"Olivia! Long time no see!" Kuzumi Bakura yells, waving from her father's car. Stunned to see her oldest friend, Olivia sprints across the street; tightly wrapping her arms around her. "You look so much different from the last time I saw you!" Kuzumi states noticing her long, dark brown hair is tied up in a bun and not flowing down her back. "Yea", patting the over-sized bun on the top of her head, "When I researching or 'focusing' on something, I hate it when I end up chewing my hair like a damn cat".

"Liv, I know that your father wouldn't appreciate you using that kind of language now would he?" Ryou Bakura questions, appearing of the white Ford Fiesta tilting his head at the young girl; "sorry, Mr. Bakura" Olivia says, lowing her head in respect. "That's quite alright" he responds, walking up to her with open arms, "It's been a long time, how have you been?" filling the space she responds by looking up at him, "I've been fine, I've missed you and Zumi but I'm not looking forward into walking into the lion's den I have to call school". Laughing, Bakura pulls away from Olivia and looks at both her and his daughter, "Please just behave you two".

"We will" the girls singsong speak in unison, smiling widely at the older British man. "Especially you Olivia, I know you", pointing at his daughter's best friend. "Don't you worry about a thing" grabbing Zumi's neck, "we'll be perfect angels". Nodding, he waves and walks back to his car, thinking back to when the two girls met.

Nine Years Ago

"I told you Tristan, we just got to the base, have no idea where we are going and all you can do is think about is food"? Serenity said, rolling her eyes while running behind her husband. "Honey, we were on this flight for twelve straight hours! I know my little angel is hungry, aren't you sweetie?" kneeling down for his five year old daughter to run into his arms. "I want pizza!" Olivia squeals, locking her hands around her father's neck, "See Reni! We need food!" Putting her hands on her hips, she smiles at her family pouting at her in the middle of the Army base. "Ok, OK!" raising her hands, "we'll go the Pizza Hut after we check in".

"Yay!"

"I'm going to put you down for a second while I check us in, ok?" Tristan says, putting her down next to her mother. Olivia is startled by the overlapping voices and the taller people surrounding her, making her lean closer to her mother. "Honey, you're squeezing my leg too tightly. We'll only be a second and then we'll get cheese pizza, your favorite" she consoles, removing her daughter's small but tight grip on her right leg.

Olivia looks to her right and sees a small, blue haired girl; hiding herself behind a cardboard cutout of her father at a station. Curious, Olivia wonders away from her mother and father to get closer to the girl; swiftly maneuvering around the huge crowd of people to reach her. "Who are you?" Olivia asks, staring at the girl in front of her. "I can't talk to strangers" Kazumi replies, backing away from the brunette. Olivia walks closer and touches her hair, "your hair is weird, but I like it." At that moment, a photographer moves forward from the crowd taking close up pictures of the kids, "Aww! I see your daughter has made a new friend". Scared of the flashing lights in her eyes, Olivia runs away from them.

"Wait! Wait!" Bakura yells through the crowd, running to catch up with the girl. Olivia looks around at all the people staring at her and begins to cry. "There, there" he soothes, hugging the crying child; "I want my Daddy" Olivia cries in his arms. "Don't worry, we're going to find your daddy", he states picking up Olivia, walking back toward his stand. When he reaches his stand he whispers something to his manager, picks up Kazumi and turns to the photographer that scared the young child. "I don't care if you take pictures of me, but these are young children you bloat. Their eyes are sensitive and you could have hurt them". The photographer lowers his camera and snarls, "Look you chose to bring your child here, chose to become a celebrity and get publicity. You don't get to complain now that your family and some kid are getting their picture taken." Clenching his jaw, Bakura calls over his security, "Please remove this man from the premises and make sure he doesn't return."

45 Minutes Later

"Serenity it's going to be ok, we're going to find her. It's a military base, she couldn't have gone far." "She's been missing for almost an hour! How could I have not noticed she was gone" she screams rubbing her sweaty palms together.

"Mr. and Mrs. Taylor?"

"Yes?"

"We found your daughter, a man named Ryou Bakura brought her in claiming that she and his daughter were hiding behind a sign at his book signing on the other side of the base." Breathing sighs of relief, the two worried parents console each other and run to see their daughter. "You should know better than to leave your daughter unattended like that here Officer Taylor." The guard sternly warns, "How can we expect you to lead in combat when you can't keep up with your own daughter?" "Yes sir." Tristan states, standing in full attention.

When the two finally get there, Olivia is playing in the corner with Kazumi with Bakura watching them. "Olivia!" Serenity yells, holding her hands out for her daughter; Olivia walks to her mother and returns her hug, "Are we still getting pizza later?" Tristan smiles and laughs at his daughter, "Yea we can still get pizza later." He then turns to Bakura and offers his hand, "Thank you so much for bring her back here. I don't know what I would have done if anything happened to her." Shaking his head he responds, "It's was no trouble at all my old friend. I knew she looked a little bit familiar but I couldn't quite place her. But now that I look at her, she has your eyes and that adventurous spirit that you had. Remember when you convinced Tea and I that it was a good idea to scale that fifty-foot tower at Duelist Kingdom?" Gigging, he nods, "Nowadays, I'm getting all the adventures that I need treating people on the front line and running from I.E.D's. This is my base for the next two years if nothing changes, but this is the military so everything changes; I forgot that you had a daughter though." Looking over at the children playing like they have known each other for years, "Yea that's Kazumi, she keeps me busy that's for sure. When I'm not writing a book, I'm playing tea party with her". Sighing in agreement, "I know the feeling, I want to say no but her eyes just tell me yes." Tristan looks at his watch and continues, "If you have extra time on your hands, we can catch up". In that moment, Olivia walks up to her father tapping his leg, "Can Zumi come have pizza with us?" she asks with Kazumi's hand in hers. The two fathers look down at their daughters and then to each other, "I don't see why not? What do you think Tristan?"

"I think this is the start of a new friendship" he replies. The girls taking this as a yes starts laughing and spinning each other around in a circle. All three parents smile at the scene playing out in front of them with Bakura softly replying,

"I agree"