YUGIOH
Amnesia
Chapter 23.
Kaiba had stood there with Serenity, holding her for the longest time. Eventually, they slipped down to where Kaiba was sitting on the floor leaning against the wall, and Serenity laid curled up on his lap. They had talked for a little while, finally making their peace. Eventually, from all the stress they had been through, the both of them fell asleep in each others arms.
'Ding-dong!'
Mokuba answered the door for the second time today, to find Joey and Yugi at the door. Joey said bluntly, "Let us in....we need ta see yer brother."
"You can't, right now. He's with...." Mokuba then stopped, realizing Joey would probably get angry if he heard, and tried to close the door.
"Wait a minute!" Joey said, pushing through him, "Kaiba's with who??" Joey quickly went through the possibilities of who he could be with. Duke? No, he's in the hospital. Tristan? No way, Tristan would never try to approach and talk to Kaiba, especially after what happened. Then, like a light bulb....it clicked on. Serenity!! Joey left her there feeling guilty that it was all her fault for Kaiba's actions, and he didn't even think about her possibly leaving, and trying to make it right. "Serenity!! Where's my sister??" He demanded.
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A doorbell rang in the distance, and there was the muttering sound of Kaiba's brother. The door was then slammed open, as the mutterings of Joey could vaguely be heard. Serenity's name was suddenly called out, and Mokuba began to shout. A struggling was heard coming closer to Kaiba's bedroom, and security was called.
Kaiba murmured in his sleep, and didn't wake up, until he heard the door handle to his room wiggle, like someone was about to open it. His eyes shot open, and he heard security pushing someone away, Joey's voice fighting them off, Yugi's voice....and Mokuba. He and Serenity were out of time.
"Serenity." He mumbled quietly, as she began to wake up. "You're brother's here."
She shot awake now in fear, saying, "Joey!" With a start. "If he knows we're together like this, he'll try to go after you. I doubt he's forgiven you."
"I'm not worried about Wheeler." Kaiba smiled. He helped pull her up, then took out his cell phone, putting it in her purse. "I'll call you later. And don't be upset....I'm doing this for you."
"Huh?" Serenity asked, not understanding.
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Despite the shape Joey was already in from his last brawl, he was beginning to break through Kaiba's security, trying to charge through the door.....knowing that Kaiba was probably in there, putting his filthy paws all over his sister. "Serenity, I'm coming for ya!" He called out, whatever his original reason was to come here, now his only instinct was to protect his sister.
The door flung open, as Kaiba stepped coolly into the room, snapping, "It's about time you showed up."
Everyone stopped in their tracks, as Joey asked, "Say, what?"
Kaiba pulled Serenity out of his room, and snapped, "Get your sister out of here, Wheeler. I have better things to do with my time, then listen to the both of you whine."
Joey felt anger at that, but had calmed down realizing Serenity was safe. And the way Kaiba was talking, nothing had happened, and Joey once again had blown it out of proportion. "Come on, Serenity. We don't need to hang around this jerk."
Serenity looked back at Kaiba, confused with his sudden change of attitude towards her. As she did, she noticed the hard look in his eye changed, as his eyes connected with hers, and she then realized....he didn't mean what he was saying. Just like he said in the bedroom, he did it to protect her from Joey's wrath and possible accusations. After all, Joey would have probably never left her alone, if Kaiba came out being nice to her. She looked back at him being thankful, and turned away, following Joey outside.
"Kaiba...." Yugi began to say. "I'm sorry about that with Joey, but I really want to talk to you. We have to straighten some things out about what happened."
"There's nothing to talk about, Yugi." Kaiba stated coldly, and turned away.
"Kaiba, please don't turn away from us. We're your friends....let me talk to you!" He pleaded.
"Security....get rid of this trash." Kaiba stated, and walked into his room. Yugi was helpless to fight them, and was hauled out to join Joey and Serenity. Yugi looked sadly at the door, as it closed in front of his face, and he turned away, moping back to the car.
"Well....that was quick." Mr. Motou said, as they all piled in.
"Home, James!" Joey called out, as they sped off. Instead of yelling at his sister for being there, Joey was supportive, now that he felt Kaiba blew her off. That actually relieved him, unaware that wasn't the case. "Don't you worry about him, Serenity. He aint worth it."
She said nothing, just nodded silently.
While.....Yugi continued to stare out the window at the mansion that became farther away, as they went.
At the same time, Kaiba was watching the car pull away from the house, leaving. He knew that by doing this, it would be the final stick to sever the ties he had with his friends. But he felt it was too late, anyway. He lost their trust yesterday, threw it to the wind because he made an error in judgement. But it didn't matter if he didn't speak to anyone of them. He atleast made peace with Serenity, and perhaps he could atleast patch up the mistake he made there.
......it was a sacrifice of one good thing he had, in order to keep the order. And as far as he was concerned, the trade-off was worth it. He made the error, now he had to pay for it.