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Shadows of the Night
The lightning flashed and the thunder gave a deep, drumming roll. A small child sat up with a yell in his bed. As another bolt of lightning flashed across the sky, he looked around, his large steely-blue eyes widened in fright.
He could no longer see the dim yellow light of his nightlight across the room. A shiver ran through his spine as rain began to patter the window. His mind raced with fright and half imagined things in the dark. Then his mind falls on his only comfort. He grabbed at the square locket hanging around his neck.
His breathing slowed. That was all he needed. To think of his brother. Strong, confident, brave. He arose from his bed, cool, collected Mokuba Kaiba once more.
The floor was cold on Mokuba's bare feet, and it creaked slightly as he walked out the door and down the hall to his brother's room.
Seto Kaiba was not, however, in his bedroom. Mokuba heard a crash downstairs. He smiled slightly, concluding that his brother had gotten mad and thrown something. But a strange feeling tin the pit of his stomach welled up and Mokuba suddenly became worried. He carefully walked down the marble staircase and turned into his brother's study.
Nothing could have prepared Mokuba for the site that awaited him. The large study was lighted by the soft glow of an old kerosene lamp. Seto's desk was upturned; his papers littered the floor. Mokuba gasped and stepped in to the room, but he jumped back seeing the glittering remains of one of Seto's beloved Blue-Eyes White Dragon statues. And there in the center of the room, lay a body.
Mokuba stared into the lifeless blue eyes of his brother. A puddle of blood surrounded Seto's head.
Mokuba turned and fled, tears running down his face. It was the last anyone would see of sweet, innocent, little Mokuba Kaiba...
Five years later...
A young, raven haired man stepped out of the dark gray limo labeled with the Kaiba Corp. insignia. Very few people these days would have recognized him as Mokuba Kaiba, the hyperactive little child who had once kept his brother running ragged, with out his frequent appearances in newspapers and magazines.
But Mokuba was no longer that child, and he no longer had a brother to look after him. In fact, it was coming up on the five-year anniversary of the murder of Seto Kaiba. And the chance for the accused murderer to appeal his case.
Seto Kaiba had been sitting in his study and he had been shot in the head. Looking back, Mokuba remembered that some sound had woken him up. He had dismissed it for thunder, and he sat abed while his brother's murderer mad a stealthy escape, but no before trashing Seto's office and destroying one of Seto's Blue-Eyes statues.
That was how Mokuba testified when evidence was collected and an arrest made. And the accused stood before the judge, claiming innocence, although he could give no clear account or any alibi of his whereabouts that night. So, Joey Wheeler was sentenced to twenty years in prison, with a chance for an appeal in five years time.
And within the next year, people began noticing a startling change in Mokuba. Certainly, the stress of running a multi-billion dollar company would weigh heavily on anyone's shoulders, especially those of a grieving twelve-year-old boy, but the change became more than much more than grievance or owning a company. So by fifteen, Mokuba no longer had any friends, and by his seventeenth birthday, Mokuba was highly feared by many people, but he was also admired. He stood six-foot-four with sharp facial features, neatly trimmed raven hair, and piercing steel-blue eyes. Mokuba had grown into the looks that tended to run in his family: tall, dark, and incredibly handsome.
Mokuba not only looked like his brother, he also began to act like him. He had no personal life and very little social time unless it was spent at company balls. He spent his nights tinkering with gadgets, writing reports, and creating complicated mazes and intricate puzzles for video game systems. He even began wearing long, dark, billowing trench coats.
So, one day when Yugi Mouto and his family stopped by Kaiba Corp., the change in Mokuba rather startled them. And that's where the story begins...
And that would be in the next chapter
