Hey ppls!!! I'm back and I'm writing another story!!
Unlike L:ASWOOL (Love: A Somewhat Way Out Of Life), this fic actually HAS a plot. The only plot for L:ASWOOL was to get Serenity and Kaiba together, and everything else was just put in there just to try to tear them apart. BUT, I DID plan the part where she got hit with the car, but I didn't plan it to be Duke, it just came out because I really didn't feel like messing with him anymore. (If I didn't kill him off, then Kaiba would have done it for me…)
NE-Way, this is once again a Seto x Serenity fanfic. I'm real excited to see how this will turn out!!! Especially with all you people reviewing me, I loved the reviews for my other story!!!
P.S—Okay, for people that are complaining about what color Serenity's eyes are in this fic…I KNOW THEY ARE BROWN!!! I just want to add a little color to them. (You'll find out what color they are when you read this chapter.)
NOTE: Kaiba is FRIENDS with the gang in this fic. AND Yami has his own body, but he can still talk to Yugi with his mind IF they are close to each other.
AGES: Seto Kaiba—25
Mokuba Kaiba—18
Mai Valentine—24
Joey Wheeler—25
Serenity Wheeler—22
Yugi Motou—25
Yami Motou—28 (He LOOKS 28…)
Tea Gardner—24
Tristan Taylor—25
Ice
(REWRITE!!)
Disclaimer: I do not own the show called Yu-Gi-Oh!!!
"You never really know when you're in love; it just kind of comes out when you get up the courage to tell that certain person you've done something wrong." --Ice (Me)
Chapter One- Sealed Fate
"Hurry up 'Ren, you're going to be late!" Joey Wheeler called as he lifted himself off of the couch and went to answer the knocking door.
"Coming!" Serenity Wheeler replied her big brother as she put the last hairpin in her bun-like auburn hair one last time and took a quick look at herself in the mirror before grabbing her purse and walking out of her bedroom.
She hoped that tonight would be the night, the most important night in any woman's life. All of her friends had prepared her, even little Mokuba Kaiba, whose brother didn't seem all that excited about it but was joyous for her just the same. That's Seto Kaiba for you.
She met Tristan at the door, he was holding three roses. One was white, then pink, and the last was red.
Serenity hugged him as thanks and Tristan placed the roses in her hands.
"You look beautiful Serenity," Tristan said as he admired his girlfriend of two years in a dazzling red dress that showed off her curves. Her lips were tinted the deep red of her dress and her hair was up in a bun; a few hairs curling down from it, but the moment was ruined by Joey's nagging voice.
"Now Tristan," Joey started, "don't keep her out too late, I know she's got classes tomorrow. Oh, and hold on," He dashed away and was back before Serenity and Tristan could even move.
"Plus," Joey point to the piece of paper, in which, held Serenity's scheduled work times. "She has to work tomorrow."
"I know, Joey, I know." Tristan sighed as he replied. This wasn't the first time Joey had warned him about the exact hour Serenity should be home, "we won't be late."
"Good." Joey then wished them a great time and, plucking the roses from Serenity's hands and promising that he would put them in water, and then put them on her nightstand in her room; sent them out the door and on their way.
He shut the door behind him and looked down at his left hand and found a glittering gold band of promise there.
"Good luck, Serenity." Joey whispered as he looked around the room at all the packed boxes. He's been married to Mai for about a year now and Serenity made him promise to live with her until Tristan proposed; which would be tonight.
He turned around and watched as the red headlights of Tristan's Honda disappeared into night, the next time Joey would see his baby sis; she would be engaged to his best friend.
Joey filled a vase with water, placed the roses in it and walked to Serenity's bedroom. As he put the glass vase bedside on her cherry wood nightstand, Joey noticed a small notebook—open—on her pillow.
Joey tried to force himself from the room, but his legs wouldn't budge. His arms reached for the book. His fingers turned the pages back a couple of entries and found the typical lovestruck sister that he's known for two years.
He went back more and stopped when he saw Seto Kaiba's named appear in one of the entries.
September 6th, year of 2005
It's happened! Tristan Taylor finally asked me out! I really hope this relationship lasts awhile! My friend Seto Kaiba said that he's had a crush on me for a long time. I'm glad he's here, besides Tristan, Kai's the only one who I can really tell everything to. Joey's great to talk to, but Kai always knows something's wrong. I know that Kai will always be there for me.
Serenity Wheeler
Frantic now, Joey went back more.
July 22nd, year of 2005
It's been about six years since I met Kai. He's actually getting along with my brother; doesn't call him a dog anymore. I'm glad he's changed, but he won't tell me why he's changed. Oh well, I don't want to force him to tell me. Anyways, Tristan still hasn't asked me out, plus, he's being so polite these days. (He's always nice to me.) I've never met anyone like him.
Serenity Wheeler
He flipped back more.
April 16th, year of 2004
I was over a Kai's today. He told me that "Kai" meant "Sea" and "Seto" meant "Horse." So "Seto Kaiba" means "Sea Horse." I tried not to laugh, but he tickled me so I couldn't help it. He also thought of a nickname for me. Since I call him "Kai" he now calls me "Sere." I like it. Joey calls me "'Ren," Tea, Mai, Yugi, Mokuba, and Yami calls me "Seren," and Tristan's the only one who calls me "Serenity." I love all of my friends.
Serenity Wheeler
From then on, Joey just skimmed some more entries.
December 11th, year of 2004
Kai's says he's got a big surprise for me on Christmas—
August 17th, year of 2004
--but Kai doesn't think so.—
June 24th, year of 2004
--Kai's getting nicer, but Joey keeps trying to get me away from him for reasons unknown to me—
February 14th, year of 2003
Happy Valentines Day!
Guess what Kai got me for V-day? A mini sculpture of and Ice Dragon, It will go nicely with the mini sculpture of the Fire Dragon he got me the year before—
November 20th, year of 2003
--It's only been about a year since I've met Kai. I really hope that he—
Joey remembered the date from earlier entries of when they met, so, he tried to find it.
Once he found it, Joey tried not to sound so hurt when moving in with him on the same day as they met was barely mentioned…
July 22nd, year of 2002
I met this strange guy today. He had dark brown hair and was really tall, but his most appealing feature was his icy blue eyes. Lots of girls flirted and talked to him until he turned around and stared at them with such coldness that I was quite surprised. Then he saw me. For a split second I know his eyes weren't cold at all. He didn't tell me his name, but I'll find out. I know I will.
Oh yeah, I moved in with Joey today.
Serenity Wheeler
Joey went back to the entry that was open before and laid the dairy back onto the pillow and walking slowly from the room.
He had never noticed that he grew so far apart from Serenity over the years…
(I)
"Here, Serenity, take this." Tristan handed her a black cloth, "Put it on, and no peeking." He laughed.
Serenity smiled and tied the blindfold over her eyes, she was glad to see that Tristan was so excited about this.
With her sight blocked out, Serenity began to notice how hard Tristan was really breathing. He must be really nervous! She thought, flipping her hand over so that he would notice and entwine it with his.
A moment later, she felt his clammy hand touch hers and her thoughts were right, he was uncomfortable.
"Tristan?" Serenity squeezed his hand, "relax, it's just a date. We've gone on hundreds of them, I know you better than you think I do."
She heard him give a shaky sigh and his hand calmed, "thanks Serenity."
"No problem," Serenity replied.
About 20 minutes later, Tristan was helping the temporarily-blind Serenity out of his car and she grabbed a hold of his arm as they walked up the pathway to a French restaurant.
Tristan stopped just before they went in and gently untied the knot of the black cloth and lifted it from her pale green eyes.
"Wow!" Serenity exclaimed as she saw the little French attire. "It's beautiful."
(I)
"Come on, Seto! You promised to take me out to eat tonight!" Came the whiny voice of Mokuba Kaiba. He pushed on the back of Seto Kaiba's chair, which only leaned him forward a couple of inches.
"You promised!"
I promise a lot of things, kid. Kaiba thought as he continued to type on his laptop, making no notice of his younger brother. His dark chestnut bangs were sweeping over his icy blue eyes and even though it was only about eight o'clock in the night, Kaiba was already tired.
Mokuba huffed and blew a couple of black bangs out of his eyes; he still acted like a child at eighteen.
"Seto!" Mokuba was at the front of Kaiba's desk now and he pushed down the top of the laptop with his pointer finger; it shut with a click.
Kaiba leaned back and rubbed his temples, "If I play a video game with you will you leave me alone for the rest of the night?" He asked.
"No can do," Mokuba replied. "You promised to take me out weeks ago."
Kaiba sighed uneasily, "fine, but."
Mokuba stopped at his race to the door.
"Just the two of us."
"Sure, Seto."
Mokuba had this tendency to match up his twenty-five year old brother with some of his fan girls, and even once by accident, a stalker.
Kaiba turned off his computer and shut off the lights as he walked out of his office.
I can't believe Mokuba got me into this. He thought, opening the door to his bedroom.
Kaiba knew exactly where they were going to go. That little French restaurant that he loved to eat at all the time.
It would be the same old thing. Kaiba would be completing his files on his cell phone, which flipped out a mini keyboard, and listening to his brother talk about the things that happened to him in the last couple of days that Kaiba had worked late.
He also knew that the younger Kaiba would be talking about Serenity and Tristan's soon-to-be engagement. He was happy for her, but it was just something about Tristan that Kaiba didn't like. Yes, Tristan seemed innocent at times and sentimental the next, Kaiba just sensed something that wasn't right.
Oh well, it wasn't his engagement anyway…
Ever since Kaiba met her about six years ago, Serenity had been sweet to him, even when he and her brother, Joey, didn't get along too well, but now Kaiba, Joey, and Yugi had created this bond of friendship between them and Serenity was just the life force that they needed to hold them together.
Then the dating began.
She, Yugi, and Joey would usually come over for dinner or to play a game of duel monsters when they were bored and just wanted to be with each other.
It was slow at first; Tristan would come by and pick Serenity up to go out for pizza or to a movie. You know, the plain things. But, it soon was just Yugi and Joey that came over to hang out.
Kaiba soon heard himself asking "where's Selena?" using a nickname that he gave her, and Joey would answer him with a "she's out with Tristan." Serenity's visits were rare, and then, there were none at all.
Personally, Kaiba missed the sweet sound of her voice or the way her hair framed her face, but he would always remind himself of why he was not with her. She's with Tristan, he would think, just leave them alone.
Kaiba shook his head, pushed away his bangs, and snapped out of his thoughts. He just exchanged his blue trench coat with his white one and grabbed his corvette keys, turned off the lights in his room, and shut the door behind him.
Mokuba was already waiting for him.
"It took you that long to switch a coat?" He asked impatiently.
Kaiba said nothing and opened the front door and walked out.
His bangs fell over his eyes again. You have no idea, Mokuba. He thought.
(I)
"I told you it was beautiful." Tristan said as he took hold of Serenity's hand and followed a waiter that was showing them their table.
After Tristan nicely pulled out Serenity's chair so she could sit down, and then sat down himself. The waiter asked what they wanted to drink.
Tristan nodded to Serenity to go first and they just both ended up ordering water.
Once the waiter left, Tristan asked what she's been doing lately.
"Oh, not much of anything." Serenity answered. "If you call Joey making new modifications to his dueling deck new, then, well, I just told you then didn't I?"
Tristan chuckled. "I meant with your life." He said gently.
"Um," Serenity played with the napkin in her lap. "I got a new job."
"Really? Where?" He asked.
"At my house." She said sheepishly. "I paint things for the art museum."
"I always knew you paintings were special." Tristan reached across the table for her hand, which was now putting the napkin on the top.
The waiter came back and asked for the meal orders. After they ordered, Serenity excused herself to go to the restroom.
(I)
"Come on, Seto!" Mokuba whined as Kaiba slowly got out of the limousine. "Hurry up already!"
"Alright, alright already." Kaiba shut the door on the limo and it drove away. "Fine, let's go."
"Finally," Mokuba breathed and lead the way up to the door.
(I)
"Calm down, Serenity, just calm down." Serenity wiped her face clean and reapplied her make-up.
"Serenity?" Someone behind her tapped her shoulder and she turned around to meet the face of her best friend Tea.
"What are you doing here?" Serenity asked her as she put the rest of her make-up back into her purse.
"I should be asking the same thing," Tea replied. "I'm here with a co-worker of mine. We're—wait!"
Serenity gave her friend a confused look. "What, what's wrong?" She asked.
"This isn't—Oh my gosh!" Tea hugged her friend.
"What?" Serenity returned the hug, but was still a little confused.
"Has he done it yet?" Tea pulled back and looked at her with hopeful eyes.
"Oh," Serenity finally thought of the proposal. "No, not yet."
"Come on." She grabbed Serenity's arm and pulled her out of the restroom. "Get out there and let him do it already!"
She turned and started to walk away, and then she turned her head sideways and said. "Call me tomorrow and tell me every detail!"
"Um, okay…" Serenity lifted her eyebrow, shook her head and walked back over the where Tristan waited for her.
(I)
"I'll just have a water." Kaiba said as he opened his menu to ready for the next time the waiter came back.
"Yes, sir. I'll have that right out." The waiter said as he walked away. Just as soon as he was out of earshot, Mokuba started talking at once.
"Hey, did you see Serenity and Tristan on the way in?" He asked the eldest Kaiba. "Do you think he's proposed yet?"
I hope not, Kaiba thought as he reached inside his pants pocket to pull out his extendable cell phone. At once he noticed her had text message…from Serenity?
Hey u, r u there 2 talk?
"Sent at 2:14 pm. June 20th, year of 2007."
"What?" Mokuba asked when he heard mumbling from the other side of the table. "What it is?"
"Nothing Mokuba." Kaiba said as he worked his way around the keys of the mini keyboard.
Kaiba sent the message and placed his phone back into his pocket.
(I)
Bzzzt…Bzzzt…
Serenity felt the vibration of her cell phone on her ankle as her purse began to move. She slowly reached down and clasped her hand around the little silent noisemaker and lifted it from her purse and into her lap—without Tristan noticing.
Carefully, Serenity read the message:
Don't answer this, but Moku spotted u and Taylor on the way in. Sry I didn't answer earlier. Good luck with the proposal.
Serenity smiled and replied:
I'm answering neway. I'm sure if I look around u'll be there. Tristan hasn't proposed yet, so I'll talk 2 u later and I'll send u a text when he finally does it.
Serenity closed her cell phone and looked up. Tristan was taking a bite of his food before talking to her again.
"Who was that?" He asked, setting his fork down.
"You knew?" Serenity replied as she reached down to put the phone away.
"You didn't answer me when I asked a question, and I saw your arms moving."
"Oh." Serenity thought of a lie quickly. "It was Joey. He wanted me to know what time it was."
Tristan laughed and bought the lie. "Yeah, Joey still wants you to be home on time to tell him about the date before he sleeps thinking about it and punches me the next day."
Serenity smiled. "I never told him what happened after that." She laughed, "He still makes cookies for me."
They both laughed.
(I)
"Come on, Mokuba." Kaiba said as he finished paying for their meal with a credit card and left the restaurant.
He noticed that the table that Serenity and Tristan were sitting at had another happy couple in their places.
When he walked outside in the cool night air and saw Tristan open the door for Serenity, she smiled and stepped inside.
Kaiba's icy-blue eyes flashed with arrogance. He opened the door to his deep red corvette and Mokuba got in on the other side.
He waited for a minute until he saw the tail lights of Tristan's car then backed out and took the same road.
"Where are we going, Seto?" Mokuba asked and looked up at his older brother with concern. The Kaiba mansion was the other way.
Kaiba glanced at his sibling, but never answered.
(I)
Serenity took Tristan's hand after he tied the blindfold back on and backed out of the parking lot and down a road to the place where they would become closer.
"Tristan, where are we going?" Serenity asked.
"It's a surprise."
(I)
Kaiba followed Tristan's car to a park in the middle of Domino City. A reflection caught his eye and Kaiba saw the car park and Tristan leading Serenity to the lake which the full moon shined upon.
Kaiba grimaced. Told Mokuba to stay in the car and got out.
A rose garden was along the way to the lake, so Kaiba had to hide his footfalls from the two lovebirds. He cringed when he felt a twig snap, but they didn't notice.
Once out of the garden, Kaiba reached back and picked a pink rose and touched the rose to his lips. Normally he wouldn't do this, but something about the flower calmed him. After all—they were his favorite.
(I)
They sat on a bench and Serenity sighed, feeling so completely spellbound by every emotion that was running through her at the moment.
Suddenly, Tristan shifted and pulled a little black box from his pocket; then opened it.
In the box was a teardrop-shaped diamond, with two smaller circular diamonds out on either side of it on a golden band.
"Serenity," He asked, dropping to one knee and taking her hand. "Will you marry me?"
(I)
Dropping the rose he picked and grinding it with his foot, Seto Kaiba turned around and walked away from the scene. It was over; he could no longer go after Serenity's heart…
…it was sealed away with somebody else…
(I)
Ha, Ha!! Yeah, you know I'm back now!!! Leaving you with a cliffhanger!!! I'm hoping I can get the next chapter out soon, but Marching Band has started once again! I'm been working on this chapter all summer. Yeah, believe it or not. I'm really hoping that this fanfic will be as great (or greater) than my last one!
Ice