Ieyre: Wow...reviews rock! Were almost in double digits, here!
Yami Ieyre: I'm not going to bother. It's just too easy.
Ieyre: *glares*
Yami Ieyre: *snickers*
Ieyre: ANYWAY...thanks to everyone who's reviewed so far, I really appreciate it. The support you've given me motivates each new chapter's material.
Yami Ieyre: In other words: if you want a new chapter of this garbage then all you have to do is write some really long suck-up praisy review.
Ieyre: *glares*
Yami Ieyre: What?
Ieyre: *glares*
Yami Ieyre: ...........
Ieyre: *has glared so much that she can no longer glare*
Yami Ieyre: Um...Yeah. I'm just gonna start this. So, the Disclaimer-
Disclaimer: Voice in background: Come on! Do I havta' do this?
Some other voice in background: Yes, now get out there!
VIB: This is humiliating....okay...*walks on*
*is Joey wearing doggy suit that I find really cute* Ieyre does not own Yu-Gi-Oh!, however, she does own..........meinthispuppysuitand- KAIBA in a BEWD suit, which conveniently enough, he doesn't have to wear in this disclaimer! Hey, how come Kaiba doesn't have to wear HIS suit???
Yami Ieyre: Because the entire purpose of these disclaimers is to torture you, smart one. Now, sit down and shut up!
Joey: *is afraid*
Ieyre: *still trying to glare* .......*failing*
Yami Ieyre: Okay...to the story...
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"Seto...Seto-kun..." Adele sobbed into Seto's chest, not unlike what Mokuba had been doing to her, only minutes before.
Seto cradled her softly, with a look strangely familiar.
/Yami...Kaiba looks like-/
//-How he looked during our second duel. Yes Yugi...once again, he's in another world.//
Seto looked down at Adele's graceful figure in his arms.
//She hasn't changed much...even her tears are the same...//
#FLASHBACK#
A small brown-haired girl runs up to a little brunette boy. In her tattered dress, she holds something. She is sobbing.
His large blue eyes alight with concern.
"Adele...what's wrong?"
"S-s-s-set-o-o...those big mean boys broke my doll!" She looks down at the ground, moping. "I wish you were there-you would have stood up to them!"
The boy fixedly stares at her, his cerulean eyes narrowing, temper flaring up. He is evidently and obviously one of determination and spirit, the eyes show it clearly.
Controlling himself, he closes his eyes and breaths deeply, fists clenched in anger. He opens his eyes and sighs, defeated at last.
"Adele...may I see your doll?"
Curiously, she holds out her doll sniffling a little. The boy examines it carefully, then holds it out to her.
"There's no way to fix this toy, I'm afraid the plastic itself has snapped."
She nods forcefully.
"Adele...you can have..." She blinks at him. "...Have my toy."
She swiftly looks up from the destroyed doll she cradles in her arms.
"Really?" she says, wiping her eyes.
"Really." He replies firmly. He takes out the small electronic device. "I made it myself...here, take it. I let Mokuba use it all the time.
"Oh, Seto, thank you so much!"
She hugs him quickly, and, much to his surprise and delight plants a small kiss on his cheek.
"Seto, you're my best friend. You always will be."
#END FLASHBACK#
//Adele...you haven't changed. But I have...far too much...//
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Adele separated herself from Seto, once again calm and controlled. Stepping back, she surveyed him closely for the first time since their meeting.
"Seto-" she gasped, just now noticing. "You've grown so tall!"
Indeed, he towered over her by a good half a foot, at least. He also had resumed his usual stance, non-emotional. She failed to notice it at the moment.
"Kaiba...what's going on?" Yugi and co., who had remained silent for quite some time, were ready for some answers. Why had this boy, whom they had known for so long -known and disliked- but still, why had he kept it from them that he was an orphan? Was he ashamed? Did he think they didn't care at ALL about his welfare? How had his parents died? Who adopted him? And most importantly, how did he know Adele, their new, semi-distant, classmate?
"Yugi..." Seto started, cracking slightly.
" Seto Kaiba." Yugi summoned his Yami who stared down the tall boy with an unnerving look. "Kaiba, your brother has just told me the truth of you two. You are an orphan, then?"
Seto glanced at his little brother.
"Yes Yugi. I am."
Yami's look softened at Seto's hard glare.
"Kaiba...why did you never mention this to me? You know in your heart that me, and the others, would show only sympathy towards you. Why then, Kaiba?"
Seto stared back into those eyes, the crimson eyes that he had started into so often during his duels with their owner. They appeared to look into his very soul...
Joey, Tea, Tristan, and Bakura all moved into the circle as well. 7 sets of eyes rested upon the CEO.
"I assumed you didn't care. I am, after all, no friend of yours, Yugi. I am but a rival duelist. My welfare, I believe, means very little to you. Therefore, does not my past?" Seto spoke with an edge of malice and bitterness in his voice.
Mokuba walked over to his elder brother eyes raised and with an almost sober look.
"Seto...don't you understand? Yugi and everyone else only want to be your friends, Seto. I care about you...and you know they do too..."
Seto didn't respond. He turned from the group and glared at the cement stubbornly.
"Seto Kaiba!" Tea snapped at his back. "You turn around right now!" Though most of the time, Tea appeared mild-mannered, Seto Kaiba had always brought out the righteous part of her personality.
Even Seto could not refuse her tone of voice and manner. He, glaring some more at the lot of them (Excluding Mokuba and Adele, who appeared lost in her own thoughts anyway), spun around to face them. His stubbornness was no match for her uncanny ability to reveal the truth in her words. He remembered well what she had said at Duelist's Kingdom after he defeated Yugi by risking his own life on the match...oh so well...
#FLASHBACK#
"The game? Yugi may have lost one lousy Duel Monsters game, but at least he hasn't lost his heart! Not like you, SETO KAIBA! You've spent so much time around your machines, you've forgotten what being human is about!"
//Silly, foolish, girl...you don't know how right you are...//
"Yugi has a heart, Kaiba. Yugi has friends that will stick with him whether he wins or looses some lousy game. And what do you have, Seto Kaiba? What do you have at the end of the day? Tell me! TELL ME!"
//Now...very little. Only Mokuba. And if I had lost this game...I would have lost him as well! Then there would have been no point in living...//
"I have all that I need!"
#END FLASHBACK#
"Fine, Tea...if you and your friends truly care..." he paused and glared slightly at them all. "Then get in the limo. It'll drive us home where we can...discuss...this turn of events." He gestured to Adele.
Surprised, they all complied quickly.
//I could not keep it a secret much longer...Adele...I never imagined to see you again! Your presence here is uncanny...perhaps fate has intervened...no, there's no such thing! It's purely...//
He glanced over at her fair face in the limousine.
//A blessing...//
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Ieyre: *is sick* Being sick sucks!
Yami Ieyre: *grins* Especially on a weekend...
Ieyre: Funny...well, as it's appropriate...HAPPY BIRTHDAY BROOD! Consider this my present to you (I was going to get you "Forbidden Memories"...but, no. How the heck would I send it??? Plus, isn't "Fu-Fu-Chaco-Taco" getting it for you?) Hope it was one of your BETTER gifts. Hey, can you drive now? Another crappy 2 years till' I can even start learning...life bites!
Yami Ieyre: Well, *I* can drive.
Ieyre: .................Let's not even go there...
Yami Ieyre: Hey, I only ran over 5 pedestrians!
Ieyre: 7, actually. Well, I guess I'd better go, on this happy note. Hope you all enjoyed this, I really felt that that was Tea's finest hour. She spoke quite a bit of truth, she actually showed spunk. I thought that was pretty cool ^_^ I actually memorized her line, from watching it over and over and over...that's one of my favorite episodes, you know.
Yami Ieyre: It was 5, I tell you! 5!!!
Ieyre: Suuuuuure it was. Well, later guys! Review review review!
Yami Ieyre: I'm not going to bother. It's just too easy.
Ieyre: *glares*
Yami Ieyre: *snickers*
Ieyre: ANYWAY...thanks to everyone who's reviewed so far, I really appreciate it. The support you've given me motivates each new chapter's material.
Yami Ieyre: In other words: if you want a new chapter of this garbage then all you have to do is write some really long suck-up praisy review.
Ieyre: *glares*
Yami Ieyre: What?
Ieyre: *glares*
Yami Ieyre: ...........
Ieyre: *has glared so much that she can no longer glare*
Yami Ieyre: Um...Yeah. I'm just gonna start this. So, the Disclaimer-
Disclaimer: Voice in background: Come on! Do I havta' do this?
Some other voice in background: Yes, now get out there!
VIB: This is humiliating....okay...*walks on*
*is Joey wearing doggy suit that I find really cute* Ieyre does not own Yu-Gi-Oh!, however, she does own..........meinthispuppysuitand- KAIBA in a BEWD suit, which conveniently enough, he doesn't have to wear in this disclaimer! Hey, how come Kaiba doesn't have to wear HIS suit???
Yami Ieyre: Because the entire purpose of these disclaimers is to torture you, smart one. Now, sit down and shut up!
Joey: *is afraid*
Ieyre: *still trying to glare* .......*failing*
Yami Ieyre: Okay...to the story...
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"Seto...Seto-kun..." Adele sobbed into Seto's chest, not unlike what Mokuba had been doing to her, only minutes before.
Seto cradled her softly, with a look strangely familiar.
/Yami...Kaiba looks like-/
//-How he looked during our second duel. Yes Yugi...once again, he's in another world.//
Seto looked down at Adele's graceful figure in his arms.
//She hasn't changed much...even her tears are the same...//
#FLASHBACK#
A small brown-haired girl runs up to a little brunette boy. In her tattered dress, she holds something. She is sobbing.
His large blue eyes alight with concern.
"Adele...what's wrong?"
"S-s-s-set-o-o...those big mean boys broke my doll!" She looks down at the ground, moping. "I wish you were there-you would have stood up to them!"
The boy fixedly stares at her, his cerulean eyes narrowing, temper flaring up. He is evidently and obviously one of determination and spirit, the eyes show it clearly.
Controlling himself, he closes his eyes and breaths deeply, fists clenched in anger. He opens his eyes and sighs, defeated at last.
"Adele...may I see your doll?"
Curiously, she holds out her doll sniffling a little. The boy examines it carefully, then holds it out to her.
"There's no way to fix this toy, I'm afraid the plastic itself has snapped."
She nods forcefully.
"Adele...you can have..." She blinks at him. "...Have my toy."
She swiftly looks up from the destroyed doll she cradles in her arms.
"Really?" she says, wiping her eyes.
"Really." He replies firmly. He takes out the small electronic device. "I made it myself...here, take it. I let Mokuba use it all the time.
"Oh, Seto, thank you so much!"
She hugs him quickly, and, much to his surprise and delight plants a small kiss on his cheek.
"Seto, you're my best friend. You always will be."
#END FLASHBACK#
//Adele...you haven't changed. But I have...far too much...//
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Adele separated herself from Seto, once again calm and controlled. Stepping back, she surveyed him closely for the first time since their meeting.
"Seto-" she gasped, just now noticing. "You've grown so tall!"
Indeed, he towered over her by a good half a foot, at least. He also had resumed his usual stance, non-emotional. She failed to notice it at the moment.
"Kaiba...what's going on?" Yugi and co., who had remained silent for quite some time, were ready for some answers. Why had this boy, whom they had known for so long -known and disliked- but still, why had he kept it from them that he was an orphan? Was he ashamed? Did he think they didn't care at ALL about his welfare? How had his parents died? Who adopted him? And most importantly, how did he know Adele, their new, semi-distant, classmate?
"Yugi..." Seto started, cracking slightly.
" Seto Kaiba." Yugi summoned his Yami who stared down the tall boy with an unnerving look. "Kaiba, your brother has just told me the truth of you two. You are an orphan, then?"
Seto glanced at his little brother.
"Yes Yugi. I am."
Yami's look softened at Seto's hard glare.
"Kaiba...why did you never mention this to me? You know in your heart that me, and the others, would show only sympathy towards you. Why then, Kaiba?"
Seto stared back into those eyes, the crimson eyes that he had started into so often during his duels with their owner. They appeared to look into his very soul...
Joey, Tea, Tristan, and Bakura all moved into the circle as well. 7 sets of eyes rested upon the CEO.
"I assumed you didn't care. I am, after all, no friend of yours, Yugi. I am but a rival duelist. My welfare, I believe, means very little to you. Therefore, does not my past?" Seto spoke with an edge of malice and bitterness in his voice.
Mokuba walked over to his elder brother eyes raised and with an almost sober look.
"Seto...don't you understand? Yugi and everyone else only want to be your friends, Seto. I care about you...and you know they do too..."
Seto didn't respond. He turned from the group and glared at the cement stubbornly.
"Seto Kaiba!" Tea snapped at his back. "You turn around right now!" Though most of the time, Tea appeared mild-mannered, Seto Kaiba had always brought out the righteous part of her personality.
Even Seto could not refuse her tone of voice and manner. He, glaring some more at the lot of them (Excluding Mokuba and Adele, who appeared lost in her own thoughts anyway), spun around to face them. His stubbornness was no match for her uncanny ability to reveal the truth in her words. He remembered well what she had said at Duelist's Kingdom after he defeated Yugi by risking his own life on the match...oh so well...
#FLASHBACK#
"The game? Yugi may have lost one lousy Duel Monsters game, but at least he hasn't lost his heart! Not like you, SETO KAIBA! You've spent so much time around your machines, you've forgotten what being human is about!"
//Silly, foolish, girl...you don't know how right you are...//
"Yugi has a heart, Kaiba. Yugi has friends that will stick with him whether he wins or looses some lousy game. And what do you have, Seto Kaiba? What do you have at the end of the day? Tell me! TELL ME!"
//Now...very little. Only Mokuba. And if I had lost this game...I would have lost him as well! Then there would have been no point in living...//
"I have all that I need!"
#END FLASHBACK#
"Fine, Tea...if you and your friends truly care..." he paused and glared slightly at them all. "Then get in the limo. It'll drive us home where we can...discuss...this turn of events." He gestured to Adele.
Surprised, they all complied quickly.
//I could not keep it a secret much longer...Adele...I never imagined to see you again! Your presence here is uncanny...perhaps fate has intervened...no, there's no such thing! It's purely...//
He glanced over at her fair face in the limousine.
//A blessing...//
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Ieyre: *is sick* Being sick sucks!
Yami Ieyre: *grins* Especially on a weekend...
Ieyre: Funny...well, as it's appropriate...HAPPY BIRTHDAY BROOD! Consider this my present to you (I was going to get you "Forbidden Memories"...but, no. How the heck would I send it??? Plus, isn't "Fu-Fu-Chaco-Taco" getting it for you?) Hope it was one of your BETTER gifts. Hey, can you drive now? Another crappy 2 years till' I can even start learning...life bites!
Yami Ieyre: Well, *I* can drive.
Ieyre: .................Let's not even go there...
Yami Ieyre: Hey, I only ran over 5 pedestrians!
Ieyre: 7, actually. Well, I guess I'd better go, on this happy note. Hope you all enjoyed this, I really felt that that was Tea's finest hour. She spoke quite a bit of truth, she actually showed spunk. I thought that was pretty cool ^_^ I actually memorized her line, from watching it over and over and over...that's one of my favorite episodes, you know.
Yami Ieyre: It was 5, I tell you! 5!!!
Ieyre: Suuuuuure it was. Well, later guys! Review review review!