AUTHOR'S NOTE:

Gomen gomen!!! I don't know how to do those little line break thingies… If someone could please tell me how to do those??? I really need to add them to my chapters… I switch ideas and people and it gets confusing without my little breaks!

Oh, and thank you for the nice reviews!!! I will offer feedback on them now…

RobinIV: Thanks! I think some of the future chapters will be a little slower… As I write I pick "good" places to stop (that means I stop when I remember the homework I haven't done… ). Thanks for the comment about characterizations too! I would hope that after watching practically the entire American series I would know something… Kaiba's characterization will change a lot, though… he can be such a jerk in the show. A hot jerk, but nonetheless a jerk that I don't want him to be.

Mistress-of-eternal-Darkness: I love compliments. You're right, everything will come together eventually. Keep waiting! I've got it all planned out… I'm trying to keep things MYSTERIOUS for my readers!!! giggles

Ayame akakaru Kaiba: Thank you! That was really what I was trying to get at… A balance between uncertainty and certainty and a whole number of other things, so thanks for picking up on that! I think it might have been too subtle… Sorry, now that school's starting up again the chapters will be staying pretty short… I'll TRY to update once a day… (let's see how long THAT works…)

Okay, enough yabbering from me. Time to start the story…

Chapter Eight: Lost

Seto Kaiba was not all business, as I had thought. The wedding was planned for nearly a year in advance. There were many other things to attend to; Duel Monsters tournaments and business engagements, namely, on his part. I paid little attention to either. I would monitor Duel Monsters tournaments when I better understood what I was looking for.

But in the time in between Kaiba made some effort to discover the girl he was going to marry.

We went out to lunch often, sometimes dinner, sometimes a show or play or other evening event. I was introduced to his colleagues and their wives and friends. I was well regarded within their circle.

I spent less and less time with Yugi and his friends. I did not tell them about my engagement to Kaiba. I couldn't. They had made their opinions known early. I feared losing their respect for agreeing to such a marriage. It didn't matter that I had no say in the matter.

I missed them. There was a warmth I had not known between them, a comfortable place where I could cease to search for my Destiny and only wait for it to come.

My Channeling had not fallen by the wayside, however. I still needed to know all I could from the Pharaoh, so I continued to Channel with him. We crossed paths quite frequently now. Reflecting back on it, he must have sought me out, because the laws of probability favored us never meeting within the complex walls of his mind.

We talked often, long conversations that really seemed to have nothing to do with me finding my Destiny. I began to enjoy my time with the Pharaoh immensely and looked forward to my nightly Channeling sessions.