Chapter 12: Past, Present, Future
(A/N: The fic will end in chapter 13 or 14, and then an epilog. THANK YOU REVIEWERS!!! *hugs all reviewers* Sorry, but I'm way to hot *as in the summer-ish weather* to write to much....my brain is MUSH.....)
Kaiba stared at Seto, who was sitting next to Kaiba in the car. Seto was awake, but he wasn't speaking, or blinking for that matter. Kaiba looked at his light. "How you doing, Seto? How does it feel, having your pure essence taken from you?" Seto glared at Kaiba. "Baka..mei.." Kaiba glared at Seto. "Worthless light...Maybe I'll just throw this out the car window?" Kaiba said, trying to persuade Seto to say something. Seto shrugged. "Better....then in the hands of a psycho-somatic." Seto said, glaring right back at Kaiba. Kaiba pulled Seto's shirt toward his face. "Listen here, light, you better tell me how this thing works, and how I can use it's light to gather the items." Kaiba said. Seto shook his head. "No." "Fine. I'll get you to do it." Kaiba held the orb in his hands, and broke through Seto's chest again. Kaiba's eyes rolled back. Memories flooded through him...and many of Seto's thoughts. Kaiba quickly broke the link. 'Mokuba! Of course!' Kaiba said, nearly beating himself up for not thinking of that sooner. "Malik, I need you to do something for me." Seto looked up at his Yami. "What....do....you...mean?" Seto said weakly, with no expression in his voice. Seto's light Yami (A/N: Chibi Seto) was nearly dead, as was Seto. Kaiba whispered how to get Mokuba, and he told him to keep Mokuba safe and alive. "Seto can tell when his brother is injured. Since both of them are lights." Malik nodded. "Hey, why the hell am I driving! I'm not a taxi driver!" Malik said out loud. Seto looked at Bakura next to him, who was unconscious. 'I hate being the light side....' Seto thought. Bakura slowly woke up. Seto looked at Bakura, who looked up at him. "Kaiba– or Seto, or whoever you--" Seto closed his eyes. He didn't know what to do, since his essence was taken.... "Hey, Kaiba, what is that ball, anyway?" Malik asked. "It substitutes a Millennium Item. You see, a Yami is pure darkness, which Seto clearly had. But every Yami requires a pure light side, which he had. But a Millennium Item is able to keep it normal, and not out of control. But Seto never had one, so orbs, one pure, one dark, were created. Got it?" Malik looked at Kaiba; he still didn't get it. "But, he had the Rod–" "He didn't grow up with it, though." Malik smirked. "Oh, I get it...." Malik said, smirking.
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"O.K, maybe we can find out were the hell Bakura is by calling the white haired forgien exchange student!" Mokuba said, clearly mad. "Hey hey! Take it easy Mokuba!" Yugi said, trying to calm down Seto Kaiba's little brother. 'Anger runs in the family, huh Abiou?' Yami Yugi frowned. 'I fear for the life of the older one.' 'What?! Is this my Yami? The one who goes around saying that Kaiba is hi sworn enemy?!' Yugi told his Yami, clearly shocked. 'Hmph! I only care because then I won't have someone as stupid as him to duel–' Light crying was heard nearby. Mokuba was huddled by the wall, crying. He held a duel-monster looking item. Mokuba opened it, to reveal a picture of the younger Seto. "I miss him so much...." Mokuba muttered sadly. 'I just remembered. There parents are both dead...' Yugi told Yami sadly. Yami nodded. "Hey, Mokuba, I want to tell you a funny story!" Yugi said, trying to brighten Mokuba's mood. Mokuba looked up, puzzled. "O.K..." "You know about Yami Bakura, right?" Mokuba nodded. "Well, one time, he took Anzu, Jounouchi, Honda, and me to the Shadow Realm....and Yami Bakura locked most of our souls in Duel Monster cards..." Yugi began to wonder why Mokuba was glaring at him. "My soul was trapped in a Duel Monster Card for weeks." Yugi sweatdropped. 'Abiou! Help!' 'Maybe you could ask him to tell you of something happy, like a vacation or something corny like that...' 'Great idea!' "Mokuba?" Mokuba looked up at Yugi. "When was the last time you and Seto went on a vacation?" Yugi asked. He was surprised to hear Mokuba giggle. "We went to our summer house last year, and we went on the beach. But Seto's only swimming trunks were the one's were he has multiple Blue Eyes White Dragon flying around. And of course, his Kaiba Corp. swimming trunks. He cursed for an hour. He said, 'I packed my black ones!!! And my navy blue ones! And my dark green ones!! WERE THE HELL ARE THEY!!!!!!' It just happened that he put them in my suitcase because he just HAD to bring all of his Duel Monster cards..." Mokuba smiled. "But he had to go to the beach the first 5 out of 30 times; cause we spent the whole summer there; in his Blue Eyes White Dragon trunks." Mokuba did a childish giggle again. Yugi smiled, thinking of how funny the whole scene must have been. Yugi quickly glanced at the clock, trying not to perceive Mokuba's attention. 'Bakura's late....' Yugi muttered to his Yami. 'I bet he's O.K. Just keep on talking to Mokuba.' "Hey, Mokuba, I want to ask a bit of a personal question." Yugi asked. Mokuba face flushed. "O.K, but...only...because...you saved my life...." "Do you regret having Seto as a brother?" Mokuba was staggered with this question. He never really thought about it. "Well, he tried to save my life, but he needs more then he minds. He needs other people....and I wish he could be friends with you, and Anzu...and the others. And he kindof liked Isis...but, he never admitted it. But he tries his best to be his very nicest around me. And I KNOW he loves me. Like when we were reunited after Duelist Kingdom, Seto smiled, and we both ran towards each other. But he does things that scare me." Mokuba bit his lip. "What do you mean? Does he hit you?" Yugi asked cautiously. "NO!! Why does everyone think that!! When he worked on the Dueling Stadiums, he wouldn't sleep for days." Mokuba said, remembering that time...
"O.K, this screw goes with this wire, and, crap! Wrong wire...o.k, this with this?" Seto wore a workers gown as he tried creating the huge holographic duelist stadiums. He designed the stadiums on paper, and his head engineers made a first model. But they did a thousand things wrong, so Seto took over. "Now, blue wire with blue screw...o.k...Mrs. Atoshi!" Kaiba called to one of the engineers. A woman sitting in the dueling part of the field looked down. "Yes Mr. Kaiba?" "Put a card down Mrs. Atoshi." The woman put down a Hitosume Giant. He appeared for several seconds, but when Atoshi told him to attack, he wouldn't, and the wires melted. "GREAT!! This thing overheats in five seconds!!" Seto muttered as he took the gown off, and went to his room to find the best possible wire to carry the messages for such a big machine without overheating.
Mokuba knocked on his brothers door. "Seto? It's 1 o' clock. You have to sleep." Mokuba said, yelling through the door. "No, I don't. You have to sleep, so do it!" Mokuba went to his room, but he tossed in bed for an hour, and couldn't sleep. "Seto–" Mokuba opened the door, only to see Seto sleeping. His head was nicely placed on top of his papers, and his two arms were crossed under his head.
"He happened to have chronic fatigue, and was supposed to sleep, or his body would get to weak. I hate my brother for that. He never takes care of himself. And then, in the Death-T Tournament (A/N: In season one, when Seto had green hair, he held a 'Death-T Tournament' in Kaiba Land. The real reason was so that he would duel Yugi in the finals, which happened, but Yugi beat Kaiba again, and Yugi broke Kaiba's heart, literally. Kaiba was in a coma after that.) my brother was in coma. I have a feeling it wasn't his fault either..." Mokuba looked up at Yugi again. "You nearly killed my brother." Mokuba said, glaring at Yugi. "I had no choice. He kidnaped my grandfather in order to duel me. He was pure evil. Before that, he gave Gozaburo a terrible heart attack, in which he died. And that was AFTER he got Gozaburo Kaiba fired for job as Corporate Executive Official (A/N: In lamest terms, CEO.) And he tried to steal a kid's duel monster card! (A/N: Yu-Gi-Oh! OVA)." Yugi said, grimly. "So?!! Gozaburo nearly killed Seto! And Seto only threatened to kill Gozaburo. And Duel Monster is a game of power, which Seto has a lot of. And Seto asked to duel you 10 times or more! And you won't do it!" Mokuba slammed his fist into the wall. Several nurses looked at Mokuba. "And Gozaburo made Seto who is he now! A cold, heartless, rude, mean, bitter, greedy, selfish, lonely, psychotic, insane, JERK!" Mokuba ran out of the hospital, crying. 'Very good job Yugi. Maybe you should talk with Kaiba next time.' Yami Yugi said.
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Mokuba ran for several blocks. Finally, he stopped. He saw Yugi running after him. So Mokuba continued running, picking the pace. The bumped into a tall, tanned Egyptian. "Malik–" Malik grabbed the dagger part of the Millennium Rod and put it up to Mokuba's throat. He pushed Mokuba into the car, smiling wickedly. Mokuba saw his brother and Bakura next to him, but he saw Yami Bakura and Kaiba in the front of the car. Malik sat next to Mokuba, locking the door tightly. "Hurry! Yugi is catching up!" And with that, the car sped away, leaving Yugi just feet behind. "MOKUBA!!!! MOKUBA!!!!" Yugi yelled. He dropped to his knees. 'What will the do?!'
(Jenrya: Another cliff-hanger!! Five more reviews, or no next chapter. Will everyone's little 'Let's kidnap Mokuba' scheme work? Will Seto be better? Will Malik's tan ever go AWAY? *Just kidding about the last one!* Find put in the next, Yu-Gi-Oh! Dueling Monsters!)