Shadows of the Night
By:
Setalina Muro

CHAPTER 12

A/N: Whoo! Ok one more chapter. You get to find out what really happened the night that Seto Kaiba died. YOU CAN'T KILL ME FOR THE ENDING OF THIS CHAPTER OR ELSE YOU WON'T GET THE WHOLE CONCLUSION!!! MWHAHAHA!!! And don't skip to the end because that's cheating. And it spoils the whole flashback if you do.

Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh or any places, people and/or other things you are familiar with from the show or anything else. The plot, however, is mine.

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Mokuba stood in his office looking into the darkness. There was something nagging at the back of his mind… something he should remember, but couldn't…what the hell was it?

His hand roved along the wall, searching for a light switch. A look of confusion crossed his face. Where was the switch? His brow furrowed as a realization struck him. His hand moved tot the other side of the doorframe and the lights overheard blazed on, Mokuba blinking in the glare.

(A/N: If you don't get that don't worry about it, it wasn't written well enough to have a good explanation. The light switch in the office Seto used to have at the Mansion was on the other side of the doorframe as well as the one in Mokuba's home office.)

He took a step inside and paused. He had come here for a reason. There was something he had to find. Questions he needed answered.

He shook his head to clear it and walked over to his desk, where he began to riffle through the papers. But what ever he was looking for wasn't there. He looked around the spacious office. He thought back to that night, but everything after that fight was a blur; missing from his mind.

Anger coursed through him and he grabbed the large file folders on his desk and thrust them across the room. Papers flew into the air and slowly floated down toward the earth.

A rather large set of stapled papers landed on his desk. He looked at it a moment before reaching a tentative hand toward it and flipping it face-up.

Julie's papers.

Mokuba looked them over and noticed that she had placed a very small amount of money in the box asking how much she wanted to borrow.

He grabbed a pre-made stamp and in big red letter printed "Repaid in Full" across the page.

Mokuba then stood up and walked across the room to where the TV sat on an entertainment center. His hands roved over the shelves. Then he found the switch, there was a small 'whoosh', and as he walked back to his desk, he saw the small ovular, hole in the floor by his desk. From it, he retrieved a leather pouch and he sat down once again.

Mokuba pulled out several bundles of money (the amount equaling almost three times the amount Julie had asked for), placed them in an envelope, and addressed it to Julie in neat handwriting.

He felt a strange contentment as he placed the envelope in a letter bin. He paused for a moment at a Calendar. November 16th. But not even that had bothered him right now.

Upon returning to his office, he found the leather pouch on his desk, grabbed it, and knelt on the floor to replace it.

His hand paused as he saw a black square book on the brassy floor of the safe. His brow furrowed.

"What the hell?" he murmured, pulling the book from the confines of the safe. He turned it over in his hand. Printed in gold letters across the front were the words 'Therapy Journal'.

Mokuba's confusion increased as he began to open the book. His name was printed neatly inside the front cover.

'Therapy journal? I never kept a journal,' he thought. He flipped through the pages, recognizing his childish woes written out in his old childish handwriting. Then a thought struck him.

He flipped to the pages at the end to where the last entry was. His brow furrowed deeply as he read what he had written:

November 16th

Dear Journal,

Oh there he goes. He's done it… again…sometimes I wonder if I even exist anymore. But all he seems to care about is his company. Well, I'm tired of him. I'm going to make him listen now. I found it in Gozabura's room before Seto had it cleared out. I hid it under my bed so… he'll have to listen now.

Mokuba stood up, the book in his hands. He stared at it with wide eyes. "Oh, shit," he said aloud. "What the fuck did I do?" He flipped to the next page, expecting the book to have the answers, but the page was blank. And the page after that as well. "It's blank," he said, dumbfounded. "It's all blank…but it can't be blank…oh hell…what…what did I do to Seto?"

Anger coursed through him once again at the book's lack of information. The black journal flew across the room and hit the Blue-Eyes White Dragon statue. It shook slightly and the long-shut jaws creaked open.

Mokuba walked slowly towards it, a lingering ominous doubt filling his stomach. He reached tentatively into the open jaws and retraced from them…

"Oh God," he whispered. Anything but that; it could have been anything, but it had to be that…

Flashback

The door slowly and eerily creaked open. Seto looked up from his computer then back down at it, sighing heavily. "What are you still up, Mokuba?" he asked, casting a weary glance at the very awake twelve year old.

"You wouldn't listen to me, Seto. I want you to listen to me." He spoke monotonously.

Seto sighed. "Can we talk about this later?"

"No, Seto, we need to talk now."

Seto rubbed his tired blue eyes and removed his hands from he keyboard. He rested his chin on them idly, looking evenly at his brother. "Okay, Mokuba, what is it?"

"You mean you're actually gonna listen?" Seto nodded. "Okay, I want you to stop ignoring me."

Seto smiled softly. "We've been over this before. I am not ignoring you."

"Yes you are! I'm not one of your machines. I can't be turned off."

"I realize that." Seto's annoyance showed through his words.

Mokuba could almost hear his thoughts. "But it would be a lot easier if I was wouldn't it, Seto?" He was venomous; accusing.

Seto's brow rose. "Excuse me?"

Mokuba smirked rather manically. "You heard me, brother."

Seto rolled his eyes turning back to his computer. "Go bad to bed, kid."

Mokuba sensed the mockery and annoyance in his voice. "I'm not finished."

Seto looked back at him, his blue eyes angry. "I think you are. Go to bed." He meant that to be the end of the conversation, so he looked at his computer.

"GODDAMMIT, Seto! LISTEN TO ME YOU BASTARD!" Mokuba yelled.

Seto stood in a fury. "Watch you mouth— " he started, but he never finished, for the glint of metal had all his attention now.

For the first time Mokuba saw fear in his brother's eyes. "Mokuba…" Seto moved cautiously from behind his desk, taking slow agile steps. "Mokuba…give me the gun." The words came out delicately, but Mokuba could hear the fear behind them as he watched Seto extend his hand.

Mokuba's hand shook slightly. Did he really want to do this?

Cowardice found its way into his aching heart. Mokuba began to step backwards as Seto advanced. His hand was shaking. His last step back and he felt his back run into the Blue-Eyes statue. Mokuba overbalanced sending the crystal statue tumbling, shattering. The glass flew everywhere as he fell forward and he heard the explosion. A shard flew past and etched a gash across Mokuba's face.

He hit the ground hard, and shaking his head, he wondered why Seto hadn't caught him. Then he saw the answer to his question.

Seto lay prostrate on the floor, the blood pool forming around his head. Mokuba stared into his eyes as the light left them. And Seto died, a single shot to his head, and shock in his blue eyes…

End Flashback

Mokuba began to sake violently. "I did it?"

'Yes.'

"But…why?"

'You were alone.'

"He's…dead…"

'Yes.'

"Oh my God…" Mokuba fell to his knees and put his face in his hands.

'You know what you must do.'

"Yes."

Mokuba stood and went toward his desk. He worked quickly, forcing his mind on the given tasks. He gathered up stray papers and cleaned his office. The journal he set on the desk, along with a hand written note. He pulled a page from the journal and put it with his farewell into an envelope.

The metal of the gun was cold in his hand as he lifted it from its resting spot on the desk. It was even colder at his temple. And then he didn't feel anything at all…

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A/N: cries I'm sorry I had to end it that way, but the angst doesn't end there. The next chapter gets a small amount worse. Please R&R. Yeah and he went all 'Johnny Depp' form 'Secret Window' according to my friend. lol.

A few notes on some earlier chapters:

Maya—she did (and still does) love Mokuba. If anything had turned out different, there would have been a romance between them. She was the first friend he had made after he and Seto were adopted and became Kaibas, so they were close and Mokuba loved her, too.

Eyes—the eyes in the third chapter had a bit of a premonition to them. When Mokuba was in Seto's room, he saw eyes reflected in the mirror. They were his own, but he saw his brother in himself. The way he treated people and the person he had become reflected his brother and it scared him into therapy, which he ignored.

An earlier mistake—in the second chapter (this doesn't count the prelude) the letter from Jade said that the trial was March 23. I misprinted something because I doubt that the trial could last for eight months (I could be wrong) and I wanted Mokuba and Seto to die on the same day five years apart.

And I forgot to mention that I am putting 'updates' on my profile so if you're wondering what's up, you can check it out there and I should be updating that at least three times a week.

Also, there is a new story I'm working on that has a similar gist to this one (though not as dramatic or traumatizing). I'll give you a bit of the summary here. This is the short version. The longer version will be on the actual story.

To Capture Her Spirit

Summary:What would Bakura do to get revenge on the Pharaoh? Stealing his girlfriend seemed easy enough if that had been what she really was. And it would be a double revenge, one against Jounouchi as well. His target was Shizaku, but he never expected to fall in love with her, and she never expected to find heart in Kaiba Seto when she escapes and runs to him for help. One-sided BxS, later SxS.

Please check it out! By the way, I'm sorry my A/N were so long.