For Tomorrow

Chapter Three

Kl-clack our chess game at the orphanage

Kl-clack him saving me from pegasus

Kl-clack the day he threw Gozaburo out

Kl-clack him winning the videogame and saving me again

As I walked down the hall to my brother's room, my footsteps echoed down the hall. It was quiet, all except my footsteps. I remembered all my good times with him, and with each footstep, another memory came to mind. We had all those good memories… but was that all we had? Didn't he care what would happen to me? Did he care about anything? Would he ever forgive me? Why was I so stupid?"

1,000 questions (and my annoying nurse) plagued me as I walked down the hall. I couldn't think at all, Couldn't really do anything. I found myself outside my brother's door. I couldn't go in.

But then I heard his voice. It was barely audible, but I heard it.

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"Oh, Mokuba"

He needed me. I rushed inside… and stood there, frozen. This was not the Seto I'd grown up with. His face was pale, and he had a dazed look on his face. Like he didn't know where he was… who I was… anything.

I couldn't take it anymore. I ran up to him, grabbed his good hand and started crying into it. "I'm sorry, I'm so stupid, you shouldn't have made me leave, I'm sorry, This is all my fault, and you should have let me help you! I really need you and I'll never let you do that ever again, Ni sama I promise, with..."

He turned to me, and looked as if he was going to hurt me. Then, his face softened… I think he finally realized who I was.

"Mokuba!" He happily yelled as he tried to hug me… then yelled again, this time in pain as he moved his injured arm. Then he stared at me for a moment before trying to get his arm behind his back.

"Ahhh!" He yelled as tears came to his eyes. He tried to jerk his hurt arm out from under him.

That was it. I couldn't just stand there and watch him suffer like that. After, the whole reason any of this had happened was because of me… because I wasn't there.

I finally got his arm untangled.

"What happened?" he asked me.

The doctors had warned me about this, that Seto might not remember how he had hurt his arm.

I tried to explain. "Well, You tried to…" I started to cry. I was trying to blame it on him when it was really all my fault. I was the one who had left him I was the one who…

Suddenly, Seto's voice interrupted my thoughts. "Who cares what happened to me? Tell me what…"

He didn't care… he didn't care that he had almost died! I was going to try and hepl him myself, but if he didn't care that he had almost died… I'd need to get him professional help. "I care about what happened to you! You almost DIED! Seto, you might have died and you almost did. And now you say 'Who cares what happened to me?' I'm sorry Seto, but you've got to get help for this" 



 "Help?" He asked, and waved his hand in the air as if the word were just a fly he was trying to shoo away, "I don't need help as long as you're there for me…" 


I couldn't take it anymore. "I WAS there for you, but you pushed me away, Seto, I'm never going to let anything like this happen again. Even if I have to get you a psychiatrist. Even if you have to resign as head of Kaiba Corporation. Even if I have to stand right next to you every day for the rest of our lives. Even if…"


"…you have to break a promise?" He asked, testing me, "Remember, as long as…"


I would always need him. He had broken his side of the bargian, so now I could break mine."I needed you. Seto, I do need you, I did need you, and I always will need you. How can I be sure that you won't try to…" I couldn't bear to say it, so I just pointed to his arm, "… to do something like that again?" 


"Mokuba," He said, coldly, "You said you didn't need me anymore" 


He knew it. He knew it was my fault, and he wasn't going to let me forget it. He was going to blame it on me and then he'd never forgive me and…


 "Come now, Mokuba," Said my annoying nurse, " you've visited your brother long enough, and besideds, you need to get your bandages re-wrapped."


Even if he never did forgive me, I would always love him and always stay with him. "I'm not going."


"Mokie," Seto sighed, "This is a hospital, How much trouble do you think I could get into before I was put in a straight jacket and toted off to Piney Oaks*?" 


I couldn't help but laugh at that. The picture of my brother, head of the biggest, most valuable company in the world, being toted off to Piney Oaks* in a straight jacket… who wouldn't laugh at that? But, really, he had a point, this was a hospital.


"Apparently, not much." I replied, "now get going."


I ran to the door, turned back, then yelled, "Get better soon, Ni sama," before running quickly away. 


I wasn't gonna let that nurse change MY bandages anytime soon.


*Note: Piney oaks is Domino City's mental institution*