Chapter 7. Empaths and Elders.

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"Hey guys," said Serenity cheerfully, as she made her way over to her brother and his friends, who were sitting at Yugi's desk, watching them playing Duel Monsters. It was break-time for only fifteen minutes, but Joey and Yugi were staring at their cards as if they were trying to burn holes in them. This made her chuckle, and she sat down between Téa and Mai.

"So Ren, hows things in your class today?" said Téa in her friendship way,

"Not bad," she said, flicking a strand of red hair out of her face, "I got an A on the pop test we had in Chem."

"Pop test? I thought they gave up on those in 7th Grade when they realised that we couldn't be bothered." Said Yugi, between placing a card on the field and re-shuffling his deck.

"Apparently not. Oh well, not much we can do 'bout it."

"Not if you get straight A's like she does." Said Joey, flicking his head towards his little sister, unable to tear his attention away from his hand. A textbook hit him on the head – courtesy of Mai – causing him to fall off his chair.

"OWWW!" he yelled. Téa and Serenity giggled, while Mai put her hands on her hips and shook her head in disappointment.

"Really Joseph, you ought to knoe how to treat a lady, even if she is your little sister and has twice your IQ."

"Aw thanks Mai." He said sarcastically whilst rubbing his head, where soon there would be a large bump.

"And I play Slifer the Sky Dragon, and your life points hit zero." Said Yugi triumphantly, practically throwing a final card down on the table, sealing Joey's doom.

"Ahhhhhh!" he said in disbelief, before changing it to a dumb tone, lowering the pitch his voice considerably. Téa scribbled down some figures, being quite good at Maths, and cast half an eye over them, checking them. When she was satisfied, she said;

"That puts you on minus 2740 life points." Joey gave her a 'don't-bully-me' look.

Joey never forgave Téa or Yugi for his embarrassing defeat all day, but they just laughed whenever they saw him, as his attempts at being unfriendly were so pathetic. After the final bell announced the end of the day, they practically sprinted out of the building, Serenity at her brother's side. Yugi, who was getting slightly pissed off at Joey, whose attempts at being unfriendly were becoming both annoying and boring, decided to make it up to him by inviting him and the others around to the game shop, and then offered to take them out for a pizza. Joey, of course, agreed as soon as the word 'pizza' was mentioned, but Serenity however, declined, as she had a Biology exam tomorrow and she still hadn't revised. When she told her brother this, he immediately offered to come home with her, but after much persuasion, he finally let her walk home while he went out. She gave him a hug and set off out of the school gates. The weather had been overcast all day and it had, as had been expected, started to rain, actually pouring, would be more precise, and without an umbrella, she was beginning to get soaked. The rain was now coming down so hard, she never heard the car sneak up behind her, a black limo, to be more exact. She at once presumed it was Kaiba, come to make her journey home hell. Great. Just fantastic. She was really down now, and the pathetic fallacy didn't help. (A/N Pathetic Fallacy is when the weather reflects the situation. Something cool I learnt in English lol!) The window of the limo was rolling down, but instead of Kaiba's voice; she heard the inviting voice of his little brother;

"Hey, Serenity, you need a lift? You'll get drenched!" he shouted through the pounding rain.

"No, no, it's okay, thanks for the offer though Mokuba." She smiled, making the best of it,

"No, I insist! I'm not gonna let you walk home in the rain! Get in this limo right now!" he mock ordered. It would be impolite to refuse him further, so she grinned happily and eagerly got into the limo. It was huge, with seat warmers and a leather interior. Wow, she'd never been in anything like this before.

"So, Seren, how come you were walkin' home by yourself? Where's Joey?"

"Gone with the gang to get a pizza, but I have to study for a Biology exam, so a decided to walk home."

"You mean you persuaded your brother to let you walk home." He said, having sussed her out, being the bright kid that he is.

"Er… Yeah." She said, slightly embarrassed about being caught out by a thirteen-year-old.

"Yeah, me too." He said, "Seto's always getting bodyguards to follow me. It drives me nuts."

"At least you can have bodyguards."

"Have you ever tried hanging out with bodyguards? It sucks."

"He only does it 'cause he loves you." She said sympathetically,

"I know, that's what he tells me. I wish sometimes he'd be a little less harsh on everyone." He said, "He's a nice person… no, really, he just doesn't show it."

"Yeah, he always seems to be harsh, but until you look deeper, you don't find out what he's really like." She said.

"You're the only person who's ever noticed that." He said curiously, "I thought I was the only one who could."

"I have a knack for putting myself in other people's shoes, and then kinda reading their emotions by trying to see the world from their perspective. I always know what the gang are feeling, I just, I dunno, seem to get waves from me, telling me what they're feeling." She said, actually, come to think of it, she was polishing this down to a fine art, and now could read the emotions of pretty much anybody she liked.

"Are you some kind of empath then?" he said,

"No, of course not, I'm just good at it, that's all."

"Okay, tell me what I'm feeling then!" he said daringly.

"Okay… ummm…" she took a good look at him, "You're worried about your brother. You feel that he works too hard and you want him to take a break, for his health and so he can spend more time with you, brother on brother, but you don't wanna upset him, seeing as he has to work, and it will irritate and worry him if he doesn't. You also think that he is very confused over this whole Millennium Scepter thing, but you try to hide this by being cheerful, and glad that he is so self motivated." She finished, taking time to catch her breath. Mokuba just looked at her with his jaw dropped. She had just defined his emotions down to a T. "You might wanna shut your mouth before a bug flies in." she said, laughing at his gormless expression.

"Wow, that was really good, you should do that for a living."

"Well I was aiming slightly higher than professional fortune-telling in Domino, but I'll think about it."

"This is it, isn't it?" he indicated out of the window at her house,

"Yeah, that's it. Thanks so much for the ride Mokuba!"

"No probs, great talkin' to ya!" he said,

"Bye!"

"See ya!" She stood by the gate and watched the limo drive away from the house thinking; "What if I really can read emotions?"

Meanwhile, at the Halliwell Manor…

"Do you think that Kaiba's bloodline will be recorded in the Elder's archives?" asked Paige, "I mean, don't you think we should know what kind of magician he is, before interrogating him?"

"We know what kind of magician he is Paige, a very dangerous one, at the moment." Said Piper maturely, "Paige! Come back!" she yelled, but she was too late. Her sister, who had obviously had an idea, had orbed out. "Damn her!" muttered Piper under her breath.

In the Heavens…

Paige orbed in, and set about finding an Elder. She found Jada (A/N that isn't really her name, I don't know what her name is, but I had to call her something lol!), a relatively old Elder with short blonde hair and blue eyes, one she had often met before. Jada had told her about her whitelighter side, and helped her get to grips with it, but she was getting on now and the sisters were gradually seeing less and less of her. Not that Piper was bothered, but Phoebe and herself were slightly less 'anti-Elder' than their sister.

"Paige! How can I help you?" she said, happy that one sister took the time to orb in occasionally, even if it was only to ask a question.

"Hey Jada, I was wondering if you had any information on a man called Gozaburo Kaiba in the archives?"

"Come with me, I'll see." She said, and they orbed to a room stacked with shelves and files, for longer than the eye could see. Paige mentally groaned at the thought of having to sift through these, but Jada led her down an aisle to the K's, the KA's, and the KAI's. It was far quicker than she would have thought and she supposed that it must be under some spell that made searching easier. Jada picked out a file that read; Kaiba, Gozaburo on the front.

"Here we are." Jada said, casually flicking through the file, "It says he was a big time evil magician, worked for and employed demons, ran a multi-billion enterprise called the Kaiba Corporation, had one son, who was killed in a run in with a HGV, he attempted to bring him back, but only managed to store his mind in a computer system. It also says that when it became apparent that his son could never be his heir, he adopted another boy…"

"What was his name? I need to know the name!" said Paige urgently. Jada looked down at the file and said;

"Seto Natachi. Why?" she was slightly puzzled as to why Paige would want to know about him.

"We're, um… investigating him… shall we say, and I need to know his details." Jada nodded and found his file and read it to Paige;

"Name: Seto Natachi, (Kaiba)

Age: Eighteen.

DoB: 25th October 1987 AD,

Bloodline: Witch/Whitelighter,

Status: Owner and CEO of the Kaiba Corporation (2003-) student at Domino High - Japan

Powers: Unknown. Predicted: Particular Manipulation, Electrokinesis, Pyrokinesis, Orbing, Healing, Shapeshifting, and Telekinesis. Others possible. Powers bound aged eleven.

Summary: Born to a powerful witch and an arc-whitelighter, Seto Natachi (now Seto Kaiba) and his younger brother Mokuba were magical boys with the highest potential, until their powers were bound and their memories erased by their now late stepfather in 1998 AD.

Their mother – Sonomi Kojata (Natachi) the daughter of the Japanese witch queen – died in childbirth in 1993 AD, and their father – Jaku Natachi – was killed by a darklighter in the same year. They were adopted by Gozaburo Kaiba in 1994 AD, and took his surname.

Seto believes to this day that magic is non-existent. He is believed to be the reincarnation of a young Ancient Egyptian High Priest, and is the rightful master of the Millennium Scepter, but refuses to accept it.

And you say that he is under demon attack, right?"

"Yeah. He actually sounds pretty impressive." Said Paige quietly. Jada agreed.

"I knew his father – a long time ago. He was the most talented whitelighter I ever saw, head and shoulders above the rest. He was assigned to charge Sonomi Kojata, the witch princess of Japan…"

"Wait… Witch princess?"

"Some countries have rulers of the witching society for that country. But not in America, in Asia and Africa mainly, and in some parts of Europe."

"Oh Sorry, carry on."

"He was assigned to charge Sonomi Kojata, as she was the heir to the Japanese witching throne, she was a heavily targeted by demons. Little did we expect him to fall in love with her, and we weren't too happy about it at first – the whole witch/whitelighter no no,- but they were a perfect match, and after she died giving birth to their second child, he broke down. His eyes lost the sparkle they had always possessed, and his performance as a whitelighter was never what it had been, and when he was attacked by a darklighter, he didn't even call for help, I think he lost the will to live." She said sadly. "I miss him, and so do the others that know him, but love can be cruel. As you know Paige." She said, referring to her late love Kyle.

"Yeah," she replied. She had found out what she needed to know, and these last pieces of information were assembling in her mind:They had to find Kaiba.

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