Hi hope you all like my second fanfiction! I love Yu-Gi-Oh, and thought Seto deserved some actual love, not just brotherly ;)
Couple pairings: Yugi/Tea, Joey/Mai, Seto/OC, Tristan/Serenity
Disclaimer: I, in no way, shape, or form, other than Lena, own anything pertaining to Yu-Gi-Oh, but I wish I did XD
It started out as the perfect day.
At least, that's how they thought it was.
Four children were outside in the yards of two neighboring houses. The mother of two of the kids was sitting on the front porch, smiling and enjoying watching the kids. The fathers of each two pairs of the kids were inside their houses, working.
It was a busy day, but felt like a peaceful one.
Everything was seemingly perfect, except for that one dark cloud in the sky.
Seto and Mokuba always enjoyed hanging out with their friends, Yugi and Lena.
Though for some reason unknown to him, Seto never really liked Yugi, but could stand him.
Lena on the other hand, was his best friend.
Ever since they first met, they got along quickly. They would do anything to please her because that was all Seto wanted to do; please Lena. So, of course, they would play things like "house" and she would be the mommy, whereas she would make him the daddy.
She loved to think about all the fun stuff that she couldn't wait to do as an adult, such as getting married; so to please her, they pretended they were getting married and performed their own silly children's make-believe wedding ceremony, to make them man and wife, and ended it with having their first kiss.
They didn't know just how important that would feel to both of them.
Mokuba was still really young, but he was able to remember things very well.
Seto and Mokuba's mother died right after giving birth to him. Seto took over as a parent towards Mokuba because their father was giving up on life after losing his wife.
Lena was the only person, other than Mokuba, that Seto trusted and could feel like he didn't have to grow up so fast around.
While they were playing, Lena and Seto played together while Yugi watched over and played with Mokuba.
They were talking, then Seto remembered a gift he had gotten for Lena.
"Lena," he said, getting her to stop talking and listen to him. "I got this for you, you know, as a present for us being best friends."
He didn't understand why he had felt himself blushing a bit while he gave her the small box with her present inside. He saw her blushing a bit too, and she took the box and opened it.
A gasp came from her lips as she saw the necklace in the box before her.
"Wow, Seto, this is amazing!" she exclaimed, full of excitement.
The necklace was silver for the chain and had two dragons formed into a heart hanging from the silver chain. Both dragons were colored the same as the only dragons of importance to Lena and Seto.
There was a white dragon with blue eyes and a black dragon with green eyes.
"Yeah," he replied to her. "I had them colored to match our dream dragons."
As he was saying this, he was helping her put it on, and they saw a car pull up to her house.
"Grandpa?" Lena asked, confused as to why he was here.
"Seto, I'll be back in a second, okay? I want to find out why Grandpa's here and then I have to get a gift I had made for you. See you in a sec."
With that, she ran toward her house. She gave her Grandfather a hug and was talking to him when Seto went to get Mokuba and Yugi also went to his Grandfather.
Seto noticed Lena nod to her Grandfather, give Yugi a hug, then run inside to go to her bedroom to get the gift for Seto.
Her Grandfather left with Yugi, and though Seto was confused, he shook it off.
Then time began to slow down around him.
He heard a boom and looked behind him to see his house on fire.
Then he heard another boom and turned back around, his heart filled with dread.
He quickly picked up Mokuba as he saw Lena's house on fire, her and her parents inside.
Not registering anything in his head then getting Mokuba to safety, he took off running to go hide. He went back with Mokuba hours later and before he could check to see if anyone, especially Lena, had survived, there were cops on the scene who took Seto and his brother to safety, where later they went to an orphanage.
He knew Yugi, himself, and Mokuba were safe.
He already knew his father was dead before Lena's house was even on fire.
When they thought he couldn't hear, the cops were discussing that his father had died, and that they only found two bodies in Lena's house.
She was nowhere to be found, but Seto was so crushed that he assumed she either was dead or would be soon before the cops could save her; before he could save her.
Not only did Mokuba and himself become orphans, but Seto lost the only other person he had ever let befriend him.
The only girl he ever thought that life could be a happy ending with.
(Years later)
Seto woke up, staring at his ceiling.
Now the CEO of KaibaCorp, it wasn't unusual for him to be up extremely early or home extremely late, but this was different.
He had woke up early without even planning to, and what for? Some dream he hadn't had in years? The memory of what the dream was came back to him and hit him full force.
His heart felt broken again but he soon remembered that he had made himself hate getting emotional and stopped himself.
I already knew at that young age that I loved her. That's the only reason I made sure she was my best friend and that I gave her that necklace.
It's kind of like it was my way of showing to everyone that she was mine.
He smirked at the thought.
I did get to be her first kiss, and she was mine. If only she were here today. I think I would tell her… no, I know I would tell her…..
He frowned at himself.
There's no use dwelling on it now.
The past is the past.
I wasn't there to save her.
I ran off like a chicken to go protect Mokuba by hiding.
I'll never know if she felt the same way, what she had gone to get, or what had happened to her.
I'll never know how those bastards killed her or where they decided to dump her body….. Her body! he thought, Yes! I can find out what happened to her that way,…
then realization sunk in
…. It was such a long time ago and there wouldn't even be anything showing of a corpse under her name.
He growled at himself for being so stupid.
He rubbed his face, sitting up from his bed, then got off his bed and got ready for work. He left his mansion, locking the doors and making sure to have all the guards be on full alert, so as to keep Mokuba safe, and headed to work, planning to work for as long as he could today before school on Monday. He just wanted to clear his thought of his old best friend, so he planned to distract himself with tons of work.
A motorcycle zoomed past his car as he was driving it, and he cursed under his breath, silently fearing that he could have hit the motorcyclist if they hadn't thought of getting out of the way.
At the next red light, he ended up right next to the motorcyclist.
The motorcycle was rather unusual now that he looked at it. It was mostly black with details in green and the rider was wearing clothes matching the colors of their motorcycle.
He didn't catch that the rider was watching his car with the same interest. His car was the only one of its type owned in this city. He had it painted white with blue detailing.
Now that Seto got to see the rider for a little while, he could now see it was a girl. The way her clothes fit on her, shaping her body perfectly, and her smaller sized frame, he couldn't understand why he couldn't tell it before. He was also shocked at himself for being so interested in this girl and her motorcycle.
It made him uneasy, dreaming about his childhood friend then seeing this girl with all green and black.
She was watching him with the same interest, but quickly caught herself at what she was doing, and when the light turned green, she took off and took the next nearest turn.
Seto was confused again.
Why did she decide to react like that?
She had taken off so fast. Then she kept looking around for a place to go and decided to make that turn.
Seto shook his head.
It's stupid to think on it.
Then he went the rest of the way to work and tried to busy himself with any work he could, all while the girl on the motorcycle and his childhood friend were in the back of his mind, refusing to leave.
She hadn't understood why she had been watching the car and its driver so closely.
The blue and white definitely caught her eye.
It reminded her of the dream she had woken up from and decided to drive around to clear her head.
She had dreamt of early in her childhood, something she hadn't done for years. She still couldn't understand that.
She knew it was something here, in this city, that made her dream about that, not just moving or starting school tomorrow.
She had changed schools and had moved so many times in her life that it was normal for her.
As far as her childhood, she remembered playing with her best friend, his brother, and her brother that day.
She remembered her Grandpa suddenly showed up and he spoke with her and her mother.
She doesn't recall what they had said, but Yugi left with Grandpa and she hurried inside to get a gift for her best friend, Seto.
Just thinking about him made her blush.
At that young age, they had both taken on the roles of being boyfriend and girlfriend without realizing it.
She had been smiling to herself while looking in the mirror in her room, looking at herself with the necklace he had gotten for her on.
She had just began looking for the gift when she heard the boom next door. She was confused, but saw the gift, grabbed it, and stood up to look at what had happened through her window.
Then she heard another bang, and felt it too.
She had seen Seto's house on fire, then when a bang came from her direction she saw Seto turn around in the yard, holding Mokuba and fear etched across his face while his eyes were filled with the emotions of dread, fear, and heartbreak.
As soon as she saw this, she knew something was wrong with her house and that became all too clear when the fire was all around her in her room, preventing her from escaping.
She was hoping Seto would know to run. To do anything to get himself and Mokuba to safety.
The longer she waited, trying to come up with some form of escape, the closer the flames were getting to her.
She realized she wasn't going to make it when she couldn't move without catching on fire.
As the fire spread over her, she brought an arm up, the natural response of trying to shield yourself.
Then she realized she couldn't feel herself being burned.
It was unusual, but she decided to just try to move through the flames, to try to get to her parents, and to try and get out.
She found both her parents, but knew they were dead as she saw their cold, lifeless eyes before the fire claimed them.
She made it outside, and realized she hadn't been harmed by the fire at all, she looked around her and saw a shield of fire around her as she stood on the grass.
She brought her arm down, and it disappeared.
She brought her arm up again and… nothing.
She didn't understand why it didn't work this time and she heard a slight chuckle from behind her.
"Dear little Lena," the man said.
"I see you're confused why you can't shield yourself with fire again. So your mother had been right. You were going to get your powers soon. I'll explain things to you later, but first you need to come with me. By the way, I'm Maximillion Pegasus, your godfather."
She didn't understand fully, but she felt she could trust him and trusted that feeling.
She sat down in the limo he had been standing against, and he followed, shutting the door behind them.
She felt something in her right hand, the hand she had held up to protect herself; the one that she had controlled fire with. She was holding Seto's gift, the one she had gone to get, in it.
"Your fear for him and attachment to him helped you control that power so easily, you know," she heard beside her.
Maximillion Pegasus was smiling at her as he said this, with a comforting smile tohelp her calm.
"Your mother had called me earlier today and we decided on this arrangement. Yugi will grow up under your grandfather's custody, but your parents and your grandfather felt it would be better to try to protect you and Yugi if you would grow up in my custody. I'm sorry for the loss of your parents, and that you won't see your friends, your brother, or your grandfather for a while. We need to learn about your powers some more and get them under your control better, so you can do them if you want to, not only as a last resort to protecting yourself."
She grew up under Maximillion's care, getting smarter, braver, and stronger everyday.
She could control her powers now, but she also could do a lot more.
She had been the one telling Maximillion she didn't want to just stay at home her whole life for her schooling, and had convinced him to let her attend schools, letting her go to a different school each time he got paranoid and having her live near her schools with plenty of protection.
He also taught her to play DuelMonsters, and she caught on fast and became one of the best duelists he had ever seen.
She knew she was good, and after a trip to Egypt, she came back with an even stronger card than any in her deck already, and it came with a millennium artifact.
Maximillion knew that Lena's former spirit from a certain time in Egypt was now with her when she started to become a little more developed into her mind. The artifact was just a necklace, the shape of a pyramid hanging from it, split down the middle with two gems encrusted in the golden halves of the pyramid: Emerald and Sapphire.
He had even caught onto time when she would duel and she would suddenly look more mature and would be more serious than her typical self she had grown into; she was a range of different emotions.
She never decided to make friends, though and always put imaginary walls around herself when someone would try to befriend her.
She was a special duelist, even he could see that, as she rose quickly to being the best duelist in many countries, now coming in at fourth since she had yet to duel Joey Wheeler, Seto Kaiba, and her brother, Yugi Muto.
She only rarely used her special card, the only one in its existence; she had made sure of it.
It was her Green Eyes Black Dragon.
She was becoming famous, not only for her dueling but she was a talented singer as well. Her fans of her dueling and her singing knew her as the Emerald Dragon.
She had grown up with a lot of money, and was also really smart enough that she could even give Kaiba a run for his money. She could often be found working on new projects, like her newest, the Duel Runner, a motorcycle deigned for both racing and dueling at the same time.
(Don't laugh at me if I got that wrong, I just wanted to fit those motorcycles from 5Ds in here somewhere because those things are really cool)
Maximillion was the only one to know her yet as Lena Muto-Pegasus, his last name added due to her adoption.
He'd only just let her come to Domino, because she'd convinced him to let her come back and reunite with her brother.
She would be starting school tomorrow, and she was hoping she would be able to see Yugi.
I hope Seto will be there too.
She pulled up to her house, more like mansion, Maximillion had made sure to buy for her.
She took off her helmet, still thinking on her previous thought.
I hope Seto will be there too.
She had made sure to guard her heart and put walls up, but as she wiped away a tear she hadn't realized was there, she thought about how foolish she was.
If he even will be there, I doubt he'd ever remember me.
I was just some girl he grew up with till her family was killed by someone wanting to take me.
She was still confused about what Maximillion had told her.
He'd said to her once when she asked about it that because of the ancient Egyptian times, anyone with the knowledge of my past lives would always want me for my growing powers in every new life, but he thought this life could end that cycle, since Yugi was also a reincarnation of an Egyptian pharaoh while my past life was his best friend.
He said Seto was a reincarnation too.
Just how many of us are reincarnated from that time? She asked herself.
Yugi and her were united in spirit by their millennium items, but Maximillion never told her how she and Seto were able to quickly become friends with how guarded he had once been, but did say it was because their spirits were familiar with each other.
She sighed to herself, went inside, got changed, and worked on some more of her Duel Runners.
Okay, hope you like the chapter. I know a lot of you will say "Yugi doesn't have a sister" or "Seto can't love her in his past life, his love became the blu eyes whit dragon" Well, I'm changing that up. I like the idea of Yugi having another family member, not only his grandpa, though I hate killing parents off. I have Lena adopted by Pegasus because of the humor that will come from everyone finding out. As far as the love turned into a dragon thing, I'm keeping that he loved her, but his past life and Lena's had been strung together by the gods. Even if the girl had lived, she would never be able to love Seto fully and he'd never feel the way he'll feel everytime he sees Lena. Lena's dragon also will be formed from her losing the man who she had thought she loved, but who was destined to be with Seto's girl, in life or in death.
So that's all I have to say, Please Review!
