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In many ways Seto Kaiba epitomizes the modern CEO of a multimillion dollar company. He has a beautiful house (complete with 17 TV's, seven refrigerators and 12 bathrooms). He owns a fancy Mercedes and his own limo. He has a loving wife, Tea, and three beautiful children. Not to mention 120 million dollars. Yesterday, our top new reporter-

Seto through the newspaper across the room. When would these stupid reporters learn to mind their own business? His wife, Tea, would be home with the kids any moment, so he went over and picked up the thrown paper. While holding it in his hands, Seto glanced at the title, 'It's a Wonderful Life' was written in black font across the top. 'Yeah, right...' thought Kaiba to himself. Sure, he was rich, but everyone always said that money can't buy happiness, and the twenty-three year old had to admit to himself that they were right.

Tea was good to him, and somehow he had grown to love her, but something in their marriage was missing. Something important. They had married young, at the age of eighteen. Personally, Seto thought they both would've liked to wait longer, to see their relationship go farther, but it seemed the world was pressuring Kaiba to propose, so, as usual, he did what they wanted. Tea, being the gentle-hearted person she was and still is, had said yes, and the next year they had given birth to Adora. When they were twenty-one, Tea had announced that she was pregnant again. That led to the birth of Mokuba Jr., whom Seto had named after his brother. The most recent addition to their family was Emanuelle, who was only three months old.

Seto stopped thinking about them long enough to put the paper neatly back on the coffee table. Just then, the door burst open and in walked Tea, along with the kids. Adora had just started school this year, and since they had decided that she was too young to take the bus, every day Tea would take the kids and drive Adora to school. She would then take them to her work and pick Adora up again at noon, drive her home and then return to work. Seto had constantly told Tea that she didn't need to work, but she was stubborn and insisted that she wanted to contribute to the ever-growing family income as well. So he let her. There was no use arguing with her.

Seto looked out the window into the grey outside. 'Another crappy day in paradise,' he remarked to himself. He seemed to become absorbed in the weather, one which today reflected his entire life. Kaiba was brought out of his misery when he heard the car pull into the driveway. Tea, who was used to having a small amount of money, refused to take the limo, and had instead bought herself a BMW.

Tea let herself into the door, looking like a complete wreck. Her brown hair, much like Kaiba's own, was up in a messy bun. On one arm was Emanuelle's carriage thing, on the other was Mokuba Jr., perched high up like he was king.

"Would you mind helping me a bit?" asked Tea, irritably. Seto rushed to her and took Mokuba away from her. Putting him down in his playpen, he turned towards her. Tea was busy getting organized, as she only had ten minutes before she had to return to her job as a dance instructor.

"Oh yeah, Seto, Yugi invited us over for dinner. The whole gang is going, so I thought that, since we aren't busy, that we could join them." Seto tried to hide his displeasure. Even though he married Tea, he still hated it when she talked about the 'gang'. Sadly, Tea noticed his feeble attempt at looking happy.

"I know you don't like them, but they're really trying to support you," she said.

"Support me?" Kaiba couldn't control his anger any longer. "They're the ones who need support! I am absolutely fine where I am now. Terrific, actually. So why don't you go by yourself?"

"Maybe I will!" Tea yelled, pacing around the room. "You know, you could try being nice to them. They're nice people, but I guess you don't even know the meaning of the word!"

Seto sighed, he hated it when they fought, but somehow, they just couldn't avoid it.

"Whatever, Tea. We'll talk later. I'm going out," Seto said as he threw on his coat and walked out the door. It was only after he was halfway down the road that he realized that he left Tea alone with the kids. 'I guess she won't be going back to work today...'

As the wind blew on him, Kaiba tried wrapping his coat around him tighter. No luck. 'I wish I'd thought to hop in the car instead of walking. Or else brought a warmer coat.' Seto didn't know where he was going, he was just following his feet. After awhile of trying to piece himself together, Kaiba looked up only to see that he was in a really shitty neighborhood. One he hadn't ever noticed before. On one side of the road there were some hobos sleeping on the fake grass that was in front of each house.

Eager to get away from this place, Seto looked around for an escape. He saw his answer when he looked to the left and saw the outline of a park. Hurrying over, Kaiba slowed to a walk when he reached the entrance. The park was actually quite nice, considering the neighborhood it was in. The concrete path led throughout the entire park, and was outlined by some trees, which had long ago lost they're leaves.

After feeling another cold burst of wind, Kaiba looked up, only to see soft white snowflakes falling through the air. The first snow of the season. After standing there for awhile, just soaking up the peacefulness, Seto continued walking. When he figured he was about halfway through the park, he heard a noise like no other. It was a girl, and she was singing.

The sound of her voice was like none other Kaiba had ever heard before. It was delicate, like that of a small bird, and fit the winter mood nicely. Interested, Seto followed to sound of her voice until he reached a tree, larger then the others. Behind it, he could faintly make out a girl's figure, wrapped in a warm winter jacket. Gathering his courage, Kaiba decided to go talk to her. He walked towards the tree, his boots leaving faint imprints in the soft white snow.