Chapter Summary: Mokuba decides he wants to try drinking coffee. Seto doesn't understand why.
Author's Notes: ive been sitting on this idea for AGES and im so glad i finally wrote it out
Mokuba Kaiba's Unremarkable Collection of Mundane Moments
Chapter 6: Mokuba Kaiba is Super Sneaky
"Hey nii-sama, let me try your coffee."
Startled by the sound of his younger brother's voice, Seto nearly dropped his coffee cup on himself. The coffee itself sloshed around in the mug, coming dangerously close to spilling over the edge.
Sighing, the older Kaiba set the cup down on the kitchen counter and turned to see his little brother sitting innocently on the kitchen island, feet dangling off the edge.
"Mokuba," he said evenly, "Good morning. I didn't hear you come in."
Mokuba grinned. "Nii-sama, you're like, barely alive first thing in the morning, especially when you do stupid things including but not limited to staying up until four in the morning and waking up at quarter past six. Both of which you've done twice in the past two days. I don't think you'd have noticed a herd of elephants if they went stampeding through the kitchen. Not until you've had your coffee, at least. Which brings me back to the first thing: nii-sama, let me try your coffee."
Seto frowned, picking his mug up again and taking a sip. It burned his tongue. He took a second sip anyway. "Did you run out of orange juice?"
"Huh? Oh, nah," said Mokuba, hopping off the kitchen island to the floor, "We have plenty. I just wanna try your coffee."
"Why?"
He shrugged. "I dunno. Just wanna."
"Just yesterday you suggested that I should "stop drinking so much of this stuff" and that if I "turned out to be a caffeine-addict" and "ruined my teeth" it would be "my own fault"."
"Maybe I also want to be a caffeine addict. Did you consider that, brother dearest?"
Seto scoffed. "That is without a doubt the worst argument I have ever heard."
"Cool," said Mokuba, shrugging, "Give me your coffee."
"I could just buy you a hot chocolate on the way to the office instead."
"Sure, but coffee first."
"There is absolutely no point to this," said Seto, crossing his arms, "You're going to hate it."
"How do you know that?" said Mokuba, tilting his chin up in defiance, "Who knows, maybe I'll love it. Gimme."
Seto stared down at him. "Mokuba, I'm telling you, you're going to hate it."
Mokuba ignored him and held his hands out. Rolling his eyes, Seto handed his younger brother the coffee cup. Mokuba took a huge swig of Seto's coffee, not even flinching at how hot it was. He swallowed it, then stared at Seto for a solid ten seconds, expressionless, before finally speaking.
"Wow, nii-sama, that tasted awful, I hated it," he deadpanned, "Why would you even let me drink this?"
"Mokuba, that's exactly what I—"
"Just messin' with you, nii-sama." Mokuba broke into a grin and took another sip. He gagged, "Actually, no I'm not, this stuff is terrible, do you not even put sugar in it? Cream? Why do you hate yourself? Why do you hate me?"
"It's an acquired taste, it's not so bad after a while."
Mokuba shoved the cup back into Seto's hands. "Well, you go ahead and acquire that taste, then. It's all yours, nii-sama. Okay, let's go get hot chocolate."
With that, Mokuba turned on his heel and raced up the stairs to get his jacket. Seto watched him go, lifting the cup to his lips to finish his coffee, then frowned and pulled the mug away from his face. He peered down into it.
Empty.
"Unbelievable."
"What was that, nii-sama?" Mokuba stood at the foot of the stairs waiting for him, smug smirk on his face.
"Nothing," Seto replied, turning his back to Mokuba to put his empty mug in the sink (and hide the tiny smile that tugged at the corner of his mouth), "Let's go get you a hot chocolate."
Author's Notes: hello everyone, its certainly been a while since ive update this fic. i hope youve all been well and i hope you enjoyed the chapter! now im gonna do a bit of shameless self-promotion: i'm writing a ygo fic that is an animorphs AU titled "escafil", and i've been working suuuuuper hard on it! if any of you are feeling up to it, it would mean a whole lot to me if you could check it out. you dont have to know anything about animorphs to read it! if its not your thing, thats ok! but ive put tons of effort into it, probably more than any other fic ive ever written, so i'd really appreciate you taking a look if you have the chance and/or feel like it. thank you!
in other news, i finally finished the duel monsters anime and im dead inside. how am i ever going to recover from this pain (im not. im going to read the manga next, because i obviously hate being happy)
thanks for reading!
-fearowkenya