Disclamier: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh or any of its characters. I only own Sakura and any other OCs that show up but alas, the actual show or card game is not mine.

Chapter 8

The group awaited Sakura's awakening at Isis' hut. Kaiba paced about the room and Yami leaned against the wall. Yugi sat beside her thinking. Is Yami's real name Atem? Is Sakura going to die? And what of Kaiba? Wasn't he the one who denied his love for her in the first place? Yugi sighed and lay down beside Sakura. He was exhausted and soon fell asleep. Yami chuckled when he noticed that Yugi fell asleep.

"What are you laughing at?" Kaiba stopped pacing to look at Yami coldly. Yami smirked.

"Just at little Yugi. He's so tired that he fell asleep beside his sister." Yami chuckled more. Kaiba looked down at the ground darkly and shadows hid his eyes.

"Yami, do you love Sakura?" Yami snapped up in surprise. He didn't expect this. Yami was silent. Kaiba growled in dismay and stomped angrily out of the room. Yami shook his head side to side slowly in disdain. I'm sorry Kaiba. I can't lie about my feelings yet I can't bring myself to even confess my love for her to you. Yami sat on the bed and held Sakura's hand. He kissed her forehead lightly and stared at her lovely face. Her eyes fluttered open and her pupils dilated as they focused on Yami.

"Yami?" said Sakura sleepily. Yami smiled.

"Yes? I'm here." Sakura smiled and squeezed his hand. Would she even give him a chance?

"Yami, how much do you like me?" Yami blushed and looked away from her eyes. She giggled. Yami looked down at the ground sadly.

"Would you even give me a chance?" Sakura giggled more.

"Yami, you are strange. Thank you for caring." She drifted off into sleep again. Yami smiled and lay beside her and wrapped his arms around her. I will make her see how much I care for her. I will. Yami closed his eyes and soon he drifted off to sleep also. Kaiba stepped back into the room and saw the sleeping forms. It tore his heart apart. So, she preferred Yami to him? He stood next to the bed. His eyes showed a mixture of pain and confusion. Was it her who was leading him on? He smiled insanely and walked out of the room again towards the living room were Isis and Mokuba waited.

"Seto! Seto! Guess what?? Isis just taught me some new combos with duel monsters!" Kaiba just walked to the couch silently. Mokuba started to worry.

"Seto, what's wrong? Are you ok?" Kaiba laughed and smiled like a madman.

"Nothing Mokuba! I feel great! How about you?" His smile was malicious. Mokuba took a step back.

"Seto... You're scaring me..." Kaiba laughed loudly. Mokuba dug his head into Isis' arm, crying. Isis stroked his hair soothingly.

"It's ok Mokuba. It's all going to be alright." She cooed into his ear. Kaiba laughed more.

"Alright?? Alright?!?! Nothing is fine anymore! Nothing is ok! Life is a joke and so is Sakura! How can that two-faced bitch ever understand the consequences of this life!" He laughed more and Mokuba started to wail loudly. Sakura heard everything behind Kaiba and she looked at him blankly. Kaiba turned around when he saw that Isis was looking at something behind him. He almost yelled out in regret but she ran out of the house. Yami chased after her. Kaiba sighed heavily and sat with his face in his hands. What had he done? No, what was he thinking?? Mokuba got up and set a hand on his shoulder comfortingly. Kaiba looked up and saw him trying to make him happy. After all that he done to Mokuba, he was the one who stuck with him. He was the one who wanted him alive. He was the one who made him feel like he belonged. He hugged Mokuba closely and whispered.

"I'm sorry Mokuba. I shouldn't have yelled. I'm sorry..." Mokuba stroked Kaiba's hair like how Isis did with him.

"Sakura! Stop! Stop running away!" Yami chased Sakura all through the sand dunes. She cried, leaving a trail of tears. When Yami was close enough, he tackled Sakura. He quickly grabbed her wrists and pinned her down.

"Let me go Yami! Let me go!!" She threw off Yami and just lay there exhausted. Yami got back up and turned his back.

"Sakura, I'll be back at Isis' hut. Come back or Yugi will worry." He turned to leave but Sakura quickly got up and hugged him from behind, holding him to his place. She cried more now than ever.

"I'm sorry, Yami. I'm just confused right now and it makes me feel so helpless. I don't love you as a lover but as a friend and the person I truly love really doesn't love me! Don't you understand? This happened because you made him jelous and I don't want him to leave me just because I love you as a brother. I don't want this to happen but it already has!" She fell to her knees in tears.

"He's toying with my feelings and it hurts so much. It's hard to not run away when the thing you love is leaving you behind..." Yami picked her up and took her back to the hut. Sakura cried herself to sleep and snuggled to his body.

"I'm sorry I caused you so much pain. It wasn't my intention." Whispered Yami quietly.

Kaiba sat on a bed as he waited for Mokuba to finish washing up. He had already bought the plane tickets back to Domino City for everyone. He couldn't wait till he could leave behind all of this. Yami walked in with a sleeping Sakura. Her face still had tear stains and Yami looked like he got hit with a train. He set her on the bed where Kaiba sat and stood in the entrance to the room.

"You won. Her heart is yours. Break it more than it already has, then you'll regret ever having doing so." Said Yami without looking back. Kaiba chuckled.

"Your wrong. Her heart is no ones to give. She's playing a little game and leading everyone on and breaks their heart to the point were they want to die." Yami smirked.

"That's what you think. When she finally opens up her heart to you, then you will understand." Yami walked away to go find Yugi and Isis. Kaiba looked at Sakura and poked her arm really hard. She jolted upright raising her arms like she was trying to protect herself from being hit. When she saw Kaiba she quickly lowered her arms and apologized. Kaiba looked at her with cold blue eyes.

"We leave soon. Wake up and be ready in a few hours." Kaiba got up and leaned against a dresser. Sakura looked at him sadly. She opened her mouth to say something but then closed it thinking it better not to say it. Kaiba saw this and smirked.

"What are you going to say? Finally got to scared of me to say something?" Sakura just looked at him blankly and got up. She went to walk out of the room but Kaiba snatched at her arm.

"I'm sorry about earlier today. I was angry and I shouldn't have said that." Sakura nodded.

"Now can you let go of me? You are hurting my arm." Kaiba sighed and let go. He watched Sakura walk out of the room. Kaiba looked out of the window sadly and talked to no one in particular.

"If only I haven't said those things then she wouldn't question my love for her." Mokuba was in the room when he heard that. He slowly crept towards Kaiba, trying not to show that he was in the room.

"Sakura, please forgive me and my damn anger. Please don't hate me for my foolish mistake." Mokuba hugged his brother's legs. Kaiba looked down surprised. He kneeled down and hugged him back.

"Mokuba, let's go now. It's going to be late."

"Sakura, are you ok?" Yami sat next to her on the couch. When she walked out of the room looking really sad, he couldn't help but try to cheer her up. Sakura hardly glanced at him at all. He sighed frustratingly. Yugi was sitting on the opposite couch looking at her. He knew Sakura won't talk that's why he only watched. Yami was going to put an arm around her to try to comfort but thought better of it. Don't try to steal what's not yours Yami. Sakura stood outside. It was dark. A torch was lit beside the doorway. Isis came out of the darkness. Her hair was plaited back like usual and she still wore that white robe.

"The future is not decided, Sakura." Sakura smirked. She just lost the man she loved, knew she was going to die, and everything was going as it did in the past. How can she change it?

"Your wrong Isis. I can't change what is destined to happen. That is only delaying what is to come." Isis only watched her with that cool expression. Sakura turned around to walk away and disappeared into the darkness.

"Your wrong my Queen. Only you can change what is to come. That is only one of the many paths you may take."

Kaiba walked out of the hut with Yugi, Yami, and Mokuba. They stood beside the doorway and Isis came out.

"Where's Sakura?" asked Kaiba ruffly. Isis looked at him with an even expression.

"She left. She's not going back Kaiba." Kaiba blew up.

"WHAT?! WHEN DID SHE LEAVE? WHERE DID SHE GO? WHY DIDN'T YOU STOP HER??" Kaiba held Isis by her shoulders, his heart pounding. Isis only stayed quiet and looked at him with her cool demeaner. Kaiba realizing how he's mistreating her, quickly let go.

"I'm sorry." Mumbled Kaiba. Isis brushed off her dress like his hands dirtied her.

"She left last night. She's running away from the suffering that's adding onto the suffering that she originally has to endure. I will never stop my Queen from anything she doesn't want me to be involved with." A dark shadow was across Kaiba's face. He spoke low but clear enough for everyone to hear.

"Isis, which way did she go?" Isis pointed to her right. In the distance he only saw brown mountains that wasn't very high. He knew in there lay the Valley of the Kings.

"Can you watch Mokuba?" Isis nodded. Kaiba ran off towards the Valley of the Kings. Yami looked over at Isis and nodded then ran off after Kaiba. Yugi just followed without delay.

Kaiba walked slowly in the glare of the sun. It was hot and he was sweating profusely. Kaiba looked around and saw an oasis. He blinked and the oasis disappeared.

"Great. Now I'm hallucinating like a drug addict." He only walked a few more steps and collapsed to his knees. Yami helped Kaiba up.

"Come on. Sakura needs you." Kaiba looked at who helped him up. When he saw that Yami and Yugi were there, he almost fell over again.

"Yami? Yugi? When did you started following me?" Yugi and Yami both smiled but Yami was the one who answered.

"Not long after you. Now come. We can waste no time." Yugi handed Kaiba a jug of water. Kaiba took it happily and drank to his heart's content then capped the container.

"Thank you Yugi." He handed the jug back to Yugi who carried it awkwardly. They continued to walk but faster now. When they reached the entrance, they were exhausted and the stars already was like a million immobile fireflies.

"Maybe we should camp out." Yami stopped Kaiba with a hand on his shoulder. When Kaiba heard Yami's proposal, he turned around and smacked away the hand.

"I will not delay any longer. I will find her now. Not later. Not tomorrow but now." With that said, Kaiba turned back around and walked faster towards the entrance of the Valley. Yami and Yugi just stayed were they were.

"Kaiba, it would be suicide to go when it's still dark. If we want to continue, we should at least have a torch." Said Yugi with concern dripping from his tone of voice. Kaiba twirled around irritatedly.

"Dammit! Ok! Fine! But we leave early tomorrow morning then!" Kaiba sat on a rock not to far from them. Yugi slept with his head on Yami's lap and Yami was staring up at the stars, deep in thought.

"Yami, what is between you and Sakura?" Yami looked away from the sky to see a seriously pissed off looking Kaiba.

"Nothing at all. I told you that she doesn't want me. Her heart she has already given to you." Kaiba smirked.

"And I already said her heart is no ones to give. It's not an item you freely give away. I've toyed with her feelings and that alone is enough to rule me out of her love interests." Kaiba had a sad tint in his eyes but Yami refused to comment on it.

"Kaiba, if only you'd understand what's happening. She loves you. She told me she loves you but you are the one who is denying her feelings and yours too. Just try to understand what's happening. Please..." Yami looked down to gaze into Yugi's innocent sleeping face. Yami sighed.

"Yami, it is you and her who does not understand. I know you love her more than a friend and her interests are not on me anymore. I fucked that up already. There is no love to give me anymore." Kaiba got up and walked to the entrance of the Valley of the Kings. He gazed into the darkness deep in thought.

"Kaiba.... If only you knew..." Kaiba turned when he heard Yami but only saw both Yami and Yugi sleeping. Kaiba sighed and went back to the boulder and slept also.

Sakura walked in the darkness while rubbing her arms to gain warmth. Her breath came out in cloudy whisps before her. She turned wherever her heart told her. Maybe I'll find someplace where my heart will be content and my life soon to be at peace. She walked into a wall, bumping her head.

"Owww! Dammit, I knew I should've brought a fucking flashlight!" yelled Sakura who rubbed her forehead trying to ease the pain. She felt along the wall and a brick went in at her touch. The floor rumbled and she fell into a hole in the ground that opened beneath her. She screamed as the darkness soon took her.