Mamono:Hey there! This is my first fanfic! So I'd like everyone to be nice! As you may have guessed this is a fanfic about Seto and Mokuba! Well mainly Seto.....anyway please R&R!

Seto: Oh and Mamono doesn't own Yu-Gi-Oh...

Mokuba:Seto that was mean! You didn't have to say it like that!

Mamono: Hee it's okay, I guess.....*tears*

~Brothers' Elegy~

Chapter 1

Rain drops and Promises

The rain pattered on the windowsill of a certain Corporate Executive Officer that evening.

"I hope tomorrow won't be as dull as the past week has been," came a low growl from the great Seto Kaiba. His company, Kaiba Corporation, had recently been working on an international trade agreement with another big company overseas. He was working at his computer diligently the whole evening on some trivial tasks that must be done so chaos wouldn't come to pass and give his corporation a bad reputation in other countries. He clicked his laptop shut and began to stare out the window. Little droplets of water would hit the glass as the night grew to it's latest hour. Seto checked his alarm clock to see a neon red twelve blink back at him.

"Hmm still early.....better get some sleep though," he thought to himself. He got up and walked out of his office through a lonely corridor. All life had long since fled from this place. As Seto walked past, he stopped at an open door where another life form had also escaped from sleep.

"Mokuba.....?" he walked in the room to find a small boy with long black hair. His normally bright cheerful eyes were full of exhaustion . The boy looked up. He was met with his brothers ice blue eyes, full of concern for the little boy.

"Oh, Seto! Your still up?" he questioned the shadowy figure. He then put away some things he had been working on for the next day.

"What are you doing up?"

"Umm, I was just getting ready for tomorrow!"

"What do you mean?"

"Huh....did you forget Seto?"

"Forget what?"

"Tomorrow, it's the first day of school."

"Is that so..."

As the elder Kaiba brother thought about the day to come, the small black haired boy walked up to his brother and grabbed his hand.

"Seto,"

"Hmm? What is it Mokuba?" Seto awoke from his own thoughts to see the little figure beside him.

"I was just thinking......" he hesitated, not sure if it was safe to finish the thought.

"About what?" Seto managed to get out over a yawn. He hadn't gotten much sleep this past week and had totally forgotten about school the next day. He had never liked the first day of school, all it was teachers spouting off their "first day of school" speeches and sitting through hours of menial labor that never amounted to more than five points of credit anyway. He had about a hundred better things he could be doing with his time.

"Seto.....I was wondering, couldwegodowntotherivertomorrow?!?" he gasped out, since it was a lot to say in one breath. He looked up at his brother who was still in the middle of processing the mess that had escaped the little boy's lips. Mokuba thought that he should try and convince his brother without letting him know what they were going to do.

"Seto! We have to go!"

"Huh?"

"Yeah, it's the first day of school and I thought we should do somethin' fun! You know we never go out anymore and we could have lots a fun and we could go fishing and have a picnic and........and..........and.......plus there's no homework........and................"

(Twenty minutes later)

"and that's why we should go to the river!" Mokuba said nearly fainting from the lack of oxygen. He looked up to the tall figure, who was obviously lost in thought.

'I don't think that this is gonna' work, better go with something drastic.' He grabbed the tail of Seto's trademark trench coat and gave the most pathetic puppy dog eyes he could muster.

"Please Seto!"

Seto was still in the middle of configuring what was just said. 'Hmm I think I heard something about the river, I think.......I don't know........' He then felt a tug at his coat. He turned around to see the excruciatingly cute trademark puppy dog eyes that he was way to accustomed to seeing. Giving in to the waves of cuteness, he thought to himself, 'To think that one of the most successful businessmen in the country, would be overcome by those steely-blue puppy dog eyes.......' He knew that the fight was over before it had begun.

"Alright, Mokuba, we'll go down to the river tomorrow."

"Yeah! Your the best big bro!" The little boy jumped for joy. He knew the puppy dog eyes worked every time. He ran to his bed and pulled the blue green blanket over his head and rolled around. Seto walked over to his little brother, tucked him in, and stood next to his little brother's bed. He watched those small eyes soften as his brother drifted into slumber. He snuck quietly past the toys scattered on the floor and stopped at the door. Seto looked back at one of the few truly good things in his life. As he turned around and walked back through the silent hallways to his room he whispered.

" Mokuba, I promise I will always keep you safe...."

Mamono: So how was it? Please no flames.

Mokuba: Yeah! I'll cry if you send flames.

Seto: You all know what happens if my lil' brother cries.

Mamono: Calm down there, Seto, we have to be nice to the readers, flames are just constructive critcism *cough* So we have to except them to!

Seto: Then why did I get this giant water gun! I thought you said we could drown all flames and feed them to Wheeler?

Mamono: Ack! SHHHH! Don't tell them that! Uhh ignore that! We hope you enjoyed the story!

Mokuba: Seto don't pout it's embarrasing!

Seto: Hmm.....whatever......