Blood & Roses

Author's Note – Here's a new story... what do you think??

Disclaimer – I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh and I wonder if I HAVE to do this disclaimer thingy…

Chapter 1

Eyes On You

That's IT!

Kaiba slammed his hands onto the keyboard; as usual he worked until late hours at Kaiba Corp but for the past 3 days some punk had played an electric guitar and now he had enough. Tonight he would find the source of the infernal racket and make who ever was responsible pay for disrupting him.

Abruptly he stood up, taking one final sip of coffee and bounded out his office to the roof of the KC building. His white trench coat swished behind him as the wind howled and his face was plastered with rain. He brought his hand to his face to wipe his hair out of his eyes and noticed a figure standing near the edge of the building, lowering their electric guitar to the ground; Kaiba rushed forward prepared to give whoever it was hell, "HEY!" He called out as the figure with long white hair took one step on the ledge; she turned on her heel to face him; though it was dark except for brief flashes of lightening he couldn't see her face too clearly; however she looked at him coolly. Kaiba suddenly realized what was on this girl's mind – she wanted to jump!

"NO!" he shouted, running after her; but she turned her back to him and was about to ready herself for one hell of a jump. Geez, she really must be suicidal. The sudden compassion for a complete stranger surprised him and as he made to grab her hand… he was too late. She jumped.

She didn't even scream.

He rested his hands against the ledge looked down trying to make out where on the street she landed but he could barely see anything – not that he expected to that high up. Immediately he sprinted to the elevator and felt tense as it slowly reached the lobby. He ran out to the location outside his building where he estimated she should have landed and was astounded to find that there was nothing.

No body. No blood.

Not even a shred of her clothing.

"I must be hallucinating again." He groaned while massaging his temples. "Wait. Definitely a coffee deficiency – I only had 12 cups tonight… Need…. More…" and with that decided he strolled back into his office and carried on working.

2 Days later

He knelt before a large stone tablet with a Blue Eyes White Dragon carved into it. In his arms was a beautiful girl with pale skin and white hair. She appeared to be peaceful in her slumber… only she wasn't sleeping.

She was… Dead.

Kisara blinked. Always the same vision plagued her but putting that aside she was restless. And hungry. Which was unusual, she didn't need to feed daily but there was something extremely tempting about the scent of the man named Kaiba. Just recalling it made her eyes change from blue to a very light violet; and an extra circle would form around her pupils. This has to stop! She thought while taking in deep breaths, exercising self-control and promptly reached for a wine bottle; poured the deep red contents in a cup and warmed it up in a microwave; afterwards she pressed it to her lips and drank the blood deeply. As a substitute for human blood she acquired blood packs from animals – such as wolves and other strong animals. It usually satiated her thirst but that all changed tonight. Damn him! She thought gripping the cup in her hand, it shattered and all the pieces dropped to the floor. She cursed while picking up the shards and disposed of them in the bin in a total of 3 seconds.

Being a vampire had its props – especially the super speed, the super strength… the only real disadvantage was the thirst.

Putting a strand of hair behind her ear she disappeared to ease her restlessness. Before long she found herself outside the KC building - again. She groaned. I've become obsessed; it appeared that fate was doing everything to draw her to that man… wait. She mentally corrected herself. As a creature that preys upon the innocent even fate rejects us… the creatures of the night. Forsaken by God himself.

"Oh God. When did I turn so cynical?" She wondered out loud and flew up the full length of the KC building; near the top she spotted him working on the computer, as usual. For 3 minutes she just floated right outside Kaiba's window and watched him, and continued to do so until he turned around only to find nothing. Instantaneously the sweet and sometimes heart-wrenching music continued… but this time Kaiba ignored it; whatever was up there he felt no desire to confront it, especially if it – or she planned on hopping off the edge again.

"Well, that was weird." Kaiba muttered; and promptly resumed his work, he would be exhausted tomorrow morning… but as long as he had caffeine in his system he could do anything.

"Class, I'd like to welcome a new student. Her name is Kisara Hunter," Mrs. Reynolds said before whispering, "Good luck."

It was the next day and since Kisara had the appearance of an 18 year old it was in her best interests to start school in order to blend in with other humans.

Kaiba's eyes widened. It's her… the girl who witnessed Yugi and I duel, and I'm positive it was her who jumped off the top of my building. Now to find out what it is about you that fascinates me; because whatever it is – I don't trust it.

Kisara did everything in her power to resist sitting next to Seto Kaiba – his first name she found out after snooping around in his house when he finally passed out from exhaustion. Unlike him, she couldn't sleep; even if she wanted to. She didn't stay too long to watch him sleep as tempting as it was; because she was afraid of the other temptation…

This was strange to her. No mortal had ever been as appealing as this one was; and she knew that with her Vampiric charm she could easily lure him and ultimately kill him. The only thing that really stopped her last night was the fact that she saw even more value in him being alive than as her sustenance. Another problem was that her Vampire senses didn't seem to agree.

However as she strode past Kaiba, her determination faltered and sat in the desk directly next to him. She felt his curious gaze upon her face but determinedly refused to look at him; when the bell rang just as she was about to stand up she felt a hand on her shoulder and she looked up to see Seto Kaiba's form towering above her.

"How did you do that?" He asked frustration evident in his ice cold eyes.