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Cure of Innocence
Chapter 1
Seth held Seto close as the boy wept, the night had been long and though his yami's brother had been born safe into the world of man Seto's mother hadn't made it, complications the doctors had said. It didn't take the boys pain away, at six he was motherless, "Why Seth?" he sobbed holding onto the friend no one else could see. Oh his mother had pretended but only he could see the older boy. His father had snapped at him earlier to grow up as he had cried along side his baby brother. Mokuba. Mokuba would never know mama's warmth, her smile or the smell of her perfume. He would never be held to her chest and told how much she loved him, not like Seto had.
"I don't know my friend," the priest said brushing a hand over the boys' silken hair.
His lip wobble Seto sat up in his hikari's lap and said, "I'll just have to take care of Mokie," though tears still shimmered in his blue eyes. "I'll be the best big brother and he'll never go a day with out knowing how much mama loved him!" he said.
Smiling down at the boy Seth nodded "Yes my friend you will and he'll love you as much as you love him." Though he had seen what was to come he knew his yami would soon ignore him and centre his attention on his baby brother. He would be betrayed again and again.
Twenty-three year later
Seto sighed as he lifted the crying baby from her crib, her tiny face scrunched in distress, "Why wont you just sleep the night?" he asked the child as he held her to his chest, where she quieted, though she still whimpered and made small sooky sounds. He knew why though, she missed her mother, though his wife hadn't had all that must to do with their daughter. She feed her, but the nanny did the rest and a week ago he'd come home to find the wench gone, leaving a file for divorce on the table beside their baby's crib. He'd then fired the nanny, who he'd never really cared for and had often snarled at when he found Kyoko with an extremely dirty dipper or some other problem caused by a slack carer or Kenshin his five year old son doing something he shouldn't.
Now he alone took care of them both.
Mokuba long gone, having moved half way across the world to get away from him, "Kyoko, come on, I know you miss…Yuki, but I'm here," he whispered. Rocking the child, he walked back to his room after checking, changing and micro waving a bottle of the disgusting baby formula. She suckled happily, her blue eyes clenched tight as she suckled. "Yeah that's my girl," he whispered yawning as he stretched out on his large bed. In no time she had finished her meal and too tired to take her all the way back to her room he curled around her tiny form he fell to sleep as she did.
Three months later
A shrill ring woke his with a start and Kyoko screamed her protest at the early wake up call.
Fumbling for the phone he opened it, and pressed it to his ear as he began rocking the irate baby. "Kaiba, speaking," he answered his voice slurring slightly with sleep.
"Seto?" a husky male voice asked and his eyes widened, Mokuba,
"Mokuba," he replied before yawning, Kyoko already drifting back to sleep as he glanced at the clock his deep blue eyes widening. It was already 8:30.
"Seto…why was a baby crying? Why are you near a baby?" his younger brother asked.
"Because your phone call woke the niece you don't know about because for the last year and a half you've been ignoring my calls," Seto answered smiling down at his baby.
So small.
So precious.
Her short blond hair curling ever so slightly, her creamy skin so soft and her blue eyes holding an innocence and awe he would never understand. His eyes moved over to his son who was current curled at his side, his chestnut hair tousled, blue eyes, identical to his own clenched shut. He'd come in late last night, just after Seto had gotten home and asked for sanctuary from the monsters in his room.
"…Oh," Mokuba sounded surprised, "Hows Kenshin?"
"Sleeping," Seto said his voice soft as he watched his son not noticing as his hikari, the one he ignored, appeared at the end of the bed. Seth never said a word to him any more; the ghost just followed him around, always at his side.
And still no one else saw him.
Yugi and that group had never noticed the man, which amused him.
"Good…who's the mum?"
"Yuki," he said "my ex wife,"
Silence greeted his words before his brother whispered "You married?"
"Yeah, over a year ago," Seto said his voice turning hard, "Now what can I do for you Mokuba?" he asked annoyed. He always let Mokuba in too far, get information out of him.
"My girlfriend has been kidnapped," Mokuba said his voice tight.
"Really?" Seto asked suddenly worried.
"Yeah, they want 100 grand for her release," Mokuba said, "Cash,"
"Oh, okay," Seto said as Kenshin rolled over and opened those wide blue eyes.
Seth frowned as he watched the stillness of his yami's face; the man knew he was there, those piercing blue eyes tracing the lines of his face. Mokuba. No wonder he was so still. "Otosun, what's wrong?" Kenshin asked and Seth smiled gently at the sound of the young boys voice, a small replica of his father, though of illegitimate birth Kenshin had come to Seto three years ago after his mother had died of a drug overdose. His yami had never even heard of the child yet one look at the boy and he had claimed him and made him one of his heirs.
When it came to family, Seto would go far.
"Nothing Ken, hold Ko for me will you," Seto said absently as he handed the infant girl to her older brother. Like his father before him Kenshin wanted to be the best big brother for his little sister.
The man slid from the bed and wearing nothing but a pair of silken blue pants paced back and forth in front of the large bed as his son watched and Seth sighed.
"My yami," he said softly and to his surprise those lovely blue eyes met his and he felt more solid. Though the man didn't know the more he believed in him the more visible he was, it was why the pharaoh and his hikari never saw him. To all others he was invisible because to his human counterpart he was.
"What's wrong?" he asked at the nearly thirty year old man sighed.
"Mokuba's girlfriend's been kidnapped," he whispered before speaking to his brother again, "Mokuba, come to Domino, I'll have the money for you by tomorrow."
