Blood & Roses

Author's Note – I'm using a a few lines from a beautiful Metal song called "Death & The Healing" By Wintersun. In fact if this story had a theme song 'Death & The Healing" would SO be it.

Disclaimer – I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh YET Kaiba's giving it to me for my birthday ;P I also don't own the "Death & The Healing"… my iPod does though.

Introduction

Atop the highest building she stood; an electric guitar slung over her shoulder and deftly her fingers struck the cords…

Time is the death and the healing…

take your last breath

'cause death is deceiving…

The tune was so painfully thick with emotion that it would make a mortal weep;

And then she heard it.

The wind whipped at her hair and with great agility she jumped off the edge landing squarely on her feet. The strange snarl which pierced through her very core would be easy to detect with her vampiric hearing and suddenly Kisara realised… that this was why she had been attracted to Domino City.

"NEUTRON BLAST!" Kaiba's voice bellowed as his mighty Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon let out a growl before attacking Yami's monster. Yes, I almost have him! Kaiba smirked as the sun sank into the horizon. Just then he became intensely aware of a figure in the distance. Watching them. His view of the figure was obscured by her long white well, bluish hair which swirled around her face. A feeling he couldn't identify pulsed through him; his dragon snarled another cry and Yami's voice snapped him awake, "You don't usually take this long to make a move, Kaiba." And yet he couldn't keep his eyes off the incredibly pale figure and instinctively realised that somehow he knew her…

Kisara watched passively as the huge 3 headed dragon towered above her; this is the source of the sound that attracted me here. She realised, suddenly aware of two men dueling – she side-glanced the tall one who looked strangely familiar despite Kisara's absolute resolution of the fact that in the 100 years she had been alive she had never seen him before. Then there was the short one with very spikey hair and was totally astounded by the sight he presented that she couldn't help but gape before she was interrupted by a gruff 'ahem'. "Can I help you?" He growled, visibly aggravated to which the other man laughed arrogantly. "Quite frankly Yugi, your hair is ridiculous."

Whoah. I know hair products have come a long way since a century ago but come on, can they really do THAT? She contemplated while Yami growled, "Shut it, Kaiba."

"You can't tell me what to do." Kaiba smirked, to which Yami replied smugly, "No. But I can beat you in a duel."

Kisara watched in awe and felt as though this was the answer, she didn't understand what particulary but she wasn't exactly in a hurry to find out. Her gaze wavered on Kaiba who just lost the duel, he looked at her as she uttered in a distant voice, "Beautiful Dragon…" and time appeared to sit still as they stood there… where have I seen her before… where? And before he could say another word she had disappeared.

He had to find out who she was. He knew that there would be no peace unless he did.