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The door of the office came down with the crash.  The smoke that billowed from the hellish inferno nearly blinded the three boys who had entered.

  "Man, nevah a dull moment, come on lets find Seto." Joey remarked as he shielded his eyes from the falling ash.

  "That maid said that he'd be in here…SETO?!!" Ryou called.

 "HEY KAIBA!! YOU IN HERE?!" Honda cried as he, Bakura nd Joey ventured into the burning office, avoiding the falling embers of the raging fire.  The fire alarms were blaring, and the office was being beginning to come down around them.

  Bakura spied a paled mass with sable hair.

  "THERE!! OVER THERE!!" he said pointing to Seto's fallen form.

"Holy shit!" Joey cried out when they reached the boy. "What happened here?"

  Honda moved to lift the unconscious boy. "Can't figure that out now, we gotta get him out!"

  A book self fell over and burst into flames a few feet away where the teens were crouched.

 "We gotta go NOW!!" Joey said helping Honda lift Seto.

 "M-mokuba…" A soft whimper escaped from Seto's bruised lips.

  "Its okay, Seto. He's probably gotten himself out."  Said Ryou as he helped Joey and Seto steady the taller boy so that they could lift him.

 Seto jerked in their grip.

 "no…mokuba….."

 Seto clung as best he could to the burning carpet.

 "SETO!"  Ryou cried as he and the others pried Seto's fingers from their hold on their carpet. "Stay with us…we must get you out of here."

  Seto gave a choked cry. "Not with out him."  A fresh river of blood began to trickle from his mouth.

  "Come on." Honda said as he pulled Seto's hand from the floor, "We have to get him to a doctor. He's not going to last much longer."

   The three boys began to drag Seto towards the door.  The injured boy was whimpering for his younger brother, and attempting to wiggle from his rescuers' hold.

  "Calm down Kaiba. He's probably outside looking for you." Joey said as he jerked Seto away from the fire.

   Seto gave a mighty pull and flopped to floor, aggravating his injuries.  He pointed the closed door.

  "Mokuba."   He said and then passed out.

 "Something's in that room." Joey said as he and Ryou quickly hoisted Seto back up.

Honda charged the door. " You guys get going." He said as he slammed himself against his obstacle. "I'll be right behind you guys!"

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   Honda smashed through the door, just as the fire was beginning to spread into the room as well.

  What the.. He saw Mokuba lying asleep in a large bed.  The teen rushed to the boy's side and began to shake him.

  "MOKUBA!! WAKE UP YOUR HOUSE IS ON FIRE!!"

  There was no response.  Honda lifted the boy, as gasped at the dead weight.  The boy was breathing, but there was no mistaking that Mokuba was once more a soulless shell.  He had remembered how the younger Kaiba had looked back on Pegasus' island.

 Well, I guess this makes two ya owe me kiddo. He thought as he moved to open the bedroom window.  There was no backtracking through the office now. 

    He secured Mokuba to his body using the bed sheets and his trench coat.  On his way out the window, Honda saw Seto's deck on the nightstand.

 Seto's gonna need this, if that creep is back in the picture.

   Honda slipped the deck into his pant pocket, climbed out the window and began a very difficult decent down to the garden.

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     Seto's attacker watched from the boughs of a tall tree.  He was contemplating a good excuse to give his employer for his failure.  True, he had incapacitated the older Kaiba, but there was the matter that his other target had by now perished in the flames.

   The radio he kept with him began to signal an incoming message. No doubt that it was Pegasus checking in on the operation.  He ignored the beeping as he decided his excuses for loosing Mokuba.  

  Justas he was ready to explain a very long-winded story, the man caught sight of Honda climbing down the mansion wall and dropping safely to the ground…with Mokuba.

 Smiling the man answered his radio.

  "Anderson(1)? What's your status?" Kimo's voice inquired.

"Mission 1 accomplished, but Mission 2 has been delayed." Anderson replied.

 "What happened."

"The house caught on fire and then some little punk got in and grabbed Mokuba, but tell Master Pegasus that Seto is as good as dead.   I gave him the beating of his life and if the injuries dun kill him, the smoke probably will finish him off."

   Anderson could here the radio being handed off to another person.

  "Very good." A maliciously sweet voice cooed.

"You hurt Kaiba-boy..but you failed in not bringing me his baby brother(2)."

Anderson swallowed; he did not want to enrage Pegasus.

 "My apologies sir, but it was hard to get through a burning office. Kaiba had locked the little one in securely. I could not get to him."

 "It is alright for now Anderson…the fire was actually a good touch.  You added more salt to Seto's preverbal wounds. Seto almost loosing Mokuba in that situation, will make the wretch suffer a considerable amount.."

  "Thank you sir."

 Anderson breathed a sigh of relief. Pegasus was not angry with him.

 "No then, go get Mokuba….and don't fail me again..if you do, your soul is mine and an eternity awaits you in the shadow realm."

 Anderson nodded. "Yes sir."

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  It was a few days later when Seto finally swam back into consciousness. He winced as his numbed senses began to register the aches and pains of his injuries.

   He moved slightly and he heard the rustling of sheets.  He registered that he was reclining.  The boy attempted to open his eyes but his right eye was swollen shut and something was covering his left eye and a part of his face.

  Seto reached up with some difficulty and managed to brush the bandages that covered his eye.  His arm buckled, and then fell limply to his side.

  Where am I.  He wondered.  Where ever he was did not sound or smell like a hospital.

  His lips were burning and he ran his tongues against them to alleviate his cracked and bruised lips.

   It was then that he realized how thirsty he was.  His mouth and throat were dry and sore.

   There has to be somebody here. He thought.

 "H-hello?" He managed to say or rather croak.  His voice was scratchy and very faint. He tried to speak again but his voice dissolved into a fit of hoarse coughs.  The coughs in turn irritated the boy's broken ribs.  Seto let out a pained but soft moan before the coughing, and the pain, resumed.

 "Hey you're up." A voice said.  It was familiar to the young CEO's numbed mind.  Seto listened intently, trying to place the voice's owner.

  "Doc said you'd be up." The mystery voice continued. The voice was warm and friendly.  Seto still could not figure out who was speaking.  It hurt too much to think at the moment.

  He felt gentle hands move to the bandage over his left eye.

  "I guess we can take this off now." The voice remarked.

  The hands carefully removed the coverings, and Seto opened his good eye, only to shut it again from the bright light of the alien room.

  Seto opened his eye slowly and blinked. His vision was blurred for a few seconds and then cleared.

  A pair of honey colored eyes and blonde hair swam into view.

 "Joey?" Seto whispered.

  "Hey Seto. You okay?"

  "Joey…Wheeler?" Seto blinked in confusion.

  Joey smiled, but his eyes were full of concern.

"Yeah, its me. You've been out for 3 days now."

   Seto blinked at this information. Three days? It felt more like the next morning, and at the same time months.

  "Doc said I gotta check on some stuff when ya woke up." Joey said as he pulled a small clipboard from a side table.

 "You think you can answer a few questions? Its only so the doc can see how bad ya hit your head." Joey said with a gentle smile.

  Seto gave Joey a dazed nod.  The blonde teen held four fingers.

"Okies, how many fingers am I holdin' up?"

  "Four." Seto replied.

Joey nodded and scribbled down the answer on his sheet.

 "Okay. What's your name?"

"Seto Kaiba." Seto said weakly.

   Joey asked Seto three more questions about his age, the year, and his favorite duel monsters card.  Seto answered them all correctly, with out hesitation, and Joey recorded his answers.

   Seto licked his cracked lips again. His mouth was so dry. He swallowed, but grimaced as he felt how parched his throat was.  Seto looked up to see Joey reaching over him.  The blonde carefully and gently propped Seto up and brought a glass of water to the injured teen's lips.

  Seto immediately allowed the glass entrance as he greedily began to drink.  The water was cold and sweet. It felt so good as it eased some of the boy's discomfort.

  "Easy." Joey quietly chastised.  "Not so fast."

  Seto slowed his gulping and soon finished the glass.

  "Want more?" Joey asked.

  Seto shook his head.  He felt satiated for the moment.

"Looks like you're not as dehydrated as you first were. The last time you were up, you took three glasses."

  "last time?" Seto question.

"Yeah. Ya probably dun remember. You were still pretty up on the meds."

 "Oh." Was Seto's only comment as he groggily blinked. He felt so exhausted all of a sudden.

  "So..tired…" Seto moaned as his eyelids began to droop.

 "You should get some more rest. You've been through a lot bud."

 Seto mumbled, "Like what?" He said in a faint voice as Joey laid him back into the pillows.

  "Just get some more rest. I'll tell ya later. Promise."

  Seto nodded and closed his blue eyes. 

  Joey sighed and brushed a few strands of hair away from Seto's eyes.  A lot had happened in the last two weeks.  Who would have thought way back then that Seto Kaiba would be under Joey Wheeler's roof?

    With a final check on his patient, Joey turned to leave the small guest bedroom of his apartment.

  "Joey…" A soft voice called.

 Joey turned and met the half-open cobalt eyes.

 "Yeah?"

"Where's Mo-mo?" Seto asked.  Joey smiled at Mokuba's pet name. Seto had to be really under  his pain killers to use his little brother's nick name so freely.

"He's fine.  I'll tell ya the whole story when ya get up.  Just like I promised." Joey moved back to the bed and resettled the covers on the  injured boy.

" 'k." was Seto's reply.

 Joey turned away once more, when Seto called out once more.  "..joey…"

"Yeha?" The blonde sighed.

 "Thank you."

  Joey smiled. "Dun mention it."

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1) Bwee Matrix…*puts shades on* Hello Mr. An-der-son…BWHAHAHAHA agent smith..^^ okies…I'm hyper..MARIA GOT MEAT TODAY after 15 days of strict fast…
  *Y. Bakura and her are going to have a Meat Hoedown…*

2) I love how the prick says that. Dun ya? I mean it kinda makes me wish that Seto called Mokuba 'baby brother' instead of 'little brother' or 'little one.'

Aww…….whata sweet chappie, dun ya think?

 And now my fellow readers…what do ya think should happen to Seto? Should he regress into "I hate friendship, because I've lost my brother" mode, or will he try to maintain his friendships?  What will happen to Mo-mo and Pegasus?

 I need suggestions, because I have three different endings, and I'm not happy with any of them a the mo'. So if you have a suggestion, leave it in your review. Any suggestions I use, I will give credit to the person!!

 So please help a lazy…er…POOR author who is suffering from writer's block!!

See yas!!