A/N: This is my new story. I swear I'm still working on the Megaman NT Warrior one and I still have several good excuses for not updating. But I was reading The Catcher in the Rye and this just had to be written. It takes place after the war in my cousin's Hikari, Mokuba's Guardian story. I would just like to note that her fic will probably end well. My version has the war end tragically. Japan's independence is lost and is now controlled by America.

Seto Kaiba is the main character in this story. During the war he was temporarily MIA(Missing in Action) his brother, and his good friends(Kita, Kura and Hikari) all believe he's dead, and he thinks they are dead. In this fic I shall remain true to the series in that Serenity and Seto are together. As for the rest, you'll have to figure it out on your own. I'll give you some help, but not much.

This story is dedicated to my Sister, Cousin, and BFF, Hikari! For all those times she's put up with my bitchyness, and put Kita into her stories. I love you Hikari Joan Bruder! Don't you ever forget that!

Warnings: language and confuzzlism.

Rating: pg-13 may move to R due to some scenes I'm planning on doing.

Comments: read my author's notes or you'll be extremly confused. You will also want to check out my bio for character descriptions.

Other shit: This is inspired and may realated at times to The Catcher in the Rye.

Discalimer: If I owned YGO I would be rolling in riches and making this story appear on film instead of writing it on Kita is mine, Kura and Hikari, and Niomi are not you may not use them. Ask permission to use Kita!

I walked out of my English class, dreading the assignment we had to work on. We had to write about ourselves, about important parts of our lives really. I am Seto Kaiba, and I hate doing stuff like that. Why? I have my reasons. I don't need to explain myself.

So anyways, the first thing I did was go back to my dorm room. I have a room on the top floor. It's for two people, but somehow I scared off all my roomates. Don't ask me how. My charming personality perhaps? Anways, I'm off topic again.As I was saying I got to my dorm room and threw my stuff on my bed. Then I sat on the window seat an opened my current book assignment, The Catcher in the Rye. It's a good book, with a sarcastic main character.

So I went over and sat on my window seat. The moment I sat a loud noise, something like an engine, startled me. I looked out the window and sure enough a blood red motorcycle pulled into the parking lot. Suzuki made, I could barely make out the Katana logos on it. A GSX:750 Katana, a favorite of my old friend and the co-owner of my rival company, Kita Asakura-Armourage. I used to own a big gaming company called Kaiba Corp, she, Kita, was the co-owner of Gamer Elite. She was a good friend to me and my little brother Mokuba.

Oh how I missed Mokuba. As far as I knew he was dead. I wish the war hadn't started, then I could be with him and my true love. A girl named Serenity Wheeler. But even if I were to find them now I fear Serenity may be with someone else, her older brother, Joey Wheeler, really didn't apporive of us. I really want Mokie back though.

I watched the rider get off of the Suzuki and whip off his helmet. I was greeted with the sight of blue and black hair, not much unlike Kita(Curious I may add). The rider was wearing black cargo pants, the kind with the random chains and straps, a black 'Pissy Goth' shirt, and black combat boots. I wondered if he was in the army too. I watched him walk over to the main office, and shrugged.

This sight had interested me for a few seconds, but Holden's misadventures in The Catcher in the Rye were more demanding of my attention. I read about five pages before I got sick of the silence of the room. I tried music, but that didn't work, I couldn't concentrate on the pages of text before me. So I got up and left the room with my precious book. As soon as I had left the building I was greeted with the noise of a watergun fight. That was early spring for you around here, Charleston, South Carolina. Loud, wet, and all American. The all American part was what really got me. See I'm Japanese, it's my first language. I speak English pretty well, but I can't write it, and I find it very hard to understand. They speak faster here than we do in Japan.

I sighed, I wasn't going to get any workdone in the park, I knew the library was going to be too crowded with finals coming up, so I walked to the campus church. I bet you're wondering why we have a chruch. Well we actually have several. This is just the Catholic one. The grounds are set up to were this really isn't a university campus, but a High School one, and Elementary, and Preschool, and the people who learned and worked here all lived on grounds. It really sounds a lot like something out of a Clamp School manga.

I figured the God that people whorshiped here wouldn't mind if I read silently in his presence. I just wanted quiet, I really didn't care. But I still asked forgiveness when I entered. See before the war my good friend Hikari converted me and Kita to Catholiscm. We weren't to consistant in the religion, but if memory serves Kita loved to sit in the churches and just stare. She loved the art. Art was her thing.

Anyways I took a seat in the far back and opened up my book. I had gotten through about ten pages before I was greeted by the man who had driven up earlier. " Seto Kaiba?" He asked. his violet eyes dancing with contained excitment. I nodded. "According to big bad Bossman your supposed to be showing me around." I started to shut my book when he stopped me, "Please, don't, Mr. Kaiba, you looked like you were enjoying yourself. And I cna see why, that's a good book. I'll just sit next to you until you're ready to go."

And with that he hopped the pew in front of me and sat several feet away from me. "By the way, my name's TK. TK Apocryphia."

I nodded and watched silently as he pulled out a book. I saw the cover and recognized the Japanese text. It was one of the Vampire Hunter D books. He was pretty far through it from what I could tell. I just shrugged and went back to Holden and his crappy life.

It really reminded me of my fucked up one. I was born to a good family. Great father, loving mother, and later on a younger brother whom I loved with all my heart. But that was all taken away. My mother and father died. I can still remember my little brother Mokie crying out for 'tousan and 'kasan1. It was sad. I remember going to the orphanage. Where I protected Mokuba with everything I was. I stopped the older kids from hurting him, the youngers from not allowing him into thier games. All the while I though of an escape plan.

It came when world chess champion Gozaburo Kaiba came to our orphanage, trying to get publicity. I jumped in front of him and challenged him to a game of chess. He laughed at me and told me a mere child could not beat him. But I was ready, I told him I would tell the press that he was afraid of a child. This caught his attention and I layed out my stakes. If I won, he would adopt me and my younger brother, if I lost I would never bother him again. He accepted the challenge.

The game was close. But I knew every single one of Gozaburo's famous moves, the ones he tended to favor. He liked to be fancy, so I went for simple. I finally moved him into Checkmate. I had won. He laughed and said he would adopt one with a brain like mine, but he refused to adopt my brother. So I played my hand, and got my brother into the limosine ticket out of our apparent one way ticket to hell. Gozaburo had done what many before him could not, he had gotten me. I would never allow myself to get out of hell without my Mokie, but Gozaburo was willing to make a small sacfrifice for something great. That great thing being me.

Well Chapter one end. What did you guys think so far. It's mainly the introduction. And don't worry Tk plays an extremly important part in the story. But I just wanted to introduce the conflicting characters. Seto vs Seto and Seto vs TK. As for the Vampire Hunter D novels, I am very sorry to tell you VHD fans that they are not in English(I KNOW!!sniffsniff) But they are trying to translate them and bring them to the states.

I woudl also like to note that the begining of this story takes place in Charleston, South Carolina, USA. I tmay move to a differnt place as the story progresses. The only reason Seto is in University is because he really has nothing beter to do, and otherwise you wouldn't have a story from me.

BTW this story is also dedicated to my late friend TJ Meckily, I hope you are in a good place lil' bro!

ja for now!!

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