Author's notes: Sorry it took so long to upload last time, maybe this one as well I'm not sure. Going on holiday soon so won't be able to update for a while.

Disclaimer: I still do not own Yugioh. I do own Kira, the girls, Alshin and yellow eyes earth dragon.

Chapter 14: Walk Away

"I can't love you Kaiba...I'm sorry." Her voice rang out in his head as he replayed it. He wondered what she had meant by that and why she had been in tears when she had said it. That thing had attacked them and said something about All Gods, not that anyone wanted to go there. She had run away from him then and he had tried to run after her. He stopped and he hadn't understood at the time why. Now he did...

Kaiba sat in his office staring out at the setting sun. It cast long shadows around the room but he wasn't concerned about that. He was admiring the colours that were cast across the sky. The blues, yellows and

"Crimson...butterfly..." a voice whispered around the room. Kaiba didn't even flinch though the voice set the hairs on his head on end. He shivered and remembered the dream from almost two weeks ago. That dream had sent him after Kira and made him think that she could have cared for him. What he could not have imagined was the fact that she didn't care. But if she didn't care then why had she been crying when she had told him. The first dream he ever had of Kira played in his head. Kira was crying as he held her there, begging him to let her in...but she was also holding something...or had she been? He frowned to himself. Why was he even thinking about her? She was not in his life and he would have to accept that...he had never really loved her anyway, or had he? "Don't leave me alone..." the voice spoke again. There was no one in the room he knew but why was there this voice. Still he would not turn around and look to check if there was anyone. Who was brazen enough to do such a thing?

He folded his finger neatly together and rested his chin on them, keeping his eyes on the sunset. He could feel a presence there behind him, as if someone was breathing down his neck. He turned his head to the left but could not see anything. But something drew his attention back to his desk. He stared down at his wrist. "I'm sorry...I'm so sorry." The voice sounded so much like Kira's and he felt a tear sliding down his cheek. Then a pure white hand reached forward from behind him, a crimson ribbon with bells attached to it wrapped around its wrist. It didn't wear the crimson kimono as he would have thought it would the arm that was attached wore a long flowing yellow and sunset pink Egyptian style sleeve. The females hand gently took hold of his wrist and he froze at its touch. "Didn't we promise...together forever?" He shot up at these last words and the woman went flying. He felt the weight as he hit her and pushed her backwards. He turned to see...nothing. No woman, no bells no child...nothing. Angrily he pulled at the metal buckler around his wrist trying to get it off. It was as if there could be poison beneath it. He even went as far as to tear at the silk sleeve of his shirt. What he saw caused him to stare down in fear.

Mai approached Kira's apartment with an unhappy look on her face. Tea noticed this and became uneasy herself. She didn't like what they were about to do but if it would help her new friend she was happy to do it. "Umm Mai are you sure we want to do this?"

"You've noticed how down Kira has been recently, we have to try and help her."

"Yeah but by doing this, it's her property after all." Mai turned to her and smacked the brunette over the head.

"Do you want Kaiba and Kira at each others throats every time they met?" she turned back and stared with determination towards the fairly new door. "I mean what happens if there is another tournament and Yugi invites Kira along." Tea's eyes widened at the mere thought of it.

"Oh my god," she stated quickly covering her eyes, "World war three would begin and Kaiba wouldn't stand a chance."

"Are you sure about that?" Mai asked raising her eyes to the sky, "I mean Kaiba owns a lot of things and he could run her out of town."

"He wouldn't dare."

"What do you mean?"

"He'd have all of us and the rest of her friends on his back for the rest of eternity." Both girls giggled at this even though they knew it was true. Even if Kaiba did try to harm Kira in anyway there would be a hell of a lot of crap for him to deal with after wards. He would never hear the last of it. Still they had something to do now that would hopefully halt that, if not stopping it from ever happening.

"Still," Mai let out a sigh before continuing, "All of this started when she got that letter so we have to show it to Kaiba."

"But what happens if it's something really private that she didn't want Kaiba to know?"

"Then we show him only select parts of it."

"And how do we do that?"

"Simple..."

Kira folded up another shirt for their long journey. She had decided that enough was enough. She was going to leave for All God's today and find out why all of this was happening. She would of course be taking Marik with her and was even hoping to come back to Domino for a short spell...that was before leaving for Egypt. She didn't want to have these feelings for Kaiba any more and maybe going back 'home' would help clear her mind. At present she hoped the saying 'absence makes the heart grow fonder' was terribly wrong. Really she did not know what she was worried about, Kaiba had not spoken to her for two weeks, well not politely anyway. When he had said something to her it had been cruel and cold as if he had never cared. It wasn't like she didn't but at that time she did not want to care.

Savagely she brushed away the tears from her eyes and threw the last clothes that she owned into her travelling bag. If he doesn't want me here I won't be. Sitting on the bed she could understand why he did not wish to talk to her. She couldn't believe she had said what she did...

-Flash back-

"Go back to All Gods...Go back!" her heart had thudded at the words. Then the thing had gone, the creature had just disappeared as if the shadows meant nothing to him. She frowned to herself and stared over at Kaiba. He was in shock and so was she...for a second. After that second she felt it dawn on her that she had endangered Kaiba's life...his life and Mokuba's. For surely if Kaiba had died Mokuba would follow, if not literally he would lose all form of life. She struggled with her inner turmoil as more and more revelations made them selves known to her, until she felt that she had to do what she did. It was going to tear her up inside but that did not matter, all that mattered now was that she had to put herself out of Kaiba's life...even if it did hurt. What she did next she knew she would regret for the rest of eternity but it had to be done. "I can't love you Kaiba...I'm sorry." She burst into tears and ran, she didn't care if her dress was going to rip or anything, and all she wanted was to get away, away from the questions, away from him...away from someone who she really did love.

-End flash back-

Lay back on the bed, her tears having stopped and thought hard on that last bit. She had tried not to think over that part but now it seemed that she needed to. It had occurred to her that she was Marik's girl and that alone should count for everything...but. She sat up and tried to stop herself from thinking that. Why should I think like that, Marik should be my one and only. What am I thinking? He mind was blank for more than a second...very unusual...but then again something was not right in the room. It was cold...very cold and the heating was on. "How strange..." she said out loud before turning to look down the hall. It had been two weeks ago yesterday that she had seen that strange apparition of her brother and the older woman. Still she had been scared of the hallway ever since. Now she felt drawn to it as if there was something that needed to be done.

Slowly she moved down the side of the corridor running her fingers over the wall and feeling the coarseness of it. She frowned then; it had never been like this before. She turned to stare at the wall and saw a trail behind her, red and very sticky. She stepped back in surprise and tried not to scream. As she watched a strange thing came onto the wall as if it were a TV screen. She could see Kaiba sitting at his desk. He was startled and rather pale as if he had just been attacked by something. He was also staring down at his wrist, Kira shuddered. Please don't tell me he's hurting himself again!

"Why..." a hushed voice called out, "I kept searching for you." And she felt a hand reach forward and take her shoulder.

The doorbell ran as Tea touched it but still there was no answer. "What happens if she's not in Mai?" she turned nervously to the blonde. Mai shrugged her shoulders and shook her head. Tea knew what would happen then; a brake in that Kira would hate them for later. Still if they did what they were planning to do she wouldn't hate them as much...or so she hoped. "Come on Kira...answer the door." It creaked on its hinges and a pair of tired blue eyes peered around from its edge.

"Hi Tea," the girls voice was drawn and thin, nothing like what it had been before hand. Even the young woman looked sad and unhappy...she could even go as far as saying that Kira looked very ill. Poor Kira, if this carries on she's going to be very unwell.

"Hey do you mind if we come in before you go?" Mai asked from behind her, Kira's face brightened up considerably when Mai said that.

"Of course." She smiled brightly and pulled the two in. "I thought you guys were busy today I tried phoning."

"Well my phone was switched off," Mai stated.

"And mine was...umm...I think I just missed the call."

"That's fine by me...do you want anything to drink." Tea tilted her head towards Mai.

"Of course we do Kira. I'll come and help you." The blonde grabbed the darker girl's slender arm and walked of towards the kitchen giving Tea a slight nod. Tea knew that she had to find the letter and had been so preoccupied that she hadn't even acknowledged the fact that Kira was going away. Soon though it dawned on her, "I wonder where she is going." Tea frowned and sat with her legs sprawled out in front of her. "Well I still need to find that letter." After a little rummaging around on the coffee table she found what she was looking for, a slender piece of ragged paper with Kira's name on it.

Author's notes: Right I have an apology to make. I'm sorry it took so long to complete this chapter but I was on holiday for a couple of days.