YUGIOH
Blast in the Past
Chapter 4.
Kaiba fell into nothingness, swallowed by the darkness. He slowly began to wake up, hearing the echoing of a soft, soothing woman's voice, and felt something warm touch his head. He slowly fluttered his eyes open, as a smiling woman looked down at him, saying, "Hey, sleepy head....feeling better this morning?"
Kaiba jerked up to see who this woman was addressing him. He never met her as far as he knew, yet she was so familiar to him. He felt strangely warm being near her. The room he was in was small, yet cozy. Clothes, odds and ends were sprawled everywhere, and he was laying in a very small bed. "Who....??" He was about to ask, when the familiarity of her face finally hit him. But there was no way, it couldn't be! "M-mother....??"
"It's okay, you had a bad fever for a couple of days, but I see it's finally starting to cool. I think you'll be able to go to school today. Why don't you get up and get ready?" She asked.
He sat up with a start, looking himself over. He was in an average pair of blue pajamas, with covers that had some kind of hard rock star on it. He had nothing familiar on, and nothing around him was familiar, either. "This isn't possible....where am I?"
"Relax honey, take it easy. The doctor said the fever could cause you to be a bit disoriented for a while, even after the fever was broke, so just take it one step at a time." She said.
'This has to be some kind of computerized virtual reality world I ended up in, and someone's playing a very sick game with me! Well, whoever it is, no one plays with me like this....I'll make them pay!' He thought, getting angry. He tried to remember what happened last. 'That's right, that old man....he had me touch some rock, rambling about magic and my.....my hearts desire. No, this can't be true, it can't be real! Yet....who else could possibly know what I always wanted....a chance to see my parents again....' He looked back up at his mother, beginning to wonder, 'What if it really is true, what if this is real? But it can't be, but....' His hand unconsciously went up to try and touch her.
The mother assumed he was trying to get a helping hand up, and grabbed it, saying, "Come on." Helping him up. He unconsciously got up, still staring at her. Kaiba didn't believe in magic and still felt this was someone's trick, that if he gave in to this he would be humiliating himself in front of whoever was playing this twisted game with him. Yet in his heart, he wanted so bad for this to be real, for this to really be his mother....he began to think, 'So until I know for sure, maybe I should go along with this. After all, what if it really 'is' her. She seems so real....no one making up a game could possibly know what she looked like, what she might look like older when I was this age. Everything inside me screams it's her....'
Kaiba began to shake, as he whispered out, "Mother...."
She turned back to him, saying, "Hey....Seto, what's wrong?"
"I....I'm just....so happy to see you...." He said, finally hugging her tightly. He couldn't take it any longer, and the shield that kept his heart at bay from the world cracked, and for the first time in years a few tears rolled from Kaiba's eyes. He was so young when he had to watch his mother die during the birth of his brother, Mokuba. And here she was in front of him....as alive as anything.
His mother paused, saying, "Wow, what spurred this on? I'm happy to see you too, honey. Come on, you're okay now." She said, finally pulling away. "You're brother's probably up by now too, so why don't you go join Mokuba downstairs in the kitchen, okay?" She then whispered, "And don't be too hard on him, he was really sorry about breaking your music album." She winked, then turned and left Kaiba's room.
Kaiba did everything in his power to pull himself together, so his mother didn't think he was becoming a total nut-case. But after she left, he collapsed to his knees, trembling from the sudden surprise reunion from his dead mother. Shaking violently, he rubbed the tears from his eyes, hissing, "If this is some sick joke, and someone's trying to play with me, I will make them pay!!"