Author's Note: I DO NOT OWN YUGIOH OR THE SONGS USED IN THIS FANFIC! Seriously that's why its called a FANFIC! OMG I totally forgot about this until I looked at my older work and now I feel like starting this again (Yes I'm weird I've been told). So ready? Ready? Drum Roll…
Song of the chapter is (Cue the screaming for anyone who knows this song): Finger Eleven Paralyzer
Well I'm not paralyzed; But, I seem to be struck by you; I want to make you move; Because you're standing still; If your body matches; What your eyes can do; You'll probably move right through; Me on my way to you
Chapter 5: Mana and Memories
(Atem's POV…still)
A bright light shone and enveloped Mana and Will. I squinted but still couldn't see anything, I waited patiently for the light to go away. What I saw surprised me, Mana lay in Will's lap crying while Will stroked her hair.
"Its ok Mana." she whispered.
"What the hell did you say?" I asked really curious.
Will laughed, a genuine laugh "Dumb human, I said 'Life over take darkness. Darkness will cease to exist in this body. Make this darkness become light once again.' of course I wouldn't expect you to know Japanese."
"What do you mean by dumb human?" I huffed
"Well if you haven't noticed I'm not exactly human." she retorted her eyebrow raised
"I know that much! But humans aren't dumb." I shot back
"I never said all humans are dumb. I said you were a dumb human." she laughed.
I crossed my arms and pointed at Mana "She's getting up."
"Mana are you ok?" Will asked looking at Mana
"Yes." she sniffed
"Come on get up off the ground." Will said getting up and holding out a hand.
Mana shook her head "You shouldn't have saved me."
Will kneeled down again and hugged Mana
's head into her chest "Yes you did Mana. You didn't deserve what happened to you. Consider this as Life giving you a second chance, after all if you didn't have some good in you Life would have killed you."
Mana nodded and pushed away from Will, together they got up. Mana looked over at me seeming to just notice me.
"Hi." she smiled
I nodded and smiled, even though I won't admit it out loud Mana was quite pretty. Mana looked down and blushed noticing what she was wearing which happened to be only a pair of short shorts and a dark green tank top, both stained with blood. I removed my jacket and threw it at her.
"Don't want anyone to see that." I nodded
"Thank you…"
"Atem." I grinned.
"Thank you Atem." she finished
Will looked from me to Mana and made a face "Lets go."
"Go where?" Mana and I asked.
Will groaned "My apartment. I want a shower and a different outfit."
"Do you have two showers cause I cant remember the last time I used actual water to take a shower. Stupid Daku use each others blood, don't worry I never participated in that. Instead I used the lake but it was freaking cold." Mana grinned.
"Ok eww yes we have two washrooms." Will stuck her tongue out.
"Yay!" Mana cried out running in front of us.
"Mana do you have any idea where you're going?" I called out after her.
She stopped and blushed "No."
"Dumbass." Will said walking past her.
"Hmp your still as mean as ever." Mana huffed
"Oh trust me I can be meaner." Will said flipping her hair.
Mana skipped beside me. It wasn't until then that I noticed how big my jacket was on her, since I was the same height as Will and Mana was about a inch or two smaller the jacket went down to her mid-thighs. It practically covered the shorts, if it wasn't for the fact that you could see a bit of blue sticking out from the edge of the jacket. I turned a bit read and continued to walk beside Mana with Will leading the way.
Will's POV
I refuse to turn around, every time I do I either see Mana blushing, Atem blushing or the two of them talking and their both really close to each other. I also feel really gross, being covered in blood can do that to you, I don't know anyone who likes to be covered in blood from head to toe. Keep walking and hurry up would you? I scolded myself. My pace picked up and behind me I could hear Mana and Atem pick up their pace too, it didn't take long to get to the hotel. Once inside we walked to the elevator ignoring all the stares, what they've never seen two girls and one guy go into a hotel room? Wait nope scratch that cause it sounds really dirty. Once upstairs I open the door and walk in Mana follows after me practically running me over in the process of running to the shower. I shake my head and look at Atem before pointing to the TV. I left him in the living room and go to my room, I look through my stuff looking for something that would fit Mana. She's shorter and has more curves than I do so her selections is quite minimized. After pulling out things she might like and laying them on the bed for her to find, I pick out a towel and a outfit for me. I crawl into the shower and throw my dirty clothes into the hamper. The warm water feel good, I watch as blood washes down the drain, I feel bad for the people who have to clean this water again they must come really close to having heart attacks when they see blood in the system. I stay in the shower for about half n' hour, I can tell Mana got out when the water went from warm to burning hot. By the time I got out the time was 4:30, I shook my head trying to dry my hair fast but only succeeded in whacking myself in the face. Changing into a pair of skinny jeans and a blue tank top, I tied my hair up and left the room. I stopped walking and my eyes widened when I saw what was happening on my couch, turning on my heel I left the living room and entered the kitchen. No way did I want to see two people making out, especially when the two barley knew each other and one of them was my cousin. Checking my phone I saw I had about 30 text messages from Bridget, I sent one back telling her what had happened, she yelled at me to come over with Mana and Atem. I smirked and told her that they were making out on the couch. She called me screaming and telling me to get them off the couch.
"Yo lovebirds get off the couch. We're going to your house Atem." I called out
"Eeep Will how long have you been out of the shower?!" Mana screamed.
"The time is 4:45 so about 15 minutes. Jeez how can two people make out for that long?"
"You would know if you had a boyfriend." Mana shot back.
Laughing I walked them out of the hotel building "Tell me when you find someone that would suit me."
Mana and Atem continued to talk, at this rate they might be able to fill in the 18 year gap.
It didn't take long to walk to the game shop and the second we came we were run over by a over enthusiastic Bridget.
"MANA!" Bridget screamed and ran over hugging poor Mana to death.
"So are you and her a couple?" Joey asked gesturing at Mana.
Atem turned red "Will, did you tell them?" he roared
I hid behind Mana "Maybe." I sang
"You've got ten seconds to run." he growled
I laughed so hard I ended up on the ground "You…seriously…think…you could…catch up…to…me?" I gasped.
Mana looked at me then at Atem before also bursting out laughing "She…has…a…point…Atem."
Bridget raised an eyebrow "Does he know?" she asked really suspicious.
Mana and I nodded. Mana was wiping tears from her and I was clutching my stomach to stop my sides from bursting open. Atem huffed and turned away muttering something. Mana stopped laughing suddenly and looked at me, her eyes wide. He irises where rimmed with a gold now instead of red. The gold indicated that she was in Guardian form. I stopped laughing and felt my eyes gain their gold rim. At the same time we looked at the game shop located just across the street, Duke's house. My eyes traveled to the top of the building. A man was crouching at the top of the building, his hair was partially covered by a hood and he wore a huge black trench coat to keep the light from touching him; you could still see his mouth which was curled up in a evil smirk. He held out his hand which was covered by a black leather glove, in the centre of his hand a raven emerged.
"Daku's leader." I whispered so that only Mana and Bridget could hear me. Bridget nodded and Mana gasped.
We all watched as the bird opened it wings and shot out of the leader's hand. As it neared us it gained more speed and headed towards Bridget, right before it hit her I pulled her towards me, the raven dropped a piece of paper was it flew off. I stared after it in silence as Mana picked up the paper. I watched her scan it over before falling to the ground shaking. Tearing the piece of paper from her hands Bridget and I read it.
Dear Traitor, unless you're too dumb to realize this. You are going to be hunted now too. Hope you enjoy life with your family since they won't be around for long.
I clenched my fists. The dumbass he had no idea how powerful my family and I were, after Aria's death we found something that could have probably saved her if we'd known about it earlier.
"What was that all about?" Joey's voice broke through my thoughts.
"Nothing Joey. Forget all about it." I shook my head
Everyone shrugged and started talking about something connected to Duel Monsters. My thoughts where else where, I cant let the Daku leader escape whether I'm on duty or not. I sighed and shook my head before turning around and following everyone inside, I'll just tell Dante through text. Pulling out my phone I started typing the situation out to Dante, it didn't take him long to text me a string of swears, giggling I put the phone away and ran to catch up with everyone.
A few hours later Mana got along with everyone and hated Duke, I'm so proud of her.
"So rich-boy's throwing another tournament?" Joey asked.
Yugi nodded "Yeah, from what I hear KaibaCorp is losing some profit to SchroderCorp and Kaiba's getting pretty agitated."
"Who the hell is Kaiba?" Bri, Mana and I asked.
"Oh that's right you haven't met Kaiba yet." Tristan had hissed the name Kaiba.
"So I'm taking it you don't like him?" I laughed.
"He's an asshole. I suggest you girls stay away from him." Atem warned.
"Atem if we can handle Duke I'm pretty sure we can handle Kaiba." Bri laughed.
"Kaiba's not a creep." I blurted out before clamping my mouth shut.
Bri and Mana gave me a look, I gave out an embarrassed giggle and turned away.
"Do you girls know Kaiba?" Yugi questioned.
"Nope" "Absolutely not!" "No way." we yelled.
"Will you're the one that said he wasn't a creep. If you don't know him how could you possibly know that he's not a creep."
Think dumbass think! You're the one that started this! They can't know about how I know Seto Kaiba. I don't know him well and I haven't seen him since like ten years ago at that business conference when Gozaburo Kaiba was still the head of KaibaCorp!
"I've seen him on TV!" I stated
"Oh that makes sense. Kaiba usually hates attention but he loves it when it reflects on KaibaCorp!" Joey laughed.
I sighed. That was too close for comfort, even Bri and Mana seemed relieved but that didn't stop the two from sending me death glares. I just shot some of my own back at them to make them shut up.
Sure I don't know what Seto Kaiba was like anymore but I doubt that during the ten years of us being apart he changed from scared but confident boy into creepy and perverted. No that's not the Seto Kaiba I knew. I know he's had a lot of girlfriends but it only seemed to please him for a day or two, after that he just seemed to leave and the girl's 15 minutes of fame were up. Its not like I can point fingers at him considering that I've had about 5 boyfriends that only lasted about a month each in the last 4-5 years. It just seems like second nature for the rich and famous to have someone clinging onto them at every public gathering, if you go alone then it become the biggest gossip of the century, but if you go with someone people start creating little nicknames and those things stay even after the relationship is over. Unlike Kaiba I haven't gone through about 3 per year, maybe 1 or 2 at the most.
The reason for that would be because I haven't gone to any public gatherings in about 3 years and one of the reasons for people not recognizing me on the street would be because back then I had my hair dyed brown. My dad didn't want me to be seen with my real hair color until I inherited the empire which should've been Aria's, both empires should have been Aria's but now that she's gone and Dante isn't allowed to inherit one of them and he refuses to inherit the second one, I'm stuck with both. Bri could inherit one but only if I die or let her take it, but my poor twin has enough to deal with.
I couldn't help but smile as I thought about Kaiba's and mines last encounter.
8 years ago both of us ten and we both had the school that should be given in 11th grade. I decided to skip out on curfew and go for a walk. Subconsciously I walked to a place I hadn't been to in a while, the Kaiba's garden which was located behind their mansion, last time I came I was caught by the butler which they call Hobson? Or something like that. Scaling the stone wall I jumped onto a oak tree and started climbing, it was probably the tallest tree in all of Domino and that excited me. The elementary which was beside Kyūketsuki Academy, was tiny. A one story building with a basement and a secret passage in case of emergencies or something. The one time I had tried climbing the 6 story high Kyūketsuki Academy I had been caught by a enraged 17 year old brother who happened to be in his second last year of high school. I have seen Dante angry before but this was past furious, he told my mom who practically banned me from the school aside from visits to see Dante. Either way there was no way in hell that I would be able to climb the Academy building so the next best option was some of the skyscrapers but those were off limits and back then I actually listened to the rules. So I walked around until I found the biggest tree in Domino, ever since then I had gone there to climb or if I wanted to be alone. I never would have guessed that a small boy with brown hair and blue eyes would also enjoy coming to that very spot, sometimes I would see him and I'd just watch him stare out at the city. It wasn't until one day that I saw him bleeding and blinking back tears that I actually talked to him.
"What's wrong?" I whispered climbing down towards him.
His head shot back and I saw his tear stricken face "Who are you?! What are you doing here?!" he snapped.
I grinned and pulled a tissue out from my pocket, he cringed away when I touched his face to wipe away tears "I come here everyday. I've seen you around but you always looked so relaxed and I didn't want to disturb you, but today you're crying. What's wrong?"
"What's wrong is none of your business." he pushed my hand away.
"I cant just leave." I fought back
"Yes you can this doesn't concern you."
"Well…you're right it doesn't concern me, but you are bleeding. If you don't get that check out it could get worse. Here let me."
I placed my hands above the cut along his back and concentrated, soon the deep wound across his back disappeared.
"Whoa…how did you do that?" he asked
I smiled "It's a s.e.c.r.e.t."
"I wont tell anyone." he promised.
"Ok. You promise not to tell anyone?" I leaned forward until our noses touched.
"I…I promise." he stuttered
I drew back and place my mouth to his ear and whispered "I'm a Guardian."
Now that I think about it I was quite stupid for tell some boy my secret but he just nodded as I explained the secret and even to this day he hasn't told anyone. Later that evening he told me his name and what had happened. His name was Seto and he had been adopted by Gozaburo Kaiba, Seto hadn't been doing his studying instead he had been playing with his younger brother. Gozaburo saw them playing and beat Seto, right as Gozaburo was going to beat Seto's brother Seto jumped in the way and saved his brother from harm. As his punishment he had earned a cut starting from his shoulder and all the way down to his mid-back. I gasped and wrapped my arms around Seto as if to protect him from harm, if only I could do that. Sadly after a few months he stopped coming to the tree, I was told it was because he had inherited his stepfather's company after he mysteriously went missing. Like I believe that shit, knowing Seto he did something to make his stepfather disappear.
"Will…Will…WILL!"
I blinked my eyes a few times registering the fact that I was sitting in a chair at Yugi's and Atem's house.
"What?!" I groan not exactly happy that they snapped me out of my memories.
"Well you're in a bad mood considering the fact that you were dozing off! Wait…how much sleep have you gotten?" Bri asked looking at me with concern.
"I haven't slept since yesterday." I grumbled realizing how truthful that was.
"Whoa aren't you tired?" Joey asked
"No. I survive off of 10 minutes of sleep so a day or two without sleep isn't bad." I informed him
"Uh huh. Tell that to someone that's buying that bull! I know you sis, the only way you can stay awake with only 10 minutes of sleep is if there's a…" I slapped a hand over Bri's mouth and gave her a glare.
"You trying to get us killed?" I hissed so only she could hear.
Bri's eyes widened and she shook her head.
"Could you finish that?" Tristan pressed.
I glared at him "Nope. No way is she going to finish that thought."
Bri nodded since my hand was still over her mouth.
"You know what? I am tired, lets go home." I glared at Mana and Bri, they nodded and grabbed their jackets quickly.
As we waved goodbye I heard Joey mutter what sounded like "If looks could kill…" I grinned. My glare probably could kill someone who wasn't used to it, but Bri and Mana, along with some others, have already experienced my glares. Bri and I yelled at each other while Mana laughed and hugged us saying how much she missed our constant bickering; we then yelled at her.
Mana stopped walking and looked down at the pavement "I'm sorry…" she whispered before falling to the ground.
Out of instinct and caring, Bri and I ran over to her. We wrapped our arms around Mana and hugged her. "Its ok Mana, it wasn't your fault, you didn't decide to turn. You were forced to." Bri whispered.
"She's right Mana. don't worry about it, everything will be ok. I notified Dante about the situation and he said three things. One he can not wait to see you, two Mahad cannot wait to see you and three the council forgives ou and is giving you back your status as the twentieth top ranked Guardian." I grinned.
"M…Mahad is still alive?" Mana stuttered.
I nodded "Yup, we found him unconscious about 2 miles away from the house. Which isn't around anymore."
Mana giggled and her eyes shot up, the pain, fear, regret and sadness were erased from her eyes "Yay when can I see him?"
"After we're done this mission." I said.
"Wait what mission?" she asked
Bri laughed "We have to come up with a suitable punishment for Duke. He broke into the academy and was caught making out with the Dean's daughter, Star."
Man laughed "I've always hated Duke and I know Star is a whore but who would have thought she'd go as far as making out with a human!"
This time I laughed "And Atem and you are an exception to 'making out with a human'?"
Mana blushed "No…but he's the first guy that I've made out that I actually enjoyed."
Bri and I exchanged looks before smiled and getting up off the ground, we both held out our hands and Mana grabbed them. Midway through pulling her up we let go and Mana fell back onto the pavement.
"Ow!" she yelped.
Bri and I laughed uncontrollably and Mana kicked our feet. We fell over and landed on Mana who groaned in pain.
"That wasn't part of my revenge." she complained.
"Karma!" I laughed.
"How did I get karma?! You were the one that let go!" she yelled.
Bri and I laughed harder and got up, Man also got up without accepting either of our hands.
"Lets…go." Bri gasped.
I nodded and held onto Mana for support. By the time we made it to our apartment room my sides hurt like hell and Mana's shoulder had crescent moons on it because of my nails.
"You're…sleeping…on…the…couch." I gasped for air.
Mana nodded and grabbed some of the extra blankets and pillows before reclining the couch lying down on it. She flicked on the tv and started surfing the channels, I slowed down my laugh to a giggle before running into the shower. Thank god for Mana, she made me do something that I haven't done in a long time and I wont regret doing ever. Laughing.
Authors Note: Yay next chapter is up. Sorry I havent updated in a while but, baby cousin, school and my parents setting up their bedroom in my computer/study room, is sorta slowing everything down. I finished this in the limited amount of free time I have. Thank Ra that spring break is this Friday, maybe I can get up more chapters but no promises. This chapter idk I think its longer than most of my others since it takes up about 5 pages or so… oh well I worked hard on this chapter. Kaiba will be introduced into the story soon and I'm not exactly sure if he has had girlfriends before or not, but since he's a fricken billionaire I think that he should've at least had some. So please Review, your reviews literally make my day. So again please review, criticism is allowed!