MP: Hello again my readers! Sorry for taking so long to update. I'm just having the hardest time getting these chapters up. I sure hope I can get the next one up sooner. Anyway, so here is what you've Kaiba fans been waiting for. The appearence of Seto Kaiba! Plus, Mokuba! Oh..and Yugi and Joey are in here too. So here ya go! Chappie seven!

Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh!

Seal of Fears

Chapter 7

"Wheeler, you mutt! Get out of the street before I turn you into road kill!"

Yup. Fate hates me...

Joey recognized that voice. The dark and oh-so-very annoying voice of the one person he really didn't want to deal with right now. Seto Kaiba.

Kaiba stepped out of the car, an enraged look on his face. Obviously not mad because he almost hit someone. More angry because of the blonde numbskull who was wasting his precious time. He eased himself into a calm mood. He cooly walked up to the teen and put on one of his famous mocking smirks, ready to throw out some witty comment at the blonde's expense. "Dogs shouldn't play in the street you know. You might get hit by a car. And I'de hate to be the one to hit you. It might scuff the paint."

Joey wanted to make one of his hot retorts that usually got a heated arguement going, but right now wasn't the time. He really didn't feel like dealing with this egotistical jerk today. He had a friend to save.

"Shut it Kaiba! I don't have time for you right now! I gotta find Yugi!" Joey growled. "Thats interesting. I've heard of a dog running away from it's master, but never the other way round." Kaiba scoffed. "Keep up the insults and I'll run my fist right down yer throat!" Joey threatened.

The blonde turned away angrily, and was about to run off when he had a thought. Wait a second...Kaiba has the most advanced technological thingies in Domino. Maybe he could help me find Yugi! He shook his head. No! What am I thinking? Getting help from Kaiba? No way! But...Yugi..what other way can I find him? What other choice do I have? Oh man, this won't be fun...

Joey turned back to the CEO, looking very irritaited with what he had to do. He took a deep breath and tried to get his voice to sound as nice as possible. "Kaiba, I need yer help."

Kaiba raised an eyebrow. "Excuse me?" he asked. Joey hated repeating this. "I need yer help to find Yugi." he said. The brunette looked slightly surprised, then amused. "And what makes you think I'd be willing to help you?" he asked. At this moment, the blonde felt like picking Kaiba up by the collar and demanding he help, but he had to keep his cool if he was going to get what he wanted. "Kaiba, please." Oh how it pained him to say 'please' to that guy. "I need yer help. You're the only one with the kind of technological whatcha-ma-whozits that can find Yugi."

"Hm...I don't know Wheeler. I just don't think it's worth my time." Kaiba said, edging him on. "Look Kaiba! You helped Yugi find Kutana, so why won't you help me?" Joey shouted. Oh, wait. Kaiba probably dosen't remember that...Kiko and Sumi erased almost everyone's memory.

"And how do you know about that? I suppose Yugi told you, didn't he? I told him not to tell anyone that I helped him!" Kaiba said, looking annoyed that his apathetic, I-don't-help-anyone-but-me, reputation had been ruined. Joey looked surprised that Kaiba accually remembered that. Did it mean something? Eh, probably not.

The blonde teen sighed. "Kaiba, will you help me or not?" The brunette looked at Joey, as if deciding if he would help or if he would just let the guy handle his own problems. Finally, he sighed and gave in. "Fine. I'll help. But only because if I don't, you'll just waste more of my time."

Yeeess! Joey smiled in victory. "Alright, get in the car. We'll discuss this during our ride to the lab." Kaiba said, getting back in his limo. Joey walked over to the door and slid in. He closed the door and the car drove off. He felt incredibly uncomfortable sitting next to Seto Kaiba. They were enemies on so many levels. And yet here he was asking the guy for help. Kaiba would never let him live this down.

Somewhere in Domino, Yugi walked sadly through the streets. He felt empty now. He was in distress and dismay, yet no one could help him. Anyone who would was lying unconcious in a hospital bed. He sighed. This way of thinking only made him sink deeper into the hole of depression.

With all he could be thinking about: His grandpa, his enemy, the way he had destroyed everyone's lives, and his friends, he found himself constantly drifting back to thoughts of one friend in particular. His best friend, Joey Wheeler.

The minute he had found Joey in the streets, he just took off. He really should have brought him to the hospital. The guy was totally helpless. Yugi didn't want to imagine what could happen. But something else kept nagging at him. In the back of his head, he felt as if he should stay. Like not all was as it seemed. That there was still hope here.

He shook his head. All hope died the second his friends and grandpa had fallen victim to his unknown enemy. He was about to change his thoughts to where he was going, when a certain pharaoh jumped in.

Aibou! Yami yelled.

Oh, hey Yami. Yugi said, unenthusiasticly.

What do you think you're doing?

Running away.

You can't do this! Everyone needs you here!

Oh please. Everyone needs me here like they need a hole drilled in their head.

Light, don't leave! If you go off alone, you won't be safe! The person after us is much more likely to catch us when we're alone.

I'm already alone Yami. Besides, if I get caught, maybe the guy after us will let our friends go.

When has that ever happened?

Never, but I figure there's a first time for everything. Yugi half joked.

This is serious! Yugi, you could get killed!

Well, then that's my loss.

Yugi!

Yugi sighed again. Besides Yami...I'm already dead inside.

Yugi blocked off Yami's communication by closing off his mental link with him. He would reopen it of course. But only when they were far enough away that Yami couldn't bring him back.

The duelist looked around to see exactly where he was at this point. He noticed himself right outside the famous KaibaCorp building. He found it slightly ironic that he should pass by on his way out of town. Looking at the place from afar, he noticed something that made him stop dead in his tracks.

He peered in the glass door of the building from where he stood. He could barely see, but he could have sworn he saw a blonde haired teenager following Seto Kaiba. No way...could that be...was that... He slowly filled with a sense of hope. Is that Joey? But as soon as his hope had come, his doubt shattered it. He frowned and turned away. No...it couldn't be him. I saw him unconcious with my own two eyes. He's out there, lying around somewhere. Not in KaibaCorp! Even if he were okay, Joey would never go see Kaiba. At least not of his own free will. No...it must have been an employee or something.

He decided that this was the answer and he continued off. He noticed his stomach rumbling. He was hungry, odd as it was at a time like this. He remembered that there was a burger joint near the Domino train station. He thought that the train might be a good way to leave the city. He could eat at the burger place and then buy a train ticket, then take off. Sure. That'd work.

He made his way to the station, unaware of the figure still following him. Though something was odd, when the figure stopped infront of the KaibaCorp building.

Takesha happened to catch a glimpse of Joey and Kaiba in the KaibaCorp building. He cursed under his breath. That stupid blonde really had survived. And now he had teamed up with the one person who had the most advanced technology in Domino, if not the world. At this rate, his plan might just be ruined. And that would mean all his careful time and effort went down the drain.

He wasn't about to let that happen. He spent too much energy on this for it to be messed up by some stupid teenager. In order to make sure the boy couldn't get help, he'd have to cut off his resources. Namely, one source, who's technology could prove to be a real thorn in his side.

Seto Kaiba.

Joey barely noticed when the car came to a hault in front of Kaiba's company building. Mokuba, who had been sitting on the other side of Kaiba and was pretty much unnoticed, had to poke him a few times to get his attention. Once out of the limo, he reluctantly followed the two brothers into the building. As fate would have it, Yugi happened to pass by when Joey and the Kaibas stepped onto the elevator.

"So Wheeler, do you have any idea where Yugi might be headed?" Kaiba asked. He actually seemed to say it in a possibly, almost, kinda nice way. Then again, this was Seto Kaiba. Joey thought for a moment, trying to consider the possibilities. Maybe the airport. No...a ticket would cost too much unless he had been saving money. Maybe a taxi...but again, it would cost too much money to get out of the city. A bus? Huh...I don't know if they go outside the city or not. Dang it, this is driving me crazy!

The blonde's silence was enough of an answer. "I'll take that as a no." Kaiba said. Mokuba looked up at his brother. "So what are we going to do Seto?" he asked innocently. Kaiba shrugged. "Don't know. Don't care. I'm just doing this to get the mutt out of my hair." he replied coldly.

Mokuba suddenly looked like he thought of something. "Hey Joey, do you know if Yugi had his deck with him?" the raven haired boy asked. The blonde looked at Mokuba, then thought for a second. "Probably. Yugi takes that thing everywhere." he answered. Mokuba looked back to his brother. "Seto, maybe you could try to track the microchips in his cards!"

The taller Kaiba looked at his brother, impressed that he could come up with that idea. He returned to staring off into space and sighed. "Whatever," was his simple response. He didn't take much interest. At least, he didn't show that he did.

Joey smiled hopefully. "Hey, could that work?" he asked. "It's worth a shot I guess. Anything to make you leave me alone." The brunette replied. At the time, Joey was trying desperately to keep himself from punching the CEO for acting so smug and arrogant at a time like this. As he felt himself losing control over his body, the elevator door opened.

Kaiba stepped out of the elevator with Mokuba and Joey. He felt it was important that he annouce where they were. "Here we are. This is my lab. I'm not big on fancy names so I just call it..." "The technology room." Joey finished his sentence. The brunette wondered how the blonde knew that, but figured Yugi must have told him.

"Yes, well. Follow me." he said, leading them in a direction. Soon they came upon a large computer screen. "This," Kaiba presented, "is what we'll use to find Yugi's cards." Joey stared in awe. Well, awe followed by boredom and total lack of interest after the first ten seconds. "So...what do we do?" he asked. Kaiba rolled his eyes at the blonde's impatientness and lack of appreciation for truely amazing technology. Then again, this was a guy with the I.Q. of a walnut. At least, that's what Kaiba thought.

Mokuba could tell how annoyed his brother was getting. He decided to offer an explaination, seeing as how he knew all his brother's equipment quite well. "Well, we just have to get the name of one of Yugi's cards. Then this computer can track where they are, within a certain area." Joey sort of understood, but hadn't been paying alot of attention. "Huh?" he asked, reinforcing the idea that a ten-year-old was smarter than himself. Though, in most cases, this certainly wasn't true. Joey could be really smart and could understand all sorts of complicated things...when he felt like it.

Mokuba sighed and tried dumbing his statement down. "This thing will locate any holder of one specific card in the city."

"Oh." Joey said, finally understanding. Mokuba groaned, feeling like he couldn't take much more of this stupidity. "So what's a rare card that Yugi has, that not many people have?" The young Kaiba asked. Joey thought for a moment. "Oh! My Red Eyes! Yugi still has my dragon card." he answered. Joey had remembered that Yugi still kept his Red Eyes Black Dragon card. They were lucky that no one stole it when it was left in the graveyard after Joey's funeral (a/n: see Friendship Beyond the Grave chapter 6 for details). Yugi had wanted to give it back to him, but Joey insisted that Yugi keep it. So that, if they ever got torn apart again, he'd always have a piece of Joey with him. That sounded really mushy now that he thought about it.

"That'll work." Kaiba said, already typing away at the keyboard. Soon, a large map of the city came up on the screen. On the side of the map was a picture of the Red Eyes Black Dragon, and it's status. Below that was a list of people, in the city, who had the card with them. Only one name came up, and it was Yugi Mutou.

Joey smiled at the knowledge that he was right. Now he looked to the map, trying to figure out what the computer was doing. A small red dot stood out on the dull, grayish map. It was moving. "Hey, is that Yugi?" the blonde asked, pointing to the dot. "No, it's a flying cat." Kaiba said sarcastically. "Of course it's Yugi you dolt!"

Joey glared at the CEO, then looked back to the screen. The dot was moving rather slowly. Which was probably good, so Joey could catch up with him. And that meant he wasn't in a car. Though that did make him defenseless if the evil guy that was after him decided to jump him. The dot seemed to be headed north of the KaibaCorp building. The teen thought of what could be over that way. Something that would get him out of town.

The dot suddenly stopped moving. Joey blinked and looked at Kaiba. "What happened? The computer freeze?" he asked. Kaiba groaned and shook his head. "No, Yugi stopped moving." he said, in an irritated tone. The blonde looked back to the screen curiously. "Well, where did he stop?" he asked. Kaiba typed on the keyboard, causing different pictures and information to pop up on the screen. "Looks like he stopped at a restaraunt." the brunette answered. Joey thought for a minute. There were quite a few restaraunts in the city. "Is it anywhere near a landmark or something? Anything I could recognize?"

Kaiba typed some more. He got a smaller map, but more detailed, and focused on the area around Yugi's stop. "Looks like it's near the train station." "So he must be planning on taking the train then." Joey thought out loud. Good. The train usually takes some time anyway. And since Yugi stopped, I have a better chance of catching him.

Joey suddenly started for the elevator. Mokuba noticed him leaving. "Where are you going?" he asked. The blonde turned to the two brothers. "Going to find Yugi!" he answered simply. Then he turned back and ran to the elevator door. Just as he entered it, he shouted back, "I can't believe I'm sayin' this, but thanks Kaiba!" He waved and the door closed. Kaiba watched as the elevator went down. He shrugged and muttered, "Whatever."

Moments later, Kaiba was on his way to his office. All this annoying commotion with Wheeler had taken away precious work time. And it annoyed him to no end to help out that mutt. Especially when it concerned Yugi, of all people. When were those idiots going to learn? He wasn't their friend. So they should stop asking him for help. There was nothing he hated more than Yugi saying they were pals. Friendship was for losers who couldn't do anything themselves.

The brunette let out an annoyed sigh as he made his way to the office door. At least now he could get back to his work. He placed his hand on the door knob, when he suddenly felt something odd. A strange feeling washed over him. Telling him that something wasn't right in the room he was about to enter. But, being Kaiba, he shook the feeling off and opened the door, stepping inside.

It wasn't until he was already inside that he noticed something out of the ordinary. The entire room was engulfed in a black cloud. Smoke from a fire was his first idea, but he didn't smell anything burning. His next conclusion was that maybe something really wasn't right...but, being Kaiba, he pushed the idea out of his head and thought of it as a stupid prank or something. Perhaps a smokebomb set off by a rebelious employee. Or, an ex-employee now.

The CEO turned to get out of the room, when he noticed that he could no longer see the door. The smoke seemed to be blinding him from his surroundings. He quickly made his way toward where the door had been, only to find himself at an invisible wall. Great. This is just what he needed. More distractions.

"This is ridiculous. Whoever's responsible for this will be losing a head when I find them!" the brunette threatened. "Oh, I don't think so Kaiba..." echoed a dark voice. Kaiba turned to see who had spoken. No one was there. "Who are you? Are you the one who did this? Answer me!" he yelled into the darkness.

"How about you answer me. What are you afraid of Seto Kaiba?" the voice asked. Kaiba looked annoyed and angry. "Hmph. I fear nothing." he replied cooly. The voice chuckled slightly. "Really? Because your mind tells me otherwise." "And what is that suppose to mean?" Kaiba asked. "It means," answered the voice, "that you are about to be in alot of trouble."

Kaiba was trying to make sense of this time wasting situation, when he saw a pair of wicked looking eyes in the dark distance. They looked...familiar. He knew he had seen those eyes somewhere before. But where? They looked like something from a long time ago. Who's eyes were those? Dark, cruel, unforgiving, even evil. Then it hit him. Those eyes. Those horrifying eyes that haunted him as a child. The eyes of a man whom he never expected, or wanted, to see for the rest of his life and then some.

They were the cold, unmerciful eyes of Gozaburo Kaiba.

MP: Ha ha! A cliff hanger! Eheh...sorry. You know, my original idea for Kaiba's fear was going to be funny. It involved friendship and fluffy pink bunnies . But I figured that Kaiba fans wouldn't like that too much. So here's a more rational fear. Anyway, keep checking back for updates. See you soon! Oh, and don't forget to Review!

Preview for Chapter 8

"You aren't getting this company!" Kaiba yelled. "Who said I wanted the company?" Gozaburo said slyly. The young Kaiba looked at the older man with a confused expression. "What? Then what do you want?" he asked. "Revenge." The man replied simply. "But not by taking the company. Instead, I'm taking your life!"

Before Kaiba could have another thought, a loud stomping sound was heard. Then a large figure was seen, slowly coming into view. It looked like a big monster of some sort. As it got closer, it seemed to be a dragon-like creature. The brunette's eyes widened. That was no ordinary monster. That was his Blue Eyes White Dragon!

"What's going on? Why is my dragon here?" Kaiba exclaimed. He instictively took a step back, staring up at the massive beast before him. It was his favorite, and most loyal creature. But it didn't look too happy with him right now. "Simple," Gozaburo said with a smirk, "it's here to destroy you."