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This chapter contains a scene from episode 121

Chapter Eight

The Blue Eyes jet hovered above the runway of a military base in the middle of nowhere. Slowly the engines died down and the jet came to a soft silent landing on the tarmac before the two brothers alighted from the aircraft.

"What are we doing here Seto?" Mokuba asked.

"You'll see soon enough." A smirk appeared on Kaiba's face as Gozaburo stared at the huge complex.

Together, with Gozaburo leading the way into the place he was familiar with, both of the brothers entered inside the old abandoned building which hadn't been in use for some time now.

"This place is giving me the creeps." Mokuba shuddered as they passed through rooms that were cold, dusty and lined with spider webs. He jumped at the sight of a huge arachnid on the floor in front of them which was squished by his brother's boot a few moments later.

Not a word had been spoken between the two Kaibas as they made their way through several more units until they finally came to one which required a password in order to enter.

Kaiba smirked at the sight of the electronic door panel and Gozaburo quickly typed in his password; Lazarus. "After you little brother." He gestured for Mokuba to enter first.

Mokuba took the lead like his brother had insisted and entered the dark room. A few seconds later, after his eyes had adjusted to the darkness, he gasped at the sight he saw. "No way!"

There in the shadows of the room were two huge tanks, their contents glowing dimly. Inside each of them suspended in some kind of fluid was a body. One contained the body of a green haired boy, the other the body of a middle aged man.

"Yes way." Gozaburo gave an amused laugh as he turned on the lights for the room and saw Mokuba approach the tank which held Noah's body.

"You didn't have to lie to me." Mokuba whispered with teary eyes. "I knew you weren't coming back." Memories of his parting with his stepbrother resurfaced in his mind as he stared mournfully at the lifeless body in the tank in front of him.

# They stood in a bright white mist in the middle of the vast emptiness around them as the two step brothers said their goodbyes to each other. "Thank you for helping me Mokuba. I'm glad that I got to know my brother."

"So does this mean you're not coming back?" Mokuba knew it would be hard but somehow he'd convince Seto to build a body for their stepbrother. Noah couldn't stay where he was, he had to come back with them to the real world.

"I am, but I must return to cyberspace first."

"But it's shutting down Noah!" Mokuba's voice echoed through the emptiness as his stepbrother turned away from him.

"I'll be back."

"Then come with me now." He wasn't stupid; he knew that once Noah left he would never see him ever again.

"I'm afraid that there's something I still have to do Mokuba. You believed in me and you treated me like a brother. Now it's my turn to return the favour."

"Noah, don't go! Noah!" Mokuba reached out desperate to stop the other boy from leaving and then felt himself pulled back into his body as he heard Seto call to him.#

Using his sleeve, Mokuba wiped his eyes. He wasn't a gullible little kid like some people thought, he knew that there was nothing back in the virtual world for Noah to do. How could his stepbrother have expected him to believe such a feeble lie? "There was no favour to return, you could of come with us." He began to sob with his arm still pressed against his eyes.

Gozaburo watched Mokuba's reaction. The younger of his two stepsons had always managed to see the good in everybody he met, but after what Noah and himself had put them through in the virtual world, why did Mokuba care about his son? What did it matter anyway, Noah was gone now, along with his other stepson whose body he had stolen. He began to flick all of the switches which supplied power to the machines that preserved the two bodies. There was no need to keep them 'alive' any longer, he had his new body, plus Gozaburo had another reason for making sure that they remained useless. He always liked to make sure that every possibility was covered, so if either one of the two boys he had trapped somehow found a way out of the virtual world, they wouldn't have these two bodies as possible vessels to return in. Not that they'd be able to use them until they had figured out a way to rejoin the soul back into the heartbeat-less body, but it was always better to be safe than sorry with such high stakes at risk.

"Come on Mokuba, let's go." Gozaburo called out as he turned to leave, satisfied with what he had just done. Now he'd continue with his stepson's life and slowly change it until it suited his own liking.

"You can finally rest in peace." Mokuba's fingers gently lay on the glass of Noah's tank as he softly spoke. "Goodbye." He pulled his hand away and began to follow his brother out of the room before he stopped and turned to stare at the other tank. "Wait a minute Seto, there's something else I need to do."

Outside the room, Gozaburo watched as the boy slowly returned back the way he had come and passed right by Noah's tank to approach the other. Kaiba's eyebrows rose as Gozaburo was surprised to see that his youngest stepson was going to say his goodbyes to him also. Mokuba really was naive to still care about him, but then again the boy didn't have a reason not to. It had been the older boy who had suffered at his hands to make sure that the younger lived the perfect carefree childhood.

Mokuba stared at the body of his stepfather floating in the tank. His whole face wrinkled up as he held back the anger he felt towards Gozaburo for the things he had done towards his brothers. Both of them had been unable to please his stepfather and so Gozaburo had forced them into changing their ways as they fought to do so. "I hate you." He hissed through clenched teeth and then failing to hold back the anger any longer, slammed both his fist against the glass. "You cowardly bastard!"

The fluid inside the tank rippled from being hit with the vast force and the noise caused Gozaburo to jump with surprise. He would never had guessed that the boy was capable of display such anger and hatred without having been push into doing so. Cowardly am I? A smirk appeared on Kaiba's face as more offending language left Mokuba's mouth and he continued to hit the tank. Gozaburo knew that the boy would not have dared to say those things, or anything else for that matter, directly to him.

"I hate you." Mokuba's outburst had come to an end as he weakly pummelled the glass one last time. Frustrated tears built up in his eyes as he thought about the cold changes he had seen Seto go through during the time they had spent with their stepfather. "You stole my brother from me and I'll never forgive you for it."

Mokuba saw his brother leering at him as he rejoined Kaiba outside of the room. "I'm sorry about that Seto, but I needed to get it off my chest." He mumbled and avoided eye contact, not wanting to be scolding for his use of language.

"That's quite alright." Gozaburo snorted as he closed the door behind them. He'd make sure that the boy paid dearly for his words, just as soon as the time was right.

The two brothers left the maze of the military base in silence and climbed back into the Blue Eyes jet to return home to the mansion. Once they got there Gozaburo would start work on reclaiming his company by first clearing out Seto's whole computer system to replace it with his own. He was convinced that his stepson was still predictable with his passwords, so would have no problems accessing Kaiba Corp's information.