. Erased .

"Hey Ryou!" I ran up to the white haired boy.

"Hello. How was your date?" he gave me a weak smile.

"That date was one of the worst ones I've had. He didn't even tell me about that other girl, that fucking player." I tried not to express my anger too much.

Ryou stayed quite. I looked at him intensely trying to read his mind but of course nothing happened.

"Where's Yugi and everyone else?" I broke the silence while looking around.

Ryou looked at me finally. "Yugi's battling some guy from another city right now."

"Come on let's go watch." I felt like doing something fun.

Ryou led me to an alley where Yugi and everyone were. A man about his twenties was battling Yugi.

I looked at Yugi closely: It looked like Yugi except he was a bit taller, had different clothes on, and seemed more confident in himself.

"Hello Ash. How was last night?" Tea asked me when I came to the crowd.

"Hi, the date was horrible. What's with Yugi looking like that?" I pointed at him.

"Don't know but he thinks it has something to do with the millennium puzzle piece he has." Tea went back to watching the match and cheering on Yugi.

The match went on for about five minutes from when I arrived there and of course Yugi won. Everyone was around talking about the match while Yugi picked up his cards from a machine the man had brought with him.

"Hey can I talk to you?" I asked the new Yugi.

He looked up at me but didn't say anything, only stared into my eyes. I looked into his eyes; they were purple eyes just like in my memories. Suddenly they changed to maroon eyes and the old Yugi appeared in front of me.

"Why are staring at me like that?" he asked in his usual voice.

"Nothing just thought you were someone else for minute, someone from my past." I mumbled to him and walked off as quick as I could.

It was lunch time and I was sitting under a tree with Ryou.

"Ryou?" I asked.

"Yes." He answered with his soft voice.

"Does Yugi have a split personality or something?" my question wasn't phrased well.

"What do you mean?" Ryou gave me a strange look.

"I don't know, he reminds me of someone else, someone from my past but I never saw Yugi before. He's eyes turned purple then back to maroon but I feel like I knew the purple eyes for a long time." I tried not giving away all my thoughts.

"Maybe you're remembering someone who had purple eyes and were reminded of them when you looked at Yugi." Ryou thought a minute. "But with the eyes turning a different colour maybe it was the light."

"Maybe." I muttered but I knew what I saw.

That day I couldn't get that off my mind. It even got me in trouble in class with the teacher.

'Why would his eyes change colour? What was I remembering? Why can't I let this go? Who is this other Yugi?' questions lingered in my mind.

"Miss Moony wake up!" the teacher yelled.

I quickly came out of my daze. People around me were snickering and everyone was looking at me. I tried hiding my face under the desk.

"Well before I yelled at our little daydreamer." The teacher glared at me. "Your homework tonight is to write a poem about someone. Try not to make fun of the person. It can be anything about the person just don't give the name of the person."

The bell rang and class finally ended.

"Who are you going to do your poem on?" Tristan asked me.

"I don't know, maybe my horrible date from last night." I laughed thinking about the many possibilities for that topic.

"Who did you go out with last night anyway?" Joey jumped into the conversation.

I really didn't want to tell them but they were all staring me while we walked through the school gates. I gave a heavy sigh, my head bent down.

"Ash!" someone called my name catching my attention.

I looked around and spotted Malik coming towards me. I ignored him hoping he would get the message but I knew he wouldn't.

"Ash wait." Malik grabbed me from behind.

Joey almost automatically got his hand off me and stood in between us ready to fight.

"Ash I want to talk to you." Malik said as he gave a cold look to Joey.

"I heard enough last night and if you want to talk go ahead but you're talking to deaf ears." I stated coldly.

"This is who you were with last night." Joey said in surprise.

I nodded to him. "Go ahead and talk Malik but I really don't want to hear the excuse."

"I didn't call her I swear. Melina sometimes says I do things when I don't." he nearly pleaded.

I shook my head at him and turned around to start walking. Malik pushed by Joey and grabbed my arm roughly. He eyes were cold like they would kill me. He grabbed my other arm then pulled me into him and kissed me on the lips. I struggled to brake free of his grip, after a couple of seconds my right arm was free. I slapped Malik across the face. I felt something crake in my wrist when I hit him. Malik's face was crimson red where I hit him. I felt the pain spread through my arm.

"Never do that to me again! Don't you get the message that I don't want to see you!" I shouted coldly and stalked off.

Malik didn't come after me this time just should there holding his face. Everyone came running behind me. The pain in my wrist spread to my arm and was so painful I dropped to my knees. Tears leaked out of my eyes, I couldn't help it the pain hurt, a lot.

"Ash are you alright?" Tea asked in a worried voice.

"No." I clenched my teeth. "I think something's wrong with my wrist."

"Well you hit him pretty hard." Tristan inputted.

"I know, I can feel it." More tears came out of my eyes. "I got to get home."

I kept my teeth clenched together and started walking home. No one said anything to me and no one objected to me of doing what I did. I was starting to feel glad my aunt was a doctor because I knew something was broken.

That night I spent four hours waiting to get a cast on my wrist. During my wait I wrote my poem for class the next day.

"How did you do this?" my aunt's colleague asked, looking at my wrist intently.

"Slapped someone across the face as hard as I could." I laughed, making me sound proud of what I did.

"What did they do?" he asked.

"Let's see. He didn't tell me the truth and tried lying to me. Grabbed both my arms and kissed me. So I broke free and let him have it." I laughed out loud this time.

He frowned at me for doing that. I didn't care I was still kind of thinking about Yugi. When I arrived home I saw the uniform on top of a chair. It was the guys uniform for school.

At school the next day I didn't talk to anyone probably because I didn't really want to. My poem was done (luckily) or I would have to stay after school like one of the other people in the class. Names were getting picked randomly out of a hat. I felt sorry for the first person who read theirs. She was so nerves she almost fainted while reading it. The class had thirty people in it, and so far fifteen were done in the first half hour of class. Yugi, Tristan, Tea, and Joey already had gone. Ryou and I waited for our names to be called out.

"Ryou, you're up." The teacher called his name from a little slip of paper.

Ryou went up and read his poem beautifully but I couldn't place who it was about. Within forty- five minutes three quarters of the class had gone. I waited quietly while everyone around me was called.

"And last but not least is Ash." the teacher smiled at me. "Whenever you're ready."

I took in a breath. "Erased by Ash Moony,

When looking into your eyes,

I could tell when you told a lie.

Forbidden love that was always true,

I promised one day I would be back with you.

You died to keep peace within your land,

But before you left touched me with a soft hand,

You said, "Until that day."

I thought I saw you one day in the streets,

Although our eyes hardly meet

You seem different in a way,

Not the person I knew who looked out towards the bay.

Many millennia's have past since I saw your sweet face,

When I finally did you were the ace.

I try to talk to you but get tongue tied.

I don't think you remember me as well as you use to,

Because your memory seems sort of erased."

I breathed easily again trying not to cry. I waited for someone to say something.

"That was excellent Ash." The teacher clapped.

Everyone followed her lead and clapped. I give a weak smile to the teacher.

"Who was that poem about?" she asked as the clapping died down.

"Someone I knew from my past life that I found but doesn't seem to remember me." I ruefully answered.

"Who is it?" a guy called out his question.

I didn't answer him only went to my seat and sat back down. The teacher gave us more poems to write for homework, this time they were about anything.

"I want them ready for Monday. You can work together in groups but no two poems are to by alike." The teacher sat at her desk and started reading something.

Someone pulled a chair up to my desk. I looked up at them and sighed. Ryou was sitting beside me.

"Who was your poem about?" I asked in curiosity.

His eyes darted away from me. "A girl I like." he had said in a small voice.

I said in surprise. "Really, who is she?"

Ryou stayed quiet and didn't look at me but he's cheeks started going red.

"Fine be secretive, I'll find out sooner or later." I said with I sly voice.

The white haired boy blushed even more. I was thinking of all the girls that Ryou would like but the Pharaoh was still nagging in the back of my mind. I looked to where Yugi was sitting; I sat with my head on the desk just staring at him. I snapped out of my daze after a few minutes.

"So what are you going to write about for your poems?" I asked Ryou, turning my attention back to him.

He shrugged.

"I think I know what I'm going to do mine on." I smirked and started writing.

Ryou sat and watched me try to write a poem. I started mumbling and singing to myself to get my thoughts going. Ryou just sat watching and hearing everything I did.

Class ended and we all left.

I didn't bother rushing home because no one was there. My uncle, ante, and cousin were all out of the country visiting some people for the weekend and since I didn't want to go they left me at home by myself. I slowly walked home, one step at a time.

"Ash." Yugi ran up to me.

For once in his life he was alone and not with his friends. I looked at him and smiled thankful we were alone for once. He smiled back.

"Hey you want to come over to my house and have dinner?" I asked slowly.

"Sure, just give me your address and I'll have my grandpa give me a ride over." He smiled widely.

"Cool. Can you see if the others want to come as well, I'm kind of alone tonight and I really don't want to be." I told him, which was almost the whole truth.

"Sure."

I heard a shuffle of feet behind me. I turned around and found Ryou following us.

"Ryou, do you want to come to dinner at my place tonight?" I asked with a smile.

His face started turning red and he nodded. So I wrote down my address twice and gave it to them then hurried home.

I started preparing dinner once I got home. There was an appetizer, a main dish with a side dish, dessert, and tons of munches. At half past five the door bell rang. I ran to the door and slide on the floor, falling on my ass. I stood back up and opened it. Yugi and everyone else were standing there.

"Come on in." I said to them, moving aside.

They walked in and looked around at the place.

"Nice place." Joey told me in awe.

I just smiled nervously.

"Well, we shouldn't let dinner get cold. Follow me to the dinning room." I lead them to the dinning room where everything was ready and waiting.

"Did you go all out or what?" Tristan whistled when he saw everything.

"No, just some minor adjustments." I smiled slightly. "Now please have a seat."

They all took a seat, I looked around.

"Where's Tea?" I asked not seeing a girl among the group.

"She started to feel sick after school so she didn't come." Yugi informed me.

"Well, then let's eat." I sat down among me friends.