A/N: For some reason FFN is being screwy and keeps cutting this chapter off halfway. Thus I've decided to just post chapter 7 in two parts. So anyone who has read the first part of chapter 7 and felt very confused that wasn't the ending. Here's the 2nd half. )

"Normal?" Jounouchi chuckled. "Since the day we became friends Yuugi. Life has never been normal."

"Yeah…" Since that Christmas… when I first received you Mou hitori no boku… life has never been normal. "I hope we come out of this…"

"We will Yuugi. We always have, and we have been through a lot."

"Yeah. Yeah… Jounouchi-kun. That's what I want. I want to go back to Domino… all of us together, and… maybe give normality a chance."

Jounouchi laughed. He lightly ruffled Yuugi's tri colored hair. The shorter boy… suddenly as Jounouchi looked down at his best friend… no longer looked so short. "Yuugi."

"Ne, Jounouchi-kun?" The boy asked. He cocked his head confused.

"Err…. Doesn't this feel… familiar?"

"Huh?"

"I don't know Yuugi. Sometimes I wonder. What if we lived in another … time? In a parallel universe."

"Huh?"

"Remember what Isis said about those Sennen items."

"How there are seven of them… theoretically… but many have never been found?"

"Yeah. What if all the items were found…and you had one Yuugi? I wonder how different life would have played out."

Yuugi nodded. Though he had never told anybody, he too wondered. What were the other three sennen items? Who has them? And what purpose do they serve.

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As Ra rose to the sky once more… the ferry carrying the forgotten, accursed Pharaoh, his love, and their warriors finally landed at the entry to the shrine of the dead. The progression to the shrine was a quiet and solemn event. No one talked. No one moved out of line. The only sound was the shuffle of feet on the hot Egyptian sand.

It felt like high noon before Isis stopped them, and immediately they all knew. There in the sand was a small… narrow shaft covered by a wooden door. "Welcome to the shrine of the dead… the entrance to the forgotten memories of the namonaki pharaoh. This is where your journey to the unknown begins Yuugi. My brothers and I can not trek any further. We will wait for you outside… and pray that when you emerge… your dreams will be a reality."

Yuugi nodded.

"The journey is barred by trials… trials that will test you. Some will be painful. Some will require mental strength, others physical, and others will be clouded. All I can bestow upon you are these two items." From her dress Isis drew out a chain of keys… five keys all encased in gold and a strange looking wand. These items will aid you… use them wisely."

Yuugi nodded. As he reached for the items, he felt his lover tense.

"I wish you luck Mutou Yuugi."

Yuugi nodded gulped. He eyed his friends once before starting for the door.

"Matte!" Jounouchi called stopping his friend. He grabbed onto Yuugi's wrist stopping the boy. "I didn't come all this way just to send Yuugi off. I'm going too!"

"Me too!" Anzu chimed in.

"If Inu goes, I go too," Kaiba barked.

"And you can't forget me."

"Jounouchi-kun, Honda-kun, Kaiba-kun, Anzu… I." Yuugi bowed his head. "Arigotou minna."

"A group is always better than one. Unity is important in this world. I'm glad you have so many dedicated friends Yuugi-kun."

So am I, Malik-kun.

"Very well. Then I wish you all the best of luck. May when you return, the namonaki pharaoh's memories will be restored to him."

I just wish to have mou hitori no boku back. Please Gods… grant me this wish… my only wish in this lifetime.

"Aibou."

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The walk to the deep underpass was a long and grueling one. As the dark, damp path winded away from the exit, no long was light penetrable. Luckily at the entrance they had found a torch for each of them… and even more luckily… there was only one path.

"Man… what is this! A maze! It feels like we've been down here for hours."

It's merely an illusion Jounouchi-kun. Mou hitori no boku's life… it's a long one… according to Isis-san and Malik-kun… 3000 years of lost memories and confinement.

"What those keys for?"

"Huh?" Yuugi looked up cocking his head before he realized at he was still clinching the keys and the wand that Isis had given him.

"What those keys for?"

Yuugi bit his lips as he slipped the wand into his jacket pocket. Whatever the wand was for, he knew sooner or later he would discover its purpose. As for the keys… they were a different story. There were five of them… each was a different color… red, blue, white, brown, and silver… under each key hole there was a strange symbol except on the silver key. They looked like symbols of… fire, water, air and earth.

"Strange…" Anzu muttered.

"I bet there's a meaning behind each of them."

"Duh… Inu," Kaiba snapped.

"Or a door."

"Huh?" Yuugi looked up seeing his other had projected beside him.

"A door… the first of many huh aibou."

"Yeah…"

Yuugi looked back at his friends. "I'm going to bet… one of these keys goes with that door."

"Wait." Jounouchi put his hand upon Yuugi's shoulders as the boy walked into the light that illuminated the door.

"Ne?"

"We don't know what's beyond that door. It… it could be anything. Maybe we should form a plan before charging in."

"I'm happy Inu's learned something." Kaiba smirked. "I don't like… any of this. This… running wild in a maze of nothingness. All we have to go by are three not really trained "tomb keepers", some mystical sennen items, and a pharaoh locked in Mutou's mind. That's… how should I put it… pitiful. A bunch of crazy abracadabra junk."

"Yet, we have no choice Kaiba-kun." Yuugi sighed. "It… it's a risk I'm willing to take. I'm opening the door."

"Yuugi."

Somehow the young boy knew just which key to pick. As he slipped in the brown key, he felt the door slowly swing open on its own accord. His eyes widened. He felt the same reaction from his friends. There in front of them all… was a strange room. The floor was… a maze of sort. It suddenly reminded Yuugi strangely of a room in his love's dark realm.

"Return to my realm."

"Who's there!" Kaiba shouted. He pushed Yuugi away and scanned the room with his torch. The room gave off a strange vibe… one that attracted him.

"Kaiba Seto, what a catch. Yes, I will play with you. If you win, you and your friends move on. If… you lose… well… haha… you don't want to lose."

"I won't lose!" Kaiba shouted. He stepped forward… amused. "Name your game."

"Chess." The voice snickered.

"My specialty," Kaiba grinned. He licked his lips. A smirk crossed his face.

"Against… your brother."

Kaiba's eyes widened. The room brightened. There standing on the other side of the room… next to a figure draped in black… was…

"Mokuba," Yuugi gasped.

"Mokuba!" Kaiba's eyes widened.

The boy looked up. "Nisama!"

"What is this cruel trick?" Kaiba shouted.

"It's no trick. It's your little brother. Your most precious thing in the world… besides that 'inu' next to you." The voice chuckled… he pushed Mokuba forward. "Go play with your brother… boy."

"Matte!" Yuugi shouted. He pushed forward. "What happens to Mokuba-kun if Kaiba-kun wins!"

The voice chuckled. "You don't want to know."

Kaiba immediately stumbled.

Yuugi gasped in horror.

"Bastard," Jounouchi stated.

"Kaiba-kun," Yuugi muttered. He looked up at his best friend's love and Mokuba. No… he couldn't… he couldn't make Kaiba fight his brother for him. Kaiba clenched his fist.

"Play with me, Nisama." Mokuba smiled. "Pawn…" Mokuba raised his hand. Yuugi and his friends stumbled back… as before them… a life-size chess board appeared.

"Play with me Nisama." Mokuba giggled. He dragged his brother into the game area of the orphanage. The two brothers had been living in the orphanage since that day… that day that their parents dead in that dreadful car crash.

"Mokuba…"

"Ne Nisama?" The younger of the two boys stopped and stared into his brother's deep blue eyes.

Seto knelt down and caressed his brother's black bangs. "I bet you miss Okaasan and Otousan ne?"

The younger nodded… tears slowly appeared in his eyes. He tried to keep from crying… but the tears still fell on their own accord. "I do. Nisama… will… there ever be a day… when I forget them? Forget Okaasan's smile and Otousan's hugs?"

"Even if you do… Mokuba. They will always be a part of you. Okaasan and Otousan love us. They want us to be happy. I want us to be happy and together. Mokuba," Seto began.

"Ne nisama?" Mokuba looked up… he rubbed his eyes.

"Remember that man… that came today?"

"Kaiba-san?"

Seto nodded. "What do you think of him?"

"He's mean." Mokuba spat.

"He's rich. He can give us a future Mokuba. He can take us away from all this."

"And build our amusement park?" Mokuba asked.

"Yeah." Seto nodded. "I… I want him to adopt us Mokuba."

Mokuba's eyes widened. "And… and be our Otousan?"

Seto nodded. "But… I need your help Mokuba. Kaiba-san is not a normal man. He's proud. We… will have to win our adoption."

"How?"

"Chess."

"Chess!" Mokuba's eyes widened. "You're the best at chess Nisama! Kaiba-san won't beat you! Nobody can beat you!"

Seto grinned. "No… together we are invincible!" He lightly ruffled Mokuba's bangs. "Now how about that game!"

"Hai!" Mokuba smiled after all he had the best older brother in the world.

"Invincible," Kaiba muttered. Kaiba looked up. His eye burned brightly. The game had already progressed to mid stage. "You are not my brother!"

"Kaiba-kun."

"Seto?"

The hooded man chuckled. He patted 'Mokuba's' shoulders. "See how your brother treats you? Now that he has his little pet. You are of no use to him."

"Shut up!" Kaiba shouted. "That is not true! Mokuba is my brother! I will care for him always! We are a team. It was together that we destroyed Gozuboro! Without Mokuba I am nothing!"

"How touching," the man snickered. "You will fall to your brother, Kaiba Seto, and with it… the namonaki's pharaoh's memories will never be revealed."

Kaiba smirked. He watched his 'brother's' next move.

"Check," Kaiba grinned. He positioned his queen for his final strike.

"Nisama?" The boy looked up. He cocked his head and stared deep into Kaiba's eyes.

"Mo… kuba?" Kaiba looked up. "You are not my brother. He's safe at the mansion. You are a trick… a clone! I win. Checkmate."

The room darkened.

The voice crackled. "You have won… Kaiba, but at what cost? The life of your brother…"

Their eyes widened in horror as the form of Mokuba was suffocated by darkness. Kaiba's breath hitched. Though he knew that boy was not his brother… seeing the very form of his brother… whither away in pain, the young CEO collapsed onto the ground and let out a horrifying scream. Jounouchi brushed past Yuugi who had never seen Kaiba scream in such a way… looked away. He couldn't bear to witness the defeat of his rival and friend.

Kaiba's deepest fear…

Is the death of his brother…

Mokuba… and… and… I… I almost…

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The next door…

It glowed just like the first.

"Go ahead Yuugi. We're ready."

Yuugi nodded and just like before… he knew exactly which key this door belong to.

As the door swung door… a gush of warm air surged out.

"Play my game, Jounouchi."

The blonde's eyes widened.

"Jounouchi-kun?" Yuugi asked timidly, for he knew just as Kaiba's fallen image had shaken him; it had shaken Jounouchi more.

"Don't worry, Yuugi. I won't fail. This is my trial."

Yuugi nodded.

"So arrogant Jounouchi. Yes do play my little game." The room brightened. There standing in the center was a cloaked figure. In his hands were two swords. "Fight me Jounouchi."

The blonde smirked. He caught the sword easily. "And I will win."

Yuugi, Honda, Anzu and Kaiba watched in awe at Jounouchi's display of sword fighting. Drips of sweat formed below his hair line. Jounouchi hastily brushed it away. He grinned; for once his sword fighting skill was useful. When he was little, he had taken sword fighting lessons from a descendent of a wandering samurai…

"Okaasan, I hate these lessons! They're boring." Jounouchi grumbled. The young woman, Jounouchi's mother, merely smiled. She fondled with her son's blonde bangs smeared with sweat.

"Niichan katana!" A high pitched voice shouted. A little girl with brunette hair ran across the front lawn immediately attaching to her brother's leg. "Katana!" The girl shouted. A wide grin formed across her face. Jounouchi merely grinned.

"You like my sword Shizuka?"

"Hai!" The girl nodded. Her mouth slipped open revealing two missing teeth.

"See even Shizuka thinks sword fighting is important, Katsuya." The young mother stated. She lightly peeled her daughter away from her son.

Young Shizuka grinned broadly. "Niichan's sword is powerful. Niichan protect me!"

Jounouchi grinned. He rubbed his nose and picked up the sword he had thrown on the ground.

"Jounouchi Katsuya!" The voice in the back barked. It was his sensei.

"I'm coming Sensei!" Jounouchi shouted. He grinned at Shizuka one more time. "Yes Shizuka, Okaasan. I will learn to sword fight and protect you!"

"The sword is my weapon! I will win and help Mou hitori no Yuugi get his memories!" Jounouchi growled. The hooded figure grinned.

"Tsk tsk arrogance is humanity's flaw Jounouchi Katsuya." The figure stepped back, and Jounouchi's sword missed his body. In that instance, he felt a swipe of the sword. It glazed his side… stunning him.

"Inu!"

"Jounouchi-kun!"

The blonde looked back covering his blooded shoulder. "I will win!"

"Just like last time Jounouchi?" The figure chuckled. Jounouchi's eye widened.

Like last time… the time he failed in protecting his family…

"Stop it!"

Jounouchi and Shizuka cowered in fear. The young boy covered his sister's ears and shielded her eyes from view. The boy trembled watching as his father beat his mother. His father had been like that for over two months now… since he lost his job. Jounouchi knew that since then his father had been on a drinking binge. At night, under the covers of his bed he heard his father's screams, and his mother's cries. Though never did he think his father would ever harm them. Now, with their money dwindled away, his father had finally struck his mother and harmed Shizuka.

"Bastard of a woman! Can't you do anything right! You can't even raise our kids!"

SLAP!

Jounouchi's eyes widened as he watched his mother get flung across the room. Her beaten body clashed into the living room furniture. He hugged Shizuka closer watching as the man… his father advance upon them. Only then as his father reached for Shizuka did Jounouchi understand the meaning of hatred.

A slit of iron… Jounouchi grabbed his sword lying on the ground and charged.

All he remembered was his father stopping his blow. Cold iron entering his stomach, darkness, and Shizuka's screams… "Niichan!"

One month later his parents divorced, and he was left with his drunkard father due to "laws".

Since then he made his own laws.

"Like last time." Jounouchi hunched over. His sword crashed to the ground. The heinous chuckle of the man… "I… I… will fail… just like last time."

"That's right Jounouchi. You will fail, just like the failure you are."

"Jounouchi-kun! Ganbatte!" Yuugi shouted. He watched in desperation. "Don't believe him! You're not a failure! You're Jounouchi Katsuya! Shizuka wouldn't want to see you like this!"

"Inu! You better win!"