I've found this one on my computer and I guess, I've wirtten this little thing-y about almost one year ago. Really not my best work, some mistakes may be in it and Kaiba, well, he's kind of off his original character. Then I've made Ishizu to a really really evil woman - probably because I simply don't like her very much with her Egypt bla-bla... However, it's kind of refreshing to all my usual work. It's a bit cheesy, if you know what I mean. So anyway, have fun and tell me if you liked it or not. I can always delete it... l o l

Sangha


Ready To Let Go


The long slender finger ran down the photograph. It was showing a girl, happily smiling with sun kissed skin and long dark hair. Her eyes were navy blue, almost like his, but darker. She had wonderful features, which brought out her face, her body and her personality. A heavy sigh filled the silence of the room while you could only hear the cracking of the wood in the fireplace.

The picture was from other days. She was happy, both of them were. They had fun fooling around and for the first time he realized how hard you could fall for someone. Months after the Battle City final he met her again. She wasn't even mad at him and they went out. More often and more often. Then they fell for each other. They had been in love for almost a year.

Then suddenly he got the news. She would go back to Egypt and because she didn't believe in a relationship over this huge distance she broke up with him. He tried to change her mind but too late. She said they wouldn't have made it very far anyway. His heart broke. Like a monster from the game. Like he had been in the middle of an arena, standing in the battlefield and she attacked him. He would break into thousand tiny pieces. The containment of his nightmares this would have been. He hadn't slept well ever since the day she went six hard weeks ago.

It was the same that night. His nightmare came back and he couldn't sleep. The first sunrays shone through the thick curtains and he stood up looking out. It was still rather dark but the sun was about to rise. He smiled to himself. He wished the two of them could watch this now. Just like they had watched the sun going down so often. Swiftly he turned and put on his coat, leaving his house.

Outside it was cold but he didn't mind the few stings of cold wind in his face. At least there wouldn't be anyone around at this time of the day he thought and walked down a path leading to a park, which was at the far end of Domino City. There it should be quiet and a good place to watch and just think. Doing nothing but sit and drown in self-pity he thought bitterly taking place on a bench.


The rather small grown girl walked across the wet green grass tightening the grip around herself. She was wearing a long teddy bear coat and thick boots. Her tiny nose was red from the cold breeze but she didn't care. Almost every morning she would stand up early and go for a walk watching the sun rise before heading back home and preparing breakfast. Her brother was a good eater.

She loved to watch sunrises, when the sky turned from navy to light blue and the color turned to pink and even velvet at the horizon. Then it would get brighter and brighter with yellowish sun. But only on sunny days and assuming that it would be a sunny day today she was heading through the park. Like on routine she needed to see the beauty of the world every day. It might be gone someday.

Then she saw a lone tall figure sitting on a bench. Walking a few steps towards him she recognized the young man and wondered what he was doing there. Closing the distance slowly she neared him.

"Hi." She said low. He hadn't noticed her coming till now.

"Huh?" He turned and looked her up and down suspiciously. "Hi." Then he turned back to the sunrise.

"Do you watch the sunrise?" She dared to ask.

He just nodded.

"Then you hopefully don't mind watching it together with me." Taking place next to him she stared ahead at the raising sun. "It's beautiful, isn't it?"

He didn't say a single word and minutes of silence passed by.

"Do you often come here and sit down next to strangers?" His calm voice sounded bored.

"You're not a stranger Kaiba. You're a friend."

Then he turned. Her sentence stung at his mind. A friend? Was he? He wasn't an enemy. But a friend? He had concentrated on Ishizu, his girlfriend, but no one else. For more than a year. Even his brother he had turned down a few times too much. He'd rather go spending time with anyone else but Seto. He had no friends. Never had and never will.

"What makes you watch the sunrise Kaiba?"

"Don't know." That was a lie. "I couldn't sleep."

"Yeah, me too." She replied with a slight smile. Indeed she hadn't slept good last night. She was at a point in her life to decide what to do with it. "I was thinking about my future. Soon I will have graduated school and then I don't know what I want. A college would be fine but with the few money we have, it isn't that easy. If I'd skip college and go straight to work I'd help my mother and my brother and maybe I could save some money to go to college later. But what should I do? What work would fit me? I don't think I would get paid much as I'm still so young."

"That's certainly a question I never got asked in my life." Seto truly answered.

"I know. I admit envying you a bit. You have everything and anything. You're smart and never afraid of anything."

"You think?" He turned looking at her with his usual piercing gaze.

"Not?" Her hazel ones stared up at him, young and innocent.

"There are a few things in life you can't buy with all the money in the world. Like family and friends. I know that by now. I've turned my little brother down because I'm not good in things like that. So much to me being smart. And I'm afraid he'd leave me all alone. Now you know." He said a bit bitterly but matter of fact calm.

"That's true. I'm glad I have friends and a little but caring family. And you too."

Seto looked at her unbelievingly.

"Yes, you have. Open your eyes. Your brother's soul is so wonderful and lovely; he'd never leave you. He'd do anything for you, just like you would do for him. Maybe he's mad at you at times but he loves you. I was separated from my big brother for years but we never stopped caring for each other and now I even live with him. And you've got friends like me and the other crazy ones." She smiled at him and there was something in that smile which lightened up his mood.

But it wasn't true. He had no friends. Never wanted some. But he had his brother. She was right at least in that point. He just had to make it up to him. Friends he hadn't. But he could do with some company.

Again minutes of silence between them passed. Then she turned to him.

"I gotta go now. Will you be here tomorrow?"

He nodded.

"Okay, see you then. Bye." She stood up and headed home. He watched her for a few seconds before he turned back to the sun, which was brightly shining by now. Then he headed home as well.

To be continued...