Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-gi-oh but I do own Amunet, and the plot (I keep forgetting to put a disclaimer up lol)

R+R please.

Chapter Seven

Amunet was sitting on her bed looking through her duel monster deck. Yami walked in.

"Amunet, lunch is ready," he glanced at her cards, "Why don't you join us when we play sometime?"

Amunet almost dropped her cards, "I've never actually learned how to play, I was going to learn when I was living with Isis and she helped me collect cards." She looked some what embarrassed.

Yami smiled, "We'll teach you, I'm sure Joey will be glad to help."

Amunet looked up at Yami, "Sounds good, come on lets go eat." She placed her deck on her night stand and started out of the room. Yami followed after her smiling, glad they were getting along again, by the time he got to the table it was normal Yu-gi again.

"I'm meeting Joey and Tristan at the park if you want to come," He sat down to eat.

She smiled at him, "Sure that sounds good, I need to get out anyways." She started to eat, her mind traveled back to the tablets at the museum.

They finished eating and left. Amunet was looking around as if she had never seen the city before.

"Amunet, you alright?" Yu-gi watched her.

"Yeah Yu-gi, I'm still a little paranoid." She continued walking, "What are we meeting the guys for?"

"Just to hang out, not everything has good reasons," Yu-gi laughed slightly as Amunet thought about that.

They spotted Joey, who ran up to them, "Hey Yug, Amunet," he gave her a hug, "How ya feeling?"

"Much better, a good night's sleep was all I needed," She hugged him back, not wanting to let go. She and Malik were the only ones that knew the truth. Having her energy drain probably brought back the illness that she once had, and if the drain in energy was to happen again it could be dire.

He smiled down at her, obviously fooled, "Good, now you know that if you ever want to go out and don't want Yug to be with you, I'll go with you."

Amunet nodded, "Yeah, Thanks Joey."

Yu-gi laughed slightly; the day went by fast and the next Amunet knew they were back home eating dinner.

She was awfully quiet while she picked at her food.

"Amunet, what are you thinking so deeply about?" Grandpa took a sip of his water.

"Just something Malik told me." She glanced at Yu-gi who gave her a warning look.

"Oh?" Grandpa looked interested.

"It's a story that both he and Isis told me, about a young girl, I'm wondering how they expect me to figure out the rest of it." She looked at Yu-gi, "That's all."

He nodded slightly, "Hey Amunet, I can start teaching you how to duel tonight, if you would like."

She smiled, "Sounds like fun," she cleared the table after they were done eating and met Yu-gi in her room.

She was shuffling her deck when he walked in. She smiled at him, "I know most of the basics, like summoning rules and the different kinds of cards."

He nodded; they worked together for most of the night. Yu-gi bid her goodnight around midnight and went to his own room.

Amunet laid down still thinking about the story Malik told her.

"Amunet, come on wake up, you have to wake up," Amunet heard Isis's voice. She slowly opened her eyes, she remembered this well this was the scene when she was almost killed a few months ago.

"Hey, how you feeling?" Isis stood up leaving Amunet on the ground. Amunet moved finding that she was in no pain at all.

"Perfectly fine, Isis, aren't you suppose to be dead?" Amunet sat up staring at Isis.

"Well, yes, but I'm not the Isis that you know, I'm the Isis of the past, the original holder of the Millennium Necklace." She looked down at Amunet.

"What are you doing in my dream then?" Amunet stood up dusting herself off.

"Offering you the Necklace," Isis said it as if it was plain as day.

"I don't want it." Amunet spoke quickly.

"What do you mean you don't want it? Most people would jump at the chance of having an item." Isis looked as confused as she was.

"I've started my dream prophases like you told me I probably would. I don't need the necklace on top of that. Besides I was a thief in my past life, what makes you think I am worth of an item?" Amunet crossed her arms.

"Very true, but your dark soul was not your fault, it was the result of a priest sending you to the shadow realm." She took a step forward.

"Yeah I know the story, just not all of it. I don't want the necklace Isis, it cause more trouble than I need. I've already have the thief after me, I don't need anyone else after me as well." Amunet spoke sternly.

"I understand, so then I'll leave you with this…" Isis disappeared and Amunet's dream world started to shift and change. She soon found herself in a market place.

She looked at herself, her hair was no longer dark but a pale brown almost blonde, but her eyes were still the same dark brown. She was dressed in rags and was even skinnier than she was normally. She suddenly knew where she was and what she was. She was an orphan and was in the market place that she stole from to survive. Today she was hungry for an apple. She walked around looking at the ground for a fallen apple, she didn't care if it was dusty she could wash it off in the river. Sadly she found none on the ground, so she walked slowly up to the vender and waited until he turned to help someone else. That someone else was standing right next to her and was dressed as if he had money, something that she would envy. She swiped an apple and ran. The man and the vender called after her, but she continued to run. She escaped from the people chasing after her and sat peacefully by the river to eat her apple. She was about to bit into her apple when someone snatched it from her.

"Hey! That's mine! I stole if fair and square!" She jumped to face the white hair thief.

"If it isn't the little novice thief." While he was busy talking Amunet tackled him and tried to steal the apple back, but he wouldn't let go, so she bit him.

"OW!" He tossed the apple away to look at his bitten hand. Amunet grabbed the apple, "I win."

He laughed at her, "You know, if you tried you could join the greatest of us."

"Thank you Bakura, but I steal to survive, not for revenge on someone that I don't know about. Who is this Pharaoh guy that you always talk about anyways?" She started to eat her apple.

"The pharaoh is the guy that rules Egypt he is an evil man." He sat down near her. "I steal to survive, and it seems that I survive a lot better than you."

She sighed, "True, you want the core of the apple?" she threw it at him.

"No, I want an apple, why don't you go steal me one too?" He knocked the core away.

"Make you a deal, I steal you an apple and you take me in and teach me to be a higher thief like you." She stared at the river, "I'm tired of living where I'm close to starving to death."

He nodded, he knew the Pharaoh was in the market place, it was unlikely that she would get him an apple. "Alright, I'll take you in if you get me an apple, it better be a damn good apple."

She smiled, "The best," she ran off to go steal him an apple. She walked back up to the vender, there were still people around, but none of them seem to be noticing. Amunet went to swipe an apple but someone grabbed her wrist.

"You know, I should just cut off your hand right here for stealing twice in one day." A priest looked down on her, there was a rod in his other hand. His ice blue eyes glared at her. She tugged at her wrist, "Please, Please let go, I'll put it back, I promise."

"Priest Seto, Let the girl's wrist go," A man walked up with blonde bangs and multicolored hair, he was the one before dressed like royalty.

The priest growled and let go of her wrist. Amunet rubbed her wrist, "Thank you," she placed the apple back and slowly started to sneak away.

"Not so fast little thief," The man stepped forward, "Why is it that you steal from the vender?"

"To eat," she stated it in a rude way.

The priest back handed her, "do not talk to your Pharaoh like that,"

"Seto, it's alright, let me handle this," The pharaoh stared at her, "to eat, do you not have parents to provide you your food?"

Amunet shook her head, "No I don't," she remembered Bakura's words about the pharaoh being evil, but the man in front of her did not seem evil at all.

"So you are alone," he nodded to himself slightly, "come with me, young one, I will see what I can do." He held out his hand to her. She hesitantly took it and followed.

"Seto, we will set it up so the girl can work in the palace."

The priest nodded slightly and asked, "What is your name girl?"

"My parents used to call me Amu," Amunet looked up at the priest.

"Amu, is it short for something?" The priest glared down at her.

She shrugged, the Pharaoh nodded, "Yes, it's short for Amunet; it is the name of our Goddess of mystery."

Amunet looked up at him, but said nothing.

"Amunet! Wake up we're going to be late for school!" Yu-gi shook her.

She woke up staring into his eyes, "School? What?" she sat up.

"Yeah, school, come on now!" Yu-gi left the room. Amunet got dressed in the uniform, complaining about the skirt.

They walked to school in a fast pace. Bakura came up behind them, "Hey guys!"

Amunet jumped, and then sighed, "Hey Bakura," she glanced at her watch, "Looks like we're all running late."

Yu-gi nodded, "Looks that way, come on," they all started to run, they made it about a second before the bell rang.

Amunet waited out in the hall for the teacher, she played with the edge of her skirt nervous about her first day of class and entering in the middle of the semester.

"Ah, you must Amunet Istar," The teacher, a guy, looked her over.

"Yes sir." She nodded, still nervous.

"Well come on," he walked in and she followed.

"Class we have a new student," He ushered Amunet to the front of the class, "This is Amunet Istar, she has moved here from Egypt. Tell them a little about yourself and then take a seat next to Joey, the blonde in the back."

Amunet smiled at Yu-gi who was sitting towards the back in front of Joey, they all know that she had to post pone going to school because of how long it took her to heal.

"There's really nothing to tell," she said quickly and took her seat next to Joey.

Joey and Yu-gi both looked at her funny, she shrugged, "there isn't much to tell, honestly." She smiled. They both shook their heads.

During class Joey set a note on Amunet's desk, she glanced at it then opened it.

I'm bored is what Joey wrote. Amunet glanced at him smiling, and wrote back Same here.

She passed it back to Joey, she glanced at Yu-gi who seemed to be just as bored as her and Joey. The note appeared back on her desk.

So Yu-gi told me that he started to teach you how to play Duel Monsters.

She tucked her hair behind her ear before writing back, sure did, I really enjoy it, perhaps I should duel against you one day? She passed it back.

Joey laughed slightly as he read it. Amunet was taking notes when it appeared again, Sure, how about lunch? I'll go easy on you.

She smiled, and wrote back Sounds like fun, no need to go easy though, I need the experience.

She passed it back to him, and then looked around, she was sensing a dark presences. Yu-gi glanced back at her with questioning eyes. She gave him a reassuring smile, but glanced at Bakura across the room, he was staring intently at her. From the gaze she could tell it was Yami Bakura. She swallowed remembering the dream, it was Bakura the thief that she had gone to steal the apple for, but does he remember?

The note appeared back on her desk, she opened it slowly, You look like you just saw a ghost, you ok? Was what Joey had written.

She looked back up to Bakura, he was no longer staring at her, but she could still feel the darkness in him. Yeah, just fine, just feeling a little tired. Was what she wrote back and the gave it to Joey just as the bell rang. She got up and ran out not wanting to run into Bakura.

At lunch she sat down with Joey, and started to eat her lunch. Bakura came up to her and tossed her an apple, she caught it with a knowing look, the same knowing look that Bakura had on his face.

"Enjoy," was all he said before he walked of. Amunet stared down at the apple as the dream came back to her mind, she smiled, I guess he does remember.