Ok, well guess what everyone, I had another family problem so I couldn't go to the computer all week but thanks to my new update plan I already had this chapter all written two weeks ago, like I said on my author page this story will be updated every friday afternoon.

Chapter seven: All alone?

One week passed since Mokuba and Seto came to live with Yugi, so far everything was going alright; everyone at Kaiba Corp. bought the story Mokuba told them about his brother being on vacation, in fact they thought it was about time he takes one. Almost no one asked about who Seto was and since no one knew about Mokuba's real family they all believed that he was his cousin.

But that wasn't true, not everything was alright, in fact two things weren't; first of all Kaiba was still a kid and so far they had no idea how he became one. And last, Seto had said right to Mokuba that night, he stayed alone and the only times he talked was to insult Joey when he said something stupid, those to last things were really affecting Mokuba.

"Mr. Kaiba!" Mokuba snapped back to the reality and looked up to see a really angry teacher looking at him. "Alright, this time I have enough, it's the 7th time this week that you daydream in class and you didn't do any of your homework this wee, I want to see your brother tomorrow morning."

"My brother's not here, he's on vacation."

"In that case bring whoever is taking care of you."

"Ok spill it, what's wrong with you?" Ryan said after school.

"It's nothing."

"My eye it's nothing, I know you, you've been acting strange all week, what's with your brother going on vacation, I don't believe a word of it."

"Then don't, I don't care." Mokuba yelled.

"Come on, let's go to the arcade, you really need to blow up something."

Ryan was right, Mokuba was so mad at everything that he beat almost every record in the arcades. Once they were out of money they started to walk toward the game shop.

"So, what's on your mind? Are you mad because your brother's on vacation?"

Mokuba had enough of lying, Ryan was his best friend and right now he needed to talk to someone. "No, he's not even on vacation anyway."

"Where is he then?"

"Would you believe me if I told you he became a child again?"

"Only if you can show me."

Mokuba just smiled, there was no way he could be mad that his friend asked to see, he wouldn't believe himself either.

"Are you sure that's really your brother?" Mokuba nodded. "You do realize that if I ever find out this is a joke you will regret it?" Mokuba nodded again. "I'm really impressed, so that's what he looked like when he was a kid."

The two of them were looking at Seto from a distance, he was sitting on a couch in the living room reading a book, he never saw the two pairs of eyes looking at him.

"Why does he have green hair?"

"I'm not too sure, when we were young my step-father forced him to dye his hair. I think it's because that make him look like Noa."

"Who's Noa?"

"He was Gozaburo's real son; he died a few weeks before we were adopted."

"How do you know it makes him look like him if you never saw him?"

"……..I saw him on a picture."

The two of them went to the room to make sure Seto wouldn't catch their conversation.

"So you were acting so strange because your brother became a kid."

"That's part of it."

"Ok, so what's the part I'm missing?"

"He wants to stay alone."

"What do you mean?"

"You remember when I told you why he didn't want to trust anyone except me?"

"Yea, what about it?"

"Well, it all started at the age he is now. He told me himself, he doesn't want to trust anyone because each time he ended up hurt."

"Hasn't he always been like that?"

"Yea but there's a part I didn't told you, around a year ago Seto didn't care about me, for him I was always in his way and a waste of time, I could have died that he wouldn't ever care."

"Come on, you can't be serious."

"I am, in fact he tried to kill me, Yugi's the one who saved me. All of this happened because he stopped caring about everyone, he became crazy because he was alone."

"And?"

"When I asked him, a week ago, if he really wanted to be all alone he said yes. Now I don't know what to do, I don't want him to become that monster again."

"Make him change his mind."

"How do you want me to do that, he don't trust anyone?"

"Start with the beginning, try to be his friend."

And so they tried, each day after school for a week they asked Seto if he wanted to come with them, and each day Seto just ignored them until Friday morning…

"Why do you keep asking that each day?"

"Because we want to play with you."

Seto eyed them carefully, ever since people knew he was a genius the only people who asked him to play with them wanted to hurt him. "Well not me." Seto turned back to his book.

"Liar." Mokuba said.

Seto looked up at him with surprise. "What did you just say?"

"I said you are a liar, you want to play with us but you are afraid we'll hurt you."

"I'm not."

"Are too."

"I'm not."

"Are too."

"Stop it already, I'm not afraid of you and I don't want to play."

Mokuba and Ryan nodded at each other, since his arm was healed and they didn't had school, they had decided earlier that today Seto would play with them and he would. "Too bad." They said, each grabbing one of Seto's arm and pulling him out of the house.

"Hey, let me go, what are you doing?" Yugi's gramps looked at them with a smile, he knew about Mokuba and Ryan's little plan, he just hoped it work.

"Alright, what do you want?" Seto asked once they stopped dragging him around.

"We just want to have fun." Mokuba said.

"Well have fun without me." Seto turned around to go back inside the game shop.

"Not so fast." Ryan and Mokuba grabbed him again. "You are coming with us that you like it or not." Seto just sighed, it was no use arguing with them and he couldn't get away from them, at least not now so he followed them, he'll find a way to escape sooner or later.

"So, where are you going first." Ryan asked.

"What about eating something?" Mokuba asked.

"Fine by me." Both of them turned around to ask Seto's opinion. "Hey, he's gone."

"Let's try and find him, he can't be that far."

The two of them started to run around nowhere in particular to find Seto, of course they never noticed the green haired kid watching them from a distance. Seto was always told to keep his enemies in sight, it was no use running back to the game shop, they were bound to check it sooner or later and as long as he kept a good look on them they wouldn't find him.

"Where can he be?" Mokuba asked after a few minute of intense searching.

"I say it's obvious, he went back to the game shop."

"No Seto wouldn't do something that stupid, he know we are going to think he's in the game shop."

"What if he knew you would think he would never go back to the game shop?"

Mokuba thought about it for a second. "You're right, let's go check the game shop."

A small smile appeared in Seto's face; the sooner they go check the game shop the sooner he could go back there.

"You know what I think?" Mokuba asked, once they entered the park.

"No, what?"

"I think my brother is playing us for fool."

"What makes you think so?"

"I know him, I'm sure he know exactly what we are doing, Seto's always a step ahead of everyone."

"So you think that going to check the game shop is playing his game?"

"I'm sure of it, I would bet anything that he's watching us."

"So, what do you pro-" Ryan was interrupted when he made collision with someone else. "Sorry." Both of them looked in front to see Charlie, the biggest bully of the elementary school, who had some kind of fixation over bullying Mokuba, and two other kids of his gang.

"Is running a good proposition?"

Both of them tried to run away but before they even had the chance to take one step Charlie's friends had caught them. From his hiding place Seto could see all the scene, and he didn't liked one second of it, especially when Charlie raised his fist to hit Mokuba.

Mokuba's eyes grew wide when he saw that Charlie was going to hit him, usually he would found a way to escape but this time he couldn't think of anything. Just as he was about to get it Seto came out of nowhere and punched the bully right in the face, sending him to the ground.

Charlie sat up. "You will pay for that."

"Yea yea I know, come on, take your oversized butt over here so I can teach you not to mess with my family."

"Family? You mean you are related to the little girl over there?"

"You have a problem with that?"

"You sure don't look like you two are related but in case you haven't notice I'm a lot bigger than you."

"I noticed, what's the big deal, next you're going to say that your father's stronger than mine?"

Charlie didn't replied, he just charged toward Seto, Seto just stood there, true the oversized bully was stronger than him but he really was stupid, and a lot slower, without counting the fact that unlike Seto he didn't know how to fight. All Seto did was take a quick step to the left just before getting hit and tripping Charlie with his foot to send him face first in the dust.

The next time Seto wasn't so kind with him, he tackled him to the ground before hitting him again. It didn't take long before Charlie ran away and the two other followed him. Mokuba replaced his cloth.

"See, I told you he wasn't far."

"Alright you were right, now there's only one last thing to do."

Seto and Mokuba looked up at him with confusion. "And what is that?" Mokuba asked.

"Now all we have to do is catch him."

Both of them turned toward Seto with grin on their face, Seto carefully took a few steps back and started to run with the two other following him. Seto might be faster, but Ryan and Mokuba had the advantage of number. Truth be told, Seto had no idea why he was running away from them but he couldn't help it.

Once he was out of breath he hid behind a tree and waited, he could heard them talking not too far be he couldn't understand what they were saying, then suddenly the voices stopped. Seto looked to the other side of the tree but didn't see anyone.

When he turned back behind the tree he saw Ryan silently walking toward him, he was at about three meters when he saw him. When he saw that he had been discovered Ryan started to run but Seto was faster and easily escaped… until Mokuba jumped out of nowhere and caught him, all three of them felt to the ground and started to laugh, even Seto, who was surprised by his own behaviour.

Once they stopped laughing they all stayed there, laying on their back. Mokuba couldn't stop smiling, he had almost never saw his brother laugh ever since they were adopted.

"That was fun." Ryan said after they all stood up. Seto just smiled a little, then Ryan touched his back with his hand. "Tag, you're hit." Seto stared at him with confusion while him and Mokuba just ran away, a true smile appeared on his face and he started to chase them.

About half an hour later they were all completely out of breath. "So, what do we do now?" Ryan asked.

"I have an idea." Mokuba said. "To the arcade!"