Well you know what, I'm somewhere behind a good and a bad mood, I have lots of exam this week and all the eggs my cockatiel had were empty, no chik this month, Anyway I decided to give you a little gift because it's finally spring, end of winther, only three months of school left and wild birds are doind a nest in the house.

There is another reason behind that, I only have two or three chapter left to write (I think) and I just finished the chapter 14, the chapter were Kaiba finally become normal again but I won't say more.

Chapter twelve : Murderer?

Past the surprise of what they just discovered about Kaiba, and the fact that he knew about it, they all agreed to do nothing about it, after all Kaiba didn't needed a family, nor wanted one for that matter and well cousin by adoption wasn't really a real link. But they still had the same problem they had for the past two months; Seto Kaiba was still 12 years old.

"And I won again." Seto said.

"And Joey's still the looser." Tristan added.

Once again they were duelling each other, and once again Seto easily beat Joey. "Alright kid, you want a true challenge?"

"And what would that be?"

"You against Yugi."

Seto turned to Yugi, Yugi was the only one he had never duelled against. Yugi just smiled. "Come on, this could be fun."

"…Ok." Seto wasn't so sure about this. Sure he could beat the other all he wanted but Yugi was the world champion and his friends considered him the best, he didn't cared about losing, it was wining that was making him nervous, what if they decide to stop playing with him.

The two of them started to duel, Seto was quick to take control but it didn't last long. "Looks like you lost." Joey said after 30 minutes.

Seto was looking at the field with wide eyes, no one ever beat him before since his father died. "Wow. That was fun!" He smiled.

All the other's eyes grew wide, did Seto Kaiba just said that it was fun even if he had lost, against Yugi none the less? "What? Did I say something wrong?" Seto asked, seeing their looks.

"Hey Mokuba!" Ryan said bursting through the door of the game shop.

Mokuba looked at him with confusion. "Is something wrong?"

"I have a little brother!"

A large smile appeared on Mokuba's face. "Really? That's so great!"

"So now you are a big brother huh? Looks like your wish came true."

"What wish?" Tristan asked.

"Oh it's nothing." Joey said. "About two month ago we threw coin in the water fountain for fun."

"And what did you wished for?" Tristan asked, now this was becoming interesting, he could have a good laugh at Joey."

"Uhhh, I forgot, it was just for fun."

"He wished to be able to beat my brother at duel monster."

"No…"

"Yes." Both kid said.

"And what about you Mokuba? You never told us what you wished for."

Mokuba smiled, he remembered what he had wished for: he wished that his brother would trust others again, like when he was a kid. Wait a minute, a kid. Mokuba looked at his brother. Trust people again like when he was still a kid. Could that be it?

"Earth to Mokuba, are you in there?"

"Wha…sorry."

"I asked you what your wish was."

"Sorry Joey, but I don't remember."

Joey was about to protest, saying that it was a lie when the door opened behind them. "May I help you?" Mr. Muto asked with confusion when two police officer entered the game shop.

"Yes we would like to talk with Mokuba Kaiba." One of them requested.

"And may I ask about what?"

"We have a warrant for arrest for Seto Kaiba."

"A warrant for arrest?" Joey asked with wide eyes.

"For Kaiba?" Tea added.

The policeman nodded. "We need to ask a few question to his brother to see if we can got more evidences."

Yami chose this moment to step in, thing were really going to be dangerous is the police was after Kaiba. "And may I ask what kind of evidences you are referring to?"

"Murder." The policeman answered.

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"So if I understand right, you think that Kaiba killed his step-father." Joey said. One of the policeman was talking with Mokuba while the second one was explaning everything to the others. Luckily for Mokuba, since he was a minor, Yami could come with him, at least he was safe.

"No, we do not think that Kaiba killed Gozaburo."

"So why are you here?"

"Because we know he did it."

"Alright then, how do you know that he did it?"

"You should watch how your talking to me young man. We have been investigating on the death of Gozaburo Kaiba for two years now, ever since the day it happened."

"Big deal, get to the point, what really is telling you that Kaiba's a murderer?"

"Oh but we have lots of evidence, first of all Seto had everything to gain from his step-father's death."

"But that doesn't prove anything; Kaiba's not the only one who had something to win from Gozaburo's death. Anyway Kaiba was already in control of the company when he died." Tea said.

"Maybe but he was still Gozaburo's adopted son so he still had authority over him."

"So what? Is that all?"

"Oh but it's far from it actually. As you probably already know it was said that Gozaburo committed suicide by throwing himself out of the window of the top floor of Kaiba Corp."

"…Yea, so?"

"What no one know is that Seto was with him when it happened, he's the one who said that Gozaburo committed suicide. But we did our research, the glass was way too solid for someone to go through it like that, we also found a gun in the room, one bullet was used, it was shot in the window, that's what break it. Now if you wanted to kill yourself and you had a gun, why would you shoot the window and jump instead of just shooting yourself.

The autopsy of Gozaburo showed that he had some new injuries that were caused just before his fall, he had a fight with someone just before falling and Seto was the only one in the building except from Mokuba and Seto was also injured when we talked to him after the death of his step-father.

We also found Seto's digital prints on the gun and the security video of the camera that was in the office disappeared, when we asked the guy in charge of security he told us that Seto ordered him to destroy the tape."

Everyone, including Seto, were looking at the officer with wide eyes, they really had some tough evidences. Seto however had concern and fear all over his face. I'm a murderer?

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At the same time the other officer was interrogating Mokuba, something the little kid didn't really liked, lucky for him, Yami was there to drive the officer crazy.

"Alright, like I said we came here because we can't find your brother anywhere and because we need to ask you some question. So first of all you were in the Kaiba Corp. Building when you step-father was killed."

"…Yes."

"So you are admitting that there was a murder."

"What?" Mokuba asked in confusion. "I never said that."

"Of course that's what you said."

Yami decided to step in, this officer didn't looked honest to him. "I think that what Mokuba meant was that he was in the building when Gozaburo died."

"Well I don't think so."

"Why don't you ask Mokuba, so kid, who's right?"

Mokuba sighed, happy that Yami came with him. "Yami is."

The officer grumbled while writing something in his notebook. "So you were there, didn't you heard anything suspect at all?"

"No."

"So what you mean to tell me is that there even if there was a gun shot and a window was broken you didn't even heard anything."

"It was two in the morning, I was sleeping."

"And you expect me to believe that all the noise didn't woke you up?"

"I sleep like a rock."

"And how exactly do you know that it happened at two in the morning? That mean you weren't sleeping at all, do you know what it cost to protect a murderer?"

"Excuse me if I'm wrong." Yami said. "But your job is to ask question, not to make false interpretation out of them nor scare a child with your threat."

"Are you telling me how to do my job?"

"That's exactly what I'm doing."

"Then how do you explain that he know it was at two in the morning."

"I think Mokuba can answer to that."

"I was woke up by police officer that night, just after it happened."

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The interrogation goes on an on with Yami turning the officer down each time he tried to imply something Mokuba hadn't said. After what felt like hours Mokuba could finally go.

"So, how did it go?"

"Good enough I guess." Yami said. "I don't really trust those guy, they don't look like they like Kaiba, I think we should watch them really carefully if they ever come back here, and Mokuba, I don't want you to say a word in front of any of them if I'm not there."

"Ok." Mokuba didn't had any desire to speak with them anytime soon anyway. "Hey, where's Seto?" He looked around but there was no trace of him.

The other's looked around as well, there was no trace of him anywhere. "He probably just went out, I doubt that everything we learned left him indifferent." Joey said.

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Seto was walking alone, he couldn't believe it, could he really be a murder? He walked up to the bridge where he saw Mokuba a few days ago and looked at his reflection. What was really troubling him was that he was accused of murder, but he had no memories about it.

Could that really be true? After all he had no idea what he looked like at 16, and what if it was true, one day he'll became and adult again and remember that he's a murder, then he'll be arrested.

What was really scaring him was that it could be true, what if he really was a murderer, after all he had wanted to kill Gozaburo on more than one occasion an he had all the reasons to do it. What if it was true, that he was a murderer, he could never look at his little brother's eyes.

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The others were trying to find another explication to Gozaburo's death, Yami on the other hand was thinking alone in his seat when he was interrupted by Mokuba pulling on his sleeve.

"What is it?"

"I wanted to know if I could talk to you alone for a little while."

"Sure." Yami stood up and led Mokuba to Yugi's room without the others seeing them. After closing the door he turned to Mokuba. "So? What's on your mind?"

"Well…it's about Seto."

"What about him?"

"Well, first of all I want you to know that I didn't lied to the officer, but there is some things that I didn't said."

"And why are you telling that to me?"

"Because I think it's important but if I had told it to him he would have got it as another evidence."

"Alright, go on."

"I'm sure you remember how Seto was when he first turned into a kid, well it happened for real, Seto did tried to stop caring about me but it didn't lasted for long. One day Gozaburo hurt me and Seto protected me, back then I never really understood why he stopped caring in the first place."

"And what does all of this as to do with what happened?"

"I'm getting to it, Like I said Seto started to care about me again but no one knew about it, Seto didn't showed to anyone that he still cared about me, it was our little secret so that no one would hurt me, you remember about what Leitcher said about how Seto took control of the company? By using me?" Yami nodded.

"Well it was all fake, everyone thought Seto didn't cared about me so we used that. Seto didn't used me, I knew about everything that was going to happen, it was like a big play so that Seto could take control of the company."

"What do you mean?"

"Everything was a play but only me and Seto knew about it, Seto started to buy pieces of Kaiba Corp. then he started to leach information to Gozaburo so he would let him think he was going to win. That's when I came in, when Seto accused me of betrayed him, it was just a play, it wasn't true, Seto never hurt me that day, it was all fake.

Then I ran to Gozaburo, like we had decided, acting as if Seto had turned his back on me, he believe every word of it, and just like everyone else he thought I was the leach, just as me and Seto planned. We made Gozaburo believe that I was going to give him my 2 of Kaiba Corp. and he believe it so he let Seto buy 49 of the company."

Yami finally caught on. "So Leicther was wrong, Seto never used you. You made that plan together."

"Yes, I never had any intention to give my 2 to Gozaburo, it was just a trick, however Gozaburo found out about it before the end of the day and he threatened me. Seto took the threat really seriously, Gozaburo had already killed more than once and we both knew about it. That's why we were in the Kaiba Corp. building that night, we moved there until Seto could became a legal adult and to make sure Gozaburo wouldn't hurt me."

"But Gozaburo was in the building, so I guess it's logical to say that he came to hurt you." Mokuba nodded. "And do you think that Kaiba could have killed him to protect you?"

"I don't know, all I can tell is that Seto changed that day. Sure he was already cold and arrogant toward everyone but not to me, he was always kind and caring, while we were trying to take control of Kaiba Corp. I was scare and he kept saying that I'll be ok, that as soon as it'll be over we'll finally be happy. But after the night Gozaburo died Seto started to change, he became more distant everyday and he quickly became how he was when you first met him."

"And do you think he cold have killed him?"

"I don't know, but if it's true then I want to learn it from him."

"But what if Kaiba stay a kid?"

"Then that won't really change anything because no one would believe he's my brother, but that's the second reason why I wanted to talk to you. Do you think that a water fountain could make a wish come true?"

"A water fountain?"

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here's another lollipop challenge for you, for the new reader who don't know about this contest all you have to do is answer the question and I'll give you a lollipop: try and find out what really happened that day between Kaiba and Gozaburo.