Breakfast was simple, vanilla yogurt and fruit, good but nothing to write home about. Ishuiz mentioned that she couldn't really cook, so most of her meals were fairly easy to make and normally for one person. After her father's death, she hadn't learned really anything that he would have considered a womanly skill. She hadn't wanted to become the woman he wanted her to be, subservient and not good for anything but creating more tomb keepers.

"That makes sense...", Yugi mumbled to himself, thinking about what he had heard about the elder Ishtar, and the way he had treated his family.

"Women were treated like people, under the Pharaoh's rule, he had no right to treat me like that", her hands traced the eye in the middle of the Necklace.

Now that his mind was clear from the headache pain and jet lag, he had finally realized that she shouldn't have the necklace. It had been buried with the rest of the items. "Ishuiz, how did you get the necklace back? And please don't insult me by saying magic"

"Yugi, Yugi, do you know how much money I have?" the Egyptian woman said with a bright smile on her face, "Not to mention my government connections? I had it and the other items dug out, then hidden somewhere hopefully no one who knows how to use them can find them."*

"You are a devious woman, I like it!" he told her, smirking widely, "Now what the hell are we going to do today? I know we aren't going to have any assignments for a little while because you know, Kaiba's our boss and he's a dickhead"

She hummed, "First of all, how are your friends?" she asked, not having heard from any of the group sense her return to her home country, "And more importantly you"

"Everyone's really good actually, Joey's running the Game shop now, after", his voice caught in his throat for a moment, "After Grandpa died, I just couldn't handle, being there. Even if Kaiba hadn't offered me the job, I probably would have left anyways."

"Too many memories", it was a statement not a question; she had lost just as much family as he had, more in some ways.**

"Does it ever get better?" Yugi asked, for once wanting the honest answer to the question.

"I don't know. They say it does, it's been eighteen years sense my mother died and it hasn't. The pain fades, but it never really goes away...", Ishuiz's eyes took on a sad glazed over look, remembering her late mother.

He sighed, he had been afraid of that. He knew it would take more than a month for his pain to fade, hell five years had barely taken away the pain of having Yami taken from him. Yami had only been with him for nearly three years, Grandpa had been with him for twenty one years. Not to mention that he's death had brought back the feelings form the Pharaoh's departure tenfold.

'He couldn't feel anything, it had been two weeks. He had to accept it, his love wasn't coming back. The bare rock of the cave scrapped against his back as he fell to the ground. Suddenly a sound at the front of the cave reached his ears, the soft sound of someone calling his name.

"Heba"

His face broke into a wide grin as he ran to the front of the cave, his lover was alive'.

"YUGI!" Ishuiz's hands gripped his shoulder's tightly, her nails digging into his exposed skin, "Yugi!"

His head snapped up, his mind realizing that he hadn't been in that cave; he hadn't been waiting for someone to come home, to take the loneliness away. Oh but Ra how nice that sounded right now, to have someone that loved him to hold him and take the incredible hurt away. Someone to make him finally feel loved again.

"Ishuiz?" his eyes watered as he raised his head to look at her, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to scare you"

The woman didn't say anything, just took him into her arms, not caring if his tears stained her shirt. She could here muffled gasps that sounded like, "They're all gone", "Oh Ra why I didn't I do something?", and "He's gone, he's been gone so long". The last one she got the feeling wasn't about the Pharaoh as other's might think.

She rubbed his back, as she used to do to Malik, all those nights before he killed their father. She made calming noises, trying to keep him breathing. His breaths came out in puffs, trying so hard to draw that oxygen into his lungs.

Ishuiz searched her memory for anything her mother had used to do calm her and Odion down. The song popped into her head in an instant, it had always worked on them. "The night has ended and the sun has risen and the bird sang saw saw," she sang, her voice low, He saw the cat he said to her "bes bes", she said 'nau nau'"

Yugi's breathing seemed to be returning to normal, she took this as a good sign and continued to sing, "His mother said "Leave the cat alone". He left the school and threw his notebook and he bothered the cat. She scratched his hand when he pulled her tail. And that's the end of someone who doesn't obey his mother", she finished.***

The man pulled away, tears still drying on his cheeks he looked her straight in the eye, "That's a horrible song"

"I suppose it loses something in translation", she tried to joke, brushing away a few stray tears that had collected in her bottom lashes, "My mother used to sing it to Odion and I. I haven't sung it in years, and never in English."

"You did a good job", he admitted, "It did help. I don't think anyone has ever sung to me, that I can remember at least," he brushed a blond bang out of his face, the tears had dried, leaving clearly defined trails down his pale skin.

She nodded, not mentioning the look his eyes had taken on just before his break down. It was like he was seeing something no one else could, an expression she was familiar with, as she herself had taken it on, when looking into the future. Ishuiz stored this information away for later, she had feeling she knew what was going on, though Yugi wasn't quite ready to know.

"Do you want to keep telling me about Japan?" She asked, not wanting to upset him or cause another, what could be only described as an attack again.

He nodded, and started telling her how Tea hadn't been seen sense graduation, about the note that had been found in her room, detailing her plan to become a dancer in New York. Her mother was still convinced, four years later that her daughter was going to come home any day.

Tristan had become a mail man****, something he claimed he enjoy, besides of course the large amount of dogs that insisted on trying to eat him and the fact he ended up without pants every other day.

"Ryou's...studying something at collage; we stopped asking after he tried to explain the first couple times. It was disturbing and he was drawing things and then I think I blacked out"

Ishuiz just stared at him, the way he described everything was actually very entertaining. His eyes wide and his hands constantly moving, displaying in a series of hand movements that didn't seem to have anything to do with the story he was currently telling.

"...and then it blew up", he finished, smiling brightly, all traces of his earlier attack gone, the tear tracks washed form his cheeks.*****

"Oh dear Ra", she whispered, her hand pressed against her lips, "I wasn't aware that you did things like that"

"It was our last day before graduation and Joey wanted to blow something up, that something happened to be the chemistry lab...poor Ryou still can't look at chemicals the same way again", Yugi snickered a little, remembering the British boy's expression as the breakers had exploded, spraying glass everywhere.

"You my boy have serious issues", she pointed out, giving him a pointed look, "I'll find you a therapist tomorrow. I'm sure it won't be hard; there are some seriously disturbed people in this city, not to mention this country"

"I don't need a therapist," he muttered under his breath, "You are the one that needs a therapist"******

A/N:

Shorter chapter cause there's a lot of stuff I feel I need to explain.

*First of all, thank you Spirit for giving me an explanation for Ishuiz having the necklace. If you don't like it, then leave, it's going to get a lot more farfetched form here on in.

**Ishuiz's lost both her parents, plus Malik for a awhile, mentally at least. He was gone for a long time with our her around. Yugi's dad is dead in this, his mother is still alive as far as he knows. It will be brought up later, if I remember.

***That song is apparently an actually Egyptian lullaby, called the night has ended. I think it lost something in translation. This is also to show that Yugi isn't OK about his grandfather's death, he isn't OK about Yami leaving and Ishuiz's the only person he feels understands this.

****Well Spirit and I were discussing jobs for the cast in one of our other universes; Joey was a house wife, etc. Anyways Tristan was mail man because he likes to walk around I thought it was funny at the time honestly.

*****This is how all my stories end. "And then it blew up". Seriously, it's a joke I have with myself, also poor Ryou doesn't need any more trauma.

******Abridged joke. Expect a couple of these as while I'm writing this sometimes I'll be listening to the Abridged series. So if you don't like it go home. Seriously.

So the horse didn't show up which makes me sad, that horse is going to be epic. If anyone has read Ride Like the Wind, they know the horse or that version of the horse. That horse is my favourite thing.

Anyways, we get to the major plot of this story. There are two plots kind of, Yugi's life as like Indiana Jones and him dealing with his "problem". For everyone who wants Akefia to show up, screw you guys, I like building the tension. I won't explain things this much in the next chapters, this stuff just felt important. But if you ever have any questions, feel free to ask, I know my writing isn't always that clear sometimes.