Hey guys I'm so so so hyper there's new episodes of Yu-gi-oh starting this Saturday which mean today for me but of course since I'm living in Quebec you already saw it and blablabla but it doesn't matter to me nothing's gonna ruin my fun.
Chapter 5: Punishment.
"Are you Seto Kaiba?" One of the two guys asked.
Kaiba looked suspiciously at them, they weren't wearing the school uniform, so they probably weren't student but they were too young to be some social worker, in fact they were probably around his age, anyway there cloth were clearly showing they didn't had money.
"It depends on who's asking." Kaiba said.
He had to be careful with them, sure he was a great fighter and they were the same size as him so he could take them with no problem, but that was on normal basic. Right now he was feeling so week he was sure even Tea could beat him in a fight so right now wasn't the time to made them angry.
"It doesn't matter who we are, you are going with us." The second guy said grabbing Kaiba by the collar.
"And may I know why?" Kaiba asked, trying to break the guy's hold but to no avail.
"Quite simple, me and my friends have problem with guys like you who take pleasure on abusing kids." The first guy said.
The two of them started to drag Kaiba out of the school; he tried his best to free himself but didn't secede, they brought him in a small alley behind the school.
"Look, what is it that you want from me?" Kaiba asked once they stopped
"To teach you a lesson." Another guy said.
Kaiba turned his head to see a small group made of young boys and girls all about his age or younger and judging form their cloth they seemed to live in the road. "About what?" Kaiba asked even if he already knew the answer.
"This is just like guys like you, thinking everything they do is right just because they have money and power. It's because of guys like you that me and my friend are living outside in the road, because of people like you who think that because they have money they have the right to abuse child who trust them." Said the guy who seemed to be the leader.
Kaiba had a good look at him, they weren't so different, same age, same weight, same stature they were so much alike that Kaiba couldn't help but thought that if things had gone a different way he could have been at this guy's place, and yet he was sure he had already saw him somewhere. He had pure black hair with blue reflect in them, his eyes were green and he was about an inch smaller than Kaiba"I would never have thought that you out of all of us would turn against your little brother, you know what it's like to be abused and still you did it to someone else, your brother, I cant believe you changed this much. When I first saw you I couldn't help but be a little bit envious of you, no matter what was going on you always had the kid scotched to your cloth, putting all his life in your hand and trusting you like there was no tomorrow, I would have give anything to have a little brother or sister that I could protect and who would be there for me like you and your brother, and still you turned against him, you disgust me." The guy said.
Kaiba couldn't reply anything;he was too shocked by what the guy told him. He seemed to know him for a long time, but this was impossible, no one knew he had a brother.
"I see you don't remember, your life is too great to lose your precious time to remember your old friends, but that's off topic, we're here to make you pay for abusing your brother's trust." He said.
The other took that as a signal and all the guys mobbed on Kaiba, this was a lot more than he could take in his state, as he would be healthy he still wouldn't be a match for them. It didn't take too long before he was to the ground too beat up to get on his feet. He looked up at their leader, even the slightest movement was painful to him, he was sure he had saw this guy before, he knew it but he couldn't replace it, he couldn't remember where.
"Here, that should teach you, for now at least." He said before leaving with his friends.
Kaiba turned on his back, he stared at the sky, this was a beautiful day, he wanted to walk home today but now he wasn't sure if he had the energy to stand. He took his cell phone out of his pocket and called his driver, his plan to walk home to clear his thought would have to wait until later.
10 Minute later his driver arrived, so Kaiba forced himself to walk to his limo. "Home." Was the only thing he said, thankfully he had a pillow in his limo, his brother used it when they go on long trip. The driver couldn't help but notice that Kaiba seemed in pain and that he had never used the pillow in that car but he knew better than asking the young CEO.
Once he was home Kaiba let himself fall on his bed, every little part of his body was paining him, he hadn't felt so much pain since his step-father died. He felt like laying there for the rest of his life, he didn't have any reason to get up for that matter. Mokuba was all his life and he managed to lose it, he was his brother, he took care of him since he was three, he should have see that coming.
But no, he didn't saw how much his brother was hiding, it was his fault, if only he had paid more attention to his little brother, then maybe he would still be there with him. Those guys were right; he had abused the kid's trust, he hadn't taken care of his like he should have because he knew his brother would always be there.
When was the last time he stayed home to be with him, the only reason he wouldn't go to work was because his brother was sick but still he worked all day in the kid's room and his brother was too sick to even remember he was there.
He should be the one in that hospital bed, he deserved it, not his brother, the newspaper was right, his brother is better in a coma then with him. Kaiba forced himself to go on his feet, the pain that was causing to him was almost unbearable but in some way it felt good to him, he opened the last drawer of his nightstand, there it was. He held the small knife in his hand.
He hadn't used it in a long time, not since his brother found out and made him promise to never do it again, well he used it a few time after that when his brother and him had a fight but Mokuba didn't knew about it. Kaiba sat on his bed, he was used to inflict himself pain, he knew where he had to stop if he didn't wanted to die.
He had been tempted to continue and cut his vein more than one time but he couldn't, he promised his brother to always take care of Mokuba so he couldn't die as long as his brother would be alive. Kaiba cut both of his arms a few time, enjoying the pain it gave him, after a while he put the knife where he took it and felt asleep
Kaiba wake up a few hours later, his injuries were killing him. He opened his eyes and noticed he was under the cover, but he was sure he didn't take the time to cover himself before falling asleep. He sat up in his bed, at the cost of great pain and effort and realized he wasn't wearing his uniform shirt or coat, and all his injuries were bandaged, probably the work of Marry, his 'Nanny' if you want.
She was most likely the only person who dares to enter his room without asking, well in fact no other maids had the right to enter his room, and surely she was the only one who would take care of his injury while he was asleep. He was used to it; she usually took care of him while he was asleep when he was younger. Kaiba saw some painkiller on his nightstand with a bowl of still hot soup but didn't paid attention to them.
Unfortunately the next day arrived, with Kaiba having to go to another day at school, the thought of spending all day sitting on a chair to listen to stupid teacher trying to make some imbecile learn things they would never use in there life while they kept glaring at him wasn't that much appealing.
But of course, having already missed more than a week, he couldn't afford to miss school for a little while so he got out of bed and dressed himself. He saw the uniform he was wearing the day before lying on the ground in a corner of his room, this one would probably never be of any use to him since both sleeves were stained with blood.
Kaiba was glad to be in class in time since he had history class during the morning, which meant M. Filion, which of course wasn't in a good mood. The day went slow, really slow, after history was math, chemistry and blablabla (I have absolutely no idea what kind of class they have in Japan) and finally detention with Joey where none of them looked at the other.
Nothing much happened for the next few days, Kaiba barely ate anything and almost didn't drink anything, getting weaker everyday, of course he kept inflicting pain to himself, but no one knew, no one cared about him, the only person who know was probably Marry but still she knew better than trying to do something about it.
It's the next Monday that things started to move again when, after school, the same guys came to get Kaiba again.
"Hey Joey, so how was detention." Yugi, who came back to school with all the other to hand out once Joey finish his detention, it was nothing unusual, they did that everyday since Joey was in detention on daily basic.
"Not bad, Just 35 more weeks and I'll be done." Joey said with sarcasm.
They all started to walk away when Yugi turned around and saw Kaiba being dragged away by two other guys.
"Hey isn't that Kaiba." He asked.
All the other turned around. "What I'll like to know is who the two other are." Tea said.
"You think we should help him, they don't look so friendly." Yugi said.
"I think Kaiba can take care of himself, he's much stronger than those two that's for sure." Tristan said.
"I dunno guys, he didn't seem pretty healthy to me, Yugi's right, I think we should help him." Tea said
"Nah Kaiba surely won't want our help; let's just say we are investigating." Joey said as he started to walk toward the alley they disappeared into.
Kaiba felt to the ground, he tried to get up but another kick in the stomach left him breathless on his side, he could feel them kick him but he was already suffering so much it wasn't really hurting him more. His vision became more and more blurry with each passing second, in no time everything went dark and cold.
"That's enough for now." Their leader said when he saw Kaiba had loosed consciousness.
"Six on one don't seem really fair to me, why don't you came here and try us?" Joey asked them.
The leader and his entire group turned their eyes on Joey. "Come on, we don't have any purpose staying here." Their leader said as they walked away.
"Yeah you are better run, coward." Joey yelled beside them.
"Joey you are an imbecile, you want to get killed or what those guys would cream you in no time." Tea told him.
"Hey guys come over here, Kaiba really isn't going well." Yugi said.
"How is he going?" Tea asked.
"I dunno, but he's still breathing." Yugi answered.
"Too bad." Joey said, which cost Tea to hit him behind the head.
"Come one you two let's get him to Yugi's house." Tea said motioning to Tristan and Joey.
"Hey why does it have to be me and Tristan dragging Moneybag." Joey complained five minutes later.
"Well because I'm a girl and this is a guy job and Yugi's too small." Tea answered.
"Then why isn't Bakura helping us?"
"Maybe because he's not there, moron." Tea answered. "Anyway stop complaining we're there."
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"Do you think he's alright?" Tea asked Yugi's grandfather who was checking Kaiba.
"If I were you I would worry for us when he'll wake up and realise where he is." Joey said.
"You don't need to worry, he's fine, his injuries aren't that serious, he just collapsed because of his fever, he obviously hadn't taken care of himself recently that's all. Just let him rest here for the night, he should go better tomorrow." Yugi's grandpa said exiting the room.
"So you plan on keeping him here for the night?" Joey asked.
"Well if you want, you and Tristan can take him to his house." Yugi said.
Unknown to them Kaiba wake up, he could heard faint voice, like they were miles away from him, he knew who they belonged to but he was too tired to think, he had no idea where he was and he could feel something cold on his forehead. To the cost of lot of energy Kaiba sat up, he was in a bed, one that wasn't his, he turned his head in the direction of the voices and saw Yugi and his friends. I must be at Yugi's, but how in the world have I ended up here?
Yugi was the first one to notice Kaiba was awake and walked to the bed with his friend following him. "Hey Kaiba, how are you feeling?" He asked.
"How did I end up here?" Kaiba asked, feeling dizzy.
"Well you see we were kinda passing by and we saw you so me and Tristan tough a lesson to those kids and we brought you here because you were unconscious." Joey said.
"Mutt." Kaiba said. "You didn't fight them, they simply walked away, they only fight for their life, I know them and they don't get into dirty street fight like dogs like you." Kaiba said.
"Hey you could be at least a little thankful, we saved you life." Joey said.
"They wouldn't have killed me, they're not murder." Kaiba said closing his eyes to try and make the dizziness go away.
"How come do you seem to know them that much?" Joey said.
"That's none of your business." Kaiba said getting up. He found that staying on his feet was almost impossible, he felt like all the room was spinning around him but he still tried to walk to the door.
"And where do you think you are going in you state Kaiba." Tea asked.
"Home." Kaiba replied.
"You should be forcing yourself like that; you'll exhaust yourself to death." Yami said grabbing Kaiba's arm.
The pressure on his injury caused Kaiba to let out a small yell of pain that surprised everybody. Yami was stronger than Yugi but his grip was far from being strong enough to pained Kaiba that much. Yami one the other hand wasn't surprised that much, he quickly removed Kaiba's sleeve from his arm, showing everyone all the still opened wounds on his harm.
"Where did that came from?" Joey asked.
Yami one the other side knew very well what had caused those wounds. "What do you think your brother would think if he knew you are doing this to yourself?" Yami asked.
"What does it matter, he's dead, I don't have any reason to still be alive. I would have taken my own life long ago if he wasn't there, I promised I would always be there for him so I keep fighting; now it doesn't even matter what I do because he's dead but still I can't put an end to my misery because he's still breathing." Kaiba said, freeing his arm from Yami's grip and exiting the room.
Of course he didn't go really far, the pain caused by his reopened wounds caused his vision to go blurry again. He collapsed to his knee holding himself against the door frame. Yami walked in front of him and kneeled to be on the same eye level.
"You wont go anywhere tonight Kaiba, you are too week." Yami said.
"Back off." Kaiba shouted.
Joey decided this was the time to get in. "Look Kaiba, Yami's right, you can't go anywhere, you are going to stay here for the night that you like it or not, even if I have to tied you to the bed."
Kaiba sighed; he would certainly no get out of this one so he let Joey drag him to the bed since he wasn't sure he could do it by himself.
"If I'm forced to stay here then I'll like to rest in peace." Kaiba said, already half asleep.
"Of course, we are going to eat in one hour, do you want anything?" Yami asked him, but he never got an answer since Kaiba was already asleep.
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After that he abandoned school, stopped going out and became even sicker each day. Right now he was a living ghost, what he had told Yugi was true, without Mokuba he would have killed himself long ago, but he didn't because of the promised he made to his mother before she passed away; he promised to her he would always take care of him. He had lost the will to live a long time ago but he couldn't kill himself because there was Mokuba.
His little brother had made it easier for him to continue, like a little light, he had gave him hope that maybe one day, life would finally be good to him but no, everything he had always wanted was just in front of him yet he couldn't reach it, his heart was gone and he had forgotten what it was to be happy, but still he had his little brother, his reason for living, the only last piece of his heart that still existed.
But now that was gone, he no longer had this piece of his heart, his brother was dead but still he was breathing, so he couldn't put an end to his pathetic existence without breaking his promised to his mother, which was something he couldn't do.
Kaiba looked one last time at his little brother and exited the hospital, he started to walk, it didn't really matter to him where he would end up, he didn't cared anyway but he didn't wanted to go in the mansion, this big empty place, When Mokuba was there it always seemed full of life but now he couldn't stand the silence of his mansion.
He walked to an old park, it had been abandoned a long time ago, it once belonged to a rich couple but after both died no one bought the mansion that was in the middle so it now was a ruin of what it wont was, that was a place where no one ever go, except from some people Kaiba knew, those people know and shared his pain, they had gave him back the will to live before, who knew, maybe they could help him again. Kaiba saw them, a little bit further; no one would ever find them in this deserted park unless he knew where to find them, which was his case.
He saw them, all around a fire, some of them he recognised, some he never saw before and some that were missing. They were talking, happy like there was no tomorrow even with there life, just the way he remembered and the way he loved it.
He walked slowly to them, they started to see him one by one until none of them talked anymore and were looking at him, one of them was the one Kaiba wanted to talk with.
"Long time no see Davy." Kaiba said.