Chapter 8: Sound the Alarm

-3 Days till the 21st-

Seto's eyes widened as he read the letter over and over again on his computer. He had woken up earlier that morning and decided to get started on the disk debugging, when he noticed he got a new e-mail. Now as he read it over he realized this was very serious. As president of a major corporation, one was used to threats but when the person behind the threats gave warning, that is usually when they are serious.

Seto rose from his chair and quickly made his way to the living room, where he found Mokuba still asleep and Nakuru on the seat next to him. He found her on his lap this morning and had to move her although he enjoyed her presence, there was just something different about her…

Seto dismissed anymore thought about their cat and went quickly to Mokuba's side to wake him. If he was threatened then his brother was threatened also and that is something Seto can not allow. "Mokuba," Seto called as he shook his brother's shoulder gently, "Mokuba. Wake up!" He shook harder now.

Nakuru who had been on the seat next to Mokuba had started to stir due to Seto's voice. She looked up at him and noticed there was something different in his facial expression, he wasn't his usual cool and collected self, if Nakuru didn't know any better she would have guessed he was almost fearful. Like waking Mokuba was urgent.

"Mokuba Kaiba get up NOW!" Seto nearly yelled.

Mokuba's eyes flew open in alarm, and he shot up from the couch nearly colliding with Seto. "I didn't do it!" He shouted immediately. Nakuru laughed to herself at this.

"No Mokuba, you didn't do anything. I need you to follow me now." Seto ordered as he directed Mokuba to his office. Seto always liked to be honest with Mokuba so if there was a problem Mokuba needed to know about it. He sat his brother in his leather chair and twirled it to face the computer screen. "Read." Seto commanded.

Nakuru waltzed in moments later wondering what all the commotion was about. She noticed Mokuba in Seto's office chair staring at the screen. As his eyes scanned over the letter, she noticed his face grow paler and his face lose it's usual jolliness.

"Luke…" Mokuba muttered as he finished reading the letter, he knew that name. He was always getting to know the guards so he was sure he knew who this was. "Luke…" he repeated again. "Oh my gosh!" Mokuba exclaimed as he shot up from his seat a second time this time succeeding with colliding with his brother and sending them both to the floor. "The guard that delivered Nakuru and the disk to us yesterday! That's the guard!"

Seto looked at his brother puzzled, how did he know all the security guards so well?

Nakuru jumped back as the two brothers fell over. And realized that they must have gotten her e-mail. Yes! This is perfect, oh Seto you reacted just the way I wanted you to. Oh I could just kiss you! Nakuru felt giddy all over.

Mokuba who seemed to be in complete shocked stared at his brother beneath him wide eyed and terrified. "Seto…" he whispered, "what are we going to do?"

Seto placed his hands on his younger brother's shoulders, "Listen to me Mokuba. Everything will be fine. We'll get to the bottom of this, but if this e-mail is really from one of our guards then you are not safe alone in the mansion. I need you to follow me to my under ground office." With that said Seto gently pushed Mokuba off him and got to his feet. Nakuru couldn't help her heart rate go up as she watched Seto get into determination mode. All Nakuru knew was it was hot!

The three of them set off toward the back. Nakuru had no idea where they were going. It looked as if they were going to leave the area because they were getting closer and closer to the wall that surrounded the whole Kaiba estate. Suddenly Seto came to a stop and kneeled, he grabbed what looked like just grass but when he pulled there was a chain and a trap door opened right in the middle of the grass. Nakuru's mouth hung open, he had secret hideouts?

(A/N: Yup this is the lovely office that Seto goes to in the first season of Yu-Gi-Oh! When Seto is supposable dead. Can't you just imagine his theme music playing in the background right about now?)

Seto stepped down onto the first step and held the door up waiting for Mokuba to climb down. After he went in Seto looked at Nakuru expectantly. "Coming?" He asked. Nakuru quickly ran down after Mokuba. After both his brother and his cat were down Seto looked around to make sure no one was around before he closed the door. He descended the stairs and found Mokuba waiting at a metal door with Nakuru in hand. Seto approached the door and bent down to a scanner that scanned his eye and then opened, welcoming him.

Nakuru had never seen anything like it before. The entire room screamed Kaiba. It was silver metal and navy blue all round, a huge computer was straight ahead and before the little computer area there was what looked like a walkway. To the left there was a dueling table with two chairs set up as if someone where about to play chess, and down the other way Nakuru saw another door that no doubt had to be some kind of sleeping chamber. Mokuba walked to the big computer and sat down in front of the left screen while Seto took the middle. He turned on the computer and 'Seto Kaiba' appeared.

Nakuru gave a jump in Mokuba's arms as a female voice welcomed and actually started talking to Kaiba as if alive. Had he programmed her? Nakuru felt a wave of jealousy wash over her, even if it was only a computer it still got to talk to Kaiba, unlike her.

Seto typed furiously concentrating hard on his task at hand. He needed to get to the bottom of this and find out if this situation was indeed serious. He searched his security guard files and sure enough found 'Luke Forth: Guard #2300' his shifts were included below. At the site of the picture however Mokuba gave a little jump in his chair, "That's the guy," he pointed his figure at the screen, "that's the one that was here yesterday." And sure enough Seto found his shift for yesterday.

'Well,' thought Seto, 'the guard is real enough, time to find out if the e-mail is.' So he set to work.

"What are you doing Seto?" Mokuba asked after 10 minutes had passed of pure silence. Nakuru had been wondering the same thing as she just sat there observing Kaiba, not that she minded just staring at him.

"I'm going to run a program that will trace the e-mail back to where it was sent from. By tomorrow or even tonight we should have the location of where that e-mail came from." Seto replied confidently, quickly regaining his cocky attitude. Boy does Seto hate to be messed with.

Nakuru's stomach tightened with fear, He can trace that back? To me?

A window with the program appeared on Seto's middle screen and the female voice began talking to him again. Seto then started the program and Nakuru watched with horror as the screen read: Searching…

Seto got up from his chair and turned to Mokuba, "Don't touch anything, this might take a while and I want you to stay here while I go and have a talk with Mr. Forth. Understand?" Seto eyed his brother wearily. He knew Mokuba hated being left out but this was too dangerous for the younger Kaiba and even Mokuba himself knew it.

"Yes, I'll wait here." He replied with a dead voice.

After a few short moments Seto was gone and Nakuru sat there with Mokuba just waiting for her luck to run out.

Yay, the story is slowly coming to a close. I don't know if I got the whole underground office thing right but I had to just go from memory so if it's a little different than the show then I'm sorry. I'd also like to thank everyone for all the reviews, I'm so close to 100. It's so exciting! I also am going on vacation for a week or so on the 29th so hopefully I'll get one more update up before I leave. Maybe if you guys review a lot it'll help wink wink