Hahaha….look who it is; Me. Okay so I know I'm a filthy liar about updating soon. Shame on me. [*inserts typical author excuses*: School, work, sport, occult worship commitments]
So this is chapter 4. I'm going to really really try to update soon (hopefully).
I do not own anything in the YUGIOH franchise
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Chapter 4
"Noa get rid of that fucking thing!"
"We've bonded already, the deed is final."
Kaiba had come home early for the first time in a long time, and one of the last times in a long time. It was a rare Saturday that he had the ability to leave work early, and with Christmas season soon it was unlikely that he would have another one anytime in the near future. He was hoping that he could come home and relax, but with the boys there it was foolish for him to have been that optimistic.
In his absence it was apparent that the Kaiba mansion was now home to a dog, and by the looks of it a soon to be large dog. Kaiba had made this discovery when he went to sit and enjoy the couch in his lounge for the first time in a long time only to realize that it was covered in liquid, dog piss to be exact. The perpetrator then revealed himself to be eating a throw cushion in the corner. He almost wanted to go back to work.
"Why does it matter? You're never home anyways" Noa kept his arms around the German shepherd puppy, kissing his head every so often. "You won't even notice he's here. I'll keep it out of your room."
"Noa I'm 3 meters away from you and I can smell the damn mut."
"Take that back! He's not a mut he's a prized purebred! Anyone with taste would know that this pup was worth all $3000"
Kaiba definitely wanted to go back to work again.
"Where in the hell do you get off spending all of that money in the first place!"
"Yes because the 20 grand Blue-eyes stained glass mural in the library was a life essential"
Kaiba pinched the bridge of his nose in annoyance. He was not ready to have Mokuba at this age, let alone the demented child that had tried to murder him years prior. The two of them were old enough to know too much, but still too young to have any damn common sense. Sometimes private school in Europe seemed like a good idea. Every time he would want to visit the boys he would have to take a nice trip to France. A nice idea, but he couldn't do without Mokuba, adolescence and all.
"Winter break is coming up soon anyways so that'll be a good two weeks of us training him"
"Noa I know the both of you well enough to know that neither of you will take care of it."
"Of course we will! Like I could ever neglect this wittle guy" he said kissing the puppy again. The puppy just sat in his arms panting from time to time, too sleepy to bother moving.
"Really, well then tell what happened to your goddamned goldfish; a pet that you only have to see once a fucking day to feed." Kaiba could feel a migraine
"Well obviously it's the goldfish's fault for not being able to keep my attention. I'll notice if this little guy takes a shit, it won't be floating in a bowl" Noa put down the puppy "The vein in your head is very striking today by the way"
Kaiba was full done with the argument at this point. He wanted to look over his stocks and have a rare night where he went to sleep before 10. Exasperated he turned to leave before he exploded. He regained control of himself and coldly and calmly stated "We'll talk about this tomorrow Noa. I don't even think Mokuba can have your back with this one. Enjoy your one night with the dog." Kaiba turned and exited the room, hastily retreating to his room for a long bath and early bed.
"Well won't you feel dumb when we vote 2v1 for the dog…" Kaiba had already left the room, oblivious to Noa's comment.
'Speaking of Moki, I haven't seen him since this morning…'
The youngest of the Kaibas had not been seen since breakfast. With all on Noa's preparation to get himself a dog, and all of Kaiba's constant working the two of them did not seem to notice his absence.
'I'm sure he's around'
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"Ria, I can't live without you-"
"This will be a contender for the most tries scored for South Afri-"
"A peaceful protest was turned violent quickly when government police-"
"Within 30 minutes or it's free!"
"Uhhh there's nothing good on dis things!" Joey exclaimed as he flipped through channels every 3 seconds.
It was 7:00pm on a Saturday night and the gang was at Yugi's house in front of the TV. The gang had all come to the game shop/ Yugi's home to hang out as per usual. They began to get into their usual routine of video games, television, and eating some form of junk food. Tea had come from a full day of dance. She ran classes in the morning with younger students, and had her own 2 hour training session mid-day. Everyone in her studio was ecstatic for her and her move on up to White Crane. Good news travels fast.
"Joey, maybe if you actually waited until you could see what was actually on you could find something you liked" Tea chided. She was sitting crossed legged on the floor braiding her front bangs with Yugi on a throw cushion beside her. Joey was sprawled on Yugi's loveseat and Tristan was upside down on the armchair.
Bakura couldn't make it tonight, because of "prior plans". Tea knew he had a date with a girl from Literature class, but kept it to herself. If Tristan and Joey found out they wouldn't leave the poor boy alone. They might even show up to embarrass him a little. It was how those two, in their own demented way, showed their love for others.
"It's not my fault dat I got higher standads now! Mai's tv gets 800 channels, I'm too high class for just 150!"
Tristan smirked, "Mai's obviously got you on a tight leash Jo, considering you can't even afford basic cable on a 'celebrity' duelist salary. Does she ever let you go home, or when you run out of clothes do you wear hers?"
Joey threw a cushion at him. "Hey don't be jealous, cause I got myself a great woman and you got ya hand!"
The two began one of their regular impromptu wrestling matches on the floor. Tea pushed the coffee table away with her leg to save it from being collateral damage. The boys' limbs were intertwined with Tristan holding Joey in an arm bar "What about your sister's hand?" Joey reversed him and locked him in a full nelson "You sick son of a bitch I will kill you!"
Tea and Yugi continued their conversing not even hearing the bell at the front of the game shop.
"How is training going Tea? Do you think you'll be ready for next year?" Yugi asked earnestly. Tea had been hanging out less with the guys throughout the school year. Between keeping her GPA and upping her training for next year she had little time to herself, let alone the guys.
"It's going good so far. I still have some time until I can go to an academy practice, so if I keep it up then I shouldn't be too far behind them." Currently White Crane Academy was in prime season so next year's recruits weren't allowed to attend anything other than performances. "I still need to decide if I want to be more focused on ballet or contemporary"
Tea got up on to Tristan's vacated armchair so that she didn't get in the way of Idiot Amateur Wrestling. "Well whatever you choose I'm sure you'll do great with it. You always put your heart in everything." Yugi said earnestly.
One thing that Tea could admire was Yugi's optimism. Even now without Atem, Yugi's true strength shined through his good heart. Throughout their crazy adolescence he could always fond the light at the end of the road regardless of undead Egyptians, murder plots, and evil billionaires stealing bodies.
'Evil billionaires' Tea thought 'I have one as a lab partner…'
Since the beginning of their tentative truce Kaiba and she had been completely civil with each other, surprisingly. It had benefited her greatly. Now when the teacher paired or challenged the two of them there was no longer the lingering animosity or passive aggressive (and regular aggressive) attitudes between them. The two even had each other's emails, although Tea was sure it was a work one. Civil or not she doubted that Kaiba shared his personal email with anyone. 'Would he even have a personal email?'
Tea's thoughts and Joey and Tristan's fight were interrupted by Grandpa Moto. "Yugi it seems you have a visitor" he said cheerfully. A familiar face with puppy dog eyes and black bushy hair entered the room; although a little bigger now there was no mistaking who it was.
"Mokuba!"
"Hey guys!"
Yugi got up to greet him with Tea following suit. "How have you been Mokuba? Last time I saw you, you were obviously shorter than me, now we're almost the same height!" It was true that the younger Kaiba had starter to grow into his older brother's frame. This would most likely be one of many growth spurts he would have to catch up to his Seto.
"Haha yeah I know, soon I'll be looking Seto in the eye"
"Naw lil buddy, you'll probably be talla than mista higher than thou" Joey had regained the ability to breathe and talk normally after being released from Tristan's death lock.
Mokuba laughed it off "Aw come on he's not that bad. You should see him when he's sleeping, he almost looks human!" Another change over the years was how Mokuba saw his brother. Now a days he teased his brother, got annoyed with him, and even let Joey insult him, whereas before he worshiped his older brother. The love between them was obviously still there, just between all the teenage hormones.
"Hey as long as his height is tha only thing ya get from him, ya still good in my books"
Even with all of the animosity between the oldest Kaiba and himself, Joey was always soft hearted with Mokuba. He never letting his feelings towards Kaiba get in the way of a friendship with him, none of them had. Through all of these years of Seto Kaiba's iciness the gang had still befriended Mokuba Kaiba; there were even the occasional times where Mokuba could get away from the mansion and hang out with them, although that was rare.
Mokuba sat down next to Yugi on the sofa. The gang resumed their thrilling Saturday night routine which consisted of Television, video games, and eventually ordering take out, but that would happen after they all argued on what to get.
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Kaiba abruptly awoke from his nap. He had skimmed over so things for work and tried to go to sleep ridiculously early, but if it wasn't his brothers that stopped him it was his body. It was 11:30 at night, still an early enough time to go to bed for him. He made his way out of his bed with the intent to go to the kitchen. The maids and cooks had already gone home for the night leaving Kaiba to fend for himself. He made a calming cup of tea, much as he constantly craved coffee he was going to sleep decent hours tonight.
He needed something to calm him down considering that he was still worked up over the dog. How had it gotten here? How did no one notice Noa buy it? How did 3 grand go missing from the bank without any alerts? (Billionaire or not, money was money). These were the questions that would irk him for the next few days as he fought with Noa over the dog. Sipping his tea in the hopes that it would calm him down, he started to make his way back to his room. 'At least I don't have to worry about Mokuba like this'. As much a Mokuba was growing into a teenager, he was still his sweet little brother. At least he could count on that.
Kaiba walked over to the gaming lounge to check if he was there. The boys usually stayed up late watching anime or playing video games. Neither of them was there however. Noa was most likely posted up in his room with the dog in fear that Kaiba might try to snatch it if it left his sight.
'Stupid fucking dog'
Becoming irate again, Kaiba left to find his brother so that he could be in a good mood before he slept. He checked the movie theater, the living room, and the boy's homework room (Mokuba liked to call it his office). It was a big house, it was easier just to check the rooms on the main floor now, as opposed to coming back to them.
Determining that Moki was in his room Kaiba climbed up the grand staircase with one of his lions still decapitated. He really needed to fix that before company came over. 'I'll remind Layla in the morning'. Finally arriving to Mokuba's room he slowly opened the door. It was silent, the lights were still on, and the bed was still made. 'Where the hell is he?'
Kaiba rushed to the next door to Noa's room, bursting in startling both Noa and dog. "Where's Mokuba?" Putting down his controller Noa picked up the whining pup "Look I know you want Samson out of the house, but can you wait to find Mokuba to and argue about it until the morning?"
"Why did you even bother naming it Noa, I told you no. This is my house, what I say is rule, not suggestion. You know what? This isn't even important right now. I can't find my brother, and-"
"-Don't you mean our brother"
"Don't fucking test me right now Noa. Where is he?"
"Well I'll be damned if I know. I haven't seen him since morning" Noa reached over to the coffee table, picking up his cellphone. "How's about we skip screaming through the house looking for him and just call him?"
"I didn't think of that" Kaiba must have been distracted from exhaustion and how irate he was to let that slip, in front of Noa especially.
"Really, you really didn't. Don't you run a multibillion dollar company?" Noa began to dial Mokuba's number. "Can you really blame me for trying to take it from you?"
Kaiba grabbed the cell phone out of his younger "brother's" hands. "Knock it off or I put you and the mut in the back yard". He ignored Noa's reply and listened to the dial tone ring. After several long beeps it went to voice mail. "Mokuba, Noa and I can't find you, please let me know where you are and that you're okay." He called a second and third time just to be sure.
"Why is this such a big deal? Maybe he's asleep in the basement or something"
"It's a big fucking deal, because my brother has been kidnaped many times before!" Kaiba said losing his cool "And I can tell you that it has been by a lot more menacing people that you Noa! These men didn't want his body in-tacked, they were ready to send him back piece by goddamned piece!"
Samson had begun to whimper again, Noa who was lightly shaken up, picked him up and began to stroke him. "Yeah…I guess you're right."
'Oh so now he wants to be cooperative and not a brat. Maybe that's why Gozeburo was such a short tempered asshole'
"I guess we can look for him around the house one more time before we panic, we even have a scent hound" Noa gestured to Samson.
"Noa stop trying to make excuses to keep the dog" Kaiba was tired "Let's just go look for him". He couldn't have one night to relax, could he?
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C'est Fini
I originally started writing this chapter while travelling with my team this summer... yeah I'm a piece of shit, I get it. I'm home for the holidays so I'll have a lot more free time to write. Yeah so now excuses. I'm also starting another story, because I'm so responsible with keeping them updated :P
Until we meet again,
newday
