Aoi: Okay...sorry for the long break, the truth is I've been swarmed with a lot of stuff at the moment. But I'm trying my best though...you know with getting caught up with my fanfics.

Disclaimer: I do NOT own "Yu-Gi-Oh!". BUT I DO OWN THIS STORY. Haha, you thought that was going to be long didn't you? XD


Virtual Friend or Foe?

Chapter Three: Grand plan


Mokuba sighed to himself as he stared the wall clock in his room, he was watching the seconds tick away as he lightly whimpered to himself. In three minutes it was going to be officially Christmas. He wanted more than anything for this day to just pass him by, there wasn't a point for it. The raven haired teen thought he was actually going to be sick.

The truth be told, was that the youngest Kaiba had actually told his brother about the dream he had. He had told Seto about how he thought that it was a prophetic dream of some sort, and how if they worked at it, they'd be able to build something to bring Noa back to life.

Of course Seto told him that it was a waste of time, there was no need for them to get their selves all worked up over someone who died along time ago.

"Nothing I believe in matters to you, does it Seto," Mokuba whispered to himself as he stood up. His slender finger pulled stray strands of hair behind his ear as he walked out of his room. The sounds of his stomach could be heard, the low rumbles...but then again, that's what you get when drastically ration your own food. The fifteen year had been too depressed to really eat, he didn't see the point.


Noa sat upon the grassy hill of his virtual world staring ahead at the view of all the beautiful things around him. He shaking his head slightly, all he wanted was for his Mokie to be there beside him. A slight glance had been made over into the spot that would've been occupied by the other, but...it was empty. Right then and there Noa decided that he was going to stop living in his fantasies and make his dreams a reality.

His grin broadened slightly as the breeze blew strands of his mint green hair out of his face as screens started appearing in front of him. They were windows actually, windows which had been directly linked to the Kaiba corp. security systems. So far all he was seeing were different images of Janitors mopping the floors of the company he used to want so badly. A slight smirk sounded from the teen as he made the windows keep flipping channels to get into different cameras.


Mokuba yawned slightly as he shuffled into the security room of his home. The original plan was to go turn off the cameras to the lab so he could go in there and do some experiments of his own, but this idea soon left his mind when noticed flashing letters on the screen of the computer.

"The hell-" he began as the male quickly hopped into his brother's computer chair and made sure that the screen was reading off what he thought it was reading off.

All of the ratings were reading off that there was a breech in the system, and the siren was due to start sounding at any given moment. However the male soon quickly typed in a code that would deactivate the alarm.

"I can take care this myself," he assured himself as he started working hard to stop the problem on his own, but he couldn't figure out where the signal was coming from...then it finally came to him. "The signal...it's coming from-"

"Your own home," scrolled on the screen before his blue eyes, this causing the male's mouth to drop open as he trembled slightly. Out of complete reflex he started looking around the room, then back at the screen.

"I see you."

Mokuba's eyes had widened as his breath drew shorter, this wasn't happening...this couldn't be happening. Everything inside of him was screaming for him to cry out for Seto, but the truth was that he couldn't make a sound. As if he simply couldn't find his voice.

"Please, don't be afraid of me."

The fifteen year tried to get out of the chair, however he ended up accidentally falling back. The rolling chair crashing down on the floor, winces sounding from him as he tried his best to sit up...but it hurt to much. All the male could do was grit his teeth as roll out of the seat onto the floor. Slight whimpers still sounded from him.


After a few moments he finally sat up, his eyes locking back onto the screen of the computer. The teen's cries were slightly more noticeable and harder. Mokuba didn't want to accept the fact that someone was inside of his house, able to see him. Someone had access to this room other than him and his brother!

"Mokuba."

"Just leave me alone," Mokuba whimpered as he pulled the seat back into the upright position.

"Allow my system to connect with your's so I can explain."

"As if I'd trust you," the raven haired male smirked through his sniffles, as he sat back down in the chair.

"Please, Mokie."

"Wait...how'd you know that my nickname is Mokie?"

"Just connect the systems, and it'll all make more sense."


After debating a few minutes to himself, before he started typing in a sequence of codes into the computer. He occasionally glancing over his shoulder in a paranoid like fashion, he couldn't help but have this feeling that Seto was just going to walk in at any given moment.

The computer sounded off a rather high pitched tone as the a tiny diagram popped up on the screen showing that the systems were indeed one now. Mokuba was about to say something when suddenly the screen started showing static, but then when it cleared up...he saw Noa. An older version of his step-brother, he just knew it was him.

"Mokie...I think there's still a chance for us to be together," Noa smiled towards his brother.

This statement caused the raven haired teen to feel quite light headed, he fainting.


About a two or three hours passed by before Mokuba finally opened his eyes again, he thought he was living in some kind of dream...but when he opened his eyes he still saw Noa looking at him from the screen. The mint haired teen looking quite concerned at the fact that his step-brother had fainted.

"Are you okay, Mokuba?"

"Yeah...am I still in a dream or something?"

"No, I don't think so."

"Oh...wait...am I dead?"

"If you were dead then I wouldn't be able to talk to you," Noa simply brought up, "The truth is Mokuba...I didn't give up. I could've excepted that I was going to be in this virtual nightmare forever, b- but remembering that you actually believed in me gave me hope that I could change. And that I could get a second chance at life."

"But that's the thing...I don't know how to get back on this side of the screen."

"Don't you see...you actually do know how I can get over there, just think hard Mokie."

The raven haired teen looked deep in thought as he tried to remember whatever he had forgotten, then his eyes snapped open. It was as if a light bulb had lit up over his head. He knew exactly how to get Noa back.

"Seto had been designing this game...you could probably escape back into this world from that," he explained, "See, the thing is that the game is this type of virtual reality system that allows you take things from the game and bring it back into the real world. You know, this invention could actually help out all of man kind and end world hunger and all that crap."

"Just give me the frequency of the game."

"That's the thing...it's not quite finished," the fifteen year old heavily sighed, "And if doesn't work, then both of our minds will be lost in cyberspace."

This tiny little detail made Noa look very uncomfortable, he didn't want his younger brother to risk his mind...it wasn't like he didn't mine risking his own, but the someone else's at the same time. It would be selfish of him to make the other go along with this.

"But I don't care," Mokuba smiled, "I'll risk anything to make sure that you get a second chance...I'll send you the frequency, and don't worry, I'll go inside of the game as soon as I can. Which will be in a few minutes I think."

"But Moku-"

"No buts," the youngest Kaiba happily smiled as he suddenly pressed a key on the keyboard that closed Noa's window.

"Okay, I got one shot at this," he figured to himself as he ran out of the room. He dashed into in his bedroom to find warmer clothes, Mokuba was going to have to go to his brother's technology lab, which was farther in Domino city. There wasn't a moment to lose.


After he was snugly dressed, he snuck out of the house, dashing off of the property. Sure the air had a chill to it as Christmas snow fell down around him. He suddenly tripped over his own feet, causing him to fall quite hard into the soft snow. A chill ran through his body as he tried to sit up.

"I can't give up," he kept telling himself, "I have to do this...Noa's counting on me, I promised it would only a take a few minutes...and I bet an hour has already gone by."

As he continued to talk to himself, the male pressed on, he making his way to the lab with complete determination.

"Noa...In no time," he smiled to himself as he felt slightly light headed as he finally disabled the security in the lab, before entering that is, "I'll be in your arms again."


Once he was inside, he made sure to turn back on the protection of the technology lab...his brother would never forgive him if something happened to all of his inventions because of his carelessness.

It didn't take him long to set up the game, it was one of the simplest computer programs that he ever had to work with...but then again, a lot of things looked simple to him because he had been taught by his older brother when he was young. Mokuba had been working some very advanced computers even at the age of eleven, so computers were something he definitely knew.

The teen's eye lids have never been so heavy as he yawned slightly to himself as he glanced over at the room that he was going to have to go in. The truth was that he and his brother hadn't came up a way to make the game more portable, simply because it wasn't fully completed. So all they had now was this room that you had to go in, and inside of this room was a chair that you would sit in after placing the helmet on. The walls of the room were completely covered in what appeared to be metal panels, which would catch the rays from the single light that hung above your head. But then again, this wasn't supposed to look all that inviting, after all...this was only the prototype.


Once Mokuba was seated in the metal chair, he couldn't help but take a deep breath, which caused him to yawn. He had never been more tired. The teen wasn't used to not getting sleep like his brother was. But he couldn't let something like exhaustion stand between him in reaching his goal. At the second that he was shot into the virtual game, the room went completely dark, only colorful rainbow lights appeared on the metal walls.

"Warning...mental stability is at a low," the computer's voice sounded through out the lab, "Warning."


Inside of the game Mokuba looked around, he was inside of long hallway, a heavy sigh sounded from him as he stared at the many doors that lied before him. Before he could take a step, the game's voice sounded, "Select your character." Right in front of him tiny pictures of characters started scrolling as if they were on an invisible table. The male looked over them, knowing that he could only select one. A yawn sounded from him as he waved his hand symbolizing that he wanted to pick to random one...he didn't have time to make all of these decisions.

The pictures disappeared into a bright light which swarmed over him, it fading away...leaving him in his character form. Mokuba blinked slightly at the fact that he now had raven colored cat ears...and a tail.

"Oh...kay, maybe I should've looked over the pictures," he awkwardly laughed as he held his own tail in his hands. That's when he noticed something about his costume, which was white with purple sleeves with matching hemming, on his bel there was a sword. "Sweet," he grinned to himself as he started walking down the hallway.


Noa had been walking through the darkness, the link from his world and the game. He didn't realize that it would be this difficult to get inside of the program...it was literally draining him. A violent cough soon sounded from him, causing him to stop completely...his hands quickly being brought up to his face.

"I...don't think...I can make it," he gasped, as he continued to stagger towards the doorway...which wasn't that far in front of him. "But...it's right...there."

The mint haired teen suddenly dropped to his hands and knees...he had to stop. To rest. Darkness was all around him. It was more like a forest...the type of forest where the trees look as if they are dying, and there's nothing but silence. Thunder then boomed through out the air...Noa couldn't explain this, it was odd to him. That he couldn't control this world, of course...he had been so used to having ultimate power that it was odd for him to feel weak.

"Mokie...I'll get there," he whispered, "I promise...I'm not going to let some storm stop me."

Lightning streaked across the sky, which illuminated the area for Noa to be able to see that there was a tiny drop of blood in the palm of one of his hands. His navy colored eyes widened at this in horror as he quickly staggered to his feet. Was he going too far from his program that he had lived in for many years?

Rainfall came as expected, it completely drenching the male as he slowly made his way towards the door. He had to get to it...strictly because Mokuba was waiting for him. The only way he could get back inside of the real world was by going inside of the game...and if he couldn't survive the path in between the two programs, then who was it to say that he would survive being alive again?


Aoi: Okay, well...what did you think? If you didn't like it...then I'm really sorry, I'm still trying to find the music that's the mood of this story. -sigh- It's so difficult being me at times. XD. Anyways, watch out for the next chapter because I promise that I'll never completely forget about a story...meaning that all of my stories will be updated when I have the time. So don't fret. .

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