Seto spent the rest of the day showing Yugi around the large mansion. Well, more like, he showed Yugi all of the rooms and hallways that he was never allowed to enter while they lived there. For each one he gave a reason, sometimes that there were renovations being done and sometimes because there were memories that he didn't want to disturb, but Yugi couldn't keep track of them all. The only thing that he could keep track of was that it seemed that he was only allowed to go to three different places in the whole of the house: his new room, Seto's room, and the huge living room. If he wanted to go anywhere else he would have to ask either Seto or, if Seto wasn't home, the main butler. Yugi didn't mind, though. The small amount of room that he was given to use was actually just about the same size as his home. The large mansion had seemed so big when he was outside, but now that he was restricted to only a few areas it felt much more homey.
"I think I'll like it here," Yugi said with a smile.
"Good," Seto smirked, "because you'll be staying here for a while to come."
"Seto?" Yugi said nervously.
"What?" Seto asked.
"I do have one question," Yugi answered.
"What is it?" Seto said impatiently.
"What will we do when we have to move?" Yugi asked quickly. He didn't think that Seto was going to like this part of the vampiric life, but there was no way that they could stay in this city for as long as they lived. They would have to move in order for people not to get too suspicious about how they never really aged. The humans finding out weren't even the thing that Yugi feared the most. There were other things that he would not want to run into.
"I have several mansions around the world," Seto answered. "When the time comes that we have to move we can just move to one of those other mansions."
"Oh," Yugi said shyly. He should have known that Seto would have a mansion in every place that his precious corporation was stationed. "What about Kaiba Corp.?"
"What about it?"
"You can't continue being the same Seto Kaiba. People will notice that you aren't aging."
"I will find a way around that," Seto growled. There was no way that he was going to give up the company that he worked so hard to take away from his cruel adopted father."
"I'm sorry," Yugi mumbled. "I didn't mean to offend you."
Seto looked over at Yugi. It was hard to believe that this quivering young boy was the strong vampire that his father claimed him to be, but, then again, Solomon had mentioned that Yugi was fragile. "It's fine," Seto muttered. He hadn't actually been offended. He was just not willing to ever give up the company that he had worked so hard to steal from his father. "I'm hungry," Seto realized suddenly.
"Oh!" Yugi gasped. "Of course! Let me go get some food. I'll be right back." With that Yugi was rushing back up the stairs where his bags had been placed in his walk in closet.
Seto just sat down on the couch and waited for Yugi to return. He was hungry, but he wouldn't be impatient about it. Yugi needed to have his own meals in order to feed Seto and Seto would not take the chance of almost killing him again. He already felt horrible about almost doing it when he was first learning to feed. He would not make that same mistake again.
Yugi returned within moments, carrying two bags filled with blood, and sat on Seto's lap without even asking permission. At first Seto tensed up at the contact, but then, when he realized that this was the best vantage point for him to be able to feed while allowing the both of them to still remain comfortable, he decided that he didn't really care. He leaned forward and sank his teeth into the pale neck before him and immediately felt the blood that he craved slipping into his mouth.
They stayed like that for a moment before Yugi finally ran out of blood and Seto was forced to stop drinking so that he wouldn't drain Yugi of all of his. "Hey Seto," Yugi said thoughtfully as he moved to sit on the couch next to him.
"What?" Seto asked, still staring at that tempting neck that was sitting next to him.
"Please don't hate me for this," Yugi bit his lip, "but I think that we're going to have to pretend to be dating."
"What?" That got Seto's attention away from the food and up to look at Yugi's face. "Why?"
"It's just that…" Yugi trailed off clearly trying to find the right words to explain it; "I don't think that you should go a whole day without eating. People who have been vampires for years can barely do that and you are a newborn. It would look weird if you just randomly bit my neck without us having any sort of explanation. If we pretend to be dating then you can eat whenever you want and everyone will think that we are just making out or something. I know it's a really bad idea, but it's the only one that I can think of."
"What did you do when you were drinking your grandpa's blood?" Seto asked curiously.
"I was homeschooled then," Yugi explained. "We didn't have to worry about things like that because we never really left the house unless we needed to, but now we're going to be in public places. If you don't think that's a good idea than I can try to think of something else, but I think that might be our only choice."
"Fine," Seto sighed. He didn't really want to pretend to be dating the shrimp next to him, but it would solve several of his problems. People wouldn't ask why Yugi moved into his house or why they were 'making out' as Yugi called it, and woman would, hopefully, finally stop bothering Seto about dating them. He hated to admit that it might actually be a win-win scenario.
"I'm really sorry," Yugi muttered. "I know this can't make you very happy, but I really couldn't think of anything else."
"What about you?" Seto asked suspiciously.
"What about me?" Yugi asked.
"Isn't going to be weird for everyone to think that you're gay?" Seto clarified.
"No," Yugi shook his head nervously. "I'm gay. So I don't really care if everyone knows that." There was a pause between the two of them as Seto let this new piece of information sink in, but Yugi thought that Seto thought that he was disgusting. "Don't worry though!" he said frantically. "I won't come on to you or anything."
"I don't care," Seto shrugged.
"You don't?" asked Yugi shocked.
"That's part of dating isn't it?" Seto asked as though it was the most normal thing in the world.
"Oh," Yugi nodded. "Of course."
There was another moment of silence between them and Yugi, trying to change the subject, walked around the living room to look at the few pictures that were placed in random areas around the room. Almost all of the contained a young boy that had long messy black hair. "These are nice pictures," Yugi said as he picked up one of the ones that had a young Seto in it as well.
"That's my brother," Seto responded with a far off look. "He disappeared a few years ago."
"Mokuba disappeared?" Yugi frowned. "That's not like him."
"You knew my brother?" Seto asked suspiciously.
Yugi bit his lip. He hadn't meant to let that little piece of information slip past his tongue, but it had and now he was going to have to explain something that he didn't think that Seto would like to hear. "He was a friend of Yami's," he said cautiously.
"Your grandfather?" Seto asked. "That's not even possible. He's been with me my whole life."
"Can I ask you a question Seto," Yugi asked. Seto only nodded so he continued. "How much of your life can you remember?"
"I remember living in the orphanage with Mokuba and I remember Gozabura Kaiba adopting me and him," Seto answered with a raised eyebrow not understanding why Yugi was asking about it.
"But you don't remember anything that happened before the orphanage?" Yugi asked.
"I was in a car crash with my parents," Seto answered.
"Before that?" Yugi pressed. Seto shook his head with the sudden realization that he didn't remember any of his childhood with his parents or Mokuba. "Mokuba wanted to protect you so he decided to pretend to be your little brother while you were in the orphanage," Yugi said. "He didn't want you to have to be alone anymore."
"What a great job he did," Seto muttered sarcastically. "I was the one who was usually protecting him."
Yugi nodded slowly. "You wanted to be the perfect older brother," he said. "So Mokuba let you do that."
"Wait," Seto shook his head. "Don't tell me that Mokuba is my grandpa too."
"No," Yugi answered. "He was your uncle."
"So that's why he disappeared," Seto sighed. He didn't want to let it show, but he had always worried about what had happened to his little brother all those years ago when he disappeared. Now he had an explanation and he didn't have to worry anymore. "He was trying to hide the fact that he wasn't growing from me." What Seto was not expecting was for Yugi to shake his head with a frown.
"Mokuba was never the type of person to just disappear," Yugi said. "He would have at least told you that he was going, if he went at all. Mokuba's more of the type of person to stick around and pretend that he was a late bloomer for as long as he possibly could before choosing to go off to some place that you would know about ahead of time and would still remain in contact with you after that."
"And you know this because?" Seto asked.
"Yami helped Mokuba get away from his parents the first time," Yugi explain. "He told me about it just in case I ever had to use the same tactic."
"So you're telling me that Mokuba didn't go missing of his own free will." Yugi shook his head. "Is there any chance that he's still alive?"
"Vampires are really hard to kill," Yugi answered. "The only way that I know to kill them is to rip their heart out of their body. However, if they are wounded badly enough, they slip into a coma that resembles death. The only way to wake them is to feed them blood. There is a chance that whoever took Mokuba thought he was dead or that whoever found him thought he was dead and he's just in a coma."
"I have to find him," Seto growled before Yugi could say anything more.
"Wait!" Yugi gasped.
"What?" Seto growled back.
"I don't want you to get your hopes up," Yugi said quietly. "There are vampire hunters in this world who know exactly how to kill vampires. There is a possibility that he's still alive, but there is also a possibility that he has been dead for a while now."
"Than what do you propose I do?" Seto hissed. "Just leave him out there."
"I don't want to stop you from looking for him," Yugi shook his head frantically. "I just don't want you to get your hopes too high. There have been vampires who have searched for another for so long that they actually stopped feeding and fell into a coma because of it."
"Than what do you propose I do?" Seto sighed. He wanted to find his brother, but he knew that everything that Yugi told him was completely true.
"I think that you should look for him," Yugi smiled, "and I'll help you look for him. Just don't give up your life looking for someone that you don't even know whether or not they're alive."