Seeing the past, living the future

by Yuna Yami Mouto

It all started when the Mouto twins moved in with their grandpa in Domino City. Seto was living in hell until the "Demon child" came into his life and changed it for the better. They did not know one another, but a girl who was brave enough to stand up to him and his stepfather was enough to catch his interest. But there's something wrong with the girl, but what? Female Yami

35. Chapter 35 Secret unrevealed

Normal POV

The next morning, Seto and all the other guests were awoken by the beautiful melody of a flute. He was more than confused, but the song sounded very familiar, so he walked out of his room to investigate. The young CEO was slightly surprised to see that all the other teens and his own brother were out in the hallway as well, doing the same thing. The group followed Yugi and his sister's childhood friends to the great Queen of Games' room, where they found Mia, standing like a guard protecting royalty. She nodded towards the billionaire and her mistress' younger brother, but never spoke.

"What's going on? Why is this music being played so loud that we can even hear it in our rooms?" Tea and Serenity were whining, but Mia never even looked at them.

Her attention was on the boy with amethyst eyes and hair that was so similar to her Yuna-sama's. "I am afraid that the situation requires that only those who she trusts can enter her room. It's -"

"Well, it's a great thing dat she trusts us!" Joey interrupted her and showed his way to the door. He tried opening it with flare, but the door was locked and he fell against it on his face. "Hey! What gives?"

Seto just sighs and points to the little device by the door. "You can't get in without the password. Especially since it's Kaiba Corp's. product. Unless you know it, we're not going in."

Mia turns to the boy genius, looking him directly in the eye. "Yuna-sama always believed that you would know what the password is. In fact, she said that only you can get in if you truly thought about it."

Kaiba thought about it and suddenly looked at the key card reader. He remembered which cards Yuna used to open the doors and quickly took out his Deck which he never leaves behind. He went through the cards and soon found what he was looking for. As he took it out, Seto walked towards the door and Mia, who stepped aside to let him be directly in front of the door. His actions caused everyone to watch him very closely, their curiosity and interest peeked.

Seto wasn't sure what he was expecting when he let the scanner on the small panel scan his Blue-Eyes White Dragon, but it sure as hell wasn't the door opening as if automated! He stepped into the room as the melody got louder, bringing back memories of a long time ago, even of times he wasn't aware of. It was the same ancient tune his secret love used to play when they were still in primary school, just children that have barely defeated their demons and weaknesses. So he went over to the windows, the music being loudest there, and he and all those behind him watched in wonder the sight before them.

Yuna was sitting on a branch of the tree outside her bedroom windows, cross legged and still in her pajamas, which consists of a pair of shorts and a large T-shirt. Pressed gently against her lips was the same flute she played years ago, her swift fingers dancing over the holes. The instrument was decorated with a carving of a great falcon, flying out across the sky. The clouds were done as well as the sacred bird of prayer, every detail elegant and precise, fitting the beautiful girl playing the addicting song. The melody was washing over them all, but Yugi and Solomon suddenly realized something and started fidgeting nervously. Seto was quick to notice that, as well as the fact that Yuna didn't seem aware of them even being there. He had half a mind to ask the girl's only family about it, but it was then that the song ended.

Yuna lowered the beautiful instrument, eyes glassy and dazed. The glassy look in her lovely eyes was slowly starting to clear up when suddenly Joey, Serenity, Tristan and Tea all started clapping their hands. Joey even threw in a whistle for good measure. The Moutos and Sennens heads snapped to the group, who were joined by mild, polite clapping from the albino twins and the Egyptian family. Mokuba, much like his brother, was more focused on the worry he saw on the faces of the people who know his brother's rival the longest. Seto himself only spared them all a glance when he saw movement out of the corner of his eye.

Just as Yuna flinched when the applause started, her eyes widened and she looked afraid. Deathly scared. She became rigid for a few seconds, then suddenly slumped right of the tree branch, to the ground below.

"YUNA! !" Yugi was the first to yell out as his sister hit the grass. Luckily, her reflexes had kicked in and she just rolled a little with the impact, making it less fatal. But, now, she lay motionless on the ground, the flute right beside her hand.

Yugi was horrified. Just seeing her like that was enough to reduce him to a sobbing mess on the floor. But instead of just crying, he turned to the people who had caused the incident without even knowing.

"Why did you do that!? Do you even know in what danger she is!? She can die!"

Before the words fully left his mouth, Mahad, who was about to run down to the hurt girl, called out to one of his -somewhat- friends. "Seto!"

Said CEO had jumped out of the window, onto the branch and jumped down a little further from Yuna. He was beside his fallen rival in milliseconds. He took her in his arms and quickly ran back into the mansion, carrying his secretly beloved in a bridal style. He took her straight to her room, where Cecillia, Yugi and Mana were scolding the others in a yelling manner. Young Seira and the rest of her family and other guests were watching in confusion, but all gasped when they saw the unconscious Duel Queen. The young executive ignored them all and gently, as if handling the most delicate being in the world, placed Yuna on her bed, covering her with the blanket. When he finished with that, he sat on her bed, beside her hips and placed a hand on her forehead. It was slightly warmer than should be, but not by much. He was no doctor, but he knew that what happened was not normal. After all, he still remembered that one incident from the time Taro held his first class in their primary school.

Yugi, ever hyperactive, was the first to get to the bed and mirrored the dragon duelist, only he took his sister's hand in his. Mana, Mahad and Solomon were quick to follow, Cecillia already by her pillow, and then the rest of the guests came beside the bed. Mokuba sat beside his brother, somewhere at Yuna's knees, and placed his small hand on his nii-sama's arm, offering silent support.

Tristan was the first to suggest that they call a doctor.

Solomon was the one that answered. "We can't. They won't be able to do anything, anyway. They can only make it all worse."

The younger ones, other than Yugi, Mana, Mia, Mahad my Cecillia, all looked confused. Taro remembered a similar situation and asked if it was like then.

"It is. You see ... Yuna has a special s-" Yugi cut him off.

It's time to tell them, grandpa." Surprised, they all looked at him as he began the explanation. "You see, everyone is born with a special talent or skill or something, but it's not like someone else can't do it as well. For instance, play an instrument, be good in sports or have good memory. Many people can do the same things. But Yuna was born with a special gift... Or is it a curse?I still can't decide. This gift allows her to ... dream of the past ... And every and all the secrets of the past that we don't know of are like her own little secrets to her. Every painting, story, composition and ... anything else, really, are all inspired by those dreams/visions. The thing is, she mostly does them during the visions and is therefore very hard to wake up. She does have real talent and skills, but she never actually did anything because she wants to do it. Ever since we were kids, she dreams of the past of the world and all those who have lived in it. She bears a burden of many lifetimes that I doubt even she knows how many! But the reason I think they are a curse is because whenever she is woken up before they are finished, they backfire by dragging her so deeply into the event she is seeing that, sometimes, it takes days for her to wake up from them! And the worst thing is that they can make her bleed or make cuts and burns in the places where fire first touched someone she dream about. It often drives her to the very edge of death!"

The group was stunned and terrified of the story Yugi just finished. Seto was suddenly completely motionless, scared for the very first time. He looked down to the girl that had not only earned his respect and trust, but also had stolen his heart. Yuna was the first person who truly cared for him and his brother, who actually did something that would help them and even stood up to his now dead stepfather for them ... And he wasn't willing to give her up. It hurt that she hadn't told him sooner about this, but he understands. Yuna was very prideful, and she basked in Seto's respect and attention. He knew that she was probably fearing that if he found out, he might want to drop everything they have ever formed over the years.

But Seto would have never been able to drop Yuna out of her from his life.

Solomon was now telling them about the hardships she had lived through. "When she was around five, she has been kidnapped. Two men wished to get rich and famous quickly, so they took her while my daughter and her husband were with me in a tomb and we found her after a few days. They hadn't been feeding her almost at all, and sleep was a distant fantasy until we rescued her. Unfortunately, a dream occurred and the two snapped her out of it and she was in a coma like state for a whole month! We almost lost her. She recovered from it, but no one ever found out about her gift. You,and the Crawfords, are the only ones that know about this. Yuna is still not ready to go public about this fact, but she will one day. Until then, please keep it a secret."

Everyone nodded. Kaiba looked over to the man who was willing to call him and his brother his grandsons. "What can we do to help her? There has to be a way to get her to wake up before those effects start acting up."

Mahad spoke up. "Unfortunately, we don't really know anything about this. The visions are random at most, but I believe that the life of the Nameless Pharaoh is the 'main focus'. A few years ago, when she was studying in the medical schools and we joined her after Egypt, she mentioned that even if she can see the whole life of some other person, in a couple of dreams/visions, but the Pharaoh's is so fragmented that she can't put two and two together. I am not sure if this is true, but Yuna shares her soul with the great Pharaoh."

Seto looked at him and was about to say something when Ishizu gasped. "Is this the reason why she knows things that not even the first Ishtars knew? If so, it all makes sense! The stories of the Pharaoh always stated that he was very intelligent and skilled, and it is very much reasonable that his reincarnation would be the same! But if she can see that far, and further, into the past, then she can very much change our views on many things and the world itself! This is amazing!" Her younger brothers just looked at her as realization dawned upon them.

Seto was still a bit skeptical. "That's all peachy, but what can we do to help Yuna?" He didn't care about the details of this ancient fairytale when he finally knew in what kind of danger his first real friend was.

Solomon shook his gray head sadly. "I'm afraid that we cannot do anything but make sure that her heart doesn't stop beating in her chest. Everything else is up to her and her own strength."

The older Kaiba scowled, but he just looked back to the girl on the bed. He saw the unease settling in and took her other hand, squeezing it as if it could help.

The others all divided different tasks that might help Yuna wake up, but only Seto was a constant by the Duel Queen's side. He never let go of her hand and often whipped sweat from her brow as she slept. Yugi had slumped in his chair sometime during the afternoon, falling asleep from worry, and so he was carried out by Joey and Tristan. It was well into the evening now, and a great deal of the people who had stayed at the manor were already asleep. The Egyptian families have refused to leave until the Queen of Games woke up. Mokuba and the other kids had been hanging around with Seto and Yugi, helping with anything and everything that they could just so Yuna would be okay. They were ushered off to dinner and an hour later, Mia had came to report that they had fallen in a deep sleep in the game room. Tea and Serenity have been making the best of the situation, exploring Cecillia's salons and baths and pools, pissing the staff off to such an extent that Seto swore the staff was going to kill them if Yuna didn't wake up. Mana spent a good part of the day with Bakura, making arrangements for shifts during the night as well as for when they go back to Egypt. Mahad and Ishizu have went through Yuna's personally written libraries, searching for something that might help the situation, Solomon often helping them even as he spent most of his time looking after his granddaughter and contacting some friend that they were going to go meet once Yuna is better.

Seto looked over to the bedside table, the clock there showing that midnight was in just a few minutes. He was tired and he wasn't sure why, but he just knew that he didn't want to fall asleep with Yuna in such condition and in his care. He often found himself caressing her cheek, bringing their joined hands to his lips and lightly kissing her smaller one or even leaning down to kiss her forehead or cheek. Before long, he seemed to finally give up and he lied down beside his first love's head on the pillow, allowing sleep to claim him.

Seto wasn't sure where he was, except for the fact that he was now kneeling in for of giant gold chair, in an enormous gold room with five other people, all wearing dresses, even though only one of them was a woman. Actually, there was a few more men in skirts with spears and swords in hand. Kaiba looked down at himself and almost screamed. He was dressed in blue and white robes with lots of gold jewelry and he could feel the weight of a large hat, or was it a headdress, on his head. What surprised him more was the thing that he held in his now tanned hand.

It was the Millennium Rod.

But the biggest surprise was the boy who stood on the right side of the throne, since that is the only thing that the big gold chair could be, and the old man on the other side, as well as two of the others. He could easily recognize Ishizu and Mahad, even with the strange clothing, despite it being similar to what they usually wear, and Solomon was just a bit harder to distinguish with the cloth covering his nose and mouth, standing by the throne on the left side.

No, they weren't even as half shocking as the boy who was gracefully standing right from the throne. He was of slender built, long legs only covered down to his knees by the kilt and the blue cloth that went from his golden waistband, narrow hips, small frame and chest which was covered by a tunic the same color as the kilt, though the shoulders weren't all that wide for even a young male, and a slender, swan-like neck. His bronze skin was stretching beautifully over small but visible muscles and looked very healthy. His delicate face was heart shaped with some sharper lines, eyes angular and almond shaped, burning with a fire off their own in the depths of blood red pools that hid wisdom beyond the boy's young age. The eyes were lined with Kohl and therefore stood out even more than Seto was used to. The hair was gravity defying and spiked out in the shape of a star, black tipped by crimson and lightning shaped goldenrod bangs framing the pretty face and a few going up through the boy's hair.

The hairstyle was more similar to Yugi's, but everything else screamed that this boy was a male version of his rival, Yuna Yami Mouto. The stories that he had to listen to during Battle City, and even the vision and the carvings on the stone tablet , and just a few hours ago all replayed in his mind, making the similarities between the two people very noticeable.

The man on the throne was familiar as well, but only from the once seen photos in the Mouto household. He was addressing Seto, but the name he used was Seth and he was speaking about his becoming a High Priest. The boy, who he now assumed was later the Pharaoh and obviously now a prince, was looking at him with pride and happiness in his large, expressive eyes and an adoration and love he saw there reminded him of how Mokuba looked at him. The High Priest and Prince never broke eye contact, gazing at the other with a strange, strong affection. The young CEO was startled to realize that the boy was as attractive to him as Yuna had always been.

And that's where things got really, really strange!

Suddenly, he was in his attire in which he fell asleep, standing beside the man named Seth and obviously invisible to everyone else present. However, what was truly stunning was that beside the boy, Yuna in her own pajamas appeared. At first, she didn't seem to notice him, focused on what the others were talking about, until his black night shirt and pajama bottom caught her attention. She looked beyond shocked, but there was also a bit of happiness.

Yuna didn't know what made her do it, but she hurried to her rival's side, taking his hand into her own smaller one. He instantly pulled her to him, as if by reflex. She found comfort in the fact that her secret love was there, but she was very puzzled as to how he got there. Yuna knew a little bit more about the visions than the rest of those who are aware of them, so she knew that no one can enter one beside herself. She wasn't going to complain, however, unless it somehow affected Seto in a bad way. The young Duel Queen almost purred when she felt his long, skilled fingers tangle into her hair, reflexively nuzzling his neck.

Seto was enjoying the moment as much as his rival was, although neither knew it. But he knew that things can't stay that way so he drew a little bit back so he could look into those expressive, beautiful, unique, hypnotizing, endless pools of crimson that had stolen his heart from the first time he saw them.

"What's going on? Where are we? And why am I here? In your vision?" The girl stiffened and Seto frowned as she tried to pull out of his embrace. He only pulled her to him tighter, flush against his chest as Yuna started shaking. He didn't allow her even a second to think that he no longer respected her or cared for her as he bent down to kiss the top of her head.

"Your grandfather and brother told us about this. I know, although I don't truly understand the whole thing. But I am sure that something like this happened during our Duel in Battle City. And you should know that ... This doesn't change the way I look at you, think of you or the amount of respect or care I have for you. You're still my best friend, Yuna, as well as my greatest rival. Nothing is going to change, except for the fact that I'm going to make sure that this happens as little as possible. You waking up before the vision ends, I mean. I WAS a little hurt that you thought you couldn't trust me or tell me, but I understood your reasons. So please, from now on, whenever you need anything, just call or tell me. I want to always be able to help you, to be there for you! Like you were for me whenever I needed you."

Yuna was crying now, clinging to Seto as he held her during her moment of weakness. The fact that he still held her and even told her that he still cares and respects her lifted a heavy weight off of her heart and she swore on her ancient soul that she was going to tell him everything once they stayed like that, even as the Court left the new High Priest and Prince to joke around and tease each other. They never let go even as the world faded to black, not seeing a pair of ancient blue eyes and red eyes looking fondly at the two reincarnations.

Seto woke up to the chirping of the birds outside Yuna's windows, gazing into the slowly opening rubies of his first ever friend and love. He smiled, reviled beyond belief, as he saw that they had their usual intensity in their depths, the fire burning like always. His heart melted like butter as his smile was returned with an even brighter, bigger, far more beautiful smile on the lips of the girl he thought was the prettiest in the world. He felt that wonderful, warm feeling at the thought of waking up this way every day, for the rest of his life.

Too bad that that's the moment the hyperactive ones in the guest list decided to barge through the door, effectively pinning a reluctant, unhappy Mia under them as she failed to keep them out of the room. Mokuba and Yugi were stuck under Mana and Seira, but Kaito and Gakuto have been able to scramble out from under them and raced to the bed, only to stop as the rivals both rise. Behind the enthusiastic ones, Mahad, Solomon and Cecillia looked at the two teens at the bed, staring in stunned shock as they saw that the Game Queen was fully awake and more than aware, none of the usual aftereffects present. The Yugi-tachi were quick to follow, as well as the other two Egyptian families, all too high and happy for the early hours that it was.

Mokuba and Yugi were fast to join their siblings, quite quickly followed by everyone else, making the large bed look a lot smaller. Yuna finally couldn't take all of the attention and threw EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM OUT, only briefly apologizing to Seto and her family.

She came out a half an hour later, dressed in a simple summer dress that matched the sky in color and the Millennium Puzzle around her neck, her deck holder tied around her right leg. They sat at the dining table and that's when Yuna started explaining everything that happened.

"Since something similar happened before, I can only guess that it has to do with Seto sharing his soul with the High Priest Seth, like I am with the Nameless Pharaoh. But I don't know how to go about his entering my vision. I doubt that he will start having the visions himself, so there's no harm done." She paused, thinking. "Ever since I can remember, I always had these dreams/visions, and I somehow learned things and skills from them. My mom once said that only someone truly intelligent can learn from some dream about who knows what, so I always recorded them, even though it was subconsciously. I am very happy to have these dreams, for more reasons than one. It made me who I am and enabled me to help those who need 'm not sure what specifically the reason for my having them is, so I can only guess that they are a 'mission', or hints that help me with the real mission. Which is finding the lost name of my soul, and therefore my own real name."

"What do you mean, your own 'real' name?" Tristan asked.

"She must mean the name that she shares with her original incarnate, the Nameless Pharaoh." Marik guessed.

Yuna nodded. "Grandpa gave me and Yugi our names. Yuna ... it was more accepted by our family and for some strange reason, the name grandpa gave me was forgotten by everyone, even grandpa himself. From the stories he used to tell us when we were little, my real name is the female version of the Pharaoh's. I think that the dreams are a help to fulfill my task of finding my, and the Pharaoh's, name. From what I've learned so far, Seth has engraved it somewhere safe after it was erased from the stone tablet and everywhere else. I just need to find that one place and everything will end. But, the real question is, why was it that Seth left that one clue to what the Pharaoh's name is? According to the legends and stories, that name is a key to the soul that is the lock of a great darkness. So, if the soul was sealed in the Millennium Puzzle until a new suitable vessel is born, and the name was to be erased, why wasn't the Puzzle separated and the name completely destroyed? Why did Seth ensure that his friend lives again at the possible cost of many? Once I figure that out, everything will slowly fall into place."

Everyone stared at her, and Seto, Mahad, Mokuba, Mana and the Bakura twins were the first to stand up in support. "We'll help you in any way we can!" Yuna smiled at them, but a frown soon replaced it.

"I'm very happy that you are willing to help me and tolerate all of this, but things seem to just get all the more complicated. You see, Mai disappeared from the country, but Roland reported that she left for California. Pegasus went missing just two hours ago, and I must go to the I2 HQ in America to get a very important card. Duke is luckily enough fine, but word got out that the God cards are stolen. This isn't all."

Seto nodded. "I need to go and meet someone who is posing as Pegasus on the Duelist Kingdom island by the end of the month, which is in two days. Someone's been buying shares of KC and they almost got a half already. We will have to go with one of Pegasus' jets if we want to go unnoticed, although I will leave you at one point by my Blue-Eyes jet with Mokuba. We'll meet you at the I2 HQ after we finish there." Yuna nodded to him, then turned to Ishizu as she spoke.

"We have a problem in the museum. The tablet has been somehow frozen, so we had to be extremely careful with removing it. Thankfully, we succeeded, and we are ready to go this afternoon. The Sennens and Bakuras are going to stay with us in the underground chambers we grew up in."

"I'm not sure if you heard, but the Big 5 died, and after a few hours, their bodies disappeared from the hospital. I have closed down all of your workrooms the second I found out that my husband is missing, and I tried to find your friend. If Seto can find out more about this from the person he's meeting in our DK castle, I would advise you to be careful." Cecillia added worriedly.

Yuna suddenly stood up. "Come with me." She led them to the second floor of her wing, meaning the third floor of the mansion,and entered into a separate part of the whole floor. The room was the largest in the wing and it wasn't just an ordinary room. It could have very well been a maze with all the twists and turns around the paintings. The theme was Egypt, apparently the same time period of some 80 years. The shock of seeing first the Mouto twins' parents that they knew from pictures (and real life in Mahad and Mana's case) and their grandpa was only topped by the astonishment of not only seeing Mahad, Mana, Ishizu AND Bakura there as well. And THAT shock was defeated only by the shock of seeing the Pharaoh and his High Priest. Yuna stood beside the biggest portrait of the two together, side by side, arms crossed and shoulders brushing, eyes looked and smirking at each other in what could be both a challenging and playful way. "Although these two are the most famous rivals in history, no one really knows much about them. Well, no one but me, that is. Everyone, meet the Nameless Pharaoh and his cousin, Seth of the Egyptian crown." The group was staring at her, then gawked at the picture of the smirking pair.

"Say WHAT!?" The Ishtars yelled as Seto walked up to the painting. Mokuba and the rest turned to Yugi, expecting that he knew of this fact, but he was just as stunned as the rest of them.

"Is that true? They're cousins? I guess that explains how close they seemed ..." Seto mumbled to himself as Yuna nodded.

"The Nameless Pharaoh also has the 'of the Egyptian crown' to his name, but it was erased by Shimon, the Pharaoh's once caretaker." She pointed to the man that looked like her grandfather. "He was actually the Queen's father, meaning the Pharaoh's grandfather. Seth was 5 years older, so he grew up protecting the Prince, the Nameless Pharaoh later. Seth therefore was very overprotective of the Pharaoh, but they still had their rivalry going. Seth was the only other person from the royal family after the Shadow War was finally over, so he became the next Pharaoh."

Yuna looked at her own rival, before looking at the Pharaoh's. "Seth is very similar to you, Seto, but the main difference between you is that he has been in a state of indecision and it cost him. He always loved his young cousin more than anything, more than his own life! But something happened and his indecision caused a situation that ended with the Pharaoh's death. Legends say that the Pharaoh has sealed his soul inside the Millennium Puzzle ..." She looked down to the Item, a remorsefully helpless expression on her face. "Since it's a legend, we cannot just shake it off as a made up fairytale. Seth's actions only further prove that there must be SOME truth there! If not, he would have done as he was ordered, destroying all traces of his name and enabling the Puzzle to ever be solved again. Instead, he made sure that he would be there to help the reincarnation of his Pharaoh when he is reborn. I am not sure how he has done it, but he has somehow managed to find a way to hide all the secrets and yet make it possible for me to find all that I need." She turned to the Ishtars. "Seth has asked for volunteers and Isis, your former incarnation, ishizu, has signed up with her newly born twin boys and a 2 year old daughter. They were to guard a few items, among which were the Millennium Rod and Millennium Necklace, and scrolls. The Tablet of the Pharaoh's lost memories was also there. You've suffered so long, and now you've found out that I already knew my destiny. I am sorry to have made it all seem so useless."

"I thought we've been through this already, my Pharaoh!'' Malik exclaimed. ''We are your servants to the end, and not just because of all that happened or the fact that that is what we are supposed to do! It's because we saw the truth behind the legends that say that you have the purest soul of all souls! You are our friend, you saved us from our own darkness and so it is now our turn to return the favor!''

Marik stood next to Yuna and put a hand on her shoulder. ''That means that we stick with you like glue, no matter what! We aren't doing this against our will anymore, so you can't say that it's you fault. You gave us a choice four years ago, something none of us, especially me, didn't deserve after breaking the rules and our family's traditions. We proved ourselves unworthy by breaking our vow that we will guard your secrets when we exited that tomb, and I know that you treasure your promises and take them seriously. But I think it's safe to say that when I say that we all want to prove ourselves worthy of your trust. Right guys?''

''That's true, my Pharaoh!'' Odion was surprisingly enough the first to confirm. Yuna suspected it had something to do with trying to deceive her that he was the boy/man that had caused her so much trouble during one of the greatest tournaments in the world four years ago.

''Right!'' Malik yelled.

''Yes, right.'' Ishizu said with a nod.

Yuna smiled happily at the family that had suffered so much for her for all those eons. She was glad that they no longer (or at all, really) blamed her for their destiny. But ...

''I just hope you won't start blaming Seth for all of this ... ''

The Ishtars burst out into laughing fits and the mood was instantly better.

But all good things in life end all too soon.

And so that happened here as well when Serenity pointed at one of the hanged pictures. It showed the Blue-Eyes White Dragon enveloping the High Priest Seth and a girl with blue-white-silver hair that stopped somewhere around her waist with long bangs almost completely covering her face and blue eyes that were so much like the High Priest's and the dragon's. She wore what could have easily been a potato sack with sleeves, tied by a little rope around her waist. The girl was very pretty with sharp features and a nice figure. She was leaning against the young man that looked like a slightly older, tanner Kaiba with her arms around his neck, looking up at him. The Priest had an arm around her waist, the other one high in the air with the Millennium Rod pointing to the sky as the Dragon roared at the heavens, but his head was not turned to neither the beautiful girl, nor towards the sky where his fateful servant was pointing with its head. No, it was turned towards the right, as if he was searching with his eyes the field of sand behind and around them. In the distance a small figure could be seen, as if walking away, a cape flowing around it.

''Who is she? Is she his lover? She's really pretty.'' She asked, but the last sentence was said with a little envy for the strange woman.

They were all surprised when Yuna lowered her head, looking to the ground as she answered. ''Her name is Kisara, an it was believed that she was the barrier of the legendary White Dragon with Eyes of Blue. And I have reasons to believe that she might have been more than just his lover ...'' Seto's heart stopped beating when he heard that, confusion filling his mind. If that was true, then why did he feel the same happiness in Seth when he looked at the Prince like when he himself looked to Yuna? But he truly doubted that the High Priest was in love with his cousin like he loved his beautiful rival. He was snapped out of his thoughts when Yuna continued. ''I think this because she was a part of the reason why Seth hesitated and ended up losing his precious cousin he loved so much, as well as the death of his father and the crisis that was going on during the Shadow War... I believe it was choice between her and the Pharaoh, and let's face it ... Unless he loved her, he wouldn't have hesitated.''

Seto felt as miserable as Yuna looked in that moment. He doubted that he could love any other girl but Yuna, and something in him was telling him that there was a lot more to the story. If this Seth was really some ancient version of him, which he was finding not at all that hard as it used to be to accept, then there was no way that he could possibly find anyone other than Yuna, or the Pharaoh in Seth's case, as seductive, let alone more so. From what he had heard and seen so far, the Pharaoh was intelligent, caring, brave, skilled, wise, playful, nice, powerful and extremely exotic looking which made him very desirable for both genders. And all of the most important features of both his appearance and personality had transfered to Yuna. Seto was sure that all the feeling he had for Yuna were the same as the ones Seth had for the Pharaoh.

But did that mean that the Priest was in love with not only a man, a ruler, but also to his own cousin? Didn't Yuna mention that the two of them grew up together? It was easy for friendship, especially as close as what Yuna described, to turn to love. He was a live example of love taking it's course from friendship to that bubbly, warm, amazing feeling whenever you saw the person it was directed to. So why should Seth be any different?

And besides, the Pharaoh was very feminine, pretty even. Even Seto, a man who was very much fully and completely in love with Yuna, found him very attractive and desirable. Though, it might have something to do with him looking like Yuna so much.

As he looked at the damn pictures, both of the Pharaoh and Seth and of Seth and that Kisara girl, he couldn't help but feel like there was more chemistry between the first pair than the second. Seth may be holding Kisara with one arm, but it didn't feel as intimate as the way Seth was smirking and brushing shoulders with his Pharaoh. He didn't know why he felt so sad or bad or anything really at the thought that this man that looks so much like him could have possibly loved someone else other than the girl he now loved.

Yuna suddenly looked up with a determination in her fiery eyes. ''I am not sure how far these guys will go, but I know what they want and I know someone who might help us out. But, better safe than sorry.'' With that she took out her deck and pulled out three cards. Each one was a dragon, and although they were a bit similar, they were completely different. Yuna took the aquamarine one, gave the red one to Joey and the black-blue one to Seto. ''These cards could possibly save you not only your lives but also your very souls. I would suggest that you never take them out of your Decks, but once all of this is over, I'll be taking them back.''

The other two duelists looked at the card and Seto couldn't help but think that the Fang of Critias was quite a sight to behold. ''So, these are the cards Pegasus gave you? Where are the others?'' Joey was drooling all over the new card, but looked very interested at the thought of seeing the other three cards the Game Queen got.

Yuna smirked. ''Those are for me to hold, and for you to see when the time is right. But for now, I guess that I should inform you of the fact that you should stop taking legends for a fairytale. They are more or less true, so you should keep an open mind. And the legendary seal we are facing is the cause of destruction of the very famous lost city of Atlantis.''

Everyone present gasped.