Ahh shit school start the first, why did summer break past so fast. I don't want to go to school because it's a new school and none of the classmate of my previous school will be in my class because I'm the only one who made it to math 436 I don't know the school I don't know the teacher I don't know the student and I'm not in the same class as my friend =(
Ok everyone it time to give the lollipop price to everyone who guess right since AFK25 is the only one who guess right (she's the only one who guessed) I'm giving her three lollipop, and sorry AFK 25 but Seto doesn't exist anymore (That's the story isn't it) so he cant make an appearance, and making him being born in another family is to foreseeable so that depend on Mokie -crossing fingers-
Mokuba: Why would I want him back?
Arrow: Sorry AFK I tried, here Mokie. give him a lollipop.
Before continuing I'm telling you I'm depresses by the number of review I got XD I just like knowing that people are still reading my story. I just realize when I reread all the review from the previous fic that its always the same person who are reviewing not that I mind I love you all the people who are taking there precious time to read my story.
Chapter Four: For protection?
Mokuba just stood there in disbelieve as Noah walked away from Joey without even a fight. Why the hell would Noah run away from Joey Ok he knows how to fight but still?
"Thanks for your help Joey." Mokuba said while eating.
After Noah had left they did the usual presentation and they were now all eating in the cafeteria.
"Don't mention it, it's not like I had to fight or anything, Noah's just a coward." Joey answered with false modesty.
"So your father's working for Kaiba corp.?" Bakura asked.
"Yeah, he started a few days ago. Why?" Mokuba said.
"That freak, Noah, is giving hard time to everybody in school who had a parent working for his father." Tea answered back.
"Well he's giving hard time to everyone in school, it's just worst when your parent work for his father." Joey said.
"Why does everyone let him walk over their back then? I mean, come one even I could beat him in a one on one fight and I'm just as strong as I look." Mokuba said.
Everybody, including Mokuba, laughed at this statement; Mokuba really didn't seem strong. But then again, Kaiba doesn't seem strong either and he can fight extremely well, and Mokuba still didn't have a chance to fight anyone. Joey was the first to becoming serious again because Noah wasn't something you could laugh about.
"It's not his physical strength that prevent him to be kicked out of the school, trust me I know a couple hundreds of people who would give everything they had to kick is little but out of here." Joey said looking a little too much serious to Mokuba's liking; that's Joey we are talking about he's only serious when it concern his little sister and again.
"Yeah he got a lot of money so what?" Mokuba asked. Unlike what he was thinking, he didn't know anything about the real world.
After all he was a 11 years old boy, well he was a few days ago, and 11 years old boy doesn't know about the real world and Kaiba had been really careful to keep Mokuba away from everything a kid of his age don't need to know, unlike him Kaiba wanted his brother to fully live his childhood so he kept him away from all those thing he'll learn in good time and he kept even more secret everything that had to do with Kaiba Corp.
Kaiba thought a kid like Mokuba didn't need to know about all the treat he get from people he fired or from other company. The thing is; when Kaiba changed Kaiba Corp. to a gaming company he make people who had contract with his step-father lose a lot of money, and by a lot I mean a LOT.
Everybody at Kaiba Corp. think that Mokuba is nothing but a delivery boy that Kaiba had hired to bring him all kind of thing he needed but was to lazy to get himself. It all started a few days after Kaiba had took control of Kaiba Corp. Mokuba didn't take long to realize his brother wasn't eating the morning or for lunch and that he wasn't eating half the time at diner because he was working so much.
So Mokuba decided to bring lunch to his brother everyday and he did. Each day that Kaiba was skipping school to work Mokuba bought lunch for both of them and went to Kaiba corp. to eat with his brother; soon he did it for diner when his brother was working late. In less then a week everybody knew him as the delivery boy.
Of course that explanation was good enough for Kaiba and he had forbid Mokuba to tell anyone he wasn't a delivery boy; the last thing he wanted was one of his enemy to found out he have a little brother; that would surely put his life in great danger. Mokuba didnt understand it was for his protection and that if someone knew he was his brother he would brobably be dead by now
The only person who ever found out he had a brother was Pegasus and he didn't lose time to tell it to the big five who were really surprised by that revelation. everybody knew how it ended so imagine if the whole world knew about Mokuba
Of course Kaiba didn't wanted Mokuba to know that being his brother was putting his life in danger, he perfectly knew that one day people would find out but he wanted it to be as late as possible; he didn't need to know about it in order to have a happy childhood so the only explanation he gave Mokuba was 'Because I said it'. They had an argument about it and Mokuba yelled he wanted to see him dead. Over the two following years he had used this phrase more and more often, he never realized how much he hurt his brother with those words.
Remembering this made Mokuba felt angry, of course he only knew the pick of the iceberg; all he knew was that his brother didn't wanted people to know he had a brother and was sure it was because he hated him. He remembered all the fight he had with his brother because Kaiba never wanted him to bring friend home, they all ended up the same way: "I wish you were dead".
Mokuba didn't understand it, everybody knew he was rich and people usually pick on him because of it, of course he never had told his brother, like he would care anyway, so what was there to hide anymore. What Mokuba didn't understand what was the difference between 'rich' and 'Seto Kaiba's little brother'.
Mokuba hadn't realised he had crush his juice bottle in his silent anger; luckily for him it was empty. He came back to reality when Joey answered his stupid question.
"What do you mean 'so what'; his father is controlling 90% of the city." Joey said looking at him like he was insane.
Mokuba just stared at him, not understanding what he meant. Seeing he wasn't understanding Yugi decided to explain it to him.
"You see Mokuba, Gozaburo paid the mortgage of the most important person of the city and of anyone who had money and as long as they don't pay it back to him, with big interest, he can throw them out of there home so they do whatever he want. He also force every shop in the city to give a certain amount of there profit to him in exchange for his 'protection'."
"Why did they need his protection?" Mokuba asked, still trying to understand. "And what's a mortgage."
"Man, where are you coming from." Tristan said exasperated.
"Kyoto, why?" Mokuba answered still waiting for answers to his previous question.
"His case is even more desperate than Joey's." Tristan said with a 'what is that' face.
Yugi on the other hand was a lot more patient with him.
"Gozaburo is kind of buying people's houses and forcing people to pay them to him."
Mokuba nodded finally catching it. "What about protection."
"That how people call it, he said it's for protection against thief other shop but it's just a lie, everyone knows it. It's more like protection against him because if you refuse to pay he could set your shop on fire or worst hire someone to kill you or someone in your family."
"Ohh" Was all what he could tell. "I suppose it goes the same for your grand-father's game shop." Mokuba said.
Yugi nodded but at the mention of Yugi's grandpa Joey kicked inside the conversation.
"How do you know his grand-father have a game shop?" Joey asked with a suspicious voice.
"Ehhmm my father told me about it, we used to live here when I was younger." Mokuba said remembering what he had read a few days before. "What about Noah?" Mokuba asked remembering how this conversation had begun.
"I almost forgot about him." Joey said. "You see Noah own this school; his father had bought it a few years ago and gave it to Noah, luckily for us it's a public school so he's forced to accept everyone in it and can't throw us out without a good reason. But because he own this school he think that he's the almighty king and that everyone should kiss hi royal butt."
"This kid is nuts." Tristan added. "He thinks that because your father is working for his that makes you his slave and trusts me he really is making them act like his slave."
"I realized that." Mokuba said. "Witch reminds me, why did him and his little 'friend' get away just like that when you came."
"That's because I have a reputation too and they knew I was going to wipe the floor with them." Joey said with a too much proud voice for his own good.
Mokuba couldn't help but laugh, that was the Joey he knew.
"Yeah, right." Tea said making Joey stop in his track and fall to the ground. "You perfectly know they ran away because of Yugi and Bakura."
Mokuba suddenly looked at her with great interest. "Why are they afraid of them? No offence guys." He said looking at them.
"Almost everyone in the school is afraid of them." Tristan said. "Each time they bump into them by accident they apologize during five minute and ran away as fast as they can."
"Why" Mokuba asked with great interest.
"Since a couple of month a lot of bullies had started acting crazy like they were in another world or they simply disappeared. After a while everyone realized they all had picked on Yugi or Bakura or sometime on one of us. But since they were picking more on them then us everybody started thinking they're the one doing it." Tea explained.
Mokuba looked at Yugi and Bakura, from the look on there face it was obvious they weren't proud of this reputation. But both him and his brother had experience what happen when you are threatening Yugi so he knew that his reputation wasn't really a lie.
"And is it true? Are you the ones doing it?" Mokuba asked.
"Why would we do things like that? (1)" Yugi asked shocked by Mokuba's word.
"I'm sorry." Mokuba said quickly with an apologizing tone. "I didn't mean to upset you I was just asking if you said you haven't done anything then I believe you."
After that, they put everything that concerned Noah and Yugi's reputation aside and they started having true conversation.
After school and both Joey and Mokuba's detention they were all heading to Yugi's grandpa shop to hang out.
"Hey Joey I'm sorry you got a week of detention because of me." Mokuba said.
"What you got another week." Tea said.
"This old creepy hag heard me talking to Mokuba." Joey said. "Don't worry about it Mokuba I'm the one who talked to you first anyway." Mokuba nodded
"Yeah don't worry about it's just a week he wont die from it." Tristan said smiling.
"Yeah, we should worry about your stamina, you're the one who's gonna pass a month in detention with the old mummy." Joey said.
Everyone started laughing, when they had learn that a new student was going to arrive with Filion on his first class they had bet on how many week he'll get. Joey was the one who guessed right but Tristan who had bet on three said Joey had cheated because Mokuba had got his fourth because of him.
Because he had win the others had to give him each a hamburger but Joey promised two to Mokuba in excuse for the detention.
"Grandpa I'm home." Yugi said as he and his friend entered the game shop.
"I Yugi, I guys. How come you're so late?" He asked.
"Joey and our new friend got detention." Joey explained nodding toward Mokuba.
"Well, what do we have here? That's a face I haven't seen in a while. How have you been Mokuba?" grandpa said.
"You know me?" Mokuba asked surprise all over his face, the other were also surprised as well.
"Of course I know you, how could I ever forget you came here everyday since you leaned to walk. I haven't see you since you moved away, it have been six years now right."
Mokuba nodded.
"How's your father?" He asked.
"Fine... I guess." Mokuba said.
"So you actually lived here before." Yugi said.
"Yeah... but I don't remember much of it." Mokuba said, it was true after all.
After an hour or so talking about Mokuba's past, duel monster and insulting Noah, Mokuba decided he should get home.
"See ya tomorrow." Mokuba said as he walked out the door.
"Can you say hi to you father for me?" Yugi's grandpa asked
"Sure I will." Mokuba said as he closed the door behind him.
He ran all the way to his house smiling and laughing for nothing he was happy, really happy. He finally reached his home and entered it only to be stop by the smell of food, really good food.
"Hi dad." Mokuba said sitting at the already set table waiting for his father to give him a plate full of food.
"Hi Mokuba, your just in time the diner is ready in one minute." His father answered back with a warm smile.
Mokuba looked at him confused; he had been with his father for five day now and he never saw him smile or show any other emotion than worry, now he was so full of life and emotion that Mokuba couldn't believe his eyes but of course he wasn't going to complain about it.
"So how was your first day?" His father asked putting a plate full of food in front of him.
"It was great; I already made a lot of friends." Mokuba answered with a smile plastered on his face.
"I assume they are the reason why you came so late." His father said with a smile.
Mokuba nodded "Yugi invited me to his house with all his other friends."
"Yugi? As in Yugi Mutou?"
Mokuba nodded again. "Yeah that him, oh and his grand-father tells you 'hi'."
"That's nice of him, that guy never change, I'll visit him as soon as I have a chance." His father said still eating.
"I also got a month of detention." Mokuba added quickly while his father seemed to be in a good mood.
His father looked up at him. "Let me guess you had M. Filion right."
"Yeah, how do you know?" Mokuba asked.
"Who doesn't know this old mummified barking dog, when I was in school there wasn't one of his class that I didn't get at least 2 week of detention and that was when I was calm. I'm surprised he's still alive; he already seemed to be at least 60 when I was in school." His father answered.
"So you're not mad?" Mokuba asked fearing his father's good mood might go away.
His father suddenly stated to laugh. "How could I, it's probably my fault he already hate you this much."
Mokuba was looking at his father with a questioning look.
"Let just say that I deserved my 237 weeks of detention." He said with a smile. as Mokuba's eyes went wide
Mokuba was in his bed thinking, he was so happy right now, his life was so perfect, not like the one he had with his brother. He was looking at the stone he had found in his bed. He had a lot of time during his week-end to thing about it.
He was a smart kind and he perfectly knew that 1 and 1=2 so it didn't took him long to understand that the stone was probably what had made his wish come true. He even had found another proof to it, when he was sick he had wished that his fever cold go away while holding the stone and the next morning he wasn't sick anymore, and he knew that this kind of fever wasn't going away in one night.
Mokuba slowly drifted to sleep thinking about his first day in a high school it wasn't like his brother had said at all.
1. For people who doesn't know I take the basic of each character past with a mix of the manga, the anime, and a little of my own imagination. I took everything from before Duellist kingdom in the manga (Thanks to the stupid 4kid) so if you never had read it here some explanation: when Yugi first put the puzzle together he didn't know about Yami's existence at all. Each time a guy was causing trouble to Yugi or one of his friends Yami always punished them in a shadow game (Kaiba and Mokuba both have been punished once by Yami) Yugi never remember anything of what Yami was doing so each time Yami appeared Yugi had a black out and couldn't remember what had happened during that time. The first time Yugi acknowledge Yami existence and remembered what he had done was during the death-t, something that Kaiba had thrown out to kill Yugi so I decided that since the death-t never happened Yugi still doesn't know about Yami that's why he was so shocked when Mokuba asked him if he was the one doing it, because he cant remember what Yami does. As for Bakura he's responsible for the disappearance even if he have some kind of doubt that he's responsible he does have any real proof. Yami Bakura is turning everyone who disturb Bakura into dolls.
Here another chapter finished ow school is starting the first =( stupid school.