Winning Without Gods (A Yu-Gi-Oh Fanfiction)DONE!

Chapter 17: The Dragon's Purpose

Kaiba's Home

Shizuka came from the guest bedroom Kaiba took her to. What's wrong with me? Why did I come to him at such an early time? Why do I feel compelled to stay? He wasn't a nice man. She heard him talking about the woman Yuugi had been dating. He called her a poor Egyptian whore. He never even treated Yuugi as a friend. Why had he gone to that restaurant at such a terrible hour? This man, he didn't even want to take anyone to a real hospital during the Battle City finals. Shizuka strolled the house, trying to figure it out.

"Is Satiah here?"

She looked up from her confusion at Mokuba Kaiba, Seto Kaiba's younger brother. Wow, he wasn't that little anymore.

"Seto told me last night that Anzu had a spirit that got a body. Is it Satiah?" he asked her again. "Are you the spirit?"

Someone else was clueless too. Shizuka looked outward. There wasn't much to see. A blurry mess but she'd been so bent on getting to him, she didn't grab her cane. "No. I'm Shizuka Kawai."

"Oh yeah. Uh? Jounouchi's little sister." It had been a little while since they saw each other. "Hi. What are you doing at my family home?"

"I don't know." She'd be honest. "Your brother isn't a very nice man. I don't know why I came here. I just felt compelled too, like an itch that was bothering me the whole time."

Mokuba Kaiba touched her hand. "You should go home. I'll send a driver out for you in a second." Still, he was halfway quiet. "You were at our headquarters yesterday, Seto brought you in. You do keep following him, but he doesn't tell you to back off. I think he's fascinated with you too."

Fascinated? "Why?"

"You summoned the Blue-Eyes White Dragon," Mokuba Kaiba answered.

Oh. "I didn't do that. I just fell unconscious." The fear had paralyzed her. She was about to die. She tried to keep it together like Jounouchi tried to teach her, but she couldn't. She didn't live Jounouchi's life. She was just trying to survive in hers.

"I think you did. I think Seto thinks you did too," Mokuba Kaiba said. "Anyhow. That's why Big Brother is fascinated with you. I haven't figured out what the connection is the other way around though. Follow me." He led her through the house. "Did you see Satiah yet? I really want to see her. I haven't seen her for years. I was in elementary school last time. I wonder if she's happier now?"

"I don't know," Shizuka answered. "I heard your brother call someone a bad name for a girl last night." That didn't seem to motivate him into knowing. Probably because Kaiba does it a lot.

"Big Brother went to our Headquarters early. I don't think he even got sleep. He's like that when something is bothering him," Mokuba Kaiba warned her. "Did you want to go home, or did you want to go there with me?"

"There." No, home, but it popped out of her mouth. No matter what he does, I still feel compelled to stay with him. Why?

"Fine then. I'll take you myself in a minute. If I have you, I'm bound to see Seto for more than a few minutes at least."

Kaiba Corp

"Stupid, Stupid, Stupid." Kaiba hammered away on the keys, doing company work but at the same time, not being able to believe in the stupidity of Pharaoh. "One act, one simple act that I know I could have caved her into sooner or later. No, he gives it all up. Nothing!"

Yet, there he was, still worried about him. Still offered the help last night. Still had been the one to call last night to straighten things out at the museum. He's such an idiot. "His body was even still at Domino Museum again from another exhibit." Set up before the Ishtar's were all killed. Domino museum of all places to awaken from his mummified corpse. It is not coincidence. It can't be.