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A/N: Heh, heh. I liked that disclaimer.

Chapter Sixteen

"If you would like," said Shadi, "I could help you understand." He looked at her pointedly. "I cannot help but feel it is my duty, Princess. I know what you have been put through, and I wish to give you whatever explanation the Pharaoh sees fit." Shadi glanced at Yami, "But I do not wish to be to much involved, for I know that it is not my place to interfere."

Kida looked at him gratefully. "I would like that very much." She sounded relieved. "It is nice that someone is finally taking the time to explain to me what is happening… and I know that you will not lie to me." She smiled lightly, "Thank you."

He nodded. "It is only right that you know, for no one deserved the unhappiness that confusion can bring." He paused for a moment, "And I do believe that this situation has gotten a bit out of hand.

"A millennia ago, there was a great a powerful Pharaoh, who ruled over Upper and Lower Egypt. I his fifteenth year a Great War broke out between the Pharaoh and those who opposed him. It was known as the Ultimate Shadow Game; it was now fought who soldiers, oh no, but with evil creatures summoned from the Shadow Realm.

"The best words I can find to describe the Shadow Realm would most likely be… hell- the most horrible and torturous place that a human could ever think of being sent. In the Shadow Realm a man could be tortured with physical pain, as well as emotional and spiritual trials that would drive him insane within hours.

"It was the Shadows themselves which inflicted this pain; no one knows why, but some suspect that either the Shadows are offended by a human's intrusion into their home, or just possibly because they are so demented that they enjoy it. I myself believe it to be the later- and there are very few exceptions.

"There are actually only two people known who the Shadows actually seem to obey- and they are both standing right in front of you." Kida looked around, confused, and Shadi smiled. "Those two are the Thief King Bakura: the spirit which inhabits Ryou Bakura's body, and the Great Pharaoh Atemu: your father."

Kida's eyes widened. She had thought that her father was Yami! She decided to voice her opinion. "But, Shadi, I thought that Yami," she glanced over at the man with tri-colored hair, much like her own, "was my father."

Shadi smiled amusedly. "He is. The Pharaoh's true name is Atemu, but for the longest time he could not remember, and so the young Yugi Motou gave him the name 'Yami', which, as you know, means 'dark'."

"Who's Yugi Motou?" Kida questioned him. For some reason, this explanation was a little more than she had thought she was going to get from a man wearing a robe and a turban (which looked remarkably like a bed sheet wrapped around his head).

"He was the young boy whom was reincarnated from the Pharaoh." Kida noticed that her father looked extremely sad at the mention of this boy. "What happened to him?" she asked.

Yami spoke before Shadi could. "Do you remember who Marik is?" Kida couldn't quite figure out what that had to do with anything, but she nodded, remembering the (hot) man with platinum blond hair who had been standing in the apartment with them earlier. Come to think of it… where were they? Kida pushed the question to the back of her mind when she heard Yami continue.

"About twelve years ago- a little more than that if I remember correctly- Marik tried to steel my Millenium Puzzle, and my power." Kida stared at him blankly, and Yami sighed. "During that time, I had been trapped in the Millenium Puzzle."

Deciding to further explain himself, he attempted to sum up what Shadi had started to tell her earlier. "Well, five thousand years ago, after the Great War, I sealed away the Shadows, and in doing so trapped myself and Bakura in the Millenium Items. After all those years, I couldn't really remember anything of my past… not even my name. It was actually several years after Battle City that I finally figured everything out, but that has nothing to do with what I am telling you now.

"About, oh I'd say, maybe two years before then, Yugi solved the Millenium Puzzle. In doing so he released my spirit, although he didn't realize that he had. It was the end of Duelist Kingdom before he figured out who I was." Yami stared wistfully of into space, seemingly lost in his own memories. He didn't seem to even realize that he was speaking now.

"During that time I remember being very confused- everything around me was unfamiliar, and I was constantly trapped in the labyrinth of my own mind until Yugi summoned me from the puzzle. Normally only to duel, or something of the sort."

While her father continued, Kida attempted to absorb all of the information. He kept telling her about all sorts of old duel tournaments, and what had happened from his own perspective in them. Since she was interested in dueling, Kida remembered that she had actually read a little about most of them. Duelist Kingdom, she remembered, had been hosted by none other than the creator of the game, Maximillion Pegasus.

She also remembered that he had been beaten by a novice named Yugi Motou, who was crowned the King of Games. It was said that he had never lost his title, because even though he no longer participated in the larger tournaments, every once in a while he would do a smaller tournament, and be the "Grand Prize": the winner would get to duel him for his title.

She frowned, that was the same boy who had possessed the Puzzle? Did that mean that it wasn't truly Yugi who had been the Game King, but her father? Her brows furrowed. It seemed that everything had gone from an average/normal day to a journey into her father's past- a father who she hadn't even known about until today.

Tea listened intently to the former Pharaoh. She had never really heard about everything from his point of view. All she had known were the vague details that you got from always being on the sideline. But from just standing to the side and watching you aren't going to learn much.

Soon, she had heard all about Duelist Kingdom from Yami's P.O.V. She realized that maybe, just maybe, he wasn't the strong, all around invincible person that the Gang had thought. He was human (in a sense), just like them.

But what really struck Tea was the emotion in his voice. She herself had never really heard him speak this way. She had only heard the mysterious, sexy, yet disconnected spirit of the Millenium Puzzle. She sighed inwardly, maybe there wasn't all that much that she really knew about him, after all. Wouldn't you have thought that she would have, of all people, known something about him?

A/N: HAH, HAH! It's SHORT! Nah, nah! Okay, I'll stop now and get to the serious(er) author's notes.

Well, there you go. I've finally started the actual explanation. This chapter I went over Yami's past in Egypt, Duelist Kingdom (sorta…), and given a slightly bit about Battle City. In the next chapter I'll try to give the in depth B.C. explanation.

Okay, I'm sure you're all wondering by now why the hell they're in the past. I mean, they're already explaining everything to Kida, and after they're done there's nothing else to learn, right? WRONG! Like I said earlier, Yami only has memories of the first half of him life. At age seventeen they just kinda go 'Splat' and disappear. I'm going to get into that soon.

Well, this story will most likely have about twenty chapters. That's a lot longer than I had earlier intended (it was gonna be, like, ten), but that's OKAY! -! So, I'll just say R&R, and I'll update as soon as possible!