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Chapter Twelve
The look on the young boy's face told Gozaburo that he'd made his move far too soon. Mokuba clearly recognised the strange change in his brother's behaviour as it showed on the boy's confused face that even bore sights of fear. His twisted smile broadened at the sight which excited him even more with the power he held over his youngest stepson who he would soon rob of his innocence. It may have been too sudden to make such an advance on the boy but Gozaburo was more than confident that he'd be able to convince the gullible child into thinking that it had been an act to prove the closeness that they shared with their 'brotherly' bond. His grip on the smaller boy's shoulders increased again as he watched Mokuba's mouth gape as the boy struggled to answer the question asked, which clearly didn't matter as any moment now he'd force the boy over the desk and take him, but first he wanted the fear to last a while longer as it had been such a long time since he'd seen that look from either pair of blue eyes from his previous victims.
Ring! Ring! Ring! The phone on Kaiba's desk emitted the loud high pitched sound and both brothers' views glanced across to it. Ring! Ring! Ring!
"I think that you had better get that Seto." Mokuba said as it tore at his heart by still having to address the impostor as his brother. Stay strong; stay strong, for Seto's sake. He chanted to himself as he stared up and was relieved that the smile had left his brother's face as Gozaburo slowly and hesitantly released his grip.
Ring! Ring! Ring! Gozaburo silently cursed at the interruption that had stopped him from having his way with his stepson, picked up the receiver and held it in front of him as the voice on the other end mumbled away; his mind remained focused on the act he had planned to carry out. He longed to be able to experience the pleasure of dominating the innocent in his presence, which if he waited a moment longer Mokuba was sure to be more cautious of him from then on making further attempts towards his stepson more difficult, so he had to take the boy now whilst the chance was still there.
The phone's line was broken as Kaiba's finger cancelled the call and left the receiver off the hook so that Gozaburo could return his attention back to his stepson. He whirled around expecting to have to leap at the younger boy to keep him there in the office and was greatly surprised to find Mokuba still standing where he was, beaming with happiness. "You're under a lot of stress bro, so why don't we do something about that?" the boy smiled.
"You don't have to tell me twice." Kaiba's face twisted with the evil smile once more. His stepson really was so naive to not have noticed the danger he was in and Gozaburo laughed at his own paranoia of having thought otherwise. He took another step closer towards Mokuba who was still beaming from ear to ear.
"Great!" The dark haired boy exclaimed raising his clenched fists in a cute excited manner in front of him, his eyes big and sparkly. "Let's go play in the virtual pods!" Stay strong; stay strong, for Seto's sake.
This brat just doesn't know when to quit! Gozaburo thought to himself as he continued to stare at Mokuba whose eyes were still big and pleading with him. The twisted smile on Kaiba's face lessened as Gozaburo found his stepson's happy carefree attitude amusing and similar to that of the two others' before he had started to mould them. If he were to let the boy play the computer game so that he became content and then prey upon him, it would be an even bigger distressing blow for his stepson to handle. This was exactly the same way he had abused his own son and had found it far more satisfying to watch the contented Noah break, unlike the overworked Seto who seemingly remained unfazed by it all. Maybe if he had heightened the blow for his oldest stepson, then perhaps things might have turned out different? Not that it mattered now; the smug overconfident teenager was long gone, and it was he, - Gozaburo Kaiba, who had gotten the last laugh.
"Please Seto, just for an hour?"
"Just for an hour." Gozaburo confirmed. "And after that we do as I please."
"Sounds good to me." Mokuba smiled in return. I hope you know what you're doing Seto, because if not then all three of us are in for some serious trouble.
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"You idiot, I sound like a chipmunk!" Mokuba squealed in a high pitched voice.
"I'm sorry Seto; I just got part of that last scripting mixed up." Noah apologised for his genuine mistake though found it hard to stop himself from laughing as tears ran from his eyes at hearing his stepbrother's voice in such a high tone.
"Look's like I'll have to do it myself." Mokuba's eyes rolled as Seto squeaked his disgust which sent Noah into an even deeper fit of laughter. He closed his eyes and changed several digits of the script around. "There that's better." Seto now spoke in an exact copy of his brother's voice.
Noah stopped his laughing and wiped away the joyful tears. "That cloaking programme is amazing, there's no way father will be able to tell that it's hiding me beneath it."
"That's because you won't be hiding underneath it." Mokuba sneered before he transformed back in to Seto. "I will."
"What?!" The younger stepbrother was surprised as Seto's revelation didn't match up with the plan that had been discussed. "You can't go changing the plan now, how is Mokuba to know what's going on?"
"You can explain the new plan to him." Seto said as he brought up all of the nearby security cameras to watch for Mokuba and the impostor's arrival.
"How can I explain to him something that I don't even know myself?!" Noah exclaimed angrily not giving his stepbrother chance to justify himself.
"When they arrive here, in the building, Mokuba will make sure that they enter the correct pods to transfer Gozaburo here, into this system and as you know, Mokuba's pod is disconnected so that there is no danger of him ending up here also. I will remain here disguised as Mokuba, no doubt the old man will still be cloaked as myself, so that gives you time to enter my body through his connection and fill Mokuba in on the changes to the plan."
"You're trusting me in your body?"
"Don't interrupt!" Seto snapped as he didn't want to have to explain things a second time round to the green haired boy. Ignoring Noah's question he continued; "When you've explained things to Mokuba the connection from the first pod is to be disconnected and the second pod connected for you to then return back here where I will have then defeated Gozaburo once and for all. The change of pod connection is simply to confuse the old man should he try escaping from me, and once you are back inside I will flee the system and then delete everything that is left behind."
Noah nodded to confirm that he understood what had been told. Hearing Seto talk about how close that his deletion now was unsettled him slightly, but Noah knew that it would happen to him sooner or later and once his two stepbrother's had been reunited he didn't care that much about his own fate; he had nothing left to live for. The thing that bothered him the most was just how much Seto's plan had changed from the original one they had explained to Mokuba. "Why not just escape as planed? Why are you going through all this extra hassle with the second pod?"
There was no answer as Seto continued to type away searching through the security cameras. "Don't risk everything you have just to be able to confront father one last time." Noah told him knowing that his stepbrother's stubbornness was the cause of the reason for making him want that final showdown. Still there was no reply. "Damn your foolish pride Seto!"
"This has nothing to do with my pride." Well, maybe just a little bit but it's greatly overshadowed.
"Then why are you doing this?" Noah was extremely frustrated with always being kept in the dark. Again he was met with nothing but silence. What was the point in placing himself into Seto's body for the short period of time that could be have been avoided otherwise? And why was his stepbrother willingly allowing him to do so in the first place? How was Mokuba going to react when he found out that the plan had altered? "Mokuba?" he whispered out loud. "You're doing this for your brother aren't you? So that he and I can say goodbye to each other one last time?"
Yeah, that's it. Seto told himself. I'm doing this for my brother.
"Thank you, Seto. He'll appreciate that, as do I."
A limo parked up just outside the building and the two Kaiba brothers stepped out to enter and make their way to where the virtual pods were waiting. "It's show time." Seto said as he prepared himself with the disguise he had created and smiled proudly. I'm doing this for my brother.