Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh or Honda and Duke would so not be on the show and Seto Kaiba would be shirtless half the time.

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"Seto Kaiba?!?!?!"

Shizuka drew closer to the tree to examine him more closely. The branches had entangled him so that he couldn't move. She looked at his hands, to only notice that his fingers were longer than normal and with claw like nails. They looked completely in human. She took her eyes off his frightning hands and noticed his clothing. He wore a traditional blue kimono, which was really baggy on him. Shizuka remembered what he had worn in the Battle city tournament. It was this tight black turtleneck with black leather pants and a white sleeveless trench coat, plus a number of buckles and accessories.

"Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...." She thought to herself, "That outfit was a bit on the weird side, but he did look pretty hot". She blushed at the thought then instantly got it out of her mind when she looked at his head. His brown bangs neatly fell on his forehead and the rest of his hair was in a ponytail that went a bit past his shoulders. "That's odd, I thought his hair was shorter" Shizuka thought. But what really was odd was the fact that he had cat ears instead of human ears.
"ARE THOSE REAL?!?!?!" she thought and Shizuka extended one hand to touch them.
Yep, they were real all right. Her hand slid down to his face. His expression was not his. Shizuka remembered that the only facial expressions she saw were glares, smirks, and neutral. But he now had this peaceful look that she had never seen from him. It made her feel sorry for him.

"What happened to you" she whispered to him.
Suddenly a folly of arrows crashed right next to her. She held Seto for comfort and just because it made her feel safer.

"What are you doing here, young one?" a voice said behind her.

Shizuka turned around to see who had said something. Behind her was an old woman wearing a traditional priestess outfit with a bow in one hand, ready to fire another arrow. Shizuka also noticed a group of people behind the old priestess. They too had bows and arrows.

"Who are you and why are you firing arrows at me? I didn't anything wrong, well, that I know of." She said to the priestess as she let go of Seto. By the look of how the other people were formed around her, it was easy to think the old woman was in charge of things.

"How did you get here, mortals aren't supposed to be in this forest. Unless you have powerful magic, I suggest you leave" barked the old woman.

"What do you mean by do I have magic, what is this place and how did Seto get like this? Shizuka answered.

Then with out warning, the priestess fired another arrow right at Shizuka. But before it hit her, the arrow magically turned to dust.

Shizuka blinked at what had just happened. The priestess just smiled and said "So you do posses a certain magic. You are welcome to come and go as you please. By the way my name Priestess Akeda. So, tell me your name and how you know Seto. We can talk on the way to the village"

"Well.......... wait, you said that there was a village here!! In a small park, no way!!" Shizuka exclaimed.

Akeda laughed, "Yes, dear there is a village in here. This forest is magic remember."

"Oh, yeah, well my name is Shizuka Kaiwii, and I know Seto because my brother dueled in the Battle city tournament that Kaiba hosted. Plus they are in the same grade and he told me that he called him a lot of names, mainly "mutt". Shizuka explained to her on the way to the village.

When they got to the village, Shizuka saw it was just a bunch of wood huts, but she never saw anything like it in her life. She remembered that Japan had very few suburban areas and even fewer rural areas, so this was a pleasant change for her. There were children playing in the dirt roads and people working in fields nearby.
The priestess lead her into a hut that was further away from the rest of the houses. Shizuka guessed that this was her hut. Akeda told her to sit down and said "Now, you said you didn't know anything about magic but i can tell you contain a very powerful magic inside of you and that could help your little friend escape his punishment."

"What do you mean by punishment?" Shizuka asked, "What did he do? What happened to him?"

"Well, I'll tell you". She said.

Meanwhile in the forest a demon was leering around. It had sensed a powerful magic and wanted that power for itself. It crept around only to find to what he thought was a half cat demon.
"Well, a half-breed, you'll do for now" and then it pounced onto the half cat demon and..........

"SHIZUKA! Are you alright?" yelled Priestess Akeda.
It had all happened so fast. One moment Akeda was going to tell her what had happened to Seto and then the next she was laying on the floor of the Priestess' hut. All Shizuka could feel in that one moment was a sharp pain in her chest. She some how knew that something bad had happened but didn't know why.

"Shizuka, are you all right?" repeated the worried priestess.

"Yeah, I'm fine" Shizuka answered "but I'm not so sure about someone else"

Akeda's eyes narrowed. If this girl can feel if Seto's hurt or not, then that means she is the chosen one who must help him. But I need more information She thought, and then said to Shizuka "We must go to your little friend at once. If my hunches are correct, then your way more powerful than you think." Then she grabbed 2 bows and 2 pouches of arrows and gave a pair to Shizuka.

"Here, you will need these"

"But, I've never used these before. Why are you giving this to me?" replied Shizuka. But Akeda ignored her replies and just said, "Oh I believe you can use them quite well actually, but we must hurry".
And so the ran as fast as they could to where Seto was imprisoned and then Shizuka suddenly stopped in pure fear. Right there was a demon, just about to kill Seto.

"Oh, no you don't" yelled Akeda and she fired one of her arrows at the demon, stopping it in it's tracks. Then she looked at Shizuka and said, "Go free your friend. Go on"
Shizuka ran as fast as she could towards the tree only to hear a familiar voice say "It took you long enough". Shizuka looked up and saw a familiar face glare at her.

"Seto, your not hurt"

"Of course not, you think a pathetic thing could touch me. Now GET ME OUT OF HERE!!!"

"Ok" Suddenly she knew what to do and she placed her hands of two of the branches that entangled him and then before she could utter a spell, the demon had come up and slashed her across her waist. She could feel something besides blood spill out of her. Shizuka looked at the ground and saw a medallion, slightly covered in blood, in the shape of Blue Eyes White Dragon.

"What the..?!?!?!?" She exlaimed as demon got ready for another attack.

"It would be wise to free me now" said Seto.

"Ok, Seto, be freed" she yelled and like magic, the branches uncoiled and unleashed the angry teen out from his prison.

"Take this!!" Seto yelled as he sliced the demon into tiny parts with just one of his claw like hands.

He walked over to Shizuka and bent down next to her. One of her hands was over her bleeding side. But he did not look at her; instead he stared at the medallion. He knew it could make him from retuning to his demonic form and that he couldn't touch it but why was it in the form of HIS personal guardian and WHY had it come out of the mutt's sister's body? He looked up at Shizuka and bluntly said, "Give me that medallion".

"Why"

"Cause, I need that to return to normal"

Still Shizuka answered "No"

"Fine than, I'll just take it by force" Seto growled. Shizuka noticed that he had fangs and was scared out of her mind. She already saw what knew could do to a demon and knew what he could do to her. But before anything else happened, Akeda interfered by slinging what Shizuka noticed to be a prayer bead necklace, around Seto's neck.

"Now say a subduing spell".

Shizuka suddenly said the first word that came to her mind "BAD CAT!"

Suddenly a bright glow came from the beads and with a loud thud, Seto came crashing face first into the ground. Seto lifted his head and looked at Shizuka. She gave him one of his own glares. He sighed and said to himself "Maybe it's not a good idea to take the medallion away from her for now".
AS he got up, Shizuka noticed that he had a tail. She giggled at the sight of it.

"What's so funny"

"It's your.." she giggled even louder ".. I'm sorry, It's just the fact that you have a tail".

He sweat dropped. He should have known. He looked at her again and noticed that the wound wasn't getting better. "Shizuka, You really need to go back to the village so that Akeda can heal you. "

"Ummmmmmmmmmmm.......... about that. I can't move"

"Well, I guess you have to carry her all the way back to the village" Akeda said in a sly voice. She had already picked up Shizuka's bow and arrows, which she had dropped earlier when she was running to Seto. "As you can see my hands are full and I'm to old to carry something like her."
Seto gave her a look of disgust. He knew she was planing something but what. Well best do as she says. I do not want to fall flat and my face again.

So he put one of his arms under her knees and the other around her shoulders and ignoring the fact that she was blushing, he picked her up and carried her back to the village, with Akeda walking slightly behind them with at sly smile on her face.

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Hahahahahaha chapter 2, cliff hanger until my next update!!!