I know, I know. I still need to finish Blue Eyed Sacrifice, and believe me, I will. It's just…DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW HARD IT IS TO WRITE YOUR FIRST NOVEL AND FANFICS, WHEN YOU STILL HAVE SCHOOL? O.O Um…eh heh. Anyways…on with the fic. Oh yeah…I don't own nothin' but a shitty computer. Want it? ^.^()
//FLASHBACK//
"Check and mate," came a small and triumphant voice as he made his last move, winning the chess match. The man across from him laughed.
"So you won. Well, I'm a man of my word. I'll adopt you and your little brother."
The blue-eyed boy smiled and looked at his little brother. He had succeeded in keeping the grown ups from separating them. And now they would have a family again.
*~*
"And this is your room, Seto," Gozaburo said as he opened the door to the cavernous room. Seto looked around, then turned to face his new stepfather.
"Could you have Mokuba's room be nearby?" Gozaburo smiled and nodded, closing the door behind him as he left. Seto looked up at the ceiling and blinked.
"I've never seen such a big bedroom before," he said in awe. He plopped down on the large, squishy bed and sighed, surveying his room. Now he could be happy again. No more orphanages. No more hard, lumpy beds. Just happy days in his new, rather large home.
*~*
"Stop it! Let go of me!"
Seto kicked and screamed as Gozaburo picked him up again.
"You dare make a fool out of me? What the hell is wrong with you, you little smartass! I'll teach you to be so damn cheeky!"
The child cried out as Gozaburo struck him hard across the face, sending him onto the ground.
"Don't you DARE EVER DO THAT AGAIN, SETO!" he shouted as he continued to beat the poor child.
Hours later, Seto lay motionless on the ground, hardly daring to breathe. He was childishly afraid that Gozaburo would come back in and start it all over again. He never cried anymore. He had learned better than that, as the tears that fell only seemed to make his stepfather angrier.
//END FLASHBACK//
Seto kicked angrily at the wall, sending chips of concrete flying into the air.
"Always have to have the last laugh, don't you, you bastard!" He held his head tightly in his hands, trembling as he fell to his knees, his brain pounding against his skull as the unwanted memories bombarded his thoughts.
//FLASHBACK//
Gozaburo straightened to his full height, smiling as he said,
"Oh, I believe it's high time to start disciplining you, dear Mokuba. Hmm…I suppose now would be as good a time as ever."
Seto struggled to stand up, ignoring the pain that was circulating throughout his body.
"WHAT? No, please, F-father, don't. Hit me instead. Please, leave him alone."
Gozaburo glared at Seto, eyes narrowed dangerously.
"You will NOT tell ME what to do, child! I say it's time he learns his place!" He walked over to the small, cowering child; a sadistic grin playing it's way across his lips. Seto's eyes widened and he ran over and stood in front of his little brother.
"I said leave him alone."
"WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY?"
"LEAVE HIM ALONE!" Gozaburo stared at him for a moment; his eye twitching angrily, before he backhanded Seto, sending him once again to the ground. Seto heard Mokuba cry out and was on his feet in an instant, to witness his little brother getting smacked across the face too.
Seto felt the anger take control as he glanced at the big window that was now directly behind his cruel stepfather, the gears of his little mind working.
"Gozaburo! Leave him alone!" Seto shouted. Gozaburo looked up, surprise, then anger, playing across his face. Seto stepped forward.
He lifted his hand to strike his defiant stepson, but realized what Seto was planning.
"I am quite the smartass, aren't I, Father?" Seto smiled.
"It's time for you to die. Goodbye." And with that, the once innocent blue-eyed child shoved the cruel man out the window, delighting in the scream that was cut short as Gozaburo finally met the concrete ground.
//END FLASHBACK//
He laughed quietly.
"I thought I had finally won. But I didn't. No matter how hard I try, I can never seem to beat you. Because of you, I turned into what I feared most of all. You. You really did win, didn't you? You triumphed over me and turned me into the same cold, heartless bastard you were. I HATE YOU!"
He rose to his feet and pulled something out of his pocket. The cold metal weight of it made a wave of comfort wash over him as he loaded the bullets into the chamber. He chuckled again and turned his azure gaze to the floor.
"The only difference between us, Gozaburo, is that I'm doing this myself. I won't be outsmarted by a smartass, you see." He pulled the safety and pressed the cold metal to his temple.
"I'm going to die leaving no pain in my wake. I'm ending it now. I'll make sure to say hello to Noah for you, if he isn't slowly rotting away with his father."
He started laughing uncontrollably, the same laugh that would send shivers down your spine. He pulled the trigger, and the laughter ceased. No one was there to see his blood splatter against the walls, or hear the dull thud of his body as it met the ground. No one saw the puddle of blood surround the remnants of his head. He wasn't found until the next morning, by his one and only rival, at that. But for Seto Kaiba, the pain ceased. There were no more memories to rip apart his already torn sanity.
*sniffs* Wowies…that was….*Blinks* I can't believe I just wrote that. Anyways…if you liked it too, please review! Hey, that rhymed! WOW! I am sooooooooooo smert!!!!!