Nobody Cares Like a Bear

By Eveilly Autumns

Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh! Or the Care Bears or Cookie Monster, just to let you know.

And also just to let you know, this chapter is pretty short…

Chapter 8: The Calm Before the Storm

Domino Hospital

"WHERE THE HELL AM I!" Seto Kaiba screamed. He was of course at the Domino Hospital in a rather larger room than most patients could not afford. After being found unconscious in his quarter-burnt company building, he had been rushed to the hospital since the paramedics thought the fire had something to do with his condition. Little did they know that it was actually his little brother hurtling his briefcase at him that had knocked him out…

"Mr. Kaiba, please calm down," the nurse said, more than a little nervous. After all, Kaiba wasn't the type of guy you wanted mad at you.

"Don't tell me what to do, I can handle myself," Kaiba snapped.

"Please, Seto, the nurse is only doing her job," Mokuba said. Since Kaiba had just woken up, Mokuba wasn't sure whether his brother knew that he had thrown the briefcase at him.

"Well, she's not very skilled at it, now is she?" Kaiba began, "So maybe she should bring in the doctor and let me talk to him. I only hope he has more sense than she does." The nurse decided there was no arguing with Kaiba so she rose and left the room to bring back the doctor.

"Mokuba," Kaiba began as soon as the nurse had left.

"Yes big brother?" Mokuba said weakly, holding his breath. Would his brother be furious with him? Well, he certainly has the right to be, Mokuba thought.

"What happened?" Kaiba asked.

Mokuba perked up. "You mean…you don't remember?" Mokuba said cheerily as if Kaiba had just said that he'd install the snack machine again.

"The last thing I remember is seeing that…that scum," Kaiba looked away as he said it. Mokuba knew that 'scum' meant Grumpy bear. "But how was I knocked unconscious?"

"Well...umm…you slipped is all…and knocked yourself out."

Kaiba didn't look too happy about that. He wasn't the type of person to 'slip' on the floors even if they are marble. That kind of clumsiness was usually associated with the Wheeler Mutt. So Kaiba decided to change the subject. "How bad are the damages?"

"I'm not sure yet," Mokuba said, "but they don't look too bad." Before Mokuba could say anymore, the door creaked open and the doctor strolled in.

"Well, Mr. Kaiba, doing better?" the doc asked.

"Well, I guess that depends on. Since I was never hurt in the first place, how can I be feeling better? I thought you should have been able to figure that out, doc."

"Well you seem fine now so you're free to go."

"About time," Kaiba grunted. "Where are my clothes?" Kaiba asked this since he was wearing one of those hospital dresses. (HAHA! Interesting mental image….)

"In the cabinet," the doc said and then left the room. Mokuba grabbed Kaiba's clothes and brought them to him.

"I'll wait in the lobby," he said and left, thinking to himself: that was a close one…Seto doesn't even remember that I threw his briefcase at him! I hope I never have to do that again…

After a couple of minutes Kaiba emerged from his hospital room with his regular clothes back on (awww I wanted to see him in the hospital dress…) and signed a few papers and left. He called his limo driver dude and along with Mokuba, they drove home. On the way they passed Kaibacorp and Kaiba looked up at it. It didn't look that bad, just a chunk of it was gone as if a jumbo sized Cookie monster had eaten it. Kaiba would have gone back to work if the place hadn't been surrounded by a swarm of reporters. He knew his house would be too, though. Oh well, Kaiba thought, I can always threaten them if they don't leave…

The Kaiba Mansion

Indeed there were about twenty reporters camping out on the front lawn outside of the Kaiba Mansion. The maid had barricaded the door so they couldn't get in though. And now she was sitting up in her room on her computer. (yes she has a computer too, I mean that's like a requirement for Kaiba's employees) She was googling for Dr. Anthony. But when she looked up his name she found….nothing whatsoever. But how was that possible? It was as if all of Dr. Anthony's records had just disappeared…but how? Unless…unless Dr. Anthony had erased them all and the maid knew that could only mean one thing….

Doctor Anthony must be a criminal mastermind.

Carealot

"Well, at least you got Grumpy Bear back," Tenderheart said once the Care bear cousins returned.

"We did our best," Lots o' heart said.

"We know you did," Sherry began, "You would never set fire to Kaibacorp on purpose."

"Either way, what are we going to do now?" Sunshine asked.

"Well it seems to me that we underestimated Seto," Braveheart declared.

"Exactly," Tenderheart began, "it's obvious that the care bears or the care bear cousins alone can't begin to help Seto. And that means that there's only one thing left to do…combine forces. Tomorrow we'll both go down and try together. We can't give up on helping Seto. Even if he doesn't realize it, this is for his own good."

Kaiba Mansion

Kaiba's limo pulled up to the gate of his mansion. Even from there, Kaiba could see the reporters lying in wait for him. As the gates opened and the limo pulled in the reporters sprang alive and bombarded Kaiba as he walked up to his front door. They were practically stampeding to have a word with him.

"Mr. Kaiba, what caused—" one said but was interrupted.

"Mr. Kaiba, tell us your condition—"

"No, tell us how you can explain the hundreds of sheets of paper with I LOVE THE CARE BEARS! written all over them scattered about the copy room."

Luckily Kaiba wasn't listening to any of the reporters (since he would have killed the nearest one if he would have heard the last statement) and just kept walking. Before he opened the door he turned and said one statement: "Get off my property or you'll all find yourself suddenly out of your jobs." That only made the reporters more rowdy and they were closing in on Kaiba fast. He turned the knob and planned to walk in and slam the door in the reporters' faces but instead the door didn't open. Yup, you guessed it, the maid's barricade.

"What the—" Kaiba yelled as he fiddled with the doorknob.

"Umm, Seto, can we go in now?" Mokuba said, hiding behind his brother. Kaiba began banging on the door with his fists and screaming…damn, he thought, and the press is gonna see the whole thing…

The maid, meanwhile, was actually aware that Kaiba was home and was frantically moving furniture from around the door so he could come in. After a couple of minutes Kaiba could finally open the door and slammed it right after Mokuba got in. The two of them were panting heavily, their clothes were messed up, and they looked like they had just gotten trampled by a heard of cows.

The maid didn't even know whether Kaiba was all right or not until he came home and she was still overcome with guilt about going to Dr. Anthony. Her eyes swelled up with tears when she saw he was okay and before Kaiba knew what hit him she had jumped into his arms and was squeezing/hugging him madly. "I'm so glad you're okay Master Seto!"

Mokuba was staring at the maid like she had just committed a felony and Kaiba couldn't even comprehend the situation for a few seconds but as soon as it hit him he broke away immediately, praying that the press weren't watching the whole thing through a window.

"WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU, WOMAN!" he screamed so loudly that both the maid and Mokuba were hurled away due to the shockwaves. Kaiba didn't even bother to see if they were all right; he just stamped his way up the stairs and to his room where he collapsed on his bed. He needed to gain back some well-deserved sleep.

"If it isn't bad enough," he began, talking to himself (which he did very rarely so you know he was upset) "that those damn bears had to come and make my life miserable by destroying my house and company, now the maid is jumping on me…am I really that irresistible?" The answer of course is yes.

Monday morning (the next day)

Kaiba actually did manage to get some sleep and avoid the maid before he got to school the next day. Sure, he didn't really need to go to school. After all, he was a billionaire and all, but then what kind of example would he be setting for Mokuba? So he went.

As soon as he arrived in homeroom everyone stared at him. They all wanted to ask him about the fire but they didn't want to die so they stayed away. Kaiba took his seat. There were still a few minutes before class began. Yugi and his friends took the time to ask Kaiba about the weird light beams coming from his mansion.

"Hi Kaiba," Yugi said in his usual cheerful tone. Kaiba didn't even glance at him. "I heard about the fire at Kaibacorp. Are you ok?"

"If I weren't I wouldn't be here now would I?" Kaiba said arrogantly which pissed Joey off.

"That's too bad, it would have been a nice change not havin to see your face around—"

"Joey, just be quiet," Tea said, tired of Joey always arguing and fighting with Kaiba…and always losing those arguments and fights.

"Well I'm glad you're not hurt," Yugi said, "and I wanted to ask you something but it's not about the fire."

Kaiba actually did glance at him this time which meant that he was listening.

"Well…I know this is gonna sound crazy but I thought I saw some weird light beams coming from your mansion the other night…they were shaped like hearts and…"

"I don't know what you're talking about," Kaiba lied, thinking to himself: great, now the morons are getting suspicious.

"Ok, I thought you'd say that," Yugi said, "I just wanted to check." Then the bell rang and Yugi 'n' friends took their seats.

………………..

Outside the classroom window

"So that's him?" asked Good Luck bear.

"Yup, that's the one," said Tenderheart. He was referring to Yugi. "He knows Seto really well, that's what Mokey said."

"When did you talk to Mokey?" Brightheart asked.

"I was emailing him yesterday. He said that Seto doesn't really like Yugi very well but that Yugi tries to help him anyway."

"That sounds just like our situation!" Champ bear said. This time, all the care bears and care bear cousins had come along on the mission to help Kaiba. Even Champ bear and Love a Lot bear had come. Only Bedtime and Grams Bear had stayed behind.

"It is just like our situation," said Braveheart, "and that's why we're going to ask him to help us."

"Right, let's go!" Tenderheart declared and all 23 of them rushed off. Who knew what craziness they would cause this time. All I can say is…poor Seto…

End of Chapter 8

See, I told you it was short but I didn't want to have to stop in the middle of any action. Plus I'm lazy!

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