Chapter 5: Seto's Nightmare

"Mr. Kaiba, thank-you for coming to this meeting. It's quite an honor." The important business man smiled nervously.

Seto sat at the head of a long table vigorously rubbing his temples. "Yeah, sure, whatever." Seto growled.

Seto's head was pounding in an unorganized pattern. It was 8:00 PM, and he wanted to go home.

"So, Mr. Kaiba, as I have said before, this meeting was called on an important basis," said the man.

Seto looked up at the business man. He tried to remember his name. Ah, yes. The man's name was Henry Wilford.

"Could you please get to the point?" asked Seto impatiently. Ten other faces stared at him, lifelessly.

"Well," began Henry, "I and many others feel it would be for the best, if you resigned from president of Kaiba Corp."

The young CEO stared at Henry, a look of shock twisting his handsome features. His ice-blue eyes flickered angrily. "Why the hell for?" Seto demanded.

"I knew you would ask that. We feel you should concentrate more on your studies at school. Now, we know that you can ace just but anything, but still. This business is becoming too much for you to handle," said Henry, his eyes shooting darts at Seto.

"Yeah, and pigs can fly!" shouted Seto, banging his fist on the table. The others remained motionless. It was as if they were all zombies.

Henry glared at Seto. "I do have to insist that you resign."

"Why? What you said before makes no sense to me. You must have been lying. Now, tell me the truth! Why do you really want me to resign?" yelled Seto.

"Fine. Have it your way. I shall tell you why. Gozaburo is back, and ready to lead Kaiba Corp. to success once again," said Henry, a small smirk crossing his face.

Seto stood up so quickly, that he knocked his chair over. "You lie!" he screamed at Henry. "Gozaburo is dead! He had a heart attack! He's dead!"

Henry shook his head slowly. "Sorry, Seto. He's still here," he snarled in a cruel tone.

Seto looked at the other men incredulously. "Can you believe this? Can you?!" Losing his temper, Seto grabbed one man's shoulders and shook hard. There was no response.

Seto gasped in shock when he realized that the man he was shaking was dead. The man's eyes had rolled into the back of his head. Only the whites of his eyes showed now.

Seto let out a low, sickened groan as he realized that all the men, except Henry, were deceased.

"Surprised, my boy?" said an all too familiar voice. Standing in Henry's place, was Gozaburo.

"Gozaburo? But how?" Seto choked out. "Where's Henry?"

Gozaburo grinned wickedly as he advanced towards Seto. "Henry is dead. I never like him anyway," said Gozaburo, gesturing to Henry's corpse, on the floor. "And, yes, I did kill him. While you were gawking at the other dead men."

"Get away from me, you murderer!" said Seto backing into a wall.

"Oh, no. The fun has just begun, my son," said Gozaburo chuckling at his own little rhyme. He was now just inches from Seto.

"I'm not your son!" Seto shouted at Gozaburo.

"Ah, but you are," said Gozaburo, pinning Seto against the wall.

"What are you going to do?" asked Seto.

"For me to know and you to find out," said Gozaburo, kneeing Seto in the stomach.

Seto grunted and struggled to free himself from Goazburo's grip. Gozaburo was holding Seto's arms above his head.

"Let me go!" said Seto, his eyes narrowing angrily.

"No. I'm not done having my fun of the day," said Gozaburo.

Seto let out a few ragged breaths, then tried struggling against Gozaburo again. This time, he succeeded. Seto had freed his arms, and began to make a mad dash for the door.

"Come back here, Seto!" boomed Gozaburo.

"No way!" shouted Seto as he opened the office door, and ran out, down the endless hallway.

Gozaburo's heavy footsteps could be heard. He was chasing Seto.

"Oh, no you don't," Seto said to himself, as he found the main exit.

Seto gasped as the cool evening air hit him. The sky was already an inky black. Hearing Gozaburo's footsteps behind him, Seto ran down the street and into an alley.

He kept running until he hit a wall. "Dead end!" he moaned. Seto's body started to panic when he heard Gozaburo making his way towards him. This was it. He had no where to run. It was all over.

Gozaburo approached Seto slowly and cautiously. "Well, well, well. It seems that your time is up."

Seto shrank back. "Don't touch me," he said, his voice coming out weak and defeated.

Gozaburo laughed unkindly, and grabbed Seto's shoulders, tossing him to the ground.

Just then, out of the shadows, stepped Joey.

"Joey, please help me," said Seto, his voice of a pleading tone.

Joey just looked at Seto and smirked. "That's right, Kaiba. Look at you. Lying on the ground like the sniveling dog you are."

Seto's eyes widened. "What?"

Joey continued to smirk. "You heard me, you whimpering puppy." Joey kicked Seto in the side.

"Why, Joey?" Seto asked, hoping to get an answer out of the young blonde.

"Revenge is sweet, isn't it?" said Joey harshly.

"But, Joey! I called you those names a long time ago, already. I even apologized for my actions," said Seto, his voice coming out stronger.

Joey regarded Seto coldly. "What's done is done," he said. And, with that, he vanished.

Gozaburo, who had watched the whole thing, had an evil glint shining in his eyes.

Seto staggered to his feet. "You haven't won," he said.

Not once turning his gaze away from Seto, Gozaburo reached into his pocket and pulled out something shiny and metallic. "It appears I have," were the gloating words.

Seto stared at his adopted father, trying to think of the right thing to say. "You wouldn't," was all he managed.

"I would," said Gozaburo, aiming the gun at Seto's chest.

Seto stood frozen in place. 'I don't want to die!' his mind cried.

'Oh, really?' came a voice, entering Seto's thoughts.

Unsure of what to say to the disembodied sound box, Seto replied, 'Of course I don't want to die. Who does?'

'Then why did you cut yourself?' the voice demanded.

Seto mentally sighed. 'You wouldn't understand.'

'Cutting yourself is telling me you want to kill yourself,' replied the voice wisely.

'Just shut up and leave me alone!' said Seto, frustrated. 'What I do is no concern of yours.'

'Fine. But, remember what I'm about to tell you. If you keep doing negative things to yourself, and keep letting negative thoughts enter your mind, then you may just get what you wish for, unexpectedly. It's the final blow that hurts the most, Seto Kaiba.'

Then, just as quickly as it had come, the voice was gone.

Gozaburo, still pointing the gun at Seto, sighed impatiently. "Any last words, Seto?"

Seto shook his head to clear his thoughts. Then, he looked at Gozaburo icily. "Actually, yes. I do have some last words. Go to hell."

Gozaburo just nodded his head, a pleased smirk upon his face. "I've been there already, Seto. Now it's your turn."

Gozaburo pulled the trigger back slowly, as if to torture Seto, and then, a loud crack emerged from the gun.

The bullet sped towards Seto in slow motion, and he just stood there, prepared to take the hit.

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A/N: Mwhahaha! A cliffhanger! -sweatdrop- Well, sort of, but not really. I hope you all liked this chapter! Lol! I actually put a lot of thought into it! ^_^ Hehe.ERG. Stupid internet! -.- Lol. -huggles all of her reviewers- I love ya guys! ^_~

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