He had just gotten off work. Tugging at his tie, he walks up the stairs. He didn't know how he had managed to escape the torture. The company has been testing new technology to improve the game of Duel Monsters. So he and his brother had been running around and working almost non stop for days now. Him, leaving that day left the workload for his brother. He knew his brother would have stay at work anyway, until he has finished.
This left him to rush home, so that he can watch the children. The maid was suppose to have been off hours ago. He takes his shoes off when he enters the house. The maid comes and removes his jacket. "Master Mokuba, you look exhausted...Let me make you some tea before I leave." "Arigato." " The children are in the library...Aoi is studying, while Suzaku is watching tv."
Since he was too young to read from the books in the library; his brother had put a tv in there so Suzaku could be entertained. He opens the door. The sight suprises him. For once they aren't at each others throats, he picks up Suzaku. The boy turns around in his arms. He laughs recoginizing who it is, " Uncle Mokuba! " His uncle is walking toward his sister. Mokuba pats Aoi's head. "What are you reading?" "War and Peace."
He balks at her answer. ' A three year shouldn't be reading something like that.' He is about to tell her so, when she interrupts. " Tell us a story, Uncle Mokuba." "Hai, but first the two of you need to get ready for bed. She holds Suzaku's hand leading him out of the room. Mokuba smiles at the sibling display. By this time he has forgotten about the tea and the maid couldn't find him.
They are all sitting on Aoi's bed. "Continue where you left off from last time, Uncle Mokuba, please." "Let's see, the person the prince met that had changed his life had been a woman...He had never found himself interested so much in one person...The prince and the woman started to spend a lot of time together...One day some time after they had been spending time together; he had asked her to marry him." "What did she say?" "She said yes, Aoi...Their happiness didn't last long though...Three years after they had been married they had found out, that she had something inside her that was causing her to slowly die."
He sits his niece and nephew on his lap. Suzaku has just been staring at him this whole time with interest. He would continue to do so. "More," he says innocently. Having himself wrapped around the childrens' fingers, he obliges his nephew. By this time, they had had a daughter that was a year old...They had been trying to deal with the situation...And for a while, they had succeeded for they truly loved each other...However love doesn't always mean everything will turn out all right...The prince wound up buckling under the pressure...He ran scared."
Aoi starts crying at this point. He quickly calms her down. "Aoi, everything turned out all right in the end...It got worse before it got better though...The prince left her for awhile...She had been pregnant at the time." "What's pregnant?" "It is something you will learn about as you get older...Anyway, the prince had pushed his princess away; but from her actions he saw that, that hadn't been enough...So one night he had brought another woman home with him...The princess had been waiting for him...She went to where he had been...Upon noticing her, he kissed the other woman in front of her; hoping that would for sure drive her away...It worked but he couldn't help the ache it had caused in his heart...He pushed the other woman away, telling her he never wanted to see her again."
" They had spent some time apart after that...They actually went out of their way to avoid each other...This lasted four months and in that time their isolation of one another had started to affect, not only them but their marriage as well...They would never give into divorce, but to not see each other for the rest of their lives...Well, hers anyway; hurt both of them more than they had wanted to admit...Luckily; the knight that had loyally served the prince for many years, couldn't watch the pain they had been inflicting on each other and themselves any longer...One night the knight had tricked the princess to be locked in a room with the prince...Let's just say them being forced to be in each other's company, had been a good idea on the knight's part...After that incident, it had become most difficult to separate them...She had the baby two months afterward...I won't go into that though...Its not something to tell children." "What happened to her?" "Well, she wound up dying." "When and how?" "I won't tell you that...Its something else I won't discuss with children...Good night." He kissed their foreheads and covered them up as he had said that. Leaving the door open a crack, leaving the hallway light on, he proceeds to his room.
His brother left the office an hour ago. He was relieved somewhat. It may have given him more work to do, but at least one of them was with the children, and relaxing. He has gotten better over the past year. He knew at some point; he had to do something to help him. It hadn't taken much persuasion from Mokuba at that point to go see a therapist. It took half a year of seeing the professional. It has now been two years since she passed away. Him, Mokuba, and his children all a year older. Well, actually Suzaku's birthday is rapidly approaching; his son would be turning two. He is thinking of what had happened when she died.
After the night, Mokuba had locked them in his office; he had done nothing but stay by her side. However, the day she had gone into labor; he had been forced to fix a technicality that had arisen in the company that morning. It had been a little after noon when Mokuba had called him, telling him what had happened. He had dropped everything and left the building like a bat out of hell. He had arrived at the hospital in record time.
Mokuba had had to fill in for his brother. Shizuka had started to have problems with the labor. She had been there an hour when Kaiba had arrived. The labor had been a quick one; she had been halfway through when the pain started. On top of that, the contractions had started to intensify. She held her hands to her temples. Screaming and begging for the pain to stop. She went and held one hand to her abdomen; the other still at her temple. The baby's arrival approaching even more rapidly. Mokuba knew he couldn't do anything, but watch his sister-in-law writhe in agony. As the baby was almost out; she had lost consciousness.
Kaiba had been trying to get in the room. The doctor had to request orderlies. He had been explaining the situation to Kaiba; when Seto had tried to force his way in. " Sir, I am very sorry but the situation is far from good...You may be the father...But we can't let you in until the worst of it has passed." The doctor adamantly blocked the door. Normally the father would have been let in; but the staff thought her state would be too much for him to witness. They felt sorry that the brother-in-law had to witness this.
They had been trying to revive her. When they had, she had asked why she had been in pain. The notion came to her. She wasn't going to make it. The doctors had to began her to hang on, until after the baby had been born. They told her the labor had somehow aggriavated her tumor, to the point of being irreversible. She had heard the baby's first cry as she had whispered a name.
Mokuba had picked up what she had said, knowing what she had meant. She had gone limp. The machine had started flatlining the next moment. They had handed the baby to Mokuba, as they had tried to bring her back. He had walked out of the room when they had pronounced the time of death. The operating doctor accompanied him to break the news to his brother and their friends. He noticed Seto, Yugi, Honda, Mai, Jounouchi, Anzu, Ryou, Isis, Rashid, and Malik outside the room. Mokuba looked down at the floor, unable to face his brother. Seto broke down the next moment. He gave a heart shattering scream before he had wound up in a fetal position crying his heart out.
It had taken him a month before he had bothered to look at his son. He had yet to put a name on the birth certificate. He had found himself in his son's nursery. Upon looking at the sleeping infant, his heart melted. He took the slumbering child in his arms. He had sat in the rocking chair. Stroking the boy's forehead, the boy awakened from his sleep. He looked right up at his father. Kaiba had started to speak to him.
"I remember how your mother looked on our wedding day...She had always had the ability to make my mouth dry...Yet I had always had managed to speak at the right moment...When I had laid eyes on her coming up the aisle my heart froze...I had become tongue tied...I had been luckly that I had been able to speak a moment after I was to say my vows..When had decided to go through with traditional vows...Yet words from my heart had spilled forward...I had sworn to never leave her, to always love her despite the hard times...that as longed as I lived I would never met a more beautiful woman...She had captured my heart instantly...I had become blind to other women after meeting her...I had wound up failing her years later...I had been able to make up for my mistake though, before it had been too late...Just a word of advice, your father can be such a fool at times." Mokuba walked in the room, hating to break the endearing moment. "His name is Suzaku...She said that before she died...Now that you are physically accepting him...It is time I informed you, so you can have it put on the birth certificate." Seto ignored him. He kissed his son's nose. "Aishiteru, my Suzaku."