Chapter 5: For the Love of Blue Eyes

By Smurf Cat


Serenity blinked her eyes open as she awoke the next morning. Her and Seto had had a fight the previous night after she had gotten off the phone with Mai. Why hadn't she told Seto? Why had Seto raised his voice to her? Was it because he cared? Serenity sighed. The fight had been characterized by the words and phrases of "irresponsible", "waste of time", "why didn't you tell me", and Seto's personal favorite, "you're just a wheeler!"

It wasn't really a fight. It was more like Seto giving Serenity a thrashing with his words. She would have rather him beat her. Words hurt more than physical pain. They lasted. Serenity could still hear the angry tone in Seto's voice. During the fight, she had escaped to her mind. She didn't respond to Seto, she only took it in. she wanted to take it in, as if the pain gave her a cruel sense of pleasure. It did give her something to dwell on.

Now she lay there in her bed as the sunlight poured down onto her face. The rain was gone today. She half wished that it were back, but decided that the sunlight would do her some good. Maybe she needed counseling. She knew that Seto needed some. He would never swallow his pride.

As she got up and moved across the room, she came to her closet and flipping through her clothes, she picked out a black shirt and some jeans and put them on. Serenity would normally never wear black, but she figured that she would try to reflect her mood for today. She had no idea what the jeans represented, maybe that she was "only a wheeler".

She had been poor trash. How could she compare with Seto? She began to think that she wouldn't be worthy for him. Maybe she should she a counselor. As she walked down the stairs and out of the house, she thought again about her long lost friends. She needed a few friends right now.

She stopped herself abruptly in front lawn of the mansion and turned around. Now she was to report to Seto every time she was going to go anywhere. Serenity wondered if he would let her get mental help. As she came into the mansion, she could see him at his computer desk in the next room. She inched closer, almost afraid to talk to him after last night.

"Seto?" she asked as she came to the door.

Seto grunted.

"May I... go somewhere?" she felt funny asking the question.

Seto turned in his chair. "Where will you be?"

"Downtown. I need new clothes..." serenity took a deep breath to ask the next question, "may I have some money?"

"Don't you have any money?" asked Seto scornfully. "Oh yeah, that's right. You're a wheeler."

Serenity looked down. She decided not to make a fight out of this. Seto looked over at her. He looked away as he came to realize how much he must have just hurt her. "How much do you want?"

Serenity looked back up at him. "Just enough to get me some new shirts and some jeans. Maybe some jewelry would be nice..."

"How does a thousand dollars sound?" he asked. Seto had no idea how to buy women's clothes or how expensive they were and quite frankly, he didn't care. "That should be enough to get you a few outfits and a diamond maybe."

"Why don't you come with me?" asked serenity, daring herself not to hope, willing herself not to.

"I have more important things to do." Said Seto as he opened his wallet and handed her five hundreds, eight fifties, and five twenties. "Just get back before eight or so."

"We never do anything together." Said Serenity. "I miss you, Seto. We used to do stuff. Please come with me. What's so important that you have to do it this very minute anyway?"

Seto grunted. "Business. I may go with you some other time. Not now."

Serenity sighed before exiting the room. Seto knew she was right, they never did anything together.

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The day at the mall in downtown Domino was hectic. Serenity was constantly worried about someone trying to steal Seto's money. He shouldn't have given her so much. She shouldn't have excepted it. As she looked at all the latest fashions, she didn't see anything that she really liked. She picked up a few shirts before heading to the food court where she buried her troubles in a cup of coffee.

She wished Seto were here. She wanted to hold him like she used to, to feel his warmth. She didn't know if he'd let her touch him now o' days, much less hold him. This relationship was hopeless.

She got up from her spot at the food court to go to the jewelry store. Everything here was beautiful and overpriced. She got an eighty-six dollar ring with a Peridot in it. It didn't match the clothes she was wearing. Seto was right, she was only a wheeler. Wheelers can't do anything right.

Serenity wanted to get something for Seto. She had no idea what to get. She only wanted something that would show that she cared. She still had seven hundred dollars in her pocket. She stopped by a store display where a skilled artist was selling her painting of famous duel monsters. Serenity saw a portrait of Blue Eyes White Dragon. That was what she would get for Seto.

As she walked into the store, she asked the artist how much it was. It was three hundred dollars. As Serenity looked it over, she could see why. There were intricate details throughout the whole thing. It was nothing less than perfect. The Blue Eyes was in flight with a sky fill up with white lightning in the background. Serenity bought it and the artist wrapped it in a cloth a sold it to her.

"It's beautiful." Said serenity to the young female artist.

"Thank you." Said the artist and blushed. "I'm a huge Duel Monsters fan. This picture was inspired by Seto Kaiba when he won the world championships a few years back."

Serenity smiled. "I'm buying it for him. He's one of my... friends." Serenity didn't want to say lovers.

He artist looked shocked. "Wow! It must be nice to be friends with him. He's my hero."

"Well, let's just say that it's interesting sometimes." Said serenity before thanking in artist again and walking back to her car. Still having four hundred dollars in her pocket almost drover her up and over the edge. Growing up poor, she had never had this kind of money. She wanted to spend it now that she had it. She told herself to control herself.

She didn't control herself. On her way home, she stopped by the shop that Yugi's grandfather owned and bought herself four boxes of Duel Monsters cards. It was all she had money for. She figured that if Duel Monsters could calm Seto down the way it did, it could give her a new outlook on life. She might as well try the game. It might just be fun! For once in those past few months, she smiled.


She got home at eight as planned. She carefully snuck both the portrait of Blue Eyes and her boxes of cards up to her room where she plopped down on the bed. She began to open a few of the boxes when she remembered Seto. Grudgingly, she got up to tell him that she was home. He's rich. Why didn't he have an intercom in the mansion or something?

As she came down stairs, she came to his room yet again to say that she was home. "I'm back." She said to him.

"I've been thinking about what you said." Answered Seto as he whirled around in his chair.

"What?" serenity questioned.

"We never do anything together." Said Seto. "Maybe we could go out tomorrow night or something. I could reserve the whole restaurant so that we could be alone."

"You don't have to do that for me, Seto." Said serenity. "I just want to spend time with you... I bought you something."

Seto grinned. "With my money?"

"Well," serenity began. She hadn't thought of that. "You gave me the money. Technically it was my money when I bought it."

Seto wanted to tell serenity how cute she was when she tried to be smart. "Well, go get it."

Serenity dashed up the stairs to retrieve the portrait. She came down minutes later and handed it to Seto. "Do you like it?"

As Seto unwrapped the painting, he could see the Blue Eyes White Dragon. He suddenly felt bad. Serenity had gone to all that trouble to find him something that he knew he was interested in (the Blue Eyes White Dragon, not the painting). He hardly knew what she liked.

"Thank you." He said. He found it hard to make the words come out. She had done so much for him and endured so much. What had he done for her? He only wanted to make things better...
Chapter finally done!

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