A New Seto Kaiba
Chapter Two: Seto Kaiba's Dream

Disclaimer: I don't own the Yu-Gi-Oh characters, so please do not sue.
Rating: Rated K+
Pairings: KaibaOC (hints of)
Chapter: 2 out of 5
Notes: regarding the French, I'm actually new to the language, so if I make any mistakes in the words please tell me, I'd appreciate it.

Scheduled Update: October 31, 2006 (Tuesday)
Updated: October 30, 2006 (Monday)

Scheduled Update for Chapter Three: November 4, 2006 (Saturday)

Dream World

"No! Please don't hurt me! I didn't mean to! It was an accident! Please! Please!" Seto screamed at the top of his lungs as an intimidating man slowly advanced upon him.

"Only the weak beg, Seto," the man said calmly. "Did I train you to be weak? Is my training here for you to learn to make excuses?" he asked with a sadistic smile on his face.

"I'm sorry! I thought this was what I was supposed to do! This is what you said to do! I followed you're instructions, I swear I did!" Seto cried, pressing his back upon a wall.

"So now you're letting the blame fall on me?" the man asked menacingly, advancing upon the small boy, "You want everyone to blame me instead of you? Who are you, to make everyone turn an accusing eye to me?"

"No! I would never," Seto tried to explain, trying to burrow himself into the wall, to go through it, to get farther away from this threatening man. "Of course it was my fault. I just…" he said, trying to satiate the man's anger, trying to calm him.

"You're just what, Seto?" the man asked him, advancing on him still, coming closer and closer, "What are you? Tell me."

"I'm weak," Seto said, knowing that's what his step father wanted to hear. "I'm weak and I'm useless and I'm thankful that you would take such a worthless child under your wing."

"That's quite a good answer," his step father congratulated him with a mock smile on his face, "But I have to wonder…is it that you're only saying it because it's what I want to hear?"

"No," Seto denied, still trying to burrow into the wall, "Of course not. It's the truth as I see it, Sir."

"I don't believe you," the man declared, cracking a whip that had suddenly appeared in his hand. "I think you're lying," he continued, advancing closer still, "In fact I'm sure of it. Do you know what happens to people who lie to me?"

"No…" Seto replied as he started to cry, stopping his futile effort to get away, "No…please don't…don't…I'm sorry. I'm sorry."

"'Sorry' isn't going to do it, Boy," the menacing man answered, stopping his advancment now that he was right above Seto, "This is what you get for trying to lie to me. Just be thankful it's you and not your precious younger brother."

"No," Seto said, "Please…I'll do better. I promise I will."

"Remove your clothes, Boy," the man demanded, cracking his leather whip that was supposed to be used for horses, "And know that if you scream I'll just strike harder."

Degare's Bedroom

"AHHHHH" Degare screamed, waking up in a bed. He looked around wildly, searching for this man that tried to hurt him.

Who had that man said he was? He said something in the dream, just like he always did. Degare just couldn't remember. He had said something about a brother. He had a brother he had wanted to protect. Where was this brother now? Dead, perhaps? If he was alive why hadn't he tried looking for him? Did he hate him? Was he a bad brother?

"Ca va Degare?" (How are you, Degare?) Damien asked him, bursting open the door and walking quickly to the bed where Degare was now sitting up in.

"Pas terrible," (Not good) Degare answered before embracing the man and sobbing into his shoulder. "J'ai tres avoir peur. Qui j'ai?" (I am very scared. Who am I?) he asked, sobbing even more.

"Tu allez extraire. C'est tout tu besoin savoir," (You are mine. It is all you need to know.) Damien answered with confidence.

"What is he saying?" Joey asked, turning towards his friends, "Does anyone understand anything he just said?"

"I don't like this," Mokuba whispered to the others, "Something just isn't right here. Seto has never acted like this, no matter what. Something else has happened besides what we've been told."

"But what, Mokuba?" Yugi asked him in a whisper, "It sounded like Damien was being honest. His eyes didn't lie."

"You can lie in different forms, Yugi," Mokuba answered. He was starting to sound a lot like Kaiba, "He might have never said an outright lie but you would have never known from his eyes if he had decided to leave something out of his little story."

"So what are we going to do?" Tristen asked, "Do you want us to bring Kaiba back with us no matter what?"

"No, let's not go that far," Mokuba answered, "But now that I've found my brother don't expect me to just go on back to Japan like nothing ever happened."

"So what do you plan on doing?" Duke asked, forcing his mind to focus on what was going on. He kept geting caught in a daze, thinking about how he had actually flirted with the one and only Seto Kaiba.

"I'll try talking to him," Mokuba whispere even quieter, making the group close in around him even more. "We don't have many options at this point," he explained.

"How can you talk to someone who doesn't even remember, ya?" Joey objected, causing Mokuba to inwardly wince in remembrance.

"I'm just going to find out what's going on from his viewpoint," Mokuba explained, "We need to know exactly what's going on before we try to involve ourselves."

"Qui ai Ils?" (Who are they?) Seto asked Damien, still deep in the other's embrace. He was looking towards the group whispering in a huddle.

"Ils vouloir tu emporter," (They want to take you away.) Damien answered, pulling the cowering man even deeper into his hug.

"Jamais," (Never.) Degare replied, snuggling into Damien and falling asleep once again.

To Be Continued...

I changed the title of the fic (which would explain the reason why the first chapter is titled differently than this one) because of my first reviewers request. If you don't like it tell me and I'll think about changing it up again.
(I'm open to any and all suggestions so long as it doesn't interfere with my main idea.)
Told you it would be shorter. Check it out, I didn't lie. It's about half the size of the first chapter.
Anyway, most chapters will be this length, about 1000 words type of thing.
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