I know, terribly long wait! But that's why I made this chapter so long and with a few SxS scenes at the very end! I hope you guys like!

And I just want to say, I do NOT like Yu-Gi-Oh! GX! I hate it! For some reason, I just can't get into it. (Plus I hate Judai/Asuka. I like Ryo/Zane with Asuka better).

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Seto Kaiba was not a person who liked being surprised.

Growing up as a pessimist, he always expected disappointments instead of surprises. Therefore, he would never feel shocked, and he hated that feeling so deeply.

He excelled in everything he tried, except for Duel Monsters…he couldn't ever regain his number one title…And that was one of the biggest surprises of them all.

But now, as this girl lay on his floor, he couldn't say that he was not surprised.

He just walked out of the bathroom and this girl stumbled out of his closet. A stalker, perhaps? But then the question came up of how she got past security…

Whimpers were coming from her; she obviously didn't want to be seen. Her face was red, very red. Blush? He doubted that…it was probably like that from her tears.

Another thing Kaiba hated, though, was blushing. It went side by side with surprise. They were oftentimes factors of each other, and his surprise at the moment was causing his cheeks to grow a few tinges redder…

He didn't like this girl.

She caused him surprise, therefore causing him to blush.

But then again, he saw that she was scared too…

Not a good thing on Serenity's part…

She was horror-struck, to say the least. She could feel the warmth trickle out of her appendages and rest in her face. The rest of her body was in a suspended mode, not letting her move. Her breathing became quickly paced, and the tension in the room at the moment was so tight, it was choking Serenity.

What was he going to do with her? Was he going to report her to the police? Throw her in an insane asylum for hiding in his closet? Put a restraining order on her? Or even worse…call her brother?

Her eyes were shut, but she was still whimpering, so he knew she was crying a good bit. She didn't like being there as much as he hated her being there.

He walked over to her, and he could tell she could feel his presence. Her crying almost instantaneously stopped, and after a few sniffles, she opened her eyes and looked fearfully at him.

"Who are you?"

When Kaiba saw her eyes, getting the full gist of her facial features, he recognized who she was…But still, something felt familiar about this scene. Had he been in this situation before, watching a helpless girl like Serenity lay there while he asked who she was? He, to best recollection of his memory, hadn't…

"Wheeler," Kaiba finally said at length, his thoughts still focused on why he felt a sudden rush of deja vous. "First my history class, and now this. You have a sudden habit of getting into places you don't belong."

Serenity felt her heart pounding against her chest so thunderously she wondered how Kaiba couldn't hear it. Her hands and feet all felt numb, and all she could do was stare like a deer in headlights at him, unable to explain herself. How could she have been so stupid and reveal herself? Everything was going so well until she came out of the closet.

The bug…

Serenity immediately plopped herself onto her elbows and started feeling around the back of her neck…The bug wasn't there…She didn't feel it under her shirt…She couldn't feel it in her hair…It was gone!

"Why are you here? How did you get here?"

Kaiba thought for a second that Serenity was about to pull out something from her backpack to show him why she was here, but when he noticed the way she was skeptically touching herself, he started to wonder about her mental state.

Serenity fought back tears as she, still supported by her elbows, sighed frustratingly. That bug that scared her to death was gone. It was as if that stupid insect's purpose was to get Serenity out of the closet and then just disappear, completely embarrassing Serenity!

"Are you ever going to answer me?" He asked angrily. Serenity finally had her tears vanished enough to look at him, and just as she was about to explain the situation, Kaiba's bedroom doorknob started jiggling ferociously, and a few seconds later, Mokuba Kaiba came rushing in.

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Mokuba Kaiba had been waiting tentatively outside his brother's room. He sat, his back against Kaiba's door, just waiting for his brother to emerge so he go in there and sneak Serenity out.

In his opinion, it was all his fault Serenity was hiding right now. She should've left, actually, she never should have came here, but he forced her into it. If Seto was to ever discover Serenity…

He cringed at the thought.

…It'd be because of him.

"Who are you?"

Mokuba's heart seemed to stop. His breathing became constricted, and like Serenity, he felt as if he were being choked.

He stood up like a dart and pressed his ear against the door, his face touching the diamonds that were the etched blue eyes white dragon's eyes.

Seto discovered Serenity…

Mokuba's heart started at a thought: Did Seto even recognize Serenity? As long as Seto didn't know she was a Wheeler, some of Serenity's remaining dignity could be preserved…

"Wheeler," he heard his brother say.

It was official, Serenity was a goner…

An angered Kaiba and a defenseless Wheeler did not work in a room together.

But there they were…

Seto and Serenity…

Mokuba pulled on the doorknob, but he should've known it would be locked. Every nanosecond spent waiting Mokuba could feel the life being drawn out of him, and he knew the same must've been going on with Serenity.

He viciously jiggled the knob again, still no result.

For Serenity's sake, open! He thought. He didn't care what happened to himself anymore, just as long as he could tell Seto that Serenity wasn't here willingly…

"For Serenity's sake, please open!" he cried, wiggling the knob with every ounce of strength he had. And, as if the Blue Eyes etched on Seto's door heard Serenity's name in trouble, the door opened, and Mokuba, surprised by his own strength, came stumbling into his brother's room.

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His brother was hovering over Serenity's elbow-supported body. Serenity had red painted all over her face, and the dried tear stains were lining her face. If anything, she looked surprised to see Mokuba. Seto, on the other hand, was not pleased.

"How did you get in, Mokuba?" Was there something wrong with the locks in this room? How were all these people getting in? This was extremely annoying, especially since Kaiba spent a pretty penny getting this super-strength locks.

And to think, a young girl and a twelve-year-old boy were able to get past them…

Mokuba, still staring at Serenity, smiled at her. He was going to explain everything, although Serenity still couldn't bring herself to smile back at the thought of this.

"Seto…Serenity's here because of me. I went to the pet store and got a dog, like you asked, and when I was driving past the park I saw Serenity sitting there, and it was starting to rain so I was like 'Hey, Serenity! Why don't you let me drive you home?' And she was like 'Alight!' and so we then started on our way, but then I said 'You totally have to see my house, it's like huge!' and Serenity was like 'I really shouldn't!' but I got here to come anyway. See? It was my idea to come here in the first place, not hers. So then we came, and she saw that your bedroom door was unlocked and she said 'I should go now!' and then I said 'No! We have to see the inside of Seto's bedroom! No one ever gets to see that!' and then she was like, 'But I must leave!' but I didn't care and I dragged her into this room anyway. And then, as soon as we got in here, we heard your voice in the lobby. And we both were like 'Oh no!' and why were you home so early anyway, Seto? You're never here this early. Where was I? Oh yeah: So I pushed Serenity into the closet, and then you came and were like, 'Mokuba, what are you doing here?' and blah, blah, blah, you kicked me out and Serenity was still inside. So I was waiting outside your door this whole time, waiting for a chance to get Serenity out and then I heard your voice ask who she was, and so I realized you discovered her and I jiggled the doorknob really hard and that's how I got here."

Mokuba took a good two minutes to catch his breath, then he looked at his brother expectantly.

Serenity kept her lips sealed tightly together. What if Kaiba didn't believe Mokuba? What if he thought Mokuba was making that whole thing up?

Seto's silence was the scariest thing in the world for Mokuba and Serenity during those two minutes. His arms were crossed over his robed body as one of his hands supported his chin as he thought. He started pacing in a two foot radius when he finally turned around to Mokuba and asked

"All of what you just told me is true?" Kaiba stared at Mokuba, knowing that Mokuba could never lie to him, especially with the stare he was giving him. Mokuba gulped as he saw his brother look at him like that, but he nevertheless nodded slowly.

Kaiba then turned his attention to Serenity and muttered something about impertinence under his breath. Then he finally spoke again.

"You, out. Wait in the hallway. Mokuba? Get the mutt's phone number for me, and then let me talk to him. I want to tell him I have something that belongs to him."

Serenity moaned. This was not going to end well. Mokuba stared at his brother unbelievably.

"Well? What are you two waiting for? Leave! I have to change!" He exclaimed as he turned his back to the two of them.

Mokuba helped Serenity up and the two of them quietly left the room, but Mokuba got in a "Geez, Seto." before he left.

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Serenity had been waiting in the hallway outside Kaiba's room for ten minutes. Mokuba had quickly gone to dial Joey's number as soon as he asked Serenity what it was. When Seto arrived from his bedroom, fully dressed in his sweeping trench coat and gaudy black boots, he snarled at Serenity before he entered his home office, where Mokuba was waiting with Joey's number.

As Kaiba entered his office, Mokuba gave Seto a slip of white paper with numbers written on it. Mokuba made an attempt to leave, before Seto held him back from the door and informed him that he wanted Mokuba nowhere near that Wheeler. So Mokuba waited impatiently as Seto dialed the number written on the paper.

Seto placed the receiver to his ear as he leaned back in his chair. He had to dial the number twice before he heard an answer.

Joey Wheeler had been sleeping on the couch in his living room, a hard day of being bored at school tiring him out. That was when he heard the telephone ring. He ignored it at first, tossing and turning on the couch. But when the bell started to ring again, he finally decided to humor the caller. He fumbled on the table beside the couch, looking for the phone. When he finally got it, he whined into the receiver, "Wut?"

"I'm sorry, Wheeler, did I interrupt your daily bone-burying ritual?" the voice on the other end asked amusedly.

"Kaiba! What do you want? I have betta things to do in my time den listen to ya talk!"

"I highly doubt that."

"Well, what do ya know, anyway, ya cold-hearted egotistical--"

"I know that I have something of yours here at my house."

"Mine? At your house? What would something of mine be doing there?"

"I could ask you the same thing. I don't want it here, take it away."

"How do I know you're not just pulling me into a trap? Hmm?"

"Just come here and get it, you insolent mongrel! I really do have more important things to do than to talk to you."

"Wut is it?"

"Believe me, mutt, it's something very…precious to you."

"Fine, Kaiba! But it betta be important!" And Joey hung up the phone.

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Serenity was all alone in the hallway of Kaiba's mansion. She finally decided to wander up and down the corridor of rooms.

She saw part of another room opened just a crack, and, judging by the desk with Kaiba sitting at it, she could see that this was his office. He had a receiver to his face. He was talking to Joey on the phone, she knew it.

"--mongrel!" was all she heard Kaiba say to her brother before she decided to move on.

She came across many locked rooms, but finally, she came to the last door on the floor. It, like the office, was also opened just a little bit. Just from the little bit of the room, she saw, she could tell it was extremely pink. Strange, since two boys lived here.

She couldn't help herself. She knew she was being foolish, but she walked into the room, her hands fastened to her backpack straps.

Her first impression of the room was amazement. It was pink, definitely, but it was so precious.

The wallpaper was a soft, rosy pink with even lighter pink stripes. In between the stripes were darker pink roses and little white spots, which when Serenity went to examine them, were tiny white unicorns.

There was a white canopy bed with a curvaceous top that was adorned with pink bedding. Two white nightstands were placed on either side of the bed, both having an elegant, white lamp rest atop their surface. To her left there was a small white desk with a white chair and pink stationary sitting on top of the desk's surface. But what was even more amazing about the left of the room was the octagonal stage, probably no more than ten feet wide. It was made out of a soft brown wood, a refreshing change from the white furniture in the rest of the room. And it had white banisters on seven sides of it, the other side having a three-step staircase that lead a person onto the stage. At the back of the octagonal stage were three open closets (think the three top sides of a trapezoid). Each closet had dresses for little girls stuffed into them.

But what was even more impressive was the dress being modeled by a mannequin in the very center of the stage. This dress was definitely not meant for a little girl. The mannequin that wore it was a young lady, just about Serenity's height. The dress was like a tutu, with a pink sleeveless top that was decorated with greenish-golden swirls, resembling vines, going all over it. The bottom was made with fluffy netting that had gems embedded randomly across it. The netting started off as pink, then as it progressed farther away from the dress's top, the netting became a gardenlike green color. The ballet slippers the mannequin wore had the same pattern: the shoes were pink from the bottom, but eventually turned into green at the very top of the straps that reached the mannequin's knees.

Serenity felt a sudden urge to touch this dress, and, although she knew she was taking a big risk, stepped onto the stage at touch the tutu's top. It felt like silk.

"How beautiful," she breathed.

"What are you doing here?" Kaiba asked, leaning in the doorway. He had just finished his phone conversation with Joey, and he had wandered the hallways looking for Serenity. He couldn't believe she had the nerve to just walk into this room when she had just been embarrassed by being caught in another. Didn't this girl learn from her mistakes?

Serenity gasped and turned around. This habit of hers desperately needed to be stopped.

"The d-door w-w-as open, I sw-s-ear!" She exclaimed nervously as she started wringing her hands nervously. This, Kaiba had to believe since there was an alarm that went off every time the doors wasn't opened with its proper key, and he highly doubted Serenity had the key to this room.

Kaiba walked into the room, stepping on its light pink carpet, and leaned himself against the footboard of the canopy, staring at Serenity standing in front of him, in the middle of the stage. He wanted to yell some more at her for her audacity of coming into the room, but he couldn't bring himself to do it. This girl, standing there with that very special dress beside her…why did it also seem so familiar? It seemed today all Serenity could do was give Kaiba the sense that he had seen things and done things before that he couldn't remember he did.

When Serenity noticed Kaiba staring at her, she finally asked, "What is this room?"

Kaiba was shocked that she asked this question, but his face didn't show a sign of it. The answer to his question only he and Mokuba knew, but he started to speak anyway, revealing his secret to an outsider for the first time.

"My mother was an artist. I inherited many of her sketchbooks and liked to look through them. It was the best way to pass time at the orphanage."

The orphanage struck a bell in Serenity's mind, but she remained quiet and wanted Kaiba to go on.

"And one day I came across her sketchbook that was dedicated to this room. Every page was filled with this room's details, from the little roses on the walls to the clothes in the closet. When I was left this house from my stepfather, I took this empty storage room and designed it to be the very room my mother wanted." What he left out was that his mother had drawn a girl in the very center of the stage, and that girl drawn in the room was like a younger version of Serenity.

Serenity smiled. "And what about this dress?" She asked softly, trying to keep Kaiba as calm as she could.

"I don't remember where I saw that dress…It must've been in one of the magazines I came across," he said quietly, leaning farther against the footboard.

"No…I don't think you saw it in a magazine," Serenity answered as she stared in a trancelike state at the dress. "I remember seeing something like this too, somewhere. But I don't read very many magazines…But no…the dress I remember was much smaller."

"Yeah…" Kaiba had made a tailor make that dress based on a smaller one he remembered seeing somewhere.

Serenity laughed. "It looks like something out of a fairy book!"

Both of their eyes widened, and they, for no reason, started staring at each other. As if the word "fairy" had sparked something really old.

"It's a perfect room for a little girl. Maybe if you or Mokuba ever had a daughter--"

"I don't love," he answered automatically.

"That's not true. I've seen how much you care for Mokuba!"

"Well, he's family."

"And you think love is limited only to family members?" Which caused the two of them to stare at each other again.

They were like this for a few moments before they heard a voice in the foyer.

"Alright, Kaiba! I'm here, now wut did you say ya had of mine?"

Serenity bowed her head and sighed. Joey was here.

It took a moment, but Kaiba finally stood up and said, "Wait here," to Serenity as he walked out of the room.

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When Kaiba walked onto the top of his grand staircase, he smiled evilly at Joey, was standing at the very bottom of it.

"Well, Kaiba! I don't got all day!" Joey exclaimed, his fists raised in the air.

"Well, I'm surprised you actually came. Even I thought you would be smarter than that," Kaiba hissed.

"Wut do ya mean, Moneybags!" Joey asked angrily.

"Well, I lost a good deal today at KaibaCorp--"

"--That person was pretty smart, breaking a deal with you!"

"So anyway I was feeling a little low in confidence today--"

"--as if!"

"And seeing you just makes me feel so much more superior again, so thanks Mutt, you did your job. You may go now. Go on, shoo!" And Kaiba turned his back to Joey.

Joey was left kicking and screaming like Donald Duck. But eventually he simmered down and, after giving Kaiba a very colorful description of himself, Joey left.

After the guards had informed Kaiba that Joey's car had left, Kaiba said, "You can come out now, Wheeler."

Serenity walked out quietly. She had no idea what just went on, but she knew Kaiba had just done her a favor.

"Thank--" She started to say before Kaiba cut her off.

"Tell me, Wheeler, what time do you usually get home," Kaiba ordered as he stared anywhere but at her.

"Err…6:30 I guess. Why?"

"Does your brother worry if you're not home on time?"

"Yes…"

Kaiba checked his watch. It was ten to six. "Go out to the driveway and tell the chauffeur I'm sending you home. He'll be able to get you home before your brother."

Serenity stared at Kaiba for her second, again resembling a deer in headlights. But she ran down the stairs anyway. Once she got there, she ran back up the stairs and hugged Kaiba quickly, startling the two of them. Then she darted back down the stairs and out of the mansion.

Kaiba was still a bit surprised by what happened. He was left staring after her when Mokuba came out of Kaiba's home office.

"Seto, you just did something I'll never let you forget," Mokuba said amusedly, leaning on the staircases railing.

A moment passed when Mokuba finally said, "Something nice."

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Ok, see I had off today, so you readers are lucky that I got to finish nine pages of this chapter today. I was going to include a crucial Anzu and Kijin scene, but I felt the chapter was getting long so here's the part of the scene:

Preview:

She had trouble answering to "Anzu" for she had been Téa for so long, and as she looked to Kijin, she wondered how she was going to call the fairy standing before her "mother".

Oooohhhh…and good news: I've finished the first chapter of my new Seto/Serenity fic: "Talk of the Town". But since I want at least three chapters of it done before I post it, don't expect it to be up for at least another few months. Unless, of course, you guys want the fic up now.

R/R!

-Celestial Night