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**** Okay there are a few more chapters than I counted on. But that's okay! ^_^ ****
Chapter Thirty-Four
Domino City Blues
Yugi dropped by eventually as the day went on. Joey knew this was a good thing because he had to meet Mai later on at the cinema, and he knew Kaiba would kill him for leaving Roux alone.
Joey wondered if Yugi would mind staying with Roux when he went to meet Mai. He was pretty sure he wouldn't mind, but he just wanted to make sure.
It had been pretty awkward, however, when Yugi walked in the door and Joey told him the plans for that evening. They would all walk down town, meet with some of the guys, while Joey went off to meet Mai, and Roux went off to meet Kaiba.
Yugi stood for a moment, and noticed that something was definitely different that night. He remembered what had happened the day before, when they had come to the Wheeler apartment and found Kaiba, madder than Yugi had ever seen him before. He didn't suspect to see Roux smiling and sighing to herself when someone spoke his name.
But then Joey elbowed him and whispered in his ear. "They're in love."
"You are?" Yugi asked, dazzled and shocked at the same time as he stared at Roux with wide amethyst eyes.
Roux gave him an innocent look. "I'm what?" she asked.
"In love with Kaiba?"
Roux's cheeks went pinker, and finally she couldn't hide her smile. She nodded, and Yugi's eyes went wider, and he ran a hand through his tri- coloured spiked hair. "Well then.this is awkward." He said slowly.
"Tell me about it." Joey said rolling his eyes. "Can you imagine how shocked I was? I could hardly say anything."
They hadn't talked too much about it. Roux told Yugi the briefs: how Kaiba and Roux confessed their love for each other, and the whole gist of it. He wasn't nearly as shocked or paralyzed, as Joey had been when Roux told him.
"We should get going." Joey said looking at his watch. "I told da guys we'd meet em in a few minutes." He said grabbing his coat.
Momentarily they were all walking down the street in the direction of downtown. Roux tucked her hands in her pockets, smiling softly. She recalled back to her phonecall with Kaiba earlier that afternoon:
"Kaiba here." Came Kaiba's gruff, business-type voice when he answered the phone.
Roux smiled. His voice was so different; it seemed, in tone when he answered the phone and when he talked to her in person. "Hi. It's me." She cooed.
He calmed a little. "Are you okay?"
"Yeah, I'm fine."
"Did you tell Wheeler?"
"I did."
"How'd he take the news?" Kaiba was beginning to sound fairly grim.
Roux sighed softly. "It took a little work, but he's gonna be okay with it. He's got a date later on tonight with Mai, so-"
"It's NOT. A. DATE!" came Joey's voice from the kitchen, and it made Roux snicker.
"Anyway, he's getting together tonight with Mai, so we'll be free to do whatever, we're going down now to this sandwich place to meet the guys." She said softly.
"Hmm.tell you what. Why don't I meet you down at this place and we can take it from there?" Kaiba suggested lightly. "I know a great Italian place not far from there."
Roux smiled broadly. "Sounds wonderful. I see you soon. Bye."
"Bye."
The blonde model stretched out her arms as they walked and they approached the little sandwich shop on the end of the street. When Roux looked inside she searched around for Kaiba, but didn't spot him. That was okay, he would probably be a little late anyway.
Everyone else was there, and they waved when they saw the three come in. Roux didn't order anything to eat, she just had a soda, while the others all ate freely. She piped in with the hearty conversation, and was surprised no one brought up the topic of her and Kaiba. She was rather thankful for it, though.
Soon Joey got up to leave, after looking at his watch. "Well, I gotta run." He said, and grabbed his jacket. "Everyone have a nice night." He said.
Roux got up and hugged Joey before he was able to take off. He hugged her back, although he was a little bit confused. "What's this for?" he asked.
"Just for being such a great friend." She whispered to him gently and then smiled when they parted. "Have a great time with Mai."
Joey nodded and winked. "And you have a great time with-well, y'know. Later." He waved and was gone.
Roux sat back down and Duke was smirking. "Well I can already tell that Joey's up for a bit of loving tonight eh?" and then he got up and journeyed to sit next to Roux. She didn't feel quite as nervous now when Duke flirted with her, not like she did when she had first arrived. She wasn't too sure why.
"And with him gone, maybe I'll be up for the same!" Duke said playfully, winking at Roux and wrapping his arm around her.
Roux gulped and forgot that she hadn't told anyone except Yugi and Joey that she and Kaiba were an item. "Um, Duke." she tried to mention something while taking his arm off from around her.
"Aww, what's wrong? Are you scared?" Duke asked in a pouting voice and then smiled. "Don't worry, Joey's not here to yell, and he was pretty foolish afterall to leave you in my care."
Yugi cleared his throat and then started to point in the direction of the door. He was looking rather worried. "Duke-"
"What? Is Joey back? Don't worry, I'm not necking with Roux now, am I?" then he started to laugh.
The whole table seemed to go completely dark and everyone held a grim expression on their faces as a shadow towered over the table. Roux smiled to herself. She knew now that Duke was in for it.
"Duke Devlin," came a blood-chilling voice, sounding angry, and once Duke heard it he stopped laughing. "If I were you, I would take your arm graciously off of Roux and not dare to flirt with her again."
Duke looked up, and Kaiba was standing there over him, looking all in all very annoyed. Hidden in the azure eyes was a deep jealously that was burning inside him. Coming into the sandwich shop and seeing Duke flirting with Roux, and Roux not being too keen on it, made Kaiba rather testy, and flared his mood.
The black haired boy nodded cautiously, called a truce, and to avoid such a piercing gaze, or the awkwardness of the situation, he excused himself to the bathroom and wasn't seen for awhile.
Kaiba was still miffed when Duke was gone. "That guy will do anything to get a loose woman." He shook his head, and then looked down at Roux and eased a small smile. He offered his hand, and she took it, and he pulled her up.
Then they embraced swiftly, and kissed briefly, and everyone at the table was suddenly wide-eyed with surprise.
"Wait a minute!" Tristan said, obviously dumb-struck. "You mean, Roux and Kaiba are-" he shook his head. "Together?"
Roux nodded. "That's right." She said, cuddling up to Kaiba's body as he pulled her closer. "I meant to tell you guys, but I guess we just got caught up in other stuff."
"Wow." Tea said, shocked.
Kaiba cleared his throat. "Yes, and we're due to go to dinner, so if you'll excuse us." He pulled Roux along with him, and they headed towards the entrance doors.
"See ya guys." Roux called out and waved to the remaining people at the table, still looking rather shocked.
~*~
Because it was so warm and beautiful out that night, Kaiba and Roux decided to walk to the restaurant instead of taking the limo. This way they had a chance to show to the world that they were a couple.
Kaiba knew that if any reporter or business associate of his had seen him with a woman, they'd be a new thing to talk about at the office other than the news of the Battle City Tournament. But Kaiba didn't care. As long as he was with Roux, he was happy.
"Hmm, it's so nice out, isn't it Seto?" Roux whispered as she looked up at the sky and smiled.
"It is," Kaiba said softly, and then smirked when he remembered something. "Mokuba called the office this afternoon."
Roux let out a gentle laugh. "Oh yeah?" she remembered earlier that day the poor little boy nearly had a conniption because he had seen both his brother and Roux kissing in the foyer of the mansion. She was rather surprised he had reacted the way he did. She thought he would have been happy.
"He asked when the wedding was. Joyously, I might add." Kaiba smirked.
Roux laughed again. "And here I thought he was disappointed to see that we were kissing earlier."
Kaiba went silent all of a sudden, for a dark question was growing in his mind. He was wondering what would happen now and after the Battle City Tournament was over. Would Roux be forced to go back to Osaka? How could they stay together if she had to go back?
Just as Kaiba was about to open his mouth to ask her this question, which indeed he didn't want to ask, another voice came from down the road a little, one that both Roux and Kaiba recognized easily. "Yoo hoo! Roux! Kaiba!"
The couple stopped and turned around at the sound of the voice, and they saw Yugi's tiny form come running down the sidewalk with something large in his hand. Roux smiled softly, but Kaiba scowled. Kaiba was not going to let Yugi get in the way with his evening with Roux.
Yugi caught up to them, and he was carrying Kaiba's large silver briefcase. "Hey guys." He panted, out of breath. "I was hoping I'd catch up with you." He handed Kaiba the briefcase. "You left this back at the deli, Kaiba."
Kaiba reached forward and took his briefcase from Yugi. "Thanks Yugi." He mumbled.
"I also wanted to say that Duke is scared out of his mind and won't even dream of touching Roux now that he knows you two are together." Yugi was smiling brightly.
"I should think not." Kaiba smirked, and he squeezed Roux's hand.
Yugi breathed in and then nodded. "Well I see I'm getting in the way of your evening so I'll talk to you two later." Yugi started to walk off in the direction he came down the sidewalk.
"Bye Yugi!" Roux waved and called out happily, and when Yugi was a few feet away from them, they started to walk again. Roux hugged to Kaiba. "That was nice of Yugi, to return your briefcase."
Kaiba shrugged. "I think he just wanted to see us in the middle of a tongue- fest or something so he could go back and blab to those friends of his."
Roux rolled her eyes. "Seto, you're so mean to Yugi. He's really not that bad of a guy."
"I know." Kaiba said softly, and then he sighed. "Anyway, I had a question I wanted to ask you."
"Yeah?" Roux asked softly, looking at the lamp-posts as they walked by, and admiring the sunset off to the far horizon. "What is it?"
Kaiba chewed his lower lip. He was trying to figure out how he was going to ask her such a question. He wanted her to stay in Domino City, but that was practically like asking her to marry him. And he couldn't go that far. Not yet, at least.
"Um, I was wondering-" Kaiba started, but then he felt a tap on his shoulder. Angrily, thinking it was Yugi; he stopped in his tracks and was prepared to snap at Yugi for interrupting them again.
Before he could, a voice came to Kaiba's ear. "Excuse me, Seto Kaiba?"
Kaiba's eyebrows arched, and slowly he turned around. "Yeah?" he asked suspiciously.
Suddenly, before Kaiba could think or move or anything, a fist was thrown across his jaw, hitting him directly. The impact and strength of the thrown punch sent Kaiba to the sidewalk.
Roux screamed at first because Kaiba had been punched in the face, and again when several men in suits grabbed her from behind and started to drag her away from where Kaiba was staggering to get to his feet. When Kaiba got to his feet, another suit was waiting, and threw another punch at him. This one Kaiba was able to dodge, and threw the suit to the sidewalk.
Kaiba saw Roux being carried off forcefully by a few suits, and his instincts made him go insane. He began to run towards the suits that had Roux with every intention to rip them apart for even touching her.
But then he felt a prick at the back of his neck, and reaching out for Roux he realized he was falling down. He was on his stomach on the sidewalk, Roux's screams still ringing in his ear, when the blackness took him.
~*~
Yugi gasped and spun right around when a scream rang in his ears. He recognized that voice anywhere, and instantly he was in a fit of panic. "Roux!" he called out, and began to run once again down towards the spot where he had first caught up with Roux and Kaiba.
It was only pure luck that Yugi hadn't been far down the road when he heard it. As Yugi was coming towards the scene, he saw men in suits pushing Roux into a black Sedan that was parked on the side of the road. Yugi saw that on the sidewalk a little further up was Kaiba, unconscious.
"No!" Yugi cried out and ran for the suits at the Sedan, one of them was on a cell phone and the other one was keeping guard. They both looked down at Yugi when he approached them.
"You let my friends go!" Yugi demanded, and then taken off guard was thrown into the back of the Sedan unexpectedly along with a few other suits. Yugi rubbed his eyes, dazed with confusion, and saw that Roux was passed out in one of the seats. He was about to scream for her to wake up when a damp cloth was put to his mouth and suddenly he was asleep.
~*~
Time passed, Kaiba didn't know exactly how much, when he opened his eyes and held his head. Getting up, he was dizzy, but the street before him was empty. Roux was gone. The suits got her. Marik had her.
His hands clenching into fists, Kaiba wouldn't let Roux go without a fight. And fight he would. Without wasting any time at all, Kaiba started to run through the darkness, when he was able to, downtown towards the Kaiba Corp building.
Kaiba would get Roux back, and no one would stand in his way.
~*~
**** Cliffhanger! Just in time for Christmas! Merry Christmas everyone! Roux is now in the custody of Marik, and Kaiba is off to save her. What will happen? Stay tuned, cuz after Christmas is over, this fan fiction will be finished and the sequel begins! ^_^ Merry Christmas! ****
**** Okay there are a few more chapters than I counted on. But that's okay! ^_^ ****
Chapter Thirty-Four
Domino City Blues
Yugi dropped by eventually as the day went on. Joey knew this was a good thing because he had to meet Mai later on at the cinema, and he knew Kaiba would kill him for leaving Roux alone.
Joey wondered if Yugi would mind staying with Roux when he went to meet Mai. He was pretty sure he wouldn't mind, but he just wanted to make sure.
It had been pretty awkward, however, when Yugi walked in the door and Joey told him the plans for that evening. They would all walk down town, meet with some of the guys, while Joey went off to meet Mai, and Roux went off to meet Kaiba.
Yugi stood for a moment, and noticed that something was definitely different that night. He remembered what had happened the day before, when they had come to the Wheeler apartment and found Kaiba, madder than Yugi had ever seen him before. He didn't suspect to see Roux smiling and sighing to herself when someone spoke his name.
But then Joey elbowed him and whispered in his ear. "They're in love."
"You are?" Yugi asked, dazzled and shocked at the same time as he stared at Roux with wide amethyst eyes.
Roux gave him an innocent look. "I'm what?" she asked.
"In love with Kaiba?"
Roux's cheeks went pinker, and finally she couldn't hide her smile. She nodded, and Yugi's eyes went wider, and he ran a hand through his tri- coloured spiked hair. "Well then.this is awkward." He said slowly.
"Tell me about it." Joey said rolling his eyes. "Can you imagine how shocked I was? I could hardly say anything."
They hadn't talked too much about it. Roux told Yugi the briefs: how Kaiba and Roux confessed their love for each other, and the whole gist of it. He wasn't nearly as shocked or paralyzed, as Joey had been when Roux told him.
"We should get going." Joey said looking at his watch. "I told da guys we'd meet em in a few minutes." He said grabbing his coat.
Momentarily they were all walking down the street in the direction of downtown. Roux tucked her hands in her pockets, smiling softly. She recalled back to her phonecall with Kaiba earlier that afternoon:
"Kaiba here." Came Kaiba's gruff, business-type voice when he answered the phone.
Roux smiled. His voice was so different; it seemed, in tone when he answered the phone and when he talked to her in person. "Hi. It's me." She cooed.
He calmed a little. "Are you okay?"
"Yeah, I'm fine."
"Did you tell Wheeler?"
"I did."
"How'd he take the news?" Kaiba was beginning to sound fairly grim.
Roux sighed softly. "It took a little work, but he's gonna be okay with it. He's got a date later on tonight with Mai, so-"
"It's NOT. A. DATE!" came Joey's voice from the kitchen, and it made Roux snicker.
"Anyway, he's getting together tonight with Mai, so we'll be free to do whatever, we're going down now to this sandwich place to meet the guys." She said softly.
"Hmm.tell you what. Why don't I meet you down at this place and we can take it from there?" Kaiba suggested lightly. "I know a great Italian place not far from there."
Roux smiled broadly. "Sounds wonderful. I see you soon. Bye."
"Bye."
The blonde model stretched out her arms as they walked and they approached the little sandwich shop on the end of the street. When Roux looked inside she searched around for Kaiba, but didn't spot him. That was okay, he would probably be a little late anyway.
Everyone else was there, and they waved when they saw the three come in. Roux didn't order anything to eat, she just had a soda, while the others all ate freely. She piped in with the hearty conversation, and was surprised no one brought up the topic of her and Kaiba. She was rather thankful for it, though.
Soon Joey got up to leave, after looking at his watch. "Well, I gotta run." He said, and grabbed his jacket. "Everyone have a nice night." He said.
Roux got up and hugged Joey before he was able to take off. He hugged her back, although he was a little bit confused. "What's this for?" he asked.
"Just for being such a great friend." She whispered to him gently and then smiled when they parted. "Have a great time with Mai."
Joey nodded and winked. "And you have a great time with-well, y'know. Later." He waved and was gone.
Roux sat back down and Duke was smirking. "Well I can already tell that Joey's up for a bit of loving tonight eh?" and then he got up and journeyed to sit next to Roux. She didn't feel quite as nervous now when Duke flirted with her, not like she did when she had first arrived. She wasn't too sure why.
"And with him gone, maybe I'll be up for the same!" Duke said playfully, winking at Roux and wrapping his arm around her.
Roux gulped and forgot that she hadn't told anyone except Yugi and Joey that she and Kaiba were an item. "Um, Duke." she tried to mention something while taking his arm off from around her.
"Aww, what's wrong? Are you scared?" Duke asked in a pouting voice and then smiled. "Don't worry, Joey's not here to yell, and he was pretty foolish afterall to leave you in my care."
Yugi cleared his throat and then started to point in the direction of the door. He was looking rather worried. "Duke-"
"What? Is Joey back? Don't worry, I'm not necking with Roux now, am I?" then he started to laugh.
The whole table seemed to go completely dark and everyone held a grim expression on their faces as a shadow towered over the table. Roux smiled to herself. She knew now that Duke was in for it.
"Duke Devlin," came a blood-chilling voice, sounding angry, and once Duke heard it he stopped laughing. "If I were you, I would take your arm graciously off of Roux and not dare to flirt with her again."
Duke looked up, and Kaiba was standing there over him, looking all in all very annoyed. Hidden in the azure eyes was a deep jealously that was burning inside him. Coming into the sandwich shop and seeing Duke flirting with Roux, and Roux not being too keen on it, made Kaiba rather testy, and flared his mood.
The black haired boy nodded cautiously, called a truce, and to avoid such a piercing gaze, or the awkwardness of the situation, he excused himself to the bathroom and wasn't seen for awhile.
Kaiba was still miffed when Duke was gone. "That guy will do anything to get a loose woman." He shook his head, and then looked down at Roux and eased a small smile. He offered his hand, and she took it, and he pulled her up.
Then they embraced swiftly, and kissed briefly, and everyone at the table was suddenly wide-eyed with surprise.
"Wait a minute!" Tristan said, obviously dumb-struck. "You mean, Roux and Kaiba are-" he shook his head. "Together?"
Roux nodded. "That's right." She said, cuddling up to Kaiba's body as he pulled her closer. "I meant to tell you guys, but I guess we just got caught up in other stuff."
"Wow." Tea said, shocked.
Kaiba cleared his throat. "Yes, and we're due to go to dinner, so if you'll excuse us." He pulled Roux along with him, and they headed towards the entrance doors.
"See ya guys." Roux called out and waved to the remaining people at the table, still looking rather shocked.
~*~
Because it was so warm and beautiful out that night, Kaiba and Roux decided to walk to the restaurant instead of taking the limo. This way they had a chance to show to the world that they were a couple.
Kaiba knew that if any reporter or business associate of his had seen him with a woman, they'd be a new thing to talk about at the office other than the news of the Battle City Tournament. But Kaiba didn't care. As long as he was with Roux, he was happy.
"Hmm, it's so nice out, isn't it Seto?" Roux whispered as she looked up at the sky and smiled.
"It is," Kaiba said softly, and then smirked when he remembered something. "Mokuba called the office this afternoon."
Roux let out a gentle laugh. "Oh yeah?" she remembered earlier that day the poor little boy nearly had a conniption because he had seen both his brother and Roux kissing in the foyer of the mansion. She was rather surprised he had reacted the way he did. She thought he would have been happy.
"He asked when the wedding was. Joyously, I might add." Kaiba smirked.
Roux laughed again. "And here I thought he was disappointed to see that we were kissing earlier."
Kaiba went silent all of a sudden, for a dark question was growing in his mind. He was wondering what would happen now and after the Battle City Tournament was over. Would Roux be forced to go back to Osaka? How could they stay together if she had to go back?
Just as Kaiba was about to open his mouth to ask her this question, which indeed he didn't want to ask, another voice came from down the road a little, one that both Roux and Kaiba recognized easily. "Yoo hoo! Roux! Kaiba!"
The couple stopped and turned around at the sound of the voice, and they saw Yugi's tiny form come running down the sidewalk with something large in his hand. Roux smiled softly, but Kaiba scowled. Kaiba was not going to let Yugi get in the way with his evening with Roux.
Yugi caught up to them, and he was carrying Kaiba's large silver briefcase. "Hey guys." He panted, out of breath. "I was hoping I'd catch up with you." He handed Kaiba the briefcase. "You left this back at the deli, Kaiba."
Kaiba reached forward and took his briefcase from Yugi. "Thanks Yugi." He mumbled.
"I also wanted to say that Duke is scared out of his mind and won't even dream of touching Roux now that he knows you two are together." Yugi was smiling brightly.
"I should think not." Kaiba smirked, and he squeezed Roux's hand.
Yugi breathed in and then nodded. "Well I see I'm getting in the way of your evening so I'll talk to you two later." Yugi started to walk off in the direction he came down the sidewalk.
"Bye Yugi!" Roux waved and called out happily, and when Yugi was a few feet away from them, they started to walk again. Roux hugged to Kaiba. "That was nice of Yugi, to return your briefcase."
Kaiba shrugged. "I think he just wanted to see us in the middle of a tongue- fest or something so he could go back and blab to those friends of his."
Roux rolled her eyes. "Seto, you're so mean to Yugi. He's really not that bad of a guy."
"I know." Kaiba said softly, and then he sighed. "Anyway, I had a question I wanted to ask you."
"Yeah?" Roux asked softly, looking at the lamp-posts as they walked by, and admiring the sunset off to the far horizon. "What is it?"
Kaiba chewed his lower lip. He was trying to figure out how he was going to ask her such a question. He wanted her to stay in Domino City, but that was practically like asking her to marry him. And he couldn't go that far. Not yet, at least.
"Um, I was wondering-" Kaiba started, but then he felt a tap on his shoulder. Angrily, thinking it was Yugi; he stopped in his tracks and was prepared to snap at Yugi for interrupting them again.
Before he could, a voice came to Kaiba's ear. "Excuse me, Seto Kaiba?"
Kaiba's eyebrows arched, and slowly he turned around. "Yeah?" he asked suspiciously.
Suddenly, before Kaiba could think or move or anything, a fist was thrown across his jaw, hitting him directly. The impact and strength of the thrown punch sent Kaiba to the sidewalk.
Roux screamed at first because Kaiba had been punched in the face, and again when several men in suits grabbed her from behind and started to drag her away from where Kaiba was staggering to get to his feet. When Kaiba got to his feet, another suit was waiting, and threw another punch at him. This one Kaiba was able to dodge, and threw the suit to the sidewalk.
Kaiba saw Roux being carried off forcefully by a few suits, and his instincts made him go insane. He began to run towards the suits that had Roux with every intention to rip them apart for even touching her.
But then he felt a prick at the back of his neck, and reaching out for Roux he realized he was falling down. He was on his stomach on the sidewalk, Roux's screams still ringing in his ear, when the blackness took him.
~*~
Yugi gasped and spun right around when a scream rang in his ears. He recognized that voice anywhere, and instantly he was in a fit of panic. "Roux!" he called out, and began to run once again down towards the spot where he had first caught up with Roux and Kaiba.
It was only pure luck that Yugi hadn't been far down the road when he heard it. As Yugi was coming towards the scene, he saw men in suits pushing Roux into a black Sedan that was parked on the side of the road. Yugi saw that on the sidewalk a little further up was Kaiba, unconscious.
"No!" Yugi cried out and ran for the suits at the Sedan, one of them was on a cell phone and the other one was keeping guard. They both looked down at Yugi when he approached them.
"You let my friends go!" Yugi demanded, and then taken off guard was thrown into the back of the Sedan unexpectedly along with a few other suits. Yugi rubbed his eyes, dazed with confusion, and saw that Roux was passed out in one of the seats. He was about to scream for her to wake up when a damp cloth was put to his mouth and suddenly he was asleep.
~*~
Time passed, Kaiba didn't know exactly how much, when he opened his eyes and held his head. Getting up, he was dizzy, but the street before him was empty. Roux was gone. The suits got her. Marik had her.
His hands clenching into fists, Kaiba wouldn't let Roux go without a fight. And fight he would. Without wasting any time at all, Kaiba started to run through the darkness, when he was able to, downtown towards the Kaiba Corp building.
Kaiba would get Roux back, and no one would stand in his way.
~*~
**** Cliffhanger! Just in time for Christmas! Merry Christmas everyone! Roux is now in the custody of Marik, and Kaiba is off to save her. What will happen? Stay tuned, cuz after Christmas is over, this fan fiction will be finished and the sequel begins! ^_^ Merry Christmas! ****