aibou-doodle: First of all, thank you for all of your kind reviews! I really appreciate them, and secondly:mwahaha! The first week of Lent is over, and here are some little drabbles from Seto's life. I feel quite evil!
DISCLAIMER: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh! Or coffee, or energy drinks.
Warnings: OOC Seto in Day Five. You'll see...
Week One
Day Two...
Idon'tneedcoffeeIdon'tneedcoffeeIdon'tneedcoffee.
Seto sighed and ran a hand through his hair. The laptop screen in front of him was becoming increasingly blurred as his eyesight started to shut down and his brain demanded sleep. It was only 11:30pm and he could usually get a few more hours in before finally going to bed, waking up again at 6:30am. A CEO didn't need eight hours of sleep -- they only needed coffee.
Which Seto was currently lacking in.
He pinched the bridged of his nose and once again tried to focus on his work, only to be interrupted by a yawn that made him close his eyes and sag in his chair. Damn, this was not working. If he kept this going he would end up making a mistake, and Seto Kaiba hated mistakes. With an aggravated sigh he saved his work and shut the laptop, resolving to continue work when he got to the company.
Seto stood up and made his way over to the bed, where he collapsed face-down on to the mattress, groaning. It was only the second day and he was dying (that was probably a little dramatic for him, but who really cared? Not him, not when he needed coffee). He moved his head slightly to the side to look at his alarm clock. It told him that it was 12:02am ... which made it Day Three.
This is the earliest I've been to bed in years, Seto thought as his eyes started to droop closed. I hope I don't start making a habit of it...
Day Four...
"Setooooooo!"
"Not now, Mokuba."
"But it's Saturday!" The raven-haired teen pouted and moved around the desk to place his hands on Seto's arm. "And I'm really bored! I can't play my video games and you won't play Duel Monsters with me!"
Seto's eyes didn't leave the computer screen as he asked, "Why don't you go play with the Geek Squad?"
Mokuba pouted. "Because I want to play with youuu..."
Seto growled and continued to type. "I haven't got time to play with you," he muttered. "I've got too much work to catch up on since I've been sleeping for the past three nights!"
"...You've been sleeping?"
"Of course I've been sleeping! I haven't had any coffee to keep me awake!" He bit back a curse and deleted a typo that he had just made.
Mokuba looked at his brother thoughtfully. "You know," he began, "I didn't say that you couldn't have other caffeinated drinks. Why don't you have some energy drinks?"
Seto paused his work and raised an eyebrow at his brother. "Energy drinks?" he repeated. "Please, Mokuba, that rubbish is nothing more than urine."
Day Five
"MokubaMokubaMokubaMokuba!"
The younger Kaiba looked up in horror as the voice echoed through the halls. He glanced around the room before hesitantly calling out, "...Big brother?"
"MOKUBA!"
He squeaked and spun around to come face-to-face with Seto, who had somehow managed to sneak up behind him. "Seto! What the heck are you do--"
"Mokuba!" he shouted again. "I had an energy drink!"
There were a few seconds of silence while Mokuba digested what his brother had just said. When it finally registered in his mind he was more than a little confused. "You had an energy drink?" he repeated. "Bu I thought you said that those things were--"
"Rubbish! I know!" Seto interrupted, placing his hands on Mokuba's shoulders. "But I need to stay up to work on an important project tonight and I don't want to make any mistakes so I took your advice and GOT ENERGIZED!"
"Oh dear gods!" Mokuba exclaimed, prying himself out of Seto's grasp. "How many did you have?"
"A DOZEN!"
"What?!"
"A DOZEN! Twelve! Six times two! Three times four! Nine plus--"
"Yeah! I get the picture!" Mokuba slapped a hand to his forehead and took a deep breath. He studied his brother's face and noted that his eyes were a dilated, the black pupils almost consuming his azure blue colouring. "Seto, when I said to have an energy drink I meant only one! You're going to make yourself sick by drinking that many!"
"BUT I NEEDED IT!"
Mokuba sighed and started to leave the room. "I'm going to tell the staff that they're not to bring you energy drinks."
"NOO!"
Day Six...
"Man, Kaiba doesn't look too good," Joey commented, a little too happily. He had just watched an extremely pale Seto shuffle in to the classroom on Monday morning and practically collapse in to his chair. His moves were sluggish and it felt like an eternity as the blonde watched him remove the laptop from his bag and set it up on the desk. "I guess Lent isn't going too well for him!"
Yugi giggled, also watching the CEO. "Mokuba said that he drank too many energy drinks last night," he commented. "Apparently Seto was throwing up in the bathroom for a few hours before managing to crawl in to bed."
Joey snickered. "Ha! Serves him right, I say! Do you think he's gonna make it through to the end?"
Yugi started to answer when a loud thunk interrupted him. The boys looked over and saw that Seto had dropped his head on to the keyboard of his laptop, which was now making a continuous beep-beep sound. The CEO groaned.
"...No, I don't think he will."
"...Me either."
A/N: Haha, Seto. Haha. Although, I think I've been nice to him in that he only has to give up coffee. I've given up caffeine, and let me tell you, caffeine-free coke doesn't taste that nice!
