Hey guys! So please note I'm taking an aspect from Yugioh: The Dark Side of Dimensions, so if you guys haven't seen it then it's ok I'll try my best to describe it.
Iris sat besides Kaiba as they were riding towards Kaiba Corp, he was quiet like he usually was during their rides over. She didn't expect for him to open up like he did when they were at the beach, but something didn't feel right to her. Iris couldn't describe it other than an unusual tension, she felt choked up and hard to speak to him.
As the car stopped, they got out as their made their way into the building. Stepping into the elevator she opened up the binder as she looked at the first thing on Kaiba's schedule. "It looks like you're going to have a meeting in half an hour, to go over the quarterly stats." she told him. "And then after that it looks like you're going to be testing the duel disk again today, it'll take up a majority of your day." Iris warned.
"Hm, alright." he spoke. She remembered that Kaiba had left last time when he went to test out the updated duel disk without her. He was gone from early morning until the afternoon, leaving her to work on the Kaiba Land project until he returned.
"Would like me to stay behind again until you return Mr. Kaiba?" she asked him, as she just wanted to prepare herself.
Shaking his head, "no, this time I want you to come with me so you can evaluate the results." he told her as they stepped out of the elevator. "Here," he said as he handed her a small flash drive. "Get the monitors set up in the conference room, I want all projections up and ready."
Nodding her head, "understood." she said as they split down the hallways. Going down the right corridor, she made her way to the conference room. She had figured out that the other side of Kaiba's personal floor was not only for him but for his personal meetings he had with the heads of his company. Walking up to the glass doors she pushed them open, as the lights turned on upon her entrance.
There was a large circular table in the center of the white and tan painted room as there was a monitor at the very end of the room. Approaching the monitor she plugged in the flash drive Kaiba had given her, Iris pulled up close to ten different graphs as she snapped her fingers.
The graphs were soon digitized before her as she walked towards them, using her hands she moved around a few graphs as she placed them in areas that she and Kaiba would be able to reach. "I think that's about good," she said to herself as she looked at her watch, the meeting didn't start for another fifteen minutes.
Walking out of the conference room, she made her way back to Kaiba's office. "Mr. Kaiba," she announced as she walked into the room. "The projections are all set to go," she said as he didn't seemed impressed.
"Good," he said as he got up from his desk. He slipped his purple trench coat on as it was a bit similar to his white one as the end of it was flared out. It had a few gold like studs on it as he had silver like bands that started from his wrist until close to his elbow. "Iris, continue your work on the Kaiba Land project. I want your next report by Friday and no later. I want to start everything for it in two weeks from today." he told her, as he walked out of the office leaving her behind.
Iris sighed, she was already done with the report. All she had to do was go over it and have it printed up for him. She sat down as she opened up the binder, she looked over as she saw that the rest of Kaiba's day after the test of his duel disks were to just make preparations for the live broadcast he was going to do.
Feeling her personal phone vibrating she pulled it up and held it up to her ear, "hello?"
"Miss Iris, what have I told you about not contacting me for extensive periods?" she heard Jameson complain.
She shook her head, "Jameson this is sort of a bad time, I'm working right now." she said.
"I know Miss Iris, but I grew worried that's all." Jameson said.
Iris knew he cared about her, after the death of her father he became like a father figure to her. He wasn't a man after money, but someone who truly cared about those around him. "I know, I'm sorry I've just been busy with so much that I forget to check in with you."
"Busy? Miss Iris, have you been trying to reclaim the memories you lost?" Jameson asked her.
She shook her head, "no. I haven't, but I still do feel like there is something important that I need to remember." Iris explained to him.
"I'm sure it'll come back to you in time, even if it appears that something is lost doesn't mean it truly is." Jameson said, "I'll let you go for now Miss Iris, but please don't forget to call I was more than just your father's assistant you know."
Iris giggled, "yes I know Jameson, you're apart of my true family. I'll talk to you later," she hanged up the phone. She heard Kaiba's phone ring as she walked over to the desk and answered it. "Yes?"
"Oh Iris! Good, I have something down here for Mr. Kaiba do you think you could get it please?" she heard Kaya ask.
Shaking her head, "yea sure. I'll be down in a few minutes." she told her before hanging up the phone. "I swear one of these days he needs to invent a way to have his stuff delivered to him on this floor." she said to herself as she walked out of his office and made her way back to the elevator.
She turned towards the window side of the elevator as she began watching her descent back down to the main floor. It was just another beautiful day, as she could see the streets below were filled with people that from where she was looked like ants. Looking out she could barely see New Domino Bank; Iris greatly missed working there she had fun, it was the perfect place for her to work and to help ensure that she would be ready.
Ready for when she took over her father's company.
The bell rang as the doors opened, stepping out Iris made her way to the desk. "What do you have for me today?" Iris asked, as she saw Kaya hold up a large card style envelope.
"This came in today, it's a bit bulky and from the looks of it fancy." Kaya said, in a joking style as they both laughed.
"Let me see that," Iris told her as she grabbed the gold tinted envelope from Kaya. Iris was shocked that there was no name, no address, nothing. Just a red wax seal with a strange symbol pressed into it. "How do you know this is for Mr. Kaiba?"
Kaya shrugged her shoulders, "some guy in a suit and tie came in and was very clear that it was for Mr. Kaiba." she answered her. "I only saw him once before… last week when he delivered that letter."
"Really?" Iris whispered. "Either he has an admirer or someone is trying to butter him up." To Iris it was beyond strange, first a letter with no return address and now this one.
"If you ask me it's just strange, I haven't been here a year yet but never have I ever seen something like this." Kaya spoke. "I'll try and get an identification on that guy next time he comes in."
"That's much appreciated," Iris said as she walked back to the elevator. Holding her door card to it the doors opened as she stepped in and began her ascent back up.
Looking down at the envelope Iris was starting to become very curious about what it's contents were. She knew she couldn't open it, let alone ask Kaiba about it. Snapping her fingers she found out a way that she could secretly find out. "Curiosity killed the cat, but when dealing with Seto you've gotta be clever." she said to herself as she stepped out, and made her way back his office.
Stepping inside she saw that he had yet to return from his meeting, she placed the envelope on his desk as she sat back down. Grabbing her briefcase she opened it and pulled out her small black laptop as she re-read her report to make sure she didn't miss anything.
About a half an hour had passed, as she saw Seto return. "Did the meeting go alright Mr. Kaiba?" she asked him as he sat down at his desk.
He glared up at her, "what's this?" he asked her as he held up the envelope.
"Kaya said that a man delivered that today while you were in your meeting. He made it clear that it was for you." she told him. Iris watched as he opened up the envelope, pulling at the wax seal on the back as he pulled out a red card with golden edged. She watched as Kaiba skimmed over it, knowing she already had a plan Iris saw her opportunity. "Is everything ok?"
Kaiba looked up at her, placing the card down. "Look for yourself." he said as he could see the curiosity in her eyes.
Taking the card from him, she could see the handwritten cursive words. "Dear Mr. Seto Kaiba, we cordially invite you to the Nobles' Charity Gala with this years profits going to local orphanages to provide these children then more than just clothing and food. We hope to see you at our event, and please note you are required to bring a date." Iris read the card aloud.
"You didn't have to read it, I already know what it says." Kaiba told her. Iris didn't pay attention to what he said as the word date rang in her head, as she was just frozen. "Iris!"
Hearing Kaiba yell her name, she partially snapped out of it, "date?" she spoke as she froze again as her cheeks were flushed red. "I mean...I'm sorry sir, umm...do you plan on attending the event?" she asked as she tried to forget what just happened.
"Possibly, but that's for me to decide." he told her, as she watched Kaiba gather a few things as he placed them in his own briefcase before he got up, "let's go we're leaving to test out the duel disks." he told her.
Gather her stuff Iris, followed behind him as she felt her heart racing. She didn't know what he would decide. Part of her wished he would tell her that she was going with him, but another part of her not to get her hopes up.
"We're gonna fit in that?" Iris asked, as she looked at Kaiba. After driving almost an hour away from Kaiba Corp they had made their way towards the harbor as they reached a man-made island that Kaiba had designed, with the biggest aspect being the long tube that reached from the island up to the sky. Numerous workers were on computers as they were ensuring that things were set to go for their trip. Iris could hear announcements about the wind speed and approximate speed needed for both of them to make it there.
"We'll have to, it's the only way to get to the station." he said to her sounding like his usual annoyed self.
"The station? Is this even safe to get into a space station?" she freaked out, "I'm not comfortable with this." she told him.
Grabbing her hand Kaiba lead her towards the pod as the doors to both the tube and the pod opened up. Seeing that there was one chair in it. "It's safe Mokuba and I use it to go to the station, everything that I designed and invented has never failed me."
Sitting in the chair he pulled Iris onto him as she sat on his lap. Before she could object again both of the doors closed, as she felt all the warmth in her body leave her as she felt cold. The pod began to take off with incredible speed, as she watched out the windows of the pod and tube as they were beginning to rise above the clouds. Iris instantly began to feel herself begin to shake, wrapping her arms around Kaiba she buried her face in his shoulder, "I can't look!" she yelled.
Iris was beyond shocked that they were still going up, as she thought that they would stop soon. She closed her eyes tight as she kept her face hidden, to ensure she wouldn't look outside. The sounds outside of them didn't help either, as it wasn't loud or windy, but an eerie quiet that gave her body goose bumps.
Kaiba had done this more times then he could count, it didn't bother him but seeing how Iris was he placed a hand on her head as he gently stroked her hair. "You're safe, just look." he told her.
Iris was very hesitant, as she slowly turned her head back to look. As she opened her eyes she saw it. She could see the world, the outlines of the continents surrounded by beautiful sapphire blue waters as clouds of different hues of grey and white were scattered around. Even though she still felt nervous, she knew this was an amazing sight that not many people could get to see. "It's beautiful."
"Nothing to worry about." he told her, as the view of the Earth disappeared as they reached the station. The pod finally stopped as the doors opened, they both stood up as they left the pod and stepped into the station. Looking to her right Iris saw a large window, as she slowly approached it she looked up into the starry black sky. Each star looked like a bright fireball, that just dazzled in the darkness filling it with light.
Iris could feel herself spacing out, as she felt a strange feeling in the back of her head, as things started to feel fuzzy.
'I wish one day I could see the Earth like the stars do.' a girl's voice said. Iris knew that voice, it was her's! She couldn't see where she was, but she knew that she was young.
"Why would you want to do that?" a boy asked, the voice didn't sound familiar to her. Not one bit. Looking over she could hardly make out who the boy she was talking to was, all she saw was a black silhouette that appeared to be a bit taller than her. "There are plenty of pictures of what the Earth looks like from space."
"Yea, but that's just a picture. I wanna see it for myself! I wanna make it worth it!"
Iris pulled herself out of it, as she grabbed her head as she felt a throbbing pain take over. Taking a step back she felt herself fall as she expected to land on the metal floor, but she felt something break her fall.
She could see Kaiba's arms wrapped around her, as he caught her before she made it to the floor. "What's wrong with you?" Kaiba asked her, as he kept her on her feet. "Iris! Answer me!" he demanded.
Feeling the pain starting to slowly fade away, she looked up at him. "I think...part of memory….it just came back…" she told him through the pain.
"What do you mean?"
Iris could feel almost all the pain leave, "when I saw the stars and the Earth it brought back a memory that I think I lost when I was in my accident." she told him.
"You think you lost? You're not making sense." he told her.
"It was really fuzzy, I just know I was talking to someone about wanting to see the Earth like the stars do, I wanted to see it for myself and that a picture wasn't really worth it, but to see it was." she told him.
"So you only had a piece come back?" he asked.
Iris nodded her head, "yea, but…" she looked back out the window. "Ever since my accident, the memories I did lose I wasn't able to remember, I tried to but nothing worked. And now...I'm finally on the right track." she explained.
"I guess this means you'll try and regain your lost memory." Kaiba said to her.
Looking around she could see that it was only just the two of them in this corridor. "Even if I try to...I still don't know where to look Seto. It's been four years since the accident, and this is the first breakthrough I've had. I just know that there was something important that I forgot, and I need to remember it."
"I'm not one for advice, but if it's important to you then it should come back in time." he told her, as she smiled.
Iris knew Kaiba had a point, she needed to give it more time. But if he didn't bring her here, then she wouldn't have been able to regain that little fragment of her past. Iris knew this was just the start, "thank you Seto."