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Kaiba turned his full atention to her.
''You were on the plane?", he asked her. She nodded. He took a sip of wine and considered things.
"Next logical question would be why was I on the plane, right?", she asked. Kaiba spared her a diamond-piercing look with his blue eyes. She felt slight shiver run down her spine, but showed nothing. Instead, she returned his gaze.
"As I already said, I was there to participate in the tournament you organized. But, it was only a minor part of why I am really here".
"And why are you really here, if I may ask?"
"To make you a deal, Kaiba"
"What kind of deal?", Seto asked.
"A kind of deal that would save both your and my company Mr Kaiba. I am sure you're familiar with the "Milano" organization?"
Kaiba nodded. He remembered the bastards very well. Multiple hacks in his computers performed by not so skilled hackers made him well aware of the fact that this minor organization was as stubborn as it gets.
"Well, if you go deeper into the research about them, you'll eventually run into the fact that thr guy who owns it also owns a small part of smaller companies that are also in duel monster bussines as well as in computer bussines. Although he's not a problem here. I think he's merely a puppet in much bigger plan. Think of it like this - you have a giant cobweb, small spiders working on it. He's a small spider, but he is ruled by the bigger spiders and does the dirty work for them. Some very rare species of spiders have this type of society, but it paints a perfect picture. Back to point. When he first stepped into this waters, he worked for your stepfather's rival company - "The black rain" ".
"At that time, KaibaCorp was still designing and selling weapons".
"That's right. The owner of "The rain" at that time was Mr Aslo. So, after you took over the company of Gozaburo, what happened to Aslo's company?"
"Bankrupt".
"Yes, although the most logical thing to happen was the blossom of his company since KaibaCorp was converted in Duel monster company and was no longer in bussines. What happened?"
"Aslo died of cancer and the guy who inherited the company was an imbecile unable to run it", explained Kaiba coldly, slowly loosing his patience. She was telling him things that he already knew of. However, this girl didn't seem to be intimidated by his atitude. She obviously knew what she was talking about and determined to get trough with that. She straightened up and the fire from the fireplace reflected in her deep blue eyes. She moved with the elegance of a cat. A very deadly and shrewd cat. In a body of a girl.
"Only that he didn't die", Nina stated firmly, with the tone that told Kaiba that he believed what they wanted him to believe. the tone that reflected her disapointment in the reasoning of the young CEO. He frowned.
"How do you know that?"
"I have my sources. Very reliable sources Kaiba. And "The rain" went broke, but not completely. It had enormously high debts and everyone thought it's the end. But, the owner of "Milano" then stepped in. He owned 2% of "Rain" at that time. He illegaly converted it to a Duel monster company so he can hide the debts".
"You keep referring to that man as "him". "He" must have a name", Kaiba said matter-of-factly. Nina smiled. She knew that he was going to ask that.
"No one knows his name. I've searched every database considering anything and everything that has something to do with him. Came up with nothing. As if someone purposly erased his name from existance. I had no idea who this man is, until earlier this month, someone tried, very sloppyly to hack in my system. Left a lot of traces, like he was trying to get me on the trace, right or wrong. I got the location but found nothing. Well, I thought it was nothing until it came to me that the translation of the name of the part of the city I found the adress is, is Blue Lightning. As in the attack of the Blue Eyes White Dragon. Checked what kind of data the hacker was interested in, guess what I found?"
"He was interested in Blue Eyes. But why?"
"He was searching for them. Or, well, for the remaining two. Since three are in your deck".
"Get to the point, Chatty, I'm tired of this small talk", said Seto, though he was actually interested in the story. Though, of course, he would never admit it. He still hasn't made a connection with her story and his company.
"Impatient, aren't we? Well, I'll do as you say. When the Blue Eye cards were made, there was originally five of them. Out of five-"
"Three are in my deck, fourth was ripped and I never got the information out of Pegasus about the location of the fifth. Exuse me for having more important bussines at that time and satisfying myself with just three of them".
"Oh dear God, will you listen?!", she streched herself and extended her hand painfully to pull out a small package out of her shorts. She unwrapped the paper and showed Seto the remaining Blue Eyes card. Seto gasped.
"The fifth was owned by my father ever since I can remember. The point is, each card has a secret code sealed within it. The code is used for opening something. I still don't know what, but it must be very imortant since "he" is after it".
"You never told me who he is".
"He calls himself Zmey. That means snake in Russian. I found that out when I received the call from my headquarters here in Domino city, about the message that was left by the same hacker that assumably lived in Blue Lightning. It is nearly impossible to transcript it, so they called me to do it myself".
"Wouldn't it be easier just to scan the message and send it to you?"
"Apparently, were talking about some kind of 'unscanable' paper. It is impossible to scan it, and pictures the message are unreadable".
"The Skinny paper. One secret that Gozaburo couldn't buy or steal. It was invented by-"
"No other than Aslo himself", Nina concluded. Seto smirked. She was smart after all.
"So you boarded the plane."
"Yes. I suspected it was a trap to get me on plane along with the card".
"But why risking the card's destruction?"
"Because the cards weren't the only thing they are after".
"What else?"
"Me".
"What?"
"Yes. They still miss the fourth card. You didn't destroy it. Grandpa Mouto never had it".
"Then where is it?"
"Somewhere in Siberia, hidden by my father".
"So, your father knew about the codes?"
"He put them there".
Kaiba's frown deepened. Nina sighed.
"My father worked for Pegasus when he made the cards. I found that out only recently".
"Where is your father now?"
"Dead. He was poisoned. By adding an Egyptian cobra's poison to his drink".
"How creative", commented Seto. "He didn't tell you anything about the location of the card?"
"He did. His last words were - The dragon. Search for it in Siberia. So I happyly boarded the plane, prepared for the crash and bla bla bla, long story short, something went wrong. I don't know how, but I landed badly. People will find my body burned down. Zmey will think I'm dead".
"But you're not. How do you plan on finding the card?"
"There, Seto Kaiba, is where you jump in".
"Why should I help you? I can evade getting my fingers in it".
"Because you already have your fingers in it. By owning three Blue Eyes cards", Nina stated downing second glass of Vodka. She watched Kaiba weight his possibilities. They heard a knock on the door. It was Mokuba.
"Seto, the doctor's here to see Nina".
Seto nodded and stood up. The doctor came in with worried face directed towards the girl.
"It's nice to meet you Miss..?"
"Miss Karrie", she smiled politely, trying to stand up. She barely spent one moment on her feet, when she couldn't feel her legs anymore.
"You should seriously considering rest. You are very weak, miss Kerrie".
"It takes a lot more than a few scratches to take me down, believe me", she smiled.
Doctor pulled a few small bottles out of his suitcase and handed them to her along with the perscriptions.
"As for the paying-"
"Already on your bank account", Kaiba cut him short. Nina chuckled to herself.
"And miss?", doctor said looking at an opened bottle of Vodka near her. She smiled sheepisly.
"Yes?"
"I suggest you not to drink that", he said.
"I promise I won't", she said and chuckled. Her chuckle was like a thousand bells made of crystal suddenly moved. It was beautiful. A light smile crossed Kaiba's lips for nearly five seconds looking at the girl who was cold as ice just a minute ago. But, the only person aware of that smile was Mokuba, who was looking at his big brother and then at the strange, but elegant Russian girl with an atitude.
Hehe, this should be interesting, he thought with an ear-to-ear smile.