Miko's POV
It has been, what seems like, many years since I have been home. It's not like I've been traveling or anything. Well, I did travel, in a way, but even today I don't know how.
About six years back, I woke up on a deserted street on the sidewalk. Well, deserted except for the home of the Kaiba family. All I had with me were the clothes on my back, consisting of a denim jacket, jeans, white sneakers, and a blue tank top, a hair band, and my Duel Monsters-themed locket. Other than that, I had nothing.
Turning to see the Kaiba's name on a pillar, I stood back shocked. Realizing that I had nowhere to go, I somehow was able to squeeze through the fence (after scraping up my arms and legs) and sit on the ground where a whole ton of windows could see me. I sat there waiting for the one person who could help me. Mokuba Kaiba.
It didn't take long until he saw me. While he was rushing downstairs, I stood up and tried to make myself presentable, since I got a bit dirty from trying to squeeze through the fence. Putting my hair up into a ponytail, I waited as Mokuba came by himself. He was wearing pajamas and was rubbing his eye.
"Um. Hi. What are you doing here?" After thinking of what to say during the few minutes it took for Mokuba to come downstairs, I replied.
"I want to be adopted. It's been so long since I've had any family. My parents died in a car crash and my older brother died not long after. So, I ran away from the orphanage so I could find my own family. I heard that there were some boys living nearby, so I ran over here." Bending down (I was 13), I could see the tears in his eyes. I didn't mean to guilt Mokuba into letting me stay, but I really had nowhere to go.
A clap of thunder came out of nowhere and it started raining. Mokuba quickly grabbed my hand and we ran inside the house, where he took me into some kind of living room. It was large with a light shade of blue on the walls, an expensive rug on the floor, a glass table, and a single couch facing the brick fireplace.
"Wait here." He then ran off somewhere, leaving me to warm up by the fire. It was sometime around midnight, according to the clock on top of the fireplace, and I started closing my eyes. I moved a bit back on the couch, thinking that Mokuba would take a while and I might as well get some rest.
Third POV
Little did I know that while I was asleep, Mokuba came back with some blankets. He saw me, and started to yawn, realizing how tired he was. After putting a blanket on me, he sat next to me, put a blanket on him, and fell asleep.
Seto later came by, wondering why Mokuba hadn't sneaked up to his room so they could play. He was also wearing pajamas, and was rubbing his messy head. After looking around, Seto finally found Mokuba, sleeping with some girl he didn't know. Mokuba's head was on the girl's shoulder and her head was on top of Mokuba's. They were both wet and the girl looked a bit dirty with many bleeding cuts on her arms and legs. He walked over and sat on the table in front of the couch. Taking a cell phone out from his pocket, Seto called a doctor and told the maids to set up a room. Why he did it, no one knows.
Miko's POV:
Sunlight shone on my eyes as I opened them and sat up. I wasn't in the living room I had fallen asleep in. The room I was in was a bedroom, with a large canopy bed, two dressers with an attached mirror on one, a desk, and a chair. It also had its own bathroom. As I looked around, I noticed that someone was sleeping by my side, head on his arms. The person opened his eyes and started to stretch. It was then that I realized that it was Kaiba. Or should I say Seto?
"Good. You're awake." He got up out of the chair he fell asleep in.
"My step-father has promised to adopt you."
"What?" It worked? My plan worked?
"As long as you play with Mokuba and me." I didn't take long to react.
"I will, I promise. And, thank you, but, um, well, who are you?"
"I'm Seto. You fell asleep next to Mokuba last night."
"Oh. Again, thank you very much." I got out of bed and noticed that I wasn't wearing the clothes that I woke up in last night. I was wearing a white nightgown, and my clothes were folded with my necklace on top on one of the dressers. My hair was braided, unlike the sloppy ponytail I had left it in, and my arms and legs were bandaged up.
"You're welcome." He then gave me a hug, which caught me off guard at first, and I hugged him back while truly feeling at home.
"What's your name?" I wanted to start fresh, so I made up a name.
"Miko. Miko Kaiba." We both smiled and fell onto the bed laughing.
I spent a year studying with Mokuba and Seto under Gozaburo's teaching. Even though I was the oldest, Seto was going to be the heir to the company (since I was just a "little girl"), but I still studied hard. Mokuba and Seto taught me how to play Duel Monsters (since I loved Duel Monsters but never learned how to play) and we played together in our free time.
Everyday I would think about my family, and sometimes Seto or Mokuba (mostly Seto) would come into my bed with me when I was crying.
Seto later gained control of Kaiba Corp. and kicked Gozaburo out. Mokuba and I became the vice presidents, though I did most of the work, and it was pretty fun being with Seto all the time. We started creating our Duel Monsters arenas, and recently started on a new project, Duel Disks. The programming was hard at first, but I got a lot of help from Seto. Though most of the time he was working on the video game.
I've gotten really close with my brothers, and I was really happy for Seto when he became the top-ranked Duel Monsters champ, really I was, but I knew that it was only the beginning, before the story truly began.
I was thinking about the Duel Disks while sitting in class. Twirling my pencil around, I watched as Seto pretended to read a book when the bell rang. I packed up my books and grabbed my bag, letting Seto get out of the classroom first. My long brown hair flew behind me as I ran to change my shoes. By the time I got outside, Mokuba and Seto were waiting for me by the company cars.
"Hey little bros! What's up?"
"Hey Miko! How was school?" Pulling Mokuba into a hug, I gave him a squeeze.
"Boring. As usual. Anyways, how about you guys?"
"It was good. I don't have any homework, so we can play Duel Monsters tonight." We both turned towards Seto, who was looking off in some other direction.
"Come on, Seto. Answer the question. Please?" He finally turned towards me and smiled a bit. And by a bit, I mean like the smile you give someone when you're plotting.
"You act like a two year old." I stuck out my tongue and waved my finger in front of him.
"That's not very nice." I kissed him on the cheek and he wiped it off with his sleeve.
"You're only a year older than me." He sighed, realizing that nothing would come out of fighting with me.
"I might have finally found what I've been looking for." I pretended to act surprised. I was in the same room when Yugi told his friends about his grandpa's "super rare card".
"*Gasp!* Really! Well good for you Seto! Good for you! Where is it?"
"If I told you, you'd follow me there." I sighed.
"You know me too well." I grabbed Mokuba's hand.
"Come on Mokuba. Let's go home."
"Ok! Bye Seto!" Mokuba and I started walking towards the other car when I turned around.
"See ya bro. And good luck." Seto got in the car next to me and rolled the window down.
"I don't need luck." After rolling up the window, the car took Seto away to his destiny. The story would soon begin.
"Hey Mokuba? Do you mind if I change before we go to Headquarters? I hate being in this short skirt."
"Sure!" Mokuba got out his deck from his pocket and started looking at his cards while I stuck my head out the window. The breeze felt really nice, like everything would be alright. I knew it wouldn't, at least at first.
We finally reached the house, where I ran up to my bedroom (which hadn't changed much) and changed into a pair of tight black jeans, black pointed boots, a blue strapless tank-top that showed my belly, a belt that slanted to my right and held my deck, and a black band on my left arm with KC on it. As you can see, Seto really influenced my fashion style.
Putting my Duel Monsters necklace back on and sitting on the side of my canopy bed, I looked at the pictures on the inside.
On one side was my new family, Seto and Mokuba. Mokuba and I dragged Seto into a photo booth not long after I came and we took some pictures. I put in the picture that had all of us smiling. Seto hasn't been doing much of that lately.
On the other side was my old family. My two older sisters and my parents were in casual clothes, while I was wearing a new floral Hawaiian dress. It was the seventh night of Hanukkah, and my birthday. I was only 8 years old, and my parents surprised me with a cake while we were on vacation. One of the singers at the restaurant sang to me as I blew out the candles. The picture was taken after I fell asleep at the table. Everyone gathered around me and took the picture. I missed them so much.
"Miko! What's taking so long?" I looked at the time. It was almost sundown! Rushing out the room, I ran outside with Mokuba, who was waiting outside my bedroom, and told the driver to step on it. We arrived at Kaiba Corp. Headquarters just in time to watch Yugi change his appearance into Yami.
I was really excited. I mean, I was watching the battle that everyone would be talking about the next day. But still. I couldn't believe that I would get a front row seat of one of the worst moments of my brother's life.
I watched as Yugi faced against Seto, and assembled Exodia. I felt sorry for Seto when he lost, he was my brother after all, but I knew that Yugi had to beat him. During the match, I didn't know who to root for.
I watched as Joey congratulated Yugi for winning. I ran over to my brother's side with Mokuba, who had been watching the match with me, and helped our brother to his feet. I watched as Yugi and Joey ran to go see his grandpa.
Well, I guess I'm now a part of the story.
A/N: Hey people! Finally got this out! I wanted to make a few chapters before posting any. Anyway, I hope you enjoy!
-Shinju
