DGG: All right, so here's the deal. I'm re-posting these chapters. I was originally going to re-write the whole thing. I wasn't going to change the premise of the story or anything, but I just wanted to redo it so it would sound better, but then I decided against that. This was one of the first stories that I ever wrote, so why tamper with my first little stepping stone?

But I did decide to go through and fix some little things. Tiny spelling mistakes (which there were a lot of, I might add. I apparently never heard of proofreading back in 2004/2005.), I took out my random author's notes that were in the middle of the story. It was quite common place to do that back then, but it is rather frowned upon now, and I decided to get rid of my annoying author's notes at the beginning and ends of the chapters as well. I was going through a stupid phase where I apparently thought I had to type like I was constantly in a chatroom. And it was annoying. Even one of the reviewers to this story pointed that out to me. I didn't care then, but my gosh. I re-read all that now, and I was just like "What was I ever thinking?" Everything was abbreviated and it was oh so annoying.

So I fixed little things here and there. I did add a few words and re-word a few sentences, but it was definitely nothing major. Feel free to still review if you'd like.

DISCLAIMER: I still do not own Yu-Gi-Oh! I'm just a random fan who wrote a random story back in the day.

Chapter 1: The Morning After

Later that night, after Kaiba and Yami's duel, Mokuba and Kaiba just stared at the broken down building that had been Kaiba's Duel Dome earlier that day. It was completely destroyed like a wrecking crew went insane at it! Kaiba looked at it with his cold hard stare while Mokuba looked a little worried.

"What are we gonna do about it, Bro?" asked Mokuba.

"We're going to just get rid of it," Seto answered simply.

"But why?" Mokuba asked surprised. "I thought that you'd fix it up."

"It would be a waste of time," said Seto. "Besides, we don't need it."

"If you say so," said Mokuba.

Seto started walking away while rubbing his bandaged arm. He kept remembering how he got it. Being thrown onto the ground isn't the most fun experience in the world. Especially when you get knocked out for awhile.

Mokuba started running after his brother. He couldn't help but worry about his big brother. If he didn't who would? He walked behind his brother looking up at him. Eventually his gaze turned up to the stars in the sky. He always found the stars to be beautiful. Seto did too, before they were adopted. Eventually Seto stopped suddenly and Mokuba ran right into him.

"Mokuba, watch where you're going," Seto said groggily.

"I'm sorry, Seto," he apologized. "I was just lookin' at the stars."

"That's not a surprise."

Mokuba smiled.

"Come on let's go home," said Seto.

They started walking again when Seto started feeling even more sleepy.

'Why am I so tired?' Seto wondered. 'I thought I was going to just collapse in the middle of the side walk back there.'

"Are you okay, Big Brother?" asked Mokuba.

"I'm fine," he answered.

Mokuba, knowing that his brother was stubborn, tried again.

"C'mon Seto, what's wrong?"

"Nothing."

"That's not true."

"I'm tired."

"You should be."

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"You dueled, the Duel Dome is a wreck, and you're walking back home. Therefore, you have the right to be tired."

Seto said nothing, but continued walking. After a half hour, they made it to the huge Kaiba Mansion. Seto was relieved to be back home. He was ready for bed. Mokuba ran happily to the door and waited for his brother to get up there. Once Seto was there, he opened the door and went right upstairs with Mokuba close behind him. Seto went to his room, took off his shoes, and his white coat, and fell on top of the bed.

A few minutes later Mokuba came in. He looked at his brother who was half asleep by now. Mokuba decided not to ask him if he could sleep in with him that night, but decided to just crawl on the bed beside him. Mokuba liked sleeping in his brother's room. It reminded him of how things used to be before their dad died. Mokuba missed their dad and would sometimes cry about it. After all he was only four when he died. Tonight he wouldn't do that though. Tonight he wasn't going to bother his brother with his troubles. Tonight he was just going to let his brother rest because he deserved it. They both fell asleep pretty quick that night. It had been a long day.

The next morning Mokuba was awakened by the sound of his brother's alarm clock. He looked at it and found that it was only six in the morning which is when his brother usually got up to work. Mokuba felt around for the button that would turn off the annoying beeping and eventually found it. He looked over at Seto who had slept right through it.

'Seto must be really tired if he could sleep through that,' Mokuba thought to himself.

He wondered if he should wake up his older brother but decided to let him sleep. Today was a Saturday so he wouldn't be missing school. Mokuba soon fell back asleep after that. A few hours later Seto woke up. He looked at the clock which said nine. He also found that his brother was there. He didn't remember when Mokuba got there but right now he didn't really care. He figured Mokuba turned off his alarm so they could both sleep. He smirked and then got up and started getting ready for the day.

He took a cold shower to wake up, brushed his teeth, put on another black shirt, black pants, shoes, and his purple trench coat. To finish it off, he put his charm on. He looked over at Mokuba who was still sleeping. Seto walked over and put some covers over him and then went downstairs to drink his coffee.

It was lunch time before Mokuba decided to wake up. He came downstairs still wearing yesterday's clothes and hadn't bothered to brush his hair yet. Seto raised an eyebrow at him.

"What?" asked Mokuba.

"You look funny," Seto said playfully.

"You're so mean to me," Mokuba smiled, giving his brother a hug. "How's your arm today?"

"It feels a little better," answered Seto.

"Good."

Mokuba quickly ate his cereal, ran and put on his red shirt with the striped sleeves and a new pair of jeans, and of course brushed his hair, and went outside to play. Seto watched his brother from the upstairs window. He smiled to himself. He would have liked to go play with Mokuba but something always stopped him. Seto sighed and went to do some work. Mokuba was running around outside when a car pulled up. He looked over and found Yugi, Joey, Tristan, and Téa getting out and coming towards him. Mai waved and then left.

"Hey Mokuba," greeted Yugi.

"Hi," said Mokuba.

"How's Kaiba?" asked Yugi.

"He's okay," smiled Mokuba.

"Why wouldn't he be?" asked Joey. "Kaiba is as tough as nails."

"What?" Tristan raised an eyebrow.

"I SO WAS NOT COMPLEMENTIN HIM!" Joey yelled at Tristan.

"I DIDN'T SAY THAT YOU WERE!" Tristan yelled back at him.

After giving each other death glares for five minutes, they pounced on each other and started wrestling.

"You have to forgive them and their little brain capacity," Téa told Mokuba.

"I will, but my brother might not," said Mokuba.

"Where is he anyways?" asked Yugi.

"He's up in that office right there," said Mokuba, pointing to the window on the far left of the house.

"Busy working again?"

"Yep."

"Some things never change," said Téa.

"You wanna see him?" asked Mokuba.

"I'm not so sure he'd want to," said Yugi.

"Well then, do you guys wanna come in and play games?" asked Mokuba.

"Well, we are here," said Téa.

"Sure," said Yugi.

"Great! Let's go," said Mokuba.

He started running for the door and Téa walked behind him. Yugi was trying to get Joey and Tristan inside and when he said the word food they just went running.

"Well that was easy," said Yugi to himself

"Yes," said Yami.

"Is there something wrong?" Yugi asked him.

"I would like to have a few words with Kaiba," he told him.

"What for?"

"Just to make sure he's all right."

"We will," Yugi smiled. "But right now we should go in with the others."

Yami nodded and Yugi started running up to the house. He'd never been inside their home before.