Chapter 4

Emma awoke to find that she was still in Bakura's bathroom where she had hit her head on the sink basin. Sunshine beamed in through the window, so she realised that it was morning and must have fallen back to sleep after the shadow game with the spirit of the millennium ring. She wondered if she had dreamt the whole thing or if she really had defeated him. Either way she was going to make sure that he never bothered Bakura ever again.

She searched around Bakura's home for a phone and found it on a table with a photo frame stood next to it. Quickly she dialled the number of her hotel and waited for the line to be put through to her room.

As she waited she looked at the photo in the frame. In the photo there were what she guessed to be two Bakuras. One of them looked older than the other, and she guessed it must be his brother even though she couldn't tell who was who. She looked closer at the photo and realised that one of them may even be a girl but she wasn't sure.

"Hello?" she heard herself on the other end of the phone, and quickly put down the photo.

"Hi it's me." she told Bakura. "Listen this is really important. I need to know where the millennium ring is." But she was met with silence. "I know it's somewhere nearby because the spirit told me."

"I tried to get rid of it." explained Bakura. There was a knocking on the hotel room door. "It's buried in the back yard, under the blossom tree."

"Okay thanks, meet me at Yugi's place in an hour. I know how to sort this out." She placed down the receiver and raced to the tool shed in the back yard were she pulled out a spade.

Even though she was still wearing pyjamas she started to dig where Bakura had told her and it wasn't long before she felt the millennium ring with the spade. Reaching down in to the hole she brushed away the earth until she could pull it out.

Once she had the millennium ring she placed it on to the path and raised the spade above her head. She brought it down on the ring with all her might several times until the ring broke in to pieces. "I'd like to see you come back from that." she panted with an amused smile on her face.

Emma returned to the hole to fill it back in when she noticed more gold shining in the earth. Again she brushed away the dirt with her hands to reveal the millennium eye. She stared at it in horror as it had once belonged to her brother, who had lost it awhile back during the duellist Kingdom tournament. She search for more millennium items but didn't find any.

Once she had filled in the hole she returned to the path and sat down staring at the millennium eye. Why did Bakura now have it? Then she remembered that the spirit had been after her millennium key. Was he planning on gaining all seven of the millennium items? But it didn't matter now as he was gone and would never return. And she also had back her brother's millennium eye.

Upset and anger began to build up inside her as she remembered the change that she had witnessed in her brother when he had first gotten the eye. He had just suffered losing Cecelia, his childhood sweetheart not long after they were married when she died suddenly from an unexpected illness. As he searched the world to find new meaning and a reason for living he had returned from his travels with the millennium eye embedded in his left eye socket, and a changed man who was power hungry and obsessed with trying to bring Cecelia back from the dead.

She placed the millennium eye on the ground and got to her feet picking up the spade at the same time. She remembered all the times that she'd cried as she wished for her brother to change back to the fun loving person that he had once been. As she raised the spade above her head, she remembered the day that she received a call from the hospital when he had been submitted with injury to his left eye. When she visited him there the millennium eye was nowhere to be seen and her brother had returned to his normal self. She brought the spade down only once to shatter the eye in to dozens of pieces.

Emma had arrived at Yugi's Game shop where she sat on the counter talking to Yugi and Yami about the previous night's events, while she waited for Bakura who was running late. She watched as Yugi placed some new cards on display on the counter, whilst Yami paced about behind him blaming himself for all that had happened for not noticing that the spirit had still been present in Bakura

"Well it's all over now, and there's no way he's coming back from this one." Emma told Yami, and she patted her bag which jingled slightly. "I plan to put as much distance as I can between these pieces and Bakura."

The door chimed as she saw herself and Mokuba enter the shop. "I just have to see Bakura first and then you have my full attention." Bakura told the younger boy.

Emma hopped down from the counter and together with Bakura they went in to the back store room. "What does Mokuba want?" she asked.

"I've been stalling for time, so he hasn't said yet, but he wants to talk to you in private." Bakura told her and then asked. "Have you had any trouble with the spirit?"

Emma gestured for the millennium key. "We had a confrontation last night, but I think you'll be pleased to know that he won't be bothering you anymore."

"Are you sure?" Bakura asked as he removed the millennium key from around his neck and handed it to Emma. "I've tried, and thought, I'd gotten rid of him many times before but he keeps coming back."

"I'll be taking the millennium ring away just to be extra sure." Emma told him and saw his eyes become slightly happier. She held her millennium item in front of her. "Now I need you to also take hold of this, close your eyes and imagine yourself back in your own body."

"No offence, but I highly doubt that this will work." Bakura said as he did what he had been told. He opened his eyes to see Emma's face staring back at him. "Well what do you know, it worked!"

"One down, one to go." smiled Emma putting the millennium key back around her neck. She was so glad to be back in her own body.

"She's all yours now Mokuba." Bakura shouted happily as they came out of the store room. "Thank you for waiting."

Mokuba began to help put away the cards that he and Yugi were looking through, as Bakura said his goodbyes and left the shop bumping in to a girl on his way out.

"I'm so sorry." Bakura apologised to the girl as he began to help retrieve her things that he had caused her to drop.

"Thanks." smiled the girl who had a long white hair that was tied back in a braid.

"That's my favourite book of all time." Bakura stated to the book 1984 as he handed it back to its owner.

"Mine too!" exclaimed the girl rather shyly.

Bakura smiled happily in to her green eyes as he introduced himself. "I'm Ryou."

"I'm Sarah." replied the girl blushing slightly.

As they entered the back store room, Emma smiled to herself at the thought of Bakura now being able to make new friends without having to worry about the spirit taking over him. "I'm sorry to keep you waiting so long." She looked down at Mokuba who seemed lost in his thoughts. "So what's up?"

"It's Seto." Mokuba told her.

Emma sighed as she should have known that Kaiba was to be the cause of his little brother's misery. "What's he done now?"

"It happened again." Started Mokuba and continued to carry on with out stopping for breath. " He was sent another one of those video files again and went mental, so I left the room as fast as I could, but I've never seen him this angry in a long time and I'm worried about him so much."

"Do you know what the clips are?" Emma asked Mokuba. "Are they pornographic like Joey said?"

"I think so." Mokuba said sadly. "He's my brother and I don't want to think anything bad of him but……."

Emma waited as Mokuba broke off from his sentence and seemed to want to hold back the rest before he told her; "I think that they're paedophilic."