Chapter V

School and a Secretary

            Mokuba thought over what Hemera told him the previous night in what he had thought was a dream.

            "I don't know how much you are going to like this, but you must play the part of Cupid.  Your brother and Kaori must fall in love with each other.  You cannot tell anyone that I told you this, especially Seto and Kaori.  It may be very difficult."

            "What a curious thing to do," thought Mokuba.  "Kaori seems like the type of girl who would go after any guy…who's also loud and kind of weird, not someone like Seto…and Seto isn't really interested in girls, and even if he was, he would probably prefer someone who's smart and quiet.  Maybe I should just try to get to know Kaori's personality a little better and see how I could get them to like each other.  I guess I could go look for her right now.  She's probably in her room."

            As soon as Seto left Kaori alone in her new room, she plopped herself down on her bed.

            "Now what?" she thought.  "Why do Seto and Mokuba seem so familiar?  I feel as if I have known them before.  I don't know.  My brain is probably just malfunctioning again.  Seto seems kind of unhappy about my being here, as if I was a burden or something.  I can't figure out whether he's mean, or nice or just plain stuck up.  But he's such a hunk though…

            Seto collapsed into his chair once he arrived at his office and sighed quickly.  So many weird things were happening all at once.  The girl.  The cat.  He sighed again.  Within the depths of his inner self, he could tell that he was beginning to be attracted to the girl.  The first girl that he had ever felt towards.

            "She likes fantasy…dragons…and she has magic powers…and her eyes…"

            "Stop it Seto," his conscious was telling him.  "You have a company to run.  You have no time to be thinking about girls."

            As he got back to his work, half of him wanted to forget Kaori, while the other half, well maybe more than half, wanted her to come tripping into his office only to stand up laughing at her own clumsiness.

            "Hemera, what do I do about underwear?"

            "WHAT?"

            "You know, underwear.  I forgot to pack stuff before we came here…"

            "Oh Kaori, you really need to be more responsible."

            "Well how was I supposed to know that we were going just then?  I had just got my wishes all of sudden."

            "You do have a point there."

            The cat jumped up and performed a back flip.  In doing so a fairly large sparkling pink backpack appeared out of the air.

            "Here Kaori, if you ever need or want anything, just reach into the bag and get it out."

            "Wow!  Gee thanks Hemera!  This is even cooler than the LunaPen!"

            "By the way, I do have something like that for you too; just it's called the HemeraPen, but I don't think you're ready for that yet."

Kaori took a look inside the bag.

            "Yes!  All of my underwear is here!  I wonder if my CD's are in here…" she looked inside the bag and they were.  "Wow!  This is so cool!  I can get all of my stuff from my old world with this!"

            Someone knocked on the door.

            "Come in," said Hemera.

            "Hi Mokuba!"

            "Hi!" Mokuba decided that he would somehow try to get Kaori to Seto.  "So where are you going to school?"

            "School?!  Aww, Hemera, your not going to make me go to school are you?"

            "Of course you have to go to school!  You need a proper education!"

            "Well in that case, I guess I will be going, but I don't know where."

            "Didn't Seto sign you up or something?" questioned Mokuba.

            "I don't know."

            "Well, he probably wouldn't mind if you went to ask him about it."

            "But he told me not to bother him."

            "Don't worry.  He really won't mind."

            "Oh fine, but where do I find him?  This place is huge."

            "Go down to the hallway to your right, take the staircase to left, then take a right, then a left, then another left, and then you go up to a staircase.  After that, you go up a staircase, and then you turn right and go sixteen doors down.  He should be in his main office."

            "You got that Kaori?" asked Hemera.

            "Yep, I'll be back soon," she said as she skipped out of the room.

            "Why can't I ever remember anything?" Kaori thought to herself.  She had been running through hallways and up and down staircases for the last fifteen minutes.

            She continued running, but as she turned the corner, she hit a large suit of armor and knocked it down completely.  The falling ax fell inches away from passerby Seto Kaiba.  Not noticing him, she burst out laughing.

            "I never thought that I would end up doing that…"

            "Well I'm not surprised."

            Kaori froze.

            "Oh my god!  I am so sorry!" she said while trying to suppress her laughter.  "I swear I didn't mean to do it!  I was just running through the hallway and all of a sudden I was on the ground with all this metal around me…"

            "It's okay.  Here…" he stuck out his hand to help her up. 

            When she stood up, she tripped over a gauntlet.  Not allowing her to fall, Seto caught her by the shoulders.  Kaori gasped slightly and then tilted her head upward to meet Seto's gaze.  His hands were still firmly around her shoulders as he looked down into her greenish-grey eyes.  She backed away quickly.

            "I am so sorry…"

            "Just be a little more careful…"

            There was an awkward pause.

            "So why were you running?"

            "Uh…oh yea…school…"

            "What?"

            "Hemera told me that I had to ask you about what I should do about school.  Mokuba gave me directions, but I forgot them almost instantly, so I was kind of wandering around and I figured that I could go faster if I ran."

            "There are lots of servants here.  Why didn't you ask one of them to help you?"

            "I asked a suit of armor.  Does that count?" she said with a laugh.  Seto rolled his eyes.

            "So what grade are you in?"

            "I'm a junior."

            "Do you feel okay with starting school tomorrow?"

            "Sure!"

            "Okay, and what's your last name?"

            "My last name?  Oh…"

            "You forgot it, right?"

            "This may sound really stupid, but I don't remember being called anything more than Kaori."

            "How could you possibly forget your name?"

            "I don't really think that it's something I forgot.  Hemera told me that some of my memories have been blocked and will return in time.  When it happens that I try to think of one of these memories, like my name, I feel as if something were taken away from me.  Its presence still remains, but it is not there.  Whereas when I forget something, it's usually a short-term memory loss.  I don't know why I shouldn't know my name though."

            "Well I guess you could just make up a last name then."

            "I'll never come up with something.  You choose."

            "Do you plan on spending a good deal of time here?"

            "That's up to you.  Hemera says I'm going to be here for a long time.  I just do what she says."

            "Well then, since you'll be living here, you might at well take the Kaiba name as your last.  Think of Mokuba and I as your brothers."

            "YAY!" she exclaimed.  She hugged Seto tightly, suddenly, and quickly.  "I have an older brother now!  Yay! Wait a second, your not older than me, your birthday is 25 October and that's two months and twenty days after mine.  You're still fifteen."

            "How did you know that?"

            "Know what?"

            "The day I was born?"

            It happened again.  Kaori's eyes lit up for a split second before a blank and confused expression appeared on her face.

            "I'm not sure, but somehow I know it for a fact," a look of disappointment fell on her face.  "Hmmm…"

            Seto looked at the girl with one side of himself wanting to hold her tightly in his arms, the other side shouting in his head that he didn't have time for people/friends/girls and that he should get a hold of himself.

            "Are you okay?" she asked.

            "Why wouldn't I be?" he paused for a moment.  "I'll take you to my secretary to measure you so that she may get you a uniform for school."

            No more words were spoken between the two of them as Kaori was taken to be measured.  They walked for about five minutes before they came to a set of closed office doors.  Seto knocked on the door.  The sound of high heeled shoes was heard and a moment later a young woman of no more than eighteen opened the door.  She had hip length auburn hair and light blue eyes.  Her low necked green dress fell many inches above her knees and on her feet were four inch black heels.

            "Kaiba!" she exclaimed.  Her eyelids, heavy with mascara and eye shadow, fluttered like hummingbird wings.  With her heels, she was almost as tall as Seto and came extremely close to him as if to deeply embrace him.

            "Soi," he said as he backed away slightly.  "I need you to measure Kaori and order a few uniforms for her.  She will be attending the same school that we do.  Now, I have to get back to work."

            He walked out leaving Kaori in the double doorstep of the office.

            "So what's your name kid?"

            "My name is Kaori."

            She reached into her desk and pulled out a tape measure.

            "So I heard you're to stay at the Kaiba residence, am I correct?"

            "That's right."

            "So why are you here exactly?  I heard something about you saving that little brat…"

            "Mokuba's not a brat!  He's really nice!"

            "Whatever, hon," she wrapped the tape measure around the largest part of Kaori's bust.  "Are you trying to impress some guy or something?"

            "What?"

            "You can't possibly be this big; you don't look older than fourteen.  It's silly for little girls to stuff their bras with tissue when they will obviously never be considered."

            Kaori was beginning to dislike Soi to the extreme.

            "It's all real, I can assure you.  I really don't see why you care.  And I'm not fourteen, I'm sixteen.  And if a guy liked me, I would want it to be for other reasons, not my body."

            "Well you'd better keep out of the way between Seto and me.  We've had our eyes on each other for a long time, and we don't need you meddling."

            Kaori felt her stomach drop.  It almost felt like he had betrayed her after they been together for years.

            "Aw, the little princess has fallen in love with her saving prince charming!" Soi taunted as she wrapped the tape measure around her waist, noticing the shocked look on Kaori's face.  "And the princess has found out that the prince doesn't like her but instead, one of his servants!"

            Soi finished measuring Kaori and sent her out of the room.  The girl closed the doors as she walked out.  A tear swelled in her eye and slid down her cheek.

            Disclaimer:  I do not own Mokuba or Seto (Seto I own by love^_^) but Kaori, Hemera, and Soi are my own characters.  Thank you so much of you're still reading this!