Ok I got realize that I am kind of updating this a little too fast, and just throwing it out there, please note that I did write this story a while back and I am just doing some fine tuning to it, then posting it here, if you want me to slow down I was just editing yesturday and I was enjoying it a little too much lol, so this is the only update for today and I will upload the next chapter on Monday morning with probably two more, sorry for those that I am updating too fast for I will slow down, now. This story is just too good to hold on too for me.


Chapter 15
Food, Lost, and everything in between

At about 12am a small limp figure lay in the hallway. Seto opened his office door to fine a little girl curled into a ball in front of his office door. It had been a few days since the funeral and Kisty was not sleeping that great and himself well Seto was still in limbo about things. Seto bent down and picked up the small 5-year-old girl, she whined in her sleep but was pale as a ghost. 'She's been throwing up again,' thought Seto as he carried her to her room.

Seto kicked the door gently to Kisty's little bedroom, and laid her down on the bed. The tall CEO looked at the mess that the room had become; Seto remembered that Alexandra had their daughter clean it, but from the look of the mess, Kisty was not just leaving her to toys on the floor but destroying her them. Small bears, and even her duel monster dolls lay in pieces on the floor, Seto figured that Kisty was taking her frustrations out on the toys"Well at least she is doing something to vent" he whispered turning back to his uneasy sleeping daughter.

Seto looked over at Kisty who was still asleep, he walked over to her, and pulled the blankets to her shoulders, it was cold in the mansion the last thing he wanted to do was lose his daughter too. He bent down and kissed Kisty on the forehead and turned on her nightlight, then left the room.

Seto walked out into the empty hall, he looked to his left to see Alexandra's old room, he had not been there since their wedding night and when Alexandra ever needed treatment for her pain that required an IV. The mansion was completely dark but Seto knew it so well that he never had to turn on any lights, so it was a small surprise that he found the kitchen light on as he walked down stairs.

Mokuba sat on a stool looking at a small box in his hand, his birthday was in a few months but he was planning something ahead of him. Seto entered the room, and saw his younger brother hide the small box quickly and act somewhat normal. "Mokuba what are you doing up at this hour" he asked. Mokuba turned and faced his brother"Seto we have a problem and I was waiting for you to come down here. I think Kisty is starving herself" he said flat out.

Seto sat next to his brother on one the stool"She was asleep in front of my office door again, as white as a ghost, the girl has been avoiding the sun like the plague" he spoke in the same 'I know but what do you want me to do about it' tone of voice. Mokuba stuck his hand in his pocket where the box was"Umm, Seto, I need to ask you something" he spoke worried about his brother's answer.

Seto had gotten up and walked to the refrigerator, and was drinking some milk out of the carton (How UN Seto Kaiba like? Sorry I live with men and they do it all the time, so yes I would expect Seto do really do that) "What do you want to know" he spoke in between gulps of milk. "I want to ask Lisa to marry me" he spoke quickly. Seto was in mid drink when the question came up; he spat it out"WHAT! Atem's daughter, Mokuba you know I don't like her" he said.

Mokuba nodded"I know, but I um, Seto I love her, and I don't want to be alone, I am marrying her with or without your consent" snapped the younger Kaiba. Seto had seen that coming this time and did not drink any milk. "Mokuba I know you want to be with her, and I am not going to stop you, but if you do this then you're going to have to live somewhere else. It's bad enough I see her at the office everyday, but here she would drive me to my early grave," complained Seto.

The younger Kaiba nodded, "We won't have to I have a place picked out, it's near by and I will be able to help you with Kisty." Seto looked at his brother knowing he was up to something, "If you're looking to call the pool house you can forget it," he snapped at his younger brother.

"Why, not Seto, you never go there, and Kisty will have some one to keep an eye on her, also it will save you from finding a babysitter," explained Mokuba. Seto rolled his eyes, "Lisa is my problem Mokuba, I have no problem with you marrying her, well wait I take that back, I do because she is related to Atem, my rival, but you know if you're happy then fine so be it, but your not getting my blessing," he said.

Kisty walked in to the kitchen, as if in a trace she walked over to the counter and pulled herself up on to it and got a glass. Seto and Mokuba watched as she the hobbled over to the sink and poured herself a glass of water then jumped down from the counter after she was done drinking it.

Mokuba watched his niece then walk out of the room, "did, we just watch her enter and leave without a word?" he asked his older brother. Seto nodded, "You haven't been around at this time a night lately, she been doing that every night. I think it is disturbing but at the same time kind of cute that she knows her was around the kitchen in her sleep."

Present day

Seto sat in the kitchen on a stool that was next to the kitchen island counter in the middle of the room. He was looking at his watch when he heard the door open and Kisty walk in but she did not appear to be a zombie but fully awake. "What are you still doing up?" she asked Seto, looking at him slouching over the counter. "Sulking, what's it look like I am doing Kisty," he spoke in a quiet yet calm tone. "Looks like your feeling sorry for yourself, Seto," she snapped.

Seto raised an eyebrow, his bang hid them but Kisty saw that he was reading her, "You know they are the same thing," he pointed out. Kisty shook her head, "Look, I am sorry about what I said earlier about you know, not giving you another chance. It's just you had so many and I am, at this point of I don't know what to do anymore, you never once came to one of my school plays, musicals, or dance recitals and I had Mokuba save you a spot every time you didn't come," she sighed sitting down with her glass of water.

" I know I didn't come then but I am here now, we could at least try," spoke Seto breaking the long silences that feel between them. "I did, Seto," she said after taking a drink. "Kisty, I want this time to be different, I know you look at me as more then just a sperm donor for you to be born, but you were NOT a mistake!" Seto spoke in one of his more sincere tones one that you would only hear if you know you were wrong and he was right.

Kisty shook her head, "I know that, I want to say sorry for saying that too," she said looking down at her glass of water. "It's just ever since Mom died, I feel that it's my fault, in some way she would have never been in that accident if I didn't beg her to go to Egypt to see Kara," she sighed. Seto shook his head, "No, it wasn't your fault, Kisty those wounds probably will never fully heal in side you emotionally, but you can move on. I am sorry you feel like it's your fault, I guess since I married your mother I should have pushed her more to get treated for that infection, but Kisty it was never anyone's fault, what happened, happened we can't change the past" he said trying to being sincere with his daughter.

Seto could see the tears forming in Kisty's blue eyes; they reminded him of his own they were at the funeral for Alexandra. "I want one more chance, Kisty, if I screw this one up, you have my permission to never talk to me again in fact you can leave me and live with Mokuba. I will let you do what ever you want even go on night dates with that slug you call a boyfriend, Jake," spoke Seto quickly seeing that they need to keep off Alex's death as a subject.

Kisty looked at Seto, "You mean it, if I give you one more chance to actually act like a father, and not as a money stash, or guardian, you really think it is possible you can be there when I need you as a parent, or better yet as a Dad you, will be there?" she asked.

Half of Seto at that moment wanted to scream "yes!" but the other half of him wanted to actually think about it and say "no!" The words spilled out, "Kisty, to be honest I don't even know how to be a father to you with out your mother, I just know that you need things and I provide them, I know there is more I just don't know how to really do it!" he answered her question with that answer.

Kisty had a small smirk on her face, "Well to be honest with you also, um," she bit her lower lip, "I don't know how to be a daughter to you with out Mom either, but that's no excuse for the both of us. I guess it's probably because I have been under Uncle Mokuba and Lisa's eyes when your busy for so long I am not sure either," she admitted.

Seto smirked at his daughter, "Why don't we learn what we both need to fix this problem, and just start fresh?" he asked. Kisty took a deep breath and though about it for a moment, "I guess we can try, this one more time, however I need to think about it, but if I am going to give you this last chance then I'm going to hold you to it, Seto," she said putting out her hand as if making a deal. Seto smirked, "You won't regret it, I will be there for you and you for me, deal," he said quickly taking his daughters hand and shaking on it.

Kisty then said good night to Seto and headed to her room, when she entered she flopped on the bed and pulled out something from her pillow, it was the six shares of Kaiba Corp that she own. "I think this can wait, I am going to give him one last shot and if he screws up then I take over," she smirked putting them in a small box under her bed.

ten years ago,

Kisty sat at the dinning room table staring at her food, "I am not hungry," she said again. Seto looked at her from behind his newspaper, "You have to eat something Kisty, you haven't eaten real food in two weeks and you're starting to look like a tooth pick," he spoke to her in a worried tone.

The young girl pushed her plate away, "And I said I am not hungry, Dad, so lay off," she snapped. Seto put down his paper if his 5-year-old daughter, did not eat soon he knew she would pass out or worse injure herself more, "I only want you to give it a chance," he said. Kisty looked at her food, it was just carrots and some fruit, "I hate carrots, that's rabbit food," she snapped.

Seto raised an eyebrow and picked up a carrot, "doesn't look like rabbit food to me, more like mini log that is orange," he said trying to make her laugh. Kisty shook her head, "You trying to be funny Seto?" she asked. Kaiba smirked, "What do my jokes suck?" he asked. Kisty giggled, "As much as that want be dog boy ,Wheeler," she laughed.

Mokuba entered the room, "Good morning my dear brother and niece," he said with a very large smile on his face. Seto looked over at his brother as well as Kisty, "You got laid last night didn't you?" asked Kisty with a giggle. Seto and Mokuba looked at Kisty knowing that she probably did not understand the word or at least that is what they thought.

"Kisty where did you learn that word?" asked Yugi stepping in to the room, with Atem and Lisa not too far behind Mokuba. Kisty giggled, "Mom said it to Dad when he was carrying her to his room before she pasted away, she and I quote said "you married me just so you could get laid and that is so Kaiba like you butt head,"" spoke Kisty making air quotes of her mother's words.

Seto rolled his eyes, "You where suppose to be sleeping," he said looking at Kisty. Kisty giggled, "You be surprise what you hear when you fake sleep, not to mention Mom knew I was awake, or else she would have said Sex." Yugi and Atem crossed there arms, "Don't you two say a single word you're toast," threaten Seto quickly catching Yugi and Atem both about to say something to warn him how bad it was bad for a child Kisty's age to know about sex.

Kisty giggled, "I learn what the word meant when Mommy used to teach that one class, where you learn the difference between boys and girls," she said answering there silent questions that she figure they were to ask her later. "Also it's in Egyptian history, that rape was a common crime, so don't worry about it affecting me, I made a vow of no sex when I was 3, and to wait until I was married," said Kisty making sure that they would not worry about her.

Seto throw the carrot playfully at his daughter, "Eat something or I am going to put an IV in you so it can get in your stomach, as your Father it's my job to make sure you live, got it," he said. Kisty rolled her eyes, "Fine I will eat, this but I skipping Dinner," she announced her challenge. "You don't eat dinner no desert, Kisty," smirked Seto eye balling the chocolate cake that Mokuba had just set on the table and seeing Kisty droll. Kisty snapped her fingers, "Darn you're just too smart for me Seto," she said in a sarcastic tone getting up from the table.

"Kisty!" spoke Seto quickly. The girl turned "what?" she asked. "You're forgetting something," he said pointing to the food in front of him. Kisty rolled her eyes, "FINE, just stop getting on my back about it, DAD!" she snapped. Seto chuckled, "glad you agree, don't forget the logs," he said. Kisty ate her carrots first and ate all her food little did she soon realize how hungry she really was. "Rabbit food," she said as she started to eat her lunch.

"Umm, Seto can I get some more food please?" she asked once her plate was clean. Seto smiled and looked at Mokuba, who just entered with some sandwiches enough for Yugi, Atem, himself, Seto, and Lisa who would be following with the second round of food, and Kisty who took the largest one in front of her since she found she was very hungry.

present day

Kisty looked up at her ceiling, "If he didn't make me eat I would have starved, but that was the first chance I gave him after Mom passed away," she whispered to herself. "Maybe this time it will be different, he seems sincere enough about it, and usually he gives after, about two weeks, so maybe this will works," she spoke quietly to herself and then rolled over and turned off the light.