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: I'm back, I'm bold, I'm in your face! I may be even beautiful! Heheh…so I updated finally but hey, you can't blame me can you? Thank you to all who reviewed! You make my day people::tear:
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"YOU CREEP! DROP MY SISTER! HOW DARE YOU TOUCH HER!" shouted Joey, taking hold of one of Serenity's arms and dragging her out of the arms of Kaiba.
Clenching both of his fists, Kaiba had to bite his bottom lip to control his anger of having Serenity taken away from him and their moment ruined. It seemed rather disappointing to him to not have grown long enough nails to bite into the palm of his hands. He would have enjoyed the pain it brought.
"Hold my sister will you Yug?" Joey said to Yugi and placed the unconscious Serenity in Yugi's arms.
Yugi blinked confusedly. "Wait Joey, you're not going to—?" began Yugi.
Joey put up his balled fists. "All right! Put 'em up Kaiba! It's time for me to do what I should've done ages ago! Not let's fight." said Joey, fire burning in his eyes.
The bangs of Kaiba's hair fell over his eyes, making it hard to see how he felt but his next move made it all seem clear. "You shouldn't be messing around in my business Wheeler!" he yelled, acting before Joey could, fist already flying towards the unprepared blonde.
"Stop…" said a feeble voice and Kaiba was shocked when he saw Serenity step in front of Joey like lightning. Unable to stop himself Kaiba grazed the side of Serenity's cheek, horrified as he heard her wince from the rough contact of his rushing skin against her still skin.
"Serenity!" cried both Tea and Mai.
Kaiba paused and brought his opened hand that had grazed Serenity's cheek back and touched the new mark on her face. "Are you hurt?" he asked softly, so as to make sure that no one else but Serenity heard him.
"Hey Yug! Why did you let her go? And why's he touching her face again? And what's that evil freak show saying to her?" yelled Joey all in one breath while both Miho and Tea decided to jump in and hold him back from doing anything he would regret.
"Joey come on! He's not worth it!" Tea said trying to persuade Joey to back off.
"Yeah, you're just wasting precious air! Let him go!" Miho agreed knowing that both she and Tea (including Mai) wanted to see a little bit more of Kaiba just to see if their theory was correct.
"Are you all right?" asked Kaiba.
"Yes." replied Serenity. "Please," she started, taking his hand that touched her cheek into both of hers, "don't fight anymore."
Kaiba felt like he was drowning as he stared into her tear-filled eyes. He felt so powerless against this girl. How could one girl do this to him? And why was he feeling such things for his rival's friend? And even worse, the sister of the mutt. Even though he wanted to push his feelings away he couldn't stop himself. What was wrong with him? This was Seto Kaiba, owner of Kaiba Corp who could have anything he wanted but the one thing he wanted the most was unobtainable and standing right in front of him.
"Fine." answered Kaiba, wrenching his gaze away from Serenity's. He stalked right out of the room not looking back, his heart heavy at the thought of not seeing that girl's face again for a while.
"Hey! I'm not finished with you yet moneybags!" Joey shouted after him, still having Miho and Tea hold him back, who were surprisingly stronger than they looked but still struggling a bit to keep him under control.
"Hey Serenity! Are you ok?" asked both Tristan and Duke at the same time rushing up to the fever-flushed girl.
"Yeah…" Serenity said tiredly, feeling totally drained of energy.
"Hey, Serenity…Joey said he was worried about you because you had a fever. Are you sure you're all right?" asked Yugi.
"Of course Yugi don't worry!" Serenity replied, for the first time not stuttering when he talked to her directly but still having her insides squirm a bit.
"Oh yeah and um…" Yugi moved a bit closer to Serenity and lowered his voice. "Don't tell Joey I woke you up to stop the fight. I knew you were the only one that could stop Joey so I had to do it. Do you understand?"
Serenity blushed causing herself to look even sicker from fever than she already was. "Yes. Thanks Yugi." she said her eyes shining with gratitude.
Yugi smiled back causing Serenity's heart to melt. "No problem."
"YUGI!" shouted Tea, grabbing hold of one of his arms and alarming him more than she needed to. "I have something for you, come on!" she said as she dragged him away.
"Alright Tea but can you not tug at my arm so hard? It's kind of sore now…"
"Hey Joseph, now that you're all calmed down I've got something for you." said Mai, blushing a bit as she reached into her bag.
"Huh? Really? What is it?" asked Joey a little clueless.
"Here. I made you Valentine's chocolate." Mai said as she held up her gift.
"Wow! Thanks Mai! But…why's it called Valentine's chocolate?" asked Joey.
Mai sweat dropped. "Don't you know what today is muscle-head!"
Joey paused to think. "Er…it's not Christmas…it's not Easter…it's…wait…yup, it's not my birthday so that only means…IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY!"
"Wrong again smart guy!" cried Mai, smacking Joey over the head with a hammer that seemed to have come out of thin air. "Why would I be giving you a gift if it was my birthday!"
"Er…because you are too nice?"
SMACK. "Wrong again!"
"YEOUCH! What did I say wrong?"
'Hmm, I wonder…' thought Tristan as he looked down at the Valentine chocolate that he had made for Serenity. '…should I…?'
"T-R-I-S-TA-N!" shrieked Miho as she jumped on top of Tristan from behind. "LOOK! I MADE YOU VALENTINE'S CHOCOLATE! TRY IT!" she continued to say in a loud voice.
Tristan sweat dropped. "Alright." he said when he was finally in a sitting position.
"Eh? WHAT'S THAT!" Miho exclaimed pointing at his wrapped up sweet for Serenity.
"Uh…" Tristan sweat dropped even more. "A gift…?" he said as if it were more of a question rather than a statement.
"Oooh…! Ooooohhh…! Is it a gift…for me?" asked Miho, her eyes glittering.
"Er…well…actually…"
"Oh you're so thoughtful Tristan!" said Miho, snatching up the chocolate, her face flushed. "Thank you so much! Oh you're such a doll face!"
"Er…no wait…Miho…uh…never mind…" sighed Tristan, sweat dropping even more as Miho began to dance around the classroom with glee.
"Hey Tristan, better to say nothing eh?" said Duke. "I mean, don't you want your love to last?" he joked, laughing loudly.
"Grrr! Zip it Duke!" growled Tristan, blushing.
"Gee thanks Tea!" said Yugi, scooping up his chocolate.
"No, thank you for being such a good friend Yugi!" replied Tea, giggling and totally red in the face. Then she stopped. "Hey Yugi, I'm going to go talk to Ishizu ok?"
"Alright." Yugi said, blinking confusedly.
Tea snuck up behind Ishizu who was sitting at her desk that was next to Serenity's, looking down at her wrapped up Valentine chocolate. "Hey, aren't you going to give it to him?" she asked, scaring Ishizu.
Ishizu quickly shoved the chocolate back into her bag. She turned to Tea, sweat dropping and blushing. "Uh…g-give what?" she asked feigning innocence.
Tilting her head to the side, Tea replied, "Well, you know…your chocolate for Yami. The one you made for him yesterday." CRASH. Ishizu had fallen off of her seat and onto the floor head-first, totally shocked that Tea was on the mark. "I mean, I knew you would make one for him since he's always so nice to everyone. And he's been helping Yugi out a lot. I was going to make him one but I figured you would since you make sweets a whole lot better than I do." Tea said openly, annoying Ishizu even more because she was so on the mark.
"B-but how did you know?" gasped Ishizu.
Tea shrugged. "You're too obvious." she said plainly. "Anyway, ask Yugi if you can talk to Yami. To give him your chocolate." she suggested.
Blushing, Ishizu nodded her head. "Thanks." she mumbled.
"Besides, facing up to him is not as impossible as Serenity agreeing to duel!" exclaimed Tea, laughing. It was a well known fact that ever since her first duel Serenity had decided it was to be her last as she was not too keen on losing her body to anyone, even if it was just normal duelling and the price wasn't that. "I mean seriously, like hey Serenity do you want to duel me right now?" asked Tea jokingly when she had turned to a lazy looking Serenity.
Feeling all strange from the fever, Serenity replied lamely, "Yeah…sure, why not?"
"WWWHHHAAAATTTT!" cried all of her girlfriends, totally shocked.
"Whoa! Serenity, I really think the fever is affecting you! Are you sure you don't want to go home? You can if you want to, you don't have to just stay at school just for day duty." said Tea quickly, putting a hand to Serenity's forehead.
"I'm all right, seriously." Serenity said once again in that monotonous voice while she waved Tea's hand away.
"Listen hon, stop trying to be a hero. Staying at school when you're really sick is not a heroic thing to do; you're going to end up regretting it!" added Mai.
"Look, I'll be fine. I can make it through today." lied Serenity, her fever continuing to muddle her brain.
The girls looked worriedly at each other. Today's little experiment didn't seem worth Serenity getting terribly ill over.
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The bell rang signalling the end of school.
"Alright everybody finish that work off for homework and may I please see you Serenity after class." said Ms. Mizuki.
After everyone had left the room Serenity stood there in front of Ms. Mizuki's desk, tired and sicker than earlier on in the day.
"Serenity, is there something wrong? You didn't seem to focus very well in the class and you're one of my best students for Maths." said Ms. Mizuki worriedly.
"Oh, I'm fine; it's just a little fever."
"A little fever can always become a deadly illness. Just as a drop of rain can become a heavy storm." Ms. Mizuki said wisely. "I'll let you go home and recover quickly. I feel that you're going to be absent tomorrow so I'll make a replacement for you for day duty." she said in magical voice that suggested something.
"What…?" Serenity mumbled softly. Could Ms. Mizuki see the future? Or was she just guessing? "No, no Ms. Mizuki! I'll be here tomorrow don't you worry!" said Serenity in false cheerfulness.
"But just in case I'll keep a replacement. Go on home Serenity and rest for tonight. And remember that all you dream of today is real." said Ms. Mizuki.
Serenity blinked totally oblivious, but headed out of the room anyways. She knew that she had to get home. She was just dog tired. Literally. Once she was outside she slowly began to stagger determinedly home. 'Gee…I think I am going to literally faint…' thought Serenity as she started to puff.
"Hey," said a voice from the shadows of a cherry blossom tree.
Turning in the direction of the voice, Serenity watched dazedly as Kaiba stepped out from the shadows of the cherry blossom tree. "Sakura…" Serenity mumbled as she watched a few of the cherry blossom petals fall to the ground.
"Hey, shouldn't you be at home already?" asked Kaiba, approaching Serenity slowly, his hands in his pocket to conceal their continuous trembling.
"Yeah and so should you." answered Serenity smiling coyly up at Kaiba who's heart skipped a beat. She reached up and brushed his cheek with her fingertips sending a shiver down Kaiba's spine. Normally Serenity wouldn't be acting this way, and definitely not to Kaiba but the fever had really muddled her mind and this moment felt like just a dream to her. "Se-to…" she murmured.
No longer able to resist, Kaiba stroked her cheek with his hand causing Serenity to smile. "Your face is really pretty when it's flushed…" he mumbled more to himself than Serenity. She put her other hand on top of his.
"Your hands…I like the feel of them on my face…" she said continuing to smile up sweetly at Kaiba who's heart seemed to be melting. "You know Kaiba, despite all the bad things everyone says about you…I think I really like you."
Kaiba bent closer to her, their noses almost touching. "I think…I really like you too." And with that he closed the gap between them and kissed Serenity tenderly on the lips.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Evil cliff hanger….so review and I'll update with the next chapter heheh…