Chapter 7 : Another Connection Built.
Early in the morning, Asuka left for the Maximilion Pegasus building. This time she decided to break in. ' I'm tired of waiting. I need to end this quickly.' Asuka managed to sneak into Pegasus's office. " Piece of cake. It's even easier than the KC." The word KC reminded Asuka of the incident last night. She touched her lips with her fingers. "Last night was wrong…terribly wrong…," Asuka mumbled as she went into Pegasus's office and wait on his chair.
Like Seto, Pegasus was equally surprised to see Asuka in his office. " I need to know your answer," Asuka explained and got up from the chair. She walked to Pegasus, folded her hands and faced him. Pegasus smiled his charming smile. He brought his face closer to Asuka's. He whispered to her right ear. " For a beautiful lady like you, my answer is of course: yes…." Asuka nodded with satisfaction. " This how it will work. You'll let me use your super computer and I'll try to break the code. If I succeed, the result will be yours. I only need to break the code. Deal?." Pegasus nodded. He took Asuka's hand and kissed it. " Anything for a girl like you." Asuka made no remark of his action. She told him she'll start tomorrow and left without saying anything further.
Pegasus watched the CD last night. He knew that Asuka had gone to Kaiba before she came to him. " Did Kaiba rejected the project, that's why you came here," Pegasus asked Asuka who was standing at the door. Asuka turned around slowly and smirked. " Let's just say Mr. Kaiba refused to be involve in this project. I need the equipment and you have it. If we succeed, both of us will gain benefits although I don't know what kind of benefit yet.
Pegasus nodded, " I don't mind being a replacement but I'll make sure in the end, I'll get everything. Everything…." Asuka smiled and walked away. Pegasus grinned evilly, "That includes you, Miss Aoki Asuka…."
Seto paced around his office. He felt like something was missing. The problem was he doesn't know what was missing. Seto couldn't stand it any longer. Being in the office suffocates him. So he decided to take a ride around town. He got into his car and drove around the town, not knowing where to go. His car was approaching the Maximillion Pegasus building when he saw a familiar figure came out from the building. Seto slowed the car down. He couldn't believe his eyes. Asuka was walking out from the building. 'What is she doing here? She came here to see Pegasus? That's impossible. She came to Pegasus cause I refused to help her?.' Seto was desperate for answer. He stopped the car and ran towards Asuka. Asuka realized that Seto was running to her direction so she stopped and waited for him. ' I must face him. There's no use of trying to run away.' Seto approached the young woman. Asuka smiled. A fake one, Seto could tell.
" I want to know. You're here to see Pegasus," Seto asked Asuka. Asuka nodded, ' I already met him. We managed to come up with an agreement." Seto was shocked and hurt. " You showed him the CD?." " Yup, since you refused to co-operate I have to find someone else," Asuka said coldly. Seto looked her directly in the eye. Her eyes showed nothing but coldness and ignorance towards him. But Seto could trace the hurt in her eyes.
" If you have nothing more to say, I should be going. Lots of things to prepare for the process. Ja ne," Asuka waved and left Seto, speechless and hurt. Asuka dashed into a run. Saying those words hurts her as much as it hurt Seto. ' But I've decided, it's better to hurt than to be hurt.' Asuka was thrown aback when she hit something big. Lying on the ground, she grunted. Then only she looked up. Asuka was shocked. " You…" Standing in front of her was a man; the reason she was doing everything. The man who shot her in her dreams. " Kenji-niisan!."
Seto watched as Asuka ran away from him. He was about to leave when he saw Asuka bumped into a guy. Seto walked to see her condition but he dashed to her when he saw the man pull out a gun from his pocket.
Asuka's heart stopped when he saw the gun pointed at her. She got up slowly, raising her hand. " Kenji-niisan… What are you doing? It's me? Don't you remember me?." The man called Kenij was staring at Asuka emotionlessly. " Follow me quietly and no harm will be done to you…," Kenji said in a monotone. Asuka sighed. " Sorry, I can't do that!." With that, she kicked the gun from Kenji's hand. The gun was thrown a few metres away from them. Asuka ran to the gun, grabbed t before Kenji could and ran the opposite way. She could see Seto was running to her direction. Seto grabbed her hand and ran to his car. Asuka followed him cause she got no choice. The car sped away when they entered the car. " Seto Kaiba…," the man whispered to himself and left the place.
" Where to Mr. Kaiba," the driver asked. " Just drive anywhere Smith. Anywhere but here," Seto replied and looked at Asuka. She was staring outside the window. " Who was that," Seto asked. Asuka looked at him just for a while before staring back outside. " It's none of your business." Seto sighed. ' Man! She's tough! Her heart is like the combination of ice and rock at this time.' " Smith! Drop me at the next bus station will you," Asuka suddenly blurted. " Yes, miss!."
" Where are you going? I can give you a ride home." " Don't need one. Not going home anyway." Seto sighed. Suddenly, the car stopped. Asuka opened the door. Before she was out of the car, Seto grabbed her hand and asked, " Can we see each other again?." Asuka looked at him without saying anything for seconds. She loosen her arm and said, " Don't think so. Not hoping so." And closed the door. Then she walked away and board a bus. Seto tighten his fist. " God, I'll give anything to get her back…. I'll do anything to undo the bad things I've done to her….."