Jerking backwards in surprise Tea blinked a couple times in shock over at
him. "Oh, uh, Kaiba, what are you doing here?"
Seto gave a small smirk and continued staring at the stream that was softly bubbling in front of them. "I heard you singing and I came to check it out." He turned his head to look at her. "So what are you doing all the way out here, and on a Saturday night no less?"
"Oh not much." She shrugged. "I didn't really have anything to do tonight so I figured I'd come out here."
"I'm surprised you didn't decide to go hang out with your friends"
She gave another shrug. "Mm.Well you know, every once in a while it's nice to get off by yourself."
He nodded. "I know what you mean."
"So what are YOU doing out here?"
Seto smirked a little. "Just thinking. Keeping my head busy."
"Any reason in particular?"
He picked up a few dead twigs and snapped them in his fingers. "Not one that really matters."
Tea was about to ask something about this, just out of curiosity, but he stopped her.
"I hope you have a good rest of the night."
"Oh, yeah, sure. You too." She blinked a couple of times and watched him get up. "Tell Mokuba I said hi."
With a nod Kaiba walked off leaving Tea in the small glade as the moon cast its shadow down on the still night.
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"Mokuba." A tear trickled down Seto's face as he stared at the grave of his younger brother. "Why Mokuba? Why?" Shaking his head he turned and walked away with a shovel gripped tensely in his fist. He'd just buried his brother, his own little brother in his own back yard. Mokuba had died that day, he'd just plain died. One second he was walking into Kaiba's room to wake him up, the next he was a lifeless bundle on the floor.
Seto rounded the corner to the mansion and threw the shovel through one of the lower windows. Watching the glass shatter he then stepped up onto the sill and climbed inside as he stepped down onto the boggy ground underneath him.
He walked forward slowly as the soil squelched with each step until he found his foot caught in the deep ooze. Grabbing his leg with both hands he tried to yank it out unsuccessfully. As he gave a couple hard pulls his other foot sank deeper. Kaiba noticed this and then tried to free this one while it just had the same effect as the last time. He moaned slightly as a small feeling of panic took over him as he sank down to his calves.
Looking around frantically he saw a chair set up a couple feet away from him. He tried to lean over and grab it, but he couldn't reach. So in a desperate attempt he gave a lung forward that ended up setting him off balance so that he fell face first into the bog that was his mansion's floor. Turning his head as best he could as the sticky ooze slowly crept its way further and further over his body he tried to push himself up with his arms, but that only resulted in them sinking further into the mire as well.
Seto gasped for air as the choking stench of rotting vegetation filled his nostrils and the mud also made its way over his chest. As the pressure built up on his rib cage he grunted in pain as thoughts flood into his mind. 'Why was this happening? When would it stop? Why was he being left all alone to die like this? Would death be a bad thing? Would it free him from all of his pain or would it just cause him more?'
His mouth sank under the ooze and gradually it began covering his nose too. As the last of his air was cut off from him he watched the mud close over his eyes and the world go black as he sat in darkness for a few moments until everything became blurry and he was forced to try and breath. All that his lungs received however was the choking taste of mud that took him over and finally, as the absolute last oxygen left in his body was taken away.. his heart stopped the rhythmic pattern and lay still.
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Kaiba found himself in a dark hallway. Reaching his arms onto either side of him he felt the walls there but could not see them. The only thing his eyes could see was a small dot of light off in the distance. He got up off the ground and started heading down the path as images started flickering past him.
"Brother are you alright?" Mokuba's face slid back down the hallway behind Kaiba.
"Don't be sad Seto. If you remember your mother then she'll always be with you." His father's image flew past as well.
"I'm proud of you son." His mother's face disappeared behind him.
"Are you finished with those programs?" Gozaburo flew past.
"See you tomorrow." Tea went back down the hallway too as more little tidbits of his life and people flew by.
"I knew you wouldn't leave me."
"Happy birthday Seto!"
"Want me to come over?"
"Yo dude! What's up?"
"Step as you swing, you'll get more punch that way."
"Kaiba? What have you done Kaiba?!"
"Shut up you stupid kid."
"Ya big jerk!"
"Get out of my life!"
"Why brother? Why are you doing this?"
The voices started drifting into his own.
"I-I'm sorry sir."
"Can you forgive me?"
"I missed you too."
"It's called justifiable homicide Joseph."
"I've just been hurting you this entire time."
As the voices became more jumbled and mixed together, switching between things he'd said in the past and what others had, with also scenes from his life going through as well. The pictures suddenly ground to a halt and Seto was left with a feeling of peace as it all went silent and all the he could see before him was the small white light.
Slowly pacing forward the light grew larger and the feeling became more apparent until he came to a sort of crossroad in the hallway. There were two hallways coming off of the one he was currently in. If he went straight there was the light, to his right the feint sound of chains clinking together made themselves apparent and a fuzzy image of fire entered his brain. But to his left, down the left hallway there was a soft melody coming forth.
Seto froze and stared down the path as the music reached his ears. 'That song. I've heard that song before.'
Turning from the main path he felt himself drawn towards the gentle tune, but he was going blindly, and he couldn't see. The light was totally gone so there was nothing for him to go by, and he was just stumbling down the dark path with the hope of finding whatever it was he wanted to find.
After a few minutes of traveling down the black hallway a silhouetted figure came before him and he smiled.
"Tea, what are you doing here?"
She in turn nodded to him and drew her finger out, beckoning him to come forward.
Still with the pulling feeling taking over him Kaiba took a few steps in Tea's direction until one of his steps was not rewarded with a floor to hold him.
As Tea disappeared from his view a small wind flew around him as he fell down into the dark. He fell, and he fell, and he just kept falling and just when he thought he couldn't fall anymore. He was wrong.
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Seto woke again in another dark place. Pushing his arms out he found they could only move and inch or so. A little confused he tried to push forward, but again his fingers met with a velvety lining a few inches away.
'I know where I am.' Kaiba smiled and settled back down in the place with a soft sigh. 'I'm finally here.'
He then bunched his legs up as best he could and pushed the wall that he was met with up. There was a soft creaking as the hinges to the lid moved, and Seto could put his hand through the small crack and felt the damp earth outside of his small confined space. Bending himself at an odd angle he started shoveling the soil inside the coffin which he now knew he was in, until he was able to squeeze half of his body into the hollow he'd made.
Filling the rest of the box with the dirt he pushed up on the soil above his head and found that it moved slightly. Giving it another couple of good shoves his hand broke through and he started widening the small hole he'd made until he was able to climb out onto the soft grass.
Turning he looked behind him and saw the lines and lines of gravestones, the closest of course being his own, and ahead of him he saw people. Most of them he had little to no recognition of, but over to his right he saw a small group of three people having a picnic. Smiling he finished climbing out of the hole and he brushed himself off before heading over and sitting next to one of the three on the checkered blanket. Ruffling the hair he chuckled.
"Glad to see you got here alright."
Mokuba took a lick from the ice cream cone he was eating and smiled up at him. "I didn't know you were coming so soon."
He shrugged. "Yeah, well, you know." Then bringing his head up he smiled again. "Hey Dad, long time no see."
His father looked him up and down. "My, you've sure grown."
Reaching into the picnic basket his mother pulled out a sandwich and gave it to Seto. "You certainly have. So how have things been?"
Kaiba shrugged and took a bite from the sandwich. "Recently it's been okay. Not much else to do except work and walk. I ran into Tea on my way here though."
"Who's Tea?"
Mokuba answered for him, "She's the nice lady Seto's gonna marry!"
His dad's expression grew curious. "Really?"
"Yeah, we were planning the 25th of this month. I just hope that we can get everything done by then. You know, she still hasn't bought her dress yet, and we have to get the rings engraved. There's just so much to be done."
"That sounds very nice Seto, but how are you going to get married if you're here, and she's back down there?" His mother's tone was growing a little anxious.
Kaiba just shrugged however. "I'll think of something. Maybe we'll just get married when she gets up here. That could work as well."
Mokuba started looking sad. "Seto, you aren't supposed to be here yet."
He raised an eyebrow. "What do you mean?"
Kaiba's father nodded. "I think Mokuba is right. You shouldn't be here yet son. You need to go back."
His mother nodded as well and stared at him. "You don't belong here."
Seto's expression grew hurt. "But I don't want to go back. I want to stay here with you. We're finally a family again."
"Shut up and get your useless self out of here you little brat."
Kaiba whirled around and saw Gozaburo standing there glaring at him with his arms folded, and he just froze there in shock at seeing him.
"Are you getting hard of hearing? I told you to get out of here. Now!"
Seto blinked a couple of times before standing and blinking more. "But I just got here-"
"Dammit! You stupid kid! Leave!" Gozaburo approached him and struck him hard across the face.
He put a hand up to his cheek and felt the burn go through it, but Kaiba turned to face his family. "Mom, Dad, you don't really want me to go. Do you?"
His father got up and solemnly nodded. "It's for the best son."
"B-But Dad-?"
He held his hand up. "No, you're leaving. That's that."
Seto looked around at them in disbelief. "But I- I don't want to go. I want to stay here!"
This time his mother stood up with the same grim expression that had coated everyone's faces except for Seto. "I'm afraid you don't have a choice in the matter."
Kaiba shook his head. "No. No! I'm not going!"
The other people in the area started to slowly creep there way towards him, along with his parents, Gozaburo, and Mokuba.
Seto tried to back away but found they were all around him. Staring in disbelief at them he stammered. "But I don't want to! I'm not going to! You can't make me!"
A hand fell down onto his shoulder and he noticed it slowly decay into a mere skeleton as he looked over to the face of the person it belonged to. But he couldn't recognize them until a rasping voice escaped that clearly belonged to his mother which had been just the way he remembered her a few moments before.
"Leave Seto!"
The other people surrounding him closed in further as they started chanting and their bodies decayed into skeletons with the flesh hanging loosely off their bones. "Leave, leave, leave, leave."
Kaiba shook his head and tried to shove them away but they grabbed onto his arms and the revolting smell of their decaying bodies filled his nose and he gagged trying to breath through his mouth but he ended up just tasting it instead. He shivered and struggled as they closed further in on him. Tackling him to the ground still continuing to chant in their raspy voices from what was left of their voice boxes. As he fell under the weight and they fell across his face, burying him in themselves he felt them start chewing on his skin, his arms, his legs, even his face.
He yelled out, half in pain, half in just the plain fact that he knew he was being eaten alive. As they ate away from the outside, a feeling of being eaten from the inside started taking over him. Screaming out again he tried to struggle, but he couldn't, there was nothing he could do, the crushing weight of their numbers pressed him against the ground. The air was being squeezed out of his lungs as the stench made him go dizzy and he tried to scream again but there was no sound that came out.
Kaiba pulled his arm through the writhing mass and grabbed at one of the bodies, which he pulled over himself, trying to shield himself with the squirming zombie. A black lock fell down onto his face from the back of the thing's head and it shouted.
"Brother, let me go!"
Seto froze and stared at the back of the still squirming figure's head as they shifted back into a full-fledged person. Mokuba sat on top of him and then turned over with a black light glowing from his eyes and he hissed. "Good things come to those who wait Seto Kaiba!" And he launched forward, mouth open, ready to devour once more.
((Hehe, I'm just answering lovely questions that people put to me, but Yami is just kinda non-existent O.o Maybe he did go to Cuba, with Bakura's yami too! ^_^ Well, awe well.. Too late now. I don't think it really makes that much difference at this point anyway. So later and stuff peeps! Keep reviewing!))
Seto gave a small smirk and continued staring at the stream that was softly bubbling in front of them. "I heard you singing and I came to check it out." He turned his head to look at her. "So what are you doing all the way out here, and on a Saturday night no less?"
"Oh not much." She shrugged. "I didn't really have anything to do tonight so I figured I'd come out here."
"I'm surprised you didn't decide to go hang out with your friends"
She gave another shrug. "Mm.Well you know, every once in a while it's nice to get off by yourself."
He nodded. "I know what you mean."
"So what are YOU doing out here?"
Seto smirked a little. "Just thinking. Keeping my head busy."
"Any reason in particular?"
He picked up a few dead twigs and snapped them in his fingers. "Not one that really matters."
Tea was about to ask something about this, just out of curiosity, but he stopped her.
"I hope you have a good rest of the night."
"Oh, yeah, sure. You too." She blinked a couple of times and watched him get up. "Tell Mokuba I said hi."
With a nod Kaiba walked off leaving Tea in the small glade as the moon cast its shadow down on the still night.
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"Mokuba." A tear trickled down Seto's face as he stared at the grave of his younger brother. "Why Mokuba? Why?" Shaking his head he turned and walked away with a shovel gripped tensely in his fist. He'd just buried his brother, his own little brother in his own back yard. Mokuba had died that day, he'd just plain died. One second he was walking into Kaiba's room to wake him up, the next he was a lifeless bundle on the floor.
Seto rounded the corner to the mansion and threw the shovel through one of the lower windows. Watching the glass shatter he then stepped up onto the sill and climbed inside as he stepped down onto the boggy ground underneath him.
He walked forward slowly as the soil squelched with each step until he found his foot caught in the deep ooze. Grabbing his leg with both hands he tried to yank it out unsuccessfully. As he gave a couple hard pulls his other foot sank deeper. Kaiba noticed this and then tried to free this one while it just had the same effect as the last time. He moaned slightly as a small feeling of panic took over him as he sank down to his calves.
Looking around frantically he saw a chair set up a couple feet away from him. He tried to lean over and grab it, but he couldn't reach. So in a desperate attempt he gave a lung forward that ended up setting him off balance so that he fell face first into the bog that was his mansion's floor. Turning his head as best he could as the sticky ooze slowly crept its way further and further over his body he tried to push himself up with his arms, but that only resulted in them sinking further into the mire as well.
Seto gasped for air as the choking stench of rotting vegetation filled his nostrils and the mud also made its way over his chest. As the pressure built up on his rib cage he grunted in pain as thoughts flood into his mind. 'Why was this happening? When would it stop? Why was he being left all alone to die like this? Would death be a bad thing? Would it free him from all of his pain or would it just cause him more?'
His mouth sank under the ooze and gradually it began covering his nose too. As the last of his air was cut off from him he watched the mud close over his eyes and the world go black as he sat in darkness for a few moments until everything became blurry and he was forced to try and breath. All that his lungs received however was the choking taste of mud that took him over and finally, as the absolute last oxygen left in his body was taken away.. his heart stopped the rhythmic pattern and lay still.
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Kaiba found himself in a dark hallway. Reaching his arms onto either side of him he felt the walls there but could not see them. The only thing his eyes could see was a small dot of light off in the distance. He got up off the ground and started heading down the path as images started flickering past him.
"Brother are you alright?" Mokuba's face slid back down the hallway behind Kaiba.
"Don't be sad Seto. If you remember your mother then she'll always be with you." His father's image flew past as well.
"I'm proud of you son." His mother's face disappeared behind him.
"Are you finished with those programs?" Gozaburo flew past.
"See you tomorrow." Tea went back down the hallway too as more little tidbits of his life and people flew by.
"I knew you wouldn't leave me."
"Happy birthday Seto!"
"Want me to come over?"
"Yo dude! What's up?"
"Step as you swing, you'll get more punch that way."
"Kaiba? What have you done Kaiba?!"
"Shut up you stupid kid."
"Ya big jerk!"
"Get out of my life!"
"Why brother? Why are you doing this?"
The voices started drifting into his own.
"I-I'm sorry sir."
"Can you forgive me?"
"I missed you too."
"It's called justifiable homicide Joseph."
"I've just been hurting you this entire time."
As the voices became more jumbled and mixed together, switching between things he'd said in the past and what others had, with also scenes from his life going through as well. The pictures suddenly ground to a halt and Seto was left with a feeling of peace as it all went silent and all the he could see before him was the small white light.
Slowly pacing forward the light grew larger and the feeling became more apparent until he came to a sort of crossroad in the hallway. There were two hallways coming off of the one he was currently in. If he went straight there was the light, to his right the feint sound of chains clinking together made themselves apparent and a fuzzy image of fire entered his brain. But to his left, down the left hallway there was a soft melody coming forth.
Seto froze and stared down the path as the music reached his ears. 'That song. I've heard that song before.'
Turning from the main path he felt himself drawn towards the gentle tune, but he was going blindly, and he couldn't see. The light was totally gone so there was nothing for him to go by, and he was just stumbling down the dark path with the hope of finding whatever it was he wanted to find.
After a few minutes of traveling down the black hallway a silhouetted figure came before him and he smiled.
"Tea, what are you doing here?"
She in turn nodded to him and drew her finger out, beckoning him to come forward.
Still with the pulling feeling taking over him Kaiba took a few steps in Tea's direction until one of his steps was not rewarded with a floor to hold him.
As Tea disappeared from his view a small wind flew around him as he fell down into the dark. He fell, and he fell, and he just kept falling and just when he thought he couldn't fall anymore. He was wrong.
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Seto woke again in another dark place. Pushing his arms out he found they could only move and inch or so. A little confused he tried to push forward, but again his fingers met with a velvety lining a few inches away.
'I know where I am.' Kaiba smiled and settled back down in the place with a soft sigh. 'I'm finally here.'
He then bunched his legs up as best he could and pushed the wall that he was met with up. There was a soft creaking as the hinges to the lid moved, and Seto could put his hand through the small crack and felt the damp earth outside of his small confined space. Bending himself at an odd angle he started shoveling the soil inside the coffin which he now knew he was in, until he was able to squeeze half of his body into the hollow he'd made.
Filling the rest of the box with the dirt he pushed up on the soil above his head and found that it moved slightly. Giving it another couple of good shoves his hand broke through and he started widening the small hole he'd made until he was able to climb out onto the soft grass.
Turning he looked behind him and saw the lines and lines of gravestones, the closest of course being his own, and ahead of him he saw people. Most of them he had little to no recognition of, but over to his right he saw a small group of three people having a picnic. Smiling he finished climbing out of the hole and he brushed himself off before heading over and sitting next to one of the three on the checkered blanket. Ruffling the hair he chuckled.
"Glad to see you got here alright."
Mokuba took a lick from the ice cream cone he was eating and smiled up at him. "I didn't know you were coming so soon."
He shrugged. "Yeah, well, you know." Then bringing his head up he smiled again. "Hey Dad, long time no see."
His father looked him up and down. "My, you've sure grown."
Reaching into the picnic basket his mother pulled out a sandwich and gave it to Seto. "You certainly have. So how have things been?"
Kaiba shrugged and took a bite from the sandwich. "Recently it's been okay. Not much else to do except work and walk. I ran into Tea on my way here though."
"Who's Tea?"
Mokuba answered for him, "She's the nice lady Seto's gonna marry!"
His dad's expression grew curious. "Really?"
"Yeah, we were planning the 25th of this month. I just hope that we can get everything done by then. You know, she still hasn't bought her dress yet, and we have to get the rings engraved. There's just so much to be done."
"That sounds very nice Seto, but how are you going to get married if you're here, and she's back down there?" His mother's tone was growing a little anxious.
Kaiba just shrugged however. "I'll think of something. Maybe we'll just get married when she gets up here. That could work as well."
Mokuba started looking sad. "Seto, you aren't supposed to be here yet."
He raised an eyebrow. "What do you mean?"
Kaiba's father nodded. "I think Mokuba is right. You shouldn't be here yet son. You need to go back."
His mother nodded as well and stared at him. "You don't belong here."
Seto's expression grew hurt. "But I don't want to go back. I want to stay here with you. We're finally a family again."
"Shut up and get your useless self out of here you little brat."
Kaiba whirled around and saw Gozaburo standing there glaring at him with his arms folded, and he just froze there in shock at seeing him.
"Are you getting hard of hearing? I told you to get out of here. Now!"
Seto blinked a couple of times before standing and blinking more. "But I just got here-"
"Dammit! You stupid kid! Leave!" Gozaburo approached him and struck him hard across the face.
He put a hand up to his cheek and felt the burn go through it, but Kaiba turned to face his family. "Mom, Dad, you don't really want me to go. Do you?"
His father got up and solemnly nodded. "It's for the best son."
"B-But Dad-?"
He held his hand up. "No, you're leaving. That's that."
Seto looked around at them in disbelief. "But I- I don't want to go. I want to stay here!"
This time his mother stood up with the same grim expression that had coated everyone's faces except for Seto. "I'm afraid you don't have a choice in the matter."
Kaiba shook his head. "No. No! I'm not going!"
The other people in the area started to slowly creep there way towards him, along with his parents, Gozaburo, and Mokuba.
Seto tried to back away but found they were all around him. Staring in disbelief at them he stammered. "But I don't want to! I'm not going to! You can't make me!"
A hand fell down onto his shoulder and he noticed it slowly decay into a mere skeleton as he looked over to the face of the person it belonged to. But he couldn't recognize them until a rasping voice escaped that clearly belonged to his mother which had been just the way he remembered her a few moments before.
"Leave Seto!"
The other people surrounding him closed in further as they started chanting and their bodies decayed into skeletons with the flesh hanging loosely off their bones. "Leave, leave, leave, leave."
Kaiba shook his head and tried to shove them away but they grabbed onto his arms and the revolting smell of their decaying bodies filled his nose and he gagged trying to breath through his mouth but he ended up just tasting it instead. He shivered and struggled as they closed further in on him. Tackling him to the ground still continuing to chant in their raspy voices from what was left of their voice boxes. As he fell under the weight and they fell across his face, burying him in themselves he felt them start chewing on his skin, his arms, his legs, even his face.
He yelled out, half in pain, half in just the plain fact that he knew he was being eaten alive. As they ate away from the outside, a feeling of being eaten from the inside started taking over him. Screaming out again he tried to struggle, but he couldn't, there was nothing he could do, the crushing weight of their numbers pressed him against the ground. The air was being squeezed out of his lungs as the stench made him go dizzy and he tried to scream again but there was no sound that came out.
Kaiba pulled his arm through the writhing mass and grabbed at one of the bodies, which he pulled over himself, trying to shield himself with the squirming zombie. A black lock fell down onto his face from the back of the thing's head and it shouted.
"Brother, let me go!"
Seto froze and stared at the back of the still squirming figure's head as they shifted back into a full-fledged person. Mokuba sat on top of him and then turned over with a black light glowing from his eyes and he hissed. "Good things come to those who wait Seto Kaiba!" And he launched forward, mouth open, ready to devour once more.
((Hehe, I'm just answering lovely questions that people put to me, but Yami is just kinda non-existent O.o Maybe he did go to Cuba, with Bakura's yami too! ^_^ Well, awe well.. Too late now. I don't think it really makes that much difference at this point anyway. So later and stuff peeps! Keep reviewing!))
