Necropolis demon
Disclaimer: Must I say it again and again/Sigh/ I do not own YuGiOh…/pouts like a child/
Necro: Phew, chapter 2 at last, I'm really sorry everyone, I had the bad case of writer's block. Long time no update huh…please submit more reviews! Please! Please! Please!
The GameChapter 2 First Crush
That night, Seto Kaiba was in his room doing his homework, sitting on the bed and checking his schedule for the next day. It was already 1 o'clock in the morning and he was still up, the words that the white blond teen had spoken to him earlier still haunted him. Ryou was right, he really should spend more time with Mokuba but what does Ryou know about his life? Why did he have to get involved? But still, Kaiba couldn't lie to himself; he was…a bad brother.
Kaiba got up and headed towards the bathroom to wash his face, he glanced at the mirror and examined his reflection. Here was Seto Kaiba, the young genius CEO of KaibaCorp, the 'master of the Blue-Eyes', the expert duelist…the worthless brother. His face was always strict and stern, that he knew…but lately he seemed gloomier and more stressed than usual because of the contest and the problems at KaibaCorp.
Turning his attention back to his schedule, he sauntered back to his bed and turned off the lights then plopped onto the bed to sleep.
Morning came and the annoying buzzing of the CEO's alarm clock rang throughout the bedroom. Reluctantly, Kaiba switched the alarm clock off and got up from bed. He yawned and rubbed his eyes then headed to the bathroom to take a cold shower, he always bathed in cold water since the frigid temperature always snapped him fully awake.
Dressed in his blue long sleeved uniform that he buttoned up to the neck and his blue uniform pants, he went downstairs to eat breakfast with Mokuba, come to think of it he's been skipping breakfast for three days already.
"Good morning big brother" Mokuba greeted, perky and bubbly as always.
"Morning" replied the CEO.
"No work today?" the black haired boy asked, eating his bacon.
"Unfortunately I still have some things to take care at KaibaCorp after school." Kaiba replied in monotone, he saw his little brother's sad face and felt bad for the boy. "Look, I'm sorry Mokuba, I know I haven't been spending a lot of time with you but this is really important…" still, Mokuba was gloomy.
Kaiba sighed exasperatedly and an idea struck him, "Why don't you invite Ryou to come over later." He suggested, though he still felt offended by the white blond's words, if Ryou was the only one who could make his brother smile then he had no choice but to let the teen play with the boy.
"Ryou? I don't have his phone number so I can't invite him…do you think you could ask him later at school big brother?" Mokuba asked, looking up to his brother who was drinking some coffee.
"Fine, I'll ask him when I get to school to play with you later."
"Yey! Thank you big brother!" Mokuba lunge himself towards the CEO and hugged his brother, a happy smile plastered on his face.
Riding his stylish and luxurious limo to school, Kaiba stared out the window and caught sight of Ryou, who was walking towards school. Ryou was walking to school with his usual smile, a bag in his hands as he hummed to himself.
Kaiba examined the white blond teen as the limo passed by; Innocent, fragile-looking, quiet and soft-spoken, always wears a smile, is sometimes seen hanging out with Yugi's group, gentle…all in all Ryou was invisible, Kaiba noted.
There was some sort of mysterious air that surrounded the white blond, as if there was more to the boy than what meets the eye, perhaps a hidden talent, a hidden side…a hidden Ryou. The limo drove past the teen and Kaiba chose to ignore his classmate, what was wrong with him? Why was the boy intriguing him? He doesn't know anything about Ryou, why must he be so interested?
'I don't know anything about him like everyone doesn't know anything about me' the CEO thought to himself, it was true that he had similarities to the pale teen. Both were loners were they not? Both were mysterious as well, sure there are the basics: age, weight, height but what about characteristics? Gentle and polite…was that all? There was more to Ryou and Kaiba knew it.
For some reason the brunette saw through Ryou, he saw through the pale exterior and understood him in a strange unspoken way…because they were the same…they were both misunderstood, they were both alone.
Kaiba got to school before the pale teen and took his usual seat beside a window at the back of the room; Ryou came in about two minutes later and sat by the window a seat away in front of Kaiba instead of his usual seat because the teacher had decided to re-arrange the seating arrangements yesterday.
The day seemed to move impossibly slow for the CEO, whenever he'd take down notes he'd always end up looking at the teen in front of him. He watched Ryou for the whole morning that day, whether the white blond was taking down notes or talking to Yugi and the gang, Kaiba watched intently and would quickly turn his head away or pretend to read a book if the teen would look at his direction.
Finally lunchtime came, Kaiba was busy trying to get his mind off Ryou by copying one of his classmate's notes for those times he was absent. Once in a while his thoughts would switch back to Ryou, by the time the brunette was finished copying notes lunchtime was half over already. With nothing else to do, Kaiba remembered his promise to Mokuba that he'd ask Ryou to come over after school. He looked over the teen who was sitting with Yugi and the others, they were all gathered at Yugi's place; Tea was sitting in front of Yugi who was sitting in his seat, Joey and Tristan were bickering with each other while Ryou was sitting on a table next to Yugi's.
Reluctantly, Kaiba stood up from his seat and sauntered towards Ryou's side, he figured that if was going to ask the teen he should do it now since he won't be able to ask the boy during class or after school because he needed to rush to KaibaCorp. The brunette felt his hands sweating, his heart racing, everything seemed in slow motion for the CEO, the sound of Yugi's group laughing at Joey and Tristan's antics, Ryou's melodious laughter…Kaiba had never felt so nervous in his entire life, he felt like he about to ask the boy out on a date.
When the brunette was finally standing next to Ryou, he coughed to get the other boy's attention.
"Yes?" Ryou turned to face Kaiba, the others also stopped whatever they were doing even Joey and Tristan stopped bickering to look at Ryou and Kaiba. Obviously, the CEO wasn't really known for socializing with others and this sudden action made the others suspicious.
"Ryou…" Kaiba couldn't talk; he felt his mouth was as dry as a desert and with Yugi and the others watching he felt even more nervous.
"Yes? Do you need something?" Ryou asked politely, cutely tilting his head on one side, getting off the table to stand straight and face the CEO.
The CEO snapped out of his nervousness and spoke, "Actually yes, Mokuba was wondering if you could come over to our house after school today but he forgot to ask you yesterday." Kaiba replied with his usual strict and stern tone of voice, trying to hide his shyness.
"Today? I'd love to! Besides, we don't have any homework for today so I guess it would be all right." Smiled Ryou. Without knowing it, Kaiba was attracted to the other teen…that smile, it was just so…so…innocent, so…so…Ryou.
"Thank you." Kaiba thanked, turning away from the teen and walking back to his desk to read a book and pretend that everything was casual, though deep inside he was confused with himself and his feelings. Didn't he just dislike the boy yesterday? Why was he feeling all mushy and warm now?
"Did Kaiba just ask you to baby-sit Mokuba?" Tea asked once Kaiba was out of earshot.
"Why? He's got a lot of money, why not hire a nanny or something?" Tristan spoke up.
Ryou giggled a bit and replied to his friends, "Me and Mokuba get along quite well and I don't think it was Kaiba's choice to ask me."
"But still, Kaiba doesn't usually ask for help from any of us or anybody for that matter." Yugi stated.
"And you're doing this for free?" Joey asked with distaste.
The pale teen nodded, "Yeah I guess, it's quite all right for me actually, Mokuba's a nice kid."
After school Ryou immediately headed to the Kaiba mansion to look after Mokuba who excitedly welcomed him the moment he arrived while Kaiba changed into his white trench coat outfit and rushed to the KaibaCorp building to work.
Today at work, Kaiba personally checked on the damaged computers and stuff. In his office at the highest floor of the building, he was looking over some files for KaibaCorp's sales. The office was roomy with an office desk at the center that was filled with paperwork. On the desk was a picture frame holding a picture of Mokuba and Kaiba, a laptop, an intercom connected to his secretary's and a couple of other unfinished paperwork that occupied most of the table. The floor was black and shiny and the floor-length windows gave a beautiful and romantic view of the city especially at night with the shinning lights of other buildings.
Facing the full-length glass window was a sitting area formed into a semi-circular pattern; there was a gigantic flat LCD T.V screen too in a corner of the room. Kaiba's office even had a little mini bar stocked with champagne and wine, sometimes whenever things were really down for the CEO he'd grab a wine glass and drink some red wine.
That day, Kaiba checked on how many duelists were signed up for the contest and how many entries had been submitted so far, when he checked on the submissions there were still only about twelve game entries out of forty-nine signed duelists. He looked over the list of competitors and found a familiar name.
"Ryou Bakura, history; finalist in Battle City. Name of game entry; Capsule Monsters Coliseum…" Kaiba read from Ryou's form.
He looked over the pale teen's entry and instead of scorning Ryou's work he found himself impressed with the teen's concept. It was brilliantly planned and was no doubt an ace game, unique and never been done before…a mix of Duel Monsters, the game that has captured the public's attention for so long and Monster World with a little mix of chess rules.
"This is brilliant." Kaiba whispered in awe to himself, it seems that the boy's concept had captured the CEO's attention.
Kaiba spent most of his work hours that night drinking instead of actually working, he had so many problems to handle, the contest, the paperwork, time for Mokuba and now…his crush on Ryou. The brunette couldn't deny it; he had a crush on the pale boy. Sure he didn't have any plans to show the boy that, I mean after all it's just a small crush but still…the thought of actually being attracted to someone…well…scared Kaiba in a sense.
He was always the cold-hearted one, the emotionless brunette…never the loving Kaiba. And so he spent that night drowning his thoughts and confusion with expensive wine simply letting his mind slip away from reality.
It was 10 o'clock in the evening when Ryou finally got Mokuba to go to sleep; Ryou had been stroking Mokuba's hair for the past hour to get the boy to sleep. Mokuba had been waiting anxiously for his brother to come home but alas he still wasn't there. Now the black haired boy had finally fallen asleep in his room with Ryou sitting on a chair by his bed stroking his hair fondly.
The pale teen had tucked Mokuba to sleep before going downstairs to leave. It started to rain like mad the moment Mokuba had fallen asleep so Ryou decided to hurry on home. He arrived at the dark living room and picked up his school bag from where he had left it, sauntering towards the door; he felt like he was in some sort of horror movie. Trying to dismiss thoughts of such, he was a mere three feet away from the door when it opened by itself and a tall staggering figure came in.
Ryou drew back in shock, at first he thought the man was a burglar but when a flash of light from the thunder illuminated the man's features he recognized the figure as Kaiba; luckily Kaiba wasn't wet because there was a roof by the entrance that sheltered him. Quickly, Ryou rushed to the CEO's side, thankful that his classmate wouldn't get a cold because Kaiba kept himself dry. Thinking that his classmate was hurt, the pale teen placed an arm around the CEO to help him balance and caught the scent of what seemed to be alcohol.
"Kaiba? Kaiba you're drunk!" the pale teen exclaimed worriedly, trying to assist his drunken classmate. He looked at the brunette with sympathetic eyes, poor guy…he must really be stressed about work.
Slowly, the pair went upstairs to Kaiba's bedroom; Mokuba had shown Ryou around the mansion before so the pale teen knew where the CEO's room was. Kaiba kept on muttering things under his breath things like "I'm a bad brother" and "Mokuba doesn't deserve to have a lousy brother like me".
"Kaiba…don't say that, you're not a bad brother." Ryou soothed as they sauntered towards the brunette's room.
On their way, Kaiba kept on groping Ryou causing the pale teen to blush. The CEO's breath tickled Ryou's ear as the brunette snuggled closer to the pale teen, Ryou's breathing hitched once in a while at Kaiba's touches.
Finally arriving in front of Kaiba's room, Ryou opened the door and led them both inside without closing it. He laid Kaiba on the comfortable canopy bed and turned the bedside lamp on. Kaiba protested a bit at the light as Ryou took off the CEO's shoes, the pale teen also removed the brunette's trench coat and placed it on a table.
Ryou stood up and saw that his classmate had fallen promptly into sleep. Quietly, he left the room leaving the bedside lamp on, smiling fondly at the CEO's slumbering figure before whispering "Good night".
The rain poured all night forcing Ryou to walk through it, getting himself all soaked and wet. He walked to his apartment through the cold frigid night alone, thinking about Kaiba.
"Poor Kaiba…he must really have his hands full, no wonder he can't spend anytime with Mokuba" He said to himself, his bag in his hands as he tried to shelter it from the rain.
"And Mokuba…he's so alone…" the pale teen whispered, coming to a halt and staring at his shoes.
Ryou knew what it was like to be alone, to have no one to play with, to sleep without anyone to tuck you in. He knew exactly how it felt to be so alone…just like tonight, walking all alone in the rain with no one to lend you an umbrella…with no friend to share your pain. So painful…so cold, so frigidly cold and yet…
'I can't let Mokuba go through that…he doesn't deserve such pain.' He thought, making up his mind to comfort the black haired boy, if his brother was too busy then he'd be there to make it all better.
Necro: I hope this chapter was ok for you guys; I was sort of busy while I was making this and didn't have time to edit it. I have to admit it didn't turn out like I planned but it's ok right? I know I could've done better but things have been so hectic. By Ra help this poor…wait rewind…this pathetic newbie! REVIEW! I'M YOUR FRIEND!
If you guys think that Kaiba's a little OOC here please remember that I'm typing Kaiba's thoughts here as well so the reason Kaiba seems OOC is because I tried to type things that Kaiba would think of but wouldn't show to the public. (Most fics that have 'captured' Kaiba's character tend to keep his thoughts hidden from the readers unlike this fic wherein I'm actually taking readers into Kaiba's mind once in a while) The reason that my portrayal of Kaiba seems different to some readers is because I'm typing Kaiba's thoughts as well, but if you pay closer attention to the actions that Kaiba shows you'll see that he's pretty much still the same old Kaiba.
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