Hey! Wow, it's been almost a year since I've updated, oh well, better late than never right? I HAVE REDONE THE FIRST THREE CHAPTERS, YET AGAIN, AND YOU MAY WANT TO READ IT AGAIN SINCE IT HAS BEEN A YEAR…
Well, thanks reviewers!! And enjoy!!
Sailor Dark/Ice
DISCLAIMER: I DON'T OWN YU-GI-OH!!!
Chapter Four—Connected
"'Cause it's You & Me…"—You & Me, Lifehouse (song)
Serenity woke, opening her eyes slowly to the rising sun peeking through the windows. Where am I? She thought using her elbows to prop herself up on the bed she was laying on. A dim pain still in her chest.
The memories came back in a sudden flush.
Wait…Kai!! She looked on the other side of the bed and found him sleeping as well.
Impure thoughts started to creep into her head, and she blushed and looked about the room, she's been in here many times before, but it suddenly became more interesting when you were trying to keep your mind off of things…
Kaiba coughed and turned on his side, toward her. Serenity snapped her attention back to him and saw the he was still sleeping.
She was about to get up when Kaiba's arm snaked its way around her waist. "Don't…go…" He mumbled, sleep-talking.
Serenity couldn't help but smile and brushed a few loose hairs away from his eyes, or eyelids I should say, and proceeded to carefully take his arm from her body. Thinking all the way how cute he looked while he was sleeping.
After she had successfully gotten out of his grip, Serenity rose from the bed and lifted her arms above her head and stretched. The pain was all but a steady dull throb now, and Serenity figured that she would have to take it easy today.
"Don't……go…" Kaiba's voice was but a whisper, and Serenity turned to look back at him. He was still sleep-talking.
"Hmm…" Serenity slipped on her shoes, which she found beside the bed, and decided to call in sick for work, since the dull ache was still there.
She used a blanket at the end of the bed to cover Kaiba up with and silently crept from the room, taking one last glance at the 25 year old sleeping peacefully on the bed.
"Seren?" Serenity gasped and turned around from Kaiba's door.
Mokuba was standing there, a bag of potato chips in his hands.
"Oh, Mokuba, you scared me!" Serenity said, then began to rummage through her purse, looking for her cell phone and truck keys.
"They took you're truck yesterday. Joey said that he needed it to go to work early today." Mokuba answered her unspoken question.
"Oh," Serenity took out her cell phone and sighed. "What happened yesterday, Mokuba? I remember chest pains, something being wrong with Kai, but that's it."
"Oh." Mokuba echoed, "that."
He sighed before answering.
"He…Seto…had a stress-related heart attack."
"What?! Oh, I knew something was wrong…" Serenity mumbled.
"That's not the weird part." Mokuba placed a chip in his mouth.
Serenity waited for Mokuba to continue.
"You came running to Seto's room, and you said that you had to see him, but, I checked his phone…" This earned a stern look from Serenity. "…and you…weren't on his list. You never talked to each other…so how did you know that something was wrong, Seren?"
"I…" Serenity paused. How did she know? All she felt was a pain in her chest, and the closer she got to Kai, the more it hurt.
"I-I'm not…sure…" She said and started to walk away from Mokuba, she needed to call her work soon and possibly talked to Mai about this. Tristan wouldn't understand.
"Wait." Mokuba's voice stopped her at the top of the stairs.
"The other thing is…" A pause.
"You almost had a heart attack too."
(IV)
Joey was stripping the sheets off his bed when it happened.
The glittering gold band of promise around his third finger came flying off his hand, and where it landed…
…only God knew.
"Oh shit!" Joey dropped the sheets a box beside the bed and looked around his feet, careful not to step on it. If he did, it would never be the same circular shape that he liked so much.
"I knew I should've taken it off before I started packing…"
The ring wasn't loose around his finger, it was just when he sweated, or did a whole lot of work that it decides to come off.
And this wasn't the first time that it became "almost" lost. One time, he lost it for a week, and had to stay away from Mai for the whole duration while trying to find it. Well, she eventually found out…and let's just say that she wasn't a happy camper.
"Oh man, oh man, oh man…" Joey kept repeating the two words as he got down on his knees and looked under his bed for the precious ring.
Well, not under there, he was going in for a better look until—
"What are you doing under there?"
It was Mai.
"H-hey, I thought you were coming by at 5?" Joey got up from his search, rubbing the sore spot on his head, Mai had surprised him.
Mai laughed and pointed to Joey's still-plugged in clock. "It is 5, honey."
"Oh," Joey said sheepishly as he unplugged the clock and put it in the same box as the sheets.
"Ready to go?" She asked, looking around the mostly barren room.
"Uh, yeah, we can get the rest of the stuff after we get Serenity." Joey answered.
"Sure." Mai beamed and pulled her beamer car keys from her pocket, "let's go."
(IV)
Serenity sat on the doorsteps of the Kaiba mansion. She called her boss, and said she was sick. She didn't even bother calling Joey, she knew he would come.
She needed to clear her head anyway.
She's been out here for about an hour now. Kaiba had already gone to work. He didn't come out the front door, but a helicopter flew away from the top of his roof awhile ago, and she presumed that it was his way of travel for today.
She couldn't blame him. He did have a heart attack right in front of her eyes yesterday.
But, besides the sleep-talk, Kaiba did talk to her, fully awake, after the whole IM-ing accident. Though it wasn't her fault, she blamed herself, as she always did, except for Mai and Joey's wedding of course.
Actually, after that, she really hadn't seen any of her friends, and the wedding was about a year about this weekend. For a split second, she was glad that Joey was moving out of her house, she didn't need to hear their…relations…
Serenity rolled her eyes at her thoughts when Joey's truck pulled up, the truck that she had borrowed yesterday in fact, with Mai in the seat next to him, and boxes full of his items in the back.
"Hey," Serenity waved to them, grabbed her stuff, and walked over to the vehicle.
(IV)
(Three hours later…)
It was any ol' normal workday at the desk of Seto Kaiba except—
He was staring at a water bottle.
Why, do you ask, is he staring at a water bottle? Well…
I am so bored, I think I'm going to barf. He thought.
That was why.
Kaiba had already finished all his paperwork for the day, and was going to take a drink from his trusty water bottle, but then he noticed that the bottle was circular…just like…
Her engagement ring…
Kaiba sighed, he was sorry that he ever snapped at her through the IMs the other night, but, when she typed that she was engaged…it was too much to handle.
So, now your asking, wow, does he like her?
Well, it's a yes and no answer, see, he cares for her, but he wanted her to be happy.
Great, he thought. Now I'm starting to act like Yugi Motou…
It wasn't a surprise to Kaiba that he had that heart attack yesterday, it was a long way coming, ever since Joey leaked that Tristan was going to propose soon.
Ahh, Joey, the mutt, well, not much anymore, the "enemies" were on some sort of truce now, they stopped calling each other names, and even said a kind word to the other every now and then. It wasn't a friendship yet, but, it was on its way…
Kaiba finally took a sip of the water, then twisted the cap back on, and set it down. The water sloshed around a bit, and then finally settled down.
I wish my stomach would take note…Kaiba's stomach always upset him the day after his heart attack, sometimes he wouldn't even notice, but this time, it was real bad…
And then…
Kaiba coughed, blinked rapidly, and then rushed to his private bathroom next to his office. Then got violently sick right as he reached the toilet.
The sickness mostly consisted of his lunch, and Kaiba turned his head away, grabbing a wash cloth and wiping his lips and flushed the toilet.
It came up again and Kaiba wiped his lips for a second time, but, before he flushed again, he noticed something in the sickness that wasn't there before…
Blood.
(IV)
Wow! Can you believe it! Something else is the matter with our favorite blue-eyed genius. Well, that's what he gets for eluding it for so long…
Um, like I said, updates won't be so fast, marching season…
Sailor Dark/Ice