Red: I hope everyone is enjoying this story! :) Thank you to everyone who has reviewed this story, and/or has favorite and followed the story or me. The response has been amazing! I'm glad it seems people like this story so far. :D
Response to Reviews:
Applejax XD - I'm glad you liked the omake. xD I thought since Yami got some love last chapter, Seto needed some as well.
xSterlingStardust - When I watched the show, I did like the Orichalcos season too, since it was the only time Yami actually lost to someone. (Well, except Yugi at the end of the show.) And I would love to write about it, but so far I only have one idea for it that has Kagome in the scene. Maybe I will make a separate story (one-shot?) or chapter (at the end of this story) with the scene in it, but right now I don't think I can make it work in the story. :P
Since I'm not sure if it's going to happen or not, I'm just going to tell you which scene I was going to pick. It's the scene where Yami loses, but instead of Yugi's soul that gets taken, it would be Kagome's soul. Considering how enraged Kaiba was towards Yugi/Yami losing his champion title, imagine how much angrier he would be if Yami lost both the title and his girlfriend. xD
Lee - Lol sorry I threw in the omake and made you feel for Seto. :P And I liked the scenarios you came up with. It would be awesome if Kagome somehow got into the hearts of Bakura/Ryo and Marik as well; but at the same time, I feel like the reverse harem would be too great at that point. XD Also, priest Seto secretly loving the queen sounds like such a juicy idea, I may actually use that. ;3
IMPORTANT: Kagome did not travel to the Feudal Era in this fanfic. (Which means no Inuyasha, Sango, Miroku, and the others.) Don't worry, though, she will still have supernatural things happen to her. :P
Disclaimer: You are crazy if you think I own any of these characters. They belong to their rightful owners.
Summary: What would you do if your soulmate and queen did not want you? What do you do when she is your rival's girlfriend? What would you do when she tells you her heart has changed and she no longer feels anything towards you? Kagome was Atem's queen and soulmate. But in present day she is Seto Kaiba's girlfriend. Despite his odds, Atem is going to fight for her until she gives in.
Chapter Four: Stolen
Kagome woke up early the next morning to prepare lunch for everyone again. She gently pushed herself into a sitting position on the large king-sized bed she shared with Seto, who was still sleeping soundly next to her.
She looked down at his innocent face with a smile before brushing his hair out of his eyes and leaning down to place a kiss on his cheek. "Good morning, Seto" she whispered softly. Instead of getting up right away, she decided to lean on her side and watch Seto peacefully sleep. 'He looks to innocent and calm in his sleep,' she thought as she gently caressed his cheek with her hand. 'It reminds me of the time when we first met—before the weight of being a CEO had added stress lines to his face.' With another kiss to his cheek, Kagome carefully got out of bed and headed to the shower.
After about half an hour later, Kagome was done taking her shower and drying her hair. She then went to the kitchen to make lunch. It took her about an hour to make everything and have it nicely placed within the appropriate lunch boxes. After she was done wrapping the lunch boxes in cloth, she went to the phone in the kitchen to call Seto's assistant.
A click was heard on the other end, signaling someone had picked up the phone. "This is Ashley speaking. How may I help you?" Ashley said in her usual professional way.
"Oh, hey Ashley," Kagome greeted, cheerfully. "I was wondering if you would be so kind as to send someone to bring me my black bag with lunch boxes during lunch at school. It's far too heavy for me to carry all the way there," she explained to the assistant.
"Not a problem, Kagome! I'll send someone to drive it to your school."
"Thanks, Ashley!" Kagome then hung up the phone and looked at the time. 'I better start heading over to Yugi's place now,' she thought as she grabbed her school bag and made her way out of the building in the direction of the game shop.
~At the Game Shop~
Sullivan Motou was outside sweeping the front of his game shop like he did every day when Tea suddenly ran up to him.
"Good morning, Mr. Motou," she greeted him.
"Ah, Tea. Good morning. Yugi's upstairs getting ready. I'll call him for you," he said. "Would you like to come inside for something to drink?" he offered.
"No thanks. We're already late." At that point, Kagome was running towards them from the opposite direction that Tea had come from.
Kagome waved her hand as she got closer to them. "Hey, Tea! Mr. Motou." She smiled in greeting. "I hope I didn't' keep you guys waiting."
"Not at all, Kagome," Mr. Motou said. "My slow grandson is still in his room getting ready." Mr. Motou covered his face with his hands and had dramatic tears in his eyes. "Oh, how cruel of him to make two pretty girls wait for him. Back in my day, men knew how to properly treat women. Oh, how the times have changed," Mr. Motou said woefully.
The two girls sweat-dropped at his actions.
Mr. Motou quickly recovered from his "moment," and yelled up to the top floor of the game shop. "Yugi! Your two pretty girlfriends are waiting for you!" The two girls anime fell on the floor from his wording.
Tea quickly tried to correct him on what he said. "Please don't say it like that, Mr. Motou."
"Huh? Why?" he asked the girl. "I didn't say anything wrong."
Tea sweat-dropped again. "Well, you see…"
Kagome just giggled as Tea was stuck trying to explain the reason why for what he said was not the best thing to shout in public.
As the girls were teaching Mr. Motou the difference between girlfriend and a female friend, Yugi was upstairs trying to get ready as he blushed like crazy by his grandpa's shout. 'Now what are the neighbor's going to think?' Yugi thought as he tried to concentrate putting the chain on his Millennium Puzzle. "I-I'll be right there, grandpa!" he shouted as he adjusted the puzzle around his neck.
He held the puzzle with one hand as he tried to make the chain sit comfortably around his neck. 'This new chain aught to keep my Millennium Puzzle safe. It seems like everyone likes their hands on it lately,' he thought as he looked at himself in the mirror.
The Spirit appeared next to him with his arms crossed. "And we need it now more than ever," he stated.
Yugi looked up at the spirit. "We are? What do you mean by that?"
"The Millennium Puzzle connects us, Yugi. And I sense fate has more in stored for us."
Yugi got a determined look in his eyes. "Well, we're in this together no matter what!"
"Good." The Spirit smiles and nods at his partner's determination. "I wish I knew more, but our future is still unclear to me," the Spirit said before disappearing back into the puzzle.
Yugi held the puzzle in his hand as he looked down at it. "Don't worry, Spirit. I'm going to help you figure it out." Yugi grabbed his school bag and quickly made his way down the stairs to meet his friends. Once he got outside he was greeted with the sight of a frustrated Tea, a confused grandpa, and a very amused Kagome who looked like she was trying to hold in a laugh. "Uh…"
Tea finally noticed that he was there. "About time, Yugi!" She threw her arms in the air with frustration, having to try to explain teenage terms to his grandfather for the past twenty minutes.
Yugi gave her an apologetic look. "Sorry, Tea."
"Where going to be late to the big game. What took you so long?" she asked.
Yugi looked down at the puzzle around his neck, "Uh… I was talking to the Spirit of the Millennium Puzzle. He seems kind of worried."
Kagome looked upset at his words. "Worried? About what?" she asked as she looked at the eye of the Millennium Puzzle as if trying to stare at the Spirit's eyes. 'If he's worried, then something bad is probably going to be happening.'
"About the future, I think," Yugi replied. "He said something about our destiny being unclear." Tea looked a bit worried; yet still confused. "Ever sense we defeated Pegasus together, the Spirit has been talking about fate like there is something more he has to do. When you think about it, he doesn't know that much about himself: like where he came from or why he's here." Yugi let go of his puzzle so that it hung on his neck again. "But I'm just babbling and we're already late, so we should go."
Since Tea was still confused and didn't seem to grasp everything Yugi had said, she was quick to get got over the topic and easily had a smile on her face again before shouting, "Oh, right, the soccer game. We definitely don't want to miss it."
The two of them said bye to Mr. Motou and began walking to school. Kagome followed them, but at a slower pace as she continued to contemplate what Yugi had just said. 'Fate… The ancient spirits at home said something similar…' she thought as she placed a finger on her chin on thought. 'They said there was something that I would discover here in Japan, that's the main reason I came back here… I guess I will just have to wait and see what's in store.' She gripped a fist to her heart as she watched the backs of her friends continue to get farther away from her. 'If anything, I have to do everything in my power to protect them.'
Yugi noticed that he didn't hear two sets of footsteps behind him, so he turned around to see who they were missing. He saw that Kagome had stopped walking and was instead looking at them with a sort of sad look on her face. "What's wrong, Kagome?" Yugi asked. "If you don't hurry, we're going to be late to school."
"N-nothings wrong!" Kagome quickly placed her hands back to her side and tried to smile at Yugi. "I'm coming!" She quickly adjusted her bag on her shoulder and ran to her friends.
The trio walked down the street to their school, Tea tried to talk about sports to the boy who doesn't seem to have any interest in it, while the other girl tried to appear to be listening to her talk, but was really in deep thought about something else.
"You don't have much interest in sports, do you, Yugi?" Tea said with a smile when she noticed his far off look.
"Hehe. Not really, Tea," Yugi replied back while rubbing the back of his neck. "You should know that already, though. I was never a sports person since no one wanted to me to join them." Kagome gave him a sympathetic look. "But that's ok, even if they did, I don't have the muscle for sports anyway."
Tea thought back to their history together and noticed that he did have a point. "Yeah, true…" She did remember when she was the only person in school who was willing to even talk to him and didn't bully him. Even Joey and Tristan bullied Yugi at the beginning of their high school years.
Yugi suddenly stopped walking when he saw a cloaked fortuneteller set up in an alleyway. "Futures told, fates unfold. Step up, boy, and I will reveal the secrets of your future," the mysterious man said.
Without even thinking, Yugi began to walk towards the man in the alley, seeming to be entranced by him and his untold promises.
Tea continued to walk to school but quickly noticed that her friend wasn't walking with her anymore. "Yugi?" She turned and saw her short friend walk closer to the man in the alley.
Kagome got a bad feeling about the man Yugi was approaching. "Uh… Yugi…" she said apprehensively.
"Can you really see into the future?" Yugi asked the man, clearly not hearing the warning in Kagome's voice.
"Yes," the figure replied, chuckling sinisterly in a low tone so that the boy wouldn't hear. Kagome narrowed her eyes with suspicion even more. 'This guy is definitely not good."
"What are you going, Yugi?" Tea asked, curiously, clueless of the dangers of this cloaked man.
'Why are the two of them so calm?' Kagome asked herself. 'Can't they clearly see that this man is dangerous?' She looked at the cloak he was wearing and saw that the hood of his cloak displayed a purple eye, which looked strangely like the one on the puzzle. 'Weird…but something tells me it's not just a coincidence.'
Yugi gripped his puzzle with one of his hands. "Maybe this fortuneteller can figure out the fate of the puzzle, Tea. This may be my only chance to help the Spirit out by getting some answers."
Tea looked unsure. "Hm, ok, but we really don't have much time," Tea notified him while looking at the watch on her wrist. "We're already running late as it is."
The mysterious man looked at the object of his desire: the Millennium Puzzle. 'Such a naive boy, and so easy to mislead,' the cloaked man thought. "Boy, in order for me to tell your future, I must hold a personal item," he instructed the tri-colored haired boy.
Yugi looked questionably at the man. "Really?"
"Your necklace will do nicely," the man said while reaching out a hand for Yugi to put the puzzle in.
"My what? No." Yugi took a step back and gripped the puzzle in his hands. "I'm sorry, but I can't."
"Then I can't tell your fortune. I need it to properly read your aura to see what fate has in store for you. You do want to know, don't you?" the man asked matter-of-factly. Yugi looked conflicted as he looked down at his puzzle. "Your fate?"
'I need to know what secrets he could reveal. I promised the Spirit I would help him with solving the answers to his fate,' Yugi thought as he continued to look down at his puzzle. 'And in order to do that, I have to hand him the puzzle…'
"OK, but only for a second." Yugi took off his puzzle from his neck.
Kagome put a hand on his shoulder to hold him back. "Yugi, I don't think this is a good idea. I'm getting a bad feeling from this man," she whispered into his ear.
"I guess…" Yugi was beginning to have second thoughts now that Kagome was giving him a worried look. She told him she could sense auras, so maybe she senses something uneasy about this man. Yugi slowly began to pull his puzzle away from the cloaked man.
'Cursed woman,' the figure thought. He quickly snatched the puzzle from the boy's hand before kicking over the table and knocking Yugi down on the sidewalk.
"Hey!" Yugi shouted as he pushed himself up from the ground. "Give me back my puzzle!"
Kagome began running after the figure. "Hey, get back here!" she shouted as she jumped over a knocked over trashcan the figure bumped into. 'I promised myself I would protect them.' She sidestepped away from another knocked down can. 'And that meant the Spirit as well!'
Yugi quickly got up and ran after the two of them. "Wait, Yugi!" Tea shouted at him. "What should I do?"
Yugi continued to run, but glanced back at Tea, "Go try cutting him off or something! I'm going to follow them this way!"
"Right!" Tea quickly began running down the street to catch up with the bandit. As she ran down the sidewalk, she didn't realize that she had passed Bakura who was also on his way to school.
"Hey, Tea," Bakura greeted. "Why are you in such a rush?"
Tea stopped running and turned to the familiar voice. "Oh, hi, Bakura." Tea breathed deeply as she tried to catch her breath. "I can't really talk right now, I'm trying to help stop the guy who stole Yugi's puzzle."
Bakura looked shocked. "Someone stole Yugi's puzzle?"
"Yeah! I'm trying to cut the thief off by going this way while Yugi and Kagome runs after him."
"Where are they?" he asked, looking concerned.
"They ran through the alley." Tea pointed to the alleyway a few blocks from where they currently were.
"Well, don't let me detain you. You keep looking and I'll get some help."
"Right! Thanks, Bakura!" Tea shouted as she began to run again.
After Tea was out of hearing range, an evil presence took over Bakura's body and mind. "No one is allowed to have the Millennium Puzzle but me." He grabbed the necklace from under his shirt. "I will track them down with my Millennium Ring." The points of the ring began to levitate with energy. "Show me the way. Track down the item's mystical energies and lead me to the Millennium Puzzle. I must have my hands on that puzzle. With it and the rest of the Millennium Items, I will have all of the power, and no one is going to stand in my way."
Kagome swerved passed trashcans and boxes. "Get back here!" she shouted at the man. 'I knew that guy was no good!' The man pushed down a trashcan to slow her down, which she barely was able to get out of the way. She stepped to the side and bumped into a stack of boxes, making her lose her balance and lose sight of the man.
Yugi ran up to her and helped her up. "Are you OK, Kagome?" he asked concerned for his friend's safety.
Kagome brushed her hair out of her face. "I'm fine. Don't mind me, go after him, Yugi," Kagome told the short teen.
After making sure she was truly all right, he nodded his head in understanding. "Right!" Yugi began running again to the place he last saw the guy turn the corner.
Red: Sorry if nothing too exciting is happening in this chapter. :P
I know it's been a long time since I've updated and that's because I've been busy with exams and assignments.
Please let me know what you think about this chapter in the reviews. :) Any feedback would be wonderful.