Disclaimer: Look at the fist chapter/teaser. It´s still the same.

Hallelujah! My computer broke! Sorry for the late update! *bows* ^_^; I just got the thing back yesterday…

~~Rainy days and lost evil spirits - Chapter 3~~

All I had to do now was figure out how to seduce Kaiba. Now that couldn't be that hard of a task, could it?

Happily grinning to myself, (since I was currently alone at home, I could pretty much do what I wanted), I tried to recollect all I knew about the CEO. Let's see - tall, brown hair, filthy rich, CEO of Kaiba Corp., not exactly the most social person, obsessed with duel monsters, defeating the pharaoh, highly devoted to that little brother of his…

I could use that. If I took his brother hostage…. Naw, wouldn't work. I wanted him to fall for me, not to hate me for all eternity. Also it was past cliché by now. So none of my usual stuff, like mind control - for which I needed the rod anyway. That limited my range of actions rather harshly. I needed him to come to me out of his own free will or else my nice little plan wasn't going to work.

I needed something else.

Duel monsters… Kaiba liked to play. He was a high-class duellist and had even been number one until the pharaoh came along. He had hosted Battle City to reclaim his title… I couldn't help but smirk. Poor guy hadn't even managed to make it into the final battle. Yami and I had. Must've been frustrating…

But still, it was nothing to work on. Or was it? This was more difficult than planning on how to dethrone and destroy the pharaoh only. Kaiba Seto…You're already giving me problems, and we haven't even met each other properly yet. I smirked. I like that. That was true. There were few things I could resist more than a proper challenge.

Kaiba wanted his title as the world's best duellist back. For that he needed to beat the pharaoh in a duel. Now that was something I could work with! Kaiba would get his duel, all right. And I would be the one to get it for him. For a price.

I already had a perfect plan. Now all I needed was to get my deck from my other self and with the clever use of my Ra card there was no way I could- Shit! My Sun Dragon of Ra!! The other Malik had given it to the pharaoh! Damn them! Damn them all forever!! They've been planning this all along, haven't they?!

No!! Jumping up I decided to get my card back. The pharaoh had no right to keep it from me! I was going to make that fact clear to him, should it be necessary.

Looking out of the window I frowned. The weather didn't look all that nice to me. Maybe I'd better get my cape… No. Not necessary. The way to the Kame Game Shop was short enough to make it there and back within less than an hour, and I wasn't intending to make it a long stay anyway. Just drop in, get my god card, make sure they wouldn't try to take anything that was _mine_ ever again and get out again.

I should be back before it even looked like it was going to rain.

***

Yeah. That's what I thought. Back before it even looked like it was going to rain. (Please note my sarcasm.)

Where the freakin' heck did they hide that shop?!

By now it was already past dawn, raining like there was no tomorrow. I was soaked through my bones (damn that rain! damn that blasted rain!), I was frozen, and there still was no trace of that stupid game shop!!

My feet hurt, too. Guess that's not much of a surprise considering that I've been running through the whole of Domino City for quite a few hours now. Not to mention the rain. That blasted rain. I really hated it. It made my hair hang limp and squished in my shoes. No, I really couldn't stand it. It also reminded me of the fact that I couldn't swim. Don't ask about that one though.

Squish, squish, squish… I still haven't found anything that could help me to find my way.

I also couldn't find my way back to where I came from. I was ra-damn lost! Yeah, ha ha ha! That's not funny!!! I just started considering snatching an umbrella from one of the few pedestrians that were still on the streets despite the stupid weather (and giving me strange looks by the way… guess they'd never seen a soaking wet Egyptian spirit ranting to himself in his anger before) - when I finally laid eyes upon something familiar. Looming in the distance was none other but the main office building of Kaiba Corp. I frowned. That thing lay in the complete opposite direction from where I had been heading!

……so much for my sense of direction. Shaking my head, I decided that since I was already here, I might as well go and visit Kaiba to let him in about his luck right now.

I wondered how he was going to react.

***

It was well past dawn when the brown-haired, young man who was the CEO of Kaiba Corp. finally stopped from his work long enough to look at the time. Noticing how late it was and that he had to be the only one left in the whole building, Seto Kaiba frowned. It was once again one of those days… Recently it had grown more and more usual for the young multimillionaire to stay late at work.

In other words: He barely came home and if so, seldom for more than four or five hours before returning to work again. He also didn't sleep and eat as much (or less) as he used to. He didn't need it anyway.

With the expansion of Kaiba Corp. to America, more work had come, and despite the fact that everything looked good, it didn't mean that Kaiba had any less work than usual. The opposite was the case. Not only did he have his regular amount, but also what had piled up during the time Battle City had lasted, not to mention keeping an eye on all the progress and necessary adjustments for future international and national deals as well. Nothing that Kaiba Seto couldn't handle with ease though.

The brown-haired teen blinked, trying to shoo the grains of tiredness out of his azure-blue eyes. It didn't work. He was still tired and feeling irritated from the steady work on his computer. Seto frowned.

His head was feeling fuzzy.

Seto frowned even more, squinting his eyes in a vain attempt to clear his mind. It didn't work. He sighed. Thirty-seven files checked in the last hour, meaning that there was just another thirty-two to go…. He should be done by three in the morning. Ow! The pain in his head was getting worse.

Seto blinked, irritated. Probably just the light. He probably should go and…. wasn't there someone standing in the shadows? The CEO frowned. He had to be really tired when he started to see things. Nobody could possibly get into Kaiba Corp., and especially his office, without being noticed.

His expression darkening, the brunette stood up and began walking into the direction of the offending presence. He stopped midway when he noticed that his pace was literally getting a bit too one-sided.

What…?

By now the fog in his mind had gotten so thick that the brunette barely managed to finish a coherent thought, least of all to notice the darkness that threatened to take over his eyesight.

Damn…

Without as much as a warning Seto Kaiba´s body dropped as his sleep-depraved mind slipped into grateful unconsciousness.

He didn't even notice the pair of tanned hands that reached out and caught him.

***

Uh-oh.

So much for shadow powers.

The building had been pleasantly empty. After arriving at Kaiba´s office I had used my powers to slip in unseen and had hid in the shadows, watching him. Not that my efforts would have been necessary, when I came in the brunette had been so immersed with his computer that I could have just walked in naked without him noticing.

I had then tried to tap into the power of my millennium item. The next thing I knew, he was staring directly at me. Not in my direction - at me! My shadow magic wasn't working right on him. I was surprised, to say the least. Instead of making me invisible to him, it had done the exact opposite and attracted his attention.

Too soon for my liking, I might add.

My plan had been to wear him down with my shadow powers and then to accidentally bump into him on his way home. Maybe also lend some helping hand in some way or another since I knew how seriously the CEO took his debts. Well, the first step of it anyway…

With him staring at me like this I could screw that plan, of course. Damn, did he have to ogle me like that? It was beginning to get unnerving. As if obeying my thoughts, Kaiba suddenly blinked, then crossed his eyes in a puzzled manner. Like a confused kid trying to shoo some strange thought out of his head.

The gesture was so ridiculous and uncharacteristic of him that I'd nearly laughed out loud. The laughter stuck in my throat though when I saw what that stubborn bastard was doing next. He had gotten up and was now on his way right over to where I was hiding!

I sweatdropped when his straight pace suddenly twisted a sharp angle to the right. What was he doing -now- again…? Kaiba was asking himself the same question, it seemed. Seconds later his eyes took on a faraway look before blanking out completely as he fainted.

Whoa!

Instinctively I jumped forward and caught the unconscious teen at his shoulders before he hit the floor. It wasn't intentional, really, just a reaction to seeing something fall that could be considered important to one of my plans. … So here I was, fainted brunette in my arms and no clue how to react. People normally lost consciousness after I was done with them, not before! Which left me with absolutely no experience on such cases. What did you do when a seventeen year old CEO billionaire known for his ruthlessness (not that he could compare to me, but for a mere mortal he was pretty good) that you'd planned to seduce fainted right into your arms?

If he'd been a bit more aware, I would have had a few good ideas, but right now… I was lost. Taking care of others in any way was completely new territory to me. I never took care of anything. Others did. I was just the threat they had to be protected from.

For a moment I considered letting him lay there in the office. Some of his workers had to find him sooner or later… I sighed inwardly. Tomorrow was Sunday so that wouldn't work. Somehow I doubted Kaiba would be all too glad to wake up just to find himself sprawled on the floor playing carpet.

And what if he did notice me, against all odds?

Kaiba was practically bound to question what I had to do in his office, which would make him a lot more suspicious about my actions. No, not good. I discarded that plan. As tempting as it was, there were too many unsure factors in it.

So what else?

I could wake him up right here and now, I guess. As soon as he was awake I would just use my shadow magic to veil my presence; knowing the CEO, he would take this all as a result of too much work or such. On his ability to reason away the possibility of magic I could trust, if not at my faulty luck.

I tried to wake him.

After several tries of ´a dark spirits methods to wake somebody from unconsciousness´ (no, you may not ask), I checked his pulse. The result made me frown. His pulse was there and even, but very faint. Apparently my shadow magic had worked too well.

I cursed silently. Damn, I'd wanted to make him weary, not send him into a blasted coma! I frowned again, studying him with a serious look. "You're nothing but trouble."

Still no reaction. Surprise, surprise. I wondered what the pharaoh would do when I explained to him that I'd accidentally sent his flame, former high priest and current time most fierce enemy into a coma due to an overdose of shadow powers.

Whoever was responsible for my luck seemed to seriously hate me.

I glared at the unconscious brunette in my arms. Hmm… Asleep like that he didn't even look that cold… Cold. Wrong thought, now I was freezing again. Thanks to the rain I was soaking wet, and Kaiba´s office was kept at a very low temperature. Briefly I wondered if the guy liked to work in a giant fridge, or if he just didn't notice. Drifting off track again…

Either way I had to do something with that fainted rag doll.

I decided that a change of place would be the best. First get myself dry and warmed up again, then worry about Kaiba. Now, where to go? The Ishtar household was out of question. No thought about what they would say when I suddenly came up with a deathlike Seto Kaiba. (If you think that we millennium spirits in our shadow-game mode were already scary, you obviously have never met a pissed off Isis before. -.-) Everywhere else that came to my mind was the same. Maybe - no, that was crazy. On the other hand… wasn't that exactly what people assumed me to be?

"Maybe I should risk this…" I told nobody in particular.

I'd just go to Kaiba´s house. Smirking to myself, I lifted the unconscious youth and walked to the door. I had been pondering over Kaiba's rather light weight when a thought crossed my head that made me stop and frown in annoyance.

If I wanted to reach the Kaiba mansion, I had to walk through the rain again.

Damn.

---End chapter---

^__^; I'm going to blame the characterisation of Yami Malik in this chapter completely on my friend who keeps comparing him with other anime characters. First Schuldig from Weiß Kreuz, then Ryoga from Ranma ½…. ^.^;; You didn't expect Kaiba to do that, ne? ^_____^ In the next chapter there will be more action and Seto, promise! Though, it´ll take at least one review to make me post the next chapter on mm.org. Constructive critics (no flames!) are accepted as well, all I want is a little feedback…T.T So please, If you have a little time to spare… ^_^;