A/N: Yay another chapter! I'm on a roll... well at least I think I am. ^^;; Anyway I hope that this chapter won't end up being longer or short then I intend it to be. I hope is the key words there. Either I'll get really into it and drag it out just a little too much, or I'll be so into it that my head will get ahead of my fingers and I'll cut things out. XD I hope not.
When it's song lyrics in the story it will look like this : {Yay lyrics}
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters from the show, or the show it's self. I just own my own characters.
Hold My Hand is not only the title of the chapter but it is the name of the song I used. It is by New Found Glory. I do not own.
And we're off!
The Kaiba Twins Revised
Chapter Ten: Hold My Hand
Sahirah woke at two in the morning to her cell phone ringing for the fourth time in a row. Seriously couldn't someone get the hint when she didn't answer the past three times. The gray eyed teen grumbled as her hand fumbled for the chain on her night light. Pulling quickly on the chain the light turned on and the girl answered the call. "Hello?!" She answered rudely, but she didn't care - whoever had the nerve to call her so many times this early in the morning didn't deserve her kindness this time.
"Oh, Sahirah! I'm sorry for waking you up. I know it's early there but I just couldn't bare to just leave you a message - I wanted to tell you personally." A female voice spoke.
Sahirah registered that it was her friend from New Jersey. "Jenna? It's okay. What's up?" She asked, while lying. It really wasn't okay to be calling this early, anything could have waited for a more reasonable hour.
"Well we just got word that Mike has woken from his coma. The doctors say that they think it's possible for Tom to wake from his soon." Jenna stated, making Sahirah's breath catch in her throat.
She was wrong, maybe this was important enough to wake her up for.
"He woke early this morning. I figured that I'd let you know so you can tell Katrina. I'm sure that she'd like to know that he's okay."
Sahirah somehow found her voice again. "Thanks Jenna, I'll let her know. Thanks for the call. I'll call you back later, at a better time for both of us to talk."
"Okay, well I miss you girl. Talk to you later. Bye." Jenna stated before hanging up.
Sahirah placed the phone back on the nightstand. 'What should I do?' She looked at her door, knowing that right across the hall her sister slept peacefully. 'Katrina is finally acting happy again. She's good friends with Marik and Otogi. I don't know what this news will do to her.' She couldn't help but think the worse. That's when she decided that she wasn't going to tell her. It wasn't like Mike had Katrina's cell phone number, and as far as she was concerned Katrina and her weren't going back to New Jersey anytime soon. Letting out a huge sigh she lied back down and closed her eyes; she had work tomorrow at the corporation after school and needed rest.
Katrina sat up in bed with a start, gasping for her breath. It was still early, too early to get ready to go to school and too early for her to be up, but she dared not to go back to sleep just incase the nightmares decided to return to plague her mind. Sighing, she turned on her lamp and looked around the room before deciding to just get up. She grabbed some clothes and hopped into the shower. As the water ran down her back her thoughts tried to shift to earlier times in her life and each time she refused to remember them.
Once she was done cleaning herself she went back to her room and grabbed her brush to pull her hair back. That's when she saw it. On the corner of her dress she had a small calendar for herself. November fourteenth. That's why she was having all the nightmares, her subconscious mind knew what she refused to acknowledge.
"Did you forget my birthday again Kat?"
Katrina could hear the voice so clear in her head that she had to cover her ears. She moved to the window seat to clear her head by looking outside, but it was sadly raining outside. She could almost laugh, of course it was raining. Rain makes everything more dramatic and gloomy than they appear to be.
"I should really have written it on your calendar for you. Maybe next year." The voice laughed.
Hugging her knees to her chest she could feel the dwindling pain that shot into her heart every time she took a breath. Peering out the window at the autumn leaves falling from the large oak trees outside, she watched the raindrops fall almost as quickly as the tears that now streamed down her face. Slowly, she moved from my position on the window seat and moved over to the desk. Plopping down in the chair, she opened the top drawer and began to rummage around through it, then she caught a glimpse of it. The picture of Josuke and her. She smiled at the memory.
Josuke and her had just come back to her house after hanging out at Tom's house.
"Kat! Look!" Sahirah smiled as she entered the room. "Hey Josuke."
"What's up?" He smiled at her.
"What's that?" Katrina asked as she bounced off her bed and over to her sister.
"I got this new camera. Look!" Sahirah held it out for her.
"Wow, this is nice." Katrina stated as she looked it over.
The camera was a light blue, digital, and fancy looking. "I bought it myself." Sahirah beamed with pride.
"That's awesome Hira." Josuke spoke as he stood from the bed to look at the camera as well.
"Let me take a picture." Sahirah took the camera back and aimed for the two teenagers.
"Oh no, I don't do pictures." Josuke stated as he held his hand to his face.
"Please Josuke, just one." Sahirah pleaded and gave him the sad eyes.
He tried not to look and he but sighed in defeat. "Okay."
Katrina smiled and jumped on his back, leaning her head over his shoulder and she smiled at her twin before giving her the peace sign with her hand.
Josuke leaned forward slightly to keep Katrina from falling before copying her hand symbol and made the peace sign himself.
It was at the moment when the two teens were smiling, that Sahirah snapped the shot. "That's a keeper." She stated and grinned back at them.
That's when Katrina's ipod alarm clock decided to go off, picking a random song from her play lists. She couldn't believe what started playing. It was almost as if Josuke himself was haunting her for the day. It was their song, and then again she was thrown into another memory.
Tom raised his feet to rest them on the coffee table in his room that was in front of his television. Mike sat next to him with a game controller in his hand. The two boys were fighting each other on some kind of wrestling game. Josuke and Katrina were lying on the bed next to each other watching them. The four teens had gotten bored of hearing the same sound effects that the game made and decided to play Katrina's ipod on the speakers.
{The way your hair swings over you eyes, The motor in my head turns...}
Josuke turned to Katrina slightly and started singing with the song to her. "Wanting you for such a long time. In my mind, a heart, a lesson to learn." He had a nice voice. "You'll never know, I'm after you." He grinned at her and sang the chorus.
When the next bridge came he stopped and looked at her and it took her a moment to understand that it was her turn.
{The way your words keep me in a line, I know what I'm here for...}
"Waking up to the green of your eyes, it's something I'll get used to. Oh!" She smiled at him, blushing lightly. "You'll never know, I'm after you."
"Come on lovebirds, you're ruining my concentration." Mike gritted his teeth.
Tom laughed. "You were losing anyway."
"And you smell like, how angels oughta smell. And you look like you're ready to go." Katrina continued before her cell phone went off. "Hiya Hira." She answered cheerfully. "I'm at Tom's." She answered.
Katrina walked over to the ipod and turned it off at the same part that she stopped singing to Josuke. Smiling sadly she looked down at the picture still in her hand. She noticed Josuke's tender smile and loving eyes, her heart skipped a beat as she stared at that moment frozen in time on the sheet, a moment that can never be relived. These moments only live in her mind and only they exist like an old home video. Slouching forward she placed the picture on her nightstand and wiped the tears from her face even though more just followed behind.
Sahirah woke up and got ready for school. She tripped over Egypt again in the process of making it to her dresser. "I'm so sorry that I keep stepping on you every morning." She laughed as she patted the dog on the head.
Egypt wagged her tail and followed Sahirah around the room. Once she was done getting dressed she opened the door to see Katrina's still closed. She sighed and made her way to the kitchen. Mokuba was sitting in his chair, leaning back to let Tierney place a plate of food down in front of him.
"Good morning Miss. Would you like some waffles?" Tierney asked as he started walking back to the stove.
"Yes please."
Seto actually nodded his head in agreement. "I think I'll have a waffle too, Tierney."
The three of them ate their waffles in silence. It was when Tierney was cleaning up after them did Sahirah speak. "Have you seen Katrina come down at all?" She asked out loud.
"Not yet." Tierney answered, as both of her brothers shook their heads in the negative matter.
"I better make sure she's up." Sahirah stated as she walked out the kitchen door. When she reached Katrina's room and opened the door, the twin was no where to be seen. "Kat?" She called out.
No answer.
Sahirah stepped into the room. "Kat?" She called out again.
Still no answer.
"It's time to go to school." Seto called from the bottom of the stairs.
"She's not here." Sahirah stated as she made her way back to the staircase.
"What?" Seto asked, surprised.
"Katrina's gone."
Seto rounded some his bodyguards to the house and asked them to go searching for Katrina. He'd have his own men look, the police would take their time. The three siblings headed to school.
Sahirah walked over to the gang in the hallway.
"Hey Sahirah. Why the long face?" Jou asked.
"Huh? Oh I'm sure it's nothing but... Katrina's missing." She stated.
"WHAT?!" Jou and Honda yelled.
"Why would Katrina be missing?" Yugi asked quietly.
"I'm not sure. That's why I'm sure it's nothing. Seto sent out his bodyguards to find her." She explained.
"Well if she doesn't show up after school we'll help look for her. There is a storm coming in - she shouldn't be out in this weather." Ryou stated.
"You guys will really help?" Sahirah asked.
"Of course we will." Anzu answered.
"You guys are the best." She smiled at them.
School went by slowly that day and quite a few times Sahirah met up with Seto to ask if he heard anything about Katrina. Each time it was a negative response. Sahirah even tried texting her sister multiple times, only to not get any word back from her. She told the gang that she was still unheard from.
Marik offered to leave school early to start the search, but Sahirah told him that it would be best to wait - just incase Katrina showed up.
It was during her last period Algebra class that Sahirah was getting really worried.
"We're going to take a little pre-test." Mrs. Zirrillo stated as she passed the papers out to the class. "Make sure you put your names and the date, so this way I'm not guessing who's hand writing I'm looking at."
Sahirah took her sheet and lazily wrote her name and the date down. 'Woah, wait!' She thought to herself. 'Oh god. It's November fourteenth." She started freaking out in her head. That's why her twin was no where to be found. How could she forget that? Sahirah couldn't be more angry at herself. She wrote the date at least five times that day and it took her until now to realize just what date it was. 'This is just great. First Mike wakes up and now Katrina's missing. On top of all that it's Josuke's birthday.' She mentally kicked herself.
When school was over the gang met in the hallway right outside the front office. "Seto, I'll be at work in two hours. I just want to try to find Katrina." Sahirah stated to him as he was getting ready to leave the building.
"That's fine. I'll see you there."
"We'll need to cover the city." Sahirah explained.
"Okay, here are some places I think we should try." Yugi stated as he held out a sheet of paper with the titles of places written down.
The gang split, looking in different places trying to find the girl, but no one prevailed. Sahirah went to work after two hours of searching and sat in Seto's office, both not talking.
It was about seven at night when the idea struck Marik.
"This seems like a good place to just get away from everything."
Katrina did say that a few days ago when they went to the beach. 'I wonder.' He thought to himself before running down the street.
At the beach he saw her sitting in the rain on the bench, arms hugging her knees. "Katrina." He spoke to her as he walked closer to her figure. He got to the side of her and looked at her face, which was pink around her eyes. "Katrina? Are you okay?" He asked.
She didn't move, nor did she give any signs that she even heard him.
He placed a hand on her arm, and her eyes widened as if she was suddenly snapped awake. "Katrina? Can you hear me?" He asked.
She turned to face him. "Marik?" She asked weakly.
"Have you been here all day?" He asked.
She nodded her head slightly. "I have." She whispered.
Marik frowned at this. "What's the matter?" He asked.
Katrina looked away from him. "It's nothing." She watched him from the corner of her eyes as he stood up.
"We need to get you out of this rain and into dry clothes." He explained.
"Just leave me alone."
He glared at her. "Katrina stop being stubborn. You need to come with me. Do you have any idea how worried Sahirah is?"
She didn't look at him. "Sahirah's fine. She understands."
"Well I don't."
"You don't need to."
"You're right I don't need to but I want to. You're my friend Katrina. I can worry about you too." Marik snapped at her.
Katrina could have sworn that somewhere in the back of her mind that her ipod pressed resume and the song continued.
{So hold my hand, I'll take you everywhere, anywhere, you wanna go.}
She was shocked for a moment and paused looking at Marik's hand before grabbing it.
Marik opened the door to his house and stepped in. "Isis, can you bring me two towels?"
A woman with green eyes and black hair came into the hallway with two towels. "Why do you need - oh hello."
"Isis, this is Katrina. Katrina, this is my sister Isis."
"It's a pleasure to meet you." Katrina stated while bowing to her.
Isis handed them the towels and looked at Marik for a long moment. "Yes, it's nice to meet you too. You must be freezing. Come and take a shower. I will find you clothes to wear." She stated and walked into the other room, Katrina following behind.
"So Marik. Who is this Katrina girl?" Isis asked as she was making hot chocolate in the kitchen.
"She's Seto Kaiba's sister. She and her twin, Sahirah, move here a little over a month ago."
"Is she the person you've been hanging with so much lately?" She asked.
Marik knew where Isis was going to go with this. "Yes. We're just friends, so you can drop it."
Katrina rounded the corner, with a wet towel in her hand. "Where should I put this?" She asked.
"Oh I'll take it dear. Have some hot chocolate." Isis stated, grabbing the towel and leaving the room.
"Your sister's nice." Katrina stated.
Marik looked at her and could tell that she must have been crying in the bathroom because her face was pink around her eyes again. "You should call Sahirah." He stated.
She paused mid sip and looked at him. "Can you? She'll ask me a whole bunch of questions that I'm not in the mood to answer right now."
"What if she asks to speak with you?"
"Tell her I'm sleeping." She looked at him.
He frowned at her and shrugged his shoulders before picking up the phone. "Hello Sahirah. I found Katrina... no she's fine." He looked at her and held the phone to her ear.
"Are you sure she's okay? Is she talking to you? Where was she?" Sahirah asked over the phone. "Ah, wait.. Seto!"
"Put her on the phone!" Seto demanded as he took Sahirah's phone.
Katrina's eyes widened slightly and she took a step back from the phone.
"She's sleeping right now. She was upset when I found her." Marik explained. "I'll make sure she gets to school tomorrow." He looked at Katrina as she took a seat at the table. "Alright, good bye." He hung up his phone. "You owe me." He stated as he grabbed his own cup of hot chocolate.
"Marik, you're home?" A man walked into the room.
Katrina looked at him and blinked twice to make sure her eyes weren't lying. Yes, in fact that man did have hieroglyphics tattooed on his face.
"Ah. Rishid, this is Katrina. She's my friend from school. Katrina this is Rishid, he's my brother."
"Pleasure to meet you miss." Rishid bowed to her.
"No the pleasure is mine." She bowed back.
When it was getting late Marik showed Katrina the guest room. "Are you sure you're okay?" He asked as she sat on the bed.
"I'm fine, Marik." She stated.
He frowned at her again, he could tell she was lying by the look she kept getting in her eyes. He walked over to the bed and stood in front of her, which caused her to look up at him. He grabbed her arm and pulled her to stand before he wrapped his arms around her waist. "If you need someone to talk to, I'll listen." He whispered in her ear.
Her eyes widened when Marik hugged her out of nowhere and slowly she wrapped her arms back around him before she began to cry again.
He felt her shaking in his arms, which made him squeeze her tightly before he let her go slowly.
Katrina felt him loosen her grip and she pulled back wiping her tears away quickly. "Thanks Marik." She smiled and sat back down. "I think I'm going to go to bed now." She stated.
"Okay. Well if you need me, I'm the room next to you on the right." He stated as he left the room and closed the door.
Katrina growled at herself as she crawled under the covers.
{So come on and hold my hand (Hold my hand), I'll take you everywhere (everywhere), anywhere, you wanna go.}
To be continued...
A/N: That's the end of this chapter. What did you all think?
A/N #2: I need to apologize in advance for any delays in the story, or really short chapters. A lot is going on. A very close friend is in a medically induced coma, and has stomach cancer. He doesn't have long left so please excuse the lack of my performance in writing these past few chapters. Thanks.