.: Deal With the Devil :.

Published: Nov : 15 : 04
Pairings: Seto x Jou
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Disclaimer: Seto and Jou are't mine, yaddah yaddah, sex and drugs are bad, yaddah yaddah. You know the gist of it. .;;

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.: Author's Note :.

The bad: For all those who are still annoyed at me for not updating High in Calcium, with deepest regret, I have to admit, it is currently on suspension until further notice if not forever, for several reasons. For one thing, I have not been doing much writing lately- I have been pretty much consumed with schoolwork and fitting in a bit of oekakiing and writing poetry on the side. My second reason is that I got rather bored with where the plot was going, so until I find a better direction to take it, I will not be working on it.

Now, onto the good part: I am going to try to get back into writing again- almost two years since I wrote my first fanfiction ever. As always, I do not write for the reviews, but I do enjoy most feedback, positive or negative. As long as you are not harsh without justification, though, I prefer serious criticism (so instead of "OMG! U suck!" I'd prefer "I didn't like Chapter 1 because the characterization of Yugi was poor" o.O;; )

Anyway, I hope people like this story more than High in Calcium, so they will bug me to update something I actually enjoy writing. ;;

(all errors held within this text are the fault of... the evil plot ninjas!!!)

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Seto Kaiba sat at the desk, his solemn eyes shaded over by his brown bangs. His deep blue eyes were intensely focused on a mess of papers spread wildly all over the desk. The boy had his laptop open, and was furiously typing away, pausing every now and then to flip through the paperwork. The papers themselves were full of endless logistics. Number after number seemed to go on endlessly, and often the youth would have to strain his eyes just to read the tiny scribbles on each sheet. From time to time he would shuffle a few papers, so as to keep them in order. The teenager's eyes were as firmly set as his determination. He continued flipping through page after page, recording things on the lap-top. Kaiba had been working at his desk for what seemed like forever. Heavy bags lined his upper cheeks, framing his eyes a dim grey. The brown-haired boy cursed, then looked from his lap-top to his papers, then back and forth again. Quite suddenly he threw the papers off the desk in annoyance; they fluttered to the ground in a mess of tangled hopes. Finally, under his breath he began to speak to himself out of frustration.

"There must be some way... yet no matter how many times I look through the statistics reports from these duels I can't seem to understand them. Any time Yugi is cornered he finds a way back. It seems impossible... how can he always have a winning hand? It doesn't even seem possible... He is a mere child- surely he can not be the master strategist he seems to be... there must be some trick. No one could have beaten Pegasus like that." The sapphire-eyed boy still shuddered in thought at that name, and the events linked around it. Pegasus- the creator of Duel Monsters, the same bastard who had kidnapped his dear brother... and who had inevitably intertwined his fate once again with the boy named Yugi and his companions.

With a slow sigh, Seto Kaiba looked back at his lap-top again.

"There is no rhyme or reason to this- how he always comes out on the top- I've heard him preach of the 'Heart of the Cards', but I can not believe that garbage. Yet, without cards, they can have no heart. Without a deck, Yugi can not win- he would be powerless. Perhaps that is the only way then... such a blow could alone shatter his confidence." A small smirk appeared on the boy's face, and he went back to his lap-top again, agonizing over every little detail. He would fight Yugi; face Yugi to take his deck! Then he would be supreme indeed.