Chapter 6: Learning to be…

Slowly Akari's eyes fluttered open as she looked around the room, trying to figure out where she was. "I'm glad to see you're ok."

When she heard he voice speaking, Akari turned her head to the side to see a familiar pair of indigo eyes. "Who are you? Where am I?" she asked in a slightly frightened voice as her eyes desperately searched his face looking for an answer.

"I am a friend, my name is Yugi Motou." Yugi said as he smiled warmly and gently placed his hand over hers as the girl slowly calmed down and looked at him with a puzzled expression.

"But you look so much like the pharaoh…" she said softly as she reached forward and brushed his golden bangs away from his face. "How can this be?"

"Years ago my grandfather gave me a puzzle and dared me to solve it. When I solved the puzzle, I could feel something…someone else inside me." Yugi said as his mind slowly drifted back to his earlier years and he smiled. "At first my friends couldn't tell the two of us apart because we looked so much alike but after Tea noticed, everyone became aware of Yami. But not even Yami himself knew about his mysterious past, so we took a trip to Egypt where we found out the truth…"

"That Yami was the brave Pharaoh Atemu who sacrificed his life to protect the world…" Akari finished sadly as she turned her head toward the window and gazed at the cloudless sky outside. "Somehow he sealed his soul into the puzzle, knowing that only his descendant could solve the puzzle and awaken him when he would be needed once more. Then Tea came along and unwittingly sacrificed herself so that I could live…"

"Akari I," Yugi started gently as she took no notice, continued to talk to him, and buried her face in her hands as her tears dripped steadily onto her hospital bed sheets until a small puddle started to form.

"If only she was still alive, I would tell her how sorry I was for inhabiting her soul for all these years. What happened to her in the temple was totally unforgivable…if only I had been able to warn her of the danger…"

"Akari, Tea's right here. She's all right." Yugi said in a louder voice as he pulled the divider curtain back to reveal Tea sitting up in her hospital bed looking at her with a warm smile on her face.

Daikaio: Ooh, cool.
Bring the next chapter soon!

Hikari and Sunny: how did tea make it? (darn, shes ok...--)lol
its cool. keep posting