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Chapter ten: People dont forget that easily.
Kaiba was wake up by his stupid alarm; if the alarm gave up waking him easily Frosty wasn't going to give up.
"Let me sleep Frosty" Kaiba said turning around. Kaiba ignored him for a few minute but decided to get up when Frosty stole his cover.Once he was dressed and ready to leave he went downstairs to eat breakfast. He took all his time, not really wanting to go to school, after all who ever want to go to school. Once he was finished he left in his limo.
Things were always the same, you have to get up early but the principal let all the student waiting for an hour before talking to them. Kaiba just stood there, his back against a wall, his eyes closed, waiting for the stupid principal to give his annual speech. Not like he didn't already knew; depending on what glass you were in you had to get a certain schedule then go to the class you have to receive your teacher's speech.
Kaiba looked the list of teacher he had, he had scored the jack pot, all the worst teachers of the history of school, including Filion and the ex army general. He made it to his first class, and of course the first persons he saw were Yugi and his little fan club. This year is going to be really long. Kaiba though, sitting in the last row.
Joey of course wasn't going to ignore Kaiba, he never does, and anyway he had something to settle. So he stood up and walked toward the young brunette who was quietly reading a book by himself, only wishing none of them would actually talk to him.
"Hey Kaiba." Joey said when he was near enough.
Kaiba unwillingly looked up from his book. "What do want mutt." He asked, annoyed.
"I still owe you for what you said the other day." Joey said with anger.
"And what was it that I said?" Kaiba asked bored.
"You perfectly know what I'm talking about." Joey said.
"Oh so you did catch my drift after all, what about it?"
"I'm going to make you take it back."
"Yea right, how are you going to do that? By biting me with your little puppy teeth?" Kaiba said laughing a little.
This was too much for Joey, he grabbed Kaiba by his collar and pined him to the wall. "You are better take that back." Joey warned.
"Go ahead puppy just try it, show me what you got."
Yugi and the other decided this was probably the good time to separate them and started to try and pull Joey back, unfortunately they weren't quick enough.
"What is going on here?" Said an all too familiar voice.
Kaiba, Joey and all the others slowly turned their heard, hoping they had heard wrong, unfortunately they were right. Yugi and the other quickly let go of Joey and Joey did the same with Kaiba, all of them trying to look as innocent as possible; of course it didn't work, well at least not for Joey and Kaiba.
"Why am I not surprised to see you two fighting again, looks like you didn't learned anything last year, in that case you both get two weeks of detention, and if I ever catch you too fight again you can be sure you'll wish you had never come to this school." Said M. Filion turning back, this was going to be a good year, well for him at least.
The teacher than started to talk about the rules, and since it was M. Filion, you were better to pay attention if you didn't wanted to end up in detention. Fortunately all the students made it out alive…barely but still alive. The day passed slowly, nothing much happened, except that it was deadly boring, and that while all the other student were going back home he had two hours of detention, thanks to the mutt.
Kaiba actually found a good point to it, Joey wouldn't have all his friends with him and he too had a score to settle with the mutt. So Kaiba entered the classroom actually in some kind of good mood, he really was looking forward to give the mutt a lesson and anyway he didn't had as much work as before. Joey was already there, he glared at Kaiba who only glared back, after explaining what why they were here and what they had to do like they were idiots Filion left the room.
Kaiba and Joey turned to look at each other. "So what was it that you were barking about before Filion showed up?" Kaiba asked in a boring tone.
"I wasn't barking Kaiba, for a genius you sure forget a lot of things, I told you to take back what you said about my father treating me like a dog." Joey said. "And I'm going to make you pay for saying such a thing."
"Doesn't anyone ever tell you only truth hurt? Why should I feel bad about saying the truth?" Kaiba said, not scared at all by Joey.
"Because we agreed to forget everything about this stupid week when we exchanged body, the only reason why you know about it is because you were in my body, what would you say if I go all around town telling your little secrets to everyone?" Joey asked.
"You can't, I perfectly know you don't have any memories of my life, you lost them when we exchanged body just as I lost yours." Kaiba said.
"Maybe, but there's still a lot of other things I know about you." Joey said with a smirk.
"Yeah right." Kaiba said not believing him.
"Hey, just because you don't have friends doesn't mean your brother doesn't. He told us a lots of things about you two." Joey said.
"Doesn't matter, Mokuba doesn't know even half of my life, I made sure of it." Kaiba said. "But speaking of Mokuba, this remains me, in case you had forgot, I promised I would make you pay greatly if you hurt my brother in any way, which you did." Kaiba said.
Joey took a step back, he was hoping that by now, Kaiba would have forgot what he had done to Mokuba and he knew how Kaiba was when someone hurt his little brother. "Come on Kaiba, it was just an accident, I didn't meant to hurt him." Joey said.
"Accident or not you are dead Wheeler." Kaiba said, trying to grab Joey.
"If you dare touch me, Kaiba, I'll tell everyone it's you who had hurt him, after all it was your body and no one would ever believe we had switched." Joey said.
"Nice try mutt, but if you ever talk to anyone what you did to my brother saying it was me I'll tell everyone you kissed Tea." Kaiba said.
"Hey, wait a minute, I never kissed Tea." Joey said, not catching.
"Well that's not what Tea think."
"Wait a minute; don't tell me YOU kissed TEA in MY body." Joey said almost chocking.
"Well technically you did it, after all it was your body and no one would believe we had switched." Kaiba said using Joey's own words.
"I can't believe you had the guts to actually kiss one of my best friends in my body, no wonder she was acting so strange lately." Joey said still not believing it. "Well, it looks like you are a guy after all, I didn't knew you had feelings for Tea." He added teasingly.
"Dream on Wheeler, I would never go out with her even if she was the last girl alive, she is the one who kissed me anyway." Kaiba said with his emotionless cold tone. "And before I forget..." Kaiba said punching Joey. "This is for my little brother."
After a while, more insults and attempts of murder, the detention was finally over, of course Joey was out with his friends and Kaiba was just staying with Davy while he tried to steal all he could to make sure to have enough money to pass winter, surprisingly he and Frosty made a really good team; Frosty distract the victim while Davy steal their money.
"Alright only a last one and I'll be done for today." Davy said, counting the money he had.
This made Kaiba feel a little relieved, he knew Davy had to steal the money so they could eat, and that he couldn't accept his money because not any street kid was friend with Seto Kaiba. Kaiba knew Davy was skilled but he couldn't stop thinking that if he got caught he would probably be send back to his parent and he would lose his only friend. Davy let Frosty decide who their next victim would be.
"Oh great." Kaiba said when he recognized the chosen victim.
"A friend of yours?" Davy asked.
"You know me better than that." Kaiba said.
"Than since you seem to know each other you could help me." Davy said. Kaiba looked at him strangely. "He's with a gang, I need a bigger distraction than just Frosty, and since, judging for your reaction you have a thing against each other you are just the distraction I need."
Kaiba hesitated for a second. "Ok but only because it's the mutt."
"Damn what is the problem with that dog?" Joey complained pushing Frosty away for the 10th time.
"What's the matter, didn't you knew that birds of a feather flock together?" Said the arrogant voice of Kaiba.
"What do you want Kaiba?" Joey asked.
"Not that it concern you but I came to claim my dog, it's not my fault he love you mutt sent." Kaiba said.
"Kaiba you're asking for it." Joey said trying to jump on Kaiba but being held back by the other.
In all the commotion no one paid any attention to Davy who skillfully stole Joey's, Tristan's and Tea's wallet unnoticed, well unnoticed except from Yami.
"So you mean this is your dog?" Yugi asked once Joey calmed down. Kaiba only nodded.
"Yea right, why would a dog ever want to stay with a jerk like you?" Joey asked.
As if understanding the insult toward his master, Frosty tried to bite Joey.
"Good dog." Kaiba said with a smirk. "Come one now, I don't want you to catch fleas." He added walking away with Frosty following him.
"What a jerk." Joey said, putting his hand in his pocket. "Hey, my wallet is gone." He yelled searching for it on the ground. Tristan and Tea also realized their wallet was missing and realized they have been robbed. Kaiba just kept walking with a smirk.
"Don't tell me Kaiba stole our money." Joey said.
"It wasn't him." Yami said taking control of Yugi's body.
"You mean you know who it is?" Tristan said.
"When you tried to fight with Kaiba a guy around our age stole your money, I'm not sure but I think it was the leader of that gang who attacked Kaiba." Yami said.
"You mean this guy with the black hair." Joey asked.
Yami nodded. "There was a lot of robbery lately in town; I suppose it was his gang."
"I don't get it, if you saw him why didn't you do anything to stop him?" Tea asked.
"I couldn't, Yugi was the one in control and he hadn't seen anything."
Later that evening, after leaving Davy, Kaiba was working, he was working on his dream, he had promised his little brother that one day he'll make attraction parks especially for kids who, just like them, had lost their parents. While he was working something caught his attention; his locket.
Kaiba opened it, it was the picture of his little brother, a few days before he was adopted, he missed those time, the orphanage was nothing compared to when he lived with his parents but it was far better than what happened while he was leaving with Gozaburo. He looked carefully at it, Mokuba looked so happy, Kaiba hadn't saw his brother smile that way ever since they were adopted.
It was now, it was the time. He had to let go of his brother and move on, he had to do it now. Kaiba stood up and grabbed his coat and exited his mansion, he had to do it now, he had to say his final goodbye to his little brother.
Kaiba entered the hospital, he still had one more thing to do, he hadn't come here in nearly a month, he knew he couldn't hope for him to come back anymore, it would never happen. Of course he couldn't let the medic kill him, but he had to move forward, he couldn't always stay block in the past hoping for him to come back. He opened the door to his brother's room, it was still the same, nothing had change.
Kaiba sat on the bed beside his brother and started to stroke his hair, smiling softly. He had did his best, he did what he thought was the best for his little brother, too bad he realized too late he was wrong, that what Mokuba really wanted was his big brother to be happy with him.
"I know I didn't come to see you lately, lots of things happened. I'm really sorry you had to suffer from my mistake, I never intended to hurt you, I'm also sorry for hitting you that day, I regretted it the second I did it but I never had a chance to tell you." He said softly.
"After you left, I was totally lost, I didn't know what to do anymore, in some kind of way I was dead because I only lived for you, I would have give everything away just to have you back, it's funny how you only realize how much you love someone only when you lose him. Then I met back an old friend, he really helped me."
"I started to enjoy life again, just like you always wanted me to do, still if I thought there was someway to bring you back I wouldn't hesitate before doing it, but I understand it won't happen, I have to face the truth, I'm alone now, you wont come back."
"That's why I came here; I can't continue believe you'll come back one day, I have to look forward and let you go. Still I can't let them end your life; because I would always have this little voice telling me that maybe…it could have happen. I'm not giving myself false hope it won't happen and I know it, I just can't let you die, at least not now, but still I have to let you go."
"I came here to tell you good bye, I'll come back to see you, I always will, but I have to live my life, and I know you would want it that way. I must look forward and for that I have to let you go. The thing I found ironic is that it's now that you are gone that I could be the brother you wanted me to be. I'm sorry I didn't realize my mistake sooner."
"I want you to know that I'll always love you, goodbye little brother." With that Kaiba left. This was so far the hardest thing he had to do, but he had to do it.
Later that night Kaiba was working, he had to get his mind away from his little brother, he knew it would be hard for him and that it would take him some time but he had to move forward. He had been working ever since he arrived. Things looked better for him, so far everyone forgot about the newspaper, he was even happy, he hoped he would be able to keep his promise to his father, no matter if it was a dream or not.
Kaiba had fallen asleep at his desk, something that didn't happened to him in the last month, he wasn't used to stay up late anymore, and he had done enough work for the next week. He was dreaming, sweet dream about his childhood went something out of place disturbed him. There was a strange song coming to his ears that shouldn't be in his dream, half asleep he looked at his watch, who in there right mind would call him at two in the morning, he searched for the phone in the dark and answered it.
"Yes?" he said rubbing his eyes. "That's me." He said slowly.
Kaiba listened to whoever was on the other side of the line, what he heard totally wake him up.
"What do you mean he disappeared???" He asked with wide eyes.