((And now you people get to know what Mokuba is doing finally.))

In Seto's dream he was talking to Tea, just like they had been at dinner they were both sitting there making up conversation about what had gone on in the past while, anything that had changed... But then the oddest thing happened, when she opened her mouth, all he heard from her was wringing. He blinked.

"Are you alright?"

She coughed, but it just came out in short beeping noises. And before he could ask again if she was fine he jerked awake, still heard the ringing. Looking around the room to reorient himself, he then realized what it was, and he reached into his pocket, having fallen asleep in his clothes and he pulled out his cell phone, rubbing at his eyes.

"Hello?"

"Is this Seto Kaiba, brother and legal guardian of Mokuba Kaiba?" The unfamiliar male voice came from the other end.

Seto nodded. "Speaking, may I ask who's calling please?"

"This is officer Dunbar, I'm calling about your brother."

The elder Kaiba's brain started going into a frenzy and got up off of his bed. "Yes...? What is it? Is he alright?"

"Mokuba is fine, Mr. Kaiba, but I'm afraid we found him next to the drug store with a couple of his friends. We'd appreciate it if you could come down to the station. Your brother refused to call you himself."

Auburn hair was brushed quickly and he changed into some clothing that was less crumpled as he talked. "Yes, I'll be right there." He waited for the officer to hang up the phone and then he hung it up himself and slipped on his shoes. Questions were running through his brain as quickly as he could think them up. What had Mokuba been doing out of the house so late? Did it have anything to do with him hiding those windows on his computer screen? Why was he down at the police station now? If nothing had happened to him then why would his guardian be needed?

Kaiba shook his head, he'd find that out once he got down there, for now he could rest assured with the fact that Mokuba was healthy, but just down at the police station and they'd get things sorted out once he was down there.

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It had taken approximately fifteen minutes for him to get down there, and he'd come up to one of the officers and asked where he was supposed to go, and they told him.

Seto walked into officer Dunbar's office and sat down as the man beckoned him to.

"I'm sorry for having to call you down here so late. But I figured that you'd rather sort it out now than have your brother be help in one of our cells for tonight. Mokuba is the only one that we know of with a guardian however, the rest of the boys seem to be without legal caretakers." The officer leaned over his desk slightly and rubbed at his mustache. "You're probably wondering what charges are being put against your brother though. Would you like me to tell you?"

Seto nodded. "If you would please."

"We found him and his friends smoking some pot, also known as marijuana. Which by law is illegal to be in the possession of, if you weren't already aware of this."

Blue eyes just stared at him in disbelief. Mokuba? With drugs? ...He'd never done anything that would cause Mokuba to turn to drugs for relief. Well, it was a possibility that he had, but not recently. And he'd always told Mokuba that he could come talk to him if he had a problem, but why would he turn to drugs? And illegal ones at that...

Considering that most drugs that people got high off of were illegal he wrote off this last thought process as exempt from the data. He shook his head. The police officer must be right though, after all, it was his job, and marijuana had a definite smell to it. The sickly sweet sent that was none too pleasant to the senses.

But why? He couldn't accept the fact to that Mokuba, of all people, had done something illegal. Something illegal like that, and then gotten caught at it. It was probably good that he got caught at it... this was different than anything Seto had ever done. Though his he learned to regret but they were hidden away along with the rest of his past.

"Could I please see him?"

Seto got up and followed the officer to the small temporary cell that they were holding Mokuba and obviously who were the other boys that had been down there. The CEO wasn't surprised to find that most of them were older, around his own age in fact, but not from Domino High. He'd never seen them before, and by the look of most of them they had dropped out of high school to try the mediocre living on the streets.

"Big brother! Wh-what are you doing here?"

The eyes suddenly became colder, even though the expression on his little brother's face was that of distress, he now knew why. That hint of worry that he'd seen a few hours past had the same fear and guilt inside of it. "I could ask you the same question."

Mokuba blinked at his brother, he'd seen that expression before, but never had it been directed at him exactly. The indifferent, flat gaze made him feel all the more smaller, all the more horrible for having hidden something like this from his brother... and it had been going on for some time too. A couple of months perhaps, but Seto hadn't known, he'd been too concerned with other things like the company and such to think that his little brother might have been doing something wrong.

"I-... I-..."

"Be quiet, kid..." The normal affection in the tone had disappeared, and the sad pain was crushed inside of Seto's spirit, he left it there to hobble around... He wouldn't care for it.

Looking over at the guard Seto went over and whispered to him quietly, asking what the options were for Mokuba. The officer said that they would be willing to let him off on bail, but it would be kept on the records that he'd been there before and he wouldn't get off so easily next time. The elder Kaiba nodded, and then whispered something quietly to him.

Seto then looked back over at Mokuba, the same monotone expression on his face. "You're staying here for the night. I might come to get you in the morning, depending on whether I think you've learned something from all this. Don't count on it though."

CEO turned away from brother. He walked out of the station without looking at anyone, talking to anyone... Just when life started to get good again it had to shoot him in the back where it hurt the most, where he hadn't seen it coming from. Mokuba had done drugs. He could accept this fact. He was fine with the actual action of lighting up the joint and smoking it. He was fine with the fact that Mokuba had been with older people, people he had no idea who they were and that probably were not decent to be around. He only had a problem with one thing. Why had this been hidden from him?

He loved Mokuba with all his heart, and he trusted him to be a responsible young gentleman and to take care of himself. This had been an ungentlemanly thing, with awful people, not to mention older, and illegal to top it off. And if it wasn't bad enough he hadn't even told anyone about it, but gone out of his way to hide it, and done a crummy job at that as well. Mokuba would just have to learn. Maybe staying in a jail cell for a night would help him to realize that if he did this again then that would be all that he was left with.

"I'm sorry..." Seto couldn't help but blame himself partially for this. He must have done something wrong when he attempted to take on the role of both parent and brother. Maybe he shouldn't have left Mokuba alone so much, or maybe he should have kept a more structured environment. But wouldn't that have made his little brother miserable? Yes. He knew it would have. The result would not have been this however.

Kaiba sighed as he got back in his car and drove off, not planning on going home. He was going to go to work, but he made a promise to himself. He wouldn't stop talking to Tea; he wouldn't stop talking to Mokuba. If anything he was would keep an extra eye on his little brother and a little less of a watch on Tea.

When life gives you lemon, stab it with a knife and squeeze out the juice into your eyes until you're blind and can't see the hell that it is anymore...

((TA-DAH! There we go you spiffy people. And yes, I know it's a little screwy for Mokuba to have gone and done this... I think I'm corrupting my own story some. *sobs* Neee... bad Glassy. Ok, anyway. Hope you liked it despite that badness of it.))