Chapter thirteen: The arrangement.

"So how did you do with Mokuba last night?" Yugi asked the spirit of the puzzle while getting ready for school.

"Well, he stayed here for the night since it was too late to take him home." Yami answered.

"So why did he came anyway?"

"He said that he and his brother had a lot of fight lately and he don't know what to do anymore, he just don't know if he should trust Kaiba anymore." Yami said.

"That's sad, what are you gonna do about it?"

"I'm supposed to have a talk with Kaiba, and decide what is best for Mokuba." Yami answered.

"There are still a lot of things that you are not telling me, I can feel it." Yugi said.

"I know Yugi but these are things that concern Kaiba and Mokuba, all I can tell you is that lately they had a lot of fights and that he only get worst until Kaiba hit Mokuba, so now he's not sure if he should just forgive him, he don't want to keep living like that anymore."

Yugi sigh. "I understand, he wants to be away from him to think for a while, until he's ready to go back home, he can stay here, I'm sure grandpa won't mind, he really likes the kid."

Yugi walked out of his room, good, his grandfather wasn't up yet, he may like Mokuba if he saw the kid on the couch he would probably wonder what he's doing here. A small smile appeared on Yugi's face when he entered the living room, Mokuba was still sleeping, and he looked so peaceful, even cute.

Yugi was making himself breakfast when his grandfather entered the kitchen. "Yugi, what in the world is Mokuba's doing on the couch." He looked panicked, as if he was thinking Yugi had kidnapped him during the night or something.

"Calm down grandpa, he just came here last night, I let him sleep here."

"You mean he…"

"Yes grandpa, he wakes up last night, he and his brother had a lot of fights before he gets into a coma and things kinda get worst each day until Kaiba lost his temper and hit him so he came here because he want to get away from Kaiba, to figure out what he should do." Yugi explained.

Yugi's grandpa nodded in understanding, he may like Mokuba a lot, he really was a sweet kid, his older brother was far from being so high in the old man's grace, learning that Kaiba had hit his little brother was not really changing his opinion on the young CEO for the better.

"All right he can stay." He finally said, he was not going to force the kid to go back with Kaiba if he didn't want it.

The doorbell rand while Yugi was still eating, he just yelled to whoever was on the door to come in, it was probably Tea, they always walk to school together since she live about a block away. He was right, but surprisingly Joey and Tristan were also there, ok Tristan was nothing really extraordinaire he already walked with them quite a few times, but Joey? That was probably something to put in the world records.

Yugi couldn't help but stare at Joey, he was actually here all ready and school didn't start before 40 minutes. "Come on Yug, hurry up or we're going to be late." Joey said sitting on the back of the couch where Mokuba was sleeping.

"And you are the one saying that." Tristan said grabbing Joey by the neck.

The two of them started a friendly fight trying to push the other off the back of the couch. Yugi and Tea smiled while the two other continued their 'king of the couch' game until they both lose their balance at the same time. That's when Yugi remembered that Mokuba was still sleeping on that same couch.

"Guys be careful there's-" Too late, the two felt on the couch and on poor Mokuba, waking him up in a really painful way. As soon as they landed on the couch a small yell could be heard, both of them were surprised to realize they had fallen on something alive, they let out small yell of surprise and both felt to the ground wondering what exactly was on the couch.

Mokuba was just as surprised and scared as them, he felt something really heavy fell on him out of nowhere, he let out a small yell, out of surprised and a little bit of pain, whatever was on him let out a surprise yell before falling to the floor. He looked up, both Tristan and Joey were on the floor looking at him with wide eyes.

"Mokuba???" They both said at the same time.

"Are you three ok?" Yugi asked.

All three of them nodded but Tristan and Joey didn't even catch what he said, they couldn't believe Mokuba was there. "What's going on here." Joey asked once he found his voice back. "Y-You're supposed to be dead!!"

"I-I just woke up last night." Mokuba said.

"But why are you here?" Tea asked getting back in the conversation.

"I…well…" he didn't know what to say, even if they were his friends and he knew he could trust them he wasn't sure if he should really tell them.

Seeing Mokuba's uneasiness Mr Muto decided to help him. "You can ask him that later, the poor kid just wake up from a three months long coma he need to rest, I'm going to take him to the hospital just to make sure he's alright as for you, you're better get going if you don't want to be late."

"Hey he's right!!" Joey exclaimed looking at his watch.

"Thanks." Mokuba said once the others were gone.

"No problem Mokuba, now come on, I'll give you some of Yugi's cloth since you are about the same weight and then we'll go to the hospitals."

Mokuba froze; hospital's mean needle and IV and he couldn't stand either of them. "Do we really have to? I feel good you know."

"I'm sure you do, it's just to make sure you are alright." The old man said leading Mokuba upstairs.

"Yugi, why is Mokuba staying at your home?" Tea asked.

"Well, all kind of things happened and Mokuba need some time away from his brother so he's staying over." Yugi explained, of course he knew he wasn't telling them everything but that didn't concerned them.

Anyway Joey didn't need more explanation, he knew probably more than Yugi anyway, after all Mokuba had told him everything that day, when he found him crying in the park…

Joey was running, he was late for school as usual so he decided to cut by the park, a strange voice came to his ears, like…someone crying. Joey stopped and looked around, he saw a very familiar head not too far, one with dark long hair.

"Mokuba?" Joey asked sitting next to the small boy. "What's wrong?"

Mokuba lifted his head a little to see who was talking to him. "Go away." He said, trying to control his sob.

"What and leave you here like that, I'm not going anywhere until you tell me what's wrong."

Mokuba raised his head to look at Joey and shouted. "And I told you to go away!"

Joey's eyes grew wide, not because of Mokuba's strange behavior but because of the rather large bruise on his cheek. Realizing what was surprising Joey that much Mokuba turned his face away from him.

"Mokuba where did you get that?" He asked.

"It's nothing." Mokuba answered still looking away.

"It's nothing my ass, someone hit you and I wanna know who." Joey said firmly.

"It's no one." Mokuba said.

"Yea right, you're not going to fool me I know what I saw and I know someone hit you and I'm not leaving until you tell me who did it." Joey said.

"Seto." Mokuba said in an inaudible whisper that even him couldn't hear.

"What did you just say?" Joey asked.

"I said it's Seto, my brother hit me. Happy now?" Mokuba shouted before starting to cry again.

Joey looked at him for a few second, he couldn't believe that, sure he considered Kaiba as a cold hearted freak and a bastard with an over sized ego but still he never thought he would hurt his own brother.

"When did it happen?" Joey asked kneeling in front of him.

Mokuba took a few second until he could control his sob enough to talk again before answering. "This morning, when we were going to school."

"What happened?" Joey asked.

"Yesterday we had a fight because I get suspended for a week, I just wanted to apologize." Mokuba said as his sob started again.

"Did he ever hit you before?" Joey asked. Mokuba looked at him for a while, Joey looked ready to kill Kaiba right now.

Mokuba only shook his head. "He never really hit me, but lately we had a lot of fight, a little while ago Seto started to lose his temper and on day he grabbed me by my wrist, he didn't hurt me, he apologized and swear it would never happen again but a few week after he did it again, and it started to became more and more often, lately it was almost on daily basic but it's the first time he hit me." Mokuba said looking down. "I don't know what to do anymore."

"First of all I'm going to take you home, you can't stay here all day. If I were you I'll try and talk to him, I'm sure things will go the right way." Joey said.

"And why would you help me? You hate Seto anyway." Mokuba said.

Joey calmed down. "Well it's true that I don't know him very well and that I hate him with all my heart. But when it comes to Kaiba there's one thing I'm sure; your brother love you more than anything in this world."

Joey kept thinking, not paying attention to the conversation his friends were having. "Does Kaiba even know Mokuba is at your house?" Tea asked in a worried tone.

"Of course he is, I'm suppose to have a word with him about what to do with Mokuba. And you Joey, what is your excuse?" Yugi asked.

Joey blinked and shook his head. "Wha-"

"You weren't listening weren't you? I'm asking why you were ready so early, you are late almost everyday." Yugi asked.

"My father came home this morning; I didn't feel like staying in the house." Joey said with a dark voice clearly showing he didn't want to talk about it.

After that the whole walk was silent, one of them talked witch seemed odd, they always had something to tell each other.

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"I don't want to go." Mokuba said for the 17th time since they entered the hospital.

"Don't worry it's just a check up, they want to make sure you are ok, after all you were in a coma for three months." Mr. Muto said exasperated, this looked like when Yugi was still a child.

"Ok Mokuba Kaiba…" The nurse voice died into a whisper, she looked up from her sheets to the little boy in front of her, he eyes quickly widened, the boy had quite a reputation here for two reason, the first one was because he was Seto Kaiba's little brother but the main one was because he was well know for not letting nurses touch him. "If you will follow me." She said walking away prying for the doctor who was to take care of him.

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It was now lunch time, most of the kids were running straight to the cafeteria to get the best food but that wasn't Kaiba or Yami's case. Both of them found an empty classroom to decide together what was best. Once the door was closed Kaiba didn't lost time with formality.

"How is he going?" He asked. His concern was apparent in his voice.

"He's fine, a little sad but fine, Yuig's grandpa is taking him to the hospital to make sure of it." Yami answered.

A small smile appeared on Kaiba's face thinking about the old man taking Mokuba to the hospital. "I pity him." He finally said.

Yami raised an eyebrow but didn't question it any further. "Mokuba told me about all the fights you had, I must say I'm surprised, I was sure you would never hurt Mokuba like that." Yami said.

"And what do you expect me to say? I know what I did, I know I hurt him, all I want is win back his trust, no matter how much time it will take me." Kaiba said.

"Mokuba need some time alone, and so does you, whether Mokuba shall one day trust you again is his decision and his alone, that's why need to be alone." Yami said.

Kaiba nodded, he knew Yami was right.

"Yugi's grandpa had already agreed to let Mokuba stay as long as he wished, don't worry he'll be fine."

Kaiba nodded. "Bring him to the mansion after school so he can take a few things he'll need." Kaiba said.

"I will Kaiba, you may have a few words with him then, I'm sure he would want to explain himself." Yami said. Kaiba nodded one last time before going to eat his lunch.

"So? How was it?" Joey asked.

"Quite fine actually for a discussion with Kaiba, Mokuba is going to stay at my house for a little while." Yugi answered sitting down and starting to eat.

&&I know short chapter but what do you want, anyway it mean I update faster so deal with it lolll.