Tada, I'm back!
So, as you all might have figured out, this is the next chapter you're going to read, and I hope it will bring as much response as the others has done now when Mana's small adventure in this new world continues on.

Disclaimer: It hurts in my heart; but Yu-Gi-Oh isn't mine, and if it had been, I guess it never would have been as good as it is, so lucky you.

Warnings: I haven't seen "the Grudge" for a while.

Finally! R&R and my brain'sfantasy-department will love you.


Chapter 6

Normal POV

As Mana placed herself in the couch, Atemu went to put in disc into the DVD-machine while Yugi and Jou ran to the kitchen to fill bowls with popcorn, candy and potato chips before the others arrived.

"Yugi, is it just me, or does the Pharaoh act completely different?" Jou had just looked into the living room there he had heard Atemu and Mana laugh about something. "I've never heard him like that… and when he blushed..!"

"I know what you mean", the other teen smiled a little while popping the popcorns. "He was so sullen before Mana arrived, and now you can't see him without having a smile on his lips! And…"

"What?" Jou saw how his friend hesitated. "What've he done?"

"Katsuya, I was… well, quite mean the day before and shouted at Mana, but I just got so angry because she had made him light up again!" He sighed.

"And what did Atemu say about that?"

"He was in the same room when it happened, and he's never been that mad on me… ever." Yugi then smiled again. "But it's over now, we're all friends."

"Good to hear, but who could blame ye for being jealous, ye and Atemu shared the same body for years! Oh, I think the other's here…" Jounouchi went to open the door as Yugi balanced the three bowls into the living room there Atemu and Mana sat next to each other.

"Okay, here's something's you got to taste Mana!" He put the things down on the table and went away again to get the coke and whatever other things you could drink, non alcoholic of course, since we don't need to see Mana get even more… funnier.

"Ooh…" Mana took a chocolate. "How comes you have all these tasteful things?"

"Hi guys!" Hiroto Honda entered the room, followed by Anzu Mazaki, Otogi and Ryou Bakura.

"Mana?" The other girl halted and stared at her.

"Who..?" Honda looked too. "You're right, it's Mana!"

"Who did you say?" Otogi and Bakura looked over their shoulders.

"Take a seat", Atemu smiled and leaned back. "They won't bite you."

Mana beamed towards them all.

"I recognise you too, the guy with the extremely pointy hair and you who has the same name as my bird." At those words, Anzu and Honda stared at each other.

"Oh, you two should take that as a compliment." Otogi, as the typical Casanova he was, stepped forward, playing with tests of his black hair and looking at Mana. "My name is Otogi by the way."

"Well hi", Mana didn't seem to fall for his charm or the glistening green eyes, and somehow that made Atemu feel better. But when she turned her gaze to greet the last one, she dropped her jaw and sprung out of the couch. "You! Where is my wand…"

"No, Mana!" Even Yugi and Jou came rushing from the kitchen to stop her from doing anything wrong and Ryou stepped backwards.

"Mana, this is the good side, Ryou Bakura", Atemu assured her and she blinked a few times. "Well, even if his yami side is in this world too…"

"But he didn't want to come along today, thought we was too boring and pathetic", Ryou explained.

"… and we are keeping an eye on him", Atemu continued and made the girl sit down again, along with the others.

"Which movie?" Honda looked curiously on Yugi as he tried to get room there he sat with Anzu.

"We rented the Grudge", he turned the light off and sat down on the floor together with Jounouchi and Bakura meanwhile Otogi sat down so Mana was in the middle of him and Atemu.

When the sound to the commercial came on; Mana jumped in the sofa.

"Oh sorry, I'm still not used to that that thing can speak!"

"If Mana's scared now, I wonder how it'll be when the movie starts", Jou said quietly to Yugi and Bakura.

As the movie really began, Mana sat and followed it with full interest and asked several times what things were or why someone did as they did. And soon enough…

"EEEEIIIIK!" She trembled when she heard the odd and scary sounds from the TV and when she saw what made them; she hid her face, only to look through the fingers.

"It's alright, you can jump into my arms if you want someone to protect you", Otogi said and laid an arm around her shoulders, despite Atemu's look.

"First he was after Shizuka, and now Mana? Will he ever stop?" Ryou shook his head smiling before turning his attention to the TV again.

But the next time Mana was scared, she screaming jumped several feet and suddenly Atemu felt how someone was in his lap, with the arms of this 'someone' tightly around his neck. Otogi's stare was both annoyed and full with competition, and it didn't turn better when Atemu allowed himself to smirk a bit before turning to Mana.

"Remember, it's only a movie", he mumbled in her ear in order to calm her down. She made an invisible nod and got down next to him, holding the edge of his shirt in a strong grip. Now it was Atemu's turn to put his protective and strong arm around her.

She stayed quite calm, if you don't count the billions of "eeiik" that was heard now and then, but beside that she just rested her head on Atemu's shoulder, or she hid it behind his arm. So when the movie finally ended, she sighed in relief.

"That was so scary! But…" Mana thought for a second. "…fun."

"Yeah, but you don't have anything to be scared of when Otogi is in the neighbourhood", the black haired man said with self-confidence.

"Come on, let's go home", Honda and Anzu took one arm each and dragged him out of the game shop/house of the Mutou's. And outdoors Honda hissed: "She's out of your reach, pal!"

"Definitely!" Anzu nodded. "The Pharaoh isn't someone you would like to pick a fight with, have you already forgot? And who knows how he will react if you're trying to get his girl!"

"Okay, okay, I get it!" With a small grin he broke free from their arms. "But hey, she isn't his yet, and who says she ever will be?"

"Hello, the two of them grew up together; you should have seen them in Egypt! Always there for each other, though he barely remembered her." Sighing Anzu and Honda followed after the peacock Otogi, who just refused to listen.

Back at the Mutou's they said goodbye to Bakura and Yugi began putting the bowls away, well, rather tried because Mana had hid all the time, so now she wanted to try every flavour of candy and thought the popcorn was just delicious.

"Alright, I'll leave the popcorn here!" Yugi laughed and went away with the other two bowls and Atemu took every glass and the empty soda bottles.

Jounouchi, who would sleep over that night, sat down next to Mana who happily munched on some popcorn. He took one to and then said:

"Not to be rude or anything, but why did ye come here?"

"Oh." She looked up on him. "I missed the Pharaoh, that's all."

"But ye crossed time and don't even know if ye will get home again!" It wasn't often that Jou was this serious, but when it came down to it he really was. "Is there some other reason?"

"No, why? Can't I pay a visit to my oldest friend?" Mana put another popcorn in her mouth.

"Of course ye can", Jou smiled warmly. "I just think that it was so bold only to visit a friend."

In the kitchen Yugi but away the bowls and helped Atemu fill the dishwasher.

"You're happy now when she's here, right?" He said.

"Hmm…? Well… yes." Atemu answered simply and Yugi noticed that he had broken the Pharaoh's deep thoughts.

"But how much do you really remember about her?" The shorter of the look-alikes straighten and looked directly on his yami.

"I may not remember every moment she and I have shared, but my heart does, and that's more than enough for me." Atemu's violet eyes glistened when he said that with a smile as warm. "I don't know why… but I feel calmer, more open, in her company."

"Could it be that you finally is in love?"

Atemu turned around, and was prepared to meet the icy and jealous eyes of Yugi, but they beamed towards him.

"Don't worry; I've overcome that side now." He assured the Pharaoh, who had got a bit red on his cheeks.

"I don't know if you could go as far as "in love"… since I've never felt that feeling before. Or wait, I did when we shared body, but then again it was you who was the lovebird, so that doesn't count!"

"Um, leave me out of this!" Yugi hastily continued the conversation about Atemu instead. "But do you feel like 'electricity' when she touches you?"

"Electricity?" Atemu looked disbelieving at him.

"Forget it", smiling Yugi shook his head and begun walking to the living room with the yami after.

"No, tell me!"

"Nu-uh."

"What do you mean with 'electricity'? Will it spark?" They entered the room and both Jou and Mana looked wondering up on them.

"Have you emptied the bowl yet?" The short guy ignored Atemu's stare and instead looked at his watch. "Time's really flying when you have fun."

"What is it?" Jou was about to take the last popcorn.

"Time to make your bed." Yugi replied and twinkled his eye so that only Jou could see it, but he didn't, because he was in a fight with Mana, who also wanted the last corn.

"Give me, I saw it first!"

"Oh no, ye didn't crazy girl!"

"Sunny boy!"

"Darky!"

"Dog!"

"… How did ye know?"

"HA!" Mana got the last popcorn and proudly held it up.

"Shall we go to sleep?" Atemu nodded towards the stairs and they all walked upstairs and split up; Yugi and Jou to the hikari's bedroom and Atemu and Mana to the yami's.

"Goodnight guys."

"'night."

"Sleep well."

"Sweet dreams!"

Mana fell asleep pretty quickly meanwhile Atemu lied on the mattress. He rested his head on his arms as he stared up in the roof, listening to the young woman's calm breaths.

"Could Yugi have spoken the truth? Have I fallen for this mystical thing called… love?"

Suddenly he heard how a cry was coming from the bed and when he looked up on Mana he saw how she tossed around in the bed.

"No… please, no!" She cried out and tried to kick someone invisible and hid her face. "I don't have my wand!"

Her own sounds made her open her green eyes and sit up, kipping for air and with small pearls of sweat on her forehead.

"She tried to…" Mana begun stuttering, but Atemu hurried up from the floor and sat down in the bed so that she was safe between his legs and in his arms.

"Hush… it was just a nightmare, Mana… caused by the movie we saw before." He made her rest her head against his bare chest.

"I know… I'm safe now when you're here." She closed her eyes as he leaned against the bed frame and buried his nose in her hair, inhaling ancient Egypt.

"No Yugi…" Atemu thought smiling as he too closed his eyes. "This is something far stronger than the finest of love."


Okay then, hope that was something that you liked! I don't think I have anything else to say this time, but the next chapter arrives as soon as possible, so have it great, almighty readers & reviewers!