Taion
(Disclaimer: I don't own the song that ppl might associate with this title! Oh! Or the show that I'm writing about!)
Looking up at the cold gray sky, Seto sighed and shook his head. It was going to be a long and cold day. The sky looked like it was going to let the snow fall from its grasp and make his life even more miserable. He hated the snow, it always reminded him of that day when he found his brother…in that car accident. He felt the pain begin to show again and looked away not wanting anyone to see the tears that were beginning to form in his eyes.
Seto decided to walk home that day, it was nice and cold and he was going to stop by the store before he got home so he could pick Mokuba up a present and have it wrapped for Christmas. He walked down the street and looked up, it was going snow again and he had a feeling that it as also going to ice the streets over again. There was a crash sound coming from up the street and he saw people running to what was beginning to look like a crash site. He walked up and threw the throng of people he saw the first two numbers on the license plate before someone walked in to his line of view.
He felt all the blood rush from his face and dropped the bag as he ran forward and pushed people out of the way. Shoving his way to the middle where there was two cars. The limo was smashed completely; there would be no salvaging it. A truck had smashed to two cars together and the front of the truck was smoking. Seto felt his body move but it was as if he was watching himself move. He yanked the door open to the limo and looked in side the dark crumpled car. He couldn't see anything except a small hand laying out on the floor of the car he felt the fear and tears well inside of him.
"MOKUBA!" Seto yelled knowing full well that there would be no reply from the dead boy lying in the car. He saw the small box clutched in the dead hand and grabbed it as someone pulled him away from the burning wreck. He watched with horrified eyes as the car blew to pieces. His little brother along with it.
He sat looking at the crash sight without comprehending that his brother was dead. He couldn't be dead he would be at home playing his video games. But when some one smacked him lightly on the cheek one thing became clear to him.
He was alone in the world again; the one person who loved him was gone.
Seto sat in the café across the street and sipped at his coffee never taking his eyes off the site where he last saw his brother. The explosion was so bad that there were no bodies to recover from the sight. So at the funeral all that was buried as an empty casket. And in so there was no reason for Seto to visit the gravesite. Mokuba wouldn't be there and there was no point in talking to air.
People walked past the site, every now and then there would be a kid or a person who would either leave cards or presents. All of them knowing of how the youngest member of the Kaiba family had been killed on Christmas day and that there would no longer be any Christmas for the older brother.
"Seto?" Seto was startled from his thoughts by a soft voice. He hid his surprise and looked at the person who was intruding on his thoughts. It was Muto, he sighed and finished his coffee and stood up.
"Make it fast Muto I have to leave." Seto said. His voice was like the ice out side, cold and unforgiving.
"I'm having a Christmas party tomorrow and I would like it if you came." Yugi said. He handed Seto an invitation and looked at him with expectant eyes.
"We'll see." Was all Seto said before he left.
"Don't worry, you don't need him to come to the party." Yugi leaned back in to Yami's embrace as the man walked up behind him.
Yugi watched as Seto picked up the gifts left at his brothers crash site and dropped them in to a donation bin right next to the store in front of the site.
"There might be no more Christmas for him but at least he's trying to give others a nice Christmas." Yugi whispered.
"Hey moneybags!" Seto looked up dully at Jounouchi. The blond was after another fight again but he knew that Jou wouldn't start one, not this day. "Are you going to come to the party that Yugi is throwing?"
Seto put his book down on his backpack and sighed. "Why do you have to bug me every Christmas?" He asked.
"Because all you do is sit at home and stare at a fire thinking of Mokuba and how you couldn't save him right?" Jou asked, Seto stared at Jou; he felt the shock registering inside him but didn't let it show. How could this blond fleabag mutt know exactly what he does every Christmas? Seto just glared at Jou before he got up and walked out of the class room and down the hall, dodging everybody till he made it outside and quickly walked off the school grounds and down the street trying to escape those all knowing warm honey colored eyes.
"You never have any one drive you anywhere on Christmas and you refuse to go near any car as well." Jou's voice was following as he was doing his best to lose the blond in the crowds. "An you still have that little blue box that you-"
Seto spun around on him so fast it had Jou slammed up against the wall; murder gleamed in Seto's eyes making Jou shudder knowing that he had gone to far.
"What do you want from me?" Seto snarled. "Money?"
Jou scowled and shoved Seto away from him; the anger that flared in Jou's eyes caught him off guard. Jou walked off a little and it looked like he was mumbling to himself or… yelling at him self.
"This isn't goin to work! He doesn't get it!" Jou hissed.
It has to work! I can't stand seeing him like this every Christmas!
"What do you want me to do? I mention the little blue box and I nearly get killed!" Jou yelled.
"How did you know about that box?" Seto's voice came from behind him and scared Jou making him jump. A small smile spread across Seto's lips.
LOOK! Did you see it! He smiled! That was the first time in forever!
But as soon as it appeared it disappeared.
"You… you wouldn't believe me if I told you." Jou said, and turned to walk away. He got maybe four steps before Seto reached out and stopped him.
"Wait. I need to know." Seto said.
Tell him! I want to see him smile again! He has to know that I haven't left him and that I'm still here that he isn't alone in the world!
"Let's go some where quiet." Jou said with a small smile.
