Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Rise of Millenia and Shadow ❯ The Meeting ( Chapter 1 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

Two of a Kind:Tarnished Soul Kitsune and Cold hearted KaibaChapter 1 The MeetingDown a dark alleyway in the old broken down part of Domino City, where few dare tread, walks the lone figure that is Seto Kaiba. Wearing a dark blue school uniform and carrying a silver brief case. Deep cobalt blue eyes scanned the concrete walls of the many warehouses surrounding him as his footsteps echoed eerily down the alleyway. He had no admiration of being in such a disgusting, possible diseased ridden place, but he was given an assignment and had to follow through with it. Not because of some life or death situation, but because something within himself had told him it would be worth while. So he followed…---Six Hours Earlier---Pegasus looks carelessly in his comfortable red chair at Seto Kaiba standing opposite him and his desk. A light smile lifts on his lips as he entwines his fingers, leaning his elbows on his desk and bringing his chin to his locked hands. A moment of silence passes before his ever present voice speaks out. “Kaiba boy… we’ve been friends for a long time haven’t we?”Kaiba sits down -after a few more moments- in a cushioned blue guest chair across from Pegasus, crossing one leg over the other and crossing his arms loosely over his chest. “What about it?”Pegasus gives off a soft chuckle, his features child like in nature as he replies, “I need you to do me a favor.”At that moment a dark silhouette of a tall man appears. The silhouette steps into the light revealing a smiling gentleman with slicked back black hair with a silver metal plated mask on the right side of his face. He wears a dark blue business suite and holds a glass of red wine in his right hand. His sharp blue eyes peer at Kaiba coldly. Though the smile residing on his face is warm it could be seen within those cold sharp eyes that he was a cruel and ruthless man that took shit from no one.Kaiba was slightly startled from the appearance of the stranger (however you would never know by the way he sat uncaringly in that damned chair), though he wasn’t as strange as he appeared. Kaiba knew he had seen him somewhere once before; the thought of who he was would have to be dwelled on later.. Kaiba and the strange man looked at each for a few moments, seconds sliding swiftly into minutes. It took about two before the stranger spoke. “He means ‘we’ need you to do ‘us’ a favor.” His voice was amused yet calm, but Kaiba could see past it to the unsettling demeanor within. With the coming of the figures voice Pegasus nearly jumped out of his skin as he turned half way in his chair to look only a couple seconds at the figure from the dark. He had a juvenile expression of amusement on his face as he clapped his hands together –only once- and announced “Oh! I am truly sorry Damon!” he gave a soft chuckle and turned his chair just a little bit to face Kaiba before he finished. “You were so quiet I forgot you were standing there.”after drawling the last word he gave another soft chuckle turning his chair fully to face Kaiba. “I meant we need you to–“Kaiba interrupted, becoming steadily annoyed by the two conflicting ‘gentleman’ “I understand that. Now what do you want from me?”Damon seemed to find Pegasus’ reply annoying as well, but seemed to find it even more irritating that some one as important as himself could be forgotten about by just standing quietly in the shadows. It didn’t annoy him, however, when Kaiba interrupted Pegasus’ statement. He was kind of impressed and would have said so if Pegasus hadn’t been sitting there in the room. He also liked it that Kaiba wanted to get straight down to business but knowing Pegasus, things wouldn’t be that way.Pegasus frowned a moment from being interrupted but it was soon washed away by that childish attitude of his as he claped his hands together again and looked at Kaiba with sparkly eyes of hope. “OH! I knew you wouldn’t disappoint me!”Kaiba quickly states “I didn’t agree to anything I merely asked a question.”Pegasus being the baby at heart speaks in a toddlers voice (not far off from his usual sound), his eyes becoming like that of a puppy dogs. “So… you won’t do it?”Kaiba’s irritation of Pegasus’ actions starts to flourish but he manages to keep his cool and state “It all depends on the answers to my questions.”Pegasus starts to become uneasy in his seat and looks uncertainly to Damon who is happy they are finally getting down to business. Damon gives a slight nod and Pegasus sighs as they both look to Kaiba -waiting as patient as he can in his seat-. Pegasus lets out a reluctant sigh knowing he can’t dodge the matter of explanation any longer. “Alright then… Damon… if you would...”Damon nods and clears his throat while Pegasus closes his eyes and frowns. Damon looks at him a moment then back to Kaiba and finally proceeds. “In the past 6 months I have been experiencing system problems with my software and they are all very serious. It’s a mater of breaking and entering of a certain individual, a hacker.”Kaiba grunts softly and smirks. “To think… they call you the most accomplished computer specialist of this time… and you can’t stop one pathetic hacker from entering your systems.” Damon’s eyes flashed with slight anger, but he still kept his cool and replied mildly in his own defense “This hacker is no simpleton. You’ll find that out soon enough. Surely you can guess what we are asking.” Kaiba heard the mocking tone near the end of his sentence and narrowed his eyes just a little, keeping a light smirk on his face. “You want me to find who it is that is hacking into your systems.” He replied coolly.Damon wasn’t impressed with Kaiba’s answer it was too obvious after all, to give him credit. Keeping his mild tone he answered “Yes. That is exactly what we want you to do for us. But before you do it we have some informa-…”Kaiba cut him off “Who’s to say I’m going to do you the favor?”Pegasus suddenly opened his eyes and looked to Kaiba with the frown still on his face. “Please Kaiba… we really need your help with this.”Kaiba turned abruptly to look at Pegasus “What exactly did this guy do to you?”Pegasus became silent and Damon spoke again “Actually… it isn’t a male that is hacking into my systems. It’s a female…”Kaiba’s eyes moved swiftly from the silent Pegasus to the now irritated Damon “How exactly do you know that?” he questioned.Damon’s irritation attached to his words as he answered “If you had let me finish what I was saying earlier you would have known that already.”“You didn’t answer my question” Kaiba stated. “How do you know the hacker is female?”Pegasus suddenly blurts out “Because she stole something of great value from me!”The cobalt blue eyes of Seto Kaiba shifted once more to Pegasus who fell silent again, staring at the emptiness of his polished wood desk. Damon was also looking at Pegasus, somewhat startled by his sudden outburst. Then silence filled the room.Kaiba at last came to the conclusion that the only way he would find out more about this crisis is to just accept and do them the ‘favor’ of finding this ‘hacker’. He didn’t have anything better to do after all.“Alright… I’ll do it” he stated finally, standing up as he did so. “But only under one condition…” The two men looked to Kaiba suddenly. Each one of them had a look of happiness and shock on their faces. “What’s the condition?” they chorused.“Tell me everything you know about this woman. I need to know as much as I can if I’m going to help you.” Kaiba answered simply.Pegasus smiled as Damon filled Kaiba in on the details. “What we know so far is she goes by the alias Tarnished. An odd alias but still her name none the less. We also know that she is hiding somewhere in the old broken down part of Domino City. I am afraid that is all we know about her.” Kaiba replies angrily “You can’t be serious! That’s ALL you know about her!? And you expect me to find this hacker based on minimal information?”Damon states in a mater-of-fact voice “Well if we knew more about her don’t you think we would be out there looking for her instead of sending you?”Kaiba narrows his eyes at Damon, but quickly diverts his gaze to Pegasus after remembering his outburst earlier on. “What exactly did she take from you? And how do you know it’s the same person?”A sweat drop rolls down the side of Pegasus’ face. “I’m afraid I can’t tell you what it is she took from me but I can assure you it is the same person.” Kaiba knew that there was something they were trying to keep a secret but he wasn’t going to push now what he could learn from the culprit later; if it was even the same person. The soft wailing of Kaiba’s trench coat was heard in the next moment of silence as he maneuvered out from between the guest chair and desk towards the exit door directly behind him when he was facing Pegasus. Pegasus stayed quiet watching Kaiba walk towards the exit. He had figured Kaiba was suspicious do to his obvious actions of trying to keep a secret. But it was well known that some information must be indulged to get what is wished of another.Kaiba had reached the doors when at last someone spoke. It was Damon. “Kaiba… be sure that when you find her, you keep the authorities out of this, at all times.” His manner of speaking was somewhat cautious and yet at the exact same time it was threatening. Kaiba noticed this but didn’t care as he placed his hand on the knob of the door and turned it gently. With nothing more said from him or the creators he opened the door and exited the room sealing the somewhat deal they had all made. Five minutes after Kaiba had exited the room, Damon walked to the wide windows of Pegasus’ duelist island castle. The red wine in his glass swirling with the light circular movement of Damon’s fingertips as his cold eyes watched a helicopter leave from the helipad heading towards Domino, Japan to take Kaiba home. His eyes followed the chopper until it was out of sight meanwhile questioning Kaiba’s loyalty. “Are you sure we can trust him?” Damon asked with a deep uncertainty.Pegasus stayed seated in his chair staring blankly at the door Kaiba had used to leave. “I trust he’ll get the job done.” He stated trying to sound as reassuring as possible. Damon didn’t fall for it but didn’t say anything about it either. “You better be right Pegasus.” He replied trying not to sound worried. “I have no time for any more traitors.” They both had taken a risk on informing Seto Kaiba about this woman, the real test was how he would come back if finding her.(First note from the authors: oooo we’re bluuuuuuuue. Ok. Sorry we had to. Anyways. This is Kinda the prologue you know. Not really, but still its kinda like a prologue. In the beginning of the Fic its supposed to focus mainly on Kaiba but later it goes to Kitsune, OUR main character. Warning that there is fowl language which is one reason why this fic happens to be R. Then of course we also have violence... not for a while though. We don't own anything of yugioh, such as movies or manga's so sueing us for all we're worth would only get you some toothpaste and perhaps a couple pairs of shoes and underwear. Haha. Oh, and um. Review, tell us what you think. Though we suggest waiting for the next chapter before you start getting con-fuckin-fused. K? K. Oh, and flame us all ya like. We like the attention NYAHAHAHAHAHAHA)