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AN: Fic is for DarkAngel048. My first Kag/Atem (a.k.a Yami Yugi) pairing. May I say, Wow! Thank you all for the reviews. 80 reviews and still coming. Thank you all!
Last Time: He returned with a pair of blue and white tennis shoes and was ready as he could be to go. Kagome grabbed his hand and left everyone else standing there, wondering after them.
It was late in the afternoon and Kagome knew none of her family would be on the shrine grounds but inside eating dinner. But she couldn't get herself to walk up the many steps up to the shrine.
"This is it?" Atem asked her.
"Yeah, it is." she answered.
"Are you going to go up the steps or what?" he asked.
"I don't know. What do you do when your family thinks you are dead? March right in and give them heart attacks or what?" she answered him.
"Go in and well, just call out then go in wherever they are. I'll be with you though so relax a little." he said.
"Alright." she said and ascended the stairs.
It took several minutes for them to reach the shrine but as they began to go towards the house Kagome stopped and stared at a small building. Atem could only guess but he was sure by the sad look in her eyes that the building must be the wellhouse that she had told them about.
"They must miss me." she whispered.
"Is that the wellhouse?" he asked.
"It is." she said.
"Your family misses you as well." he commented to remind her of why they were there.
Kagome shook her head and with a small glance at the wellhouse she turned and marched up to her back door, the one that led into the hallway that went past the dining room. She paused only a moment before she opened the doors and went in. Atem and Kagome kicked off their shoes and she froze at the doors of the dining room. What was going to happen?
"Say something." he encouraged.
She opened her mouth but nothing came out but a little squeak. She heard the chatter beyond the door start as they sat down for dinner.
"Now or never." he whispered.
"Mom, I'm home." she said suddenly before she lost her courage.
A loud clatter was heard and some shuffling. She pushed the doors open and stood there as her family stared at her as if she was a ghost. They were as white as sheets and had their mouths slightly ajar.
"I'm home." she said again and had tears coming to her eyes.
"Ka.. Ka.. Kagome. SIS!" Souta said and lept up and hugged her around the waist.
"Kagome!" her grandfather gasped in shock.
"Kagome. You're alive. You're alive." her mother sobbed and pounced on her giving her a hug.
"It's ok mom, I'm home." she reassured her becoming teary eyed.
"My baby, you're ok." her mother said.
"Where have you been? What happened? We thought you were dead. Inuyasha said that you defeated Naraku and then just disappeared into thin air." he explained.
"I did defeat Naraku and disappeared. But the spell I used to defeat him backfired on me and well I ended up in my own drawing of my Duel Monsters card." she said to them still locked in her mothers embrace.
"We had you with us for a couple of weeks and then sent you away? I sent the drawing in. How did you get out?" Souta asked.
"I was somehow transfered from the drawing to a duelist card and that card was sent to Yugi Muto..." she said.
"Yugi Muto? THE Yugi Muto?" he asked so excited.
"Yes the one and only. He, well Atem set me free by activating the card in a duel." she explained.
"Kagome?" her grandfather whispered.
"Yes grandpa. I'm here, you're not seeing anything. I am really home." she comforted him.
"Oh praise the kami. You are alive. They have returned you to us!" her grandfather cried.
"Oh grandpa. It's ok. I wouldn't be here if not for him. He set me free and brought me here." she said and gestured for Atem to come into the dining room.
Atem entered and Souta gasped loudly. Excitement secreeted from the young boy at seeing who he thought was his biggest idol. He came to stand beside Kagome and inclined his head to her mother. Her mother pounced on him, wrapping him in a tight hug.
"Thank you. You brought her back to us." she cried.
"You are welcome, ma'm." Atem said to her.
"Grandpa are you going to alright now?" Kagome asked him.
"Yes I am just a bit overwhelmed. The kami answered our prayers." he said.
Kagome hugged her grandfather. The old man sighed and hugged his granddaughter. He had missed her so much and had taken it very hard when Inuyasha had come through the well without her and only her backpack. He felt as if it would be years before he would be happy again.
"I am here grandpa. I am never going to disappear for so long again." she said.
"I am so happy that you are home." he said.
The two released each other and sat down. Her mother hurried to the kitchen and brought back two sets of dishes and placed them on the table.
"You may join us." her mother said to Atem and he sat beside her.
The time together was anything but quiet. Kagome explained everything that had occurred in the final battle with Naraku and how she woke up to find herself in the drawing. Her family was intrigued and threw questions at her and she answered them the best she could. Then Souta asked one question that her mother had been wanting to ask for a little while.
"Kagome why does Atem look like Yugi Muto?" he asked.
Kagome didn't answer first, Atem did.
"Actually Yugi Muto looks like me. I am 3000 years old, I came first." he answered.
"Wow! You are really 3000 years old?" Souta said.
"Yes." he replied.
"Demon!" her grandfather shouted and threw a sutra at Atem.
The sutra plastered to his forehead and did absolutely nothing. Souta and her mother laughed. Their laughter sounded as if it hadn't been used in ages. Kagome sighed and shook her head, while her grandfather readied himself to throw another.
"Grandfather, he isn't a demon. He is an old soul, like me." Kagome explained.
"Only I'm not reincarnated. I have a reanimated body." he said.
"Reanimated?" Souta asked.
"My original body is housed at the museum and Kagome made me this one." he said.
"Oh wow! Sis you can bring back the dead?" Souta shouted amazed.
"Yes I can. Atems' spirit was already amongst us. He shared a body with Yugi Muto but I seperated them and gave him his own." she said.
"Witchcraft." grandfather said disapproving.
"Yes but I didn't kill anyone and I didn't steal someone elses' soul to bring him back. Yugi and Atem have two seperate souls. I just removed Atem from Yugis' body. So I helped them." she said.
"How did you make his body?" her mother asked.
"I used clay and some parts of his original body." she simply said.
"What! You used peices of a dead body! Gross! Sis you are getting to be hardcore." Souta said.
"How did you get to his old body if it is in the museum?" her mother asked.
"I... I..." she began and she flushed.
"She broke into the museum after hours and took a few splinters that no one would miss and poof. Here I am." Atem explained.
"Kagome!" her family exclaimed.
"Tattle-tale." she hissed at Atem.
"I am not. Just telling the truth. I am grateful that you did and so is Yugi." he said.
"You better be." she retorted.
"I most assuredly am my queen." he said.
"Don't go down that road." she said hotly.
"What road would that be my dear?" he asked innocently.
"Oooh, damn man! Don't pretend you have no idea what I'm talking about." she snapped.
"Kagome! Language!" her mother gasped.
"Oh, you're talking about my proclamation of love for you." he said as if her mother had said nothing.
"Love? Kagome, what is going on?" her mother asked.
"Ask him. He knows more about that than I do." she replied.
Her mother looked at Atem and beseeched him to explain. He did. He told her everything that the gods had bestowed upon him to help him and Yugi. He explained that the gods showed how people coming into their lives would effect them, either negative or positive. He told her that Kagomes' effect was postive on both counts and that the gods had seen fit to bestow the knowledge upon him that Kagome would be his queen.
"Now all that is missing is for her to love me back. I loved her the moment Yugis' hand touched the card she was trapped in." he explained.
"Awww! Love at first sight, well soul, but similar to your father and I, Kagome." her mother gushed.
"Oh mom." Kagome murmured.
"Yeah, like that." he said staring at her.
"Gross, sis, is in love." Souta groaned.
"You've been in love Souta, so mine is not any grossier than yours. Let's not forget Hitomi." Kagome said.
"You're in love with me already." Atem stated.
"What?" Kagome asked and realized what she had said.
"That is so cute." her mother chuckled.
"No... um.. I" Kagome stuttered.
"You will be soon enough." he said.
Kagome huffed and fell silent. He smirked at her reaction. She was easy to rile and he liked it. She would keep his life interesting with her attitude and feistyness.
"Kagome, sis, what are you going to do about school?" Souta piped in.
"That's right, everyone has thought I was dead and now I have so much school work to catch up on. What am I going to do?" she said.
"You have to finish school, dear." her mother said.
"I know! But what am I going to do? I have failed for sure." she said.
"Calm down. They think you are still dead, Kagome, we have your death certificate and everything. I am sure that when they find that you are alive they will exempt you from all work." her grandfather put in.
"I'm sure they will but I will still be failing math because of my trips through the well." she replied.
"I can get you up to speed." Atem said casually.
"How can you do that?" Souta asked.
"When Yugi wasn't dueling I had nothing better to do than read through all of his knowledge and learn along with him." he said.
"Are you good at math, Kagome stinks at math?" Souta asked and Kagome made a face at him.
"Yes I actually am." he said.
"That settles it. I will call the school and let them know that you are alive." her mother said and something dawned on Kagome.
"Um, mom, what did you say happened to me for me to be dead?" she asked.
"Since we didn't have your body we only had a memorial. You're listed as a missing person, Kagome." she explained.
"Oh, it is true though. I was missing for several months. Well I will have some explaining to do when I return to school." she said.
"Your friends will want to know what happened. What are you going to tell them?" her grandfather asked.
"I will tell them I don't remember what happened. That I remember none of it save for coming home." she said with a look of disgust on her face.
"It is best Kagome, I know you hate lying to them." her mother said.
"Yes I know. When will you be calling the police and schools?" she asked.
"Soon. You need to rest first and then I will notify the authorities." she said.
"What about me?" Atem asked.
"What about you?" Kagome asked him.
"They will want to know who I am, where I come from, how I found you... ect." he answered.
"I can take care of that but I will need to speak with Solomon." grandpa said.
"You know Solomon Muto? Why did you never tell me?" Souta asked astonished.
"You never asked." grandpa replied.
"What are you going to do?" Atem asked him.
"I will have to have as much information as I can about you. I am going to have fake documents drawn up for you. Solomon knows how to get his hands on such and no one will be the wiser that the documents are fake." grandpa explained.
"Grandpa!"
"Dad!"
"How do you think we survived WWII? Solomon's parents had intel on this stuff. My parents and his were friends." he asked giving them a hint.
"I am surprised." Kagome murmured.
"I am too." her mother said in return.
"I will give Solomon a call and by tomorrow we will have the documents and you can call the authorities then. Come with me young man and tell me the basics about yourself." grandpa said and left the dining room.
"Alright." Atem said and followed the elder man.
Kagome watched him leave the room and sighed aloud. She was glad that she had brought him with her. It was better that way. After a few minutes and they hadn't returned, Kagome and her mother talked about everything that had happened when Inuyasha had come through the well up until she had returned.
Kagome learned that her friends had stopped by several times since her supposed death and would leave flowers on her memorial and say prayers for her spirit. She had also learned that Inuyasha hadn't been back since he had returned her back pack. She was going to have to remedy that. They continued to talk until her grandfather and Atem returned.
"Well?" she asked.
"I will be a legal citizen of Japan by tomorrow about mid-day. I am now Atem Muto and cousin to Yugi and great-nephew to Solomon. I will also be starting school at Domino High next week." Atem informed her.
"That is excellent." she said smugly.
Atem looked at the smug look on her face and was very suspicious. Just what was she thinking?
AN: Shout OUT to my reveiwers! Especially - moi-moi819, Cosmic-lover, and TsukiyoTenshi. You guys rock!