Chapter 1

Duel monsters sucks

Duel monsters sucks. Yes Addie knew it was an unpopular opinion everyone on earth seemed to be obsessed with the card game including her five older brothers, perhaps that was the reason she was so disillusioned with the game growing up it had been forced down her throat. Her personal dislike for Duel monsters made life difficult at times, people often looked at her like she was an alien just because she didn't give a crap who won the latest tournament, and today was another day that that bloody game made life hard.

Addie was on campus where she had just received her placement assignment for where she would intern for the next three months and lucky her had been assigned to Kaiba corp. In the educational sense it was the ideal placement for someone majoring in engineering with a minor in computer science, however personally working for a company that spends millions of dollars a year on a children's card game with a CEO who spends all his time trying to be champion of said children's game annoyed her to no end. Surely there was something better to waste money and effort on. What made the situation worse was that Seto Kaiba himself would be addressing his new interns tomorrow morning, the speech will probably consist of 'I fail at card games so I make up for it by being a dick' Addie thought bitterly.

Addie left campus in a mood, climbing into her small bright green hatchback and driving toward the university apartments on the other side of the city. As she drove Addie took in the scenery around her, she loved Domino with its gardens, bright atmosphere and architecture, however most of all she loved that the city was no longer crawling with duellist's that she had the urge to run over. Pulling into her assigned parking space and letting herself into the small apartment she shared with a medical student named Eli, Addie vented her frustration by throwing her bag at the wall and falling onto the sofa.

Addie knew she should be at her computer working on her computer science assignment but frankly she wasn't in the mood and didn't really care at the moment. She flicked on the T.V and settled for watching the generic romantic comedy that was showing on whatever channel it was and felt her eyes start to droop.

When Addie woke up she realised how screwed she was. It was 9am she had spent the whole night on the sofa and forgot to set her alarm. Seto Kaiba was due to speak to her and his four other interns in ten minutes. She jumped off the couch pushing the bizarre dream she had been having out of her mind and ran for the bathroom. Looking in the mirror you could tell she'd slept on the couch, her bright pink locks were knotted into a frizz ball, there were red marks on her cheek from leaning on the arm of the sofa and overall she looked like death. Yes Addie dyed her hair pink in her opinion it suited her personality much better than her natural golden blonde, besides the bright colour brought out the violet of her eyes. Quickly running a brush through her hair and pulling it into a messy bun, brushing her teeth and changing her clothes Addie ran to her car and drove to campus.

When she ran into the building Addie was exactly forty-five minutes late and every eye in the room turned to stare at her. The glare that that was most noticeable came from the tall dark haired man sitting on the desk at the front of the room, Kaiba himself.

"Nice of you to join us." He said, his voice almost literally dripped with arrogance.

Addie felt her blood boil and had to keep her voice steady, "I'm sorry there were some issues at home this morning."

"It doesn't matter I don't deal with laziness your fired before you begin." He replied.

And just like that Addie snapped. "Listen here you arrogant prick I worked hard to get here and without this internship I can't graduate! I'm smarter than all of these other people check my grades!"

Kaiba was slightly amused by the outburst and in a way admired her courage not many people stood up to the man who could crush their future. "If you're so smart prove it I expect you in my office this afternoon and if you pass the test my technicians set then you get to stay."

"Fine!"

"Settled then." Kaiba said, jumping to his feet and looking at the four other students. "We're done here."

Addie watched the arrogant jerk walk her way towards the door and as he did his hand brushed hers. The second their skin touched the world went blurry and Addie hit the ground hard, with a horrible screeching in her ears before everything went dark.

Kaiba looked at the fallen girl horrified, "Get help!" He shouted.

Within a few minutes Addie was loaded into an ambulance, things tended to happen quickly when Seto Kaiba was involved. However Kaiba himself had moved away from the spectacle, he was standing to the side of the crowd that had gathered staring into the distance deep in thought. A girl passing out at his feet certainly was not the oddest thing to happen to him not by a long shot however what truly bothered him about the incident was that the girl looked very similar to a certain King of games he knew minus the pink hair and skirt. Something was going on if he had learned anything it was that nothing was coincidence and he was going to get to the bottom of this.