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XXVI. Past Love

.Yugi slept most of the morning when there was a soft knock on their door. Yami opened it and it was Kaiba with a dead serious look on his face. The prince hopes that Noah didn't do anything or else he'll send that boy to who-knows-where.

"Kaiba, why are you here?" Yami asked curiuosly.

"We need to talk, alone," Kaiba replied and the two of them left Yugi to his slumber. Yami has no idea where the blue-eyed teen was going until he stop by to some kind of graveyard. He looked around and saw that no one is here.

"So what do you want to talk about?" Yami asked.

"It's about Dark," Kaiba replied. "There's something odd about him."

"Odd? Like what?" Yami questioned, wondering.

"Hmmm, how can I say this?" Kaiba asked himself then he pulled something from his white trenchcoat. It was a laptop with the mind communicator earphone. He typed some keys then on the monitor was some kind of wavy lines but some of them were a bit blurry.

"What's that?" Yami asked.

"This is Dark's brainwaves," Kaiba replied. "I checked it yesterday after the training session and it seems that there's something different about those waves. It seems that he has some enrgy pulses that fuse themselves with the brainwaves. Usually, a human has thousands of brainwaves and was never fused with anything but I never seens this bizarre, Can you tell me what's going on?"

"This is bad, Kaiba might know that Yugi is not from here!" said Yami with a worried glance. The prince thinks that he might not understand this.

"I really don't know. Even if I ask him, it'll be useless." said the prince and Kaiba heaved a long suffering sigh.

"I hope he gets his voice back 'cause the mind commmunicator earphones won't be able to get a truth serum on it." Kaiba frowned as he prayed to the grave. Yami noticed that there's something written on it. It says: Kisara. All of a sudden, the prince felt a tremendous aura from the grave and its power is way beyond than he anticipated.

"Kaiba, who's Kisara?" Yami asked.

"I rather not talk about it." Kaiba replied, sadness was etched on his face and left the prince alone.

- - -

Yami went back to the guest room and apparently, Yugi already woken up. He saw that there's something wrong with the prince so they used mind link to communicate each other.

"Yami, what's wrong?" Yugi asked, a bit concerned.

"...It's nothing." Yami replied as he lied himself down on the bed. Yugi wasn't convinced.

"I don't think so," said Yugi with a frowning look on his face. "I'm going to the library."

As Yugi was about to leave, Yami grabbed his hand, eys that are nearly downcast but not nearly to tears. The spiky-haired boy was a bit surprised at this. Because of the grabbing, Yugi has to stay still in order not to hurt his wrist.

"Don't go," said Yami. "Noah might be there!". Yugi was silent for a few moments then smiled.

"Tell me your problem and maybe I can help you." said Yugi as the prince half-tighten his grip. He heaved a long suffering sigh then finally he let it go.

"I had a talk with Kaiba today and he nearly found out that you're not from here." said Yami without looking at Yugi's eyes.

"I see," said Yugi. "And?"

"I didn't tell him anything but I know that even if I ask you about yourself, it'll be totally useless." said the prince.

"To tell you the truth, you're right," said Yugi. "But I don't think that's the case is it?". Yami just nodded.

"I saw some kind of grave that says: Kisara and all of a sudden, I felt a tremendous aura from it. I tried asking Kaiba but he wouldn't talk about it." said Yami, who was shaken. Yugi calmed him down because he knew that magical energies became powerful when you died and it's normal for a mage to be shaken like that. He hold Yami's hand tightly and it seems that he's comfortable with it.

"...Morning..." said Rinoa when she saw the two teens were a bit downcast especially Yami. "Okay, what's going on?"

Yugi quickly found a paper and pencil then he wrote that says: 'Did you know anything about the grave?' . Rinoa frowned and stared at Yami. She glanced at the paper and quickly wrote that says: 'Yes and I think I saw Kaiba talking to your friend there. Let's go someplace private.". Yugi read it and nodded. Rinoa looked left and right then told the two teens to follow her. They did and so they ended up to her office. When they got there, she quickly locked the door much to their surprise with magic.

- - -

"You can us magic as well!" Yami exclaimed and Yugi wore a very hard frown on his face.

"Yes an please don't tell the students or my adopted sons, it'll be chaos everywhere if anyone found out." said Rinoa, sinking her voice to a whisper. The two teens agreed and she sighed in relief.

"So tell us, who's Kisara?" Yami asked and the woman sighed.

"Kisara is Seto's girlfriend!" she replied and the two teens dropped their jaws in surprise.

"G-g-girlfriend!" Yami stuttred and Rinoa nodded.

"It all started when Seto took the practical exam for SEED. His mission was to retrieve the Blue Dragon Orb at some part of the forest outside this continent. Unfortunately, it was guarded by a girl with blue hair and wore peddler's clothes. If I remember correctly, she asked him a question...something like 'what treasures you the most?'. Anyway, when Seto answered her, she gave him the conditioned that he has to take her and the orb," said Rinoa, recalling the good days. "Then those two fell in love so fast that Seto would do anything to protect her and his brother. When Set came came back from his first official mission as a SEED soldier, she-she-she was murdered and Mokuba was holding a toy given by Kisara. Gods, blood was spiled all over. The Headmaster investigated this and the one who killed her wasn't found. Seto was devastated and for the first time, he cried."

Yami and Yugi were speechless (mostly Yami). No wonder Kaiba was a little proud. Despite the pride he displayed, there was still sadness in his heart and even worse, his brother has to carry the burden as well.

"What happen to the Blue Dragon Orb?" Yami asked.

"It was never found, " she replied, wiping her tears. Yugi felt pitiness for the first time.

"Yami, I want to repay Kaiba for training me," said Yugi. "By finding out, who murdered Kisara!"

"...I don't know if Rinoa would approve this." Yami frowned and somehow Rinoa kinda understood what they were about to say even though she has no telephatic link.

"I know what you're trying to do," said Rinoa. "You want to investigate the cause of her death, why?????".

Yugi stepped forward and stared at her. Rinoa's eyes suddenly went blurry then she fell asleep. Few minutes later, she woke up feeling a little dizzy.

"Can you hear me, Rinoa?" Yugi asked and she gasped in shock.

"Yugi, what did you do?" Yami asked, feeling curious all over his face.

"I just used a mental spell on Rinoa to give her a temporary mind link until we leave this place." Yugi replied.

"Yugi? Is that your name? I thought it was Dark!" Rinoa exclaimed.

"Um...Dark is not my real name...Yugi is the real one..." Yugi said, sweatdropping.

"Okay...now where were we...," Yami said to himself and finally went back to their topic. "With your permission, can we investigate the murder of Kisara?"

"...Alright," Rinoa sighed. "But we can't let anyboby know this especially Squall and Seto."

Um...you guys go ahead, I have a little business to attend to." said Yugi and left the two of them alone. The spiky-haied boy went to the practice room. Coincindentally, he saw Kaiba was practicing his skills and Mikuba was watching him actually more on waiting for his brother to finish his practice. Kaiba looked back and saw Yugi who was watching. With ease, he grabbed the mind communicator earphone and inserted it on himself and Yugi.

"What are you doing here?" Kaiba asked.

"Can we finish the last lesson we had yesterday?" Yugi asked in a reply manner. Kaiba suddenly frowned about this.

"Why?" he asked.

"I want to leave this place as soon as possible so can you?" Yugi said, staring seriously at him. The blue-eyed teen began to smirked at the violet-eyed teen.

"You never cease to amaze me! Fine!" said Kaiba and so the two boys prepared their materials for practice and Mokuba was looking forward to it.

"Okay, yesterday I taught you how to counterattack and now I'll teach you what hapopens if your counterattack doesn't succeed." Kaiba stated and Yugi listened with ease.

- - -

Yami and Rinoa went back to the scene of the crime where Kisara was saw last. There was nothing on the wall pavement although the smell of blood didn't wash off. As the two of them were walking, Yami suddenly sensed a very powerful aura. Rinoa stopped for a while and saw the prince was standing still.

"Yami, what's wrong?" Rinoa asked curiously. They were stopping at one of the students' rooms.

"I sense some powerful aura in this very room!" Yami sia, his voice sunk to a audible whisper. Rinoa looked around and knew it was Noah's room.

"That's Noah's...," said Rinoa but Yami was about to go inside. "Hey, what are you doing??????".

The prince just opened the door and it was dark inside. He assumes that he wasn't in this room but decides to look around. Rinoa sighed and decided to follow him. Most of his room were filled with books and it was such a mess but at least it wasn't stinky. They didn't found anything until Yami saw some kind of a thick book. He brushed the dust off and to his surprised, it was a book of magic.

"Rinoa, when did Noah took this?" he asked her as he showed her the book.

"Hey, that's one of the missing books in the forbidden section but how did Noah get his hands on that. I mean it's not even allowed to borrow books from that section. Only me and Squall are allowed to use this section." Rinoa said. Yami began to feel suspicous then he remember something yesterday night when Noah was trying to pry Yugi's mind. Yugi said it was a mind prying spell. All of a sudden that hit him like a brick and rushed out of Noah's room.

"Hey, what's going on?" Rinoa asked, feeling a bit puzzled. Yami didn't listened and used mind link to find Yugi. Luckily, they were not that far so he took the elevator and went to the practice room. Apparently, Yugi and Kaiba were practicing and Mokuba saw Yami who was out of breath. They stopped for a while and Yugi wonders what's going on.

"Yami, what's up?" Yugi asked.

"We need to talk, now!!!!!!" said Yami with a very big frown on his face and Yugi noticed that he found out something. They went into a corner leaving Kaiba and Mokuba filled with questions.

"What is it?" Yugi asked.

"I found something that you might wanna know," said Yami. "Noah has a forbidden book in his room and I bet that's where he got the mind prying spell. Rinoa says that it's the missing book in the forbidden section!!!!"

"...Let me finish my last lesson with Kaiba," said Yugi and Yami agreed. He went back to the others and the two brothers were curious to what's going on as well.

"What's going on?" Kaiba asked.

"Nothing much," Yugi replied. "Shall we continue?"

Yugi and Kaiba began to practice once again and Yami just sat at the corner where Mokuba was. Kaiba was about to aim his gunblade at Yugi's chest but he counterattack with his Apprentice Rod. Unfortunately, the blue-eyed teen grabbed the rod with his free hand and was about to kick him down with his own feet but Yugi saw it and jumped out of the way then he used wind pressure to send Kaiba flying when all of a sudden they were interrupted with a loud blast coming from the left wall.

"What the??" Kaiba growled as he rushed himself to shield his brother from the blast. The two teens on the other hand were coughing a little because of the dust. When it finally subsides, to their surprise it was Noah and apparently, his expression was disgusted.

"Didn't I told you to stay away from Seto?" Noah said, scowling and all of them frowned but Kaiba became a little angry.

"What do you want, Noah?" Kaiba asked, growling as Mokuba stayed at his older brother's side.

"Nothing really," he shrugged. "But I'm afraid I'm going to eliminate them! Fire Spin!"

A whirling vortex surrounds the two teens but Yami wasn't fazed one bit. He began to cast his own fire spell and it repelled. All three of them stared in shock. Noah gritted his teeth in disgust.

"So you can use magic as well? Interesting!" Noah smirked and Mokuba became frightened and Kaiba froze to his spot. Yami glared at him, his magic began to pulsate. Yugi stared and knows that he can't just stand there, he has to warn the headmaster. With one motive on his mind, he quickly grabbed Mokuba and headed to the elevator. The younger Kaiba wondered where Yugi is taking him. Luckily, he ran to Rinoa.

"Yugi, what's going on?" Rinoa asked.

"One word: Magic!!!" Yugi said and she gasped in shock.

"By who?" she asked.

"Noah!" Yugi said, his voice screeching. Rinoa stared Yugi with a serious look on her face then she told him that she'll find Squall. As she left, Mokuba was still clinging on him.

"Not again!!!!!!" Mokuba panicked and the spiky-haired boy stared at him.

"What are you talking about, Mokuba?" Yugi asked and the boy whimpered.

"It's the same thing that happened to Kisara!!!" Mokuba said with a frightened look on his eyes. "He kills anyone who gets close to my big brother!"

"Tell me everything, Mokuba!" Yugi said calmly trying not to push it.

"Well, I know that Noah wants to beat my big brother ever since he became SEED and he thinks that if anyone dares or tries to get close to him, he might have the motivation to get stronger..." Mokuba replied, trying not to cry.

"Don't tell me...the one who murdered Kisara is..." Yugi said, his voice trailed off.

"Yes, my stepbrother, Noah!" Mokuba said, his face was onvershadowed with his hair.

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