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Chapter 6

Later on everyone except Anzu had left and gone home all glad that Atemu had returned. Yugi knew that Atemu needed to put Anzu straight on how he felt about her so he made an excuse and left the room.

"Anzu we need to talk." Atemu began. "I know you liked me and would have liked me to be more than a friend when I shared a body with Yugi am I correct?"

Anzu looked at her feet as if they were the most interesting things in the world at that moment.

"Yes." She finally said, "I was hoping that now you're back…" She trailed off unable to finish the sentence.

"That I felt the same way?"

"Yes."

Atemu sighed not really wanting to break her heart but knowing at the same time he couldn't lead her on.

"I do like you Anzu but only as a friend. Please understand I don't want to hurt your feelings but I just don't like anyone in that way."

Anzu was quiet for a few moments while she processed the information then she sighed in resignation of never being more than a friend and smiled.

"It's okay Atemu I understand maybe I can finally move on and follow my dream like I always wanted to do." She said and Atemu grinned.

"Your dancing dream? That would be great and then when you're a famous dancer in New York we can all come and see you."

"I'd like that a lot." Anzu said and smiled.

"Maybe we can all go out somewhere sometime." Atemu said and Anzu brightened.

"I'd love that I don't think we ever did do that all together as Seto certainly wouldn't have gone anywhere with us."

"That's very true, maybe I can arrange something with Yugi."

"Arrange what?" Yugi said coming into the room.

"A day trip out somewhere aibou, with all of us."

"Sounds great I'll think about it and ask everyone else what they want to do."

"Well I better be going." Anzu said getting up. Atemu got up also and gave her a hug.

"Thanks for understanding Anzu." He said and Anzu nodded. Yugi swore he could see her eyes glistening with tears but chose to say nothing so as not to embarrass her.

"Bye Yugi, bye Atemu." She said and almost ran from the room as she didn't want them to see the threatened tears fall.

"I feel mean now aibou." Atemu said "She wanted me to say I like her and wanted to go out with her but I just don't feel that way."

"It was for the best mou hitori no boku, try not to worry too much. She'll be fine in a few days."

"You've changed aibou. Before I left you would have been dashing off to give her hugs and sympathetic words."

"I grew up Atemu, I had to as I didn't have you anymore to rely on to give me strength."

"You were always strong aibou I just helped you tap into that strength."

"Well most of the time I didn't feel strong."

"Well you were. Remember when we faced Malik in the Battle City Finals? You were in so much pain and yet you shouted at me to not worry and just win. That showed a lot of inner strength aibou."

"Thanks Atemu, I guess I needed to hear that from you."

"I always have said it and I'll say it again, in another time and place you could have been Pharaoh yourself."

Yugi blushed at the praise and obvious pride in Atemu's voice.

"Thanks Atemu you were a great Pharaoh." Now it was Atemu's turn to blush.

"It's late aibou I think we should get some sleep." Atemu said wanting to change the subject now. In spite of what everyone said he had always thought that there had been much better Pharaohs than himself even though he'd saved the world by defeating Zork he was sure others would have done the same.

"Agreed." Yugi said and the two turned out all the lights and went up to bed.

In the middle of the night a glow could be seen in Yugi's room but it was not a lamp. On closer inspection the glow could be seen coming from Atemu himself.

The one-time Pharaoh rose from his bed and dressed his eyes glowing red. He flew to the window and opening it he flew out into the night sky heading for the capital of Japan.

The residents of Tokyo never knew what had hit them when they were bombarded with hundreds of energy balls sent from a figure high up on a hill overlooking the city. One after another rained down on them as they slept. Some of them woke to the screams and ran from their houses to escape the onslaught but by the early hours of the morning the entire city was flattened.

Anobi smiled at his work. One by one the cities of the world would fall under the hands of his servant Atemu and he would have no idea it was him doing it. When all the cities were flattened, he would work on the smaller cities and towns and any who were left would bow to him as the new ruler of the world. He just needed Atemu's body as a vessel and no one would be able to stop him.

"Nice work master." Sulchi said rubbing his hands in glee. "Tokyo is big in the financial world too so this should help us out."

"Yes it will, while the world is trying to cope thinking that it's a terrorist attack like the usually do we'll just carry on with the destruction. Any who are left will be my slaves especially that annoying little runt Yugi and his friends. The Pharaoh has no idea that his power could be this devastating."

"Shall we destroy his friend Kaiba tomorrow night master?"

"Not a bad idea, I think we shall." Anobi said and they sat back to watch the chaos they'd caused unfold in the real world.

Atemu woke the following morning feeling as though he hadn't rested at all. He yawned loudly waking Yugi up in the process.

"Atemu?" Yugi said sleepily.

"Yeah sorry aibou that was me I feel really worn out for some reason and why am I dressed?"

"I don't know, maybe you went for a midnight stroll?" Yugi joked but Atemu was looking puzzled.

"My shoes are damp too you think I did go out last night?"

"Well my window is open." Yugi said looking surprised. "I'm sure I shut it last night. Do you want to go back to sleep Atemu?"

"No it's okay I'm really hungry though lets go get breakfast."

"Ok."

They went downstairs and into the kitchen. Yugi out the small TV on they had in there and the news came on.

"Last night the city of Tokyo was destroyed by an unknown force." The newsreader was saying. "The nature of this attack is unknown and there were no survivors left. Terrorism is suspected though as yet no group has come forwards to take responsibility for the attack."

"You hear that aibou?" Atemu said shocked.

"Yes I heard it. Tokyo flattened? I can't believe it." But as they watched the footage they could see that the once proud city of Tokyo was now no more than a pile of rubble.

"The only force I know of would be a nuclear bomb." Yugi said and flopped into the nearest chair. "If that's so then they're dangerous but the newsreaders don't seem to think it's that. So what kind of force could do that to a city?"

"Zork." Atemu stated simply "But we destroyed him so I don't think it's him either. Unless there is another evil we don't know about."

"Even if there was Atemu, you're not powerful like you once were how could we stop something that powerful?"

"I don't know aibou." Atemu said quietly.

Yugi got up then and finished fixing breakfast that they ate in silence before washing up and going into the front room to watch the footage on a larger TV.

They found Sugoruku in front of it staring at the screen in shock.

"Jii chan?" Yugi said and the old man jumped.

"Ah Yugi have you seen this?" Yugi nodded. "I have closed the shop today in respect to those who died besides I need to see this for myself. Mark my words there's a power at work stronger than anything found on earth." Sugoruku said and the other two nodded.

"But what can we do about it?" Yugi said.

"Nothing at the moment I'm afraid." The old man said. "We must wait until we know more."

The phone rang and Yugi went to answer it leaving Atemu and Sugoruku watching the news. A minute later he was back.

"That was Seto, he says he's sending a limo over to pick us up and that he's got something he thinks we should see." Yugi said looking worried.

"Okay let's go." Atemu said and went to grab his coat.

Yugi thought about what Seto had said 'I think there's something you should see and it affects Atemu.' He had left out that piece of information and he was feeling worried. What did Seto want?

Minutes later the limos arrived and they were speeding through the relatively deserted streets to Seto's mansion. The streets were deserted because everyone was watching the footage on TV.

They arrived and Seto was waiting for them.

"Atemu my satellite system picked up something last night during the attack on Tokyo I think you need to see." Seto said and Yugi noticed a distinct icy note to Seto's voice. What was going on?

They followed apprehensively to Seto's control room.

"You remember I said I was concentrating on expanding Kaiba Corps?" they both nodded. "Well that included expanding the satellite system to cover all of Japan and monitor who was buying what products and how often they're used. At night the systems are set to views of the main cities and it's on one of those that I saw something during the attack on Tokyo last night."

He flicked a switch and a scene of Tokyo at night flashed up on all twelve screens. As they watched balls of energy began to fire at the city from somewhere in the distance and Seto pressed a button to zoom in on the source. In the flash of an energy ball, all three watchers saw exactly who it was that the energy had come from. A figure with spiky hair…

Seto turned the screens off and heard someone fall to the floor. He looked and saw that it was Atemu who had collapsed.

"Was it really me?" the former Pharaoh whispered and clutched at his hair "No it couldn't have been me! I was asleep wasn't I?" he then remembered his damp shoes, the open window and the fact that he had been fully dressed when he woke.

Yugi was looking down at Atemu in complete shock. There was no way was there? Atemu just wasn't capable of something like that was he? No there had to be another explanation.

"Atemu there has to be another explanation for it. I don't believe it was you." Yugi said his voice set.

"But the monitor, you saw it yourself."

"I don't think it was you either or don't you think I would have gone straight to the authorities with this?" Seto said.

"But how then?" Atemu asked mentally thanking Seto for keeping this to himself.

"Control." Yugi stated simply. "Someone controlled your body. Someone wants to use you to destroy the world."

"Why me? All I wanted was to come back. Is this the price I had to pay? I wish I could remember how I got back." Atemu said and thumped his fists on the floor in anger.

"Look why don't you two stay here tonight." Seto said generously.

"Well then make sure someone is there to watch me while I'm sleeping. If someone is controlling me then they'll perhaps be able to stop me or alert you or something." Atemu said feeling desperate. "Aibou you had better sleep elsewhere I don't want you to be hurt."

"Okay Atemu." Yugi said unsure about it but thinking he'd better agree.

"I tell you what Yugi, you and me will watch Atemu sleep from down here and then if anything happens we'll know about it."

"Good idea." Atemu said. At least if he did anything then they'd know about it and perhaps be able to stop it.

"Okay it's getting late and I'm hungry I'll get us some food and then Atemu you can go and sleep okay?"

"Yes okay I'll sleep and you can watch." Atemu said.

Two hours later Atemu was curled up in a bed in a room that had steel doors and windows so if anything happened, Atemu would find it hard to get out. Atemu had agreed readily to this even though he couldn't get his head round what was happening. Seto and Yugi were watching on the monitor in Seto's control room as Atemu slept and although the two of them had popcorn and coffee to keep them awake, it was not long before their heads began to nod and they were fast asleep.

This of course was Anobi's doing and he was going to make sure that those two stayed asleep while his plan continued to be carried out. Tonight he was going to destroy Kaiba Corps using Atemu to do it and although he was tempted to kill Yugi, he decided to cause him pain first rather than just kill him outright. He did need to get rid of those satellites first and kill Kaiba off too, as he was one who had seen Atemu on the screen. Even though Yugi had also seen him, Anobi knew he wouldn't betray Atemu so he was fairly safe there. Grinning evilly to himself Anobi used his power to take control of Atemu's body once again…

TBC…

Yami Seirei: Ohhh another cliffy! Well cliffy-ish anyway lol But don't worry I promise an update will be delivered to you all tomorrow!