Guardian Angel

By: Jenna

Disclaimer: Standards apply. I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh! or anything related to the show. I only own Angelique and this fanfic. Nothing more.

Author's note: I'd like to thank my beloved Kris for all of his help and inspiration for this story! If it weren't for you, love, I am sure I would have never placed this story down into words!

All of the little 's throughout the chapters indicate a small author's note at the end of the chapter it is in.

Chapter 2

She sighed as she waited for him after school a week later. She felt a little odd waiting for him like this everyday. The stares of disgust she got from some of his teenie-bopper fans did make her feel rather uncomfortable…

"Ready?" He asked, joining her a moment later. She jumped a little, sighing in relief at the sight of the brown haired Kaiba.

She nodded a moment, walking instep with him towards the limo. It was then that she remembered the disc. Rummaging through her book bag a moment, she pulled it own. "Here…" She tossed him the case, which he caught skillfully between his fingers.

"What's this?" He asked, looking at the jeweled CD case in his hand, the burned CD inside flickering a rainbow of colors under the sun's afternoon light.

"I figured out the program for you…" She shrugged, climbing into the limo.

He raised a brow, following. "What do you mean?"

She grinned lightly. "Let's just say that I found the perfect reader and rewrote your encoding a little… You'd be able to compact it to something as small as a Frisbee."

Pulling his laptop from its bag, he booted it up, inserting the disc the moment that it was running. He studied the layout on the disc, nodding his head slowly. "Impressive… But, I'm not familiar with this reader…"

"You should be… You invented it. It's a more streamline version of the ones used on the duel stations." Angelique pointed out.

He blinked at her. "You took my information… And… reprogrammed it?" He snorted. "I don't know if I should be grateful or insulted…"

She glared at him lightly, but shook the comment off.

It was one of the things she had learned to do with Kaiba Seto over the last few days. "Well, there are still a great many bugs in the program… But, I am sure you can work them out…"

He shook his head, shutting down the laptop and placing it as well as the disc away merely moments before Mokuba joined them in the car.

"Nii-chan… I'm hungry…" Mokuba murmured, lifting his eyes from his math book. The small growling of his little stomach only served to prove his statement.

"Mokuba, you'll spoil your dinner…" Kaiba muttered, typing up some notes he had taken in class earlier that day.

"Demo…"

Angelique smiled, placing her pen down. "If your brother doesn't mind, Kaiba-san, I could make you something…"

"Honto ni?" Mokuba's violet eyes perked up, laughter in them. "Can she, Nii-chan? Onegai?"

"Just clean up your mess…" He waved the thought off as his younger brother lead the girl from the room. The moment that they were gone, he closed out of the notes and pulled up the information on the disc. This was something he wanted to look more into for himself…

Angelique smiled at the elaborate kitchen. "Sugoi ne…" She whispered, stepping further inside. True, the light reflecting off all the stainless steel about the room was blinding, but it was still magnificent.

"Seto-nii had a four star kitchen put in… But, he still prefers to order out…" Mokuba said more to himself than to anyone else. Hopping up onto one of the stools at the center island counter, he rested his head in his hands.

"Do you not have a cook?" Angelique asked, beginning to rummage through a few of the cabinets.

"He only fixes breakfast and caters Seto-nii's business parties…" The child stated, watching her intently. "Other times, he just works at his restaurant, Karasu, downtown…"

She looked at him surprise. "A four star chef works as a cook for your brother!"

Mokuba nodded. "It's like they say, money can get you everything…" She bit her lip, placing a few things down on the table, looking at the boy's quivering eyes.

'But it doesn't give you the happiness you want, does it?' She thought to herself, pulling a paring knife from the block, beginning to dice a tomato. Trying to change the subject, she asked, "So, Kaiba-san, are you into dueling?"

"Not nearly so as my brother… I'm more into video games, really…" He stated, watching her fast moving hands. He blinked as she tossed the tomatoes into a bowl, adding onions, fresh herbs, olive oil, and some cooking sake moments later. "What are you making, anyway?"

"It's something my mother taught me how to make before she took ill…" She stated, smiling at him as she mixed them a little before placing the mixture into a blender and flipping it on. "She called it Pasta la Mama…" Mokuba chuckled. "I never found out what it's really called…"

"What ever it is, that's starting to look good…" She laughed at him as he licked his lips.

"Want to stir the egg noodles for me, Kaiba-san?" Angelique handed him the spoon once he was standing on a small stepladder beside the stove. "Don't burn yourself…"

He smiled, promising not to as he stirred the noodles slowly, glancing at her beginning to fry some sort of meat beside him. "Nante?"

"Hamburger meat and chicken…" She stated, dicing the chicken as the beef began to fry, tossing the small pieces of white meat into a separate skillet.

"Wow… This is an elaborate dish…" He stated.

"I just hope your brother doesn't mind… I was going to just make some cookies… But, I figured that maybe you both could use a home cooked meal instead…" She stated, keeping an eye on the meat as she began the cookie dough.

"Cookies! What kind?" His eyes lit up.

She giggled once more. Oh, how she loved how carefree he could be. So sprite like… "Sugar cookies, my favorite."

"Honto ni? Those are Seto-nii's too!" He stated, flipping the meat for her as it started to sizzle. Angelique grinned innocently. She reached for the ginger, adding a tad in before mixing it all. If anything good were to come out of this other than getting away from home, it was all of the black mail she would have on the great Kaiba Seto.

He tried to ignore the smells that began to fill the house. But, it was the smell of sugar cookies baking that really got him. He growled back at his stomach before standing, closing his laptop lid as it shut down.

Venturing down the back stairwell, Kaiba listened to the giggles. Leaning against the doorframe, he watched the two as they placed the cooled cookies onto a plate. The kitchen seemed perfectly clean except for the small pile of dishes in the sink. He jumped at the sound of a timer going off.

"Oh, iie! The pasta!" Angelique gasped, running to get it. A moment later, she pulled a glass-baking pan from the oven, placing it the cooling rack in the center of the island counter.

"So, this is what all your noise was about…" He muttered. The two jumped, caught off guard. Mokuba, recovering a little faster, ran to his brother.

"Nii-chan, we made dinner!" He stated, pulling on his brother's hand, guiding him to the table. "And she made your favorite cookies! Did you know Karenza-san likes sugar cookies too?"

Kaiba smiled, nodding to Angelique. "Arigato."

She smiled, nodding back. "Goshinpainaku, Kaiba-kun." Glancing at her watch as it beeped the hour, she sighed. "I best be going home…"

"Awwww!" Mokuba pouted.

"Why not join us?" Kaiba asked, stepping towards her a little. She shook her head, looking away from his grasping eyes.

"I wish I could… But, I have to take care of some things…" Bowing, she turned from the room, racing to grab her books. Before Kaiba could so much as follow her, he heard the front door close. Narrowing his eyes, he growled. Something was wrong and he knew it.

Once again, another manga reference.

My mom used to make this all the time. And yes, that is what she calls it.

Sorry that this chapter is so short and fast paced. But, I was a little stumped

on what to do for a good ending.…