Kaiba was working late again, his mind clouded with reports and designs for tomorrow's launch of the new game system, most of Kaiba Corps. many employees had left almost an hour ago, leaving Kaiba and his younger brother Mokuba alone on the 18th floor. With shot concentration from lack of food and sleep, Kaiba looked out the bay windows upon Domino City, bright lights lined each street, cars raced down, headlights flashing over paved streets. A slash of lightening filled the sky and raindrops began to fall against the window pane, Kaiba stood and went to the window, standing in front of it he held his hand behind his back and watched.

'I wish I didn't have to do this.' He thought to himself. 'I wish someone else like that worthless Wheeler could do all this.' Inwardly he laughed. 'Probably fail in the first week.' His mind wandered to what he would do if he were an ordinary person, he would fall in love, find a woman who could love him for himself and not for his money. Maybe he would work like an ordinary person. Lord knows he deserved to live for all the work he had put into this damned company. Suddenly, out the window, time seemed to slow to a stop, cars crawled along the street and halted, even the rain stopped pounding on the window, for a minute he thought he may have been going crazy, then a voice.

"Your wish is my command." It echoed inside of the massive room.

Kaiba flipped around, the voice had spoken from somewhere near the door, behind him was a young woman dressed in strange clothing, she had long black hair that fell to her waist in rippling waves. Her face was painted in the customary Egyptian style with thick black eyeliner that tapered off along her eye, her mouth was painted a bright red that stood out against her tanned skin. She wore a strange cream colored linen gown that fell her sandaled feet, she was average in height, slim in weight with full breasts, flat stomach and wide tapered hips with long legs.

"Who are you?" he said in an awed voice. "And how did you get here?"

"My name is Atifah, I am here to grant your deepest wish."

"How did you get in here?!" he nearly shouted.

"It is no matter how I arrived, what matters is what you wish. You desire to be normal?"

"Get out of my office." He said in an irritated voice that covered how he really felt.

Kaiba stormed over to the phone and picked it up, no tone came over the line, no sound of the receptionist taking his call, nothing, he hit the dial tone button and found nothing.

"You will not be able to call anyone."

"What have you done?"

"Time has stopped, I have made it so."

"Well, start it again. I have work to do." He said impatiently.

"Do you wish to be a normal person?"

"What are you waiting for?" he barked at her.

"Do you wish to be a normal person?" she repeated.

He considered her question, Did he want to be a normal person?

"Yes."

"So you wish it, so be it." She said.

As mysteriously as she had come, she was gone, it was as if the woman had never been there but her face was imprinted in his mind, he wondered if she had ever really been there at all. Kaiba sat down at his desk and placed his head in his hands.

"Lack of sleep, that's all." He said to himself, he heard the sound of rain on the window again.

Kaiba pressed the button on the intercom. "Mokuba?"

He waited until Mokuba had put his head into the room. "Yes, Seto?"

"Call the driver, tell him to bring the car around, it's time to go home."

"Okay, Seto." His brother said, yawning.

The shut the door once more, leaving Kaiba to his thoughts, then, very carefully he locked the files and designs he had been working on in his desk, when he stood once more he noticed that Mokuba was standing the doorway watching him intently.

"Ready to go?" he said eagerly.

"Yes."

Mokuba waited until Seto had stepped out of the office before walking ahead and heading for the elevators, Seto walked alone, briefcase in hand, listening to the pure silence. It was eerie, this sound when normally there would be the sound if typing but Kaiba swore he wouldn't let it get to him as he arrived at the elevator. It dinged as the doors closed, closing them inside the tiny shaft, Mokuba hit the button to go to the lobby, there was a brief sensation of vertigo as the elevator dropped. Kaiba watched each time the numbers went down, his thoughts turning to the strange woman in his office, he considered the possibility that it was a competitor trying to scare him but threw the idea away, no competitor could have known he was there that late at night. Maybe it was a trick of light, or a mirage brought on by lack of sleep.

"Big brother?"

"Yes?"

"Are you okay?"

"Yes." He lied.

Honesty he wondered what the woman meant by "Your wish is my command.", he wondered if anything would come of it.

"Are you sure?"

"Yes."

The elevator dinged once more and the doors opened, revealing the completely modern Kaiba Corp Lobby done in Art Deco style, the front reception desk was manned by one woman with long blonde hair tied into a ponytail at the back of her head. She sat there typing, her eyes focused on the screen but came up as they walked past her.

"Good night, Mr. Kaibas'."

"Good night, Vicky." Mokuba replied.

Kaiba nodded at the woman as they made their way towards the door.

"Oh, Mr. Kaiba! There was a call, I didn't disturb you because I didn't think it was important."

"What is it?"

"There's a group of children coming in that you said you would show around Kaiba Corp."

"Thank you, Vicky."

Kaiba continued out the door, leaving Vicky to whatever she was working on, he stopped once he was outside and enjoyed the feel of the rain on his skin and the feel of the wind ruffling his hair. He sighed and stepped into the awaiting car following Mokuba.

"Kaiba Mansion." He ordered the driver.

"Yes, sir, Mr. Kaiba."

They sat in silence as the car sped along, Kaiba deep in his thoughts while Mokuba typed on his laptop, he wondered if he should talk to Mokuba but could think of nothing to say. Never in his life had he thought these things but ever since those moments in his office he was suddenly enjoying the things he had never thought of before.

"Did you see or hear anything coming from my office earlier?" he asked.

"No, why do you ask?"

"No reason, I just thought I heard something earlier."

"Okay."

Mokuba returned to typing at his computer while Kaiba returned to his thoughts, they arrived at the mansion not 30 minutes later, still in silence.

"Thank you…" Kaiba said awkwardly.

"Your welcome…" the man replied.

Kaiba got out of the car and followed Mokuba to the entrance of the house, the butler opened the door before Kaiba could even touch the knob.

"Good evening, sirs."

"Good evening, Payne." Mokuba said, not taking his eyes away from the computer in his hand.

They entered the house and Kaiba felt the familiar chill that came over him when he entered the house, to him it was always so cold, so dark, never a home just a place to sleep. Even now he could feel the old detachment from his stepfather even though his stepfather was long gone, memories came back to him of lessons on how to keep Kaiba Corp going. He shook the memories away as he stared down the long marble hallway, his thoughts dark, a winding staircase that led up to the upper floors lying on the other side.

"Well, I'm going to bed." Mokuba said as if it never affected him.

"Good night."

"Good night, Seto."

Kaiba nodded at him and headed in the same direction, going right for the stairs, as they made their upward to the second floor Kaiba noticed that most of the lights had been turned off per his instructions. Carefully they felt their way out, using their hands against the wall.

"See you in the morning."

A slice of light flashed as Mokuba opened the door and slipped inside leaving Kaiba alone in the dark hall, he felt his way to the door on the other side, across the hall and opened the door. His light was on as well, light flashed over the sumptuous chamber, revealing a massive 4 poster bed covered in a dark bedspread, chairs were spread out around the chamber along with bureaus and the door to his closet. Not really noticing what he was doing Kaiba walked to the bed, threw his jacket onto one of the chairs and undressed, neatly folding each of piece and laying on the chaise near the window.

When he finally slipped into bed, after turning off the lights, brushing his teeth and putting a pair of sweatpants on as pajamas he stared at the ceiling in thought. He considered the vision in his office, replayed the moments in his head over and over. 'Your wish is my command.' Was the last thought he had as his eyes drifted closed and he was overcome with exhaustion.

The Next Morning (BUM BUM BAH!!!)

When Kaiba awoke the next morning he could feel that something wasn't right, his bed felt softer and smaller and something warm was pressed against his side, when he looked down he saw his uncovered chest and remembered undressing the night before but there was something off splayed across it, a hand. And that hand was attached to a slim arm up to a shoulder and a torso, a woman was lying beside him, her eyes closed in sleep, her full pink lips soft and inviting. A ring was on to the third finger of her left hand, married? He looked at his own and hand and there he found a golden ring on the third finger of his right hand. 'What is going on?' he thought to himself, shifting to sit up.

"Hi, honey, did you sleep well?" the woman said, her eyes fluttering open to look at him.