Sick Scam

A cute short story about Mokuba and Seto Kaiba, most likely only a couple chapters long, will see. Mokuba hates how recently work and duel monsters has been having his brother tied up and has all his interest, what about him? Doesn't he matter? He thinks that if he's sick Seto will spend a little time with him, even if only for a little while……………

"I'm going in today!" Mokuba snapped back, voice full of insistence.

"Are you sure?" Joey questioned for the hundredth time that morning. "You can't be 100 at this moment in time."

"I'm sure, Joey. I'm sure I can live through a few hours of school and not have anything bad happen to me. Besides………. I'm feeling much better now." Mokuba continued with his insistence.

"Ok…….. If you're sure…….. Do I need to tell your brother or something?"

"I can get there without him knowing. I don't want to see him, especially right now and I appreciate it if I could have a normal life without him butting in. Don't you dare call him!" Mokuba fixed Joey with a stern stare at the end of his sentence, showing he was really serious.

"Ok, Ok!" Joey replied, surprised to see him look so serious. "I won't! Besides……… Looks like 'Kaiba boy' is seriously busy, especially with making that special card with Pegasus."

"Not helping, Joey." Mokuba warned as he continued to pack his things for the school day.

"Hey, come on. That was days ago news anyways……….." Joey replied, trying to act a bit softer.

"Yea but you don't have to rub it in!" Mokuba snapped back with annoyance. "It means that he can go to all this trouble for someone else but can't do that for me."

"Sorry Mokuba…….." Joey replied softly, wishing he'd never mentioned the special card thing now.

"Hmm…….. Let's hurry. I've got to get to school on time." Mokuba quickly changed the subject as he shoved the last of the things he needed for the day. "Thanks by the way for letting me borrow some of your equipment for school. Especially when I'm out of reach for mine."

"No probs, Mokuba. Some of it was Serenities old school stuff, when she stayed over for a bit of time. Don't need anything from Kaiba's house? Your working projects or anything?" Joey explained briefly and asked.

"Na, I was lucky to only be starting projects when I was ill. The teacher emailed me with them so all I have to do is go on your computer tonight and I should be fine." Mokuba reassured, he'd already thought of all the situations. "I'd better go."

"K, see ya later. I better get going myself soon or else I'm going to be late!"

"Bye." Mokuba replied simply as he walked out the door and on his way to school.

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"Uh….. I'm not feeling that brilliant but at least I managed to get through the whole school day………" Mokuba said to himself as he walked out of the school building at a slow pace. Most of the kids had already left the building but Mokuba had to stay behind to chat to his teachers, who made sure he was totally up together with what was currently happening in school. "………… School sure knows how to make you tired………" Mokuba sighed to himself as he walked across the playgrounds of his school to reach the entrance gate. "Can be so boring……….."

Mokuba continued to walk slowly to the entrance gate, couldn't be bother at the fact that if he walked any slower he would be at a total halt. "Hmm?" Mokuba questioned to himself when he did reach the entrance gate and was greeted by a long stretch black limo. "Oh yea, that looks familiar……" He said to himself in a sarcastic tone. Mokuba picked up the pace and stormed past it as fast as his little legs would take him but only to get annoyed when he heard a voice call for him from the behind.

"Mokuba!"

Mokuba stopped, feeling that he was going to have to accept defeat for the moment and face this person. "Look who turned up like a bad penny…….." Mokuba hissed as the taller figure approached him.

"I see that you're all better."

"No thanks to you." Mokuba shot back and looked up to reveal his older brother in his common trench coat.

"Look……… I saw the video tape……… I know you weren't lying about being really sick…….." Seto admitted, giving a bit of an irritated look because of having to admit he was wrong.

"That didn't stop you making me worse though, did it?" Mokuba replied, still in a massive bad mood.

"………….." Seto couldn't reply to that, didn't have an answer because he knew it was true. He did just make him worse than what he started with.

"I got to go." Mokuba said bluntly and started to turn around in a huff. He couldn't believe his brother had just turned up out of the blue and expect it to be OK.

"Wait!" Seto replied and made it sound almost like an order.

Mokuba turned around in a huff and gave his brother a very annoyed look. "Why? Haven't you got some work to get back to?"

"I kept my promise there."

"Huh?"

"I haven't gone back to work for the whole of last week, just as I said I wouldn't." Seto explained roughly.

"Well I know you're lying there…….." Mokuba sighed with annoyance.

"Hmmm? Lying?"

"Yea….. I saw you on TV, Seto…. And it didn't look like you were at home either…….." Mokuba replied simply.

"Oh? You saw me with Pegasus, huh?"

"Sure did. Weren't doing work, huh?"

"Well I wouldn't call it work." Seto replied, not making any emotion through the face and was talking in a blank tone. "It didn't involve the company; all I had to do was let the card be recognised by the system."

"Don't kid me, Seto. I'm not one of your blank faced buyers that need to be convinced into something." Mokuba shot back, thought Seto was just talking a lot of crap. "If it wasn't for your company then it was most likely a publicity stunt. Getting the company more attention. I'm smarter than I look, Seto."

"Could we change the subject?" Seto snapped back, hating the direction that the conversation was going.

"I'd rather not have a conversation with you at all!" Mokuba snapped back. With that Mokuba turned his back on Seto and started to walk away from him again, he felt it was too soon and he was still so mad at his sibling.

"Mokuba…….!" Seto called after him but unlike the last time……. Mokuba didn't stop. "Mokuba!"

He couldn't even be bothered to say he was sorry…….. Mokuba thought to himself as he started to wander off from the shouting Seto Kaiba. Was just making stupid little comments…….. I wish he didn't make me so mad……… But what can I say? Everybody has their limits and……… It's just the fact that this one's mine. I idol him more than anything else in the world and I feel like I've had the biggest let down in the world, he doesn't care about me…… If he did then the recent events shouldn't have happened. He should want to spend time with me but he doesn't…….. Loves machines more…..If he really wants to make things better then………. He could start with at least a full sorry, that's the only way I can see things maybe working for us.

"Mokuba!" Seto called again, getting more and more annoyed and could be heard in his voice. Mokuba didn't bother to turn around, just held up his hand as if to say 'bye' or 'can't be bothered anymore'. "Ok, Ok! I'm sorry! I was wrong! None of this is your fault, it's totally mine…….. I shouldn't have let it get this far……… I wasn't acting like the mature………"

"…….." That one stopped Mokuba in his tracks, stunned him because he'd never heard Seto admit he was wrong before. Sorry wasn't usually in his brother's vocabulary, even when he was clearly in the wrong. Mokuba heard footsteps come up to him from behind and knew Seto had totally caught up with him again while he just stood there. "Say that again……" Mokuba asked simply, wanting to hear those precious words in repeat.

"I've said it once." Seto replied.

"Say that again……." Mokuba repeated but this time with more firmness in his voice.

"Ok….. I'm sorry……… It's my entire fault……… I just made a bad situation even worse with my attitude." Seto sighed in defeat; he knew Mokuba wouldn't be happy till he heard the words again. "Now will you come home?"

"Not at this moment."

"Why?"

"I think it'd be better if discussed things better first…….. I mean…….. If I go back….. What will things be like? Will you just going back to playing games with me? Ignoring me? Pretending I don't exist for a moment so you can do you're constant work?" Mokuba replied, trying state his concerns to Seto. "I don't want to go back if all this is going to continue. I can't cope as the way things are……… If it does continue there would be no going back that time."

"All I can say is………. I'll try, Mokuba……." Seto replied softly, finally seeing Mokuba's point of view in a way.

"I'm going back to Joey's now." Mokuba announced.

"Hmmm?"

"Come over later….. Maybe we could….. Talk a little. See what happens?" Mokuba suggested.

"I'd love that, Mokuba……." Seto replied in an uncommon soft and gentle voice.