Long way to happy

Ch1: destruction

Mokuba walked down the streets of domino. He walked into a video arcade and walked strait to the video shooting game. A girl was already standing there playing. He took the gun next to her and started playing. "Hey…wow you got a high score." She smiled and laughed. "You want to play doubles." "Yeah sure." They both put their quarters in the slots and started playing.

After they were both killed, they left. "So you're in high school, but you look thirteen." "Yup I have tuner's disease." "Huh?" "I'm always gonna look younger then I am." "Wow so when you're like thirty you'll look like twenty." "Kinda…so what's you're name anyway." "Mokuba kaiba and you." "Sai…sonma me and my mother just moved here from Japan." Sai smiled. "Really? That is so awesome! Why'd you move too America?" "Um…I don't know I think my mom got a new job."

Mokuba looked at her awkwardly. She had bruises on her neck and legs. When they walked to the train station and rode it all the way uptown. "So where do you live?" "Um…on cascade blvd." "Seriously! I live there!" "Really." they got off the train and walked the rest of the way home. They walked up the street. The street was filled with mansions; it was quiet and perfect looking, something like out of the stepford wives or something.

"Well I live right there…so I guess I'll see you later." She ran across the street to a gray and desolate house. Mokuba turned and walked to his own house. Seto was sitting on the couch reading a file. "Hey seto." "Mokuba where have you been?" "Uh…I went to the arcade after school." "Well go start your homework and then when you're done you can go play outside."

When he finished his homework, he went to the front yard and threw his ball around. Then he heard a funny noise. He ran back into the house. "Seto turn off the TV!" kaiba turned the TV off and heard some screaming and things being broken. He and mokuba quickly hurried across the street and knocked on the door. "Mom! Ahh!" more glass broke. Then a woman opened the door. "May I help you?" "Um…my brother wants to invite you to dinner as like a welcome to the neighbor hood dinner." "No thank you we're fine." "Oh there is someone else in the house?" "Yes? My daughter but we'll be busy tonight so maybe another time."

"I'd like to hear that from your daughter." Sai walked to the door with a sweater on. She had a black eye and a busted lip. "Hi mokuba what's up?" "Um…we're wondering if you'd like to have dinner with us." "Um…I don't think I can. Mom?" sai looked at her mother. "Look she has homework to do…" "I'd feel better if she would have dinner with us." Seto kept his foot in the door just in case she tried to close the door on him. "Please…" mokuba grabbed her arm. "Fine go with them." She pushed her out the house and locked the door.

"Mom? Why did get you get involved? Mom! I'm sorry! I'll behave…please open the door! Mom!" she stood there and knocked on the door. "Come on mokuba." They walked back across the street.

The next afternoon kaiba watch mokuba play video games. "I wonder if she's okay." "Who?" "Sai." "That girl across the street…probably not." "What?" "Her mother got her wrapped around her finger…so her mother probably beat the crap out of her after we left." Suddenly there was a knock at the door. "Mr. Mokuba there is someone at the door for you." Mokuba got up and walked to the door. When he got there, he saw sai standing with tears in her eyes. "I need help." Her nose was busted and she was barely standing up.

"Seto! Come here!" kaiba walked to the front and saw her standing there. It pierced the cold heart that rested in kaiba. "Um…do you have a place to stay?" "No." "(Sighs) I don't normally do this but since you're mokuba's friend then I guess it's okay for you to stay here." "Thank you…so much." "Come on lets get you cleaned up." he lead her to the livingroom. "mokuba go get me some peroxide and a rag." mokuba went to get the stuff. "where is your father?" "i don't know...my mom always said that he left when i was born."

"oh...well grandmother, grandfather?" "no...their both dead." "aunts?" she shook her head and looked down at her feet. "hey seto...here." he looked back at her, she had her head down. "look at me...," he started to whipe the blood off her face. "no one should be beaten like that." "ow! that stings!" she winced while he kept trying to clean her face. "stop moving!" she closed her eyes and began to shudder. "i'm sorry..." he sighed. "no i'm sorry i shouldn't have yelled at you..." "i guess you're mad at me." "no...just fustrated, why does your mom hit you like that." "because i look like my dad...she always says that."

tears started to gather in her eyes. she buried her head into her lap and cried. "please don't cry...it's gonna be alright, i'll talk to your mother tomorrow i think you should stay here." "thank you so much..." she finally trailed off to sleep. he watched the vibrant motion of her chest. he gently picked her up and brought her to the room right next to mokuba.