(Okay, so I'm actually going to post another chapter, thanks to all the readers and reviewers, oh..please note, when it goes into Italics it's either a dream or memories, flashback etc…kk

Oh, by the way,

This chapter of the story is dedicated to:

Rene Bakura

SulliMike23

Hikari no Ryu Sakura

Kaji

Sugar High

Thanks for all your reviews ^-^

DMG)

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It's Time To Duel

She felt her eyes opening, the offending light blinding her causing her to shut her eyes once again tightly. Somewhere off in the distance she could hear the sound of someone moving about. She groaned and rolled onto her stomach mumbling for a moment then her eyes snapped open at the instant someone poked her in the ribs with something hard.

"Ack! Yami!" Amethist yelled as she sat upright in her bed rubbing her side. Her violet eyes looked to Yami, the Pharaoh, among other things. She muttered something under her breath and rubbed her side as she stood from her bed, the white silk curtains ruffling infront of her view partially obscuring his appearance to her. The warm breeze that blew in from the open section of her room, carried for miles over the warm desert tickled at her skin.

"I told you to be up early today Amethist" he said sternly. Her gaze shifted to him, she couldn't tell if he was joking or not.

"This is early for me, and you know it" she stated calmly as she adjusted the jewlery about her wrists and neck, she heard the faint chuckle come from Yami.

"Ahh, that it is, hurry up, I have much to show you today" Yami said turning and walking from her room, smirking as he heard her sandel clad feet running to catch up to him.

"Yami, you're so mean!" she said then paused looking from the level they were within the royal palace and looked down to where some of the sorcerers and priests were, her eyes locking on one in specific.

"Ah!!!" Amethist sat up quickly with a scream at the same time there was a loud crash of thunder outside. Her eyes were wide, what the hell had that been about? Lightening flashed outside and she almost jumped again, she dispised thunder storms like this. When the lightening flashed and lit up the room she felt a moment of disorientation. Her gaze swept over the interior of the room she was in, this definitely was not her room.

"Amethist?" a voice asked and the door to the room opened. She blinked once more and turned to see Kaiba enter the room, she tilted her head then sighed, he was carrying a candle, the power having gone out a while ago.

"Are you okay?" he asked her standing in front of the bed, the shadows thrown by the candle seeming to carress his face. She felt herself blush and she nodded her head slowly in response to his questiong.

"Yes, I'm fine, I just don't like thunderstorms too much and I had a rather strange dream" she said looking down at her hands, the gold chain she'd found wrapped about her slender fingers.

"I know how it is, Mokuba doesn't like thunderstorms either, in fact, I'm certain I'll have to go calm him down later" he said with a sigh.

"Kaiba…why are you being so nice to me?" she asked all of a sudden looking up at him a questioning look in her eyes. Kaiba looked to her, not sure of the answer himself. He was drawn to her, for more then just her looks or personalities…but he couldn't tell her that. He coughed a bit uncomfortably and shifted his gaze.

"Out of all the kids in school, you don't constantly barrage me with questions or hang all over me, your presence is tollerable…besides, I never had parents, but I do know that they shouldn't do that to their children" he said fingering the bruise on the side of her face then pulled back as if the candle had burnt him. Her pale eyes moved to look at Kaiba as he went to leave then he paused and looked back at him.

"You can stay here tomorrow if you'd like, you shouldn't have to go back to that" he said before leaving. Amethist was having a hard time grasping that the Seto Kaiba everyone at school had warned her to avoid and had said was mean and uncaring…could be like this, so caring. She slid from the bed, wincing as pain shot through her leg and she looked down to where it was bandaged. After a while she moved to the large windows and watched the rain pelt away at the window, it seemed to reflect how she was feeling, confused, depressed, hurt, angry….uncertain. A sigh slid past her lips and she turned from the window and crawled back into bed shivering as the cool sheets slid across her legs and she hoped she could fall asleep without having that same, strange dream again.

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Kaiba's chauffer had offered to drive her to school in the morning and she had told him it was fine if she walked. Mokuba was walking in front of her, she had told Kaiba she'd make sure he got to school fine, but she didn't need anymore rumors started up about herself. Mokuba had no problem walking.

"So…how come you were at our place last night?" Mokuba asked her walking backwards his arms folded behind his head.

"Huh?" Amethist looked up startled hearing his voice, it pulling her out of her troubled thoughts.

"Why were you at our house? How come your parents hit you? I thought parents were supposed to be nice" Mokuba said in one breath then turned around. Amethist raised an eyebrow, gosh, this kid must have been so annoying when he'd learned the word 'why'.

"They are…but not all parents are nice" she said stopping infront of Mokuba's school, it was right beside her own, a chainlink fence separating them.

"Okay…talk to you later!" Mokuba said waving to her as he went to catch up to his friends in the school yard. For the first time since her victory over Joey yesterday, she smiled. As she watched Mokuba run off, she was unaware of four people looking at her.

"Isn't that Amethist? What's she doing with Mokuba?" Tea asked as they watched her. Strands of her light coloured hair hung across half of her face as she started to turn to walk into the yard stopping when she saw them and paused.

"Don't know Tea, but something just feels wrong" Yugi said as Amethist walked to them looking kind of out of it.

"Hey" she said quietly.

"Hey, you okay Amethist?" Tea asked, when Joey moved to look closer at her face she yelled in surprise and jumped back, this causing Tea to smack Joey and him do a face plant , "you're such a dork Joey" Tea grumbled as Tristian and Yugi held up Joey's feet and dragged him into the school yard. Tea's expression softened considerably as she looked at Amethist who was laughing at the antics of her friend.

"Are you okay?" she asked again.

"Yeah, I'm fine" she said quietly and walked with Tea into the school yard. Amethist tensed once looking up she thought she caught sight of her brother? But what would he be doing here?

"Amethist?" Tristian asked looking at her.

"Huh? Oh, its nothing, come on, were going to be late for homeroom" she said running ahead of them forcing a smile onto her lips, though her eyes held a worried expression.

Yugi wasn't certain, but he almost knew that something wasn't right, he bit his bottom lip and looked back out of the parking lot to where a black car with several men with sun glasses on were standing watching them and he raised an eyebrow moving to catch up with his friends.

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(okay, it's kind of short, but, my arm hurts, and I've just GOT TO get up a second chapter, I promise you that the third will be much better and a lot longer, maybe even have another cute scene between Seto and Amethist eh? Opinions? Comments? Ideas for my next chapter? Please review ^-^()

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