Millennium I
Secrets of the Past
By Hikari Tsuki Chi
Chapter 19
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Note: I can't believe it. My first multi-chapter story…finished… 1/6 of this series done…
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Chapter 19
Two weekends later…
Yugi popped his head into Serena's room. "What are you doing?"
Glancing up, she said, "Seto-kun's and Mokuba's Christmas gift."
Walking in, Yugi looked over the cloth she was stitching on. "Isn't that their pictures?"
"Yep. I scanned them into my computer, produced the pattern, got the supplies, and started on it."
"How'd you get a hold of them?"
"I've got my ways." She said smirking. "Where's Yami and Yama?"
"Grandpa roped them into helping out in the Kame Shop. Not that they needed much convincing. They're having a ball." He shrugged. "Why didn't you tell me?"
"Yugi, I had just lost my family because he had somehow learned my civilian identity. I couldn't risk losing you and Grandpa on top of that. And it wasn't as if you were completely truthful as well."
Looking sheepish, he replied, "I didn't think you'd believe me. But after seeing and learning all you've gone through, and becoming apart of that world as well, what's happened to me was pretty normal."
"I always wondered why we were as close as we were when we were kids. But now it makes sense. Even if we're not twins in this lifetime, we are still family."
Grinning, he said, "No more secrets?"
"No more secrets."
"Right. So how do you REALLY feel about Yama?" he asked, a mischievous look in his eye.
Serena dropped her cross-stitch as she turned bright red. "Wh-what are you talking about?"
Rini chose that moment to enter. "C'mon, Odango, it's not as if we haven't seen how you look at her."
"Yeah, so what do you feel about her?" taunted Yugi.
Proverbial light bulb going off, Serena smirked, "What about how you feel about Yami, Yugi? Or how you feel about Helios SPORE?"
Smoke practically steaming out of their ears, Yugi and Rini yelled, "YOU ARE SO DEAD ODANGO!"
Giggling, Serena darted of her room as her fuming brother and future daughter began to chase her around the house.
Downstairs…Yami and Yama looked up in sync as they heard several muffled yells, a few crashes, and a lot of rather loud curses coming from…Yugi!
Looking at each other, Yama asked, "Where did he learn THOSE!"
"Your hikari is a bad influence." He answered sweatdropping, placing the box he was carrying on the shelf.
"If that's true, then she's been a bad influence his whole life." She retorted as she 'accidentally' bumped into him as she placed her own box on the shelf as well.
Turning to the door as they heard its bell jingle, they were surprised to see Kaiba walk in. "Don't you have a company to be obsessively attached to?" asked Yami.
"Ha ha. Yugi and Serena talked me into doing this for all the 'yamis' now that all of you have your own bodies." Tossing them two folders from his briefcase at them.
Catching them and opening them, Yami and Yama looked at him dumbstruck. Finding her voice, Yama asked, "How…"
"I'm a computer genius. Something like that is easy."
Yami asked, "How'd they convince you to do this?"
Kaiba's eye twitched. "Do you realize how…hard…it is…to resist their 'puppy eyes'? I just pray that Mokuba never decides to take lessons from them. Then I'm in deep trouble." He said as he walked out.
Sweatdropping at his comment, they turned their attention back to the folders. Birth certificates. School transcripts. Papers stating that Solomon Mutou was their guardian. In short, papers that determined their legal existence in this time. But perhaps the most shocking revelation of all of that was that on all of them, it was stated that they were twins, Yami and Yama Sennen. "We…we don't even know for sure." Said Yama. "Isn't he jumping the gun a bit?"
"I would be surprised if it turns out that we aren't twins. It's nice to have family." Said Yami.
"Aside from our hikaris, all we have is each other. I don't want to put her in danger because of me, even though she can take care of herself, and she's already in danger because of being Sailor Moon."
Yami's face was passive. "You love her, don't you?"
"Just as you love Yugi." Yama replied. "I would die for her, just as you would die for Yugi, no matter what Serena said about you not being able to die."
"I don't want to put him in any more danger. If, by the time all of us are 18…" he began.
"…And if someone else seeking the Items attacks…" she continued.
"…Whether we remember our pasts or not, we'll leave them." He finished. "We won't put them into any more danger because of us."
Yama nodded. "It's not as if they'd return our feelings. Serena has a daughter in the future, and I could never give her a child. So why bother? Surely it'll turn out better in the long run."
Hearing yet more crashes, yelling, and curses, Yami asked, "Should we try and stop them?"
"I think it's impossible to stop them, just as it's impossible to stop you and Hikari from arguing." Said Yama smirking. "Onii-chan."
"Shut up imoutou."
That night at Ryou's, Bakura's, Hotaru's, and Hikami's…One of the things that had been mutually decided two weeks ago was to meet up for dinner at Ryou's house in two weeks. Well, it was now as much Bakura's, Hotaru's, and Hikami's house now as well. Serena alternated between cooking, throwing Joey and Mokuba out of the kitchen, and grilling Hotaru and Rini about their love lives. Rini also grilled Hotaru about her relationship with Hikami, but Hotaru returned the favor by asking her about Helios. Yama cornered Hikami and grilled her. Ryou and Yugi were busy trying to keep Yami and Bakura from killing each other, though it was surprising that he could do so and whip Kaiba's butt in a duel at the same time. They had invited Mai, and once she had arrived, she and Tea shared a look, prompting her to grab Mai's hand and stutter out about something about filling Mai in on everything while leading her upstairs. Serena stuck her head out of the kitchen and asked, "How long have they been together?"
"Since right after Battle City. They ran into each other and have been going out ever since." Supplied Yugi.
Hearing sounds of questionable origin upstairs, Serena deadpanned, "Well I know not to call them down when dinner's ready."
Hearing something in the backyard, Hotaru snuck out of the kitchen, something that didn't go unnoticed by Serena, Hikami, and Yama. Serena knew who was out there and wasn't particularly ready to confront them, Hikami trusted her hikari to handle it, but Yama followed her outside.
Outside…"What are YOU doing here?" asked Hotaru. Obviously, she wasn't not happy to see the Sailor Senshi.
"To see Serena." Was Amara's short reply. "Aren't you supposed to be in Egypt?"
"I moved here to live with a guardian that I just found out about." Responded Hotaru, equally as short.
Yama walked over and said, "You mean by coming to see her, you mean to drag her back to Tokyo and chain her down?"
"Who are you?" sneered Raye.
"Yama Sennen. And," she continued, showing her brooch. "Sailor Millennium."
"Baka. You don't say something like that out loud." Said Lita.
"This entire backyard's got a silence barrier around it. And everyone in the house knows." Said Hotaru.
Rini walked out. "Rini!" exclaimed Amy. "What are you doing here?"
"Visiting Serena."
"Serena's gonna come back with us, so you can visit us too." Said Mina.
"Over my dead body you are." Growled Yama.
"That could be arranged." Said Darien, crackling his knuckles. Sure, he was chivalrous, but Yama really got on his nerves.
"You can't take Mama back to Tokyo. Puu says she has to stay here until it's time to create Crystal Tokyo. Mama lived with her relatives here until the ice age that covers the Earth and she awakens the Earth and becomes Neo Queen Serenity." Said Rini. "So go back to Tokyo!"
"And if we don't?" challenged Michelle.
Shadows began to swirl around them, generated by Yama. The Eye of Dark Wisdom glowed to life, and her eyes were cold hard pools of blood red. "Then you will have to play a game with me. And if you play and lose, as I'm sure you would, you would play the Penalty Game and lose your minds and your souls."
The words chilled the senshi and Darien to the bone. "Who are you?" Amara asked, for once very, very afraid.
"Yuugijo'ou." Was her short reply as the shadows disappeared, her symbol faded, and she walked back into the house.
"The Game Queen?"
"Yes, and you'd best not cross her." Said Rini.
"So get out of here before I call the cops for trespassing." Threatened Hotaru, glaring at them.
Grumbling, they left. When they were a good distance away, Raye said, "Well we won't get her back until Crystal Tokyo."
"Are we sure that it will still come to be?" asked Lita.
"Of course it will. Serena wouldn't dare jeopardize Rini's existence." Said Amy. "We just have to wait until the key to the greatest power in the universe is ours. We've already waited two thousand years, what's another thousand?"
"And this time around, we won't let her cheat us out of it and commit suicide. She'll have to be under our complete control before she will hand over that key. We'll use this time to plan our strategy." Said Darien. "After all, she's just a ditz and a klutz. It's not like she's smart enough to rule, let alone figure out our plan."
"Too true."
What are these treacherous senshi planning? I'm not sure we'd want to find out…
Back with Serena and the others…Don't worry Hikari. I won't let them hurt you again. They don't deserve you. They treat you like you're nothing but a future brood mare. They are blind to your true power and inner light. How can they be so blind to your light and love? Perhaps they are blinded by the misguided need for power they don't deserve. You are the senshi that loves all. You may hate their actions; yet love their souls and cry when they get what they deserve, no matter how much you know they deserve it. I will protect as best as I can from them. I would die for you if it meant that they wouldn't hurt you. Because I love you, something that is foreign to them. All they love is power, and will do anything to get it. How do I know this? I read their auras. How I can do so, I do not know. But within a moment of seeing and reading their auras, I knew their motives and did not trust them. While I do not know what the future holds, I will protect you for as long as I can, even if only from a distance. Thought Yama as she ate, watching everyone having fun. Her eyes flashed with dark promise, to anyone who would dare to hurt her hikari. Even if it kills me.
These thoughts were heard only by Yami.
She had thoroughly blocked her end of the link to her hikari, something that worried Serena. I know Yama-chan doesn't like the senshi, but why would she block the link? She's been doing that ever since Rini came. And somehow I can't hear her thoughts like I can everyone else. I could shift into Shikai at night and enter her dreams, but that would be invading her privacy. No matter how accepting everyone is about the senshi business, they can never know about my other duty, as She Who Walks Two Worlds. The only one that has existed, or will ever exist.
Even though I love Yama, it's not like she'd love me back, especially if she found out I kept something this big from her.
My fate is set, no matter how much I wish it wasn't.
No one but their brothers, whether from the past or in this life, Rini, and Grandpa noticed Yama's and Serena's down mood. Only Yami and Yugi heard their thoughts, but were also caught up in their own thoughts and fears that their other selves would never love them. Rini knew the future, yet she could not say a word, because that would jeopardize her future. And Grandpa was a person who sees all.
The play has ended, but with more questions than answers. Some secrets from the past are laid to rest, but still more were raised up into the light of day. What more Secrets of the Past are yet to be solved? The actors on this stage of life can only hope that at least some of these secrets will be solved when the gods demand their lives to be acted out yet again for their own amusement…
End of Chapter 19End of Millennium I: Secrets of the Past
I hope this story has been enjoyed. I hope to see you in Millennium II: Journey to the Past.
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Wait a sec…ya mean I finished a story? For real? (Author passes out in shock)