Fortune's Fool

Hey, so sorry my updates haven't been as regular as before, work's been busy so I'm shattered when I get home.

Thanks to HopelessRomantic183, you're still the only person who's reviewing me. And well done for finding one of the patterns in the quotes.

Also thanks to SetoKaibafan12338 for adding this story to their Favourite Stories list.

By the way, the makeup that Kisara uses is an actual brand. In this I have again taken part of one of my HP fanfics for part of this story. You don't need to read it to understand the link but if you're interested it's called 'Don't Believe Everything You Read In Books'.

Anything you recognise is not mine.

Chapter 9

"…Go to your bosom;

Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know…" Measure for Measure, Act II, Scene ii, lines 136-137 by William Shakespeare

It was three days after the tournament announcement that it officially started. On the first morning of the tournament, Kisara woke uncharacteristically early. The night before Bryn, Hermione, and Draco arrived via plane along with Bryn and Kisara's cousin and another friend of theirs who'd decided to come at the last minute. As soon as Kisara woke up, she ran to her en-suite bathroom and took a quick shower. She then proceeded to get dressed. After putting her underwear on she put on a short, light grey plaid skirt with a deep blue corset that had black trim. She then pulled on a pair of sheer black stockings and a pair of black studded Rock and Republic boots. Around her neck she put a black velvet necklace with twisting vines of silver. In the centre was a pale emerald and, hanging a couple of centimetres below it, was a tear drop shaped onyx stone. She then put on matching earrings and a black leather wristband on her right wrist. She lightly curled her hair and left it loose before getting started on her makeup. She only ever used Urban Decay makeup because she loved the strong colours that you could get. She put a light slick of a deep blue cream eye shadow and outlined her almond shaped eyes with black eyeliner that had silver glitter in it. Finally she used black mascara on her eyelashes and used her favourite bright red lipstick. She grabbed her deck and her Duel disk and then ran downstairs.

She was the only one who was actually dressed down there, although there was no sign of her cousin.

"Morning!" She grinned as she bounded into the kitchen. Bryn simply grunted with his head on the table and his eyes closed and Draco simply glared at her over his coffee cup. Hermione and Ginny were stood by the cooker making pancakes for breakfast and talking about what they should wear that day.

"Where's Harry?" Kisara asked, looking around. She was referring to Harry Potter, another friend of hers and the one who'd made the decision to come to Japan at the last minute.

"He's still asleep." Hermione replied as she carried a plate of pancakes and put them down in front of Bryn. He didn't move, just opened his eyes blearily. At that moment the front door bell rang.

"If you don't eat them Bryn then I will." Kisara called as she wandered to the door to answer it. She laughed as the sound of Bryn sitting up suddenly and starting to eat reached her ears. She opened the door to see Yugi, Joey, Mai, Tristan, Serenity, Duke and Bakura stood there.

"Hey guys, come on in." Kisara grinned.

5 minutes later they were all sat in the kitchen eating pancakes when Kisara and Bryn's cousin entered the room dressed in a pair of black jeans and a plain black shirt. Yugi and the others looked up at the newcomer with curiosity.

"Guys, this is mine and Bryn's cousin, Severus Snape." Kisara smiled, introducing him. After about an hour of questions from everyone getting to know each other, Yugi and the others had discovered that Severus was two weeks younger than Kisara and Bryn and that he wanted to train as a Potions Master. By this time Kisara was itching to leave the house and start duelling.

"We can't go yet, Harry's still asleep and we need to get dressed." Ginny pointed out. Kisara sighed.

"Right, you lot get dressed and I'll get Harry to wake up." She said. She ran up to the guest room that Harry was sleeping in and pulled out her wand. She then conjured a bucket of water and made it hover over Harry's head before tipping it over him.

"Wha…?" Harry spluttered.

"Come on sleepy head! The rest of us have been awake for ages!" Kisara grinned before leaving him to get up and dressed. She ran to Ginny and Hermione's room and knocked on the door. Ginny opened the door and pulled her in.

"Great! We need your help!" She said. It turned out that neither of them could decide what to wear. Eventually Kisara picked out a pair of paint splattered Stella McCartney jeans, a light blue and brown corset, a pair of stiletto heeled ankle boots, a butterfly necklace and matching butterfly earrings. Kisara then outlined Hermione's eyes in black Urban Decay liquid eyeliner before using black mascara on her eyelashes and adding a slick of clear lip gloss. Kisara then moved on to Ginny. First she selected a red tartan skirt and a white strappy top with a black off-the-shoulder top that had white dragons on it. She grabbed a pair of black knee-high lace up boots with a stiletto heel. She then added a red lace ribbon choker that laced up at the back with black ribbon. In the centre were two silver dragons with a chain hanging down and a black teardrop shaped onyx; Kisara also grabbed a pair of matching onyx earrings. Kisara did Ginny's eyes a Smokey black and outlined her eyes in the same black eyeliner as Hermione before adding bright red lipstick. She left Hermione's hair long and loose but tied Ginny's hair back so that some of the layers fell down and framed her face.

Eventually everyone was ready to leave. Bryn and Draco couldn't help but grin at Duke's expression when Hermione and Ginny walked up to them. Yugi was the first one challenged to a duel and, to no one's surprise, he won. Eventually Kisara got separated from the others. As she looked around for them she saw Louis François Laroche-Rousseau stood there leering at her.

"Bonjour, ma chérie." He sneered.

"Louis, je ne te voyais pendant longtemps ." Kisara nodded, still looking for Yugi and the others.

"Kisara, je te provoque en duel!" He snarled. She tensed suddenly before whirling around.

"J'accepte ton challenge!" She snarled.

By the time Yugi and the others found her the duel was over.

"Tu sois un salaud stupide! Tu penses que tu peux me dépasser après que je te dépasse la dernière fois?" Kisara spat.

"Maintenant, me rends la carte de situer!" She said, holding out her hand for Louis to place his locator card in it. He did so wordlessly and looking mutinous.

"Un jour je te dépasserai, Kisara." He muttered as he stalked off.

"Kisa!" Yugi yelled.

"Hey Yug, where'd you get to?" Kisara grinned, her expression completely changing when she saw Yugi.

"Who was that?" Yugi asked.

"Louis François Laroche-Rousseau, he used to be the European Duelling Champion…until I beat him!" Kisara explained as they left to find the others.

When they couldn't find them Kisara got her phone out and rang Bryn, unfortunately he had his phone off so she rang Hermione. After talking to her for a few moments she hung up.

"Joey's busy duelling someone now so they're going to meet us at that 50's diner in the centre of town." Kisara said as she put her phone in a hidden pocket. Yugi and Kisara started wandering towards the diner. For a journey that should have taken them 10 minutes, it actually took them an hour as people kept challenging them to duel. Even after all the delays they still managed to reach the diner before the others. Kisara ordered a strawberry milkshake and Yugi got a coke while they waited. After about 5 minutes the others opened the door and came in.

"How'd you do Joey?" Kisara asked as he sat down.

"I won, so now I've got 2 locator cards. What happened to you and Yugi?" He smiled.

"I ended up getting challenged to a duel and Yugi came to find me. On the way here people kept challenging us." Kisara replied.

"Did you win?" Mai asked, sliding into the booth next to Joey. By this time everyone was sat down.

"Of course." Kisara smirked while Yugi just grinned.

"So how many locator cards does everyone need?" Hermione asked.

"4." Said Joey.

"I need 5." Mai replied.

"Same here." Bakura said.

"I need 3." Yugi smiled which caused everyone to gasp.

"How many do you need Kisa?" Mai asked, noticing that Kisara hadn't said anything. Kisara just smiled and pulled out a small stack of cards before fanning them out in front of everyone.

"None, I have all 6." She smirked.

"How'd you get all 6 in one morning?" Bakura gasped.

"Easy, people kept challenging me thinking I was an easy target. They were wrong but I still let them think that." She said still smirking. Hermione, Ginny, Harry, Draco, Severus and Bryn were all laughing.

"That's Kisa for you, ever the Slytherin." Draco said through his laughs.

"Well, it seems the Geek Squad are still able to laugh." A cold voice said from behind them. Everyone except Kisara turned to look at whoever spoke. They all saw that it was Seto Kaiba, something that Kisara knew instinctively.

"Se taire Kaiba et tire-toi!" She said before taking another sip of her milkshake.

"Well, Ddriag, that's not very ladylike." Kaiba smirked, realising that he'd pissed her off.

"Actually I could have said something much worse but because I want to remain ladylike I won't." Kisara replied, keeping calm. Kaiba then did something that surprised everyone.

"Well, seeing as you're so ladylike. I challenge you to a duel, you might get another step closer to the finals if you beat me." He scowled. Kisara turned to look at him.

"I don't need to duel anyone else until the finals, I already have all 6 locator cards." She smirked, enjoying the shock on his face as she said this.

"That's impossible." He stated.

"No, it's just a little unlikely. The fact that I've done it should prove that it's completely possible." Kisara said evenly before continuing to ignore Kaiba who stormed out a few moments later.

They were still watching Kisara, staying in the shadows, out of sight of anyone. A snarl formed on their face as they watched Kisara laughing and enjoying herself with her friends.

"It won't be long now, Kisara Gwenhwyfar Ddriag, and then, you will die. The time is coming when you will have to pay for all that you've done. So, live you're life, you may be living on borrowed time, but that's my gift to you. I'm showing you mercy when you have shown others none." They said, their voice hoarse, as if they hadn't been using it for a while. When Kisara and her friends left to go home, they followed Kisara, keeping her firmly in their sights.

"It will happen…soon…" They whispered to themselves.