Chapter 18. Candy, anyone?

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Mokuba lay on his bed, reading a comic. He dully turned the page, thinking of his brother. He hadn't seen him in hours, but it was very normal for Seto to shut himself in his study for that amount of time, so Mokuba didn't suspect that anything was wrong, apart from the fact that his brother was sometimes working himself beyond exhaustion, however he was, and had been sensing it for the past few days, that something hadn't been quite right with him, but the strange ebbing ha subsided that morning and he hadn't worried any further, until a few minutes ago, when a new ebbing became apparent. He sensed that his brother was in pain, but that was as far as he could tell. He heard someone run up the stairs, and looked around when someone, heavily panting, burst into his room. It was Serenity.

"Mokuba, you have to come quick! Seto's hurt and we need you to heal him!"

Mokuba's eyes widened. He remembered being able to heal, especially one memorable occasion when Seto had fallen off his seat when he heard that he and Mokuba were going to be adopted, for definite, and the paperwork had been signed and finalised, but he didn't know if he could do it now. He ran down the stairs to see his brother and the three witches standing there.

"Oh my God Seto what happened!" he yelled.

"He got hit by a darklighter arrow." Said Piper, "You have to heal him."

Mokuba looked at his brother, who looked back at him as if to say 'please'. His eyes were no longer cold and piercing, but they had warmed and had a life to them that Mokuba remembered them having when Seto was a child. He nodded and made his hands hover over the wound. He shut his eyes tightly and willed the wound to disappear. The soft glow of healing appeared and the wound got smaller… smaller… until it wasn't there anymore. He wrapped his arms around his brother and buried his face in his trenchcoat. Seto smiled warmly, something Serenity had never seen him do before, something which made him look even more handsome than ever. Mokuba let go and hugged her too. When he let her go, he addressed the sisters;

"Thank you so much for rescuing him." He said,

"Umm… actually it was him that rescued us." Said Phoebe, jerking her thumb towards him. Mokuba raised an eyebrow, making her laugh, "Ask him."

"Kaiba?" said Piper, "… Thank you. For saving us. You didn't have to come but you did and you were hurt doing it. I misjudged you. I'm sorry."

"I'm sorry for yelling at you and almost vanquishing you, but actually my yami threatened to um… take matters into his own hands if I didn't." That made them all giggle.

"I bet he did too." She said.

"Mokuba…" said Phoebe evilly, eyeing up Seto and Serenity, "D'you wanna come with us back to the Manor for a bit? We have some really cool candy."

"We have candy? How come I didn't know about it?" said Paige uncertainly.

"Phoebe, I can see that evil grin." Said Piper, knowing what was coming next.

"Wow, really?" he said, suspecting himself what she was thinking.

"Well, yeah. We wanna treat you." She said, trying hard to stop her evil grin from spreading into evil laughter.

"Can I go Seto?"

"Yes, if they don't keep you too long."

"Twenty minutes tops?"

"Yay!"

"Twenty minutes tops." Said Piper again, taking Mokuba's hand and Paige's. Just before they orbed out, Phoebe said;

"Twenty minutes, no more, no less." Leaving them puzzled. Then it hit them. They were alone.

"Kaiba, thanks for saving me too." She said. She walked up to him and drew him into a hug. He felt his arms respond, but this time, he made no attempt to fight it, and his hands rested on her back.

"It's okay." He said. She felt his eyes boring down on her, and looked up to meet them, but she couldn't tear herself away from them again. Their gazes locked, and once again, the gap between them began to close slowly. Too slowly, the suspense was killing them. Finally their lips came together, and bliss exploded in both of them. She slid her hands up his back, letting one rest in his hair and the other massaging his tense shoulders. He drew her closer and deepened the kiss, his head swimming. Eventually, they broke apart for lack of oxygen, both breathing heavily. He realised that Seth was right. Did he love her? He didn't know how, he hardly knew her, but no one had ever made him feel like this before. Ever. He opened his eyes and prepared himself to say something he thought he would never say;

"I love you." Before closing the gap again. This time she felt his tongue brush her lip, and she let him in. Seth, meanwhile, whispered in his hikari's ear;

"I told you so." He was expecting an angry reply, but when he didn't get one, he decided that he would taunt his hikari about it later. He loved being right.