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Chapter List
- 1-Duel of Love
- 2-Feeling
- 3-Learning
- 4-Rumor
- 5-Double
- 6-Trouble
- 7-Reckoning
- 8-Translation
- 9-Enemy
- 10-Ritual
- 11-Redemption
- 12-Memory
- 13-Eternity
- 14-Uncertainty
- 15-Falling
- 16-Admittance
- 17-Hero
- 18-Stupid
- 19-Defeat
- 20-Lonely
- 21-Beauty
- 22-Wishes
- 23-Adventure
- 24-Sensuality
- 25-Anger
- 7
- 8
- 9
Disclaimer: I don�t own Yu-Gi-Oh

A/N: Okay, so I got my braces out, and I�m like �WOO HOO!
More room in my mouth!� and then guess what?
I get retainers, two to be precise now that take up the room in my
mouth, not to mention pressing against my gums and are damn uncomfortable! I hate them damnit! Didn�t even let me choose my color�*mumbles*
Anyways, please read this chapter!

Duel of Love

Chapter 8: Translation

High Priest Seto

I closed
Katiana�s door so the healer could examine her without me watching over her
shoulder. I noticed the Pharaoh coming
down the hallway.
�High Priest
Seto,� he said, greeting me.
�My Pharaoh,� I
greeted back, bowing slightly.
�How is she?� he
asked as a yelp of pain erupted from the room, �She sounds fine��
�She hates it
when I force a healer to look at her,� I said, glancing at the doorway, �I let
her train in healing more than anything else at the temple��
�So she probably
trusts her abilities more than that of others?� he asked, �She is one amazing
woman.�
�She acts like a
child�� I said, �And she will always act that way.�

�It�s amazing she�s been able to act
like that�� the Pharaoh said, �She is able to keep smiling��
�I�m amazed you
think like that about her,� I said and he looked at me.
�Don�t you see
her like that? Or have you always just
imagined her as a kid?� he asked.
�I have always
thought of her as a woman, I never thought about it otherwise, but it�s just
the way she acts�� I said.
�I like her, is
there something wrong with that?� he asked, �I actually rather admire her.�
�Is that so?� I
asked, but we were interrupted by the healer coming out of Katiana�s room.
�Is she alright?�
the Pharaoh asked, glancing at the door the healer was
closing.
�She�ll be fine;
she doesn�t exactly like healers though, I can tell. Either that or she just complains all the
time,� he said, �Beg your pardon my Pharaoh.�
�It�s good to
know, it�s alright,� the Pharaoh replied, �May we see her?� The healer nodded; reminding us we would have
to let her rest and then walked away.
The Pharaoh took a few steps towards the door before I brushed him away
and went in, shutting the door behind me.
He wasn�t allowed to be near her, the only reason he was even allowed to
be near her at the ruins was because we had split up to find her faster.
�Seto,� Katiana
said, �Hello, I�m f�fine� the healer said it wasn�t that bad but I c�could�ve�
I can tend to myself you k�know��
�I know this,� I
said, �But sometimes you forget to check yourself over carefully enough when
you get hurt. You do just fine when
looking at other wounds though, just not your own, you know this��
�I r�remember
having to heal you�� she said with a smile.

Flashback

�Ow, that stings!� I exclaimed, �Watch
it!� Priestess Katiana smiled at me.
�You g�get into fights knowing you�ll get
h�hurt,� she said, �Just sit still�� She
tended my shoulder, gently putting the cleaning solution in the burn wound.
�I have to fight sometimes,� I said, �Stop
smiling at me!�
�Why shouldn�t I s�smile?� she asked.
�It�s because you look so dumb when you
do!� I exclaimed, �Ow that still stings!�
�S�sorry,� she stammered and kissed it,
�There, does that m�make it better?�
�What was that for?� I asked angrily.
�I�ve heard m�mothers say to their
children in the c�city sometimes, when their c�children get hurt and fall, �do
you w�want me to kiss it and make it b�better?�
I�ve always w�wanted to do something like that�� she said, looking at me
with that dumb smile of hers.
�Why?� I asked.
�I don�t h�have a mother who�ll do t�that
for me,� she said, dropping her eyes and staring towards the floor.
�Idiot,� I said and patted her on the
head. She glared at me before smiling
and applying more of the solution to my burn.
I cried out again and she looked at me with a small grin on her
face. I grinned back, she was so
hopeless.

End Flashback

�Where�s the
Pharaoh?� Katiana asked, looking up at me from where she lay.
�He�s
outside. He was worried about you,� I
said.
�Didn�t he w�want
to see me?� she asked.
�He might of but
I didn�t wait to find out,� I said, �He�s not allowed to see you remember after
what he did to you��
�In the r�ruins,
he saved my l�life, and he g�got himself hurt,� she said sorrowfully, �Because
of m�me��
�Is that so,� I
said bitterly, �Well he did deserve to be hurt, after what he did to you��
�How c�can you
say that?� she asked angrily, �He�s always b�been so kind to me! That night� I don�t know w�what happened but
I don�t t�think that was the real him!�
�Believe that
that was the real him Katiana because it was.
A personality he only shows at night, but his true personality
nonetheless. He�s mean, crude and
would�ve raped you had you not gotten away.
He enjoys toying with people�� I said, �Katiana I highly suggest you
return to the temple, the Pharaoh said he would need you to complete your task
even if you decide to return, so you still can work at completing your duties��
�Seto, I c�can�t
leave�� she said, �I came to w�work here.
It wouldn�t be the s�same if I had the distractions of the t�temple
around me.�
�Are you
completely sure?� I asked and her eyes seemed resolute.
�Yes,� she said,
�I h�have to��
�Very well then,
I�ll leave you to your rest and then to your duty. But as soon as you are done you will return
back to the temple, understood?� I asked and she nodded slowly, with certain
sadness in her eyes. I tucked her under the
covers, much to her protest and left the room.
The Pharaoh had left, most likely because I had offended him and he
didn�t want to argue with me about it in front of Katiana. I shrugged.
Oh well, he had been the one to hurt her in the first place.

Yami

I went back to my
room; it was more than clear that High Priest Seto still wouldn�t trust me
around her, no matter what had gone on earlier at the ruins, which included me
protecting her. I couldn�t argue with
his reasoning, but I really wanted to talk to her again, really see her
again. I lay down on my bed and relaxed
against my pillow, thinking hard. I
never knew what love was, I never felt it before. How could I know this was truly it? How could I know that this feeling was true
love? I didn�t want to hurt her again; I
couldn�t fight against what happened to me, I wanted to but I couldn�t! I turned to my side and struck my bed, I
couldn�t fight against it! My duty
required me to battle and when that happened, I changed completely� If the sixth tome held the answers for me, I
prayed she would find them�

Katiana

The next day came
quickly and I wanted to move around. It
wasn�t doing me any good to just lie in bed all day, my leg was broken, sure
but it�d be alright if I walked around a bit.
I didn�t want to get lazy, so I decided to head towards the library to
begin translation on the sixth tome. It
would give me something to do and I wouldn�t be moving much there. I don�t think Seto could argue with that,
other than the fact I have to limp my way there, moving my leg as little as
possible. It didn�t feel too bad though,
it could have been much worse. I put my
pendant back where I had stored it before, with my other few precious
treasures, now stored in the bowl that Madera
had given me. The other items I had in
there included a stone I had found when Seto had taken me to the Nile
River once. It shone really brightly, smooth and cool. It was my first rock, the one that started me
collecting. Maybe it would make the
Pharaoh feel better. It always did when
I would hold onto it.
�Maybe it c�could
help him fight his demons�� I said, and then I laughed. It didn�t have any magical abilities; it was
just a pretty rock. But still, it was my
favorite, and it represented good luck for me, maybe it would for him too. I�d deliver it to him now, I�d put it in his
room and he�d find it later. Seto would
really object to my train of thought, but I didn�t care much. Not anymore.
He had saved my life, the Pharaoh had, I
couldn�t be mad at him; I couldn�t hate him for what he did. That wasn�t the real him. I knew it wasn�t and I�d find a way to help
him, just like I found the sixth tome. I
exited the room, clutching the stone firmly in my hand. I�d give it to him; he needed it more than I
did�

Yami

I heard a
knocking at the door, but it was probably just a servant bringing breakfast or
something.
�Come in,� I
said, not even bothering to look over at the door.

Katiana

So he was in his
room? I hadn�t originally planned on
that, I was just going to leave the stone in his room if he wasn�t there and I
never thought about what I�d do if he was there�
�I said come in
already,� he repeated and I slowly creaked open the door, looking in to see him
on his bed, his head and body turned away from the door entirely, �You can
leave it on the table�� He couldn�t
already know what I was going to give him, could he? I took a step inside, trying not to let any
sounds from my voice escape and then have him recognize who was actually in the
room. I made my way to the table and put
the stone on it, making a small sound as I did so.
�Thank you,� he
said, �You can go.� I really didn�t
think he knew I was there, maybe he thought I was a servant bringing breakfast
or something. I exited the room as
quickly as I had come in; trying to be silent and I shut the door as I
exited. I saw a servant coming down the
hallway, this time actually carrying a tray of breakfast and hobbled down
towards the library, determined to start my translation of the sixth book.

Yami

There was another
knock at my door; did they want to collect the tray already or something?
�Who�s there?� I
asked.
�It�s one of your
servants my Pharaoh, I have breakfast�� came the reply.
�Wait, didn�t you
already deliver breakfast?� I asked, getting up and going to the door.
�Not to my
knowledge my Pharaoh�� the servant replied as I opened up the door.
�Then who�?� I
pondered, looking towards the table, and saw only a small stone upon its
surface. I took the breakfast tray from
the servant and he bowed and left me to my thoughts. I went over to the table, setting down the
tray and picked up the stone. It was
very smooth and had a variety of colors on it and glimmered softly in the faint
light of my room. It was quite
beautiful, but where had it come from?
Who had slipped into my room then, if not to deliver breakfast to give
this to me?
�She likes to collect rocks, you know,� Madera�s
voice seemed to echo in my mind and I ran my hand over the polished
surface. Had Miss Katiana given me
this? Why, did she think I needed a
polished rock or did it have some magical ability or something? I gripped the stone in my hand; I had to see
her about this odd gift. What was she
possibly thinking when she gave me a rock?
I mean, sure it was pretty, but it was still just a rock!

Katiana

�This l�language
of this book,� I said with a moan, �It�s slightly d�different than the
others!� This wasn�t good! I could hardly read any of this because it
was slightly changed from the form in the other five tomes.
�Miss Katiana,
what are you doing not resting?� a familiar voice asked and I froze.

Yami

I looked at her,
pouring over the tome, searching for answers.
I looked at the stone in my hand; I could already imagine what she�d say
when I asked about it.
�My Pharaoh, I d�didn�t expect to see you
here!� she would say.
�I wanted to thank you for your gift,� I
would say, and show her the stone.
�Oh, r�really? So you l�like it? It means so much to m�me and I wanted you to
have it,� she would reply. I sighed;
she probably held the rock that existed now in my hand as a special stone, one
she valued highly.
�Miss Katiana,
what are you doing not resting?� I asked and she looked up at me with startled
frightened eyes.
�I didn�t w�want
to lie around d�doing nothing,� she said quickly looking back at the tome.
�But you should
be resting, if High Priest Seto finds out�� I began but she smiled a little.
�If he f�finds
out I don�t c�care,� she said, �I�d rather be here t�than feeling so useless.�
�You feel
useless?� I asked her, still standing in the entrance, not daring myself to go
further.
�N�not in the way
you�re probably thinking� Even w�when I�m hurt I still w�want to be doing
something,� she said.
�You could have
had the tome brought to you,� I said cautiously, turning the stone over in my
hand, a movement she caught and she turned a deep shade of red.
�I wanted to
w�walk,� she said, looking at my hand before turning back towards her book.
�Thank you,� I
said after a pause, �For the stone. I
don�t know why you�d give me this; no one has ever given me a rock before��
�Oh�you don�t
l�like it?� she asked.
�No, it�s not that,
never mind,� I said, turning away.
�I f�found it at
the Nile,� she said, �It was my f�first stone in my
collection.�
�When did you go
to the Nile?� I asked, turning back with interest.
�I went there
w�with Seto,� she replied, �A long t�time ago.�
�Oh, is that so?�
I asked, �I didn�t know�to be entirely honest, I just couldn�t figure out why
you would give me a stone�even one as pretty as this one, it�s still just a
rock��
�I know that!�
she exclaimed, standing with effort, �But it�s always b�brought me luck and
maybe it c�could help you with your problem!�
�As a good luck
charm,� I said dryly.
�Yes,� she
replied firmly, and for once I still couldn�t understand. If it was good luck why give it to me? It couldn�t help me and it probably wouldn�t
be able to help me and for that reason I didn�t want it, I didn�t need it and
she shouldn�t have given it to me!
�I don�t need
your stone and I certainly don�t need your pity Miss Katiana!� I yelled at her,
flinging the stone to the ground. I
watched tears well up in her eyes; she struggled to choke them back as she
looked at where the stone had fallen. I
shouldn�t have said that, I shouldn�t have said something so hurtful. We just stood there, the both of us, and her
tears fell like rain, and they fell hard on the cover of the tome in front of
her. She limped around the table and
made her way towards the entryway, I thought she was going to get mad at me; I
wanted her to get mad at me! Why
couldn�t she just get mad at me?
�I�m s�sorry,�
she said, �I was f�foolish to think you needed luck my Pharaoh. You h�have the most power of all of us, and
you don�t n�need luck.� Damnit get mad
at me! No, she just knelt down and
picked up the stone, clasping it in her hands.
I moved aside to let her leave, watching still as the tears fell from
her eyes. No, I couldn�t let her
go�don�t let her go�
�Miss Katiana!� I
cried out, grabbing her arm as she tried to leave. She pulled away from me and looked at me with
her tear stained eyes, I wanted to brush the tears away, I had cause them, I
had brought this upon her!
�What m�more do
you want from me?� she asked, �What more?
You t�tried to rape me and I�ve f�forgiven you! You hurt me and I f�forgave you! You were k�kind to me and I tried my best to
be k�kind back� What more do you
want?� My arm fell to my sides,
useless. She was mad now, wasn�t she? No, she wasn�t mad, she was crying, I had
caused those tears of hers. I turned
towards her, turned to face her and I was mad at her, I wanted her to be mad at
me!
�Don�t you ever
get mad at someone?� I asked, �Why are you so cheerful all the time? Why do you always smile? Is it because you had an easy life at the
temple? Why must you be so happy, why�� I couldn�t find
anymore words, I struggled to find more words but none existed. Her eyes told a story, she hadn�t had an easy
life, she had her share of struggles and now me, I had
caused her emotional and physical pain�
I could feel the tears of my own eyes well up within me and I bit them
back as I stared at her. I stared at her
and she was looking back at me, as if searching for something in my eyes,
something she thought she had seen before.
Before I knew what I was doing I grabbed her and pulled her into my arms,
and she didn�t struggle to pull away.
She let me hold her, she let me hold her close and my tears fell as
swiftly as hers.
�My Pharaoh,� she
said quietly and I sank to the floor, clutching her against me. I felt her hands come to rest on my shoulders
and I felt her hold me, my hands dropping as she took me into her arms.
�I�m sorry,� I
sobbed, �I�m sorry�� She didn�t respond, she just held me close to her, held me in her lap as I
cried. I felt that she had already
stopped crying, she wasn�t caring about her own well being now; she was
focusing on mine!
�Why do you care
so much?� I asked, �Why do you want to help me?�
�� she said
nothing and I curled up, my head and some of my body resting against her.
�Why you�why did
it have to be you?� I asked, �Why did you have to be the one that could read
the tomes?� The hands that held me faded
from my shoulders and the warmth that I felt faded as well. I could feel something, sensed something, and
then her arms came around me again, and I felt her head rest on mine, her
forehead resting against my hair as I continued to cry.
�I forgive you,�
she said and placed a kiss on my hair. I
stopped mid sob to absorb what she had just done. No one had ever done this before; no one had
ever just kissed my hair, not even my own mother! I felt her shift and my head rested upon cool
stone. I heard footsteps and she was
leaving, leaving me here�
�Miss Katiana?� I
asked though my voice didn�t sound like my own.
�It�s alright,�
she said, �I�m fine� Goodbye�� I picked myself up from the stone floor and
looked on as she left. I let her leave;
I didn�t want to stop her. Why me, why
did I have to fall in love with her? I
looked around, picking myself up and noticed the stone, the one I had flung to
the floor, and it was right in front of me.
I knelt down and picked it up, looking it over once again. She must have left it behind, no, she didn�t,
did she? She had given it to me, and she
wanted me to have it. I clutched it
against me like a shield and walked out of the room, going towards one of the
balconies nearby, walking out onto it, only to see clouds blanketing the
sky. What had really just gone on
there? Did she care for me as well? Did she love me the way I loved her? What was it, why is she like the way she
is? I really didn�t understand her, when
I thought about it, I couldn�t understand her.
Even though I knew her well, I still didn�t know her, I didn�t know her
like High Priest Seto or Madera did, I didn�t know her that well and yet I was
in love with her so deeply, I could care less what her life had been like� I felt a water droplet hit me on my face and
I blinked. More drops followed that one
and soon it began to rain. I looked up
at the sky, allowing the rain to soak me thoroughly.
�It hardly ever
rains here,� I murmured.

TBC

A/N: Wow, some chapter, right?
Even I don�t understand all to well what went on here! Anyways, please let me know what you thought
of in a review! I really don�t have much
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