Chapter One: The Jacob's turn into Kaiba's

Screaming, laughing and crying could be heard constantly throughout the orphanage as children of all ages ran around playing. At times the noise grated on Amelia Jacobs ears, on others, it made her want to curl up and bawl her eyes out. But she knew that she could not, she had to be strong, strong for both of her brothers even though one would never admit it.

Amelia and her two brothers, Seto and Mokuba, became orphans when their mother died in childbirth and their father died from a lung disease. For a short time they had had they're loving Grandfather, but he too, was taken away from them by sickness. So Child Protective Services dumped them off at the little, over-crowded orphanage.

Poor Mokuba was only four years old! Seto and Amelia, being twins, were both ten years old by the time they got dumped at the orphanage and together vowed to protect and keep their little family together at all costs. So Amelia took on the mother role for her two brothers, even though Seto grumbled about her mothering him, he didn't tell her to stop. Instead of playing with the other ten year old girls, Amelia would sit with her little brother and teach him how to read and write, with Seto teaching him how to count his numbers. Amelia would also make sure that Seto actually smiled instead of frown all the time. The best way to make both of her brother's smile, was by singing. Amelia loved to sing, but she only did it when she knew only Seto or Mokuba were listening because it was a gift she only gave to them, and the two of them treasured it.

All in all, the Jacob siblings were extremely close and protective towards each other, making the matriarch of the orphanage realize that she could never separate the three even if she tried.

It was Seto who realized that no adoptive parent would take all three of them. He realized, from them ending up at the orphanage, that three children was a lot to take care of and so the adults would either try and take Mokuba and leave him and Amelia, or take him and Amelia and leave Mokuba. So Seto decided to take matters into his own hands. For the past few weeks he had basically isolated himself in the lounge of the orphanage watching chess matches over and over again. Making Amelia start to worry that perhaps Seto finally had cracked under all the emotional stress they were in.

Her thoughts were suddenly halted when a sudden cheering erupted at the entrance to the Orphanage. Sighing she closed the book that she had been reading and looked down to where her baby brother had been laying on the ground at her feet coloring. He too, was looking in the direction of the cheering with curiosity sparkling in his dark grey-blue eyes. Looking at his eyes made Amelia frown slightly because it was strange. Out of their whole family, she had been the only one to receive bright emerald green eyes. Everyone else in her family, meaning her brothers, her birth parents, even her Grandfather, had or have varying ranges of blue eye color. The only way you could tell that she was a part of the Jacobs family was her aristocratic cheekbones and that her and Seto shared the exact same hair color.

Shaking herself out of her thoughts again, Amelia smiled at her brother and asked him, "Well Moki, it looks like something exciting is happening. Shall we go see what it is?" Mokuba gave his big sister a big, beaming smile and replied, "Yes!" But then quickly amended it to, "Yes please!" When she gave him her famous quirk of the eyebrow.

As Mokuba got up to follow his sister he silently reflected how she wasn't just his sister, but the only mother figure he had ever known. He loved his older siblings deeply and knew that no matter what, he never wanted to be without them. So saying, he hurried up to catch up to his sister's longer strides and grabbed her smooth hand into his small chubby one.

The two reached the commotion just as a sudden silence befell it. Being in the back of the crowd, they could not see what was happening, but a moment later a voice spoke up that caused Amelia to freeze in shock and then start shoving her way through the crowd with Mokuba's hand clutched in hers so that she wouldn't lose him. For the voice that spoke, was none other than her dear, and sometimes baka twin, Seto! "Well, Do you accept my challenge?"

Once Amelia and Mokuba made it to the front of the crowd, they saw that their brother was standing in front of a very intimidating looking older man. The man was wearing a deep red business suit, and had dark hair peppered with a few gray streaks, especially in his mustache. His eyes were dark, and to Amelia's observance, looked like shards of unforgiving ice.

The man started to laugh at whatever challenge her idiot brother had made to him. Finally he stopped laughing to say, "You, a mere boy challenging me to a chess match? Fine, I accept your challenge. But if you win, what do you want?" If Amelia and Mokuba had been surprised at the situation when they first arrived, they were now in complete and total shock as they watched Seto confidently point to himself and state, "If I win, I want you to adopt me and my two siblings." The man eyed Seto with a calculating eye before asking, "And where are your other siblings?"

Amelia felt it was time to make her presence known, so holding Mokuba by the hand and giving it a gentle, comforting squeeze, she led him silently through the crowd until they were directly behind Seto. It seems that Seto had been searching the crowd with his gaze for them, for he hadn't noticed that they had arrived behind him yet. So to save him the time and to let him know just how annoyed she was with him at the moment, Amelia said in a calm, clear voice, "What, in the world are you doing Seto?" Seto whirled around and had to physically hold back a flinch at the look his twin was giving him. Taking a deep breath, he turned back to the older man and said, "These are my siblings. My Twin sister, Amelia, and our younger brother Mokuba,"

Amelia looked up to the man's face and immediately wished that she hadn't. The look that the man was giving her was making her want to shrink back and hide. She had seen others give her that look, even heard boys in the orphanage her age and older whisper behind her back that she was "a beauty for the eyes to look at" and it was all thanks to her stupid exotic emerald eyes. Seto noticed the look the older man was giving his sister, and how she was trying to keep a brave face on, but through their twin bond he could tell that the man creeped her out. So he subtly took a step to the side so that he was standing in front of her protectively. That seemed to break the man from wherever his thoughts had been and clearing his throat, he turned back to Seto and said, "Very well, I accept your challenge."

And that was the day that the three Jacob siblings became the three Kaiba siblings. Gozaburo Kaiba was not a good adoptive father to the three children. He kept Seto working and learning constantly, making him to tired to even be able to see his brother and sister in the evenings. He had wanted to do some things with Amelia that no respectable man should even think of, but thankfully, Amelia was saved from his clutches by Mrs. Kaiba. When she heard that her husband had adopted and that one of the children was a girl, she immediately took little Amelia under her wing to keep her safe. Mokuba, being so young, was left mostly alone because he was the youngest, and his older siblings protected him as best they could from anything that Gozaburo wanted to do to the small boy.

As the years went by, Amelia felt her brother, Seto, slowly changing. She knew that she had changed as well. From Madam Claire's, Mrs. Kaiba's, tutelage, she now knew how to act like a wealthy upperclass lady and how to help support Seto with things like events and social functions. But Amelia never lost sight of her kind heart. She continued to act like the mother figure for Mokuba, and was always kind to every person she met.

When the twins turned thirteen, Seto made his move and took over Kaiba Corporation from Gozaburo. Humiliated, Gozaburo mysteriously disappeared, presumed dead. Madam Claire gracefully bowed out, and moved away to be with her remaining family. Amelia was extremely proud of her twin's accomplishment, but still sad at the same time. For though Seto still acted brotherly towards her and especially Mokuba, his heart was closed off to the rest of the world.

As Seto started to turn Kaiba Corp into a famous gaming company, Amelia started to get a feeling that something big was going to happen soon. But what…she had no idea.