Hey everyone I am back!! Things are way crazy here! But never the less, I promised ya an up date!!
Seto: 'Bout time!! You left all these fans worrying about ME!!
Maria: I'm sorry *huggles him *
Seto: Gah! NO TOUCHIE!!!
* Mokuba runs up and glomps Seto*
Seto: ^^ * snuggles Mo-mo *
Maria: 0.o WAI DUN YOU LUV ME!!!!!!! *cries *
Seto: Because you're not Mo-mo..
*Maria glares jealously and walks away grumbling * damn kid, too cute for his own good… 'Big brother Big Brother..help help;….for crying out loud… 0.0 *gets an idea *
*places a quick call. Kemo and three suits jump out of the bushes and grab her*
M: SETO SETO HELP HELP!!!
*seto ignores her *
Mok: I think Maria is in trouble…
Seto: So?
Mok: * gives him puppy eyes * Save her pwease….
Seto: …*sighs* FINE…
* runs out to save her. He run closer and closer, their hands are inches apart * I'll SAVE YOU FROM PEGASUS' GOONS MARIA!!
Seto reaches out for her when - *Mok: SETO SETO!! HELP HELP!!
*Seto turns in mid air and rushes off to save Mokuba from Pegasus' REAL goons *
Seto: MO-KU_BAAAA!!!!!!!!!!
Mok: BIG BROTHERRRRRRRRR!! (duncha just love it when they do that? ^.^ )
Mar: HEY WAIT!! WHAT ABOUT ME???
Seto: You're not important enough…
Maria: YOU COLD SELFISH BASTARD!!
Seto: That's right toots….
Meh onta the story…..
"I'm sorry," The guard said "Master Kaiba will not be receiving any visitors today."
Yugi and his friends exchanged nervous glances.
"Ok, we have his homework. We just wanted to drop it off." Yugi said politely as he pulled a folder out of his backpack.
"You may leave it with me. I'll see that he gets his assignments." Said the guard as he took the folder form Yugi.
"Whets wrong with him?" Asked Joey. "His he sick or something'?"
The guard frowned, "I am not at liberty to say. Now if you have no further business here, I suggest you take your leave. Have a nice weekend."
Taken aback by the guard's coldness, the teens left the Kiaba property.
"Man what was up that guard's butt?" Joey said as he kicked a stone a few feet ahead of him while they walked.
"I dunno Joey." Yugi sighed. "Maybe he's really busy this week"…or maybe he doesn't really want to be our friend.
A figure in the garden stood extremely still. It was almost sundown, as he waited for the opportune moment to strike. The figure watched as a group of teenagers walk past the garden gate, upset that they had been turned away from the mansion.
Kaiba has friends? That's odd. Sources told me that the brat is a loner.
He shrugged at this new piece of information and checked over his equipment. His orders we clear. Go in get Mokuba's body, and make sure that the older Kaiba failed to protect his brother. He smiled remembering that Master Pegasus had encouraged brutally beating the older boy, even the possibility of death. He smiled wolfishly as he thought of his future victory against the young CEO. Kaiba Corp would be Pegasus' by tomorrow and he would have a very hefty reward.
Slowly he moved towards the back of the house, and located the den window. Pegasus had informed him that the den was the most likely place where he could find the older Kaiba.
From his bad he pulled out a grappling hook and loaded it into a launcher gun and took aim.
No one heard the gun go off or the "clink" the metal prongs made on the sill as it latched on. The man swiftly ascended and stepped on to the narrow ledge. He peered inside the window and caught a glimpse of one of his two targets. He saw Seto hunched over his desk seemingly asleep.
THAT is Seto Kaiba? The man thought with a disapproving look. He has heard many stories of genius teen. How he was tall and intimidating with confident air and piercing blue eyes. Not this pale and obviously fatigued boy.
Heh. He said that this may be difficult.
He began to pry the window open as silently as possible. He successfully slipped inside the room, not interrupting his prey.
So enraptured was Seto in his thoughts that he did not notice the window being opened. He became aware that someone was in the room when, something hard hit him on the back of his head. He saw stars for a minute and felt a searing pain. His vision clouded for endless seconds as he sat stunned behind his desk.
Once he got his bearings, Seto heard a noise to his left. It was coming from his room, and the door was now ajar. Seto stumbled to his feet and ran to his bedchamber. He flung open the door and scanned the room for the disturbance. And then he saw a man attempting to lift his brother from the safety of his bed.
Seto felt his blood burn with rage, as his protective nature for Mokuba came out in full force.
"PUT HIM DOWN YOU BASTARD." Seto growled at the intruder.
The man froze realizing that he had not knocked Seto out as he had intended. He smiled and dropped the soulless form to the bed. He cracked his knuckles and turned to Seto smiling,
No point in putting this off any longer. He told himself. He had been looking forward to beating the crap out of Seto Kaiba.
"Well, if it isn't the all mighty Seto Kaiba." He said as he advanced on the boy.
"Who are you and what do you want?" Seto snarled as he moved out of striking range.
The man swiped at Seto, and the sidestepped it. The man swung at the boy again, and Seto dodged again, but this time he stumbled. The fatigue and stress were taking their toll on his body.
"Tsk. Tsk. Kaiba. You should take better care of yourself.
Seto growled, "GET. OUT.!" But this time the threat sounded weak. The man chuckled.
" Ooh, that was so threatening. I'm a bit disappointed, here I am promised a battle with the infamous CEO of Kaiba Corporation and child genius, and instead I stand face to face with a tallow-skinned bag of bones. You're a wreck boy. How are you fit to protect the child, when you can barely stand to fight or make threats?"
Seto snapped and rushed the man. "You'll be the wreck when I'm done with you, asshole!"
He swung his fist and it hit his mark square in the shoulder. The man staggered, and Seto prepared to swing his fist again. His fist was a second from connecting with the man's jaw, when the man blocked him and countered Seto with frightening speed. The man buried his fist into Seto's abdomen. The punch sent Seto reeling backward to the floor.
Shit that hurt. He thought as he grasped his stomach and groaned. The man stood over him, and spat in the boy's face.
"Heh. I thought you were trained in the martial arts? I heard that you were a force to be reckoned with. It seems that your attachment to your brother weakened you." The man kicked the boy in his left shin. Seto winced.
Laughing wickedly the man lunged on top of Seto and pinned his to the floor. He punched the teen relentlessly until the boy stopped struggling.
" Your weak boy. " He said as he slapped Seto. "You failed him." He backhanded the boy.
Seto laid there with his eyes closed panting, and trying to summon enough strength to fight back. Stars were dancing before his eyes, and his body was aching, but the man's words were carving into him. Hurting him deeper than the man's physical torture.
Seto felt the man pin his arms against the ground, and the adult's weight shift as he leaned forward. Seto flinched when he felt the hot breath against his ear as the man began to whisper to him,
" I'm going to take him away. Take him far away from you. I'll take him to Pegasus…and you'll never see your brother again. And you can rot here in this little office thinking about how you failed to stop me, because you were too weak."
No!! I AM NOT WEAK!! GOTTA PROTECT MOKUBA!! Seto screamed to himself. I PROMISED!! Promised I'd always be there for him!
The cobalt eye snapped open.
"NO!" With adrenaline fueled strength, Seto twisted and jerked his body until he was able to propel his attacker off of him. Seto pounced like a tiger and barreled into the man sending them both to the floor with the teen on top. Seto swung wild punches, each hitting their mark accurately.
Seto gripped the collar of the man's shirt, and yanked the man's head upward.
"WHERE IS PEGASUS?" Seto snarled.
The man said nothing. Unnoticed to the teen, the man was easing his hand into his pocket.
Seto slammed the man's head down against the floor, and brought him back up again.
"TELL ME!"
The man smiled. Seto looked curiously at his opponent as if to ask 'why are you smiling?'
With a sudden jerk the man's head impacted with Seto's forehead. The stunned teen was flipped off the man's body, and soon found that his left wrist was now trapped in a silver cuff that the man had produced from his pocket. Seto was dragged across the floor kicking and pulling in hopes to pull the man off balance.
"Give up, damn you!" The man said in annoyance, He grabbed Seto by the scruff of his neck flung him forcefully against the wall. The man smirked as he watched Seto's form fall limply to the floor. He secured the boy to leg of an antique couch, just as the boy was coming back to his senses.
" A valiant effort. But you failed." The man sneered as he left to collect his prize.
Seto struggled to lift the heavy couch. He pushed and strained trying to free his hand, but it was no use. A week of fatigue, stress, and malnurishment threatened to leave him helpless on the floor. He watched his attacker moved closer to the still form of his brother.
"get away from him." Seto said through ragged breaths.
The man laughed cruelly at the boy's request, as he pulled the covers from Mokuba. Seto's jerked and pulled wildly as his beaten form would allow. Anything to save his brother. Then he saw it. A glass paper weight that had rolled off his bedroom's desk and under the couch. He grabbed the glass with his free hand and hurled the glass missile with all his strength. The weight struck true between the man's shoulder blades. The man fell stunned to the ground.
Bought some time. Seto thought as he resumed his attempts to lift the couch, so that the cuff would slid off. He pulled and pushed s hard as he could, the metal slicing his wrists, cutting deep into his flesh. He didn't care about the pain, Mokuba was more important. He strained some more using all the strength he could muster. He managed finally to lift the heavy antique just enough to slip the handcuff from under the leg.
" He said you wouldn't go down with out a fight." The man said as he loomed over Seto. Seto kicked out at the man, knocking him to the side. Seto jumped the man and both were on the floor again, in a heap of thrashing limbs as the two combatants struggled to overcome the other.
The two males rolled and kicked, neither side giving quarter. They rolled and fought out of the bedroom, and into the small sitting room between Seto's office and bedchamber.
Seto managed to pull him self free of the man's weight. He scrambled to his feet, and pulled the bedroom door closed and keyed in the electronic security code to lock the door.
"You won't take him from me." Seto said as he leaned heavily against the door. The pain was excoriating. It was hard to think through out the pain.
"We'll see about that, boy." The man snarled. He knocked Seto down again, this time efficiently pinning the boy down. He began to mercilessly beat the boy. The man slammed his fist into Seto's face, shoulders, and stomach, until his victim was barely conscious. He laid there allowing the man to hit him.
"Mokuba…" he whimpered and closed his eyes.
***
Meanwhile, in the backyard, Joey and Honda had scaled the mansion walls, and were attempting to open up a window.
"I'm still not sure if this is a good idea guys!!" Yugi called out as loud as he dared to his friends, while he glanced over his shoulder watching for the security guards.
" What if he really is just sick? This IS breaking and entering!" Anzu yelled.
"Don't worry guys we know what we're doing." Honda said as he opened up the window.
"Yeah, we're Seto's friends now, and we're gonna make sure that he's okay." Joey said as he slipped through the window.
Anzu sighed. "Bakura go with them." There was 'trouble' written all over this plan.
"Why me. Why should I climb up there. Why not you and Yugi? I'm not so sure of this idea either" The silver haired teen argued
"Because you are a good source of reason, and I'm not climbing up there in a skirt."
" But those two wont listen to me, and Yugi and I promise we won't look-"
"GET UP THERE." Anzu hissed.
"All right. All right." Ryou huffed as he began to climb up their poorly crafted ladder. "If I get arrested, I'll never forgive those two …"
***
"You don't mind if I smoke do you?" The man said as he pulled a cigarette out of his pocket and lit it. "It's a tradition of mine. I always smoke after I've completed a mission."
He smiled at the wearied form at his feet. The boy was bloody and bruised and barely conscious. The man snickered and kicked the teen hard in the ribs, smiling at the sound of a rib cracking. Seto whimpered. The man blew a cloud of smoke in the boy's direction and turned away towards the door. He ripped the keypad off, and began to work on hot-wiring the lock system.
"In a few minutes, you'll be an only child." The man called over his shoulder to his beaten victim.
"You'll never find him." The man smoked his cigarette happily as he worked.
Twenty minutes later found his good mood disappearing, as he failed again to unlock the door.
Softs grunting behind him, made him turn to find the dazed teen trying to get up. Seto staggered weakly to his knees, and attempted to stand. A searing pain ripped across his chest. He gasped and doubled over in pain.
The man smiled and decided to take a break from his task to torment the wounded boy.
"Still trying, eh?" the man said in a mocking tone as he pushed Seto down. "Face it. You've lost. Mokuba is Pegasus' now." He blew a puff of smoke in Seto's face, smiling as the boy coughed, and then cried out in pain, as it was uncomfortable for him to do so with his injury.
"You just lay right there, and I'll finish up my job." The man took a final drag of the cigarette and flicked towards the trashcan, and turned back to the door.
The man never noticed that the still smoldering butt had missed the trashcan, and had landed at the base of the office window curtains. The material burst into flames and spread the flames the neighboring curtains across the office.
Seto watched as half of the office go up in flames. Smoke was beginning to fill fast. Seto coughed, each ragged breath spraying flecks of blood. He could hear man cursing as he struggled to open the door.
Finally the man gave up, deciding to save his own skin. He broke open a window and disappeared to the yard below.
Mokuba….I have to get to him Seto began to repeat to himself, as he crawled once more to knees. His strength was fading fast. He pulled himself to his feet, his breathing ragged and spewing droplets of blood. He clutched his chest and staggered towards the door.
The fire was spreading towards him, it was getting so hot, and the curtains were now falling towards the ground like flaming blankets. Windows exploded from the heat as room began fall apart.
Mokuba…I'm coming…I'll get to you… He faltered and fell against the door; his legs were beginning to buckle. He fumbled with the wires trying to override the locks. His vision began to blur, and it was becoming increasingly difficult to breathe.
" Mokuba!" He gasped. Brother I am coming. It's so hard for me…
He coughed harshly spraying drops of blood onto the white door. He desperately gasped for air. His vision blurred once more and the boy tried harder to focus on the wires he was trying to cross, but to no avail. Seto found it was becoming increasingly difficult to stand. He felt as if he was floating, his vision was nothing more than a haze, the fire was now miles away, and his aches and injuries were beginning to fade.
"Mokuba." He cried weakly. "Brother help me…."
The cobalt eyes glazed over and Seto slumped to the floor.
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