Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Human ❯ Her Past ( Chapter 2 )

Sorry about the angst thing to those of you who wanted heavy angst. There is some angst in this story, however. Anyway, enjoy the chapter!

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The day began as usual for Seto Kaiba. He got up, got dressed, did paperwork, ate breakfast with Mokuba, and went to school in the limo. Yes, it would be just another normal day at school too, if it hadn't been for one factor.

Li Shido with her captivating eyes.

Seto arrived walked through the classroom door before anyone, as usual. He sat down at his desk and took out Dracula once again, only to find his mind wandering towards thoughts of the girl who now had a permanent seat next to him. It disturbed him greatly that he paid any notice to her. He had even dreamed of her. Her eyes locked on his, whispers he couldn't quite here flowing past her soft lips. 'No!' Seto grabbed his head. He couldn't think like that. No, it would be his doom to find that he thought of her as more than a classmate.

"Are two day weekends really that fun?" "Yeah. The schoolwork in California is easier too." "I wish I could live there!" Voices of others luckily crowded Seto's mind. Unfortunately, those voices belonged to Yuugi, his friends, and the current object of his thoughts.

"So," Li started to ask Anzu, "are you going to give anyone special any chocolates for Valentines Day next week?" Anzu started to blush terribly. "W-Why would you say that?" Li grinned and leaned over to whisper into Anzu's ear. "Don't worry, I won't tell Yuugi about your little crush." (Sorry Anzu/Yuugi haters.) "In fact," Li said in her normal voice as she stood up straight, "if you buy something from my store, I'll give you a discount." "Arigato Shido." "Call me Li. Oh," she said as she turned around to face the guys, "and if you guys get any candy from any girls, I'll give you guys a discount for White Day(1) next month." "Arigato. Hey, have you guys heard of that new club for people under 21?" Jou said. "Yeah, but I heard it's almost impossible to get in." Jou looked stricken when Yuugi said this. "What? How're you 'spose to get in then?" Honda thought for a moment. "Well, either you're suppose to get an actual invitation by mail or unless you get there like, 3 hours earlier, you either give them a huge bribe or promise them something else they want, if you know what I mean." "That's to bad," Li said "the place sounded like fun."

Li sat in her desk. "Ohayo Kaiba-kun." Seto glanced at her. 'Just try to ignore her.' He tried desperately to ignore her all day. He was doing pretty well up until lunch

~ ROOF: LUNCHTIME ~

There she was again. Li had once again invaded Seto Kaiba's only sanctuary at school. "Hey Kaiba-kun, come and eat lunch with me." Seto just couldn't take it anymore. "What did you mean when you said to not run from my feelings? I'm not running from anything." Li looked him in the eye with a very serious expression on her face. "Oh, but you are Kaiba-kun. You are running from a human beings right to have friendship and love. You're trying to bury those emotions so you won't be hurt. The truth is, dear Kaiba-kun, you're afraid." Seto immediately became enraged. He slammed her against the wall she was currently leaning on and pinned her arms. "How dare you?" Seto said in a low and deadly voice. "How dare you accuse me of being afraid? You're just like the rest of them, always telling me to believe in friendship and love. You're just a weakling like the rest of them." It was Li's turn to be furious.

Her eyes seemed to light like fire; her lips were stretched over her lips in a sort of snarl, making her canine teeth seem longer. "The question, Kaiba-kun, is how dare you? How dare you compare me to others when you know nothing about me or what I've been through?" Seto's grip loosened at this. Li then did something rather odd. She embraced the powerful C.E.O. Seto was shocked to say the least. He looked down at her to find her eyes filled with sorrow. "Please," Li said in a pleading voice, "please don't bury your emotions. If you do, your soul will wither and you'll be left a soulless shell. Think of your brother. If you discard love and other emotions, how long will it be before you discard him too?"

She touched his wrist while her other arm still embraced him. "I've seen the scars on your wrist. Stop cutting yourself. As you continue to cut, you will die inside. It will only be a matter of time before your physical body kills itself because it feels only the emptiness of sorrow. Then you will have betrayed your brother; you will leave him to fend for himself in the world. It will only be a matter of time before he becomes a shell too."

Li released her grip on Seto, gathered her things, and went to class, leaving him stunned on the roof.

On the roof after Li had made her exit, he made a call on his cell phone. "It's Kaiba. There's a student in my class named Li Shido. I want you to find every record or file about her and I want it by late this evening or your fired." With that he hung up and started thinking. 'What did she go through? What the hell did she go through for her to be able to say that?' "The question, Kaiba-kun, is how dare you? How dare you compare me to others when you know nothing about me or what I've been through?" Her words rang through his mind.

~ LATE NIGHT: KAIBA MANSION ~

Seto had taken a shower that night like every other night. The difference was, he didn't cut his wrists. It was more like he couldn't cut his wrists. Now every time he tried, he thought of Li's words. "It will only be a matter of time before your physical body kills itself because it feels only the emptiness of sorrow. Then you will have betrayed your brother; you will have left him to fend for himself in the world. It will only be a matter of time before he becomes a shell too." He could never do that to his brother. He wanted Mokuba to have a happier childhood than he did. Now, every time he tried to draw blood from himself, it made him sick to the stomach.

'Could it be true? Is it possible that emotions are not weakness or a path to destruction and sorrow?' Seto reflected about all the times that he had seen Yuugi with his friends. Yuugi had always been happy when he was with his friends, surrounded by their love. He had always been able to pull through, no matter what the situation, because of the love he felt for the people he protected. That emotion which was known as love seemed to give others strength and happiness. While he himself, who had cut off such emotions except towards his brother had been driven near insane with what he now realized was grief.

'My God, it's true. Why didn't I notice before? I know why.' Seto begrudgingly admitted that he had been to blind because of his own ideas to care, but there was something about this girl that made him want to believe her. There was a knock at the door. "Come in", grunted the currently brooding Kaiba. "Sir." said one of the many maids of the Kaiba household as she entered the room. "These files have just been sent over. There the ones you requested." "Good. Just leave them on the table and you can leave." "Yes sir." Seto decided to leave the files until morning. With all the thoughts rushing through his head already, he didn't need more keeping him awake. Instead, he decided to read them in the morning. With that, he turned off his lights and set off for a trip to dreamland.

~ SETO'S DREAM ~

The touching of bodies, breathing, whispered words of love, his name, and her eyes. Their color is unknown, but clouded with lust and passion for him. Hands press to his chest while soft lips press to his own rougher ones. Hair spread around her like rivers of polished obsidian, their ends the color of blood.

~ 4:00 A.M ~

Seto woke up, gasping for air. He was tangled in his sheets, body flushed, covered in sweat, with possibly one the most painful hard-on's in his life. 'Shit' he thought as he walked towards the bathroom to take a much-needed cold shower. 'Where the hell did that dream come from?' Of course he had dreams like that before, after all he was a teenage boy, but there was usually something he did the day before that would trigger dreams like that. Then it came to him. 'The girl and her hug, of course! It's perfectly understandable, after all, Shido is very attractive.' Seto reassured himself that it didn't go beyond her appearance.

He was up an hour earlier than he had to be, so after his shower was the perfect time to read her files. He picked up the first page and started to read. 'My God. It's a miracle she hasn't gone insane.'

Li Shido was born on April 10, 1987. She had a mother, father, and older sister and they lived in Hokkaido. Her mother divorced Li's father because of his drinking problem and his abuse. Li was 5 and her older sister, Kioko, was 11. Li and her sister were often beaten. According to Li and Kioko's friends, her older began to cut herself. She also started to drink like her father. Neighbors reported that they didn't know the true abuse that had gone on in the house because, even though she was beaten and her older sister and her father fought almost all the time, Li continued to go to school and remained civil, if somewhat distant, towards others. In actuality, she was a prodigy. Kioko had dropped out at the age of 16. At the same age, Kioko died when she first tried heroin.

After that, Li said she was beaten more often because she was the only one that her father could take out his anger on. A week later, Li stopped attending school completely. A month later, a teacher was sent to the house to see if anything was wrong. When the teacher arrived at the house, she heard faint screams coming from the basement. The teacher entered the house (The door was unlocked.) and went to the basement. She had arrived in time to see Li's father holding a knife above her head. The women subdued Li's father with some pepper spray, long enough to take Li's bloodied for to a neighbor's house and call the police.

After Li's father was put in jail, she went through as series of foster homes because her mother had died at an earlier date until she finally settled with and old couple who had never been able to have children of their own. She was 13. When Li was 15, the old couple died and she fought in court to gain independence. She won. The old couple had left Li with a very large sum of money, their home, and for some strange reason, a bakery/apartment they owned in Domino City (A.N: Once again, isn't that convenient?). After that, Li spent a year in America. When she returned to Japan in late spring, she sold her home, and moved to Domino. The bakery/apartment were rather run down at the time, so she arranged for immediate renovation while staying in a hotel.

'Those must've been the affairs she had to take care of.' Seto felt pity for this girl. It seemed she had gone through just as much, if not a bit more hardship than he did. What was he going to say to her when he saw her?

The rest of the morning ran ahead of schedule. When Seto arrived at school, he arrived in time to see Li putting her roller blades away.

"Ohayo Kaiba-kun." Li smiled gently as she said this. They started walking toward class together. "I was thinking about what you said the other day and I've decided you're right." Li's face now had an expression of happy wonder on it. "Really?" Seto couldn't seem to get over the fact that she was so beautiful. 'What the fuck is wrong with you, Kaiba? You've had plenty of beautiful women sleep with you, but here you are, getting worked up about one just giving you a smile.' " Don't look so happy. I'm not just gonna go and become everyone's best friend." Li was smiling less now, but she still had that glimmer of hope in her eyes."

" I know what happened to you." Li looked dumbfounded then a bland look masked that shock. "How did you find out?" They were both now sitting at their desks. "I had my people look into it." Li frowned. " That's an invasion of privacy. You could've just asked me, you know." Seto looked at her. "Would you have told me so easily?" Li looked down, as if in shame. " No, probably not."

"Why did you go to America?" Seto had been wondering that for a while now. Then, as if by some cue sent from God, Yuugi and his friends walked through the door. Li looked at Seto. "I'll tell you at lunch." With that, she walked to the group with a bag in her hand.

~ T.B.C ~

1 = On Valentines Day in Japan, usually only girls give the boys candy and cards. Then, on White Day (March 14) the boys return the favors to the girls who sent them stuff on Valentines Day.