Disclaimer: I don't own YGO's characters, cards, locations, etc! This story is purely fanmade and I am writing it for fun, not for money.
Pairing: Arroganshipping (Seto/Mai). Yayyy!
Rating: T
Explanation: This is a sequel of my previous arrogantshipper story, A public matter. I guess this one can be read without knowing A public matter, however to understand everything it is better to read A public matter first! Note that this sequel starts four years after APM's end, so Mai is about 29, Seto's 23 (and so are Yugi, Joey, Tristan, etc), Mokuba's 15 (those fools never stated his age in the anime, so I sort of decided his age myself), and of course Kisara is 4.
Warning: I'm still the same French speaker that I was in my previous fanfic! I didn't have big problems with A public matter and my other stories, however, if you see any mistake (spelling, grammar, typo, whatever), especially some that could make a sentence hard (or impossible XD) to understand, please, PM me or review me so I can know it and change it. I thank you in advance ^^
A private matter
Chapter 1: Blue Eyes
Mai was walking down one of the manor's corridor, when she suddenly heard a noise behind a dark wooden door. She frowned. It was their bedroom. When she opened the door, someone ran outside the luxurious bedroom.
Someone who was very little and had pale skin, blond hair and blue eyes.
"Kisara!"
The kid was still running. Mai sighed and ran after her.
"Kisara, would you stop running!"
She took a deep breath.
"KISARA KAIBA!"
The child's entire body froze. She knew that when her mother was using this tone and calling her by her full name, she wasn't joking at all. She turned and gave Mai her cutest smile.
"Yes, mom?"
"Kisara, what were you doing in your father and I's bedroom?"
"N-nothing!"
"You know you have no right to enter this room without Seto or myself."
"I just wanted to see... the view!!!"
Mai raised an eyebrow.
"Don't you lie to me, Kisara. Your bedroom as exactly the same view. What were you doing there?"
She noticed that her daughter was hiding her left hand behind her back. The blond-haired woman took Kisara's tiny arm in her hand to see what she was holding. Mai frowned when she noticed one of Kaiba's Blue-Eyes White Dragon.
"Why did you take this? You know you're not allowed to touch your father's cards. Especially those."
Kisara bobbed down.
"I-it's just that I wanted to duel Mokuba but he always wins!!! So I thought, with dad's dragon..."
"Poweful cards don't guarantee victory."
She took the Blue-Eyes back.
"Especially when they're stolen, Kisara. I'll put it back in Seto's deck and we'll pretend this never happened, young lady, but if you do it again, I'll tell him."
"Yes, mom. I think I'll go and challenge Mokuba anyway!"
"That's the spirit, my girl."
She gave her a kiss on her pale forehead and smiled when Kisara started running again, screaming:
"Mokie! I want a duel!!!"
Mai turned and went to her bedroom to put the Blue-Eyes White Dragon where it belonged: in Seto's deck.
When she was approaching the lounge, she heard Mokuba's voice and Kisara's.
"Mom!!!"
Kisara smiled to Mai when she noticed her in the door frame.
"Look! I think I'm actually going to win this time!!!"
"Don't dream too much, Kisara", Mokuba said.
Mai looked at the field. Kisara was controlling two Harpie Girls and Harpie's Pet Baby Dragon. However, Mokuba had one face down card. That could be a very powerful trap.
"I'll play two cards, Mokie! The first one is my third Harpie Girl, who activates Harpie's Pet Baby Dragon's final ability: I can destroy one of your card! So bye-bye, face down card!"
Mokuba blinked several times. It was the first time in all of their duels that Kisara managed to power up her dragon that much.
"I will still have 100 life points left when all your monsters attack, Kiki."
"DON'T CALL ME THAT! Anyway, you're wroooooooooong!!! I play Raising Air Current, so all of my monsters gain 500 attack points! And you looooooose!!!"
The little girl winked at Mokuba and jumped in her mother's arms.
"Did you see this? Did you see this???"
"Of course I did. You played amazingly. You kinda reminded me of myself."
"I know! Harpies are the best, but my monsters are cuter than yours!"
Mai laughed.
"I guess so. However, my Harpie's Pet Dragon is kinda cute... in a tough way."
"No he's not!!!"
"Cuteness has nothing to do with victory", Mokuba said.
Kisara shot him an extremely deadly glare.
"Whoa, don't look at me like that!! That was still a fun duel, you deserved to win."
"Did I hear well?" a new voice said.
"Dad!!!"
Kisara left her mother's arms, ran to Seto and jumped to wrap her arms around his neck.
"I missed you!"
Seto hugged his daughter and kissed her cheek.
"I missed you too, princess."
"And what about me?"
Mai gave him a cunning smile before she kissed him.
"You know I did", Kaiba replied.
"I just kicked Mokie's butt in a duel!"
The CEO stared at Kisara.
"Where did you learn that kind of language, young lady?!"
"What? Mokie says that very often!"
Kaiba stared at his brother and sighed.
"'Very often' is really exaggerated! I may say it sometimes, in very rare occasions..."
"Well, try to make sure that those rare occasions happen when you're far away from Kisara."
He put his daughter down and took Mai's hand.
"All right, we're leaving now. Be nice with Ethan. Kisara, don't try to lie to him about your curfew, he knows that you're not going to bed later than 8 o'clock."
"But dad, why can't we come with you?"
Mokuba turned on the huge plasma TV.
"Kiki, you know it's a special day for them so just don't insist."
"Don't-call-me-KIKI!"
"Whatever floats your boat... Kiki", he said with a smirk.
"DAD! MOM!"
They sighed.
"Please stop, both of you. We'll come back tomorrow morning, just don't kill each other until then", Kaiba said.
"Yeah, don't worry, I'll take care of her."
"I don't need you!!! Dad, tell him I don't need him!"
With his hand, he messed Kisara's hair up.
"You're a big girl, aren't you? Tell him yourself."
He gave her a last smile and walked towards the door with Mai. Sacha took them to the most expensive hotel in town, where they had booked a suite for this very special day. The suite was luxurious, yet very intimate.
Seto hugged Mai.
"Do you realize it's already been five years?"
She smiled.
"No. Actually, I don't..."
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They were both in the whirlpool, and Kaiba was sitting behind Mai, massaging her shoulders.
"Do you want your gift now?" he whispered to her hear.
She turned to him.
"You bought me a gift? But, Seto, we said no gift this year!"
He gave her a smile to apologize.
"I could not resist. Close your eyes, darling..."
He waited for her to obey before he put his hand under a white towel, where his gift was hidden.
"You can look..."
Mai's violet eyes immediately opened. Seto was holding a small, black velvet box. She felt her heart beating faster. Was it really what she thought? She'd been dreaming about it for years! He smiled at her and opened the box so she could see the most beautiful engagement ring one could imagine.
"Mai, will you... marry me?"
"Among all the proposals I've had in my life, this one is…"
She felt her eyes were a bit wet as she wrapped her arms around Kaiba's body.
"Of course I will!"
End of the chapter: I want to be in Mai's place :D please review ^^