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Chapter 3

"And so that's how I created the duel disk" Seto explained to Riku. As confusing as it was for Seto to actually explain his company to a complete stranger, he grew bored quickly and just wanted Riku out of his hair. Riku was looking about Seto's office, mainly at the few pictures he had of his family. Seto turned around and saw Riku staring at one picture in particular, "Something your looking for?" Seto asked, getting up to see what he was staring at. He walked up beside Riku and looked over his shoulder. He was looking at the picture that Mokuba and Seto had taken at the orphanage, the one that they had put into their lockets. There was a bitter silence.

"Was that taken at the orphanage?" Riku asked, still observing the picture. "Yes" Seto said, staring at his younger self, at how happy he looked. It had been so long ago, it had seemed like Seto had forgotten how it felt to be happy ever since Gozaburo had adopted him.

"So…" Riku said, breaking another bitter silence between the 2. He turned away from the picture and began looking about Seto's office once again. "You and Mokuba share this company together, am I correct?" Seto raised his eyebrow, "Yes, but I mainly do most of the work since Mokuba is still too young."

"Why is that? It doesn't seem fair for you to do all the work and him share 2 of the company."

"That's because he helped me to defeat Gozaburo and take over the company in the first place. I couldn't have done it without him."

"Seto, what is it with you and that annoying brat?" Riku asked, annoyed. "Annoying? What are you talking about? Mokuba's my brother!" Seto said, clenching his hands into fists. No one spoke badly about his brother and got away with it. But what did he have against Mokuba in the first place? Before Seto could ask, Mokuba bounded into the room. "Hey Dad, Nii-sama. Are you almost done working?" Mokuba asked innocently. Riku just looked at him with disgust, then smirked. "So, has your brother taught you some backbone, or have you grown soft like him?"(A/N: Yeah, crappy insult, but whatever . )

Mokuba blinked and looked up at him with a questioned face, "What?" This had pissed Riku off, so he lifted his fist and punched Mokuba across the face. Mokuba fell backwards onto the ground, the blow had been so unexpected. Riku looked down at him, then walked over to Mokuba who still lay on the ground, shocked by what had just happened. "Get up" Riku said. Mokuba looked up at Riku, he was shaking from fear. The way Mokuba looked up at him had only disgusted him more. He kicked Mokuba across the room against the wall. "You haven't changed a bit" Riku said.

Seto snapped out of his shock, grabbed Riku by the shoulders and forced him against the wall. "You leave my brother alone, how dare you hurt him!" Seto barked. Riku merely glared him in the eyes, then shook Seto off him. Riku began to walk away and out of the room, as if nothing had even happened. As much as Seto wanted to keep the fight going, he couldn't help but run to his brother's side. "Mokuba, are you alright?" Seto asked, kneeling beside Mokuba. Mokuba looked as if he was on the edge of tears. "Why did Dad hurt me?"

"I don't know, but it will never happen again" Seto said, wrapping his arms around Mokuba and bringing him close to his chest. He'd have to protect Mokuba better and keep him away from Riku until he knew exactly what this Riku was planning on doing. But he'd also have to keep an eye on Rina as well.

Rina walked into the room as Seto helped Mokuba up and onto his feet. "Dinner's ready. Oh, Mokuba! Sweetie, what happened?" she ran over to Mokuba's side, pushing Seto out of the way. "He's fine" Seto said, pulling Mokuba behind him and away from Rina.

There was an awkward silence as Rina and Seto stared at one another. It could've lasted forever, but the growling of Mokuba's stomach quickly broke the silence. "Um… excuse me?" Mokuba said, laughing. Rina broke away from her stare at Seto, then smiles down at Mokuba. "I made dinner, would you like some?" Mokuba nodded as Rina reached out her hand and led Mokuba out of the room. Seto, glaring, followed along with them. He couldn't let Mokuba out of his sight.

When they got to the dining room, the table had already been set with the food all ready for them to eat. Mokuba's eyes grew wide, "Wow, did you make all of this?" Mokuba asked, staring at all the delicious food on the table. Rina proudly nodded, "Dig in". Mokuba didn't hesitate one second, and began eating. Rina soon joined him.

Halfway through the meal, Mokuba looked up to see Seto staring out the window, he hadn't eaten anything. "Nii-sama, are you going to eat?" Mokuba asked, his mouth still full of food.

Seto merely turned away, "I'm not hungry", then started walking towards the stairway. Mokuba got up to follow him and see what was wrong, but Rina had stopped him. "Finish your meal, Mokuba, Then you may be excused." She said sternly. "Um… ok" Mokuba said, obeying and sitting back down. 'I wonder why Seto has been acting so weird lately… isn't he happy we finally have our parents back? Than again, Dad doesn't…' Mokuba looked down sadly. What had he done that had upsetted his father so much that he had to hit him? With this question created several more.

-Seto-

Seto typed away on his laptop, as always, hard at work. But his mind was far from work, his mind was drifted into a sea of questions and confusion. Who were these people, and what did they really want with him and Mokuba? Or better yet, how was Seto going to protect Mokuba from them? Riku had already proven himself a danger to Mokuba, so he would have to keep an eye on him for a while, and Rina… she was just… just… like his mother. It was what was stabbing the most. Rina was just like his mother, the way she looked, the way she acted, the special way she smiled. It was all perfect as Seto had remembered her.

But Seto, being himself, was devoted to common sense. This magically appearing woman couldn't be his mother. And as many knew, once Seto Kaiba had his mind set a logic or thought, he stuck to it till the end till it was scientifically proven that it was true.

Seto stopped typing, and turned to the picture next to his computer. It was one of Mokuba as kid. He closed his laptop and picked up the picture gingerly and held it in his hands, staring at it. This was one of the very few pictures he had in his office. Seto thought pictures were a waste of time, or, at least he had pretended to think that way. Pictures were very valuable when it came to pictures of the past. Most of the pictures that were kept, were ones of a time of happiness and joy, ones that Seto had never seemed to feel any longer.

This reminded Seto of one song he had heard once. He didn't know where, but it began to play in his mind.

Seto set the picture back down on his desk. He got up, deciding he would check up on Mokuba, then turn in early for the night.

Ok, HiKari again. The song lyrics that I put in here are from "The Sun" by Maroon 5, I don't own them or their song. Things seem to be changing rapidly in the Kaiba household as Seto becomes more attached to the only family he knows he has, while Mokuba drifts away and becomes attached to the one person Seto wants to hate but can't. How will this turn around for poor Seto? Is Rina really the woman she says to be, if not, why does she remind Seto so much of his own mother? And what's up with Riku?