Behind These Hazel Eyes
Summary: A young and naïve Serenity thinks she has a crush on Yugi/Yami and doesn't seem to notice the glares from Tea or the longing stares from a certain blue-eyed CEO…
A/N: This will eventually become a Serenity and Seto fic but I'm just mucking around a bit. OH yeah, and thank you to all those who reviewed. I love you all! By the way, did I tell you I'm evil?
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Twirling around in her new uniform, Serenity had to blush when both Tea and Mai started wooing and clapping excitedly.
"Oh!" Tea gasped. "You're so gorgeous Serenity! You can be our new girlfriend!"
Serenity blushed even more thinking, 'Girlfriend! They must want me to date them…but eww…girls don't date girls…' (A/N: I actually don't have a problem with lesbians, people can do whatever they want cause, eh, I don't rule the world…don't flame me for this I just thought it'd be funny because Serenity's young and naïve)
"Oh!" Mai gasped as well, "Oh Serenity! Marry me!" Mai embraced Serenity in a rib-breaking hug.
"Eeeks!" choked Serenity, blushing furiously.
"Oh, she's so adorable!" Tea mumbled in awe, clasping her hands together with Serenity while she was at the side of both Mai and Serenity. "Marry me too!"
"Eeeeks!" Serenity managed to choke once again.
There was a knock on the door and all three girls looked over at the door which suddenly swung open and Ishizu stepped in. She was wearing the same senior pink uniform as Tea and Mai.
"Wow, Ishizu! You're still in school?" questioned Serenity, thinking that Ishizu had to repeat a few years.
Ishizu blushed. "Hmm! Ayah, Serenity! I'm not that old!" Ishizu shouted feeling insulted.
Serenity flushed. "Oh…sorry…" she mumbled.
"So if you three are finished proposing, we have to go before we're late." Ishizu said.
"Oh yeah! We have to go to Yugi and walk with him to school!" Tea said in sudden memory.
Serenity blushed. "We're all going?" she asked.
"Of course, we're not leaving anyone behind." replied Mai.
"Let's go! Hurry up already!" snapped Tea.
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The four teenagers finally made it to the Game Shop and Grandpa Motou was outside sweeping as usual and Yugi was waiting with him patiently.
"Sorry…we're…so late…Yugi…" puffed Tea, stopping in front of Yugi and bowing her head while leaning on her knees to catch her breath.
"It's OK." muttered Yugi. "We can still make it to school on time everyone, let's go. Oh!" Yugi paused and looked around. "Where's Joey? I thought he would come with you girls."
"H-he dr-dropped me off-f and Mai-i and T-Tea told him to g-go off because we we-were going to be there for a-a whi-while." stammered Serenity, blushing.
"Hey Seren…did you get sunburnt?" Yugi asked confusedly, looking more closely at Serenity.
Serenity blushed even harder, one) because he called her 'Seren' (which only Joey calls her), two) because he thought she was sunburnt and three) his face was so close to hers their noses would be touching if he leant closer.
Tea frowned at this and Mai was laughing so hard she mentioned she couldn't breathe and Ishizu was just standing there, bored, annoyed and continuously looking at her watch and then sighing in impatience and frustration.
"OK, are you going to kiss now? Because if you are I'd much prefer that you do that after school, I have a class to go to you know." Ishizu snapped.
Yugi and Serenity blushed and Yugi backed away muttering some apologies. Tea looked like she was about to explode with anger from what Ishizu said. Mai just kept laughing, mentioning once again she couldn't breathe and Ishizu was telling Tea that she shouldn't attempt to hide her feelings even though that it's so obvious and yet Yugi couldn't see it.
"Shhh!" Tea kept hissing to Ishizu every time she opened her mouth to say something more about Yugi and her.
"Honestly—!"
"Shhhh!"
"So...um…how are you enjoying Domino?" Yugi asked quietly so that only Serenity could hear. Yet not quiet enough for Mai's ears who continued on walking and looking straight ahead, stolidly pretending not to listen.
"Well…I-I…well…I like it h-here." answered Serenity, not knowing what else to say.
Yugi simply smiled at her and looked straight ahead. "You know…" he began, continuing to talk to Serenity. "…you might be in the same class as us you know…if your grades are good you might just move up…your only a year younger aren't you?"
"Yeah! That would be so great if it did happen!" cried Serenity, glad that she was no longer stuttering.
"Mm-hmm, it would be." Yugi agreed, chuckling slightly.
"ISHIZU QUIT SAYING THAT!" yelled Tea causing everyone except Ishizu and Yugi (because he had no idea what they were saying) to laugh.
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To Serenity's great joy that day at school she had been moved up a grade from intermediate to advanced in all her classes (her P.E. teacher ended up moving her up even though she was uncoordinated).
"Serenity, can I ask you to be on day duty tomorrow? It's just that Yamazaki is going to be away tomorrow and so I need someone to take her place. Will you be able to do that?"
"Yes Ms. Mizuki." replied Serenity.
"Good. You're on day duty with Seto Kaiba."
Serenity's heart fell right to her toes. Seto Kaiba! Who on earth would allow him to do day duty with her? Gulping, Serenity lied nicely to the teacher that she was perfectly fine when asked why she was trembling.
'I'm only trembling because I'm scared of Kaiba…nothing else…there's no other explanation…I mean I hate the guy…right…?' Serenity thought as she continued to tremble on her way home. 'But…his touch…' she shivered as she remembered how Kaiba had held her. How gentle he was when he pushed her away. 'He must just think I'm fragile.' she lied to herself, shaking her head.
She sighed. She suddenly didn't feel too good. In fact she felt like she was going to faint. Luckily she got home just in time to collapse on her bed. Just as she was about to close her eyes and fall asleep the door of her room was suddenly banged open.
"HEELLLLOOOO SERENITY!" cried Tea jumping on top of Serenity.
"EEEEEKKKKKKKSSSSS!" screeched Serenity as she was squashed.
"Hey Serenity, just came to see if you were up to cooking some sweets." said Mai, acting as if Serenity hadn't just had the air knocked out of her.
"Sweets?" Serenity repeated blankly, eyes swirling dizzily.
"Yup. Don't you know tomorrow's Valentine's Day? We've got to make some sweets for people! Come on!" cried Mai, taking Serenity's arm and dragging her out of bed.
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"Erm…is this good?" asked Serenity, looking worriedly at her chocolate mixture. She never was a good cook and now here she was making chocolate Valentine sweets.
Miho, who just recently came back to town, took a quick look at Serenity's mixture being the only cook in the room. "Mm-hmm. It's really good for your first try. Now what candy moulds are you using?" she asked.
"Er…this." said Serenity showing Miho the star-shaped mould.
"So…are you going to make one for somebody special…?" Miho asked slyly.
"Eh? Something for somebody special?" Serenity repeated totally oblivious.
"Yeah, like how I'm making one for Yugi." Tea put in, flushing slightly.
"And how I'm making one for Tristan!" Miho announced clearly. "And don't even think about making him one Serenity!"
Serenity sweat-dropped. "Than who should I make one for?" she asked.
"How about…Seto Kaiba?" suggested Miho. "He must be a lonely guy on Valentine's Day and besides you do like him right?"
"WHAA-? OF COURSE I DON'T!" Serenity yelled indignantly, her face bright red.
"Just make him one hon. I'd like to see his reaction." Mai said, winking at Serenity. "And besides, you're Joey's sister so you must be extremely more courageous than all of us gals put together."
Having heard Joey's name mentioned and courageousness in the same sentence boosted Serenity's courage to the max. "OF COURSE I'LL DO IT!" she cried out madly, fists clenched and jaw set as if she were ready to fight and the heat of the fire burning around her made everyone except Ishizu jump back.
'I'm glad she's gone over her head…' thought Mai, grinning to herself.
"So that means we need five heart-shaped candy moulds." said Miho.
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To Kaiba
From Serenity
"I CAN'T BELIEVE I LET YOU GUYS CONVINCE ME INTO MAKING THIS!" cried Serenity, face flushed as Miho, Mai, Tea and Ishizu clapped wildly as if she were courageous enough to fight a dragon rather than give a sweet to Kaiba.
"Oh believe it Serenity. I can't wait to see what he says." Ishizu said sounding so unlike herself.
"Hey, who're you making yours for?" Serenity asked innocently.
Ishizu blushed furiously. "Uh…uh…" she glanced over at Tea nervously before replying, "…just to a guy friend."
At that moment Serenity didn't understand why Ishizu was too afraid to say who she would be giving it to. But later on Serenity realised that Ishizu must like someone close to Yugi.
Yami.
Serenity sighed when her girlfriends finally left and looked once more over her neatly wrapped candies for all of her friends tomorrow. As she looked over the heart-shaped one she felt once more ill and went off straight to bed. She felt that strange fever come over her once more and she didn't want to believe the cause was Seto Kaiba.
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"Seren? Seren? Yo Serenity!"
Opening her eyes slowly, Serenity saw Joey looking down at her, grinning. "Hey sis! You slept through the alarm! Funny, ne?" he asked.
"Yeah…funny…" mumbled Serenity, still feeling sick. She pulled off the covers and sat up in the bed. The world seemed to spin around her as she sat there but she forced herself to remain seated and not to show Joey that she felt ill.
Joey blinked and he put a hand to Serenity's forehead. "You're running a temperature! No wonder your face is all red! I think you have a fever Seren!" he cried.
Shaking her head, Serenity got up out of the bed feeling all groggy. "Nah…I'm fine Joey…" she mumbled, lips curved up in a wonky smile and eyes hazy and unseeing.
"Sis, you're staying home!" ordered Joey.
"No…I have day duty today…and I promised Ms. Mizuki that I'd do it…" Serenity smiled. "I'll be fine…"
"All right, but if you don't feel well at school come straight home." Joey sighed, knowing it was useless to argue with a stubborn Serenity.
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"Good morning…" mumbled Serenity as she slid open the classroom door.
Kaiba turned and glanced over at her, a look of surprise on his face. "What're you doing here?" he asked.
"I'm taking over for Yamazaki on day duty…" she explained as she took baby steps into the room. She closed the door behind her and didn't seem bothered that she was alone in the room with Kaiba which she would have been if she wasn't ill.
Suddenly, Kaiba's face was close to hers and his hand was on her forehead. "Your all red…I knew it! You've got a fever. Why are you here at school if you're so sick?" he questioned.
"I told you…I have day duty…and I didn't want to let Ms. Mizuki down." she answered as she looked up into Kaiba's face, unafraid. "And besides…I made Valentine sweets for all my friends…including you Kaiba…" Serenity reached into her bag and pulled out the neatly wrapped heart-shaped chocolate. "For you." she said, smiling up at Kaiba as she held out the chocolate for him.
Kaiba looked at the chocolate before pushing it back to Serenity. "No thanks. I don't like chocolate." he lied, his hand trembling when it touched hers.
But Serenity pushed it insistently into his hands. "No, I worked hard on this and you're going to take it. Chocolate fan or not." she said firmly, the fever making her act braver than she usually would have been.
Kaiba sighed. "Thanks." he murmured, his heart thudding wildly even though he acted like it wasn't.
Serenity smiled sweetly once more before abruptly closing her eyes and falling backwards, the fever suddenly taking over her.
"Hey!" Kaiba cried suddenly, reaching forwards and wrapping his arms around her just in time. He remained in that position where he held the unconscious girl in his arms, his whole body shaking. Her frame was so small it made him aware even more how frail she was. Kaiba realised he shouldn't had tried to refuse her chocolate just to try to convince himself that he had no feelings for this girl. He knew that the strange electric shock that ran through his body as he held onto Serenity reassured him that his feelings were genuine.
He wanted this moment to last forever, where it was just Serenity and him in a world that belonged to them and them only.
Suddenly the classroom door slid open.
"So that's why I'm worried about Seren and—GGGYYYAAAAHHHHH!" screamed a familiar voice.
The moment was ruined.
Kaiba looked up to see that it was Joey who had screamed. Oh Kaiba was in hell now.
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So peace out—Chibi-Chichan