Mamono: Hey! I got up another chapter! Oh and thank you soooo much for the reviews!!!

Seto: Yeah.......whatever.......

Mokuba: What's the matter Seto?

Seto: Oh I was thinking, this chapter is kind of short, isn't it?

Mokuba: I'm barely in it too!

Mamono: Sorry, but I'm building up to something, so it had to be short.

Seto & Mokuba: Oh..............Alright then.

..............Okay!

Mamono: I guess I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh, so I can't change what happens, but I can in my story! Hee!

Mokuba: Please read&review, I want to be in the story more!*Puppy dog eyes*

~Brothers' Elegy~

Chapter 3

Meetings of Shattered Ice

"See ya later Seto!" Mokuba called to his brother. He bounded into Domino Elementary, followed by some of his friends. Seto sat on his bike and waved back at him. He smiled as he drove off. It was time to face the dreaded first day of school, but Seto thought that since he was in an unusually good mood, that it might not be so bad.

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"Hey Yug!" A blond haired teen yelled as he walked up to a short spiky haired boy. Yugi Moto , was standing with his friends, discussing what their first day would be like.

"Joey! Hey!" Came the joyful cry from the cheerful teen. Yugi loved the first day of school. He loved the excitement, finding out what he would learn in the year to come, but most of all he loved being with his friends again. Yugi's friends were more dear to him than anything in the world. He continued to chatter gleefully with them. Next to Yugi and Joey, was a girl with short chocolate brown hair and sapphire blue eyes. Her name was Tea Gardener, Yugi and Joey's, very enthusiastic comrade. Her eyes sparkled, and with a smile on her face, she was advising her friends on proper conduct and discussing how she would make sure they did their work this year. She was definitely ready for the day ahead.

"Joey! You have to keep up with your homework this year!" she scolded Joey, "if you don't you'll fall behind! The third year is the most important you know!"

"Jeez, Tea! Will ya get off a my back! I told you I'll do it!" he protested, "Anyway, dare's no way I'm gonna fail and get left behind!"

"Yeah, Joey, I don't know what I'd do without you!" came the cheerful response from Yugi.

"Hey, danks Yug!"

"Yeah Joey, you'd be stuck here forever if we didn't......" Tea trailed off.

A cold wind blue as the icy Seto Kaiba made his way to the front of the school. His eyes that once sparkled with hope and compassion faded to emotionless walls of ice. All of his good-natured feelings from earlier were hid behind those frozen walls. The CEO thinned his lips and walked right past Yugi and his friends without even blinking, Seto didn't want to be involved with them now. He didn't want his good mood this morning to be spoiled by Yugi Moto, or those mediocre excuses for friends. Seto continued to stare emotionlessly at the front door of the school.

"Kaiba," came a bark from Joey Wheeler.

'Just great, this is just what I need.' Seto mumbled under his breath.

Wheeler was the last person he wanted to deal with now. Nothing was heard then, over the deafening silence that followed this encounter.

"Hey, I'm talkin' to ya, moneybags!" Joey said, breaking the silence. Joey was obviously not thinking of the consequences to his actions.

Seto let out a sigh, he put his hand over his face and took a deep breath, nothing, not even Joey Wheeler, was going to ruin his good mood. His eyes lit up with and idea. Then a smile surfaced on the CEO's face. He turned around and for an instant those icy walls shattered. Just for that one instant, the true Seto Kaiba revealed himself.

"Good morning, Joey," he said as the shattered ice fell and melted in midair, "I do hope you are enjoying this beautiful morning."

Joey just sat there speechless, he didn't know how to respond. This was the last thing he had expected. His clenched fist had fell limp to his side. What was wrong? It's not like anyone hadn't said hello to him, though, with Kaiba, it felt like he had just met another person for the first time. Tea and Yugi were equally shocked, they just stood there. Was that really Seto Kaiba? It couldn't be the same egotistical jerk they knew him as. Could it? The three stood there not moving, they didn't know how to react. Seto just stared at them with an unnerving confidence.

"Well, farewell then," Seto said equally pleasant.

Then Seto gave one last smile to the dumbfounded Joey, Yugi, and Tea. He turned around, and as he walked away, the walls of ice refroze over Seto's eyes. Everything returned to the way it was, it was as if to Seto, nothing had ever happened.



Mamono:................whoa..............

Seto:.................................

Mokuba:...............................

Mamono: Wanna see if this keeps up?

Seto: Then review please!

Mokuba: Thank you readers and a special thanks to reviewers! We love you all!

Mamono & Seto:*blushes*............................*nods*