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I wasn't sure if Mokuba would call Yugi's Grandpa Mr Motto or Grandpa, so I kinda did a bit of both.
Disclaimer: I don't own or claim to own Yu-Gi-Oh!
On with the story…
Kaiba Family Secrets
Grandpa Motto sat hunched over on the high stall behind the glass counter top filled with Duel Monster cards on display. He had an intense look on his old, wrinkled face as he squinted down at today's crossword puzzle. With his pen in one hand, ready to fill in the next line and a cup of hot coco in the other, Grandpa Motto sprang into action and scribbled a word into the number two across box. He then leaned back smugly and crossed his arms over his chest in satisfaction, clearly impressed with his own work. And seeing as he was alone in the room, with no one to witness his fine achievement Grandpa Motto than mumbled something about 'young people and their lack of appreciation of solving hard puzzles' before resuming his original hunched over position.
However before he could indulge himself back into his crossword puzzle, the small yet surprisingly loud bells above the front door chimed, signalling the arrival of a customer. Grandpa brought his gaze from the puzzle to the door, and then smiled in recognition at the customer.
"Mokuba! Long time no see my boy!" Grandpa greeted happily as he threw his hand up in the air.
"Hi Mr Motto, it's great to see you again, is Yugi and everyone here?" Mokuba replied just as happily as he stepped inside more of the shop.
"Mokuba how many times do I have to tell you? Just call me Grandpa! And yes Yugi and co. are up in his room, go right on up." Grandpa said as he gestured behind him with his thumb.
"Thanks, I'll see you later Mr Mo- I mean Grandpa." Mokuba said slightly sheepishly as he walked past Grandpa and under the curtain separating the shop and the rest of the house.
Mokuba walked through the sitting room and was soon at the bottom of the stairs. He then almost ran up them out of habit and bounded merrily towards Yugi and Yami's room. The door was slightly ajar so Mokuba stopped himself from running into the door and raised his arm to knock. However just as Mokuba's small fist was an inch away from the wooden door, he stopped it in mid-knock upon the mention of a certain word- a certain name.
"So do you think Kaiba's gone crazy yet?" Joey's voice sounded from inside the room. There was a smacking sound heard from inside, and Mokuba could only assume that Téa or Yugi or Yami probably reprimanded Joey for something.
"Ow! What was that for?" Joey yelled, confirming Mokuba's suspicious that he'd just been hit.
"Do you always have to be so…so…" Yugi's voice trailed off.
"Blunt?" Téa suggested.
No, no Yami help me out here." Yugi said.
"What Yugi is trying to say Joey, is that sometimes you are…just a little…bit insensitive when it comes to Kaiba." Yami explained slowly.
"Yeesh everyone's a critic!" Joey mumbled through the door, "Well does anyone?"
Before anyone could answer Mokuba edged towards the stairs again and ran shuffled his feet loudly on them and then proceed to knock on the bedroom door again. Mokuba paused briefly and waited for a 'Come in' form Yugi and then entered the room merrily as if he hadn't heard anything.
"Hey guys!" Mokuba greeted in his usual bubbly way, complete with the happy grin.
~~~Yami's P.O.V~~~
Before I could answer Joey's question I heard a knock at the door. Yugi instantly called a 'come in' and in stepped Mokuba. I wonder if he heard any of our conversation, I hope not.
"Mokuba! This is a nice surprise, please sit down. How ya been?" Yugi replied happily as he motioned his new companion to join the rest of us on the carpet.
"I've been good, it's a little wired with having to call Seto Dad now, but I'm getting used to it." Mokuba confessed.
"How is Kaiba by the way?" I casually slid in.
"Erm…he's been alright…I guess." Mokuba thought deeply as he frowned slightly.
"Define alright." Joey interjected.
"Well…it's just…maybe I shouldn't tell you…" Mokuba trailed off uncertainly, receiving four concerned looks.
"Mokuba if it's important I think it'd be best if you told someone, we are friends you can trust us." Téa added kindly as she smiled warmly.
"Okay, well Se- I mean Dad's been a bit off recently." When Mokuba received another wave of confused looks he continued, "For starters he's hardly left his room, only once or twice for meals but lately he's had them brought up to his room. And he hasn't been to Kaiba Corp in like two weeks! That's longer than any holidays he's had off since he took over the company! All he does is sit up at his home desk and works non-stop. I mean at least when he went to Kaiba Corp he took breaks! And you'll never guess what I found I caught him doing the other night."
"What?" Joey asked for everyone.
"Smoking! He was smoking! Seto's never done that before!" Mokuba finished with a sigh, ending his rant while flaring his arms up in the air in frustration.
"But doesn't Kaiba usually act like a workaholic?" Yugi asked.
"Not like this. No, something's up. Seto's usual working schedule was get up at half six, have breakfast at seven, leave at half seven and be at Kaiba Corp at eight. Then take a short lunch break at one, where I would accompany him for a sandwich most of the time and then at six he would pack up and go home. Then depending on how crucial the work is Dad would work for awhile in his study and then come down for an hour and then eat dinner. After that, again depending on how crucial the work is Seto would work for another hour maybe two or he would just hang out with me until my bedtime." Mokuba explained fully, checking off everything on his fingers.
"Hmm, it does seem a bit strange from someone so methodical like Kaiba, to completely change his daily routine." I commented. This doesn't sound good.
"What do think could have made Kaiba change like this?" Téa asked knowing full well what the answer probably was.
"I haven't a clue myself…but Roland seems to be watching Seto a lot, maybe he knows something." Mokuba shrugged.
At this Yugi, me, Téa and Joey all exchanged nervous looks to each other without Mokuba seeing. The room fell silent, not an awkward silence, more like a quiet moment where everybody seemed to think over what they'd just heard. I came out of my thoughts first and opened my mouth to say something; however the loud ringing of a mobile cut me off.
"Oh it's Roland." Mokuba commented merrily as he pulled out his phone from his pocket and checked the caller id, "Hello?"
"I'm at Yugi's and Yami's, why?"
"Okay, I'll put him on now." Mokuba said as he handed the phone over to me, great. "Roland says he wants to talk to you, he sounded pretty urgent." Mokuba whispered as I accepted the phone awkwardly.
"Erm Yugi how do you work this contraption?" I asked as I still looked at the mobile phone in my hand baffled.
"Remind me to teach you some more modern day things later." Yugi chuckled as he took the phone, "I'll put it on speaker. And after pressing a button and edging me to speak, Roland's voice filled the room.
"Yami! You and everyone else have got to get over to Kaiba Mansion!"
"What? Why? Has something happened?"
"It's…it's Mr Kaiba!
I stole a quick glance at Mokuba's worried expression as he whispered a gasped before I replied. "What's wrong with Kaiba? Is he hurt? What happened?"
"Jason, my son, he went to bring Mr Kaiba a bottle of whisky because apparently he'd run out. But Jason must have said something or not wanted to give Mr Kaiba the alcohol because the next thing I see is Jason punched square in the jaw and held by the neck up against the wall. I…I managed to get Mr Kaiba to let go when I finally gave him the bottle of whiskey and then he threw us out his room and locked the door!"
"What! Wh…what's he doing now?" This is exactly the thing I was worried about.
"I don't know we can't get in, I thought that all of you could come over here and try and calm him down." Roland finished.
"Alright hang on; we'll be over in no time." And with that I, with help from Yugi hung up the phone and sprang to my feet, the other four following suit.
"Mokuba did you come by limo here?" I asked getting straight to the point as I and everyone else looked over to him.
"I…is…is Se…Seto gonna be alright?" Mokuba stammered completely ignoring my question as small traces of tears filled his eyes. I looked to Téa for help and she sprang to action.
"Of course he will Mokuba, but we need to get over to Kaiba Mansion and fast. So did you come here by limo?" Téa asked again gently as she put a comforting arm around the small boy's back.
Mokuba silently nodded and wiped his eyes, preventing any tears from falling. "Alright to Kaiba Mansion!" Joey exclaimed as he ran out the bedroom followed by me, Yugi and finally Téa who was still comforting Mokuba.
We all bounded down the stairs and straight past Grandpa with Yugi muttering a quick goodbye before he, and the rest of us shot out the front door. Waiting shortly down the street was Mokuba's black stretch limo; me and the rest of the group clambered inside and sat down on its comfy leather seats. Mokuba told the driver their destination and buckled up as did everyone else. The driver nodded in approval and without a second thought the limo sped off and raced down the road.
"So what's the plan?" Joey asked everyone.
"No idea." I stated.
"Well we need to get into Kaiba's room, that's out first step." Yugi said.
"It's locked though, remember?" Téa reminded everyone.
"We could always ram it down." Joey suggested.
"No, that wouldn't work. Seto's and my room are completely secure for safety measures, you know if we ever get robbed or attacked. The walls are bomb proof, bullet proof and the doors are reinforced. It would take a tank just to dent it believe it or not." Mokuba said his mood going from worried and frightened to determined and strong.
"Seriously?" Yugi questioned. Sounds like we're screwed.
"Mmm-hmm." Mokuba confirmed with the nod of his head, "We're here come on let's go!" Mokuba added as he unbuckled his seat belt and ran out the vehicle followed by the rest of us, before the driver could even get out and open the door for us.
"Hey Mokuba slow down kid!" Joey yelled after the boy as he ran up the front steps and through the front door.
As Yugi, me, Téa and Joey entered the house after Mokuba; we immediately spotted him running up the stairs and sprinted after him. Soon we managed to catch up with him and joined Mokuba outside Kaiba's room where Roland and Jason were waiting, the latter clutching his jaw with an ice pack.
"Roland has anything else happened?" Mokuba asked.
"We've heard a few crashes but other than that nothing has happened." Roland informed everyone.
"Right, well first things first, we need to somehow get inside that room." I stated gesturing towards the double oak door's leading to Kaiba's room.
"I've got an idea, it's risky but it might work." Mokuba said after a few minutes of silence had past.
Everyone, including me all leaned in expectantly, edging Mokuba to continue. "My bedroom is two doors down from here, I say we go out onto the balcony and climb across onto Seto's balcony. Then from there we go through the balcony door."
"But what if it's locked?" Yugi asked.
"I doubt it will be, Seto never usually locks it and plus I hardly think he'll be expecting five people climbing up the side of his house and through his window." Mokuba reassured everyone.
"So it's settled us five will climb onto Kaiba's balcony while Jason and Roland wait outside." I concluded nodding my head to myself.
"Very well, Master Mokuba please be careful." Roland said.
"Don't worry about a thing Roland I'll be fine." Mokuba smiled before turning round and ushering all of us to follow him.
Two doors down from Kaiba's room, Mokuba halted outside another door and entered inside, with us following him. Mokuba crossed across the carpet littered with various toys and games and carefully opened the glass balcony doors and stepped out onto it, letting the last rays of the sun beam into his room as it began to set behind the horizon. Tugging a vine a couple of times to check if it was stable, Mokuba then nodded to himself in satisfaction as he deemed it safe to support his weight. He then slowly and carefully stood onto the balcony rails and hugged the wall.
"Careful Mokuba! Are you sure it's safe?" Téa yelled as she watched with her hands over her eyes.
Mokuba rested his feet on a nearby window ledge that was located on the wall between his and Kaiba's room before replying. "I'm fine Téa it's you who should be worried you'll have to do it in a minute!" Mokuba almost snickered back as he looked over to us standing on his balcony.
Mokuba then turned his attention back on task and looked for the next place to put his foot before continuing. "I'll go next." Joey announced as he watched Mokuba land safely on the next balcony. Joey then climbed up onto the balcony railings and copied Mokuba's movements and in not time he joined him on the other side. Next it was Yugi's turn, followed by me and then finally Téa. Thankfully we all made it to the other side unharmed and Téa breathed a sigh of relief when her feet touched solid ground again.
"Right let's go." Yugi whispered as we silently crept up to the balcony door.
And just as Mokuba had stated the door was unlocked and Yugi nudged it open with ease. Me and the rest of the group of four walked through the door and ducked under the curtain that was drawn over the door. We then stepped into the dark room and looked around, letting my eyes adjust to the darkness. As I was looking around I noticed some dimmed down lights coming through the archway that separated the bedroom and the study. Deciding to investigate I nudged everyone slightly and gestured towards the archway. I, along with everyone else tip-toed over to it and stuck my head around it.
The room was empty just like the bedroom, a few chairs were turned over and files and papers were spew all over the floor, probably signs of Kaiba in a rage. I stood in the doorway, dropping my guard after seeing no signs of Kaiba and letting confusement take over my facial features. Great, we do a mission impossible to get into the room and Kaiba's not even here! When I find him I'm gonna-
"Looking for me?" A voice taunted behind us, sending everyone forwards as we jumped out of our skins.
"Jesus Kaiba what the hell's wrong with you?" Joey yelled as he put a hand over his heart.
Kaiba just stood their, half his face hidden in the shadow of his bedroom, revealing only one eye and half his mouth and nose. Kaiba let out a short, dark chuckle, much unlike his usual egotistical one which I was so used to hear during duels. I have to admit it unnerved me. As I recovered slightly from the shock and rose to my feet I noticed Kaiba was swaying slightly.
"What's so funny?" Joey shouted after hearing no reply from Kaiba.
"I distinctly remember telling all of you that I never wanted to see or hear you again, the last time we met." Kaiba sneered back as he stepped out into the study more, allowing us to fully see him, "So my question is what are you doing here?" In this new light I noticed a glass almost full to the brim with some darkish liquid in it clamped firmly in his right hand.
As I studied the man in front of me, it looked nothing like the Kaiba we all knew so well. Instead of wearing one of his immaculate business suits or flaring trench coats, he was dressed in creased black dress trousers and a white dress top to go with it. The top however was creased as well and only partly tucked in, and not to mention his blue tie was loosened and his top button was undone. Too be honest Kaiba looked more like a scruffy high school student then a leading businessman. And instead of perfectly combed hair it was all tousled, looking like he hadn't even put a second thought to it. And finally he had dark bags under his blood shot eyes as well as some clear stubble on his face.
So all in all he looked like shit.
"Kaiba are…are you feeling alright?" I voiced eyeing him cautiously as we watched him move around to his desk.
"It's rude to answer a question with another question. Now answer mine." Kaiba stated firmly, his usual coldness in his voice coating every word.
Taken aback slightly, partly because of Kaiba's even ruder attitude than usual and that's saying something, and partly because I was trying to find the right words to say without peeing off Kaiba.
"We came to check up on you." Yugi replied as Kaiba took another long drink from the glass in his hand.
"I'm not some house pet you need to look after Yugi; I can take care of myself." Kaiba remarked as he seated himself down at his desk chair, taking another swig of his drink.
"Pfff, yeah right!" Joey snorted causing Kaiba to glance up at the blonde and stare daggers at him.
"What was that mutt?" Kaiba taunted.
"Seriously? I can take care of myself better than you!" Joey mocked as he shook his head, "At least I don't assault my employee's for a bottle of whiskey or wreck my room when I get in a strop!" Joey continued as he gestured to the mess around him with one hand.
I glanced over to see Kaiba's reaction, he seemed calm but we all know how good he is at hiding his emotions, I just hope Joey doesn't go too far. Kaiba just sat their finishing the last drop of what I can only assume to be whiskey from his glass. Once he finished it he then opened one of his desk draws and pulled out another full bottle, oh dear.
"No come back this time Rich-boy? Or has that alcohol killed off some of your brain cells?" Joey taunted again edging closer towards Kaiba and his desk.
"Shut it mutt, if you value your life that is." Kaiba spat back, undoing the new bottle's cap and pouring himself another glass.
"Yeah Joey, we came to help, not pick a fight." Téa insisted as she and Yugi tugged each of Joey's arms to try and get him to back down.
"No, why is it I'm always the one that has to leave Kaiba alone he's just as bad!" Joey complained, now actually leaning over the desk with two hands resting on it.
"Perhaps you can at least attempt to be smart and listen to your friends Wheeler." Kaiba said taking another drink.
"See there he goes again! I don't even know why I came here! Maybe I'm just a nice guy and like to help people no matter who they are. Or maybe I just felt sorry for Mokuba. Or maybe…maybe I just wanted to see the great Seto Kaiba wallowing in his self pity as he mopes around all day trying to drink his troubles away, just because of some girl died and he blames himself!" Joey yelled.
That did it. That was the straw that broke the camel's back. Joey went too far and I mean too far, and I think he knew it to by the way he clamped his mouth shut and slapped his hand over his mouth. I didn't want to look at Kaiba's reaction but from what Yugi's, Téa's and Joey's faces looked like it probably wasn't good. Instead I quickly looked towards Mokuba to see his shock and wide eyed expression, it's clear that Mokuba probably didn't know what happened to his mother.
Bracing myself I peered over to Kaiba, his whiskey glass sat abandoned to the side of his desk and he was literally shaking with anger. The next thing I know is that he's sprung forward and grabbed Joey roughly by the collar with both hands and smashed his head down onto the hard wooden desk in front of him, all in one swift movement. He then slammed him down again, this time twice as hard and while still holding Joey's collar Kaiba swung him over the desk and threw him to the floor by his feet.
"Kaiba! Stop!" I yelled desperately as me and Yugi ran forward to try and restrain him.
As we rounded the desk and stood behind Kaiba it seemed he just completely ignored us and proceeded to pick Joey up again. Joey was too dazed from hitting the desk to do anything allowing Kaiba to get him in a choke hold and pin him against the nearest wall.
"Dad stop, please!" Mokuba yelled this time, clearly petrified.
Yugi and I tried to pull Kaiba off Joey put he just simply shrugged us off knocking us back a few steps.
"I told you to shut it mutt!" Kaiba roared as he brought his fist up and slammed it into Joey's face.
"But you didn't listen, did you?" Kaiba continued as he punched Joey again, and again.
"Did you!"
"Kaiba stop it you're gonna kill him!" Yugi screamed as we both recovered from our fall and ran over to restrain Kaiba again.
Kaiba managed to throw one last punch in Joey's gut before grabbing him by the collar again and throwing him across the room, landing next to Téa and Mokuba in a heap. Kaiba looked like he wasn't finished, but Yugi and I stepped in, me grabbing one of Kaiba's arms and Yugi grabbing the other.
"Kaiba calm down!" I yelled as he struggled against mine and Yugi's hold. Me and Yugi are like kids compared to him we won't be able to hold him long. I glanced over to see Joey; Téa had slumped him up against one of the sofas and was trying to keep him conscious.
"Joey." She called gently.
No response.
"Joey, please answer me." Téa tried again.
"Urgh." The blonde managed to moan as he fluttered open his eyes and clutched his stomach. Man Kaiba really did a number on him, his nose looked broken and was bleeding along with a black right eye and a swollen face. Thankfully I don't think Kaiba broke any of Joey's bones, yet that is. Kaiba was still raring to go though and it won't be long before he flings Yugi and I off.
"Let go! That mutt needs to learn his place!" Kaiba growled struggling even more.
"Kaiba stop! Just look at Mokuba! You're scaring him!" I said back.
Kaiba looked briefly over to Mokuba, and surely enough he looked close to tears and was as far away from Kaiba as possible. I don't know whether it was because Kaiba was high on adrenaline or the alcohol was still polluting his senses, but he simply said, "This will help teach Mokuba how to deal with people who disrespect him!" He then finally broke free from our hold and pushed us to the floor again.
Kaiba was getting ready to attack Joey again, and I'm sure Téa wouldn't be able to stop him. I had to think of something, anything! To stop Kaiba, and then it came to me.
"What about Kisara, huh? What do you think she would say if she saw you now?" I challenged rising to my feet and running in front of Joey, Yugi and Téa copying my movements.
Kaiba halted and stopped, he stood behind his desk and clenched his fists while bowing his head slightly. "I wouldn't know would I? If it weren't for me you could probably ask her that yourself." Kaiba spat back as he snapped his head up in our direction.
That statement took my by surprise as it did for Yugi, Téa, Mokuba and probably Joey if he were properly aware of his surroundings. Did Kaiba really blame himself for what happened that night? For what we saw in that vision?
"Kaiba do you really blame yourself for what happened to Kisara?" I asked almost gently, at least dropping the harness in my voice.
"Of course I do, you don't understand no one does! I could have done something, anything! To save her but I didn't, I failed her Yami, I failed her…" Kaiba trailed off as he stared directly into my eyes.
"Kaiba you can't do this to yourself, you can't keep blaming yourself for something that wasn't your fault. You're not just harming other people you're harming yourself too any one with eyes can see that." Téa added softly as she gestured around the room.
"They're right Rich-boy, you did whatever you could and that ain't exactly easy when people like Mr Helsing don't play fair, right?" Joey managed to add, and as he did I could have sworn I saw Kaiba shiver slightly at the mention of that name.
"Where did you learn that name?" Kaiba almost whispered unsettlingly calmly and quietly.
"That doesn't matter right now, what's important is that you try and forgive yourself Kaiba. You can't go through the rest of your life living with this guilt, it will kill ya man." Joey continued as he rose awkwardly with help from Téa and Yugi.
"I can't, she's gone and it's because of me, I shouldn't have challenged him…I should have just hide Kisara and Mokuba away, away from that…that monster!"
"Wait, 'him'? Who's 'him'?" Yugi asked.
"If only I'd done that, then she'd still be here, Mr Helsing wouldn't have been hired and everything would be fine!" Kaiba rambled probably more to himself then any one else.
"You're not making sense Kaiba, calm down." I tried only to be ignored.
"How could I have been so stupid…so naive to think everything would be alright once he was gone, nothing would harm us? I…I was going to marry her! Everything was perfect; I was finally free from that bastard's hold…I was finally able to live my life the way I wanted to. And…that…that night she was taken from me…I was…I was supposed to propose to her! But I suppose I'm bound to misfortune, that I'm not allowed to be happy, right?" Kaiba ranted getting more and more worked up by the second.
"Just get out!" Kaiba literally screamed at all of us.
"No." I stated firmly without missing a beat.
"I said get out!" Kaiba repeated again this time more aggressive. He then snatched his glass of whiskey and launched at my head, my eyes widen in surprise but luckily I managed to duck in time and it collided with the door behind us, shattering into a million tiny shards.
"If we leave now Kaiba, while you're in this…this state who's telling what could happen? Scream at me all you want, punch me, kick me, hell go ahead and throw something else at me, because I promise you no matter what I'm not gonna abandon a friend in need." I declared determinedly while crossing my arms over my chest.
"If you won't leave then I will." Kaiba said simply as he brushed past me and headed towards the door.
"And where will you go? We will find you Kaiba, you can count on that. And I thought it was you who always said you have to face your problems head on and not run from, hmm?" I carried on, noticing that Kaiba had stopped before his door with his back to us.
The room was silent once more, Kaiba was still in the room, perhaps contemplating on what to do next, I don't know. But at least I gotten through to him, if only by a little bit.
"Just for once trust us, let us help you." I said at last, mentally praying that for once Kaiba would listen to the voice of reason.
I waited, for what seemed like a millennia, for Kaiba to respond or at least show any signs of hearing my words. Finally Kaiba turned to slowly look at us, all eyes were on him. He stared directly in my eyes for the second time that night and remained silent still.
"No."
And with that simple, yet powerful word Kaiba then turned around and left, leaving the door open as he did, leaving us alone in his room.
I stared after Kaiba, or where he would have been standing. I guess a part of me thought he would stay. Roland and Jason then ran into the room seeing that the door was open.
"What happened? Mr Kaiba just walked right past us, is everything alright?" Roland asked first, glancing around the room at the same time.
"Besides from me getting assaulted nothing much really happened." Joey commented.
"Mr Kaiba sure can punch, can't he? I'll get a first aid kit." Jason smirked before leaving the room and coming back with a small first aid kit in a few minutes.
"So nothing happened? Where's Mr Kaiba going?" Roland asked again, nervous as hell.
"We tried to convince Kaiba that Kisara's death wasn't his fault but he just lost it. He sort of rambled on about something he did which lead to Kisara's death. It confused us a hell of a lot, and then he just walked out the door." Yugi replied.
"Kaiba can't get to any vehicles can he?" Téa said are eyes going wide slightly.
"No, all the garages are locked up for the night, I did it myself you have to use this master key just to get inside the garage." Roland replied pulling out a key from inside his black blazer, "Plus the car keys to any of the vehicles are in a metal box inside the garage, which you also need this key to open."
"Phew, at least we know Kaiba won't be in any car accidents, he did drink an awful lot of that whiskey." Téa finished as she sighed in relief, the rest of us nodding along with her.
Jason finished up cleaning Joey's wounds and gave him an ice pack to hold on his nose before rising to his feet and standing next to Roland again. I saw Mokuba yawn tiredly and found myself doing the same.
"We should get to sleep, it's getting late and it's been a long day." Mokuba commented, stifling another yawn and stretching.
"But the maids haven't set up any of the beds sir." Roland said.
"We'll just all sleep downstairs on the sofas in the sitting room. That way if Seto comes back we'll know." Mokuba smiled excitedly at the thought of a sleepover.
"Very well Sir, would you like Jason and I to bring down some extra blankest and pillows?" Roland inquired with a bow.
"If you wouldn't mind, please. Come on guys let's go!" Mokuba exclaimed his mood lightening; he then grabbed Téa and Yugi by the sleeves and dragged them out the room, Joey and I following behind.
It didn't take long before we were all downstairs in the sitting room, Roland and Jason had just dropped off an abundance of pillows and quilts and left us for the night, retiring to their rooms within Kaiba Mansion. Yugi made a quick call to Grandpa informing him of where we were and what was happing, while Joey did the same to his Dad and Téa to her parents. We had arranged the many, many pillows up against the longest sofa which faced the giant T.V as well as laid a few quilts down to act as mattresses. Instead of going to straight to bed like intended, we somehow managed to find ourselves watching a movie marathon complete with drinks and popcorn. It seemed everything was forgotten, we weren't worrying about Kaiba and what time he would roll in, instead we just sat about as friends having a laugh.
About halfway through the third film, it was Shaun of the Dead Mokuba, Yugi and Téa had fallen asleep and Joey and I weren't far behind. We decided to call it quits and this time actually go to sleep. Turning off the impressively large T.V in front of us Joey and I exchanged goodnights before I laid my head down and shut my eyes. And as I lay there, I thought about today's events only hours ago. I'd never seen Kaiba act like that before, sure I've heard from Roland but to actually see it…witness it is completely different and most unnerving.
I don't know how long I was laying there for, but I found no matter what I just would not, could not fall asleep. I opened my eyes for what seemed like the billionth time to clear my mind again. I glanced at the digital clock on the DVD player it read 4:37. Urgh, why can't I just go to sleep. As I closed my eyes again, this time determined to fall asleep I think I was finally about to drift off when…
Riiiiiiiing!
The shrill ringing of the telephone cut through the silence of the room, causing moans and groans from everyone in response. Joey, who was nearest to one of the coffee tables flicked on the lamp on and sat up slightly, rubbing his eyes.
"Urgh…who calls at like four in the morning?" Joey moaned as he stifled a yawn.
Riiiiiiiing!
"I don't know just make it stop." Mokuba whined as he shoved his head under his pillow.
"I'll get it." I volunteered it's not like I was getting much sleep anyway.
Riiiiiiiing!
I crawled out from the mass of quilts and rose to my feet, stretching at the same time. I then padded bare foot across the soft carpet towards the offending contraction and picked it up.
"Hello?"
"No, this is a friend of his, who is speaking?" I said into the receiver.
My eyes bulged and I don't know how I managed to stop myself from letting the phone slip out my hand. "Alright, I'll let him know, thank you goodbye." I muttered and then the line went dead.
I slowly placed the phone back into it's holder and stood, fixed to the same spot for a while.
"Hey Yami, who was that?" Mokuba asked as he pulled his head out from underneath his pillows and looked at me, as did everybody else.
I gulped and prepared myself for the answer. Slowly I turned to face Mokuba and the rest of the gang and plucked up enough courage to reply to Mokuba's simple question.
"Mokuba it was Domino Central Hospital. Kaiba…they said he…he was in an accident." I paused and allowed Mokuba to take in the information before continuing, "They said he's sustained some very serious injuries…that he's going into surgery now…I'm sorry."
Author's Note's
Hi thanks for reading this and please review and tell me your thoughts ;)
Also you probably noticed Mokuba kept switching from calling Kaiba Seto to Dad, that's only because he's still trying to get use to it and not a mistake I left in. ;)