Playing Big Brother
Yes yet another Mokuba and Seto Kaiba story written by me, got to love them!
This story is about how Seto Kaiba is always busy, so busy that he has absolutely no time for his little brother, Mokuba. After asking so many times and always getting the same response Mokuba gets bored of asking and makes a decision to try and find another brother, one that can spend time with him and such. What will Seto think, how does Mokuba find one and who is it?
Chapter 10: Predictable
The long raven haired boy was laid out on his back on his bed; he let out a loud huffy sigh to himself. He had a ton of homework to do but 'decided' he wasn't going to do it, for once. Part of his rebelling against his older brother, even though in a way he didn't like it because he liked getting good grades and hated to fall behind. But he wanted to show his brother that he was serious, hopefully this will help sink the message in.
"Master Mokuba! This is getting ridiculous!" Called a familiar voice through the bedroom door. "You're going to have to come out to eat some time, you'll starve."
The boy glared at the door extensively, he already knew it was Rowland that was calling through the door. But as far as he was concerned Rowland was just a messenger and Seto was behind him being there pretty much, maybe not literally but still.
He had basically hauled himself up in his bedroom for every spare second of time he had in the past couple of days. Only leaving the room when he had to go to school and immediately walking to and from the limo and headed directly back to bedroom, didn't stop anywhere else in the mansion. Which made it very hard to eat but he found that after a while they'd give up knocking on his door for that time being and would just leave some food by his door, which he would casually sneak into his bedroom and then leave the cutlery and dishes in the same place after he'd finished. At least thankfully they didn't want him to starve or anything.... Also as an extra plus he had his own bathroom so he didn't have to leave for that. Unfortunately for Rowland that meant he was making his job a lot harder with Seto in a bad mood and trying to coax him out of the room.
"Come on, Master Mokuba! Please just open up." Rowland made another attempt to plea.
"No! Why should I?!" The boy yelled back finally, getting annoyed with all the pounding.
"Your brother's waiting at the dinner table for you. Why not go down and at least chat to him?" Rowland tried to persist with what he thought was a reasonable explanation.
As far as the raven haired boy was concerned that didn't deserve a response. Does he even need to explain why? What was the point of seeing Seto? There was nothing new to say or even organise. Seto had lived up to his word of having the sibling agency cancelled, took Mokuba's landline phone out of his bedroom, was screening his mail and basically tried to have staff observe him 24/7, not that was much possible because he had stuffed himself in his bedroom.
Seto knew now...... Alister was the Alister that was in the Doom organisation and had originally set out to destroy their lives. It was only natural that Seto kind of went into his own personal stress and panic mode, the boy couldn't really blame him in some ways because any normal human being would after the things Alister had originally done. He saw him as a threat and most likely had his brain going overtime on trying to figure out what Alister wanted, whether he was using his little brother to get to him or did he want to snatch Mokuba away from him. Of course first things first were trying to ban Mokuba from ever having contact with him again and made a start on trying to disconnect him off.
Beep Beep!
However he didn't manage to get this mobile phone off him. Guess Seto didn't figure out that Alister had his mobile number, Mokuba guessed even geniuses can't think of every option and plot hole sometimes.
Mokuba, who was laid out on his bed, turned onto his side and grabbed his mobile phone off his bedside table and proceeded to flip it open and click on all the necessary buttons.
"Master Mokuba!" Rowland yelled again through his bedroom door but Mokuba totally ignored him and continued with his phone.
"Alister......." Mokuba whispered to himself when he saw who the message was from. He wasn't annoyed at Alister for contacting him but realised how risky things were now with his brother knowing. Could he really keep any form of relationship up with Alister now? It was definitely a major question that had been swirling around in his head.
Hey,
Haven't heard from you in the past couple days and hope things are going well with you. Why aren't you part of the program anymore? Is it something I've done? I need to speak to you, meet me outside the gates in 15 minutes.
Xxxx
Mokuba automatically memorised the message and immediately deleted it, best not to leave any traces of Alister around, would only make Seto even madder. Seto had already given everybody as much earache as possible over this one certain subject matter and wasn't likely to let it drop anytime soon.
He went into thought for a moment, how was going to get out of here in time without getting caught, Rowland was outside his door to start with.....
"Come on Master Mokuba! How about just 5 minutes, huh?!" Rowland continued, obviously thinking that with persistence Mokuba would change his mind. Wrong.
With hearing Rowland's voice at that moment in time a light bulb went off in the young boys head and he had an idea. He just hoped that Seto and the staff would run to what he thought they would do, sometimes staff that worked in the mansion were so predictable.
"Ok..... But only 5 minutes!" Mokuba called back, trying to sound innocent and truthful in his voice.
"Unlock the door then Master Mokuba!" Rowland called back, a faint sound of relief in his voice was clear to be heard.
Mokuba tapped his chin in thought for a second, well that's not going to happen with Rowland standing there. "I'll come out in 5 minutes; I've got to finish up my homework that I'm in the middle of." Mokuba lied through his teeth, not that anyone wouldn't believe him though because usually he did do his homework without needing to be prompted. "Could you go to the dinner room and tell Seto that?"
Mokuba held in his breath for what felt like forever as he waited for Rowland's reply, hoping it would be the one he was expecting.
"Ok, Master Mokuba." Rowland replied simply, clearly believing the youth's story.
Mokuba waited a second and heard Rowland's feet walk off and became a sound in a distance. He smirked to himself and gave himself an imaginary pat on the back, Rowland was getting to predictable for his own good, alone with most of the staff here and just made it easier when they think of him as reliable to his word.
When the raven haired boy was certain that the coast was clear after a few minutes he lightly stepped to the bedroom door and opened it slightly to peer out. Just as he thought, the corridor was deserted and people in the mansion obviously had taken his word for things. He reclosed and locked the door, he then proceeded to make a little bag for himself and picked up his mobile phone and shoved it into his jacket pocket. He then went back to the door and unlocked and opened it, once again for a moment glanced out of the door. When he was sure the coast was clear still he lightly stepped out and closed the bedroom door behind him. He continued to lightly step down the short corridor, what felt like forever for him, and reached the banister for the stairs. Mokuba looked down to see staff walking in from all directions and were obviously heading to the dinner room, where Seto was, which made him smirk because that was just what he thought Seto would do.
"Don't tell me your getting predictable too now, big brother." Mokuba muttered to himself.
He waited for a moment till he saw all the staff going on through, checking each staff member to make sure one wasn't lurking around elsewhere. He figured Seto would do this; he never usually lied and clearly thought that he was going straight to the dinner room because of that fact. True, this felt a little foreign to him and he did feel guilty for lying so much about this subject but what else could he do? He didn't want to just leave Alister hanging and never being able to have contact with him again. At some points he wondered whether this one single incident in his life has poisoned people's views of him. Look at where it's gotten him, lying to everyone, sneaking around, slipping a little academically, Seto no longer trusted him......... The list went on. All this just because he wanted to spend some more time with his big brother and get an 'A' on his sibling report........... This has so gotten out of hand now; well at least that's what Mokuba was starting to think.
The young boy started to gently glide down the stairs with the most lightest footsteps he could muster, sure that the staff had cleared out into the dinner room. There wasn't as much staff in today, loads had either taken the day off or were taking their holiday time, much to Seto's dislike but not much he could do when it was the common law. Mokuba was almost certain that one day Seto will even try fighting that law, most likely somewhere in the near future. Having less staff just made it easier for getting out, which Mokuba had no problems with.
Mokuba easily got down the stairs and to the front door with no problems and let himself quietly out the front door. He looked quickly at his watch and noticed it was roughly the time the guard at the main gate would often go on his break. Coincidence? Na, more like pure luck for Mokuba. And of course like everything else recently, predictable.
The boy peered towards the gate and saw the guard just clocking off his card and walking down the street outside, most likely having to pick something up during this break. He quickly walked over and pressed the open button to let himself out of the mansions grounds. The raven haired boy glanced for a moment back at the mansion and felt a little pang of guilt, he could picture Seto really now wanting to talk to him and try and clear things up about incident and waiting at that table for him. Most likely with his favourite foods at the ready, going to try and 'make it up' to him and tell him he didn't need Alister in his life because he had him.......
Honk Honk!
Mokuba glanced back away from the mansion to see Alister in his car, waiting for Mokuba to hop in. As Mokuba started walking over to the car Alister leaned over from the driver's seat and opened the passenger door for him. Mokuba gave him a small smile and hopped in. As Mokuba did up his belt Alister immediately started to quickly drive off from the mansion. Mokuba glanced back at the disappearing mansion, there was that guilt again, and Seto was going to be so mad at him once he finds out.......
"What's with the sad face?" Questioned the other person in the car, grabbing Mokuba's attention. "Don't tell me, you didn't tell the 'older brother' that you were going out?"
"Course not." Mokuba replied in a 'duh' like voice. Wouldn't be smart telling Seto anything in this field. "He'd kill you if he knew."
"I know." Alister smirked, getting a mental image of a way angry Seto Kaiba. Granted though, it didn't take a lot to wind Kaiba up, especially if you're someone like him and he automatically hated you already. He sat there for a moment smirking to himself as he drove, thinking bad thoughts of Kaiba.
"Where are we going?" Mokuba finally asked after enough moments of silence and Alister not bothering to say anything further.
"Oh, um this cafe to get some food and drink." Alister replied after snapping out of his thoughts, mentally slapping himself because he should behave himself more because Kaiba was still Mokuba's 'real' older brother. His face then suddenly changing to a serious expression when he remembered why he wanted to meet up with Mokuba. "We need to talk about some things."
Mokuba bite his lip a little when he heard that but he already knew it was coming. "I know." He replied simply. He already knew that he was going to have to explain the now current situation with Seto; Alister most likely won't like it. Maybe Alister could even give him suggestions on what to do about it....... Maybe even go visit Seto himself to try and talk to him about it, see if something could be arranged........ What was he thinking!? Seto wouldn't allow anything to be 'arranged' with Alister. They were lucky as it was; he was even a little bit surprised that Seto didn't want to track Alister down to give him a piece of his mind.........
"I take it it's something serious from the look on your face." Alister commented, snapping Mokuba out of his millions of thoughts.
Mokuba glanced back over at Alister and saw that he kept on glancing at him while trying to keep his eyes on the road, obviously observing the young boys facial expressions for answers.
"Must be something to do with Kaiba then." Alister continued with the comment.
"How did you know it's something to do him?" Mokuba questioned.
"A hunch." Alister scoffed. "Whenever something seems to go wrong in my life he's usually got something to do with it."
"Seto's not that bad." Mokuba attempted to defend. Sure he was still mad at him and that wasn't going to change anytime soon but Seto wasn't 100% bad and actually set out all the time to make Alister's like a misery. "He hasn't really done anything bad to you really, nothing directly from him."
Alister glared back at the younger Kaiba, a dark look clearly visible on his face. "He's not messing this up too." He growled and resumed to silence and driving, looking straight ahead.
Mokuba was wide eyed for a moment, he'd never seen Alister look so...... Creepy and scary before. He could tell that Alister had so much more to say and against Seto but was obviously holding back for his sake. Also the comment he had just made was very clear, he didn't want the program to end and obviously is thinking that Seto's going to be in his way. This wasn't going to be easy to sort out..........