Hello again, Sani's back with a new chapter, at last! I know I haven't updated in a while...

Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh! Still wish I did.

Warnings: Well... nothing I think, ... bad spelling? But that's a usual thing.

Well, R&R!

Chapter 8

Normal POV

"MANA!" He fell to his knees and stared at the mouse. "What have I done!"

Atemu caught the small animal before it ran away and held her tight when he rushed into the shop again.

"Sugoroku-senpai!" He stared around, but couldn't find the old man anywhere, so he stared down on the mouse again. "What am I supposed to do…? I can't leave you as this, but how am I going to turn you back?"

The completely lost man went to the kitchen and took the bowl of chips with him into the living room there he sat down in the sofa and put Mana on the table and gave her a potato chip.

"Well… since you're in this way and not capable of escape or laughing at me, maybe I should tell you something…" Atemu stared seriously at the small creature that munched on her chips.

"Mana… when I first heard you, when you sat in that tree," he smiled at the memory. "I couldn't believe my ears; I had to know if it really could be you, so I ran as fast as I could. And when I saw you, it was the best thing that had happen in a long time."

Mana looked up in his face, before starting to clean her fur from the chips.

"You are lovely Mana. If I didn't have you, I would be lost." He blushed a bit. "But I guess that this all sounds silly, but I had to tell you… it was a confession that had to be said."

The mouse squeaked again before jumping into the bowl of chips and there she sat and munched meanwhile Atemu looked on TV. After that, they went outdoors for a while and he chased her on the streets.

"No, Mana! You can get hurt, come back!" He shouted and everybody stared at him.

So he took her inside again, just in time to hear the phone ring.

"Mutou", he said with a clear voice.

"Oh, hi pharaoh!" Otogi's voice was heard from the other side of the line.

"What do you want?"

"I just wondered if you happen to have Mana there with you? In that case I'd much like to speak to her." Atemu could almost see how the other man played with his black hair between his fingers, trying to always look cool.

"Bye, Otogi." Atemu said instead and when he was about to hung up the phone he heard the desperate shouts.

"…wait! Hey, you can't do that! Let me speak to Mana, it's a life or death situation-"

The pharaoh hurried to hang up and with a relieved sigh he leant towards the wall, still holding the mouse in his hand. But suddenly he stiffened.

"Mana…" He sniffed. "You smell… let's take a bath, I mean, now when you're a mouse it doesn't matter if I see you… um, do you understand?"

He didn't get a reply there, but continued to the bathroom and filled the tube with enough water so that she got wet but didn't drown. The mouse happily swam around and tried to get up, but Atemu smiled warmly as he washed her.

"I said I was going to get you wet, didn't I? Maybe this was my revenge after all!" He chuckled and lifted her up in a towel. "You are pretty good as a mouse, don't you think?"

Mana squeaked in protest and almost bit his finger.

"Sorry!" He hurried to dry her and got downstairs to the living room, there he once again sat down in front of the TV. "There isn't much we can do… I need help from Yugi and Sugoroku-senpai, and I don't know when they're home."

So with the brown mouse sleeping in his lap, he stroked her back as he watched the television.

"But if you stay as this… I promise I won't abandon you", he declared seriously. "But maybe we should buy you a cage, just in case so you don't escape."

The mouse snapped up its face and looked at him with dark eyes.

"No point in staring at me like that, it's for your own best! If you hadn't claimed that I snore, this would never have happened!" He shook his head as he heard the door to the house open.

"Hallo?" Yugi's voice was heard as he entered the kitchen. "We've been buying food."

"Yugi…" Now it was time, Atemu had to tell Yugi and Sugoroku about Mana.

"Mhm?" The short guy looked into the living room meanwhile he looked that the food really was unpacked and put into the fridge. "Has something happened?"

"Yes, and I think you better sit down", Atemu stared down on the mouse in his hand and his hikari looked curiously at it.

"Have you bought a little pet? Why is that bad, it's cute!" Yugi did not see the problem at all.

"No, don't you understand, it's Mana!" Atemu cried out and held the animal even tighter.

"Yes, Pharaoh?" Out from the kitchen, the young woman looked at him. With eyes that was like plates, a heart that had almost stopped and a dropped jaw; Atemu stared at her and back to the mouse.

"B-but… you was transformed… this… what?" He stuttered and the mouse found a chip to munch on. Atemu's confession… all he had said, all the courage he had summoned to say those things… it all had suddenly gone to waste.

"Oh, I climbed out through the small window in the storage and bumped into Yugi who asked if I wanted to join him to buy food." Mana laughed. "Did you actually think that that was me?"

"Hmm, the difference is barely notable", Yugi giggled.

"Let us never speak of this again", they heard a very red Pharaoh say.

So, there you got to read this chapter and hope you liked it. I'll try to put up the next soon.

Have it great!