MnS: Hi hi!! ^_^! I'm back with a new fic!

KnH: -_-' Great……you removed your Lord of the Rings fic because you only got 4 reviews on it….-_-'

MnS: Well……Yeah……But…This one will be better!! Seto? Disclaimer!

Seto: -_-' Megami no Shi doesn't own Yu-gi-oh or any of the affiliated people, places, or things. She owns the original character by the name of Sasha Mave Kaiba.

MnS: Lemme give you a history on the first and middle names.

KnH: Sasha means 'protector of mankind' and 'kind, soft one'.

MnS: -_-' And Mave means 'mirth' or 'happiness'.

Seto: Right. -_-'

KnH: Well, start writing already!

MnS: ^_^ Okay! ^_^

Chapter 1: Sasha Mave Kaiba

Seto sat in the room he shared with his brother and two other boys, on top of his meticulously neat and folded sheets, laying rigid and staring at the ceiling. He was bored, as usual; he had completed every puzzle in the orphanage over six times each, beaten everyone who had challenged him to a duel monsters duel, and read three books. Now, he was simply staring at the ceiling. It was about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and Mokuba was playing with one of the boys from another room out on the playground in the back. Mokuba. The brunette's thoughts turned to the only one that he cared about in the world. He would do anything for the black-haired boy, who didn't ask for much more than his companionship and occasionally a game of chess. Sometimes the five year old would get his older brother (whom he called "Set-chan") to read him books before bed, like the previous night when the brunette had started to read the little one Alice in Wonderland, while Mokuba had laid his head on Seto's chest and snuggled with his older brother, in which position he had fallen asleep. It would all have been kawaii to any bystander. Getting lost in thoughts that a ten year old really shouldn't have, such as a few equations he had picked up from the math textbook he had read, and the encyclopedia he had finished the day previous, he didn't notice the crabby old woman who ran the orphanage enter the room. He was slapped out of his revive as she cleared her throat rather loudly and said,

"Seto, someone is here to see you." Icy blue eyes glared up as usual, and the mean blonde woman left the room. There was someone standing in the shadows near the door, and he couldn't quite see them clearly; the only dim light in the room came from the lamp on the table next to his bed. Then, a gentle, silver toned voice came.

"May I enter please?" Confused just slightly, Seto nodded, and the shadow moved forward. He had never been asked permission for anyone to do anything before; usually, the ones who wanted to adopt him simply came into the room and invaded his privacy without so much as a question. He kind of liked the change.

As the person stepped forward, he saw that it was a female, about 23 or 24. She had long chestnut colored hair that curled gently and landed in her mid back. It was a conservative style that didn't seem to take more than brushing it and perhaps gelling it. He kind of favored this girl already; she only seemed to do the essential things; not the meaningless primping that most women her age would. Her face was clean and free of make up, glistening amber colored eyes that were more so gold than tan smiled at him as much as her gently sloping lips. She had slightly high cheekbones that made her seem harmless and kind, rather than haughty and callous. She wore a white turtleneck, even in the heat of August, and it fell low on her hips in a very modest, and un-flashy way. She wore a pleated pale blue skirt that fell, again modestly past her knees, and flat white sandals that were comfortable looking and not dressy at all. She was definitely a casual person. On her left hand sat a gold ring that held a delicate sapphire stone in an emerald cut in it, flanked by two square cut diamonds. It was a very modest, very again, conservative wedding ring. The only other jewelry she wore was a simple necklace that fell to about collar bone level. It was a thin gold chain that held a small sapphire heart as a charm, though the chain was so thin that the light had to catch it before he could tell what held the centimeter and a half by centimeter size chain. [1]

Again, her voice came, but as she spoke, she kept her head down, in a silent submission, as if she were taking a test that she thought she had no hope of passing.

"Konichiwa. I am Sasha Mave Kaiba." Head still inclined, Seto remembered idly that the sapphire symbolized a calm submission. He looked at her with the normally icy gaze he regarded anyone who came to adopt him and asked quietly,

"Why do you incline your head? Why don't you look at me?" Gold eyes slowly came up, but looked at his shoulder, not Seto's eyes as her gentle voice came a third time.

"I do not wish to overstep my bounds, as I am not quite sure where they lay at the moment." She certainly was different than anyone else who had come; whereas they had bombarded him with questions, trying to outsmart him, she seemed to be waiting for him to ask questions of her.

"You can come over here if you want." he said after a second. He wasn't too fond of her over-amount of submission; it kind of frightened him. But, he was glad for the change of pace that was taking place; he did get sick of answering questions whenever he had the possibility of removing Mokuba from this god-awful place. Hesitantly, as if she were afraid, she came closer to the brunette and stood at the foot of the bed, head returned to its inclined position and hands clasped behind her back, though he could still tell that she was smiling. Getting slightly irritated, he said,

"You can look me in the eyes you know." Her eyes met his slowly, and he could tell that she was pleased at this command. She seemed to be one to do things only if told. Seto moved further up, sitting up and in the top right corner of the double bed where the wall also made a corner. Then, he exasperatedly motioned for her to sit also, which she did, and began to incline her head in submission again as she faced him, toeing off her sandals as she moved onto the neat blankets. She seemed to remember belatedly that she was allowed to look at him, and so, lifted her head quickly, making her hair bounce into her face. In which case, she blew a stream of air at it from her mouth, pushing it effectively out of her line of vision. Setting her hands on her knees, as she was sitting in a half lotus, she said gently,

"So, what would you like to talk about?" At this, Seto blinked. That was not a question that he had been expecting.

"Excuse me?" he must had heard her wrong. No one ever wanted to know what was on his mind except his brother. She blinked at him and for a second looked very comical before she said,

"Well, I want to talk to you, and rather than I pick the topic, I thought you might like to decide what we talk about." Seto blinked. She wanted to talk to him? This was something new. Faintly, he registered himself nodding, and then he chose a topic that he had read in a book called The Universe in a Nutshell [2] just a few hours ago.

"What do you think about Even Horizons? I was reading about them earlier, and if you know about them, would you give me your input?" He was extremely surprised when her look turned to a seriously conversational one, though her eyes still smiled and she said,

"Well, really, the idea of Event Horizons on black holes was created in Einstein's theory, E=Mc² , but there is substantial evidence that there could be another dimension in it, or at least, a portal to one. But, I read about them a while ago, and so, I could be mistaken, but I think that's correct, isn't it?" She genuinely seemed to want his contribution to the conversation, and she had answered as casually as if he had simply asked for her opinion on the weather. Blinking, he seemed to consider this as their first conversation of many began……

TBC……

MnS: So, what did you think??

KnH: It was alright.

Seto: ::scowls:: Why in the hell was I so……talkative?

MnS: Remember, this is before you met Gozobaru Kaiba, so you aren't an aloof, detached, unconcerned jerk to everyone yet.

Seto: Oh. HEY!!!

MnS: ^^;; Uh…he…he…he…RUN!!! ::speeds off::

Seto: ::gives chase, screaming obscenities and unpleasant consequences::

KnH: -_-' R'n'R before the authoress ends up brutally maimed to the point of indecipherability……-_-'

Footnotes:

[1] - Seto takes everything apart and analyzes it, and then puts it together in the whole. I tried to make him sound like a genius………I failed miserably, didn't I? ;_;

[2] - The Universe in a Nutshell is a confusing and evil book that my Science teacher couldn't even finish reading, and he said he had been on it for weeks! ^_^