Chapter 10: Welcome to My World

That same morning, Yami hadn't woken up until noon. He missed all the excitement between Rya and the Kaiba brothers. As soon as he was dressed, he grabbed some toast and ran down to where Rya was being held. He could hear her screams. "Rya!" he called out, scared that maybe they were performing horrible tests on her. "Rya what-" Yami stopped and found her screaming for joy as she swam and jumped out of the water every five seconds. "Rya?" Yami walked up to the tank. "Rya what's going on?" Yami asked her.

"Kaiba says he's going to let me go by the end of the week! Isn't that wonderful?" Rya cheered and jumped some more.

"That's great Rya! But, what are you going to do for a whole week here?" Yami wondered.

"Uh, well I-I didn't think of that," Rya blushed. "Well, I could talk to you couldn't I? That's enough for me."

Now it was Yami's turn to blush. "I suppose that's true," he chuckled. Yami looked down into Rya's ocean-blue eyes as she gazed up at him.

"Is there something wrong Yami?" Rya asked worriedly. Yami couldn't respond before her soft hand rested on his forehead. "Are you feeling all right?" Yami simply took her hand in his and held it for a moment.

"I feel fine," he replied gently. Yami started to pull Rya closer to him and began to close his eyes. Rya responded as she lifted herself up closer to him. They pulled back at the sound of something ringing. "That's my cell phone," Yami grunted angrily. He picked it up and held it to his ear. "Hello? Oh, hey Yugi."

"Yugi's here? Where?" Rya asked excitedly and began to look around for him. "Yami I don't see him anywhere," Rya said confused.

Yami tried to hold in his laughter. "Go to the mall? I don't know Yugi. I don't want to leave Rya here all by herself. I'll call you back later, okay? Okay, bye." Yami hung up and looked over at Rya.

"What do you mean, bye? Are you leaving?" Rya asked.

Yami couldn't hold in his laughter that time. "No Rya. I was talking to Yugi that's all."

"But I didn't see him anywhere. Is he invisible?" Rya wondered.

"No no, Rya. You see I was talking to Yugi on this cell phone. You talk through here and listen through here. It lets you speak to people far away," Yami explained as he showed her the phone.

"Oh I see. That's interesting. What other things do you have in your world?" Rya asked interested in what she could learn about Yami's world.

"Well, I wish I could show you but, since..." Yami stated sadly.

"Oh I see." Rya replied frowning. "If I could find a way to walk around with you, would you show me your world Yami?" Rya asked.

"Of course, but I don't see how you could do that. Listen, you must be hungry. How about if I go get you something to eat?" Yami stood up to leave.

"Chocolate?" Rya cheered.

"No!" Yami cried in fear of her hyper phase again. "No I'll bring you something even better. I'll be right back," he said and walked upstairs to the kitchen searching for anything Rya could eat.

Meanwhile, Rya thought of what she and Yami had talked about. "I wish I could just see Yami's world for one day. I wonder what it'd be like, to be able to walk with Yami everywhere he went. Maybe even holding hands or-no! Don't think like that. But still, I wish there was a way to-" Then Rya looked down at her pendant. "I wonder if-maybe. It's worth a try" she thought to herself. She held it tightly in both her hands to her chest and closed her eyes. "I wish..."

Yami grabbed some waffles, pieces of toast, some fruit and piled it all on a plate. He walked slowly down the steps, thinking what it would be like if Rya was human, and what almost transpired between them before his phone rang. "I could show her everything like the movies, the mall, the arcade. She'd probably like that. Maybe we could even-" Yami stopped his thoughts from going any further. He walked down to the last step, and looked over to where he saw Rya last. Right there, he dropped the entire plate of food he brought for her. "Rya?" he gasped.

A/N: Okie dokie everybody! Kind of a weird chapter, I know. But it will get better. Thanks everybody for the reviews so far. Especially those two person ones (you know who you are,lol) You all seriously rock. :)