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mariks1andonly: Thank you for your support. (grins) And happy belated Halloween to you too!

ANAYAS-CREATER- Certainly!

SGCred- Don't worry, I got it, I just haven't been able to email you in a while. (smiles) It's really good! And Yugi wanted me to add that he can't wait until the stork comes in your story, if you know what I mean. (winks)

MysticChaos- Yeah, poor Suzu, ne? (cries) I feel so heartless by doing this to my chars like this...

Rainbow Guardian Angel- Don't we all, girl? (grins evilly) Khayer shall most definitely suffer for his crimes. And you can decide what her parents thought, I guess. (sweatdrop) Yeah, Khayer's job is to an inbecile, but there is more to it, whether you were thinking there was or not. (winks) And Sahara didn't know Atem was alive until right then when Leila told her.

RobinIV- Then you will like this chapter! (smiles) And more Atem-Sahara stuff will happen in the next chapter.

ice suzaku- Only three fics to update sounds great to me, but I think the most I'd be able to trash are three, which leaves me with five. (cries) Ah, well. (grins) My creativity overwhelms me at times. And I'll update again soon.


Chapter Two: "Hippie Girl"?

Domino, Japan: Burger World Restaurant

POV: Yami Yugi (a.k.a. Atem)

"Yami...Yami. YAMI!"

"Huh?"

I looked up at Joey, who had been waving his hand in front of my face for the last few seconds.

"You in there, buddy?" Joey asked, "You kinda drifted off...again."

I blushed. "Sorry, Joey...I can't help it...I've been getting these weird dreams at night and they've seemed to stay with me..."

"What are they about?" my blond friend asked.

"Well...there's a girl..."

"Ooh!" Joey grinned goofily, "Looks like you were quite the ladies' man in Egypt..."

"Shut up!" I snapped playfully.

Joey laughed. "Sorry, bud. Go on."

"This girl...she's like a cat, almost, she's got white fur and ears like one...Anyway, I see her, and I keep hearing this name over and over again, 'Atem.' It must be her voice, and she seems to be calling for someone... Then I find myself in a tomb, and all on the walls are pictures of me with another girl with brown hair and blue eyes...I seem to be teaching this girl something...I hear this name, 'Suzu.' Then the name slowly starts to sound like, 'Sahara,' like the desert, you know? I hear the female voice say, 'I shall find you again...' And I find myself say words in return, 'I'll worship you forever...' And then I wake up."

Joey frowned. "Whoa...major."

"What do you make of it?" I asked.

"Probably a memory of Egypt," Joey said.

I anime-fell out of my seat.

"Of course!" I snapped, "What else would I have dreamed about?"

Joey sweatdropped. "Good point."

"Hey, hippie girl, what's your problem?" I suddenly heard a voice say, "I just wanna play!"

My ears perked up, and Joey looked up also.

"I think that's Slim Duman," he told me.

"The Head of the Football team?" I asked, remembering what Yugi had told me about him, "Doesn't he pick on girls randomly or something?"

Joey nodded. "Yeah, that's him."

He frowned as he tried to see where Slim's voice was coming from. "I wonder who he's picking on..."

"I-I don't want any trouble," a female voice attempted to sound confident, "I have to go home."

That voice...I'd heard that voice somewhere before...

/Yugi?/ I asked through our mind link, /Is that a classmate of yours?/

No, Yugi replied.

"Oh, I think you can wait," Slim chuckled, "Just a few minutes, that's all I ask..."

I felt furious for a reason I could not name. How dare he threaten that girl like that!

"I don't want any trouble," the girl repeated, "Just get out of my way!"

"Oh, I think you're in my way," Slim said in amusement, "And I don't want you out of it."

Joey and I looked at each other very quickly, nodded, and then started to follow the voices down into a dead-end ally.

Slim was blocking her from our line of vision, but the girl he was hurting was obviously around Yugi's age.

"Hey, Slim!" Joey called, "I would've thought you'd get a girlfriend already and stop picking on girls you don't know!"

Slim turned around and smirked at Joey.

"I'm trying to make one right here," he said coolly, "But my hippie girl is a little skittish."

"I'm not your girl!" the girl yelled, trying to pull her wrist out of his grip, "Let me go!"

I saw she had long brown hair and was wearing a tie-die shirt and jeans (hence the nickname of "hippie girl"), but her face was still in shadow.

"Not until we've had some fun," Slim laughed.

My eyes narrowed, and I stepped in front of Joey.

"Let her go," I whispered coldly.

Yami, what are you going to do? Yugi asked nervously.

/Anything I need to in order to get this loser away from that girl,/ I snarled back.

Be careful, Yami, Yugi warned me.

Slim smirked. "Do you think you scare me, Mutou?"

"Maybe not now, but I will," I hissed.

Slim laughed. "You're kind of funny, Mutou! You...scaring me?" He laughed again at the thought.

"Well then, let's see how funny I really am..." I said quietly, "We're going to play a game. We will stay here until we finish, no fists involved, and winner is able to leave here when we wish with the girl."

"Why should I play a game against you?" Slim demanded.

"You want me and Joey to leave you alone, don't you?" I asked in response.

Slim looked suspicious for a minute, and then he laughed.

"Piece of cake!" he said, "Any game is fine with me!"

"Alright, then," I whispered as I shuffled my Duel Monsters deck, "To save us both time, we'll each choose one card randomly from my deck. The one with the highest ranked monster wins."

"Fine, I'm game," Slim said as he took a card from the top of my deck, "I got Alpha the Magnet Warrior."

I smirked, before drawing my card. "Dark Magician Girl. I win."

Slim laughed. "And what do I care?"

He tried to punch me, but I dodged it easily.

"You don't seem to like rules," I whispered, "Let me teach you what happens to cheaters when they play against me."

My Millennium Puzzle glowed, and Slim disappeared in purple magic and a single scream.

Joey looked at me. "That...was really creepy, man."

I smiled at him, before approaching the girl. "Are you alright?"

The girl looked up at me, and I finally saw her face.

She was definitely pretty: not beautiful, per say, but pretty. Her eyes shone a blue darker than Kaiba's, and she had a certain aura of innocence about her, and it reflected well when she said,

"Yes. Thank you for saving me from him."

"No problem," Joey answered for me as I helped her up, "Slim's a jerk, he doesn't deserve to be doing things like that to anyone."

"I'll have to agree with you," the girl replied as she brushed herself off, "He was quite rude."

I couldn't help but look at her. I wasn't staring, but I was trying to put two-and-two together: she sounded familiar AND looked familiar...but who was she?

"Oh, I'm Joey," Joey introduced himself, "And this here's Yugi."

"My name is Suzanna," the girl said quietly, "I just arrived here, but I'm going to have to leave soon, so if you will excuse me..."

"Why are you leaving?" I asked.

"I...I just came here from Egypt," the girl said, sounding kind of sad, "Looking for my cousin...but he's not here, so I'll have to go back home...to a lecture or two, I suppose."

"Your parents didn't want you to come here or something?" asked Joey.

"Not really," Suzanna admitted, "But it wasn't mainly them...I'd rather not go into it, it's a long story and I rarely mention it to anyone..."

"Well, maybe if you stay here a little longer, your 'rents will cool off a little before you come home," Joey suggested.

"I couldn't," Suzanna said glumly, "Japan's beautiful and all, but with my cousin gone, I wouldn't have anywhere to stay."

I don't know what made me do it, but as soon as I heard those words, I said,

"Not to worry. You can stay at my house."

She looked at me with wide eyes. "Really? You mean it?"

/Is that alright, Yugi?/ I asked him.

Sure! Yugi said sweetly, /Why not? She might know stuff about your past.

I nodded inwardly. Maybe she did...she was from Egypt...

"It'd be my pleasure," I replied, "C'mon, it's not far..."