Fortune's Fool
Hi, so I know that I'm very good at starting stories but not at finishing them. My problem is that I get so many ideas for one story that I start it, then I forget them and have terrible writer's block. Hopefully that won't happen with this one.
We all know that Kaiba doesn't believe in past lives and I've always wondered how he would react to meeting Kisara again, there are a few good stories along those lines so I decided to do my own with a few twists.
I decided to change what happened in Ancient Egypt slightly so that later on in this story makes sense, you'll find out those changes in this chapter and any others will be introduced later. I'm also changing how old Mai is, again because I feel that it's a little weird that a 20-something woman is the love interest for a 16 year old lad. Please review, even if you don't like this story. I'm happy to receive any type of comment.
Just so you know, I'm getting rid of Tea for this fic. Those who've read some of my others will know that I really HATE her. Instead of changing her character like I have done in others I'm just writing her out of it. The back story is that she's at a Dance Academy in Paris so Yugi and co haven't heard from her in a while because she's so busy.
By the way, there will be a lot of Welsh in this as I think it's a really beautiful language but as I don't speak much myself, if you can speak it and spot any mistakes then please let me know and let me know the correct way I should put it so I can make the correction.
Anything you recognise is not mine, including the idea I stole/borrowed from 'The Mummy'.
Name: Kisara Gwenhwyfar Ddriag
Age: 18
Height: 5'7"
Hair colour: Black, turns to electric blue while she's duelling or singing.
Eye colour: Blue
Nationality: ¾ Welsh, ¼ Japanese
Chapter 1
"Done to death by slanderous tongue
Was the Hero that here lies" Much Ado About Nothing, Act V, Scene iii, lines 3-4 by William Shakespeare
Ancient Egypt…
"Kisara! Stay behind me!" Seth growled, pulling his wife behind him to shield her and their unborn child from the mob that was blocking their escape.
"But Seth! I can help." Kisara said desperately. Seth paused slightly.
"If I transfer my Ka to you…" She continued.
"NO! It's too dangerous, I'm not going to risk you and our child like that!" Seth snapped. He glared at the mob facing them, at their head was his own father, Akhenaden.
'You cannot win this one Seth, just give the girl up and you will live.' His father's voice sounded in his head. Knowing that his father was communicating with him telepathically, Seth snarled in Akhenaden's direction.
'I will never give her up! You will never get Kisara's Ka!' He replied. His father's face twisted with rage.
"High Priest Seth, stand aside and let us destroy the witch!" Akhenaden said.
"No! While there is breath in my body you will not touch her!" Seth growled.
"Then you die too." Akhenaden smirked, drawing back his arm to throw his spear.
Suddenly a voice shouted and caused everyone to freeze.
"STOP!" Riding up in his golden chariot came the Pharaoh Atem. He placed his chariot in front of Seth and Kisara before turning to address the mob.
"Why are you persecuting two high-ranking members of my court?" He demanded rage obvious in his eyes. When no one answered him, he had one of his guards bring forth one of the mob.
"Priest Akhenaden told us that the woman behind the High Priest is a witch and that to save Egypt we must destroy her." The cringing man stuttered.
"That is ridiculous! Her colouring may be different to ours but that is because of her lineage. Kisara is no witch but rather, a Celtic Princess. More than that, she is the keeper of the Millennium Pendant." Atem snorted. He called for the guards to disperse the crowd before turning to Seth and Kisara.
"I apologise that it took so long for me to reach here, but someone managed to conceal what was happening from me." He said smiling at them.
"Don't worry about it, you got here in time anyway. Thank you for saving us." Kisara smiled. Seth helped her up into the chariot before making to get up himself. As he did a spear came flying in his direction out of nowhere, piercing his lower abdomen. He looked down at the spear before looking into Kisara's shocked eyes. He swayed for a moment and then fell to the ground.
"SETH!" Kisara screamed as she rushed to his side. She knelt by his side and clasped his hands with hers.
"Kisara, take care of yourself. Remember, I love you." He whispered, tears in his eyes. He closed his eyes and breathed his last. Tears filled Kisara's eyes as she lay her head on his chest and sobbed as if her heart was breaking, which it was. Atem placed his hand on her shoulder.
"Kisara, I'm so sorry." He said softly. He then turned to his guards.
"Find who did this, now!" He shouted. The guards nodded and then rushed off to fulfil his orders. Kisara stood, tears streaking her face.
"Atem, could you do something for me?" She asked, her voice shaking slightly as she turned to face Atem.
"Anything." He nodded, noticing just how fragile she looked.
"Find who did this. Then give me 5 minutes alone with them." She snarled, rage almost overwhelming her sadness.
"I can agree to the first request but not the second. Seth will kill me when I get to the afterlife if I allow you to be anywhere near his killer. Please, ask me for anything else." Atem sighed, he knew how she felt, if he had the chance to be alone with his cousin's killer for 5 minuets then he would gladly take it to punish them personally for their crime.
Kisara thought for a minute before speaking again.
"If you will not allow me to punish my husband's killer then would you object to a monument to Seth's memory being built in this very spot?" She said softly, tears flowing once more as thoughts of revenge were pushed out of her mind.
"That would be a wonderful idea Kisara." Atem nodded. At that moment The guards came running up dragging Akhenaden with them.
"Pharaoh, Priest Akhenaden is the one who killed High Priest Seth!" The captain said.
"Take him away, I sentence him to suffer the Hom Dai." Atem said looked at his uncle coldly. Gasps followed his words, the Hom Dai had never been performed during Atem's reign before and indeed, hadn't been performed in over 300 years. Atem turned back to Kisara.
"Don't worry, none of us will ever forget Seth." He said gently as she wept.
6,000 years later, Japan
Seto Kaiba glanced around the classroom at the other students, most of them were messing around and acting like a load of chimps. Ever since Domino High had decided to scrap the uniform, the behaviour of the students had deteriorated slightly. It was Literature, the last period on a Friday and everyone was looking forward to the weekend, well almost everyone. Seto Kaiba hated the weekend, his employees always wanted the time off and he always ended up closing Kaiba Corp for either Saturday or Sunday to keep them happy. As Kaiba scowled at this thought Yugi Moto and his friends walked in the door. The group was the same as any other year, Joey Wheeler, Mai Valentine, Duke Devlin, Ryou Bakura and Tristan Taylor, the only differences were that one of the group wasn't there, Tea Gardiner was studying ballet at a prominent dance academy in Paris, and there were two new people: Kisara Ddriag and her twin brother, Bryn. Kaiba hated Kisara, she was the complete opposite of him and irritated him for fun. Unfortunately for him the 'Geek Squad' as he called them sat near him so he had to hear their entire conversation.
"So Kisa, are we going out this weekend?" Mai asked as they sat down.
"Sure! Sounds good, there's that new club in town we could try." Kisara grinned.
"Yeah but let's not have a repeat of last Saturday ok?" Bryn said rolling his eyes.
"I wasn't that smashed." Kisara argued.
"We found you in a bush." Bryn pointed out.
"Yeah…but that's how you know it was a good night." Kisara ginned, sticking her tongue out at her brother. Bryn just looked at her.
"Fine, if it will make you happy I'll cut back on alcohol this weekend." She sighed eventually.
"Thanks, you know it's not doing your liver any good and you don't want to end up like Grandma." He said.
"Look Bryn, I'm 18, I'm just having a little fun." Kisara sighed again.
"I know Kisa, but you do need to remember that you have responsibilities too." Bryn smiled.
"Well sometimes I just want to get away from those damn 'responsibilities'." Kisara growled before pulling a thick book out of her bag. The cover was of faded green leather with gold lettering stamped on it. From his seat, Kaiba could see the words 'Les Misérables, par Victor Hugo'. From what he could tell, the novel itself was actually in French. Unfortunately for Kisara, the Literature teacher swept into the room at that moment.
"Sorry I'm late everyone. Now, let's get started. This term I want you to write an essay comparing and contrasting at least two pieces of literature. You also must come up with the essay question that you are write your essay from. You can have this lesson to decide you topic and pieces of literature." The teacher said before sitting at his desk and pulling out some pieces of homework to mark. While most of the class groaned Kaiba smirked to himself, he knew exactly what he was going to write about. He got to work straight away, writing his question and planning his essay, once he'd finished that he took a short break and looked around the room. Everyone was sat with their heads bent over their desks, anguish and confusion written across their features, well, everyone except Kisara. She had 2 books out on her desk which she'd occasionally flip through before settling on a page and writing something from them. Kaiba's eyes drifted to the small stack of paper piled up next to the sheet on which she was writing furiously. She finished the first side and flipped it before continuing to write at a fast pace. It didn't take long for her to finish that side too and she added it to the stack. She picked up the stack of papers and quickly began to scan through them. This took her several minutes and, once she'd finished, she raised her hand. Kaiba noticed that as she did so, a black leather bracelet with a small silver Millennium Eye hanging from it slid slightly down her arm.
"Yes, Miss Ddriag?" The teacher sighed wearily.
"Sir, would you be able to take a look at this essay I've written and see if it meets you're satisfaction?" She asked confidently. Her question caused everyone to raise their heads and look at her. The teacher was just staring at her with his mouth open. Mutely he nodded. Kisara stood up and walked up to the desk before depositing the papers on his desk. She then returned to her seat and waited as the teacher read through her essay. He looked up at her once he'd finished.
"Miss Ddriag, how long did this take you to write?" He asked, obviously slightly stunned.
"Umm…about 38 minutes." She replied, looking at her silver watch.
"So you devised a question, planned an essay and wrote it in 38 minutes?" The teacher asked sceptically.
"Yes sir, at my last school we had a similar assignment presented to us just before I moved so I used the question I was going to use for that. The planning didn't take long and I'm a fast writer." She replied, not looking concerned at the teacher's scepticism.
"And I'm supposed to believe that you wrote an entire essay in less than half the lesson on you own?"The teacher glared at her for several minutes, almost as if he was trying to get her to admit to cheating. But again, Kisara was unfazed.
"Unfortunately sir, you may choose to not believe me even though I only speak the truth." She said. The teacher grunted before marking her essay. Just before the end of the lesson he looked up.
"Miss Ddriag?" He asked, causing Kisara to look up from her book once more.
"Yes sir?" She answered.
"Would you please remain behind after class for a few minutes to discuss your grade with me?" He asked. Kisara nodded and returned to her book. Once the class had been dismissed Kisara put her things in her bag and waited behind while everyone else filed out. Yugi and the others waited outside anxiously, feeling worried about their friend. Kaiba, who was incredibly curious about what was going on, hid around the corner from them, under the pretence of going through his locker and looking for something. A few moments Kisara stepped out of the Literature room and thanked the teacher.
"So, why did he ask you to stay back?" Mai asked worriedly. The group started to slowly walk towards Kaiba, still pretending to look through his locker.
"Well, he told me that he felt that I shouldn't be in his class anymore…" Kisara started. At this Joey exploded.
"Dat bastard! Why shouldn' ya be in his class?" He shouted.
"JOEY!" Kisara yelled, cutting him off mid-rant. He looked at her.
"If you'd let me finish you'll understand why." She scowled. Joey and the rest (including Kaiba even though they didn't realise it at the time) waited patiently for her to finish her story.
"He only said that because he feels that I'm working at a level that is far too advanced for this level of Literature." She paused but the others just looked at her silently.
"He's going to recommend to an old friend of his who's a university lecturer that I start to do a Literature degree early." Once she'd finished they started congratulating her. Kaiba smirked to himself, this meant that she wouldn't be in Literature anymore to annoy him. He did feel a bit irritated though that she was being pushed ahead while he continued to have to study the High School curriculum.
"That's great Kisa! I always knew that you were too smart for that class!" Yugi grinned.
"Diolch, fy nghefnder i." She grinned back.
"Croeso Kisa." Yugi replied.
"Huh?" Tristan looked confused as did the others.
"Kisa and Yugi were speaking Welsh, what Kisa said was 'Thanks, my cousin.' and Yugi said 'You're welcome Kisa.' I can see why you would be confused if you'd not heard it before." Bryn said, laughing. Kisara had got a fit of the giggles at the others' confused faces and they only got worse when Bryn ended up explaining about her and Yugi speaking Welsh.
"Ach fel 'n ddigrif! 'r dremiau acha 'ch chloriau!" Kisara giggled, setting Yugi and Bryn off laughing.
"No fair Kisa, we can't understand you." Ryou grumbled.
"Hey! I have an idea! Kisa, could you teach me some Welsh?" Joey asked.
"Sure, why not. Why don't you guys come over and I'll teach you some at my place." Kisara said, once she'd finished laughing. The others nodded in agreement and they all wondered off, none of them noticing that Kaiba had even been stood there.
It was later that Kaiba realised that something was off. He'd found that there was something familiar about Kisara's voice when she spoke Welsh even though he'd never heard her speak it before. However, he didn't dwell on it. He was Seto Kaiba! And no one was going to distract him. Especially not some bint who wore a short green plaid skirt, a black corset, fishnet stockings and green high-heels to school that spoke Welsh! He eventually finished his work for Kaiba Corp and then drove himself home in his dark blue Bugatti Veyron. Not many people knew that the Blue Eyes White Dragon wasn't is only obsession, in fact only is brother really knew just how much of a petrol-head Kaiba was. Although he used limos a lot of the time, he much preferred to drive himself. It didn't take him long to get home and, as soon as he'd parked his car in the garage, e went upstairs to try and get some sleep.
As was his routine, he tried to clear his mind to sleep but no matter what he tried Kisara kept popping into his head. Especially her in her trademark short green plaid skirt that showed of a great deal of her pale legs. Frustrated Kaiba opened his eyes only to find he was still at Kaiba Corp.
"I must have fallen asleep at my desk again." He muttered. He looked at the screen only to find that his work was only half done. He immediately set to work finishing it, swearing under his breath as he did. After a few moments he heard the door open and someone in a pair of high heels walking towards him with the tell-tale click-click. Kaiba simply ignored the intruder, hoping that they would go away. However they didn't, instead they grasped the back of his chair and turned it around.
Before Kaiba could protest the woman pressed their lips firmly to his. At first he was simply too shocked to do anything but as she moved her hands to bury themselves in his hair and started to deepen the kiss he reacted passionately. He brought his arms up to encircle her and he pulled her into his lap, crushing her to his body. Their tongues started to battle for dominance while he ran his hands down her back and across her hips. He kept his right hand on her hip while he move his other to caress her left breast, causing her to shudder and moan slightly in pleasure. By this time he was simply going by instinct, as was she. She moved her hands from their places on his head and pulled the bottom of his shirt out before slipping her hands under it. He moved his lips and began to kiss her neck, causing her to gasp and moan in pleasure which in turn caused him to smirk against her silky smooth skin. He slowly pulled her skirt up while, at the same time she moved her hands and undid his belt and trousers, easing the pressure on his straining erection. She gently pulled his manhood out of his boxers and guided it towards her dripping core as he moved her underwear out of the way. With one thrust he had sheathed himself deep within her, causing him to groan and her to scream in pleasure. She stilled their movements and pulled back slightly to gaze at him. To his surprise it was the face of Kisara looking back at his own…
Kaiba sat up suddenly, breathing hard.
"What the Hell?" He gasped, staring around his room. For several moments he stayed where he was, attempting to calm his breathing. After 5 minutes he found that he was able to breathe normally but that only made him notice a different problem from the same cause.
"Shit." Kaiba growled as he noticed his erection for the first time. He looked at his alarm clock and saw that it was 5am, the time he normally woke up anyway. With a sigh he got out of bed and went to the bathroom to take a shower, a very, very, VERY cold one…