Chapter 8: Determination vs Revenge

Warning: This chapter may contain violence and sickness(flu,or cold that type of sickness), and some mental illness may be. Please do not read if you're 16 and under or if this may affect you. Plz and thank you.

It was warm and muggy in Domino City and the sun being covered up by the clouds was not helping any. Most of the people didn't care cause they were used to this kind of weather like this, but you just have one of the people who complain about it. Roland was one of those people as he really didn't like hot muggy days. He pulled into the Kaiba's mansion driveway and parked it. He frowned when he saw one of the guards asleep leaning against the wall. He got out of his vehicle and walked over to the guard. He slapped the guard across the face but not too hard just enough to startle the man." Mister Haru you're supposed to be on guard duty not nap duty. What if I was a criminal what would you do then?" he said angrily at Haru." Uh- sorry sir it won't happen again." the man said nervously." Make sure you do." Roland said sternly.

Roland walked into the mansion to see the maids already starting to clean the mansion. He was about to make some coffee when he heard coughing coming from upstairs. He went up the steps as coughing grew louder and rougher. When he reached the top of the steps he saw Yugi on the floor coughing and laying in his own puke. The stench had a foul smell to it. He ignored the smell and helped the kid to get up off the floor. Yugi looked up at Roland but regretted it as his vision blurred and made him throw up on Roland. Roland sighs oh well he could always wash his shoes. Yugi tried to give Roland an apology look but it just made him look like he was about to throw up again. Roland picked up the small teen" Man this kid seems like he is always getting into trouble a lot." he thought sadly. He hollers at one of the maids to clean up the mess and bring cold ice bags up stairs. He led Yugi back into the bathroom to make sure the kid didn't throw up anymore. He grabbed a bottle of Prochlorperazine and poured a pill into his hands. He picked up a plastic cup for mouth washing and filled it up with water. He handed Yugi the pill. The poor teen was paler than snow as he slowly stuck the medicine in his mouth. Roland helped the boy take a drink of water.

They went back into Yugi's room. Roland let Yugi get back in bed. He didn't need a thermometer to take the kids temperature to see if he has a fever he can see it on the kids face. Yugi's face was flushed red and his hair was matted with sweat. Yugi instantly fell asleep when his head hit the pillow. Soon a maid came into the room with an ice bag in her hand as she placed it on the boy's head. Roland could have sworn that he heard sizzling sounds when the bag was placed on the child's head. He left the room he saw the puke mess from earlier was cleaned up now, the next step was getting himself clean up or more like his shoes needed cleaned up. He went back to the bathroom to clean up the shoes he washed his hands then he sprayed disinfectant in the bathroom and the hall. He went back down stairs in sock feet cause his shoes were drying in the bathroom. He made himself coffee and sat at the kitchen table. It wasn't even noon and he already was worn out from today's event.


Kaiba woke up and got ready to go to Kaiba Corp. Cause for some reason the people can't seem to do anything if he's not there. He walked down the stairs and he could smell disinfectant strongly today. What were the maids thinking today? He walked into the kitchen to see Roland nursing a cup of coffee, not only that he wasn't wearing any shoes." What's wrong Roland you decided to wake up today and go barefoot today." Kaiba jokes. Roland looked tiredly at Seto" Your guess is sick today he seems to have the flu I'm guessing." Roland explained dryly." Oh no, you know it may be just me but that kid seems to get into trouble more than anyone I know." Kaiba stated. Roland nodded his head in agreement" More like trouble finds him." Roland said. Seto wished Roland good luck as he left to go to work.


Mokuba woke up around 7:15 that morning and was disappointed that Yugi was sick now he had no one to play board games with other than Roland. So that's what Mokuba did. He grabbed a game called Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader and found Roland to play the game with. Every once in a while Roland would leave the game to check on Yugi." Roland?" Mokuba said." Yes", " Why are there bad people in the world?" the child asked. Roland thought a moment for a while before answering" I guess you could say it's greed and that some people had a terrible life in their past that they want others to feel what they felt you could say other than that I don't know why most people do what they do, why do ask young Kaiba?" Roland said." Well the other night a man somehow got into our mansion and well I just wonder what some of the reasons are for why he wanted to kidnap Yugi." Mokuba explained. Roland looked at the child and he knew Mokuba was worried about Yugi, but even he wondered what was the man's main motive that he wanted to kidnap Yugi for that answer may never be known.


The spirit of the puzzle was in his soul room resting. It seems whatever his host got affects him as well. He also noticed that couldn't take over his host body as easily while he was sick for some reason. Maybe he was just not strong enough or something. He closed eye to rest as darkness claimed him.


An short elderly man was in a jacket heading to a building that was made of bricks as the sign read Mizuho Financial Group( Don't own this ). The man walked into the building and he walked up to the front desk where a young woman was standing." Hi my name is Solomon Muto and I'm here to pay my bills." the elderly man said, handing the women the envelope." Ok, just give me a second Mr. Muto." the woman said nicely. She got on her computer and started typing all of the sudden she frowned" Um Mr. Muto what payment are you supposed to pay? She asked. Solomon frowned, ``What do you mean which payment you should know your landlord was the one that told me that I was behind payment." he said worriedly. The woman looked at Solomon confused" I'm sorry sir but you're not behind any payments it says here you're not, there must have been a misunderstanding or something." The woman explained worriedly. Solomon was so confused if the landlord wasn't the one that told the doctor's he was behind payment then who did?


Kaiba came home late. It was ten minutes until midnight when he came through the door. He bumped into Roland who just came from down stairs" Sorry Mr. Kaiba I didn't see you." Roland apologized. Kaiba just rubbed his tired eyes" It's ok Roland you better go home oh how's Yugi feeling?" he asked out of the blue. Roland was putting on his jacket when he answer" His fever has come down alot and he managed to eat ¼ of chicken noodle soup." he answered tiredly. Seto nodded his head as he covered his mouth with his hand when a yawn escaped his lips." Thanks for watching them Roland, you're one of a kind." Seto said as he let Roland pass him so the man could leave." All part of my job sir." the man said as he walked out the door.

Seto watched Roland pull out of the Kaiba mansion and he thought about how Roland always treated them with kindness to be honest with himself if it wasn't for Roland Kaiba would not be the man he was today. If anything he would probably be some rich jerk who wanted nothing but power and money like his step father tried to raise him to be, but Roland was there every step of the way he even cleaned and patched up the boy's wounds when his step father beated him with an old horse whip. Kaiba shook himself out of the bad memories" The past is in the past, there's nothing you can do to change it, the only thing you can do is look forward toward the future." He said to himself.

It's now 2 o-clock am and everyone was in their beds fast asleep. The only people that were up were the nightly security guards. A dark figure was hiding in some bushes watching the guards to see if there was any opening. He waited until he found it, opening a stealthy move toward the house. He looked around to make sure no one was coming before climbing the wall with metal claws to help him to climb the wall of the building.

In Mokuba's room you see a few toys and games laying on the floor. The boy was sleeping peacefully. All of the sudden you see a dark figure walking toward the child. He has a cloth in one hand and a bottle of chloroform in the other. He poured some of the clear liquid into the cloth he placed over the boy's face causing the child to wake. He tried to scream but it was muffled by the figure and soon the boy went still again. He picked up the child and slung him over his shoulders like some feed sack. He quietly walked into a familiar room(Yugi's Room).


The spirit of the puzzle woke up with a jerk. He felt better than last time he was awake, but could still feel the weird sensation that it hasn't gone away completely. He was a little confused on why he was awake. He didn't sense any danger much to his dismay so why did he wake up so quickly. Suddenly he did start feeling something,but it wasn't a person, it was the puzzle. It felt like it was shaking him as if something important was about to happen. He looked up" What is it?" he asked in the thin air. Of course no one answers just the weird sensation of someone shaking him. Then he felt a panic and it wasn't him it was his host. He bolted out of his soul room and tried to phase out of the puzzle to see what was going on, but he couldn't. The spirit growled in frustration; he didn't feel like he had enough energy to send for help.


The man carried the two small kids out of the mansion avoiding all the security guards, almost getting caught since he had to go out the back door of the mansion. He soon reached his car and stuffed the two boys in the back seat of the vehicle and drove off.

Mokuba woke up disoriented as he tried to clear his head he felt a wave of nausea as he tried to keep the bile down that was rising up in his throat. He looked around the room he was in. It looked to be what you call a basement with concrete walls, tile floor, metal shelves, and metal buckets full of water that was leaking through the ceiling. He also realized that it was really cold, not that all surprising since basements are usually cold. Suddenly Mokuba heard a moan. He looked around in the dark room wondering where the noise was coming from. He saw a small ball of shadow moving in the dark." W-Who's there." he asked, a little frightened. The only answer he received was another moan and coughing and a nasty one. Then he heard the person throwed up as the bile smell reached his nose" Ah great they put me in with a sick person." the boy thought.


Yugi woke up with his head pounding at his skull and he really felt nauseous and him being sick was not helping him to not hurtle right now. He tried to keep it down, moaning because of the pain it was causing him" W-Who's there?" he heard a familiar voice ask.. He couldn't hold it any longer as he felt a wave of dizziness so he regurgitated the chicken noodle soup that Roland gave him. The small teen moaned in pain as he shivered out of sickness or the coldness of the room, maybe a little of both. He could feel his fever rising up so he laid his head on the cold tile floor as he felt comfort of the coldness cooling down his aching head. He tried to stay awake but a wave of exhaustion hit him head on as he let the darkness claim him once again.


Mokuba heard the other person shallow breathing a sign that he or she was asleep. He tried to remember what happened before waking up here in this trash place. He remembered hearing noises when a sweet smell caught his nose. Then all of the sudden a cloth full of the sweet smell was forced over his face and it didn't take long before he went back to the land of dreams. He massaged his head as his memory was recollected" Ahh great I've been kidnapped again you know this is the third time in my life I've been kidnapped I wonder what grudge they have on my brother this time. Huh, I wonder why they kidnapped the other person because he sounds really sick." Mokuba thought. Then it dawned on him " Wait Yugi was sick today and not too long ago was he almost kidnapped by somebody, but this time I've been kidnapped could the person who kidnapped me also.." his thought trailed off as he moved over to the shadow of the sick person."Y-Yugi is that you?" he asked hesitantly. No answer. He shook the figure and received a moan" Yugi wake up or if you are Yugi that is." the child said out loud, unsure of himself. Mokuba suddenly saw some faint glowing. He looked down to see a golden fading light in the shape of a triangle. He hesitantly reached his hand toward the glowing shape light. He touched it and jerked his hand back when it shocked him. It didn't hurt him, just startled him badly. The glow from the triangle was now showing the figures face more he gasped in surprise. The boy in front of him looked a lot like Yugi, but instead of amethyst innocent eyes they were bloody crimson and determined.


The spirit of the puzzle was coming more restless by the seconds he felt like he was under the hot glowing ball in the sky that his host calls a sun. Even in his own dark soul room that used to be cold was burning hot. He knew there was something wrong, he just didn't know what and it was driving him up the walls. He tried concentrating on taking over his host body even though it was causing him more pain,but he didn't care as long as he could protect his light he could manage it. He concentrated as he felt the pull of him taking over it was really draining his energy. Finally he felt himself having control of his host body. He opened his eyes to see the puzzle light was slowly fading. He heard a gasp and turned his head toward the noise to see the boy that his host hung out with; he thought the boy's name was Mokuba. The said boy kept on staring at him with a surprise look making the spirit really uncomfortable. If he didn't have a fever he was sure he would be blushing in embarrassment by the attention oh boy was he not really a people person. It's not that he hates people, he just doesn't like attention very much.

Mokuba finally snapped out of his shock" Yugi you ok?" the boy asked the small teen. The teen tried speaking but winced in pain, he mentally slapped himself forgetting that he still can't speak so he just nodded his head." For a second I thought the kidnapper left me in a room with a sick stranger." the boy sighs in relief. The spirit looked around his surroundings and realized that he wasn't in a familiar place that he had ever been to, other than being in his dark and cold soul room. He tried standing up but a wave of dizziness knocked him right back down like he did that one time when it was his first time walking and controlling his host body. " Easy Yugi, you still have a fever, it's not good for you to move around when you have one." Mokuba explained. Suddenly light flooded the room blinding the victims in the room. They covered their eyes until they adjusted to the sudden brightness" Aww you're awake I'm surprised with the fever you have you should still be asleep." said a male voice. The two boys uncover their eyes to see an elderly man standing there.

Mokuba looked at the elderly man. He had never seen this person before and he met a lot of people because of his brother having meetings and guesses over. " Who are you and what you want with my brother?" he asked, assuming that the old man kidnapped them for ransom. The old man chuckle" Kid I want nothing from your brother other than him staying out of my way. It's him who I'm really after." The man explained,as he pointed at Yugi." Uh? What did Yugi ever do to you old man?" the boy growled. The older man glared at Mokuba" Kid, has your parents ever taught you to mind your business and stay out of adult conversation." the man snared. The boy scuffed" Huh, I wish I had parents. Speaking of parents, did yours ever teach you that kidnapping is wrong or was you born under a rock." Mokuba said confidently. The elder man picked up Mokuba by the collar" Listen here you runt, you're not my main problem. If I were you I would butt out of this conversation that doesn't concern you.`` The man spat as some spit particles landed on the boy's face." I'm sorry last time I checked, me and my friend were kidnapped in my own home by some sixty year old psychopath." Mokuba spat back.

The elderly man had enough of the kids back talking to him as he raised his hand to slap the boy, but pain shot through his right leg as he dropped the boy and started nursing his abused leg. He glared at the culprit even though the kid was sick with a fever he sure has one heck of a kick." Oooh you're gonna regret that brat." the elderly man growled between his teeth as he went to grab his victim. The spirit of the puzzle took a step back, almost causing himself to fall because of the fast movement. The elderly man went to grab him again and this time he succeeded in catching him by the collar as he was being held in the air like a cat holding her kitten." You know you're my main priority, don't make the other kid get involved when he's not supposed to." the old man whispered in the spirit ear. Mokuba got up off the floor and tackled the man causing the older man to stumble." That's it kid I had enough of you interfering so say good night." the man shouted as he grabbed Mokuba by his collar and threw him at the concrete wall. CRACK! Was the sound the spirit heard when he saw Yugi's new friend hit the wall. The younger boy landed with a thud and didn't move. The spirit felt his host panic inside so he calmed him down until his light was fast asleep in his soul room.

The elderly man chuckled" There now all I have to worry about is you, but don't worry I won't kill you right away we have to let your grandfather know that you suffered before you die just like he did with my son." he spat at his enemy grandson or so he thought. They left the room leaving a unconscious boy behind not knowing the boy was barely breathing. Little did the spirit and the elderly man know the Millennium Puzzle was faintly glowing.


" Seto, are we friends?" asked a young boy ``you couldn't tell what the boy looked like as the image was blurred but you can tell it was a male by the voice." Of course we are." he answered with shock but it wasn't his normal voice, it was his voice when he was a child." Then can you promise me that when I become pharaoh and when I pass on that you'll protect the kingdom and that you don't ever forget me." the boy requested as you could hear that the boy was almost into tears. Seto wondered what the boy was talking about" What do you mean prince?" he asked. There was no answer, the boy stood there head down all of the sudden the image started to fade away and the boy became more clear except his appearance was changing also. Soon they were surrounded by darkness and the boy was now not just any ordinary boy, it was Yugi,but younger. The younger version of Yugi sat in the middle of the huge void or that is what it seems. Kaiba walked up behind the boy" Yugi?" he said, startling the child. Little Yugi looked straight up at Kaiba, tears rolled down his cheeks in a low voice that Seto almost didn't hear." I-It's d-dark and c-cold I'm s-s-scared I-I don't l-like the d-dark...help….dark….cold…..I- I want t-to go h-home I-I want Jii-chan!." the boy cried out historically as he placed his head down to his knees as he cried. Kaiba placed his hand on the little Yugi's shoulder, but when he did everything faded away. He was in a cold room or he thought it was a room at first glance, but now it was more of a basement. " There now all I have to worry about is you, but don't worry I won't kill you right away. We have to let your grandfather know that you suffered before you die just like he did with my son." he heard someone as he turned around to see a shadowy figure dragging Yugi out of the basement. He saw the boy struggling, but he knew it was a futile battle as he saw the boy's face turn redder than a lobster and slowly saw the boy losing his strength.

Seto heard a painful moan; he looked over to where the noise was coming from to see his younger brother unmoving lying motionless on the floor. The sign of life was the younger boy moaning Seto rushed over and tried to check on his brother only for his hands to go right through. Kaiba looked at his hands before clenching them into a fist" This isn't real it's only a dream." he mentaly told himself,but somewhere deep down Seto didn't really believe what he was telling himself. Kaiba heard another moan coming from his brother and with a rough coughing he looked at his baby brother to see blood slowly trickling from his mouth *punctured lung* was what went through Kaiba's mind. The boy breathing became ragged" S-Se-Seto… h-he-help…." the boy said quietly between his coughs. Seto bolted straight up in his bed and did something he hadn't done for a long time: he screamed. He bolted straight out of his bed, slinging his bed covers straight off of him and flashed into the hallway to his brother's room door being wide open and nobody in it. Kaiba's leg all of the sudden became weak as they couldn't hold his weight any longer as he clasped to the floor in a daze. He didn't hear the rushing footsteps coming up the stairs, the voices, or someone shaking trying to get his attention.

No one could get Kaiba attention, he just had glazed eyes staring into his brother's empty room with a far away look. What really concerned the body guards that rushed into the house when they heard Seto screamed was small tears were streaming down his cheeks and no one had ever seen Master Kaiba cry before. Not knowing what to do they called the only other person that Seto was ever really close to*Roland*.


Roland was in his room in bed with his wife when the house phone he groaned as he slowly opened his to look at his digital clock" Who could be calling three thirty in the morning(3:30am)." he growled. He reached for the phone and hit the answering machine and brought the phone to his ears." This is Roland who's calling?" he said tiredly. Whatever the speaker said on the phone made Roland jump out of bed" WHAT!" he practically screamed waking up his wife from her slumbered" Hun what's wrong is it one of the tailor marketers again." she said sheepishly. Roland didn't answer his wife as he started to slip on a pair of pants" Ok I'm on my way just keep an eye on him make sure he doesn't do something rash, ok bye." he said as hung up. He looked at his wife who was giving a weary look" Sorry babe but I have to go, something happened at the Kaiba mansion." he said as he started to button up his suit. His wife sigh" Its ok, call me how everything goes ok?" she said pleadingly. " I promise." Roland said as he pecked his wife on his cheeks and ran out the door.

When Roland arrived there were police cars and an ambulance" This can't be good." he said as he got out of the vehicle. When he got inside the house he heard Seto screaming at the top of his lungs trying to get past the paramedics." Mr. Kaiba, please sit down and let the police find your brother." a young girl medic said. Kaiba just glared at her, causing the poor girl to shrank back away from him" By the time the police find my brother he'll be dead." he said with a low and dark voice as he walked past the lady. Roland caught Seto by the arm stopping him" Mr. Kaiba you need to calm down now and think resendibal where in the world, will you look for your brother you don't know where he is now sit down down before you regret doing something." he tried to reason with the young man." Roland if you don't let go now so help me I'll beat you to the palp." Seto growled. When Roland didn't let go of Kaiba's arm he started struggling and Roland already knew that Kaiba was not gonna listen to reasoning so he did the only thing he could think of.SMACK! The sound echoed around the mansion; some of the maids that worked at the mansion let out a gasp. Seto quit struggling as he stood still staring into space before slowly raising a hand to his sore cheek." Did- Did you just slap me?" he asked in shock as his eyes finally looked at Roland." I was trying to calm you down." Roland explained calmly. Seto was silent for a few more seconds before shouting" How was slapping supposed to calm me down?" he asked indignantly. Roland sigh" Well it did work for a few seconds." he said in dismay.


" Wakey wakey eggs and bakey." said a male voice. It was silent for a while until there was a loud smack causing a familiar young spirit who was tied up to a metal pole by his wrist to wake up( here a link if you want to see the photo pin/ARf2gx-q8XUYhHQCpzi4sRusQZoUPtoCwTngXewr_WrkQ3283aB3kHo/). He slowly opened his eyes. He felt really exhausted and was burning up like Ra himself, but he was not gonna let his light be hurt anymore he made a promise and he was gonna keep he just hope his determination was bigger than this old hag revenge cause if not things will not be pretty." Gosh don't I feel like a roast turkey." he thought to himself."Aaah Solomon poor grandson burning up with a fever fine I'll come back and give you some special water." the elderly man said deleteriously. The older man opened up a bottle press to the child's lips. The spirit turned his head away not trusting this man for one bit he could've done anything to drink." Drank you dang brat." the man grouched as he roughly grabbed the child's face and forced the liquid down the child's throat. He spit some of it that he managed not to swallow and glared at the older man." Ah now don't give me that look you're fine…..for now that is I put a little special treat in the water you may not feel it now but you will later." the man said baneful. The man walked out of the room shutting the door behind him leaving the spirit in a dark room once again. Then out of the blue maybe it was luck or a miracle the spirit whispered very softly" K-Kaiba….. H-h-help …...us." he said before passing out in exhaustion.


To Be Continued…..

And finally after a good while I finally finished this chapter sorry for the long wait. Poor Yugi and the spirit they seem like they can't catch a break. What will happen to Mokuba will his older brother Seto be able to find them in time. You'll find out in the next chapter. But now it's time for the disclaimer.

Me: I don't own Yugioh or the main characters* bummer* TnT

Until next time on the same spot time same spot channel peace out everyone.