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Lust, Love and Vengeance

Seto Kaiba- 25 Takara Kaiba- 25 Serena, Yugi, etc- 24 Mokuba & Rebecca- 20

Big hugs to everyone who reviewed!! Sadly the end of this story is coming… But on another note, how come I can't get this Spellcheck thingie to indent? Someone please tell me!

Freakster- Oh thank you, I didn't need my eardrums anyway. Well isn't that what suspense does to you? Gets you totally confused so you want to read more? It wouldn't be a good story if I make it so obviously predictable. Ha ha, payback for getting me confused with your story! Oh, and about that website you gave me thanks a bunch but I can't find the quote I need so I'm still on the look out because I need it for my other story 'The Lie that I Lived'.

Blue Dragon99- I demand longer chapters! And you still are the better writer, whether you call it modesty or honesty. So Takara is it? We'll all see.

Sakura Mituskai- It's a good habit to read deep in between the lines, I can't even see the space between the lines! Takara maybe, Serena maybe, I am right you think way too much, all the way to insanity? Please take a vacation and stop reading suspense! And your first story, 'Learning to Trust' is on my favourites, it is better than my story, trust me, the authoress should like her stories because they're great!

Deena70- Everyone's caught between Serena and Takara, I mean who else could it be? Well now just keep reading.

On behalf of the release of the Yu-Gi-Oh! Movie I present to you what everyone has been waiting for!!! Who is 'SHE'?? Before we start I'd like to say that some of the people who reviewed were right but then quickly changed their minds (wow, I'm persuasive, lol).

Chapter11- Vengeful Seduction

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Serena sighed gloomily, Kaiba was still mad at her, even five days later! Sure she could go in and apologize to him but that would go against every honest bone in her body, she knew, hands down no doubt something was up with Takara. Now only if someone besides Mokuba would believe her.

Irritated, Serena put both hands through her hair and laid her head upon her desk. Work seemed to be just cramming up more and more in her office. She would tidy up but too many things were on her mind.

'Kaiba is just too stubborn, why can't he just trust my instinct?'

'That's it? It's just instinct? How can he trust that? He's in love.'

'Yeah, blindly. Can't he see Takara's using him!'

'What would she use him for?'

'…'

She had never considered that, what would Takara gain from Kaiba, she gained everything by marrying him, what would she use him for.

'Should I have at least given though before I did something so rash?'

'Ya think?'

'Maybe I was wrong I mean Takara seems decent and maybe her excuse… I mean statement was true, maybe the magazine thing was an entire misconception.'

'But what do I do now, will Kaiba still talk to me?'

Suddenly, the door crashed open and Kaiba marched into Serena's office.

"I just received Akeno's latest financial report," Kaiba said fumingly, throwing it into Serena's face.

"And…" Serena asked tentatively not wanting to know the answer.

"Did you know stocks and sales were dropping?" Kaiba snarled under his breath so no one passing by could overhear.

"Um…yes…"

"Then why the hell didn't you tell me?!" Kaiba yelled piercingly. "Serena why did you hire Akeno in the first place?"

"He seemed qualified enough…and he wasn't a woman who wanted to gawk at you—"

"Maybe I'll replace you with a woman like that! At least she would tell me what the fuck is going on with my company!" Kaiba stated brusquely.

"If she had half a brain to use a computer maybe…" Serena muttered under breath as she looked away from his pitiless, arctic glower.

"What was going on through your head? This is my company, how could you not tell me…" Kaiba stared furiously at her. "Is this your way of getting back at me just because I didn't believe your sick lies about my wife?"

"What, no! I'd never!"

"I can't listen to your crap anymore, you're suspended till further notification!" Kaiba stormed out of her office, not even giving her a second glance.

What was happening? She was out of the job till further notice? She needed this job!

Lividly, Serena grabbed her things and crammed them into her briefcase and thundered out of the Kaiba Corp. building, which caused a few confused stares.

Without warning she halted in mid-motion, Serena drew her hand towards her forehead and looked down.

Kisho- not the person she needed to see right now.

"Ah Miss, out of work already?" Kisho asked, slipping his hand around her waist and leading her down the Domino streets.

"No," Serena hesitantly replied.

"Don't worry, I'll give you a much higher position," he offered.

"I already work at Kaiba Corp.," Serena stated, trying to pull away from him.

"I know, what did you think I was speaking of?" He whispered into her ear, he gave her an enigmatic smirk and walked away.

Then it hit her, like a ton of bricks had just fallen upon her head, the people, the stealthy conversations and the secrets. This was all Kisho. She was surprised with her knowledge at first but then comprehended why, she knew now that Kaiba Corp. would slowly crumble.

Serena looked up at Kaiba Corp. She had two decisions. She could go tell Kaiba or she could walk away as if nothing had happened.

She walked away, further and further till the ominous building was out of sight.

A figure observed her atop his towering and omnipotent structure; his grey suit neatly pressed, his hair tidily combed, the only aspect off about him was his unfocused azure eyes.

He watched her. He watched her with him, he watched them become closer together. Maybe Takara was right, he had his doubts about her theory for a few days, but now it was all confirmed, Serena and Kisho were against him.

"Seto what the hell is this?" Mokuba erupted into his room.

"Mokuba Kaiba what is the meaning of this?" Kaiba asked, his anger already set to maximum.

"I just overheard a few employees saying that you fired Serena."

"Suspended," Kaiba corrected.

"Seto I thought you knew better than to mix business with personal life affairs," Mokuba believed.

"It wasn't about your and Serena's little fallacious speculation."

Mokuba grimaced at Kaiba's phrasing of their assumption.

"Mokuba," Kaiba lowered his voice, his hands were firmly placed upon his desk as he bent over his bureau. "Stocks and sales have been going down for a while and Serena never even gave a second thought to tell me."

Mokuba gasped, taking a step back. 'Serena did that? But she told me that Takara…? Could Serena and Kisho…?'

He let his head hang down in shame. "Seto I'm sorry for everything I said offending Takara," he asked for forgiveness.

"Looks like Serena did a bit of brainwashing to people herself."

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Kaiba growled again, he had been within his home office for five hours and he still couldn't figure out why all this was happening. Vigorously, he began typing on computer, he stared deeply into his the monitor, naively deeming that the solution to his problem would pop up sooner or later.

He fingers grabbed strands of his chestnut brown hair and started to tug, all this pressure, all these notions of how his company, his life long work could disintegrate right before his very eyes. He cursed loudly upon Serena's name, why didn't she tell him? Why?

Takara peeked into Kaiba's office to only find him working rigorously. She tiptoed in and gently placed a cup of coffee beside him.

"What is it?" He asked, not even bothering to look up.

"Coffee silly, you've working so hard I thought you might need some," Takara replied.

"Takara I can't, the thought was very nice, but I can't right now," he pushed the cup back into her hands.

"Seto, you can't let yourself suffer like this, if you want your company to get back on track then you have keep yourself well," Takara said, thrusting it into his hands again.

She watched him drink the entire mug. Kaiba smiled at his wife before giving the cup back to her and instigated to discover the crisis with corporation.

Suddenly, his eyelids became much heavier, yawns came to him repeatedly, he couldn't keep his eyelids open, his shoulders drooped tiredly as he struggled to keep working.

Kaiba collapsed upon his computer, out like a light.

Takara's lips curved up into an evil grin, she walked over to the sleeping CEO and kissed him lightly on the cheek. "One pill makes you sleep for 6 hours and I'll be done by then but why not have fun and put two?" She walked out of his room and out the estate to venture off to locate her companion and associate.

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Serena sat in tranquility upon her navy blue carpet, all her lights were out and the only source of luminosity was the sparkling flames of the candles dancing in the darkness. Stars cast radiance upon the solitary woman; she listened attentively to the pitter-patter of the rain droplets that sheeted Domino.

She tipped the glass of bittersweet red wine to her lips and drank, it trickled down her dry, parched throat and into her system. How long could she stay like this?

Abruptly, in the shadiness the phone's ring thundered throughout her condo. Serena reached over and grabbed the cordless. "Hello," such a tedious voice answered.

"Sorry, I guess I the wrong number," Ishizu's strong voice replied.

"No, sister," Serena stated.

"Serena? Is that you? What happened?"

"I'm jobless," tears threatened to flow down her cheeks.

"Kaiba fired you? I told you not to say anything about Takara. Serena why did you let your feelings interfere with Kaiba's happiness."

Was she being selfish? Serena had confided her problems into her wise and noble sister and she had been given a fair response- to stay out of the way. But now she pushed herself too deep into this pool that escape was futile.

"If you care about him, let him be happy with whom ever he loves, even if it hurts you in the process than take it in silently. Now look what your hastiness has brought you, a sorrow filled night. Serena why?"

Serena slammed down the phone, no she couldn't listen to all of this; she was right and everyone was wrong.

She glimpsed back down at the phone, should she call Akeno? It would prove she was a spineless coward, but she didn't care anymore, she needed comfort.

'Takara has taken every person who believed me and put them against me, she took everything away from me, what do I have left now?'

Her hand lingered towards the phone, but swiftly moved away, knocking over a few books that were left upon her table. She lazily picked each one up one by one.

'Changing Seasons, Black Ice, Time Magazine…what? My old yearbook?'

Serena caressed the hardcover book, it had been awhile since she had opened and gazed into her past references. Well she wasn't busy right now.

She flipped through the pages of her long forgotten yearbook, happy, matured faces smiled back to her, so many opportunities in life so much to work for. She then stumbled upon the graduating classes, Serena skimmed through trying to find Akeno, but he wasn't there.

Perplexed, she raised a brow, before turning back and checking once more. But alas Akeno's picture wasn't anywhere; she looked through the entire yearbook once more before grabbing her purse and walking out the door.

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Serena drove calmly on the outside, but inside she was all torn up. Her eyes were steadied upon the road yet she couldn't see anything. Her hair matted against her face from the cold, bitter rain, her eyes her distant as heartbeat quickened.

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Serena quietly snuck into Kaiba Corp. with the extra key that Kaiba had given her in case of emergencies.

The computer screen glowed in the darkness of the receptionist's desk; Serena easily hacked into the main system of her old University. Mutely, she went back into the previous reports of past students.

Quickly, Serena typed the name 'Akeno Sunataki' but the search had failed as no student had ever entered the school with that name, but another name caught her eye, the computer had given her other possible names, Serena's eyes grew in shock as her eyes quickly read the information upon Akeno Tsunami…

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"He is the son of the rich Kisho Tsunami, he was expelled out of Domino University for searching information on Seto Kaiba. He then transferred to an academy in America and was heard from again…"

Serena kept repeating this information over and over again verbally, everything still seemed like a nightmare to her. She kept driving in the icy rain, fearing the worst since her mind was not on driving upon the slippery road.

Her gaze suddenly fell upon a woman who seemed to carry a strikingly identical resemblance to Takara, she rushed through the rainy streets, pushing past people and slipping in through the back of a 5-star hotel.

Serena pulled her vehicle over and stood outside in the rain, she had to know, she had to repair her broken life. She followed the woman who Serena confirmed was Takara up the stairs and onto the seventh floor.

Serena tiptoed through the soft crimson carpet and brightly lit hallways; past many doors till her sight was averted by a swift moving man; tall, honey blonde hair swayed back and forth. Disturbed, she let Takara go and began to follow the strangely familiar man. He flitted in an empty hotel room and shut the door, careful enough to lock it.

Serena placed her ear against the closed door and listened to the male speak into the phone

"She hasn't called for awhile, she gives me these despicable looks at work, I don't think she's coming back to me anytime soon."

Serena fell backwards; Akeno's deep, serious voice came from within the room.

"Uh huh, but Dad…"

'Kisho.'

"She suspects something, I can't keep on seducing her like this she'll put the pieces together, you already told me she might know most of our plan."

"I know she can't go to anyone, everyone's against her thanks to your lovely fiancé, cheers to her."

'Takara.'

She was a part of their plan all this time, she was seduced, Takara was with Kisho and all along everyone accused Serena of being with him. Akeno had been given a position at Kaiba Corp. because Serena was so easily fooled by his charm. What would Kaiba do? He wouldn't even look at her let alone listen to this piece of information.

The room Takara had walked into had the door slightly ajar; Serena sneaked into the dark room and disappeared into a nearby closet.

"I can't stand that man's touch all over my body," Takara's sweet voice was now spiteful and breathless. "I have him fooled with the bogus ritual thing, but its almost been a month, how much longer?"

"Don't worry my love, it won't be that much longer," Kisho said kissing her neck. "All we have to do is…"

Serena gasped a bit too noisily; she clasped her mouth roughly causing her to fall back with a 'thump' in the small space.

Footsteps approached her hiding place; light illuminated the entire room and the closet door swung open…