A big apology for the wait, I don't seem to be doing as well with updates lately-damn exams and assignments!

Anyway, this is the last chapter of Going Back, hope you enjoy it. Sequel will be coming up soon

Whoa! What the-' Joey stared at the paper with huge eyes.

'Something wrong?' Mai came out of the bathroom with her hair still damp even after a long blow-dry and wrapped in a robe nicely provided by the hotel.

'Check this out! I mean, do you think they went crazy?' Joey held out the paper.

Frowning at him, Mai took it and scanned the first page. Her eyes shot up when she read the bottom article, and slowly a grin crept onto her lips. 'Well I'll be.' She flicked her eyes over the picture of Seto Kaiba and Ishizu Ishtar. 'I never saw them together, but if she was as calm with Kaiba as she was with everyone else, I can imagine that would get under his skin.' Mai finished the article and laid the paper on the table with a smirk at Joey's incredulous look.

'Yeah, exactly, she drove him up the wall, and I'd say the annoyance wasn't all one sided either. So why the hell are they now a couple? I mean, this thing says he took her to Egypt and then back to Domino in his private jet and now she's got a place in Domino and a job at the museum, and they're dating, I mean come on!'

Mai slid into a chair opposite him. 'Remember how much we always fought?'

'So? That was us, this is...well I mean, this is Kaiba and Ishizu we're talking about!'

'What does who they are have anything to do with all of this? If something clicks between two people, then nothing else really matters.'

'I still say they went insane,' Joey grumbled.

Mai grinned at him and moved her hand to cover his. 'I think love does make people go crazy.'

Joey's eyes softened as he looked up at her and his mouth twitched. 'Yeah, okay, I guess you're right. But still!' He insisted.

'Just don't give up do you?'

'Nope. Hey it worked. I got you back in the end.'

Mai felt her heart turn over in her chest and knew that if she hadn't been completely sunk before, she was now. 'I love you, you know.'

Joey leaned over to kiss her. 'Yeah, I do. So...what are we gonna do now?'

'Sightsee?' Mai raised her eyebrows in a silent question.

'No, well, I mean, sure, but after we've finished here.'

Mai cocked her head. 'Well, I if your place in Domino has room for one more person I'll come back with you, otherwise I'll find my own place in Domino.'

Joey blinked. 'You serious Mai?'

'Of course I am. I've lost you before Joey, I'm not gonna do it again.'

'You're not the only one, but...all the tournaments you go to, I mean, I duel alot around Japan, but no-where near as much as you?'

'We'll work something out, we can make adjustments. Vivian won't mind travelling on her own too much, by her comments over the past year, she's seen it coming. And I can see about a part-time job in Domino between tournaments-one with a flexible schedule; I'm sure there'll be something. It'll work, we'll make it work. That is, if you want me.'

'Are you crazy?' Joey leapt to his feet, picked her up and whirled her around, 'of course I want you with me, wherever we are.'

Mai found herself laughing like a maniac when he put her back on her feet and she didn't care in the least. She'd finally gotten the one thing in life she had craved but never really believed in; love.

'There's plenty of space in my flat for someone else, even for Vivian if she wants to pass by sometimes to pick you up for a tournament or to visit. Even if you decide you want to go to as many tournaments as you have been going to, you'll want a base, and I'll be quite happy to be dragged along to most of them.'

'I'm definitely thinking of cutting down on the tournaments.' Mai put her hands on his shoulders to brace herself-he'd made her dizzy. 'It's fine for a time to keep moving every couple of weeks or even once a month, but it gets exhausting after awhile and I don't have a family to go home to every few months like Vivian does. It'll be a relief to slow down and dig in roots somewhere finally.'

'Sounds good to me.' Joey kissed her again. 'Now how about that sightseeing?'

If you're wondering about the reference to Kaiba and Ishizu, see the first part of this series; Dreams

The sequel to these two will be about both couples and Yugi and Tea, but I'll probably post it under the Mai/Joey coupling.

Hope you enjoyed it. Review!