Chapter Four

Amai yawned and stretched her arms, she glanced at her black digital clock on her bed side table to see it was 6:30 in big bold red letters; it was time for her to wake up.

She climbed off of her bed and went to the bathroom to take a shower and brush her teeth.

While at the Ishtar Residence, Ishizu was making Marik his breakfast.

'Should I tell Marik who Amai really is? But then wouldn't he tell Bakura straight away...?' she thought as she put the breakfast on the table.

Then Marik came downstairs, the collar of his blue school jacket undone so you could see his gold choker.

"Morning Ishizu," He greeted then sat at the counter and ate his food.

Just as he was finishing Ishizu decided to ask him something.

"Marik, do you happen to know a girl at your school called Amai?"

"Err yeah, she's well weird," Marik replied with food in his mouth.

"She isn't who you all at school think she is at all." Ishizu said sternly and Marik stared at her in confusion. "She is Nua and I met her back while I stayed in Egypt last week, I had given her a charm bracelet which you may have noticed because she told me that she didn't want to be the same cruel person she was in her past life, that bracelet stopped her from being evil so that may explain why you think she is strange."

"Isn't Nua Bakura's girl-" Marik was about to ask her but then his older sister explained specifically.

"Yes, she is his old girl friend, now I need you to help Nua because Phoebe is really a immortal vampire, and at the moment she has got Bakura's spell book so she could cause a lot trouble, all she wants to do is make Bakura a vampire so then she has a slave, she also knows Nua's past but she won't tell any of you," Marik's eyes widened and he stood up.

"Okay then, I'll help Nua get back her boyfriend before Phoebe tries anything to hurt my friends." He grabbed his bag and walked outside. Then he headed straight for Nua's house.

Amai poured out a bowl of Shreddies and got a small glass of milk. She sat at the clean counter and ate in silence. She did get quite lonely alone, Ryou and Yugi were supposed to come over in a few minutes so she felt fine enough.

She finished it and cleaned up before packing her bag and then the doorbell rang a couple of times.

She opened it and to her surprise there was Marik instead of Ryou and Yugi.

"Hey Nua," He said and Nua raised an eyebrow.

"Uh hi, did Ishizu actually tell you now?" Nua asked Marik who nodded.

"Only just a few minutes ago, I'll help you save Bakura before Phoebe tries to hurt him or you." He told Nua who smiled.

"Thanks Marik, that'll help me a lot," Nua said before seeing Ryou and Yugi spotting Marik and her talking.

"Hey Ryou, Yugi," Marik said to them and they both nervously said hello back.

Then their gazes turned to Nua as they stood outside on the porch with questioning looks written on both their faces.

"Yes you guys, this is my natural eye colour, I know it's weird anyway we better get going to school y'know." Nua pointed out.

"Oh right, sorry." Ryou apologised and Nua rolled her eyes.

"Marik, you can walk with us if you want," She said,

"Thanks Nua," He replied and then Ryou and Yugi froze with shock.

"Isn't Nua...?" Ryou tried to say but he couldn't because of how shocked he was hearing what Marik had just said.

"Yes I am really your brother's very old girl friend Nua, Ishizu only just told Marik who I really am, I had met her in Egypt when I found myself somehow alive in my tomb, at first I wanted to change my life and be the opposite of who I was before but when I joined Domino High I saw him again... You can say I am jealous of her but I know I am not, Phoebe is only using Bakura as a pawn, like Zorc used him for chaos, and she now even has a spell book that Bakura gave her so she can become even more powerful. The thing is, I need your help… please guys?" Nua asked Yugi and Ryou, who looked at each other before nodded quickly.

"We'd always help a friend; maybe we can try getting you two together at the prom and keep Phoebe away?" Ryou suggested and light bulbs struck Yugi and Marik's heads.

"That is the cleverest idea that's come out of your mouth Ry," Marik said patting Ryou on the head, and then he peeked at Nua's clock. "Ugh, we better get to school..."

Ryou and Yugi gasped in realisation then the four of them started walking to school, on the way Nua started telling Ryou about the good times she used to have with Bakura.

"We'd always remember each other's birthday, and would steal to get the best present, the spell book Bakura gave Phoebe was what I stole from the Palace ages ago for his birthday," She explained.

"I wonder if Bakura even still likes you Nua, yesterday at lunch Phoebe kissed him on the lips and his eyes flashed completely white before going back to normal..." Marik informed Nua who gritted her teeth together and clenching her hands into fists.

"That bitch needs to know her boundaries." Venom dripped from every word that came out of Nua's mouth causing Ryou and Yugi to cringe in fear.

"Anyway, we better start getting ideas of how to keep Phoebe away while you also hook me up with 'Kura," Nua said in a relaxed tone, her mood gone calm strangely quick, the three nodded in agreement and then they arrived to the hell hole, also known as high school.

They went to morning room and surrounded Nua's class desk, continuing their little plan when Bakura and Phoebe entered the classroom holding hands. Phoebe scowled at Nua while Bakura gave Marik a look which said 'Why are you hanging out with those losers?' Marik sent Bakura a look back which said 'They aren't losers Bakura, I'll tell you later, Okay?' Though Marik knew he wasn't going to tell his friend the actual reason of course.

Everybody in the class took their proper seats as the teacher arrived and he started telling the class about some special events.

"As you should all know, next Friday at 8 pm we are holding a prom for your year, also there will be a few photo booths around so you can take pictures of yourself, but there are also some ground rules like no hanging about outside in the dark, if you are going then you need to be in the gym because we do not want anyone walking around the school in the dark, and you cannot harass the DJ about which songs to play." The Sensei told his students who answered with a 'Yes sensei' well more like grumble.

When morning room ended, the students left for their first lessons. Nua began walking to her first lesson Music when Phoebe appeared in front of her. Nua looked around to see no one else was in the corridor, and then she glared at Phoebe.

"What do you want now, bitch?" Nua asked coldly and her red eyes were piercing right into Phoebe's, she only scoffed though and said right into Nua's face,

"You may have got Marik on your side now but your plan will never succeed because I can make Bakura stay with me, I have got this spell book after all and his trust too." She sneered and strutted off past Nua who growled yet carried on walking to her next lesson, Music.

Once Nua arrived into the loud classroom, she detected Marik, who was sitting in the back of the classroom where no other students were. His eyes caught sight of her and he smiled, motioning for her to sit next to him, so she did and they started talking. They started building up the plan to get Nua back together with Bakura since he wasn't in this class, and also think of ways to try and stop Phoebe from seeing them at the prom. But they grew hopeless as you couldn't exactly stop a person from going. She wouldn't ever get ill and she had the spell book. All Nua had, was the memories that she shared before with Bakura. Phoebe has the new memories of herself and him now.

When the lesson eventually began they only had 20 minutes left. So when the 20 minutes was up, Marik and Nua headed to History which was second that day. Marik frowned in disgust as he sat next to Phoebe, she pretended not to notice though as she flirted with Bakura, her finger twirling strands of her curly hair. Nua sat next to Bakura and opened her history book to see the teacher's hand writing under the fact file she had written last lesson.

Why are there so many rubbing outs?

So in reply Nua got a pen out from her pencil case and wrote that she had written things but preferred to keep them private once she had found out other people would be reading them. Then sir did the register and told his class what they were doing that lesson.

During the class, the teacher had left the classroom for he had to get the homework assignments that his students need in for the next week.

"Hey, didn't you have grey eyes before?" Bakura noted as he stared at Nua and her crimson red eyes.

"You mean grey contacts; I took them off because I wanted to." Nua had answered before carrying on with her school work.

"Well that was a smart decision; you looked ugly with those contacts on." He said and then Nua looked at Marik who chose to say something that would change the subject of conversation.

"Hey Bakura, you want to swap places so your with your girlfriend?" He suggested and Bakura nodded happily as they swapped their seats.

Bakura put his arm around Phoebe and pecked her cheek, then got on with the work that was assigned,

"Thanks for doing that." Nua thanked Marik, "At least I have someone next to me that I can talk to properly now." Nua added and they also got on with the piece of work set for them all.

After that lesson, Nua had Science, where she took the test along with Ryou and the rest of that class.

At lunch, Nua sat with Marik, Ryou and Yugi under the tree she had sat before.

While the group sat chatting, Nua noticed not so far away were Phoebe and Bakura. They were chatting with Yugi's older brother and his friends. A couple of times, they glanced at Nua and her friends, and chuckled or giggled, so she felt paranoid.

"Ugh, I remember when I used to do that with them, last time they kept laughing at you because you tried looking strong. I was such a fool, I just wanted to fit in with the crowd, and Bakura happened to think I was cool enough to be his best friend." Marik told his new friends with a sigh.

"Hey Marik? Are you still best friends with Bakura?" Nua asked Marik, glancing at Bakura who pushed Phoebe against a tree, kissing her dominantly.

"Eh, I dunno really now. He probably hates me along with Phoebe since I've started hanging out with you three. I really wanna kill Phoebe; she's messing with my best bud!" Marik nearly yelled but Ryou covered his mouth quickly.

"She has the spell book remember, I was lucky I stole it many years ago since it was so powerful and heavily guarded. Anyway, you'd need to stab her in the heart, and we are at school you do know." Nua told him truthfully, frowning in disgust at Bakura and Phoebe who had finished their kissing session; you could see a group of fan girls watching with twinkles in their eyes as they Aw'ed at the 'cute' couple.

"Yeah yeah, I know." Marik replied and the four all carried on chatting and eating their packed lunches.

Later that day, when school finished, Nua decided to go to the Domino Mall and look for an outfit to wear to the school prom.

While she was walking around, looking for a dress shop, she saw Marik talking to Bakura and Phoebe.

Nua used her thief skills to hide and listen to their conversation.

Bakura left to go somewhere and the conversation got a little more interesting.

"Phoebe, just let Bakura know the truth." Marik said.

"No, as you should have seen for the past few days, we are now a happy couple and Bakura no longer needs that annoying wench, he's finally getting over her after all those years! And we're meant to be together!" Phoebe told Marik and Nua suddenly felt really empty, in the place she swore her heart was supposed to be.

"Maybe Bakura has truly forgotten about me... Maybe it is better if he goes out with Phoebe..." Nua whispered to herself, unbeknownst to her, Marik had decided to leave Phoebe but he saw Nua and ran up to her.

"Nua! You heard that, didn't you...?" Marik said and Nua slowly nodded, "Don't listen to her, remember she is still a vampire and all she is doing is using Bakura. You actually love him and I know that he still loves you back." Marik told her and she sighed sadly.

"Yeah I know... It just got to me, I guess. Anyway I was just coming here to look for a dress shop, do you think you could help me at all?" Nua asked Marik who nodded; glad she would not stay upset.

The two teenagers then found a dress shop and began looking for a really good dress.

"So... what kind of clothes did you wear in your past, Nua?" Marik asked his female friend who looked around at all sorts of dresses.

"Eh, I would always wear clothes Bakura stole from tombs, at first I wore rags but whenever he found pretty dresses or something he'd give them to me," Nua told Marik, "My favourite outfit by far was a white dress, not too short but not too long, there were some golden yellow outline stitches in some places and a golden belt that had hieroglyphs inscriptions on the front of it which said, 'Queen of Thieves', Bakura had gotten some guy to put that message onto it. I had sneaked into the village of the Pharaoh one day and stolen a pair of sandals that were brown and had a special red stone lodged into each one above where my toes were. Oh and I usually actually I mean always had a red rose that matched my eyes on my head. That had given me a nickname, Red Rose Nua." Nua told him, a smile was placed on her lips as she stood in a daze.

"Well the belt part might be hard along with the sandals too, but we can try our best to find everything." Marik replied and the two started their massive search.