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Promise kept:

Seto held her in his arms listening to her breath. He didn't know why, but feeling the constant in and out motion of her breathing made him feel at peace. He liked holding her knowing that she was safe and close.

That night, as he watched her sleep, he decided then and there that he could not leave her in this place. He wouldn't be able live with himself if he abandoned her. He knew that Renée had just passed it off as him trying to comfort her, but he had really meant what he said.

The next morning Seto woke with the scent of peaches and the feeling of a warm body in his arms. When he looked down he realized that he had fallen asleep on Renée's bed the night before. He quickly looked at the clock on the bed side table. It read 5:30am. He was really thankful that the adults didn't wake up until 7:00am. Just then he heard a noise outside the girl's bedroom door.

"I don't understand why that horrible man has to come so early." Seto heard the very familiar voice of the old woman that ran the orphanage. He was frozen in place with fear. What if she comes in here?

"Well, he said that 6:00 am was the only time he could come because of work." Another woman's voice sounded in the hall.

"You go and wake the boy. Tell him to dress nice." The head of the orphanage said.

"Ok" said the other woman.

Seto just lay there stunned with fear. When they go in there they will see that I'm gone. He slowly began to untangle himself from Renée's grasp.

"Seto?" Renée said in a half asleep state. "Don't leave yet. Stay a bit longer."

"Do you even realize what time it is?" Seto said in a hushed voice.

"Two?"

"Not quite. It's 5:30 in the morning."

Renée shot out of bed like someone had electrocuted her. "5:30? You are going to be in so much trouble."

"HE'S GONE. HE'S NOT IN HIS BED!" A voice came from the hall.

Seto's heart began to race. All of a sudden he felt a hard push on his arm. He fell to the floor with a painful blow. He looked at Renée to start yelling at her, but stopped when he heard the faint foot steps outside the door. He froze in place as the door began to open.

"Big Brother?" a small fragile voice came from the door as it opened.

Seto popped out from the side of the bed when he realized it was just his little brother.

"Mokuba, what are you doing up so early?" Seto said dusting himself off.

"The old lady is looking for you, so she woke me up and told me to find you."

Mokuba crawled on the bed and snuggled his head against Renée's arm and fell asleep.

"Great! Now the WHOLE family is going to get in trouble." Seto said as he watched Mokuba sleep.

"Hey, I'm going to get in trouble too!" Renée said looking angry at that fact that he didn't realize she would also get punished for having two boys in her bed.

"I said the whole family. Did you not hear me?" Seto said with a warm smile trying to remind her of last night.

Renée just sat there looking at him like he was nuts. She thought it was sweet, but she wasn't even going to comment on it. She knew the whole 'family' thing wouldn't last. The minute someone wanted to adopt him and his brother without her they would take it.

Just then the door opened and a woman in very bright colors walked in the room. She was the only nice adult in the whole place, so they weren't scared when they saw her. "I thought you might be in here" the woman said. "Seto you better get to your room now before Miss Bruta (the head of the orphanage) finds you in here."

Seto didn't hesitate in moving from the room very quickly.

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At 6:00am, on the dot, a man in red entered the orphanage. He didn't exactly look like the nicest man, but Seto wasn't one to judge on appearance alone.

"Hello. You must be Seto. I've heard quite a lot about you over the past few days." Seto took the man's hand in greeting.

"How exactly have you heard of me sir?"

"Well, when you have a smart boy like you in a place like this they tend to stick out." The man said with a laugh as he let go of Seto's hand. "My name is Gozaburo Kaiba."

"Have you come to adopt me Mr. Kaiba?"

"Not quite. I have donated a lot of money to this orphanage and wanted to be photographed giving the check to a promising young mind. " He said in a cold businesslike manner.

"Sir, do you play chess?" Seto said with a smile as he looked up at the man. Seto knew the answer already. He knew exactly who Gozaburo Kaiba was, but he wasn't about to let Gozaburo know that.

"Yes, I do play and quite well if I say so myself. I am one of the top chess players in the country. I have never lost a match. Why do you ask, boy? Do you want to actually try and play against me?" He laughed at the thought.

"Well, if we are going to play we might as well make it interesting." Seto said copying a line from a movie he had once seen.

"What did you have in mind?" Gozaburo said with a bit of shock.

Seto wasn't stupid. He had planned this the minute he was told that Gozaburo would be coming. He had seen Gozaburo on television playing chess about a month ago. He thought it looked interesting, so he began to study the game. He knew he could beat Gozaburo if he just tried hard enough. "If I win you have to adopt me, my little brother, and my friend Renée."

Gozaburo looked at his watch and then looked at Seto. "I have about fifteen minutes to kill. Sure I'll play you kid, but don't expect to win. Like I said before I'm a champion."

Seto ran to get the chess board and set it up on a nearby table.

Gozaburo sat down and began to shift in the child sized chair.

"You can make the first move." Gozaburo spoke as though he was doing Seto a favor.

They began to play and after a few minutes Gozaburo started to realize that maybe beating Seto wouldn't be so easy.

Seto looked very hard at the board calculating every move before acting upon it. Gozaburo was good, but not good enough.

6:45 rolled around and they were still at it. Seto was not going to let this man win. He would have given anything to get Renée, Mokuba, and himself out of this horrible place.

"Check mate." Seto yelled out in glory.

"But, but how?" Gozaburo Said with complete and utter shock on his face. "How could you have possibly beaten me? You are just a child."

"I guess I am just better than you." Seto simply stated with a smirk. "I take it that you will be holding up your end of the deal."

"Don't worry. I never go back on my word. It's not honorable." Gozaburo said as he stood from the small chair. "I'll go get started on the paper work." He turned to leave, but then turned back to look at Seto. "I would like to meet the other two I will be taking into my home. Go get them boy."

Although Seto didn't like to be told what to do he didn't find this request too much to ask. "Yes sir." He rose out of the chair and went to go get Renée and Mokuba.

A few minutes later Seto had emerged back into the room with Renée at his side and Mokuba at hers.

"Ah! What a beautiful little girl. She is breathtaking." Gozaburo said taking her face in his hand.

"Thank you, sir." She said with a nervous smile.

"And you must be little Momukah." Gozaburo said looking at Mokuba with disinterest.

"It's Mokuba, sir." Mokuba said looking rather hurt by the look he was receiving from the man.

"Oh, sorry." He once again looked at the boy with little notice. "Well, I'll go start the paper work." With that he left the room.

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Three weeks later they were being picked up by a limo.

"Wow, big brother. Is this for us?" Mokuba said with eyes as big as saucers.

"Yes, I would think so sense we're the only people out here." Seto said looking at Mokuba with a sarcastic smile.

"I wish you wouldn't pick on me." Mokuba said to Seto looking rather hurt.

"But you're so pickable." Seto said to Mokuba with a smile trying to show him that he was just joking.

"HEY! No I'm n ……."

Renée jumped in-between them and put up her hands in front of both of their faces.

"If you two don't stop you are going to drive me crazy! Please just get in the limo and shut up" Renée burst out. She was very on edge. She had not been feeling really good about the whole adoption thing. She knew something was not right about the man that just adopted them. She didn't want to go, but she had no choice unless she wanted to be separated from the only people she cared about.

"What's your problem?" Seto said with anger in his voice. He didn't think the situation had called for him to get yelled at.

"I'm sorry. I guess I'm just a little nervous. Do you forgive me?" Renée said giving him her puppy dog eyes.

"Fine you're forgiven." Seto said as he reached for the door handle on the limo still sounding a little angry.

Renée grabbed his hand before he reached the handle and said "I really am sorry." She put her forehead to his temple and just stayed there for a few seconds. Before she pulled away she placed a light kiss on Seto's cheek.

Seto could barley stand it as she placed her head on his. His heart felt like it would jump out of his chest. He could smell her peach scented hair. The smell that lulled him into a trace everyday he had been at the orphanage. Then a small kiss was placed on his cheek. He could barely feel it as it was so gentle and quick, but it made his heart jump none the less. He could feel her eye lashes flutter against his skin as she pulled her face away.

"Seto?" Renée said looking at him with concern since he hadn't moved in almost two minutes.

"What?" Seto said as he was pulled out of his trance.

"Can we get into the limo now?"

"Yeah." Seto still sounded a little dazed, but more coherent than before.

The three got into the limo awaiting there new life.

Authors note: I just want to say that they are now legally brother and sister, but they REALLY do not feel like brother and sister. So please do not say that this is gross or whatever….besides, I'll just go ahead and tell you guys that this little arrangement isn't going to last too long, so for all you people that think this is a taboo don't worry.