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Hey peeps! Guess who's back? Back again? Mariks-girl1 is back, tell a friend! Guess who's back, guess who's back, guess who's back, guess who's back, guess who's back, guess who's back, guess who's back! Well here is the sequel to A Girl With Attitude! Aren't you excited? I'm no longer sad that it's over, now I'm happy again! YAY! So anyways the reason I want you people to read is because the same thing applies like my other story. The Yami's have a separate body, and in NO WAY, let me repeat myself, IN NO WAY is the Yami's and lights related to each other! They just look alike! Anyways so with that all said I'll move to my next thing to say. I hope you like this story a lot, like you guys did with the first one, and so with all this said, I hope you like this chapter and like always, enjoy! ~

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Quote Of The Day: The next time you think your perfect, try walking on water!

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Chapter 1: Longing For The Ocean

A place to think. Somewhere you can go, to get away from it all. School, boyfriends, anything, there is always that one place. A place where no one can find you, where you won't be disturbed, annoyed. Somewhere to cry, somewhere to think and somewhere to be your self. Somewhere peaceful and happy, somewhere quiet, somewhere unique.

For Hailie Ishtar, her one place was the ocean. She could sit on the golden sand and watch the ocean forever, and just think, cry, do anything without worrying someone will see her, no, no one would see her. No one came down here except for her. Why? She had no clue. Her mother hated the ocean and her step father hated it more, and yet every time she asked about it, she would get a stupid answer, one that would leave her with a thousand more questions and even more confused.

Questions that she would ask would get meaningless answers leaving her more confused then she once was, and she hated it. Why couldn't they tell her the truth? They kept everything from her, well anything that really mattered to her.

To the world, she had a great life, but to her it was filled with loneliness, and she felt lost. A part of her was missing, and she knew what part it was: Her father. She had never met him, didn't even know his name, what he looked like. All she had was a mother and an aunt, her father's older sister. That's all she knew, her sister was just as useless as her mother when it came to answers.

She looked at her watch on her right wrist and got up, her parents were probably up, and she didn't want them knowing she was here, they didn't want her near the ocean either, but it was her place, and she refused to give it up, even if she was punished, she would find a way, even if it was two am, she would go.

She entered the large house she called home and walked into the kitchen still in her pajamas. Her mother was up, and so was her stepfather. She didn't say anything as she took a seat at the far end of the table, away from the two adults. Grabbing some toast, she put butter on it and began to eat, like every other morning.

" Good morning Hailie, why don't you come sit over here?" her mother asked sweetly. Hailie shrugged and continued to eat her toast. " Don't shrug off your mother Hailie," her stepfather said a few minutes later. Sighing, she got up and moved down to where they ate.

" Have a nice sleep sweetie?" Jessica (AN: Her mom, remember her?) asked. " Yeah it was okay," she said taking another piece of toast and buttering it. Hailie watched her mother from the corner of her eye. She was young, only thirty-three years old. It didn't take a scientist to know that her mother had had her when she was sixteen, which was young, and it always made Hailie wonder if she had ruined her life.

Then her lavender eyes moved to her stepfather: Seto Kaiba. If it weren't for him, she would probably fail all her science and math classes. He was okay, but she wouldn't like to get on his bad side. He was at least thirty-four years old she guessed, she never asked him.

She wasn't always so distant from them, she remembered always laughing and doing things with them, like a happy family, but when she got older, she realized her name being different, she wasn't a Kaiba like her mom and stepfather, she was an Ishtar. That's when she started asking questions, they were honest with one question, that she had another father, but after that, it was all lies.

Lie after lie, she couldn't take it and so the ocean became her place of comfort, the ocean may not be able to talk, but it couldn't lie and it would always listen to what she had to say. Okay so she talked to the ocean, she told it her dreams, her thoughts, wishes, everything you would write in a journal.

And she did used to write in her journal, that is until her mom had found it and decided to take a quick peek, which ended up reading the whole thing. The excuse Hailie got was 'You never tell me anything anymore, what was I supposed to do?' And that's when she stopped, never wrote down her thoughts again, the only person that knew her thoughts was the ocean, and she knew damn well that it would never tell her secrets.

" So aren't you happy? The summer just started, do you have any plans at all for today?" her mother asked, trying to be more apart of her life. Jessica had her reasons for not telling Hailie the things she wanted to know, what child would want to know you were made through rape and hate, instead of love? No one would, but deep down, Jessica knew she would have to tell Hailie one day, she was seventeen; sooner or later she deserved to know.

Jessica thought about him, Marik, she hadn't seen or heard from him since the day on the boat when Kaiba and the others had come to get her. Ishizu hadn't seen him either, so to her and the world he had disappeared.

" No plans today mom, just going to hang around all day" she said dully, her fingers playing with her long blond hair. Hailie smiled to herself. She had a feeling she got her blond hair and lavender eyes from her father, her mother looked nothing like her.

" Oh okay, maybe you and I can go shopping" her mother said, trying to lighten things up. " No, maybe some other time mom" she said getting up. " Well what are you going to do today? Maybe I could join you" her mother urged, she hadn't spent time with her daughter in a long time. " That's okay mom I just want to-"

" No Hailie, we don't want you down there" Kaiba said putting his newspaper down, his face serious. " Why not? I love it there and you won't even tell me why! You tell me nothing! I can swim" Hailie protested, if her parents let her got near the ocean, she would be there a lot longer then she usual was. " It's not the fact that you can swim Hailie" Jessica said. " I saw you down there this morning, I let you off, but if I see you again." Kaiba trailed off, not really knowing what to say.

" You'll what? What else can you take away from me? Money, my things? Take it, I don't care! I'll just find my way back there," Hailie said. " Then we'll move somewhere else," her mother said. Hailie stopped. She didn't want to lose this special place, no other ocean would do for her, or any other place for that matter, she had tried it when she went on vacation, and it didn't feel right, for some reason that ocean made a little of her feel whole, like one of the missing pieces to a puzzle, she knew it meant something, all she had to do was figure out where it went in her life.

Hailie just walked out of the kitchen and up the stairs to her room. Walking over to her windowsill she sat and looked outside, and her view was the ocean. How could something so beautiful and calm be hated? It didn't make sense to her at all, nothing made sense to her.

She heard a knock at the door, but she didn't move or say a word, her eyes still lay on the calm ocean. She waited until she heard footsteps move away from her door, before she let the one tear fall from her eye and down her soft cheek, dying on her pale pink lips.

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Not to far from the Kaiba mansion, was a forest, and deep into the forest was a cabin that only some knew of and only three lived inside. One was Marik Ishtar. He had lived there for at least seventeen years, since the day he had left the boat, barely getting away, he didn't want to suffer the same fate as Bakura.

He sighed turning off the old television set. This was the most boring place, without his rare hunters, he had no fun. But he had to get rid of them, he had to keep low, he didn't need the others knowing he still lived in Domino City, he would be killed, or they would try to.

Two others lived with him the small cabin, Rishid was one of them. He was his only friend, the one he talked to and even then, barely talked and told him things, and Marik Ishtar made it clear that he didn't need anyone. The other one, Marik didn't consider to be a friend at all, he didn't even know why he was here, and he just was.

That one was Malik. He was the spirit of the rod, and he just decided one day to come out and live, which wasn't the best news Marik had gotten. Malik looked like him except Malik was taller, his hair spikier and his eyes darker lavender, but they weren't related, not in the least.

Marik decided to take his usual walk, there was nothing else to do around this dump, and walks are what he usual did. But there was also another reason he went on the walks, and if someone brought it up, he would deny it, never admit it to anyone.

Walking down the forest, taking the same route that leads to the ocean. He would never actually go close enough to where the sand touched his feet, no he would stay in the forest, but he's view showed the ocean, and not only the ocean, but also the one girl he would watch sit there.

He would watch her sit there for hours, as long as she could. He would see her cry and sometimes catch the little words she mumbled, thinking no one heard her, but he did. He knew she wasn't aloud there, he had heard her mother and Kaiba tell her not to, and they would make up some kind of story, he knew, he heard it.

He smirked. They were alike, similar in more ways then one. They were both lonely and hated their way of life. They each wanted something. She wanted to know her father, he knew that for sure. He could see it in her eyes, and even so, he had heard her say it once. He wanted revenge. For Bakura for what they did to him, sending him to the shadow realm, he also wanted to kill Kaiba.

Kaiba had ruined his plans, and was his daughter's only father. He would change that. No one takes away what's his, he had gotten over Jessica. He knew she was married and happy, but his daughter was his, and he would be damned if Kaiba tried to take that from him.

He growled. Was he jealous? That another man got to see her grow up? Was there when she did everything, maybe, but he wouldn't admit it, ever. He would keep that to himself. What made him angry was not knowing her last name. He'd be damned if she had the name Kaiba, she wasn't a Kaiba, no, she was an Ishtar.

Amazing he thought. She looked just like him, acted like him, had his attitude and personality, she was nothing like her mother, no she was like him. Just by looking at her, he could tell she hated the rich life, it wasn't her at all. The only thing she probably liked was the fact the ocean was there.

Ah, the ocean he thought continuing his way to the water. So much happened there, that's where she was made, out in the ocean. It was funny too, how much she loved the ocean. Hm I wonder if she'll still love the ocean as much when she finds out the truth he thought.

Another growl left his mouth as he reached his destination. She wasn't there, he had missed her. She always changed the times when her mom figured out when she went there. Marik sat down and lay against the tree, closing his eyes. He would wait, wait till she came back, and he would listen to what she had to say, and watch her till she left like he did every other night.

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So there you have it, the first chapter to my sequel, wow this is so exciting! Anyways so yeah, Marik is a bit over protective eh? Well I hope this was a good start, and I also started this story with Hailie being seventeen, I mean, I tried to do it when she was a bit younger, but it sucked. But don't worry peeps; I could always put some flashbacks to her younger years! Jessica is back too! YAY! It's so cool, I have an idea how this story will go, but like always it will start to change because I'll have better idea's as I go along, anyways I hope you liked it and would seriously love it if you reviewed and told me what you think! Love you guys, and see you next time, ~*Mariks-girl1*~