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Disclaimer: I do not own YuGiOh

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They were enemies. They were so much alike than different though. Both were cold hearted, both were relentless, but were fueled by desire. They hated each other but they loved one thing. One person; Shizuka Jounouchi.

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Chapter 5: Postponed Escape

After the light underneath the door of Kaiba's room turned off she waited half an hour before getting up from her bed. About two hours ago Kaiba came in her room while she sat in her usual spot by the window ignoring him. He just stood behind her unsure of what to say to her while she continued to look out the window. After a minute or so of silence he huffed in frustration and left her room only to slam the door making her wince in response. Sometimes she thought that he felt bad about her situation. Those times were when he looked at her in sympathy. What he didn't know is that she could see his reflection on the window. His perplexed facial expression made her heart sink. She knew he was in a bad situation too but that did not give him the right to ruin her life.

Now she stood before her door. Her exit. Her gateway away from this hellhole. When she quietly pressed the key into the keyhole she almost cheered when the key fit. Now all she had to do was turn it and she could move on to step two of her escape plan. The doorknob made a squeaking sound making her close her eyes and try to listen for any movement coming from Kaiba's room. Nothing.

She tried to turn the key praying that it would work. It didn't. Her heart sank even further and she wanted to automatically curse Kaiba. The key was useless, completely useless. She sank to the floor with the key still in her hand. There was no escaping tonight. She wouldn't give up. He had other keys. All she needed to do was find the right key. If she was lucky the key she had right now belonged to another door. The front door possibly?

Tonight was supposed to be her night. The slap Pegasus gave her left a bruise on her jaw and hurt every time she opened her mouth. She was tired of this. She wanted out. She was almost desperate. Anger took over once again and she got up from the floor determined to make Kaiba regret ever kidnapping her. As she moved to go to the bathroom in her room, she took a lamp from her nightstand. Turning on the bathroom light she looked at herself in the mirror. The bruise was now visible and so was the small cut on her bottom lip. Pulling her arm back she let out a discouraged scream and threw the lamp at the mirror shattering it into a million pieces. The glass flew out everywhere and hit her face, her arms and feet. The glass shards lay around her feet and around the bathroom.

Breaths coming out in huffs, she felt shaky. She had to admit that felt good but was still angry. Shizuka heard the door connecting Kaiba's and her room swing open. From where she was standing she could see Kaiba stomping over toward her. His hair was slightly disheveled and he wore only pajama bottoms. He looked like a mix of alarm and fury.

It looked like he was about to yell at her when a sparkle caught his eye. There were glass shard shattered around her and he could see an extension cord and a lamp shade thrown carelessly behind her. The glass lamp was seen in tiny little pieces along with the glass. The pink pieces were not hard to miss.

"What the hell do you think you are doing?" He asked sounding not mad but more surprised. Shizuka still stood in front of the now broken mirror trying to catch her breath with her head down. A sheet of hair hid her face away from Kaiba. He stopped in front of the bathroom door and did not dare step inside. "Get away from the bathroom and make sure you don't step on the glass." Now he sounded scared that she might do something stupid. The memory of her promise of killing herself was etched in his mind. At the time he thought she was just being a stupid child but now that she was standing before a sea of glass he thought she might do what she promised.

Looking up she nodded weakly. The energy seemed drained out of her. When she looked up he saw her bruised jaw and cut lip not to mention little nicks on her nose and cheeks. There were tiny shards on her shirt and pants. She stepped away from the mirror carelessly stepping on the glass and getting even more cuts on them. Kaiba held out his hand to take her own hand.

"You are a very stupid girl." He murmured when she was out of the bathroom. Every time she took a step she winced because of the pieces of glass on her foot. Kaiba led her to her chair beside her window and sat her down. Not wanting to look at him she looked out the window trying to lose herself in the beautiful night sky. After he let go of her hand, he knelt down and grabbed her foot to see how many shards pierced her skin. It wasn't bad, her face was covered more with cuts.

He needed to make sure those cuts did not get infected. Carefully he went back to the bathroom to get out the first aide kit and walked back to Shizuka. She was still numbly looking out the window. Kneeling down again, he took out some gauze and alcohol to take care of all the cuts on her.

The cold liquid was dabbed on her cheek after it was dabbed on her feet. Kaiba made sure that he got all the cuts she had. He even pulled out another pair of clothes for her to wear. Instead of her wearing jeans and the white tee-shirt he got her pajama pants and a tank top for the warm night.

"Go change. Be careful though, you still have a lot of small shards on you and could cut yourself."

After she didn't move, he pulled her up. Still not looking at him she grabbed the new clothes out of his hand and walked to her walk in closet and shut the door to change her clothes. She came out and threw her old clothes on the floor then sat back down. There were more cuts visible on her arms now that she wore a tank top. Kaiba took the bottle of alcohol and the gauze to take care of those cuts. "There's a lot of things I don't mean to do and say. I never apologize for them. I never thought I had to." Her eyes continued to watch the clouds move, hiding the stars. "This is one thing I feel that I have to apologize. Even if it's for my brother." When she still did not respond, his hand touched her cheek causing her to glare at him.

"Don't." She gritted through her teeth. Finally, a response. He smiled in amusement. When was the last time he smiled like that? Not once since Mokuba has been gone. He could clearly see the mutt in her. Except she was far more gentler than the mutt. She was much more graceful even though she was glaring at him. His hand fell to his side but still knelt in front of her.

"Why did you do that?" He simply asked without emotion.

"I want to go home, that's why. I'm tired of being here. I don't want to see that man. I don't want cameras in my room and I just want to see my brother."

"You're not the only one." He muttered under his breath and stood up. "You're not sleeping here. I don't know what you're going to do anymore. Now that I know you lost your damn mind you cannot be trusted to sleep here with a bathroom full of broken glass. Paula is asleep so I'm not about to wake her up. What you will do is sleep in my room and I will sleep in this room. If you even so much think of repeating this I will immediately send you to Pegasus before the full moon." Shizuka looked away. Out of frustration Kaiba put a finger underneath her chin to make her look at him. "Do you understand?" Over and over again she was testing him. Why couldn't she just accept her fate?

"No." She softly answered back cheekily. She was pulled up by the arm and dragged to his room. The door was left opened so he did not need to use a key to open it.

"Paula will be informed of this so don't count on trying to escape through my room. The windows are locked and have bars on them. Not to mention you are on the third floor." She stood in the middle of his room taking in his even bigger room. There was no light in his room. Not even from the moon or stars. She couldn't see anything in his room and didn't know where his bed was.

"I'm not staying in here." She said defiantly. In reality she was scared of the dark room along with other things. She was used to rooms with at least a little bit of light. His was just drowned in darkness. She almost felt like it was a trick, like Pegasus was in the dark just waiting for her in bed so that he could have his way with her.

"Stop being a child. If you want I'll open the curtain for you." His voice was heard somewhere behind her. Suddenly light from the moon came in allowing Shizuka to see his room for the first time. There was nothing special about it, a king sized bed, two night tables, a computer desk, and a chest for his clothes. There was a small hallway that lead to his bathroom which he went over and locked the door with a key that appeared to come out of no where. "There is no way in hell I'm going to risk having you break my mirrors." Still amazed with the big room she stood still not moving an inch. "Goodnight." He said as he passed her. She turned her head towards his direction.

"Wait." She said timidly. Kaiba stopped before he reached the door.

"Yes?"

"I'm not staying here." She turned her head away from him again.

"Are you still scared? I opened the curtain so that there's enough light in your room so that you can see everything." She could feel him behind her. When he moved, she didn't know. All she knew was that he was now behind her. Nervously she stepped forward squeezing her hands together.

"I don't know what kind of girl you think I am but I'm not some whore. I've been taught well enough not to sleep in another mans bed even if he's not in the bed with me." Her room was safer. In a way she felt safer here in Kaiba's room but that feeling was dangerous in her eyes thus making her own room safer. It felt like her own room. In this room she could smell Kaiba all around her. If she slept in his bed his smell would consume and engulf her. Now that she wasn't scared of the darkness, she was now scared of what he was doing to her without even doing anything. His presence came closer. Her heart raced, confusing her.

"I know you don't want to hear this but you will have to give up your inane principles soon enough. Pegasus will not accept this coy behavior." Spinning around she sneered at him.

"I refuse to even look at the man let alone sleep in the same bed as him." Her voice was loud and unrelenting.

"Then he will force himself on you." Her eyes went wide. Pegasus was capable of that. He was capable of anything.

"Look what I did tonight. What makes you think I won't do anything like it again? What makes you think I won't try it when I'm with Pegasus?" As she spoke her voice shook with anger and wretchedness. Taking a deep breath she tried to calm herself down then spoke in a haunting whisper. "He will come back to you and Mokuba every time he wants something he can't get. He'll get bored of me." Her eyes became more sparkly with the tears in her eyes. Before he took notice of it she turned around and walked to his bed. "I won't last."

Kaiba looked shaken by her speech and shook his head to get her voice out of his head.

"I expect you for breakfast tomorrow. You will spend the day in the study room while cameras are being placed in your room." He heard her laugh. A bitter laugh that made him look down at the ground and away from her back. Kaiba would never let her go. As far as Kaiba was concerned she was going to be taken away by Pegasus and no one will ever see or hear of her until they find her dead body.

"Sweet dreams." The bitterness in her voice matched her laugh. The door shut softly after him and she heard the door lock. Now she knew what door that key opened, it was the key for the door that joined their rooms together. The key she held in her hands was the same key Kaiba had in his hand when he locked the door. She sat on his floor and curled up in a ball. The past couple of days have been too much on her. Soon she fell asleep on Kaiba's floor.

That night Kaiba could not sleep. From now on he had to make sure she did not harm herself or anyone else. At all times she would have to be by his side. At all times he had to check his cameras when he was not with her. Pegasus was surely going to be watching. Some way he had to make Shizuka comprehend the situation. Pegasus was now looking for a Shizuka who accommodated with his needs. Not a scared and angry girl who would not hesitate to spit in his face. This was going to be difficult. Pegasus was just throwing all kinds of curveballs just to make everything harder. When would the games stop? When will Pegasus be satisfied?

He just laid in her bed bounded in her scent. Why didn't he notice before that she smelled like vanilla?


Uh oh.. What does mean? You know what it means… It is supposed to be romance! I still kind of eh.. about this chapter. I don't want Shizuka to seem like some kind of suicidal person. I just want to show how desperate she is that she would never allow Pegasus to touch her. I had the last chapter done already for a day or so but I had PLENTY of studying to do for my Psychology class and for my Education class. But hey! Now that all my tests are over with I can update a lot more until my next tests. I hope you guys liked it, review!