After he had checked on Aoi and Suzaku, he had gone to his room. He had started pacing. ' Of all the nerve, she had to come back here; after I had told her not to...I really shouldn't be blaming her anyway...I am the one who started all these...Shizuka, I would give almost anything to take back what I had done. And to have another moment in order to hold you in my arms, so I can tell you how much I love you and how important you are to me. He sits down on his bed. He reaches for the picture on the night stand. Running his hand down it longingly, as the woman he had known as his wife stares back at him, happily. ' I had been such a fool, koi...I threw the wonderful loving relationship we had had in your face, when you had needed me the most...And for what, some woman who I could care less about at the end of the day.' He starts thinking of the night, he had showed his wife no compassion.
He had been staying at his office late every night; since he had told her his decision. Months have gone by, and in that time he has had to attend business conferences in the vicinity. During one of these he met her; she had long blue hair and light skin. She was one of the most attractive women he has come across. Although, no woman could ever match Shizuka's personality and beauty. At this point, he just couldn't admit it to himself. If he did, he would have to face what a mistake he made, in detaching himself from her. He introduced himself to the woman. She returned the gesture; informing him that her name was Kisara. And that is how it started; whenever he had to attend those stupid functions; she was always his date.
One night he brought her home; he had thought Shizuka had been asleep. He had quickly been proven wrong. He had Kisara pinned to his bedroom door. Well, the one he occupied since the physical separation from his wife. Before they had been able to enter it; he heard familiar footsteps. "Where have you been?...I have been waiting for you." The words died on her lips; seeing what position her husband was in. Evidentally, he hadn't gotten his point across; for she still had hope in her eyes. He leaned down to kiss Kisara to make his point obvious. Shizuka stood in shock and denial before turning to run away.
As soon as he had seen the hurt expression on her face; his heart plummented. He had suddenly felt disgusted with himself. He released Kisara who had tried to embrace him. He looked at her with a emotionless stare. "It's over...I can't do this anymore...You make me sick." The door closed before she had been able to react. The married couple cried their hearts at their anguish. Shizuka had done it out in the open; Kaiba silently screamed inside. He wanted nothing more than to be close to his wife. But his suffering and more importantly his selfishness prevented him from doing so; as much as he had wanted to he really couldn't, knowing she would leave him some time in the undetermined future. It could be next week, month, year, or tomorrow for all he knew. Life was so unfair.
He had tried for hours to go to sleep. But once again, the sandman eludes him. He gets up and starts working out. All the things that have occurred, since Kaiba met Shizuka have led to this moment. What he once had thought to be the worst thing to happen in his life; was actually one of the best things that had come his way. He still can't get the thought of what his brother had done to his wife, more than a year ago out of his mind. What had happened afterward; had lead to the first arguement he and Seto had ever had.
He had come home from visiting Yugi and the others. He had stayed longer than he anticipated. It had not been long enough to avoid laying eyes on the woman. He had been walking the foyer; as a woman with blue hair passed by him. She stops knowing who he is. "Tell your brother, he is going to regret ever throwing me out." She left after that. Not knowing what she had been talking about, he had kept walking. He hadn't gotten far when he had heard a racket coming from the entertainment room. Upon inspection, he is shocked at what he sees. The room was chaotic, There were things laying all over the place; things that were broken beyond repair. Shizuka had been in the process of destroying something else. He sees it is something irreplaceable. He reaches her, grabbing her hand. He prevents the thing from being thrown. Going by the sequence of things, he can guess what upset her. No matter how far his brother had gone with that woman, he was in for it.
She is his arms the next instant crying her heart out. He puts his arms around her. After a few minutes of letting her cry and realizing she isn't go to stop anytime soon; he takes her chin in his hand. Tilting her head, forcing her to look at him. He acts on instinct alone. Not bothering to think twice, he leans forward kissing her on the lips. She looks at him, suprised. He pulls back with a smile on his face. "See I got you to stop crying...I know I haven't always accepted you, but I am here for you now...I can't just desert you when you needed a friend these past months, and will continue to in the months to come." "Thank you, Mokuba." "Now tell me exactly what happened?" She looks at the fifteen year old before her.
She thinks of how he has changed in front of her eyes. He had gone from being a short, skinny thirteen year old to being a tall, slightly built fifteen year old. He went from standing at five feet to almost six feet in those two years. He still appeared lanky though. After breaking out of her reminisce, she answers his question. " I had been waiting up for Seto, for he hadn't come home yet...I had just finished checking on Aoi...I had left her room to go wait for up for him some more; when I heard noise coming from outside his door...I saw...He had her in his arms...He had heard me ask where he had been...He just looked at me like I wasn't there...He turned back to the woman...He kissed her rather passionately in front of me...I took off after that."
"Before I comment on this situation, fill me in on why the two of you have been distant with each other lately...It wouldn't surprise me, if it was Seto's decision..." He thinks of how they had gone out of their way to avoid each other; the last four months. Whenever they couldn and when the other wasn't looking; they would steal glances of longing of the other...He knows he had been the only one to see it, for the couple became blind to what the other did. Knowing his brother, he came only to one conclusion. "Seto, ran scared didn't he?" Mokuba's sentence had been both a question and statement.
He knew his brother as well as she did. "Yes." "Then don't let him being scared drive you away." "I know him flaunting this woman in front of me, had been a ploy to drive me even further away...It won't work but that doesn't mean I wasn't hurt by it...And if I tried to get close to him, at this point he would just push me away...What do I do, Mokuba." Knowing what she had said was true, he said the only thing he could. "Just keep loving and supporting him like you have always done." In order, to keep comforting and reassuring his sister-in-law; he lead her to his room. His last thought. ' If Seto ever finds out she slept in my bed; I will be a dead man walking.' They slept side by side.
At one point during the night, she wound up in his arms. Her head in the crook of his neck. They went to great lengths afterward, to make sure Seto never found out where and how they had spent the night. It may have been innocent. They both knew that wouldn't stop the elder Kaiba from trying to kill his brother for it, though. That had been his fondest moment of her, for that had been the moment he had let himself connect with her. He started crying. 'I should have let her in from the beginning...She had to adjust to living in our house with no friends...She never treated anyone with unkindess, not even me...Yet I had been incredibly rude to her...Shizuka, I am still trying to make up for it by watching over your children.' He fell asleep on the floor in his room. He had become too exhausted to go to his bed.