Snowflakes… They were falling softly on Earth like small fairies… Kisara could watch them falling for hours… But she was feeling depressed…
"They are free…while I am locked in here…" she was thinking
It had been days since the day she had entered Seto Kaiba's castle but…but no matter how used to his presence she was getting…she would still feel fear in her heart… He was a vampire sent by Devil…he was someone who was killing innocent people…he was a person that was ready to do anything, anything in order to get what he wanted…just like he did with her… He was ready to kill everyone in order to have her!
"I wonder how the others are… I miss them…I miss Tea so much…and miss Mai…"
Her eyes got watery at those thoughts. She then thought about Yami… She shivered slightly in fear…
"Who should I be afraid the most…?"
She still hadn't got over the fear she felt when she saw Yami's demon eyes. She hugged herself to stop the shiver that was taking over her body. She also looked at the room around her and then her thoughts traveled back to Seto Kaiba…and then at Yami…and at Seto Kaiba again… She sighed and covered her face with her hands and she leaned against the cold, glass surface of her window.
"Why…?" she thought, "How can someone be so cold…and at the same time so…beautiful…? How can someone that is supposed to be a Devil…is so kind…?"
Also something else was spinning in her mind…that wax doll…or better…his wife's form… She was so beautiful…but her hairstyle…her hair and shape of her face looked a lot…like…
"He keeps me here because I kind of resemble his dead wife…? No… That's not it…but if it is…is he planning to kill me too…? Like he did to his wife…? What does he wand from me…? Why…?"
She remained there trying to calm her breathing. It was late in the afternoon and the sun had started to set slowly… She didn't know what else to do and decided to walk a little… She got away from the window and walked to the desk to take the small cross and put it around her neck. She then exited the room and closed the door behind her…
Her footsteps led her to the entrance of the Crypts again. She looked at the door and shivered. She could still remember all those…frozen and scary graves all around her…and then…the open coffin…where Seto Kaiba was supposed to sleep… She swallowed hard once and then…she didn't know why…she started walking down at the stairs again…taking the lit torch with her and clenching the cross that was hanging from her neck, with the other hand, whispering some prayer… She reaches the bottom of the stairway… Walks carefully, trying not to look at the graves around her and finally…reaches the spot where she remembered the coffin was… She was right. She saw it. The coffin was there…open…and not empty… Seto Kaiba was lieing inside it…his eyes closed and his arms were crossed over his chest as if he was indeed dead… Kisara's hand went to her mouth to cover it… The sight was sending shivers of fear down her body however there was also something else in her mind…
"When he is sleeping like this…he looks so different…so…peaceful…so…"
She swallowed once
"…So…more beautiful…"
Suddenly Seto Kaiba's eyes opened, making Kisara take a step back surprised and scared at the same time… Seto Kaiba's body emerged from the coffin and he unwrapped his arms from his chest. His eyes fell on her.
"Kisara…" he said in a soft voice
Kisara couldn't speak in the beginning…
"I…I am sorry…I shouldn't have…c-come here…f-forgive me…"
However Seto Kaiba simply looked at her without showing any feelings of anger or frustration.
"The night is going to be nice, tonight…" he said in a low voice, "Let us not spend it here in the Crypts… Let's go upstairs…" and he offered her his hand
She seemed scared in the beginning but…among all those tombstones, Seto Kaiba was less scary… She accepted his hand placing her shaking one in his…
In a few seconds they were walking in the castle corridors… Kisara had her arms wrapped around his arm as if he truly was his bride or anything…Seto Kaiba had asked her to walk alongside with him like this… Kisara was too scared to say no. They passed in front of a mirror and Kisara couldn't help but look at it… What she saw made her truly gasp… She had herd about it…but she had never believed it would be true… When they walked past the mirror she saw…only her reflection…with her arms wrapped around something invisible… Seto Kaiba was not there, in the mirror! She looked back at him scared, but Seto Kaiba was looking straightforward…without saying a word… Soon they walked out at a balcony… The entire garden was under their feet from that balcony… It had stopped snowing and the sky was crystal clear now and the moon was bright…there were no stars in the sky making the moon even brighter… The air of the night was cold and Kisara shivered a little… Seto Kaiba had let go of her so she hugged herself to feel a bit warmer…
"You haven't tried any of the dresses I gave you…" Seto Kaiba's calm voice made her look up at him
Seto Kaiba was still looking straightforward, gazing at the view.
"I told you that you were free to wear any of the dresses you liked but you haven't tried any till now…"
Kisara gulped. The idea of wearing the dresses of his dead wife wasn't really…tempting to her
"Well…um…I…" she didn't know what to say
He looked at her, the moon making his eyes look like two blue-silver frozen pools…and the girl felt herself growing weak again…especially when his hand cupped her cheek
"I really wish to see you in one of them…" he said in a low voice
The girl thought that there was a hidden demand under those kind words…she felt that shiver again and cold had nothing to do with it… Finally she nodded her head
"Okay…" she whispered…
She was back in her room and opened her closet. She looked at all those dresses from centuries ago… Even if they were all so old, they looked brand new… She looked at them and she thought that most of them were inappropriate for her. She was a low-life. Why would someone like her wear a dress like this…? Finally she sighed and searched in the closet. She found a brown dress with blue ribbons at the sleeves and around the waistline that ended up to a blue gemstone. It was one of the simplest she could find (probably it was the dress Lady Sylva would wear for a trip or horse riding). She sighed and removed her own dress and started putting that dress on… It took her some time to wear it. Finally she did and looked herself in the mirror. It felt so foreign to her! It was as if now Lady Sylvia would glare at her through the mirror, and tell her to remove the dress immediately!
"Lady Sylvia is dead…years now…" she tried to calm herself with her thoughts
However another thought crept in her mind…
"…No… She was murdered by Seto Kaiba…"
She tried to calm down and finally checked at one of the many jewelry boxes and chose a small necklace with a blue gemstone… She looked at herself through the mirror, brushed her hair a little and wore a pair of shoes too… She then exited the room with small steps… Her steps leaded her to the stairway that leaded to the West Wing again… She looked up at those stairs and felt her heart beating loudly again… She walked up the stairs, lifting her long dress in order to walk… She reached the entrance of the corridor again and she walked a bit further… That haunted hallway was still scaring her… She looked around for one more time but this time her heart wouldn't bear to go any further… She sighed and walked away… Seto Kaiba was waiting for her after all…
Seto Kaiba was still waiting at the balcony when he heard soft footsteps and the clicking sound of female heels behind him. He slowly turned around and looked at her from top to bottom. Kisara felt a soft blush painting her cheeks. For one more time, she couldn't read Seto Kaiba's expression…
"You look gorgeous…" finally Seto Kaiba's voice drew her out of her thoughts
She looked at him to see a small smile to his lips. Was it truly approval or he had something else in mind?
"Th-thank you…" she whispered
He smiled again and caressed her cheek again, startling her
"A beautiful flower in my garden…a gem in my castle…"
His words, even if they were flattering her and she couldn't deny that, were pinching her heart like needles… In his garden…in his castle… It was as if she was his and his alone…as if she was no longer a person…but a decoration to his castle… Even if he treated her like a Queen…she still couldn't ignore the fact that she was alone and locked inside the castle…like a prisoner… Tears burnt her eyes again and her shoulders were shaking slightly.
"What's wrong?" he questioned her
"Why…?" she whispered in a shaking voice, "Why are you doing this to me…? You keep me lock in here… I am not able even to walk out of this castle's walls… You're saying that I am your guest…but in reality I am no different than a prisoner… I am not asking to go to the village but…if only I could at least…walk out of the gate…"
Her sadness had surpassed her fear when she said all this… She was afraid to ask…but now…now she just couldn't take it any longer… Seto Kaiba looked at her and he seemed slightly surprised at that request.
"Out of the gate…?" he questioned like an echo
Tears fell down her cheeks.
"You don't trust me that I won't leave? You think that I would lie to you just to escape…?"
"No, Kisara" he replied, "I honestly don't think that"
"Then why?"
"Forest is dangerous" he said plainly
However Kisara looked at him with such sad eyes that Seto Kaiba couldn't help but listen to her.
"Please" she said, "I beg of you! Allow me to take a walk…even a few meters away from the gate…I promise that I won't run away!"
Seto Kaiba looked at her for a mere second and then looked back at the garden again. Then, he made a move with his arm as if pushing something invisible aside, and snapped his fingers in the progress… The creaking sound of a rusty, old lock that was being unlocked echoed in the air… Kisara looked at him surprised. Seto Kaiba looked at her.
"This is my proof of trust to you" he told her, "If you walk some meters away from the gate, there is a small brook on the right and some wild strawberries bushes to the right. That is the limit you can go. If you walk further than that, I will know it"
Kisara got scared by the last words but nodded her head
"Thank you…" she whispered
Late at night she felt the urge to walk out. She couldn't wait any longer… She went to the closet and found a long brown cape with white fur lining from the inside. It was so warm…and so soft in touch…! Kisara pulled the hood over her head and walked out of the room and out of the castle… She walked out of the gate and walked towards the path in the forest… Oh how much she missed it! She wrapped herself in the cape better because of the cold and then continued towards the forest… Her breath was coming out in white clouds. The snow wasn't falling now either but the cold was sharp… She walked a bit further till she finally found the brook and the bushes… The silence of the night was strangely scary tonight…maybe because she knew that she had to go back to the vampire's castle…
"That's right…I am not free yet…" she thought a bit sad…
However she couldn't forget his gentle face…his gentle voice… She looked up and then she saw them…small bluish-black wild flowers blooming close to the brook-bank… She smiled at the sight. The small flowers though…their color…their dark bluish black color reminded her of him… Those flowers were dark like he was… She thought of taking some flowers to him… She had no idea where that idea came from but she simply wanted to do it… She looked at those flowers again. The spot they were blooming was around fifty meters away from the limited spot… She really wanted to go but she couldn't disobey Seto Kaiba again… She was feeling torn between those feelings till finally she decided
"I'll go to cut one or two of them and then I'll come straight back!" she thought
She stepped out of the imaginary line that he had given as a limit…
She walked as fast as she could feeling the shivers of fear down her spine and finally reached the spot where the flowers were blooming… Even if it was night, the beautiful and dark flowers were at full bloom as if it was the middle of the day… She smiled and bent down to pick some flowers up and then…she heard a low growl behind her! She turned around with a terrified gasp. She already knew what it was even without looking…she already knew what it was even before seeing the ring of the yellow eyes all around her! Wolves! Many of them…their eyes were glowing in the darkness and their teeth were now revealed… They were growling hungrily. Kisara wanted to scream but no sound was coming out! She drew a step back and her back touched the tree. There was no way out! She shut her eyes close waiting for the end…however it never came…and the growling was now replaced by whimpering… She opened her eyes to see…Seto Kaiba! He was standing there with all his might, his cape waving around him…glaring at the wolves…
"What loud and barbaric sounds you make!" he said coldly, "Step aside!"
His eyes glowed red for a brief moment. The wolves then whimpered pathetically and…sat down as if they were trained puppies! Kisara was totally speechless! Then though, without warning, Seto Kaiba lifted her in his arms bridal-style and leaped in the air…
Kisara gasped when Seto Kaiba let her down and a bit less gently than usually…
"You disobeyed me again!" Seto Kaiba nearly yelled
Kisara had shut her eyes closed in total fear
"No…! No please…please listen to me…"
"You broke your promise!"
"No! I didn't…I…I only…"
"You tried to run away!" Seto Kaiba now yelled making Kisara scream in fear
"No…no please…!"
Seto Kaiba grabbed her wrist and she widened her eyes in surprise to see his eyes full of rage for the first time!
"I gave you everything you needed and this is how you repay me? By lying to me?"
He let go of her and she fell on the floor crying
"No…" she whispered weakly but he yelled
"This is not going to end like this though! If I can't have you, then no body can!"
He raised his arm ready to cut the thread of her life but she screamed
"No! I didn't try to leave I swear!"
He stopped and froze to his spot…while she was crying
"I didn't try to leave…" she whispered through her sobs, "…I only wanted to give you some joy…"
Seto Kaiba was frozen to his spot
"Kisara…"
The small maiden stood to her knees and opened her white palms slowly to reveal a rather crushed wild flower…the only one she had anticipated to cut before the wolves attacked her… The flower was big enough to fill her palm. Seto Kaiba looked at her and then without saying a word he extended his hand close to hers…the flower started floating in her palm and passed in his still floating…and then it became alive again…as if that was the only power from the Devil, Seto Kaiba had that wasn't a destructive power… Seto Kaiba made a few moves as if he wanted to touch it with his finger (making moves as if he wanted to caress a delicate woman with his fingers) but never did…as though he was afraid he would infect it if he did…and the flower was floating over his palm…
"I am sorry…" she whispered, "…I am sorry…"
The next morning when Kisara woke up and walked to her window, she found out that the small flowers were at full bloom, climbing to her wall around her window… She felt her eyes getting watery and touched the delicate petals of one of them…and a small tear fell from her eye on another small flower… Her tear was even brighter than the small dewdrops on it…
Another chappie is ready! And it is all dedicated to Seto Kaiba and Kisara!
Here Kisara wears (finally) one of the dresses that used to belong to Lady Sylvia...
Where Seto Kaiba tames the wolves is inspired by Kuroshitsuji episode 7 I hope you liked it!
I'll try to update soon! Please review me!
Enjoy!