I don't know why but I don't fell at all like writing for the past two weeks anyway let's hope I can find the courage to do this chapter, man Christmas vacation are welcome I really need it.
Chapter fourteen: Face to face.
Mokuba was sitting at the table rubbing his arm, he was dead bored and couldn't wait until Yugi and the other finally get out of school. Seeing as Mokuba was yet again rubbing his arm Mr. Muto gave the usual lesson.
"You know if you hadn't move then-"
"It wouldn't hurt." Mokuba said at the same time as the old man. Gee he had enough of this lesson; go tell that to the nurse.
They just had to do it, they had to take some of his blood to 'make sure he was alright.' What was wrong with them, he felt fine wasn't that enough? Even worst they said he mustn't go to school or even outside for a week and should even stay in bed all this time because 'his body is still weak' and he can't eat anything solid for one week either, this week was going to be a long one.
Hearing a door opening Mokuba quickly made his way to the door to greet his friends, it was about time they get here.
"I guys!" The little raven haired boy happily greeted them.
"Hey Mokuba, so how was the visit at the hospital?" Yugi asked.
"It was horrible, the kid is even more afraid of needle then you were at 4." Mr. Muto said entering the game shop behind Mokuba.
"Sooooo the little Kaiba is afraid of the bad needle?" Joey said with a childish look.
"No it's not true." Mokuba said looking away madly, he didn't wanted anyone to actually know about this.
"Not true? You should have seen the look on the nurse face when she saw you; you seem to have quite a reputation over there." Mr. Muto said. Damn old men always saying thing you want to keep a secret.
"Don't worry Mokuba, I won't tell your secret to anyone." Joey said, winking.
"Yeah because big mouth Joey over there is also afraid of needle, you should have seen him last time we got a vaccine at school." Tea said.
"Hey that was years ago!" Joey said looking really mad.
"Umm actually Joey that was just before summer break." Yugi said.
"Yea, your lucky Kaiba had drop out of school, imagine if he had saw you pleading like that not to get that vaccine, you would never see the end of it." Tristan said.
"Speaking of Kaiba, Mokuba, your brother agreed to let you stay here as long as you want, he said I could bring you to the mansion this afternoon so you could get a few stuff, you feeling ok to go?" Yugi said.
Mokuba thought about it for a second, at this time there was a fifty/fifty chance that his brother was either at the mansion or at Kaiba Corp. and let just say that Mokuba never stayed mad for long, in fact he wasn't mad at his brother, he just didn't wanted to continue living like he had the past months and he wasn't sure is he could one day trust his brother anymore and he feared that if he saw his brother he would just want to go back with him like he did so many time before.
"Ok" Mokuba finally said, after all if he wanted to live here for a while he would need a few things.
Once all their friends had left Yugi and Mokuba headed toward the Mansion, but now Mokuba knew that, unless he changed his habit his brother was at the mansion working in his office.
"Don't worry Mokuba, everything will be fine." Yugi said once they were in front of the mansion.
"I guess so." Mokuba said, entering the mansion but not really convinced, but then again he had no reason to be worried, it was his house, what could possibly happen to him here.
Just as Mokuba had thought Kaiba was working, well of course he didn't really had to work but he didn't had anything to do, at least this way he'll have tomorrow off. He heard the door open, that surely was Mokuba, after all no one would ever dare to enter his house without knocking and maids use the back door.
He got up, no matter what was going on between him in his brother he needed to see him awake and well, but more importantly he had something to do that he wanted to do for months but never had a chance.
Of course Frosty had heard the door also and wasn't going to wait after Kaiba to go see who was there and just like he did with Kaiba he easily recognised Mokuba but unlike he did with the elder he didn't seemed as happy to see Mokuba, in fact he seemed afraid of him.
"I didn't know you had I dog." Yugi said, wondering what was wrong with the canine, well at least he wasn't jumping on them. It's the same dog that was with Kaiba the other day, I guess it really was his after all.
"Me neither." Mokuba said.
Kaiba finally came into view, Frosty didn't lose any time going to hide behind his master's legs as soon as he saw him, which startled Kaiba just as much as the two other. Forgetting about the coward behind him, Kaiba looked up at Mokuba. Mokuba on the other hand turned away sensing his brother's gaze switch on him, he couldn't bear to look at him in the eyes.
"Go ahead Mokuba I'll wait here till you finished." Yugi said, gently pushing Mokuba.
Mokuba sighed and resigned himself, he wanted a chance to at least explain himself to his brother, to make sure he wouldn't be mad at him, as much as he wanted to trust him he couldn't get that feeling that his brother could hit him again. That was why he was leaving after all, how can you live with someone when you constantly fear he will hit you?
Mokuba walked up to his room with Kaiba behind him, he didn't looked mad, he had a strange look in his eyes, one that Mokuba had never seen before, he couldn't understand it. As he was following his little brother Kaiba was lost in his thought, all that happened recently reminded him of bad memory, one he wanted to forget all his life.
He knew how Mokuba felt, when someone you trust with all your hurt, someone you trust to protect you turn on you and hurt you. That was why he let Mokuba go, he knew he needed some time, what he had done was not something you could forget easily and Yugi was right, Mokuba was the only one who could decided if he deserved a second chance…or rather a third one.
"Here." Kaiba said putting a bag on Mokuba's bed so he could put his stuff in it.
"Thanks" Mokuba answered still not looking at his brother.
Both stayed silent for a while. Mokuba put the few thing he wanted to take in him bag, mostly cloths and such, Kaiba finally decided to break the silence.
"I'm happy to see you're ok, I thought you'll never wake up." He said.
Mokuba froze, as much as he wanted to speak with his brother a part of him still wanted to finish this as quickly as possible and get out of here.
"Yugi told me about your wish." Kaiba said with an ironic smile on his face.
Mokuba jerked around. He knew?? How could he ever look at his brother again now that he knew he had made such a wish. "I…I just…"
Kaiba sensing his brother's sudden uneasiness stood from the bed where he was sitting and kneeled before his brother with a soft smile on his face. "It's ok I'm not mad, you had every right to be mad at me for what I did, but you should try and not wish for that kind of thing again, not for anyone, trust me you could regret it for the rest of your life." Kaiba said. Mokuba looked at him, he saw in his brother's eyes the same thing he saw when they were going to his room, still before that day he had never saw this look in his eyes.
Kaiba's eyes became soft again and he looked straight into his brother's eyes. "Don't worry I won't ask you to stay, I know you need to be alone and I think I need it too." Kaiba then sighed. "I know there is no excuse for the way I treated you or for hitting you Mokuba, and I know that apologies won't change anything but I need you to know that I am truly sorry, I can only hope that one day you'll forgive me and give me another chance."
"I hope too, but that's not the first time you turn on me like that. Why should I even trust you anymore after all those time you kept hurting me?" Mokuba said the last part louder, he wanted to say that out loud for a long time now.
Kaiba looked away, his brother was right and he knew it. "You shouldn't, there is no reason why you should trust me ever again; I turned my back on you once, still you gave me another chance but I didn't take it. This is no one decision but yours, whatever your choice is I'll respect it and we'll find a way to you to do what you want. Come on Yugi is waiting." Kaiba said heading to the door.
Mokuba finally found the courage to say what he wanted once Kaiba was in the doorway. "I want to be with you, I want us to be a family again, I really want to trust you again, I just don't know how, or if I'll ever be able to."
Kaiba kneeled back in front of his little brother. "You need time, be patient, if that's really what you want then one day you'll be able to forgive me, just don't try and force yourself, take your time. I want you to know, if you ever want or need to speak with me, I'll always have time for you no matter what."
Mokuba looked in his big brother's eyes, they looked more than sincere. "Thanks Seto, it really mean a lot to me." Mokuba said hugging him.
Kaiba put his arms around Mokuba and hugged him back, however it didn't lasted very long, it wasn't the same, thing were different, all the feeling or trust and security were gone. Kaiba stood up, he knew it was going to take time to his brother to trust him, and he would wait.
"Now go, Yugi must be starting to get impatient." He said.
Mokuba did as he was told and went back to the game shop with Yugi; he really hoped that one day he could forgive his brother and that he and his brother would finally be the family he always wanted them to be.
The next day was just as boring, with everyone away to school, and being stuck in the house, Mokuba had nothing to do. The young Kaiba was desperately looking for something to do that didn't need to much effort, if he was feeling good yesterday, that wasn't the case this morning, he had trouble just walking.
Mokuba finally decided to do what most people do when they have nothing to do, watch TV, even if during week there never was anything good. But when he went to pick up the remote something caught his eyes, a newspaper. Ok, so newspapers have nothing really special but this one had his picture in the first page. Mokuba took it and settle down on the couch, wondering why he, of all people, was on the first page.
That wasn't hard to figure out, the title said it all: Seto Kaiba's little brother mysteriously woke up. Mokuba started at the title for a while, if the city's journalist knew he was Kaiba's brother then he was sure that the whole world knew it by now.
Mokuba than started to read it, at first the newspaper didn't revealed anything private about him, in fact they seemed to know very little about him. But as he continued to read he found out something that he didn't really wanted the world to know, it wasn't something embarrassing to him, it was something that was sure to put his life in danger.
The day at school was slow, when doest it actually goes fast anyway, Kaiba just stared blankly at the board, if that wasn't enough that today's lesson was more than boring; it was something that Kaiba learned years ago, stupid social worker.
He let his thought wonder wherever they wanted, first to Davy, he hadn't see him the last two days and he was wondering what he was up to, but that didn't last very long, Davy was surely stealing somewhere in town, after all it's too hard to steal people when they wear winter coat so he was trying to steal enough to feed more than 30 kids all winter long.
His thought than wandered to Mokuba, he wasn't worry; the kid was safe with Yugi after all, he was just wondering what he was doing, how he was feeling, he always do that when he was away from his brother because of a business trip or something else.
Later that day Kaiba was sitting in his home office, he did his daily visit to Kaiba Corp. to take care of the few problems and for a meeting. Now he wanted to relax a little bit before starting the little work he had to do toning. So he sat down on his chair and started to read the newspaper while drinking coffee.
The first thing he saw was his brother's picture on the first page, that was to be expected but Kaiba was mad at himself for not thinking about it earlier, so far he had done his best to prevent any and all ,personal or not, information that he judged no one had any right to know, but now because of his error he had no idea what they said about his brother so he started to read carefully, making sure nothing would make his brother feel uneasy.
Kaiba was almost finished when he came upon the same sentence as Mokuba this morning, he couldn't believe that someone had found about this information, more importantly he couldn't believe he didn't even do anything to prevent it, by now he was sure all the world knew about it.
There written black on white was written something that was supposed to only be known of him and Mokuba. But there it was, by some kind of way a journalist found out that of the 51 of Kaiba Corp. that everybody thought Kaiba owned, 20 actually belonged to Mokuba, that was an open invitation for everyone that wanted to take control of his company to take on Mokuba.
Kaiba was now in deep thought, it was too late to act now, the news had already made it to the world, for now Mokuba was safe, no one knew he was at Yugi's house and he wouldn't go outside until the end of the week. But after that Mokuba would have to go to school, anyone could follow him.
To anyone Kaiba may look paranoiac but more than one person, including the big five and the previous vice president or Kaiba Corp. personally threatened him in person of getting what 'rightfully belonged to them' by any mean necessary, and more than one person already tried to steal his company or even kill him.
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The week passed fast, Mokuba was feeling well and was going to school today, as much as school is boring, being trap in the same house alone all a week isn't fun either so he didn't really minded the change, and now he could see his friends back, and of course he would have a lot of homework to do to catch up.
Mokuba pushed that thought away for now; he had to meet his teacher before the class started so he had to get extra early for nonsense. That's when a few things he didn't thought about came to his mind, he was now in his last years of elementary school, but he just realized that he was now 12 years old, he haven't even thought about it before.
The day was even slower than usual for three main reasons, first because it was school, second because he didn't understand anything and third because he wanted to speak with his friends. Finally it was lunch time, he could finally see his friends, he went to the cafeteria but couldn't find them, they were probably eating at the restaurant not far, he did that often with them last year.
After eating his lunch Mokuba went outside, he had an idea where his friends were, he was right, they were in the lunching area behind the school playing duel monster. Mokuba hurried to them with a smile plastered on his face.
"Hey guys!" he said once he reached them.
The three boys looked up at him with emotionless face and turned back to their duel like they didn't know him.
"What's wrong?" He asked when they didn't answer him. Then again they didn't do anything to even acknowledge his presence. "Hey I'm talking to you." Mokuba said, this time with anger in his voice as they were clearly ignoring him.
The two of them who were duelling took back their card, stopping their duel in the process and all three of them stood up and started walking away.
"Where are you going? Why don't you answer me?" Mokuba asked as they turned their back on him.
"We don't associate with Kaibas." Joel, who was the 'leader' of the small group, said not even turning back.
Mokuba stood their froze by that revelation for half a second before regaining his senses, he ran in front of them and stopped there to prevent them from going away.
"Wait a minute, what does that mean, you don't associate with Kaibas, you always knew my last name was Kaiba and that never bothered you before." Mokuba said with anger.
"Yes but that was before I knew you were related to that fucking bastard Seto Kaiba who own Kaiba Corp." Joel said.
"My brother's no bastard, what does it matter to you that we are related anyway, you never even saw him?" Mokuba said now desiring to beat the crap out of his former friend, Seto and he may have some problem now but no one insulted his family.
"I'm poor because of that jerk, he fired my father when he took control of Kaiba Corp." Joel said.
"Because you think gaining 300 000$ per years is being poor, in case you are too dumb to count there is 46 rooms in your house, when you'll leave in an orphanage where there's 7 rooms for 25 kids you'll tell me you're poor." Mokuba said, not believing he once was friends with this jerk."
"And you call me dumb, just look at you, you're rates are the lowest of the class, you are failing more than half of your class, it's no wonder no one wanted you at the orphanage, you're lucky your brother took pity on you, it's no surprised that he didn't let anyone know he was your brother, I too would be ashamed if my brother was as stupid as you." Joel said.
This time Mokuba wanted to break his little nose for saying such things, he had consider Joey as a friend for the last two years and told him most of his secrets, including when he was in the orphanage, he couldn't believe Joel was using what he told him out of friendship to hurt him.
"My brother didn't take pity on me, he stayed with me because we are family and we love each other." Mokuba said trough his teeth.
"How can you be talking about love, you were the one always telling me you were afraid that your brother would hit you, and you were also the one coming with bruises almost everyday." Joel said. "Just face it, your brother doesn't love you, never did and will never. Why would he anyway, after all you killed his mother."
That was too much, this last part was something Mokuba couldn't bear to heard, before Joel had any chance of realising it, his nose was broken and Mokuba was on top of him doing everything he could to kill him.
Luckily for Joel, and for Mokuba in some kind of way, the teachers weren't far away. It took two of them to actually get Mokuba away from Joey, who was quickly took to the hospital, the teacher of course weren't to gentle with Mokuba since, the two other former friends of Mokuba both said that he jumped on Joel without any reason, and also because Joel was the teacher's pet.
Mokuba was now sitting in the principal office waiting for his brother to arrive while the principal was lecturing him. Kaiba arrived not long after, unfortunately it was long enough for them to learn more about Joel's condition.
Kaiba entered the office without any formality with the principal, he just sat down to listen why he was taken out of his class, not that he minded getting out of one on filion's class, he just didn't liked the circumstances.
If there was one thing he hated more than anything else it was principals, they were the only people that, no matter what he do, had authority over him, which was something he had a big problem with but he knew better than to try and play the CEO with them, it just didn't work.
So he sat there listening to what happened, according to the principal, as if Mokuba's opinion didn't counted, but of course Kaiba was less than happy to learn that Mokuba had a fight, again, considering he had another one the last time he came to school and that, according to the doctors, Mokuba could have greatly injured the kid if no one had stopped him, but more importantly, Mokuba didn't even seemed to care or regret what he had done.
After all the explanation were done Kaiba had to bring Mokuba home, in that case the game shop and considering he would have to explain everything to the old man, who he didn't really like, wasn't doing any good to his tempter, after all who would be happy to learn that his brother had a fight, if the press found out about this Mokuba would be known all over the world as a dangerous violent kid.
"What is wrong with you?" Kaiba asked as they walked. "It's your first day and you find a way to get in a fight for no reason and getting expulsed, didn't you had enough last year."
"I'm sorry Seto, I didn't want to hurt him, I really tried but I couldn't hold back anymore." Mokuba said.
"Sorry? You think that's going to made up for everything? You just beat up the son of one of the most powerful man in all Japan for nothing, a man that personally swore to take me down." Kaiba said.
"Is that still all that mattered to you? Your stupid pride, you don't even care why I did it, you don't even want to know." Mokuba said anger raising in him.
"And what is this reason, you hoped that by beating up every guy around you I would pay more attention to you?" Kaiba said.
"You wish, you never even give a damn about me, I know from facts that you are just a fucking cold hearted bastard that only care about his pride." Mokuba shouted.
Kaiba could feel the anger and the pain raising in him, he heard that insult a million time a day, he never paid any attention to it, it didn't mattered to him what the other thought, but hearing it from his own brother's mouth was more than he could handle. Before he even had a chance to control himself he grabbed Mokuba by the collar and pined him to the brick wall beside them.
Mokuba looked up at his brother, not even showing the slightest amount of fear. "Go ahead, hit me, I know how much you want to, just do it." He said with defiance in his voice.
Kaiba resisted the urge to shut him up, he took a few deep breath and let him go. "Go away." He said looking at him. Mokuba didn't move an inch. "I said go away, go back to the game shop now." Mokuba didn't question it any more and ran away from Kaiba.
Ok this was quite a long chapter and I know that you are going to tell me that what happened shouldnt have but it fit in my story and anyway you can change just like that by magic.
Really important: As we all know it's christmas vacation, and for me vacation mean I'm going to go to my father who live at 7 hours of car away from my house, I'm leaving tomorow (the 24) and I'll be gone for about two week and since my dad don't have a computer then that mean no update, that's why I'm putting two chapter at once, consider this my cristmas present to all of you, merry cristmas.