Disclaimer: Mr. Kazuki Takahashi owns Yu-Gi-Oh! and all its characters and properties. Basically, only Gorg the Caveman, Crystal, Sakura and the random chickadee that makes a brief appearance in this chapter belong to me.

I also uploaded a drawing a picture of Sakura to deviantart. If you're interested, there's a link on my profile.

Chapter Two: What's-His-Name

Mokuba Kaiba sighed. He turned off the big screen, high definition T.V and wandered out into the hall. The big mansion was lonely without his brother around. The young boy sighed again. Seto was working late. Again. When his brother got home, he'd have to see if he could ambush him into taking a day off to play games with him. Mokuba smiled, and plotted how that could be accomplished.

He had just put the finishing touches on his plan when he heard the maid's voice.

"Oh! M-Master Seto. You've… Brought someone home?"

Mokuba arrived on foyer just in time to see his big brother fall through the open doorway and lie motionless on his face.

"Seto!" Mokuba ran towards his fallen brother, but stopped when he heard a simpering voice say:

"Oh, don't mind him. Seto-kun's just a little low on motor functions right now."

Mokuba stood staring, nonplussed at the strange blonde beauty before him.

"Up… You come!" said Sakura as she heaved the prone CEO to his feet. Then she spotted Mokuba, standing a few metres off. Her smile disappeared.

The poor maid looked on in confusion. There was that strange blonde girl and master Mokuba in a staring match, while Master Seto stood quietly, hand in hand with the young woman, staring blankly at his feet. She was also not quite uncertain that he was drooling. She opened her mouth, then thought better of it. If she found out what was going on, it was likely to raise her blood pressure. Andthen the doctor would scold her again. She gave up the scene in the foyer as a bad job and skittered off.

Sakura was beginning to get a little nervous. The kid… Him…. What's-His-Name… She couldn't recall his name at all. But then, she had never afforded him much attention. At any rate, the little brat was staring at her.

(In reality, he was staring at his brother, trying to understand what was wrong with him. But, as Sakura like to imagine that all attention was directed at her, she can be forgiven her mistake.)

She had to find somewherewhere she and her "boyfriend" could talk. That was what she was there for. And to do that, she had to get rid of that bratty brother of his.

Flash!

"Hey!-" Mokuba Kaiba fell into a Plot Hole, which promptly disappeared.

"Oh- it seems your dear little brother has homework to do. He won't be joining us, but we'll be just fine on our own, won't we?" Sakura smiled again, though this time it wasn't remotely sweet. The girl took Seto's hand in a vice grip and set off to explore her new mansion.

Mokuba had, of course, been floating about in fictional oblivion throughout that discourse. (And longer.)Luckily for him, five baffled security guards and a highly distempered chickadee, the Plot Hole presently opened up again and deposited them on the tile floor.

Just when the poor maid had thought it safe to return to her duty in the foyer, it erupted in chaos again.

"Dee dee dee chicka dee dee dee!" said the chickadee.

"Sir! We're here! What's wrong?" yelled one guard.

"Oww! My butt!" howled another.

Mokuba said nothing, but began frantically looking around for his brother.

Bump! The poor maid fainted dead away.

After a few minutes everyone (except the chickadee) had calmed down and figured out where they were.

"So, umm… Sir," said one of the guards to Mokuba "What should we do?"

"Well, you can get rid of that bird for starters," answered Mokuba, swatting at the chickadee "Then… you should go home." He knew Seto would want him to keep his… problem… on the low-down.

After the security guards were gone, Mokuba sat down next to the unconscious maid to think.

Obviously, the first thing to do was to figure out just what on earth was wrong with his brother. (He'd bet anything that girl was behind it.) Then he had to fix it.

This was a very good plan, if low on details. But, simple plans are usually the best ones. The only hitch with Mokuba's plan was that he hadn't the faintest idea where Seto and the blonde girl had gone.

For the third time in the last hour, Mokuba sighed. He set off to find his brother.

Several minutes later, he found them. They were in Seto's room.

Real smart, Mokuba! Should've looked there first…

After mentally kicking himself for a few seconds, he set about eavesdropping on their conversation. He was very good at this, having spent most of the last few years eavesdropping on his brother's meetings.

"So, after that, y'know, being misunderstood and bullied by everyone at the orphanage-it was sooo lonely without you, Seto-kun- I ran away to find you, and after all this time, I did! " the blonde girl giggled happily.

Seto responded with a noise along the lines of "Mermf"

"I think it would be best for both of us if I stayed here… Don't you, Seto-kun?"

Mokuba got a chill. Up until then, the girl's voice had sounded sweet, but now….

Wait.

Why did he even understand what the girl was saying? She was speaking English, which he had only recently begun to learn. And the girl said she had been friends with Seto in the orphanage… He certainly didn't remember her being there. And since she was probably American- (Something like that, anyway.)- What was doing in a Japanese orphanage?

Mokuba pulled himself out of that most perplexing train of thought in time to hear:

"I think I'll go shopping… You don't mind if I use this do you, Sweetheart?"

"Mermf…"

"Good…"

Mokuba peeked momentarily around the open door, and saw the girl take a credit card out of his brother's wallet. His brother just sat still at the table by his window.

Okay, whatever's worng with him is really bad. Seto never let anyone (except Mokuba) near his wallet.

Mokuba jumped with shock, and dived behind a nearby potted plant. The girl was leaving the room!

"Bye, now, Darling!" she called back into the room. As she walked past, he saw for the first time the strange belt she was wearing.

Huh… It looks like sort of likeYugi's pendant…

But there was no time to think about that now; he and his brother were now alone in the mansion. He ran into the bedroom.

"Seto!"