Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ In the Arms of a Priest ❯ Lullaby of Old ( Chapter 9 )

In The Arms of a Priest 9:
Lullaby of Old.
Author's Notes: Here it is gang the story of Seto and Pernia. This will tell a story about how they were ripped from each other five thousand years ago and found each other again. Although they never would have found each other again had it not been for Mokuba. Then again Mokuba feels the need to make for something that he did five thousand years ago.
The song `Egyptian Lullaby' is owned by me and is the poem/song that won Editor's Choice Award on Poetry.com
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It was after dinner and Mokuba and Mizu were playing chess while Pernia did some homework. She looked up when the doorbell and went to answer it since the butler was gone for the night. She was surprised to see a woman standing there; she had dark skin, hair, and eyes. The woman looked her up and down before wrinkling her nose like she smelled something rotten and stormed passed her into the hall.

"You girl," she snapped. "Tell Kaiba-kun I am here!"

`Kaiba-kun?' thought Pernia before saying. "I am sorry but Kaiba-san is not here at the moment he is still at work. If you would like to leave your name I will tell him you came by when he gets home."

"My name girl is Nikushimi," said the girl coldly. "And I refuse to be turned down. Where is he?!"

"I told you," said Pernia calmly. "He is at work."

Nikushimi looked her over and a look of disgust crossed her face once more, "who are you anyways?"

"I am Pernia."

"So you are Pernia," said Nikushimi.

"I am."

"Funny I thought you would be more stunning, I mean after all Seto turned me down as a date for the balls. Tell me what makes you more suited to be his date to the balls?"

"You will have to ask Kaiba-san that," said Pernia tightly.

"Why should I ask him something that I asked you? Tell me are you two sleeping together? Are you his little whore?"

"I was hired to take care of Mokuba-chan," said Pernia coolly. "Whatever you may think is going on between me and Kaiba-san is a figment of your imagination."

Nikushimi gasped and slapped her clear across the face, "father was right you are uncivilized."

"I beg your pardon?"

"Imagine Kaiba-kun thinking some uncivilized little piece of white trash would be better suited to make his company look better," laughed Nikushimi.

"Maybe it's the attitude and not the image," said Mizu from behind her.

Nikushimi whirled to see two anger children staring back at her.

"Hello Mokuba-chan, Mizu-chan," she cooed.

"Don't call us that," said Mokuba.

"Are you trying to turn everyone in this house against me?" asked Nikushimi turning to Pernia.

"If people in this house turn against you it is your attitude not mine," said Pernia calmly.

"A piece of white trash is telling me how to act?!"

"I am not telling you how to act, I am making a statement."

"I think you are a witch that is the only reason Seto would choose you over me is if you put a spell on him."

"I guarantee you Nikushimi-san," said Pernia. "I have no interest in putting a love spell on anyone. Kaiba-san is a big boy he can make up his own mind about such things."

"Yeah," said Mizu. "Besides you're nothing but a gast."

Pernia gasped and stared at the younger female wondering if she even knew she had just said. Nikushimi snapped and brought her hand back to slap the younger female, Mokuba pushed his friend behind him, and Pernia grabbed Nikushimi and spun her around.

"You will not touch her," snarled Pernia.

"What are you going to do about it!" snapped Nikushimi jerking her hand out of Pernia's grasp.

"I suggest you leave Nikushimi," said Pernia coldly.

"Are you kicking me out?"

"No," said Pernia smoothly. "I am giving you a chance to leave of your own free will, and then I will kick you out."

Nikushimi snarled and glared at Mokuba and Mizu before storming out of the house.

"Are you two alright?" asked Pernia after a moment.

"Hai," said Mokuba softly.

"Mizu? Do you even know what you just called her?"

"Hai, I called her a bitch!"

"How do you know Welch?"

"I looked it up," said Mizu.

"I helped!" shouted Mokuba.

"This is all I need," said Pernia. "Alright did you two do your homework?"

"No," said Mizu.

"Alright do your homework, than go to bed."

"Hai neesan!" shouted Mokuba as the two of them ran up stairs.

"Don't call me neesan!" shouted Pernia up the stairs.
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It was past midnight and Seto had yet to return, Pernia began to wonder if he was with Nikushimi. She sighed and closed the book she had been reading in the parlor and went to check on Mokuba and Mizu. She found them in Mokuba's room playing chess.

"Hey you two should you both be in bed?" she said walking into the room.

"We aren't tired neesan," said Mokuba.

"How many times have I told you not to call me that?" asked Pernia. "Bed now you two."

"We aren't tired," said Mizu yawning.

"Aren't tired huh?" asked Pernia with a raised eyebrow.

The two children shook their heads and Pernia sighed before repeating, "Bed now you two!"

"We aren't tired we swear," said Mokuba holding back his own yawn.

"You don't fool me come on you two in bed or are you going to ask me to sing you to sleep like babies?" asked Pernia hoping that would get them into bed.

"You can sing?!" asked the two children together.

"Yes."

"Sing!" they demanded.

"Will it get you to sleep?"

"Hai!"

"Oh fine into bed both of you and then I will sing come on."

"Okay."
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Seto walked into his house and was surprised to see that Pernia wasn't there to wait for instead he found himself looking down at her cat.

"Where is your mistress?" he asked.

The cat looked at him blink, washed his paw once and turned to the stair case flicking his tail at the CEO almost beckoning him to follow and walked up the stairs. Seto followed the cat and the moment he entered the hall he was greeted by a female's voice singing a song.

"Lady Hathor/Watch over this child/Through the night/And through the day/Lay down your mighty hand /Egyptian Moon."

Seto peeked into the room to see Mokuba and Mizu falling asleep; Pernia sighed and moved to pick the younger girl up, however Seto picked the girl up first. Pernia stared at him before tucking Mokuba back in, together the two of them walked into Mizu's room and set about putting the younger girl to sleep.

"You sing very well Pernia," said Seto.

"Thank you Kaiba-san," said Pernia blushing slightly, before recovering herself. "By the way a woman named Nikushimi came by looking for you."

Seto paused and grabbed her arm, "what do you mean Nikushimi came by?"

"She came by wanting to see you," said Pernia. "Is something wrong?"

"Did she say anything to Mokuba or Mizu?"

"No though she did try to slap Mizu-chan," said Pernia.

"What happened?"

"Mokuba pushed the girl behind him and I told her if she didn't leave the manor I would kick her out myself. Why did I do something wrong?"

"No," said Kaiba shaking his head. "You didn't though tomorrow I will have to deal with Nikushimi for what she did."

"What did she do?"

"Mokuba doesn't really like her, so to keep the peace in my house I asked her to stay away from the manor."

"I see, it must be hard having your brother not like your girlfriend."

"She is not my girlfriend," said Seto.

"She isn't? But the way she spoke whenever she said your name suggested that she was."

"She's not," said Seto running his hands through his hair. "She is just someone I am seeing.

"I see," said Pernia slowly. "So how was work?"

"Work was work nothing important happened today."

"I see," said Pernia has they walked down the stairs.

"They behaved I assume?"

"Of course they behaved," said Pernia going into the parlor to retrieve her book.

"That is good," said Seto picking up his briefcase and heading for his study. "Good night Pernia I have work to do."

"Good night Kaiba-san," said Pernia heading upstairs.

Even though Seto said that he had work to do he couldn't get his mind off of Pernia's singing voice and the song she had sung that sent his mind whirling back to the past.
Flashback****************************************************
High Priest Seto stayed in the shadows watching the High Priestess of Mut teach several of the children about the gods and goddesses of their religion. The lesson was almost over then the children would disperse so they could cause their chaos in the streets instead of in the temples.

"High Priestess sing for us!" cheered one boy.

"Sing for us!" chorused the other children.

"No children the lesson is over," said the woman.

"But High Priestess," whined the children.

"No," said the High Priestess firmly. "Go back to your homes your mothers need your assistance."

"Please High Priestess just one song?" asked a young girl.

The High Priestess looked into the girl's eyes and finally caved. "Alright one song but that is it, than you go to your homes."

"Yes High Priestess."

"Egyptian Moon/Black Land/Lady Bast/Protect us/And encircle us/Watch over us/Lay down your might hand/Egyptian Moon/Warm sun/Lord Ra/Warm our lands/Think of us/Has you make your pass/Lay down your mighty hand/Egyptian Moon/Fertile Soil/Lord Set/Do not stay /Leave those in this family/Let your destructions stray/Don't lay down your hand/Egyptian Moon/Flowing Nile/Lady Hathor/Watch over this child/Through the night/And through the day/Lay down your mighty hand/Egyptian Moon."

The children shrieked with joy and then ran out of the temple in a way that would have made people think they were drunk. The woman chuckled and headed toward the opening to watch them when she was dragged into the shadows by Seto.

"Seto," she gasped. "What are you going here?"

"I came to see how you were doing," said Seto before kissing her quickly one hand in her hair, the other resting on her back. "You have a beautiful voice."

"Thank you," she whispered back.

Seto smiled and kissed her again quickly before pulling back and looking behind her at the High Priest of Set. It was when the woman turned her head to see what he was staring at that he got a view of her hair, it was chestnut in color.
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Seto blinked and frowned Pernia had chestnut hair, in fact he had never seen another woman with that same hair coloring since then. Could she be the reincarnation of his former lover? He sighed and touched his lips for some reason he couldn't place; he could still fill her lips on his and her skin pressed tightly against his own. He could also still feel the woman's hair running through his fingers.

"That's ridiculous," scowled Seto. "There is no way that woman could possibly be her."

Seto continued to work for another hour on his papers for work before deciding to turn in, then on his way down the hall toward his bedroom; he paused at Pernia's door and before he could stop himself went inside. Seto moved softly to her bedside and looked down at her for a moment he could see her facial features and hair color by the light from the full moon outside her window. Her hair had the same tint and thickness has the woman in his vision had, he slowly reached out to touch it and revealed in the softness of it. He slowly trailed his hands from her hair to her skin and gently stroked her cheek not wanting her to wake up and find him doing this. He almost had to force himself to pull away from her skin; he couldn't believe that her skin felt the same has the other woman's from his dream. But there was still no way they could be the same person; Seto stormed out of the room frustrated with himself for not being able to control himself in a brief moment of a hormonal rush.

He stormed to his room his pace slowly remembering Nikushimi, she would have to dealt with tomorrow and he knew the way to do it would be to take her out to dinner. He frowned Mokuba wouldn't like it nor would Mizu but he really wasn't concerned about; although Pernia would have one hell of a time trying to keep the house in one piece once they found out.