Thank you to all who have reviewed and/or read my story. Be paitent for updates. I'll be able to heaps during my holidays but during the rest of the year, it'll take longer (Blame my parents)


Flight to Domino City

"Attention, passengers, Domino City is now in sight. We will be landing in approximately one hour. Thank you"

Sass looked up at the flight attendant with bored eyes. She had shocking pink lipstick, heavily-applied purple eyeshadow and teeth so white, her dentist would be blinded by the light reflecting off it. Sass half-grinned smugly to herself as she watched the attendant smile friendly to the people at the front. Her ridiculously fake tan made her look like a pumpkin in a uniform. Distracting herself from the pathetic swoon-fest down front as the group of middle-aged balding men tried to chat up Carrot Skin, Sass glanced out the port window right next to her. The clouds below swirled past the window, over the deep blue ocean. Sass watched the water in its waves and churns as the plane zoomed overhead. She sighed.

'Oh, Bakura... I wish you could be here', Sass's thoughts drifted to her adoptive brother. His real name was Ryou, but it didn't seem right to her. He grew used to the name and always looked at her strangely if she ever called him Ryou. But then a feeling of anger replaced her feeling of homesickness. Bakura was the reason she was on this flight. The entire reason that all this began...


"Hey, Bakura, wanna play some Duel Monsters?" Sass called out to her brother as she hurried up the staircase, brimming with excitement. He had only gotten home from Eton yesterday, but she already had heaps of activities she wanted to play with him. She couldn't really be blamed. She hadn't seen Bakura since Christmas.

"Not at the moment, Saskura. I'll be down soon" Bakura's gentle voice called back to her. Sass paused. He had called her 'Saskura' and his British accent, adopted from spending four years in Eton, was really strong. He was writing to Amane.

Sass sat down at the top of the staircase and sighed sadly. Amane was Bakura's real little sister, who had died in a car accident when she was six. She was bicycling home from the park, Bakura following her. But there was a particularly sharp turn at the end of the street. She took and rolled right into the path of an oncoming truck. She didn't even make it to the hospital. Ever since, Bakura wrote letters to her in Heaven. Sass always left him alone when he was writing. He got very emotional and serious when he did. He remained in that state for a couple of hours afterwards.

Sass heard a door creak. Looking up, she saw Bakura walk out and into the bathroom across the hall. When she heard the door lock, Sass looked back at the door, left ajar. She then noticed something on the floor, a sheet of paper. Sass got up and picked it up. Immediately, she saw it was a letter to Amane. She went to drop it when she saw her name. Curious, she continued.

I feel bad, Amane, keeping this secret from Sass for all these years. But if she finds out... I don't know what she'd do. The locket is rightfully hers, I agree, but I can't even open it. There was no key. So there really is no point in bothering Sass about this. She wouldn't even be able to get into it either-

Sass stopped reading and stared. Locket? What locket? Why had Bakura been hiding it for all these years? Sass froze. Did this have something to do with the day they found her? Throwing the paper to the ground, Sass turned and stormed into Bakura's room. It was a neat, prim room, usually hardly slept in, with few possessions. Sass looked at the bag Bakura had left on the bed. He hadn't even unpacked yet. She pulled open the zipper and yanked open the bag, beginning to throw clothes out of it in fervent searching. Most of it was clothes and textbooks, nothing that indicated to the presence of a locket. Sass felt like giving up hope, when... a little red box was visible in the corner after throwing out nearly six layers of clothes. Sass lunged for it the moment she noticed it. It was a velvet jewellery box, as big as Sass' small palm, and completely flat on top. Slowly, Sass opened the box and discarded the lid. Inside, laying on black cloth, was a large oval locket attached to a silver chain with a broken clasp. On the front of the locket was a heart bordered by two blooming roses. In the centre of the heart was the initials, 'S.K'

"Sass?"

Sass turned around and saw Bakura standing in the doorway. Bakura's eyes saw the locket in the box in Sass' hand and his eyes widened to the size of saucepans...


"Miss? Miss?"

Sass calmly looked away from the window and into the face of the Barbie-esque flight attendant. Her friendly smile gave the impression of being kind but her dark green-grey eyes radiated a coldness which looked down at Sass.

"Yes?" Sass replied cordially, fighting the temptation to say something nasty.

"You're an unaccompanied minor, correct?" '

"I'm small, but I ain't a midget" Sass replied jokingly but the attendant's cold eyes looked up and down her. Sass followed her gaze and saw her black army boots, her torn dark denim jeans, her 'Bullet For My Valentine' T-Shirt, her torn denim vest and her black bandana. The attendant's eyes came to a rest on her wrist. Sass glanced at her right wrist and saw her golden bracelet. It reached from her wrist to halfway down her forearm, with a eye-shaped symbol facing upwards. All Sass had to do was push the eye up a little and she could pop the bracelet open and slip it off. Sass placed her left hand over it, which caused the attendant to look back at her.

"Who are you meeting at the airport?" the attendant inquired

"That is none of your concern, frankly" Sass replied, "Do you see me asking who does your fake tan?"

The attendant's eyes blazed at her, but she walked on. Sass gave a smug half-snigger and looked back at her Millennium Bracelet. Her father went for a trip to Egypt after she spent three months with the family, while he was still curator of the Domino City Museum, and brought back gifts for her and Bakura. She recieved the Millennium Bracelet and Bakura recieved the Millennium Ring. She didn't really know much about it, just that it had a strong connection to one of Sass' favourite all-time games, Duel Monsters.

Instinctively, Sass reached for her silver-studded belt and pulled her deck out of the carrier attached to it. Sass pulled the top card off the deck, revealling the card of a young woman. She was clothed in a black shirt, in a halter-neck mid-driff top, a black skirt which reached her knees, skin-tight pants and black slippers. Her hair, completely pitch black, was done in a style similar to that of I Dream of Jeannie, done up with a golden hair tie. In her sheath around her waist was a long black-handled sword while in her hand was a long staff with runes carved in the stick and three medium-sized orbs on the top of it. Her attack points were 2900, her defence points were 2800 and the title, written at the top in gold, was 'The Warrior Princess of Twilight'. A unique card, only one of a kind in the world, and Sass' favourite. Her father had given this to her at the same time she got the Bracelet. It was the first card to start off her deck. Ever since there, she had collected exactly 79 cards and treasures each and every one of them as if they were real people. Truthfully, they were the only family she had.

Sass sighed again. That was mean, thinking that about her adoptive father and Bakura. They were kind to her, they took her in, they tried their hardest to give her a nice life. But her father travelled her around a lot for the first year they were there. When they reached Australia, she finally settled there. But her dad still needed to travel. School, to her, was a neccessity but also an inconvenience. No one spoke to her, she didn't speak to them and most of the material she was given by the teacher, she was taught on her travels with her father and afternoon, she would come home from school alone and walk inside, seeing the housekeeper cooking her dinner. She would leave by 8 and Sass had to lock up the house. Sometimes, when she couldn't sleep, she'd slip out and go for walks. It was dark and, most times, cold but Sass sometimes felt like she needed the fresh air. On those nights, she would go to the abandoned building only 3 blocks from her house and climb to the broken water-tower at the top, the front of it ripped off. She would sit there and look up at the stars, just thinking of what it would feel like to belong somewhere.

"Attention, passengers. We are about to land in Domino City. Please return to your seats and fasten your seatbelts"

Sass shoved her deck back into her carrier case and did up her seatbelt while the plastic attendant gaved her death stares as she walked past. The plane's engine roared as it came in to landing. Sass looked out the window as the plane passed over green grasslands and, eventually, runway asphalt. Instinctively, Sass reached for her neck, fingering the new silver chain around her neck, following it all the way down to the large oval locket at the middle of it. She traced the 'S.K' in the heart as she heard the screech of the landing wheels against the asphalt.

'I'm sorry, Papa, Bakura. But I need answers. I need to find out where I belong' Sass looked down at her locket, 'I need to find my family'