This fanfic was originally written by my friend and all the credit goes to her. I'm just posting it for her because she can't find time to post it.
Disclaimer: Yu-Gi-Oh does not belong to Sandra. The only characters that she has rights to are Sandra Castro and Maura Matataki.
Chapter Seventeen
Seto and Sandra arrived downstairs with the others. Yugi was the first one to say something.
"What happened?" he said, "We heard screaming."
"It was nothing," Sandra said, "we just got in a little argument, but everything is fine now."
Her parents came up to her and apologized for not telling her about the letters.
"Now that you know the truth, we must say that we're not very fond of Seto Kaiba," Mrs. Rodriguez said.
"That's okay," Sandra said, "Not that many people are, but you'll love Mokuba. Everyone likes Mokuba."
So everyone went back into the living room and talked. When night came; Joey, Serenity, Bakura, Tea, Tristan, Duke, Mai and Yugi went home.Seto and Mokuba slept over Sandra's house.
It was midnight and everyone in her house was asleep. Sandra sneaked into her parents' bedroom and took the letters that her biological father wrote to her. Then she went back to her bedroom and opened a box that contained papers. She took out a light blue paper that had some writing on it and compared it to the writing on the letters. They didn't match. She put the letters in the box, closed it and went to sleep.
The next morning, Sandra's parents took off to catch their flight and after they left, Sandra took out the letters and the blue paper.
"Look at these two papers," she said to Seto, "The writing doesn't match. It doesn't match!"
Seto looked confused, "What are you talking about?"
She pointed to the blue paper and said, "This is a note that my dad wrote to my mom before he became a jerk. I compared the two writings and they don't match."
Mokuba looked at the papers, "Maybe he changed his writing style."
Sandra kept shaking her head, "No, this is a completely different writing. Someone else was writing letters to me! But why?"
"I thought we talked about this yesterday," Seto said, "You agreed with me that your father did write the letters."
"Oh please," Sandra responded, "I knew that if I didn't agree with you then you'll never let it go."
Just then, Yugi knocked on the door and came in. "What's going on?"
"Sandra's being paranoid," Mokuba said, "She thinks that someone else wrote her dad's letters."
Sandra started to get annoyed because no one believed her. "Someone else DID write the letters!"
Then a voice came out of nowhere, "You're absolutely right."
Somebody was upstairs but they couldn't tell who. It was more than one person as far as they could tell.
"Who's there!" Seto yelled.
Out of the shadows appeared Noah and Marik.
As Noah and Marik walked down the stairs, Sandra kept looking in disbelief. How could they possibly get out of the shadow realm? It wasn't possible unless someone from this realm released them.
"How did you get out of the shadow realm?" Mokuba asked.
"Your friend Bakura let us out," Noah said, "or should I say the evil spirit of the ring."
"But we got rid of the ring at the park." Yugi said.
Marik shook his head in disappointment, "You of all people should know that an item always finds a way to the person it was destined to be with."
"Enough about that!" Sandra yelled, "Who cares how you got out, it's done. Now, what do you know about the letters from my father?"
"Oh, yes," Noah said, remembering, "He didn't write them." He took a long pause before saying, "We wrote them."
Everyone was supised to hear that, especially Sandra. Why would they write her letters? How did they know how to contact her? What were they planning? She wanted to ask them all these questions but all she ended up saying was, "How- why- but - what-"
Noah could see Sandra's struggle in words so he made it easier for her, "You see, we needed to get you alone so that our plan would succeed. Marik was going to get your item and I was going to get my revenge. We figured the best way to do it would be by writing you fake letters from your father so that you would write back and we could earn your trust, but your stepparents get in the way of our plan. They didn't show you the letters so we couldn't get to you that way. That was when I built my theme park to trap you guys, but you got away from us."
Hearing this, a part of Sandra felt relieved, but another part of her felt depressed because her father never wrote to her.
"Now that we are here," Marik said, "I can take over the mind of Sandra and force her to give me her item."
Just then Yami appeared, "You can not do that. Your powers are weak from wandering the shadow realm. I'm afraid your plan won't succeed."
Marik laughed hysterically, "Fool! Don't you know that I feed upon dark energy? The hatred and anger of this girl will give me enough strength to take over her mind."
"She isn't full of anger," Seto said, looking at Sandra, "She's a kind, fun-loving girl. You can't possibly expect to get hate from that!"
Marik wagged his finger at Seto, "Kaiba, don't you know that the history counts a lot for a person's personality? She has deep, dark secrets that want out." He turned to Sandra, "I bet you were feeling happy when you thought that your father wrote to you. Ha, ha, ha! Why would he write to you? You are a pathetic excuse for a daughter. Don't you think that if he wanted to write, he would have done it? Doesn't it bother you that he's still alive and doesn't want to contact you at all?"
Marik's words got to her. She was so filled up with rage at the moment that she could have killed Marik and Noah by beating them up. She yelled out, "Shut up! You don't know anything! JUST SHUT UP!"
"Don't give in to his taunting," Yami screamed, but it was too late. Sandra tried to take a good swing at Marik but Noah hit her from behind with a vase and knocked her out. She was laying on the floor when Seto came to her. He was holding her in his arms.
"Sandra," he said, "Are you ok? Are you alright?"
Sandra awoke suddenly but she looked different. Yami knew immediately what it was. She had been controlled by Marik.
Sandra got up and walked towards Marik and Noah like if they were just some friendly strangers. Seto and Mokuba didn't know what was going on. They could see in her eyes that she was different somehow but they didn't know what to think. Seto didn't even want to consider this nonsense of "mind control". He was too old and mature to believe in something like that. Mokuba, however, thought otherwise.
"Sandra!" Seto yelled, "Come back here! Why are you going to them!"
"She's being controlled by Marik's power," Yami said.
Seto had an angry look on his face. "Listen Yugi," he said, "don't give me this crap about mind control! There's no such thing!"
Mokuba looked at Sandra then at Seto. Unlike Seto, he believed in the possibility of mind control because he's seen Marik do it before. "But that's the only logical explanation," Mokuba said to Seto, "Why else would she go to them after all the mean things they said? Just think about it, Seto..."
Seto was about to say something to Mokuba when Noah interrupted. "You should really listen to your younger siblings, Seto." he said, "They always know what's best for you and since I'm one of them, I suggest you give me Kaiba Corp. That is, unless you want something bad to happen to Sandra."
Then Yami jumped into the conversation. "You leave her out of this! Don't harm her over a grudge that you have on Kaiba!"
Marik looked over at Yami with an evil smirk on his face. "Now, now Pharaoh," he said, "Don't think that we leave you out of all the fun. I know your weakness and she looks just like Sandra."
Yami automatically knew he was talking about Naomi. He was filled with anger at the moment and took two steps towards Marik before stopping because Marik said, "Don't take another step unless you want something bad to Sandra's Millennium item. Wouldn't be a shame if Naomi had nowhere to go? If she ended up as a wandering spirit?"
Yami didn't know what to do. There's no way he's just going to put Naomi in danger like that. He would lose her again. Then, what can he do? He felt so powerless.
"Alright!" Seto yelled, "Let her go!"
"No!" Marik responded, "Unless you duel me! But this isn't goint to be an ordinary duel. If you lose, I'll be claiming Sandra for myself!"
"What do you want her for?"
"I'm thinking she'll make an excellent queen once I take the Pharaoh's power."
"That's not going to happen, Seto said, "Okay, let's duel."
"Oh," Marik said, "You won't be dueling me face to face. I think my new mind slave and future queen will duel for me."
"You coward!" Seto said.
"Call it what you want," Marik said, laughing, "You are going to lose this duel!"
Major cliffhanger huh? Also Seto is so hard to convince. But if you wish to know what happens, I will post more when I get 5 reviews/flames. If you have questions, don't be afraid to ask. Continue reading Kaiba's Love.
Darkside Girl: Thank you again for your wonderful review. Joey is a bit of an airhead and Seto just makes fun of him for it which is so funny. I hope you continue to read and review. Thanks for being one of Kaiba's Love loyal reviewers. But if you could, tell me if you find any mistakes with it k? Even though I catch most of the ones that Sandra missed.
shamanprincess123: Thank you for your review and I'm glad you like the story.
merissala: I'm not a fan of Yugi but I am a fan of the Pharaoh. But when Marik showed up in the show, I was debating who to like better. But I think by the end of the Battle City season, Marik had won. Also I'm glad you like the story. Keep reading and reviewing.
As for the rest of you readers of Kaiba's Love out there, I'm glad you read it but if you find the time, please review. Thank you. As for the past reviewers of Kaiba's Love, thank you for reviewing.