I'll Never Tell

By: Freak09

"Mokuba . . . what happened . . ." Seto asked, hesitation extremely visible in his voice.

'I feel so helpless . . . what happened to Mokuba that night? He just ran crying into my arms. Did Gozaburo . . . no . . . no he couldn't have . . . Mokuba would have told me . . . right?' Seto thought as Mokuba gathered his thoughts and prepared to tell his brother the horrible incident that took place three years before.

"Big Brother . . . Go-go-Gozaburo r-raped m-me," Mokuba sobbed as Seto only gaped at his brother's statement.

"Why didn't you tell me?" Seto asked thinking of the ways he could have killed Gozaburo.

"I didn't want you to think you failed at keeping me safe." Mokuba sniffled and wiped his eyes on Seto's shoulder.

'I did fail. Gozaburo got to him. He took Mokuba's innocence the same way he took mine. It isn't fair, that stupid bastard! I failed . . . I wasn't there. I broke my promise to mom, I broke the vow I made, and I let Mokuba down. How could I? I'm the worst big brother. Joey wouldn't have let this happen to Serenity. I'm worse than the mutt . . . maybe I should let Joey take care of Mokuba. He'd do a better job.' Thought Seto despairingly putting is head in his hands.

"Mokuba go to bed." Seto said as Mokuba crawled off his lap and studied him.

"You do think you failed, don't you?" Mokuba asked knowing the answer, but hoping he was wrong.

" . . ." Seto said nothing.

"You didn't fail Big Brother. If I think you didn't fail does any one else's opinion matter?" Mokuba asked walking out of the room after giving his brother a goodnight hug.

"My opinion matters . . ." Seto said softly when the door was closed. "I can't believe I let it happen." Seto whispered this as he walked out to go to bed.

The next day at school . . .

"Where do you guys think Kaiba is? I wonder if he's alright." Yugi asked, Mokuba had only told him and Yami what Gozaburo did.

"Why wouldn't he be alright Yuge?" Joey asks, his curiosity getting the better of him.

"Oh . . . I don't know."

About ten minutes after the bell rang; a knock was heard on the door. The teacher opened the door and gasped. She quickly stifled the gasp, but the whole class had already heard it and was wondering who or what was at the door. The teacher stepped back and allowed her student to enter and it was hard for everyone else not to gasp.

Kaiba had just entered the room. He was ghostly pale as if he hadn't gotten enough sleep. His hair was unbrushed and quite like Joey's at the moment. Beginnings of purple bags were forming under his eyes. Beautiful blue eyes were glazed over, he saw none of them. He saw nothing but his own failure.

"Kaiba . . ." Joey asked tentatively, for once in his life hoping to hear the reply "Mutts shan't talk to their masters unless asked to speak," however no reply was heard. Instead, puffy red eyes just looked at him with a mournful gaze. He had apparently been up all night crying.

"Class . . ." Continued the teacher, drawing eyes away from the distraught and disheveled Kaiba.

Three class periods and a ton of stares later Kaiba was going to lunch.

"We should go talk to him." The ever generous Yugi suggested to the rest of their little gang.

"Kaiba, are you okay?" Joey asked as the gang sat at the table Kaiba plopped most ungracefully at. Silence was his answer. Kaiba had never heard such tenderness in anybodies voice as he did now. Only in Mokuba's voice, which didn't count anymore, for he could never love someone who let him down so greatly.

Suddenly the oh so great invincible Kaiba burst into tears. Sobs racked his chiseled frame. No one had ever seen him cry. Not even Mokuba, but he was sure he lost Mokuba's love, so it didn't matter anymore. Nothing mattered anymore.

"Kaiba what's wrong?" The alarmed and quite shocked Joey asked.

Sami Ryou's Hikari- Actually it was just the first thing that popped into my head, but I suppose I did get it from that movie because I say this line all the time! Plus I didn't have a title yet and just typed the first thing that came to mind! In fact when I'm talking about it I want to call it Mokuba's sadness because that is what I saved it as! Sorry I talk a lot!

Okay . . . I'm stopping here! I could turn this into a kinda sweet Seto Joey fic if you peoples want . . . it would actually be quite easy! Anywho, REVIEW!