The night before Tea hadn't bothered looking at the flowers. Bakura had helped her to be on her way to forgiving Kaiba. but she still wasn't quite sure if she wanted to confront him about it yet.

This morning she had gotten up and had breakfast after getting dressed. After that she had taken her mom's car over to Yugi's house. Walking in the front door she walked behind the counter of the shop into where the actual living space was. She stepped into the living room and saw Yugi watching television and then she sat down next to him on the couch.

"So what's up?"

"Not much." He didn't look away but kept watching his show. "You know I tried paging you. You never called me back."

Tea looked at the ceiling for a second. "Oh yeah. What did I do with that thing anyway?" Reaching into her coat pocket she pulled it out and checked through the messages. Mom, Kaiba, Kaiba, Kaiba, Kaiba, Kaiba, Kaiba, Kaiba. 'Sheesh, how many times did he call?' Kaiba, Kaiba, Kaiba, Kaiba, Yugi, Kaiba, Kaiba, Kaiba, Joey, Yugi, Kaiba, Kaiba, Tristan, Kaiba, Kaiba, and that was it. "I forgot this at home yesterday."

Turning off the screen he looked over at her with a smile. "Where'd you go?"

"Just to the movies with Bakura."

Yugi looked worried. "Why with Bakura?"

"I was mad at Seto."

"For punching Joey? But that's not that bad."

She shook her head. "No. It's not that. He just went and beat up Bakura after he left. It's not big deal."

"Why'd he do that?"

"You think I know?"

"Kind of."

"Well I don't."

"Okay." He shrugged. "So did you have fun?"

She gazed down at the floor. "Not really. I started feeling guilty halfway through. Then we went and got some ice cream, and then he took me home." The flowers she'd left on her desk resurfaced in her mind. "Oh, and I'm not mad at Seto anymore, me and Bakura talked a while. I really should have put those in a vase."

"What?"

"He got me some flowers."

"Bakura?"

"No, Seto. He left them on my desk."

"You wanna give him a call?"

She shrugged. "Sure." Getting up she walked over to Yugi's phone and picked it up. Dialing in the home phone she waited for an answer.

"Hello? Who is it please?"

"Hey Mokuba, is your brother there?"

"Not right now. He went into town."

"Do you know especially where to?"

"No." There was a pause. "You could try the arcade."

"Um. Why?"

"Dunno, but you could try it anyway."

"Yeah, okay Mokuba. Thanks anyway."

"I think he really might be there."

"Okay, thanks. Bye."

She hung up the phone and stared over at Yugi on the couch. "Do you wanna go and see if we can find Seto?"

"Sure, why not?"

Tea shook her head and giggled at how stupid this sounded. "Why don't we try the arcade? Mokuba said he might be there. for some odd reason."

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Kaiba put in his fifty cents and started pushing the buttons. 'Stupid.' Going to the next machine he put in more change. 'Stupid.' Going to yet another machine he put the money in again. 'Stupid. Why are all these things just so stupid?' He didn't leave this machine but just kept blindly playing. Despite the fact that he hadn't played many video games or anything of that sort, he wasn't that bad at them. 'There's no point. I shoot the other people, but more just come. What does that achieve? It's just stupid.'

Inside Kaiba's head he could see his younger self immensely enjoying the games. 'Why do you like these?' The only answer to his question was a shrug and then more button pushing.

Walking away from the game he went to yet another one and put in more quarters. 'This one's stupid too. They're all just so stupid. Only idiots would even bother spending their time to create the programs for these games. I could make ones much better than this with my eyes closed.' He stopped for a moment and checked himself. 'Not that I'd want to. They're all just stupid games.'

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Yugi had attached himself and was staring in the window wide-eyed. "Kaiba? That can't be Kaiba! Kaiba's in there? Why is Kaiba in there? It's just wrong! Why is he in there? What is he doing? .. Kaiba?"

Tea was also staring in at the figure that was going from system to system. She wasn't babbling on like Yugi, but she was just standing there frozen in shock. 'Mokuba was serious. Wow!'

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"Grrrr." Kaiba was getting fed up. He must have tried EVERY game in this whole building, and they were all just stupid. Inwardly he may have admitted that some of them were kind of fun. No, no, that's ludicrous! Who on earth could have fun playing these idiotic wastes of time?

He left the last game still running as he walked out of the place. When he pushed open the door he noticed two sets of eyes that had followed his progress on the way out. His eyes grew in surprise for a brief moment and then he shoved his hands in his pockets and walked over to them, back in his normal Kaiba mode.

"What are you two watching me for?"

Yugi flipped his head backed and forth from the arcade to Kaiba. "You were in there, and you were playing those things. Why were you playing them? Are you okay?"

He smirked. "Yeah, I'm fine. I just thought I'd try them. There wasn't any purpose to it. They were all just stupid anyway."

Tea looked over him curiously. "Why?"

He started walking past them. "It's fine. I won't do it again. They were too stupid to try again." He shook his head and glanced back at them. "Kaiba won't try it again. Seto's had enough fun to last him eight more years."

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"Did he just start talking about himself in the third person?" Yugi looked up at Tea.

"Um. Yeah."

"That was weird."

"Um. Yeah."

"Wanna go bug Joey?"

"Sure." She shrugged and started walking down the sidewalk in the opposite direction Seto had just gone. 'I hope he's not going through something. Oh, I forgot to talk to him about the other day. Awe well, I'll do that when we get to Joey's'

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Joey heard the doorbell and came running down the stairs coming his wet hair. 'Sheesh, Why is it every time I take a shower people decide to come over just then?' Unlocking the bolt he pulled the door open as he chucked the comb to the side. "Oh, hey guys!"

They both walked in and he smiled. "What's up?"

"Can I use your phone?"

"Um, sure Tea. So what's up with you Yug?"

"Not much. But, oh, guess who we just saw at the arcade."

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Tristan was walking down the street. 'Man I'm bored.' He was idly kicking a rock in front of him and watching it roll out in front of him. 'There's nothing to do today.' Without really thinking he bumped into somebody. Snapping his head up he apologized. "Sorry guy, didn't see you there. Hey Kaiba."

"What." He stared over at him with a blank expression.

"Um, just hey."

"Fine. Then I have to go."

"You okay dude?"

"Fine."

With that one word he left Tristan and continued on his way down the street. 'What's up with him?' Tristan just shrugged it off and was going to go back to kicking his rock but. 'Hey! Where'd it go?' Looking further away from him he saw some other kid kicking it. 'Well, there goes my rock.'

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"Woo-hoo! Street Fighter!" Tristan pulled the new game out of the bag and set to ripping apart the box in his room. He'd gotten even more bored after his rock was stolen, and then he went and bought this. He put the card into the slot and picked up the control as he went through all the formalities with the start menu and picking the character.

"Die!" Thoroughly enjoying himself he started beating the crap out of the computer player. "Feel my wrath!" He grinned and continued clicking the buttons in his crazed video game obsessed fashion.

Ring. Ring. Ring. Ring.

"Leave me alone. I'm playing."

Ring. Ring. Ring. Ring.

"Shut up you damn phone!"

Ring. Ring. Ring. Ring.

"Fine! I'm coming already!" Pausing the game he ran over and picked it off the hook. "What?!"

He heard hysterical laughter coming off of the other end. "Tristan, dude! You'll never guess what Yugi just told me!"

"You're right, so what is it?"

"Kaiba!" More hysterical laughter. "Was at the ARCADE!"

"You're kidding."

"No! I'm dead serious dude!"

"Really?" Tristan sat down on his bed with a confused expression. "What was he doing there?"

"No idea, but it's still funny as heck. I mean, can you imagine mister big and stuffy playing Space Invaders or something?"

At this Tristan started laughing. "Or what about Mario? He could go around riding on Yoshi and eating all the little red fruits!"

Both of them began cracking their heads off.

"And squishing all the turtles!"

"And flying with the cape!"

"And shrinking all small when he gets hit so that he's the little tiny Mario that looks like a baby!"

Again they clutched at their sides in laughter on either end of the phone.

Tristan sat up gasping for air and rubbing the tears from the sides of his eyes. "Whew! Well anyway, what are you up to?"

"Tea and Yugi popped over so-"

"And you didn't invite me?"

"That's what I called for. and to tell you 'bout Kaiba."

Tristan started laughing again. "Ok, I'll be right over."

He then hung up the phone and turned off his game as he grabbed his coat and ran down the stairs. 'Kaiba in the arcade? That's just too funny.'

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'Stupid, stupid, they were all just so stupid. Who could enjoy all those stupid games? The programs were so simple. Who would even bother playing anything with such bad graphics. I could fix those-' He cut himself off again. 'Not that I'd want to. They're just stupid games. There's no point to them.' He found himself sitting on a park bench and staring out at the kids playing baseball in the field. 'They're all just stupid games.'

Ringalingalingalingalingalingaling!

He grabbed his phone out of his pocket and flipped it open. "Hello."

"Seto! Hi!"

"I'm sorry. Seto's not here right now. You'll have to talk to Kaiba."

"Um. okay then. I called to say thanks for the flowers. And that I-"

"So how's Bakura?"

"I don't know."

"Don't you though?"

"Um, I talked to him yesterday but."

"Then you would know how he is."

"Well, we just talked. Were you like spying on me or something?"

"I was over to apologize, but I guess it's a little too late for that." His expression had stayed blank through all of this. "I'm sorry you had to have anything to do with me. Seto has resolved his issues though. Kaiba had a talk with him. They both agreed that it would be best if Seto went back inside for another few years before he's allowed out again."

The reply was sort of uneasy. "Why are you talking like that?"

"I'm not talking any abnormal way. I'm just telling you that Seto is back where he belongs. I guess he was getting a little lost. Children should never be let out without supervision. Now Kaiba has fixed it. We're okay now. You don't have to have pity on us anymore."

"I thought we'd already resolved that. I don't have pity on you."

"No. You have pity for Seto, and like I said, he's no longer here. Kaiba is back to normal, and I don't think you would like him. He talks to himself too much, and he beats random people up. Even though he won't do that anymore because they're all too stupid anyway. But besides, Kaiba has been getting behind on his work, and he really should find someone to take care of Mokuba since he won't have time for him. So if you'll excuse me, Kaiba has to go find some person to be his bodyguard before Seto decides it's his turn again."

"But I thought-"

"I do apologize, but Kaiba is going to be busy. He needs to take care of this. So he's going to go now and do that. Can't have Seto coming out again. Children need their supervision, and Seto is too stupid to know right from wrong. Oh, but he would like to say that he's sorry and he loves you very much."

With that he hung up the phone and shoved it back into his pocket. 'Now I have to go do that. I don't know why I never thought of it before. Mokuba will be fine once he has somebody else to look after him, and maybe then he won't be so worried about me. He didn't need to bother with me anyway. Seto's his older brother, not Kaiba. Kaiba doesn't care. Only Seto cares, and he's just a lost little boy.'