-1Hey All!! I can't believe that I am actually remembering to update! I never remember things like this! Ok, just had to get that out of my system, TIME FOR REVIEWS!!
One and only: Glad you like it and also glad that you don't like what Alexadre20 is saying any more than I do.
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Now on with the story!
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Cori was the first one to wake up the next morning. She slowly opened her eyes and yawned a kitten yawn. It took a minute for her eyes to adjust because it was still dark. She looked over at Seto and Mokuba and saw that they were both still asleep. She smiled and slowly walked up to Seto's side and looked at him. He was breathing slowly and evenly and he looked peaceful.
Maybe I should enter his dream. Cori thought. She was about to when his alarm clock went off. Loudly. Mokuba shot up and Cori jumped onto Seto by accident. Seto woke up just before Cori jumped on him and he shot up, startling Mokuba. He jumped and grabbed Seto's neck. Cori, by now, had jumped off and was watching from the table.
"What just happened?" Seto asked when Mokuba had let go. Cori just shook her head back and forth.
"Your alarm clock went off." Mokuba said. Seto started at him for a minute before laughing. Yes, laughing, not chuckling like usual. Mokuba smiled and started laughing himself.
"That's one way to fully wake yourself up." Seto said. He looked over at the clock and his eyes widened when he saw what time it was. "Come on, time to get ready for school." he said as he pulled himself off of the bed.
"Aw man. I don't like school." Mokuba pouted as he also got up. "Come on, Cori, let's go to my room." Cori looked over at him and jumped off the table. Mokuba pushed open the door and left with Cori at his heels. Kaiba just sighed and turned to get ready for school.
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Mokuba quickly got dressed and raced downstairs for breakfast. He was about to run into the kitchen when he heard a voice from another room.
"Perfect, perfect, Perfect!" it was saying. Mokuba snuck over and stuck his head in the room. He almost gasped when he saw who was talking. It was the crazy maid! "Both of the Kaiba's will be at school and that cat will be left here all alone. That's my chance to get it before it try's to hurt any of us." she walked towards the other door. "I always say that there is more than one way to skin a cat." she kept talking but Mokuba didn't want to hear anymore. He backed up and ran back up the stairs. His brother was just starting to come down.
"Mokuba are you…" was all Seto got to say as Mokuba ran past.
"Sorry, forgot something, be right down!" he yelled as he kept running. He ran all the way to his room, where he had left Cori. He slammed the door shut after him, startling Cori. She jumped off the bed and landed on the floor. "Cori, that maid is still after you." he told her. She cocked her head, giving him her full attention. "So to keep her away from you, your going to school with me today, alright?" he happily said the end. Cori shook her head.
This is going to end badly. she thought as Mokuba picked her up and put her in his bag.
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Seto sighed as he waited for Mokuba to come downstairs. He was leaning on the doorframe and staring out into space. I hoped that this cut would have healed before I went back to school. he thought as he felt the bandage. At least the others healed. Mokuba soon came running back down the stairs. He was almost to the bottom when he tripped. Seto quickly moved and caught him before he hit his head.
"Whoops." he said as Seto helped him stand back up.
"Did you get what you forgot?" Seto asked as they walked out the door to the limo. Mokuba got a look on his face that told Seto that he was hiding something.
"Yeah, I got what I forgot." he slowly said. Seto then knew that he was hiding something.
"Mokuba, what are you hiding?" Seto asked as they climbed into the limo. Mokuba froze and slowly turned his head towards Seto.
"I'm not hiding anything." he quickly said.
"Yes, you are." Seto knew better. He was hiding something.
"No, I'm not." he said back.
"Yes, you are."
"Nope."
"Yes, you are."
"Not."
"Are."
"Not"
"Are."
"Not."
"Not."
"Are."
"Not."
"Are!" Mokuba loudly said.
"So you are hiding something after all!" Seto said. Mokuba paused for a minute and thought about what they had said.
"No fair, Seto! You tricked me!" Mokuba said after a minute.
"Yes, I did. Now tell me what you are hiding." Seto said. Just then the limo stopped at Mokuba's school.
"See you later Seto!" Mokuba yelled as he quickly jumped out of the limo. Seto opened his mouth to yell ed after him but he just closed his mouth. He sighed as the limo continued on to the high school.
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Mokuba quickly hurried to his locker. He was one of the first one there, thankfully. He reached into his bag and pulled Cori out.
"Okay, Cori. You need to stay in my locker for now, alright?" Mokuba said as he put her down. Cori hissed at the thought of being alone in a dark locker all day. "Sorry, but its that or the crazy maid." Cori thought for a minute and jumped father into the locker. Mokuba laughed and grabbed his books. His friend came running down the hall and Mokuba ran off with him to go play outside, leaving his locker partially open. The halls filled and emptied time and time again. Cori watched it through the open space in the locker. After the third bell, signaling them to go to their forth class, the one before lunch, Cori got really bored.
I'm not staying in here. Maybe I could go see what Seto's school is like. It is near here. She thought. She stuck her head out and checked to see if everyone had gone to class. The halls were deserted. She pushed the locker open a bit before silently jumping to the ground and heading off to the High school.
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Seto had not been having a good day so far. He came in early and was there before Yugi and the fan group, as he called them. They were there soon. He knew because he could have hear the mutt from the other side of the school.
"….And then he said, 'What do you mean, what do you mean?' and he punched him square in the nose." Mutt face loudly said. The other guy, he didn't know his name, laughed and fell over from lack of air, and Yugi and the girl stood over him, making sure he was okay.
"I don't think it was that funny, Tristan." Yugi said as they pulled him back on his feet. Tristan, that was his name.
"Hey Mutt. Could you talk louder? I don't think the people on the other side of Domino heard you." Seto said. Joey spun on him.
"What was dat, Kaiba?" he yelled as he walked over and slammed his hands on Seto's desk. "I wasn't even talkin' to ya."
"Doesn't matter. The whole school heard you anyway." Seto shot back. The girl, Tea, stormed over stop them before it went any farther.
"Both of you, keep your mouth's shut. Joey, you were talking really loud and the whole school could here you, and Kaiba, you…..what the heck happened to your face?" she said as she saw the bandage. Joey and Tristan quickly moved in closer to see. Joey reached out and pulled the bandage off. Painfully.
"What the heck did you do that for!?" Seto yelled as he stood up. Joey and Tristan backed off but Tea came at him stronger.
"DON'T YOU YELL AT THEM!!" she screamed. Yugi, Joey, and Tristan all backed away quickly. They knew what would happen when Tea got mad. Even Kaiba pulled back a little. "THEY DIDN'T DO ANYTHING THAT DESERVES FOR THEM TO GET YELLED AT SO YOU JUST SHUT YOUR TRAP AND LEAVE THEM ALONE!!!!!!!!!!!!" she screamed. Everyone except for Yugi, Joey, Tristan, and Kaiba had left the room. "NOW APOLOGIZE!!!! ALL OF YOU!!"
"Sorry." Kaiba and Joey muttered at the same time. Tea went back to her normal self.
"Good. Now what did happen to you?" she asked, reverting their attention back to Seto cut.
"None of your business." Seto coldly said. He reached up and felt it. When he brought his hand back, there was blood on it. "Darn you, Mutt. If you hadn't ripped the bandage off, it wouldn't be bleeding again." he moodily said as he got up to go to the nurse for a bandage, leaving Yugi and crew wondering about it.
Most of the morning went slowly for Seto. He went through his first three classes not really paying attention to what the teacher was saying. Nothing happened until his fourth period class. It was world cultures and the teacher was excruciatingly boring. Everyone was bored, even Kaiba. He was staring at the board when he felt something rubbing up against his leg. He jumped a little and jerked his head down. Rubbing against his leg was Mokuba's cat.
How in the world….. Oh, now I get it. Mokuba had the cat with him and the cat followed me over here. Just great. He had to resist banging his head against the desk. He reached down and pulled the cat onto his lap, but he made it looked like he was getting something from his bag. Soon the bell rang and the class left for lunch. Seto slipped the cat in his sleeve and crossed his arm so she wouldn't fall. He headed straight for his locker. Unfortunately, his locker was in the same area that Gardner's was in and she was there.
"Kaiba." she said as he walked by, getting his attention. "You are more mad at the world then usual. What's wrong?"
"None of your business." he spat out as he walked by. Cori heard the venom in his voice and started to wiggly around. He felt her started to move and he quickly turned to go to his locker. But Tea wouldn't let him. She reached out and pulled him back, almost making him drop Cori.
"Look I just got something to…..what if going on with your sleeve?" she suddenly asked. It looked like something was pushing the sleeve up and down. Which Cori was.
"Nothing." he quickly said and went to turn but Tea was quicker. She grabbed his arm and pulled. Hard. The arm that Cori was in shot down and she fell out of the sleeve. But before she could hit the ground, Seto caught her.
"A cat?" Tea asked when she saw what he was holding.
"My brother's. For some reason, he thought it would be a good idea to bring her with him to school." he explained while Tea stared. That was the nicest thing that she had heard him say yet. "Somehow she found her way here and to me." he softly petted her head before he realized who he was telling this to. "If you tell anyone about what I just said, I'll…"
"I get the picture." she cut him off. "Later, Kaiba." she said before waling down the hall. Kaiba just rolled his eyes at her at started his walk to Mokuba's school.
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At lunch, Mokuba had run to his locker for Cori. What he found he didn't expect. His locker was open and Cori was gone. He started to panic but before he could run off, a hand stopped him. He turned around and saw on of his teachers.
"Mr. Mokuba. Your brother is in the office, waiting for you." she said. He nodded his thanks and took off down the hall. Soon he reached the office. He walked in and was pointed towards the room that his brother was waiting in. He walked in and stopped short. There, sitting in the office was Seto, with Cori in his arms. Mokuba sheepishly looked up at him.
"I'm in trouble, aren't I?" he said. Seto nodded.
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"I said I was sorry." Mokuba said for the fifth time. They had left early. With permission to leave, of course.
"I know. Let's get inside and you can tell me why you took the cat to school." Seto said. The y both walked and they went into the living room.
"Remember that maid that I told you about? The one that hates Cori?" he said. Seto nodded. "She was going to try to hurt Cori while we were at school and I wanted to protect her so…"
"So you thought that the safest place would be with you at school, right?" Seto finished. Mokuba nodded and Seto sighed. He called for Roland to bring the maid to them. Soon the maid was rushed in. She had an angry look on her face but it faded to fear when she saw Seto.
"Y-y-you w-want t-t-to s-s-see m-me, sir?" she stammered out. He nodded.
"On two different occasions, you have threaten my brother's cat." he flatly said.
"Sir, I never…" she said but she was cut off.
"I have two reliable sources that told me you did. And for that, you are fired. Take her away." he said. Roland came up and pulled her away. Soon they were gone and Seto turned towards Mokuba. "There. You have nothing to worry about anymore. Okay?"
"Thanks big brother." Mokuba said as he flung his arms around Seto's neck. Seto smiled and returned the hug. Cori smiled from where she was watching, glad to see the bond that her brothers had with each other. She ran over and jumped onto Mokuba's head. He jumped a little and then started laughing. Seto started laughing too and he reached over to pick Cori up off of Mokuba's head.
From outside the door, the staff sighed. They always hoped that this would happened and now it has. Roland smiled at this. He remembered when they had first gotten to the Kaiba home…..
"Roland, come here." Gozaburo ordered. Roland, his head off security, walked over. His eyes widened a bit when he saw two young boys standing behind him.
"Yes, sir?" he said. He took a good look at the two boys. One looked about nine years old with brown hair and bright blue eyes. The other looked about five with unruly black hair and the same blue eyes, only his were a little darker.
"These two will be staying here. You are to show them to two rooms and inform the rest off the staff about them, is that clear?" he started to pulled off his jacket. The two boys stood silently behind him.
"Perfectly Sir. Come with me." he motioned to the boys. They silently walked forward and followed him. Soon they came to two empty rooms next to each others. "What are your name?" he asked in a slightly kinder voice.
"S-Seto." the older boy stammered out. "And m-my bro-brother is M-Mokuba." he answered for the younger boy. Roland smiled.
"You two will be alright, you hear me?" he asked them.
"We hear you." Seto said, for both of them again.
"Good. Now lets get you unpacked and settled in, alright?" Roland said and both of them smiled. Soon them were finished and the boys were exhausted.
"That was….tiring." Seto sleepily said. Mokuba was clinging to his neck, fast asleep.
"Get some rest. And if you ever need anything, just ask for Roland, alright?" he said. He looked over at them and smiled. Both of them were asleep now. Roland carefully picked both of them up and placed them in the bed and he turned off the lights as he left the room.
Roland sighed as another memory came to mind. One of when they were older…..
Roland sighed as he hurried down the hall in search of Seto, Gozaburo's adoptive son. He had missed his first three lessons and the teacher was very mad at him. He was about to go into another spare room when he saw that the door to the library was slightly open. He quietly went in and found Seto sitting in one of the large lounge chairs.
"Sir." Roland said. Seto jumped a little and turned around. He relaxed a little when he saw who it was.
"What do you want, Roland?" he spat out. Roland sighed in his mind. He was starting to become more and more like Gozaburo each day. "Well?"
"Your teacher is looking for you. You missed your first three lessons." Roland said.
"So?" he dryly answered. "I already know what he is teaching, so why should I go?"
"Your father wished you to go." Roland answered. "And I would hope that you would go too."
"You don't tell me what to do, Roland!" Seto spat out, his voice filled with anger and venom. "You. Are. A. servant. Hired help. Remember your place." he stormed out of thee room, leaving Roland standing there.
Roland looked into the room again. He hadn't seen Seto laugh like that since Gozaburo had broken him. It was good to see him laughing naturally again.
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But not everyone was happy. Watching from outside the window was man.
"This is not going according to plan." he spat out. "No one has escaped me yet, and I'm not going to be beat by a little girl." he closed his eyes and transformed into a pitch black cat and ran off.