Plus Three, Minus Three

summary: 18-yr-old Seto has the perfect plan to bring Noa to the real world with a real body by taking 3 yrs of his life and giving them to Noa so they'll be 15. But is Noa really changed and what if Gozaboro takes advantage? Also what does Joey think...YAOI JxS NxS YyxY

disclaim: ppl, if I owned Yugioh, would I really be here?...NO

Note: Okay, I have NO idea how old Seto Kaiba, Mokuba Kaiba, and all the others in this fic really are in the current DAWN OF THE DUEL season. And I don't care. This is just their ages in my fic:

CHAPTER 1:

Seto Kaiba 18

Mokuba Kaiba 13

These are the only two people in the first chap, so I put their ages only. Well, here I go! MY FIRST YUGI FIC!

"talking"

Dream

'thoughts'

flashback

/card monster talking/

"phone dialogue"

computer/IM chat

Chapter I: The Plan

Mokuba's POV:

I've never seen Seto, my niisan, so determined about anything in his entire life. And THAT is saying something seeing as, one, this is a rather touchy subject for him, two, so many things could go wrong, and three, it's never been attempted by ANYONE.

But that's him...My niisan.

When his mind's set on something, it's nearly impossible for anyone, even me, to talk him out of it.

It all started when I began telling Seto of some odd dreams I'd been having about Noa...our step-brother...

:FLASHBACK/Dream:

Wh-where am I? Th-the virtual world?

"H-hello! Seto! NIISAN!"

"Mo...Ku...Ba..."

I turned all around, gasping at the familiar, though raspy voice seemingly coming from the surrounding shadows. "S-Seto, niisan? Is that you?"

"Mo...Ku...Ba...You must...help...me...please..."

I turned, feeling my face turn pale. There, on the ground and clutching my trembling leg, was my step-brother, Noa Kaiba. "N-Noa? N-nani...?" Noa's face was a ghostly white, his sharp blue eyes reminding me of Seto's own sapphire set. He looked raggady and broken, leaving me to wonder what Gozaboro, mine and Seto's stepfather and Noa's real father, had done to him.

"I must...return...Mokuba, you said your brother...could make me...real...You...promised..."

He slowly began disapparating before my very eyes, underneath a water floor that had suddenly appeared.

"N-no! Noa!" I tried grabbing for his arms, but he was truly like an apparition...like a ghost; not really there...Suddenly, I heard a dark, recognizable chuckle that sent shivers down my spine and through my very soul...

"There is nothing YOU could possibly do to help him, Mokuba. You were always useless..."

"No! Shut up!"

"Hahahahahahahahaha..."

"NOA-SAN!"

END DREAM

"Seto, nii-sama! We have to find a way to bring Noa-san back to life! To the real world, I mean!" Seto blinked and looked away from his labtop, the usual seriousness in his eyes as he studied me carefully. "What makes you say THAT?"

I bit my lip. Should I tell him about my dream? Yes, I had thought, it was necessary. Seto needed to know.

After I told him after my dream, as well as a day of thinking it over, my brother agreed.

Tonight he'll be designing it, tomorrow he'll begin building it.

My heart is racing.

END FLASHBACK

Normal POV:

Seto typed the last remaining touches on his labop for the plan to bring Noa back. Just a few more and...

Finally. Success.

After much planning, studying, researching, and biography writing, everything Seto needed to transfer Noa to the real world. The machine was built like this: There would be to pods connected through two tubes morphing as one, which led to the main computer where Noa's soul had been sealed. By using genetic scheming, partial cloning methods, and a few laws in alchemy, Seto would first copy some of his own genes and Noa's genes (from his old body which was still in the tube to keep from decaying) together, creating a structure. Next, Seto would have instructions imputed to the main computer about skin tone, hair cells, skin cells, body height, age modifying, etc. And, finally, by using the law of alchemy to get something of importance, one must give somethin g of equal value in return, Seto would create a Noa the same new age he would be, fifteen.

It was foolproof.

It had to be...

ENDCHAP 1

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