A/N: Wow. It has been way too long folks. Sorry about that. College sucks! Haha it's kinda hard to keep up with everything, however, I find that writing keeps me sane. So, here you go.

I DO NOT OWN SAILOR MOON OR YU-GI-OH! (It would be awesome if I did)


Chapter 11- Holding Your Hand

He had waited, waited for over 2,000 years. The confirmation of his accomplishment was thrilling. Vincent had finally found his apprentice. Ahmose had been successfully reincarnated. After taking a blade to his heart, Ahmose was finally alive once again. While at the Fraternity party Ahmose had gotten extremely intoxicated, giving Vincent the perfect chance to search his subconscious memories. Sure enough, Ahmose was the Ahmose that Vincent had been searching for. Ahmose was his apprentice.

A creepy smile sprouted onto Vincent's lips. Ahmose would be put to good use soon enough. Now that Vincent had gained Ahmose's trust by befriending him everything would fall into place. Vincent would eventually rule over the Earth, which was to be his kingdom. The anger that took shape within Ahmose millennia ago would eventually surface and provide aid to Vincent's ultimate take over. Everything was going according to plan….


"Ahmose, darling!" Mrs. Tsukino said as she rushed over to him and embraced him when he entered the hospital. Her light-blue eyes were red and puffy from crying and Ahmose could tell that she hadn't slept.

"I'm glad you could make it," She stated after their embrace, "Come," she grabbed his hand and pulled him towards the elevators, "Serena's room is this way."

The two rode the elevator in silence. Ahmose felt extremely awkward, he didn't know what to say. This whole situation was messed up as it was, however, he was afraid that the Tsukino's would ask where he was when they called him last night. How was he supposed to explain himself? Tell them that he was completely drunk off his ass? That he wasn't there for one of his best friends when she called in her time of desperation? Nervous was an understatement at the moment. Ahmose was way past nervous. He was completely petrified. Plus, he didn't know the extent of Serena's injures, making this situation even more uncomfortable.

Mrs. Tsukino fumbled with the hemming of her blouse, staring at the ground as they rode the elevator. She didn't quite know how to break the news to Ahmose that one of his closest friends was in a…. coma…. She quickly took a deep breath to pull herself together. Everything was so fresh in her mind and her emotions were running a little wild. Keeping it together was essential right now.

When the elevator doors opened to reveal the ICU floor Mrs. Tsukino abruptly grabbed Ahmose's wrist, gripping it tight. Her eyes were pleading as she looked into his anxious face. They stepped out of the elevator and made their way down the hall. They stopped when they were facing a room. Ahmose assumed that was Serena's room.

"Ahmose, thank you for coming. I know that you and Serena are so close, I just wanted you to hear about her condition from us and not from word of mouth."

He nodded, his blonde bangs falling gracefully in front of his eyes, "I understand…."

She inhaled, "There's something that you need to know about Serena's condition…."

After an extremely long stretch of silence Ahmose was daring enough to ask, his voice full of nervousness, "What's her condition? You told me she was stable on the phone…."

Another long pause.

"Mrs. Tsukino?"

A tear fell, and then another, and suddenly a stream of tears accumulated from Serena's mother's pained eyes. Slight sobbing noises emerged from the back of her throat. "I'm sorry, Ahmose, this is just so overwhelming."

The tall blonde teen pulled Serena's petite mother into an embrace and lightly rubbed her back while she cried. Minutes passed before Mrs. Tsukino was able to control herself and finally wipe her eyes and gain composure.

"Serena's in a coma."


"Serena was involved in the accident!?" Yugi shouted in surprise into his cell phone.

"What!?" Joey and Mai hollered in unison at Yugi who shushed them immediately. He was talking on the phone with Mokuba, Kaiba's younger brother. Mokuba had called to inform Yugi of the car accident that Kaiba was recently in. Mokuba had no one else to share his grief with and he considered Yugi a close friend regardless of the negative feeling his elder brother harbored towards Yugi. Upon hearing about the accident, Yugi had asked Mokuba who else was involved. He had found that Serena Tsukino, Mai's new roommate, had been the one who collided with Kaiba. Yugi pieced together that Kaiba and Serena must've crashed when Serena had left them to pick up a couple necessities from the nearby store.

"Okay… Thanks Mokuba… Yeah…. We'll be there as soon as we can… Bye." Yugi pressed the 'end' button and shoved his cell into his pocket. He saw Joey and Mai staring at him, mouths agape. They were apprehensive, knowing full well that this was serious.

The three of them had been worried about Serena and her whereabouts last night when Serena's parents called and informed Mai that she was in the hospital and that they would call when it was possible to stop by to see her. Mr. and Mrs. Tsukino had said nothing else, just that Serena was in the hospital. It had left them all extremely troubled. Now that Yugi had gotten Mokuba's phone call, they could start piecing together the events that had taken place yesterday. Before then, they were completely ignorant of Serena's situation. They still sort of were, but at least they knew somewhat of what happened.

"Yugi, what happened?" Mai asked, her voice slightly shaking and her face full of concern.

"Kaiba got into a severe car accident."

"We know that part Yug," Joey said, "But what happened to Serena? Is she alright?"

Yugi looked up at his best friend, "She's fine, I wouldn't say alright."

"What do you mean by that?" Mai asked.

"Well…." Yugi paused to garner what he was going to say next, "I don't know how else to say this, but…. Serena's in a coma."

"WHAT!?" The two blondes screamed.

Yugi nodded sadly, "Yeah, the doctors don't know when she'll wake up. What they told Mokuba was that Kaiba and Serena are extremely lucky to be alive. Both of them were inches from death when they were wheeled into the ER."

"Yer kiddin'!" Joey shouted, "What hospital are they at?"

"Domino Hospital."

Mai shook her head, thinking deeply about the situation, "This is crazy…. Poor Serena…" Serena and Mai had just gotten off to a good start at being roommates, now Serena may not even remember Mai when she wakes up, or worse, she may not wake up at all. Mai's skin crawled at her last thought and she hugged herself.

Joey rubbed her back to comfort her, "It'll be okay, Mai. Serena will wake up! I promise!"

It was as if Joey had read her mind, however, they needed to think logically. She gave her fellow blonde a thoughtful look, "Joey, don't jump to conclusions, we have no idea how Serena is doing, and her parents won't let us see her."

The blonde teen frowned at Mai's response, "Well, it doesn't hurt to be optimistic, ya know?"

"Joey's right," Yugi stepped in, "We don't know the full situation yet, and that's why we need to go see Kaiba."

Joey perked his head up, his frown deepening, "Why do we need to go see moneybags? He probably doesn't know anything, and even if he did Yug, he'd never tell us. He's way too damn stubborn!"

"Wheeler has a point, Yugi," Mai said, "Kaiba would never tell us anything, plus he probably doesn't want any visitors right now."

"I don't want to visit him!" Joey commented.

"Regardless of what Kaiba wants, Mokuba wants to meet us at the hospital, and I will go with or without you guys." Yugi stated firmly.

Joey chuckled lightly, "Do you think we'd let you go by yourself, Yug?"

Mai slightly giggled and joined in, "We would have to be crazy to let you go see Kaiba alone and defenseless. I don't care if he's bedridden, Kaiba is still a whirlwind and not fun to mess with."

Yugi smirked, and the three of them left the dorms, racing down the stairs and out to the parking lot. They jumped into Mai's vehicle and headed off to search for their awaiting answers.


There was a rapping on the door to the hospital room. Mokuba Kaiba quickly rose from the uncomfortable hospital chair he was resting in and made his way to see who was there. Seeing Yugi, Joey, and Mai on the other side he placed a finger over his lips and shushed them. He exited the room and stood in the hallway outside the door, shutting it softly.

"Sorry, he's asleep," Mokuba explained, "I'm glad you guys could make it."

Yugi nodded, "Thanks for letting us know. Trust me, we truly appreciate it. We would still be worried about what had happened to Serena if it weren't for you."

"Yeah, absolutely, thanks for caring and taking the time to listen to what happened to my brother," Mokuba thanked.

Yugi nodded and gave the raven-haired teen a sincere smile, "Of course, Mokuba."

The young Kaiba looked over at Mai, "So Serena was your roommate at Domino University?"

Mai nodded, "Yeah…. Joey, Yugi, and I were helping her move in on the day of the accident."

"Seto's enrolled at Domino University as well, I didn't know that's where all of you were going."

"Yeah," Yugi replied, "We didn't know Kaiba was going there either."

Mokuba smirked faintly, "I forced him to take a couple classes."

Joey was getting sick of all the small talk. He wanted to get to the bottom of the whole situation, "Hey, speaking of Kaiba, how's he doing?"

Mokuba shrugged, "He's fine one moment, then the next he's completely out of it. It's weird."

Yugi cocked his head at Kaiba's younger sibling, "What do you mean, Mokuba?"

Mokuba sighed, "It's hard to explain, but it's almost as if he's dreaming all of the time."

"Don't you think that's from the drugs?" Mai inquired.

"I think that's part of it," Mokuba noted, "however, he shouts in his sleep. Drugs would be able to subdue that."

"What if they were wearing off?" Joey questioned.

Mokuba shrugged, "Possible, yet sometimes I have to shake him to wake him up. The doctors say it's normal for someone who has experienced something so traumatic recently, but it's just bizarre. Maybe it's because I'm not used to this kind of thing… I don't know…"

Yugi smiled, optimism radiating from him, "Well, if the doctors say it's normal than it must be. Your brother could possibly be dreaming of the accident and that might be what startles him."

The young teen nodded, fixing his eyes on the floor for a moment, then he giggled and said, "One time he woke up and asked me if I had any cheese, then he fell back to sleep."

Joey laughed loudly, "I wish I was there to see that."

Mokuba smiled, "It was pretty unexpected," the teen abruptly turned and opened up the door a crack to poke his head inside to peer in, "The morphine should be wearing off soon," he whispered and then turned to the group, "would you wanna go in?"

Joey's eyes widened, "And see Kaiba?"

Mokuba merely nodded.

Joey shook his head, "No offense Mokuba, but I think we're the last people your brother wants to see right now."

"He might be too out of it to notice, Joey."

Mai gave Joey a suggesting glance, "The kid's gotta point Wheeler, and I think if we saw Kaiba's condition it would give us a good idea of what Serena's condition might be."

Yugi agreed, "She's right, Joey. Even if you don't want to see Kaiba it might give us some clues on Serena."

"Wait a second," Mokuba interrupted quickly, "You haven't visited Serena yet?"

"No," Yugi began, "after you called we rushed over to see you and Kaiba. Serena's parent's had called Mai to let her know that Serena got into an accident but we aren't allowed to visit her yet."

"Wow, I'm sorry to hear that," Mokuba stated, "I haven't been told too much information about how Serena is doing either. Hopefully we find out more." With that Mokuba lead them into the white hospital room. The blinds were shut, but there was a bouquet of blue flowers and a few cards sitting close to the window. The television that hung from the ceiling across from Kaiba's bed was muted with an episode of Seinfeld playing. The florescent lighting was dimmed so that Kaiba could sleep. The monitors next to Kaiba's bed were beeping lightly and displayed different colors and numbers on the screen. The IV bag dripped small droplets of water when needed.

Kaiba was resting peacefully in his bed, a breathing respirator connected to his nose, while other tubes were attached to his arms, hands and chest. The sight of Kaiba was unreal to his three visitors. The usually strong, ruthless, CEO was now positioned in a humbling hospital bed. His brown hair was messy, and there were bandages wrapped around his forehead, shoulders, arms, torso, and possibly other areas that were not visible due to the blanket covering his resting form.

Mokuba turned to the three stunned guests and whispered, "I'm gonna try waking him up. He might be really groggy and in a ton of pain at first, but he'll come to, I promise." No one said anything and Mokuba walked over to the side of the bed. He leaned over and shook his older brother lightly on the arm at first. When Kaiba did not stir Mokuba shook him more fiercely.

A small, aggrieved groan was heard in the back of Kaiba's throat. His eyes began to twitch and flutter open as he roused from his slumber. Blue, hazy eyes focused on concerned gray, as Kaiba's fuzzy mind comprehended that his younger brother had disrupted his sleep.

"Big brother?" Mokuba asked quietly, "How are you feeling?"

It was a while before Kaiba had decided to give an answer. Pain had consumed his mind and body, as it always did when the morphine wore off. He grumbled multiple times before replying, "Terrible…."

Mokuba smirked and joked, "The usual."

Kaiba's vision was blurred and his head spun. The dizziness always made him want to vomit, but it soon passed as reality sunk in like miserable, hot venom. A pounding headache crept its way through his head as the wooziness and the nausea faded. Kaiba began to ask Mokuba his usual questions about his circumstance, "Am I still at the hospital."

This particular question was always the hardest to answer even though Seto had only asked it a few times in the past thirty hours or so since he'd been there. Mokuba wanted to say no, he wanted to say that everything was okay and that they were back home. However, Mokuba was forced to answer the opposite of what he wanted to say, "Yes, Seto, you're still at the hospital."

The CEO growled in frustration, "How long have I been here?" For the life of him he could not remember. It felt like a curse. It felt like he had been bedridden for years. Maybe he was, and this was something that angered Kaiba to the core.

"Almost two days," Mokuba replied.

Kaiba took a deep breath to relieve his mind; this caused his broken ribs to strain making him cough violently.

Mokuba patted his brother's back, "Take it easy! Your ribs are broken!"

Another pained rumble of frustration absconded from Kaiba. Everything was suddenly so challenging. Stupid hospital! Stupid car accident! Stupid Serena…. Serena…. Serena…. One of his first thoughts after waking up from this whole incident had been her. When Kaiba ceased to cough he looked up at his brother, grief in his eyes, "Mokuba, how is Serena?"

The raven-haired teen frowned, "She's still in a coma, Seto…."

Kaiba shook his head hard. Why? Why did this have to happen?

"K-Kaiba?" A timid voice spoke up and the CEO whipped his head around in the direction of the speaker. Yugi Muto, Joey Wheeler, and Mai Valentine were standing at the foot of his bed. How he had not noticed them before was beyond him, but he figured he'd blame it on the morphine.

Yugi took a step forward and repeated his name, "Kaiba, do you know what happened to Serena?"


Ahmose softly rubbed miniscule circles into Serena's motionless hand with his thumb. He was alone in her room, just sitting next to her. It was as if she was lifeless, nothing but a shell of someone who once was. It was disheartening seeing his best friend this way. Ahmose's heart clenched and withered in pain at the agony Serena had suffered in the past day or so. He never wanted anyone to suffer, Serena especially. She was too kind, too sweet, and too genuine for something like this to happen to her.

Ahmose took in her scratched up face, bandages hiding what were sure to be deep cuts in her once flawless complexion. The rest of her body was wrapped in an array of bandages as well. Her magnificent blonde hair was sprawled across her pillow, and her blue eyes were cruelly hidden from the world.

Comatose. Serena was comatose. There was nothing Ahmose could do. He couldn't save her from her coma. He couldn't save her, and that bothered him more than anything. If he hadn't been so irresponsible the night before, he would've answered her phone call and came to her help.

Ahmose had replayed her voicemail over and over after he had heard about the accident from Mrs. Tsukino. Oh, how he regretted not answering Serena's call. He regretted it so much that once he replayed the message, he punched a hole right through his dorm room wall. He was so upset with himself, and now Serena was in this critical state. He could've prevented this, but he didn't, and that burned him to the core. He hated himself for it.

He gripped his best friends immobile hand and thought about their relationship. Serena and Ahmose had been friends growing up, and he'd do anything in the world for her, still to this day, he would do anything for her. Nothing had ever sparked the possibility of severing their friendship, until now. Ahmose had a strong gut feeling that Serena would never forgive him for not being there for her when she needed him. Ahmose knew he could never forgive himself. If Serena never woke up from this, Ahmose would never be able to live with himself.

His thumb began to move in the opposite direction now, rubbing circles counter-clockwise. The room was still and quiet, the only noise to be made were the faint sobs and teardrops hitting the floor. A few of Ahmose's tears fell onto Serena's pale hand, the drops of water gliding gracefully down her slender fingers, falling off her fingertips.

'Serena,' Ahmose stared her down, his eyes stinging with bitter tears, 'I promise you, I'll never let you down again. You have my word.' He clutched her hand tighter, making sure that their fingers were entwined so that he was truly holding her hand.


A/N: Holy WOW! That took forever! I literally wrote this in almost one sitting, no lie. PLEASE REVIEW! Reviews are like candy, I'm not even kidding. MORE TO COME SOON! HOORAY!