Chapter II

From Another World

            For the night, Seto laid the mysterious girl on a sofa in a room next to his.  Mokuba felt that he had to keep a constant watch over her for the night because when she awakened, he wanted to thank her.

            The next morning, a Saturday, the girl's eyelids began to flutter.  Mokuba, who had fallen asleep on a chair beside her, stood near, urgent to speak to her.  She sat up.

            "Where am I?" she asked.  She turned her head all around, the sleep still in her eyes.  "Where's Hemera?"

            "What?"

            "My cat, Hemera.  Do you know where she is?"

            "I'm sorry.  I don't know," said Mokuba, slightly saddened by her loss of the cat.  "Umm, thank you saving me."

            "I saved you?" a look of extreme puzzlement came across her face.  "I thought that I had failed in rescuing you.  Someone else had to save me.  I don't know who it was though.  He's the one who really saved you then."

            Mokuba was becoming confused by this girl.  At that moment Seto walked in.

            "I see that you're finally awake."

            The startled girl flinched as she looked up.

            "It's okay.  We're not going to hurt you.  Mokuba tells me that you saved his life.  Is that true?"

            "Who's Mokuba?" she asked with a blank expression on her face.

            "I am," said the boy of about ten years with long black hair.  It was the child who was with her when she awoke.

            "So is it true?"

            "What's true?"

            Seto was beginning to become frustrated with this girl.  Like almost everyone else, she didn't seem to have much of a brain.

            "Is it true that you saved Mokuba?"

            "No.  I didn't," she said in a distraught voice.

            "Yes you did," said Mokuba.  "Those monsters were after me and you distracted them.  If you hadn't, they would have killed me."

            "Uh-Miss-uh-what is your name?" Seto asked the girl.

            "Kaori," she said brightly with a smile.  Kaori looked up into his eyes.  Seto found himself looking away after a quick glance.

            "Yes, Kaori, now tell me exactly what happened with your encounter with those people who tried to hurt Mokuba."

            "Well, I was walking to that candy store, you see, I have a bit of a sweet tooth, and I heard someone yelling for help.  I followed the voice and saw Mokuba, only at the time I didn't know who he was, and those evil people were hurting him.  I tried to fight them, but they only overcame my attacks.  I think it was because Hemera wasn't there."

Seto was about to ask who Hemera was but he could tell that he wouldn't be able to stop her rambling easily.

".all of a sudden, I heard a voice telling them to stop what they were trying to." she broke into tears.  ".I don't remember what happened after that."

Mokuba gave Kaori a hug.

"It's okay.  You didn't get hurt, and really, you did save me.  You distracted them.  If you hadn't, I probably wouldn't have been alive for much longer."

"Who saved us then?"

"Seto did."

"Seto?  Who's Seto?"

"I am." Kaori looked in his direction.

"Oh," she said.  She thought to herself, "he seems familiar, but I can't quite place it."

"Where do you live Kaori?" asked Seto.  "When you're feeling all right, I can take you home."

"Live?  Oh yeah!  I live on 37 Kimono Lane.  I think I'm okay now," her stomach growled loudly.  "Just I'm kind of hungry so I'll want to get home now I guess."

"You can eat here," said Seto.

"Really?  Yay!" she jumped up with delight.

"I guess she really is okay then," thought Seto.

            At the brunch table, there was little conversation with Kaori because she was busy shoveling food inside her mouth.

            "When was the last time you ate Kaori?" asked Seto.

            "Uhh.hmmm.yesterday afternoon, at around three.  I went to that Chinese all-you-can eat buffet.mmmm.that was yummy.I hope I didn't put them out of business for the rest of the day."

            After the girl had eaten her food, which consisted of nine doughnuts, three bowls of cereal, five pastries, four pieces of French toast, and six glasses of juice, Mokuba couldn't help but think, "I see who can be voted the next glutton of the year."

            After breakfast, Seto and Mokuba drove Kaori to her house on 37 Kimono Lane in the limousine.  When they arrived in front of the small house they saw the same four, now battle-scarred, goblins standing in front of the residence, now ablaze in black fire.  They were pointing a long knife to a beautiful orange tabby cat.

            "Hemera!" Kaori shouted as she jumped out of the car.  The monsters looked up and the cat ran to the girl.  It jumped up onto her shoulder and whispered into her ear.

            "Kaori, transform now!"

            "SUN PRISM POWER!"

            "What is this girl doing?" thought Seto as he watched her dance and twirl as her jean shorts and red tee-shirt transformed into the Sailor Suit he had seen her adorned in the previous day.

            "Use the Love Chain," whispered Hemera.  She didn't want Seto and Mokuba to hear her talking.

            "SUN LOVE CHAIN ENCIRCLE!"

            A chain formed from hearts of fire shot out from her wrist and wrapped it around the four enemies.

            "SUN FIRE IGNITE!" she pointed her hands together like a gun and shot a swirl of fire which destroyed one of the goblins.

            "SUN BUBBLE BLAST!" another one was taken down.

            "SUN SUPREME THUNDER CRASH!"

            "SUN SOLAR FLARE!" she shouted as her last attack as she thrust her arms forward sending forth waves of fiery gas burning the last of the enemy into oblivion.

            Kaori fell to her knees and turned back into her normal clothes.  She got up once she had regained her strength and looked at her house.  Every window was smashed pouring out large billows of smoke, a fire raging inside.  Seto, noticing this, made his way over to Kaori.

            "I'm sorry Kaori," said Seto.  "Do you know where your parents might be?"

            "My parents?  Um, well you see, they aren't here."

            "They died?"

            "I dunno."

            Seto noticed that she seemed to be concealing something more than not knowing.

            "Who lived with you then?"

            "Hemera."

            "Pardon?"

            "Hemera, my cat," she pointed to the orange cat who was now rubbing against Mokuba's legs.  Seto looked at the girl as if she was more than deranged.

            "But how were you able to go to school and make a living?"

            "I just came here."

            "Kaori, you really aren't making much sense.  Please explain how you are here."

            "Well, you see, I don't really know exactly.  I was all of a sudden just here.  Hemera found me and helped me to get started living here.  This house has been abandoned for quite some time."

            "I still don't understand what you mean by 'you just came here."

            "If I were to give you details, you would say that I was just making up stories."

            "Why don't we discuss this back at the mansion."

            "What mansion?  Does it look like a castle?"

            "The one we live in.  The one where you spent the night," said Mokuba.

            "Oh.  Okay then.  Does it look like a castle?..."

            A strong breeze of wind blew the thick smoke towards them.  Kaori collapsed unable to breath the smoke and from weariness, never receiving an answer to her question.

Disclaimer:  I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh or Sailor Moon.  Kaori is my own character, and in the future, she wont be as ditzy (there's a reason for this).  Again, thank you to anyone who likes this story!!!