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Zora's point of view

"Zora. Zora?"

'I knew it was a dream... I mean how can a cartoon come to your house, talk to you, and then you get sucked into the television with him?'

"Zora! Wake up!"

'And there's mom trying to get me up for that stupid math test. My life is so dull. Oh well, it was a nice change.' "Yes, mother. I'm up, I'm up." Zora mumbled into the carpet. 'hang on...carpet?!...' Zora's eyes snapped open. She stared uncomprehending into violet eyes not two inches away.

"Hi sleepyhead!" the owner of the eyes practically yelled at her.

"Aah!" Zora shouted in surprise. She jerked back and hit her head on the wall really hard.

"Yami made breakfast! He must really like you, Zora. By the way, I'm Yugi!" Yugi stated happily.

"I'm Zora," she said rather only after saying this did she realize that Yugi already knew this.

"Well, come on! Let's go see what Yami's cooking!" Yugi said bounding down the stairs. Zora followed and thought to herself: 'Man, Yugi needs to chill. He's never this hyper on the show! But I guess that really doesn't matter now, does it?'

Delicious smells drifting through the house were making Zora's stomach growl. She turned the corner and burst out laughing! Yami was wearing a pink frilly apron and he was covered in pancake mix. "What?! Oh, be quiet! This was a gift and I've never made pancakes before!" Yami sounded exasperated. He pointed to a small pile of burnt pancakes and some extra crispy (burnt) bacon. Still chuckling, Zora took over. She wasn't much better than Yami, but nothing was seriously burned, and that's what they make maple syrup for.

Later...

"Hey, Yugi, Yami!" Zora called. "I'm gonna go for a walk. Wanna come?"

"Sorry, Zora, but we have to duel people. We have things to do this morning." came Yugi's reply.

"Okay," Zora said and walked outside. She continued down the street and alleys with nothing in particular on her mind. Then Zora bumped into a poorly dressed woman. "Oh, I'm sorry" she apologized and started to walk away.

"Wait!" cried the woman. "I have something for you." The woman grabbed her wrist, put something on it, and ran off. Zora looked at her wrist. "What the hell?!" The woman had put a gold bracelet on her! One of the links even had the sennen eye on it. 'Strange...it feels kind of tingly. Maybe I should find Yami and talk to him about it.' So Zora went off in search of Yami and Yugi.

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Marik's point of view

"ISIS!" Marik roared. "Come on out! I know you're here!"

"Ah, little brother. There you are." came a soft voice for the depths of the room.

"Isis, you bitch, you gave the pharaoh's annoying girlfriend a Sennen Item! Where did you get it and WHY did you give it to HER?!" Marik screamed, enraged, at his hikari's sibling. Isis merely smiled lightly and disappeared, leaving Marik swearing and cursing in her wake.

Zora's point of view

'I wonder what that woman was doing with a solid gold bracelet? And why does it have a sennen eye on it? ...Could it be a -'

"Hey! Watch it!" said a familiar voice near her navel.

"Huh? Oh I'm sorry! I didn't see you there," Zora apologized to a boy with unruly black hair. He was rather short and dressed in jeans and a red T- shirt.

He peered up at her and said, "Hey, do I know you? My name's Mokuba." Zora thought hard before she answered. 'What do you say to someone that you've seen a hundred times on Saturday mornings that thinks he knows you from somewhere? 'Hey! Hi! You, in my opinion, are the most annoying character in my favorite cartoon show!'?

She almost smiled, and decided against it. "Uh, no, not that I know of..."

Undaunted, Mokuba Kaiba said, "Well, you look familiar anyway. Hey, do you know where my big brother is? I lost him." Zora grinned inwardly, the chance to talk to, at the very least see, THE Seto Kaiba came along once in a million trillion years. She wasn't going to miss it.

"I'm real sorry, Mokuba, I haven't. But I can help you look for him." So Zora and Mokuba scoured the crowded square that was the heart of downtown Domino looking for Seto Kaiba. After almost half an hour of fruitless searching, they sat down on a bench to rest. The sun was swelteringly hot.

"Mokuba! There you are!" came Seto's commanding voice from behind them.

"Big Brother!" Mokuba screeched. "I'm so happy to see you!" Zora grinned at the sight of seemingly cold-hearted Seto smiling with relief at finding his younger sibling. They turned their backs on Zora so she figured that they didn't want her around anymore.

She was stung that Mokuba didn't even say good-bye or something. "Bye, Mokuba!" she said. Zora started to walk away thinking savagely that the least that arrogant millionaire could've done was thank her for looking after his brother. Not to mention a little 'thank you' reward would've been nice, too.

"Let's go Mokuba." Seto said in his carefully guarded voice.

"Oh, Seto...! Wait!" Moukba whined. He ran back to Zora, grabbed her hand, and 'dragged' her towards Seto. It was completely unnecessary. "Can she come over for just a little while?" Mokuba pleaded, giving Seto the biggest, cutest, most adorable puppy-dog eyes he could muster. Seto looked her over as if searching for flaws. He glanced at Mokuba once more, and the sight seemed to sway him.

"Alright," he said grudgingly, as if it were against his better judgement. "Come on."

Zora followed Seto to his private limo as the irrepressible Mokuba bounded ahead and back chattering about the latest duel-disk system and at the same time upbraiding them about walking so slowly.

~*~*

"So this is the newest duel-disk?" Zora asked holding up an even newer model than those used in the Battle City Tournament. She was genuinely curious about it and all of the Kaiba technologies, she had asked about everything too, but Seto seemed to take offence to her natural curiosity.

"Obviously." He answered coldly.

"Want to see how it works?" Mokuba asked. Actually, it was more of a command, considering that he had snatched it out of her hand. She gave him one of her weaker cards from the deck she always carried to try out. Mokuba started up the device and put the monster card in it.

The air wavered, and as Zora watched, the waves took shape. An Uraby had appeared where only moments before there had been just thin air!

The monster looked around, unsheathed its claws, and roared defiance to the three humans. "Amazing!" Zora murmured. "It looks so real...can I touch it?" This last part was directed at Seto. He looked at her with an expression she couldn't read.

He nodded, and Zora let out a squeal of happiness and ran toward the dinosaur with childish glee (who was looking at Mokuba like he was on the menu). She did not see one of Seto's rare smiles slowly flashing in her direction. When he realized that he was smiling, he blushed scarlet and quickly strode form the room muttering about some work he had to do. He didn't look up from the floor until he reached the sanctity of one of his many research/computer rooms.

The dinosaur (A.N. that vaguely resembled a theropod, similar to the mighty T.Rex, with short 'arms' and long legs and feet. Yes, I'm a dino fan. ...DON"T YOU EVEN DARE THINK OF REX RAPTOR!!) looked at Zora warily. But as she reached out and scratched its chin and eye ridges it accepted the caresses and just stood there, looking lovingly at her.

"Mokuba, this thing is so life-like! It might as well be real!" Zora said amazed at the Uraby.

"I know!" Mokuba replied adoringly. "Seto had this great idea of combining his duel-disk technology and his virtual-reality game together. Isn't he great?"

"Yeah." Zora said thoughtfully. "Maybe I should go and thank him for letting me use it." She bade Mokuba farewell and started to find her way to Seto's hiding place.

Three closets, two bathrooms, five media/staff rooms, two floors and half an hour later Zora stumbled upon Seto Kaiba in his favorite computer room. Seto looked very uncomfortable at being trapped by his guest. "Uh, Seto...I want to, um, thank you...for, um, you know..." Zora said suddenly shy. And that's when Yami decided to barge in.

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