Seto had called off the wedding until later, Serenity agreed with him, she didn't want to be in a hurry. She now lived in the Kaiba mansion with the Kaiba brothers. Her mom had not bugged her ever since the little incident in the US involving them.

Seto slammed down the phone harshly. "Damn!" he cursed.

"Seto what's the matter."

"I sent in my version of the newest digital dueling system disc and they just told me they accidentally deleted all of the data inside it. It took me almost a year to create that thing."

"Seto forget about it, you'll never complete another copy of it within a month to enter."

"Serenity, it's nice to know that you're worried about me but I've got to get this done, you don't know how much this program means to me."

"Fine, I'll leave you to your work." Serenity went back to her room to catch some sleep. "Why is he so caught up in his work some times, this isn't the Seto Kaiba I know. Why is he like this?"

Kaiba had spent nerly two weeks of sleepless evenings typing up the program. Serenity had noticed that he was getting tired during the day and it was getting worse everyday. "Goodnight Seto." Serenity whispered into his ears, he was still typing away one the computer.

3 Am.....

Serenity woke up, he went to check on Seto, but he wasn't in his room. She went to the next room and realized that he was still working on the program. She knocked on the door.

"Come in."

Serenity walked in. "Seto, what do you think you're doing still working on the program so late. No wonder why you've been so tired in the morning, you need some sleep. If you keep this up, you'll be dead before the time of the competition."

"Stay out of my business." Seto said coldly.

Serenity was hurt by those words, never had Seto said anything like that to her. "Fine! See if I care!" Serenity ran out of the room.

The next day at school..........

"Serenity, where's Kaiba? I haven't seen him in weeks." Joey asked along with Yugi.

"He's so caught up in his work, he's determined to get his program done in time for the competition."

"But that's crazy! He'll never get it done in time!" Yugi exclaimed.

"I know, but he's spending completly 24 hours a day working on it."

"He not even eating or sleeping?"

"No, that's why I'm so concerned about him. I'm afraid he'll catch some sort of illness." Serenity said with concern in her eyes.

"I'm sure he'll be fine, don't worry about it sis."

"Yeah me too!" Yugi agreed.

"I hope so."

Kaiba mansion at night..........

Serenity walked into Seto's work room and found him still working on it. "Please Seto, stop this."

"No, I must finish this. Stay out of this!"

"Why?" Serenity asked with tears in her eyes. Seto didn't even realize it, he didn't even bother to look at her face.

"That does not concern you!" Seto attempted to raise his voice ,but a cough came out. His hand covered his mouth. He felt something wet on his hand. He looked at it, blood. He wiped it off on his dark shirt.

Serenity saw it. "Please Seto, stop this, you're going to get yourself hurt."

"No, I'll be fine. Now get out of my room!"

Serenity didn't say anything and just walked out. "He won't last any longer if he keeps this up, he even coughed out blood."

Serenity called her brother on the phone. "Joey."

"Serenity what's wrong, you're crying."

"Seto's too deep in his work, he hasn't slept in two weeks, or something close to that. His condidtion is getting worse everyday that passes. He's been ignoring me ever since this thing started." Serenity cried.

"Don't worry about, I'm sure he'll come to his senses soon, try not to worry about it that much. Gotta go sis, Mai's waiting for me." Joey hung up.

"What am I going to do about him?" Serenity wiped away her tears and went back to Seto's room. She saw him with his head resting on the desk and a pool of blood next to his mouth. "Oh my god!" Serenity called for the ambulance. Serenity waited at home for a call from the hospital, they had told her not to come along. "Please be alright Seto, I don't know what I'll do with out you." Serenity whispered. "Why can't see that you can't keep this up, why don't you let me help?"

Mokuba wondered down the stairs. "Serenity, where's my brother?"

"H...h..he went out to get some stuff for his rpgram that's all, he'll be back soon." Serenity lied.

"Alright." Mokuba believed her and went back upstairs to sleep.

Serenity cried out on the window ledge. "Seto, why are acting this way? Please return to me. I want the Seto I used to know and love back." Serenity was there all night crying her eyes out.

The next morning..........

Serenity woke up and found out that Mokuba had already left for school. "I should stay home." She thought to herself. Knock, Knock!

Serenity opened up the door. "King....."

"Hey Serenity, I heard Seto's in the hospital."

Serenity nodded. "What are you doing here? Shouldn't you be in school?"

"I said I was sick so I didn't have to go." Yami explained. "I came over here to talk to you."

Serenity invited him in. They sat down on the sofa beside eachother. "You really care about Kaiba don't you?"

Serenity just nodded.

"When did you say he started acting like this?"

"This all started when he recieved a phone call about his program being deleted. After that he just lost it, he started ignoring me and raising his voive at me."

"Has he ever done this to you before?"

"No, never." Serenity started to weep a bit.

Yami held her close to him, comforting her. "Get some rest, you look worn out."

Serenity rested her head on his shoulder and coled her eyes. "Seto...please be alright."

"This girl really cares for him....."