My first Yu-Gi-Oh fanfiction! It's going to be based around Tea as she has to be one of my favourite characters. I don't think gets enough praise, personally I think that she has a great outlook on life and friends, yes, she does go overboard in the English anime but she still get's bashed too much. Maybe some people just say that they hate her because they are jealous that she gets to spend her days around really cute guys =P Anyway, this story is mainly about that really, about all of the guys (maybe girls) around her that she could be with. So I guess that the pairings are along the lines of Tea/AnzuXYugiXYamiXKaibaXJoeyXBakuraXRyouXTristenXMaiXMalikXMarikXSerenityXDukeXand maybe others that I haven't thought of yet. Enjoy!

Oh, and it starts right after they return from that trip down memory lane (Ancient Egypt)

Disclaimer: Don't own Yu-Gi-Oh, simple as that.

Prologue

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Love...

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Just another state of mind...

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Just like anger, sadness or fear....

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Just a simple emotion...

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Just like excitement...

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Which is akin to anxiety...

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You have the same shaky feeling about something...

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It just depends which way you take it...

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Love is like that with hate...

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You feel such a strong emotion towards someone...

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It just depends whether you kiss them or kill them.

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She knew then, that she would have to select one...

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Whether it was now or later...

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She would have to choose one...

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The curse she was currently struggling with would help her choose...

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Yes, it was all falling into place now.

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A throbbing pain shot through Tea's head as she awoke from a long slumber.

She slowly sat up and watched Yugi, Joey, Tristan follow her movements. At first she wasn't too sure where she was but soon enough it came flooding back to her; the pharaoh's name, how Atem beat Zorc and Yugi's duel with Bakura. As Tea followed Yugi's example and stood up, Kaiba began to awake. Everyone stared about the tomb in silence sorting out their thoughts and feelings until Tristan broke the silence.

"We're back." He announced in awe.

"Then I guess it's over," Tea continued after a moment, "The tablet returned us to the present."

"Let's hope so." Yugi said worryingly, as if doubting the power of the stone.

"Are you worried about the pharaoh- I mean Atem?" Tea asked the smaller boy. It'll be strange calling him that now.

"Yea, you don't think he's still stuck in the ancient past do ya?" Joey asked. Everyone was worried that they had seen the last of the pharaoh, and all watched in anxiety as Yugi lifted the puzzle to call on the spirit of the Pharaoh.

"Pharaoh, are you there?" Yugi called out to the puzzle he was lifting up in his hands. A bright light shone from the puzzle and soon enough Atem had taken over Yugi's body.

"I'm right where I belong" Atem announced with a small smirk, which put a smile on their faces.

"With us," Joey said enthusiastically

"You did it!" Tea exclaimed happily that the pharaoh was still with him. She didn't know what she would do without him; with all of the time that he had spent with them all he was a part of their group, spirit or no.

"We all did it, together-" Atem continued.

Kaiba watched the group discuss the previous events as he stood up. All that he had just been through had had a massive toll on his brain and he knew he had an even bigger headache to come; he wanted to get out of Egypt as soon as possible and get back to working at Kaiba Corp.

He then remembered the millennium item he held in his hand and opened his palm to examine it. The golden object stared back at him and Kaiba decided that it belonged with Yugi, as it held no further use to him. "Hey Yugi," He called out, interrupting the group's current conversation.

As the group parted to stare at him, he through the millennium eye at Yugi who caught it with ease. "I believe you'll be needing that," was his final statement before attempting to leave the cave.

"The millennium eye," Tea exclaimed gazing at the small object, now held in Yugi's palm.

"Hey! Where'd ya get ya hands on that rich boy?" Joey asked the passing teen; quickly throwing in the nickname in.

"Kaiba!" Atem called out to him as an attempt to get him to stay, but Seto just kept on walking.

"You don't just chuck a millennium item at someone and just walk away" Joey called out again as he rushed over to block the CEO's pathway. "I'm sick of ya silent treatment routine!"

Suddenly both men stopped in their tracks, gasping up at the human staggering down towards them.

"Hey! It's you!" Joey yelled at their new companion, as they lifted their head up to revel the face of Ryou Bakura. Tristan, Atem and Tea caught up to Kaiba and Joey and also gasped as they saw the same boy.

Suddenly Ryou's body stiffened up and his hair spiked up as he then sneered down at the little group. They all knew who had just taken control of Ryou's body. I guess it makes sense that if Atem is back then Bakura's evil spirit is as well .Tea thought while glancing nervously at Bakura. Without saying a word the evil spirit began to take steps towards the nervous people before until his body suddenly froze, he found that he was unable to move any muscled below his neck. "W-what's happening?" Bakura's gruff voice asked slightly panicked.

"You, thief, are the one who stole Pegasus's millennium eye." A voice from behind everyone caused them all to turn and face Shadi. Bakura just sneered at him until he noticed that he was holding two millennium items. Shadi held a stern gaze over Bakura and continued to say, "The final battle is over and the Pharaoh is the victor. As I suspected both of your ancient spirits are still bond to this world and are unable to pass on yet until the Pharaoh has completed his final task." As he said this most eyes were now on him in hunger to know what his next was sentence. Shadi's eyes averted from Bakura to Atem. "Your final task is for you to live a normal life in this world."

Jaws dropped.

"What?!"

"Wait, does that mean he can stay?!"

"Come again?"

"Seriously?"

Questions filled about the small area as a big smile appeared on Yugi's face. Ignoring the questions that were directed at him, Shadi continued to talk to Atem. "As you know, a normal life does not involve living inside an ancient Egyptian artefact, or inhabiting another person's body."

Atem's eyes widened. "Does that mean?"

Shadi knew that the pharaoh already knew what the answer was and before anyone really knew what was happening there were two Yugi's standing next to each other - one slightly taller than the other, with extra blonde highlights in his hair. Everybody just stood there in awe staring at the two Yugi's. Two identical hands - one slightly larger than the other - reached for each other slowly, as if making sure that the other one was really there. When the two hands gently brushed against each other, both Atem and Yugi realised that they were both real and the two hands clasped tightly, as if never wanting to let go, with two big grins on each of their faces.

"This is great!" Squealed out Tea in joy running to hug the now separated boys, but stopped in mid-run when a voice interjected the moment.

"Ho-ly Shit." "Oh, my." Two twin voices – one slightly darker than the other – called out. All heads turned to face now two identical white haired men, both staring at each other.

"What the hell?" Asked Joey. "Two Bakura's?"

"Of course." Shadi said. "I have separated both spirits from their hosts, now to lead their own lives. But they are both still bond to each other as they were before, if one should die, so shall the other."

"What if I don't want this?" The darker half of the two Bakura's asked.

"It is not what you want Tomb Robber but what you are destined to do. You are now to lead a normal life as the others are in this room." Bakura now looked highly tempted to rip the other spirit to shreds but suppressed the appeal. "You are now also forbidden to abuse this new life in anyway."

"What?" Bakura half whispered furiously.

"I shall be watching you Tomb Robber, if you in anyway hurt a mortal in the world you shall be punished severely."

Bakura looked away, shaking his head vigorously as if to make it all go away. He then raised his head to look at his lighter side who was staring at him in astonishment. "What?" He growled to him, causing Ryou to flinch and shake his head also. "W-who? Wh-what?" Ryou looked back up at his yami in astonishment; it was like looking into a mirror except his reflection had a dark look upon his face and slightly spikier hair. Ryou's darker half just ignored him, knowing that he had no idea who he was but he wasn't in the explaining mood, so his aibou would just have to live ignorant for a little while longer.

"He is going to be living in this world also?" Joey asked pointing a finger at the angry ex-tomb robber.

"It appears so." Atem said a little harshly, glaring at Bakura who matched his glare with one of his own.

Bakura then realised that all eyes were on him, some in amazement, and others judgingly. "I don't need this!" He announced cruelly before stalking out of the cave.

As he got up the first to steps Ryou suddenly snapped back into reality and began to follow his yami up the stairs trying to reason with him about something or other.

Atem turned to face Shadi and bowed to him respectfully. "Thank you for all you have done."

Shadi copied the ex-pharaoh with a bow and replied with "It was my pleasure my pharaoh."

"Well now I really am hungry." Joey announced stretching his arms over his head, satisfied with the result of the day.

"Me too, I think we all deserve a bit to eat. It's only been about five thousand years." Tristan replied jokingly.

Atem chuckled lightly, "Well alright then, let's go and find some food."

"I'm with you on that one."Yugi agreed with his darker side.

The four boys slowly made their way up the stairs out of the ancient room with Tea following behind lost in her own thoughts. She was contemplating about what was about to come in the future, with Atem now having his own body maybe she would now get a chance to get to know this new man a bit better. But that also left the fact that Bakura's darker half also had his own body now, what would happen with him? Would they have to include him in their lives now; and what of his plans of world domination? All that he has known and lived has been stripped from him with one sentence from Shadi.

A voice slowly broke her train of thought, calling out her name. She turned around and saw Shadi looking directly at her. She turned back and watched her friends continue their way up the stairs and figured they wouldn't notice her disappearance for a couple of minutes, so she walked towards Shadi without notifying her friends. She stopped a couple of meters away from the spirit; standing silent waiting for him to begin.

"You've become such a big part in the pharaoh's life; he needs you with him to complete this final task," Shadi begun. Tea's faced beamed at his words; did this mean that she and Atem were destined to be together? Little flashes of her and Atem growing old together flashed before her eyes. "Unfortunately this is not what you think," he continued. Tea's face faulted at this. What does he mean? "I know of your feelings for the pharaoh and they are not the types of feelings he needs from you to complete this final task." Tea's face completely dropped at this statement.

"Are you saying what I think your saying?" Tea asked him half in tears. Shadi just nodded in response. "But- no- how can-" Tea just kept on spitting out parts of words and sentences until she finally got to her final sentence. "Who are you to tell me that?!" She yelled.

Shadi sighed, as if knowing that this was going to her response. "It is not the pharaoh that you need; it is the feelings of love that you need." Tea's face screwed up in uncertainty. "You could fall in love with the pharaoh and grow old with him," Her face lit up again. "But it is not what he needs the most right now." Now Tea was just downright confused, why was he saying this to her? Did he mean that she could spend the rest of her life by Atem's side, but then it wouldn't be good for him, what did he mean by that?

Shadi took a step towards the confused girl lifting up the millennium key; Tea was in such deep thought that she didn't notice anything the ancient spirit did until she felt a strange tingling inside her head and saw him pull his arm back to his side. "What was that?" She asked him, giving him an accusing glare.

"It is the feelings of love that you seek so I have opened your mind to show you that the pharaoh isn't the only road to walk down in the journey of love." Tea gave Shadi another confused look before she jerked her head round to face the entrance into the cave in which she had just heard her name being called.

"Just a second guys!" She called back eager to catch up with her friends and get away from the rather puzzling conversation she was having with Shadi.

She was about to ask Shadi another question before the voice of Joey interrupted her. She then heard Tristan counter Joey's comment with sarcastic remark of his own.

"You must go." Shadi told Tea quickly, signalling for her to go to her friends.

She followed obediently and left up the stairs slowly contemplating on what Shadi had previously told. Was she meant to stay away from Atem now, or maybe she was just meant to stay friends with the ex-pharaoh. Either way she now had a strange headache, what did he mean by opening her mind?

Tea squinted her eyes as the sun blinded her slightly when she stepped out into the hot desert. She saw all of her friends standing in one big group waiting for her, smiles on most of their faces.

"What took you so long?" Joey asked, walking towards her as to hurry her along.

"Oh, just got caught up in my thoughts." She half lied, giving her friends an encouraging smile.

"Whatever," Kaiba mumbled. Ishizu and Malik then started ushering everybody into the cars. Unfortunately since there were now two extra people they couldn't fit everybody into the cars - comfortably that is. They had to fit four people into the back seats of each of the cars.

Tea leaned on the back of the green car watching Joey scramble into the back seat next to Bakura. Kaiba mumbled something about not wanting to sit next to the mutt and signalled for Tea to enter the car next. She obliged happily and pushed herself gently off of the car before leaning down to get into the car. Before she even noticed it her hand accidentally brushed with Kaiba's and before anyone knew it she was falling unconsciously to the sandy ground.

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Her head hurt violently and her vision was impaired. As she sat up Tea noticed that she felt different, it wasn't anything she could precisely put her finger on; she just felt different.

She lifted her hand to hold her head and the strange feeling increased. Tea just pushed it aside as there was nothing she was able to do about it at the moment. So she just picked herself off of the ground and gazed about. The place was oddly familiar but yet she wasn't entirely sure where she was. Wait, wasn't she in Egypt just a second ago?

When she was standing, Tea brushed down herself and straightened out her skirt, which she hadn't seen before in her life!? What was happening? She wasn't wearing these clothes a minute ago.

Panicky she exited the building she was currently in and the view that hit her was familiar yet also very different. The spring fresh air brushed past her hair and clothes and filled her nostrils. The singing of birds filled her ears and the beautiful view of a street in Domino City which she lived quite nearby met her eyes, but again, everything felt strangely different.

The honking of a car horn snapped her out of her trance. She then noticed that a limo was parked right outside of the building. She looked at the driver in the front seat and he was looking directly at her. Tea's eyes then caught a figure holding open one of the cars doors and they were signalling for her to enter the limo.

Wearily she walked down the steps and onto the path leading towards the vehicle. Halfway down the path she stopped and turned to face the building she had previously inhabited, to confirm her suspicions the sign above the building read 'Domino City Hall', so she was right about where she was. She quickly noticed that in the left window of the double doors of the hall the was a notice which she briefly scanned and noted that it read something about dance lessons on a Monday afternoon.

She pivoted back on her heel and faced the limo once again before continuing to walk directly towards it.

Once she stood beside the man who held the door open she stood still and eyed the man. He turned his head toward her before asking her, "Will you not be wanting a ride home today ma'am?" Tea just continued to eye the man suspiciously before going against her better judgement and entering the limo.

The door shut gently behind Tea and most of the light went with it, thanks to the tinted windows. Tea heard the engine start up and felt it when the limo began moving. Carefully she searched for a seatbelt – as she always wore one in the car – but was unsuccessful. She then took this time to admire the interior of the limo, and it was very impressive. It was fairly lit with little artificial lights and there was a little drinks bar in the centre.

It then struck her that she didn't know entirely what was happening. Well, she knew that she was being taken 'home' – hopefully where it still is – in a limo. But just to make sure she leaned forward, not that it did much, and asked the driver where there were going.

"To your house obviously ma'am." He replied politely. Tea still wasn't convinced.

"And where might that be?" She asked him. The driver gave out a little chuckle.

"Where it's always been ma'am."

"Right," Tea sighed, not wanting to press the matter. To try and suppress the nervous feeling growing in the pit of her stomach Tea moved beside the tinted window and rolled it down to get a better view. Trees and buildings pasted by fast so Tea just focused on the sky which her lead her to day dreaming.

Soon enough she felt the limo begin to slow down which disrupted her current day dream. She looked about out of the window and watched the vehicle come to a halt outside of a wall with a closed gate blocking the path of the limo. The gate then suddenly opened and the limo began moving again, entering the grounds. Tea lifted her head further out of the window to get a better look as to where she was. This certainly wasn't her house; the grounds were acres of grass and beautiful gardens. She tilted her head to get a better view of where she was heading and a familiar mansion came into view.

It took about a minute more until it finally hit her, and it hit hard. This was Kaiba's mansion!

"Wait!" She shouted to the driver, who didn't budge. Instead he replied with a calm voice asking her what was wrong. "This is Kaiba's mansion." Tea stated.

"Yes, ma'am."

"Why are we here?" Tea asked rather panicked.

"What do you mean ma'am?" The 'ma'am' thing was now getting on Tea's nerves.

"You said that you were taking me home."

"But this is where you live, ma'am." The driver said slightly confused with her current behaviour.

Tea just sat there, still, looking like a gold fish.

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All she could see was white. Before anything else came into view everything was just one big white blur. Tea couldn't see all of the people spotted about her current hospital room. Some were lounging around with bored looks on their faces while others were close to her body with concerned looks.

A certain human was currently scratching notes down on a clipboard until the beeping that filled the room changed speed. They turned to face Tea and said in a calm voice, "It seems that she is waking up.

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Author's Notes: Well there is the first chapter of my first Yu-Gi-Oh story. Hopefully your reading this since you've been able to withstand a whole chapter of my writing =P So what did you think? Worth continuing? I don't think that the plot is really understood fully in the prologue, but bare with me, I will explain it if you think it's worth continuing. Feedback is appreciated, whether you liked my style of writing or you think that it's an interesting start. If you don't have the time to write anything like that, then a simple =D is welcome if you thought that it was good or a D= if otherwise, though I do prefer constructive criticizem (sp).

Abbie x

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