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Seto found himself riding in the limo towards Saya's school. He'd just received a call from her new teacher, Miss Hikari. She said that Saya hadn't eaten lunch in the past three days and when questioned about it, the young girl said that she wouldn't eat the school's food because it was radioactive. Seto had a good feeling that Mokuba's friend, Domone had something to do with this- he was always terrorizing Saya.
"I hate to be a bother," Miss Hikari told Seto on the phone. "But I can hear her stomach growling after lunch and I worry about it." Seto was actually relieved she'd called. After Tanaka, Seto had been rather wary of teachers. But Miss Hikari was nice- she actually seemed to give a damn about her students. And it was because of her that he was coming to the school to give Saya a bagged lunch he'd prepared. Yes, he actually packed the lunch himself.
He'd honestly had no idea what to put into the lunch. He'd never packed one before in his life. For as long as he could remember, Seto had given Mokuba 1000 yen to get something from the vending machines at school, which carried everything from pizza to burgers. He did the same thing when he was at school, but when at work, he ordered out. But he never thought about what Saya would want for lunch. He just sent in enough money on Monday to last the week and that was that. So, making her lunch was a rather annoying task. What was he supposed to put in there? He looked through the cupboards. Saya never really complained about the food they ate… but then again, she never complained about anything.
"Sometimes I wish she would," Seto muttered. "It'd help me figure her out a bit more." He took a deep breath… pocky. Saya did like pocky, he remembered, so he threw a few sticks into a plastic back, along with a couple pieces of litchi. He then grabbed a Root Beer out of the fridge. "This isn't a lunch, it's a dessert…" He closed the fridge and noticed a jar of peanut butter and a loaf of bread on the counter. That brought something to mind…
He'd been working in his home office for the past five hours. He didn't leave for anything- telephone calls, nature's call… he didn't move from his spot at his desk, in front of his computer. Something had gone wrong with the latest batch of Duel Disks- the holograms weren't matching with the played card. Playing a Dark Magician would get you a Blue-Eyes White dragon, a Flame Swordsman got a Petit Angel, and so on. Seto couldn't figure out what was wrong, which only made him work at it harder…
CRASH!!!!!!
Work harder, that is until he heard the crash. Seto hopped to his feet, rushed out of the room and over to the stairs. Saya was sitting at the bottom next to a small broken plate, a sandwich and a broken glass with some milk in it. She was crying and had a small cut on her leg, blood dripping down onto the floor.
"Saya!" Seto rushed down the stairs and picked her up. "Are you all right?
What happened?"
"I," she said, gasping for air. "I was tryin' a bring you a snack… sniff, sniff But I stepped on that!" She pointed to one of Mokuba's Capmon figures that was now crushed on the third step. "I slipped on it and everything went flyin' and I got cut on a piece a plate and I didn't mean to break everything and I'm sorry and…"
"Shh, shh, Saya," Seto said, holding her close. "It wasn't your fault." He carried her to the bathroom and cleaned up her cut. "What kind of band-aid do you want?"
"Blue-Eyes!" Saya cried happily. Seto smiled and put the band-aid over the cut, smoothing it down. "Thank you, Sonkei. You want me to make ya another sandwich?"
"What kind of sandwich was it?" he asked.
"Peanut butter and banana."
"Peanut butter and banana?" Saya nodded. "Why peanut butter and banana?"
"I couldn't get the jelly jar opened… besides, peanut butter and banana is good!"
Seto located the bananas, sliced one up and put it between two slices of bread with some peanut butter. He put the sandwich into a plastic bag then put the plastic bag into a small paper bag with the soda and treats. The bag was now sitting next to him in the limo as he rode towards Saya's school. Miss Hikari said that they had lunch and recess at noon and it was about five till now. He'd probably be there about five after and would have more than enough time to make sure Saya ate all of her lunch. As the head of Kaiba Corporations, he could do that- he didn't have anyone to answer too.
When Seto got to the school, it was five after, just as he thought he would be. He walked into the school and headed to Saya's classroom. To his surprise, the only person there was a young woman, not much older than he was, sitting at what used to be Tanaka's desk.
"Excuse me," he said, watching her look up at him. Her brown eyes looked into his blue ones and she smiled.
"Hello," she said. "Can I help you?
"I'm looking for Saya Kaiba," he replied. "I'm…"
"Oh! You must be Seto! You look just like Saya's drawings of you." The woman stood up and walked over to him. "I'm Akira Hikari, Saya's teacher. She's told me… well, she's told the entire class so much about you and Mokuba. She has a very vivid imagination." Seto raised an eyebrow.
"Oh?" Akira nodded.
"Yes- she came into school one day with this fantastic story about someone named Yami saving her from a man that had locked her inside a wooden crate and said he was going to set it on fire." Seto smiled.
"She's told me that one too," he said, thinking something along the lines of "if you only knew." "Where is Saya now?" Akira led him out to the playground.
"She should be around here somewhere," she said. "Probably on the swing set- she goes there everyday." Seto nodded.
"Does she have any problems with the other kids?" Akira nodded.
"Saya's a lot brighter than most of her classmates, so she finishes things rather quickly and has more time to do other things. The rest of the class seems to be jealous and they call her "teacher's pet.'" Seto narrowed his eyes.
"Is there…"
"MISS HIKARI!" A boy not much bigger ran up to them, tugging on Akira's skirt. "Miss Hikari! Saya's doin' somethin' BAD!" Akira looked down at him.
"Tombo," she said soothingly. "It's not nice to…"
"But Saya's on top of the swing set!" Seto's eyes widened as he ran over to the wooden swing set. Sure enough, his little sister was sitting there on the top bar… crying?
"Saya!" Saya's looked up at him, her eyes wide with fear.
"Sonkei!" she cried. "Sonkei, get me down, please get me down!" Seto rushed over and took her into his arms, getting her down. She cast a stern glare at Tombo who stuck his tongue out at her.
"What happened?" Seto asked softly, noticing Saya glare at the little boy. Saya instantly pointed at Tombo.
"HE told his big brother that I was picking on him and that I stole his Dark Magician Girl, but I didn't! He told me to give it back, but I couldn't 'cause I didn't have it, but he didn't believe me so he put me up there!" Seto glared at Tombo.
"Where is your brother?" Tombo hesitated, but then pointed to a large boy playing basketball. Seto recognized him. His name was Makeinu, which meant loser. Coincidentally, that's exactly what he was- Seto had caught him cheating off of him on a math test, which resulted in his being expelled from high school. Since then, he couldn't keep a job and blamed all his misfortune on Seto. Seto hugged Saya tight before handing her to Akira. "I'll be right back." Akira looked at him, confused.
"What are you going to do?" she asked, suspiciously. Seto smirked at her.
"Play a game with him." Saya watched as Seto walked over to the basketball court. She smiled.
"He's in biiig trouble."
Makeinu smirked when he saw Seto getting his little sister off the top of the swing set. His plan was going perfectly. He'd been watching Saya Kaiba since the first day she enrolled into the elementary school. She was the best way to get back at Kaiba for getting him expelled, he knew she was; all he had to do was set it up right. Which he did. It was so simple- everyday at recess he watched the girl play with her Duel Monsters cards by herself on the little table in front of the swing set.
Tombo played Duel Monsters as well, his favorite card being the Dark Magician Girl. If that card disappeared and somehow ended up in Saya's deck, she would be expelled. So he took the card when Tombo wasn't looking, slipping it into his own deck. Just as Makeinu had planned, Tombo accused Saya of taking it… even better, Tombo came running to his big brother to take care of it. Makeinu put Saya on top of the swing set, but missed the opportunity to slip the Dark Magician Girl into her deck…
"Makeinu!" Makeinu looked up to see Seto strolling towards him. He smirked.
"What do you want, Kaiba?" Seto stopped in front of him, arms crossed.
"You messed with my little sister," Seto said angrily. "No one messes with her while I'm around."
"She took my little brother's Dark Magician Girl- she's yet to give it back to him."
"My sister has a Black Skull Dragon in her deck- what would she want with a pathetic spellcaster?" Makeinu's fists clenched.
"You got a point to make?" he asked. "If you do, make it an' leave. If not- beat it." Seto rolled his eyes.
"Let's play a game, Makeinu." Seto pulled out his deck. "The rules are simple- each of us draw five cards from the top of our deck. The one who has the best combination wins… I'll even let you shuffle my deck first." Makeinu pulled out his deck.
"All right- what if I win?"
"If you win, you get my Blue-Eyes White Dragon… but if I win, you must play a penalty game."
A penalty game? asked Sorcerer. What sort of penalty game?
That, Seto said. I'm leaving up to you. Makeinu and Seto switched decks, shuffled them and switched again.
"Ha!" cried Makeinu as he drew his cards. "You can't beat this Kaiba- Dark Magician, Dark Magician Girl, Book of Secret Arts, Yami and Magician of Faith." Seto's eyes widened.
Dark Magician Girl?! That bastard had the card all along!
Hold it Kaiba, it could be a coincidence…
That's WAY too much of a coincidence for me! Makeinu smirked at Seto.
"Beat that, Kaiba." Seto drew his cards, then smirked right back.
"I think I will." Seto held up his hand- three Blue-Eyes White Dragons, a Polymerization and a Dragon Treasure. Makeinu's eyes widened.
"No way! You couldn't have…"
"You shuffled my deck, remember?" Seto asked coolly. "Now you have to play a penalty game." Sorcerer took control of Seto's body, a maniacal grin on his face.
"Penalty game! Mosaic Illusion!"
Makeinu stared at Sorcerer, confused. What the hell was he talking about… suddenly he understood. His vision began to blur- it was like some had put a digital mosaic on everything in front of him… which was exactly what Sorcerer had done.
"Makeinu," he said. "For hiding the truth and trying to hurt Saya, everything you see will be 'hidden' as well." He gave Seto control of the body again. Seto walked back over to Akira and took Saya into his arms.
"I'm taking her home now," he said a bit coldly. "I don't think she'll be back tomorrow. Or ever." Akira looked at him.
"She has to come back to school…"
"Saya is going to be home schooled. Have a nice day." With that he took Saya back to the limo. Saya noticed the brown paper bag in the seat.
"Sonkei, what's that?" she asked. Seto looked down- some help he was. He came to bring her lunch and he left it out in the car.
"That's your lunch," he told her. "Hope you like peanut butter and banana."
