It was a boring day to top all boring days. Seto Kaiba had finished his work, tried to find something on TV, failed, tried to read a book, failed, and even tried to socialize. That went nowhere fast. His phone calls where always so bland. A recent one with a friend went something like this:

Duke: So, Why'd you call?

Kaiba: I, was.... bored.

Duke: Oh. So'm I.

Kaiba: So.

Duke: Yeah.

Kaiba: How's work...? Oh yeah that's right...

Duke: Yeah.

Kaiba: Huh.

Duke: Yep.

Kaiba: So...

Duke:...?

Kaiba: I forgot.

Duke: Oh. *checks watch* Um, I have to go.

Kaiba: Oh. O.K.

Duke: Yeah.

Kaiba: Um

Duke: So, yeah.

Kaiba: Uh-huh.

Duke: See you round.

Kaiba:...

Duke: Bye

Kaiba: Um, bye

He even couldn't get a conversation sparked with his little brother. Usually talking wasn't an issue between these two.

Usually it was sit down, say hi, ask what's up, talk a little, spread dirt a little, explain what a certain word meant to Mokuba, etc. But today, it didn't roll so well.

Kaiba sat down next to Mokuba. " So, hi."

"Oh, hello, Seto," Mokuba said brightly.

" Hi," Seto said akwardly.

Mokuba cocked his head. " Uh, something wrong?"

Kaiba made a face. " Nope, what makes you think so?"

Mokuba shrugged. " Nothin', you just sounded a little stressed... Is it work?"

Kaiba shrugged back. " No. Um, what was I saying?"

Mokuba cocked his head so much that it looked in danger of teetering off his head. " Uhhh, you weren't saying anything... Are you sure you're O.K.?"

Seto realized that today was not his day for conversations. He tried to tell Mokuba this but his sentence came out more as " Today, not good, conversations?"

Mokuba looked at Seto. Why was his big brother tongue-tied...?

Mokuba raised an eyebrow and said, " Something's wrong."

"No," Kaiba said a little too quickly. But the thing was, nothing was wrong! Not a thing, except that his cologne had been sitting next to a shampoo bottle for too long and that it now smelled like rotten strawberries... but that wasn't worth getting all discoordinated for. Kaiba sat up straight and decided not to let himself get tongue-tied again. He was setting a bad example for his little brother.

" So, how's work?" As soon as he had said it he slapped himself on the forehead.

Mokuba's eyebrows disappeared into his hair. He got up out of his chair, grabbed Seto's arm, and started leading him upstairs.

"What are you doing?" Seto said, suddenly aware that he was being led by his arm.

" I'm taking you to your room, where you can lay down," Mokuba said, stressing the last two words. Kaiba gently yanked himself away, mumbling that he was fine, and that the strawberries couldn't make him uncoordinated. Mokuba backed up slowly, almost spearing himself on the end of Kaiba's glass Blue Eyes White Dragon statue. His face read as " Don't hurt me, please don't hurt me..."

Kaiba immediately felt bad and tried to tell Mokuba that he was sorry for the way he was acting... it came out as a strange noise that sounded just like a printer when it has a defalut error. Kaiba felt like a broken printer and the way they print out gibberish on random parts of the page.

"Um, we can c-call the doctor, or the straight-jacket people," Mokuba said in a small voice. Kaiba tried to speak but decided against it and grabebd some Kaiba Corp. stationary off a table instead. On it he wrote, " I'm sorry, I'm having trouble communicating right now, but I'm not going insane!" Mokuba read the note, glanced at Kaiba, read the note, glanced at Kaiba, and said, " Really?"

Kaiba nodded. " I screw up what, I'm trying, uuuuuugggghhh..." he said exasperatedly. He hastily grabbed the notepad and wrote, " Yes, I'm sorry; I don't know why I can't speak right today."

" Well, you can still write... hey, why don't you get on Instant Messaging? Chances are someone you know will be on, and that way you can still communicate, but write, too!" Mokuba said comfortingly. Kaiba nodded furiously and patted Mokuba on the head to say, " Good idea."

Chat Room Mania 2.0

.:Welcome, Seto Kaiba! You are now logged in:.

.:START A CONVERSATION HERE:.

blueeyes: Um, hello?

dOnUtMaN: Kaiba?

blueeyes: Wheeler.

dOnUtMaN: Yeah thats me, so what R U up to?

blueeyes: Trying to figure out why I am so messed up today

heartofthecards: Maybe we can help :)

shiningfriendship: Great idea, Yugi! So what are you having trouble with?

Luv4Serenity: Yeah Kaiba we can help like on OPrah or somthing

DiceBoySerenityLuvr: Yeah I love that show, shes so sympathetic

Luv4Serenity: Did you catch last night's

DiceBoySerenityLuvr: No I didnt, was it good?

shiningfriendship: Let's help Kaiba now, O.K. Duke and Tristan? Let's see, first we should hear the conflict, then help him solve it it easy steps.

dOnUtMaN: Yep like first step: reaching the goal second step: how to reach the goal, etc?

heartofthecards: Yes thats it exactly! Let's see, we already know the problem, so let's start with... friendship!

BritishRulz: Hi guys! I logged in a little late but I read all about Kaiba's problem, good idea to start with friendship, Yugi!

heartofthecards: Thanx Bakura! It's most important in any situtaion to remember that friends will always be there for you and you can always ask them for help!

DiceBoySerenityLuvr: Yeah, and always stick up for your friends

Luv4Serenity: even if it looks tuff!

dOnUtMaN: Especially if it looks tough! Let's here it for friendship!

heartofthecards: Yay!

shiningfriendship: Yeah!

BritishRulz: even Kaiba couldn't say no to this! Kaiba let's hear a Yeah!

.:blueeyes has logged out:.

heartofthecards: Kaiba...?

Kaiba stared at his blank computer screen. That had almost worked...