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Billiard ball of answers

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After hearing Yami beneath her it shocked her causing her to fall backwards to the ground. The wind drove through her soft hair and she shut her eyes and she waited to meet the ground in a heap but it never came.

She landed into two strong arms, Yami chuckled, "you can open your eyes." He said and she peeled her eyes open to see Purple eyes of supremacy. Yami was now holding her bridal style (not new, Eheh) and she blushed. "By the way you're it." He smiled triumphantly as he set her on the ground.

"Thank you Yami...you always manage to save me." Tea smiled and backed up into the tree to rest and feel the ground. She looked down at the grassy and twig covered ground, 'what a fall that wound have been.' She thought

Yami lost all control of himself when he reached out to move Tea's hair from her face. She looked up at him under her eyebrows and smiled. He placed on hand on her cheek making her look up. "I will always be here to protect you." He whispered in her ear and she quivered at the warm feeling his breath left on her ear.

Tea became very nervous and decided to play a little trick; "Look out Yami!" she pointed behind him, "Birds." Yami turned to look in fear, and Tea use that time to get away. Yami curved back around in search of Tea but she was gone.

Tea ran through the park and to the jungle gym to hide under a slide. Her back was turned to the darkness, as she looked out form the arch of the slide to see if Yami was coming.

"Anzu." Marik's cold voice came as he pressed the top part of the rod to her back. With one hand her reached around and covered her mouth as he pulled her deeper into the darkness of the slide. "You have disobeyed me, now you must be punished. He held the rod to her forehead, "I hate to take control of your mind again but I can't have you running around helping the Pharaoh now can I?" he asked and felt Tea's tears as they hit his hand.

"Don't cry my dear it wont hurt and you will be aware of your actions the whole time, this way you can feel the pain you will cause your friends." He said the word friends with malice as he uttered words that Tea didn't understand. "You will not know how to control this darkness I give you...Sorry my princess." Marik said it insincerely.

Tea could feel her will being pushed away from her heart. The darkness grew and she felt like killing herself. In an instant the pain was gone as was Marik.

Yami walked passed her and Tea jumped out to tackle him. "Got you." She said

"Tea, there you are." Yami laughed, "You lied about the birds." He smiled

'What should I tell the Pharaoh? Perhaps that you hate him?' the darkness spoke. 'No don't.' Tea screamed in her mind. "Yeah and?" Tea said and stood up, "I gotta go, see ya when I see ya wouldn't wanna be ya." Tea walked off.

Yami blinked and mind linked to Yugi :: what happened?::

:: She is acting weird again:: Yami said

::I Wonder what is wrong with her, maybe she is sick?:: Yugi said

::I Have a dark feeling about this:: Yami said :: you know that Marik is still on the loose::

::What are you getting at?::

::You'll see. I have a feeling we will find out soon enough::

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Tea ran home as fast as she could, her will seemed to come back to her the moment she left Yami at the park. 'He said he would always protect me...but how can he if he can't see this demon within my heart?' Tea started to cry

"Tea?" Bakura walked up to her with somber eyes, "are you okay?" he asked

"Fine..." Tea could feel the demon return to her heart, "what do you care...just go away." Tea yelled and covered her mouth and ran faster.

'My dear princess, you can never talk to your friends so long as the demon is within you. You will have your will power only when you are alone. You will learn to live alone with your tears, you should have listened to me and stayed away from the Pharaoh, now you will pay the price and you will never see your friends again unless you want to hurt them.' Marik's voice came through her mind.

"No!" she screamed, she needed her friends, they were all she had to believed to think of it why did she care for friends so much? Perhaps it was because she used to be dark, she used top push her friends away until someone...Yugi showed her what a friends was. She loved Yugi for that and hated him for now she could not be with her friends ever again.

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As the day faded to night Yami and Yugi entered the soul room, Yugi sat in the doorframe of his innocent room while Yami sat in the doorframe of his complex room. "This is the only place where we can truly be safe." Yami said

"So what do you think is wrong with Tea?" Yugi asked while turning the squares of a Rubix cube, "maybe she needs a party."

"I don't think so." Yami smiled as Yugi's face twisted in annoyance at the Cube. "You have to turn the one in the middle to the left." Yami said

"Oh you think you can figure this out?" Yugi asked tossing him the cube.

Clack clack clack, Yami held up the colorful cube and turned it so that Yugi could see the colors of the cube, all yellow, all green, all blue, and all orange, all purple, and all red.

"Shut up." Yugi said and picked up another toy from his soul room.

"Don't worry about Tea, just keep an eye on her and tell me if she starts to act weird again." Yami said putting his head back to lean on the doorframe. "I hope she is okay."

Yugi blushed, "I knew it..." Yugi said looking down at a magic eight ball. He flipped it over and asked another question in his mind and turned it around once more and smiled, "hahaha."

"What is that ridiculous contraption?" Yami asked

"A magic eight ball." Yugi shrugged and tossed it to him, "look at the side with the eight and ask it a yes or no question then flip it." He said

"Will..." Yami looked at Yugi

"Go on, it's fun." Yugi smiled "you don't have to say it out loud if you don't want to." He said

Yami nodded 'will I ever find out how to protect Tea?' he asked in his head and flipped the ball over. "Ask again later?" he read. "How is this magic?"

"It's not the magic that you are familiar with, sometimes people need answers, even if they may not be true." Yugi smiled "it's getting late, keep that with you, it seems that you always need answers." Yugi winked "hope you fine them." he said and disappeared