Chapter 6

In one of the many guest rooms in Kaiba mansion, the owner was staring at his sleeping guest.
It was already 3pm and he hadn't even gone to the company. He had returned home with the first rays of the sun, fortunately after Mokuba had left for school.
The tests the doctors insisted the girl to take in the hospital took more time than he had expected. But there was nothing wrong with her health, they said. She just needed to rest.
But, anyway, after a long time he had slept properly. And as soon as he had woken up he went to see her.
He went through the events of last night many times in his head and still nothing made sense. Save for the cut beneath his eye – and the sleeping girl in front of him- he could have sworn that he was hallucinating.
He looked at her again. A peaceful look on her face, her chest going up and down rhythmically. A picture he had seen before. 'She looks exactly like her.'
A part of him almost believed it. He shook his head pulling himself together.
Could it be one of Ishizu's cheap tricks? But what would be her possible profit? He had long come to the conclusion that those people who believed in such things were stupid, to say the least.
In the meanwhile, Sara feeling eyes on her, stirred in her sleep. She opened her eyes slowly. It took a while for her to remember who the tall man standing over her was. She whispered something.
"What?" Seto asked in a low voice.
"Water…"
He filled her a glass from the small table next to her. "Here." He gave the glass to her. She didn't move.
'Oh, c'mon now…' he thought uneasily. "Can you get up?"
She groaned slightly and tried to raise herself in the bed. Seto saw that she was moving with great difficulty, but he didn't know how to react.
He brought the glass to her, helping her to hold it because her hands trembled. He kneeled down as she drank.
She put her hand on his, which made him feel awkward.
Such intimate actions that to most people are natural, for him felt strange. He hadn't nursed anyone before, except maybe his brother when they very little.
"Better?" he asked in his usual tone after she drank.
Sara nodded and fell softly on the pillow, exhaling. "Where am I?" she whispered again.
"In my house."
"Why?"
"Well, the doctors didn't found anything so that you'd have to stay in the hospital, and I didn't know where you live, so…"
Sara remembered being in hospital then. She had been surprised to see Kaiba there with her. "What happened to me?"
"You…" he wondered what he should say. "I was attacked. I found you there, unconscious. And I got you to the hospital. You know the rest."

Flashback

Sara's eyelids fluttered opened. A feeling of angst spread from her chest to her fingertips. She waited for her heartbeats to return to their usual pace, breathing deeply in her dark room. Then she remembered.

She was running on the desert. The sun was burning her skin, the ground hurt her feet. But she didn't stop. She had to prevent… something.
She reached a building that looked like a temple. She stopped to catch her breath.
"Kisara!" she heard someone calling her. Her heart was filled with happiness. She was there in time. She saw a man dressed in royal robes running to her.
"Seto-sama!" she exclaimed. Despite her weariness she run to him. "I knew I'd find you."
"Its not safe for you to be here, Kisara. "
"You saved my life the night my village was destroyed, and now it's my turn to save Seto-sama." She said smiling.
"Seto don't be fooled by her innocence! She wields a mighty creature! You must take it to become the Dark Pharaoh!" yelled a man from the roof of the temple.
She felt very afraid. "Seto, please, don't listen to him."
The ground beneath their feet begun to shake. "Zorc's resurrection has begun." The dark man laughed. "My son, you must act swiftly and and use your Millennium Rod to seize her spirit."
"I am not your son. My father died when he pledged his loyalty to the Shadows. Let's go Kisara."
They started to leave but rocks rose from the fround blocking their way. Seto summoned a monster which broke the stones. They started running again, but the Dark man apeared in front of them. "You're no match for me Seto."
"We'll see that." Seto said decisively and ordered his creature to attack.
"You leave me no choice." Yelled the dark man again, summoning a huge monster that destroyed Seto's.
Seto bent over and clutched at his chest. "Seto!" she yelled.
"Seto if you won't take her power, I will!"
She had to do something. She felt a great energy flowing through her. She closed her eyes and concentrated in gathering up her power. When she opened her eyes she saw a white dragon flying above her head. She knew that it was her spirit.
She ordered it to attack, but the dark monster avoided the attak and attacked her.
She fell back, on Seto's feet. A circle was created around her dragon's neck. A stone tablet arose and her creature begun sinking in the stone.
She stood up again.
"Kisara, you mustn't do this. You no longer have the strength to fight." Seto told her worriedly.
"I know what I'm doing. No matter what it takes I won't let him hurt you."

What a lively dream. But it wasn't very frightening. Why had she reacted like this?
She got up, unable to sleep again. She saw the clock. It was 2am.
For a strange reason she wanted to take a walk in the town.

End of Flashback

Sara winced at the strange memories. "Was I attacked?"
"Don't you remember what happened to you?"
"Not really." She tried to recollect her memories from last night. "This has never happened to me before." Sara murmured thoughtfully.
Seto wondered if she was faking it all.
"I'm sorry I was a burden, I'll leave…" she tried to raise herself.
Ok, maybe not. "And how exactly will you do that?" he told her with a bit of irony.
He was right. She felt really unwell. "Do you live with parents or anyone else?" he asked nonchalantly. She shook her head.
"Then stay here. It'll be more of a trouble to take you home. The doctor said you could take something to tone up so you'll feel better soon. Besides" he continued "I'd like to ask you some things about yesterday when you remember."

"Is my brother at home and he won't eat with me?" asked Mokuba Kaiba the cook, seeing that she was preparing a disk with food.
"Your brother will be here, soon. This food is for his guest."
The dark-haired kid frowned happily and went after the cook. "A guest? We never have guests. Who is it?"
"A girl, I don't know who she is. You didn't expect your brother to tell me." The cook said.
Mokuba raised an eyebrow and smiled wickedly. "And why she doesn't eat with us, too?"
"I think she's a little bit sick." She said going upstairs. He followed her.
The kid knocked the door at Sara's room. "Come in." a weak voice was heard.
Mokuba entered the room shyly.
Sara looked at the long-haired kid questioningly. "Hi." He said cheerfully.
"Hi," said Sara.
"I'm Mokuba, Seto's brother."
"Sara," she said tiredly.
"Mokuba, you shouldn't bother our guest, she's not feeling very well." Said the cook as she put the food down and left.
"I'll be down in a minute." As soon as the door closed the kid asked "Are you Seto's girlfriend?"
"No." she shook her head. "I'm… a fellow classmate. I'm just staying here for a while."
"Oh," said Mokuba somewhat disappointed. "Aren't you bored in here?"
Sara raised her shoulders.
"Wanna play?"

The elder Kaiba was late as usual for dinner, but he hoped Mokuba wouldn't be mad. As he approached the stairs he heard laughing from White's room. He went there and opened the door slowly.
He saw his little brother sitting next to the girl, duel monster cards on the bed. The kid was laughing and she was smiling weakly at him.
"What are you doing?" asked Seto narrowing his eyes.
"Hey. big brother. We're playing. Can we use your deck, too?"
Seto lowered his eyes thoughtfully. Maybe he could check this way if she… "No." and left.
"Don't take him wrong." Said Mokuba smiling. "He can be very possessive with his deck. He has all three cards of his favourite monster, you know. He's kinda obsessed with this, the blue eyes white dragon."
The white-haired girl winced at the hearing of the name.
"You should see our jet. It's just like the dragon. And there is a statue of it in front of Kaiba land and…"
The kid went on talking. Sara was confused. In her fream, there was a white dragon. She didn't believe in dreams, but this was too weird. Then she remembered her visit at the museum and decided she was influenced by that. It was just a coincidence.
"…And there was one more card, and because the owner wouldn't give it to him he tore it. He didn't want this card to be used against him." Mokuba saw that she was thoughtful. "He's not bad, you know."
Sara smiled. "I'm sure about that."
"No, really. Has he treated you nastily? It's just his way of treating people. He's been like that ever since we were adopted."
"Were you adopted?"
"Yeah, by Gozaburo Kaiba. From him Seto got the company. But he didn't treat us well. Especially my brother. He used to smile before all that." The kid said melancholically opening his locket and showed the picture of his older brother to Sara.
She smiled sympathetically. "I know. I mean, if you love him so much, there must be many good things about him. "
"There are. He's my best friend in the whole world."
"After all, he probably saved my life yesterday. And he had helped me at school too."
She explained to the kid what had happened in both cases.

The long-haired boy came into the dining room where his brother was waiting for him on the table.
"So, how was your day?" the older boy spoke as they begun eating.
"Fine. Yours?"
"Good."
"What's wrong with Sara?"
"She had an accident."
"Is she your girlfriend?"
"No."
"At first I thought she was pregnant or something." Chuckled the kid.
Seto choked. "Don't be ridiculous, Mokuba."
"Why did you brought her home?"
"I didn't know where she lived and she didn't have to stay in the hospital." said Seto indifferently. "Was I supposed to leave her on the streets?" he asked serious.
"No, I didn't say that." The ate in silence. "You like her, don't you?"
"Why would you think that?" asked Seto defensively.
"She told me that you helped her in school with those bullies."
The older boy huffed. "Don't take it the wrong way. I always wanted to put off those idiots that kept bugging me since I started there. After all, they took it a bit too far. You can never know how these things are going to end. I just didn't want any bad publicity concerning our name."
Mokuba nodded and smiled widely looking at his brother. He knew that Seto wasn't as bad as he wanted to appear.