Disclaimer: Keeping up with my theme of naming each chapter the title of the song that inspired this, I'm naming it E.T (No, ET doesn't make an appearance. Don't worry). I do not own E.T, but I'm very thankful to Katy Perry for making it, it's a great song. I also do not own Yugioh. I do not claim that I own either of these works at all. They just inspire me.

E.T

Footsteps echoed in the hallways of the palace as Atem made his way to one of the bathing rooms. When he entered the room he was met by two very startled servants whom, after realizing who just walked into the room, bowed in respect.

"Leave us." He commanded, with a hint of respect that the two girls didn't expect to hear from the young royal despite the fact that Atem was known around the palace as being much kinder then what people would expect from one of royal blood. Both girls bowed once again and laid down the basket of oils and flowers they had been using for their quest that was in hiding at the moment. Once the two girls were gone, Atem walked over to the edge of the bath, kneeling down and trying to peer past the flowers that covered top of the water. He gently pushed a few of the flowers aside and watched as the rippled he cause gave way to reveal a beautiful girl sitting under the water's surface, he black hair dancing gently in the water. Lavender eyes slowly opened and looked up at Atem as if the small movement he created alerted her to his presence. For a moment their eyes locked, and Atem felt frozen and at awe, as if he was looking at a supernatural being, fascinated by her. Suddenly, she jolted, as if trying to take a breath of air but forgetting she was submerged under water. It was as if after that split moment that she realized there was someone above her. She suddenly surfaced before her king, and bowed respectfully as she gasped to regain her breath, either from holding it for so long or the shock of Atem's unannounced appearance. Her long wet hair falling along her body, conveniently censoring her chest from her pharaoh's eyes, who was blushing as if he just realized she was naked even though he knew she was in the bathing room.

"I'm sorry to interrupt your…"

"…Meditation, sire." She explained right away, keeping herself from having to correct her infallible Pharaoh. After all it was disrespectful to correct him. "Is there something I can help you with, my Pharaoh?" she asked very sweetly, genially wanting to help her ruler with whatever it was he needed. It was rare for someone to actually sound like they want to help him and not sound like it was their job. It made Atem smile before he snapped back to the real world and realized the girl before him stood nude in the flower covered bath water. He turned around and found a rob sitting on a table, waiting for her to use it. He grabbed it and brought it to her; she smiled as if not realizing her current nude state. "Thank you." She chuckled in embarrassment as a light blush crossed her cheeks. She stepped out of the water as she wrapped the robe around her form and waited for Atem to tell her what he needed.

"Husn, I was hoping to get your assistance with a slight problem I'm having. I didn't want to bother Isis with this. I know she is busy with a guard who has fallen ill." Husn looked concerned. An issue he would go to Isis with would mean it has something to do with his health most likely seeing as Isis is the palace healer. That would be the only thing that Husn could also assist with so it had nothing to do with the Sennen items Atem and the high priests possessed.

"Are you having another headache, my Pharaoh?" She said, instinctually reaching out to place her hand on the side of his head. However, at the last minute she jerked her hand back remembering exactly who she was talking to. Atem frowned at this fact seeing as he longed to be close with Husn out of everyone else in the palace. She was the most caring person he had met within the palace. That meant a lot considering he had his high priests whom he trusted with his life. Mana and Mahado were his closest friends, but he didn't long for their closeness like he did Husn.

"Yes, it's nothing serious but it is a bit of a bother. Do you have time to help me?" Husn smiled as if that was the stupidest question anyone has ever asked her.

"I have time for you, my Pharaoh. If you would allow me to change, I would be happy to help you." Though the thought of Husn being in this short, almost see through, because of the water, material, he figured it best to allow her to change. "Do you know what is causing your headache today? Are you sleeping well? Is it stress?" She inquired in hopes to knowing what she was battling.

"Well I'm not sleeping too well but that could be from stress." Atem said, rubbing his temple hoping to relieve some of the pain himself. Husn thought for a moment, and Atem wondered what was going through her head as she blushed a bit deeper.

"Well if you would like, I could try a water treatment. I find it to be relaxing. It's why I was meditating in the bath instead of somewhere else. And then for your sleeping troubles, I can bring some oils to help you relax and get some sleep." She suggested. Atem had no problems with her advice, after all he didn't know that much about this stuff, and it also meant some more time with the beautiful women in front of him. Atem nodded his answer to him and she smiled. "I'll go call in a servant to help you get ready." As she was about to rush out of the room, Atem grabbed her arm, making her gasp, frightened slightly. Had she upset him somehow?

"I'm sorry. I didn't mean to scare you. I just don't want to let anyone know there is anything wrong." Husn looked at Atem and nodded, knowing what he was secretly asking without wanting to actually say it. She grabbed his hand that held her other arm and slowly pulled it off of her and slid the rings on that hand off. For a split second, she admired his blue gold scarab beetle ring before she continued to strip him off shit other jewelry and cloak. She chuckled to herself in thought and it made Atem curious.

"What is it that you find funny?" He asked.

"I find it amazing you can even stand with all this gold on." She answered, almost sounding as if she was talking to herself.

"You like the scarab ring?" He asked, making her stop what she was doing for a moment before she continued once again.

"It's a well-made piece of jewelry. Though, what else would one expect to find on the Pharaoh of Egypt?" She smiled at him before she continued concentrating on striping Atem of the last bit of his outfit before he could get into the water. She knelt down onto the ground and started to remove his showed. Unconsciously, she gripped his leg muscle a bit, making Atem chuckle as his ego soared. It was nice that this woman found him attractive, or that's the feeling she was sending out to him. "I never really noticed all of the jewelry, honestly. I suppose I'm just so used to seeing it on you that it just became how I saw you." She said before she stood up, finished her task. "Ok, just go make yourself comfortable in the bath, and I will get the things I need." She said as she retreated to the back of the bathing room. Atem slowly got into the water and sighed at the cooling waters. He wanted to make sure he was used to the water by the time Husn got back, so he quickly submerged himself into the water, sending the flowers from Husn's bath swimming around violently, before he quickly emerged from the water. His normally spiky hair now lay down flat from the weight of the water. By the look on Husn's face, she never thought what Atem would look like if his signature hair lay flat like a normal person's hair. His right eye was covered by his blonde bangs and the red and black hair merged together.

"What do you need me to do?" Atem asked Husn as she brought the basket of oils over to the side of the bath before she joined Atem in the water, never once flinching at the cold.

"Just stand still and relax." She said as she grabbed a bottle of oil and poured some in her hand. She turned to face him and smiled "I'm going to rub some of this on the sides of your head. The smell of the oil is going to relax you while I message your temples in hopes of relieving some of the tension."

"If I'm going to be standing, why am I in the water?" He asked, earning him a chuckle from Husn.

"Well this bath has some of this oil in it, along with a few other ones made to relax the muscles and what not. Just let me know if you start feeling drowsy and i will have you lay on top of the water." Atem didn't understand it, but he wasn't going to question her any more. She knew what she was doing. Husn took a deep breath and let out a sigh as she started the massage. She started humming, which caught Atem off guard before he quickly remembered that her powers came from her voice. The combination of the three actions took effect quickly as Atem started to feel everything melt away. It started in his head, the pain vanished, and then his limbs felt like they were turning into the water and washed away as the water lapped against him. He could feel his mind being pulled from reality. That is until his mind pulled him back to reality as he felt himself falling. Out of reflex, he grabbed onto Husn's arm in an attempt to stay standing. However, it only caused her to fall into the water as well. Atem quickly caught himself, but Husn seemed to have been completely taken off guard by their tumble. Atem grabbed her and pulled her up as she was struggling to regain her footing. He pulled her close to her and waited for her to calm down and put her feet on the ground once again. Once she regained her balance, she caught her breath, her hair all disheveled looking in front of her face.

"Maybe I should have just started floating on top of the water." He joked, trying to make light of what happened. Once Husn caught her breath, she joined in on the laughing. However, they both realized how close they were to each other, and how Atem was holding her. Husn's hand rested on Atem's chest and she was slightly relieved when she felt his heart pounding as fast as hers. "My headache is gone." He said lightly with a smile and she smiled back.

"Good…"She whispered, her voice suddenly, for the first time, failed her. Atem put his hand under her chin, and lifted her face so she looked him dead in his eyes. He felt her struggle against this movement, but he didn't give up.

"It's okay…" He whispered before he felt her relax slightly to his touch.

"I can't…" She said, almost sounding as if she was going to cry out of fear of looking at him in the eyes. Atem sighed, and brought his face closer to hers. Husn could feel Atem's breath brush against her. For a moment they just stood like that, Atem looking Husn in the eyes, and making her do the same. Once he felt he had her, he closed the gap between them, and gently pressed his lips against hers. Atem felt her tense up immediately and he wrapped his arms around her tightly, pulling her against him. Another second passed, and he was almost afraid that she didn't want this. That was, however, until she started to relax in his grip and started to kiss him back. She then placed her hand in his hair, griping some and pulling Atem closer to her as if there was still a gap between them…

*beep…beep beep…beep*

Akila groaned at the loud sound coming from her side. She felt confused as to where she was, or when she was before she heard a door open and she opened her eyes to find Atem trying to sneak into the room unnoticed.

"Atem…?" She asked as she watched him reach over to the night stand next to her bed and turned off an alarm clock that was sitting there making the incessant beeping sound.

"I'm sorry Akila, I forgot to turn off my alarm last night." He said in almost a whisper as he sat on the bed beside her.

"Who is Akila?" She asked, groggily. Atem looked confused as he brushed her hair from her face to reveal that her eyes had noticeably changed once again to an exotic lavender color.

"Who are you?" He asked as he watched Akila's face twist in confusion.

"Husn…who else would I be my love?" She said before she closed her eyes once again and almost immediately fell soundly back to sleep. Atem bit him lip nervously, wondering what was going on in Akila's head at the moment. Had the alarm clock interrupted something from the past and it wasn't ready to let go its hold on Akila's mind? He sat at his window for a few more hours, waiting and thinking until he heard Akila shuffle about in bed again. She let out a big yawn and stretched as she opened her eyes once again, revealing them back to their original hazel color. "Atem?" She said startled to see him sitting there by the window as she was sleeping.

"You had another dream about the past didn't you?" he asked as he watched her cheeks blush slightly.

"You were watching me sleep?" She sounded almost disgusted. Atem watched as she slid towards the side of the bed that was closest to the door. Akila watched as Atem adjusted himself to move quickly if she ran.

"I woke up to go to the bathroom. When I was heading back to bed I heard my alarm clock go off. I came in to turn it off before it woke you up. I thought you had woken up when you started talking, then you called yourself Husn before you fell back to sleep." He tried to explain to a startled Akila who was still trying to slowly sneak away.

"So why were you sitting there until I woke up?" She asked. She tried to bolt to the door the second her feet touched the floor, but Atem was on top of her, pinning her to the door, effectively closing it.

"I just wanted to make sure you were okay. I wanted to make sure that you were still you." Akila was frozen under Atem. Visions of her dream came rushing back to her and she blushed. "What was it about?" He asked, trying to sound calmer then he was.

"I can't tell you." She heard him growl in response, and wished that he was the Atem she dreamt about. The friendly, confident, and cool Pharaoh from her dream instead of this obsessed on edge version. "Please calm down." That only seemed to frustrate him more. He was tired of people telling him to calm down. How was he supposed to calm down with all these questions buzzing in their head, and knowing that Bakura had some plan playing out? "Please…you're scaring me." She said, and Atem looked into her eyes and saw the terror he was inflicting. He then noticed her shaking, and heard her breath quickly. "You keep telling me you're interested in learning more about me. Are you sure that is what you want from me? Or is it just to know who I used to be and how it relates to you?" She watched as Atem visibly relaxed as he thought about her question. "Look I want to be comfortable around you, and I thought I was getting that way at first. Then these visions happened, and Bakura showed up and you seemed less interested in me and more interested in what I could offer you instead. So what is it Atem? It's normal to be curious. You want to know who you are, or were, but please stop making me feel like I'm just someone who is only good for information." Atem sighed and hit his fist against the door, close to Akila's head, making her gasp and jump.

"I'm sorry. You're right" He said removing his hands from the door, hoping that Akila wouldn't run. He hoped his apology would be enough to calm her down as well.

"And for your information, the dream wasn't about anything we didn't already know about." She said with a sigh of relief. "We knew you and me…Husn…whatever... were together. She became your queen after all." A hint of jealousy came across in her voice and she mentally cursed herself. She didn't want to be jealous of her past self just as much as she didn't want Atem to see her as Husn.

"Looks like you need to relax as well." He said with a sad smile. She laughed at the irony of the conversation. Her dream, Husn was helping him relax from stress and he was helping her relax around him. Once they were both relaxed, they got closer than they could have imagined. "What's so funny?" Atem asked, not understanding the joke.

"I think the dream I had was the past's way of telling us we need to just relax and take a breath." Atem still didn't understand what she was talking about. "The vision, you can come to Husn for help with a stress headache. She was still nervous about you, you being the Pharaoh of Egypt and all, so you both help each other relax."

"That was all that happened?" Akila suddenly felt uncomfortable asking this question, and apparently Atem could sense it coming off her. As frustrated as he was, he knew she was right about needing to calm down and take a breather. "its fine, if it was of any real importance, I'm sure you would tell me." Akila groaned and hit her head against the door behind her.

"You guys kissed." She said trying to bite back the jealousy she was feeling. She suddenly felt like an anime character her friends would talk about. It was about some girl who managed to go into the past and fell in love with some demon, who was in love with her incarnation. Who would have thought her life would have turned into the plot of an anime.

Atem froze when he heard what she said, and heard the sound of her voice. It started making sense to him. "You're worried that I'm only interested in you because you were Husn in a past life?" He said watched her put her guard up once again, the one he was working hard on destroying.

"I'm not her! I used to be, in another life time! I'm me now! She had her time here!" She blurted out, right away regretting her words. Her hands flew over her mouth as if that would stop anything else from flying out without her consent. Atem wrapped his arms around her, letting her burry her face into his chest.

"Is that what you've been worried about? Why you seemed closed off towards me?" Akila sighed into his chest, now feeling relieved that she let go like she did. "I don't know who Husn is or was. All I know about her is she was an important person to me back then. But the same can be said about me as well. The Pharaoh you're seeing in your visions and the person I am now are probably completely different. We grew up differently. I grew up in this time with Yugi as nothing more than a parasite in his body. Back in time, I was a Pharaoh who was worshiped and feared." Akila hadn't thought of it like this, but he was right. The two of them are different people then the people in the past.

Atem shifted, freeing one of his arms, and put his hand under her chin. He lifted her chin so she looked him dead in his eyes.

"I want to know you, Akila…" He whispered before he felt her relax slightly to his touch. Atem brought his face closer to hers. Akila could feel Atem's breath brush against her. For a moment they just stood like that, Atem looking Akila in the eyes, and making her do the same. He watched as her cheeks brightened slight and smiled at it. Once he felt he had her, comforted her doubts about him and her worth to him, he closed the gap between them and gently pressed his lips against hers. Atem felt her tense up immediately. Another second passed, and he was almost afraid that she didn't want this. That was, however, until she started to relax in his grip and started to kiss him back.

'Are we really any different from who we used to be…?'

Author's note: Sorry this chapter was so late in coming. I had a bad case of writers block and didn't know where I wanted to go from here. There was one thought where I made Akila almost kill Atem accidentally with her newly discovered abilities, but I wanted these two to grow closer together before I brought in her abilities. But you'll find that out later. Anyway, I hope this chapter was better then you all expected and I hope you guys keep reading. BTW im saying this now so no one gets upset at me. I do not know much about Japanese culture or school life aside from what little I learned in my Japanese 1 class like 5 years ago. So please don't get mad about it looking more like American culture in school life. I want to write about what I know so I don't worry more about those details then the story itself. I hope you guys understand and will keep reading. 3