Post DSOD in which the ending scene where Kaiba went to Ancient Egypt did not occur.
Yugi stretched his arms into the air, flexing his fingers as he heard a satisfying pop emit from his spine. He had watched the plane carrying Anzu fly off into the distance. Tristan and Jounichi had long since headed to grab a bite to eat and then visit the arcade. Why shouldn't they? Their time as students was over...well for most of them that is. Jounichi had no plans to attend college for the foreseeable future and planned on entering the workforce while Honda on the other hand had plans to attend a 2 year community college where he would choose a career path and go from there. Yugi wished that he would have made plans for the future...well now to be honest, but he was determined to keep doing what he loved. He would help his grandfather with the game shop and he would focus on developing a game of his own.
He had several ideas on what he could develop; however, a small part of him wasn't fully invested in it. His friends were moving on, his other half had come back for the briefest of moments and had left without saying a word. And Kaiba? Well who knows what he was doing. The prodigy had built a space station for crying out loud. Kaiba was the one person who could sit back for the rest of his and Mokuba's life twiddling his thumbs and still be set and not need to worry about working! At this thought Yugi let out a laugh at the imagery of Kaiba sitting on a couch looking extremely bored while mindlessly browsing through his phone. That would absolutely never happen. He had never met anyone in his life that had more ambition and determination than Kaiba, even Atem fell short in some aspects compared to the young CEO.
Yugi urged himself to mentally snap out of it when he had a hard time pulling his thoughts away from the tall brunette. There was no use thinking about him now, hell he might not even actually see Kaiba again! Sure he had pretty much given him a 'see you later'...but what point would it be for Kaiba to seek him out again anyways? He had gotten his affirmation that the pharaoh wasn't coming back and he was all that Kaiba had cared about. Kaiba didn't need to beat him in a duel, if they hadn't of been interrupted during their faceoff, Yugi was not all that confident that he would have won and Kaiba seemed to have come to the same conclusion. What other reason would there be for not demanding a rematch after everything was said and done? Was he really so pathetic that Kaiba didn't even see reason in dueling him again?!
"No use stressing about it." Yugi muttered as he shoved his hands into his pockets and moved to make his way back across town to the game shop.
"Seto...Seto? SETO!" Mokuba finally yelled as his big brother finally snapped out of the trance that he had been caught in, the older brother's arm slightly jerking in surprise nearly knocking some paperwork off of the desk he was currently brooding over.
"Yes Mokuba?" Kaiba gritted out as he straightened the papers that had thankfully stayed put on the desk top. He straightened his back after he was pleased with the alignment of the paperwork and just barely leaned back against his highbacked chair while shifting his gaze to land on the younger Kaiba brother who was currently sitting in one of the two chairs in front of his desk.
"I was saying that you can't stay holed up in your office forever!" Mokuba grinned although it did not quite reach his eyes as they held a small glint of worry that Kaiba was sure that the younger knew all too well that he would see. He really was a devious brat at times and knew that he held a soft spot for him so in times like these the younger would purposely show that he was concerned which in turn make Kaiba reel with guilt at making Mokuba worry.
"Why ever not? I was actually thinking of building a separate wing attached to the office and thought that we could just move in." Kaiba deadpanned as he folded his fingers together and moved to lightly place his chin atop.
"Ugh, you're going to end up an old maid big brother!" Mokuba rolled his eyes as he slumped back in the chair he was occupying and crossed his arms while furrowing his eyebrows at his older brother.
"So now you are concerned with my love life as well?" Kaiba quirked a single regal brow as he stared Mokuba down across the desk. "First it was my health, then my working habits, and now my lack of intimacy as well?
"Eew, I don't want to go into that much detail!" Mokuba stuck his tongue out as he realized that Kaiba seemed to be in a fairly good mood to even be humoring him at the moment and especially with such a random topic of conversation.
"I'm just saying that maybe you should think about taking a day off or even just leaving work early...or on time every now and then!" Mokuba smiled as he looked at his brother from across the desk. It had been a fair amount of time since the older of the two had attempted to bring Atem back from beyond the grave...if you could even call it that. Mokuba had a suspicion that everything was a bit more complicated than what he had been privy to. All he knew that was that after that fiasco had settled Kaiba was in a slump as there was nothing currently driving him on. At this thought, the younger's eyes brightened as his mind began to race.
"I really don't like that look Mokuba." Kaiba spoke as he turned his attention back to some papers at the edge of his desk. The current look on the smaller male meant that he was thinking...and most often that would lead to a big headache on his part.
"It's nothing bro!" Mokuba grinned as he folded his arms against his chest. "I was just thinking though...before your duel with Yugi was interrupted by Diva..." Mokuba trailed off, knowing that Kaiba would take the bait.
Kaiba's ears perked as he heard Yugi's name mentioned. "Yes? Were you going somewhere with that?" He had a feeling he knew where Mokuba was taking his present line of thought and he wasn't quite sure if he approved or not.
"Oh, it probably ony looked that way from where I and everyone else was...but wasn't Yugi about to win?" Mokuba flinched at his last word as his older brothers steely gazed flicked over at him, a fire already burning within the now stormy sea.
"I had it perfectly under control." Kaiba gritted as he clenched the paper in his hand a bit too tightly, wrinkling the edge of it before smoothing it out and pushing it aside, choosing to instead fold his hands together and give Mokuba his full attention.
"Where are you going with this? Spit it out or never mention it again."
"It's just that it seemed like you both were having a relatively good time...I know you forget Seto but you might have lost your greatest rival but Yugi pretty much lost a brother...and I couldn't even imagine that." Mokuba trailed off as he toyed with the thought, shuddering to even think about losing the older and now visibly agitated male across from him.
Mokuba worked up his courage, no use chickening out now, "You should ask to have a rematch or maybe even consider seeing what kind of game Yugi is working on...it might be interesting and it could even be a good idea in expanding our current games."
Kaiba's eyes widened as he heard his little brother out, to be honest now that he thought about it he would be interested in a rematch. Yugi had surprised him immensely when he had held his own against him...and yes, he would have eventually won...something Kaiba was still having some difficulty with admitting.
"Hn...we'll see."
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