Lightning-Dono: I'm working on a project but I have an extra day now, so I decided to slack off. ((cough))
The song lyrics at the beginning of this is "Forever Love" from anime X. It's translated and all spiffy and stuff. I'm weird.
Answers to the Reviewscan't think – I assure you that it didn't break for a good reason, that's for sure. I like making people smile, too! That's why I'm so bubbly! But I'm upset today. My mom moved away last month so she sent early Christmas presents and part of the presents was that she sent my brother and I 6 packs of COUNTERFEIT Yu-Gi-Oh decks. I feel sorry for her because they were probably cheap and she didn't know! ((cry)) Anyway...Seto x Shizuka...Well...That pairing irks me so. I've supported worse. I think.
Queen Insanity – I know you didn't comment on the last chapter, but I missed a part of your review. You do NOT suck. I do that all the time. I just write in this one because 1. I'm bored 2. I'm a weirdo who likes to write a lot 3. And I have so much planned.
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I can't walk on my own any more
The winds of time are too strong
Ah, I should be used to
Getting hurt, but now...
Ah, just like this,
Hold my still damp heart
If unchanging love can exist
In these constantly changing times,
Will you hold my heart,
And catch my tears?
All my heart feels like it will break
Forever Love Forever Dream
Oh, tell me why
Only flowing emotions
Intensely and painfully fill these times
All I see is blue in my heart
Will you stay with me
As long as the wind blows?
All my tears overflow again
Forever Love Forever Dream
Stay by me, just like this
Holding my heart that shakes in the dawn
Oh stay with me
Ah, I wouldn't mind if everything were to end
In this night without end
Ah, I would lose nothing
All I have is you
Forever Love Forever Dream
Stay by me, just like this
Holding my heart that shakes in the dawn
Ah, will you stay with me
As long as the wind blows?
I don't want anyone else by my side
Forever Love Forever Dream
I can't walk any further
Oh, tell my why Oh, tell me true
Teach me the meaning of life
Forever Love Forever Dream
Within the flowing tears
Until the shining seasons change into eternity
Forever Love
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Kaiba jerked out of bed instantly, the crackling sound of glass resonating through the still building that was just settling in for the night. He tossed the sheets aside, placing his feet firmly on the floor before getting up."Sh," something whispered. It was Isis, leaping on him and placing a finger on his lips and shushing him. "Be quiet." He wanted to argue, throw her off, and go inspect. This was ridiculous – in a perfect world Isis would shove off no matter how much they were romantically interested in each other and let him get up and check out what had made the noise. But the world wasn't perfect and maybe what he wanted was the wrong thing. His ears became acute, catching every possible sound. Then Kaiba picked up a sound of what sounded like someone wearing cast iron boots stomping down a set of stairs. Except the set of stairs would've been placed around the approximate vicinity of their door.
It swung open. No light spilled in for they weren't even on except for a few emergency lights that shed neon green light in the hall. Isis collapsed onto Kaiba, muting her breathing with a hand, trying to look invisible. Kaiba tried not to grunt as the air was squeezed from his diaphragm, his heart pounding laps around his chest.
A figure stepped broadly into the room, the boots making loud knocks on the tiled floor. Kaiba knew exactly who it was. He opened his mouth wide, ready to scream, yell, and rant. Anything was better than lying stationary on a bed that served no purpose but to allow him to be comfortable in the dark, cold nights. And if he didn't act soon, the bed wouldn't be much more than just a regular bed – it'd be his deathbed, also. The last thing he wanted to think about before being coming face to face with stepfather was that he would end up dying on an idiotic bed in his building.
"Gozaburo!" He bellowed, despite Isis's horrified look. "What do you want now? I can get you on a one-trip home, you know. Where you belong." He pointed down at the streets outside the window. Bustling with cars and late workers rushing to get home.
"Very facetious," Gozaburo growled. "You know that's not what I want, idiot."
"Of course I know what you want," Kaiba said loudly, using huge arm motions. He was hoping that his voice could be thrown down the stairs and to the workers down there so they could come and get him. Note to self: Heighten security...Once I get out of this mess. "You want your company back! Well, you've got the head honcho cornered. What more do you want?"
"Do you think I just want your company? I could kill two birds with one stone here. Lovebirds, to be accurate," he sneered, aiming his gun at Isis's back. She clung to Kaiba's sides hard, trying to stay strong.
Kaiba's voice held strong, his temper flowing out of his ears in the form of steam. He'd had enough of his stepfather. "Do not shoot. I'm warning you."
Gozaburo laughed viciously. "And what do you think will stop me?"
"This!" A fist flew out of no where and connected with Gozaburo square in the temple. Like an arrow streaking through the air from a battle post somewhere that you couldn't see.
A dirty blonde boy stepped from the dark. "Sister!"
Isis looked up Malik in disbelief, yet with pride. "What are you doing here?"
Malik grinned. "I intentionally came here to...er...Ask Kaiba to take me in as a brother, but I decided that it wasn't a good thing to do, but I came anyway. Just to catch up with you two." The innocence and halo came back to dominate his mischievous expression. "Now that I've knocked him out temporarily, care to tell me what's going on?"
"Mokuba!" Kaiba suddenly clamored out of the room, doing the exact opposite of ambling. He was practically running down the hall. Isis had been thrown off of him in his haste.
"My, what's wrong with him?" The three followed him.
"MOKUBA!" Came the cry of agony, the sound of depression piercing one's heart with an indescribable sadness. They found him in Mokuba's room. The jar of ashes was no longer on the shelf and there were no traces of it anywhere in the room. Fragments of the broken window lay around their shoed feet.
Suddenly, the connection was made. Kaiba was half sobbing over the mess, but more of his loss.
"I don't get it," Malik said, clueless, ruining the moment.
"Can't you see?!" Isis asked exasperatedly, something spilling down her cheeks. I'll speak for you, Kaiba, she said through her thoughts, as though able to send psychic messages.
"No."
"Gozaburo threw Mokuba out the window! The ashes! He chucked it right out of the window! Don't you see why Kaiba's like that? His own stepfather first killed his brother and then destroyed any evidence that he was ever alive!"
Malik's eyes widened into UFOs. "Ooooh." The look Kaiba gave him was repulsive.
"Get out of my building. GET OUT OF MY BUILDING!" Almost acting on total instinct and subconscious feelings, he grabbed Malik by the shoulders and whipped him around. Malik's torso was halfway out the window when he was done.
"ISIS!" Malik screamed in horror, arms flailing wildly, not wanting to lift his feet from the ground to kick just in case Kaiba planned to shove him all the way out of the window.
"Kaiba, no!" The woman shrieked, stomping a foot onto his long, flowing coat and yanking his collar back so that his head was bent back in an unnatural position. "Let my brother go this instant!" She seethed through clenched teeth.
"He disrespects my brother!"
"So that gives you the right to become just like Gozaburo?" Isis asked incredulously. "You're a good person, Kaiba! Don't become your stepfather! Please!"
Kaiba's fingers slowly unclenched from Malik's clothing, his hands relaxing.
"Kaiba." Gozaburo was alive and well, raising the gun.
"What do you want?" Isis yelled, already getting into the straining of her vocal cords. But it didn't matter – as long as she got the point across then all was well.
"Let me at Kaiba, woman!" The frothing came back, his eyes rolled madly as though under the control of some mysterious force. It was like looking at a rabid raccoon.
"Never! You'll have to get past me! He hates you! I don't want him to get hurt by you anymore!" She took a deep intake of breath. "I know about his past with you. You were horrible! Relentless! At times, you drove him so far I'm not surprised he hasn't gone mad and hurled rocks at your thick headedness before!"
Gozaburo looked furious, if that were possible. The gun raised. "Is this what you want?"
"Isis, no!" Kaiba lunged forward, attempting to grab her, but she dodged his hands skillfully.
"Kaiba, I know what I'm doing!" She exclaimed, bravely leaving her arms outstretched to protect the people behind her.
"Look, if you die just because my stepfather is a big jerk I'll be really pissed!"
"Then so be it."
"Are you sure?" Gozaburo whispered, his eyes hardening into ice. The internal flame of hatred within him grew with each word he said, turning it into a fiery tornado that breezed through him, burning out every happy memory he had ever carried within his stone hard heart.
"...I'm sure."
A single shot was fired.
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