Dangerousgirl: (creeps out slowly) I don't think anybody saw me come in…
Seto: I FOUND YOU!
Dangerousgirl: …shit
Seto: I'll say. Now you can't escape me, or your raging fans, Heh Heh payback for the last chapter.
Dangerousgirl: Hee hee, you can't do anything to me, I'm the authoress and I can do anything I want to you.
Seto: ……
Dangerousgirl: That's what I thought, now where was I? Oh, yes in the last chapter Yami or Atem is about to kill Seto. And one note to all you readers...YOU GUYS ARE SO MEAN! I CHECKED HOW MANY HITS I GOT ON MY STORY AND BEFORE I POSTED CHAPTER FOUR THERE WAS ONLY ABOUT 125 HITS AND NOW IT'S AT A FREAKIN 425! AND I ONLY GOT 7 REVIEWS I SERIOUSLY WILL NOT POST UP THE NEXT CHAPTER AFTER THIS UNTIL I GET MORE REVIEWS BECAUSE I AM GREEDY! IF YOU JUST SAY COOL! I'LL BE FINE WITH THAT!...so yeah thanks for reading and possibly reading.
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Chapter 5 Recognition
When the thief replaced the knife to his throat that was when Seto realized that the thief was just giving him his last kiss, before he killed him. "The kiss of death" Seto thought ruefully before closing his eyes again.
Atem looked down at the CEO coolly before bringing the knife to his opposite shoulder and swinging it down toward the CEO's neck.
Seto waited with his eyes squeezed shut, waiting for the final blow. After a few seconds, Seto slowly realized that a blow wasn't coming; he carefully opened his eyes to find that the thief had stopped the knife about one centimeter from his neck. The thief's eyes looked a little clouded, as if he wasn't looking at Seto but was listening to something.
"Atem! Stop!" Sai's voice came on the small microphone; Atem quickly halted his assault on Kaiba's neck to listen to Sai. "Kaiba must have tripped some kind of alarm. There are several police officers heading your way! You won't be able to get out the way you came in!"
Atem listened carefully to Sai's words; finally he refocused his eyes on Kaiba, and slipped his free hand into a pouch, bringing out the metal twine. He grabbed Kaiba around the collar pulled him up, and turned him around, slamming him back on the desk. He brought the CEO's hands behind him, and tied the metal twine around tightly. He whispered to Sai "Get the helicopter ready."
Seto was surprised when the thief decided to tie his hands up instead of killing him. He winced slightly when the metal twine bit into his skin. The thief pulled him back up, and brought the knife once again to his throat, just as the police burst through the door.
"Let him go! And put your hands up!" The police started shouting immediately, raising their guns at the thief behind him.
Seto smirked, "You better give up. You're outnumbered." He whispered to the thief.
Atem was amazed at the CEO's confidence, one second he was waiting for death and the next second, he was smiling and telling him to give up. As if. Atem dragged the CEO closer to the window, dragging the chair also. "Atem, I have everything ready, I'm just waiting for you." Sai's voice came over on the microphone. "Finally" Atem thought, he turned to the CEO's ear and whispered "Thanks for the kiss." before throwing him straight into the arms of the police. He grabbed the chair and threw it at the window, the impact breaking the glass. The air pressure suddenly released caused all the papers to start flying, causing chaos.
Seto blushed at the whispered statement before he was thrown into the police, when the thief broke the window he tried keeping his eyes on the thief through all the flying paper, as he brought his hands underneath his legs and brought it up front, he quickly grabbed one of the twin swords and broke through the twine. He looked up just in time to see the thief with one leather boot on the ledge, and his left hand was in a one-finger salute. "He's not gonna do what I think he's gonna do, right?" Seto thought, just as the thief jumped out.
Seto ran over, to the window his hair and trench coat blowing all around him, as he looked down he saw a helicopter plunging down to meet the falling thief, he watched in amazement as the thief met the helicopter on the way down and thrust himself in just as the helicopter had to pull up to avoid a crash. As the helicopter came up to the right altitude, Seto could see the thief waving goodbye to him, before closing the helicopter door.
Seto smiled, what the thief didn't know was that during all the chaos in his office, he saw something from the thief, a strand of hair…a blond strand of hair…a blond strand of hair that he knew very well.
Atem walked to the cockpit of the helicopter to find his partner at the controls. Sai looked over to Atem when he plopped down onto the copilot chair. "Mission accomplished?" Sai asked. Atem grinned "Of course"
Sai's face quickly turned into a frown, "Atem, one of your blond strands came out of the mask." Atem quickly raised a hand to his face, to find that one of his blond strands had indeed come out of his mask. "Do you think anybody noticed?" Sai asked, Atem nodded "Probably, if that CEO is even half as attentive as I am, he definitely would have noticed."
Sai thought it over, and then asked "Alibi? Or scapegoat?"
"We better make it both." Atem answered, slipping off his mask "We have that party to attend to tomorrow right? The Kaiba Corporation is one of the nominations, as well as my company. If the CEO sees my blond strands, he might try to accuse me, so I better have an alibi and a scapegoat."
"You mean the party that you are going to," Sai corrected "We have that job also to do during that party."
"You know what I mean" Atem smiled "Since you will be hearing everything you will have to suffer just as much as me."
"Speaking of hearing everything." Sai's eyes narrowed, dangerously "What was up with that last sentence I heard you say to the CEO."
Atem sweatdropped "S...Sentence?" he asked
Sai's voice answered dangerously "Yeah, the whole 'thanks for the kiss' sentence."
Atem laughed nervously, he had to tread lightly or he might get no sex tonight, "You know it meant nothing, I didn't mean anything by it, just was getting the last say. You know you're the only one for me."
Sai continued to look skeptical until Atem got up and stood behind his chair, he started to whisper intimate things about what he would do to Sai's body until Sai's breath grew ragged, and he finally said "Okay! Okay! I believe you! Now stop distracting me or else we'll crash!" Atem laughed, relieved that he was off the hook.
Meanwhile…
"Big brother!" Mokuba cried, running to meet his brother at the door "I saw the news and it said that Kaiba Corp. was robbed, and you were in the middle of it. Are you all right?" Seto hugged his brother assuredly "I'm alright Mokuba, just tired. It's just that the thief stole the new chip that the company invented, that's supposed to be able to make duel monsters seem extremely real, and since there are some duel monsters that are simply too dangerous to become pets or companions to people, I made sure to make a list of the soft cuddling duel monsters that were acceptable as pets, in the wrong hands they can make the dangerous duel monsters come to life and they can try to take over the world as cliché as that sounds, but don't worry I'll make sure to get that chip back and make the thief pay."
"Are you sure?" Mokuba asked, still not convinced.
"Positive" Seto said confidently, he paused for a second before asking "Did you see Yugi?"
"Yeah, I did" Mokuba answered, "At about 10:30, I stayed for about an hour with Yugi trying to convince his friends to come to the party."
Seto thought 'Then it couldn't have been Yugi, but who else do I know that has blond strands? There was one person, but he's gone' his heart gave its usual lurch at the thought of Yami. 'Yami' he thought 'Even I would be happy if it was you who robbed KaibaCorp.'
"Big brother, do you know who did it?" Mokuba's voice broke Seto's concentration
Seto blinked, and then said "I don't know who did it, but I will find out and make them pay. But enough about that, Yugi and his friends agreed to come?"
Mokuba nodded, "Yeah, it took the promise of lots of food for Joey and Tristan to come, and that there will be lots of people that Bakura can steal from, Malik is coming because of the fact that he'll get a lot of attention with the way he looks, and the fact that Tea can dress up to come also."
Seto nodded, "Then I guess I'll pick them up in the limo"
Mokuba asked "What other companies are going to be there?"
"A whole variety of successful companies," Seto answered "The only company I'm concerned about is the company that was nominated for the same award my company was nominated for."
"What's the name?"
"…The Darkness, Yamazaki Corporation" Seto said slowly. "It's a music corporation that released all those new techno, dance, and other music."
"Cool! That Corporation rocks! I love their songs!" Mokuba exclaimed, then quickly retracted at Seto's stare "I mean, Kaiba Corp. is really cool and I hope it wins."
"Thanks, Mokuba for your vote of confidence." Seto said, smirking.
"Well, I can't help it" Mokuba answered, grinning sheepishly "This Corporation is huge, and the President, Atem Yamazaki is a rising star, he's done articles in magazines, but nobody has seen his face because he wants people to love his company for what it does, not for the people it has. He's also a philanthropist, he buys sold out concert tickets and gives them to the kids at the orphanage, he holds parties that's for a good cause, he does a whole lot of stuff like that."
"Gee, he sounds like a nice guy" Seto said, sarcastically
"Don't be like that Seto" Mokuba asked "He was probably in an orphanage too."
"Well, what do you know of his past?" Seto asked, despite himself he was curious about this Yamazaki guy.
"Not much, I'm afraid" Mokuba answered "Not even with my computer hacking skills, I couldn't find anything about him, and he doesn't like to talk about his past."
"Well, let's see what he's made of when we see him at the party" Seto said, after thinking about the new information about his rival, wait? Rival? He shouldn't think of this guy as his rival, because the last rival he had, was the one he loved and he ended up committing suicide. Seto's heart gave him a painful lurch, that made him clutch his chest, at the thought of Yami.
"Come on Mokuba" Seto said "Let's go to bed."
Atem tossed and turned in bed, his face once again scrunched up in confusion
Dream sequence:
He was in a grand room, with great columns reaching up the ceiling, with drapes of gold and purple hanging from the columns, he saw exotic dancers, with skirts of see through golden fabric, and gold cuffs on their ankles and their arms, they had on various masks and they performed a choreographed dance to the music. He was sitting down, surrounded by several people, but yet he paid them no attention, he was more drawn to someone dancing in the center of the room. The person was tall, lean golden muscle shone from perspiration, he stood out the most because he wore a skirt of blue, golden sandals that tied up to his calves, golden cuffs on his forearms and biceps. His gold mask covered the color of his hair, and covered the top portion of his face. Yet, Atem couldn't keep his eyes off of him, he abruptly sat up and walked away from all the people around him. He slowly and carefully walked up to the tall exotic dancer, the tall dancer paused and faced him, slowly Atem reached up and took off his mask…
Brrriiinnnnnnnnnnnng!
Atem sat up and smashed the alarm clock to pieces, before flopping back on the bed. 'Damn alarm clock' Atem thought, putting his hands over his face, 'Just as I was about to see his face…wait a second, I remember my dream, but I never remember my dreams.'
Atem thought carefully, chewing his bottom lip considering his options about what he should do, 'I could tell Dr. Kilai, but then she might subject me to all sorts of experiments, I could tell Sai, but he might get upset that I dreamt about some other guy, I guess I'll just keep this to myself until my dreams start affecting my work.'
Satisfied to have found a solution to his problem, Atem sat up and started to get ready for the party.
Meanwhile…Atem was not the only one having trouble sleeping
Seto tossed in his bed, sweat pouring down his face.
Dream:
He was back at his office, the thief was chasing him again, but no matter how fast Seto seemed to run, he just couldn't outrun the thief who was gaining on him by every second. Finally the thief caught up to him and pinned him to the floor, straddling his waist. Even through the mask, Seto could tell that thief was pleased that he caught him. Seto stared up into the crimson eyes, 'Who are you?' Seto asked, desperate to know the face behind the mask, the thief stared down at him before answering 'You killed me' Seto's face took on the look of confusion before asking 'What are you talking about?'
The thief reached up to his mask and removed it from his face. Seto's eyes widened when he saw that the thief was…Yami.
"Seto! Seto!"
Seto sat up in bed, awakening to the cries of his little brother Mokuba. Seto opened his bedroom door "What is it Mokuba?" he asked sleepily.
Mokuba said worriedly "Well, one: I heard you crying out in your sleep, and two: You told me to make sure you get up in time to get ready for the party and to pick up Yugi and his friends."
Seto frowned "I was crying out in my sleep?"
Mokuba nodded, "I heard you crying out 'No! It can't be you!' Who's you?"
Seto thought quickly "Uh, I was dreaming about the award ceremony, and the competition won."
Mokuba raised an eyebrow "You were dreaming about the award ceremony?"
Seto nodded, hoping Mokuba would buy his excuse.
Mokuba smiled, "Big brother, that's just like you to be dreaming about something like that. Our company is going to win, don't worry, and if it doesn't well just think it went to a more deserving company."
It was Seto's turn to raise an eyebrow "What do you mean more deserving?"
Mokuba sweatdropped "Will you look at the time! You're going to be late Seto if you don't hurry!" Mokuba took off down the hall in a dead run.
Seto shook his head, then headed off to shower.
After drying himself off from the shower, Seto opened his closet door to find a suitable outfit. After taking a walk around his huge closet, Seto finally decided on tight black leather jeans, with a silky long sleeved blue shirt that complimented his eyes, and to finish off his outfit, he grabbed a leather jacket that ended at his waist.
"Big brother! Are you rea…dy?" Mokuba called out walking in Seto's room, upon seeing Seto's outfit, his question died. Mokuba looked up and down at Seto's outfit, before giving him the thumbs up and saying "Good job, Seto! That outfit will guarantee you won't be alone tonight!"
Seto's eyes widened "Mokuba!"
Mokuba started laughing hysterically, before running off again.
Seto smiled; shaking his head he slipped his cellular phone in his pocket before heading out to meet the chauffer for the limo.
On the way over to Yugi's house Seto thought about his dream, it has been awhile since Seto has dreamed about Yami, why did he dream about him now? 'It must have been the eyes' Seto finally thought 'They remind me so much of Yami's eyes'
Feeling the limo slowly down, Seto looked up to see Yugi and his friends waiting outside for him.
Change to Yugi's POV
"Hey Yugi, you think this is a good idea?" Joey asked tugging at his tie, he and Tristan were wearing identical black suits, except Joey's tie was blue, and Tristan's was red.
"Well, it seems that Seto is really sorry about what happened, and we should give him a chance." Yugi answered, he himself wearing black jeans with his black shirt and his famous adornment of accessories, including his belt collar.
"Well, I agree with Yugi" Tea announced, wearing a tight short red dress "We should make friends with Seto, because nothing is more important than friends… and blah…blah…blah."
Everybody turned away, already ignoring Tea, "Well I don't care about the priest" Bakura said, wearing leather pants with a black muscle shirt, and a long black trench coat with big pockets, obviously the place where he was going to place all the wallets and jewelry, he was going to steal for the night. "I just care about going to the party and filling up my piggy bank." Everybody shook their head; prepared to deny knowing Bakura should he get caught.
"Uh, Malik aren't you going to stop him?" Yugi asked turning to the handsome Egyptian, who was wearing a leather vest that zipped up in front, and cut short, so it showed off his impressive stomach, low leather pants rode down and somewhere along the way, disappeared into black boots, with buckles on them. Instead of his usual gold jewelry, Malik traded them in for silver jewelry instead. "Why should I?" Malik asked, shrugging "Just because I'm Tomb Keeper doesn't mean that I'm going to be stopping him from stealing, just as long as he's not stealing from the pharaoh's tomb, if he does he'll have to answer to my Millennium Rod." He waved around his Millennium Rod a little before tucking it back to his belt.
"You wish, Tomb Keeper" Bakura sneered, taking out his Millennium Ring. "Why don't I have you answer to my own Rod?"
Malik laughed cruelly, "I hardly doubt that your Rod is very impressive."
Bakura's eyes narrowed "How would you know if you haven't even tried? Why don't you give it a chance?"
Malik shook his head "Because we're enemies, remember? You're a Tomb Robber and I'm a Tomb Keeper, therefore we are enemies and I'm not interested in what you have to offer me, last time we teamed up, you didn't hold up your end of the bargain and we both ended up in the shadow realm."
Bakura snarled "Just you wait Tomb Keeper I always get what I want."
Malik smiled sweetly "Bring it on."
During the whole argument nobody noticed the limo come up until Yugi turned and saw a limo headed their way "Look, here comes Kaiba."
When the limo stopped in front of them, Kaiba stepped out. Everybody stopped and stared and the handsome former priest and present CEO, he was absolutely handsome in his blue silk shirt, and leather pants and jacket. Kaiba shifted around uncomfortably, "Well, are you getting in? Or are you walking?" but he was still the cold stiff CEO they all knew.
The entire ride to the party was in tense silence, trying to make conversation with Kaiba, only getting grunts in response; they finally gave up and stayed silent.
When they arrived at the huge building, they entered looking all around them "I hope you all brought your invitations?" Kaiba asked, everybody except Tea held up theirs.
Tea was busy looking through her purse for her invitation "I know I brought it, I just need a few minutes."
"We'll just meet you inside Tea." Yugi called out before being ushered inside. Inside there was a huge ballroom, with a stage at the far end of the room, a band was playing music and taking requests, a huge chandelier hung from the middle of the room, dozens of tables placed on both sides of the room, making a huge pathway for couples to dance without feeling crowded, there was also huge buffet tables on either side of the room which Joey and Tristan were already wolfing down the food.
All the people, he saw were extremely rich, wearing expensive suits and gowns, with expensive jewelry, Yugi could already see Bakura getting to work, taking away their wallets and jewelry. Malik was at the center of attention with a lot of the people with his handsome face and incredible outfit that was actually helping Bakura steal more easily. Yugi shook his head, before turning to Kaiba who was standing beside him, "This is amazing Kaiba, what kind of award party is this?"
Kaiba looked down at Yugi and answered "It's an award party for the best company of the year, it's one of the most prestigious awards a company can ever win."
Yugi blinked "So is your company going to get the award?"
Kaiba shrugged "Well obviously my company will get an award, it just has to beat the competition."
"Who's the competition?" Yugi asked
"A CEO that goes by the name of Atem Yamazaki, and his company Darkness." Seto answered
"I heard of it" Yugi said "I love their songs; I also heard that Atem even makes the songs himself and sings it."
Kaiba shrugged again "Well, I don't care what he does, a technology company is better than music company."
Yugi sweatdropped, he looked around and saw a crowd of people crowded around someone, "Excuse me" he stopped a passing waiter "What's going on over there?" He pointed to the crowd. The waiter turned around, Yugi tried hard not to stare at the waiter's handsome face, his light blue eyes looking down at little Yugi between his light brown bangs that came over his face. 'He looks somewhat like Kaiba, but he looks nicer' Yugi thought
The waiter smiled "They're all trying to get a chance to talk to the CEO of the company Darkness." He bowed slightly before walking away.
Change to Kaiba's POV
The waiter smiled "They're all trying to get a chance to talk to the CEO of the company Darkness." He bowed slightly before walking away.
'Hmm, that waiter looked somewhat like me' Kaiba thought, 'but who cares about some waiter, what matters is that my competition is over there' he started contemplating whether he should go over there or not. 'Well, just to say to him not to be a sore loser when he loses.'
Kaiba started to walk over there when, the music stopped and an old gentleman stepped up onto the stage "Excuse me! May I have your attention! It's time to announce this year's winner of the annual Business award. This year's candidates are the prestigious Gaming technology Corporation, with the CEO that we all know, love, admire and hate! The CEO with the heart of ice, the heartbreaker of Japan as well as cold blue eyes that could break your heart the one and only, Seto Kaiba!"
A spotlight found Seto Kaiba and shone on him, temporarily blinding him.
The old man continued, "And the other candidate is the new, cool quickly rising Corporation, with the mysterious CEO as well as the new rising heartbreaker, Atem Yamazaki!" There was a thunderous applause for the competing CEO, as the spotlight shone on him. Seto squinted, trying to see through the crowd of people that still surrounded the CEO.
The old man raised his hands, "Quiet please! And now for this year's winner is…ATEM YAMAZAKI AND HIS CORPORATION DARKNESS!"
Kaiba's jaw dropped in surprise, before recovering and giving the CEO a polite applause, then quickly dropping his hands and crossing them over his chest.
Yugi clapped his hands enthusiastically before noticing that Kaiba wasn't clapping anymore, so he quickly ceased his clapping, nudging his elbow against Joey and Tristan who were somehow clapping and eating at the same time. Finally, Bakura and Malik who joined them grabbed Joey's and Tristan's hands, forcing them to stop.
"Now Atem Yamazaki," The old man continued "If you would come up and grace us with a song or two, show us that your company deserved to win."
Seto could faintly see a man pushing through the crowd, before heading up the stage, when the CEO finally turned around; Seto felt his heart literally stop at the sight of the CEO.
There on stage…was Yami.
Dangerousgirl: You know I think I'm going to stop right there
Seto: What the hell! You can't just stop right there! That's not fair!
Dangerousgirl: snarling DAMN RIGHT I CAN STOP THERE! IT'S MY FIC AND YOU CAN'T DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT! GOT IT!
Seto: You don't have to scream
Dangerousgirl: Please review if you want more