. The last one grabbed me from behind. I could smell his bad breath and had to scrunch up my face to keep from gaging.

I hit him in the nose with my head and then jabbed my elbow into his diaphragm. He backed away gasping and then dropped to the floor on top of his accomplices. "Hmph." and I walked away.

I made it to the shop without any other incident. I put my stuff away and came out for dinner. We ate quietly but I came up with some funny things and 'Uncle' laughed really hard. I went to bed smiling. I had found some lead to my pharaoh. Now all that I had to do was see him. I fell asleep hoping that I would soon be able to see Yami.

I helped around the shop. Sometimes selling, sometimes restocking. We also took turns making breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I have to admit I'm not a very good cook but he ate without complaint.

The news spread almost overnight. Yugi defeated Marik and Seto. He was coming home victorious. I dressed myself appropriately. I wore a sun dress that reached just above my knees. It was a nice lilac color to complement my long black tresses.

"Are you ready, Alex?" Solomon called up to me.

"I'm coming!!" I quickly braided my hair and ran down the stairs. Solomon waited at the bottom of the stairs and smiled as he saw me.

"He'll be here any minute now." He smoothed his hair back and dusted off his clothes. I smiled and went back upstairs to check on the food. It was still piping hot. I heard the slamming of a car door and raced back downstairs.

Tea, Jowy, Duke and three others walked in a group. In the middle stood Yugi /Yami. Solomon moved to open the door as I quickly stepped into the shadows.

Yugi hugged his grandfather and the others shook his hands. "Yugi, I would like to introduce you to your cousin, Alexis." he motioned for me to step out of the shadows. I walked out silently and they looked at me.

"Please just call me Alex." I said with a small curtsey.

"Hey! I remember you!" Jowy said. I put up a puzzled look hoping it would convince them. "You know, outside of the hospital?"

"Ohhh .... YEAH!!! I remember now!!" I smiled wide happy it had been a convincing act."Your Jowy," I turned to the Tea, "and Tea," I turned to Duke, "and Duke Devlin." They all nod. "But I'm not familiar with you three."

"My name is Mai." The tall blonde said she stepped forward and stuck out her hand. I took it and felt a small stab of jealousy mingled with unrequited love. I let go and she backs away.

"My name's Serenity." The girl with brownish hair stepped forward. I smile and shake her hand. I feel sisterhood and renewed hope.

"And I'm Tristan." The last one said. He stepped forward and I took his offered hand. I felt friendship mingled with compassion and a bit of a crush. Still holding my hand he said, "Hey Yugi I didn't know you were hiding a beautiful cousin."

"Neither did I." Yugi stepped forward and shook my hand. I smiled. I felt two hearts.

"Well to tell you the truth neither did your grandfather until I called him up." I let go of his hand. "I hope you don't mind but we cooked dinner and it's getting cold."

"Come one I'm STARVING!!" Jowy said. He walked to the stairs and took them two at a time. We took them more sedately. He had already seated himself at one of the places. I went to the cupboards and took more plates out. I had suspected his friends but not so many.

We began to pass around the plates full of food. We soon heard the screeching of tires and the slamming of car doors. A knock resounded throughout the house. We all stopped what we were doing.

"I wonder who that could be." Uncle Solomon said aloud. He got up from his seat but I moved to stop him.

"I'll go check, Uncle." I stood and took the stairs down. A silhouette was outlined by a street lamp from behind. I opened the door and there standing in the light stood a man and a small boy.

I opened the door slightly and peeked out, "Hello. May I help you?"

"Yes I'm here to see Yugi." He said stepping closer. Probably making sure I wouldn't close the door in his face.

"Please come in. We're in the middle of dinner at the moment, I hope you don't mind." I opened the door to them and they moved in. "May I know your names?"

"Seto Kaiba and this is Mokuba." Now that I saw them. The older one had blue eyes and brown hair. The younger had black hair and blue eyes. Well there's your family resemblance and there it ended.

"Please wait here as I go and get my uncle and Yugi." I walked up the stairs. "There is someone here to see you, Yugi."

He looked at me curiously, "Who?"

"Me." the same deep voice said. We whirled around. "I came to congratulate you. You've finally taught me that you are the best, despite all the cheap shots I've done."

"We should put that behind us. Its in the past." Yugi said. "Please sit eat."

"No thank you. I don't want to eat at your table and feel your mocking gaze even as I eat." I frowned and before I knew it his head had snapped back and his cheek was red. The others could only stand and gap at what I had done.

In a low voice only he could, I said to him, "No one speaks to the pharaoh in that tone." And in a louder voice. "I asked you to stay in the store, did I not? I'm afraid you've just lost all hospitality."

"No its fine, Alexis. I'm used to it." Yugi said.

I looked at him. "But he's in your house. He should at least show some respect."

"I just came to tell you that. I'll leave now. I wouldn't want people to start hissy fits." He said mockingly. I glared and my eyes widened. It was him. The sorcerer. The same blue eyes. The same hair. He left and I followed the little boy was looking happily at the many shelves of figurines.

"Let's go Mokuba. It seems that we're not wanted here by some." He looked at me. And walked out the door.

I looked at the boy and he smiled at me I smiled back and he skipped out the door. I locked the door behind them. For some reason the uninvited guest didn't seem to bother the rest of the evening. We had fun eating talking and laughing at one another. Half way through dinner another guest arrived. A man and a woman. Black haired and blonde blue eyed and purple. I again let them in. But they seemed more welcome than the first. I places for them and they accepted the invitation.

I watched the man. He had been named Namu when I meet him last but now it was Malik. The air was a bit tense but gradually it died down. The aura around him had gone from purple to a light blue.

Tea smiled and got up from her place and left saying something about freshening up. I followed discretely. She stood in the middle of my room. Her hands in front of her. I watched as she twirled around. In her hands the ring of the high priest. I remember it like yesterday. He always showed it to me, arrogant bastard.

"I can't find it." Her voice was unnatural. "Where did that woman hide it?" The second voice. The spirit of the ring was his! I made a loud thumping noise and Tea returned as I entered the room.

"Ohhh .... I didn't see you there." I said. I looked at her curiously. "Are you looking for something?" At this I let the light shine on my half of the necklace but immediately hid it again.

Her eyes narrowed slightly. "No, I wasn't just admiring how you changed this room."

I smiled. "Thank you." We left the room and for the rest of the evening Tea stayed close to the others avoiding me completely. They left late in the night. I wash washing dishes when the last of them called out goodbye. I finished rinsing the last dish and turned to find Yugi staring at me.

I smiled. "Hi." I said quietly. He nodded but his stare somewhat intensified.

"Who are you?" a voice, not the same from the one before, asked me. The pharaoh, it had to be the pharaoh.

"I'm your cousin. Why do you ask?" I looked at him frowning. You think I'm going to reveal myself so quickly. Phhht, no way.

"Then why have I never heard of you before." He cocked his head.

"I've never heard of you before my father and mother passed away." I saw him visibly wince. "So I was sitting at the reading of my father's/ mother's will when all of a sudden a name popped up that I did not know. Since one of the people was not present for the reading of the will it was not read." I leaned up against the sink. "I called to see who this Solomon person was and it turns out to be my uncle. I decided to spend some time here and get away from all of the executives my father worked with."

He listened as I spoke and nodded at appropriate times. I yawned, stretched, and said, "Well time seems to catch up on me. I'm going to sleep. Good night Yugi." I moved passed him and down the hall to my room.

"Good night, Alex." He called back to me. I fell asleep and dreamt strange dreams but when I awoke I would not remember them. Maybe they were memories, maybe they were visions, but whatever they were I paid them no heed.

You know what to do!! Please do it!!