A/N:Before you start reading this, I have to point something out. This is by far the worst chapter I have ever written (yes, this includes the olden says of the original ATHLTATS). This is because it was written over a period of over 3 months.


"Yu-Gi-Oh!" and all its entities belong to Kazuki Takahashi, c/o Shonen Jump.
U.S. Properties belong to WB and 4Kids Entertainment.

Chapter 7-The Secrets of British Men…Revealed!

Téa and her companion Yami got into Grandpa's car for a second time, this time with Téa driving. Yami had his seatbelt on for only a second before Téa floored the gas petal. As she was leaving, she knocked over some garbage pails, and barely missed a 'No Parking' sign.

"Um…oops." Téa said, speeding up the street.

"And you thought I was a bad driver?" Yami asked, clutching the upholstery of his seat for dear life. "At least I obeyed the speed limit!"

"Oh shut up and hold on." Téa said, turning down a street, running up the curb.

Back in the park, Joey continued to interrogate the latest suspect in his "case". "So, what did you do with Yugi?" Joey asked.

"The one you call 'Yugi' is no loner on your side. He has come to work for us now." A man with a British accent said to Joey.

"Yugi would never do that and you know it! So I'm gonna ask you just once more, what did you do with Yugi?" The man was about to answer Joey's question when a car came speeding through the park, narrowly avoiding Joey, but failing to miss the fountain that once held the mysterious British person.

"Oh my God! Is everyone all right?" The driver shrieked out of the window.

"Yeah, we're fine, but what the heck were ya' thinking, ya' moron?" Joey insanely yelled at the driver.

"Joey?" Yami asked out of the passenger side window. "Oh thank God we found you. I don't think I could stand to be in any car that Téa is driving anymore."

"Téa almost ran me over?" Joey asked, shocked.

"Sorry." Téa said out the window. "Who's your friend?"

"My latest suspect." Joey proclaimed proudly.

"Suspect? What are you talking about?" Téa asked climbing out the fountain. A crowd had begun to build in the proximity. Some tourists even were taking pictures of the odd even that had just unfolded.

"I overhead this dude on a cell phone talking to someone." He said.

"So?" Yami asked.

"He kept calling that person 'Mouto.'" Joey said. Téa gasped and wrung out her soaked blouse from all the water that had fallen on her while she climbed out of the fountain.

"Come on, let's bring him back to the game shop, people are starting to stare." Yami said as he looked around at everyone's faces.

"You mean I have to get back into the fountain!" Téa complained.

"Yes, but after seeing what you can do, you're not getting behind the driver's seat again." Joey said, diving for the driver's side door. "I'm driving. Yami, get this creep into the back of the car."

"I think this 'investigation' id his is getting to Joey's head." Yami whispered to Téa who laughed. Yami did as he was instructed and took the man into the backseat while Téa got in, and carefully walked back through the fountain. Joey started the car once Téa got in, and carefully backed out of the fountain, back onto the street and calmly drive back in the direction of the game shop.

"You know," the British man started, "compared to what your driving must be like, Joey's driving is rather jolly."

"Jolly?" Asked Téa.

"It's a British thing." The man replied. "You get used to it." Joey just smiled and kept on driving.

Meanwhile, Yugi's mind-controlled body continued to walk about the sewer. But, being that it was Yugi's mind that was taken over, he was not going to give up without a fight. His head ached as he stumbled along the passage. He tried to keep his mind focused on regaining control, but it kept wandering to thoughts about the destruction of his friends, the destruction of his world.

Joey safely pulled the car into the back driveway of Yugi's home, turned the car off, and got out. As he did this, Yami and Téa were taking the British man out of the back seat and into the house. On the way in, they passed Yugi's grandfather who was taking something out to the trash. He didn't say a word until he looked at his car.

"What the…!" He yelled. He turned around to ask what happened after he saw the numerous dents and water damage, but realized that he would be talking to nobody on account of Yami, Téa, and Joey being nowhere to be seen. The truth is, they quickly ran inside for they all knew that would be the exact way Yugi's grandpa would react upon seeing the car.

Back in Yugi's room, the three friends were interrogating the British man with any question they could come up with.

"How do you know about this whole thing?" Téa asked. She got no response.

"What are ya doing thing?" Joey asked. He too got no response. Joey was tired of getting nowhere and he started to take his anger out on everyone around him. "Nothing to contribute, Yami?" He scolded.

Yami looked up. "Huh? Um…no." Then he looked down again. Truthfully, Yami was deep in thought, thinking about how he could have been so stupid to let this happen to Yugi. How it all felt like it was his fault that Yugi was gone.

"Well, if you're not going to help, why don't you just leave!" Joey yelled at Yami who was still deep in thought. Yami did feel that Joey's suggestion was a good idea until good old Téa came in to defend him.

"He didn't mean that Yami, of course Joey wants you to help." She said in her usual, cheerful voice with a great big smile.

"Of course I did! Why do ya think I said it!" Joey yelled back at Téa. He then suddenly lunged at Yami who was still not really paying attention.

"Stop it you two!" Téa yelled, trying to pull apart the fighting boys. The rumble caused Yami to fall off his chair and onto the ground, and Joey and Yami began to fight roughly. The British man just laughed at the two rambunctious boys going at each other.

"Oh? So do you have something to add now?" Joey asked the British man. He immediately stopped laughing just in time to see Joey's hand pull him down to the floor along with his other opponent. However, Joey got the surprise of his life when the man hit the floor.

"Ow!" A high-pitched voice yelled out. Joey and Yami stopped fighting and just looked at where the noise came from.

"Was that you Téa?" Yami asked.

"No, I'm not fighting," she said, "it was…him." Téa said, pointing to the British man.

"Okay, I'm confused." Joey said.

Joey, Yami, and Téa took a closer look at their first (and only) clue and realized something was very special about the British man. Yami reaches for the man's cap and took it off. Out came a large mass of blonde hair, tied back in a ponytail.

"You're a girl!" Joey asked in amazement.

The girl just sighed and refused to look up.

"But why?" Téa asked, trying to comfort her, "Why go through all this trouble?"

Again, she refused to look up, and continued to just pout where she was sitting. Yami wanted answers, so he tried to look at the girl's face. What he saw surprised him, as well as making everything crystal clear as to why the girl hid her identity.

"I know why." Yami said, standing up. He took the girl's hand and brought her up with him. "You see," he started, looking into her face, "I know this girl, and she knows me. She knew that if I saw her, I would know it was her right away."

Téa and Joey just continued to look at the girl and now Yami too in awe. Joey broke the silence that had settled on the group first.

"How do you know her? You only came out in the open yesterday!"

Yami was too ashamed to look up, for he knew Joey and Téa would never believe him. Ever so slowly, he started to explain. "Because--I asked--her out."

Yugi continued to struggle with his mind battle.

"Arg!" Yugi screamed out in pain, grasping his head with both hands and falling to his knees. "Get out of my head!" He yelled out to nobody.

The dark sewer drain around him slowly filled with light as he yelled out this sentence. Yugi looked up and stared into the light. It wasn't a nice, sunny type light, but rather a dark, ominous light--like the beginning of a thunderstorm. A being appeared in the middle of the light and its face was hidden in the darkness that still engulfed the top part of the tunnel.

"You want me out of you head?" The ghostly figure impaled upon the frail Yugi.

"Why won't you go away?" He cried out. "I just want to be left alone! --Who are you anyway?"

"I'm the thing that will keep you guessing for as long as I share your mind. I'm the one that will turn you evil."

"Evil?" Yugi asked, shrinking back away from the foreboding light. "How?"

"By turning you against yourself. You want to be left alone? Here's how alone you'll be." The figure said before disappearing. The dark faded, but it came back as quickly as it left, only darker, and more real---like it was inside Yugi's head. That's when Yugi's realized it was in his head, and the next thing that Yugi saw caused him to double over in pain, emotion pain. He saw the scene that had just played out in his room.

"Because--I asked--her out." He heard Yami say. He heard it again and again, the final words echoing through Yugi's mind. He could see everything, almost like he was there. That got him thinking, 'is it real?' he thought. 'Did Yami really just ask someone out other than Janet? Some friend.'


A/N:Yay! Three months and a lot of patience later, and it's finally done! Normally, I'd thank the reviewers in the order I got their reviews, but I'm giving actress19 first crack.

actress19-I feel I owe you a huge apology. I was harsh when I reviewed your story, and I feel I took away your spirit for writing. You said it yourself that you never leave a fan-fic unfinished, so why start on account of me? Get back to it! You've got a lot of fans you're keeping in suspense. But anyway, to your review…how was it that you knew Yami was hitting on a girl::Shifty eyes:

Time Keeper-Thanks for your compliment. The next chapter will come much faster, I promise:)