YUGIOH

MP: Aftermath

Chapter 4.

Kaiba had returned to Kaiba, Corp....heading to his office, and passed his secretary, to find Mokuba in front of his door. He looked down at his brother, saying, "Any immediate business I have to take care of?"

"There's some rumors going around...." Mokuba stated.

Kaiba sighed, "Come in with me."

Inside, Kaiba sat down, and said, "All right....I'm going to make you totally in charge of damage control. Any rumors regarding what happened to me, I need them buried. I don't care about the kidnapping, you can say that's true. Anything else regarding me, tell them the entire time I was tied up at Charujin, and discovered by you, the police, Yugi....whoever. I'm sure if I really need to, I can call Yugi's little group, and ask them to confirm whatever story we go with. The police would be easy, since they have no clue what happened, and can easily be bought. I don't have to worry about Charujin saying anything....do not comment to the media about any of it, no matter what they ask."

"Then who do we say was the girl?" Mokuba asked.

"She claimed to be an employee of Charujin, and she mysteriously disappeared when she failed in taking our company." Kaiba replied.

"What about if someone questions about a, uh....relationship?" Mokuba asked, awkwardly.

Kaiba suddenly looked wide-eyed at him. "Did something like that come up?"

"No, but what if it does? You know how rumors can get out of control, sometimes...." Mokuba said.

Kaiba nodded, then answered, "Deny everything." Then turned to his computer.

"Seto?" Mokuba asked. "Why did you bring all that rubble over from Charujin, and what's with all the data they brought in?"

Kaiba activated his computer, checking on things, as he said, "As per the settlement, I took anything to do with the machine that was used on me."

"What are you going to do with it all?" Mokuba asked, worried.

With a pause, Kaiba answered, "I'm going to reconstruct it."

Mokuba suddenly clung to his brother, saying, "Please Seto....I don't want you to bring that thing back!" Surprising his big brother.

"Mokuba....calm down. There's nothing to worry about. Ms. Charujin is gone, you don't have to worry about her doing anything again. It's not the machine's fault, it was her fault." Kaiba explained.

"But why are you making the machine again, Seto? I....I don't want to lose you!" He said.

"How would you lose me?" Kaiba asked.

Mokuba looked up at him, stuttering, "Well....aren't you planning on using it on yourself?"

Kaiba stared at his brother. Such insight in this kid....how did he figure that out? "Why would you think that?"

"It's true isn't it. That's why you didn't say no. I don't want a sister!!" Mokuba cried.

"A sister??" Kaiba then smiled. "No, Mokuba....that's not how I plan on using it. Believe me, I'm more than happy with who I am, now. What gave you the crazy notion that I would want to go 'back' to that?"

"Uh....the tapes...." Mokuba blushed, knowing he should have never brought them up, and probably should have pretended they didn't exist. But he couldn't help it....he couldn't believe what he heard, when he heard Joey and then Seto talking, and saying those things.

Kaiba closed his eyes, dropping his head. He should have known this would come up, sometime. Kaiba stood, and walked over, locking his door, then sat back down, saying, "Obviously we need to talk."

"I'm sorry, Seto...." Mokuba said sadly.

"You don't need to be sorry. None of this is your fault." He sighed, shaking his head. "I'm just not sure how to explain this."

"You don't have to...." Mokuba said.

Kaiba answered, "Yes....I do. Listen, when it....changed me, it changed me more than physically. It....it really messed me up. I did things that I normally would have never done. I'm ashamed of my behavior, but it wasn't my fault. Infact, the things it did to me is the reason it's here now. You see, I have a feeling that this machine might have made me....not quite complete. It's hard to explain, but I still don't quite feel myself, in a way. I want to re-create the machine, and go over exactly what it does and how. Once I can figure that out, I can find out if something was not reversed correctly....and fix the problem."

"So then, what is different?" Mokuba asked.

Kaiba looked a little uncertain to talk to him about this. "It's....hard to explain. I'm not even sure I can think of the words to be able to describe it to you. It might simply be a residual after-effect, that will simply fade in time. But other than that, I'm not sure how else to tell you, then....it's just a feeling I have."

"Okay." Mokuba said.

Kaiba said, "So are you all right with that, now?"

"Yeah, I'm okay. I'm glad to know I'm not losing my big brother." Mokuba said happily.

Kaiba smiled, "Well, that's good. Anything else I need to know about?"

"Oh yeah, Joey called for you." Mokuba said.