Sorry for the long wait, I haven't been all in the mood to write at all. But this isn't a very good reason as I was watching Sailor Moon….the whole first season. Anyway, it's here so enjoy the next chapter and the beginning of Volume 9 Duel Academy!

Oh and I would like to mention the guest reader or readers… not sure if there is more than one of you who has been on my tail for the last few weeks. You have been scaring me into writing… which is good, because I got this done finally after not being able to write since I updated Legend of Zelda: Expanding the Triforce. So I thank you.

Chapter 1

Where the Hell Were You?

Friday, December 31st, 2012

11:00 PM

Yugi was enjoying his time at Kaiba's mansion. It was decorated and in the backyard where he remembered the platform now was an addition to the mansion as the main party area. A see through dome covered the area with a hall way connecting the room and the mansion. There were all sorts of foods, drinks both alcoholic and nonalcoholic and guests. The guests that were here was not what Yugi thought Kaiba of ever inviting. Joey, Tristan, Téa, Atem and Bakura were all invited over for New Year's including their families. The only family members that didn't come were Joey's father and Bakura's parents as they didn't live in Domino. Then there were the other guests, the press. But they were behaving so he didn't mind it too much.

Everyone was dressed in formal outfits and he admired Regan from a distance before walking up to her when he first arrived. She looked splendid. She was wearing the same dress she had at the tournament, but the moon was now shining down on her and it was almost like it was a different dress all together.

His father and mother were dancing on the dance floor and they haven't stopped since they got there. His grandfather on the other hand was having a drinking contest with Joey. Why Kaiba's guards or even his grandfather allowed this? He didn't know. He had a few dances with Regan, but now she was with Téa and Serenity while he stood in the corner with Atem by the mansion doorway eating whatever the cake thing he had in his hand.

He took a bite of it and the sweet taste melted on his tongue. The taste was short lived when Kaiba walked over to them. There was something written on him that only the few people who knew him would actually be able to read: concealed and tied down rage as he looked at him. Yugi shivered when the CEO made eye contact with him. He wasn't usually intimidated by the tall menacing man, but he had a feeling it had something to do with the incident that happened six to seven days ago. The days sort of blurred for him.

"Muto now." Kaiba growled lowly and barely as he walked past into the mansion.

Atem raised an eyebrow. "What did you do?"

Yugi sighed. "I think this has to do with Regan going into that building by herself."

"It was safer in there than where we were."

"I know that, but I don't think anyone told him that. It's been a week and I haven't managed to talk to him. This is the first day he and the rest of the Kaibas been in Domino since we got back for more than an hour just to refuel. The only person who wasn't zipping out of the country for the last week was Regan, who was stuck in bed for two bloody days."

"You didn't tell her either."

"No, you should know that. The communication was off until earlier today and it doesn't work for long ranges."

"Right." Atem nodded. "But why didn't Nile tell anyone. She knows everything."

"She does?"

"I told her while you were asleep on Regan's hand before Kaiba kicked you out the next day."

Yugi crossed his arms and looked towards Regan. "I don't really know why she didn't tell anyone then. She's your sister after all. I got to go, before Kaiba sends someone after me or worse."

The Pharaoh nodded as Yugi handed him his plate of the half eaten dessert and Yugi left. He found Kaiba waiting in front of the staircase in the front of the house. There were several people in this part of the mansion as well and sneaking by them was easy. Kaiba led him up the stairs and into the far parts of the house he didn't even knew existed. When they stopped, the noises of the party were long gone and atmosphere was worse than the shadow game with Pegasus so long ago in the Duelist Kingdom Tournament.

"Let me ask you a question that has to do with what happened a week ago." Kaiba said as he turned to him. "Where the hell were you?! You were trusted with one job and that was to keep my sister out of danger and protect her. And what did you do? Let her go into a building full of Dragon Slayers that had nets that sucked up her energy, not to mention every god damn weapon they could get their filthy hands on!"

"I wasn't going to let her go in by herself. We had a plan on what we were going to do and she called us from the elevator telling us where she was when we couldn't find her. I was going to go after her when something else showed up. It was a lot safer in the building than it was outside." Yugi responded calmly. Something was up with his friend and it wasn't anything good. He never saw Kaiba lose it over something that was over and done to the point of he was yelling with rage. Usually, the CEO raised his voice and many would call it yelling. At least before he started to; he was thinking straight enough to get away from everyone's hearing other than Yugi's.

"It was safer in the building? Explain to me how it was safer in the fucking building?!"

"How about you calm down a little bit?" Yugi told him with a commanding tone. "I understand why you would be angry; I didn't give the backup Regan should have had. But there was something even more dangerous outside that required Atem and I to defend against during that whole time. Now before I get into details can you tell me what you are so worked up about?"

Kaiba seemed taken aback, which was even more disturbing for Yugi to witness. Something was definitely up with Regan's brother. The brunet sighed and leaned heavily on the wall. "I was sort of killed that night."

"You died."

"I said sort of."

"How do you sort of die? What did you do respawned on the spot, because last I check you didn't look like you just died. That doesn't happen except for Atem, but that was merely coincidence."

Kaiba laughed. "Coincidence, not a word I would ever expect to come out of your mouth."

"How did you sort of die?" Yugi sighed getting back on track.

"One of the Dragon Slayers got their hands on my prototype duel disk that brings duel monsters on a physical plain, the psychic duelist one. They summoned Five-Headed Dragon and while I was distracted, the dragon hit my Blue-Eyes White Dragon sending her into me."

"You were crushed by your own dragon."

"Since you so blankly put it, yes I was crushed by my dragon that did her best not to. The final blow was when we crashed into the wall. I don't know what happened in the lobby after that until Regan was screaming at me." He placed a hand on his head. "Dammit she's loud when she wants to be."

"What happened when you were…?" Yugi couldn't get the word out.

"Dead? What makes you think I'm going to tell you when I didn't even tell my own family?"

"Because I'm not your family; I'm your rival and your friend."

Kaiba was silent for a few moments. "Don't tell Regan or Mokuba about this Yugi."

"I won't."

There was a pause before he answered. "I saw my parents that night. We actually had a lengthy conversation." Kaiba chuckled slightly as if it was humorous. "Then it ended."

Yugi waited patiently for a moment as Kaiba seemed to be thinking over it. "So what happened after that?"

"I woke up without a scratch to a half dead, bleeding to death, screaming sister." He replied with a glare. "Tell me your excuse for not protecting Regan."

"Lilith and Dark Matter appeared just as Regan hanged up the phone."

"Lilith and Dark Matter at the same time?"

"Yes, just when we didn't need to deal with more problems." Yugi sighed and his thoughts ran back to that day outside of the Dragon Slayers' Headquarters.

Yugi heard the disconnected beeping as Téa hung up her phone.

Téa yelled in frustration. "Why does she have to be so stubborn and reckless? She's going to get herself fucking killed!"

"She's probably doing as she said, making it easier for us to do our jobs." Yugi replied. He had never seen her mad enough to curse before.

"Jobs, Atem and you were supposed to go with her. How can you do your job if you're out here and she's in there?! The only problem that we may have had was with Joey and Tristan creating a distraction and an exit for you five to get out of the building. And since all of the security is heading up to the floor where Regan is going it's kind of hard to do the distractions and get them out safely! Not to mention, Bakura and I can't sneak around because everything is now on lock down in there! The only thing right on this plan is Pegasus clearing the area and knocking out the power!"

Yugi along with Bakura took a step back from her and turned to Atem. "Let's go before she hurts herself."

Atem nodded and the two of them headed for the building. Yugi was about to summon a monster to blast the door just a blinding light filled the darkness.

"Got somewhere to go boys?" A woman chuckled in the light.

The light died and Yugi saw Lilith the bounty hunter standing in their way, but she seemed much more threatening than before. Her blue hair wasn't moving in the wind and neither was her flowing tight silk dress that was white and purple with elegancy.

"Lilith, we don't have time for you right now!" Atem growled impatiently.

"Of course you do, everyone has time to spend with me." She replied as she took a few steps forward. Her heels clicked on the concrete.

"Yugi head inside; I'll take care of this."

Yugi was about to leave him when two monsters that he had never seen before appeared from the ground. Each of them stood next to Lilith baring their fangs at Yugi and Atem.

"No one is leaving, I need you."

"Who has us on their bounty list now?" Yugi asked her.

"I do."

"What for?"

"It doesn't matter; you and Atem will be part of my army very soon."

"What army? We aren't fighting in any war." Atem stated as Slifer appeared in front of them facing the creatures. The creatures seemed intimidated at first, but they held their ground. Yugi was surprised to say the least at Atem's sudden summon as well as the creatures' reaction to an Egyptian god. "Why aren't your creatures backing down?"

"They aren't afraid of gods as their master isn't afraid. We don't summit to dominance."

"You aren't a bounty hunter so what the hell are you?"

"I am Lilith of Eden and the Red Sea."

"You came from the Garden of Eden?" Bakura asked.

"Depends on your version of my origins, but it doesn't matter." Lilith turned to Atem and Yugi. "You either come with me or you can die here either way you are joining me."

"Go find some other prey Lilith; these two are mine and my master's." Another voice came from behind Yugi in the open parking lot.

Yugi turned to the voice and saw Dark Matter standing with his arms crossed. Instead of his robes, he was wearing a suit like he was just at a black tie event making him look very human.

"Go take a hike, Zorc can grow up and get energy to revive himself from elsewhere. I'm sure with a servant like you; he can do it within the day instead of getting revenge and failing miserably over and over again."

"You are flattering as usual, but I can't go on that offer. These two are mine as I had them first."

"Finders keepers."

"We aren't objects and we aren't going with either of you!" Yugi shouted at their bickering. "Now if you excuse us we have to go do something."

"Whoever gets the kill gets the drop prize, agreed?" Dark Matter asked Lilith just as Yugi and Atem were leaving.

"Agreed."

"Yugi-"

"I know, Téa, Bakura get out of here and go with Joey and Tristan." Yugi ordered them as he felt a pulse on the card he drew and summoned it. The Winged Dragon of Ra appeared in front of Dark Matter.

"But I can -." Bakura started.

Atem cut him off. "Please, if you can, go after Regan and help her out."

"Regan's in trouble?" Dark Matter asked like he was surprised as Bakura and Atem exchanged looks like a silent conversation.

Bakura gave a realization look towards Lilith, nodded, and left.

"Hey answer my question!" The demon demanded.

"It doesn't matter to you, since we are stuck here, so are you." Atem growled. "Slifer attack Lilith's beasts!"

Yugi didn't get to see the outcome as Dark Matter attacked him with shadow monsters. Ra wiped them out without much trouble as more shadow monsters appeared. It wasn't very long before Atem and he were surrounded by the two very different types of creatures with only Slifer and Ra protecting them. The two gods destroyed the monsters, but they kept coming back with more each time.

"We need to do something else other than having our monsters attacking theirs; they seemed to have an unlimited source of monsters." Atem stated.

"How right you are Pharaoh, so do us both a favor and die again." Dark Matter said.

"Or you two can submit to me." Lilith proposed.

"Go screw a tree or something Lilith, they are mine."

"Don't give me a reason to kill you; I'm interesting in your little human crush and how it turns out."

Dark Matter didn't say anything as he took a step back from the woman. Even the shadow monsters seemed to freeze for a moment. Yugi shivered; there was something very threatening in her icy calm tone that even Dark Matter wasn't going to create a comeback. The whole thing died out when a sudden bright blue light appeared. The shadow monsters and Lilith's beasts disappeared as the two demons were distracted. Yugi and Atem turned to it and noticed it was coming from the building. Suddenly, the bright blue light turned into a beam as Five-Headed Dragon crashed through the building sending building pieces all over the place. Dark Matter left the scene immediately as Yugi and Atem dodged pieces of building. Lilith ignored the building pieces as they moved around her as she walked to inspect the inside of the building. The dragon disappeared as the light died.

"Well gentlemen, think about my proposal, until we meet again." Lilith said with a smile on her face as she brushed her hair over her shoulder.

"We aren't thinking about it, we won't join you." Yugi replied.

Lilith laughed as she disappeared. "I like it when a man is resistant."

Yugi was about to go into the building when he heard people running from the side of the building. Ra charged an attack when his friends and Pegasus showed up from around the corner. He released the Winged Dragon of Ra as Slifer the Sky Dragon was released from Atem's control and the two monsters disappeared.

"Yugi-Boy, what was that?" Pegasus asked in a panic.

Yugi didn't answer him as he rushed into the building, he could sense Regan was close, but not doing so well. He could hear the others following him but he stopped in his tracks when he saw Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon was in the air glowing powerfully. His attention was shifted to Regan and Kaiba sitting on the floor of the destroyed lobby. There were several dragon slayers lying on the floor and there was one with a duel disk as Yugi walked over him. Regan was bleeding pretty badly with what he guessed was Kaiba's sleeves around her arm and her torso and had a glare in her eyes for a moment before it died. Kaiba helped her up and left towards the elevator. Yugi walked up to Regan who also walked towards him with a limp slowly. She stopped short and looked to the floor before looking around quickly. Yugi tried to follow on what she was looking for as her eyes widened when she looked over a damaged wall. Then suddenly, she collapsed on the ground next to some sort of net that glowed similar to the color of her aura.

"Regan!" he shouted as he rushed over to her side. Her breathing was shallow and the ripped sleeves of Kaiba's shirt were soaked in what he could have guessed was blood.

"And you know the rest." Yugi stated finally after telling his story.

"Lilith sounds like she's going to be a major problem." Kaiba said after Yugi explained the story.

"You know something about Lilith? She didn't seem to be a super problem, just an annoying one at her timing."

"She most like underestimated you. Lilith is said to be the mother of evil spirits and monsters. Not only that, she is like a succubus and makes monsters with men. Why she would want some sort of army is a little out of character, but that would explain why she blew off the bounty hunter prize. She's up to something and I don't like it. Did she say she was after anyone else?"

"Not that she decided to tell us, I don't even know if she really knows anything about Regan or you for that matter, she seemed only concentrated on Atem and I. Even Bakura wasn't even in her interest."

"She must only be after people who have strong abilities with the Shadows since she knew all about them back at the tournament and you two are the only ones. But of course it's only going to be a matter of time before she picks up on the scent. Though, ignoring Bakura seems strange, isn't he good with working with the shadows?"

"He is, and he's getting better with it, he doesn't want something like what happened when he had the Millennium Ring again." Yugi answered and then his eyes widen in realization. "The buried Millennium Items could be on her target list as well."

"If she can get them, I'll be surprised."

"Kaiba, we can't just leave them unprotected! We both know that if the person who is unsuited to carry and use an item well die a very painful death after going insane, but we don't know anything about demons or monsters using them. Zorc used them a long time ago and what happen? Egypt was almost wiped off the face of the map along with the rest of the world."

"So what do you want me to do Yugi? I'm not going to send my men to face their death on excavating the site. And even if I did, those items will create a giant magnet for everything demon to monster alike to the area on where I would hide them. They should remain buried."

Yugi growled looking at the floor. "There has to be something that can be done if Lilith finds out about the location of the other six Millennium Items."

"If she finds them. I'm sure your good friend Ishizu will tell you if she notices anything strange around the area, she is in Egypt is she not?"

"Yes, but still."

"Then worry about it then." Kaiba scoffed looking a really expensive watch on his wrist. "Come on, it's almost midnight."

Yugi didn't want to drop the subject, but he let it go and followed the CEO through the maze of halls and rooms. When they got downstairs everyone had gone and there were a lot of conversations coming from the backyard. When Kaiba and he were at the door everyone that was invited was looking up at the sky. Yugi turned and saw a hologram clock with two minutes left to midnight. Suddenly someone ran into him knocking the breath out of him as they wrapped their arms around him. He looked down noticing the familiar feeling and found Regan hold him.

"I hope Seto didn't hurt you." Regan said as a glare was pointed at Kaiba.

"I didn't do a thing." Kaiba sighed. "I got my answer and that's all I needed."

"So you aren't mad at him anymore?"

"No."

Regan squeezed tighter around him bringing herself even closer to Yugi. Yugi sniffed slightly under Kaiba's glare that he could feel. "That's great, so now what, what do you have planned Seto?"

Yugi turned to him as an evil grin appeared on his face. He didn't get to tell as the countdown began. Yugi noticed there were tons of cameras on and doing live streams, how he missed it before he couldn't even guess. He smiled and Regan and he joined the count down.

"TEN! NINE! EIGHT! SEVEN! SIX! FIVE! FOUR! THREE! TWO! ONE! HAPPY NEW YEARS!" Everyone shouted and yelled as streamers went off and holograms decorated the place.

Regan gave him a kiss and he returned it. There were camera flashes, but he ignored them. After a few moments, they separated and the reporters backed off a bit.

Yugi looked over to Kaiba, but the man was gone. "Hey where did Kaiba go?"

"Seto's gone?" Regan questioned as she looked around. "Where could he have gone off to?"

Suddenly the lights died leaving the sky lit up by the quarter moon. The music was still dead as a light came on lighting up the missing man. A smirked played on Kaiba's face like he was proud to announce that he had won a game against his rival. "Ladies and Gentlemen, thank you for coming to my New Year's Event. And as the first to be bringer of news of 2012, I would like you all to know about a secret that many of newspapers and magazines have been creating conspiracy theories on since the tournament in Toronto."

"What is he doing?" Yugi asked.

"Clearing up our relationship that I'm dating you maybe?" Regan guessed and pulled him towards the stage that had appeared out of the ground on the other side of the room. When they got there Kaiba beckoned them onto the stage.

There was silence when Yugi and Regan joined Kaiba on the stage. He could feel every reporter on him.

"Let's get something straight here." Kaiba announced. "Regan and Yugi are dating. I am not part of this love triangle you have created or even love square for some of you who thought that Tristan Taylor was involved."

"Does this mean you aren't straight?" A female reporter asked in the crowd. "You would have to be to turn a blind eye to your rival having a girl like her."

"I like girls; I'm not a low human like the rest of your celebrity gossip. I happen to have someone in mind, but that will be mentioned after this."

The crowd got excited and Yugi was just as curious to who he was talking about. Nile stood off stage with a smirk on her face at the CEO like she had been waiting for him to say something about it. Obviously it had been going on for a while and no one even noticed except for the princess of Egypt. The audience hushed again as Kaiba waited patiently.

"What I was going to mention first off was something none of you picked up on and I am grateful at your one track minds. I would like to announce to the world that Regan is actually my long lost sister and her real name is Regan Mitsuko Heartin Kaiba."

There was silence as the gears started to turn in all the reporters' heads as to why they were invited. Then it was shattered all at once.

"Why did you keep it a secret?"

"What happened that caused you to be separated?"

"He didn't waste any time did he?" Regan muttered quietly in Yugi's ear range.

"I'm surprised as well, but he has been waiting to tell the world since the tournament's opening so I guess he couldn't hold it anymore."

"Yea," Regan sighed. "I'm just glad I don't have to hide it anymore."

"All you have to know is that due to unfortunate events Mokuba and I were separated from our sister."

"So why did you keep it a secret?"

"There was a threat called the Dragon Slayers if you don't recall who were after my company as well as my brother and I. If I said anything about Regan being my sister before they were gone, she would have been a target as well." He blankly explained like he was talking to idiots. "Now for another thing I wanted to address tonight. Alexandria Floe, please come to the stage."

A confused look appeared on Alex's face as she appeared out of the crowd wearing a dress with her guns attached to a shoulder harness and guns. For some reason the dress and the harness matched perfectly.

"Mr. Kaiba?" Alex asked and the lights dimmed a bit.

Regan gasped as the CEO got down on a knee and pulled out a box out of his pocket in front of Alex.

Yugi eyes were wide; this was definitely not what he was expecting tonight. He looked over at the ground and saw Joey passed out on the bench with Grandpa sitting beside the blond and it dawned on him why Kaiba allowed Joey to drink.

Kaiba opened the box as Yugi turned his attention back to Kaiba and a hologram of the box and ring inside was popped up for people to see around the room. The ring was white gold with a blue zircon. The stone was surrounded by enough diamonds to buy a house. There was engraving in the zircon stone that looked a lot like a blue-eyes white dragon.

"Alexandria Floe, will you marry me?" Kaiba asked with a tone he had never heard.

Alex looked shocked as a smile grew on her face and tears appeared in her eyes. "Yes, yes of course I will marry you!"

Kaiba stood up and put the ring on her finger. There was a loud cheer and clapping as Yugi and Regan joined in by clapping. They solidified it with a kiss and Yugi had a feeling Kaiba had won the headlines of the news for the next few days. He looked down at Regan who looked really happy for the two of them. He wondered if they would be together as well or would they fall victim to the world's needs and they would separate because of it.

Regan must have noticed him looking at her and any vibes he was giving off. She smiled and just nodded. He smiled back, it was all he needed.

"Ladies and Gentlemen, you may grab your champagne on the way out whenever you leave."

"One last question Mr. Kaiba," One of the reporters called out of the crowd. "When is the wedding day?"

Kaiba turned to Alex who nodded as if they were communicating. "It will be private wedding on March fourth of this year with only friends and family."

"He really doesn't waste time." Regan exclaimed. "He's given them two months to plan the whole thing out."

"It's official Regan." Yugi commented placing a hand on her shoulder as the press was starting to evacuate for the news stations that were bounded to be filled in no time. "Your brother is insane."

"Hm, didn't get to tell them about my new school." Kaiba commented ignoring Yugi's statement. "Oh well, less to worry about."

"You're new school?" Regan and Yugi asked at the same time.

Kaiba didn't answer as he and Alex wandered off the lowered stage. Regan and Yugi were left alone in that part of the room as the others were dancing to a song that came on.

"Well it could have been worse; I'm surprised the press wasn't suffocating him." His girlfriend smirked.

"The alcohol must have been his key, took Joey out that's for sure."

"The press left drunk!"

"They have camera crew."

"Right…"

Yugi looked at her as she seemed to be thinking on something. "What is it?"

She opened her mouth to say something as she looked up at him, but nothing came out and she shook her head. "Never mind, it's nothing. How about we dance, for a bit?"

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Also as a little note on this, I am starting an original story called The Legend of Aerrow Fionn and so it will be taking quite a bit of my time after I'm done with my 3 assignments for school, evil teachers… Anyway, so I hope I can update, not in a month's time, but at least once a week with working on this story as well as my Legend of Zelda story that I recommend if you do enjoy my writing. I want to get back to Pokémon Rifts, but it's not really a priority. The Legend of Aerrow Fionn or as a short form LOAF, it's going to be something I'm working on all the time. I thank you for your patience and hope you guys will continue with dealing with me as I am a bit of a procrastinator…. Okay a big one, but I will do my best!