YUGIOH

Amnesia

Chapter 15.

It had been another week since that day. Kaiba had re-learned enough knowledge to catch up on his work, and even caught up on his appointments. He had been making room in his time schedules, in an attempt to see his friends more, since he felt bad that the only time he could spend with them was in-between classes, because he was always busy. The problem was that he didn't want to take away time from his brother, too. His brother seemed to really need that emotional support from him, and even though he didn't exactly remember Mokuba, the kid grew on him quickly. The group was shocked to find out Joey gave approval for Kaiba to date his sister.....including a disappointed Tristan and Duke, and especially a shocked but very happy Serenity. Despite all that, Yami was still secretly concerned over the fact that anything may possibly trigger him to remember, though he only relayed this to Yugi. He felt that a terribly bad emotion could be the key to do so.....like perhaps a bad day at work. Then if he became the Kaiba they knew, they would have to see what happened from there.

But then, Kaiba didn't seem to be finding any bad times, either. On the contrary, he was probably the happiest he'd ever been in his life....whether he remembered it or not, and not even the office work could change that.

But there was something that could.....

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One particular night, Kaiba had plans to meet with Serenity at the park. Since it was such a beautiful night, Serenity wanted to star gaze, and watch the full moon. He agreed. Kaiba drove up with his Porsche, and got out to meet with her. But to his shock and horror....he froze from what he saw. Once again, time stood still for him looking in the direction of Serenity, but this time in a very unpleasant way as he witnessed Duke Devlin pulling Serenity to him and kissing her passionately. She betrayed him. Kaiba didn't say a word. He just turned and walked off, got in his car and drove away.

Barely a moment after Kaiba walked away, he totally missed Serenity pull away from Duke, and slap him across the face. "How dare you touch me like that! I thought we were friends. You know I'm dating Seto, and he'll be meeting me here soon."

"And what does he have, that I don't have?" Duke asked.

"Honor....." She said, and turned away from him, not saying another word.

Duke Devlin knew when he was beat, and began to walk away, then turned back, saying. "Serenity.....if you ever have problems with him, you know I'll be there for you."

"What, to anxiously jump at me the second you get a chance, like you did now? No thank you. I don't want that kind of boyfriend, and I have no intention on something going wrong with what I have now. I......I love Seto." Serenity said.

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Kaiba was speeding terribly, racing back to his house. There was a swirl of negative emotion, spinning out of control in his mind. Hate, rage, regret, humiliation, heartbreak. "How could I have ever been so stupid!" He raced around the corner, "Dating her........her, of all people! I had to date the mutt's sister!" It screamed around another turn, "Friends........ridiculous, who needs them! They did this on purpose. What right do they think they have playing me, like I was some big joke to them!" 'They waited and hit me when I weak, probably laughing at me every time my back was turned.' The car screamed to a halt in front of the mansion. 'No one makes a fool of me. They're going to pay........they're all going to pay!!'

Kaiba slammed the doors as he entered the mansion, throwing his briefcase, and storming down the hall towards his office. Mokuba heard the commotion, and came out of his room, saying, "Seto....you're back early. Are you okay? Is something wrong??"

"Get back in your room, Mokuba!" Seto stated coldly, going into his office, and slamming the door hard.

Mokuba blinked, not sure what had just happened, so he just sat down at the table not too far from his office. Occasionally, when his brother used to get in these moods, he'd start yelling, or do something he could hear......maybe get some information from his yelling, to know what happened, without having to try and bug him about it, himself.

Kaiba sat down in his chair, swiping the papers off his desk, slamming his fist against it. He was now shaking.....his heart was quickly icing over, to keep him from feeling the heartbreak he was going through. He began to consider perhaps kidnapping someone, as he used to do in the old days, before Yugi beat him. He could kidnap Joey, tell Serenity to come or he'll kill him, then tie Serenity up and torture her. No, not her....that would probably hurt Joey more, knowing what weak emotional fools they were. No, he'd instead torture Joey, who deserves it more anyway, then watch that pathetic girl cry her eyes out. No, that wouldn't work because Yugi would show up, to save his....'friends'. The word friend now disgusted him more than anything else. The very word burned through his mind like poison, or some kind of disease. He was even more sickened to think he was stupid enough to get sucked into it, and the thought of them back-stabbing him while he was vulnerable, still swirling through his mind, making his hatred and contempt for them grow even more. Then suddenly, everything stopped as it hit him.....the perfect plan.

'They played me for fools, pretending to be my so-called friends, while laughing at me behind my back. Well, two can play that way. They want to play 'friends', I'll play their friendship game. Yeah, I'll be their best friend in the whole world.....until I bait them somewhere, and make 'them' feel like the fools for ever trusting me!' With that thought in mind, Kaiba cackled evilly, like some psychotic megalomaniac.

Outside, Mokuba heard the laughter, and gasped. "Seto's back to normal....he remembers!" He didn't have to think twice about that. Kaiba hasn't laughed like that, since before the accident.