Arrow: yayyy I can now write a new chapter thanks to my mother, damn I'll have to go to school today to get my final bulletin.

Oh and ShizukaxSeto since I read you comment about Serenity it really give me a lot of ideas, I had totally forgot about her XD but hey it's not too late for her to visit her big brother hehe poor Kaiba.

Chapter 9: what does he really think about you?

Kaiba stood there a second, still trying to realize what he was seeing. His brother was there just in front of him, for a moment Kaiba thought that Maybe Mokuba had learned the truth and that though scare him, the last thing he wanted was his little brother to see him like that.

Kaiba then realize his brother's condition then make his way to his brain. What happened to him? Kaiba wonder, Mokuba's body was shaking a lot and he was totally wet. What his he doing out that late and under the rain with nothing to protect him.

"Hi Joey, I'm sorry to disturb you that late" Mokuba said looking at his shoes.

"Hey ki—Mokuba" Kaiba said mentally kicking himself for almost calling his brother by his nickname. "Don't stay out there under the rain you are going to catch your death" Kaiba said making Mokuba enter the house.

Kaiba closed the door behind his brother and enter his room. Mokuba just stood there still shaking and starting to fell a bit dizzy.

After a minute Kaiba went back with a t-shirt and a pair of short and handed them over to Mokuba.

"Here put that on until your cloths dry" Kaiba said handing them to Mokuba.

Mokuba just took the cloths without even a look at Kaiba. "Thanks Joey" he said entering the room to change himself.

A few minute later Mokuba was sitting on the couch all wrap up in a really hot and comfortable blanket with a nice hot chocolate in his hand. He was still crying a bit but at least he wasn't cold anymore. He was also hungry and tired but he didn't say anything about it, of course Kaiba could perfectly see it, after all he's the one who took care of him since he was three.

After Mokuba seem to be relaxing Kaiba decided to talk with him to know why he was here at 1 a.m. with nothing to protect him from the rain. He sit down beside him, Mokuba didn't even look at him he was still looking at his hot chocolate like there was something interesting in it.

"Mokuba?" he ask not sure how he was suppose to act. Mokuba just look at him, Kaiba could tell he was devastated but what he wanted to know was what or who devastated his little brother so much. Of course he already had an idea... Joey.

"Now Mokuba tell me why you were outside at 1 a.m. and why you came here." Kaiba ask to his little brother.

"I had nowhere else to go" Mokuba simply answer.

"What about home with your brother" Of course talking about Joey as the person Mokuba should trust the most almost made Kaiba sick.

Mokuba didn't say anything, Kaiba was looking at him but then realize something in fact he realize two things that give him murder idea. Murder of who he had no idea but murder idea none the less. First his brother wasn't wearing his locket, this wasn't something to be very alarm maybe he had forgot it. Kaiba thought even if that really didn't convince him.

And second witch was making is blood boil in his body; the bruise on his brother cheek was bigger, not by a lot be it was bigger witch mean someone had dare to hurt his brother and whoever this person was he was going to pay for it.

A couple of minute had passed but Mokuba didn't say anything, Kaiba could tell his brother was bout to cry.

Kaiba saw that this wasn't going anywhere but he knew his little brother even better then he knew himself. When Mokuba have a problem, whatever it is, he always come to see me but right now Wheeler is me. Right now he think I'm Wheeler but I'm his brother but he doesn't know it so he clearly didn't came here to see me but to see Wheeler, but why Wheeler, why didn't he came to see me witch would mean he would have seen wheeler but since he don't know then it wouldn't had make any differences. Unless he don't want to see me witch mean that he don't want to see Wheeler but he doesn't know that. That would mean that for some reason he's mad at Wheeler but he think he's mad at me so that's why he came to see Wheeler but right now I'm Wheeler. But why Wheeler? Why did he come to see him?

(Arrow:........o....k........ now that's confusing XD )

Kaiba then decide, since his brother really didn't seem like he was going to talk to guess what had happened to force him to talk even if he already had half of the answer; Wheeler did or said or even both something to his brother.

"Tell me didn't that big mansion where you live with your brother is a place where you could go." Kaiba said trying to imitate what Joey would say, after all it was obvious that Mokuba didn't came here to see him but to see Joey.

Mokuba's body tense a bit when Kaiba mention himself to his brother, he had hit the sensitive spot but Mokuba still didn't say anything.

"Don't you think your brother is worried about you, o bet he doesn't know you are here, what do you think he's doing right now, I mean its 1:30 in the morning and his little brother is missing."

Of course Kaiba couldn't be more far from the truth.

At the Kaiba mansion

Joey was sleeping really deeply in his bed dreaming about finally beating Kaiba at duel monster.

Back at Joey's house

Mokuba tense a little bit more but he stayed silent. Kaiba knew what he was doing was some kind of cruel but he needed to know what had happened and Mokuba needed to talk and this was the only way to make him do so.

"I bet he is worried sick about you, you know how much he love you, I'm sure he is searching all over the city for you" Kaiba said well aware that Joey probably didn't even realize that Mokuba was missing.

At this Kaiba could sense his brother's anger and tell he was about to cry.

"Unless... that's why you came here, because you don't want to see him, I suppose it have something to do with this bruise on your cheek. Maybe I'm wrong but I'm sure it's bigger than it was last time I saw you."

This make Mokuba turn a little bit to make sure he couldn't see the bruise, but he didn't look angrier at him so Kaiba knew it wasn't Joey who hit him. Look's like I'm not going to kill him for that.

Maybe Joey wasn't the one who hit Mokuba but Kaiba could still use it to figure out what had happened to him.

"Your brother beat you again didn't he? So that's why you run away? Because he's beating you again? Kaiba really felt a pain in his heart when he mention the time he beat his brother a few day ago, but he really needed to know what had happen.

This had the expected result on Mokuba; Kaiba could tell how much his anger toward him was growing at the memory of that moment. Mokuba suddenly start crying all the tears of his body, Kaiba quickly took him in his arm. Mokuba was crying a lot and he was holing Kaiba's shirt as hard as he could, he could feel 'Joey's' arm around him. After a couple of minute Mokuba started to talk, half talking half crying.

"No... It wasn't him... this time" Mokuba said.

"Then why are you mad at him?" Kaiba ask trying to resist the temptation to hug his brother and stroke his hair.

"Because he doesn't care about me. He hates me" was all Mokuba could tell before starting to cry even more.

"And why do you think he doesn't care about you?"

After a minute or two, Mokuba was able to control his crying enough to be able to answer. "Since Wednesday he'd been acting strange with me. First when he get back home, instead of apologizing he was looking at me with strangely like if he was pitying me, after he was just different, he wasn't acting the same at all. It's kind of hard to explain, it's like he wasn't the same person. He.... He was just acting like he didn't care..." Mokuba froze, not knowing how to explain this.

Kaiba didn't need an explanation; he knew what his brother was talking about. All those little thing you do without even thinking about it, those thing you do to the persons you like, that make them feel loved and make them feel like you care.

Kaiba remembered that his parent used to do thing like that to him. His father was always passing a hand into Kaiba's hair each time he was close enough. His mother was doing things like that also but he was too young to remember.

He does thing like that to his brother almost every 10 sec when he's with him. He always stroke his hair, call him by a nickname smile at him every times he saw him he also check on him every night when he came back from work no matter what time it is and kiss him on the forehead. There was a lot other thing he does to his brother without even realizing it.

Joey on the other hand certainly didn't do those things to Mokuba, it was something that comes naturally and Joey wasn't him. This probably makes Mokuba feel like he didn't care for him anymore. Poor kid. Kaiba thought.

"Is that why you run away? Because he didn't seem to care anymore."

"No" Mokuba said starting to cry again. "He still didn't apologize for hitting me Wednesday so I thought he was just mad at me."

Why would I be mad at you for hitting you? "So then why did you run away?"

"Because Saturday I decide to go and apologize to him, I couldn't stand him to be mad at me anymore"

I never thought Mokuba as such a low opinion of himself to think everything is his fault. Maybe I don't know him as much as I though.

Mokuba then tell Kaiba everything that happened since Saturday except the part when he loosed his locket. When he was finish Kaiba's murder idea came back. Joey took off his locket without even look at what it was. Mokuba was still crying in his arm. Kaiba left his arm over Mokuba's head without realizing it, he stop himself only millimetre over his brother's head realizing what he was doing.

"Look Mokuba I'm sure your brother didn't mean to hurt you." This of course didn't really convince Mokuba but if Kaiba want to apologize to his brother then he'll have to found a way to make Mokuba forgive him for Joey's stupidity first.

"Ok this is what we are going to do" Kaiba said as Mokuba looked at him. "You are going to stay here for the night and tomorrow I'm going to take you back home and, well we'll see there ok." Mokuba didn't really seem to like the idea. "Hey don't worry I'm sure your brother just was in a bad mood and he's probably really sorry and worry to death about you" Mokuba seem to cheer up a little bit. Now that he had spoken to someone he really was feeling better and he wanted his brother to forgive him. Of course he never did anything wrong but that was the way he saw it.

Kaiba hold is little brother until he was sure he was in a deep sleep. Then he put Mokuba's head on a pillow he had brought for him before heading to his room. He closed the door behind him, took the phone and went on his bed. He then dial a number and waited for the answer.

"Hello" said someone to the other side of the line before falling asleep again.

"Woke up Wheeler" Kaiba said in the phone.

"What do you want Kaiba" Joey said still sleepy but awake this time.

"You're lucky I don't want to damage my body because I'll kill you right now Wheeler"

"Hey what's your problem Kaiba?"

"My problem like you call him is that you didn't even realize my brother didn't come home since Saturday morning."

"What are you talking about?"

"Don't tell me you didn't even notice my brother is under the rain since Saturday. He also passed all the night outside if you want to know."

"And how do you want me to know, I'm always doing your stupid job I don't have time to watch him" Joey yell at Kaiba. "Hey how do you know he didn't come here since Saturday?"

"Well it looks like someone is starting to be tired of my price life, I know because he told me, he's sleeping on the couch."

"Then why are you bothering me with that if he's fine."

"Because He's not that fine, I can tell he is going to be really sick tomorrow and because its your fault he ran away."

"Me? I didn't even do anything."

Kaiba sighted. This is going to take some time. "Listen Wheeler my brother ran away because he thinks you don't care about him but I'm not going to waste my time trying to explain it to you. Tomorrow I'm going to take Mokuba home so here what you are going to do."

"And why should I help you?"

"Because it's your fault and if you don't want me to ruin your friendship with Yugi you are going to repair you stupid mistake and take care of my brother correctly so listen and do as I say."

The next morning quickly came but Kaiba didn't manage to get a lot of sleep since it took much more time then expected to explain to Joey how to make Mokuba forgive him. Of course Mokuba still believed this was all his fault. When all this is over I must have a little talk with my brother, he really is blaming himself too much. Kaiba though looking at his brother's guilty face.

Joey and Kaiba had agreed to take some time this morning to take care of Mokuba even if this will probably cost them a couple more week of detention. So Kaiba, instead of being in his math class was taking Mokuba back to the Kaiba mansion.

Mokuba wasn't really happy about it and Kaiba couldn't stop thinking about Joey, if he screw this up Mokuba would be running away from him forever, thinking this was all his fault.

"I don't want to go" Mokuba said for the 28th time since the morning.

"Hey don't worry about it, I talk with him last night everything is fine ok, he's really sorry, there isn't anything you should be worrying about."

"He hate me I know it"

Kaiba couldn't argue a lot with him about that, Of course Joey didn't hate Mokuba but he don't really love him either, or at least not like a brother. But in Mokuba's head there was no difference between hating and not loving.

"Stop saying that, you know it's not true, you know how much I hate your brother and do you really think I would send you back there if I thought there was even a slight change he would hurt you."

"I guess no."

"Mokuba, can I ask you something."

"What?"

"Why did you come to see me, why not Yugi, whenever Kaiba has a problem you always go see him. Why did you come to see me this time?"

"I guess it's because of what you told me when Seto hit me."

"And can you remind me of what is it that I told you?"

Mokuba let out a small laugh before reminding Kaiba of what Joey said earlier this week. "When you found me crying and after I told you what happened I thought you where going to try and hurt him, you did seem angry at him. But you calm down and told me not to worry. You said that you didn't know him very well and that you hate him with all your heart. But you tell me that when it comes to Seto you where sure of one thing; that Seto loves me more then anything else in this world."

Kaiba didn't know what to said about this, he was in shock that Joey actually said something that could be consider as 'nice' about him.

Kaiba let Mokuba alone when they arrive at the mansion. Of course Mokuba wanted him to stay but right now Kaiba was sure he would kill Joey if he saw him and only the though that his brother was taking someone else for him was making him sick, even worst this person was Joey.

After saying to Mokuba that if anything goes wrong, witch won't happen, he'll just have to come at his home again and that he had to get to school. Kaiba left him in front of the door.

Mokuba stay there around 5 minute after Kaiba was gone wondering what to do. He was afraid of his brother's reaction. So he just stood there lying against the door until the door behind him disappears and he felt on his back.

When he opened his eyes a sec later the first thing he saw was the worried face of his big brother.

"Are you ok?" Joey asked, helping Mokuba to get up.

Mokuba nodded but he was still looking down. Kaiba had told him his brother would probably do that in front of him so Joey tried his best to do exactly what Kaiba told him to do. He had a feeling this would be more difficult then he was thinking.

"What were you doing just standing there outside?" Joey asked to Mokuba who was heading to the living room.

Joey sat beside Mokuba and look at him. Mokuba suddenly start crying, Joey took him in his arm and start stroking his hair like Kaiba told him to do. Man Kaiba would kill me if he could see me now.

"Shhh its ok stop crying now everything is fine." Joey said.

"I'm sorry" Mokuba said crying.

"Shhhhh you didn't you anything I'm the one who should apologize Mokuba." Mokuba looked up at his brother waiting for him to continue.

"I know I didn't really take care of you lately and I'm really sorry. I never thought it would hurt you so much I'm sorry." Joey was hopping that Mokuba wouldn't think about the locket cause even Kaiba couldn't find a logical reason to explain why he put it away since he only remove it to take a shower.

"I'm sorry that I seem in another world lately, it's just that I need to think a little bit about what I did to you. I really need you to understand, I need to be alone a little to think about what I'd done to you. I need to understand why I did that and until I find it I just don't want to risk hurting you again, you really must understand it's really important to me and I never wanted to hurt you."

Mokuba had stop crying and was now paying all his attention to his 'brother'.

"I know it really must be hard for you but before I can apologize to you I need to figure out why I did it to make sure it never happens again." "I understand big brother" Mokuba said with a little smile. "I love you Seto" He said hugging him.

To that Joey only answer by hugging him a little more tightly like Kaiba told him to do. Joey couldn't risk saying to Mokuba that he love him since it wasn't true and Mokuba would have seen it in a second.

After a few minute a happy and smiling Mokuba went in his room to catch the sleep he didn't get during the weekend. It wasn't a problem since he couldn't go back to school before Wednesday. Joey on his side was heading to school, with a little bit of luck he could make it before the history class began.

Hopefully

Arrow: It's nice to have hope. I bet you can guess how I'll start the next chapter XD.