Disclaimer- I do NOT own Yugioh!
To Remember and Forget: The Kaiba Story
Another day of business at Kaiba Corp. But for some reason, Mr. Kaiba's secretary was no where to be seen. Seto leaned back in his dark green chair and glanced out his windows. This was the first time he had taken a break from his laptop in five hours. It was summer in Domino City-three years after he had lost to Yugi (Yami, actually he still doesn't know about the entire Pharaoh thing) in something other than Duel Monsters. Akina still wasn't at her desk from what he could see, and she hadn't called to say that she would be late. 'I wonder where she is…'
*.*~ Meanwhile ~*.*
"Yes!" the young woman screamed glomping her boy friend.
Everyone in the lobby had stopped to listen to the two. All of the business men started to clap and then carried on with their lives. But let's recap for a moment…
It had been years since the New Years where she chose him, and Yami had been living with Akina ever since. This morning Iva and Mokuba had left for school while the female teen continued to get ready for her busy day at work. Yami was a professional Duelist and usually hung out with Yugi and his other friends. Akina came bounding down the stairs in her usual attire-a dress suit. She met the Pharaoh at the bottom and kissed him on the cheek.
"Akina, I have something to ask you," he started.
But Akina was too busy thanking Ayame for handing her breakfast. Hiroshi handed her a coat and opened the door but finally she turned to respond to his question.
"I'm sorry, but I'm going to be late for work."
He quirked a brow, as she skipped out the door. Ayame mouthed for him to go after her since she knew what he was going to ask. So he did, but the woman was faster than he thought. Yami pried through the crowd and dodged a few kiosks before he saw the top of her head walk through glass doors. That was Kaiba Corp. Everyday he asked himself why the hell she had to work there. He couldn't ask her if she was right in front of her boss and his enemy. Yami flew through the doors and noticed her just walking up to the elevators. Thankfully they weren't at the ground floor yet, so-running faster than he ever had before-the man grabbed her shoulders and forced her to look at him. The shock was evident in her cherry red orbs but he took a deep breath to continue.
"Will you marry me… again?"
It was almost like her world stopped moving all together. Her heart pounded in her ears and she felt herself getting dizzy, but she held her ground anyway. She was just proposed to for Gods' sake!
"Yes!"
And that leaves us to where we started. Over the next few minutes Akina had went up to her friend Mizuki's floor. She did keep her promise on being a bridesmaid. Yami was close behind her laughing all the way. Who knew that getting married would be such a big deal? Now they were on the top floor, where Kaiba was… Interesting…
"Mr. Kaiba! I'm getting married!" Akina squealed while jumping up and down like a school girl.
"What?"
She nodded to confirm his question and was too busy to notice the horrified tone. Yami walked in behind her and glared at the brunette male who returned the gesture. Akina hugged her fiancé too happy to care about anything else. Then something popped into the young female's mind. 'Rin!'
*.*.*.*.*.*
Now they were at the police station. Don't get the wrong idea-Seto didn't kill anyone. But one of Akina's friends worked there, and she needed to tell all of her friends. The station was old but nothing was falling out of place. Kaiba had thought that it was disgusting as soon as he walked in the doors. He came because he wanted to, but he didn't really know why because any chance he had was now completely diminished. But what really surprised him was the fact that his secretary actually had a policeman as a friend. All right Akina wasn't that innocent, because her friend was a woman who was about as sociable as her boss. What a perfect couple! But Akina hadn't seen her friend in the room. Rin Akkenai was the captain of the crime and protection unit so it wasn't unusual that she was gone in the afternoon, but this was still early morning. Maybe about eight o'clock is when all of the detectives and uniforms would see her leave the cramped little office she had-well she was hardly in her office unless it had to deal with paperwork.
"Akina, Rin isn't here right now. She had a call to take care of and-"
"The boss is on the news!" a dark blue uniformed man interrupted the twenty year old woman at the desk known as Kiyko.
"Well don't just sit there Isamu! Turn up the volume," Kiyko ordered the man, while turning in her swivel chair.
"Good morning Domino, today Channel Six News is at the old glass factory that has recently been bought by the city's famous Kaiba Corporation. About half an hour ago a man threatened to set off a bomb inside with several flammable chemicals inside. A team of police has just appeared on the scene," the reporter stated while the camera man zoomed in on a dirty blonde woman with a bullet proof vest over her jacket.
"There she is!" Isamu's partner yelled while pointing towards the 50 inch screen on the wall.
The woman sent a few hand signals to the other men around her and got closer to the doors. Rin held her gun down and pressed her hand against the old metal door to peek through. Once she had enough room to look, she instantly aimed her gun and looked like she was speaking to the man inside.
"Listen, if you set off the bomb right now a lot of people are going to get hurt. You don't want that on your shoulders do you?" they heard her say from the speakers.
Then someone came over to the camera man and told them to get the hell out of there. Rin's eyes grew wide and she made a few hand movements to her team to move back a few yards. But the leader still stood their along with the newscasters since they could still hear what she was saying.
"When you do that, it means you die, I die, and all of these people that want to help die."
Akina was shocked and horrified, grasping onto her fiancé for dear life. Seto was just pissed off because he had no idea that some idiot was trying to blow up one of his new projects. And apparently he succeeded because the next thing he saw on the television was the camera view backing up quickly and then Rin running like hell towards them. That was when the building behind her blew up with red and orange flames. The female captain fell to the ground from the blast and didn't move after.
"This is a live broadcast people! The man had just set off the bomb while he was still inside, and I repeat the man had just set off the bomb while he was still in the building," the perky woman broadcasted while still catching her breath.
Akina was almost crying at this time and everyone in the room was huddled in a group encouraging themselves that their leader was fine and that she would come back in a few hours. But the sounds of nervousness in their voices betrayed them. Seto had no reaction, seeing as how he had no idea who this woman was. But everyone else seemed like it was a great loss from their reactions…
*.*.*.*.*.*
3 Hours Later
The front doors to the Domino Police Station flew open and showed a woman with white bandages peeking through her clothes and several other men come in behind her in the same fashion. Akina burst through the crowd that had formed around them and hugged the woman who cringed under her weight.
"Rin, are you alright? Gods! Did you get burned?" Akina asked with hysteria lacing every word.
"The flames where hot enough to give me a few burns," the woman grinned slyly and hoped that Akina wouldn't ask anything else.
"Where did you get burns? Is it just on your arms?"
"Well… practically everywhere but my ass and face."
Kaiba had to smirk at that. Rin hadn't even noticed that group of people applauding to her acts while she sauntered over to her office. The captain held the door open to the small room for the three people as they filed in. Seto was gazing over her interesting décor. Maps of different areas covered the windows instead of the usual blinds and stacks of folders were on the corner of her desk next to a computer. It was a fairly new model and Kaiba wondered if he could get some work done while they were there. Akina sat in the chair while Yami stood behind her massaging her shoulders and causing a stress mark to appear on Seto's head.
"Sorry for the mess. I've been putting boring files onto me computer. I swear there is never an end to these things!" Rin shrieked, slamming her hand onto the files.
"But you didn't come here to listen to me nag. What did you want?" the captain asked once her temper subsided.
"I'm getting married!" Akina blurted out, unable to contain her joy-which was starting to piss her boss off.
Rin quirked a brow and circled Yami. Kaiba was now extremely amused that he wasn't the one to get the strange looks for be associated with Akina. The room stilled, creating an immense tension between the vulture and prey. Then suddenly the police woman beamed and turned to congratulate her friend. Yami just stayed back and watched the two females talk. The Pharaoh didn't have a clue how many friends his fiancée had made in the past years, and he had a feeling that he didn't want to know. But then Akina snapped out of her world and remembered that her friend didn't even know the two men's names.
"This is Yami, and then-"
"Seto Kaiba. I got blown up in front of your new building and there have been threats to your other establishments. I have a feeling it's something personal," she concluded while typing a few things on her keyboard.
"That's normal for him," Yami stated shooting a glare at him.
"What? Then entire bomb thing?"
"No the threats," Kaiba corrected taking in Rin's shocked face as amusement.
"Then why haven't you had protection with you 24/7?"
"He says that he can take care of himself," Akina chimed in before her boss could make any sarcastic remarks.
"Then I guess I'll have to take matters into my own hands," so far Seto didn't like where this was going.
"Since I have now been informed, it is my job to stay by your side whether you like it or not."
Seto grimaced at her words. Didn't she know that he was the most feared person in the city? But in her mind she didn't give a damn. If her boss found out that she let someone go without protection that needed it he would have her ass. But Kaiba was a hard man to persuade, since he practically went off on her the next minute.
"Do you know that I can have your job if you do that without my permission! I don't need some woman to protect me!"
Rin scoffed and made her way around her desk. She sauntered toward him with as much confidence as she usually would. Kaiba had never seen this before from anyone. People trembled in his presence and he always sent people away crying if he so much as looked at him. Rin poked his forehead and smirked when he flinched away from her finger.
"Listen, I can play hard ball as good as any other man out there. And that includes you tech-boy," the captain declared almost standing on her toes.
The woman had to admit that it was difficult to stare him down when she couldn't even meet his eyes. Rin knew that she was short, but now on the inside she felt like an elf. Bright green met icy blue-well sort of-in a terrifying force. That was the first time in history that Seto Kaiba had ever lost a glaring battle.
*.*.*.*.*.*
"So… Where's my room?" Rin asked, throwing a million bags of clothes through the doors of the Kaiba Mansion.
'What have I gotten myself into?' Seto asked himself as Mokuba ran down the stairs that evening to greet their new guest.
