Title: Two for One
Chapter 4: The Big 5's Vengeance
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.
Also I again have never actually watched the Noah Arc so I'm just guessing here. I don't now the personalities of any of the Big 5; I'm literally just using their random names I found on this site…
Noah was having fun. He was watching Seto scramble around like a rat in a maze and the glee it caused him was unimaginable. He kept dropping doors to confuse the President and to make him relive some of his most painful memories. He hadn't meant to drop the door leading Seto to the others but he guessed his hand slipped on the keys or something. It didn't matter anyways, it was better that they all met their opponents together.
Noah looked back at Mokuba, who had been more comfortably sat on the couch. The boy was glaring at his back as if trying to rip right through him; it was actually quite pathetic if you looked at his situation. He was being held hostage by a malicious force and he still had the will to glare, it was so funny.
"I guess it's time to welcome our most esteemed guests don't you think, Mokuba?" Mokuba's glare intensified.
"You promised you wouldn't do anything to my brother!"
Noah rubbed his chin, "I did, didn't I… Oh well it's to late to stop now."
"Wait Noah sir," Ra appeared right next to Mokuba on the couch followed shortly by Kou.
'How do they do that!'
Noah thought looking over at the suddenly appeared pair, "Why should I?" His fingers were once more braced over the key board. "One tap of the keys and I could have that annoying brother of mine out of the way."
Mokuba's eyes widened, "Brother! Seto's my brother not yours!"
Noah focused on Mokuba, "Oh contraire, little brother you are both related to me."
"But that's impossible."
No it's not because I'm-." Noah was cut off by Ra,
"Anyways Noah, you can't hurt Seto, was it, because you are now bound by contract."
Noah had forgotten about the contracts, "Damn, now I have to think of something else…"
Kou cleared his throat, "I may have a suggestion."
Noah, who was willing to try anything said, "What?"
"Well actually I have two, one is that you could break the contract, but that may be kind of hard. And two is that you can send those 5 losers to be their welcoming party."
"Ha, that's the second best idea you've had…ever. Wow, that's kind of sad."
Kou made a noise of indignation, "I've had more than two good ideas!"
"Sure ya have, anyways I think I'll go with the second one, I hate breaking contracts…" Turning his back to them all he snapped and five shapes materialized out of thin air.
Mokuba flinched back as he saw all the members of the Big 5 standing in front of the now serious Noah.
It was Gansley who stepped away from the others and began to speak, "What do you need from us sir?" Mokuba could tell that the old man was trying to be polite to Noah but his voice still held distain and Mokuba knew that Noah could hear it too. He also guessed that that was why, when Noah next spoke, he didn't even try to keep the irritation out of his voice.
"I want all of you to welcome our new guests," Then after a quick glance back at Mokuba he continued, "But don't harm them in any way or it will be your asses. Also to sweeten the pot you can take your opponent's body if they lose."
Gasley smirked, "Yes master Noah." He turned towards the door that had suddenly appeared behind the four at his rear and began to walk towards it when Noah stopped him.
"Wait, I don't trust you. Ra," Noah turned his head to look at the lounging boy, "take your brother and go with them."
Ra saluted, "Yes Noah sir." He lazily rose off the couch and sauntered over to the blunette, his brother of course followed.
When the cloaked teen walked past Noah he heard a sharp whisper, "Don't let those five out of your sight especially Nesbitt, they are willing to do anything to get out of here." He continued to walk as if he had not heard but as he strolled he looked at the man he knew to be Nesbitt; they had met only once before hen all five of the men had arrived. Ra really couldn't say he had an opinion of the man because all he knew about him was his name, but he would do as Noah had asked and watch the old fart.
Ra made sure that he was the first through the door and that his brother followed close behind him, he could tell that he was entering "enemy" territory so he had to have his guard up.
As he stepped onto the rough stone ground of what he thought was an Irish landscape Ra glanced around. He saw nothing except the people slowly flowing through the door he himself had just come from.
Suddenly out of nowhere appeared another door, it was similar to the one that had just disappeared at his back but it was facing so that if it opened, the door would conceal their presence. It seemed to hesitate before swinging open. There was another hesitation before a man walked out, a teen really, that Ra and Kou had both seen before, it was Seto Kaiba. He quickly left the doorway and was follow by an unusual assortment of other people. A boy with golden eyes, a midget with spiky hair, 2 cute girls and one freak holding his nose.
Ra could tell the moment that Seto realized that they were not the only ones there. The brunette turned and locked his eyes with Kou's barely visible one; it was the first time that anyone had stared him straight in the eye. 'No… Not the first, there had been one more…' Kou blinked breaking both the staring contest and his train of thought.
"I know you five, but who are you two?" Seto's voice was rough from worry but he didn't seem overly concerned with the appearance of the Big 5. The others though had terror etched on their features.
Ra motioned to Kou and they both went into low bows, "We're your guides, we shall show you the way towards your fates." They both stood and watched Seto glare.
"I don't believe in Fate and if you're our guides then why are they here." Seto said pointing at the Big 5.
This time Kou spoke alone, "In every story there is a protagonist, an antagonist and a deciding force. In our story you all are the protagonists," He brandished his arms at them for effect, "They are the antagonists," He repeated the motion towards his associates, "and we are the deciding force." This time he swung his arm around Ra's neck.
He heard Seto snort, "What does the deciding force do in this particular story, hmm?"
Kou had often wondered this himself, 'What is our job when it comes right down to it?' Instead of voicing his thoughts, Kou decided to go the mysterious way, "That's for you to find out now isn't it."
"So how are we supposed to battle, as they say in stories, with people that we can't hurt?" It was the first time that anyone other than Kou, Seto or Ra had spoken and all attention centered on poor little Yugi.
As if following the boy's example, Nesbitt spoke up, "He brings up a very good point… I'm sorry but what did you say your name was?"
Kou turned back to him, "I didn't but if you must know its Kou and this is Ra." He left off the chan so as not to show any unneeded affection in front of someone who could either be friend or foe.
Nesbitt coughed. "Yes well, he brings up a good point Kou-kun, I don't see how we will possibly be able to fight if they cannot possibly harm us?"
Ra once again took the stage. "Who said anything about fighting?"
Joey snickered. "Wow and they say that I'm dumb, you were the one that said we'd fight."
Ra surveyed Joey with cold eyes, "I don't believe that I did, I think it was just you all assuming that we meant for you to fight, stupid."
Seto chuckled. "He's right Mutt, I think that it was Yugi who randomly guessed that we would fight."
"Shut up Kaiba!" Joey said blushing.
Ignoring the now bickering pair Tea looked them over as did Shizuka, it seemed to Ra that they were the smartest of the five, other than Seto of course.
"So what are we supposed to do?" Tea said.
Kou smiled. "You know how to duel right?" He heard the affirmative from all of them, some louder than others…. "Good because Noah sir said that you all will be playing a more primitive version of Duel Monsters." He glanced at his brother, who nodded and took over, "The rules of this game are that each of you gets to choose one monster from your deck, only one, and then you duel with your chosen opponent until one of you loses. If you lose and you are a protagonist you will have to forfeit your body as a prize and if you are an antagonist you will have to serve a… penalty round." He said penalty with such fear that it sent a shiver down all of their spines.
Ra peered around at all of their faces. "Any questions?"
"Yes, where's my brother!"
Ra smirked. "Oh that's right I forgot to tell you, you brother is your bet in this little game. If you lose, something unpleasant will happen so I would advise you to try your best. Same to all of you, Ready, Set, Go!"
None of them had time to look down before they were all sucked down separate holes and into random places all over the virtual world. The only ones left on the lovely Irish scene where Kou and Ra.
After Ra, Kou and the Big 5 all left through the door and Noah had opened the other door to Seto and the others, he turned back to Mokuba who was still sitting stiffly on the couch.
Noah smiled nicely for the first time since Mokuba had met him. "No need to be so nervous Mokuba." He walked over in brisk purposeful steps, "As I said before I'm not going to hurt you."
"Then why won't you let me go?"
"Because we have a contract," Noah sat down on the couch right next to Mokuba, "and something very bad will happen if either of us breaks it."
"What's a contract?" Mokuba asked scooting away from Noah a bit.
Noah looked thoughtful before saying, "In this world, the computer world, all life is bound by contracts. Contracts are the solid proof of your existence here; they tie your fates so to speak."
"How, that should be impossible."
Noah snorted. "Maybe in your world it's impossible but here it is very real. A contract can hold your life's meaning, it can give you freedom or it can make you a slave. It's all up to the one you made the contract with."
Mokuba seemed to have forgotten his fear in the excitement of the conversation. "How could you make a contract?"
"Well contracts are very hard to create because you need the total consent of the person or people you're forming a contract with and they also have repercussions."
Mokuba's eyes widened. "You mean you can make a contract with more than one person?" At Noah's nod he continued, "Then what are the repercussions?"
Noah scratched his head, "Well, let's say that I made a contract with you and it said that you had to be my slave for ten days. If you stuck to your contract and catered to my every whim for ten days then your contract would end and I would automatically have to make the same contract with you, so then I would be your slave, do you get it?"
Mokuba put his chin in his hand, "Yeah, I think so but then do you repeat the process over and over again forever?"
"No of course not, once I finished my ten days our contracts would be over."
"Okay so then what if the contract didn't have a specific date on it?"
"Contracts always have to have at least some kind of time span." Noah said.
"But then what if the contract says until you die?" Mokuba's head was starting to hurt from all of this reasoning.
"I actually don't know, it's never happened before."
In an instant the moment they had shared during their discussion was broken and they were back to being enemies. Mokuba bolted away from Noah; he hadn't even noticed that he had slowly been sliding towards the boy as they spoke.
"What's our contract say?" Mokuba asked shifting his gaze down and away from Noah's.
"Ours is that I can't hurt Seto until you leave me and you can't leave until I hurt Seto."
Mokuba looked up, "Then what's the repercussion?"
Noah smiled his sadistic grin once more, "If either one of us breaks the contracts then we're going to be connected at the wrist by invisible handcuffs forever."
Mokuba's mouth dropped open, "What!"
"So brother, do we go back to Noah now?" Kou said leaning over and picking something up.
"Yeah, we don't want him to kill the kid, right."
"Look," Kou held his hand open to reveal a four leaf clover, "it's virtual but do you think it will still give me luck?"
Ra smiled. "Yeah, I'm sure it will."
Looking down at the green clover Kou's eyes saddened, "I think I'm going to give it to Mokuba-kun, he needs all the luck he can get."
"Kou, you're too nice…" Gathering his brother up in a hug he snuggled his face into Kou's now exposed black hair; his hood had fallen away when he had leant down.
"Ra-chan, I'm scared…"He was sobbing now and he couldn't figure out why.
"Shh, I know." Ra was stroking Kou's hair in what he meant to be a comforting way.
He turned his face into the comforting warmth of Ra's cloak and cried. He couldn't seem to hold himself up so he leaned against Ra causing them both to sink to the ground.
Unknown to the two, someone had been watching the whole scene. The shadowy figure in the clouds smiled maliciously, "Enjoy your time together while you can, you won't have long." The voice slowly faded out and it was replaced by a merciless laugh which too faded.
TBC…
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