Amber Mollari12/4/2007

Chapter 3: A business trip with a difference

At Duelist Kingdom Amber was lying on her bed in her room, one of her favorite CDs blasting out of the speakers of her laptop. She sighed to herself more then anything; it had only been a week since she'd moved here to her uncle's island. However she was getting a little bored and none of her friends were on msn, she missed them already. Losing herself in the music Amber began to sing along to her favorite track on the album, something she would never ever do if she knew her uncle was stood outside. A knock on the door made her jump off her bed with a start; she rushed over to her laptop and paused the music.
"Who is it?" she called out not sure if she had imagined the knocking at the door. She smiled when she saw her uncle's head pop round the door.
"You don't mind if I come in do you? I wouldn't want to interrupt your rendition of what ever it was you were singing to" Pegasus replied chucking. Making Amber smile and blush a little at the same time, she didn't like to let other people hear her sing. One of her worst habits was singing badly in the shower, so she was grateful she had an en suite bathroom here. "Don't worry you didn't sound that bad, for once" he continued. Earning himself a pillow in the face, from his niece.
"You know I don't like it when you listen to my singing uncle" she replied trying not to laugh at the bemused expression on his face as he picked up her pillow and threw it back.
"How many times do I have to tell you Amber, you can call me Max." he smiled, before telling her what he came to tell her. "Anyway I have an important guest arriving any minute now, I was wondering if you would want to accompany me to greet him?" Amber's ears perked up at the mention of an important guest, causing Pegasus to laugh at the cat like expression on his nieces face. A small part of him regretted never having a child with his late wife Cecilia, and Leo wasn't able to. At least he had Leo's adoptive daughter Amber though he consoled himself.
"Who is it? Whose coming?" she asked jumping around excitedly looking for her shoes. She gave him a pleading look begging to know the answer. Never being able to resist that look since the day he'd met her, he held up his hands in surrender.
"Well I'm sure you'll want to meet him my dear Amber" he told her smiling, "It's my dear Kaiba-boy". He found the expression on his nieces' face rather amusing. "You never know if he likes you he might even let you see his blue eyes cards" he told her teasing. Amber's eyes were full of mischief at the idea of Kaiba coming to her uncle's island as a guest; her thoughts were interrupted by her uncle waving a hand in front of her face. She giggled.
"I am still on planet earth Uncle Max, when he's arriving? Wait a minute" she realized her uncle had told her he was meeting somebody to discuss a new game, but he hadn't mentioned Kaiba's name "I thought that Duke Devlin person was supposed to be your meeting for the next few weeks? What's going on?" A rather confused expression on her face. She looked into her uncle's soulful brown eye, his other covered by his long silver hair.
"Oh did I forget to mention he was coming too? How thoughtless of me", her uncle replied this time dodging the impending pillow heading his way, and playfully bonking her on the head with it. He looked at his watch, and ushered Amber to follow him.

At the island landing pad, Kaiba's blue eyes plane was just arriving and proceeding to land. Looking out of the window, Kaiba was surprised to see Pegasus had come to greet him personally for once. Not only that but he wasn't alone. 'Since when did Pegasus have kids?' he wondered to himself, 'hmm why do I even care' he chided himself. Despite his annoyance at himself he couldn't help wonder if this girl might hold some clue to the mystery of who the mysterious missRa was.
As he disembarked from his plane, luggage in tow, and briefcase in hand he noted the girl was whispering something to Pegasus, and then ran back inside. The gesture struck him as a little odd, but he didn't comment.
"Ah I'm so glad you could make it my dear Kaiba-boy!" Pegasus exclaimed, before motioning for one of his staff to help with his luggage. Kaiba relinquished most of his luggage to the assistant but stubbornly kept hold of his briefcase.
"Well what did you expect? I am here on important business after all." He was about to ask about the girl, when he decided against it but he wasn't sure why.
"Of course" was the reply, "Of course you are Kaiba-boy. If you would be as so kind as to let me show you to your room?" Pegasus asked. The over enthusiastic tone to the man's voice putting Kaiba on edge.
"Hnn" was all he said in response. Pegasus raised an eyebrow wondering what it meant, relieved when Kaiba-boy nodded. He motioned to his assistant to follow with Kaiba's luggage, and the three of them made their way inside the large house.

On the other side of the island, the plane carrying Duke and his friends had just landed. With Pegasus being pre-occupied greeting Kaiba his personal assistant Croquet was waiting for them. He tried to hide his bemused expression as the gang of five disembarked from the plane. Yami/Yugi was leading the girl out by her hand, and Duke was looking rather embarrassed by Joey and Tristan. Who followed close behind, still arguing about who ate the last pack of peanuts from behind the bar, and who was going to pay for them. Croquet couldn't help but wonder how Mr.Kaiba was going to react when he bumped into Yugi and his friends. It was no secret that the two didn't get along.
"Excuse me, but may I see your invites?" he asked the group of friends. All of them except Duke looked at him like he was speaking a foreign language. Duke sighed, and showed Croquet his ticket/invite. The others quickly followed suit, finally realizing that was what Duke was talking bout back at the airport in Domino. Satisfied that everyone was accounted for who should be here, Croquet motioned for the gang to follow him to where they would be staying.

Mean while Amber was sat in her room, trying to resist pinching herself just to prove she wasn't dreaming. She couldn't believe it was him! The real Seto Kaiba, the teen CEO of Kaiba Corp, and not only that but he was here. Trying to stifle a giggle fit she decided she needed to get a shower if I she was going to be presentable enough to approach him. It had been her dream for a long time to face Kaiba in a duel, especially since it was announced he was the proud owner of three of the only four Blue Eyes White Dragons her uncle had ever created. Not only was Kaiba here, but her uncle had told her he's invited Yugi Motou to accompany Duke Devlin. She'd heard many interesting things about him as her uncles' game had taken off. Amber couldn't wait to meet him and find out if any of the bizarre things she had heard were real.
Humming the tune she was singing before her uncle had interrupted she un-paused her media player and turned the volume up. Happy it was loud enough, she crossed to her bathroom and decided to have a nice warm shower.

Else where in the huge villa, Kaiba was musing about getting a shower himself before settling down to review the important paperwork he needed. He allowed himself to be led down corridor after corridor, past numerous doors, before he was finally ushered into a room. Not surprisingly it had a blue theme, Kaiba smirked at the gesture.
"I hope you find the room to your satisfaction my dear Kaiba-boy, I know my humble home isn't as grand as what you are usest to" Pegasus told him.
"I'm sure I'll survive Pegasus, besides I'm sure you have somebody else to annoy?", Kaiba responded rather curtly. He was curious as to whether or not Pegasus would give away any details as to who the mysterious girl was. He was disappointed however, when Pegasus agreed he had over things that required his attention and left. Shaking his head, he laid his briefcase on the desk, and had a look around the room he had been provided. Finally satisfied that it wasn't bugged or booby trapped, he decided to get a quick shower to refresh himself before doing a little exploring. He was determined to find out who that girl he had seen talking to Pegasus was. However Kaiba had no idea of the consequences such a decision would lead to.

Croquet on the other hand had his hands full with showing the gang their rooms on a different wing of the large villa. For the sake of peace his boss had explained, Yugi would be best kept as far away from Kaiba as possible. After all he didn't want anything to get broken should any fighting break out between Kaiba and Yugi, or worse still Kaiba and Joey. He'd just shown Tea to her room, and practically had to drag Joey and Tristan out of the room to stop them gawping at everything. Next room on the way was Yugi's, who gave a polite thanks and went to get settled in.
Swiftly moving on, Croquet successfully managed to get both Joey and Tristan to their allocated rooms without much more fuss. Although he was glad to finally be rid of their constant enquiries, about the possibility of room service. That just left Mr.Devlin who needed to be shown to his allocated room, which was located just at the end of the hall. A fact Croquet was glad about. They were already driving him round the bend and they hadn't even been here an hour, how was he going to cope with weeks of them? He could only guess.

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