Disclaimer: I am the owner of exactly 120 episodes of YuGiOh!™ on DVD (Japanese version). That's all I'm going to say.
Author Notes: As stated in the previous chapter by Ji-chan, this story is an RP/Fik hybrid. The style/format it's written in isn't purely RP, and it's not purely Fik either.
For people who don't know what 'RP' is, it's kind of like writing a story, except you only do it from the Point of View of one single character. You get two/three or more people who will all write for one char each, and then you interact together.
What Ji-chan and I have done is we've picked one char each, RP-style, but we're going to be writing this like we would wrote a normal story, so in a way this story will be told from two Points of View. Except of course, other than the loose plot, we don't know what the other is doing, and won't know until we read each others already posted chapters.
I hope that isn't too confusing.
Also, Ji-chan and I watch only the Japanese version of YuGiOh! and we hope that the English Dub burns in hell for all eternity – things will be essentially different so do not leave reviews telling us we have certain details wrong, because we're going to the effort of re-watching our DVD's to make sure we get the details correct – if there are inconsistency's (which there will be), blame it on those stupid American Dubbers that have screwed YGO!'s original plot over so badly it may as well be a parody of the original. …/rant ^_~
A note on Dual Monsters™ and the Dual Monsters™ Cards: Almost all Duel's will be written by me and for that purpose I re-watched over 65 episodes of YGO! to find out what cards Yami and Seto-kun have in their decks. I don't play the CCG and I have virtually no idea what the English names of cards are, all cards will be under either their Japanese name, the translation if I can't spell the Japanese name, and only the English title if, and only if, the Japanese title is so obscure from what I vaguely know of the English card names that I feel it necessary to use the English names (The 'Summon Skull' comes rapidly to mind, since it's called something along the lines of a 'Steel Guardian' in Japanese).
Omg, I'm talking way too much here. Gomen ^_^ and I hope you enjoy the story.
~: Music to listen too: Ashita Moshi Kimiga Kowaretemo - YuGiOh! Theme Song Vocal Collection (Japanese Soundtrack) :~
Life Scenario – II:
Seto Kaiba, President and Inventor Genius of Kaiba Corp. slumped back into his impressive black leather chair, closed his eyes tiredly and rubbed the bridge of his nose.
A few feet away, tucked up under Seto's long, white trench coat, Mokuba slept comfortably on the office's couch.
It was late at night; moonlight, battling to be seen through the heavy haze of streetlights, filtered weakly into the office through the large windows behind Seto's chair and cast a light glare across the monitor of the computer Seto was currently working on.
Opening his eyes again, Seto let his hand run back through his hair, pushing his fringe out of his vision and glared tiredly at the many boxes of figures and images that blinked across his screen.
It was hard work putting the behind-the-scenes mess that Big Five had made of his company back together. Along with their betrayal of Seto to Pegasus and the reprogramming of Seto's experimental VR Dual game, the Big Five had also been slowly pulling the company to its knees. Embezzlement was the least of the things Seto had discovered the executive group guilty of and the young man was amazed, and incredibly angry with himself, that he hadn't noticed it earlier.
He had assumed his 'Father's' men had come completely under his thumb since the fateful day he had successfully wrested Kaiba Corp. from the mans iron grip. At the time each of the Big Five - in one way or another - had proven their loyalty to Seto, but obviously he had been wrong in his assumption.
Reaching forward, Seto moved to sit up again and continue his gruelling, boring task of investigation and correction but hesitated when his hand passed over where his Dual Monsters deck sat beside the console. Bringing his hand down, Seto picked up the cards and idly shuffled them as he once again sat back and then, with a practiced flick of his wrist, randomly drew a card.
Blue-Eyes White Dragon.
Seto's lips curled into a smirk and he placed the card, face up, on the desk beside his computer console then, shuffling the deck once more, he drew another random card.
His deck's second Blue-Eyes White Dragon. He had always been good at drawing cards.
Placing the second Blue-Eyes on top of the first, Seto shuffled his deck for the third time and set his fingers onto the top card, his eyebrow raised slightly in sardonic question of whether or not the card would prove to be the Third of his Blue-Eyes.
" 'Nii-sama?"
Seto lifted his gaze from the still facedown card and set the deck back on the desk.
"Mokuba." He frowned, "Go back to sleep. You have school in the morning."
Mokuba yawned and pushed himself into a sitting position, Seto's coat falling into a heap in his lap as he rubbed at his eyes and stared blurrily at his older brother.
"So do you. Why are we still here?"
Seto turned his gaze back to his computer screen and continued his previously interrupted work; his hands moving over the keys as if at light speed and the figures on the screen scrolling quickly upwards as others rapidly replaced them.
"I'm not finished yet. If you want to go home I'll call the car for you."
Mokuba pushed his long hair from his face and scowled sleepily at his brother. "I don't want to go home without you, I'll stay here. When are you going to sleep?"
Seto made a non-committal sound and then flicked his eyes back up to Mokuba briefly, "If you want to stay here then go back to sleep. You're going to school tomorrow even if you're tired."
Mokuba sighed in annoyance and settled back onto the couch, pulling the jacket up over his shoulders again, "Hai, 'Nii-sama… But you have to sleep sometime."
Seto paused in his typing and his eyes flicked over to his brother again to see the boy peering at him over the edge of the jacket, his eyes narrowed.
He hadn't thought Mokuba had noticed that. On the other hand, the boy was oddly observant when it came to his elder brother. Whenever Seto turned around he was being 'mothered' by the black-haired boy, so he really shouldn't be surprised that Mokuba had noticed his lack of a consistent sleeping pattern.
Taking the pause as an invitation, Mokuba continued his thought.
"You haven't slept properly since Dualist Kingdom, 'Nii-sama."
Seto's fingers were still paused, touching the keys of the console lightly. "There's been a lot to clean up since then. Big Five messed up a lot of things and not all of them can be delegated."
"But you can't do them either if you fall over from exhaustion." Mokuba sat up again, "And you said yesterday that you're nearly finished fixing everything anyway; it can wait while you get some sleep."
Seto's fingers twitched slightly and he turned back to his computer screen, continuing his typing.
" 'Nii-sama!" Mokuba entreated.
"Fine." Seto said quietly and completed what he'd been working on before shutting the programs and the machine down. "A few hours sleep are probably necessary."
Mokuba grinned and climbed up off the couch and handed the white coat to his brother as he moved around the desk, towards the door.
Letting Mokuba go ahead of him, Seto headed to the door to his office, then paused and turned back to his desk to retrieve his Dual deck.
Picking up the deck and then the two upturned Blue-Eyes, Seto smirked then drew the card from the top of the pile and added the third Blue-Eyes White Dragon to it's companions. With a flick of his thumb, he fanned the three cards out and gazed at them, his mind suddenly going back to the other side of events caused by Big Five's inept manipulations.
Because of those men he had been able to witness, first hand, the true power behind one Yugi Motou's Duelling ability.
He had almost managed to convince himself, after their first dual, that Yugi's successful summoning of Exodia had been nothing but a fluke and that given the opportunity to rematch, Seto would win. But his experiences at Dualist Kingdom had changed that. It was obvious that Yugi Motou was a true duellist, one of the few that truly deserved to be called such and the only Duellist Seto would acknowledge as Rival.
And then, because of Mokuba, Yugi had been drawn into the fiasco within the VR Duellist world and Seto had been able to see again the power behind Yugi's ability's. As they'd worked side-by-side to defeat the Big Five, their Monsters working perfectly with each other, Seto had known – not just acknowledged - really known in the depths of his soul, that Yugi was the only one that could ever compare with himself in Duelling.
The last few weeks since Big Five had been defeated in their own warped version of Seto's Duelling world, the young man had had his hands completely full rebuilding his company, yet almost constantly he had been beset with a desire, a need to Dual. Not just anyone though, he needed to Dual Yugi Motou. The desire thrummed through his blood and distracted him almost any time he had space to breathe in. The brief times he did find to sleep he found himself thinking over his previous duals with his tri-haired classmate and had even reconstructed his deck twice with the aim of beating him.
The opportunity to challenge Yugi again hadn't come up though and he was too busy with his company to worry about something so trivial as a Dual for personal reasons.
Amongst the days on end of computer work, Seto still had his VR Dual world to reprogram and make marketable; there was also school, schoolwork and then various Dual competitions he had no choice in entering if he wanted to get the reputation of his company back to where it was before Yugi had destroyed it.
No, there was no time for challenging people for his own personal reasons.
" 'Nii-sama!"
Seto snapped out his thoughts at Mokuba's irritated call and glanced towards where the boy was standing, hands-on-hips in the doorway.
"I'm coming." Seto said, a hint of affection lacing his voice slightly as he neatly slipped the three Blue-Eyes back into his deck then put the entire deck into his pocket.
This time when he followed Mokuba, he shut the door of the office behind him, blocking his work and his desire to dual out of his mind as he did so. For now Mokuba was right and there were only a few hours left for him to sleep before school in the morning.
End Chapter II
Ending Author Notes: ^_^ Ji-chan's gonna be mad. It took her 3 weeks to write the first chapter, and after reading it I sat down and wrote this chapter in 4 hours and 25 minutes. Heh – oh well. It's probably because I used to RP a lot a few years ago (in FQ *waves to any and all FQers reading*) so I'm used to writing 'quick posts'.
And it seems that our chapters are quite short so far, but I have a feeling they'll start getting a lot longer as we move the plot along. Right now we're still getting a feel for what we're doing and Ji-chan hasn't tried to write RP-style before.
Oh well. Sorry, Ji-chan but *tag* your turn.
R&R if desired ^_^
~Sa~ signing off.