Author Notes: This is the first chapter so these notes will be a bit longer than they will in following chapters. I do not own any characters from either Inuyasha or Yu-gi-oh and this fiction will be a long reach for me but I got the idea from another fiction called: The Duel Master and The Miko by Dragon Ruler 06. So I can't claim the pairing I'm going to use is original at all but I thought it was a fun idea and wanted to do my own version of the two (Kagome/Kaiba), something about the idea makes me kinda laugh but I think I might be able to make it work and if I can't I'll at least have fun along the way writing the two in the first place.

Also just letting you know that I've seen about half of both series so I don't know every single detail of either of the two's stories. I am more going from what I recall and what I wish to include. Though I will try to keep it as much to the anime for both as possible given the circumstances I'm using.

So with that out of the way thank you for reading and I hope you enjoy it.

Chapter 1: Fateful Trip

Kagome rushed from the outdoors after the thunder and flash of lightning opening the sky to the downpour that had caused her to seek shelter in the first place. It was an innocent misstep that would end up leading her down the road to the cure for her heartache.

Ever sense the well had closed and she'd been forced to leave Inuyasha behind things in her life had never quite managed to be the same. Her grandfather had died shortly before they had defeated Naraku and her travels to the feudal era had ended with her suddenly alone. She hadn't managed to get high enough grades to enter a decent high school so she was being forced to repeat the year to have a chance at a better life. The same school wouldn't even take her -likely a result of all the wild illnesses her grandfather had told people she suffered- and she had been forced to transfer to one further within the city. She still had extra duties at the shrine with Souta which wasn't so bad as it distracted her from the fact that her social life had crumbled from her over a year of any real activity involving friends.

She had been running door to door handing out small flyers involving the upcoming festival they would be holding for the end of summer. The shrine could use the donations a really active weekend promised to bring in. It was needed as she and Souta would be starting school the following week and they could help their mother a little more before another caretaker would come in to run it during the day when she worked and they were in school.

Her sudden cut off from Inuyasha and the rest of her friends had left her numb despite the fact that they had won and everyone had their happy ending; everyone but herself of course. She never had considered the old advice that finding a new love was the best way to mend a broken heart, certainly not in the person that she happened to slam into on her rushed retreat into the large downtown bank where her seeking shelter from the elements would eventually become her salvation from the depression that was threatening to suffocate her radiant soul.

The door opened cleanly and she slammed harshly into the man that had been moving to head out from the other side. The pain from bouncing off the well -if oddly dressed- young man wasn't as sharp as the sting to her pride or the embarrassment that accompanied the fact that she'd slammed into him in the first place- or the worry that followed as she saw the fluttering flyers falling around her and the fellow she'd nearly knocked over, immediately moving to gather the papers back up.

"Wow, I am -so- sorry." she apologized as she gathered the flyers together. "Are you okay?"

She'd stop gathering for a moment to look at the man she'd bumped into. Surprised to see it was someone about her age that was staring at her coldly with brilliant blue eyes. She blushed when she realized that he had also dropped something when they had slammed together. Some card game was mixed into the flyers for the shrine. She kept picking things up and gathering them into a couple piles, whoever it was must be the son of some richer man, he had a guard with him that had stepped forward when he was slammed into but then paused as she immediately tried to make amends. Instead, the watchman bent down to start gathering things, motioning for her to stand.

She paused a moment, a bit shocked by the kind motion but not wanting to refuse and seem rude after causing the problem. Straightening her now blue skirt as she rose, looking directly at the person she'd inadvertently assaulted in her escape from the rain outside.

Her first impression was the familiar natural intimidation, almost reminding her of a blue-eyed version of Sesshomaru for the shortest of glimpses. He was well dressed in slacks, shoes, a long sleeved turtle neck all black and a white sort of trench coat with a that seemed to naturally remain billowed at it's bottom. It had straps around the upper arms and just below the elbows, there were oval shaped metal pieces along the neckline and down the coat where buttons should have been. The strangest piece of his apparel was an odd sort of locket with one of the card's he'd dropped inside it.

His voice was equally as striking, a deep tone that reached her with ease and commanded attention, subconsciously demanded that he be listened too. "Are you all right miss?"

Even the question didn't seem to hold honest concern more than tedious etiquette. He wasn't asking out of kindness but requirement.

"Oh…yeah I'm fine." Kagome replied quickly. "I'm sorry again. I was just trying to get out of the rain as quick as possible. I should have been watching where I was going."

"Just watch yourself a bit more in the future." He shrugged her off coldly and turned toward his bodyguard, "Return her things and come after me once you collect the car."

She glanced after the teenager curiously, turning her attention to the larger man as she bent to start helping him pick up again. Not to taken aback by the cruel demeanor after all she'd seen and accomplished in the feudal era.

"Thank you for helping, um…could you tell me who that is?" she asked seriously. "I still feel bad I couldn't do more for nearly knocking him over and damaging his things."

"That's Mr. Kaiba." The bodyguard seemed surprised he had to tell her at all. "He owns the Kaiba-corporation and is one of the best Duel Master gamers in the world. Though it seems your papers were more damaged than anything else."

"Oh…that was the card game he was carrying around. Isn't it very popular?" Kagome asked without realizing how naïve she sounded. "I suppose I should look into it."

"Um…I'd recommend it. Yes it's very popular miss. Okay then, stay well and dry." The bodyguard handed her the flyers and hurried after his employer, fearing taking too long a period, the extra cards that Kaiba had dropped in his free hand as he rushed off.

She looked after the guard too, curious about the strange young man for a while before shaking her head and moving to settle some pamphlets on one of the counters of the larger bank after asking if it would be all right for them to host a few for her. The rest of the pile had been so damaged she wasn't really willing to use them. She was about to throw them away when she paused, pulling free a card that had been mixed in with her other flyers on accident. It had the orange border they all seemed to have and a picture of a silvery dragon that was roaring, there was a label for it's name and the various other information she wasn't yet familiar with.

"Well…" she sighed. "I guess he could just get a new one but I suppose I should hang onto it in case he contacts me or until I find time to contact him somehow about it."

"Cause I'll easily be able to get a hold of the billionaire genius teenager." She chided herself. "Should pay more attention to where I'm going, can't believe that was the guy that owns the Kaiba corporation though."

As clueless as Kagome was about Duel Masters the game she had heard of the larger conglomerate and some of the stories that had accompanied it's young CEO. She didn't know many details but the Kaiba name at the very least was infamous in the majority of Japan.

"Can't really deal with it now." she muttered, holding onto the expensive card by slipping it back between some of the papers in her pile. "Guess I should head home sense the rain doesn't seem to be letting up…and I bent up or destroyed any flyers I could hand out with good conscience."

She ducked back out of the bank after several minutes; once the rain had let up enough that she could make the dash to the subway without too much threat of getting soaked…

Scene Switch

The bleak day had done little to temper the cold mood of Seto Kaiba, though it wasn't as if it shifted it to bad or good, his response to the weather would have only been moderately better if the sky was clear - and then only because he could have used a helicopter to travel around the crowded city as opposed to a vehicle in downtown. Yearly statements and record reviews for all sort of required businesses and banks would be due before the end of the fiscal year and he hated doing them but the start date had opened two days prior and he was finally almost done with any he would have to visit in person. Which was necessary for him as he would be heading back to the high school the following week and he wouldn't have the free time he currently possessed.

Even then the paperwork hadn't gotten to him, it was mundane but something necessary. He was used too enough that it wouldn't have effected him nearly so deeply as the loss of one of his precious Blue-Eyes, White-Dragon cards. He should have purchased or stolen the one from Yugi's grandfather as opposed to ripping it up, anything to have saved a backup for an unforeseen moment such as this.

Anger was boiling below the currently calm surface he portrayed while he paced.

"I should have realized that woman was some sort of spy or thief. My instincts must be waning from the lack of use they've had recently for betrayal." Even his thoughts had a certain level of dignity in their silent rage. "Which means either I'm not being betrayed nearly so often -unlikely-, or that I'm missing the larger picture as of late. Even at that, it would be less disturbing if they hadn't somehow gotten one of my trump cards."

The door to his room opened and he glanced over, mouth opening to fire whoever disturbed him after he'd specifically ordered them leave him alone until instructed, even starting to voice the command before he realized that it wasn't anyone that he paid. A darker haired youth headed into the room with a guilty look on his boyish features. Seto frowned but at least tightened his lips as he realized it was his brother and that he had something he had done that it bothered so much he wasn't smiling.

"Hey…um…Seto." Mokuba said nervously, rubbing the back of his head and clearing his throat. "I heard about your card and I should apologize. I was messing around with some of your decks a couple days ago and might have moved it…"

"Mokuba…" Seto's voice didn't hold an ounce of joy. "Why would you do that?"

"I was just seeing some other possible combinations. I thought I put it back, really…but I figured I should tell you so you don't possibly blame it on more than it is." Mokuba answered. "If you want to ground me for a while I'll understand."

Seto eyed his brother with frustration he didn't allow to show on his face, shaking his head at the younger boy and speaking again. "Just don't take apart anymore of my decks. If you really want cards I can buy you some but we'll be lucky if we can find where it went at all. I can't even be sure the clumsy girl will have it."

"The clumsy girl?" Mokuba was suddenly confused by the change of subject.

Seto waved it off, explaining the short interchange and the course that had followed sense. "I sent the bodyguard on duty back to ask if any of the desk clerks knew her or where she could have gone but he hasn't returned yet."

"Oh. It'll work out I'm sure. The Blue-Eyes always find their way back to you." the younger brother encouraged with a smile. "Can I go then?"

"To your room." was the cool reply. "You are grounded for two weeks except for school when it starts."

The child nodded a little sadly before leaving, having started to hope he was going to get out of the trouble for the mistake till right at the end.

Seto didn't enjoy punishing his brother but he'd become more of a father figure as well as the older brother in the last year or so sense he had taken over full control of the company. It was inevitable as they had no real parents of their own that the job would indeed fall to him, he didn't mind it though, taking care of his brother is how he'd gotten where he was now.

He considered all the days they'd spent tortured to get themselves ahead but then shook the thoughts from his mind; leaving them for a more appropriate time and glancing back over to the door as he heard footsteps returning. It was then that he was given the flyer for the Higurashi family shrine by the bodyguard that had been with him earlier that day.

It seemed he'd be paying the old place a visit to find the mysterious girl that he hoped had the single card he so desperately wanted back in his possession.

End Chapter 1

End of first chapter, it was a fun introduction to write. Hope everyone enjoys it and lets me know what they think. Good days to you.

-Aura