Phoenix: Hi everyone. I know I haven't updated any stories in a while and I know that sucks! But just today my brother got sick with something and I think I've caught it too so here comes my next chapter and hope that I don't puke the way my brother did!
Deception
By Sailor Phoenix1997
Kisara, Seto and Saruwatari were standing at the base of the mountain under the palace in front of the door leading to the dungeons. Kisara still had the security guard in a headlock.
"Wouldn't you rather we just go inside?" Saruwatari asked.
"Shut up," Kisara said. "We're waiting for my big brothers. And remember, one is a doctor and another is a police officer. So try anything funny and you'll regret it greatly."
"Well Kisara," Tozokou said as he emerged from the shadows, "If you keep holding that man like that, you'll definitely regret it. He could escape at any time." Kisara smirked.
"I was hoping he'd fight back at least a little but no enchilada." Almost instantly Kisara switched so she was holding Saruwatari's wrist behind his back.
"Remember Kisara, hold it in between the shoulder blades." Kisara pushed a little harder but Saruwatari made no attempts to stop her or yell out. The girl's blue eyes narrowed.
"Where are Nii-sama and Ani-kun?" Kisara asked.
"They're doing border patrol in case our little friend has any idea. They'll be able to get to us and help if anything should arise." Kisara nodded and pushed her captive forward.
"You have security access, correct? Open the door."
"Sorry miss but I only have access to the cells. Not the dungeon door." Kisara snarled.
"Hold this lowlife Onii-chan?" Tozokou nodded and took the prisoner from his sister. Kisara clenched a fist as the crystal around her neck began to glow. A white sphere of power the size of a basketball appeared around her hand and she raised it towards the door.
Her blue eyes flashed pure white and the door began to melt. Kisara smirked and punched the door. Instantly, the entire thing, probably five feet of pure iron, melted into a puddle on the ground and disappeared as if it had evaporated.
Her crystal stopped glowing and the sphere around her hand disappeared as she bent over and began panting for air.
"Geez. I need to keep in mind that air is a good thing when I'm using my powers." Seto nodded and entered the dungeons followed by Kisara and a nervous Tozokou dragging Saruwatari.
It wasn't too long that Kisara noticed something was very wrong. Surely her brother was being less gentle than she'd been with Saruwatari and yet the man wasn't even showing any signs of pain. IN fact, he seemed to be enjoying everything that was happening.
She froze in her tracks and looked at the empty cells. The air down here was cold and damp. No doubt that Yugi would be yelling for help or crying from his predicament. Yet, no sounds were even whispering in the halls.
"Is something wrong Kisara?" Tozokou asked. Seto stopped walking and turned to the siblings. Kisara's eyes flicked to Saruwatari, who turned a smirk into a normal stoic face. Kisara's fists clenched as she snapped around and grabbed the man by the collar of his jacket.
"Is Yugi even here?" she demanded. Saruwatari smirked again.
"Don't know. All I was told was that if you reacted savagely to my presence that I was to tell you that your brother's time has been sliced greatly. Even if you were to leave for where he really is now you'd be too late to save him." Kisara yanked the man right off his feet and out of her brother's grasp.
"Listen here you-" She said something that sounded a lot like the English words "sock mocking mustard." Her entire form was trembling with rage. "If that freak hurts so much as one hair on my brother's head, I swear on my grandfather's grave that I will-" Saruwatari scoffed.
"You'll what? Kill me or the dragon hunter? That won't do any help for your baby brother." Kisara's teeth clenched. "That's right. Despair. There's absolutely nothing you can do for your brother now. Should've come back a little sooner, wouldn't you agree? And to think, you're supposed to be the older child correct? That means you protect your brother and you haven't done that too well have you?" Kisara's eyes clenched shut as she set Saruwatari down.
Seto growled under his breath. He walked up to the man and grabbed him by the back of his jacket, yanking him so he was half Seto's height.
"Listen here Saruwatari. Kisara made her choice. We all do. We don't know what would've happened to her or Yugi if she'd returned sooner than now but I can tell you one thing: when you agreed to work for the dragon hunter, you signed your death warrant. But I can give you back your life at the very least. Where is Kisara's brother?" Saruwatari smirked again.
"You already know. His fame started there." Seto growled again as Tozokou opened a cell door.
"Kaiba-kun. If you wish to be done with that creature…" Seto practically threw the man into the cell and the policeman shut the door.
"Where could Yugi's fame have started if not here?" Seto looked down at the bricks and sighed.
"Well, I know for a fact he can't be at Kaiba Corp." Kisara nodded.
"Yes, we know that. Oh, maybe Katsuya or Anzu would-" Kisara froze in her words and clutched at her chest.
"Kisara?" Tozokou shouted as he ran forward and grabbed his sister's shoulders. "What's wrong?" Kisara smiled and then began laughing.
"N-nothing's wrong Onii-chan. I just discovered where the dragon hunter has Yugi!"
"Where?" Tozokou asked. Seto's eyes widened and he slapped his forehead.
"Of course, how could I have been such an idiot!"
"You discovered it too Seto?" Kisara asked. Her face practically glowed with the excitement brimming inside her.
"Yes. Unbelievable. Right under our noses." Tozokou looked from the one to the other.
"What the heck are you two talking about?" Kisara smiled.
"Onii-chan. People knew Yugi defeated Seto before he ever became the King of Games. Not to mention that he got together a band of people that would never have been friends to become friends: A dancer, an outcast, a fighter and… What was Honda-kun supposed to be?" Seto shrugged.
"When I entered high school I think he was a member of a beautification club. He was obsessed with it." Kisara cocked an eyebrow but shrugged it off.
"Yugi's fame only grew at Duelist Kingdom. It truly started at school!" Tozokou looked puzzled. "Right now we have no time for questions and that sort of thing. We have to get back to Japan." Without another word, Kisara spun on her heel an d raced outside with Tozokou and Seto behind her.
Kisara ignored the sunlight's harsh glare in her eyes as she burst out. Right now, her brother was the biggest concern. She raised two finger to her mouth and whistled shrilly.
Instantly a white head raised itself over the forest and let out a long roar before the dragon took off towards her mistress. She slammed her claws into the mountain and crawled around the base a little in order to slow herself down.
Kisara yanked off the reins and saddle as soon as her dragon was close enough.
"Kisara!" Tozokou shouted.
"You can use a saddle all you like Onii-chan! But neither I nor my dragon really care for these annoyances. She flies much faster without them anyway." Kisara flung herself onto her dragon's back and looked at Seto. "Are you coming with us or Nii-sama?" Seto walked over to the dragon and Kisara offered her hand, which he took and the girl pulled him up. "We'll see you at the school Onii-chan!" The dragon raised her mighty head and let out a trumpet of a roar, as if she were charging into the middle of a war, before taking off towards the skies.
Once the familiar blanket of gray clouds appeared under them, Kisara felt her stress lighten a little. Now she was closer to saving Yugi, maybe even really talking to him for the first time in eight years.
The dragon made a descent into the clouds and Kisara's breath hitched. Seto's arm wrapped around her waist and his chin rested against her shoulder.
"Seto… -kun?"
"First off, you can drop the kun part if you want. Second, stop worrying, your brother's going to be fine. Kisara smiled and nodded as the familiar array of colored lightning and booming thunder came into sight as did the school.
"Yugi," Kisara whispered as the dragon descended to land.
Kisara and Seto climbed off the dragon and Kisara patted the creature's neck and looked towards the school. "Be on your guard. The dragon hunter could've hidden Yugi just about anywhere as well as he himself could be hiding anywhere." Seto nodded and Kisara recalled her dragon before they headed inside.
The halls were empty and eerily quiet.
"I would've figured that Yugi would be making some sort of noises to let us know where he is."
"As would I," Seto said.
"Kuri! Kuri!" Kisara looked around.
"Did you hear that?"
"I did but what is it?" Seto said.
"Kuri! Kuri!" A ball of brown fur shot down the hall and tackled Kisara.
"Kuriboh?" Kisara asked. The tiny creature cooed and cuddled into her stomach. She pulled the monster away and gave it a light look-over. It's stubby little green legs kicked out at her like a child reaching for a long-awaited parent. It's big eyes were amethyst-colored and full of innocence like a child. "No way," she whispered as she stood up, still holding the monster at arm's length. "It can't be."
"Can't be what?' Seto asked. Kisara's eyes filled with tears before she yanked the creature against her chest.
"This Kuriboh is Yugi." Seto's mind blanked for a minute in astonishment.
"What? You mean that the dragon hunter turned him-" Kisara shook her head and pulled her head away from the Kuriboh's silky fur.
"No. This Kuriboh is Yugi in the same way my dragon is me." She hugged the Kuriboh again and it hugged her back.
"You've got to be kidding me." Kisara smiled and released the Kuriboh.
"Please lead us to Yugi."
"Kuri!" The furball shot forward with Kisara fast behind it.
"Hurry Seto!" Kisara called as she rounded a corner. Seto sighed and shook his head.
"This is unbelievable and completely ridiculous," he muttered. He took a step forward and –a scream ripped over the sound of the thunder outside and Seto's stomach twisted painfully and sickeningly. "Kisara!" He took off down the hall. The floor seemed to vanish under his feet as everything became a blur and almost instantly held the white-haired girl in his arms, sobbing and clinging to his clothes like her life depended on it. "What's wrong?" he asked gently, running his fingers through her long, silken hair. Seto noticed he was kneeling on the floor and there were a few spots that were a darker shade of maroon than normal.
"Y-Yu-Yugi," she said as she pointed in the direction of the classroom. The door was shut but the window was splattered in blood. The Kuriboh was rapping sharply on the glass with its claws. Without a doubt Yugi was in there.
Phoenix: How's that for a cliffie? Sorry. I've got exams this week so I probably won't have too much time for writing. But once Christmas break comes around, I'll be able to write a little more. Please review and check out my profile for the poll and vote!