Seto awoke the next morning on his bad side. He groaned sorely and moved to be sitting on the edge of the bed. He cursed mentally and dressed himself. Set knocked on the door.
"Come in." Kaiba growled.
"How's your side?" Set asked, sitting next to him.
"It's still a bit of a problem," Seto said, trying to stand, but fell back onto the bed, "I can't seem to stand up straight or even stand at all."
Set handed him a crutch. "Maybe this will help and I know you'll hate me now for giving it to you." He ambled out of the room.
"I don't hate you. I hate this crutch!" Seto called to him. He thought, like this will help... No I'm not using it!
But he did anyway. I probably look so stupid with this thing! It did help him stand up straight and keep his balance. Seto made his way down stairs, taking it nice and slow. He almost tripped a few times, but caught himself. Mokuba and Keke were sitting at the table.
Mokuba asked, "Are you okay, Seto?"
"I'm fine, where's Set?" Seto replied.
Keke said, "He just went out a couple of minutes ago."
Mokuba got up and went to do his job.
"See ya, big brother!" he said as he went out the door.
Seto sat down at the table with Keke. They ate a quick breakfast and headed out the door. They made their way to a bench. Keke opened Seto's notebook computer.
"Look, Joey has 4 cards and Yugi has 4 too." Keke observed.
Seto looked over at the screen. "How did Joey get into my tournament?"
"I can't believe you put all this stuff on one website." Keke said.
"I can because I'm Seto Kaiba." He responded.
Just then, Set appeared and commented, "You guys look miserable."
Seto put his head down, "Thank you for stating the obvious."
Set shouted quietly, "Your welcome!"
"Find any useful information?" Keke inquired kindly.
Set sat next to Seto and placed his arm around his middle.
"Sorry, I didn't. So... you want to go for a walk?" asked Set.
"No... I would stroll around a bit but..." Seto responded while looking down at the crutch.
Joey Wheeler was standing off to the side; he was a blonde with about the same haircut as Seto and had brown eyes. Same age as Seto. Then, he walked over and said, "hi, Kaiba." Seto turned around and saw Joey.
"What do you want, Wheeler? I don't have time for any of your nonsense." Seto countered.
"I just happened to be walking by and saw you," Joey responded, "what happened to your side?" Then he laughed to himself, "What's with the crutch, did he fall walking down the street?"
Seto stood up and whacked Joey a crossed the head with it, growling to himself the entire time.
"OWWW! Joey yelled, "what was that for?"
"When you make fun of me," Seto said, "you get seriously hurt. And live to regret it."
"Ohhhhh. Thanks for telling me." Said Joey, glaring at him.
"Now get lost, I'm trying to think of ways to get the Egyptian God cards, better go be for I decide to crush you." Seto advised.
"What? Would you like to say that to my face, Kaiba?" Joey said, leaning in near his face.
"So, you want to pick a fight with me? You know you can't win." Seto said.
Joey shouted and threw a fist at him. "Jerk!"
Seto ducked. "Puppy dog!" He countered with a fist aimed at Wheeler's jaw.
"Chicken!" Joey missed Kaiba again.
"Monkey!" Seto hit him with the crutch in the leg, knocking him down.
The blond spat on the ground. "Cold-hearted arrogant Bastard!" A fist landed in his eye, causing him to fall back from his sitting position.
"This is a complete waste of my time! Call me that again and I'll kill you!!" Kaiba yelled angrily, noting that he gave Joey a black eye.
Set and Keke were watching the whole time. Yugi came along and broke up the fight. He attempting to calm Seto and Joey down.
"Guys don't fight so much! You both will just get hurt." Yugi explained
concernedly.
Joey exclaimed, "Yugi, Kaiba started it!"
"I would keep your mouth shut, Wheeler." Seto warned.
Yugi said, "I don't care who started it, I'll be the one to finish it."
That shut Joey up. Seto was quiet, glaring daggers at Yugi. Yugi glared back briefly and Seto closed his eyes.
Keke stood up and said, "what about Malik, what are we going to do about him?"
Everyone went into deep thought.
Finally, Seto said, "find him and get rid of him. Permanently."
"Where would we look?" asked Joey.
"Anywhere, just find him. Or feel my wrath, Wheeler!" Seto replied.
"Ya! All right! I'm going!" Joey ran off before he could make Kaiba even more mad.
Keke took Seto's arm and helped him. Yugi bolted after Joey, making an effort to catch up with him. Set ambled off on his own. Everyone went in different directions.