Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ The Dragoness ❯ Wed ( Chapter 6 )

[ T - Teen: Not suitable for readers under 13 ]

“I can't believe I'm doing this,” grumbled Kaiba to Roland as he straightened the tie on the rent-a-tux. “`We have to make it seem genuine' she said. `We have to have a ceremony. You don't want the fangirls to accuse you of fraud' she said. Damn,” he said as he stuck himself with the pin he was using to attach the rose to his lapel. His eyes followed the sharp image he cut up and down the half-mirror. Tall, bony thin as of recent, russet hair, ice blue eyes that could cut through your soul, with a triangular shaped torso that was muscular and sleek. But Kaiba didn't see any of this. He saw at man that looked older than twenty-two, manicured nails and a stern face. She talked you into it. Now you're stuck with faking happiness at your own wedding. Funny, Mokuba once told me that he would never believe it if I told him I was getting married. I wonder if he would believe me now…

“You look fine,” assured a very tall, curly green haired woman in an Italian suit and flats. She cut an equally sharp figure as Kaiba did, and was very close in facial appearances to Lilly Kikas.

“Thanks Sue,” said the reluctant bride. “But I doubt it. Are you sure nobody saw you?”

“You mean Kaiba? Don't worry, he didn't. Even if he had, he would have thought I was you. He'll never know I was here.”

“Back to Chicago then?”

“And back into obscurity. The Kikas line dies today.”

“Does it matter?”

“You're the one who fought so hard to get the name, only to lose it again.”

“I know,” Lilly said sullenly.

“You don't love him.”

“I don't even remotely like him. Nobody does.”

“He's forcing you to marry him? I'll kill him,” said Sue irately.

“Sulara, I can handle myself.”

“I'll kill him for you. I have ways… ways you know nothing of.”

“Believe me, I know these ways. Stay away from my husband.”

“Why?”

Lilly shrugged. “I need him. For now. Then I'll kill him.”

Sulara left the room with a warning lingering on her lips. Lilly studied herself in the full length mirror.

The ceremony took place in the marble showroom of the Domino Hilton. The official stood with Kaiba, who was still fiddling with the rose. Weddings made him nervous as it was. And this one was his own. Kaiba Corp PR were talking pictures to seed all over the internet and tabloids, as Kikas had suggested to him. The more flashbulbs that went off, the better.

Then Lilly marched up the “aisle,” dragging her dress along with her. She was wearing white cotton, a peasant sleeved dress with an Empress waistline and a low box neckline. She wore all of her long green hair down, something she had never done before, and her veil was a ring of primroses. Picturesque. Perfect for a fake wedding.

Kaiba had trouble speaking. Perhaps he was forgetting that this moment would have little effect on the rest of his life? “You look…”

`Washed out by the color, bags under the eyes, and fat,” supplied Lilly quietly.

“Yeah.”

“Abridged version of the ceremony sir. We don't want to waste anymore of Mr. Kaiba's valuable time, now do we?”

Kaiba's eyes returned to ice, when they had been dangerously close to melting to something more human. “Yes.”

Lilly voiced her doubts. “The only other thing I want to bring up is the vows. Love, honor, obey… can we scratch them?” The justice was surprised. Never in his life had he heard a bride and groom speak like that to each other on their wedding day.

Kaiba added, “Can we just skip to the end and sign the damn papers? The theatrics bore me.”

The official, a small man with a waxy mustache, gulped and nodded. You didn't mess with Seto Kaiba when he was in one of these moods. He squeaked, “You may now kiss the… bride?”

Kaiba leered, and plunged into Lilly's lips, who was unprepared. Her brown eyes became big. “Kaiba!” she roared indignantly.

“Gotcha,” he smirked. “Actually, Mr. Takeno, you'd better start from the beginning. I don't want my lovely bride to miss one second.”

Had she been a dragon, she would have probably bit his head off. Which brings me to the point that she was a dragon, and she did bite his head off. But not in the way we all would have liked.

“Kaiba, you son of a bitch, I'll kill you!” she said, losing her temper again in the limo.

He, however, had a cool head, and was very satisfied about the way things had turned out. She even said `love, honor, and obey,' which I doubted she would. “I'm sorry if you weren't pleased with the way things turned out. But it was you that made the contract…”

“Business partners, not life partners,” she said, pouring a glass of vodka from the minibar. “You want one?”

“Yeah,” he grunted, accepting it. Neither made a face as they took a gulp. Both had done their share of drinking.

“You're a dumb ass. And a son of a bitch.”

“But you married me. Doesn't that count for something?”

“Shut up.”

“I have a surprise for you.”

“Whoop de do. Are we getting divorced yet?”

He ignored her sarcasm. “We're going on a honeymoon.”

She threw the remainders of her glass of vodka in his face. “We hit a bump,” she explained innocently.

Stupid bitch.