This will be a two part story. I got the idea for it a few weeks ago after hearing the song Money Honey by state of Shock and thought it was perfect for Seto and Serenity.

If I had more money honey
Would you love me, love me, love me
If I wasn't just somebody like me, like me

It's not often I get caught up in nostalgia; I'm far too busy to waste time doing something as pointless as reminiscing. But sometimes I remember, I remember a girl who loved the first snowfall.

I watch the flakes, the soft fluffy ones you always see on tv but rarely in life, float outside my window and I feel myself start to get lost in a memory.

Her name had been forgotten years ago, but I still remember her warm auburn hair and soft hazel eyes. Her parents had just gotten divorced and she and her mother had moved in next door.

She was sitting alone on the swings at the park across the street, I went over to her and asked if she wanted a push. While I pushed her she confessed that her brother was still living with their father and she missed him.

We formed a friendship over the following weeks and were inseparable despite her being two years younger than I was.

I held her tightly as she cried when we realized she couldn't read a sign from across the street as I could. I tried to comfort her, tell her it was okay and she'd just need glasses. She clutched my shirt and sobbed into my shoulder, she was scared because the very same thing had happened to her grandmother before she had gone blind.

I know now that she likely had glaucoma. We had overheard our parents talk about how she may need an operation and that it cost a lot of money.

"Don't cry," I begged her as we shivered in the snow. She looked up at me and her eyelashes glittered with tiny beads of ice. "Someday I'll be rich and I'll pay for you to have that operation, okay?"

"You promise, Ryuji?"

"I promise. You'll see, I'll make lots and lots of money and we'll fix your eyes and get married and live happily ever after."

Then both our worlds fell down and we lost each other. My parents died and Mokuba and I were sent to live in that god awful orphanage. I conned Gozaburo into adopting us and within a few years was one of the richest people in the world.

I tried to find that girl so I could make good on my promise, but I never saw her again.

So far from what we wanted and I have the money now, but not the girl. I look at the small framed photo on the mantel, one of the few things I still had from before I was a Kaiba.

"It's too late to make you mine," I say to the air and I wonder where she is.

I chose 'Ryuji' as Seto's family name before he was adopted, it means 'Dragon Man'.