Calmhorizon: Hi peeps, ok, so I haven't updated for a long time, but finally here it is. It is still chapter six cos it's replacing the other chapter. By focusing on one character per chapter I can make the story longer. But, I am writing another chapter and I've ideas for subsequent chapters. Sorry I haven't updated sooner, we haven't be able to use the internet. Hopefully other chapters will be uploaded sooner. Thanks to Jailbreaker04 for the emails- which I just read today.

So, here's new chappie!

P.S: Your choice: Do you want Mokuba to live or die? Please answer in your reviews which I will read as soon as I can.

Chapter Six

Damnation

Staring...staring...staring. Staring because he had to, staring because he wanted to. Staring because he was trying so hard not to lose his sight. He started to feel faint as a black cloud began to envelope him and he tried to get up, get the blood circulating again.

Slowly, he ordered his hands to push up off the floor but they wouldn't move. He told his legs to bend but they wouldn't budge. After agonizing minutes of attempts and re-attempts he gave up. And his heart shattered like a hammer on bone china as he realized he was paralyzed.

And all he could do was stare.

Staring...staring...staring.

Staring at the two men, in this paralyzing fever, sneering and smirking in the luminous blue of his laptop computer screen.

And then he began to think. He thought about KaibaCorp. He didn't want to lose the company he had spent years building up. Mokuba didn't know how to run a company ; he'd go bankrupt in the blink of an eye. Mokuba. He didn't want to lose Mokuba; he loved him too much. He didn't want to lose the only person he'd ever really loved. Seto thought about the dream he'd had when he first arrived here. When Mokuba disappeared he felt so much anguish his heart could burst. But now it had burst, and it hurt so much more. He thought about death: Now that he was faced with it he began to understand why people fear it so. Such an irrational fear. They have a lifetime to get used to the idea so why be afraid? But the truth was, he was afraid. Even in this situation he didn't want to die. He just wished he could go to sleep; he was so tired. But he didn't want to shut his eyes in case... in case he didn't wake up. He wished these people would let him go. WHY WOULDN'T THEY LET HIM GO?

He couldn't even force the tears to seep from his eyes as he saw the thing that might just save his life. Out of the corner of his dry eye was a bag of day-old potato chips nestled between the flanks of his kidnappers. Day-old potato chips that any other person would take for granted. Day-old potato chips that just might deliver him from death. And he wanted them. He wanted them like the sun wants the moon, and night wants day. He wanted them like Sonny wanted Cher. But all he could do was stare... stare...stare until his eyes practically bore into the mens' sides. Then, as if it were a miracle, one of them turned ever-so-slightly and looked at Seto. If he had a name Seto couldn't remember it, he couldn't remember a lot these days.

The man must have been psychic because he picked up the bag, got up, and strode towards him, heavy footfalls echoing in Seto's eardrums and convulsing through his entire body.

The man knelt in front of him, leaning on his haunches, the bag hanging from his fingertips. At this intimate moment Seto looked searchingly at the man. He recognized. The sleeves of his mid-blue shirt rolled up to his elbows, his hair hanging in a long ponytail behind him, glasses rested thoughtlessly on his ears. But something had changed. He was different somehow. His boyish smile and manly charms had been swapped for a fierce scowl and he had all the manners of a pig. And his eyes. His eyes were empty. Each looked into he other's eyes and wondered why they had changed so much?

It lasted only a second, passed as quickly as a breath and the man sunk his hand deep into the bag. He delve in and plucked out a chip, holding it in front of Seto's face. Seto's face lit up as the concept of food was once again introduced to his life. His heart started beating again; he felt alive. But he choked on it as the chip was wrenched from his view and planted into his kidnapper's mouth. He savoured the snack treat for a long time, rolling it around in his corrupt mouth, sucking all life out of it before speaking once again. "Mmm," he groaned, licking his lips. "God himself could not create a better snack treat." He finished, looked again at Seto and smiled a sadistic smile as he watched his heart breaking. Slowly. He got up and stood, that smile still on his face, before he punched him. Hard. Knocking him out and causing him to hit the floor with an unconscious smack.

With the same smile still plastered over his evil face he walked back to the computer, his partner still leering at the screen. "We may not have to kill him after all." he said, covering his partner's flank.

"What do you mean?" replied Kai, shooting the taller one a confused glare as he turned round to face him.

"Have you not seen the look upon his pathetic face? He seems so shrouded in self-pity that he might die of it." Kai maneouvred his chair and saw Seto's contorted body lying twisted on the floor. He his his shock well as Billy didn't suspect that he in the least taken aback by the image displayed in front of him. He quickly turned back to he computer and stared in needle-dropping silence as he pondered the subject of this dying little boy.

Seto had seen the other looking at him. Seto couldn't remember his name, but names didn't really matter, did they? Seto preferred the smaller one. He didn't point or make snide comments like the taller of the two, but just stared every now and then. That was the worst thing about being here; he was always on show, like an animal at the zoo. Except he wasn't caged, well, not in the physical sense of the word, but imprisoned in his mind, in this place, and there was no key. Maybe there wasn't even a real key as no one had gone in or out since they arrived and that was...all so long ago. He was looking again. But Seto was so tired he couldn't be bothered to stare back, all he needed...was to...

Kai watched as Seto became unconscious once more, and, filling himself full of dutch courage, addressed Billy in a dictator-ish tone. "Y'know, I don't wanna do this anymore?"

"What?!" Billy leaped up from his place at the hard, oak-varnished table and edged towards his 'friend'.

"I said I don't wanna do this anymore." he stretched up to his full height, hoping it would have some influence into what Billy would do next. It didn't.

"You are not giving up now! You agreed that you would stop at nothing to kill The Seahorse!" Kai stumbled backwards as Billy made an advance. And he was getting closer and closer.

"Billy, just look at him!" there was a nervous tone in that brave voice that day. "He's half-dead as it is, haven't you tortured him enough?" Billy's face transformed into that of the devil as he stopped two inches short of his nose. "Oh I've only just started...'friend'." with a hard shove Kai suddenly found himself embedded in the wall. "But say, perhaps you'd like to join him? Traitor!" he spat that last word out with such force that saliva actually landed on Kai's face; he turned his head and grimaced in rage. "N-no," Kai quivered on the spot.

"Good." Billy answered, helping hhis friend onto his feet, his glare returning to normal. Then he started on a new train of thought that Kai hadn't expected in the least.

"Now we have to hatch-up a plan; we must move Seto in unsuspicious circumstances.

"I don't understand." Kai shook his head, confused.

"Well we can't just leave him here; we'd be found out. No, we have to move him, while he's still alive." Billy couldn't help but but notice that that sounded a little more inward that it should have been. Kai's blank stare told hi that he still didn't understand. Billy sighed, then carried on. "Somebody must have seen us all come in, so we all have to go out. You don't want to be arrested, do you?"

"No," Kai replied, staring at his feet. "So what do we do?"

Calmhorizon: Hope you liked it. Was it better than the last one? Please give detailed reviews. Arigato and Ja ne.