Author's Note; Okay, I relize this took an extra-long time to upload, but the return to school is not only taking a lot of my free time, but it's also depressing me...also, I reccieved a slight spell of Writer's Block after my twin sister 'Renolvr' proof-read through the upcoming chapters and suggested a few ways to improve the story...in other words, she really fucked-up the plot...but in a good way, cos I've taken some of her suggestions and worked them into the plot...and now a sequel seems prominant on the horizon...it'll depend on thos ever-important reviews!! XXXXX
In The Kaiba Mansion Later That Night
"I'm going after her!"
Marik looked up as Kaiba said it.
"Are you completely gone in the head? She's an Aralanti!"
Seto stood, angry now; he knew Kari-Kisara- better than any of them…well, at least he'd thought he did………but he knew she wasn't evil. The two young men stood head-to-head, ready to punch one another, with everyone; Ishizu, Odion and Yugi and his gang looking on. As the tempers rose, Yugi stood.
"Maybe we should all just calm down for a minute of two."
Seto merely rolled his eyes; one day he would flatten that four-foot hobbit…someday, but as for now, he just sat and placed his head in his hands, sighing heavily.
"I agree wit Money-Bags…"
All eyes immediately shot to Joey; he'd just agreed with Kaiba! Even Seto raised his head and looked at the blond, shocked.
"You do?"
"Yeah, I mean dis Kari…ehhh, Kisara, I rememba her from da Pharaoh's memories, and she woz good, and I know dat our one is good aswell…"
Joey tried his very best to bite his tongue, but old habits die hard and he just couldn't resist the tantalizing temptation of slagging Kaiba, just once.
"Sure, I only went out wit her for a week…it's not like I actually slept wiv her, huh Rich-Boy?"
"Grab him!"
Tristan and Odion caught Seto as he made to lunge at Joey. Ishizu stood, shooting a laughing Joey a poisonous glare.
"I agree that she is not evil…but I am also well-aware of the dangerous repercussions pursuing Kisara will bring upon you, Kaiba; I can round up some Tombkeepers to escort you to Cairo if you so wish, but I'm afraid that upon the sands of Egypt we are on the Aralanti's playing field and my family may not be able to protect you against the vast numbers of the clan."
As his head cleared somewhat, Seto Kaiba came to a realization; the girl he'd considered as a friend, the young woman he'd been intimate with………it was all just an alias, a false persona concocted to fool all idiots whom got too close and he, being the love-struck idiot he was, had fallen for it, hook-line-and-sinker……… Kisara Hirotsh had made a fool out of him and he was still stinging from that…he wanted nothing more to do with her, whether he loved her or not…Kari would remain a painful memory, whilst her true identity would be obliterated from his life; once bitten twice shy…
"Don't bother Ishtar…I don't want anything to do with her, ever again…"
As the dweeb patrol and annoying Egyptians departed from his house that night, Yugi giving him yet another teeth-grindingly chirpy "assurance", Seto actually contemplated whether or not to leave the Alsatian guard dogs loose…but then he decided against it; no dog deserved the pain of biting Yugi Muto's butt…
"K…Kari, what's going on?"
Daknar laughed as his twin imitated Mokuba Kaiba's voice to perfection.
"Did you see the head on Ishizu Ishtar? Priceless!"
Kisara looked over her shoulder at the dim-witted pair and sighed.
"Will you two noisy assholes shut the fuck up!"
At this, the identical duo looked around and smirked at their cousin. Saheed was the one to talk, a wide grin on his face.
"It was way too quiet without you, cus!"
As Bakura wrapped his arms around her slim waist, the boys took it as a sign to move ahead; Denian shot her a meaningful look, to which she nodded; he wanted to talk to her when she was free. Her three cousins didn't like her fiancé one bit and he didn't like them either; Denian, as he first cousin had been the first one to be offered the job of Clan leader until she turned of age, but had turned down the post, preferring to stay and keep watch over his troublesome brothers, he seemed to be the only one capable of striking fear into the two pranksters. Next in line for the leadership had been Saheed and Daknar, but none of the elders were stupid enough to offer them the posts; the two couldn't take anything seriously, so the post had then fallen to Bakura.
"I've missed you…"
Kisara smirked at his voice and turned in his embrace and kissed her husband-to-be deeply, though it just didn't feel right; she felt as though she were cheating on Seto; Kisara had always assumed she'd learned to love Bakura, but with Seto, it ha taken no learning…as the kiss ended, the violet-haired young man smirked.
"I can't wait for you to be me wife…"
She merely smiled at this, knowing his intention; until she was of age and married to him, Kisara Hirotsh was to remain a virgin…her first sexual experience was to be with her husband, as in the days of old………as he walked off to his bed chambers she secretly wondered, when they did have sex, would he notice it wasn't her first time? Could guys tell?
It was later that night, when all the other members of their expansive clan were sleeping silently, that Denian finally got to talk to his cousin, on her own.
"Talk, Kisara."
"So not following you…"
"Kaiba, he wouldn't look at you, and why'd he sound so shocked you were engaged?"
At these accusations, she looked away, diverting her hazel gaze to the ground and idly scuffing it with her toes.
"Denian…I…I slept with Seto while I was at the mansion…"
"What? Are you crazy? Kisara, that's adultery! Do the words "stoned to death" mean anything to you?"
"Yeah, they do mean something, so don't treat me like a fucking retard; I'm not Saheed or Daknar!"
"Ohhh, you're not married yet…you weren't supposed to have sex with anyone besides Bakura…what were you thinking?"
"I wasn't thinking! For once, I was acting on my feelings, Denian! I got to know what it felt like to be a normal girl my age, and I liked it………but I can never be normal, can I?"
At this, Denian looked at his cousin with pity, eying the white scars on her neck and wrists from where she'd been shackled to the ceremonial table at the age of six…
"Don't go there, cus…"
"Go where? Where could I fucking possibly go, huh? Besides the part where I wish Zorc was never implanted in me!"
"You can't say that…"
"I have every right to detest what was done to me! D'you know what it feels like to have your Ka split in two; one half White Dragon and one half Zorc?"
As he shook his hazel head, blue eyes swimming with what she knew was brotherly caring, Kisara continued.
"They're always fighting one another…and it's tearing me apart! And ever since I've been in close vicinity with Seto, the White Dragon seems to be acting up more; you saw it in the lobby, it almost summoned itself…if that happens and the two are summoned, then they'll really start fighting and one will have to lose, Denian, either way…"
He finished the sentence for his younger sister-figure.
"They're both intertwined into your Ba, so it doesn't matter which one wins…you'll die either way."
"Can I tell you something?"
"You know you can, Kisara."
"I don't think our war is worthwhile anymore…and if it is, I think I'm on the totally wrong side…"
"Whatever you choose, I'll stand by you, and so will the twins."
"What about the clan?"
"They come second to you."
At that comment, she smirked; at least it was proof that some people cared more about her, as an individual, than as a figurehead of the Aralanti legends…
Five millennia ago, a young noble priest fell below his station and fell in love with a young peasant girl who was, unknowingly, the heir to a great clan of assassins; the young woman fell totally in love with the noble priest…little did that Kisara know that she would be in the same predicament five thousand years later, just in a whole new and more dangerous era.
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