I know it has been awhile so forgive me,bows her head in a humble manner. on with the story and of course I own nothing.

just a little side note Atemu has a body, how he got it is another story

My tea cup was the one that shattered. It shattered into a million tiny pieces just like my heart breaking at this news. It has been three days and yet no one has told me. Why? May I ask Why? I stare back at Mai who now knows what she has done. She is looking at me as though I may crack like the tea cup below.

Jounouchi and Shizuka come back into the room with paper towels for the first tea spill but then they realize the spill has gotten larger. Jonouchi looks back and forth from me to Mai and he asks "What the hell? Guys what happened?" But then his eyes locked onto me and they stood frozen, comprehension finally dawning on him. He lets out "I am sorry Anzu, this has been breaking my heart and I didn't know if you would want this heavy burden. I didn't want to jeopardize your career."

I am thinking in my head, jeopardizing my career? You are jeopardizing my heart and soul. I look back at all them and think back earlier to that day how Kaiba wanted to kill me for saying his name and Shizuka not really answering about why they had not come for dinner. They were all trying to forget and trying to cope but waiting to tell me has made it all the more difficult. I look back to Jounouchi and said " Jou there are some things which must be told and not put back into the deepest corner of your mind. .All you have done is not save me but hurt me." With that I picked up the broken pieces of the cup put them on the table and left to escape these people I call friends.

Out in the open I walked unsure of what to do. Everything here reminded me of him. The park, us taking a stroll in the park, the mall where I made him come with me and the tournaments which he always went to. Yes to sum it all up with one word would be DOMINO. His heart and soul were in Domino. That is where he went to school and grew up. That is where everything started and everything ended. I didn't know who to turn to. My so called friends lied to me and Kaiba wasn't one for sympathy. Who was I to turn to?

I kept walking, tears streaming down my face. People stared at me. Giving questioning looks, thinking what is up with her? I wanted to scream back that I had lost someone so dear to my heart and it can't be healed. As I kept walking I bumped into someone. I murmured I am sorry but then looked up and gasped.

There in front of me was a spiky hair man with violet eyes. I rubbed my eyes, glancing up, just staring at him. The face looked down and sighed "Hello Anzu. I am sorry to see you in such a sad state." It was the Pharaoh or Atemu. Poor man, he looked so sad and he had a right to be. I nodded and let out "allo Atemu, I came to the city hoping for a dinner yesterday but yeah you know." My words hung in the air. He let out a whistle "ahh yes I am sorry Anzu I was in Egypt for two days, trying to escape Domino. The Ishtars say hello. Would you like to have lunch? There is a lot needed to be healed and I believe a good hamburger would do some good."

I nodded thinking in my heart that Little Yugi would come out any moment but I know that this was only a thought. Atemu sighed and he put his hand around me and led me to the nearest café.

As we munched on our burger and fries, I told Atemu about those we had called friends. He nodded and agreed with me that they should have told me. I asked how come Atemu wasn't at the fire and he sighed. He said that he had gone out for the day on some errands around the town and Yugi was ever so bustling around the shop not really noticing anything funny smelling. When he had come back he said the shop was dismantled and destroyed and the top part of the shop, the house was in a pretty weak condition. The firefighters said he was already dead when they found him. He sighed Yugi was really looking forward to the dinner but Atemu just wasn't feeling up to it so He took a plane to Egypt to get away from this tradgedy. I asked if there had been a funeral but he said that he had planned on waiting because He knew I was coming. I smiled at him a sad smile and told him Thank You. As we continued to eat People continued to stare and I guess because Atemu looked so much like Yugi, it was to confusing others if they were told Yugi was already dead.

I asked if anyone else of our friends didn't know but he shrugged but then I thought of someone "What about Rebecca and Bakura?"

He nodded and said "Bakura is still in England but he does know. He said he would try to get a couple days to help out and come down to pay respects. Good friend he is. But Rebecca is a different story. I know for a fact that she lives just outside of Domino because she goes to Domino University for a couple extra classes. She keeps in touch with her grandfather but that is all I know."

"I think it might be a good idea if we paid a visit to her, don't you agree?"

"I do agree but I don't think I should follow because you know she is not quite fond of me than she was of Yugi. She isn't too keen to see a Pharaoh but maybe a friendly face would do her some good. I will travel with you but I won't go to her house ok."

"Fair Atemu, so let's get going."

I was feeling still miserable as ever but I wanted to see how Rebecca was coping. Maybe she would be a little more open. We took a train for an hour to reach the outskirts of Domino. We had managed to find her house and Atemu told me the easiest way to get there. He told me that he would be doing some shopping in the small shopping district nearby and I let him get off to his so called shopping. As he left I saw his hand was his pocket fidgeting uncontrollably, he was hiding something

I stood in front of an apartment building and I took the elevator up 3 floors till I reached her room number which was 202. I knocked three times and stood waiting with baited breath. The door finally swung open and I stood face to face with a grown up Rebecca. She was about 19 while I was 26 ( I made that up) but she did seem to grow to about 5'5, much taller then Yugi's poor height. She no longer wore glasses but most likely contacts. The last time I saw her she had short pigtails but now they were longer and the tips were dyed a certain green which matched her eyes. Her outfit on the other hand was sweat pants and a tee shirt with a pair of fuzzy socks. She held an ice cream container in one hand and the spoon in her mouth. She removed the spoon and asked "umm can I help you?"

"Hello Rebecca it is I Anzu." I said giving a slight bow. She smiled and allowed me to come in. Her apartment was very cozy and little more to the standards of her living but it was messy which I didn't expect. She had in the middle den with a T.V. paused and her laptop lay on the couch. The coffee table was littered in junk food and tissues. I knew she wasn't sick but more living in a depressed mode. She has a small dog, a shiba inu sleeping on the couch. She placed the dog on a nearby bed and scuttled around the house cleaning off the table and offering me a seat. While she went to fetch a glass of soda, I gazed at the T.V. The paused picture seemed to have a duel paused. I stared for a couple of long minutes disbelieving myself but then I could see that these were the battle city duels and KC grand pre. I was still staring at the screen when she walked in with the soda.

"Oh, I forgot that I paused it." She put the sodas on the table and turned the T.V off.

I asked "How in the world did you get those?"

She smiled "I didn't hack into his database if that's what you are thinking. Mokuba owed me a favor and that is what I asked of him."

"Smart girl. So how is University going?" She seemed to be staring out the window not paying any word I said.

"What? Oh sorry I dazed out. It's going ok. They let me have two weeks off to recoup and told me to stop by for Homework when necessary."

I nodded not needing to ask to recoup for what because I knew. She asked what I was doing down in Domino and I told her. She looked at me with understanding eyes. "I can't believe that Jou did that to you. I did speak to him once but I could barely get him to speak a whole sentence alone 5 words. I hope he doesn't snap, I really hope not."

I was gazing at the window and all of a sudden my eyes started to tear, tear a long river of sadness and just plain grief. I felt so embarrassed but Rebecca didn't care. She patted my back and said " I guess all good things must come to an end even though we wish them not to." I nodded and stared out the window thinking how I would go on. Go on without him.

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