Seto Kaiba made his way up to his office, not in a very good mood and it was only nine in the morning. He had woken up on time, as usual, but when he went to his closet he found that his jacket was gone. The CEO figured his sister, Miyako, had done something with it, whether it was to spite him or not, and it irritated him that she hadn't told him it wouldn't be there for him in the morning. But he brushed it off and went to take a shower, dressing in his long sleeve black shirt and his leather pants once he was out and dried off. He then could find no sign of Mokuba or Miyako anywhere but he figured she had taken their younger brother out to get ice cream at her best friend Murasaki's café that her uncle owned and felt slightly upset that she hadn't asked if he wanted to go. He would have complained about it but eventually agree to go with them, just to see Murasaki.
After pushing the thoughts of the café away he began towards his office, grumbling about incoherent things all the way to the door of his office which, he noticed through the window, was dark before he opened it. "I could have sworn I left the blinds open." he grumbled to himself as he unlocked the door and stepped inside, trying to find the light switch on the wall so he didn't have to stumble in the dark to his desk and to the windows to let sun light in. "Ah ha." Seto mumbled as he felt his fingers brush the switch and he flipped it on, leaping back in alarm as he heard a loud "SURPRISE!" greet him once the room was lit. He looked around the room as he saw Yugi Moto and the nerd herd all over the couch, having been hiding behind it. He glanced to his desk and saw his brother and sister standing there with Murasaki, a large cake resting on what he hoped wasn't his paper work that was suppose to be finished by tomorrow.
"What took you so long Kaiba?" Joey taunted as he sat down on the couch, putting his hands behind his head with an amused smirk. "Shut up, Wheeler." Seto growled and stepped farther into the room. "What are you brats all doing here anyway? In my office no less." he asked, not looking amused. "It's your surprise birthday party!" Yugi said happily as he hurried over to the CEO, holding a blue and yellow striped party hat in his hands to put on him. "It's February." Seto growled and moved back, not wanting the party hat anywhere near him. "Exactly! You weren't expecting it were you, Seto?" he heard someone giggle and turned, seeing Murasaki had made her way over to him with a bright smile on her face. How did I not notice her move? he thought to himself, not really minding being close to the girl but he didn't want to make it too obvious he liked her more than the nerds, much more.
"No, I wasn't expecting it…" Seto replied as he quickly looked away back to his desk as Mokuba ran up and hugged him, obviously enjoying what they had done for his big brother. "It was Miyako and Murasaki's idea!" he chimed as their sister joined the hug. The oldest of them looked around his office, seeing there were streamers hanging on the ceiling and balloons everywhere. He wasn't too fond of the makeover. He looked to the others that were in his office, fouling it up in his opinion. Yugi, Joey, Tristan, Bakura, Tea, Duke, and Murasaki. "I thought surprise parties were suppose to happen a week or two before the actual birthday." Seto huffed and his sister just smirked. "Nope, just as long as you aren't expecting it!" she said and finally let him go, grabbing Murasaki's arm and pulling her back over to the desk where the cake was.
He watched them leave before looking to Joey who had started playing with his television but gritted his teeth and forced himself to ignore it as he went towards his desk, most of his unwelcome guests following him because they had been waiting since seven for cake. "How old are you now Seto?" Murasaki asked, sounding like she was teasing him as she picked the lighter up off the desk that was sitting by the dessert. "I'm the same age I was yesterday." he huffed, folding his arms with annoyance but it didn't last long because she had started giggling. "I know I know, loosen up a bit will ya?" she mused and waved a hand as Mokuba pulled his brother around to the other side of the desk and into his chair for him to blow out the candles once they were lit.
The two girls moved to the side of the desk as Mokuba pushed the chair closer to the desk, surprising the man with how easily his brother managed to push him. Soon everyone was gathered around the desk and Mokuba ran to turn the lights off as Murasaki turned the lighter on, illuminating everyone's faces. She waited for Mokuba to hurry back before lighting the candles on the cake and Seto held back an annoyed growl as they all started singing Happy Birthday very loudly. This is ridiculous. he huffed to himself. Suddenly he blushed when he heard Murasaki yell 'Kaiba-Kun' instead of shouting 'Kaiba' like the nerds did or just 'Seto' like Miyako and Mokuba. He mentally thanked that the red that was no doubt on his cheeks couldn't be seen because of the yellow light being given off by the candles. As soon as the horrible singing was done, Seto blew out the candles sending the office back into the dark as he stood up, planning to leave now that the cake was done but felt someone grab his arm to stop him m leaving the desk.
The lights suddenly came back on thanks to Tea who had ran back to the light switch and Seto looked to see who had a hold on his arm, tensing up slightly when he saw it was Murasaki who was rubbing her eyes from the sudden light like many of the others. After a second she looked up at Seto and smiled. "You're not leaving until you have the cake my uncle made and open your gifts!" she said, letting him go and pointing to the couch where there was a pile of presents on the floor next to it. The tallest one in the room stared at the colorfully wrapped gifts before turning his attention to Miyako as she started cutting the cake up and handing it out on plates to the others but kept the first piece next to her for her older brother.
Soon everyone was settled on the couch, eating the cake there much to Seto's annoyance. If there's one stain in here I'm making them all come back and clean it up. he thought angrily to himself before his attention turned to Murasaki and calmed down a little, deciding she wouldn't have to help. Because it was Murasaki. She was sitting to his left, leaning on the arm of the couch, and Miyako was sitting to his right. Bakura getting too close to her for Seto's liking. He never really approved of the two seeing each other, especially because it was the thief in the white haired man that was actually 'dating' his baby sister, but Murasaki had convinced him, somewhat, to allow the two to be in what ever relationship they had. The rest of the brats were sitting on the other parts of the couch, chattering about stupid things he didn't bother to listen too with Mokuba planted at his feet, shoving cake into his mouth like Joey, Tristan, and Duke where.
Seto glanced to Murasaki who was sitting quietly, holding her plate of half eaten chocolate cake close to her chest and not in her lap like nearly everyone else but she was looking down. He opened his mouth to ask what was wrong but quickly stopped himself, remembering she could see the spirit of hrt Crystal Ruby Beast Carbuncle, or Ruby for short, and no one else could see him if the monster didn't want them to. He only knew because Miyako could see him and had told him that he helped her and Murasaki escape from Bakura's and Marik's Yamis when they kidnapped them. He had also seen Ruby curled up with Murasaki on his couch in the living room when they had fallen asleep watching television while staying the night. He had just thought it was the stuffed toy he had given her until he saw Ruby breathing and had never told her he knew she could see his spirit, figuring she would tell him herself when she trusted him enough.
He started unconsciously scowling as he remembered Miyako telling him that Murasaki was constantly taunted for 'talking to herself' when she would be seen talking to Ruby but she never complained about it so he assumed it didn't bother her but it still pissed him off. Now that he thought about it, she never complained about anything. "Present time!" Mokuba suddenly exclaimed and threw his hands up, making Seto jump in alarm and lose his train of thought. He looked to Murasaki as she started giggling, having seen the startled expression on the CEO's face. She got up and started collecting the empty plates but Joey wouldn't give her his, going with her to the desk where the cake and trashcan was because he wanted more. Seto held back an annoyed huff as his brother handed him a present and he glanced around, seeing everyone's excited and expectant faces.
Once all the useless presents were opened Seto got up and looked at the clock on the wall, seeing it was around three. How the hell did cake and presents take THAT long? he thought and brushed the wrapping paper pieces off of his front, accidentally onto Mokuba. "Now you can all leave." he said flatly and heard Miyako huff and Mokuba let out a whiny "Setoooo!" but he just shook his head. "I have a mess to clean up and paper work to finish!" he said sternly and pointed to the door, watching the nerd herd get up with amused smiles on their faces as they wished the grumpy man a happy birthday and headed for the door. Murasaki looked up at Seto and smiled slightly. "Don't worry about the mess Seto, I'll clean it up since it's my mess." she said. "No, OUR mess." Miyako corrected as she got up and stretched. "I'll help too." she added as she saw Mokuba let out a yawn, having been up at five to help set up for the party.
"Me too!" he said after he yawned but Miyako shook her head as she moved his hair away from his eyes. "No, you go take a nap." she said and he pouted but didn't argue as he headed out of the office. Seto watched him leave before sighing and heading to his desk, stopping when he noticed the cake still there. "My paper work better be frosting free." he stated, folding his arms as he looked to the two girls. Miyako rolled her eyes and went over to the desk, grabbing what was left of the cake, which wasn't much thanks to Joey, and heading down to the kitchen. Seto shook his head with annoyance and sat in his chair, looking around for his papers. Murasaki noticed and hurried over, opening one of the drawers next to his right leg and pulling the stack of papers out. "I tried to organize them for you, but I don't know how well I did." she said, sounding defeated as she handed them to him.
He flipped through the pages before looking back at her, not looking annoyed or upset that she touched his work. "You did fine." he answered and held back a smile of his own when he saw her break into one. He loved to see her smile. He had only seen her cry once and he wouldn't like to witness it again. Kaiba had discovered that her parents had died in a brutal car accident when she was around six, while she was in the car. She got away from the wreck with a scar on her right leg from climbing out the broken window and a horrible fear of cars or anything resembling them, refusing to get near them unless she had too like when walking home from school but she had never been in a vehicle since the accident. He had tried to get her into his limo to take her away from the cemetery nearly a year ago when he saw her there at her parent's graves but she had looked like he pointed a gun to her head when he suggested it and hasn't offered to drive her anywhere since. He didn't want to see her terrified again.
"You know…" Seto said as he looked back to his paper work and began putting it in piles. "I didn't see your present there for me." he said, glancing at her. He was only teasing her and she rubbed her shoulder. "It's almost done!" she exclaimed, becoming flustered as she looked off to the side, trying to find the streamers hanging from the ceiling interesting. He also loved when she was startled or surprised, except for the time when he went to the café to pick up Mokuba and Miyako and he startled her into spilling the, thankfully cold, soup onto him that she had taken from a table. She apologized for two months about it and had it been anyone else he would have scolded and hung it over them but he assured her every time that it was fine. "Done?" he inquired, putting his finger tips together as he turned the chair around to face her. She nodded and put her hands behind her back, not going to say anything more about it as she stepped away. "You're making me something?" he asked, getting up and stepping after her.
"Maybe." she answered, a smirk coming to her face and she took another step away from him. "It's a yes or no answer." Seto said, becoming impatient because he wanted to know, and wanted to do something about that smirk on her face because it was making him feel weird. "Then I'm not going to answer." she said and turned, running back to the couch and jumping over it, falling to the ground like she was in a spy movie and had just set off a bomb so she was trying to find cover but she had really gone back for the gift wrapping. Seto allowed himself to smile slightly, knowing she couldn't see it as he let out a fake but convincing huff and sat back down, bringing a pile of papers closer to work on. Murasaki looked up from the ground as she heard the door open and saw Miyako walk in, her friend stopping to look at her curiously. "What are you doing?" she asked, leaning closer.
Murasaki looked under the couch and pulled out a wad of wrapping paper. "Paper hunting." she said, holding the silver sparkling wad up. "What took you so long?" Seto asked without looking up from his papers, able to imagine the look his sister gave him. "Putting the cake in the refrigerator!" she huffed and folded her arms. "I bet she was making out with Bakura." Murasaki mused, sounding like she was talking to herself as she got up off her stomach and sat on her knees but was looking to Ruby who was sitting on the couch next to her, laughing uncontrollably but only the two girls could see and hear him. "I think you mean that's what you and my brother were doing!" Miyako said, putting her hands on her hips as she watched Murasaki blush before quickly looking down, pretending to look for more wrapping paper. "Miyako!" Seto nearly shouted, able to keep his blush from showing and his sister just stuck her tongue out at him before starting to pull the streamers she could reach down.
A few hours later the two girls finally got the office clean but Seto was still doing his paper work, being distracted by hearing Murasaki's laugh or having to glance over at her at what felt like nearly every minute. "Remind me not to put up so many streamers next time…" Murasaki huffed as she climbed back down the ladder, Miyako not having wanted to climb up to get the streamers when she couldn't reach on her feet anymore. "They're a lot more fun to put up." Miyako replied as she took the large wad of thin multicolored paper from her friend and headed to the trash can by her brother's desk, looking at him as she caught him watching Murasaki get down the ladder. "You sick perv." she taunted quietly so only he could hear and made him jump in surprise, not having noticed her. "Excuse me?" he whispered back to her, sounding startled. "Checking out my friend, what a brother you are." she replied and smirked at the glare her gave her but walked back to Murasaki because she knew he wouldn't say more about it because she would just twist his words.
Seto huffed and put his head down for a second to let the blush that had crept to his cheeks disappear before looking back to his papers. "Do you want to stay over tonight?" he heard Miyako ask her friend and silently hoped Murasaki would say yes because he really did like it when she stayed, his brother and sister enjoyed her company and he would never openly admit it but he loved having her around. "I don't think I should, I feel bad I left my uncle to run the café alone all day today so I should at least help him clean up." Murasaki answered and Seto bit his lip as he tried to ignore the disappointed feeling in his stomach. "Want me to walk you back then?" Miyako asked and her friend shook her head with a smile. "You'd have to walk home alone then, and by then it'll almost be dark." she said, knowing she had Ruby to help her get home if she really needed someone to help. "Alright, I'm still coming over tomorrow though right?" she asked as Murasaki opened the door to leave. "Of course!" she replied and then turned to face Seto at his desk, her smile turning to a smirk.
"Happy Birthday Seto!" she shouted happily, knowing it would irritate him, and quickly turned as Ruby jumped to her shoulder before running out of the office. Seto ducked his head, pretending to look irritated by her exclamation and let out a fake annoyed huff. "Don't stay up too late." Miyako said, sounding amused as she fell for his act and started out the door, shutting it behind her. As soon as it shut Seto groaned and put his head on the desk, not wanting to do his paper work now because he kept thinking about the past few hours, not minding the fact that he was put through the torture of a party. Because Murasaki had helped plan it.
The next day Seto Kaiba had a firm scowl on his face as he got out of his limo in front of Murasaki's house around eight at night. Today had not been a good day. He stayed up all night finishing his paper work that he had managed to fill out wrong so he spent the whole morning and afternoon fixing it. Plus he still couldn't find his jacket. Now he had come to pick up his sister and take her home. That's it. He didn't want to have to get out of the limo but Miyako wasn't answering her phone and he wasn't going to sit out in the vehicle for hours waiting for her to finish her girl talk with Murasaki. He got to the door and knocked, rather hard, three times. He huffed angrily when it took longer than thirty seconds for the door to open and he was met by Murasaki who started smiling even more when she saw him.
"Hi Seto" she said cheerfully and moved to the side so he could come in. Normally seeing the girl without her jacket on would make Seto's heart quicken because he could see her curves better but not this time, he was too irritated and was beginning to get a headache from lack of sleep and food. All he had all day was coffee. "Where's Miyako?" he asked flatly as Murasaki shut the door, folding his arms as he looked to her. "Bathroom." she answered and pointed up the stairs, seeing Seto huff angrily. She frowned slightly at seeing he was irritated about something and then quickly smiled as she went to the coffee table in front of the couch where Ruby was lying, watching the man closely. Murasaki picked up a box wrapped in sparkling blue paper with a white bow on top made of curling ribbon that was about the size of a pumpkin.
She turned around when she heard someone coming down the stairs, seeing it was Miyako. "I called you five times." Seto growled to his sister who blinked in surprise at how upset he looked before folding her arms. "My phone's on silent, I didn't get them." she replied and Seto just pointed to the door and she rolled her eyes before smiling and waving a good bye to Murasaki. "See you tomorrow!" she called and her friend nodded as she moved the present to her one hand to wave back. Once she was out the door Murasaki went over to Seto who was heading out the door too but she grabbed his arms to stop him. He tensed up and clenched his fists angrily, wanting to leave so he could go to bed, but turned to face her and leaned back as the present was shoved into his face.
"Your present!" she said happily, trying to sound twice as sweet as usual to try and cheer him up. "I really hope you like it! It took me forever to come up with what to get you but I think you'll li-" Murasaki stopped talking and flinched back as Seto knocked the present from her hands, glaring at her angrily. "Would you just shut up?" he snapped. "I don't care about the stupid present, I don't care that you didn't know what to get me, I don't care for birthdays so will you shut up and let me leave?" Murasaki stared at him as she put her hands together in front of her chest, not really afraid of the CEO but she was startled that he had snapped at her. "I-I'm sorry…" she mumbled apologetically, able to feel tears coming to her eyes as she looked to the present on the ground, one side smashed in on itself from the impact with the wall.
Seto just snorted and rolled his eyes before turning and briskly walking out the door, slamming it behind him, not caring about what he just did because all he wanted was to go home and forget about the shitty day he had. He got into the limo and sat across from Miyako who was looking at her phone. "What'd you say to Murasaki?" she asked curiously, noticing her brother took longer than usual to get back to the limo. "Nothing." he growled and folded his arms, seeing his sister watching him from the corner of his eye as he looked out the window. Miyako stayed quiet, figuring it wasn't the best time to hound her brother, and turned back to her phone. They stayed quiet until they were back at Kaiba Corp. and Seto didn't wait for the driver to come around and open the door for him, getting out himself and storming into the building to get to his room, leaving Miyako looking after him with a startled expression.
Seto woke up around four in the morning and sat up, rubbing his head with a sigh as he wondered why he woke up. He looked over to the clock on the night stand and fell back onto his pillow with a groan, putting his hands over his face. He did feel better than when he picked Miyako up but still had a small headache that was nagging him, making him move his hands to his temples and start rubbing them to make the pain disappear. Doesn't Murasaki's uncle have some sort of herb that makes pain go away when you put it in your food? he thought to himself and looked up at the ceiling. He then remembered Murasaki trying to hand him something but didn't really recall what it was. "Present…?" he mumbled as he closed his eyes again, trying to remember what happened. Seto suddenly opened his eyes and sat up quickly, wishing he hadn't because it made the pain in his head worse but he hardly noticed.
"Crap crap shit god damn shit!" he gasped as he reached for his phone on the night stand, remembering how he knocked the present away from her and then the face she made. That god damn startled face, not the kind he got amusement from that made her so clumsy it was cute. He quickly dialed her number on his phone, having gotten it from Miyako when she called him on Murasaki's cell one time from school. He put the device to his ear and heard it ring until the voice mail sounded. He quickly hung up and dialed again. He got the same outcome. He tried a few more times before sighing with defeat and finally leaving a message. "Murasaki, I'm sorry for no doubt hurting your feelings. I was just…no I have no excuse. Just, please call me back or come over please just let me apologize properly." he said and took a few seconds longer to hang up, gripping the phone tightly as he looked at it.
"You fucking idiot." the brunette whispered angrily to himself and placed the phone back on his nightstand before lying back down and pulling the covers over his head, planning to go to the café as soon as it opened if she didn't call back by then. He was too upset to go back to sleep and kept glancing in the direction of his phone, hoping to hear it ring but it never did. A few hours later of staying completely still, hoping Murasaki would call back, he sat up and grabbed his phone, calling her again but this time it went straight to voice mail. Seto growled angrily and threw it half way across the room, not seeing where it went as he looked to the clock. "Shit!" he gasped at seeing it was eight thirty and the café opened at seven, meaning he had waited too long and quickly got up, grabbing a set of clothes from his closet before running to the bathroom.
Minutes later he was rushing for the door, stepping on his phone. He stopped long enough to pick it up because he didn't know where his jacket was, that being what he normally used to communicate with people, and headed for the door. On the way down he had shouted for Mokuba to stay inside and called for the limo, glad that it was waiting for him as he got outside. He quickly got in and told the driver to take him to the café as quickly as possible which, in his opinion, wasn't fast enough. Suddenly the limo screeched to a halt, making him jerk forward in his seat as they stopped. "What the hell's going on?" he shouted into the intercom on the door next to him. "Kaiba sir, there seems to be a problem." the driver said back and Seto blinked before quickly opening the door, seeing they had stopped in front of Murasaki's house and not the café that was just on the other side of it because the two buildings were connected.
His eyes widened when he saw a police cruiser sitting in the driveway. Seto quickly made his way to the front door and knocked frantically, shifting impatiently as he waited for the door to open. Kumo, Murasaki's uncle, opened the door quickly with an eager hopeful look on his face that instantly vanished when he saw it was Seto. Seto looked past him and saw Miyako sitting on the couch wiping tears from her eyes with a police man standing opposite of her, the two looking to the door. "Have you seen Murasaki?" Kumo asked, daring to sound hopeful again. Seto felt his stomach clench up at being asked the question and he shook his head. "No, I came to see if she was home…" the CEO trailed off as the older man turned away, waving for him to come inside.
"What's going on?" Seto asked as he hurried over to his sister and she hugged him tightly. "M-Murasaki's disappeared." she sniffed, obviously worried. "What do you mean 'disappeared'?" he demanded, looking to the police officer. "She went out to buy a few groceries around six and hasn't returned yet." the man answered, looking down at his notepad. "I went and looked for her in ever place she would go and I cant find her anywhere." Kumo said, mostly to himself as he put his hands to his face and leaned down slightly, looking worried and defeated. "She couldn't have gone far. I'll have my people search for her." Seto said as he grabbed his phone from his pocket even though it was kind of hard with Miyako clinging to him still but he didn't mind.
The policeman led Kumo into the kitchen to talk to him further as Seto barked orders frantically into his phone, hanging up before he could be spoken back to. "I want to go look for her." Miyako said softly as she let him go and got up and he quickly stood up. "No, you stay here incase she comes back. I'll go look." he said and started towards the door, not going to let his sister get hurt if anything happened. With that he went out the door, starting his search on foot because he could look into side streets and alleys better incase she was hiding in one. Or worse, lying in one. he thought and then shook his head, not wanting to think anything bad happened to Murasaki.
He walked around for hours, not stopping until it was around nine that night because someone was calling him on his phone. He growled angrily and breathlessly as he picked it up, seeing it was one of his men. "What?" he demanded, not wanting to be called for an unimportant reason. And right now, practically everything was unimportant aside from finding Murasaki. "Sir! They've found her!" the voice replied and Seto's eyes widened. "Where is she now?" he asked quickly, most likely startling the man on the other end of the phone. "The hospital, they took her there right away!" at hearing this Seto hung up and bolted for the hospital, calling Miyako to tell her to let Kumo know. He soon made it into the automatic doors of the hospital and went straight for the desk, panting and frantically trying to catch his breath so he could speak.
The receptionist watched him for a moment, looking startled and uneasy and started to lean away from him. "Where's Murasaki…Ekisho's room?" he asked, starting to catch his breath now as the person behind the desk looked down at her papers and then pointed down a hall. "Last room on the left." she answered and he thanked her before hurrying down the hall and stopping at the room as it was opened by a nurse. He tried to look past her put the door was shut before he could see anything. "Can I help you?" she asked, sounding annoyed and he pointed to the door, sucking in air for his lungs so he could speak. "I'm here…to see her." he coughed out and the nurse's look softened a bit. "What relation are you to her?" she asked, knowing she couldn't let friends see her. Seto thought a moment as he straightened up and quickly said "Future fiancé." without really thinking, knowing Murasaki was eighteen so it was legal. He just wanted to see her and make sure she was okay so he would say or do anything.
The nurse looked him over for a few moments and seemed to believe him and moved aside, clutching her clipboard to her as he hurried past her into the room. Seto stopped in the doorway when he saw Murasaki unconscious on the bed, having bandages covering both her arms and scratches on what he could see of her neck along with a few small bandaged cuts on her face. She had a bruise on the side of her jaw and he couldn't see her mouth or nose thanks to the mask hooked up to the machine giving her oxygen. Seeing that made his stomach lurch, meaning she was having a problem breathing. He moved closer quietly and grabbed the clipboard at the foot of the bed. Stepping over the wires of the various machines he sat on the chair next to the bed, dragging his eyes away from her to look at what the doctor wrote.
Two broken ribs, cuts all along both arms, fractured ankles, dislocated left leg, bruises and cuts on her back, stab wounds on her legs, cracked skull. Seto stared at the list and comments, about how the cuts on her arms were most likely done with a razor, the ones on her back done by shards of glass, her near fractures done by a hammer, the bruises by a fist. He clenched the clipboard tightly in his hands, holding back a furious growl at learning that she had been beaten. Someone BEAT her. He got up and put it back at the foot of the bed, forcing himself to calm down as best he could before sitting back down. Seto looked back at Murasaki, trying to ignore the beeping from the various machines as he leaned closer to her, moving her hair away from her closed eyes. He noticed his hand was shaking and tried to force it to stop as he rested it on the farther side of her face, using his thumb to brush the bruise on her jaw. Now that he thought about it, the damn thing did look like part of a fist.
Seto moved his hand away and put it with his other in his lap, feeling horrible that this happened. Once she wakes up, she can tell me who hurt her. I'll make that sorry son of a bitch pay. he thought bitterly to himself as he watched her breathing, glad that she was at least still alive if anything. He looked down her right arm, the one next to him, and slowly reached out to hold her hand. He didn't want to hurt her but he wanted to do something other than just sit like some idiot in a stupid sappy sop opera. That's what I feel like, some stupid jack ass in a damn sop opera. Seto sighed and hung his head slightly, using his free hand to rub the bridge of his nose. He suddenly shot his head back up as he felt the hand he was holding move. He looked at her and moved his hand, watching her trying to lift it and move it to her stomach but the tubes stopped her from moving it too much and it fell limp at her side.
Seto stared in alarm before putting a hand on her shoulder. "Murasaki?" he asked softly, watching her face for any sort of reaction. His heart jumped into his throat when he saw her eyelids move but didn't open. "Murasaki, can you hear me?" he asked sounding worried but hopeful at the same time as he moved his hand back into her bandaged one. No shit she can hear you, she just responded dumb ass. Seto looked down at his hand as he felt her trying to do something, whether it be squeeze his or move it away she was responding and it made him sit on the edge of his seat. After a few moments Murasaki slowly opened her eyes and glanced around, trying to lift her hand again but Seto kept her from moving so she wouldn't hurt herself. He held his breath as he watched her, her eyes going in his direction. Those bright brown and green eyes rested on him and he held back the urge to hug her, knowing it would hurt her.
She suddenly looked away from him, to the other side of the room, and tried to move her hand away from his. "Murasaki, what's wrong?" he asked, becoming worried as he got off the chair and onto his knees to be closer to her but she didn't look back at him, able to move her head so he wasn't even in her line of vision anymore. "Murasaki…" Seto said softly, putting her hand in both of his and felt her tense up a little, being too weak to do it as much as she liked. "You hurt her you bastard!" a voice snapped and made Seto jump, making him look over. He looked surprised at seeing the Crystal Beast sitting at the foot of Murasaki's bed, glaring at the man, but then realized that Ruby was always with her. "She was trying to pet you, wasn't she." he said, mostly to himself as he looked at the monster, realizing she was probably trying to reach for her friend before she opened her eyes.
"And how did I…" he trailed off as he remembered the night before and frowned before looking back to Murasaki who was still looking away. "Murasaki, I'm sorry for what I did. I didn't mean to snap at you like I do to Wheel-erm Joey." he corrected, knowing she didn't like it when he called her friend that. She still wouldn't look at him, she even stopped moving her hand and he thought for a moment that she had fallen asleep but he saw Ruby nod his head for the man to continue. "I'll never be able to apologize enough for the ass I was, the ass I've been. But I do promise to never do that to you again." he said, sounding desperate, wanting her to look at him or try to move her hand again or something to show she was listening to him. Murasaki slowly turned her head back to face him, her eyes glistening with tears she was trying to not let fall. Whether it was from physical pain or because of his apology, Seto couldn't tell. She was looking at him and that was all that mattered.
She used her other hand that wasn't held down by tubes or wires or someone else's hands and weakly tried to pull the mask over her mouth and nose away to try and talk but Seto took her hand away from it and placed it back at her side, sure she needed the extra oxygen. "Don't, you can talk to me later once you've gotten a little better." he said gently and she watched him for a moment before doing what she could manage of a huff and set her gaze away from him, showing she was annoyed with him. He couldn't help but smile slightly at seeing she was trying to be how she normally was and didn't notice Ruby on his shoulder until he whispered "Marik grabbed her and threw her into a van this morning before we got to the grocery store. He took her to an old cabin out in the woods and when she didn't do what he told her to he…" the monster trailed off as he looked to his friend, sounding pained because he couldn't do anything to help her. "Hurt her…" he finished and Seto scratched him behind a set of ears, trying to comfort him briefly as he pushed the rage bubbling inside his stomach at hearing it was Marik who had done this down before putting his hands gently on both sides of Murasaki's face, making her look at him again.
"Try to rest before your uncle gets here. He'll be bringing Miyako so I'm sure you'll need to have more energy to deal with her once she's here." he said softly, an amused half smile on his face as he watched Murasaki try to smile back and nod at the same time but was already too tired to really do either. Seto chuckled and watched her close her eyes before leaning forward, still holding her face gingerly so he wouldn't cause her any pain, and kissed her forehead, not going to leave her side until her uncle was in his place.
