Hope you people enjoyed the last chapter, which took me a lot of time to write because it was 10 pages! Wow I can't believe I actually wrote that much, it was probably because I was so excited to write that particular chapter and also because the boost Secluded Sapphire gave me, which I really needed! Anyways I won't go blabbering on since I left you people with a big cliffhanger! But before that, a few replies to my reviewers

Secluded Sapphire - Calm down girl! I know how hyper you can get but no need to get hyper over my last chapter! Anyways, do you think I really wrote that scene perfectly and the way it should be? In my opinion, you could have done a better job if you were writing the scene but whatever glad you enjoyed the chapter! Thank you, thank you, thank you for helping me get started on this chapter!!

Josephinejekyl - Don't worry, all your questions will be answered in the upcoming chapters. I really have made this story my own haven't I? It may not be as well written as The Arrangement but hope you're still enjoying it!

Kumaragirl - Wow you're a New Zealander! That's cool! Anyways back to the story, you just have to stick with my story and see what happens next.

AaJuLie - OMG! You're into Bollywood stuff too, cool because I love Bollywood aswell! I haven't watched Chokerbali either but I've watched Kyun ho gaya na! Oh and I already watched Fida and you're right Shahid and Kareena look like brothers and sisters! Just wondering who are your favourite Bollywood actors and actresses? I'm sorry I really get high when it comes to Bollywood!

Chapter16: Broken Apart

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Kaiba and Serena stared wide-eyed and with their mouth's nearly touching the ground. Serena put her hand to her forehead and turned away, disgusted and sickened. Kaiba continued to watch his wife, his cobalt eyes ignited with a flame of rage which hadnt been visible for a while.

Sakura opened a hazel eye and shoved Darrin off of her slender frame and slowly strolled towards Kaiba.

"Seto--"

"Don't talk to me," Kaiba silenced her, raising a hand in front of her visage. "Sakura" His navy iris' reflected a pain of great magnitude. "How?" Kaiba brushed past her and left the room.

"Sakura!" Serena's voice thundered with fury. "You're my best friend, I took you into the refuge of my home and this is how you repay? And you," she pointed a tanned finger to the russet-eyed man. "You're no better than this...this whore!" she stared at her with envy. "Seto Kaiba opened up to you and this is what you do?" She looked away and marched out of the estate.

Sakura stared down at her hands, she hated herself; tears flowed down her pale cheeks, she grabbed her chest as a pain shot through her. She gazed over to Darrin who continued to smirk arrogantly, his eyes twinkled in pleasure.

"That was a nice time," he casually sauntered towards her, his face lining against her shaky face. "Hope we can do it again some time," his lips softly lay alongside her cheek. Fire burned through her, she raised her hand over his face and struck it against his. He stumbled back, touching the heat from the redness forming upon his cheek, he glanced up to her, Sakura's hand still lay in mid-motion, she breathed deeply and stared at him, a kind of grin appeared upon her face.

"Now I would love to that again," she pointed towards the door.

He moved past her, but before kissing the delicate skin of her neck, she shuddered with loath. Darrin strolled out of the large Mansion into the darkness of the night, leaving Sakura alone to ponder the occurrences of the night.

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She slowly tip toed through the empty halls of the Mansion, her feet tapped against the hardwood floors, darkness over-shadowed her making the feeling of loneliness even stronger than it already was. A dim light reflect from underneath of the door at the end of the corridor; she hesitated for a moment, her hand lingered towards the bronze doorknob, Sakura shuddered at Kaiba's deep, solid voice shouting at her. Tears resurfaced once more, she wiped away her tears and entered the gloomy obscurity.

He sat alone, away in the far corner of the room, facing a large window; his shadow loomed throughout the room from the small light that the petite lamp produced.

Sakura paced towards her husband, his fury over-whelmed the atmosphere of the large study room. She stood over his chair and stared persistently at his dark chestnut brown hair; cautiously yet gently she lay her hand over his shoulder and grasped it tightly; his hand drifted over hers, for a small moment it held hers affectionately before pushing it away with rage.

"Sakura...how?" His voice was bathed in a passionate anger. "I thought...I thought" He drifted away, his eyes looked into the dark, rainy night sky.

"You thought what?" Sakura's voice shook slightly, as she looked at her hand.

"It doesn't matter anymore!" Kaiba thundered, staring his icy blue orbs into her hurt hazel ones.

"Hey peoples," Mokuba cheerily entered the dark room. He looked around for a while before feeling the seriousness of the mood. "What happened?" He asked tentatively.

"Mokuba please go to your room, it's late," Kaiba instructed sternly.

Mokuba nodded prudently, he looked at Sakura lovingly as he left the room.

"Seto"

"Sshh," Kaiba hushed. "Sakura, there's a guest bedroom beside Mokuba, you shall be residing there for tonight." He looked away and ran his fingers through his hair.

Sakura bowed her head respectfully and turned away, tears welling in her hazel eyes.

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Sakura intently watched the files beneath her pale, slender hands; these documents had been completed hours ago and instructions specifically read that they were to be delivered to Mr. Kaiba's office immediately. But in order to get to there she would have to face him, and after the incident of last night, she didn't have enough courage to confront anyone, especially Darrin.

She waveringly stepped out of her office and looked down both ways before leaving. Sakura brushed her hair back as her heels clicked against the empty hallway; her legs froze before the russet door, she stared at the gold plating, which reflected his name with honor.

'Which I took away.'

"Excuse me," someone from behind abrasively requested.

Sakura turned around and stared into Serena's iced, gray eyes. "Some people have work to do." She brushed past her, pushing her slightly as she entered his office.

She stood, motionless, rubbing the top of her arm. A few minutes later, Serena came out of the facility firmly, not even giving her ex-best friend another look.

After a relaxing, deep breath Sakura entered Kaiba's office. He sat a part from everything, gazing into the radiant blue sky. The sun's ray filled the large room, but for an odd reason the particular place Kaiba stood, seemed darker and much more secluded than the rest of the space.

"Seto?" Sakura called gently.

Kaiba looked away and looked directly into her eyes, his face appeared as if no sleep had came to him, he seemed dazed and unfit to be running a company in the state.

"Here," she slowly walked towards his and lay the files upon his large bureau; Sakura began to walk away till she noticed Kaiba staring at her fixedly.

"Um...?" Sakura moved her eyes away from his sapphire eyes and gazed around the room.

"Sakura" he began wearily. "I've given this a lot of thought and I think a divorce is in order."

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From: Unknown

Sent: January 17th, 2004 2:34:49AM

To: Rezeiro Kinoshi

Subject: Plan

Message: Finally my plan is complete and if my calculations are correct, Kaiba probably will divorce Sakura. Then after the divorce you will get what you wanted and I shall get what I wanted. I shall be waiting for your reply soon.

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A chill winter breeze blew past Sakura, causing her hair to fly in her face. She removed her hair away from her face as she sat there alone on a bench in the tranquility of Domino Park. The sky was covered in a sheet of black, sprinkled with stars as the moon was peeking out into the deep night sky. The bare trees in the park loomed over Sakura casting shadows all around her. The sereneness created an uncomfortable atmosphere as thoughts tormented Sakura's head. She kept on hearing Kaiba's voice and what he had said to her earlier that day.

"Sakura" he began wearily. "I've given this a lot of thought and I think a divorce is in order."

Crystal tears filled her deep hazel eyes. She knew it, her life was all over for her already and she had only started living a new life for about five months. She only had two choices, go back to the life she lived with her brother or end her life here and now. 'Why can't I fight back? Why can't I try to tell Seto the whole truth? Well if I did he would never believe or trust me again. But I can't just give up, I just have to find a way to tell him the truth of what happened between Darrin and me.' I just can't give up now because I...love him'

All of a sudden her head started to spin as she clutched the two sides of her forehead with her hands. Then the spinning came to a stop as Sakura removed her hands away from her forehead. She breathed in deeply and let it out, she didn't know what was wrong with her, it was the third time this day. 'Its probably all the stress I'm handling right now' she thought as she wiped the tears that were formed in her eyes. 'Maybe I should head home now, it maybe the last time I reside there,' she said as she stood up from the bench but then her cell phone started to ring. She quickly reached it out of her purse and clicked it on.

"Hello," Sakura answered in an unstable voice.

"Hey Sakura its me Tea," Tea chirped from the other end of the line.

"Oh hey Tea, listen I'm not feeling well right now so I'll talk to you later," Sakura quickly replied.

"Are you okay?" Tea asked worriedly by the sound of her insecure voice.

"I'll be okay don't worry," Sakura said.

"What happened? Tell me," Tea insisted.

"It's a long story," Sakura responded back.

"I'm not going any where, what happened?" Tea asked again.

"Fine I'll tell you" Sakura said as she took a deep breath.

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"So that's what happened," Sakura replied after explaining everything to Tea on the phone about how Darrin started to make moves on her day by day and how Kaiba and Serena jumped to conclusions when they saw Darrin 'kissing' her yesterday.

"I'm so sorry Sakura we'll try to help as much as we can and make Serena and Kaiba see the whole truth somehow," Tea said comfortingly, "Don't worry, you won't get a divorce from Kaiba that easily."

"But what am I suppose to do? Like telling the truth would really help now," Sakura replied as she walked towards her silver Lexus.

"We'll think of something, I assure you Sakura, desperate times are when you need friends most," Tea replied, "First things first, we have to first explain the truth to Serena and try to make her see your point of view."

"Thanks for everything Tea, I'll call you whenever I need help," Sakura said replied with a small smile as she got into her car.

"Anytime Sakura, talk to you later," Tea responded as she hung up the phone.

"Bye," Sakura said as she clicked her cell phone off and drove off into the beautiful night sky.

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Sakura walked up the steps to the mansion and quickly entered inside. Everything was so silent, not a sound could be heard. Sakura's footsteps echoed as she swiftly walked up the stairs. She silently walked down the hall when she noticed the door to Mokuba's room was cracked open.

"Mokuba?" Sakura said as she gently pushed the door and peeked in.

"Right here Sakura," Mokuba answered, his eyes not moving off his television screen.

"Why'd you come late?" he asked finally looking towards her direction.

"I just took a bit of a stroll in the park," Sakura replied as she entered his room.

"Is your brother home?" Sakura asked.

"Yea, he's probably in his room," Mokuba responded.

"Okay, I guess I'll head down to my room," Sakura said as she was about to leave.

"Sakura, you and Seto aren't divorcing each other, are you?" Mokuba asked as his grayish-violet eyes looked up into her hazel ones.

"Why do you ask?" Sakura questioned.

"I finally got Seto to tell me what happened last night," Mokuba replied.

"And" Sakura said questioning him further.

"And I didn't...believe him," Mokuba responded.

"Why?" Sakura asked shocked at the teen's reply.

"Well I never would believe that you could ever do such a thing," Mokuba answered.

"Really?" asked Sakura.

"Yea, but what really happened Sakura?" Mokuba asked with a curious look in his eyes.

"First of all, I wasn't having an affair with Darrin, he's the one who started making moves on me, second he was cheating on Serena to get close to me, third he forced me into that kiss last night," Sakura finished.

"I knew something was wrong with that guy when I first saw him with Serena," Mokuba stated, "So did you try telling Seto the truth?" he asked.

"No why should I, he'll never believe me," Sakura said.

"But he just has to believe you, you're his wife," Mokuba said.

"I don't know how to explain the truth to him, he'd barely talk to me or listen to what I have to say," Sakura replied.

"I'm sure he will because" Mokuba said but stopped mid-way.

"Because what?" Sakura asked.

"Because he loves you," Mokuba answered.

"He...he...loves me?" Sakura said stunned.

"I'm sure at some point he did start to," Mokuba said, "I could tell by looking at his face."

"Look Sakura, whatever you do please don't give up, you're the one who brought my brother to life after you married him, you're the one who made him smile and helped him understand to live your life in joy," Mokuba insisted, "you can't leave him that easily," he pleaded.

"Mokuba I don't want to leave him but your brother is the one who" Sakura began.

"Please Sakura at least give it a try," Mokuba insisted. Sakura looked into his now tear-filled eyes compassionately.

"Okay...I'll go talk to him," Sakura finally replied with a small smile.

"Thank you Sakura," Mokuba said as he wrapped his arms around Sakura and gave her a hug. Sakura smiled down at the teen as she ruffled his raven black hair,'I hope this works out.'

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Sakura walked down the dark corridor towards Kaiba's room, when she stopped mid-way as she heard coughing sounds in a near by room. In curiosity, she decided to go back to the door she passed by behind. She slowly grasped the brass doorknob and gently pushed the door open. 'I never seen this room before' Sakura thought as she slowly entered inside, the lights were dimmed and the room had an unusual scent of alcohol. Along the walls were shelves of shelves of different bottles of drinks like wine, beer and other hard drinks.

'Probably some bar or something' Sakura thought as she stepped forward but heard a cracking sound under her heels. She looked down to see what she had stepped on and all she saw were small and big shattered pieces of glass. Her gaze slowly moved upwards and saw Kaiba laid out on a black leather chair, surrounding him were four to five empty and some shattered bottles of vodka. Tears started to form in her eyes as she kept watching this sight of Kaiba, which she'd never seen before.

His eyes were closed with his chestnut brown hair a bit messed in front of his forehead. His tie was loosed from the collar of his shirt and a few buttons were undone at the top. He was grasping a half-emptied glass bottle of hard vodka in his hand as well. 'Its all because of me, if didn't stall to inform him about Darrin this wouldn't have happened' Sakura thought as she cautiously walked over the broken pieces of glass to Kaiba.

She slowly and hesitantly extended her hand towards him and gently rested it upon his shoulder. His eyes jolted open as they wandered around the room to suddenly come upon Sakura.

"D-Don't to-touch-m-me!" Kaiba shouted in a drunken state.

"Seto...you...you..." Sakura tried to say but was unable to finish as she moved away.

"S-So wh-wha-what-if-I-g-got-dru-drunk?" He yelled as he managed to get up from his chair, "Its n-none of yo-your business!"

"Seto I" Sakura began but was interrupted.

"W-why do you ca-care?" Kaiba continued to thunder, "You don't ca-care a-about m-me, all you ca-care about is t-that bastard Darrin!"

"Seto please listen to me, I wasn't having an affair with Darrin he's the one-" Sakura tried to say again but was interrupted again.

"You know w-what Sakura? I re-really d-don't c-care anymore a-about wha-what you have to say," Kaiba boomed once again, "You br-broke my l-life into pieces just like these shattered pieces of glass on the floor."

"But Seto I didn't mean" Sakura began but was once again cut off by Kaiba.

"Sshh!" Kaiba hushed, "I don't want to here anymore lies from you," He said as he walked right up against her, "Why Sakura? Why did you c-come into m-my life and ruin everything! You b-broke everything a-apart in our l-life you even b-broke m-my l-love and t-trust t-to you."

"Seto...I don't love Darrin, I love...you," Sakura said as tears fell freely from her hazel eyes.

"Don't p-poison m-me w-with your l-lies!" Kaiba bellowed as he smashed the glass bottle in his hand against a table.

"Please...believe me," Sakura pleaded.

"Why sh-should I?" Kaiba asked as he looked back over his shoulder.

"Because...you...you...love me," Sakura finally stuttered out.

"J-just g-get out of here! L-leave m-me alone!" Kaiba finally shouted out. As his fist came crashing down on the table.

"Fine," Sakura said softly as she wiped her tears away and was about to leave the room.

"Wait!" Kaiba yelled as Sakura halted for a few moments. He slowly yet unstably walked up behind Sakura. He then lifted his hand and tightly grasped her left shoulder. His head slowly bent down towards the part of her shoulder, which was uncovered by her tank top and gently brushed his lips on her soft delicate skin. Sakura shuddered as she quickly spun around and came face-to-face with his deep cobalt eyes as he stared down at her hazel ones.

"W-what is it?" Sakura asked as she took a step back, a bit shaken by his glare upon her. He ignored her question and took one step forward towards her. In every step she moved back, his every step moved more towards her. Her back suddenly hit against the wall behind her as she took her very last step back. A sudden desire awoke inside Kaiba as his body lined up against hers.

"Seto-" Sakura started but was unable to finish as Kaiba seized her lips within his own and kissed her desirably. Sakura tried to force Kaiba away from her but soon became mesmerized into the kiss. But as soon as she realized what she was doing, she found her strength again and pushed Kaiba off as he slowly stumbled back. Tears ran down Sakura's cheek as she ran out of the room, leaving Kaiba alone in the dimmed atmosphere.

'I want to believe you Sakura, but what I've seen through my own eyes, I just can't'