We are in day 6 of the 14 Pairings I Don't (Really) Ship!
Sorry if the chapters I post on weekdays are kinda unedited (compared to how well i usually edit them). Like so many of us on this site, I have school. So I post before homework instead of checking for errors again, like i have time for on weekends. Sorry!
Each day, I will force myself to write and post a genuine (and at least 65-75% competent) romance one-shot for a pairing that I don't actually ship. I will post them from the 31st of January to the 13th of February, and then on the 14th I will re-post any chapter of any of my fanfics that you people want me to redo HERE! Just go to my stories, look at the ones with romance in them, and pick the story and chapter you want me to re-post here (with edits of course so I'm not breaking any site rules). If no one wants a chapter redo, then I will simply do a 15th pairing on that day. Sometimes it might just be a poem if I can't think of a story.
The two characters of this story will change day by day, depending on the pairing for that day.
Shippings I plan to do (as of 2/5/13) (so you don't repeat any requests and know which ones I've looked at): stepshipping (this chapter, suggested), sickleshipping (requested), mischiefshipping (requested), fameshipping (requested), outcastshipping (requested), blueshipping (requested), thornshipping (requested)
In order for this to work I'll need a lot of support and reviews and suggestions. I have no idea if I'm shipping some of them right, and I don't know if some of the characters are too OOC. I need you people to tell me what I'm doing right and wrong, and I need suggestions for what I should do next. To start, give me suggestions for things you think I don't ship, but want to see me ship or think I could manage shipping. Here is what I already ship (either mentally or actively):
~ thiefshipping ~ tendershipping ~ puzzleshipping ~ deathshipping ~ puppyshipping ~ heartshipping ~ replayshipping ~ laddershipping (Zorc&Pals, anyone? ;D) ~ halfshipping ~ genesisshipping ~ exoticshipping ~ peachshipping ~ revolutionshipping ~
Remember: ONLY PAIRINGS AND ONLY T AND BELOW!
I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh! or any of the characters in it.
R&R (and F&F!)
ENJOY~!
Shipping #6 of The Fourteen Pairings I Don't Ship
Noah Kaiba X Mokuba Kaiba
Stepshipping
(Rated K)
"Finally!" Kaiba sighed in relief. He threw himself on the couch of the seldom used family room in the Kaiba mansion. "The tournament is over... And so is that Ancient Egyptian Magic bull crap."
Mokuba watched him as he had his own little internal celebration and sigh of relief.
"Uh... Want a hug, big brother?" Mokuba randomly asked.
"Usually I'm not a huggy person but I'm feeling surprising happy right now. So yes, I would like a hug."
Mokuba ran over to his brother and gave him a quick hug. Then he suddenly ran out of the room. "Kay see you later bye!" he blurted out before he disappeared from view.
Kaiba stared at the doorway after him with a confused expression on his face. "What was that all about?" he asked aloud. Then he turned his gaze to the ceiling and just let himself relax after the craziness of Battle City.
—
Mokuba instantly went to his laptop and turned it on. He took out a small blue notebook and turned to a blank page.
"Finally," he said aloud as the laptop started up. "It's all over. Now I have time to do this. I just hope it's not too late to start looking. But I will find..."
And it had begun.
~A month later...~
"Mokuba!" Seto banged on Mokuba's bedroom door. He usually knocked, but this had been going on for too long and he was starting to get pissed off. "Unlock this door right now!"
There was a shuffling heard inside the room, then a few moments later, to Seto's surprise, the door unlocked and opened a crack.
He could just barely see Mokuba's eye through the crack. "Hey there, Seto. Sup?"
Seto pushed the door open a bit, and Mokuba smartly moved aside so he could come in.
"Don't give me that," Seto said coldly as he entered. "You've been at this for a month now! What have you been doing?!" He looked at Mokuba's bed, which didn't have the laptop on it as he would have expected.
"You've been on your laptop every single day this past month, you constantly log in to Kaiba Corp's important document and file network, and you keep downloading random and useless programs that I know I'm paying for! And I found yet another virus in the systems that I learned originated from your laptop and got into the main system! What are you doing?!"
Mokuba's face stayed neutral as it always did nowadays. Then he answered plainly and emotionlessly, "I will find him..."
'Again with that phrase!' Seto thought in annoyance. 'Why does he keep saying that?'
"I'm sorry, Seto! But everything I'm doing has a purpose and it's under control! I promise! Anything that happens I will take full responsibility for!"
"I know. You told me this already. You are taking full responsibility for it. Which means that you are the one I'm putting in charge of fixing this mess. You know full well that 85% of Kaiba Corp data is electronic. If you cause this company to fail because of a stupid little project..."
He cut himself off when he noticed Mokuba looking away and watched a single tear roll down the side of his face. He wasn't being that harsh, was he? He had talked to Mokuba like this just last week and he had been perfectly fine. So why was he crying now...
"Hey..." Seto walked up to Mokuba and kneeled in front of them so they were eye to eye. He put a hand on Mokuba's shoulder. "You okay, little brother?" he asked in a much softer tone.
"Please don't say brother right now..."
"What?"
A few more tears fell. "Please don't say brother. Not until I find..."
"Find what?" Seto asked him somewhat desperately. "What are you looking for and why does it involve infiltrating the company's computer network? You've let so much stuff in through your laptop network, and you won't tell me why it's necessary. Tell me..."
"I can't... I want to do it by myself and I..."
Seto put his other hand on Mokuba's other shoulder. "Whatever project you're working on, if you tell me what it is I can get some of our computer experts to help you do it safely and not jeopardize the company. You need something for this, just ask and I will make sure you get it. But don't keep me in the dark, Mokuba. And if something is bothering you, tell me."
"I..." More tears started falling. Mokuba broke away and ran over to his bed.
Seto followed him. "Mokuba tell-"
Mokuba looked up to where Seto was about to sit and shouted, "No! Not there!"
Seto almost put his full weight on the bed, but stopped when he felt something hard under his bottom. He stood up and stared at the spot, then pulled Mokuba's comforters back.
There was the laptop. The "sleep mode" light was blinking slowly. Mokuba had been working on it.
Secretly, Mokuba had hidden it under his bed sheets before he had opened the door for Seto.
Seto picked up the laptop and moved the comforters back in place, then placed the laptop on top of them.
"So you were using it before I came in," Seto commented.
"Yes but please leave it alone! There's a reason I didn't ask for help!"
"Why?"
"Because I don't want anyone to know... About... Him..."
"Who is 'him'?" Seto put a hand on the laptop like he was about to open it. "Can I..."
"I... Well you're family too, so I guess it's okay. Go ahead..."
"Family too? What does that mean?"
He opened the laptop and saw that Mokuba had set it to require the password after exiting sleep mode. Clever.
"The password is Abiak Pets. Capital A and capital P."
"That's odd. Last you told me it was TehCharmanderz."
"I changed it a month ago."
Seto typed in the password. The first thing he saw pop up was a diary of sorts that Mokuba had been writing. He scrolled to the top of the page and looked at the date. Today.
It seemed to be a recap entry, where Mokuba was just going over what he had done this past month.
"You... Can read it if you want. Aloud so I know where you are."
Seto glanced at Mokuba. His face was tear-streaked and hurt. He simply looked sad. Like he had lost something dear to him.
"Exactly when did you start this project?" Seto asked, wanting to know some background information before he read the journal entry.
"Right after Battle City."
"And when did you first get the idea for it?"
"Erm... Right after we escaped."
Seto didn't need to ask from where.
"And exactly what kind of project is this?"
"I'm... Searching the world's computer system for..."
"Something?"
"One."
"What?"
"Not something."
"Who..."
"Seto just read it please?!" Mokuba suddenly cried out. "You asked and now you're stalling!"
Seto's eyes widened for a moment at his brother's tone. But then the turned to the laptop and started reading.
"'I will find you.'," he read. "'I will find him. He said he would return one day and he thought he was lying to make me feel better. But he isn't lying. He won't break his promise because I will make sure he keeps it.
"'I will find you... Brother.' Mokuba! Is 'he'..."
"Yes. He is."
~Earlier that day...~
He realized that he had let a virus in. He knew that he had. He had done it on purpose. But it wasn't what he was looking for. It was a red herring. He wouldn't be that virus. Thank goodness it was only a weak virus and was easily stopped by his own laptop's firewall.
He decided to finish up the journal entry he had started that morning.
He opened up the document and looked at the door. No one was coming.
So he began to type again...
I've been doing this for a month now. I said I would do a recap entry instead of a regular journal entry every month. The first happened when I started the project and here is my second.
So I've been looking for him for like a month now. I've been doing everything I can to find him. I know how he is. Even though he was kinda evil and mean when we met him, I could tell his true personality when he helped us escape. I know how he really is. I just know.
I've been using what I know about him and his personality to track him down. I've been searching through all kinds of programs and softwares and all sorts of stuff like that. As I said before, I look for the ones that seem like he would hide in them. Like for example, I remember how he liked that mansion and it wasn't for show. I found a little game that had a mansion EXACTLY like that. Even though I wasn't in it myself much, Joey and the others described it to me. So I KNOW that's where he got the inspiration from. The game! So I checked it out and set up Kaiba Corp's virtual reality simulator to it so I could explore it myself without having to buy the game. But he wasn't there, as I had hoped. Oh well.
But that's no big deal! There were other places I was looking! And other things I was trying! Along the way, I took bits and pieces of the places I went to and started creating my own program! Seto would be proud! It's like a sort of remake of the virtual world that we went to, but with the stuff that he likes as opposed to the stuff that he just wanted us to see. This place is about 50% done! Maybe by next month it will be 100% done and everything! I can't wait! It's gonna be epic!
But I still need to find him... And the games and programs and softwares weren't getting me anywhere. So I broke into Kaiba Corp's network do I can gain worldwide access to things that this laptop doesn't let me see. And I even used some of the company's files to see if he was there. He wasn't. Of course. If he was in the system surely he would have found a way to my laptop by now. Right? I hope so.
But then I realized a week and a half ago that he might not be in a system or program: he might be in a VIRUS! I don't know why he would choose one to hide in, but he might not have any other choice! So now I'm looking for him in viruses and stuff like that to see if he might be trapped in one of those. And of course I only let the small and relatively harmless ones in. The ones that the firewall can stop. But I know that they've been getting into the system and screwing with some files and data. I'm sorry, Seto!
"Well apology only excepted if the rest of this project is good enough..."
"Shut up and keep reading. Please."
Seto's eyes widened briefly again at Mokuba's tone. He wasn't actions like himself. Could he really love his brother that much that he was getting extremely and uncharacteristically defensive?
But he kept reading.
But I will take full responsibility for them. As a Kaiba, I will take full responsibility for my actions and not blame him. If anything goes wrong I will fix it! But I will never give up on my quest.
The other day one of our technicians, one of the twins either Kisani or Malika, noticed that I was working with my laptop during like 90% of my time. She asked if she could help with whatever I'm doing and help me make it go by faster. I turned her down. I don't want them knowing why I'm doing. They wouldn't understand. And they don't know enough to help me anyway. Only I still exist to know what he was like. His TRUE heart. And I know how to find him. Only me.
Seto wouldn't understand my quest either. He wouldn't even understand why I'm doing it! He would say something like, "he's gone and you can't find him" or "he'll find his way back so just stop trying to mess with the system" or "let someone help you so you don't screw the company up" or something like that... But I WON'T give up! I won't! And I don't need help because no one else knows how to find him. Not even Seto. And...
Erm...
Because I don't want anyone to know how much I really love him.
So recently I think I've been getting close to finding him. Not sure how I know but I seem to just be able to... I don't know FEEL him near...
But even if I do find him, there's the small task of getting him a body to live in. I remembered what Yugi said about why Pegasus wanted the Millenium Items and our company and I
"Seriously, Mokuba?"
"What?"
"You seriously believe those idiots and their stories about magic and Egypt?"
"I do! It's so obvious, Seto! It's real! I saw proof of it, you saw proof! You just wanna deny it and think that it's a hologram or hallucination. But keep reading."
"Fine."
got the craziest idea that maybe I could do that to give him a body as well. But of course Yugi and the other Yugi and his friends are all protecting those items and stuff. And I would never try to use some system that creates bodies for people. Maybe...
I remember how Yugi told me that the evil Bakura tried to steal my body when my soul was in that card so he could put his soul into it and leave Bakura's body. Maybe... We could do that. Share a body. I wouldn't mind. It would mean that I'd be closer to him and that's exactly what I want: to find him and be close to him.
I do think I've almost found him. But... The same three questions I've been asking myself this past month: How to get him out, how to give him a body, and how I'm actually going to let him know I've found him.
The third will probably answer itself. The first might turn out to be easy. The second...I know what I WANT the answer to be but...
I don't know. Maybe this is all for nothing. Maybe he really is gone... But... No I can't give up. I know what Seto would say. He would probably say that I need to let go or get over it or just accept it. But no...
"Do you really think I would say that?"
"I did. Because you're all about letting the past to and getting over the sad things. Well maybe I don't want to let go! Keep reading."
"Fine."
So... Now for today's actual entry.
I've started looking at this one type of virus and program. It's kinda like an inception.
The virus is a virus hidden in a virus: the virus was programmed to do one thing, while the virus within it is screwing with it. So now it's harmless. I looked for him in it, but I think I woke up the inner virus. It went into the main system but I'm sure that at this very moment it's probably running around looking for a virus to infect. Or getting killed by Kaiba Corp's anti-viral firewall. Or possibly both at the same time. The point is that he wasn't there...
The program was like a loop inception. Like the main program ran the other smaller programs and features within it, and those features ran the main program. One of the features stored the data for the main program to be able to run all the other programs. And for a few moments of examining it I could have sworn the data storing program acted just like him in how it stored and sorted data. He was good- No no no! I mean IS! Not WAS! He is good with processing information. He's a fast learner. Which is how he came up with all of that stuff. He's smart.
*sigh*
And I would expect no less from a Kaiba. I guess that's why I love him so much.
"Mokuba..."
"Yes?"
"Why does it sound like you l-"
"Just keep reading! I'll tell you later just keep reading please!"
Seto's eyes widened once more at Mokuba's sensitivity and defensiveness on the topic at hand. But as before, he did as Mokuba asked and continued reading aloud.
Now Seto wouldn't like this next part
"W-"
"Don't even ask just read."
because its exactly what he tried to do to turn us against each other in the virtual world. But throughout this whole journal I've been writing I haven't once explained why I'm trying do hard when everyone else would have given up: Seto, our stepfather, even Yugi and his friends would have stopped trying. But I wouldn't have. Because the truth is that...
He stopped and looked at the next few lines of text.
"Mokuba... Did you... Put this in a code?"
"Um... Yes."
"Why?"
"I don't know..."
This is what it said (if you want to try and solve it, go right ahead. But I must warn you that I am not perfect and it's probably only 80% perfectly coded. The key is in the EndingAN and if you want the answers maybe I will post them in the next chapter... Or the end of this one... Not sure yet.):
F shfni F joub Abcd nr koqb senl n oqosebq. Koqb senl n rsbzoqosebq. F anl's rhnib seb cbbjfld sens htqfld otq sfkb fl seb vfqstnj voqjh, bubl seotde eb vnr otq blbkx kors oc seb tfkb, hb rsfjj rhovbh kb rokb iflh of obxolh-oqoshbqjx jovb. Nld... F kfrr hfk ro ktah. Rt ous F hon's bwpbas nlxonb so uldbqrsnlh. Rbso'r pbubq cbjs sens vnx noous nlxolb. Eb'r lbubq obvl fl joub. Eb joubr kb obantrb F'k hfr orosebq. Out hb lbubq joube nlxolb qoknlsfnljjx. F'k ncqnfe so nri rokbolb fc F gurs joub Abcd ubqy rsqoldjx nr kx oroshbq oq fc kx cbbjfldr do cnqseeq senl sens. Ots F sefli F njqbndy ilov seb nlrvbq.
F'k ieezfld sefr fl aodb.
"Mokuba... You really mean that?"
"You can understand it?! Oh silly me of course you can."
"I've decoded much harder codes than this. ABCD is obviously NOAH and the rest just slides into place. I can solve this just by looking at it... You really think that about me?"
"... I do..."
"Hmph."
"I'm sorry!"
"Whatever. There are only a few lines left."
Noah... I will find you.
And to anyone who doubts me: I WILL find him.
But there's a weird thing that happened today...I'm pretty sure I put a capital letter at the end of my password just to throw people off but it's not capital n
And it ends there.
.
For the next week, Mokuba didn't talk to anyone unless t was directly related to the company or Kaiba Land. He stayed silent and distant from everyone about everything else. Even Seto couldn't talk to him about personal things.
He stayed locked in his room most of the time, still working on the same project.
Even when Seto took Mokuba with him to the KC building, he still stayed locked in the room he had there.
One day, he found something. Or so he thought...
It was a random email message. But it didn't have a sender. In the spot place where either the email address, what he called the person in his contacts, or "sender unknown" usually appeared, it was literally blank.
The email was a picture of a Duel Monster's card. But instead of the monster's usual eye color... It was HIS eye color...
Did that mean...?
Mokuba almost started crying again. He closed the laptop, took a handheld device from his desk, and snuck out of the room.
"Where are you?" he whispered as he ran down the hall.
He ran to a certain room in the KC building.
Mokuba stood in the room. The one where the virtual reality games were tested.
He remembered that day...
Then forced himself to stop.
He started playing a little handheld game. A Duel Monsters one that Seto had created just for him.
"Oh no, the batteries!" The batteries were running low.
Mokuba reached into one of his inner vest pockets and took out a small charger. He walked to one of the outlets and plugged it in, then he plugged in the game.
He played for only five more seconds before the screen went blank.
"Hey!" He started pressing random buttons and holding some for a few seconds but nothing happened.
Then the screen turned white.
Text appeared.
/f'sr abcd/
Mokuba gasped. The text disappeared and new text appeared in its place.
/i know you were looking for me. and i know you have this game. this was the only device i would trust. good thing the batteries were low. by the way...watch your head/
Mokuba looked up. He saw one of the virtual reality simulator helmets from one of the nearby machines seemingly come to life. The cord of it curved and the helmet bobbed and swayed, making it look like a snake.
Then it rushed at him, as if attacking.
Mokuba was terrified for a single instant, but relaxed when the helmet reached him and placed itself firmly on his head.
He felt his body go limp just before everything went dark.
~•~
He woke up face down on the floor in a sort of hallway.
He sat up and looked around.
Where am I?
There were two walls on either side of him. Each one had a door on it.
He looked towards the end of the hallway in front of him, but it only receded into darkness. He looked behind him and saw the same.
He looked at the door to his left. It was open, but it opened outwards so the door was blocking his view of whatever was inside. He looked to the left. That door was closed. It was brown and had royal blue and yellow around the frame. He felt a sort of comfort looking at it and felt like he had a sense of...knowing...about what was behind it.
He stood up and walked to the closed door. He was about to turn the knob when he heard a fair sound coming from the other door.
He stepped away from the closed door and walked diagonally away from it, tilting to the side so he could see what was behind the open door as soon as possible.
He gasped at what he saw and ran to the opening in the door.
Inside the room was an exact replica of the place he had been creating during the past month and days. And it was completed.
The place he was making for Noah was in this room...in this hallway.
So who's room was the one across the hall?
Mokuba caught a glimpse of someone in the room and quickly turned to see who it was.
It was...
Noah.
"Noah!" Mokuba shouted happily. He started to run towards him...
Noah looked him in the eyes, smiled and winked, then closed his eyes and concentrated and faded away.
Mokuba stopped in his tracks. Where did he go? What is this place and why is it here?
Then he remembered something that he had overheard Yugi talking about. Actually it was the other Yugi.
Mokuba remembered it and shouted, "Soul room!"
His eyes widened. He looked at the other door. Then he tried to see if he knew how to do what he wanted to do.
He concentrated on his body and the real world as hard as he could.
He closed his eyes and concentrated harder.
Then suddenly, he felt light and weightless. He felt...different.
He opened his eyes and saw himself standing, floating rather, in front of his body. But he looked different.
The helmet had been removed and returned to its proper place.
His hair had smoothed down significantly and was slightly bluer than usual. He had grown a few inches taller. His face and facial features were shaped slightly differently.
And his eyes...
They were now shaped and colored exactly like Noah's.
Mokuba's eyes widened. He looked down and saw that he was transparent. And floating above the ground a bit.
He looked up at what he believed was Noah in his body.
"Noah..." he whispered disbelievingly. Was this really happening?!
'Noah' opened his arms wide. He spoke in his, and not Mokuba's, voice.
"I'm back. Like I promised. And you found me. Like you promised."
Mokuba started crying. He flew into Noah's arms and hugged him, and was surprised that he didn't float right through him.
Noah wrapped his arms around Mokuba, also surprised that he was tangible enough to touch.
"I missed you," Mokuba whispered.
"I missed you too," Noah whispered back. "As you probably can tell I found and decoded your journal entry. And I love you just the same."
Here's the key:
A.B.C.D = N.O.A.H
The rest should fall into place for you, like it did for Seto.
For all you lazyasses out there, here is the message all decoded and stuff:
I think I love Noah as more than a brother. More than a stepbrother. I can't shake the feeling that during our time in the virtual world, even though he was our enemy most of the time , he still showed me some kind of beyond-brotherly love. And... I miss him so much. So but I don't expect anyone to understand. Seto's never felt this way about anyone. He's never been in love. He loves me because I'm his brother. But he never loved anyone romantically. I'm afraid to ask someone if I just love Noah very strongly as my brother or if my feeling go farther than that. But I think I already know the answer.
I'm keeping this in code.
I have a lot of requests now, thanks guys! If you wanna suggest/request one for me to do, then please if you can suggest a story or author for me to look at for inspiration.
Thanks for all your support!
What I've already done: vex, psycho, silent, polar, servant, step
What I definitely plan to do: sickle, blue, mischief, fame, outcast
Ones I've seen you request (all of them except those already named above): vase, staff, clash, shadow, thorn, gentle, filler, avis
The ones I MIGHT consider (out of the above list): thorn,
So that adds up to 12.
See you next chapter!
BYEEEEEEEEE~!