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*********=Seto's POV

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I slowly raise my heavy eyelids. Someone is screaming at me...Mokuba? Someone else...Light fills my vision, and when I adjust to it, I see someone with black and red hair and blond bangs next to me.

"Kaiba?" The deep voice of Yami asks worriedly. Yugi is beside him, looking concerned.

I sigh softly and pull myself into a sitting position.

"Kaiba, what happened?"

"None of your business, Mutou." I grimace, standing up and brushing myself off. I look around for Mokuba, and see some of his hair peeking out from the bushes. I kneel down and lift my sleeping brother out of the bushes. The poor kid looks like he's been crying...

Suddenly the events of last night come flooding back to me. The Thing...Now, in the daylight, it all seems really stupid. I blink when I notice Yami glaring at me.

"Kaiba, it is our business when you're missing from school and the teachers ask us to find you."

My eyes widen. "Oh, shit." Was I out for that long?

"What happened?" Yugi's small voice shows sincere concern.

"Nothing!" I yell, and run into the house. I sprint up to my room and slam the door. I gently put Mokuba on the bed.

Mokuba's eyes open abruptly. "Seto, I had a really bad nightmare..." I smile softly as Mokuba crawls into my lap. I put my arms around him. We just sit for a moment, until someone comes pounding up the stairs.

I tighten my hold on my raven-haired brother protectively, and the door is thrown open to reveal an outraged Yami.

"Seto Kaiba! Something is happening, you can't deny it! It's your choice if you want to sleep outside, next to the front door, but we heard Mokuba, and he was terrified and calling for help before he passed out! There's something wrong when you're lying like you're dead near a wide open front door with no security guards in sight, but I have to step in when little Mokuba is terrified out of his mind!"

I completely lose my composure. "Leave Mokuba out of this!" I yell at the former Pharaoh, standing up to my full height, which is a good head or two above Yami. "What happened to him is already bad enough without people like you interfering!" This fight looks like it's going to come to blows when Mokuba wriggles out of my grasp and plants himself between me and Yami with his hands on his hips.

"Seto!" He says sternly. "Yami is only trying to help, you have to be nice." Yami's expression is a mixture of relief and confusion. It's pretty funny.

"And Yami..." The child turns to the pharaoh. "Don't say that Seto is a bad big brother. He's the best big brother in the universe, even though he never lets me stay up after nine. It's not Seto's fault that the ghost chased us outside."

"Ghost?" A surprised Yugi says, his short legs finally having carried him up the stairs to stand beside Yami.

"Yugi!" Mokuba yells. Why he's so fond of that spiky-haired nuisance will always be a mystery to me. Me and Yami continue our glaring contest until I hear Mokuba telling Yugi the whole story. I sigh and hit my forehead. Now everyone will think the Kaiba brothers have lost it. Yami doesn't seem to notice.

"And then, Yugi, Seto asked the Thing what it wanted, and it said something in a gross voice, and Seto picked me up and we ran, but the security gaurds wouldn't come when Seto called them! I think they were mad at Seto for waking them up. The Thing chased us outside, and then big brother fell, and it tried to eat him. Then the sun came out and it screamed and disappeared."

Yugi was nodding worriedly.

"I called and called for help, because I thought that big brother was dead, then I fell asleep because I was so tired. Then, next thing I knew, I was in here, and Seto was hugging me, and I was happy, then Yami came in and Seto started fighting with him. That's exactly what happened."

Yugi has been tugging on Yami's shirt for the duration of Mokuba's story, but the Pharaoh is more intent on glaring at me. "Yes, Yugi, I heard the whole story. Kaiba, is this true?"

I hesitate. "Yes."

"I find that hard to believe."

I grab Yami's arm and lead him to Mokuba's room. There are bits of white cloth and some kind of slime on the floor where the Thing was, and the baseball bat that I dropped. Yami studies it for a minute, then I lead him outside and around to the back of the house. The dead bodies of my security gaurds are littered all over, and I release the Pharaoh. Yugi and Mokuba have followed us, and Mokuba walks over to me.

"Seto, why are the gaurds sleeping?" I take one look at his innocent face and reluctantly kneel down next to him and try to explain what happened to them as gently as possible. I glance over at Yugi, whose hands are covering his eyes. Yami is kneeling, like me, and trying to comfort his distraught, innocent little aibou. He shoots me a look that says "We'll talk in a minute," and continues talking calmly to Yugi despite the horrified expression on his face.

Finally I give up explaining to Mokuba, who doesn't seem to quite grasp the concept of murder, but judging by tears on his face he understands that the guards are dead. I sigh as Yami pulls me away from my brother, out of Yugi and Mokuba's hearing.

"Kaiba, I want the whole story, now."

With some prying, I finally tell Yami the full story. His eyes have been getting bigger and bigger, and finally they look like they're going to fall out.

"That's what happened, unless it's a stupid dream like I predicted and I happened to be sleepwalking."

"Big brother, how can you sleepwalk when you never sleep?"

"Ssh, Mokuba. Let me talk to Yami for a minute. Has Yugi showed you his new cards yet?"

Yugi catches on and pulls his deck out, and Mokuba's short attention span kicks in.

"What did Mokuba mean when he said you don't sleep? And why would you and Mokuba both happen to sleepwalk on the same night to the same place, with the same dream?"

I don't answer, and adjust my trenchcoat.

"Kaiba!"

"What?"

Yami points to my chest. I look down...nothing remarkable. It's just a black shirt...stained with blood? When did that happen? There's not even a hole in my shirt.

"I didn't even trip or anything. I don't know how that happened."

"Kaiba, take a closer look. That wound is right over your heart, but you're not dead."

"I didn't know I had a heart."

"Not funny, Kaiba."

"I wasn't trying to be funny, Mutou. The only reason I'm still alive is Mokuba. He's the only one that wouldn't be glad if I was suddenly found with a knife in my chest, piercing right through the spot where my heart would be if I had one."

I shoot a glare at Yami, stupid meddling Pharaoh that he is, and kneel down next to Mokuba.

"Moku, are you hungry? Come on, let's get inside and have some hot chocolate." Mokuba nods and yawns. I take his hand and we walk into the house, and I lift Mokuba onto the couch, ignoring Yami and Yugi who are following us.

"Yugi and Yami, if you really are that keen to spend time with my brother and I, have a seat on the couch. I'm making hot chocolate, if you would like some. You may also select a movie to watch that would be appropriate for Mokuba." The Pharaoh and his hikari exchange disbelieving glances and hesitantly sit down.

"Oh yes, and don't worry, I won't poison your hot chocolate. I ran out of poison yesterday, I really should go get some from the grocery store..." I can only imagine their expressions and I let out something that resembles a quiet laugh.

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Yami turned to Yugi. "Did Seto Kaiba just laugh?"

"I think so, but it sounded more like a choking cough....Do you think he really ran out of poison,or is he just saying that to put us off our guards?"

Yami grinned. "Aibou, he won't poison our drinks. Mokuba, what movie do you want to watch?"

"The Matrix Reloaded."

"Mokuba!" Kaiba called from the kitchen. Yami had a disturbing mental image of Kaiba wearing a frilly apron and rushing around grabbing ingredients out of the cupboards. Yugi laughed mentally at the Pharaoh.

"Okay then." Mokuba sighs. "Is Lord of the Rings okay, Seto?"

"If you really want to, but I personally find that Gandalf person quite disturbing."

Yami was surprised Mokuba was allowed to call Kaiba 'Seto' without getting brutally murdered, but he shook the thought off and watched the beginning part excitedly. The Pharaoh had been fascinated with Hobbits and the Lord of the Rings ever since Yugi intrduced him to the trilogy. Now Yugi was constantly lecturing Yami about keeping his various Frodo, Sam, Merry and Pippin plushies on his side of the room.

Kaiba came out of the kitchen, bearing four cups of hot chocolate, and sat on the couch between me and Mokuba. I'm surprised he actually came within a foot of me, but I'm even more surprised he made me and Yugi cups of hot chocolate.

In addition to being a jerk and a maniac, Seto Kaiba is also a liar. I'll bet anything he does have a heart somewhere under that trenchcoat of his.

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