A/n: omigawd!XDit will be Nii-sama from now on. Thank you for pointing that out to me, (goes off to add it to spell check so the little red line won't drive me nuts.) please forgive my lateness, I had a buisy few days and wasn't able to write. I will hopefully have two more chapters up later todaythough, just to make up for it. please review!

Blood and Candlelight: Revelation

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Anzu opened her eyes slowly and found Mokuba to be next to her.

He smiled brightly.

"Do you feel better Anzu?"

She nodded but he watched as tears came to her eyes.

"What's wrong Anzu?"

He touched her hand gently and she pulled back.

"I just..."

He smiled.

"It's okay. I'm not a ghost or anything like that. Nii-sama asked if I'd watch over you for a little while. You were calling to me in your sleep just a few minutes ago."

He sat beside her and hugged her tightly for a moment.

"I missed you so much Mokuba."

He nodded.

"I missed you too Anzu. I'm only here for a day or two though, I have to go home soon."

A look of aw crossed her face.

"Mokuba...you're parents..."

He smiled even brighter.

"I'm with them now. I finally got to meet my mom!"

Anzu smiled softly and touched his hand.

"I'm glad you're happy."

As she began to sit up a little she noticed that she was holding something and Mokuba gave a glowing smile.

"Now before you look at it, yes it's real, it means what you think it does and no he doesn't want it back if you say no."

She blushed as she picked up the ring.

"It's so beautiful! But why didn't he ask me? Are you sure he wants to marry me?"

Mokuba nodded.

"It'll take him a few months to get settled, but he'll ask you properly later."

He smiled as bright as he could as she slipped the ring on her finger.

"That when he asks me...I will say yes."

''

Seto stood completely frozen for a moment as he looked into the face of his brother's murderer.

Suddenly the years of anger and sadness caught up with him and tears began to fall relentlessly from his sapphire eyes.

"You bastard!"

He screamed as his body began to shake.

He grabbed a hold of the motionless form and slammed him up against the wall by the throat.

"You sick monster! Why did you kill my brother!"

But the man didn't fight back like he had expected.

Instead, tears began to fall from his own ruby eyes and his voice trembled even more so than Seto's.

"I had to."

Seto punched him in the stomach.

"Liar! What would make you kill an innocent thirteen-year old boy while he slept! I want to know before I put you out of your misery...if you feel any guilt at all for what you did to me!"

The man sank to his knees, half from the sick feeling he had in his stomach from Seto's punch, and half from the relief of finally being able to tell him what had happened.

"I wanted out. The elder was more than happy to let me go but he had a condition...if I killed the brother of the most powerful man in Japan I'd be set free completely...I didn't know he wanted me to kill a child!"

Seto clenched his teeth and fists, he wanted to know everything before he let loose on him but holding his rage in was a very difficult feat right now.

"Why would he ask you to kill my brother specifically? I didn't even believe in vampires before you took him away from me!"

The man looked up.

"Don't you understand? Haven't you noticed yet?"

Seto's ability to control himself was waning considerably.

"Figured out what?"

The answer he received was not one he wanted to hear.

"It's a game of chess. There are exactly twenty high-ranking kings and queens. You are the last of them and his favorite. He has wanted you from the second you stepped onto the scene at the age of fifteen. He knows everything about you, and that your one weakness was your brother."

Seto's head suddenly began to reel with this information.

Frighteningly it all made sense to him.

For weeks now the elder had been talking about starting over.

Taking his best and leaving.

He had over two hundred in his clan, but only twenty of them were important at all.

His first wife was a queen.

Over the years she had accumulated twice as much as Seto and had contacts all over the world.

All of his high court was like that.

Only they were allowed to do as they chose and Seto a step a head of them.

"Why...would he want me?"

The other man began to speak quietly.

"You're ruthless. But the thing was he had to get your brother out of the way. He knew that without him you would be unstoppable. He's planning on killing everyone else and he's three steps away from being the most powerful man in the world. Step one...takes place at dawn."

Suddenly a smirk crossed his face as an idea came to him.

"Get up."

He stood slowly.

"Walk. You're coming back with me."

"why?"

Seto glanced at him for a moment as he opened the door.

"Because for some reason I believe you."

''

Seto opened the front door and walked in, seeing the familiar faces that hung around the stairs.

He saw them all differently now.

They were the faces of the soon to be dead.

While he wasn't sure he actually cared, he wouldn't willingly be a part of their destruction.

Some of them eyed him oddly as he didn't bother to walk up the stairs and flew instead.

He was in a hurry and flying was simply faster.

He opened the door to his room to find his new guest.

On the way back he'd learned his name was Andrew.

"What's the plan?"

Seto smirked as he removed his jacket and walked over to his desk.

"One wife...is always jealous and suspicious of the others. She's not powerful, he doesn't pay as much attention to her. Her room is also right next-door and easily broken into. She has a secret...find out what it is. Kill her if you have to but go now."

With a quick nod he was gone.

Seto sighed heavily and sat down.

'So this is what it's come down to? I gave my life up for no damn reason at all. I played right into him...but he's going to get his reward very soon.'

Someone knocked softly on his door.

"Enter."

To his surprise it was the very woman he'd just been speaking of.

"Master requests that you stay in your room for to days meeting."

Seto nodded but didn't allow her to leave.

"Will you stay with me? I'm a very lonely man you know."

She blushed slightly and closed the door.

"I'll get in trouble if I'm not there."

He stood and slowly walked up to her.

"I'm allowed to do whatever I want. I'm sure if I tell him I requested that you stay..."

He trailed off as he gently touched his lips to hers.

Deep inside his heart wrenched.

He knew he was cheating on Anzu, but it was something he had to do...if he was to play the game against the elder, he had to start with a queen.

'Please forgive me Anzu...I do this for you.'