Once Upon A Hack
Chapter 3
By Castianna
"Hello, What have we here?" A british voice said as two hands settled on Rachels shoulders. Rachel looked up into chocolate brown eyes containing interest and a hint of evilness. "Who are you?" Rachel said indifferently.
"I am the thief king Bakura and I demand you tell me what it is you are doing here!" he said.
"Hmm. Im hacking." She shrugged him off and went about her work. Bakura grabbed her and turned her away from her laptop.
"What is hacking?" he asked.
"God your dense!" She said impatiently.
"Well what is it?" He asked again, A little annoyed that this pathetic mortal has having trouble grasping the concept. Rae sighed.
"Modern thievery. Very sneaky and hard to get caught." She mumbled and turned back to her laptop.
"Thievery huh? Excellent. I excel at thievery, teach me all!" He said with happily.
Rae was immersed in teaching the thief king all when she heard a scream followed by a yell. Sighing she got up from her laptop and went to the location of the noise. Intending on telling them to keep it down that people were trying to concentrate. When she got to the clearing she saw Kaiba heading into the bushes. Sighing she decided to follow him. "Wow it sure got dark in a hurry." She mumbled.
"Whats going on?" She asked Kaiba as she caught up with him. "Wheres my friend and how the hell did you make the sky go dark?" Rachel had just said something completely blonde.
Seto looked at her. "I didn't do anything to her, She was snatched by someone…. And your such a moron. The sun set. Baka!"
Malik was dragging Ashley through the trees. "Do you even know where your going?" She asked.
"Yes." He said
SPLASH!
"Sure, and you didn't know there was a creek here??" She asked sarcasticly.
"I knew it was here." He grumbled as he stepped onto the rocky shore.
"You are a bumbling idiot, You cant even kidnap someone properly. Now Im going to freeze to death!" She yelled at him.
Kaiba, followed by Rachel, followed by a rather confused Bakura stumbled onto the beach behind them. Seto saw Ashley soaking wet and shivering, yelling at her kidnapper about the proper ways to kidnap someone… Odd. Shaking his head he walked over and placed his trench coat around her shoulders and pulled her close to him. Effectivly shutting her up. He looked down into her eyes, "Are you ok?" He asked.
"Ya Im fine." She said and snuggled into his warmth.
Bakura saw Malik and walked over to him. "So, you failed at kidnapping. Hmm. Cant have you fumbling the real deal later on. Come on, we'll have to learn the proper way now wont we." Bakura prattled on to Malik about kidnapping properly as they walked off. Malik stole one last look at Ashley before they disappeared in the darkness. Rachel glared at Kaiba, not liking the fact that he was holding Ashley a little to close.
"Ok I think something needs to be explained here!" She said.
"I don't need to explain myself to you." Seto said coldly. Ashley elbowed him.
"Seto and I have known each other for years. We met when we were little." Ashley started.
//////Flashback\\\\\\
A young girl with blonde pigtails wanders around a small playground alone in a residential area in Tokyo City. This is Ashley at 8 years old. Soon she is joined by a young boy with brown hair and blue eyes, and another younger boy with black hair and indigo eyes.
"Hi." Ashley says.
"Hello." The older boy says.
"Im Ashley, would you like to play with me?" She asked.
"Ok." He says.
"Well I need to know your names to play with you." She says, placing her hands on her hips like an adult would.
"Im Seto and this is my brother Mokuba." He says.
Soon an older woman walks over to the park. "Come on Ashley. We have to go now."
"Do you have to go?" Seto asks.
Ashley nods. "Ya, Im moving away. But maybe I will see you again someday Seto." She said and gave him a hug. Then she walked away with her mom. She turned back to wave.
"Wait!" Seto yells out. Ashley stopped and turned around. "Keep this." He says and hands her a small silver locket on a silver chain.
"Ok," Ashley whispers and gives him a little kiss on the cheek. "Good bye Seto." She says and leaves with her mom.
//////End\\\\\\
"I had been living in Tokyo at the time but my parents were moving back to North America. I thought I would never see them again, and I eventually forgot about them." Ashley paused and looked at Seto. "Then my parents decided to move back to Japan."
//////Flashback\\\\\\
"You don't even care how this will effect me! Well guess what… Im not going! Im not leaving!" Ashley yelled. She is now 15 and her parents are making her move again, and not just a simple move across the street like last summer. No they wanted her to move all the way to a place called Domino Japan!
"You will be leaving with this family at the end of the month and that is final!"
Ashley stormed out of the room and upstairs to her bedroom. And like she had done countless times before when she was upset, she closed her fist around the little silver locket that she always wore around her neck. She got comfort from it. She slept.
It was on her first day of school in her new home that things changed for her in Domino. Ashley was directed to a desk at the back of the class beside a young man with brown hair. He was sitting there reading a book, not really paying any attention to anything that was going on around him. When she sat down she began playing with her locket.
"Could you stop that." The boy said. "Its distracting and annoying." He sneered. Ashley let the necklace fall back to her neck and began doodling in her book.
Kaiba, the boy, looked over at Ashley. That necklace looked so familiar to him, but he needed a closer look to be sure.
The day went by in a flash for Ashley. Soon she was on her way home. She was almost there when a limo pulled up beside her.
"Get in." Kaiba growled and opened the door.
"Why?"
"I need to talk to you."
Ashley got in the limo and sat down opposite him. "Are you kidnapping me?" She asked.
"No I am not. I merely wish to know where you got that locket?"
"That is none of your business Mr. Kaiba."
"Oh I think you are wrong, I think it is my business." He smirked.
"What do you mean?"
Seto reached over and looked at the back of the locket, There engraved on the back was his mothers initials. His eyes widened.
"It cant be….where did you get this?" He asked, looking her directly in the eyes.
"A friend gave it to me before I moved to Canada." She said quietly.
"A friend?"
"Yes, A friend. His name was Seto, Mr Kaiba. And I would really like to go home now, please." Ashley said.
"Ashley, how come you seem so sad to be back, when you never wanted to leave in the first place?" He asked.
"I…my best friend is back in Canada. I had to leave her behind." Ashley whispered.
"Hmm, well thank you for keeping my locket."
"Huh? What?" Ashley was stunned.
"If Im not mistaken I gave this to you before you left."
Ashley stared at him. "You… your Seto?!" she asked in surprise.
"You mean to tell me you sat beside me all day and you didn't know my name?" He asked with a laugh. Ashley nodded.
They were soon engaged in conversation catching up and making up for lost time.
"You became famous after I left." She commented.
"Ya I guess I did." He smiled.
"The only thing is, I heard that the CEO of Kaiba corp could be compared to a living breathing block of ice." She said.
"Ya, don't give away my secret, My rep would be down the drain." He laughed. "So what do you say to renewing our friendship?" He asked. "A movie… or buy the whole theatre perhaps?"
"I hope that was sarcasticly said?"
"No, I was completely serious."
"But you couldn't possibly."
"Actually yes I could."
"Oh." And both teens began to laugh.
//////End\\\\\\
"How come you never told me any of this?"
"Well when I came back here the second time, Seto and I had gone through a really chaotic breakup and I wanted to keep him in the past.
"So how come you broke up?"
Seto looked a little sheepish and Ashley told the story.
//////Flashback\\\\\\
"Seto I cant believe you, You lose once to Yugi and you shut yourself off to everyone? I don't get it! It was just a game! Your acting like a spoiled little kid who isn't getting everything he wants!" Ashley yelled at him. Seto walked past her, brushing her off.
He walked to his office and slammed the door in her face, locking it to keep her outside. Ashley banged on the door and continued to yell at him for 30 mins. Finally she gave up. Leaving the hall she went to her room at the mansion and packed her things. Then she left a note for Seto and left to join her parents back in Calgary. They had moved back there but Ashley had stayed at the Kaiba mansion. "Well no reason to kick around here anymore." She mumbled and walked out the front door.
//////End\\\\\\
"I can still repeat the words in your letter, I read it so many times." Seto said quietly. "' Im leaving, Im going back to Canada. Im going for good. I don't think I can stay here with you anymore. Come and find me when you decide to grow up, come and find me when you can handle the fact that Yugi beat you. Its just a game Seto. Just a stupid little game. So when you can grasp the fact that you cant always win, look me up. I cant promise I will wait for you… but just take some advise from me. Grow up before its to late. Good bye.'"
Ashley looked at Seto, tears shinning in her eyes. "He did phone me once, and I almost went back to him. But then he pulled that stupid stunt at Duelest Kingdom and forced Yugi to give up the duel. That was very stupid of you."
"Can I explain the logic behind that stunt?"
"It doesn't matter now."
Seto nodded.
"Ok, well I hate to break you two up, but we should head back to camp, its just way to dark out here."
The three of them went back to camp where Ashleys family was back and making smores at the fire. Ashley and Seto sat on the far side of the fire. Ashley began cooking a marshmallow. Seto watched her. Rachel sat to Ashleys right side typing away furiously on both laptops. Wait, both?! Ashley was momentarily distracted and that was all it took for her marshmallow to catch on fire. That brought her attention back and she started waving it around and right into Setos nice black trenchcoat. He looked at her skepticaly as she started to laugh. He laughed a little to then stood up.
"I must be going, I have a new product to launch on Monday. And I need to do a final check for flaws. Which reminds me, will you come with me to the launching banquet on Friday?"
"Um, ok, yeah, I'd love to."
"Excellent, I shall see you when you get back from your camping trip. He got into his helicopter and took off.