Chapter 4 Memories
PC: Haha! This is the last chapter to this story BUT-
Yami: Last chapter? But its only 4 chapters!
PC: As I was saying... if you review a lot I will make a sequel!
Yami: Roll the stories and please review when your done! I wanna know what happens!
PC: Oh yes. There is one upsetting part so I will type it the best I can. I have never experienced someone doing this let alone do it myself so... lets just play it by ear! )(
"Should I go mama?" Tea asks her mother as she holds the small tears back that threatened her eyes.
"Tea, dear, its your own choice. Nobody can make it for you." Mrs. Gardner tells her daughter while caressing her soft rosy cheek.
"It's like a dream come true but I'll be leaving so much if I go to New York." Tea puts her head into her hands and shakes her head to rid the memories of things she'll leave here. Tea was sitting on her soft pink comforter of her bed and her mother sat at her computer.
"Like what Honey what will you leave behind?" Mrs. Gardner asks her as she sits back and stares at the poster on her daughters closet. It was a picture of the Dark Magician Girl hovering over the lovely city lights of New York City in the moonlit night. Stars fell over the black night sky as the crescent moon set the setting with a white glow.
"I'll miss my home, you and daddy. All my friends, my school and mostly I'll miss the love of my life, I'll miss Yami." Tea says as she said his name the words stung her heart and brought the tears at full speed.
"Who's Yami?" Her mother asks. "What about Yugi? I thought you loved him!"
"Yami is kinda Yugi but Yami is taller. You saw him mama he was sitting next to you at the performance yesterday!" Tea says in disbelief. She knew her mother would never sit next to a stranger.
"Well, he didn?t correct me when I called him Yugi." Her mother protested.
"He's so used to be called Yugi that it doesn?t phase him anymore. Mom Yugi's a really close friend but Yami is more. Yami lives inside Yugi's puzzle." Tea stops how was she supposed to explain this to her mother?
"That shiny thing Yugi always wears?"
"Yes. Look ma I don?t know how to explain it. The person in the puzzle has shares Yugi's body and they both share it. Yami's taller, darker and mysterious. Yugi is smaller and less courageous." Tea explains. She sees her mother tilt her head in confusion and sighs, "Never mind. Just forget about it." She stands from her bed and begins to pull her suitcase out of the closet. Then, she hesitates and puts it back.
"Well...?" Mrs. Gardner asks. "Whats it gonna be? This one and only chance to go dance your dreams out? Or staying here and... well... you know staying here!"
Tea ponders the question for a moment. Then she looks back at her mother and says, "I'm going. If Yami truly loves me he'll let me achieve my dreams." She pulls the suit case out farther and begins to pack.
That night Tea laid awake in her small bed and stared at the ceiling above her. She was beyond tired from packing all day put her eyes wouldn?t close, she folded her hands on her chest and sighs. Closing her eyes she reflects back on her years in Domino. Recalling all the good times, and most of the bad times. Remembering when she met Yugi and then Joey and Tristan. Then Yami came along and her world changed.
"Hey Tea! We found you a small place where you can practice dancing! Tea read the small card that she found in her locker with a picture of ballet toe-shoes on the front. "Awe, Yugi your so sweet." She says as she folds the small card and puts it in her blazer pocket. She gathered her books and slipped on her shoes and walks for the exit of the school.
Once there she wanders around inside the small dark basement of the old card shop and her hand touches all of the walls with care as the dust comes off on her hand. On the other side of the room she saw a small balance bar, she slowly walks over to it and her hands holds it tight. She practices her positions and gracefully holds herself as she does a few arobasks and such. Suddenly the door busts open to reveal the bright light from the sunny day and a shadow of a person. "Yugi?" She asks as she lets go of the bar and begins to walk forward.
"No sweet cakes!" The person says as he walks closer to Tea. Then his image was clear standing in front of Tea was a man around the age of 35 with dark shaggy hair hid under a black and green bandana his chin was rough with graying whiskers and his smile was some- what perverted. In his left arm he cradles a camera and in his right he held a gun. His right hand lifts to point the gun at Tea as he says, "Do what I say and I won' shoot." Tea stands still, cowering in the corner and begins to whimper in fear as the gun moves closer to her head.
"PUT that gun down!" A strong voice says from the entrance way.
"Who says I have too?" The perverted man asks.
"I did." The person comes in revealing a tri- colored head and a tall masculine body. He slowly lowers the gun from Tea's head and points it at the man.
"Yugi!" Tea cries.
"I'll tell ya what. Let's fight this like men with a game called Highest Star." Bigger Yugi says as he holds out a deck of duel monster cards.
"Fine." The strange man pockets the gun and Tea relaxes sending butterflies fluttering in her stomach.
"You pick the first top card and then I draw and who ever has the highest number of stars wind." Yugi smiles at the man as he shuffles the deck.
"Fine!" The man says keeping a keen eye on Yugi as he draws the top card from the deck. He looks at it secretively and smiles. "Now you pick yours."
"Alright." Yugi says. He begins to shuffle the deck once more and then draws the top card. Without looking at it a small eye glows on his forehead. "The Dark Magician never fails me." He smiles as he reveals his card to the strange man as he mutters swares under his breath and reveals his own card (find card!). "Looks like I win. And now," He says taking back his card. "Since you lost and you almost hurt and innocent soul you will pay a trip to the shadow realm for eternity!" Yugi begins to glow as she shouts the final worlds, "MIND CRUSH!" Then light envelopes the room and Tea shields her eyes from the brightness.
"Tea? Tea! Are you alright?" A small voice asks above her. "TEA!" The voice hisses. "Tea its me! Yugi!" Tea's eyes slowly open and there stands little Yugi looking down at her with worried eyes.
"Yugi." Tea whispers as she begins to stand up. "Where did he go?" She asks him as she looks around cautiously.
"He's gone." Was all Yugi could say.
"Where? How?" Tea asks.
"I - I'm not really sure myself Tea." Yugi scratches his head and smiles childishly at her.
"What did you do?" She asks him as they begin to walk out.
"I told you I'm not sure. I remember hearing you cry out and I remember saying your name and seeing you huddled in the corner with a gun to your head but anything after that I have no clue in the world!" Yugi shakes his head as they walk into the brightness of the day.
"Well, what ever you did... thanks."
"Sure anytime Tea." Yugi smiles up at her."
(end of dream!)
Tea hadn?t realized but she had slowly fallen asleep in the midst of her flashback or dream. Thinking of Yami truly made her relax remembering the first time she had seen the Spirit of the puzzle and being sure it wasn?t the last.
"What if she decides to leave?" Yami wonders aloud to himself in his soul room, that suddenly seemed more like a juvenile prison. He closes his eyes softly and remembers the happiness she always brought and when she helped him most...
(flashback)
"And I once again have drawn a monster card! Attack!" Yami commands his magician to attack once more. Weevil knelt down on the other side was out of life points and loosing his breath slowly since the seal of Orecalcous had taken him. Weevil had tricked the heart broken Pharaoh by telling him Yugi's soul lied in the card he held in his hands, Yami began to walk forward but Weevil had ripped it in two. This had made the Pharaoh mad! "Oh, today just isn?t your day!" Yami says as he draws another monster and points at the green headed boy once again. "Attack!" The monster, once more, attacks him. Then he drew one more card and pulled the Dark Magician Girl! "Look at this!" Anger and pain crowed his eyes with tears and blinded him of what he was about to do. "It's another monster!"
"Yami! STOP IT!" Tea jumps over onto his side of the moving train and grabs the card from his hand holding him close. Yami's bangs cover his eyes as she whispers soothing words into his ear. "It's alright. You won Pharaoh. It's over we can stop now. Calm down" She kept whispering into his ear holding him close to her body causing his shakyness to subside. Tears fell down his cheeks and landed on Tea's white blazer as she calmed the heart broken Pharaoh down.
(end flashback)
"Who would help me then?" Yami wonders as he opens his eyes once more. Ever since Tea had come into his life the cutting had subsided down to a minimum. It used to be a necessity to realize he was still actually living. Now he had Tea there to bring him back, who needed a switch blade or even a knife? Yami looks up at the never ending ceiling as if waiting for an answer but, when none came he looks back into his lap and sits in silence for a moment.
"I will." A small hollow voice says from his door way. Yami looks up from his lap and quickly dries away the tears with his jacket sleeve.
"Y-Yugi!" Yami says some- what surprised.
"That's what I'm here for. As your light I rid the darkness from your soul. I help you get by. A light and a dark put together turn to an even amount Pharaoh." Yugi says. This was more than Yami had ever heard Little Yugi say in a day. "With my lightness," Yugi took Yami's hand in his own and continued his sentence. "And your darkness we cant be separated." Yugi smiles up at Yami looking into the stern almost identical eyes. He releases Yami's hand and lets it fall back to his lap.
"T-Tea will leave soon." Yami stutters as he stares deep into the brick walls.
"Yes Yami and we will make it though. You and I." Yugi urges the words into his Dark's head. "We'll all miss her unless we can persuade her to stay."
"I- I wont get to tt-tell her..." Was all Yami could get out before his eyes betrayed him and leaked crystal shinning tear drops down his cheeks.
"Tell her what Yami?" Yugi's look was a look of concern and his voice, though patient, still had a hint of smoothness and anxiety that he seemed to be hiding from Yami.
"How I feel." Was all Yami could say before his cheeks turned pink as he looks at the ground beside him.
"Y-you like her. Dont you Yami?" Yugi asks his gaze diverting to the ground of the cement floor.
"Always have." Yami admits some-what sheepishly.
"Well..." Yugi starts but goes quiet for a moment more.
"What is it Aibou?" Yami asks over coming his embarrassment though he knew what the little light was going to say he acts as if he knows nothing.
"It's juts that... well you know! I do too." Yugi shrugs turning to the light of his soul room down the hall. In the small amount of light Yami could see the tint of pink on the smallers? cheeks.
"I- I know." Yami puts a hand on his partners shoulder. "I know." Yugi nodded in agreement to show the same pain in both of them.
"Why don?t we talk about the times we shared with Tea and think of a way to keep her if she decides to go." Yugi suggests.
"That?s a fine idea Yugi." Yami pats the spot up against the wall next to him and Yugi slouches over to sit next to Yami and lean against the wall.
"I remember, before you ever came, Tea always was my partner. Kickball when I was the captain she was the first I picked. Art projects, yup. Class helpers, MMMhmmm." Yugi starts. "In grade school she asked me to the Twerp Dance in 6th grade that was when I first realized I saw her as more than a friend." That was all Yugi said, then there was silence for a few moments.
"Well, when you were sacrificed for that big animal Dartz was summoning Tea tried to help me so much but all I did was push her away. She gave excuses on why Joey shouldn?t punch me every time I said I was sorry and even worried about me on the nights I was out late to bring me a blanket. If it wasn?t for my depression I would have gave into feelings then. Thinking that the whole reason I was here was to destroy the good was the whole reason I was here. Dartz had me under such pressure and so many attempts to stop wasn?t enough." Yami sighs and takes a break then continues on. "I never told anyone this but I think you should know..." Yami went on to tell his tale as the flashback plays in his mind. "Tea saved my life once..."
(flashback)
"Is this really right?" Yami asks himself as he stands outside the Trailer by the small wooden picnic table. Everyone was out exploring the desert, Yami had decided to stick behind. Tea was inside the trailer sleeping from a small cold she had caught the night she sat out with Yami before. The sky was clouded with black and gray storm clouds and the air was hot, sticky and humid. No wind blew nor did anything move in the desert, This is how I wish to die, Yami decides to himself. He sits down on the picnic table bench and holds the knife close to his wrist not wanting to cause any pain he closed his eyes and thought for a moment. Thinking all the bad things he remembers and he couldn?t remember Yami realizes this is his fate. Unable to hear the things around him he puts the cold knifes' edge to touch his soft skin and slowly begin to cut in. "YAMI!" Someone screeches from the trailers starts. "STOP IT!" Suddenly a force pulls the knife out of his skin and tosses it in the dirt near the front tire of the RV. "Why?" The female voice asks with her stuffy nose. "No Yami, please." Tea stands before him as he re-opens his eyes and stares down at his wrist. The cut was deep and blood pooled out around his veins. Fortunately he hadn?t hit any veins and he was breathing, Tea took off her loose baggy tee shirt and quickly and skillfully wrapped it around his wrist. Yami just stares blackly at her as she stands in front of him, half adorned in only a bra and long baggy pajama pants with tears stinging her eyes as she blinks them back to be able to see what she was doing.
"I- I'm sorry." Was all Yami could say. "W-what... hhhave I done...?" He asks in a low whisper. He had just almost lost his life for a small loose of his partner and feeling sorry for himself left him blinded to everything around him.
"Shhhh." Tea hushes him as he cries into her bare shoulder as she holds him close and rocks back and forth. Yami's face is red with embarrassment that the brunette was not fully clothed as she held him close to her and comforted him. His breathes became shorter and his eyes became red with too many tears as his cheeks remained stained with tears and his heart raced with pain and confusion. In the pit of his stomach Yami felt as though he would vomit but was slowly brought back by the small hum of the female who had her arms wrapped around him humming a small sad tune of Evanescence, MY Immortal.
"I'm sorry." Yami cries into her shoulder once more as his eyes close and his breathing slows.
(end flashback!)
"She saved me and for that, I'm forever in debt to her." Yami says emotionlessly as he stares straight ahead of him into the brick yellow wall. Then a few tears slide down his cheeks and he begins to cry. "Without you, Hikari, I am unable to see straight. But if I were to leave you, you would be able to survive perfectly without me." There was a few moments of silence as the minutes passed until Little Yugi spoke up,
"I think I am going to bed." He stands and stares down at his Yami and then begins for the door. Slowly he closes it behind him and heads to his own soul room where his soul rests and prepares for the next day.
Back in Yami's soul room, his tears had subsided into small sobs then into a small breath here and there until finally he was sound asleep against the cold hard wall. His mind wandered through an ancient place in the puzzle where he had never been as it slowly opens one of the mysterious doors and peers in he sees himself and Tea sitting close together on the floor under a wool blanket staring at a small square TV in front of them.
(dream)
"All these lovely times Yami. Cant believe they were all ours." Tea whispers into Yami's ear as he stares at the screen in front of him and nods. Slowly the pictures animate across the screen.
"Hey Yami! Your coming... right?" Tea asks the brave Pharaoh.
"mmmhmm. Give me a few moments." He stares at the artifact a moment longer and follows Tea out of the museum on their first attempt at a date.
"That was... interesting." Tea says after walking silently for a few minutes.
"Yes very." Yami nods.
"So your name is Yami and you are some ancient Pharaoh from 5 thousand years ago and you need to save the world from some evil nut case again?" She asks looking up at him as they walk along the shore line.
"I suppose we will find out." Yami smiles down at her. The two stop and stare out into the water as the sun begins to set over the ocean waves.
"It seems like a book to me." Tea says as she removes her shoes and stick?s her feet into the waves as they slowly rise up her legs.
"Why is that?"
"Well, you wouldn?t know, but when I read books things happen when you least expect them. They can be dramatic, the can seem so unrealistic they can be love stories or even mysteries." She looks back up at him. "Do you think yours has a love story in it?" Her cheeks turn a slight pink.
"Like a story within a story?" Yami asks grasping all she had said.
"Yes precisely." She nods still looking deep into his eyes.
"I'm not really good at predicting the future. How about I let you know when I know." He smiles down at her with love in his eyes and it shown into Tea's and made her fluttering heart calm and melt in his gaze.
(End dream.)
"Ohmigod." Tea sat up in bed. Her sheets were soaked with sweat and her hair was sticking to her forehead. Her breathing was labored as she took deep breathes in and out again.
Back in Yami's soul room his eyes jolt open and he stares around at his surroundings. "If that was a flashback... we never did that or had that conversation."
At the same time Tea said the same thing in her own bed. They both slowly lay back down and close their eyes once more. Putting the weird never occurring flashback in the back of her mind.
A Week Later
The sun shown fully down upon the freshly waxed limo that sat in Tea's drive way while the driver packed Tea's things neatly in the back trunk as Yami Yugi and the other stare and watch. The air was hot and the wind was humid, the day seemed too perfect for Tea to be leaving. All were silent until Tea came out of the house with her small book bag perched on her back and a wide smile on her face she hugged them all and gave Yami a small peck on the cheek. Tears welled in all of their eyes but they dare not say a word the butler opened the back seat of the black limo's doors and ushers for Tea to step in when Yami finally couldn?t stand it any longer. He breaks away from everyone else and walks up to Tea. Tears falling down his cheeks he only stares at her as she stands behind the door of the limo about to get in. "Please Tea..." Was all he could say.
"I'm leaving." She said simply closing her eyes so she wouldn?t have to look into his handsome amethyst ones.
"Tea, please! Just wait! Dont leave. I'm beggin you please don?t leave me." Yami cries as he stands by Tea's limo.
"Yami, I cant. I must go. You'll survive without me!" Tea says her face straight and emotionless. No tears stung her eyes, as she had rehearsed earlier. "Let's just cut it off!" She slices the air with her hand but she also slashed Yami's heart with her words. She slides into the limo's seat and closes the door as she sets her small backpack in her lap. A small drop of wetness falls on her pleated skirt as the limo begins to drive away. "What have I done?" She asks herself.
The End
PC: Sniff! Sniff. How touching.
Yami: Shut up!
PC: so people if you want a sequel I need some reviews from ya so I can at least have some self esteem to write it. KK! Please review!
Yami: Pharaohs Crystals does NOT own Yu-gi-oh but she does own this very first completed fan fic. But remember if you want a sequel you must review!
PC and Yami and Yugi: Bibi!
