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Chapter 3

"Kana, what were you thinking?! Challenging Kaiba to a fight!?" Tristen said to her. The rest of her friends, Yugi, Tea, and Joey, where huddled around her at her locker.

"Yeah! Your nuts! Outta your mind!" Joey yelled.

Kana closed her locker door, turned around and smiled at them, "Don't worry guys. I've got this all planned out! I know what I'm gonna do! I can take down Kaiba with ease! Trust me."

"Now see, if Yugi were to say 'Trust Me' we would, because he's been known to pull a few things outta his sleeve from time to time, but you Kana. You know nothing of fighting!" Joey tried to calm himself down.

"Oh? I know nothing of fighting?"

"Yeah! I've never seen you figh.." before he could finish, Kana had him on the ground. "Oof! I guess I was wrong." he spoke with a hint of pain in his voice.

"Trust me, I can take him. No need to worry."

"If you say so," Tea said softly. "We'll just cheer you on!"

"Thanks you guys. Well, I gotta head to gym class. No really looking forward to that class," with that she ran off.

**"She's going to end up getting herself hurt,"** Yami said in Yugi's mind.

"I know. But what can I do? She won't back down from this!" he spoke back.

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At 5 o'clock most of the kids at the school were lined up in a large circle around the two fighters. Both Kana and Seto stood on opposite sides on the inside of the circle, facing each other. Kana came wearing her baggy jeans that were almost too big on her, since they showed her black froggie boxers, yet still stayed up, a white tank-top, and black combat boots. Her long black hair was pulled into pigtails. All of the guys there never realized until this day how slender her body was. Seto was wearing the same outfit he did for his tournament. Black shirt and pants, and white sleeveless trench coat. Kana noticed that Seto held a katana in his hand, she just grinned at him.

"I thought that you would bring something in, but I was hoping it would be more dangerous then that!"

"I didn't want to you end up dead," he smiled evily at her.

"Oh," she held out her hand. One of her friends threw her a katana, out of the case, "I think you'll be the one dead." she ran at him, her katana out, ready to slice. Seto pulled his out and blocked her attack.

"Your pretty good.For a weakling!"

"Weakling, huh? Then explain why my grandfaher, Ryu Somata, trained me."

"Your grandfather?" Seto's eyes got wide. Everyone in the city knew who Ryu Somata was. He was the greatest fighter in town. No one has ever beaten him, and all feared him. Even in his old age, people still dared to keep away from him.

"Yes my grandfather!" the two stood there looking into each other's eyes. Both with evil looks, both not willing to give up any time soon. Even though Kana was almost 6 inches shorter then Seto, she seemed to have the advantage. So much pressure was put on each sword, it looked as if they were to shatter at any moments notice, yet neither of them gave up. Kana kneed Seto in the stomach, causing him to double over, and jumped back a good safe distance. She took her fighting stance, waiting for Seto to attack. When Seto finally got up, he ran at her and both were attacking each other. To everyone in the crowd it seemed as if the two fighters where just blurs. With a finial hit, one of the katanas flew up in the air, and landed in the crowd. After everyone got over the shock of that, they looked back into the ring and noticed that Seto was on the ground, Kana standing over him her katana resting gently on his throat.

"I'd thought you'd give me more of a battle then this Kaiba. But sadly, it looks as if I won." She paused, "You lose Seto Kaiba!" she yelled for everyone to hear. The crowd went into a mist of whispers. Kana backed away from Seto and threw the katana back to her friend. Seto slowly rose to his feet, brushed off the dust from himself and walked away.

"You won, Kana!" Yugi yelled as all four of them ran up to her and hugged her to death.

"And you thought I wouldn't?" she laughed and smiled. She looked down at her watch, "Aw Dang! I gotta go you guys!"

"Why? We were gonna have a party!" Tea said.

"I gotta get home and help my mom with some work! I'll see you guys later. Like in an hour? We can get some hamburgers or something." and she ran off.

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**She beat me** Seto Kaiba thought to himself. **How dare she!** He keep walking home. He had to get some paper work done anyways, and didn't know why he bothered to fight her. It was a waste of his time anyways. Turning around to the sound of someone running, Seto saw Kana running behind him. **What is she doing? Following me so she can taunt me more?** But she kept on running. "Kana Motoko," he yelled at her.

She stopped, turned around, and looked at him, "No Seto, I will not duel you again."

"No, it isn't that," he walked over to her and looked down at her. He looked into her eyes and noticed that she looked tensed and was ready to strike if need be. "I just wanted to say good job." Kana's eyes got wide, and she blinked a few times. "You fought well, considering who your teacher was."

"Uh.Thanks, I guess." Seto could tell that Kana was shocked and scared by what he said, and so was he. He looked at her again, put his hand on her cheek, closed his eyes, bent down and pressed his lips to hers. **What are you doing?** Seto thought to himself the instant he did that, **Have you lost it Seto Kaiba?**

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Kana was shocked by what Seto was doing. Kissing her, this was something she'd never, in her life, thought would happen. She was scared, yet liking it at the same time. Something in her took over, and she closed her eyes and kissed him back. She didn't know why she was doing it, but she liked it and didn't want it to end. When he mind finally returned back to her, she remembered that she had to get home.

"I.I gotta go," and she tuned and ran home.

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Gone unnoticed by either Seto or Kana, Yugi and his friends had just entered the ice cream shop. They all saw Kana and Seto. They were going to say hi to them, but when they saw the kiss, all four were shocked. Tea was the first one to notice them, "Oh dear god!" she gasped and covered her mouth.

Joey ended up dropping his ice cream cone, Tristan almost tripped over Yugi, not paying attention to where he was going. Yugi just froze, unable to move at the sigh before him.

**"Calm yourself Yugi. It probably doesn't mean anything."** Yami tried to clam down Yugi, who at any moment was about to hyperventilate.

Tea looked at him, "Yugi." was all she could say before Yugi took off into a dash back home.

**"Yugi! Calm down now! This is no way to handle things!"** Yami yelled in Yugi's mind, but he paid him no attention. He just ran back home, which was on the other side of town, tears streaming down his face. **"That's it! If you won't settle down!"** with that Yami took over. "If your going to have a mental break down, don't do it in public. Wait untill we get back home." Yami wiped the tears away that where left by Yugi, and ran as fast as he could back home. Yami arrived home, he could feel that the change had clamed Yugi down a bit, but he still was a bit unstable. He managed to get into the house without Yugi's grandfather seeing him.

When they got into Yugi's room, Yami let Yugi take control once again. As he did, Yugi started crying yet again. An apparition of Yami appeared by Yugi, **"Yugi, please try to clam down."**

"How can I? You saw what I saw!"

**"True, I did. But what your doing is not going to solve anything. Just because you saw them kissing, doesn't mean anything. You don't know what happened to lead up to that." ** Yami put his hand on Yugi's shoulder, Yugi could barely feel it, **"Just wait until later tonight. She said she would meet you all for hamburgers. I'm sure she'll talk about it then,"** with that Yami disappeared again. Yugi sat up and wiped his tears away.

"Yami's right.She should talk about it when we're all out eating." He walked to his door and opened it, to leave his room and walk back to his friend, when he saw Tea standing there.

"Yugi, are you alright?"

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Kana ran in her house, "Mom! I'm home! I'll get started on the dishes!"

"Good! Next time you come home late, I'll have your dad tan your hide!" her mother yelled back, drunk most likely.

"Sorry Mom, but I had a duel," she filled up the sink with water and put soap in it. Letting the water run she watched the bubble foam, and thought of what Seto had done.

Her mom staggered in the room, her long brown hair all messed up, and he holding a bottle of sake, "Didn't you hear me girl? I said, why did you duel?"

"I was challenged, so I had to accept." She started washing the few dishes that where there. "Mom, I'm done with these, can I go meet my friends for some hamburgers?"

"I don't see why not. Your father won't be home again tonight.!"

Kana was already out the door, "Thanks Mom! Be back later!" She was running to the other side of town to meet her friends, when she ran into Joey and Tristan. "Hey guys! Where's Yugi and Tea?"

"Yug ran off, and Tea ran off after him. We were tring to find them, then come get you." Joey said, tring to catch his breath.

"Huh? Yugi ran off? But why?"

"Because he saw you and Seto outside the Ice Parlor,"

"What? He.Oh god." Kana's eyes got wide with fear, and she covered her mouth. "That was not my fault! He kissed me! I swear!"

"Well, tell Yugi that!" and Tristan pointed behind her.

Kana turned around and saw Yugi and Tea walking towards them, Yugi looking down at the ground. "Yugi, I'm sor."

"Just forget about it," he looked up at her, "We gotta party to have for you beating Seto." Kana could tell with every word he spoke he held back the pain and hurt. "Let's go." he smiled, painfully.

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