A/n: I have decided that I am not going to make this a SetoxSerenity fic. I am sorry to those who wanted this fic to be that. But I would have to agree that there are a lot of other fics with his scenario. Again I give my apologies. Now I think that you want to get on with the story don't ya think?

(Sorry for any spelling mistakes)

Chapter 4

Fiends of Forever: Eyes

(Last time)

He brushed passed Mokuba and headed for the mirror in his room. The full length mirror never lied…Then why the heck is there two bite marks on the side of my neck?

Kaiba stared at his reflection before noticing the same black figure in the corner of his room in the mirror image he was staring into.

(This time)

Somehow having the same figure in one day wasn't supposed to be uplifting. Kaiba slowly turned around to see the shadow still there. But before he could do anything about it, his little brother had sparked an interest in the little comment he was talking about before.

As the little teenager ascended towards he older brother in small steps, he noticed the bite marks had turned an awful and terrifying color of red. Blood red.

Mokuba still couldn't explain why his brother was acting so strangely. Not once had he barked at him for not coming home, let alone he noticed that there was something wrong about the way he was staring at his bedroom corner. Nothing was in the presence of the two standing personages. So what was he staring at?

Kaiba wanted to respond to the figure in the corner of the room, but couldn't move. Not an ounce in his body of muscle wanted to make a move.

He was mesmerized by the stray black orb somewhat hovering, yet standing in his bedroom corner. The orb wasn't only a non-shapely object, but it seemed to have a form of a man. It seemed to have the same fascination in Kaiba, for the stray visitor didn't leave until he was finally satisfied.

Kaiba seemed to understand, he or rather it, wanted something. But what? It's not like Kaiba didn't have what he wanted, I mean he had everything right? But what did he want from him?

Too many questions seemed to override the cranium when a pounding began in his head. It started bordering the pounding that was coming…from his neck?

Mokuba noticed the black stare in his brother's eyes. Frost seemed to glaze over the hard and cold stature of his eldest sibling. Not that the average stare towards his friends had the original cold and hard narrowed eyes, but the frost seemed to have the key to his soul. The soul was no longer there from the eyes that had locked onto something in the room he couldn't see.

The stare had captivated the poor kid. It frightened him to see his brother in a state of half shock and half frozen in his point of location. The eyes that Kaiba usually looked at his younger brother were gone. The ones that held compassion, love, envy, grace and held mercy for, were a blank color of dark royal blue. They were just an endless sea of unfilled emotions. His pupils seemed to be in the mixture of blue for you couldn't see them, in the solid color of cobalt.

Kaiba had a hard time concentrating on the configuration in the corner of his unstated room. The pounding had hit him hard as it did the night before. Shivers seemed to graze up and down his spine, but his body was unwilling to give into the shiver that would overtake his human senses.

Finally breaking the gaze, Kaiba had reached up and touched his neck.

Mokuba stared in aw as he watched his unmoving or lifeless brother move his hand towards his neck. The once blood red dots dulled into a raw and sullen pink scar. The light that once illuminated the two small bite marks completely healed as if touched by an angel of healing.

But what was standing before him was no angel. It was his own brother.

The tall brunette of almost nineteen had the oddest feeling come over him as he touched the side of his neck. Instantly, the headache seemed to cease into a dull throb while his neck completely stopped pulsating under the touch.

Everything came to his senses as quickly as if a baseball was just hit passed his ear. He noticed the unwelcome company had disappeared before a blink of an eye.

His eye to be exact.

Mokuba noticed the sudden change as he watched his brother blink and stand in the same position he was in moments before. Except for one thing that he noticed right away: the eyes. Seto Kaiba's eyes were back to normal after he blinked for a millisecond.

Seto still stood with his hand on his neck and slowly brought it down to his side as he turned towards his stricken little brother.

His eyes were widened with fear as he witnessed everything that happened. The sudden change in his personality and eyes had made enough fear to boil in his stomach and come up to his open mouth.

Kaiba watched in horror as the teenager seemed to be sick with fear. Mokuba had run into the bathroom. The six foot man furrowed both eye brows with confusion before it hit him.

He had scared his little brother with his actions to make him sick with anxiety.

Kaiba quickly reached the door to comfort his brother before it opened and revealed the kid himself.

His tiny figure seemed too small compared to his brother's. Mokuba stared into the once blank stare the young CEO gave. Kaiba seemingly wanted to say something, but the rough teenager had beaten him to it.

"Don't you ever do or look like that again Seto. You scared me."

Kaiba wanted to respond and desperately needed to take a step forward, but couldn't find his own legs that wanted to obey him.

Mokuba noticed this, but didn't know how to react.

His mind raced as he didn't know what to do. For the first time in his life, he was uncertain of his own being. Never in all the years when he had Mokuba living by his side had he made him so scared to make him sick. It just wasn't possible in the mind of the young company owner.

Kaiba wanted so badly to hug his little brother, but something was holding him back. It wasn't physically but mentally. He didn't want to hurt his little brother or scare him again. He didn't want to ever see the face he held when he acknowledged him before he scurried into the bathroom.

"Mokuba…..I…..don't…know what happened." The buckling finally let loose as Kaiba fell to the floor on his knees. Pain had rocketed up his thighs, but he solemnly ignored it.

Mokuba viewed the pained look in his brother's expression. It was enough to push him over the edge of solitude he felt a minute ago. He needed his brother. His brother needed him. It didn't matter how much, but how the impaired weakness that shown on Seto's face was sufficient to what had to be done.

Mokuba passed his sudden fear and shallowness and gave into the concern for his crouched brother.

Raven hair slowly made its way into Kaiba's nostrils as he inhaled and stared into the shoulder of his brother. He was hugging him. After what he just did, Mokuba was willing to put their differences aside and take a stand. He took the leap that Seto Kaiba never would have taken a second look at.

Mokuba was forgiving.

"Don't do it ever again……please?" Mokuba's voice reached his ears in a mere whisper.

Kaiba had little courage come over him. "I don't know…what happened Mokuba….."

"Just please don't do it again….."

Pools of warm teal closed.

Mokuba was still clinging to his all time hero.

"I don't know if I can do that." He voice seemed lower in an unusual way as if ashamed of what had happened.

Kaiba breathed out as the teenager let go and stared him in the face. Cerulean eyes opened and met a stormy gray.

No words could have been spoken when Mokuba leaned in and gave him another hug of confidence.

The two kneeled on the ground of an everlasting embrace that didn't want to be broken. But everything has or comes to an end eventually.

Kaiba spoke into the sea of hair, "Mokuba, you told me about a letter…can I see it?"

Mokuba had nodded in the crook of Kaiba's neck before pulling away and leaving a trail of disappearing footprints in the carpet.

After a second or two, Kaiba regained consciousness and headed towards his bed and sat on the edge of the silky sheets. He stared at his hands while his head seemed to bob on his thin neck. What happened to make Mokuba so afraid of me? kept running through his head. The never endless silence was snapped by the door closing. Seto raised his head to meet his brother's form next to the doorframe. He stepped forward with caution before dashing towards Kaiba's side on the bed.

Small hands held out a letter to the tall brunette. He indistinctively took it out of the teenager's hands and began to read the fine print it held.

The letter seemed to be in his own hand. But how could he have done such a thing while being in his room the whole night and not leaving? Let alone even picking up a scrap of paper.

The paper wasn't any kind of original, plain, white paper though. It was almost like papyrus but had a tough enough substance to make the script and hold it together tightly. But the fine print in his own handwriting looked nothing like pen, especially a red pen that he would never write with anyway. He always used black or blue.

If this is someone's idea of a sick joke…..they have got another thing coming.

The picture of the shadow recompiled its way into his brain again before he instantly masked it and put it in the back of his cranium for later examination.

He stared at the bright red letters as they slowly seemed to fade before his eyes. Each word began to disappear with the last letter first. Almost like dominos backwards.

Seto stared in fascination at the letter while Mokuba stared in aw at Seto. Kaiba watched as the words disappeared and left nothing but a blank peace of papyrus in his hand. What happened next was most unexpected and was added to Kaiba's list of absurdities.

Both males watched in horror as the small paper seemed to be smoking. The brunette dropped the paper as if it burned his hands.

If there was any wind in the room, it seemed to make it flutter with an unexpected hiss while turning into black ash as it hit the carpet floor.

The Kaiba brothers stared at the small black pile of charcoal.

"Did I just see what I think I saw?" Mokuba seemed too shocked to do anything but asked his brother that same question that was obviously running through his head at the same time.

"Yes." Even though he wanted to deny it, Kaiba bent over the pile as he almost kneeled in front of it with Mokuba right behind him.

"I guess that we can plan the party now…"

Kaiba rolled his eyes at the sudden change and mood in his brother's actions and comment. Mokuba was standing up straight while looking at Kaiba bent over the dust embers of the once papyrus paper.

Kaiba muttered, "This doesn't make any sense." He stood up and headed towards his computer or rather laptop on his desk. He freshly opened it and turned on the power button so the intelligent machine could boost-up.

Mokuba was still waiting for his brother's answer and stood his ground in the same spot while the CEO turned on the computer for his own use.

"I suppose. Just call all your geeky friends and have the posse come over here at six o'clock pm. I think that will give you enough time to decorate, let alone, leave me in peace while I figure this out."

Mokuba nodded before taking off towards the door and slamming it. Kaiba had to clamp his ears with the palms of his hands as the sounds echoed off the huge plaster room.

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Six o'clock came faster than intended for the eldest Kaiba. For sure he'd have to remind the kid not to make to much noise while he worked on important documents. But making sure that getting the files get done, were a lot harder while the same picture kept popping out of nowhere in his head while trying to get something done.

Mokuba bounded into Kaiba's room, "Everyone's here. You can come done if you want and have some cake, cookies or whatever we have down there."

Kaiba shook his head. "No Mokuba. I let you hold this party for my apology. I didn't say I would be apart of it, and I don't intend to."

"But big brother…."

"Mokuba." His voice was stern in letting the teenager finally know that the brand new argument was supposed to end before it really got out of hand.

Grey eyes stared at his older brother for a moment. "At least say hi for a couple of minutes." He left the room while closing the door quietly behind him.

Blue crescent eyes closed for a second. That's twice for upsetting the kid in less than 48 hours.

He stood without second thoughts of complaining or making excuses for not being with Mokuba. He had locked himself in his room all day trying to figure out three things.

1. Why had he scared Mokuba?
2. Who was the shadow?
3. Why did the paper vanish and turn to ash?

Never in his wildest dreams, could he even imagine how he could figure out the last question that lingered in his mind. How can anyone answer that one?

It was a mystery and a mystery it will stay.

Kaiba was a mere inches from the doorway that headed into the Halloween party of Yugi's posse and the rest of Mokuba's friends. He really wasn't looking forward to meeting Joey. Let alone watch him as he shoved the whole table filled with junk down his throat.

Kaiba shuddered at the thought and walked into the bright room of orange and black everywhere. HIS living room looked like it was hit by some kind of stampede.

The whole room was cluttered with decorations of witches, ghouls, ghosts, vampires and pumpkins. Not to mentions a lot of other gory things he didn't want to look at.

How can teenagers stand this?

A whole bunch of kids had filled the room while in their costumes and dancing away with music and happily socializing with their friends.

Kaiba wanted to vomit at the sight. No one should have this much fun.

Someone had bumped into him causing him to stumble a few feet before he caught his balance again.

Normally someone would have fallen. What the heck is happening to me?

An annoying voice traumatized his senses as he turned to answer the question the random person had thrown out. Well, maybe it wasn't that random.

"Hey, waddya doin' here moneybags?"

He turned towards the low-life of Joey wheeler. "If you hadn't noticed, I live here." He looked Joey up and down as he smirked at his costume.

"You know they should call you bloodsucker now on." Kaiba sneered at Joey's vampire costume. Corn syrup was visible in deep red as it took the role of fake blood. "But on my behalf, you should have been a werewolf. It would have fit you rather nicely: smelly, ugly, annoying, eats everything in its way, and lives on the street where it belongs and comes out only at night." The smirk on the velvet red lips of Kaiba seemed to widen, if possible. "That way no one would have to see you during the day….much to my being, I wouldn't have to see your pathetic face Chihuahua."

Brown eyes narrowed into dark red ones. Eyelid's blinked covering the frost of sapphire and turning slightly stunned before it dissolved just as fast as it had come.

Did I just see Wheeler's eyes go red? Must be the costume.

Joey was dragged off by one of his friends before Kaiba could ask any more questions or sneer at him any longer. It was pencil head to be exact. A scant whisper reached Kaiba's ears as he was dragged off before it dissipated with him.

"This isn't over yet Kaiba."

Seto Kaiba, now confused more than ever, was left alone in a room of screaming and dancing teenagers. He felt a little lightheaded over the noise and decided his time was up in this particular room and it might be better to retire to his own.

A slight pounding seemed to return as he headed back towards his room. Upon entering the cold shaft of blue that was his bedroom, he walked over to his bed and sat on the edge again to contemplate the day's events.

What left him in complete obliteration was the fact that Wheeler seemed to have confidence in his voice. It seemed rather childish that Kaiba would be afraid of Wheeler at this moment. But an unsettling feeling of confusion and fear developed in his stomach as his head made contact with the pillow on his mattress.

He stared up at the ceiling as Wheeler's words seemed to haunt his mind.

"This isn't over yet Kaiba."

Seto sat up and looked around the room. Now I am being delusional. Thinking nothing more of it he laid back down on his comforter and inhaled deeply. His senses seemed to enhance as he did so and relaxed the same second as he exhaled the deadly carbon dioxide.

It again overwhelmed him as he sat up and stared across the room. He had the feeling of someone watching him from a close distance but couldn't put his finger on the opposing eyes.

His eyes darted around the room once he found nothing to be in there with him. He could tell someone was piercing his very soul with their eyes. Suddenly he found that the whole room seemed to turn a frozen icicle.

Everything in his room turned to ice and frost and winded around him until he was shivering to the bone. The only part that wasn't effected by the ice was his bed and himself.

Something cracking caught his attention. He looked down at the carpet as he saw the ground splitting. He followed the opening in the ground with his gaze as they landed on his balcony. He didn't want to move for being almost frozen and not wanting to know if he could freeze the same way all the objects had in his own room.

The doors burst open as wind howled into the night. The balcony was empty except for the height of an average person standing in the opening of his room and overlooking his territory.

Chika: well this took awhile and let me say…I am tired! Lol here's the

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