CK: Hello, people!!!! I finished wrote another chappie for you all, YAY!!!! And I'm sorry to say, that I'm such an evil little person. Not only do I kill off Tea, but in this chapter, something happens. Something BIG happens.....and then after it happens, I spend the rest of the chapter focusing on Kaiba! I'm sorry!!!! But I promise, the stuff with Kaiba is REEEEALLY good, (Or so my friends told me) and I think everyone out there will like it..... Here's a hint about what's gonna happen: It's the reason I named this story 'Impossible Reality'.... And here's a shout-out to everybody who's reviewed: THANK YOU!!!!! YOU GUYS ROCK!!!!!!!!! Okkei, I'm talking waaaaaay too much. Methinks it is time for me to get to the actual story-line........

Disclaimer: I don't own Yugioh.....unless I am the owner's illegitimate daughter and my parents have been lying to me about my past this whole time.....Hmmm..... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Chapter 5-Surprise Entrances

(Okay, when we left off, Tea had died, and while Yugi and Ryou were grieving, Ryou had heard the faint noises of footsteps....)

Swirling....swirling wisps of smoke, white and smelling of death........standing, watching as doors shut behind you......and consciousness slowly faded away in a few seconds, each tick of the clock changing your life forever.....no not changing,.....ending.
Yugi Moto was going to be ill.....he was vaguely aware of Yami moving their legs somewhere, but that was it.......He eventually had the strength to peer out of his soul room to see that Yami was making them run, some five feet behind Ryou.....
//Yami, what's going on.....?// //Ryou heard someone running out of the lab after Tea went into the machine........he didn't get a good look at the person, though........// //Is it Pegasus....?// //I don't know........//
Yami and Ryou could tell that they were not far behind whomever they were chasing, but every time they thought that they would at least catch a glimpse of who they were chasing, but every time, the person would change their direction, or climb or descend a staircase......by this point they had been running a frantic chase throughout the castle.......The path that this person took made no sense, because it twisted and turned and ran in a million different directions.... Yami voiced it first: //Like they're looking for something....//
When Yami and Ryou had first given chase, their minds were too pre- occupied to think to yell out at whomever they were chasing....and by now, they couldn't even if they had wanted to, because their throats were dry from so much running. Because of this, they couldn't tell whether this person was running from them......or just plain running.
Eventually, the person must have started to run out of energy....because the quick footsteps that Ryou and Yami had been following began to lose speed....but even when the person they were chasing was a mere few feet ahead of them, they could not see who it was, because they wore a cloak of some kind.....or, as they found out later, a shroud.
The person ahead of them finally stopped running and bent over, attempting to catch their breath......Ryou ran up to them and clapped his hand onto their shoulder. "Excuse m-...."
The person jumped at the sound of Ryou's voice, then swiftly turned around. Whatever Ryou had planned to say, it immediately left his mind when he saw whom he was speaking to. If either him or Yami had had weaker hearts, they might have fainted.
Cecilia Pegasus pushed back the hood of her funeral shroud to reveal her face. Her eyes shone bright with unshed tears. Her voice wavered, as though she were bordering onto hysterics. "Please.......could either of you tell me where my husband is......?"

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Seto Kaiba couldn't take this anymore.....he had been walking for what seemed forever, and he felt like he was starving to death. Plus, there was the added burden of towing Pegasus along.......but most of all, Kaiba was tired.
About ten minutes ago, he had eventually decided to stop trudging along so that he could take a break......he had propped Pegasus against the water pipe, while he himself had decided to lean against the cave wall opposite Pegasus.
He was drifting........drifting slowly off to sleep, when he started to see a colorful vision take place in front of his shut eyes......
The colors that were dancing under his eyelids soon began to change and take shape.....it was forming a place....somewhere Kaiba could've sworn he'd been before, even though he couldn't say when........
The room looked something like an office...in fact it probably was, but there seemed to be no one else there. Kaiba looked around. In the front was a very large computer, looking very high tech. To the sides were bulletin boards, each one filled with Post-its and memos....one of them held a very large photograph of Mokuba that took up maybe a quarter of the board's space. Holding the computer up was a desk, filled with masses of paper......
Kaiba looked over some of the notes......these were identical to the ones he had written to himself before he had left for Pegasus's!!! But this wasn't his office.....his was painted with light colors and had lots of windows....this one was dark and very closed in....it made you kind of claustrophobic.........
"Are you surprised, Seto Kaiba, to see what is actually your own mind.....?" Kaiba jumped about five feet in the air and spun around quickly.
A figure appeared from the dark corner of Kaiba's mind and smirked a little at him. "I see that you must be." The man was a strange sight to Seto Kaiba. His skin was tanned deeply and he wore a long robe. His head was covered by a large turban, and hoop earrings dangled from his ears. Around his neck, he wore what looked like a rather large ankh.
"Who are you?????? Where am I??????" "Calm yourself, Seto Kaiba. I am not here to cause any trouble......"

"Answer my questions!!!!!! What're you doing here??????"

"Very well. My name, right now, is useless to you, and therefore I will save that information for when you need it. As to where you are, you are where you almost always are: the inside of your own mind....."

Kaiba glowered. "You're a lunatic!!!!! Where am I really???"

This guy's off his rocker.....now, if I could just get out of this place, that'd be great...but where the fuck is a door??????
The man with the turban started rubbing his temples. "First of all, Mr. Kaiba, I am not 'off my rocker', and second of all, there is no door to this room because you never leave your mind, so why would you need one?"

Kaiba had, at this point, completely lost any idea he once had of what was going on. "WHAT????? How'd you...how...what...."

If the man showed any signs of having a sense of humor, he might have laughed. "Mr. Kaiba, would you please settle down?"

Kaiba attempted to do just that. Needless to say, it didn't work very well.
"Now, if you would be so kind as to listen for perhaps more than five minutes, then I may be able to answer some of your questions......I am here for the reason that events will soon be happening.....they involve you and many others, but I am visiting you especially because I do not want you to disturb the flow of events with desire for revenge."

If the guy thought that Kaiba would understand anything he just said, he was seriously wrong. He sighed.... "I am here to educate you Kaiba......Many things are taking place, and will be taking place, and you will become involved...and I want to ensure that you are educated on your rival....."

His eyes gleamed. "Otherwise.....there will be more tragedy than will occur otherwise....Do you care to see the past, Mr. Kaiba?"

Kaiba was inwardly starting to panic.....this man wasn't making any sense.....he needed to get out of here..... The man raised a hand and snapped his fingers. Instantly, the scenery surrounding Kaiba began to melt away, and the man vanished along with it...........
Kaiba blinked his eyes and looked around him. Where was he????????

Instead of inside an office, Kaiba was outdoors in what appeared to be a forest.....Snow covered everything, including a frozen river that ran in the middle of all the scenery......running along the river was a footpath, somewhat narrow. The path vanished in several parts underneath the snow that covered the river's shore.
Kaiba was still attempting to understand what was going on when he heard laughter coming from within the forest. Kaiba spun around to look at whom it was coming from....On the footpath, he saw two figures.....
PEGASUS??????????

Kaiba watched as the familiar silver-haired man walked down the footpath with a woman, both holding hands.....They didn't look like they could have been more than twenty years old....and Kaiba thought he recognized the girl. But from where?

The couple were both chatting happily, and both of them couldn't tear their eyes off of the other. They gave the impression of two people that couldn't be happier anywhere on earth than with each other at that moment......
Kaiba ran up to Pegasus, trying desperately still to figure out what was going on. Again. Jeez, this author doesn't tell him ANYTHING, come to think of it.......
Kaiba was about to try and talk to Pegasus, but a single glimpse when he walked up to him showed that that would be pointless. Pegasus didn't even glance at Kaiba, and a second later, he walked right through him............literally.
At this point, Kaiba gave up. If he was supposed to 'experience the past', then let's just get it over with. Whoever the man with the turban was, he sure didn't make any sense to Kaiba.
This is so pointless..... Pegasus walked with the young woman along the path. They were coming to a fifteen-foot long stretch where the snow covered the path from view. They were both chatting about something.....but at this point, it wasn't very important to Kaiba.......
The girl was laughing....She was having the time of her life, and Pegasus couldn't help but watch her, drinking it all in. The beauty of the forest surrounded him, but he didn't seem to notice it at all.........
What happened next came as quickly as a bolt of lightening in a storm. In fact, it came so fast, that Kaiba had blinked and missed it. One second, there was a happy couple walking on what they thought was the path alongside the river. The next, only Pegasus was there, and instead of the girl there was a gaping hole at the edge of what must have been a piece of the river.
Pegasus didn't even waste a second. He immediately dived in after the girl......... Kaiba could barely make out Pegasus's figure grabbing the girl underneath the ice.....but how would they make it out....the river was carrying them downstream.......they were trapped.....
All of a sudden a fist broke through the ice and grabbed onto the surface.......Pegasus began to use the rest of his arm to smash through the ice, using inhuman strength that he got only from desperation.......desperation because the girl he loved was in great risk, and he needed to help her.........When Pegasus had created a large enough hole, he used this new-found strength to pull himself and the girl through the ice to the surface.
Kaiba watched this numbly.....and when the background began to melt away again, he continued to do just that......
When the world had begun to take shape again, Kaiba saw that he was in a hospital. It looked like he was standing in a waiting room, with many people sitting around looking very grim......
Pegasus sat in one of the chairs there. His arm was bandaged up, and he had a smaller bandage on his head. He looked very pale...
A doctor walked over to Pegasus and gestured for him to follow him to his office. Pegasus walked slowly behind him, dread showing clearly on his face. Kaiba followed them both, his curiousity getting the best of him.
The doctor sat down behind his desk and Pegasus sat across from him in another chair. When they first began to speak, they spoke English....yet Kaiba could somehow understand every word.
"Mr. Pegasus, I've done some tests on your wife....I'm afraid that the news I have for you isn't good....isn't good at all...."

Pegasus seemed reluctant, yet impatient at the same time. "......What is it?"

"Your wife is recovering from the hypothermia very well......much better than I would have normally accepted. I credit that to your speedy rescue back at the river."

Pegasus relaxed a little, until he noticed that the doctor refused to look him in the eyes. "However........"

The doctor sighed. "Mr. Pegasus, did your wife seem sick at all this morning?"

"She...she had a little bit of a cough, but that was really it......."

"I see.....the thing is, Mr. Pegasus, that 'cough' that she had wasn't actually a cough...it was a very early stage of pneumonia........and under normal circumstances, very easy to cure..... However, her fall under the ice has considerably weakened her....Mr. Pegasus, your wife isn't going to live very long......."

"W-what......?"

Kaiba had never seen Pegasus look so powerless......so pitiful...... Pegasus seemed like he was going to border on hysterical panic at any moment.... "I-isn't there ANYTHING that you can do?????????" "I'm sorry Mr. Pegasus, but she contracted the viral form of the disease, so we have no cure....I'm very sorry. I know this must be hard to accept, especially on your honeymoon....." Pegasus was shaking..........he couldn't accept this, he couldn't handle any of this............ He couldn't....... "Mr. Pegasus, if you want to make say goodbye to your wife, I suggest that you go visit her now. When you leave, we're going to take her off of life support."

Pegasus walked out of the room, as though in a trance.......as though he were stumbling through a dream, clinging to the belief that at any moment, he would wake up and he wouldn't have to face this horror..........
The scenery melted away again.......................this time, to a churchyard. Rain was sprinkling down everywhere, as though tears being shed had swelled into the clouds. There was a burial going on........Kaiba watched as the priest there finished speaking and a large crowd of people began to move away from a single tomb. It was strange......despite the large amounts of people, very few seemed to actually mourn....most looked like they came to show off the latest fashions, styled in appropriate black.........only five people were crying, and prominent among them was Pegasus.
Another of the weepers, whom Kaiba assumed immediately was the girl's mom, since they looked very similar, walked over to Pegasus. Pegasus was kneeling on the ground in front of the grave, weeping silently. The woman laid her hand on his shoulder comfortingly. "Max......you shouldn't stay out here, you know......."

Pegasus turned his head towards her, but said nothing. "You can't change anything by making yourself so unhappy, Max. You did what you could to save her.......that's all any one can ask."

"Yes......but it still wasn't enough." "Max........."

"Tell the others to go to the reception without me. I'm going to stay here for awhile..."

The woman shook her head and sighed as Pegasus turned back to the tomb. She walked off and joined three others in a limousine. Kaiba listened to what they were saying, even though they were many feet away. At this point, very little seemed impossible. "Maximillian's staying at the grave for awhile. He's still too upset....."

"Well, leave him alone, Goldy, there's nothing you can do for him right now."

"Alright....I suppose."

"You know, it's funny....I heard something from Estella..."

"Oh no, you've been listening to her again? Honestly, you people listen to her and believe her as though she were the wise man on the mountain..."

"Oh, shut up Goldy."

"Oh, I heard that from Estella too! It makes you wonder..."

"Indeed...."

"Oh no, what has she been saying this time?" "Oh nothing much....she just thinks it's interesting how poor old Cecilia seemed to 'accidentally' slip into a river out in the middle of nowhere...."

"Don't you dare..."

"With only one person being there, claiming it was an accident and making himself seem like a hero...."

"Sarah!!!!!!! That's horrible!!! Max would never do a thing like that!!! You ought to know how much he cares about her!!!!!!"

"Did Estella really say that, Sarah?"

"HANNAH!!!!"

"Oh, yes she did. I have to agree with her, it seems so obvious to anyone with half a brain....."

The voices slowly faded from Kaiba's ears. He watched numbly for what must have been hours in reality, but passed like minutes to him. Pegasus weeping, whispering to the wife he lost, then changing his tome quickly to convince himself that none of this was real. He went on this way for hours, until he had to leave.....the gravediggers needed to fill in the hole in the ground.....
The last thing Kaiba heard Pegasus tell himself was this. "My fault....this is all my fault....."

For the last time, Kaiba watched as the whole world shifted and he returned, once again, to the crowded office. Once again, the man with the turban stood before him. "Welcome back, Seto Kaiba."

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CK: Okay people!! You can put away the tissues now!!! Hopefully, I'll have the next chapter up by next week. BTW, I have a question to all you readers. You see, one of the chapters that I have coming up later is a song-fic, and I also use some poems in the story later. According to my friend Daine, you're not supposed print the lyrics the exact same way they were written, you have to change them a little, or you're breaking the rules. I just thought you needed to mention it in your disclaimer. Does anyone have the answers??? Please respond!!! And, as usual, READ AND REVIEW!!!! Ja ne!