For Tomorrow
Chapter One
Seto has been acting really weird lately. Normally, he loves to go to the park with me, but ever since we had that fight, he's avoided me and stayed locked away in his office. He doesn't even talk anymore, doesn't work, he just sits there. I don't know what's going on, but I don't like it. I decided that today, I'm going to make up with him. Today's going to be tough enough already for him, because it's the day that we got adopted. The day that his torture from our "father" started. I can't let him b alone today, the one day he really needs me. I'll go wake him up.
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Silently, I walked down the hall towards his room, just like I always used to. I slowly opened the door and crept inside. Suddenly I heard Seto's voice and hid.
"No one would really care anyway," he said to himself, "why not today?"
He didn't sound too happy, so I decided to cheer him up. I jumped up onto his bed and yelled, "I care!"
"Oh Ra…" Seto said to himself as he sat up in bed, "what do you want?"
"Big brother," I said, putting on my cutest puppy-dog eyes and holding onto his arm, "I came to say I'm sorry…"
"NO!" he yelled, pushing me away, "This can't happen today!"
"But big bother," I pleaded, "you need me, today is…"
"A day you shouldn't care about. It's none of your business what happened back then, and you have no right to try and comfort me. You don't know what he did, you didn't have to go through all those hours of suffering and…" He broke off and turned away as he began to cry.
I crawled up to him and hugged him, "It's okay, I'm here" I whispered.
For a second, it seemed like my words of comfort had helped, and he started to cry into my arms. Then suddenly, he pushed me away. "No, you can't do that, I've aleady decided." He said, more to himself than to me.
"Decided?" I asked.
"Yes, decided," he began, then caught himself, "… decided that today, you will go to the park and take pictures of the flowers for me."
"Flowers?" I asked. Seto had never really cared about flowers before… "Will that make you happy?"
Suddenly he smiled. It was an odd smile, one I'd never seen him use before, but it was the first smile I had seen from him since our fight.
Then he spoke, "Yes, But only if you get some really nice pictures, to remember…" he stopped again, "to remember that you're my very special little brother."
There was something wrong with this, though I didn't know what… this whole day seemed… wrong.
"Seto," I asked, "are you okay?"
"Of course I am." He replied sharply. "But if you don't get to the park soon, you won't have enough time to take the pictures I need."
I started to talk, but before I could get a word in, he called for a servant,
"If you would, take Mokuba to the park. He has something crucial to the future of Kaiba Corporation to take care of."
"Yes, sir," the servant replied, then took my shoulder and turned to leave.
Seto stopped him, "One more thing, will the parameter of my mansion be clear once you and Mokuba leave. I have something I need to get done, and I'll have no interruptions."
"Yes, no one besides yourself will be allowed onto your property until you or your brother give the okay." The servant answered.
"Good," Seto replied, "you may leave now."
I still have that image embedded in my memory, the last second I saw him that morning, because the next time I saw him, everything in my world would change.