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An abrupt sound of the security alarms broke me from my daze.

I was on my feet immediately and began up the stairs to check the security room monitors. Looking up I paused and I could feel my face scrunching distastefully.

That freakish tanned boy Jounochi had kept by his side on our meeting stood at the top of the stairs. With his arms crossed and face disapproving, I couldn't help but scowl at him. At this moment I felt as though we were two wolves ready to kill for territory. I couldn't help but think how disturbed I was that the alarms went off after he was this far inside.

Only at this instance this tanned boy seemed different than before. He was much buffer, his hair was wilder and his eyes had a darker gaze. I stared at him, defenseless. I had no weapon. I had no way of reaching any weapons. The cops wouldn't arrive for another fifteen minutes but it takes much less than that for a murder to occur.

He beckoned me to come by motioning at me with two fingers. I cautiously stepped forward, eyes narrowed in deep suspicion.

He took my hand with his larger, dark skinned hand, clad in gold rings and tattoos, and placed something papery in my hand. I looked at the envelope then at him. He pointed to himself, eyes still quiet dark and distant, then he pointed to the letter, then back to himself.

I had no idea what he was possibly trying to communicate to me.

His mouth opened and a flood of foreign entangled words I couldn't decipher, at all, came pouring out. His voice was deep, so deep it almost seemed to vibrate as though it were possessed. I narrowed my eyes and he stared deeply at me for a moment. He shifted his head side to side, adverting his gaze before he looked at me again. He pointed to the envelope.

"Malik." He said.

At that moment I realized, the man before me wasn't the name he just spoke. I looked at him momentarily. Now I can see extreme differentiation between Malik and this guy. The few inches in height, the color of eye, the shade of skin, the way they held themselves, the tattoos, the style and definitely the personality was as different as night and day. With that observation I understood him and nodded. He stared and then walked back a few steps into the shadows and disappeared as he came. Undetected.

The police showed up and I had to explain that a visitor set off the alarm and that I had done something foolish that I would've never done like tell someone to walk in when the alarms were still on. They left quick enough but it was still annoying none the less.


Later on that afternoon, I had gone through twenty seven reports and recreated a programming chip an idiot worker of mine had destroyed for the new virtual gaming product we were to release by the end of the month. It was little to no work compared to what I did previously when I was building up my company's reputation and value.

Yugi had crawled up on to the bed in the guest room at some point in the day.

Mokuba had also come back home and now we were preparing to leave to go get lunch together.

Mokuba came into my room, showered and presentable to the public eye not that it had really mattered now. Mokuba had hit the charts as most attractive teen male in several cities across Japan, he keeps saying it must the Kaiba blood.

"Ready?" He asked with a smile. I smirked and walked over to him messing up his hair with my hand and walking past him, knowing he would follow.

We arrived at Mokuba's favorite diner by foot in downtown Domino city. It wasn't a bad place, the food was exceptional for it's location and status of the owners. We had become regulars here years ago, right after I graduated high school. We walked in and just took a seat and within moments a young girl came running over. It was Mokuba's best friend and school mate.

"Hi~! Here you are, one soda and one coffee~! It's been awhile since you guys came here hasn't it?" She said excitedly, blonde pigtails still present even though she was now well into her teens. "I missed you guys!" She laughed.

"Whatever! You see me at school, and at home, and outside and…" Mokuba trailed on for a bit for emphasis I'm sure, but I got bored about that and stopped listening. I took a sip of my coffee, cream and sugar already mixed in, and was a little surprised the only one who could make my coffee right was a sixteen year old girl.

"Yeah but it's not the same! You never come see me when I'm *working*" She said rolling her eyes. Her name was Rebecca from what I could remember. "And you, it's like you've died suddenly. No one sees you anywhere anymore." She said obviously complaining for my extremely long absence during my studying abroad and company buildup. "We all know you're an important busy business man, but sometimes you have to come see the commoners." She teased. I smiled slightly, I'm being teased by a teenager when I'm in my late twenties.

"Only for ten bucks a pop, pay up" I said holding my hand out for the money and smiling. She pretended to whack me with the menus and then got called in the back by her parents, who owned the diner.

"I'll be back with your food in a bit guys." She said and I vaguely wondered what would occur if we ever decided we wanted to choose what she gave us to eat. She never took our order.

I turned my attention back to Mokuba who was drinking his soda calmly. Before he swallowed the sip and looked at me.

"You signed a new contract recently?" He asked, keeping his eyes on mine and leaning to sip his soda through the straw again.

"I have to say I'm shocked, I used to have to force you to look into business matters." I teased with a slight snicker. "I did sign a new contract, completely on a whim." I said honestly to my brother who's mouth was now agape with shock.

"What kind of whim?" Mokuba asked interested, but I could tell not because of the business.

"To get closer to someone." I said plainly, bluntly, without revealing nearly as much information as I could tell Mokuba needed before he exploded with curiosity.

"Who!?" He asked shocked, eyes bugging and drink tipping. I caught the drink before it fell all the way but part of it still spilled over onto my hand and the table. He looked down at it and apologized and discarded it immediately to return his attention back to me.

"I used to enjoy watching someone in high school and decided to…open up a new connection to them? So far it's a little…odd." I said tilted my head thinking about it again now.

"You like them!?" Mokuba questioned a little louder than he should've but I didn't mind.

"Well if I didn't like them it would be foolish to make a business deal with them now wouldn't it?" I chuckled knowing entirely that's not what he meant.

"Who is it!?" Mokuba said leaning closer, voice lowered into a secretive whisper.

"I don't think I can tell you, I've considered it already but, its probably better to keep it to myself." I said truthfully. I had considered it. I had discarded the idea. Done deal.

"No! Come on you gotta tell me!" He pleaded getting up in my face. I chuckled and pushed his forehead back so he would sit back down in his seat.

"I don't think you'd like this situation." I commented and sipped my coffee again.

"You have to tell me!" Mokuba whined.

"Alright I will." I said giving up. Once the whining started, I knew my little brother, it wasn't going to stop until he got what he wanted. He sat quietly waiting for me to tell him. "But I have you know there's something else I have to tell you first." He nodded. I leaned across the table to whisper to him for privacy.

"I'm gay."


I tried to think of a better last line than that but each one I came by just seemed worse and worse...so terrible cliche confession...sorry guys

other lines I thought of were:

"Mokuba I'm a homosexual"- I didn't choose this one because that's just odd to say...

"I like men" - could be incorrect and also make mokuba uncomfortable (at least in my head and I would write it that way) Plus. He doesn't like men. He likes Jounochi. One man. With a certain name....yeuh that's my reasoning anyway. Did I just throw out a spoiler? I don't know I think I made it evident he likes Jounochi D lol.

"Mokuba I like someone who's not a girl"- sounded childish and stupid.

"Mokuba I like Jounochi"- considering this story is set where duelist kingdom and all that never really happened, they dont play cards and Jou and kaiba never had any run ins....mokuba would just be like..'who's that?' and also, that wouldn't be very good story-wise.

And if you read all that, now that I've entirely over did the last line, I hope you enjoyed your read and will stay tuned for chapter....8? 9? anyways, stay tuned ^^