a/n: I actually updated? Even I'm surprised!Yamiko Yakou actually inspired me to update. I read her new fic and it's great and also reminded me that I had a dare to do! Yes, I know.. I neglet my stories a lot. Sorry?

Disclaimer: I do not own YuGiOh or Pegasus's crazy ass.

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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 8: Betrayal

Suddenly he pushed her away and walked briskly towards the bench to pick up something that Shizuka quite couldn't see due to the night.

"You shouldn't say you're going to promise when you really don't mean it." She softly spoke after being shoved against the bush behind her.

"What do you mean?" His voice deadpan and back still facing her. He didn't want her to see his complex ridden face. Why did he promise her something he knew he would never be able to uphold? His brother came first. In order for Mokuba to come back, he would have to sacrifice Shizuka. No one else. If there was a chance that she was no longer under Pegasus's watchful eye, some other unsuspecting poor girl would be victimized.

"I mean I'm not stupid. I know you're just saying that because you need to keep me here somehow. You want to give me false security. Even if that means that you'll lie to me and say that you'll protect me from Pegasus when we both know you're helpless against him."

"Do you believe in my false security?" A naïve looking young woman like her was the type to be highly underestimated. Even Kaiba himself was underestimating her. Although he didn't want to admit it, he knew Jounouchi taught his little sister some street smart. He had to remind himself that this girl was just like her brother, street smart.

"A part of me does. A part of me thinks I need to watch myself when I'm around you, I don't know why." Wasn't the answer obvious? He kidnapped her. That's why she should watch herself around him. Slowly he turned around to look at her figure which turned out to be no good because it was hidden in the darkness of the night. The only thing he could make out was the shine of her auburn hair reflected by the bright moon. When she stepped forward, he saw the sadness in her eyes, making it hard for him to continue to look into her eyes but continued in doing so for an unknown reason.

"What do you mean you don't know why? You're not stupid like your brother are you?" He numbly asked, hypnotized by her eyes. She stepped towards the moonlight, letting the darkness lose it's grasp on her. Taking a minute, she looked up at the night sky and slightly smiled then sighed and started to walk away from Kaiba.

"If you think the answer is obvious, then you have the wrong answer."

"Then you know why you have to watch your step around me?"

A tiny smile crept up on Shizuka's tired face. "I suppose I do." Before she disappeared into the maze of tall bushes , she stopped. "And my brother is not stupid." She bit out bitterly. Registration what she had said before, he missed the fact that she was leaving him alone once again.

"What did she mean by that?" He asked to no one when a glimpse of red hair disappeared behind a bush.


As Shizuka stepped into Kaiba's house once again, she noticed something different. More like she felt something was different. She couldn't point her finger at it, but something was definitely wrong. The dark hallway leading to her room was unsettling, which made her turn around ready to bolt out of the house and find Kaiba. He was surely to be in the garden when she left him. There would be no way that he reached the house before she did.

When she turned around hurriedly to run out of the house, she bumped into something.

"So forward aren't you, my jewel?" Though all she saw was a dark shirt, she knew who it was who was speaking to her. Immediately her stomach clenched and her breathing stopped. Why is he here? Why is he here now? Is it time for him to take her? Will this be her last night as Kaiba's prisoner?

His hands reached to her arm to pull her away from his chest. Too scared and confused to do anything, she let him pull her away a few inches away from his body. Looking up slowly, she saw him leering at her as if he was ready to eat her up in any second. "How are you? Feeling any better tonight?" Voice caught, and not being able to form any words from her now parched throat, she settled for struggling against his grip. "Now, now. Don't be so rude. I came all the way here from my own house to pick you up in the middle of the night so that we could finally be together and here you are being so disrespectful!" He tsked then roughly pushed her away against a wall.

With a loud thud her head and back hit the wall making her ricochet from the wall. After she hit the wall, she fell on the ground with groan of pain. Facing the ground, her hair was strewn on the floor hiding her face.

"Look what you made me do! I wish I could say I apologies but you did deserve it." His voice was menacing, like he finally lost it. Like if she did absolutely anything to make him mad, he would kill her without thinking twice.

Kneeling down beside her thrown body, he patted her hair. "It's my fault isn't it? I'm too rough on you. Is that why you're crying?" Lifting her head up to get his hands off of her hair, she glared at him. She didn't even care if it would make him mad.

"Go. To. Hell." She gritted through her teeth.

"Nice." He said with a deadpan voice then slapped her head down on the ground making her yell out. "Next time I come you better be nicer!" He spoke as if he was talking to a child. Something made him stop for a second and lifted his hand off of her head. "Come." He spoke in a demanding voice. Shizuka didn't know who he was speaking to. "You will follow my orders." Footsteps were heard beside her. "Now leave." Whoever he was speaking to hesitated on leaving the two alone. "NOW" His booming voice made Shizuka stiffen and the person run away. "Where is Kaiba-boy?" He lowly asked against her ear a couple of seconds later making a chill run down her spine.

More footsteps were heard along with a swooshing. These footsteps however were loud and heavy. Certainly a mans footsteps. "Damn. The party is ending now my sweet. Goodbye." He licked her ear once again making her cringe then like a breezing passing by, he was gone.

Almost scared that he didn't really leave, she reluctantly lifted herself up from the floor by her elbows and looked around the hallway to make sure he was indeed gone. The footsteps were still coming. Her hair was in front of her face as she lifted herself up from the floor completely. A few tears went down her face but her expression was determined. Truly proud of herself for now sobbing out loud, she dusted herself off as Kaiba approached her.

"What are you doing?" He caught her when she stood up.

"Nothing." There was no reason for Kaiba to know that Pegasus was here. It made no difference in her eyes. Though Kaiba hated Pegasus and Pegasus seemingly hated him as well… Then a thought crossed her mind. A big part of her said why not? If this gave her a chance to ruffle Pegasus's feathers like he's been constantly doing to her, then why not?

Slowly turning away from Kaiba, she walked towards her room. Leaving her bedroom open she stood facing where one of the camera's were. Like she guessed, Kaiba came in her room glaring at her. His eyes said not to mess with him right now. That he wasn't in the mood.

"Nothing?" His voice loud. "What the hell were you doing on the floor?"

Eyes shining with finished tears, she looked down on the floor. "I was thrown on the floor."

"Who threw you?" His voice now sounding slightly concerned.

"Who do you think?" Voice slightly shaky yet calm, she stepped forward towards him. "He came here. When you were gone, he was here. He wanted to take me away. Had I not been in the garden he would have taken me and you wouldn't have seen your brother ever again."

"Pegasus? He came here to take you without my brother?" Now his voice sounded disturbed by the news.

"Pegasus isn't someone you should trust. So why are you surprised?" Fresh tears ran down her cheek. "I knew it. I knew he wouldn't carry out what he said he was going to do." Kaiba stepped forward as well but passed her and sat on her bed with his hands going through his hair in frustration. Looking up at the camera, she slightly smirked. She had him now. She had the both of them now.

"Because I'm desperate to have my brother back." Leaving the camera's eyes on her face, she turned her back against the camera to walk up to Kaiba. Sitting down next to him on the bed, she sighed softly.

"I would do the same if it meant to save onii-chan. I'm not going to lie, in some strange way you are brave for doing this. This just shows how much you love your brother." Her were words useless Kaiba right now. All he could think about was the fact that he almost lost Shizuka to Pegasus. He risked her life to get back his brother. He risked someone's life for something he was never going to get.

"You realize I'm not going to let you go just yet. Tomorrow we'll exchange prisoners." Before he went to stand up, her small hands grasped his wrist making him look at her.

"I never said you were going to let me free." They both looked into each other eyes. Kaiba was trying to figure out what was going through her mind, as did she to him. "Does this mean that this is my last night here?" The question drew him out of his gaze on her.

"Let go of me." He lowly said as he attempted to push back her hand. When he succeeded, her hand lifted up to his cheek, startling him.

"You are scared just like me." The dazed sounding girl said. Saying nothing he looked in her eyes once again. Wanting to say that he wasn't scared, he found that he couldn't. Suddenly her hand left his cheek but then hugged him, her arms around his neck. "We can be scared together." Her whispers said against his ear.

"Shizuka…" He half heartedly growled out. Hands reach up to her arms, he pulled her far enough to look at her face. About to say something about not being scared, he once again couldn't. The information of Mokuba not being returned when Pegasus was about to take Shizuka away made him stop. She was the key. A key which was to be possessed by someone who no one would be able to trust. Mokuba was the key, but a dispensable key in Pegasus eyes. Shizuka was not dispensable to either Pegasus or Kaiba.

Without a reasonable thought, or any thought for that matter, he brought her face closer to his. His hands left her arms and reach up to either sides of her face, crushing her hair against her ears and pressed his lips against hers roughly. The squeak of surprise that came out from Shizuka was overclouded by Kaiba's moan when he turned to make Shizuka lie on the bed with him on top of her.

Almost immediately and out of reflex, Shizuka brought her own hands to his and tried to kiss him back. His possessive lips were claiming hers so hungrily that she failed to kiss him back. When she felt his tongue pushing against her now swollen and possibly bruised lips, she took a sharp intake of breath giving him the chance to enter her mouth. Back arching, she lifted her chin so that he could deeply kiss her.

Did she even want to kiss him back? Now that she was on her back, with his weight on top of hers and his scent claiming her like his lips, she decided that she did. In a way his frustration seemed to come out through his harsh and desperatekisses.

His lips started to slow down and now Shizuka had the chance to kiss him back, which she fully took the advantage of doing so, causing Kaiba to open his eyes and realize exactly what he was doing. Shizuka on the other hand kept her eyes closed and moaned when Kaiba stopped all together.

"This is what I meant by I need to watch myself around you." As she talked, her lips kept casually brushing against his. Eyes still closed, she felt him press his lips against hers once more. This time it was for a second if not two.

"I'm not like Pegasus." His breathing was rough from the lack of air in his lungs.

"I didn't mean it like that. I meant I didn't know what I'd do with you." Now she opened her eyes to see him intently looking at her.


"This is what I meant by I need to watch myself around you." The girl was playing games with him. From the moment she stepped into the room she smugly smiled at the camera as if saying, 'watch this.'. Now that he saw their little make-out session, he knew what she was smiling about.

"Not only will that bitch pay tomorrow, but so will him."


a/n: WHOOhoo! I'm actually freaking done with this chapter! You guys are proud, you can say it.. When the next one should be coming out.. I have no idea.. But stay tuned,.. I just might update sooner then you guys think!