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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. 151 reviews and still coming. Thank you all! Shout Outs!
Cosmic-lover - That was the biggest review I have ever recieved. Thank you!
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Last Time: She had cried as Atem held onto her when they jumped back into the well. She had glanced a last look before they fell and saw them all waving good-bye to her. She had shouted a last farewell and fell into the blue light; back to her own time, in the bottom of the well with Atem.
When they reached the modern era they just sat in the well. Kagome just needed time to cry. She needed time to let it all out. She would miss them so very much but this was best for them and for her. She needed to let go of the past and they needed to let a future they would never reach trickle away from their lives. That was best for them all. To let go so they could live their lives without regret.
But even so, the pain will dull and prehaps be forgotten but never completely go away. Atem knew this and let her be as she grieved. She didn't cry long until she had stood and wiped her eyes. She cleared her throat and turned towards him. She was done and that was that, the last of her public display of grievance for her fuedal friends.
"I'm tired." she said quietly to him as the climbed out of the well.
"That is understandable." he said.
"Are you going to stay or are you going to leave?" she asked.
"Stay. You need me to stay to explain how I found you." he said.
"Oh yeah. I forgot." she said and made her way towards the house.
He didn't say anything back to her as he led her back to her home. She leaned against him as they walked. She was tired and he didn't mind in the least. He would never mind her. She was perfect and he couldn't find a fault with anything about her.
"I wanna go to bed and sleep until noon." she murmured.
"I do too." he commented.
"Kagome!" her mother called from the shrine.
"Mom, we're coming." she called back.
"Oh good the police are here to talk to you. Grandpa has the papers for you. Solomon sent them over first thing this morning." she said as they came to the porch.
"Do you know what you are going to say?" he asked her.
"Yes I do. Do you?" she sighed.
"Yes. First I will need to go see your grandfather. They will want identification on me." he said.
"Hmm, they will. Hurry up." she said.
Atem and Kagome entered the shrine home to see two police officers sitting at the dining table. The men stood and asked who they were. They told them and the officers asked them to take a seat. Atem declined and said he had to use the restroom and would be right back to answer their questions. He quickly left and found her grandfather and retrieved the necessary papers for identification.
"You work very fast." he said to him.
"When you lived through WWII, you learn to be fast." he replied.
Atem bowed slightly to her grandfather, folded the papers and placed them in his back pocket and made his way back to the kitchen. When he arrived, Kagome was telling the police that she wasn't sure as to where she had been, that she didn't remember.
He just stood and listened to her converse with the men. He could see that she hated to lie but she knew that was necessary. When she finished their questions, they turned to him and began questioning him. He answered their questions accordingly and soon they had finished. They took down his information as well as Kagomes' and left.
As soon as they had went out the door, Kagome let out a sigh and laid her head on the table. Her mother stroked her hair and told her to go to bed, that she must be exhausted. She was so very tired and wanted to sleep for days. She stood from her seat and started towards the stairs and looked back at Atem. He had fallen asleep at the table and her mother was shaking him awake. She smiled as she watched him sit up and follow her mother to the living room. She then made her way to her room and collapsed on her bed and was asleep instantly.
Hours later she was awoken by loud voices. She recognized the voices too. It was her friends; Eri, Yuka, Ayumi, and Hojo. As well as Joey, Yugi, Tristan, Serenity, Souta, her mother, her grandfather, Atem, and Solomon. But there was one female voice that she didn't know. She didn't care though, she wanted some more sleep. But her dozing was interrupted by a light knocking on her door. She growled and glared at her door.
"Come in." she groused.
Her mother came in. She smiled at her daughter. She saw that she was still sleepy but she needed to get up before she was scared out of her skin by her excited friends charging in to see her.
"Kagome, dear, your friends are here and they want to see you very badly." she said.
"Ok. I'm up." she said and got up.
When they arrived downstairs in the kitchen, Kagome was glomped by her friends.
"Oh, Kagome! I am so happy you're alright!" Ayumi cried.
"We missed you so much!" Eri cried.
"I missed you, too." Kagome said.
"Where have you been?" Hojo asked.
"Please don't disappear on us again!" Yuka cried.
"Please let go. I need to breathe." she gasped out.
They released her. Kagome gulped in some air and stood beside Atem. He looked very tired and if she could guess, they hadn't really been asleep very long when their friends decided to invade her home. Why did they have to come? Now she wasn't going to get any sleep for a while.
"Hey Kagome, are you feeeling ok?" Joey asked, seeing how tired she was.
"Just tired Joey." she answered.
"Oh, we're sorry! We was just so excited that you are back!" Ayumi said to her.
"I know." she replied.
"We won't ask what had happened, we just wanted to see you." Eri informed her.
"Thank you." her mother told them.
They all began to talk then. Her friends informed her of all the goings on that had occurred during her absence at school and she informed them that she would be attending another school. They were upset but were also very understanding. Her new friends had conversed with her mother and grandfather, letting her catch up with her other friends.
She talked and caught up with them the best that she could and in the end, they were still the people that she had known and wanted to see her more often. When they had left, Kagome finally got to see about her new friends and ask about the woman that was with Joey.
"Sorry about not introducing myself but I'm Kagome and you are?" she asked the blonde.
"That's alright, they've already told me about you. I'm Mai Valentine." she introduced herself.
"Nice to meet you. I hope it wasn't anything bad." Kagome said with a smile.
"No, it wasn't." she replied.
"Joey's girl." Tristan mouthed.
She nodded and smiled. They seemed to be perfect for each other. She wondered at what their story was, it was probably a good one. Joey just didn't seem the type to get a beautiful girl like Mai, but hey to each their own. She did seem to really like Joey and well that was good enough for her. Even though she really didn't have a say, she was only in their lives a total of four days, but she did like Joey. He was a big brother type and really sweet.
"So Kagome, my grandfather told us that you will be attending school with us?" Yugi stated.
"Yes I will be, along with Atem." she said.
"Yeah he told me that Atem is now my cousin, too." he said.
"Yes, he informed us of that as well." Atem said to him.
"You had to be related or people would ask too many questions like, how do you look so much alike and not be related?" Tristan said.
"You two could pass as brothers and if not for the height difference, twins." Joey added.
Yugi sent him a glare. They were starting in on his height again. It was genetic! Look at his grandfather, they were the same height. With any luck he would get taller.
"So how old am I suppose to be?" Atem said pulling out the papers.
"18." Solomon answered him.
"Really? Darling we will be in the same grade." he said to Kagome.
"Yeah, maybe. If I haven't failed already." she said with a frown.
"They will test you to see where your placement should be." her mother said.
"Hmm, for all you know you could pass with flying colors and be placed as a fourth year or even test out." Mai said.
"Ha! I'm not that lucky." Kagome pouted.
"You will be fine. If you don't get placed in the fourth year and I do, I will request to be with you and you won't be alone." Atem said.
"You can't do that! You will be risking your education." she countered.
"Oh, then would you prefer that we be in seperate years and I be left to fend for myself from girls that aren't you?" he asked slyly.
"NO!" she yelled out, making everyone jump at the abruptness.
"I mean, no. That would be mean of me." she said with a blush.
"Yes, it would. I would think that you didn't love me anymore." he said with a smirk.
"-" silence was all that left her, he won.
"Mom, how will I be getting to school when I live her and not Domino City?" she asked, changing the subject a little.
"I didn't think about it." her mother admitted.
"She can stay with us." Joey voiced and Kagome glared at him.
"Maybe." her mother said.
"Joey, where would she sleep if she stayed with us? We have only two rooms and when Mai is over, you have the couch and she has your room." Serenity asked.
"Oh, I didn't think of that. Maybe she can stay with Tristan?" he said.
"No. My building is being fumagated and I'm staying with Yugi." Tristan responded.
"We can get an apartment together." Atem said suddenly.
"What?" Kagome asked.
"I'm rich. I can get us a two bedroom apartment." he said.
"Your rich? Since when?" Yugi asked him.
"I am a Pharoah and I still have my money. Only I know where all of the booby traps are. I will need to call Marik. He and Odion should still be in the country because I am here." Atem said.
"Oh." the word resounded between them all.
"Then it's settled. Kagome, you and Atem will go apartment hunting tomarrow and school shopping, while Solomon and I go to the school and enroll the both of you. Then we will meet at Solomons' shop. Ok?" she said.
"Yes, ma'm." Kagome said.
"When should you be able to call this Marik and Odion you have spoken about?" her mother asked him.
"In just a second. Marik has the Millenium Ring and I can use my Millenium Puzzle to contact him." he said.
"Wow!" Joey exclaimed.
"Why didn't you do that when we were gathering the Millenium objects?" Yugi asked.
"Because I didn't have my own body." he replied.
"That makes sense." Tristan said.
"It does." Mai voiced.
"I will be right back." Atem said and left the room to contact Marik.
Kagome watched him go and went back to chattering with her friends and family. She needed to ask him a few things but that could wait until they had a few minutes alone. She needed to talk to him about their new apartment. If they were going to be sharing a living space, they needed to get to a common ground on decoration and houseware. She had seen many a relationship fail because they couldn't get to a common ground. She was going to need more than a few minutes and it may of been best that she waited until they had went shopping for clothes and an apartment.
"They will meet us in a few days, here, with my inheritance." Atem announced coming into the room.
"Ok, that's good." Kagome said.
"It is." Serenity commented.
"What are you getting the ancient wealth of Egypt?" Joey asked as a joke.
"Yes." Atem said plainly.
"What? Are you serious?" Tristan asked.
"Yes. Thanks to Solomon my inheritance was saved from tomb robbers and my faithful tomb keepers have kept it all safe. I will be a millionaire over night." he said.
"Wow!" Mai said.
Kagome sat there quietly, dumbfounded at the information. Damn! She was going to have to keep the girls ran off! She was going to need a bit of help. She knew whom she was going to recruit, too. Serenity and Mai and possibly Tea, if they could ever be friends again. Where was Tea anyway?
"Hey, Joey." she said.
"Yeah, what is it?" he asked.
"Have you heard from Tea?" she asked.
"No, sorry. She won't answer our calls. Not even to Serenity." he informed her.
"Oh, ok." she responded sadly.
"Don't worry. She'll come around." Yugi said trying to cheer her up.
"Maybe. I need to get some air." Kagome said and left the room.
She left the shrine to sit under the God Tree. She leaned against it and stared up at its' branches, thinking about what she was going to do with her relationship with Tea. They would be going to the same school and she didn't want to hurt Tea, she wanted to be friends with her. How was she going to fix their friendship?
"Love, she will be fine." Atem said sitting down next to her.
"I know she will eventually. But I just don't want to keep hurting her. We will go to school together and she will see us together and it will hurt her all over again." she said sadly.
"I know but, the gods have shown me a bit about Tea." he said.
"What have they shown you?" she gasped.
"Tea has a special someone." he said.
"Who?" she asked.
"You won't believe who it is. I didn't believe it when they showed me while I was speaking to Marik." he said.
"Come on tell me!" she squealed.
"It's ..." he whispered in her ear.
Her eyes went wide and she covered her mouth to avoid yelling it out. She couldn't believe it but if it was a match ordained by the gods, who was she to say anything. But she could still try to help it along a bit.
"I am going to help this along a little." she said to him.
"I thought you would." he said.
"Of course but it will have to wait until we go to school. She won't answer her phone or anything." she informed him.
"I see. Well since you are female, you know this stuff better than I do I will leave it all in your capable hands." he said.
"Of course. I will try my hardest to make it go smoothly." she said and began to scheme against Tea.
Atem just sat beside her and watched the wheels turn in her head. The gods had really gifted him with a selfless woman.
AN: Another chapter done. Sorry everyone. I was sick and wasn't able to post this chapter. I'm allergic to nuts and well I came in contact with Peanut Butter, no more explanation is needed. You all can just imagine what had happened.
AN 2: Who do you think Tea's meant to be with in my fic? Tell me what you think.