Respectshipping (Mokuba x Yami no Yugi)

(Another first-person Mokuba chapter...I seem to like those)

I guess it probably started some time after Death-T. It definitely didn't happen before; I hated that guy before.

But he reached out to me...when even my own brother was willing to leave me locked in an eternal nightmare to inevitably go mad, that red-eyed Yugi reached out to me, and pulled me back onto solid ground. Why? The question haunted me for weeks and weeks afterward, while I mechanically cared for a vegetable version of my brother.

I had tried to kill Yugi three times, because I had believed that would make my brother proud of me. It had been a stupid idea from the start. I don't know what was wrong with me. Even if my brother had been proud of me (which he wouldn't have) how could I have ever thought it was okay to kill someone? Yugi had no reason to help me. I was his enemy, plain and simple. Even if I was just a stupid, misguided elementary schooler, I didn't deserve his help.

And he didn't even stop there. In Duelist Kingdom, I tried to steal his star chips and knock him out of the tournament, when the only reason he was there was to save his grandpa. And even though I nearly ruined all of his chances, he promised to win not just for his sake, but for me and my brother's sake. I didn't deserve any of that. I didn't.

But he did it anyway.

Seto complains about Yugi a lot. I'm the only one he trusts to listen to stuff like that, so I get to hear all about it. He's always saying how superior Yugi acts, how overly confidant and consistently pestering about "the power of unity" and stuff like that. "Yugi is the most obnoxious creature to walk this earth" – he said once, except, he used much more colorful word than obnoxious.

I just stay quiet and listen to him rant. Because I can't really tell him what I really think.

Yugi is the strongest and kindest person I have ever met. He helps people even when they don't deserve it, maybe because those red eyes of his see more than us regular people. Maybe he's my brother's eternal rival, and maybe I'm supposed to pick my brother's side all the time. But, in the end, I can't stop respecting Yugi.

A/N: I love Mokuba. :) Sometimes he is hard to write about though, because his first arc manga personality, and his later arcs/anime personality are so contradictory that it's hard to understand him. Next is Resistshipping (Yugi x Shogo). Wait...who's Shogo? Isn't that the kid from the Red Eyes movie?