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[Proceeding With Self Examination]
"I remember the day Gozaburo arrived at the orphanage, he was handing out assorted toys to the children. It was just a publicity stunt as far as I'm concerned, Gozaburo would have never done something like that unless it was absolutely necessary for him to do so. I recognized him from a televised chess match, in addition to owning Kaiba Corporation, Gozaburo was one of the most elite chess players in the world at that time. So in my mind I made the conclusion that if I could get that man to adopt Mokuba and I, everything would be all right from then on.
How completely idiotic I was...
I challenged the old man to a simple game of chess. If I won, Gozaburo would adopt Mokuba and I, making us heirs to the Kaiba Corporation. To this he laughed, he just threw his head back and laughed at me, as if he took me for a joke. But somehow he agreed, perhaps he thought that playing a small game of chess with a random kid would look good.
The outcome? What the hell do you think it was? I'm sitting here, now telling you all of this because I was foolish enough to boast my talents, and win the chess match. True it did give Mokuba and I secure futures, but with that also came a price.
Gozaburo had the sick idea to "prepare" me for the intense life as CEO of Kaiba Corporation, the abuse was not bad in his eyes. It was necessary...in his eyes it was more like "training."
[Laughter]
Can you please tell me how being chained to a desk, being forced to study nonstop, and being whipped by a riding crop is fucking "training?"
Well...I suppose what Gozaburo wanted did come to be. Under him I became cold, hard, ruthless, and unforgiving, the so called perfect businessman. But something else, that wasn't of Gozaburo's intentions happened.
I don't know what I was thinking.
When I was studying, or when Gozaburo wanted to personally "instruct" me, I'd try so hard not to feel the pain, to pretend that it wasn't me getting beaten, that it was someone else. Someone stronger than me, someone who wasn't afraid of Gozaburo. And when I pretended to be that different person, every single time that I was chained to that desk, every time single time I was being struck, the different person came into reality.
It was because of Gozaburo "Shade" came to be."
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A/N: So everything is starting to fall into place, no? I'll go into more depth about "Shade" in some other chapter, right now we're just touching over his past, and after that is finished then we'll start looking into how Kaiba feels about Yuugi, Shizuka, Mokuba, and some other members of the cast.
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