Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh or the characters. Though, Kana is my own character.

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Chapter four

The five friends all sat around one table, each with hamburgers and milkshakes. They talked, told jokes, and just had an over all, good time. After a few hours, Joey had to leave because he needed to get home to make sure his sister was doing ok. Even though she had her operation awhile back, Joey still checked up on his little sister, Serenity. Tea also had to leave, her reason was because she had homework to finish, and work the next morning. Yugi sat at the counter; he seemed to be almost sleeping. Tristan was hitting on one of the girls in the restaurant. Kana walked up behind Yugi, wrapped her arms around him, giving him a hug.

"I'm sorry, Yugi. Tristan and Joey told me." He looked at her, "But you gotta believe me, Yugi, I didn't kiss him first. He did," she sat on the stool next to him and looked at him. "I didn't mean to hurt you."

"I know you didn't"

"Yugi, you know I moved back here from America only a few years ago. I was only a baby when my family moved to America. You where the only one who seemed to wanted to be friends with me when I came here. Your one of my best friends, Yugi, and I feel bad for hurting you like that," she closed her eyes; tears starting to flow down her cheeks.

Yugi reached out and touched her shoulder, "It's ok. I know you didn't mean any harm. So, how about we forget about this, and I buy you an ice cream?" He smiled.

"You're the best friend ever, Yugi!" she wiped the tears away and left Tristan to the girl he was still trying to get, and the two went to get some ice cream.

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Seto returned home, later than he intended to. He ended up walking around most of town, thinking about what he had done. **How could you have kissed her?** was all that ran threw his head. Ever since Battle City Tournament, and him getting a 3rd there, he hasn't been himself. He cut back on the duels he's played, and even thought less and less of defeating Yugi Motou. He noticed that Mokuba had even noticed this change in him. Mokuba ran into Seto's office, where he was now sitting at his desk in front of his laptop working.

"Seto! So, how did your duel go?" Mokuba looked all excited about it, figuring that his big brother had won.

"I lost."

"You what?" Mokuba almost fell over in shock. "What do you mean you lost!? Your Seto Kaiba! You never lose!"

"Well, I did today."

"I bet that girl cheated! What a bitch! You should." but he was cut off by Seto.

"Don't you dare call her that! She was a great fighter, and deserved the win!" Mokuba looked at his brother scared. Seto didn't even know what happened. He just seemed to snap when Mokuba called her a bitch. Kind of freaked out by that, Seto stood up and started to leave. "I'm going to bed, Mokuba. I think it's best if you did also."

"Yes Seto." Mokuba slowly made his way to his room, still hurt by Seto yelling at him.

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After the ice cream him and Kana got, Yugi headed home to get some sleep. He yawned and flopped down on his bed, tired. **"So, your not upset now, Yugi?"** Yami spoke for the first time in almost 3 hours.

"Nope. She said she didn't mean to, that it was Seto's fault."

**"Which I can believe. Kana does seem smarter then that. Then again, Seto does too."**

"True, but oh well." Yugi was quiet for a while, "Yami?"

**"Yes Yugi?"**

"I am going to tell Kana tomorrow."

**"I think that will do you some good. Keeping something like that bottled up is not a good thing."**

"Night Yami," Yugi turned off the light, and set his Millennium Puzzle on the table next to him.

**"Night Yugi."**

"Yami?"

**"Yes?"**

"Thanks."

**"No problem. You needed to be clamed down some how."** he felt Yugi drift asleep.

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Kana slowly creped into her house, hoping to go unnoticed by both her parents. Looking around, she found both of them passed out on the couch, bottles of sake everywhere. **What pigs!** Kana thought to herself, and quietly made it to her room. Shutting the door, Kana turned on a light to see what she was doing. She saw the pile of homework on her desk. Boy was she glad that it was only a Friday, which meant no school the next day. She sat down on her bed, letting out a yawn her eyes drifted to the answering machine that she had in her room. There was a ONE flashing on it, so she reached over pushing the button. She thought it would be her grandpa calling her to remind her of practice tomorrow at 9am, but it wasn't what she heard.

"Kana," she heard the horse voice speak, which made her hair stand on end, frightened, "this is Seto. When you can, call me back. It doesn't matter what time of the day, just call. I." he paused, "I need to talk to you." and he hung up, causing the message to be deleted. Kana sat on her bed, unable to move, her mind raced threw all the possibilities why Seto would want to talk to her. Slowly she picked up the phone book, paging threw it she found Seto's number. She dialed his number on her phone and waited for him to pick up.

After about 3 rings, he picked up, "Who ever it is, it better be important!" she heard him say. It sounded as if she had woken him up.

"Kaiba."

------------------------------------------------------------------------ The next morning when Yugi woke up, he saw Yami's apparition sitting at his desk with the manga Yugi was reading open. "Spirit?" Yugi rubbed his eyes sleepily, not wanting to wake up.

"You know, reading this stuff," he pointed to the manga, "will only rot your mind."

"I'm hoping that it'll be your part of my mind it will rot," Yugi tried to joke around so early. Yami chuckled a bit, "But then who would help you with battles if my mind is rotted?" he smiled at Yugi. "Your grandpa almost has breakfast done. You might want to think about getting dressed before you go down."

Yugi, barely sitting up in bed, looked at him. Blinked a few times, then fell on his back, sleeping again. Yami just laughed, shook his head and disappeared.

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Kana was already up and over at her grandfather's house, ready for her training, but when she got there, there was an unexpected surprise for her. "Sorry, Kana, not today." her grandfather coughed. "I'm not feeling well today."

"Do you want me to stay here and make sure you get well, Grandfather?" Kana asked concerned. Her grandfather was rarely ill, but as of lately he was becoming ill more often, and it frightened Kana.

"No dear granddaughter. I shall be fine. Your grandmother is here to help me if I need it. You just take the day off, and enjoy yourself."

"But Grandfather, you know I practice every Saturday! I can't just leave without my training!"

"Granddaughter, taking the day off will not hurt you. In fact, it will help you. Rest and relaxation is always good for the body. Enjoying yourself is good for the mind. So go off with your friends, have fun!" he smiled at her.

"Yes Grandfather." With that she left her ill grandfather to the care of his wife. Kana did not like the idea of her grandfather being there just with her grandmother. She wanted to help, but listened to what he said.

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Sitting on the park bench, Kana looked at her watch. Bored, she wondered when he would get here. She didn't want to wait all day for him; she wanted to hang out with her friends later in the afternoon to do some shopping. She yawned a few times, and did what she could to keep herself awake. After about 30 minutes, she stood up to leave and find Yugi to hang out with him, when suddenly she heard him.

"Well, Kana."

She turned around and saw Seto standing behind her, his brown hair swaying in the spring breeze, one hand in his pocket, "Seto.I.Well."

He smiled at her. Not one of is a evil, sinister smile, but a kind, gentle one she's never seen before, "It's ok." He held a hand out to her, "Shall we go?"

She swallowed hard, still frightened by his presence, but took his hand and nodded, "Yeah." They walked to his limo. He opened the door for her, let her in, then let himself in before closing the door. **Who knew.a real gentleman at heart.** Her fear for him started to fade away by the seconds. --------------------------------------------------------------------------

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