"Out! Get out of here, you mangy cat!" a girl yelled. It was a rainy day in here adoptive hometown, Naincro, the city next to Domino.
" Cori, I know that you hate cats, but isn't this taking a little too far?" said her friend as she walked to the opened door.
" No, its Not! They are the must dumb, idiotic, stupid….." she ram ambled off all of the bad things that she thought cats were.
" That's Enough!" her friend yelled suddenly . "Talking bad about cats is one thing, but putting a young kitten out in the rain? I thought you were better than that, Cori." Cori had stopped talking and was staring at her friend with a blank expression on her face. When she did speak her voice was low and shaky.
"I-I th-thought that y-y-ou were my friend. I thought you understood why I hate cats."
Her friend let her mouth hang open while she thought about what Cori had said. " Cori! You have taken this beyond hate. This is animal cruelty!" her friend yelled.
"WHAT!" now Cori was yelling too. "I thought that you were my friend! I guess that I thought wrong!"
" I guess you did!" her friend yelled before she could stop herself. She went wide-eyed as she realized what she had just said. Her mouth hung open and she was shaking. Cori was also shaking . Her head was hung low and her shoulders were shaking. When she lifted her head tears were streaming down her face.
" If I'm not your friend then I guess that I am not welcome here." and with that she ran out the door and didn't look back, where her friend was staring opened mouthed out into the rain.
(In a alleyway)
"Hehehe. Well it looks like the girl that kicked me into this rain is now in it herself. That girl needs to learn a lesson, one way or another." Out of the shadows of the alley way, stepped the cat, with a wicked look on his face.
(In a forest)
Cori didn't stop running until she was out of Naincro. When she realized that she was in a forest she slowed to a walk. She looked around for a little while and realized that she recognized the forest. She knew where she was. " No fricken way!" she yelled as she ran down the path. Soon she came to a building with a high fence around it. It had ivy growing up its walls and it looked abandoned. She looked around and sighed. " I spent 4 years of my life trying to get out of here and here I am, right back where I started. The Blue Moon Orphanage . This brings back a lot of memories." She walked over to the partially open gate. She stared inside and saw something looking back at her. It was a pair of children's eyes. She jumped a little and moved inside the gate to get a better look. There was a child in there. It ran back into the building but she didn't make any move to stop it. She just stood there, lost in thought.
/Flash Back/
We find ourselves back at the orphanage. It isn't as run down as it is when we first saw it. There are 3 children standing just inside the gate. They had just been dropped of there.
"S-Seto?" the youngest boy quietly said.
"Yeah Mokie?" the oldest boy answered.
" W-What are w-we gonna do wi-without mom and dad t-t-to take care o-of us?" The older girl and oldest boy just looked at him. The hadn't thought that he understood what was happening. He was smarter than he looked.
" Don't worry kiddo" came a quick answer from the girl. " If we stick together, there is nothing that we can't do."
/End FB/
" Nothing that we can't do huh? That just wrong. We said that we would stick together but you left me here. Why Seto, Why?" the girl quietly said as she remembered that she had come in there to find the kid. She walked up to the building and pushed the door open. As she walked down the hall more and more memories came back to her. Some good and some not so good. Soon she came to a partially open door. She pushed it open and gasped. This was the room where she had last seen her brothers as she knew them.
/Flash Back
"I won. You now have to take Cori, Mokuba, and me home with you." said Seto. He had just beaten Gozaburo at his own game and was making he keep his end of the bargain.
"Just bring them over here so I can get this over with." an angry Gozaburo Kaiba spat out.
"Cori, Mokuba, come over here." Seto said while standing to join them. They came over and Gozaburo looked them over. His eyes stopped on Cori and stayed there.
" A…girl?" he said in a quiet voice.
"Sir?" Cori asked. " Are you alright?"
"I refuse to take in a girl. If taking in two boys wasn't already bad enough, and it is, I will not take a girl." and with that he stood at started to walk out the door. " If you boys want this bargain to work you need to come." The boy looked at Cori with startled looks on there faces. Seto went to Cori and whispered something in her ear. After that he quickly walked down the hall with Mokuba in tow. Cori tried to call out after them but she couldn't speak. She just stood there with wide eyes and an open mouth.
End Flash Back/
"That was the day that my world fell apart." she muttered.
"Hehehe. Having a nice trip down memory lane?" a voice suddenly said, startling the poor girl. She quickly spun around, trying to find the source of the voice.
"Who's there? Show yourself!" she yelled.
" Now, now, my dear, no need to yell. I'm standing right in front of you." said the voice from behind her. She spun around and what she saw made her eyes widen a bit. There, standing in front of her was a child.
"A kid? What are you doing in here?"
"I am no child, my dear. I am known as the trickster or the tester. But you know me as this." and with that he transformed into a black cat. Cori had gone from mad to afraid.
"Wh-what d-d-do y-you w-w-want wi-with m-me?"
"My dear, I am only here to teach you and your older brother a lesson."
"My Brother?"
"Yes, your brother, Seto Kaiba." While she was distracted he ran up to her and bit her on the leg.
"Hey! Why did you……." was all she got out before she fainted.
" I hope that you learn your lesson, My dear. Or else you won't want to deal with the results." and with that he vanished. And in the place where Cori had been laying, she was gone. In her place was a small white kitten, with a black spot, splattered across its face.