Title: Two for One
Chapter 3: Seto's Epiphany
Warning: This story is AU, contains OC's, OOC characters and Yaoi, so if ya don't like, don't read!
Disclaimer: Hisoka-chan does not own the characters in this story, nor does she gain profit from them.
Seto was falling. All around him was dark and he had the weightless feeling that you can only get when you are plummeting hundreds of feet towards the ground. He didn't mind it though; he thought it was an improvement to the weight he always seemed to carry on his back. "The weight of the world" as Mokuba had said. The brunette had to agree with the kid. He may try and walk all high and mighty but the weight was slowly crushing what little resistance he had left. Now that he was thinking about it, where was his kid brother? In fact where was he?
Suddenly he felt a tug at his navel and he was spiraling closer and closer towards the ground. He saw a huge expanse of green rushing towards him, and closing his eyes he brought up his hands to protect his head from the impact.
He didn't notice when he stopped falling, he didn't feel it, and it didn't even register in his mind. There was no pain, no jerk when his body pounded into the luscious green earth, so he continued to believe that he was falling.
Eventually, he because aware that the weight had once more descended upon him and in that one singular moment he knew then that that fall had been one of the best experiences of his life. He also knew that he would always wish to get that blissful feeling back.
Grabbing a clump of grass in his hand he realized that he was face down on the ground practically eating the grass under him. Blinking his eyes open he saw darkness and smelt the thick musty scent of recently plowed soil.
Pushing up with his hands he got into a push-up position then jumped up to his feet. The young CEO glanced around at his surroundings. All he saw was green. Different mixes of the color green, dark green, forest green, light green, yellow-green, and a multitude of others. Momentarily put of balance by the sheer swirl of all the colors of his surroundings Seto's head spun. When the dizziness finally subsided he noticed that he was in a meadow, a great meadow that seemed to expand forever in every direction. This provided little help for Seto because he had never been in a meadow as far as he could remember.
'So much for looking for help from your surroundings,' Seto thought with a huff, 'what am I supposed to do now!'
As if answering his unspoken question a mahogany door was suddenly towering over him. Seto, who had jumped back when the door had "magically" appeared, was now suspiciously circling the door.
"That was rather convenient wasn't it, a little too convenient for my tastes…" The suspicious brunette muttered to himself.
Finally figuring that the door held no immediate danger to his person he grasped the cold brass handle cautiously. Turning it slowly he pushed the door open, as soon as he stepped through and let go of the handle the door disappeared in the same fashion it had arrived. Seto didn't notice because what he saw in front of him took his breath away, in total contrast to the peaceful meadow he had just come from; he was now standing in the middle of what he guessed was a battlefield. Guns and bombs were going off at will around him and a raging fire had just started to well behind him.
He jumped as a person fell, through, him! The young man looked about twenty and he was obviously dead, this, along with the fact that he seemed to have taken on all of the qualities of a ghost made Seto bolt.
He kept running through the mayhem and the panic until he once again came to a door. This one was oak and slightly larger than the last he had stepped through. It took Seto less than three seconds to clasp the handle and swing the door open. He ran through and into another scene in the play that he didn't even know he was in.
This time he did notice that the door behind him disappeared as soon as he stopped touching it. It didn't bother him all that much because he seemed to be exactly where the hidden director of the secret play wanted him to be.
He was on a beach, this was not all that strange though, the strange thing was he had been to this beach before. He could vividly recall when he was a child and his father had brought him and Mokuba here to play for the day. It had been one of the best days of his life… it had been followed by one of his worst. The next day, he had discovered that he had forgotten something, he couldn't for the life of him remember what it was but now, and so he had asked his father if he would go and see if he could find it after work. His father had agreed and diligently gone to the beach after his shift at work.
He never made it to the beach, the police had found his car at the bottom of a cliff next to the road at 10:00 p.m. Seto could remember exactly how he had felt when the police had come to his door and told him that one of his last living relatives was dead.
Seto realized that he had been staring out at nothing and quickly shook himself. In the young president's mind you were weak if you let yourself be overcome by the past and Seto was defiantly not weak.
He found himself walking along the shoreline just staring at the cool blue water. It was as if he was in a trance, it looked as if there were millions of sparkling crystals glistening in that clear surface.
Seto's own eyes had often been likened to that of the ocean; people always said that his eyes were like a reflection of the unfeeling depths of the darkest sea. He never really cared all that much about what they said but now that he was here beside the beautiful thing that people compared him to he felt dirty. The ocean was so different from him; it was beautiful and vibrant while he was cold and distant. The only person who could truly say that they had seen the ocean in his eyes was Mokuba. Mokuba had been the only one to see the bright twinkle in his eyes when he smiled, the mourning glow when he was grieving and all of his other emotions that were only displayed to his little brother.
Seto's eyes began drifting closed as he thought about how his little brother would smile at him, only him, with those black eyes shining with joy and happiness and how the little boy would nervously hug him in the strangest of situations. And as he thought more and more about his little brother he came to realize that he was having more than brotherly thoughts about the raven-haired boy. He realized that he had been thinking about the Mokuba's hair and his skin and his lips, he had been thinking about how soft his brother's lips looked! He had to be going crazy, it was all of this reminiscing; it was driving him crazy, ya that was it…As his thoughts once more veered towards his brother he came to notice that he had no idea where the little boy was. For some reason the thought that his brother had not been right next to him had the whole time had not occurred in his mind.
Just as Seto was about to start looking around for his missing brother a huge door appeared in front of him. Once again the door was mahogany as if the director only knew two kinds of wood. Feeling that he had accomplished all that he had wanted to on the beach Seto once again decided to step through the door.
As soon as he was through, the door once more disappeared. Seto again didn't notice, he had become used to it now, and instead looked again at his surroundings. He seemed to be in a dump, at least it smelled like a dump.
"Kaiba-kun!" Seto turned quickly at the voice that seemed to penetrate through his skull. When he was fully around he saw Yugi, Jounouchi, Honda, Tea and that other girl, what was her name... Shizuna, no wait Shizuka, all running towards him. They seemed out of breath as if they had been running for a while and when they reached him Shizuka, Tea and Yugi all had to bend down and put there hands on their knees in order to catch their breaths.
"Kaiba-kun, how are you? We were all wondering where you were, we were very worried." Yugi eyes were huge and full of tears as if Seto had just hit. It made Seto flinch to think that anyone's eyes could get quite that big. They were bigger than his face for crying out loud!
Barely managing to rake his gaze away from those hypnotizingly big eyes Seto found a new target for his gaze, Jounouchi. The blonde was glaring at him as if he was a monster that had attacked him. Seto returned the glare with equal intensity before smirking.
"What are you staring at, Mutt?"
"I'm not ah' mutt Kaiba!"
"Then why are you barking?"
Seto then had the unique experience of watching the pup lower his head and blush, not the I've-just-been-insulted blush, but the blush you get when someone you like gives you a compliment.
"Do you like me Mutt!" Seto's voice didn't sound disgusted as he had meant it to, it sounded more flattered to his own ears.
And as soon as Jounouchi lifted his head to snap a response Seto saw it, the flicker of love that he doubted Jounouchi even knew was there in the blonde's golden eyes. So even when the blonde yelled out a negative response Seto knew that he had guessed right. Jounouchi Katsuya had a crush on him, how cute.
Seto heard the muffled giggles of all of Jounouchi's friends and easily saw that none of them had a clue about their friend's secret crush. He knew that he could tell them and ruin the poor little puppy's "rep" but he really didn't see any need for it and as much as he tried to deny the pup's existence he had to admit that he rather liked the blonde. So he let the boy have his pride and let him continue to say how sick Kaiba was for even suggesting anything so disgusting.
At last one of the quadrate finally realized that Seto was missing something, he noticed that Tea was glancing around him.
"Where's Mokuba-kun?" Tea finally asked after not finding any trace of him near Kaiba.
"I don't know, I was looking for him when you losers interrupted me."
Honda, never one to lose the chance to make fun of Seto, asked, "This is a pretty weird place to look for him don't ya think Kaiba, I mean I know you guys are trash but I thought you got jealous when your brother hung around with any trash but you." As soon as the words left his mouth Honda knew they were a mistake, a bad mistake. It was so fast he couldn't even see it but he could feel, yes, he could feel as his nose cracked as a fist connected with his face.
Seto felt his gut tighten as red hot anger flooded his body in its entirety, he took a knee in front of the uni-spiked boy on the ground. "If you ever speak about my brother like that again I will pound you into the dirt until no one will be able to recognize you.," It wasn't a threat, it was a promise delivered in such a cold voice it made Honda's blood run dry. "Do you understand?"
"H-hai!" He could make no other response; those blood thirsty eyes left no room for discussion.
"Good." He saw without looking the fear in Honda's mud brown eyes, he knew the look all to well, he had seen it in all of his opponents. All of them except Yugi…
Seto raised himself off of the ground and wiped the no existent dust from his knees. He turned away from the pitiful sight on the ground and ran right into a door that had, as it had on many other occasions, appeared "magically" in front of him. As if by habit he grabbed the cool handle, then he hesitated.
"Are you all coming with?" He couldn't believe he was asking the geeks, the losers, the nerds to come with him!
It was Yugi that replied, "If we can we would like to find Otogi-kun, he didn't arrive with us and we would also like to find Mokuba-kun."
"Fine." The young president then walked through the door followed by a group of strange misfits.
TBC…
Haruka: this was my first time writing from Seto's point of view for longer than three sentences! I really hope that you liked it cause I worked really hard all through Thanksgiving (still managed to stuff my face…) the next chapter will hopefully have Mokuba and Noah, and maybe Koa for those of you who like him!
I can't believe I did that! I actually implied the incest thing! I mean, I like incest (no offense to those who don't) but I didn't mean for it to come out as incest…
Sqarecool321: Of course you're the best! Hope you like this chapter even though it doesn't have Noah…
Koi-Bara: You did? I guess I deleted it… I'm sorry and thanks for the support!
Thunderstorm101: I haven't actually decided wheter or not I'm going to make it NoahxMokuba or not, but I know that it will be Yaoi.
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