Cuteandsweet: Your username reminds me of that one song by Katy Perry… CAUSE YOU'RE HOT AND YOUR COLD, YOU'RE YES THAN YOU'RE NO—I shall not continue or else I will be wasting a reply. Anyways, thanks for the review and the hugs! Enjoy the update.

AmePiper: HI DARLING :D I was so happy to get a review from you, especially on the day of an update! You're most certainly on a role… TO MY SOUL~! (I think that was supposed to come out romantic… it didn't exactly work though) I can feel you on that, I'm about to get a job myself and it's probably going to be massively time consuming. I'm hoping it won't prevent me from being able to do this though! I'm sure it'll take time for you to like Seth, especially since I've gotten so many reviews already saying people think he seems like Joey (I kept telling people I was going to randomly give him cancer just because of that) But yes, it'll be a long process but I think in the end I will be victorious, or I hope to be at least. Oh yeah, the Dark Knight reference… I don't think anyone else got it either XD I think it was because it was pretty subtle… but anyways, I love you and I'm so thankful for you finding time to leave me this wonderful review! I hope all is going well for you otherwise, enjoy the update when you find time, lovely.

KaelynnD: I'm not sure you mentioned that you liked my story enough… haha, I'm kidding! I'm glad you liked the chapter. I think you're really going to love this next one, although it doesn't have as much Seto/Gozaburo interaction as the last, but it's still pretty interesting! I'm looking forward to hearing what you think. Thanks again for the review!

MythCreatorWriter: I'm really not a fangirl… at all-.- I don't really think I get into that mind set… well, okay, maybe I do when it concerns brother fluff. Like that one scene in the chapter before last, where Seto and Mokuba were in the woods and they made that promise… Rena and I were actually just talking about that on the phone and she thought that was so cute and her and I were squealing over it for like a half hour. So I guess in brother fluff terms, I get fangirl-y, but there aren't many other situations where that happens. Yeah, I envision Gozaburo being super strong even though he's… well, 72 years old. And you pondering whether Noah was dead or not is what I wanted you to ponder XD. I won't reveal that until much later though… in the mean time, thanks for the review and enjoy the chapter!

Episode 11: Night of Too Many Plans

It was a Friday. Not only that but in a few short hours, it would become Friday night. Gozaburo didn't find much significance in such a fact, but he could appreciate it for being the last business day of the week. The last day of the business week usually meant time at home, enjoying the family, catching up on things in one's personal life. For Gozaburo, it never meant what he considered to be menial and unimportant things. For Gozaburo, it meant using this extra time to get ahead in his work.

Gozaburo popped out yet another unedited tape from Camera 2 and sighed. He had found nothing, absolutely nothing. For the past month or so, he had been monitoring all footage that was being taken for the show, desperately looking for some sort of sign or mention of the key to Seto's two percent. It seemed it did not even exist amongst the cast as they went about their lively hood having every waking moment of their life recorded on tape.

The phone rang, Gozaburo instinctively picked it up.

"Yes?"

"Mr. Kaiba, it's me, Gansley."

"You better have good news for me, Gansley, I have you people working day in and day out and you have still managed to fail in finding any clues related to the key." The line was silent for a moment. Gozaburo thought that Gansley had hung up until he spoke again with nervousness in his tone.

"Well, we have… some good news, I like to think." Gozaburo raised his eyebrow.

"And what news would that be?"

"The network called today… turns out Kaiba Corp. Chaos is on its way to being the number one rated show right now. Every Thursday night, viewers from all over Japan tune in to watch the latest episode and our sales our through the roof because of it. The young people have even made an application in honor of our show on this popular social networking website that is all the rage these days. The TV show has become a great success!" Gozaburo slammed his fist down.

"You call that good news?!"

"Um…"

"I could care less about the show's ratings or rankings! Tell me, have you found ANY footage referencing the key I desire?" Again, silence. "Answer me!"

"…No Sir, we haven't found anything yet. I'm sorry." Gozaburo hung up the phone. He had enough of this; it was time to do some searching of his own. It was obvious no one on the cast knew about it so he couldn't expect to find any evidence in looking through the tapes. He would just have to search through Seto's things for himself.

Gozaburo had been planning to embark on such a task early on, but hadn't found a free moment in the last couple weeks. What it all came down to was psychological power. Gozaburo didn't want Seto knowing that he was searching Seto's things, even though Seto suspected that was Gozaburo's initiative, which was why Seto had spent the last four weeks unseen; locked away in his room doing what he assumed was what Seto was best at, working.

Gozaburo needed an opportunity to thoroughly search Seto's room, but without his knowledge. He just needed one chance, one night, where he could have the whole house to himself to do as he needed. But where could such a night be found in a house of five other people?

Just a few hallways away, two of those people were in their room, getting dressed and ready for their first night out since they had begun living in the Kaiba Mansion. Mai walked out of the bathroom and over to Kisara.

"What do you think of this outfit?" Kisara looked up shyly and smiled.

"It looks… nice." Mai rolled her eyes.

"Come on, Kiki, you have to tell me more than that! How do I look?"

"You look… really nice?" Mai groaned in frustration and stomped back into the bathroom. Kisara shrugged and went back to brushing her hair into the style that she liked it on special occasions. It wasn't much different from how she usually wore her hair. All she did was brush her bangs out of her face. It made more of a difference than most would suspect.

Kisara: When I was a kid, it used to upset me that I didn't have a nickname. I thought for the longest time I had somehow been cursed because no one could seem to come up with any kind of name to replace 'Kisara' with. Of course, that was before I started rooming with Mai. One day, out of nowhere, she started calling me 'Kiki' and just like that, I had a nickname. No one else calls me that, only Mai for the most part. I don't mind the nickname because I'm more excited that someone has finally thought of one for me.

Mai stomped out of the bathroom once more and presented herself to Kisara again.

"How about this?" Kisara got up from her seat and scanned Mai up and down. She appeared to be in deep thought until an obvious idea came to mind. Mai was wearing a tight black top and dark blue skinny jeans, accompanied by a fashionable belt. Kisara walked over to Mai, grabbed the top of her low-cut tank top, and pulled it up to conceal her chest.

"There. Perfect," Kisara said, smiling. Mai didn't look pleased. She grabbed a hold of Kisara's modest V-top and pulled it down in order to reveal her chest.

"Now that's what I call perfect." Kisara frowned but laughed as she pulled her shirt back up and Mai did the opposite. "Seriously Kiki, how do you expect boys to notice you if you're always hiding the goodies?"

"Excuse me?"

"Oh please Kiki, don't be so surprised. We've been rooming together for nearly a month now, you know my language is more provocative than yours and I told you I didn't plan to change it." Kisara couldn't argue with that since it was true. Mai was loose cannon, she couldn't be kept in check and she wouldn't be censored. Although she was a complete opposite of Kisara in many ways, Kisara had come to accept her the same way she had agreed to go out that night… with Mai persuading her to do so by use of threats.

Mai: Ugh, it took me FOREVER to think of something horrifying enough to get Kiki to come out with me. I think I ended up threatening to send for a stripper to creep into her bed while she was sleeping but I don't remember, I said so many things! But anyways, I'm super excited about tonight because it's the first time in the entire month that we've been here that we're going out. Honestly, I felt like I was on the Brady Bunch or something, it was so lame! Tonight will change all of that though because I'm taking the most shy and modest human being in the world clubbing!

"Fine, I guess you're right," Kisara got up and grabbed her purse off the bed; "I'm ready to go, are you?" Mai was putting on bright red lipstick while looking in the mirror. She snagged a small tissue and putting it between her lips and clamped down. She winked in the mirror and threw away the tissue.

"Now I am! Let's go." The two of them walked down the steps together. They entered the living room where Mokuba and Seth were playing a game of duel monsters on the floor. Neither of them looked up when Mai and Kisara came into the room, they were too focused on the game.

"Okay, now it's my turn and I'll draw…"

"Hey boys, why don't you take a break from your stupid card game and check out the two hottest ladies in the household?" Seth looked up from his hand and dropped his cards to the ground as he stared at Mai and Kisara; his eyes were mainly focused on Kisara.

Seth: She's the embodiment of beauty itself. I didn't realize how much of her face her long bangs concealed, but to see her piercing blue eyes in the full light… it was like looking into a crystal ball and finding a utopia that you didn't believe existed until you saw the gorgeous woman's face.

"Wow Kisara, you look—" Mai cut Seth off before he could finish.

"Smoking hot? I know, took me all day to pry her into that outfit too. You wouldn't believe how strong this little twig is." Kisara laughed but tried to cover her blushing face.

"You guys never told me you were playing duel monsters." Everyone turned and stared at Seto who had just walked in from the next room over, a glass of orange juice in his hands. Everyone seemed shocked to see him.

"What?"

"Well didn't you pick a splendid time to make an appearance?" Mai asked, putting her hands on her hips. "We were just about to leave, actually…"

"Where are you going?" Seto asked, taking another sip of his orange juice.

Seth: It's true that we haven't seen that much of Seto lately. After we got back from camping, it was like he disappeared. We would see him from time to time but only for a few minutes before he disappeared again. He was gone all the time I don't even know where, maybe his room? Although I feel like we checked there tons of times… anyway, so we barely saw him. There was this one stretch where we didn't see him for practically two weeks. We thought the guy had left the show to be honest. The only reason we believed he was still here was because Mokuba talked about him. I guess at some points when he was gone, he was hanging out with Mokuba. It's almost like that kid is the only person that gets to see him.

"We're going clubbing," Mai said and then suddenly thought of an idea, "Hey! You guys should totally come with us! After all, some clubs won't let you in unless you have a date. Seth, Seto, you should come out with us!" Seto looked bored by the idea. Seth, on the other hand, jumped to his feet in excitement.

"That sounds like a great idea!" Mokuba frowned.

"What about me?" Mokuba asked being a little disappointed that he hadn't been invited.

"Sorry kiddo, you're much too young to come with us to a club."

"Yeah, seriously dude, you couldn't even pull yourself off as a sixteen year old even if you tried! Sorry little man," Seth said, giving a short pat on Mokuba's head. Mokuba folded his arms.

Mokuba: So Noah's been gone for a while now and it's not like I'm sad that he's gone but there's only one problem… suddenly I've become, 'The Kid' of the house. I mean, sure, you put Noah and I in the same room and we were seen as nothing more than, 'The Kids' but there's something about just being 'The Kid' that sucks. I guess what I mean is that when you live in a house full of teenagers and one old guy, it kind of stinks not having someone else to complain with when you get left behind for being too young.

"No fair!" Seto returned from the kitchen after putting away his cup.

"Well Seth will just have to be both of your dates because there's no way I'm going out." Mai moaned in protest.

"Oh come ON Seto, live a little, won't you?"

"If it weren't because of the fact that I hate clubs, I would still have to decline your offer because someone has to watch Mokuba." Mai shook her head.

"Oh please Seto, we have a living, breathing old guy walking around somewhere in this house. Why don't we leave Mokuba with him?" Suddenly all the worst case scenarios entered Seto's mind and the idea of leaving the house seemed like murder. He shook his head frantically in protest.

"No, that's definitely not going to happen. I'm staying here." There was a shiver sent down Seto's spine just trying to ignore the thoughts in his head.

"You guys will have to find another living, breathing old guy because I'm not going to be staying in tonight either." Mai twisted around and her face burned red with embarrassment. Gozaburo was standing behind them, tying a tie around his neck; a winter coat already had been slipped on and buttoned up. Gozaburo flipped out his car keys from his pocket. "I'll be seeing you all later."

"Wait… where in the world are you going?" Seto asked, insanely suspicious. Never in his entire life had he seen Gozaburo go out on a Friday night. That was, unless, there was some sort of Kaiba Corp. event going on at an expensive hotel. Gozaburo opened the door and looked back at him. He smiled.

"Out. I'll be late, so see you all tomorrow morning." And with that, he left.

Seto: This was getting to be suspicious… almost too suspicious. A seventy-two year old man doesn't just 'go out' on a Friday night, especially not the seventy-two year old man who can sometimes be mistaken for the devil himself. Gozaburo was up to something, I could feel it, but what he was up to was a complete mystery. Either way, I had decided then that I couldn't take my chances and let anyone out of my site.

"Well, there goes our free babysitter…"

"Ha, my mom used to say that all the time when I was little!" Seth said before laughing. Mai smacked her forehead. This was not working out to be the Friday she had planned at all and they hadn't even walked out the door.

"I guess we'll just go by ourselves," Kisara said, finally speaking up when she assessed the final outcome of the situation. Mai couldn't object to it.

"No, we're coming with you," Seto said, "All three of us."

"Um, Seto… what about the squirt?"

"Would you guys stop call me random little kid names? I'm eleven years old!"

"That's the problem, short stop." Mokuba growled.

"I'm coming with you, we all will. I'll get Mokuba in no problem."

"How do you expect to do that?" Seto grinned.

"I'm Seto Kaiba and this is Domino City, give or take, I practically run this town." Mai liked the sound of that.

"Now that's something I can believe in! Guys, let's get ready to party." Mai put her arm around Seto's. "Shall we go?" Seto decided to go with his and bent his arm to mirror hers.

"If that's the way we're going to pair up, it's fine by me. I'm driving." Seto led Mai out of the house. Kisara was about to run after them in a heated fit of rage, but Seth had managed to intertwine his arm with hers. She looked up and he smiled.

"My lady?" Kisara wrapped her other arm around his.

"I suppose I could go by that for one night," She said in a timid and shy tone. Then together, arm in arm, they went off and out of the house. Mokuba rolled his eyes at all the potentially romantic scenes and laughed at the stupidity of them.

"Wow, grown-ups are stupid, aren't they?" Mokuba asked, turning to his side as if he were expecting someone to be there. He frowned and felt silly immediately afterwards. Noah had been gone for a month, there was no reason Mokuba should've expected Noah to even be standing beside him. Mokuba sighed.

Mokuba: In a strange and messed up way… I kind of miss Noah. I didn't realize it until now but there's a possibility Noah could be watching this right now on his TV screen. If that's true then I just wanted to say that I hope you're doing well… wherever you are.


A/N: Hey guys! I hope you enjoyed one quick of an update! You know, after reading through this and editing it I realized that I've never actually written a fanfic where romance was a semi-important sub-plot before. It kind of makes me excited. I never thought I was good at romance, and I don't think I'm even better now, but I'm excited to see where all of this takes me (especially since I have a pretty complicated triangle going on right now. I couldn't have made it harder for myself, could I? Haha) Anyways, so I'm super stoked for what is in store for our lovely cast members and I imagine you are too. Hopefully I'll get another update out there soon before life gets too busy for me again! Thanks for reading.