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A/N: Hello to all of my wonderful reviewers! I love you all for reviewing so much! I have 162 reviews! You reviewers rock! Okay, so I guess for now I should just tell you that the stories almost over, probably only 1-3 more chapters left after this. But I would just like the thank you all for being so loyal to this story. So now I'll just say: R&R! Thank you.

Chapter Ten (finally)

Ring ring ring

Kida waited impatiently for the phone to be picked up. She hoped that, since she had been unable to find him, Rirsi had made it home already.

Ring ring

She hung the phone up, sighing loudly. She was worried about Rirsi, more worried that she normally would be about something like this happening. Rirsi was known for getting himself into trouble. And this wasn't the first time that something like this had happened. But, for some reason Kida couldn't figure out, her nerves had been on edge lately, and she had been slightly easier to set off.

She really hoped that these feelings were just her imagination. If not, well then, she wasn't quite sure what was going on.

She decided to try one more time. She dropped her last fifty cents into the change slot on the public phone, and waited, attempting to keep herself calm, for something to happen.

Ring ring ring click.

She couldn't help but let a small smile slip onto her face when she heard the click of the phone, and Ryou's soft voice come to her ears. "Hello?"

Kida couldn't hear Ryou's earlier panic, but she did here something that sounded akin to relief in his voice. She ignored this and asked him, "Have you heard from Rirsi?"

"Kida?" She heard his recognition. He paused for a moment before answering, "Actually yes, he got home about half an hour ago."

She let out a breath that she hadn't realized she was holding. "That's good. I guess I'll be going now."

She was about to hang up the phone when she heard Ryou's voice frantically calling from the receiver, "Wait! Don't hang up!"

Now she felt confused. "What is if Ryou? Is something wrong?" A feeling of dread filled her. "Did something happen to Rirsi?"

"No, no," he said faintly. "Never mind. It's not important." She could almost here his smile from the other end. "I'll have Rirsi call you later. G'bye, Kida."

She heard the click of his phone hanging up, and she did likewise. She still had the feeling of discomfort from earlier, but she decided to ignore it. She had Rirsi back now, at least.

"I guess I should head home now," she said to no one in particular. With that she turned around and started off to her apartment.

She had thought that maybe, just maybe, if she tried really hard, she would finally be able to forget her old friends. Then just when she thought this, she turns around just to open the door to the one person she thought she would never see again. She had thought that, by leaving, he would have been able to move on from her. After all, he had been around long enough to know that nothing lasts forever.

But then she sees him right in front of her, barely having aged a day since she had last seen him. He was still the most handsome man she had ever seen. Sometimes Tea wondered why she ever left him.

Then it would all come rushing back to her, Kida, her pregnancy that night. It was all she could do to suppress a shiver, just at the thought.

She was sent roughly spiraling into the present when she felt his strong arms wrap around her in an embrace. For the first time in a very long time, she felt as if she were sixteen and in love again. Of course, she admitted to herself, she was still in love.

But she wasn't sixteen anymore. She had a daughter who was twelve years old, and here stood Kida's father, hugging her and completely oblivious as to what she went through.

Reluctantly she pushed him away, trying to ignore the hurt look in his eyes as she asked, "Yami, what are you doing here?" She hadn't meant for it to sound so rough, but she couldn't help it. "I haven't seen you for twelve years. Why the sudden interest in my life?"

That time she knew that she had gone too far. She was letting her emotions take control of her, and that normally wasn't good. But she was just so frustrated! Here Yami was, acting as if nothing had happened, and as if it was normal for him to just show up at her door after over a decade!

Yami lowered his head, and he whispered. "I'm sorry." His voice was so soft that she was surprised she had even heard him. And when she heard the pain in his voice she realized that his life probably hadn't been any easier than hers.

Actually, his life was probably harder than hers was. He had been left alone but the other half of his soul, and he was in a world that was five thousand years ahead of his own time. He didn't even know his real name.

Her eyes showed her sympathy for him, and she said gently, a small smile escaping to her lips, "It's alright, Yami." She shook her head, and tears leaked form her eyes. "I guess I'm just a little shocked. I haven't seen you in such a long time I guess that I really just don't remember what it's like."

Yami reached up gently, and wiped the tears form her eyes. A smile caressed his handsome face, and Tea could feel her own heating quickly, as a blush reddened her cheeks. "You're right," he said, "it has been a very long time."

Tea felt frozen stiff as she felt Yami's lips gently touch her own, in a shy kiss. Yami pulled his head back and Tea gazed intently into his searing crimson eyes. Those eyes had been the very thing that had made her feel so strongly for him; those eyes which were sad, lonely, and wise beyond the years of any mortal being. Those very beautiful eyes, which now looked upon her with a love she hadn't seen since that night twelve years ago.

It was then that her fantasy of an uncomplicated love snapped right before her eyes.

"Mom?"

A/N: I'm sorry that that chapter was so short, but I must say, it was pretty well written. Okay, just as a condition, before I post the next chapter, I must have AT LEAST 175 REVEIWS (in all). Okay? Oh yeah, and whoever said that I shouldn't be writing this story if my only motive is to get reviews, I was just being sarcastic when I said that. I'm also writing this for the reviewers, and also for myself, for the satisfaction of actually being able to write something, and to have people like it.

Okay, so for how, just R&R. And for this chapter: That's all, folks!