Jenny: Well, I've heard of people with heart attacks living……….maybe the human body can withstand living after missing just ONE heartbeat ;; besides, he said he could've sworn his heart skipped a beat, meaning it could've NOT ;; Anywayz thanks for pointing that out and thanks a bunch for the review!
dark star: Great! I'm so happy you like this
choco berry gurl: I know you only reviewed my first chapter, but still……….thanks for stopping by, considering you aren't really into YGO, but you're nice to my Inu Yasha ficcy
mezu: You'll see……….. o Thanks for reviewing, and please keep on reading!
Kari: Well I can't really answer your question because then I would give away the story, right? D thanks for the review! Glad to know you're reading this sequel after 'Unexpected Love' (I changed the title)!
einstein ami: neither would I EVER get over it! I'd be sooooo sad, and so is Seto still………..but it's really important to continue living your life to the fullest, which Seto is not really doing. Thanks for the review! Again, another reader who moved onto the sequel with me
Yami Lover: Glad you like this chapter ) I hope you continue reading this fic and thanks a bunch for the review! (coupla minutes later) Just read your bio………hello, a fellow Tea-fan
Lynderia: thanks for the compliment! You're too nice to me -- thanks so much for reviewing!
The Merciless Torturer: -;; hopefully I updated fast enough………probably not eep
SetoJoeylover: I can sympathize with you on how you feel on whether I'm going to continue or not………seeing as how lazy and unreliable I can be ;; but see, I'm updating! points to the new chapter below Thanks for reviewing!
Akachi: A bazooka? O.O calm down, Seto!! ;; Anywayz thank you for reviewing :-)
And now………for the feature presentation!
Disclaimer: I don't own YGO! Kazuki Takahashi-sama does
Chapter 3: Meeting
The girl was dressed in a light-blue strapless dress that molded her slender figure perfectly. Her sapphire necklace and earrings set sparked and added to her radiance. Her chocolate brown hair was done up in a fancy twist and a string of tiny pearls was woven into it. The girl's beauty wasn't simply physical; there was something exquisite about the way she carried herself.
It wasn't her looks that had seemingly stopped Seto's heart. He couldn't explain it really, it was just a sort of a jolt, as if…as if he had met someone he had wanted to meet for a long time. It almost felt as if he could be happy again, after the long three years. He felt warm and..relieved. 'Don't be ridiculous, I've had too much to drink,' he frowned slightly and shook his head.
"Oh! That's their daughter, Amika. How beautiful she is! I heard she came to live with her parents over the summer break from America…you know that she's going to college at Yale?" A woman nearby Seto was talking to her companion.
"Yes, and she's such a polite girl, too! I met her last year at the Mazakis' summer house in California. She was most delightful and a very entertaining hostess. She's definitely not one of those snobby spoiled rich girls, oh no. She's an honest girl and a hard worker."
Amika was smiling and talking with her parents and a group of people around them. Everyone seemed to be very happy around her. Her bright cerulean eyes listened to each person attentively and she nodded once in a while.
After an hour, Seto had talked to Mr. and Mrs. Mazaki and had had just about enough of this so he managed to slip out unnoticed. Just as he was about to look around for his car, he saw something just in the corner of his eye, but when he turned, he saw nothing. Still, curiosity made him go around the corner of the mansion. He saw a set of stairs that the person (whom he could barely see from all the darkness) was ascending.
Now, he had never stalked anyone before, but something made him follow the person up the stairs. After that, the person went around another corner. When he followed, he saw a beautiful balcony showing a perfect view of trees, the ocean just barely showing in the horizon, and the dark, deep blue-black sky with the silver crescent moon and a few points of light that were stars. The girl, as he could see now, had leaned on the marble railing and raised her face to the sky to meet a cool breeze.
"I love nights like this, don't you?" she turned to Seto and smiled. At his stunned expression, she laughed.
"I'm sorry! It's just that I heard someone behind me at the stairs. Sorry if I surprised you. Oh, look at me, not even introducing myself! My name is Amika Mazaki. What's yours?" She had turned toward him now, her face illuminated by the moonlight.
"Kaiba…I'm Seto Kaiba." He cleared his throat. What was the matter with him? He wasn't the one to start stuttering in front of girls or get clammed up, yet he could feel his heart racing for some bizarre reason.
Amika's eyes widened. "Oh, you're the CEO of KaibaCorp! Wow, I mean, I knew you were invited and all but still…I never intended to meet you like this," her face was tinted with the lightest shade of pink. "Still, nice to meet you!" She smiled.
"What are you doing out here?" Seto asked after while, when Amika had turned back to facing the view below her.
She had the slightest look of embarrassment. "Well, parties like that…they aren't really my style and I get rather bored from them after an hour or so. So I come out for a breath of fresh air now and then. Not exactly your typical CEO's daughter, am I? You would expect that after a lifetime full of them that I would get used to them…" Amika sighed.
"Well, I'm a CEO and I'm still not used to them," Seto said. Amika turned to him and smiled.
"That makes the two of us."
The next morning, Seto was sitting at the table. Mokuba passed by and glanced at him. Then he stopped, turned around and stared at his older brother. It took a minute for Seto to even register than his younger brother was there.
"Wha – oh good morning, Mokuba. How was your sleepover party? I never asked you yesterday." He got up and poured a cup of coffee from the coffee maker.
"Pretty cool. We didn't sleep at all and basically played video games and ate lots of junk food through the night." Mokuba poured a bowl of cereal and start slicing a banana into it. "How was the party?"
"Oh, you know, the usual bore. I met Amika Mazaki for the first - "
"Who's she?" Mokuba asked with sudden interest. Seto groaned inwardly. Mokuba was one of the people who wanted him to 'get back on his feet' as they called it.
"She's the daughter of the CEO of Mazaki Corp." He placed two slices of toast onto a plate before sitting down across from Mokuba. It had been, unfortunately, a long time since he had done this, actually sitting across from Mokuba and having a conversation.
"Cool. So that must explain it," Mokuba added the second sentence after a moment when the brothers ate their breakfast silently.
"Explain what?" Seto asked suspiciously.
"The look on your face when I came in here," Mokuba grinned.
"What was that?" He asked, alarmed. Just how had his face been??
"You looked sort of…thoughtful. I don't know, it just wasn't an expression you generally wear, you know?" Mokuba finished his cereal. "So, are you two…"
"Mokuba," Seto said sternly. "It's nothing like that. We're hardly acquaintances, we just met yesterday."
"Still," Mokuba said, looking at Seto with a slightly tilted head. "You almost looked like…" He turned around and was just about to walk out of the kitchen when Seto stopped him.
"Like what?" he asked.
"…happy." Mokuba said over his shoulder and walked away.
