MasakiSora-chan: Sorry for the late update.

Seto: What held you up?

MasakiSora-chan: I have to go to work, you know? And I also have school again.

Catherine: So what is the last chapter about?

MasakiSora-chan: You and Seto obviously.

Catherine: Cool, can't wait.

Seto: Yes, just go on with the story.

Catherine: Is something the matter, Seto?

Seto: I saw the chapter already.

Catherine: And? Is there any problem with it?

MasakiSora-chan: I do not own Yugioh only my own characters and the story line. Oh, almost forgot, there comes a new character this chapter.

Catherine: What? Why didn't you say so earlier? And why am I the only who doesn't know anything?

Return of closed feelings

Chapter 6:

It had been half a year. Six month since Catherine had saved him – again. And what did he do? He ignored her. Seto Kaiba hadn't spoken even one word with her ever since.

From time to time she could feel him when he was holding his cards. Mostly there was only confusion. He didn't know what to think and therefore he avoided her.

Another four weeks later she decided it was enough. She herself longed for him, she really wanted to be with him. A part of her – the Blue-Eyes-White Dragon – loved him for 5000 years. But her human feelings were also true and that was why there was only one thing for her to do - she had to meet him.

The next day Catherine went to the only building in Domino City where Seto Kaiba could be found during the day: KaibaCorp.

She stepped at the information desk and asked the woman sitting there: 'I would like to speak to Seto Kaiba, please.'

The woman, who seemed to be in her middle thirties, looked up from her work and eyed Catherine over her small glasses, which gave her the expression of an eagle watching his prey. 'Unfortunately Mr. Kaiba is busy right now. If you don't have an appointment, I'm afraid I can't let you through.'

She was already turning back to her work. 'Tell him that Catherine Muto is here.'

The woman, Mrs. Smith as Catherine could read on her sign, looked up again. 'You must firstly give me your identity card or driving license.'

Catherine handed her the requested item which she examined thoughtfully. Finally she sighed, taking the phone and dialing Seto's number. 'Mr. Kaiba, here is a girl calling herself Catherine Muto. She wants to speak to you. Ok, I see. I'll tell her.' She put the phone back and also handing out Catherine's identity card with a stern look.

For a moment Catherine was sure Seto didn't want to see her, which made her heart skip a beat. Then Mrs. Smith said: 'He seemed not very pleased but nevertheless he is receiving you. Take the elevator to the uppest floor. You can't miss it.'

Slightly relieved she went up but the moment she stood in front of the door her heart began racing. Slowly she lifted her hand and knocked.

'Come in.' Came the quick answer.

Catherine stepped into his office closing the door behind her. She glanced through the room, over the few shelves and cupboards until her eyes met the familiar figure behind the desk.

'What do you want?' He asked bluntly, looking back at his computer.

Now Catherine's anger won over her desire to see him. 'What I want? I saved your life and you don't think you should at least say 'thank you'?'

Apparently surprised, he looked up. 'Well, thank you.' He stated, again returning to whatever it was he was working on.

Catherine went towards the desk until she was standing right in front of him.

'Do you honestly believe that that's going to work?' She asked him, her voice now slightly furious.

Seto sighed as he faced her the third time. 'Tell me what you want. I'm quite busy right now. KaibaCorp. doesn't run itself alone.'

'Then take a break of about 15-30 Minutes. That won't neither kill you nor your company.'

For a moment he watched her frowning, before finally giving in. 'Alright. It seems we have to talk.'

He stood up from his chair and turned out the monitor. 'Do you want something to eat or drink?'

'A glass of water would be fine.'

Seto pushed the botton for the speaker and told his secretary to bring up water and coffee.

'I'm on my way, Mr. Kaiba.' Catherine heard Mrs. Smith answer.

Seto then gestured her to take a seat so she sat down on the black leather couch while he went to the chair opposite of her.

'Why are you avoiding me?' Catherine came right to the point.

'Well, it's not that I know you or something. We aren't really friends.'

'That's not true. You know one half of me. Seto, I know you are confused, that's only natural. But you have to believe me that your Blue-Eyes White Dragon you cherish so much and I are one and the same person. Well, a dragon is not really a person but that doesn't matter now.'

Seto looked at her doubtfully. The moment he opened his mouth to say something Mrs. Smith came in, carrying a tablet with their drinks.

'Put it down there.' He ordered her and of course she obeyed before heading out again. 'So, is there anything that helps me with believing' he had trouble saying it out loud 'all of that?' He resumed their conversation.

'Ask me something. Something about you that I wouldn't know but Blue-Eyes.'

Seto thought for a moment. Then his face changed obviously he was thinking about an unpleasant memory. 'Who was the only person besides Yugi I ever lost to?'

Chatherine couldn't believe her ears. 'You think you lost against Pegasus? He was cheating with his Millenium Eye or do refer to your duel against Dartz? But well, you were dueling together with the Pharao so that doesn't really count either.'

'Who is my biggest rival in the gaming industry?'

'Since when do you consider Zigfried van Schröder your rival?'

'Which is my favourite duel monsters card, excluded Blue-Eyes?'

'What question is this? You don't have any other favourite card than me!'

'Could you stop commenting my questions?'

'Why don't you just ask normal questions?'

For a moment he stared at her. 'What have you done to me?'

'Huh?' Catherine looked at him with a questioned face.

'I mean, what is this feeling I can't – understand?'

Catherine blinked. He pretty much looked helpless now. But she didn't answer. Seto looked her straight into the eyes not turning away this time.

'I'm still asking questions so answer me.' He was back to his ordering and cold tone still not looking away.

'To which question?'

'What is that feeling?'

'The feeling you closed away long ago.'

'More precisely?' His eyes were no longer cold but for an instant they were pleading for an answer.

Smiling Catherine stood up and sat down on the arm of his chair. She bent down to his ear and whispered: 'Love, Seto. You're in love with me.' He turned his head towards her appruptly, of course not believing what she said. She leaned forward and placed a quick kiss on his lips before standig up again and grabbing her bag, turning towards the door. Just as she was about to open it, Seto came out of his trance.

'Where do you think you're going?'

'Home obviously. You need room to think.' She stepped through the door and went out the building, leaving behind an even more confused Seto Kaiba.

A few weeks later Seto Kaiba was sitting in his room at home, it was Saturday. But he wasn't working as usually. He just sat there and looked outside, staring every few seconds at the phone beside him. 'Oh, to hell with all that!' he cursed out loud taking the phone and dialing the number he knew by heart now.

At the same time Catherine was in the city together with Tea. She had promised the younger girl to go shopping with her since she barely had any female friends to go with. On the other hand Catherine was curious about Teas relationship with her younger brother.

'So Tea – ' she began, as they looked through the window of a jewelery. Tea turned towards her, waiting that she would finish her question when suddenly Catherine's cellphone rang. She took it out of her pocket annoyed of whom ever was disturbing her right now. But that soon faded as she stared at the phone in her hand.

'Who is it? Why don't you answer it?' Tea asked her. 'Catherine?'

Catherine looked up, her face a mixture of so much feelings she couldn't even make out herself.

'It's Seto.'

'Then answer it.'

'Hello?'

'Finally. I was just about to hang up.' Seto's voice sounded stressed as if he wanted to make this call as quick as possible.

'So, what do you want?' She asked him in nearly the same way he always spoke with her.

'Come to the Entrance of Domino Park in two hours and none second later.'

'What? Wait, Seto!' But he had already hung up.

Catherine took the phone away from her ear and stared at it with a frown on her forehead.

'What did he want?' Tea asked.

'To meet me at the park in two hours.'

Tea blinked. 'To meet you? At a park?' She repeated slowly.

'Yeah, what's the deal with it?'

'Doesn't that sound like a date to you?'

'What? No way Tea, this is Seto we're speaking of.'

'Maybe, but you are his most beloved dragon.'

'There you got it Tea. He is in love with his dragon, not with me. I wonder what he wants from me though.' Catherine hadn't forgotten what they were talking the day few weeks prior, but it was exactly as Tea had stated: The love Catherine had felt was not towards her – the human – but his dragon. Well, finally he accepted that Blue-Eyes was female though.

'Seems that you have to find out later.' Tea said and dragged her away to the next shop letting her forget her thoughts.

Two hours later Catherine arrived at her destined location to find Seto already waiting for her.

'Sorry, I hope you didn't wait too long.' She quickly said.

'No, I haven't.' He then started to walk away, but not into the park but away from it.

'Where are we going?' Catherine asked while catching up to him.

'Just wait.' He told her as they walked around a corner.

The next few minutes they spent in silence. Catherine wanted to say something but she didn't know what.

Suddenly Seto stopped which caused her to nearly fall into him. As she looked around her she immediately lost navigation since she hadn't been paying attention to their way at all.

It seemed they were on some sort of place surrounded by skyscrapers and a spring in the middle, but else the place was empty. Nobody was here and Catherine had to admit that this had to be somewhere remote because she had never seen this ever before.

Seto turned towards her, his gaze totally unreadable.

'So, what did you bring me here for?' Catherine asked him curious.

'Marry me.' He stated a matter-of-factly.

'What? Could you repeat that please?'

'You heard me well. So just give me an answer.'

'Answer? You never asked me in the first place.'

'Catherine, don't make this any harder than it already is.'

'Then don't go around ordering people instead of asking politely. Honestly, who do you think you are?'

'Seto Kaiba. And now stop complaining and answer my question.' He answered with a frown.

Catherine blinked at him in surprise until the news gradually sunk into her brain: Seto Kaiba had just proposed to her. Well, it wasn't the kind of proposal she would have wanted but on the other hand this was Seto Kaiba standing in front of her.

'Are you going to say 'yes' this very day, or what?' He went on, obviously not really feeling comfortable in his skin.

'Did the possibility that I could say 'no' ever cross you head?'

Now he blinked, a little taken aback by her question. 'Of course not. So, how is your answer now?' He asked again, this time taking a small box out of his jacket.

As he opened it Catherine could see a large white diamond sparkling on a silver ring. Its beauty took away her breath, not allowing her to say anything. Was he really serious? This was still Seto Kaiba, wasn't it?

'Catherine?'

She looked up to him, still a little confused, but nevertheless able to talk again.

'Of course I will marry you, even if I hate it, that you –'

Before she could end her sentence though Seto had leaned down to her, sealing her lips with his own. Again Catherine could only blink in surprise, she would have never thought that he could be that passionate but then again he was only acting on instinct since he had never loved anybody else than Mokuba, well never loved anyone that way anyway.

Catherine's knees were nearly giving away but he held her tight so she couldn't fall anywhere.

'Really you –' She began again as they parted but he quickly put his finger on her lips.

'I told you, no complaining. So just shut your mouth.' He whispered before leaning down and kissing her again.

Catherine stood in the middle of the library in the Kaiba-mansion, in front of her on a desk lay a pile of papers scattered everywhere.

'What are you doing, Catherine?' Mokuba asked her.

Catherine turned around. She had been so deep in thought that she hadn't recognized Mokuba had come in.

'I'm working on the guest list for our marriage and the organization like the building, the catering service, the –'

'Ok, I get it. You're busy.'

Catherine looked back at Mokuba. Just now did she see that he was holding a folder, obviously he needed help with his homework and Seto was never the first person to ask for help while working. Since Catherine had been more often at the mansion, she had been there for the little Kaiba but now she was as busy as Seto with his company.

'Doesn't he help you? Even a little? I mean organizing a wedding seems rather difficult.' Mokuba now asked curious, his homework totally forgotten.

'No, he doesn't. He has a company to run, as you know. On the other hand, I can do what I want as there is nobody to argue with.'

'He just accepts it?'

Catherine nodded and Mokuba looked at her in disbelieve. 'Since when is my brother giving away control over something?'

'Good question Mokuba. It seems he wants to do it, as, well, some kind of compensation for ripping the fourth Blue-Eyes and with that a quarter of my soul.'

Mokubas eyes got wide. 'What do you mean, a quarter of your soul?'

'Each Blue-Eyes White Dragon card carries a quarter of my soul. I thought you believed in Yugi when he told you about the 'heart of the cards'?'

'Yeah.' His voice drifted away. Apperantly as he wanted to say more but Catherine cut in: 'Now back to work. In fact you could do me a favour and search for somebody.'

'Search for somebody?'

'Yes, her name is Cloe Barker and I haven't seen her for six years. Well, in fact, she is only seven now.'

'Who is Cloe Barker?'

Catherine looked up from the papers in front of her. 'She mine and Yugi's half-sister.'

'Your sister? How many siblings to you guys have?'

'No more, that's it.'

'When you say half-sister, which parent do you share?'

'Our mother. In fact, Our dad died twelve years ago, one day after Yugi's birthday. Eight years ago she fell in love again and Cloe came along. But Mom never married him though.'

'How is he?'

'Who?'

'Cloe's father.'

'Oh. I don't know, we rarely met. In fact, as I spent the last six years in Egypt, I didn't have the chance to. But Yugi told me he hadn't seen him either. He, Mom and Cloe travel a lot.'

'Oh.' Was all Mokuba could say.

'So, would you please search for her now? I really do need an address.'

'Right. I'll be right back.'

Mokuba left the library and Catherine sighed. Turning back she finished the invitation she was working on – addressed at her mother, Cloe Barker and Mr. Barker.

The day of the wedding had come and Catherine felt the flurry washing over her. Tea and Mai helped her with her wedding gown while Cloe stood near the door holding a basket with rose petals and watching them.

Catherine looked down at her dress, not white as they were mostly but a light blue, just the same as her eye coulour. It was strapeless and tight around her waist and went down on the floor. As she looked up again she met the gaze of her little sister, her purple eyes wide with curiosity.

Catherine had to remind herself to breath as she turned away from the little girl that looked very similar to her brother and grandfather. Not that she really had their haircut, but her black hair and blonde bangs told her that she was more a Muto than a Barker physically.

'It's time Catherine.' Tea suddenly said, pulling her out of her thoughts.

'I would have never guessed that of all people, Kaiba would be the first to marry. Never thought that he would ever.' Mai stated, taking a pleasant look at Catherine.

'And I think you deserve something better than him.'

'Mai!' Tea cried out shocked.

'What?' Mai asked back but Catherine went between them before they could argue over the fact if Seto was a good choice or not.

They led her to the entrance of the big church where her grandfather was already waiting for her. He grinned wildly at her. Meanwhile Tea and Mai slipped inside and took their seats. The march began and together with her grandfather and sister she walked up to the altar to where Seto was standing.

Finally, about one hour later, the priest announced them husband and wife and as Seto kissed her, many things were going through her mind simultaneously.

Maybe they weren't able to go to honeymoon together – she couldn't get her husband longer than three days away from his company – but nevertheless she was together with him and that was everything that mattered.

MasakiSora-chan: Wow, that took quite some time and became very, very long.

Tea: This story will get continued, right?

MasakiSora-chan: Yes, the title will be 'The Reborn of Blue-Eyes-White Dragon'. I presume that says it all.

Mai: Other question, how did I get on the guest list?

Catherine: Because your also one of Yugis friends, even if I wasn't able to meet you often.

Mokuba: Did my brother ever see that guest list? I think he wasn't very pleased with most of the guests.

Catherine: Well, I showed him. But he never complained.

Seto: I didn't really look at it.

Catherine: That's your problem then.

MasakiSora-chan: So, that's that. I hope you liked it and hopefully you'll also read the next story. Until then, don't forget, a review would be nice. xD

If there are other things that were too confusing or not explained enough, tell me and I'll try explaining it in a one-shot or something.