(Jaroo here… yeah I don't own ygo at all. (I'd have sooo much fun if I did. Sigh) oh well… oh yeah… I got a question to answer, so here's to calligirl13 ok you asked if Yami is my favorite character… and yeah he is… it's a little obvious too, sigh Oh well back to the Fic hope you enjoy!)

Ch 6 a nice morning.

Early next morning, Yami was still on the couch where he had been the night before, with Samantha peacefully sleeping on his lap. He too was sleeping. Yugi had gone to his room, Joey, Tristan and Tea had left, and Kristol insisted on sleeping in the back yard (didn't like being inside). During the night Samantha had woken again, pain was on her like it had been… but not as intense. Yami talked to her the entire time just to keep her calm. It worked pretty well for the most part. Samantha attempted to turn on her side… she succeeded but not with out some shooting pain. Breathing slowly, she tried to manage mind over body to relieve the pain on her own. She blinked opening her eyes and looked around… she didn't remember much of last night. She remembered being in horrible pain, she remembered Kristol talking to her saying something about concentration and power, she remembered looking up to Yami's face… remembered the touch of his lips on her skin… remembered…

Samantha pulled a blanket that was on her over her shoulder. Only then did she realize Yami was still with her, she looked up at him and whispered his name. Pondering her thoughts trying to remember last night. She shifted again… pain… deep breath… Yami blinked and looked at her, smiling.

"Felling better?" he asked. She made a short sarcastic laugh

"Heh… what do you think?" she sneered. He simply smirked.

"Well other then that. How do you feel?" he asked again

"Better, I can speak this time with out any shooting pain running up my side." She complained. Neither of them spoke for maybe a few minuets.

"Yami?" Samantha broke the silence.

"Yeah?"

"Why did you kiss me? Last night I mean." She asked Yami blushed a little but just smiled calmly and shrugged.

"I don't really know why" he said,

"It felt nice… soothing, that was the only thing I remember most from last night. Every things else is mostly a blur." She said quietly. Yami put a hand on her cheek and rubbed her face gently with his thumb. She put her hand on his and smiled.

"Do it again…" she said softly. Yami blinked.

"What?"

"Kiss me again..." she said, her voice was soft, beautiful music to Yami's ears. He leaned forward to kiss her forehead like he did the previous night… but Samantha stopped him, gently putting a finger on his lips.

"No…" she said then put a hand on his cheek. And pressed her lips on his… Yami closed his eyes, lost in the moment, both of them were.

Yami lifted his head, he blushed but smiled softly at Samantha, and she at him. What had just accrued was unknown to them… Samantha tried to sit up then looked away from him.

"I'm sorry… I…" she began to say…

"I'm not…" Yami mumbled under his breath. He looked at Samantha, her eyes filled with guilt.

"Uh… what's wrong? Sam, was it something I did?" Yami asked politely. She shook her head.

"No… its just, nothing… bad memory." She whispered somberly.

"Oh… ok, sorry" Yami smiled. The starched his arms. "I wonder if Yugi's awake yet." He yawned and stood up; as he walked he glanced back at Samantha. He felt like he should have said something to her, but he didn't want her to worry about any thing right now. Just as he reached the bottom of the stair case he looked up and Yugi was walking down the stairs rubbing his eyes.

"Morning Yami… hey is Sam alright?" Yugi asked Yami nodded.

"Yeah she's sitting on the couch still but she's fine." Yami said to the half awake boy as he continued to sleepily stagger down the stairs

"That's good…" he yawned.

"Where's Kristol?" Samantha was leaning on a door frame looking at them.

"Sam, you shouldn't be standing up, you should be resting still." Yami protested.

"You obviously haven't figured out how persistent and stubborn she is have you Yami" a voice came from behind them, Kristol had nudged the door open, her head poking though the door. She smiled and walked in.

"Kristol…" Samantha smiled.

"But shadow, the pharaoh is right you shouldn't be up." She said with a hint of sarcasm.

"But, but, but!" Samantha whined. She obeyed Kristol better then anyone. Samantha rolled her eyes and went back into the living room to sit down.

"I don't know about you too, but I'm getting breakfast." Yugi said as if he didn't really notice anything; he did but was too tired to care. So with that he headed toward the kitchen. Yami looked at Kristol and nodded in thanks.

"Thank you Kristol… hey, could I ask you something you seem to be very wise." Yami said.

"Yes? I'd be more then happy to assist you in any why." She smiled bowing her head just slightly.

"Well… hum, I don't know how to put this really. But you seem very familiar to me and I don't know why." he asked.

"You've seen me from somewhere?" she asked, but she hinted faintly as if she did know something as to what he was saying.

"Hehe, yeah… I guess that's not very possible huh." Yami sighed.

"Maybe not in this time no… but…" she hinted to him, Yami looked at her shocked, and maybe he had seen her in his past.

"Well that helped me a little… but also I have had this dream about a little girl, she looks sorta like Samantha" he continued

"Ah… you're talking about Tesana." She said.

"Who?" he had no idea what she was talking about.

"That is the child's name… you will have to find out more on your own." Kristol said; she was playing with him. It was almost cretin that she new more about him and his past then she let on. He blinked as nodded as if she new what he was thinking. Any one could tell that she's not an average cat, obviously, but she was very strange, wise. She walked out side and sat down looking up to the sky. She looked at the sunrise from the east, it was still pretty early and the sky was filled with clouds painted pink, blue, purple, and orange.

"Hum… Kristol I have one more question. When you kept saying about not being powerful at this moment what did you mean by that? You seem peaty damn powerful to me." Yami asked, even though he had only seen her do maybe one or two things, he was amazed by her. She sighed.

"Samantha doesn't even know, not yet any ways" she had a very faint smile.

"Doesn't know what?" Yami couldn't figure her out he barely knew this fire cat but she's always talking in some kind of riddle.

"Life is a precious thing, oh well; I suppose you'll find out soon too if you hang around long enough." She looked at him and smirked,

"You make no sense you know that… then again neither dose Samantha." Yami laughed.

"No we both are very hard to figure out aren't we? And you have yet to see Sam's hyper side, right?" she said sarcastically.

"Hyper side?" he asked confused, very confused. As far as he was concerned Samantha was anything but hyper.

"No you apparently haven't. Well she only gets that way with people she's around all the time, namely family and friends."

"Were friends…" he said.

"Yes, but how long have you known her?" she asked

"Um… for like a month." Yami thought he thinks it's been about that long

"Ok then yeah, she still isn't as hyper around me as she is with her closest friends. I've only know Samantha for 2 years. She had just turned 16 and shell be 18 in a month." Kristol said. This didn't seem too wired to Yami, but he couldn't get over the fact that he was having a conversation with a tiger that, if she wasn't tame, he'd probably have been her lunch a long time ago. He laughed in his mind at this.

"So when you say hyper, like how hyper?" he asked curious. Samantha glanced at him and tried to hold in a laugh.

"… You'll have to wait for that, its hard to put in words." She laughed. Yami looked a little worried, a sarcastic worry but still worried.

"Fun… I'll gladly be dreading the moment." He smiled.

"Yeah, one minuet she's calm and serious, then you give her moment of boredom and shell be telling you how shiny the floor is." Kristol laughed. "True story too, that's what happened to one of her best friends. They were just sitting in the living room her friend's house and all of a sudden Samantha say's 'your carpet is very shiny.' Her friend told me the story." She appeared to get a kick out of this; Yami realized that he was right that there was a lot to Samantha then meets the eye. Kristol leaned in closer to Yami and then whispered something to him.

"The best thing that gets her hyper is to confuse her, like a math problem or any thing complicated; also she gets all giddy over cheese. But the best thing is to scratch her behind her ear. She loves that don't ask me why, she just dose." Kristol shook her head smiling.

"cough Kristol… were you just telling him about my little weakness?" Samantha was standing at the door way glaring at Kristol with a harmless grin. Kristol tried to look as innocent as she could, it didn't work very well.

"Yeah… and I supposed you told him about me and my hyperness didn't you." She said.

"Ha! Sam you said hyperness… that's a sign that you're hyper" Kristol smirked. Samantha glared "sigh sorry Samantha I couldn't help my self." Kristol apologized. "Well any way's I'm sorta glad your out here, I need to go for a while. Think you'll be ok?" Kristol asked.

"You mean home? How come?" Samantha asked.

"Yeah home, I—I got some things I need to do." She smiled, hiding something from Samantha; Yami assumed that it was that thing she didn't know about. What confused him is if Kristol was less powerful because of it, then why did she seem so happy about it?

" oh fine, well tell Jess and Tori I said hi, oh and tell the other two I said hi and that I miss them ok?" she asked, Kristol nodded.

"And your family too?" Kristol said,

"Yeah, tell derrick that I live next to a game shop and know the owners, he'll flip." She said mockingly. Of coarse she was talking about Yami and Yugi.

"Who's derrick?" Yami asked.

"Oh, he's an all time game freak, computer genius, techno maniac, and annoying little brother." Samantha smiled. Kristol walked further out into the yard turning to nod to Samantha. She opened her wings and lifted off the ground with effortless ease, speeding out of sight almost instantly.

"She's a good friend and I love her but she gets on my nerves sometimes." Samantha smiled as she watched the fire cat fly away. Yami looked at her; he wanted to see if something Kristol said was true. He reached his hand behind her ear and scratched just like the cat had said. Samantha instantaneously tilted her head toward him and closed her eyes smiling… but just as quickly she caught is arm and pulled it away.

"I'm sorry Yami, but Kristol only said that because she knows you like me." Samantha said casually.

"I see, well did it work?" Yami grinned. Samantha rolled her eyes and shook her head.

"I know that you apparently love me, and I think I might too. But I'd rather not make the same mistake again." Samantha said looking down at the ground.

"What mistake?" Yami looked at her curious

"I was hurt by someone once before because I thought I had loved them, I don't want to be hurt again…" Samantha said sharply not looking at Yami, not wanting to look at Yami.

"I would never hurt you. I stay loyal to my friends, and I consider you a friend." Yami said with assurance.

"Friend? You kissed me Yami, that's more then a friend" Samantha laughed.

"Good point… wait, did you say you might love me too?" Yami laughed, wondering if Samantha knew that she had said that or not. Samantha looked at him and blinked confused… then her face began to redden just a little.

"Um…uh-I …" Samantha had lost her words.

"HA!" Yami mocked.

"Really funny. You were the first one to kiss me!" Samantha shot back.

"Oh… If I recall correctly you were the one who kissed me on the lips!" Yami smirked. Samantha growled at him.

"Well you're the one who had to kiss me on the forehead and make me fall for you!" Samantha looked strait at him and pointed a finger about 3 inches away from his face. Yami grinned; he grabbed her wrist and pulled her closer, kissing her.

(Jaroo: Ahhhh, I like romance, its sooo fun to write. kk R&R please,)