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Chapter 6

(Somewhere near the ocean)

Seto Kaiba sat in a house by a sea cliffs edge. This was where he would go when he needed to think by himself and where he came when he left his brother in the office. His mind was still plagued by his defeat, but he didn't have the voice, the feeling, egging him to do things that he knew he shouldn't. Somehow, his mind had become open and gave way to his conflicted emotions, no longer held back by a brick wall.

He was currently sitting at a computer deck, typing away, trying and failing to find answers as to how Yugi could have beaten him. Someone, who just came out of nowhere and changed his thoughts and person. Some how he felt he had been this way before, but long ago in a different time.

Seto had run every computer program that could possibly give him answers as to how a champ like him could have been defeated, but they eluded him.

He had been on the verge of winning, his Blue Eyes White Dragon destroying every card Yugi laid down, but he never gave up. Against all odds he had absolute faith in his grandfather's deck and somehow drew the one cards that assured his victory. Exodia the Forbidden one. A one in a million chance and he pulled it off.

Seto had always believed that duel monsters was a game of shear power and that no one could beat him. But Yugi claimed that the cards had a heart. Come to thing of it, so had she.

Kagome Higurashi-Taisho, the adopted sister of the Taisho Corporation's current owner, Sesshomaru Taisho. They ran in the top three running with his and Pegasus's corporations. He dealt in everything from weapon contracts to dueling and modern technologies.

He had met her at a dinner party two years ago. They were celebrating a business contract between Taisho and Kaiba corporations, along with the announcement that she was Sesshomaru's new sister and ligament heir to the corporation, though she seemed to be reluctant to be announced as so.

She seemed to be shy and small when people came up and asked her to dance. She was about 5'3", flowing blue black hair, and sapphire blue eyes. She was pretty, but not overly so. Her brother set them up for the next dance, even though he didn't particularly like dancing, and they got to talking abut duel monsters after an awkward silence. She had frowned disapprovingly when he told her his meaning of duel monsters. He was genuinely shocked to see that she actually wasn't a scared little girl by her words.

"You may never understand, but there's much more to it." She had said. "Just like everything that has life, so can a duel monster. Believing in something makes it have that life, giving them strength and in return they work for you as your friend. Not the other way around and not like slaves. Your heart gives them strength and they give you strength in return to win. They help determine the outcome of the duel."

Seto had never thought of her words till now. He had scoffed and left her alone there on the dance floor after insulting her, calling her a little girl stuck in a dream. Now that his mind and thoughts weren't obscured by that evil voice in his head, he shouldn't have said or did what he had done. Her words had a ring, he still thought it impossible though. They were just cards!

It sounded crazy, but could Kagome and Yugi have been right? Is there really a heart of the cards that could affect the outcome of a duel? Is that how he won?

The only way he could be sure was to face Yugi again with his new duel disk system that he had been working and trying to perfect.

A knock and a mans voice calling his name jarred him from his thoughts.

"We knew you're in there! Open the door or we'll break it down."

Seto quickly placed the hollow disk generators into his briefcase and locked it just as they broke through the door.

"Let's go Kaiba. Mr. Pegasus would like to have a few words wi'cha" Seto chuckled humorlessly.

"I bet he would. But it'll take more than you two goons to grab me" he said.

"This can go the easy way or we can snap ya in two, wise ass" said the other guy. Setos' eyes narrowed and kicked the chair at them hard enough to knock them off their feet.

"You'll never take me alive" he said, grabbing his briefcase and jumped out the large window, breaking the glass. The two goons looked outside to see that he wasn't there. Only a rocky ad dangerous sea cliff laden with huge boulders protruding from the ocean floor could be seen.

"No one could have survived a fall like that."

"Looks like he did our work for us. Grab the deck with the deadly Blue Eyes White Dragon and lets go. The boss wants that deck."

(At duelist kingdom)

"Hurry guy's, we're almost there" said Tea as they all ran along the cliff to the boat.

"What? Wait guys!" said Kagome, pointing out to the sea. "They've already gone!"

"And there's the sleazy low life who shipped em out!" yelled Joey, pointing to the spike headed goon on the dock.

"You're too late, those losers are on their way back home" he said gruffly as they ran up behind him.

"It hasn't even been an half hour yet!" protested Tea.

"Tough Luck. Pegasus sets the schedule here." Mokuba went up to him, holding his hand out with the star chips.

"Please, you've got to call them back these are those kids star chips!" he pleaded, Kagome saw the glint in his eye, but she didn't react fast enough as the goon smacked them away and into the water.

"What gives? A bunch of those star chips belonged to Yugi you big ass!" yelled Joey.

"I'm sorry Yugi" said Mokuba.

"Ha, you losers should keep a tighter grip on your valuables. Accidents like that wouldn't happen if you did." Suddenly he reached down and picked Mokuba up in a head lock. "As for you, Pegasus has prepared a dinner specially for you and your return to the castle. He's a very special guest in the cage."

"Hey!" yelled 'Yugi'. "I still have three of my star chips left. I challenge you to a duel, and If I win Mokuba comes with us!"

The goon just smirked evilly. He had hopped he would.

"Don't know why you'd risk your chips for this punk, but if that's the way you wanna waste your last star chips, then meet back at arena 146 in exactly four hours, you'll have your duel."

~4 hours later~

"Well, we're here. Where's antenna head?" said Joey, walking besides Tristan and Tea, behind Yugi and Kagome.

"Yugi! Kagome! Over here!" called out Mokuba. They turned and saw the giant goon once again holding him up from the ground in a head lock. "Get him off me."

"Mokuba!" cried Kagome.

"Put him down" demanded 'Yugi' as his eyes narrowed.

"I'll consider it, if you win the duel" he replied.

"Oh, I'll beat you alright" spat out Yugi angrily.

"I never said I would be dueling" he said smirking at the group's confused faces, and then pointed up to the red stand. "There is your opponent."

"What?" said Yugi disbelievingly, as Kagome's eyes widened in shock.

"He's an old friend who's dying to see you again" said the goon evilly. "He met an unfortunate end earlier today, but he's come back, just to duel you."

"It can't be" whispered Kagome. "What are you saying? What happened to Seto!" yelled Kagome. "This is not him!"

"He took a little tumble off the cliff, but he returned from the grave to beat Yugi. It is him."

There standing on the platform and radiating death and evil, was Seto Kaiba.

"No" she whispered.

"Yes, Kagome, Yugi" he said in a chilling and other worldly voice. "It's me, Kaiba. This time, Yugi you don't stand a 'ghost' of a chance."

Kagome felt sick looking at him. His aura radiated death and felt similar to Seto, but it wasn't him. Seto was not dead, was not this evil thing.

'It can't be true. Seto was good, if miss guided. Even in death he wouldn't have turned into something like this' she glanced up at the 'Seto'. She didn't feel his true aura. This was not him. His soul was not truly there. It was not him.

Still kinda short, but the next one should be a little bit longer

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