Chapter 7
Five Dayz: Day I
"I said Daddy. . ."
Seto couldn't believe his ears! His own pride and joy had called him something he never would have thought to be used while he was alive!
It was a miracle.
Certainly, if there was a god, Seto would be thanking the heavens right now.
The brunette gazed at his daughter as water filled up in his eyes. A lone tear escaped from his left cerulean eye and traveled towards the ground which was its definite goal. Seto had blinked the tear away before embracing the five year old child….
((A/n: I got a question asking how old the child was. If you notice in the first and second chapters it says that Sakura is five. Because Five years have passed…getting my flow? Lol!))
The little girl did nothing but tense up from the stranger that she called "daddy" just a minute ago.
Boy was she confused.
She hesitated before embracing the man holding her. It felt as if he didn't wasn't going to let go any time soon, so why not hug him back? Right? Sakura took a moment and breathed in deeply. He smelled of light cologne and the breeze of a rain forest mixed. It was odd, but considering that he is dead . . . you could guess he smelled good for the deceased male and all he has gone through.
Sakura pushed that from her mind.
The two had held each other for a minute or two before Seto had pulled back to get a good look at his daughter. His eyes seemed to pour out all emotion as Sakura held his gaze for a few seconds before she blinked. The little auburn girl tried to curl her lips into a comforting smile before she threw herself at the older man.
"Daddy! Please don't leave again!"
It's as if she knows me . . .
Seto ground his teeth together to keep from crying into the little girls shoulder and silky hair. The male had clenched his eyes closed along with the girls before he opened them again to see Serenity standing a few feet in front of them.
He looked up at her with sincerity written allover his face.
The single parent turned her gaze towards the ground before she closed the gap that was hollowing the area between her daughter, Seto, and herself. She kneeled next to the two in time to see Sakura's head pop out of Seto's strong arms and look at her.
Serenity hesitated before agreeing with a brief nod that was so small you wouldn't have noticed it if you didn't continue to stare. She finally knew what was right once it clicked. The scene with Seto and Sakura . . . it somehow awakened the inside of her.
She finally realized she was acting childish and had no sincerity with it at all. She always forgave someone. No matter what they did or who they were.
That was how she fell in love with the man holding her daughter.
That was how she fell in love with Seto Kaiba.
Sakura pulled back slightly while Seto let go completely. He stared at Serenity with Sakura doing the same thing. The three knew what was needed to be done.
"All the files are on the laptop . . . Every single day that passed, I wrote. Everything that you need to know is on the database."
Serenity nodded and stood up.
She turned towards the laptop still on the desk and walked towards it with Sakura and Seto slowly in tow.
Before Serenity took her spot in the chair at the computer, she whispered to the brunette, "Maybe you should take Sakura somewhere . . . while I do this?"
Seto nodded, but before he could answer, a little someone interrupted, "What?! Moooooom . . ." The little girl groaned. "Do you really think that this grown man, that has been dead for all my life, can walk around here and know where everything is?!" her little voice sounded stern.
There was a blanket of silence for a couple of seconds before the little girl caught her breath and spoke again, "Now . . . that we have all that cleared . . . come with me, Mr. Kaiba."
Serenity took in a breath, "Oh my . . . I certainly know where she got her personality from . . ."
A chuckle could be heard from Serenity as Seto looked dumbfounded at the little girl. Well, his daughter to be exact. But the second Serenity spoke, Seto decided to say something also, "Well I know where she got her good looks from also." He looked at Serenity as she quirked an eyebrow.
"Who?" She asked.
Seto's answer was as simple as making cereal for breakfast. "Me." Serenity narrowed her eyes in annoyance and humor. Of course Seto had humor and sarcasm behind the word or else Serenity might have pounced him then and there. She might have done that if there wasn't a kid in the room also, but doing that to a dead man might not be a good idea anyways. She didn't know what kind of power Seto had. Who knows? If he could freeze someone with his glare, then he might be able to kill someone with the glare while being dead.
Serenity shook her head while Sakura walked up to her father. She held out her tiny hand to Seto as he looked down at the girl. He smiled before he took his child's hand and left the room with the little girl in lead.
The auburn woman watched them leave the room as she turned back to the online screen of the laptop. It took her a while before she located Seto Kaiba's personal journal. She, obviously, clicked on the link the read "Day I". Can it get any obvious than that?
The link automatically came up and filled the screen. She scrolled and glanced at the page of the first day. It almost ended abruptly, but of course it continued in different links all the way up to day five.
((Is it a coincidence that the number five keeps popping up?))
- SK Journal -
I keep telling myself "It's nothing", but is it really that?
I hadn't realized it until now. My Serenity has finally shown with light and is my angel. Not only will I be a father, but I will have the opportunity of having a child in my care. And as I have said, my past is in my past and will never resurface until now. I haven't looked back at Gozoburo in anticipation of this moment. Occasionally Serenity will bring him up, but I'd usually ignore the comment of what she had to say. It was cold, but I couldn't bring myself to tell her what happened until a couple of days before we got married.
That was almost nine months ago.
Currently, I have put the past behind me. And it will be buried with me until the day I die. But I am not so sure anymore. Recently I have been having dreams. I keep telling myself that I am hallucinating, but every time I wake up it seems like what happened in my dream, happens the next day.
Right now was one of them. I dreamt this moment in time.
Somehow I think this is connected with something I didn't want to remember. My past. The fear of having something ripped from the inner sides of Mokuba and me as children has resurfaced for my own child. For the first time in my life I am having the burden of actually being scared. Not for me. Not for my company. But for my family. I am terrified at having the image of having my child grow up without a father.
I can't explain what might happen or what is happening to me. But I realize that I may no longer have the life I wanted. I feel like it is being taken away from me everyday that is passing.
I can't bear to reason that this has to do with some kind of magic. And I can't bear to reason with the fact that I am having dreams of my future. But what I fear most is that my future doesn't have me in it.
The thought of that is unbearable. Insufferable to almost tell Serenity of my own mishaps. But I can't. I can't bring her down with me with my own burden. I'm afraid that I may never see my sweet wife again. For I know that someone has wanted revenge and is willing at all costs to get it.
As I have spoken before, these dreams are almost like premonitions. But I am not so sure of that also. These dreams or whatever you want to call it have been waking me for almost a fortnight straight. They keep showing how my life might end and what might happen the next day. But as I near my own devastation, the future comes clearer each night that passes.
I have followed my own fate. And it's telling me that I only have five days left from tomorrow. For the fifth, I may be gone.
Sunday, August 11, 1999 – 11:56 P.M.
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Serenity blinked while tears were welding up in her eyes. She slowly exited the page and clicked the next link in days.
She had no idea what he was going through.
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