Chapter 1
Darkness…
What is dark? What is light?
If someone's dark does that make them evil? If they're light does that make them good?
In a battle between two evils, which one ought to win? Does being the lesser evil make it good even though it's an evil before being compared?
And what is evil? What defines good and bad in the first place?
Kaiba looked over what he'd typed onto his laptop again and again. How odd of him to even think of something like that.
He looked over at the clock. He'd gotten up early. Soon his alarm would go of, assuming that he'd set it the previous night. He didn't bother to keep track of whether or not it was on anymore.
He went back to typing, making sure first to set the laptop to have a little message pop up when he needed to get ready for school. Only 37 minutes until he could go to a building full of morons and pretend he was paying attention to what the teacher said. He already knew all the subjects inside and out thanks to his step father. Why did he even bother to go?
Darkness…
What is dark? What is light?
If someone's dark does that make them evil? If they're light does that make them good?
In a battle between two evils, which one ought to win? Does being the lesser evil make it good even though it's an evil before being compared?
And what is evil? What defines good and bad in the first place? Fear. Greed. That's what defines it. People would not be against death if they were afraid of what came after life. People would not be against theft if they weren't greedy, hoarding their possessions. Though if greed didn't exist who would bother to steal anyways?
Is Human the dominate species? The best thing for earth? Before man came along animals survived in an untainted planet. They fought and species went extinct on there own, but man does nothing but speed that up. How many endangered or extinct species would have survived and been plentiful if man had never evolved into this world?
Kaiba sat back and thought about what he'd just typed until the little message he'd programmed popped up to let him know to get ready for school. He turned the portable computer of and got up to get ready.
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"Oh, great. What are you doing here, moneybags?" Tristan and Yugi rolled their eyes. Joey was obviously looking for a fight after failing a test that the teacher had complimented Kaiba allowed on for his high score on "I'm talking to you!"
Kaiba didn't even look over at Joey, instead he just took things out of his locker and into his bag, getting ready to leave. How odd. They'd left Kaiba alone the past couple weeks and noticed his behavior had changed drastically.
He barely responded to them, in fact, he didn't even seem to notice them most of the time like right then with Joey. He hadn't argued back the one time he had acknowledged Joey speaking to him. And weirdest of all he hadn't challenged Yugi in any way. Add this to the fact that in the weeks they'd left him alone he'd done nothing public involving duel monsters and the whole thing was pretty suspicious.
"HEY! WHERE ARE YOU GOING! I'M TALKING TO YOU!" Joey screamed as Kaiba walked off at his own pace. Not looking back to even call Joey a single name. How odd indeed.
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"I don't know" Yugi sat down on his bed unpacking his school things. Pharaoh was in spiritual form next to him "It seems weird though. I've never known Kaiba to act that way"
"But we don't know him very well" Pharaoh pointed out "We've dueled him enough that we know his strategy, but how much do we know about him?"
"We know he's an orphan. His hobby. What he does for a living…"
"And that's it. A vague description of his background, that he likes to play card games (or any game really), and the common knowledge that he's a CEO. Do you know who he likes? His opinions on major issues? Minor issues?"
Yugi shook his head
"It's probably nothing. Kaiba most likely is just to busy with the finishing touches on his latest tournament or with something in his company to pay much attention to Joey"
"I still don't like it…"