Author's Note: Hey guys! Here's the chapter for Sarah and Yami on their...erm...date...? O_O I mean, they don't know it's a date...they just think they're hanging out but it's like a date...um...I don't even know if that sentence I just wrote even made sense to you guys. XD ^^' Sorry about that! But, think of it as that date Yami won with Sarah from his duel with Duke. Buahaha. XD lol. Hope you like this chapter... I know I'll have fun writing it... x3

Disclaimer!: Fanfiction, and I and NOT getting any money out of it either. Thanks. ^^

Battle City-New Evil Emerges, Old Friends Reunite Chapter 6

At home the next morning, I was sitting on my bed staring at the number I had written for Yugi. Since I forgot to give the piece of note paper to him yesterday, I thought I would definitely give it to him today. Everything just happened so fast yesterday...I didn't even get the chance. Yugi comes up to me saying that Yami hanging out with me would probably help him feel better. Half of me thought it was great! I mean...I get to spend some time with Yami...but the other half of me was nervous. Should I tell him who I was today? Did Destiny choose this one day from all the others? When I look out my window, I see the sun shining and think that maybe she did. Maybe fate did want this day to be it. I hope my theory was right...or else this might get complicated...

So for the day planned ahead only to hang out with Yami, I had changed into something comfortable. Nothing flashy. Just blue shorts and and white t-shirt. I swear this was becoming my usual outfit. I had a couple of both the shorts and the shirt so if one set is in the hamper, I could wear the other for the day. But they were so comfortable anyway, I couldn't really let go of them. I was hyper most of the time and I needed room to move. XD

I got off my bed and pocketed my wallet and LG phone into my shorts' pockets. I slid the card Ishizu sent me in with the rest of my deck in my thigh sheathe and strapped it on. Then I headed for the door and once on my porch steps, locked the door and bounded for Domino Station.

I was standing on the steps of Domino Station and the screen on my phone read '10:00 am'. I wondered where Yugi was?

Suddenly someone shouted about something to do with Duel Monsters. "This isn't a duel!" came the voice and I turned my head curiously to my left to see none other than Yugi glaring down at his Millennium Puzzle. Oh wait...that wasn't Yugi. It was Yami.

When he noticed someone watching him, which was me, he straightened his back and gave me a stiff wave of his hand. "...uh...hello..." he said kind of sheepishly.

Thinking the whole situation was just way too funny to laugh at, I swallowed the laughter back and waved back at him in a similar manner. "...yo..." I said, mustering my voice to be just as serious and stern as Yami's. Well...what a day to start off with...

(I absolutely loved that part in the anime and nearly killed myself laughing. XD)

Yami and I walked into a nearby coffee shop and we chose a seat next to a window. I brought back two drinks and gave one to him. He had his mind occupied by the busy street of Domino out the window while his chin was sitting comfortably in his hand.

I'm pretty sure there were crickets chirping in the amount of silence there was between us but because of the rushing cars outside and peoples' conversations inside, no one was able to hear them.

Blowing some hair out of my face, kind of bored, I tried thinking of something to make a conversation of our own start. I finally understood what Yugi was talking about back at the school yesterday. Yami did seem a bit distant. I'm sure it was all the questions that were swimming around in his head at the moment. Like 'Who the HELL am I with right now!' Gah...stop thinking Sarah...

"So..." I began. Yami glanced at me through the corner of his eye carefully before returning his gaze out the window. "How are you?"

...wow...is that the best you got? I groaned inwardly.

Yami shifted his elbow a little to the left so he could look at me better. "I'm fine." he said, "You?"

...he was out of it...I felt so bad...

But I nodded nonetheless. "I'm pretty good." I said. Then it was that dreaded awkward silence again. I swear if I find the person who invented it, they will not escape alive... (lol.)

Yami was the one to break the silence this time and after a little while too. But even then, his voice seemed quite down. "Thank you, Sarah...for helping me and Yugi out of that fire."

I was a bit shocked that he remembered and he would thank me for it. To tell you the truth, I wasn't used to getting thank yous. Usually, I just do it because it was my job. My sworn duty to protect Yami.

"It was nothing." I said, shrugging and taking a sip from my drink.

Yami shook his head, which made me tilt my head in confusion. "It was something though..." he insisted, "You risked your life for us."

My eyes narrowed. I just wished I could have come out and said, stop thanking me or saying you're sorry because it's my job, I'm supposed to do this, but the look in his eyes made me relax and rethink my plan I was about to throw at Yami. "Listen...Yami...I would have done it no matter what. It wasn't something I was about to let happen."

Yami dropped his arm back onto the table and gazed at me curiously. Those crimson eyes of his bore into me, it was like he was trying to read my soul. I blinked at him unfazed.

"You said almost the same thing at Kaiba's Virtual World." he noticed from previous encounters with this subject. I crossed my arms and found a spot on the table beside his arm to stare at. He noticed me slightly uncomfortable with that question and said instead of asking another one of questions, "You're very devoted."

After hearing those words, I felt my shoulders sag. I've been waiting so long for this one moment; to tell Yami who I was once and for all. But I kept getting a nervous feeling in the pit of my stomach every time there came a moment where I could have told him. Like the time after Duelist Kingdom when we were still at the castle. Or the time Yami gave my Millennium Locket back after I fell off the ancient flying machine at Kaiba's Virtual World. There were probably lots of other times but I couldn't recall them at the moment. I was too busy trying to find the right words for Yami's statement.

"Thank you." I said, bringing my gaze back up to meet his. I met his crimson eyes, which I saw, reflected my own scarlet ones right back at me. It amazed me how much our eyes almost matched. They had that same intensity and determination we both had back in Ancient Egypt.

Suddenly I didn't know how to begin everything. Maybe this was the moment. But I didn't know how to start. How do I begin to tell him everything about our past lives? Who we were and what we did. Then his comment about my devotion made sense as a point to start from.

"It's true I have devotion. 5,000 years of waiting for you hasn't changed any of my motives."

Yami's head perked up at the mention of the time period. His eyes looked much more interested now and I knew he yearned for more. "5,000 years?" he asked.

I nodded. Well, I guess it finally started. The prophecy might as well be given a plaque for getting us started from here. Maybe this is how I should begin everything I can. But in order to do that, I need to know how much Yami knows.

"What do you remember of your past, Yami?" I asked, now eyeing him carefully.

"I know my origins lie within Ancient Egypt." he began, taking a hold of the Millennium Puzzle. "And that I now reside within the Millennium Puzzle, but that's about it."

"It's a start." I shrugged slightly. Outside, I was as calm as a cucumber, but on the inside, you might as well say I was doing a victory dance. Yami at least remembered the most biggest points of his life. It was a good start to remembering something huge. "Did you know you were also Pharaoh?"

Yami nodded, having somewhat knowledge of his ancient heritage. Yes. Then this was it. Everyone grab a seat. Story of a life time coming up next. I'm finally going to tell Yami who I really am.

"5,000 years ago, you were Pharaoh. You were kind, loyal, courageous, and most of all, brave. Your kingdom trusted you with their lives basically is what I'm saying and you trusted your allies and friends." Yami seemed intrigued about all the virtues I just said about him. Well...they were true anyway...I was one of the people who trusted him. And still do. "Your court thought it would be a good idea to have someone look after you. Not as a servant, but a guard. Along with the palace guards, you needed someone who could protect you 24/7. Someone to give up their life to make sure you were safe...

"One of the priestesses from your court claimed she knew of someone that was right for the job. She was brought in the next day for everyone to consider. The little girl was twelve-years of age at the time."

I leaned back on my seat slightly just to stretch my legs under the table while I let Yami digest what I told him so far. "A twelve-year-old girl?" he asked me in slight shock, "But she's so young."

I nodded my head and placed my crossed arms onto the table in front of me. "That was exactly what the rest of the members in your court said. She wasn't exactly experienced in anything and recently, she had suffered a great loss." My heart started aching at the mention of that, but I pushed it down to keep explaining. "But she willed herself to be stronger and she promised she would try her hardest in her training so when she's ready, she can serve the Pharaoh of Egypt."

Yami looked downward. I quickly kept going. "The priestess who brought her in even said, 'Though this girl looks delicate, she has a strong heart.' That made the girl even more determined." I remembered that day Isis had said those words...she was very kind when she brought me in and began caring for me like I was her own.

"So after much deliberation, the court finally decided, yes. They registered the girl into a magic's school that taught magicians spells and weaponry of all kinds. There, she learned how to control the elements; fire, water, air, and earth. She also learned healing spells so she could cure fallen soldiers."

Yami tapped the side of his face thoughtfully. "Elements..." he murmured, thinking about something that happened a couple days ago. Then his eyes fell onto me but he didn't say anything. So I could only assume that he had an idea of some sort playing out in his mind.

"They were very hard spells to master." I said. "Everyone warned the girl that they were difficult, but in order to keep the Pharaoh safe, she knew she needed the strongest spells. When she graduated, and she began fighting alongside the Pharaoh in battles, both became a powerful team. The immense power they had together just made the opponent's shake with fear."

"Did we get along?" asked Yami.

"Yeah," I nodded, then added quietly, "You two were friends."

Silence. Then Yami asked the question I've been waiting millennia for: "Who was she, Sarah?"

I looked at Yami straight in the eye and gave him a small smile. "That girl..." I began quietly. I've waited so long to tell him this. My heart was pounding like a hundred steeds, it almost hurt. This was the moment, this was it. Say it, Sarah!

"...it's me, your highness."

I expected him to be angry, because I kept this hidden from him and Yugi since the day I met everyone. I expected him to be relieved, because his shield was back. But most of all, I expected, or practically wished, for him to be happy, because a friend of his is back from the past to help him get through this time.

Yami gave me a look of complete and utter shock. It seemed to me that I made him speechless. But when his voice came back, it was like he was the happiest person on Earth.

"I can't believe it..." he whispered to himself while his eyes never left my own. They kept me locked onto his and I couldn't pull away. A smile broke onto his face, taking him into a hopeful mood, the most hopeful he's been since the moment he's been reborn. "Truly, Sarah? Are you really her?"

I didn't have the Oath's Seal (More on that in later chapters but still before Battle City officially begins. xD) to prove Yami about who I was at the moment, but I took off my Locket and placed into the palm of his hands. He blinked at it before carefully shifting the gold chain around between his fingers.

"I was given this Locket as a present from my parents." I said, lowering my voice slightly at the memory of realizing it. "It was a normal heart shaped Locket with nothing on it. When I graduated from the magic's school, the court decided to store all my power into the Locket. The inscribed the words at the back and the Eye of Ra on the front. They decided to make it a Millennium Item, but it could never be passed down."

"Meaning it's yours." he said in awe while turning the Locket over in his hands. I nodded and watched him try to read the writing on the back. "Can you read this?" he asked.

I shrugged. "No." I said simply. "But I don't have to. I already know what it says."

Yami looked back to me from the Locket. "What does it say?" he asked curiously.

I smiled and shook my head. "Sorry," I said, reaching or the Locket in his hands, "I can't tell you that right now."

"Wait," he said, propping his elbow from off the table and into the air to keep me from taking the Locket. There was a small twinkle of mirth in his eyes. (Mirth is humour, right? xD) "Why not?"

I blinked. "It's just that the time isn't right." I said slowly, making a reach for the Locket again, but this time, Yami stood up from his chair, making me almost fall onto the table. What is he doing? Did he learn to be this mischievous from Joey and Tristan? Was he trying to give mischief in the first place?

"Yami." I said in a warning tone, before getting ready to jump from my seat. But when he walked around my chair and placed the Locket back onto my neck, I blushed. I heard the familiar closing of the clasp before Yami returned to his seat, a small smile still on his face.

"Th-thank you." I muttered in embarrassment.

"No." he said, the smile still not leaving his face. "Thank you. You've told me something that's given me hope. I know now that I'm not alone."

I blushed a little bit more. What was wrong with me? "That's not true." I said. "You were never alone. You had Yugi, Tea, Joey, and Tristan from the beginning. They support you."

"But now, I have a friend from the past, too." he said, reaching for my hands and placing them into his own. If it was even possible, I blushed even further. I hope Yami couldn't see it. Maybe my hair can hide it.

"I never stopped." I said, keeping my eyes on my hands that were now covered by the warm ones of Yami's. He looked confused for a moment. "Being your friend, I mean. I never stopped and never will."

He smiled. "I hope," he says, "I really do hope you never stop."

Author's Note:

...D'AWWW! I feel all fuzzy and warm inside! X3 Please tell me what you think! Reviews are greatly appreciated! So! How'd your date with Yami go? It still isn't over; there's a whole day of cute and danger still ahead! Whoops...hope I didn't give too much away... XD Hope you liked it! ^^ Thanks for reading everyone! ^^

Oh my god! I just watched the duel with Yami/Yugi vs Raphael in season 4. I freaking cried again! That part always gets me! x3 But I'm glad everyone's fine in the end. ^^' xD