Asuka: Hello! It's good to see that I've been getting some reviews lately. Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Sorry, I'm happy today. SO aaaaaaaaaaaanywaaaaaaaaaaays, here's the fourth chapter!

"Chapter 4: Step 3 and 4: Monsters."

Seto stopped immediately. Kyo...is a...she?

"Hey are you okay?" Kyo asked him as she gave him an innocent/worried look, bending over slightly, her hands behind her back just to make herself look even cuter. (Not that he thought she was cute or anything...)

"So wait, you're Kyo...as in the Kyo I've been talking to online for almost a year now?" Seto asked. His face was pale and his eyes screamed wonder; his head was spinning with questions and he was wanting answers to all of them.

Kyo blinked and just stared at him for several second, straightening herslef up as she did so; then she replied with a smile, "Oh, so you're Seto! Wow!"

If he wasn't so curious at the moment Seto would have smacked himself because of her stupidity and pretend that that had not just happened.

"Yes," he replied, "I am Seto, as in the Seto you, Kyo, have been talking to for almost a year now...but...why didn't you tell me you where a girl?" he asked her. It, surprisingly hadn't been one of the question that had been running through his head, although many others that included the female race ran through his head.

"You never asked," she simple said. "I had thought that you had known that I was girl," she continued, "My real name is Kyoko Azuma, but my friends just call me Kyo because I own a couple of cats, so I use that as my screen name."

Well that explains alot, Seto thought as he slumped down on a rock. So now here he was. Stuck in his own vurtual game with a girl whom he thought was a boy, but thing is, she was the most clueless thing he had ever met.

"Say," he heard Kyo suddenly say, "W-what happens now, Seto?" he saw her looking around. Seto glared at her.

"To you, I am Seto Kaiba, and you can adress me as Kaiba and nothing more!" was his first response to her question. She just turned her head and gave him an innocent look. She blinked before nodding her head, that silly smile of hers, surprisingly, not approaching her lips. Her borwn eyes kept themselves glues to him, waiting for an actual answer to her question. It was a while before he repsonded, "Right now...we wait. You have to wait until you get the monster that you start out with. We should have met them by now though," he explained.

She finally took her eyes off him and looked around. "Soo...where are they?"

Pause.

He didn't know how to answer that one, and honestly, he didn't expect to. He had told her what to do, so now alls that they had to do was wait. Why they hadn't met them yet was well beyond him, you where suppose to meet them right after you were vurtualized there, but since there was still a glitch with the game that he hadn't, apparently, been able to fix yet, he didn't know how long it would take for them to get their monsters.

Some time later...

Almost as if they had sences Seto's about-to-burst frustration, both monsters appeared at the same time before them. Well, almost at the same time. You see Kyo actually got hers first, although, and leave to her to think this, thought that the monsters was actually his to begin with.

"Oooo! Look Kaiba-san, you got a Water Pon," Kyo said excitingly. Then the small pink fuzz-ball hopped up to her. She just looked down a blinked at it. "Kaiba-san...I think your monster likes me..."

Once again, Seto was about ready to smack himself from her stupidity.

"It's your monster, Kyoko, not MINE," he said to her as the Water Pon hopped into her hands.

"Aww! Its CUUUTE!" she said as she snuggled it. Just then she stopped and gave him a innocent yet still somewhat clueless look, "What did you say?"

"Stop ignoring me!" he shouted. Through out the course of the time that they had been waiting, Kyo had been trying to start a conversation between the two of them, but one way or another, Seto always seemed to forget that this was Kyoko Azuma that he was talking too and would often, uncontiously mind you, use large words and even some that I'm not even sure I could define off the top of my head. And just as often she would simply tune him out and then look at him and say, "I'm sorry?" or "Ehh?" simblizing her stupidity even more.

Sometimes Seto even questioned how she had managed to get into high school, nonetheless pass 9th grade so far.

Seto took his chances and repeated what he had said before, and this time she actually paid him some attention. She just smiled at the comment and looked down at the Water Pon, it's cotton-cady-colored blue eyes looking up at her in a cute motion. "Do you hear that, Pon? You're all mine!"

"'Pon?'" Seto quoted her.

"Well I don't wanna go around calling Water Pon all the time, that would ware me out, so I'll just call it 'Pon'."

Anyways, right after that, Seto got his first monster. It wasn't anything fancy, or anything special, he started out with Petty Dragon. Amazingly, Kyo didn't seem to respond to him getting his monster. She just walked over to where it was on the ground and bent down, just staring at it. Seto was begining to wonder if she had ever seen a card like that one. (A/N: Seto thought for certian that Kyo only knew of cute and cat-like monsters since her name gave it away that she liked cats.)

Seto watched with not much surprise as she simply reached out and poked the small yellow Dragon on the side. The creature just looked up at her and gave her a blank stare. She did the same back and then her head went down, as if she was trying not to cry or as if she where trying to not surprece a bit of laughter from its bland reaction. (A/N: All though I'm not too sure whats so funny about a bland reaction from such a cute Dragon...)

Seto, getting very inpatient now, got up, his monster on his shoulder, and said, "C'mon, we're going now," then he started to walk off, not bothering to look back at Kyo and what she was doing.

"We're leaving?" she asked as she caught up with him, his pace had always been too quickining for her to keep up with without a bit of a struggle. She had her monster cuddled in her arms.

"Yes, we have to get to the first village and defeat the head duelist there and from that point on we have to build up our decks so we can beat the game," Seto explained as they walked deeper into the jungle. "Ahh yes, and also, we have to seperate there as well," he added.

Kyo stopped. "We...have to seperate?" she repeated.

Seto paused too, looking back at her as he said, "Yes, that way we can cover more ground and we can meet up again at the final destination and beat the game," he said simply. Kyo just looked down, a sad look in her eyes.

She didn't reply, just continued walking behind him. He hadn't precicly known what in all that he had done wrong, except tell her the plan that he had came up with. Sure he knew that he had been quite quick to jump to the chance to split up, but that had actually been the plan all along. He had thought, while Kyo was still a "boy", that that's what they would do, and then they would defeat the head person together. Since he knew the head duelists' weakness, then he could easily defeat him by himself, but he needed Kyo in order to distract him so he would be able to distroy the leader, since this kind of Duel Monsters game was different than the others.

Still he couldn't help but feel a tad bit bad from bringing this so sudden on Kyoko.

After all this had been the person that he had trusted enough to let into his own proto-type game, ans she was the person that he had been talking to for almost a year, and never once had any trouble with her. She respected his thoughts, opinions, and need of space at some points; as he did to all of hers. But now that Seto knew that all this time tht she had been a girl, ti was sort of difficult what to believe. It was like meeting her all over again. The awkward silence, the strang notion to speak or to see who will speak first. And why he felt this way was bothering him. But he was going to stick to the plan.

While he did want to see how good of a duelist she was, Seto also knew that since this game, even though it was a proto-type, would take a while to beat, even with him knowing every twist and turn in the whole gaming world. There was no way that he would change his mind other wise...

"AAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!" The sudden sreek of terror made Seto spin around in fear. When he did however, she saw no one there. Which ment Kyo was somewhere in trouble.

"HEEELP!" The cry was louder and Seto looked up to see her hanging high up in the tree beside him, a rope around her ankle and body flipped upside down. Her monster was still in her arms, and it was crying as well.

How in the world she had been the one that had been caught in that trap when he was the one that had been in front was well beyond him, but right now he needed to save her before the rope gave way and she ended up falling four stories.

He didn't hesitate to ask questions, just looked around for something to climb on and started for it.

"Seto, look out!" he heard Kyoko cry. Seeing her struggling to get herself free and shouting was the last thing he saw before he felt a sharp pain against the back of his head and everything went black.

Yeah I know, like all so far, not long, but hey, I got you guessing didn't I? And I think I did well with the whole mysteriously being ambushed at the end part. Hehe...

Well please review, and trust me the chapters will start to get longer now, cause now all of the first steps are completed and the game begins...