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Chapter 3- Satu

Satu, a city full and bustling with people, was unusually quiet in the midmorning.

Only a few merchants were out and about so early, readying their shops for customers they would sell to during the day to earn their living. The sun had cropped up over the horizon and was starting to cover the city with its beautiful golden glow.

If a stray merchant, taking a short break from setting up, were to look out towards the Forbidden Highlands, he would see, as if in the mist from the snow, two dark figures slowly descending upon the city as its inhabitants began to stir within their homes and prepare themselves with the happenings of the day.

Yami and Nanashi had made excellent progress through the snow towards their destination. It had been quiet most of the way. Neither boys, it seemed, felt much in the mood of talking. As they began to approach Satu though, Nanashi asked something that had been bothering him since they left.

"Yami?"

"Yes, Nanashi? Is something wrong? Do you need a break?"

"No, I'm fine. I just wanted to ask you...how am I going to get home?"

"What?" Yami looked surprised. He had not expected a question such as that to be asked.

"Well, yesterday when you gave me a name, you said you did not know where I came from. Obviously that meant I don't belong here. I was just wondering how I was going to get home."

Yami did not answer right away, a thoughtful expression on his face. "To tell you the truth, I have no idea. I guess we have to figure out where you belong first before we can think of a way to send you back, but in order to do that, you have to remember."

Nanashi looked crestfallen. Yami tried to cheer him up.

"That just means that you and I will have more time to spend together, huh kid?"

Nanashi's face brightened as he smiled. "Yeah!"

"Look, we're almost to the city now."

Nanashi looked and gasped in amazement. "It looks so pretty like that with the sunrise and everything!"

Nanashi turned back to Yami to see him staring directly at him, smiling. "I know..."

Satu

By the time the two strangers reached the big city, people were out and about their businesses, buying, selling, and other forms of work. Nanashi looked around at all the people and shops, taking in everything he could. Yami, having been to Satu many times before, simply wandered around looking for his friends Jounouchi, Anzu, and Honda.

After wandering around half the city and finding no positive results, Yami turned to Nanashi to tell him something when his eyes widened in fright. Nanashi was gone! Yami turned frantically in every direction. Oh, WHY did he not pay attention to anything other than finding his friends?! Why?! Yami sprinted back from the way he came, hoping to find his smaller companion in the crowd somewhere.

After about an hour of fruitless searching, the sun had come to rest directly over the city signaling midday. Still no sign of his small look alike. There was no doubt about it...Nanashi was lost.

"Yami?!" Nanashi called in a panicked voice. "Oh no. This is not good...I have no idea where I am...how am I going to find Yami? I knew I shouldn't have looked around so much and paid attention instead."

Nanashi looked around frantically, his ears were filled with the sounds of people talking, bartering, and trading. He could smell the scent of perfume being sold from the small street shop around the corner, and all he could see in every direction was people. He was scared, to put it mildly. He just had no clue of what he should do.

Just then he noticed a disturbance behind him. He turned to look at what was going on. Some men riding horses were moving with difficulty through the crowd, trying to reach something that Nanashi could not yet see. Several people were yelling in outrage and protest because of whatever the men on horses were chasing.

Finally, out of the thick of the crowd came a boy, he looked like he was Yami's age, he had blonde hair and honey colored eyes. He was tall and lean and had a disheveled appearance, probably from running through the cluster of people, Nanashi thought to himself.

The boy looked around frantically, having lost his pursuers for the moment, he needed a good place to conceal himself and then he spotted Nanashi standing by a street shop. The boy glanced back at the men atop the horses before rushing over to Nanashi.

Nanashi was surprised when the boy rushed at him, but relaxed a bit when the boy hailed him, "Hey, Yami! We need to get out of here! Hurry, the guards are coming! They'll recognize you and try to go after you too! We need to get out of here, FAST!"

He did not know what else to do and this boy seemed to know Yami so he figured if he stuck with him he would be all right. Nanashi replied to the boy, "Um...actually, my name isn't Yami."

This was such shocking news for the boy that he stopped running and just stared at Nanashi. "What?! If you aren't Yami then who are you? You look so much like my friend."

"Well, uh...I don't really know my name, but Yami gave me the name Nanashi."

This news seemed to startle the boy even more, "So you know Yami then?"

"Yeah, I was with him earlier, but we got separated and I got lost. I've been trying to find my way back to him, but I have no idea where I am. Can you help me?"

"Uh, yeah," they started running again, Nanashi following the new boy. "I need to find Yami anyways, along with the others. My name is Jou by the way..."

"Jou as in Jounouchi? Yami told me about you. He said he was coming here to Satu to help you about something. Are those guards what he is supposed to be helping you with?"

"Um...sorta. And yeah, I'm Jounouchi, but I prefer to be called Jou. I have a question though. Why don't you know your name?"

"I lost my memory when I was attacked by some creatures. At least I think that's when I lost my memory, that's what Yami told me. I don't remember it. All I know is that I woke up in a tent with Yami there. I couldn't remember my name so Yami gave me one. Why are those guards chasing you anyways?"

Jounouchi opened his mouth to answer, but was stopped short when a guard riding a horse cut them off from the front. Jounouchi turned to look behind them to find that two of the three guards that were following him before were still on his tail. They were trapped.

Yami sighed, he was getting nowhere. He needed to find Nanashi, then get to his friends and get them out of the city before something else happened. He knew that Jou had sounded desperate in his letter and was in really big trouble. Jou had not left him any major details so he was not quite sure what was going on. All he knew was that it was not safe for him, Nanashi, or his other friends to remain in the city.

Just then he saw something that made him start. Four men riding horses were coming his way. 'Uh oh' he thought, then looked around for a place to hide. He saw an alleyway to his right and made for it. He lurked just out of sight, where he could see without being seen. He saw what the guards were after. Two youth, a boy and a girl, seemed to materialize in front of a horde of people as they ran through them.

The guards were having trouble getting through the crowd of people and Yami knew it would be some time before they caught up to the two. But catch up they would...unless Yami intervened.

As the two rushed passed the alley where Yami was hiding, he grabbed them both by the back of their tunics and pulled them into the alley with him. Immediately they both went offensive. The boy drew a sword and the girl a bow and arrow she had had slung over her shoulder.

Yami did not bother to draw a weapon, but merely stated, "Aww, come on. You weren't seriously thinking of hurting me were you?"

The girl gasped as she recognized his voice. She lowered her weapon and whispered, "Yami?! Is that really you?"

"Yeah, it's me. Now get behind me before the guards see you." The boy let the sword fall to his side, but still at ready in case he needed to fight, but the girl put the bow and arrow back where they had come from. They waited a few seconds behind Yami as he peered cautiously around the corner of the alley and pulled back as the guards passed their hiding place.

The guards went on by and Yami turned to look at his two friends once again. Anzu had blue eyes with chin length brown hair. She stood there, in her traditional orange-red armor and beige tunic and pants. Honda on the other hand was wearing brown armor to match his brow hair and brown eyes. He also had on a beige tunic and pants underneath his armor. There was, of course someone he could not help but notice was gone.

"Where's Jou?" Yami asked as his tall, best friend appeared in his mind's eye; his blonde hair hanging down in his face unlike Honda's single spike that was well out of his visage and his eyes the color of honey. Now, not only had he lost Nanashi, they had also misplaced Jounouchi as well.

Anzu and Honda exchanged a look, before answering Yami's question. "Well, uh, we kinda split up. He went one way with three guards on his tail and we went another way with those four close behind. We don't know where he is."

"Great, just great! This is just NOT my day! All right, we're going to go looking for him. Be sure to keep your eyes open for three things. One, Jou, two, guards, and three, a little kid that looks like me."

Anzu looked surprised and Honda raised an eyebrow. "He's with me, just do it, ok? I'm not in the mood to argue with you or anyone else right now."

"Touché. Alright then, let's go!"

Just then they heard a shout coming from directly in front of them. It had drifted down through the alley from one of the main streets. The voice made Yami's blood freeze.

"NO! NO! Let me go!"

It was Nanashi.

They were trapped. There was no way out of it. They could not go back or forwards and the guards would be able to stop them before they were able to zip through the alley on their left. Two of the guards maintained their positions, one in front and the other behind, but the leader...he was circling them like a tiger ready to pounce.

"Well, well, well," the man sneered at them. "It looks like we will finally be able to gather the rest of you together and soon be rid of you once and for all," he drawled.

"I don't think so! I'm not going down without a fight!"

"You can fight all you wish, freak, but the outcome remains to be that you will be taken back to where you belong."

Nanashi had no idea what was going on and was watching the exchange with mild curiosity. He had no idea why these men were after Jounouchi or what Jou could even have done to offend them so much. To him, Jou seemed like a fairly nice person. In contrast...the guards did not.

The leader gave some sort of signal and the two other guards closed in. The one that was behind them, grabbed Nanashi by the wrist while the other went for Jounouchi.

The guard holding Nanashi began to twist his arm until it hurt and he shouted, "NO! NO! Let me go!"

Jou turned to look at him, but was too busy dealing with the leader and the other guard to be able to come to his aid. The leader drew his sword and pointed it straight at Jounouchi's chest; meanwhile the other guard leveled his spear at Jou's back.

"JOU!"

Everyone turned to look down the alley to left as a shout rang through the air. It was Yami in the lead, followed closely by Anzu and Honda. All three had their weapons drawn and ready to defend their friends as they came sprinting towards the guards.

During the moment of surprise Jou managed to dodge out of the way of the leader and guard that had their weapons pointed at him and he drew his own sword in the process. His orange armor gleamed as he stepped away from the shadows of the alley and back into the light.

While Yami, Anzu, and Honda tackled the guards that had been holding Jounouchi, Jou went over to Nanashi and the guard holding him. This guard let go of Nanashi so that he could fight with Jounouchi and took out his own sword, swinging it at Jou from atop his horse. Jou dodged and shoved Nanashi aside so he would not get hurt.

The five-some, not wanting to hurt the guards, fought until an opening came for all of them to break free appeared. It was a very short "battle" and as soon as Yami, Anzu, and Honda got around the leader, they all took off down the main street as fast as they could.

"Are you ok, Nanashi?" Yami asked, running beside the small boy.

"Yeah, I'm ok. Thanks, Yami."

"No problem kiddo."

Jou and Yami exchanged a glance over Nanashi's head as they ran through alleys, behind shops, and down side streets to get away from the guards that could not fit through the tiny spaces that the group could on foot. They soon lost their pursuers and stopped in front of a group of street shops.

They stood, looking around to see if they lost the guards when a voice called to Nanashi. It was a girl with lavender eyes and long, golden locks. She wore a lavender robe that trailed all the way to the ground, to match her eyes. Nanashi looked over at her uncertainly, but walked over to her, trusting.

"Well, look what we have here! An Elemental!"

"What are you talking about?" Nanashi asked her, completely puzzled.

The girl smiled before saying, "It's no use kid, you can't hide your aura from me, but don't worry!" She winked, "Your secret is safe with me."

Just then, Yami noticed where his young charge was and walked over to the girl and Nanashi with his friends following him.

"AH! More Elementals! You must be his friends, correct?" The girl announced, but in a quiet manner.

Yami glared at the girl as if she had offended him greatly. "How did you know we were with him? And what do you mean more Elementals?"

"Well, there aren't many Elementals left are there? I figured that you would all stick together, which is how I guessed that you were with him."

"WHAT?! You mean Nanashi is an Elemental too?!"

The girl seemed surprised by this. "You didn't know?"

Yami shook his head. "How can you tell if he's and Elemental or not?"

The girl smiled, "I'm Mai the fortune teller, I am a telepathic and telekinetic Elemental, which allows me to read auras."

Yami nodded in understanding, but Nanashi was still completely confused.

"Yami, what's an El-"

"THERE THEY ARE! GET THEM!!"

Yami pushed Nanashi's head down and ducked so that the guard's arrow missed them by mere centimeters. Yami, Honda, and Jounouchi drew swords as Anzu took out her bow and arrows. Mai and Nanashi simply stayed out of the way the best they could since neither one of them happened to have a weapon on them. This left them all outnumbered, not that they knew it.

As it happened, all of the guards had managed to find each other and reformed. Finding the group of teens they had been hunting, they split up and wound their way from opposite sides through the crowds. Unfortunately for the group, they did not know about the guards that were approaching from behind until it was too late.

The three that had followed Nanashi and Jounouchi snuck up from behind and took possession of Nanashi and attempted to take Mai, but she seemed to be putting up an excellent fight, even without a weapon. Nanashi on the other hand, had no experience in fighting back and was easily captured. The only thing he could do was yell for help.

"YAMI!"

Yami immediately turned from his fight. Seeing his small look alike in trouble, he ran to the rescue...only to be stopped by the other guard that had come up from behind.

The guard holding Nanashi, not wanting to take any chances of losing his prisoner, took off, leaving his comrades to fight the group of now angry teens.

"YAMI!" Nanashi gave one more pitiful call before disappearing into the crowds.