A/N: once again, thank james. collins. 77770 for the release of this chapter. See? I told y'all new chapters are released when I have new reviews. Keep them coming. Enjoy.

P.S.- This chapter is a little fluffy and shows a more human, kinder side of Seto, and a sweet side of Mokuba.


Thursday Night, February 12th…

Misty noticed that Seto was acting strange around her the last couple days, like he wanted to ask her something, but couldn't find the words, especially if she asked what was wrong; he'd somehow change the subject to something else. They had practiced duels and traded wins and losses just like how she did with Mokuba. She shrugged it off and focused on her work and helping Mokuba. She found out that Mokuba had won the group round of his Canterbury Tales moral story contest, and was presenting it to the class tomorrow. She wished him good luck and hoped he won. She had finished work with them tonight and noticed how quiet Seto was and wondered what was going on in his head. She kept trying to figure it out all evening.

"Aww! He's nervous around you!" her inner self exclaimed.

"Why is he nervous?" Misty asked perplexed.

"I think he wants to ask you out!" her inner self offered excitedly.

"Maybe…" Misty thought and went to bed after getting an outfit ready for work tomorrow and watched a movie to relax with. She fell asleep as soon as it was done. In the next apartment, her neighbor had left a scented candle on. The smell of cherry vanilla wafted through the apartment, to the hallway, and the other nearby apartments. The neighbor's cell phone vibrated against the nightstand on which the candle was standing, against the adjoining wall to Misty's apartment. The vibration tipped the candle over, spilling the wax and flame. Soon, the nightstand had caught fire, and the carpet, and everything that it touched. Soon, it had engulfed the wall and had started to burn into Misty's apartment. Misty smelled smoke in her sleep and thought it was strange. She was then jolted awake hearing the smoke alarm SCREECHING loudly at her. She saw smoke in her room and it felt suffocating. She coughed but held her breath. She quickly grabbed a big tote bag and threw her phone, charger, laptop, her picture albums, document folder, her bible, her purse, and the clothes and shoes she had set out for tomorrow in her bag within 5 minutes and then crawled on the floor to get out of the smoke and pressed her hand against her door. Luckily it was cool and then she turned the handle and crawled on the floor and saw a path to her door that was closing quickly. She crawled towards the door and the fire was closing in on her. It was getting harder to see, and she coughed and then screamed when she felt flames licking her left arm, hip, and left leg and tried to smother the flames. She also felt her hair was hot. It hurt so much! Luckily, the firefighters axed her door down and grabbed her, her bag, and purse; put the flames out on her body; and carried her out to safety. She clutched her bag and purse close to her and was coughing and felt dizzy. She was taken outside to one of 5 waiting ambulances and looked over. They put a blanket on her and gave her an oxygen mask which felt so much better, but she still felt sick. She watched the firefighters rescuing more nearby residents and fighting the flames through blurry, smoke-affected eyes, until the paramedics put her and another resident in the ambulance and took them to the hospital. The doctors looked over her burns on her arm, leg, and hip, and treated them and bandaged them up. They also treated her head for any burns and she felt so much lighter. She felt her head and realized she was bald! She gasped shocked and winced in pain; she had moved her left arm too fast.

"Shh, Miss Robinson, take it easy. You need to rest now," the nurse told her gently and put the oxygen mask on her to help give her clean air. The nurse also cleaned Misty's face, and helped her do an eye wash to get rid of the smoke residue. Misty was feeling a little better. She was relieved she was able to save her most valuable items and that she had made it out alive. They gave her a hospital gown and ensured she was in her bed and hooked up to an IV to keep her hydrated and give morphine if she needed it. She had someone come in and ask her questions to get her admitted, and she answered them.

"Do you need us to contact anyone?" the nurse asked.

"Could you contact my boss, please?" Misty requested.

"Ok, but you don't have any family in town?" the nurse inquired.

"They're in the U.S.," Misty answered.

"Oh, ok," the nurse nodded. "What's your boss's name and phone number?"

"My boss is Seto Kaiba, and may I please have my phone in my bag?" Misty requested. The nurse handed her bag to her and Misty fished around for her phone and got it out. She found Mr. Kaiba's cell number that he gave her a few weeks ago, and showed the nurse. She felt bad to be calling him this late, but this was a bit of an emergency.

The nurse dialed the number and waited as the phone rang.

Seto was sleeping soundly dreaming about asking Misty out and her saying yes, and about the date they had planned. It was a nice dream, until he was startled awake by his phone ringing. He growled irritably at the phone ringing and looked at the caller i.d. to see who dared call him at 2:00 a.m.! He yawned and rubbed his cobalt eyes and then noticed it was the hospital calling. Why were they calling? His bill for his medical care was long taken care of.

"H-Hello?" he answered sleepily.

"Hello Mr. Kaiba, my name is Vanessa Iwatari, and I'm a nurse at Domino Hospital. I have a patient named Misty Robinson here. She instructed me to call you as an emergency contact," the nurse greeted. Seto was fully alert now and his cobalt eyes were wide hearing that.

"Misty is in the hospital?!" he exclaimed alarmed.

"Yes sir. You're her emergency contact," Nurse Iwatari replied.

"What happened? Is she ok?" Seto demanded.

"She was in a fire. She suffered burns on her left arm, hip, leg, and her scalp, and suffered smoke inhalation, but she is otherwise physically ok. We will need to keep her at least today for observation," Nurse Iwatari informed him.

"…Ok," Seto replied still stunned. "May I come see her?"

"She needs a little rest. You may come later this morning at about 7 a.m." Nurse Iwatari told him.

"…Ok," Seto replied a little irritated.

"We will see you later," Nurse Iwatari told him and hung up.

"How terrible!" his inner self exclaimed.

"I know. How can I sleep now knowing she's in the hospital?" Seto asked.

"Well you have to try," his inner self told him. "The ZZZQuil is on your nightstand," he added. Seto sighed, and took 2 tablespoons of the purple, berry-flavored medicine and felt himself relaxing and falling back to sleep, but he was plagued by nightmares of her being engulfed in flames until he had to wake up at 6 a.m. He got showered and ready to go and was even more anxious.

Mokuba was up and excited to present his tale to the class today, and was dressed and ready in his uniform and came downstairs and saw how anxious his brother was.

"Seto? What's wrong? You haven't been this anxious in a while? Are you nervous about asking her out?" Mokuba asked concerned and put his hand on his brother's shoulder.

"She's in the hospital…" Seto replied.

"WHAT?! What happened?!" Mokuba demanded shocked and scared.

"She was in a fire," Seto replied.

"WHAT?! Is she okay?!" Mokuba demanded.

"The nurse said that she was burned on her left arm, hip, leg, and scalp, and suffered smoke inhalation, but she was physically otherwise ok," Seto explained.

"Let's go to the hospital!" Mokuba demanded. "Can I be late to school?"

"I suppose that's alright," Seto replied.

"Alright, thanks! Let's go!" Mokuba urged. They got their bags and told Edward to drive them to the hospital.

"Is everything alright Mr. Kaiba?" Edward asked concerned.

"Misty is in the hospital! We need to hurry!" Mokuba replied urgently. Edward was stunned.

"What?! What happened?"

"She was in a fire," Seto answered.

"Is she alright?" Edward asked as he started the limo.

"She suffered a few burns and smoke inhalation, but the nurse said she was otherwise physically okay," Seto explained. "Please hurry," Seto commanded urgently. Edward nodded and drove as quickly and safely as he could to the hospital. Once he got to the drop off lane, he opened the door for them let them out and then went to find parking in the meantime.


Meanwhile, Misty was starting to stir with the bright light filtering through the window. She sighed heavily.

"Good morning Misty," Nurse Iwatari greeted.

"Good morning," Misty replied with a half-smile.

"How is your pain this morning?" Nurse Iwatari asked.

"It's about a 5," Misty answered.

"Do you want some morphine?" Nurse Iwatari asked.

"Maybe a little bit… I also need to use the bathroom," Misty answered.

"Alright, let me help you up," Nurse Iwatari replied as she helped her move from the bed and helped wheel the IV cart to the bathroom and helped her get situated and use the restroom. When Misty was done, she helped her wash her hands and back to her bed. Misty winced a little at the tenderness of her burns. Nurse Iwatari helped her get settled and then injected a little morphine into the IV line. Misty melted in relaxation a few minutes later. Not too long after that, Nurse Iwatari brought in some breakfast for her, which consisted of strawberries with Nutella, an orange, scrambled eggs, and heart shaped pancakes with milk to drink.

"Well this is hearty and festive," Misty remarked with a smile. Nurse Iwatari smiled.

"Yeah, we're getting festive for Valentine's Day tomorrow," Nurse Iwatari explained.

"Ah I see," Misty replied.

"Enjoy," Nurse Iwatari replied and left the room to take care of other patients. Misty smiled and dug into her breakfast and enjoyed it while watching some TV.


Meanwhile, Seto and Mokuba finally asked an information clerk, who had been held up for at least 15 minutes by a crowd of annoying people who had 1000 questions. Exasperated, they went to find another information desk, and that had just as many people as the other one. They finally had their turn to ask and found out Misty was in room 605. The elevator took a while but then they were finally on. They got off on the 6th floor and found 605 and knocked on the door.

"Come in," Misty called back. Immediately the door opened and their faces fell in shock upon seeing her.

"Misty?! Is that you?" Mokuba asked stunned. Seto was also stunned to see that she was bald and saw the slightly puckered skin on her scalp, and the bandage on her arm. He saw her bandaged leg peeking in spots under the blanket.

"Yeah, it's me… I know… I look a little like Two-Face from Batman…" she remarked.

"No you don't," Seto assured her. Misty gave him a rueful smile.

"Thanks," she replied. Mokuba immediately came in and pushed her finished tray and table away and hugged her. Misty winced a little.

"I'm sorry," Mokuba apologized realizing that it probably hurt.

"It's just tender and sensitive," she told him.

"We were so worried about you," Mokuba told her and was a little gentler.

"Yeah, I had a hard time sleeping after the phone call this morning," Seto admitted as he sat in a chair.

"Sorry," Misty apologized awkwardly.

"Don't apologize. It wasn't your fault you were in a fire, was it?" Seto asked a little unsure. He hoped she didn't cause the fire. Misty knew what he was implying and gave him a little bit of a sour scowl.

"No, I didn't burn my apartment down… I wasn't even burning anything and my stove was off. The neighbor was burning a candle, and it started the fire," Misty explained.

"How do you know?" Seto asked. Misty kept scowling at him irritably.

"Because the smoke was laced with Cherry Vanilla smell," Misty retorted. "I smelled it and the smoke and then my smoke alarm gave an ungodly screech that woke me. The acrid smoke was all around me and I rushed to get my most important things and one outfit I had lying out, and was almost trapped inside as I was trying to escape, and got burned. It hurt like hell. Luckily the fireman axed my door down and carried me and my bags out. After I was treated, I figured I should call you and inform you what was going on because 1) this was an emergency and I didn't have anyone else in town who I knew well enough to make my emergency contact, since my family is back in Texas 2) There would absolutely be no way I'd be able to work today 3) I figured you should've known so that you wouldn't have come for me in the morning and think I was dead," Misty explained. Seto listened and nodded.

"Even though it worried me to get a call like that in the morning, I'm glad you had the nurse call me," Seto told her.

"And when Seto told me this morning, I was so scared that we would lose you," Mokuba added and was a little teary-eyed. "I don't know what we would've done if you didn't make it out." Misty smiled and ruffled his hair affectionately and squeezed his hand.

"Well, thank God I did get out," she replied and smiled.

"Indeed," Seto agreed.

"So what are you going to do now?"

"Well, I'm going to have to find a new apartment now… along with getting all new things… I'm not sure how much of my stuff got burned and destroyed, but that stuff over there in the corner was all I managed to save…" Misty replied melancholically. They looked at her big tote bag and her purse.

"What did you save?" Mokuba asked.

"The outfit I was planning to wear today, my old pictures, important documents, my laptop, my phone and charger, bible, and my purse," Misty told them.

"So you don't have anything except that?" Mokuba asked.

"That's all I have at the moment, unless I'm able to salvage anything from my apartment, but I remember pretty much everything was on fire," Misty replied.

"Well, we can help you, right Seto?" Mokuba assured her.

"Right. In fact, I normally wouldn't offer ANYONE this, but it is clearly necessary right now, …and I…find myself….attracted…to you…" Seto began. Misty blushed a little hearing him say that.

"Go on?" she encouraged.

"I'm going to offer you to move in with me and Mokuba," Seto managed to get out and took a deep breath. Misty was surprised and started to smile.

"Thank you, I accept your offer," Misty answered. She thought it was so kind of him to offer her to move in with them.

"Yay! You're going to live with us!" Mokuba cheered and gave her another gentle but excited hug. Misty chuckled and Seto smirked satisfied. "And we can take you shopping this weekend so you can get some clothes!" Mokuba offered. Seto nodded in agreement.

"Sure," Misty agreed with a smile. She felt so blessed that they were willing to help her.

"Also… I was wondering… if…" Seto began and tried to find his courage to ask her.

"You can do it! This should be easy since she's going to be living with you now!" his inner self encouraged.

"If?" Misty asked curiously, encouraging him to continue with his question.

"If… you'd want to go on… a date…with me…" he got out. Misty thought it was cute and giggled. Seto was so nervous, especially when she giggled.

"Yes. When?" Misty asked, accepting his invitation. Her chocolate brown eyes sparkled as she smiled at him.

"I was hoping tomorrow," Seto answered.

"A valentine's date?" Misty asked with a smile. She was quite pleasantly surprised.

"Yes. I…wanted you…to be my…Valentine," he told her feeling a little awkward. Being flirty wasn't his strong suit, but that didn't bother her.

"I thought the same way," she told him blushing a little. Mokuba's face broke out into another Cheshire cat grin.

"Really?" Seto asked incredulously and feeling a sense of excitement and joy start to fill him. This was the first time he had asked a girl out, and she didn't reject him.

"Yes," Misty reassured him. "What kind of date did you have in mind?"

"I was thinking… maybe dinner, and a painting and wine class," Seto suggested and was gauging her reaction.

"Ooh! I've been wanting to do one of those for the longest time! Even back in San Antonio!" Misty exclaimed excitedly.

"Really? Why did you never do it before?" Mokuba implored curiously.

"Never had the money to do it," Misty explained.

"Well now you can," Seto assured her with a pleased smirk.

"Yeah! It'll be fun!" Misty declared eagerly. "I can't wait!" Seto was so proud she was excited. He hoped that she would be out of the hospital in time for that.

"It'll be an awesome date!" Mokuba said excitedly.

"Yeah! What are you going to do in the meantime?" Misty asked Mokuba.

"I'm probably going to go to the arcade or something," he replied.

"Sounds fun. Oh yeah, and today's your presentation for the class, right?" Misty asked changing the subject.

"Yeah. I hope I win. Say, could I add your fire story to my medley?" Mokuba requested.

"Okay sure," Misty agreed.

"May…I take a picture of you?" Mokuba added.

"Alright," Misty consented and pulled the blanket off her leg so it could be in the picture. Mokuba got out his phone and at her left side while Seto closed the blinds so there wasn't a glare. Misty looked towards Mokuba and gave a small smile for the picture. There was a flash and Mokuba had captured it.

"Got it," Mokuba told her and showed her. Misty nodded.

"Looks alright," Misty said as she looked at it.

"Yeah," Mokuba concurred.

"I hope it helps you win," Misty wished.

"Oh, I think I got it in the bag!" Mokuba declared, displaying the signature Kaiba confidence. Seto chuckled proudly at his brother's confidence.

"Of COURSE you do," Seto assured him. Mokuba beamed proudly and grinned.

"You sure do," Misty agreed.

"Thanks Misty and Seto!" Mokuba thanked them.

"Of course kiddo," Misty replied.

"Alright Mokuba, I think it's time for you to go to school," Seto announced.

"Aww… alright…" Mokuba pouted. He didn't want to leave Misty's side.

"I know kiddo, but I'm not going anywhere. I'll still be here when you get off and come to see me," Misty promised.

"Okay," Mokuba relented and gave her another hug.

"Just think about winning today," Misty encouraged.

"Yeah!" Mokuba agreed excitedly.

"Alright, let's go," Seto declared and looked back at Misty. "We'll see you later," he promised.

"I look forward to your return, sweetie," she teased. Seto gave a slight chuckle at her teasing. Mokuba chuckled too. Misty then blew a kiss at them playfully. "Have a good day!" she bade with a playful wink. They smiled and chuckled and left. Seto was feeling elated and energized, even more than if he had coffee.

"You're so happy," Mokuba observed with a smile.

"I am. I have a valentine and a date tomorrow, if she gets released by then. She didn't reject me," he told his brother.

"And she's going to live with us!" Mokuba added.

"Indeed," Seto agreed and then went down to the first floor and had Edward pick them up.

"Is she okay?" Edward asked and then noticed Seto was elated.

"Yeah, she is," Mokuba told Edward.

"Oh good, I'm so glad to hear that. What happened?"

"Her neighbor left a candle on and it caught fire. She was lucky to escape," Mokuba explained.

"Oh dear!" Edward exclaimed.

"Yeah. She is also going to be living with us now," Mokuba added.

"Alright," Edward nodded and closed the door once they were in and started driving Mokuba to school.

"I can't believe she is going to live with us!" Mokuba exclaimed excitedly.

"I know," Seto said coolly but inside he was excited, and nervous. He just hoped he didn't scare her off with his inexperience.

"What are you worried about? She accepted you as is," his inner self reassured him.

"Yeah," Seto agreed. Soon, Mokuba was dropped off at school and Seto signed him in and Mokuba got an excused hall pass.

"I'll come with Edward to get you so we can see Misty again when you get done with school," Seto instructed him. Mokuba smiled.

"Alright bro, see you later," Mokuba bade and then went to get his books and notebooks for his classes before lunch. He still couldn't believe that Misty was in a fire and escaped, she agreed to date Seto, and that she was moving in. He walked to class and gave his teacher the hall pass to sign acknowledging that he would mark Mokuba down as an excused tardy. He would get his first period teacher to sign it before lunch. He paid attention in all his classes, took all his notes, etc., but he was more focused on Misty. At about lunchtime Mokuba approached his first period teacher and got the excused slip signed. He enjoyed his lunch, got his books for the latter half of the day, and went to the library to see if the book he was looking for, The Atlantis Gene, was available. Unfortunately it was not. He sighed heavily and then heard a thud of books fall to the floor a few aisles away. He saw a shy young lady with brown braided pigtails; black frame glasses over jade green eyes; wearing the girls' uniform of the pink blazer; white shirt; blue neck bow; a longer, blue, knee-length skirt; and black Mary-Janes with the Z straps over white ankle socks. She sighed and knelt down to pick up the books.

"Here, let me help you," Mokuba offered as he helped pick up the books. The young woman smiled and blushed. She couldn't believe Mokuba Kaiba was actually helping her. She admired him and his big brother, but him especially. He was so handsome with his thick black hair pulled back into a ponytail, warm grey eyes, and the blue uniform made his tall, lean, body look regal.

"Th-thank you," the young woman said shyly as she blushed as she held the books. Mokuba also found himself blushing at her. She was so cute and shy.

"You're welcome," Mokuba replied casually. "What's your name?"

"Sophia Yakamori," Sophia introduced herself.

"I'm Mokuba Kaiba," Mokuba introduced himself.

"I know," she said with a shy smile. Mokuba chuckled.

"Yeah, you probably do," he replied and gave an awkward chuckle. "Well, it's nice to meet you Sophia," he told her.

"Likewise," Sophia agreed with a smile.

"I don't remember seeing you around, are you new?" Mokuba asked.

"No, I just hang out a lot in the library," Sophia explained. "Nobody notices me…"

"Oh. I noticed you," Mokuba countered gently.

"That's true, and I'm very fortunate to have you notice me," Sophia told him humbly. Mokuba smiled and heard the bell ring.

"Argh!" he growled at the bell and sighed. "I have to go to class. Maybe tomorrow we can go have coffee? I don't really have any plans," Mokuba invited.

"I'd like that," Sophia accepted eagerly, but was still shy.

"Great! Meet me at this coffee shop at about 4:00 tomorrow," Mokuba instructed as he wrote down the address to his and Seto's favorite coffee shop and gave his phone number.

"I'll be there," Sophia promised with a blush.

"I look forward to it!" Mokuba declared and got his things and hurried to class feeling utterly elated and a little giddy. He was also charged up knowing this was English class and he would get to present his tale to the class, and they had snacks!

"I look forward to it too," Sophia told herself as she held the paper and put it in the cell phone pocket of her purse so she would have it later and she hurried to class. On the way there, she ran into some bullies.

"In a hurry, Yakamori?" they jeered and then knocked the books out of her hand and laughed as she scrambled to pick them up and her papers.

"Why do you have to be such jerks?" Sophia demanded angrily. She hated how they abused her like this, and of course, nobody helped her. The bullies laughed and continued to tease her. Mokuba was down the hall and heard what they were doing and alerted his teacher. His teacher followed him and saw the bullies messing with her. She grabbed them by the collars and yanked them to get their attention and called for another teacher and an administrator to help. The other teacher and the administrator came out and helped. The teachers were angry with the bullies and the administrator dragged them to the office. Mokuba helped Sophia pick up her books and papers. Sophia smiled.

"I got lucky meeting someone as kind as you, Mokuba," she complimented him. Mokuba blushed.

"So did I. Are you ok?" he asked gently.

"Yeah, I am now, thank you," Sophia told him with another blush. Mokuba's teacher joined them and led them to class and gave Mokuba and Sophia a hall pass.

"Mokuba, please take Sophia to her class," his teacher instructed.

"Yes ma'am," Mokuba replied politely and walked with Sophia to her class.

"Thank you for walking me to class," Sophia thanked Mokuba.

"My pleasure," Mokuba assured her with a smile. Sophia wrote her phone number down for him and handed it to him.

"I didn't get to give it to you earlier," she told him. Mokuba smiled and then plugged it into his phone and saved it to the sim card.

"It's saved," he told her with a smile. Sophia smiled back. He felt so giddy, and then a little disappointed when he dropped her off at class.

"I'll see you tomorrow," Sophia told him and blushed crimson, which contrasted beautifully with her jade green eyes. Mokuba blushed a little.

"Yeah," he agreed. Sophia then decided to be bold and kissed his cheek and blushed and then went inside. Mokuba was stunned. He felt an electric shock in his cheek and his hand touched the spot she kissed and felt love-struck. He sighed as he left her class and went back to his own, masking the infatuation he was feeling and took his seat. He snacked and listened to the other stories and had his stories about Misty ready, as well as his phone with the picture of her. Then, it was his turn and he read her stories, especially the one about the fire, and showed the picture of her. The class gasped upon listening and seeing the picture. They couldn't concentrate on any of the other stories, and it was clear that Mokuba had won the tale challenge for his class. His teacher awarded him the free 100. Everyone expressed sympathy that she was so burned, but were amazed that she was resilient and still had a sense of humor. Mokuba agreed with everyone in his class and was proud that he won. He couldn't wait to tell Misty and Seto! The rest of the day was pretty uneventful, but he found himself thinking about Sophia and smiled. Sophia thought about him too and was giddy. She had to hurry home and start picking out her outfit for tomorrow. Soon, it was finally the end of the day and Mokuba went to wait for Edward and Seto. It wasn't too long before they had come and Mokuba bounded to the car happily.

"Good day Mokuba?" Edward and Seto asked as Edward opened the door for him and Seto noticed the pep in his brother's step.

"Yeah!" he answered eagerly. Edward closed the door and got in the driver's seat and started the limo, hoping to beat some of the traffic getting out of the school.

"So? How did your presentation go?" Seto asked curiously.

"I won! And everyone was so sympathetic and admired her resiliency and her sense of humor in spite of everything," Mokuba explained. Seto pursed his lips and nodded in agreement.

"That we definitely can't argue with," Seto remarked.

"Yeah. I'm excited she will be living with us," Mokuba added.

"I'm a little excited too," Seto admitted. "I've…grown accustomed to her presence. It felt weird without her in the office today. It felt so…off."

"I bet," Mokuba agreed with a smile. "She certainly changed you. You're so much better now," Mokuba pointed out.

"Yeah, she did," Seto admitted and smiled a little.

"What's wrong?" Mokuba asked noticing that he seemed a little anxious.

"I don't want to scare her off," Seto admitted.

"If she was, she wouldn't have been with us very long," Mokuba pointed out.

"It's different with her dating me now and living with us," Seto countered.

"Not really. She's seen you at your worst and still stuck with us, and you've seen her at her meanest, but you still like her. She did what I asked and helped you to relax, and then some. It's not the same without her, and home will be better because she adds some warmth to it. It really feels right, and like home with her around," Mokuba pointed out.

"Yeah, I suppose you're right," Seto admitted. Mokuba grinned.

"I'm right, huh?" he teased.

"Yes…" Seto admitted and gave him a grin. Mokuba grinned back. "While you're out with Misty tomorrow, I have plans," Mokuba announced.

"Oh? What are you doing?" Seto asked curiously.

"I…have a date…" Mokuba admitted blushing as red as a tomato.

"You have a date?!" Seto exclaimed surprised and smiled and ruffled his hair.

"Well that's great Mokie!" Seto said in a brotherly tone.

"Wow, you haven't used my nickname in a LONG time," Mokuba pointed out surprised.

"It felt right," Seto replied.

"Yeah, it did," Mokuba agreed smiling.

"So, who is she?" Seto implored eagerly.

"Her name is Sophia Yakamori. She's got jade green eyes, black rimmed glasses, brown braided pigtails, and she is so shy," Mokuba gushed and blushed and felt giddy.

"Yakamori…Yakamori…that name sounds so familiar…" Seto replied as he put his hand to his chin to think and try to remember where he heard the name but nothing came but then dismissed it.

"You're so smitten with her!" Seto pointed out and laughed.

"About as much as you are with Misty," Mokuba shot back playfully.

"Touché," Seto conceded. "Where did you meet her?"

"The library. I was looking for a book, but they didn't have it. She dropped her books, and I helped her and felt drawn to her. And then she was being picked on by bullies. I got my teacher to help, and then an administrator dragged them away. My teacher gave Sophia and me a pass, and I walked her to class. She gave me her number. I gave her my number earlier, along with directions to our coffee shop for tomorrow. And when I dropped her off at class, I felt disappointed. I was surprised when she kissed my cheek. It felt like electricity," Mokuba explained. Seto smiled.

"Oh Mokuba, you're definitely smitten," Seto pointed out. Mokuba blushed a deeper crimson.

"Is that good?" Mokuba asked.

"Yes. Just be careful," Seto told him. Mokuba nodded.

"Wait until Misty hears about it," Mokuba said aloud.

"I think she'll be thrilled," Seto predicted.

"Yeah," Mokuba agreed and they went to the hospital.

"Thank you Edward," they thanked him and went up to her room. Misty was watching some Futurama reruns and just relaxing. She was a little bored but then saw them come in and she smiled at them.

"Howdy guys," she greeted.

"Hey Misty!" Mokuba greeted excitedly and then came closer and hugged her gently. Misty hugged back as much as she could. Seto smiled at their embrace. Misty looked up at him.

"Jealous, honey?" she teased with a mischievous, Cheshire cat grin.

"Maybe," Seto teased back with a smirk. Misty waved him over to join and he obliged and they had a group hug.

"So, what's the scoop?" Misty asked with a hunger in her eyes. Their day was likely a lot more interesting.

"It wasn't anything special at the office," Seto replied with a shrug. "It wasn't right without you there."

"Aww, you missed me," she teased.

"Yeah," Seto admitted and blushed. Misty giggled "I missed it too," she admitted. Seto smirked a little.

"And what about you, kiddo? How did your tale go with the new addition?" Misty asked.

"I won! And everyone was so sympathetic and were impressed you were so resilient and had a sense of humor despite everything," Mokuba told her proudly.

"Well, of course I have to pick myself up somehow and keep on trucking along," Misty retorted as if it were obvious.

"Yeah," Mokuba agreed with a smile.

"Congratulations on your win, kiddo!" Misty congratulated him.

"Thanks Misty! And that's not all what happened today too!" Mokuba gushed.

"Do tell!" Misty encouraged.

"I…met a girl… and I have a date with her…tomorrow…" Mokuba told her and blushed crimson again.

"Mokuba that's fantastic! Give me the details!" Misty demanded eagerly. It was so cute seeing him so crimson. Mokuba told her the story of how he met Sophia and Misty grinned like a Cheshire cat.

"That's so sweet! Mokuba is smitten!" Misty exclaimed and hugged him as gently as she could manage. Mokuba went a deeper shade of crimson.

"Well, have fun, but be careful," Misty encouraged.

"Wow, you and Seto both said that," Mokuba remarked.

"But it's true," they insisted in sync and chuckled.

"Okay," Mokuba agreed. Nurse Iwatari then came in.

"Excuse me sirs, but Misty is about to be released and needs to get dressed," Nurse Iwatari told them gently. Seto and Mokuba nodded and left the room. Nurse Iwatari pulled the curtain and helped her get dressed in the outfit she had brought with her. At least it wasn't so constricting. Nurse Iwatari removed the IV and channel and bandaged her IV spot. She helped Misty gather her things.

"And we have a couple prescriptions for you down in the pharmacy," Nurse Iwatari informed her.

"What kind of prescriptions?" Misty asked curiously.

"Some painkillers and burn cream," Nurse Iwatari explained.

"Oh ok," Misty nodded. Nurse Iwatari gave her directions to the pharmacy.

"Thank you for your help," Misty told her. Nurse Iwatari nodded and smiled. Misty then came out with her bags.

"Here Misty, let me take your bag," Seto insisted as he took her tote bag.

"Thank you," Misty said with a smile. "I have to pick up a couple prescriptions at the pharmacy," she added. Seto and Mokuba nodded and went with her to the pharmacy. When it came time for her to pay the cost for the prescriptions, Seto took over and paid for them and put them in her bag after she got instructions for them.

"Thank you, Mr. Kaiba," she told Seto. It felt strange to call him that now. Seto then whispered in her ear.

"You can call me Seto at home and anywhere else outside of work, but Mr. Kaiba at the office and work functions," he instructed.

"Okay…Seto," she obliged and felt right. Seto felt a tingle hearing her say his name. Then they went to the limo. Edward was surprised to see her.

"Hi Misty," he greeted but couldn't help looking at her bandaged skin and her burn on her head, and her baldness.

"I know, it's a little strange," she acknowledged. Edward nodded but remained professional. They thanked Edward and instructed him to pick up some fast food for dinner, and instructed him to go to a department store afterwards so they could get Misty some clothes. Edward took them for some fast food burgers and they ate in the limo. Then, Edward took them to a nice department store and they started shopping for some clothes for her. She felt a little awkward with Seto and Mokuba following, but got over it. She allowed them to pick out some of her outfits and smiled. Seto and Mokuba liked being a part of helping pick out what they liked on her, but felt a little awkward when she was getting lingerie.

"It's a part of being with a girlfriend," she reminded them with an amused smirk.

"Yeah…" Seto and Mokuba said awkwardly, but accepted it. At least they were satisfied with picking out the outfits for her. She had a whole wardrobe in a couple carts and then tried on some shoes and got some socks. They got in line and ignored people staring at them. Then it was their turn to check out and Seto immediately took over and once everything was totaled up, he paid for everything, even though the total almost choked Misty in shock.

"Don't worry about it Misty," Mokuba assured her.

"Thank you guys," Misty told them.

"What Mokuba said, don't worry about it," Seto told her and signed the receipt quickly without missing a beat. The clerk bagged the clothes and shoes and they put them back in the carts. Misty followed them as they took the bags to the limo. Seto and Edward put the clothes in the trunk, and then Seto instructed him to take them to a wig shop. He had a feeling she would want one to make her feel less self-conscious. He noticed people looked at her burns and flinched. They then went in and Misty tried on a few wigs, and found a color similar to her natural color and in a style she liked. The wig clerk told them how to take care of it and then Seto bought it for her and a wig stand to keep its shape.

"Thank you," Misty told him with a smile. This was such a blessing to her to have a boss and possible boyfriend, and his brother care so much about her to do this for her.

"You're welcome," Seto assured her like it was nothing. She put the instructions in her purse and was allowed to wear the wig out of the store while Mokuba asked Edward to put the wig stand in the trunk with everything else. Misty felt much more confident now. Once inside the limo they sighed pooped from everything that happened to them today. Seto instructed Edward to take them home. Edward brought them back to the mansion and had servants help with the bags.

"Thank you Edward," Misty told him.

"Of course Misty," Edward assured her. Seto instructed the servants to take them to a room near his. They nodded and took her things to a room near his, and Misty blushed a little. It was cute how he wanted to stay near her, but also give her space. Misty saw the room in which the servants left everything and felt right at home. They put everything away and then left. Misty thanked them and plopped down on her new bed and smiled. Both Seto and Mokuba appeared in the doorway.

"Like your new room Misty?" Mokuba asked.

"Yes, it's nice and cozy, thank you." They smiled and nodded.

"Well, we'll let you rest and get settled in," Seto told her. "Good night,"

"Good night, Seto, Mokuba. Thank you for taking me in and taking care of me tonight," she thanked them.

"You're welcome, good night," they replied and then went to their own rooms and changed and got into their respective beds to relax. They couldn't wait for Valentine's Day to start.


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