Once Upon a Dream

Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh no matter how much I would like to.

Authors note: Sorry for the short chapter, It just seemed to end right there so I promise the next one will be longer.

Story Description: AU Serenity and Joey have always told each other everything? Right? Everything, except for one secret that happened after they were separated. And what happens when this "secret" comes back into Serenity's life after all of these years? SetoXSerenity.

Chapter Three:

Celebration for Two

"I guess nobody wanted to come celebrate with us. Oh well." Serenity said with a hint of sarcasm.

After the auditions she had suggested they go out to celebrate. So here they were walking along the empty street in the freezing cold until they reached a restaurant. Neither had even thought of driving, they just started talking and before they knew it they were out of the halls and in the street before they realized their mistake.

Seto eyed Serenity as she silently shivered. "Here, you look cold," Serenity scowled at him. "No, really I'm fine." He smiled taking off his trench coat.

Seto stared into the distance. This felt strangely awkward. Them, meeting again, after all of these years, but yet, she had no idea who he was to her.

How did she not know? He wondered Seto isn't a very common name, so why can't she just put the pieces together and figure it out.

Serenity looked up from the barren street and looked at the towering person next to her. "Whacha thinking Seto?" She asked with a tilt of her head.

"Huh?" He blurted. He wasn't really used to people calling him Seto, except Mokuba of course. Most people just referred to him coldly as Kaiba. Oh I was just thinking how we used to be friends along time ago. No, I can't tell her not yet. Oh God, what should I say!

"Oh look! There's a restaurant." He exclaimed quickly.

Seto grabbed her hand and ran in quickly. They were seated by the fireplace which was most appreciated. The restaurant they had stumbled into was a small Italian bistro. The walls were painted a dark red and had many black and white pictures hanging on them. Little red candles were rested on the tables and a roaring fireplace was on the back wall behind Seto and Serenity.

Seto looked up from his menu sheepishly and saw Serenity's piercing gazed and scowl on him. "What?!"

"Nothing, you never answered my question is all. So…what were you thinking about?" She persisted endlessly.

I guess I can't avoid her so I'll have to satisfy her for now. "I was just thinking how much you reminded me of an old friend I had in elementary school. Seriously that's it!" He said seeing her uncertain frown.

"So how do I remind you of a schoolgirl?"

"No, not like that, she was really mature compared to most of the kids in her grade, she would forget to use her brain sometimes, but you two were a lot alike."

They got their orders and started eating, the food was delicious but Seto had something on his mind, something he couldn't shake. He spent all of dinner thinking of a way to ask her so that she wouldn't get suspicious.

"Umm, Serenity?" He piped up

"Hmm?" She said through her water

"I was wondering. Who were you talking about earlier, after the Romeo auditions, in the hallway?"

Serenity's stomach twisted. She might as well tell him, it might make her feel better, and after all, she had felt much better after telling Joey. "He used to be an old friend. He was almost like a brother to me after my parents split up. Then I moved away and we saw very little of each other after that even though we talked almost every other day."

"Didn't you bother looking him up. You know to ever see if he would want to see you again? I'm sure he would love to hear from you. I can help you find him if you would like." He was on the edge of his seat waiting for her answer.

"Um, thanks anyway but you couldn't get a hold of him. If I could have I would have." Her tears were welling up in her eyes.

Seto could see her eyes start to water up. He left a twenty on the table to pay for the meal and paged his driver to pick them up.

Serenity was biting her lip. She didn't want to cry here, not in the cold, not in front of Seto, but she didn't know how much longer she could hold it back. She saw a blurred limo pull up in front of them and Seto took her by the hand and escorted her into the vehicle.

An awkward silence filled the car until Seto spoke up. "I can see that this isn't a real comfortable subject for you and I sort of hate to ask, but. Why? Why couldn't we get a hold of him?"

"It's ok. Well, it's because he…died." Tears were rolling down her face now in a steady stream. "He was coming over to my house and he never showed up. It was all over the news, his car had blown up, and I never heard from him, so I assumed that he never made it."

Seto almost fell off his seat. That was why she never thought of him as being Seto Mizoka. She thought he had died in the car accident. "I, I am really sorry I made you bring this up." She lunged on him and before he knew it they were locked in a tight embrace and she was crying on his shoulder. He didn't have the heart to tell her the truth. What would he have said? He's not dead. Want to know why? Because I am him, yes I am your dead friend aren't you happy! Seto was not really in the mood for getting a slap to the face right now.

The window in front of them rolled down and the chauffeur asked "Mr. Kaiba are we going to leave? You're brother has been calling consecutively for the past twenty minutes. What should I tell him?"

"Tell him I'll be home soon. Start driving towards the mansion, we can take her home when she's ready." He ordered.

Serenity woke up by a fireplace; she was wrapped up in a warm blanket and wearing a warm robe and slippers. The chair she was resting in was really comfortable, but her only question was: where was she?

She opened her eyes a little more and gasped in fright. In front of her was a little boy who didn't look a year over 12 with long black hair and big grey eyes.

He blinked twice before saying meekly, "So, what's you're name?"

"My name? My name is Serenity. What's yours?"

"Mokuba, I'm Seto's brother," He paused before smiling broadly, "Are you Seto's girlfriend?"

Serenity was blushing furiously and started to giggle in her nervousness "Um, no."

Mokuba ran out of the room in a fit of laughter roaring, "Seto's got a girlfriend, Seto's got a girlfriend!" at the top of his lungs.

Seto appeared at the doorway in a calm matter, he was smiling. That was the first time Serenity had seen him smile and she was sort of surprised by the gesture.

"Mokuba can be pretty immature at most times, but he's actually quite a genius." Seto grinned closing the door.

"What are you smiling about?" Serenity asked

"Just how red your face is right now, it almost matches the chair you're sitting in." He chuckled

Serenity looked behind her in disgust at the bright red chair she was in. She maintained her complexion and stood up clutching the robe around her. "Sorry to be so abrupt, but where are my clothes?"

"My maids can get a little over eccentric when I have guests over, especially if I have girls my own age over. They should be out of the dryer by now. Sarah, can you bring Miss Wheeler's clothes up from the laundry?"

"Yes Mr. Kaiba." Serenity heard a faint voice from behind the door along with many more muffles.

"They also like to spy on me if I have a girl from my class over." He explained

The maid returned with her clothes and escorted Serenity to a spare bedroom to change out of the robe. She looked at the room in envy. It was like going into the past, everything looked antique and it had a strong Renaissance feel to it.

She returned to the Sitting room and started to say, "I'll call Joey…"

"No, I'll take you home; somehow I don't think that your brother will want to come here willingly." Seto interrupted

He led her into his massive garage and sat on his silver motorcycle waving her to sit behind him.

(flashback) Serenity watched him wave her to sit on the back of his new white bicycle. With the sun shining behind his head he looked like an angel with a halo; her guardian angel.

"Come on Reni! You won't get hurt, not with me on here with you. I promise." (end)

Serenity blinked, coming out of her trance she heard Seto saying…

"Come on Serenity! You won't get hurt with me driving. I promise." He said extending his right hand

She took his rough hand and hopped on the bike, clutching onto Seto's waist as they raced out of the garage.

They pulled into Serenity's drive way and she got off with the help of Seto. She gave him a tight hug after a soft "Thank you," and walked towards the door.

He grabbed her arm to stop her. He wanted to tell her so bad not to cry, that he was Seto Mizoka, how he got out of the accident alive, he wanted to tell her so bad. He watched her stop in front of him and look up.

"No, thank you." He bent down and silently kissed her on the lips, "for everything…" He jumped on his motorcycle and headed home, leaving Serenity with her eyes still closed and speechless.

When she realized what had happened she picked up her dropped belongings and headed inside to a worried Joey and a furious, stone-faced Tristan who had just seen the whole ordeal from the window.