Chapter 2
(Jenrya: Pretty good, ey? Seto, as you guess it, is my favorite character. *people gasp* What? He
is the Ken Ichijouji of Yu-Gi-Oh!!
"Seto! Setty! Seto! Se-to! Big CEO man! Hello?" Mokuba snapped his fingers in front of Seto's eyes, worrying. "Seto, EARTH TO SETO!" Seto looked at his brother. "What?" "You spaced out on me! I got soooo scared!" Mokuba hugged his brother around his waist. Seto patted Mokuba on the back. "It's nothing. Really. I just fazed out? Just like that?" Seto asked. Mokuba happily nodded. "Oh. Well, what did you need help with?" Seto said. "This. Idiotic fractions. 1¾ and stuff like that. What does it mean?" Mokuba asked. "Come here." Mokuba ran up to his brother. "Do you know your multiplication tables?" Seto asked. "A little, I guess."
Meanwhile, Yugi was talking with the crew...
"Something's wrong with that guy." Yugi said. "I know. I can't help but feel sorry for him." Anzu said. Even Jounouchi and Honda where disappointed. "He did get out of a few sticky situations." Yugi looked at Anzu. "Like when I explained that Jounouchi was taken over by Malik, Seto pushed me and his brother into the Helicopter as fast as he could. We where there in no time." Jounouchi glared at Yugi. "Sorry. I won't remind you!" Yugi muttered. "Should we be his friend?" Yugi said cautiously. "What?! He's evil!" Honda exclaimed. "What will we do? Leave him to wallow in self-pity?" Anzu asked. "What?" Jounouchi asked. "He had a hard life!" Yugi said. "And he's more like...misunderstood...." Honda said. "Am I hearing you correctly?" Jounouchi asked. "Yes." Honda said. "Fine. But if he's grumpy...." Jounouchi lifted his fist. "I'll show him grumpy!"
*
DING DONG! Jounouchi nearly ripped the doorbell down. They heard the doorbell echo inside the house. "Seto, get the door!" They heard Mokuba yell. "You're closer to the door!" Seto yelled. Mokuba opened the door, saw who it was, and slammed the door. Everyone sweat dropped. "Who is it?" Yugi heard Seto yell. "Yugi-ugly and his gang of buddies." "Let them in." Mokuba returned to the door, and opened it. He glared at the gang. Seto appeared behind Mokuba, grabbing his brother's shoulders, and swinging him around. Mokuba was now behind his older brother. "What do you want?!" Seto said. "We want to talk." Yugi said, trying not to sound to friendly or mean. Mokuba lifted an eyebrow. Seto pushed his brother further back. "About what?" Seto asked. "About your behavior." Yugi said. Seto's eyes grew to the size of an apple. He immediately slammed the door. Yugi, Honda, Jounouchi, and Anzu all heard eight locks being locked. They also heard buttons being pressed. "We won't hurt you!" Anzu shouted. Seto opened the door, and said, "Do not set foot on this property. I do not want to see you anywhere besides school." Seto glared at the smaller boy in front of him; Yugi. Seto was about to close the door, but Jounouchi held it. "We want to talk about depression. You're depression." Seto still slammed the door. "That....did not turn out good." Anzu said.
"Seto, those kids are still at the door." Mokuba said. Seto got up and looked through the eyehole of the door. Seto, once again, opened the door. "Go to Hell. But for now, get the hell off my property." Seto said, leaning against the frame of the door. "No. I want to help you. Can we go for a walk?" Yugi asked. Seto sighed. "You won't leave if I don't. But someone has to watch Mokuba-" "Jounouchi will do it." Anzu said. Seto, for some reason, trusted Jounouchi. He turned to Mokuba. Mokuba shrugged. Seto put on his purple jacket with little black dots and left.
"So, what's wrong?" Anzu asked. "You wouldn't understand." Seto mumbled cruelly. "Please?" Yugi asked. Seto shook his head no. "I'll let you duel Yami!" Yugi said. Seto glared at Yugi. Ever since Yugi destroyed his heart, he always wanted to duel against Yami Yugi. A fair duel, but Seto still thought it over. 'How would they notice?' Seto thought. 'Maybe they want to be your friends.' a voice in Seto's head said. Seto pushed that voice away. 'No one does anything without a reason.' Seto reassured himself. "Well?" Yugi said. Seto stared at Yugi, then Honda, then Anzu. There was a moment of silent. The only noises was that of breathing, and the only movement was Seto's coat moving in the wind. "Mom died giving birth to Mokuba. Then dad died because he was hit by a car. My relatives put me in an Orphanage. Gozaburo adopted me and Mokuba because I won a game of chess against him. But he never loved me. And I never loved him. He didn't allow me to have friends . . . he wanted me to be CEO. To train the successor." Seto turned his head. "Whoa...." Honda mumbled. Seto nodded. 'They do care. Someone else cares!' a happy voice in Seto's head said. 'No one does anything without a reason! They want something!' 'Maybe they just want to be your friends.' 'There's no reward in that!' 'Maybe there is, and you just don't know it.' Seto shook his head. "I gotta go home!" Seto turned and ran home. "Kaiba, wait!" Honda yelled. Yugi saw tears flow down Seto's face. "Kaiba....Be careful..."
*
'Get a grip!' Seto nearly dropped his keys. Seto got a good hold of them and opened the door. Mokuba was sprawled on the floor, playing Cap Monsters. "So, I do this?" Jounouchi asked. "No. You do this. Look." Mokuba stood behind Jounouchi. "This right here. Use it. Pretty useful." Mokuba said. "Really?" Mokuba happily nodded. "Mokuba." Seto said. Mokuba frightfully looked up at his brother. "That was nice of you to show him how to play Cap Monsters." Mokuba inwardly sighed happily. "Keep those." Mokuba said, pointing to the items Jounouchi had in his hands. (A/N: As you see, I don't know what Cap Monsters is exactly. It might not be a card game...*shrug* But Mokuba DOES play a game called Cap Monsters. *glomps Mokuba*) "Thank you Jounouchi." Seto muttered, grabbing his brothers hand and pushing him to the other room. "Wh- what's wrong? Big brother!" Seto continued pulling Mokuba to the kitchen. "Mokuba....thank you. You helped me decide....what to do..." Seto got on his knees and hugged Mokuba. Seto took off his coat and put it on the kitchen table. "Jounouchi, would you mind playing Cap Monsters against me?" Seto said. Jounouchi almost fainted. Seto set the game up. "But, I don't really know how to play..." Jounouchi said. "Me neither." Seto said, smiling. Actually smiling. Not cruelly. Not deviously. But kindly. Jounouchi nearly pinched himself. "Did you just smile?" Jounouchi asked. "Yes."
Yugi knocked on Seto's door like crazy. "You have got to believe me! He smiled! Nicely, to!" Jounouchi said. "Kaiba? Smile? That is hard to imagine..." Honda said. "But it's true." Seto opened the door. Mokuba's head popped out from behind his elder brother. "Yes?" Seto said. "Um....would you like to play Duel Monsters against me?" Honda blurted out. "Nimrod! You can't play it!" Jounouchi said. "You want me to teach it to you?" Seto asked. Everyone looked up at him. His eyes where softer. His voice was kinder. Almost as if he himself transformed into another person. Yugi smiled. 'It worked! Right I told you Yami? Right? Yami? Yami?' 'I'm here.' 'Right I told you?' 'YES!!! I heard you the first thousand times! Kaiba and I are in competition for the thrown!' 'That was over 100,000 years ago Yami.' 'So?' Yugi rolled his eyes. Seto just stared at the group kindly. 'Maybe there is a reward in friendship.' "Sure! I'd be so grateful if you taught me." Seto motioned everyone to come into his house. Everyone cautiously went into his house.
"Judgeman." Seto said. "Whatever card this is." Honda said, putting down one of the cards out of his deck. The two dueled on and on. And on. And on. And, guess what? On. In the end, Seto won. Him being the second best duelist in Japan....Honda got up. And he nearly hugged Seto. "Kaiba, thank you sooooo much for teaching me this! So, want to duel again? With Jounouchi?" Seto nearly gasped. 'So all they want is to duel with me...I guess....you see! You gave up what pathetic hopes you had and now, well, now all they want to duel is duel. Friendship has no rewards.' Seto told himself. 'You're just....there...Does my life have no meaning?' Seto looked up at Jounouchi, who was already shuffling cards. 'Don't friends play card games together?' Seto thought. 'Yeah, but they aren't your friends.' Seto shook his head again. Yugi and Jounouchi both realized this. "Kaiba, what's wrong?" Yugi asked. Seto looked up at Yugi. Yugi sensed somthing odd about Seto...this side of Seto was different, too different. Seto finally had Kindness. Seto looked up at Yugi again. "Yugi, can you help me with something?" Seto asked all to nicely. "O.K." Seto tugged Yugi to one of his thousand bedrooms. Seto locked the door. "How do you make friends?" Seto asked sheepishly. "Kaiba, why would you like to know?" Yugi asked. "Don't call me Kaiba, Dammit! It's Seto! Kaiba is just my-" Seto said a word that would make this fic PG-13...."....legal name! I really don't give a-" a Seto said another word that would make this fic R. "...about that! I always wanted at least 1 friend....but my heart...it hurt..." Seto frowned. "We want to be your friends." Yugi said, outstretching his hand. Seto shook it. "Thank you! Wait, that sounded stupid..." Yugi laughed. Seto opened the door, but he stopped halfway. He took a card from his deck. The Blue Eyes White Dragon. "Give this to your grandfather. Tell him I am terribly sorry for ripping his special Blue Eyes White Dragon. I hope this will, at least a little, repay him." Seto handed Yugi the Card. "You are extremely lucky....to have a grown adult who loves you....I never had that." Seto said frowning. "You did. Your parents loved you. Your birth parents. They never really died. If you remember them, then they live on Seto!" Seto nearly hugged Yugi.
Jounouchi, Honda, Anzu, and Mokuba where all watching this. Mokuba hugged Anzu, Jounouchi, and Honda. "Thank you sooooooooo much!" Mokuba whispered. Mokuba cried. "Seto is back! That is the Seto that I remember!"