Disclaimer: I don't own Yugioh or any of its chracters *sniff.
Cecilia smiled as she unpacked the last box in her room. Domino city seemed like a nice change from Cairo. She'd loved Egypt, it had so much history and she'd spent most of her time in museums. It was magnificent but the heat was unbearable and she was glad they moved to Japan. She glanced at the clock. Her dad would be in the company for another two hours. She smiled a little; she had time to go for a walk.
Walking through the streets of the city she couldn't help but compare it to the other places she'd been. She liked it better than L.A. but not as much as London. The good thing about this place was that she didn't have to spend her first few months learning the language. She was raised in Tokyo, after her mother died when she was left alone with her father. She glanced at her watch again. He would be back soon. Turning around, she started to walk back home only to fall back on the ground with someone on top of her.
"Sorry. Are you okay?" She looked at the boy getting up, his long messy black hair hiding his face. He pushed it back and started looking around.
"I'm fine. Are you alright?"
He glanced at her, his violet eyes full of confusion.
"I'll be okay." He looked up and down the street and she smiled a little.
"Do you know where you're heading?"
He smiled sheepishly. "I'm supposed to meet my brother at the main road but I can't remember how to get there." He explained.
"I could tell you but it's a lot of swirls and turns but if you want I could get you there." She offered with a small reassuring smile.
"You wouldn t mind?" He asked hesitantly and she shook her head.
"I could use the company." She glanced at him and then his hand caught her eye.
"You don t look so okay. Let me see that." She lifted his hand to inspect it. It was a shallow cut, so she dabbed the blood with a napkin and took off the short scarf from around her neck to wrap it around his hand.
"That should do it."
"Thanks." He gave her an adorable smile. "I'm Mokuba." He introduced himself.
"Pleasure to meet you. My name's Cecilia."
"You live around here?" He asked conversationally.
"I moved here last month."
"Oh. Where were you before that?"
"All over the place, what about you? You've been here all your life?"
"My brother and I moved to Domino when I was five, we travel every once in a while but yeah we live here."
Sensing that the boy was getting upset by the conversation she changed the subject.
"So what were you doing back there?"
He smiled at her. "Meeting up with some friends. We were just hanging."
She raised an eyebrow. "And they couldn t get you to your brother."
"You mean you had plan... "
"No,no" She cut himf off. "I'm just curious, you were lost." His cheeks reddened at that.
"Yeah well, I kinda told them I knew my way and they shouldn't worry." He answered sheepishly making her chuckle.
"Well we're here so your words were somewhat true." She assured with a slight smile. The boy smiled back.
"So, where is your brother?" He pointed towards the black limo on the right, which had a man leaning against it. He was tall and his chocolate brown hair hung around his face but the second she glimpsed his face she instantly recognized him. Seto Kaiba.
"Oh boy." She sighed quietly. Just her luck to find the brother of the man who was rumored to be the iceman. She knew for a fact that he was a very hard person to handle. Her father was at all his press conferences and not once did he return happy from them.
"Hey big brother. Were you waiting for long?"
She noticed that the man's eyes were soft as he looked at the boy but when they turned to her, they looked cold, and the ocean blue color wasn t helping, it made her uncomfortable.
"Seto this is Cecilia. She helped me get here."
She nodded at him and gave Mokuba a smile.
"Good bye."
"Mokuba, get in the car."
His voice was as icy as his eyes but it didn t affect the preteen instead he gave her a smile. "How well do you know Domino?"
"Not that well." She admitted looking at him.
"Well, if you're not busy tomorrow, I could show you around. I know the best places."
"That would be great. Thanks."
He nodded and climbed in, at that Kaiba turned to look at her.
"What do you want?" he asked, the accusation in his tone was impossible to miss.
"Excuse me?" She asked bewildered. She had helped the boy and she was being treated this way? Damn the guy could give her dad a run for his money.
"What do you want? And don t start telling me you don t know what I'm talking about? If something happens to... "
She strode towards him, a fire burning in her eyes.
"Your brother was lost. I didn t know he was your brother so you can rest assured I didn t do it to get something from you. I don't want anything from you and I wouldn't dream of hurting him, he's a great kid. So you can stop being so paranoid and go easy on the threats."
He opened his mouth to retort when Mokuba peeked out of the door.
"Are you coming big brother?"
"I'll be there in a minute."
Mokuba nodded but he didn t fail to see the scowl on Cecilia's face. Boy, but Seto knew how to rile people up.
"He'll be fine and if you want I can give you my name and address. That way I'm sure you can get me killed in less than an hour after him getting hurt."
Kaiba just smirked. "I can get to you in less than that time without any information."
"Then me going with him tomorrow isn't a problem." Unlike his indifferent attitude her anger was very thinly veiled.
"We'll see." He said and slipped inside. She glanced at her watch and her eyes widened, she was late. Hailing a cab she got in and prayed that the meeting went well.
"She's a nice girl." Mokuba commented looking at his brother warily.
"She's an annoying nobody." Seto replied looking out the window, not even giving the conversation any thought.
"Actually, she's very sweet and I like her." Mokuba knew he was treading on very thin ice. He knew that his brother would never hurt him or yell at him but that didn t mean he wouldn t get irritated with him.
"What was she doing with you in the first place?"
Mokuba's cheeks reddened in embarrassment. "I... uh... I was lost and she helped me out."
Looking up at his brother he saw the sparkle of amusement in his eyes and while he loved seeing his brother expressing emotions, this was one he didn t want directed at him.
"You couldn t find your way back to the main road?"
"The important thing is she helped me and look." He raised his hand to show the scarf she wrapped around it. "She's not a bad person Seto."
Seto sighed. "You trust people too easily."
"And you don t trust them at all. Just this once, give somebody a shot." He looked up at his brother. "Please."
"We'll see."
And Mokuba knew that coming from his brother meant he hit the target.
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