Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Battle City ❯ Reckless Climbing ( Chapter 1 )

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]

A/N: This has nothing to do with my other stories of Yugioh, although the girl in this story has the same name as "Breaking Walls". I can't help it, I love the name. I have a general idea where I want to go with this story, so let me know if you want me to continue. Or if it has potential. Positive critics are welcome. Improvement is always better than looking like a fool who can't write. : P This story takes place during Battle City Finals, right after the first duel (Yami/Yugi & Bakura). I will be changing a few things if this story goes on, so I hope you don't mind. : )

Battle City

Yugi Muto said goodnight to his friends before returning to his own room for the night. Sleeping on the blimp was actually quite relaxing. The fact that you were hundreds of miles up in the air was scarcely on your mind unless you look outside the window. Which Yugi refused to do. Turning the door knob of his room, he heard a thud, stopping him abruptly with alarm. Who was inside? All of his friends he had seen leave for their own room, so an unknown person in his room was not a good thing.
Plunging up the courage he usually used for duels, or high panic situations, Yugi slowly opened the door and peered around into the dark room. He squinted, not seeing a thing.
Another thud had him jumping, startled, and he quickly flicked on the light to reveal a small blond struggling to climb through his window. Recognizing the girl immediately, Yugi gasped.
"Kari!" Yugi ran over to her in panic. "What are you doing?!"
Kari flashed him a wide grin, making him blush regardless. "Coming to see you!" she chirped, despite hanging off of a blimp in the middle of the atmosphere. If Yugi was to say anyone was brave, it was her. And he would have admired that if it wasn't for the fact that she seemed to be stuck on something, preventing her to come forth into his room.
"Couldn't you have used the door?" he asked, voice high and eyes wide as saucers.
Kari grunted, trying to wiggle her foot free. "Seto doesn't need to know I am talking to you," she replied simply and Yugi frowned with confusion. What did Seto Kaiba have anything to do with this?
He was about to ask, when Kari suddenly got unstuck and instead of climbing into the room properly, she ended up falling gracefully into Yugi, shoving him against the wall with her lack of balance -knocking him off of his own. Crystal blue eyes met amethyst and Yugi couldn't have been blushing harder by that point. He had never had a girl's body up against his, as he could feel every curve of her lithe body. He could feel her rapid breathing against his cheeks, the scent of cool mint filling his nostrils and making him lean forwards absently. Kari's eyes dropped down to his lips before her own curved upwards. The fact that Yugi's millennium puzzle stabbing into both of their abdomen's was not noticed.
As Yugi realized where Kari was looking, Yugi squirmed with nerves. "Uh...Kari?" he stuttered and all thought process was taken from him when her eyes snapped back up to his.
A strawberry blush coated her own cheeks when she noticed that she was making him uncomfortable and she backed away from him with a sheepish smile. "Sorry," she muttered before spinning away from him and flopping into his bed. Yugi watched her with curious eyes.
"I still don't know why you are here," Yugi replied, somehow finding his voice, although it was a bit scratchy.
Kari pulled her legs up underneath her, sitting cross legged in the middle of his bed. Her hands smoothed out any crevices of the sheets while she grinned at him. "I told you! I wanted to see you. We have to be competitors out there and I'd rather have some down time, ya know?"
Yugi nodded with understanding as he walked over to her, sitting down on the bed in front of her awkwardly. He was still pretty shaken from the close proximity that they had just been in a few moments prior. Suddenly though, what she had said before came back to him, sparking his curiosity. "Uhm, Kari? You said you didn't want Kaiba to know we were talking...what did you mean by that?" he asked shyly, not making eye contact.
Kari looked away with annoyance, a hiss escaping her as she did so. Yugi looked up, but he realized her reaction hadn't been directed towards himself. If he guessed right, he'd assume it was Kaiba. Finally, Kari sighed. "He's...possessive."
Yugi frowned, not understanding. Sure he knew how he was with his company, his cards, and his younger brother...but what did that have to do with Kari? When everyone was together, Kaiba seemed to not even know Kari whatsoever.
Kari's eyes lit up, realizing that Yugi had no idea what she was talking about. Seto and herself had played their parts better than she had thought. "Seto...he's my...boyfriend."
If Yugi had been expecting the explanation, it hadn't been that one. His eyes widened farther than they had in quite some time and a strange feeling in the pit of his stomach rendered him speechless temporarily. Kari watched his reaction before her lips tilted upwards ever so slightly.
"We have to keep it a secret for publicity sake. If I win this tournament, then it could look like Kaiba let me. Not that I will."
Yugi understood but he didn't approve of the way she degraded herself. "You could," Yugi reminded her, trying to coax her into have hope for herself.
Kari smiled brightly, making Yugi's heart flutter involuntarily. She was really pretty to begin with, but put a smile on her face, and she became ten times more attractive. Is that what Kaiba saw in her? "I appreciate that, Yugi. You are always so optimistic and ready to make people feel better about themselves. I love that about you," she said, making him blush again with a little smile. That just fueled her own grin. Yugi was a very cute boy. "But actually, it's very true. I won't win. There is more than just a tournament going on here and I know you know that. Kaiba doesn't want to hear any of it, and well, he has his own thoughts about the whole thing..." her voice trailed off as if thinking about something, but she didn't continue on about it.
The knowing feeling that had been creeping up on Yugi from the moment he got onto the blimp returned at Kari's statement. She was correct. There was much more going on than just a contest to see who was the better duelist. The fact that Marik was on the blimp and in the contest made things incredibly, well, not good.
"You're right," Yugi relented. He wondered what all she knew about all of this. "Have you...um, had any encounters with the rare hunters?"
Kari nodded a little too eagerly. "They wanted my Kaiser Sea Horse. I outsmarted them, though only by a hair. I'm guessing they were trying to take your rare card as well?"
Yugi blushed, thinking his cards weren't the only thing that they were trying to steal. His hand absently moved up to the pyramid hanging from the chain around his neck. "Yes," he stated seriously. "We all need to be very careful in this tournament. I've found out that Marik is the leader of that rare hunter group."
Kari didn't gasp like Yugi had expected her to with hearing the news, she just stared at him with a frown. "I knew it," she murmured. "That slug. He's way too obvious not to be. Going around, acting as if he is so innocent. No one who looks like him is that innocent. And then you have to take into consideration that he has the remaining god cards." She seemed to have been thinking aloud, so when she realized what she had let slip her eyes widened and her hands slapped onto her mouth in horror. Seto would be so mad to know that she had told Yugi about this.
Yugi smiled sympathetically and placed a hand onto her shoulder. "I already knew, Kari," he said and she visibly relaxed but this news shocked her.
"How?"
"I've dueled him before. Granted he was using another one of his mind slaves, but yes."
"And...you won?"
Yugi nodded, looking a little proud since that seemed to be an impressive feat in the girl's eyes. He straightened up a little. "Yes."
Kari beamed. "Wow! That's awesome! So that means you have a god card right?!"
Yugi couldn't help but smile back at her, just as big and he nodded. For the first time, he let the excitement of the fact that he had obtained a god card show. He had been looking it at as a burden, or just a piece of the puzzle of overcoming all of this Marik stuff. Something about Kari made him think differently.
Suddenly, the door of his room slammed open unexpectedly and Kari stiffened with a look of horror on her face. Yugi turned around swiftly, expecting Marik, but instead saw Seto Kaiba looking murderous in the doorway. From the look on his face, he could very well be Marik. He flew up into a defensive stance in front of Kari, but she beat him to it and came to a stop in between them both with a pleading look of peace on her face.
"What...are you doing in here Kari?" Seto asked in a low, dangerous voice, his cobalt eyes staring straight over Kari's head and into Yugi's violet ones.
Kari tried to keep control over herself. "I was just hanging out with Yugi before bed." Apparently that wasn't the appropriate way of saying that because Seto practically growled and took a step forwards. Kari was ready though, and she took a step towards him. She knew that if he decided to react offensively to Yugi, Kari wouldn't be able to hold him back. She knew how Seto could be. It was one of the reasons she had been attracted to him. She felt safe. And safety had been something she'd never felt before him. But she didn't need any protection from Yugi. She desperately wanted to be friends with the little spiky haired boy.
"Kaiba we were just talking. Why are you getting so angry?" Yugi asked him, his eyes narrowing. He didn't like the way that Seto was about Kari. It surly didn't make their relationship look all too good.
"Why am I getting so angry?" Seto countered, his eyes narrowed into slits behind his dark brown bangs. Kari fought back the urge to brush the strands away to see that beautiful face she loved so much. Even when it was angry looking. "Should you really be fraternizing with your competitor Muto? I let it slide with your dweeb squad, but when you begin to branch out to the others, I have to make a stand. This is a competition, not a friendly go around."
Yugi realized Seto was trying to keep the fact that him and Kari were together a secret still, not knowing that Kari had told him. Not knowing the full extent of their relationship, he didn't want anything to happen to Kari on behalf of him. So he played along. "You're right," he stated, letting his face return back to normal, a look of apology gracing his features.
Seto quirked an eyebrow with shock, as he had been expecting to fight with the smaller boy. Kari was, too, stunned, spinning around to look at Yugi with disbelief.
Yugi didn't look at Kari, not wanting to set Seto off again. So he stared directly into Seto's eyes as he spoke next. "We are competitors. And we shall leave it at that...Kari, you should probably go to your own room now. I'll see you tomorrow at the next duel."
Yugi felt regret bubble up inside of him as he felt the saddened gaze that belonged to Kari. He didn't risk looking at her though and he was relieved to see Seto backing out of the room. Yugi sincerely hoped that this hadn't ruined their budding friendship. He really liked Kari, she was bright and energetic. And from what he saw in her duels, she was smart as well. If he wasn't shy and she wasn't dating Kaiba, he would probably try to get closer to her. But both things held him back and he turned around to signal that the conversation was over.
Kari watched him with contempt before leaving with Seto, defeated. As soon as the door was closed, leaving Kari and Seto alone in the hallway, she turned on the much taller man with a glare. "I appreciate your concern for me, but I was just being friends with Yugi. I like him," she hissed, but didn't object when Seto took her hand -gently. Although he didn't look pleased at all. He tugged her down the hall.
"Like him? Yugi's an egotistic brat. Not to mention you're supposed to be on my side," Seto bit off, jealousy deep within his soul.
Kari held back the urge to roll her eyes at her boyfriend. "I am on your side, Seto. Always," she reassured him softly and was pleased to see his hardened expression soften just slightly. "But I still want to be friends with others. Yugi is one of them."
Seto stopped abruptly and Kari ran into his side, but he caught her by the waist when she almost fell. "Why do you want to be friends with Yugi so bad? Before now you could have cared less," Seto demanded, looking deep into her eyes for an answer. Kari swallowed nervously, and he saw it in her eyes, before she relented.
"Because he is nice. He understands things other's don't," Kari admitted, hinting at the truth. She didn't want to tell Seto that the reason why she felt so comfortable with the small boy was because Yugi saw outside of the box and Seto didn't. Even if it was right in front of his face, plain as day, he denied it ever happening out of pure stubbornness. And that was something Kari didn't like.
Seto wasn't ignorant though. "And I'm not any of those things, so you go looking for it in someone else?" The hurt was all over his eyes but he was trying to keep it from showing. Kari saw it though and she felt incredibly guilty.
"Don't say it like that," Kari said with a frown, her hands running up his arms. He wasn't wearing his long jacket, he was left in his black turtle neck and black pants. "You make it sound like I'm trying to cheat on you. And that's something I'd never do," she sincerely swore. She had always been devoted to this man. He was everything to her.
Seto pressed her against the wall, making her heart speed up, and he leaned his forehead up against hers as he looked into her eyes. "How do I know it's the truth? You two were in his bed-"
"On his bed," Kari corrected sternly. "And had space between us. We were just talking about the tournament."
Seto was silent for a moment, conflicted emotions swarming his eyes as she looked up within them. Her hands ran up to his shoulders, her fingers playing with the back ends of his hair. Seto closed his eyes at the touch and Kari smiled. "You didn't tell him anything did you?" he muttered, and Kari knew exactly what he hinting at.
"Of course not," Kari said before she did realize something. "Um, well not about the tournament. But...um, Seto. I did tell him about us." She didn't ever want to keep things from him. She expected him to be honest with her, so she must do the same.
Seto's eyes snapped open and he hardened all over again, and he leaned away from her. "You what?" he hissed. "You knew-"
"Yes I know. Yugi won't say anything. I know he won't."
Seto was fuming. That runt now knew something that he hadn't wanted anyone to know. He could blackmail him or whatnot. And he didn't like that feeling whatsoever. However, the jealousy that he had once been feeling was simmering. A wicked smirk tilted at his lips and Kari tilted her head curiously at it. Seto pressed up against her once more, leaving her breathless. "Well at least one thing is for certain, although I don't like Muto knowing something so personal about me, he knows I have something he doesn't," Seto murmured and began trailing hot kisses down her jaw towards her neck. She tasted of sweat and cold wind. Most likely from climbing outside of the blimp to get into Yugi's room. As if someone climbing on the side of his blimp would go unnoticed. His silly little girl.
Kari's eyes fluttered closed while her body gained heat from his soft lips. "And what's that?" she asked breathlessly, before gasping as Seto pressed his hips into hers to make a point. Literally.
"You," Seto said against her soft skin, his hands winding themselves along her hips. His want pressed firmly between her legs. "And soon...the god cards."

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