Snatcher
A Kaiba brother's story, typical me, hehehe. Had this story on my mind for quite a long time and decided to finally write it up.
What starts as a virus, or so they thought, turns into something much more. Mokuba starts seeing changes in Seto, is he just imagining it or is something wrong really happening? Kaiba brother's fic.
The brown haired teen had looked everywhere for him in the mansion except his bedroom, he surely must be in there. He stood outside the bedroom door for a moment, for once he felt a little nervous because he didn't want to sound like he was accusing him of anything. But he had to know, his younger brother was the only other one who really had access to his hard drive. But then again........ Why would he even consider messing with his hard drive? That doesn't sound like him to mess with things without permission, especially things to do with the company.
"Mokuba......." The teen called out softly as he started to push open his door a little. When he made enough of a crack in the doorway he peered inside to see Mokuba just sitting on his bed glaring at his laptop, which was on the desk at the other side of the room.
The brown haired teen frowned, what was his little brother doing? He remembered from earlier that Mokuba had been complaining about it, something to do with it switching on and off and the web cam had a mind of its own but why was he just sitting there glaring at it? He had blurted out a lie earlier and had pretended that he hadn't noticed anything of what Mokuba was saying. In truth though, he knew something was definitely wrong.
"Hey Mokuba........" Seto greeted softly as he slowly let himself totally in. "What's the matter?"
Mokuba acknowledged Seto's presence by giving him a little glance and then returned to frowning at the laptop. "It's that thing over there. It's still doing it."
"Switching on and off?"
"Yea." Mokuba grumbled, eyes not leaving it.
"And why are you just sitting here staring at it?" Seto finally asked when Mokuba didn't continue talking after the 'yea'. "I'm sure you've got a lot better stuff to do than staring at your laptop."
"I've had enough of it playing with me; I want to see whether it does it while I'm watching it. Trying to catch it in the act, so I can see it for myself." Mokuba roughly explained, eyes not going off it.
"And no signs as of yet?" Seto questioned, humouring Mokuba's paranoia towards the laptop. Sure, something hasn't been right in this place and it seemed to be linked to all the electronically advanced devices but he now thought that this was a little silly. Just staring at your laptop was going a bit overboard, Mokuba could be so dramatic at times.
Mokuba slightly turned his face towards Seto and scowled at him, he could tell Seto was playing with him by the tone in his voice. He doesn't seem to be taking him very seriously........ Even though he was the one that had paranoid thoughts about an invisible virus. "It's not funny you know." Mokuba shot back, not bothering to answer the question.
"Wow, Mokuba...... I didn't mean anything by that." Seto defended, noticing Mokuba had seen him kind of not being serious about what he was saying. Must've thought that he was making fun of him or something.
"Why are you here, Seto? Don't you have some place to be to do all your 'important' work?" Mokuba questioned in a snappish voice.
"Mokuba! Don't speak to me like that!" Seto demanded in surprise, Mokuba never talked to him like that! What was the matter with him? "What's the matter with you?"
"Sorry....." Mokuba murmured in a low tone of voice and let his gaze fall to the floor a little. But really he was only speaking about the truth because secretly a good chunk of the time he thought this to himself. It often did seem to him that Seto didn't care much for him, never really spent time with him and when he did the company still always came first and even when he was with him his brother's mind was totally still in 'work mode'. This had to be the first time in months, like eating with him at the dinner table yesterday, that he'd bothered to come up to his bedroom to check on him. Does that mean Seto wanted something off him? Possibly because he was useful or something? Couldn't be just because he was concerned, or else he would've wanted to check up on him tons of times. "I'm just saying..... Haven't you got work that needs to be done? It's usually what you're doing most of the time. You never come up to my room to see me because you often complain that you're too busy."
"That's kind of why I'm up here, Mokuba." Seto replied in a kind of matter-of-fact voice. "Have you been on my hard drive? Well, the company hard drive I mean."
Mokuba glanced back up at Seto a little with a frown on his face, not only did he not bother to answer his question but to ask him a odd one back. "No. I haven't been back in your office since you kicked me out yesterday." Mokuba shot back, still feeling a bit bitter from yesterday. He hadn't particularly liked being kicked out when he wasn't really doing anything wrong in particular and it was all over something he couldn't even prove.
"Are you sure?" Seto double checked, wanting to totally make sure that it wasn't him that had played around with his work. He wasn't deliberately trying to make out that it was his little brother but he just didn't know anyone else that could get in there.
Mokuba raised an accusing eyebrow, what exactly was Seto getting at? Had he thought that he'd done something to his work? Out of revenge or something perhaps? "I'm sure." Mokuba confirmed in an extremely sharp voice. "Now what exactly am I getting accused of?"
Seto let out a heavy sigh, he should've known that Mokuba would catch on; Mokuba was quite sharp on picking things up. Great! Not only will Mokuba think of himself as getting paranoid against cameras and his laptop but his brother also thinks of him as a criminal and sneaking around with work stuff. "It's just....... Stuff is mysteriously gotten done and some things have been going missing......" He started, finding it hard for once to put things into the correct words.
"So you think I'm doing it." Mokuba cut off with a sneer. He wasn't bothering to look at Seto any more; his eyes went back to just staring at his laptop. He jumped though when his eyes set on it though, it was now switched on and had already connected to the internet. Damn! Stupid Seto and his accusation made him miss it. "Nice to know what you think of me right now, Seto. Here was me hoping for once that you just came here to see me, to check on me or something, guess I was wrong."
"How di........" Seto started but didn't continue with the sentence, was a little stunned when he had looked in Mokuba's eye direction and all of a sudden the laptop before them was switched on. He knew that it was definitely off when he had come into the room...... Was Mokuba having some sort of joke with him? "If you're trying to get revenge on me for yesterday, stop it. I said sorry already for that, it's not funny."
"Why do you keep accusing me of things, huh!?" Mokuba snapped suddenly. Usually he would try his hardest to avoid arguments with Seto but sometimes, like now, he really didn't have much choice and wasn't very willing to take blame for something that he in no way in hell could have done."You've always got to have a logical explanation for things; if you don't have an explanation then it drives you nuts until you've found the most likely source of the problem. Hello! I was sat here the whole time! How could I have switched it on? That's what I mean about it doing that."
Seto blinked to himself for a moment, he didn't usually hear Mokuba so angry too often. But he could very well understand Mokuba's annoyance now; he hadn't been very tactful and had basically gone overboard with accusing him of things. "You're right......... But if you didn't do it then who or what did?" Seto replied, figuring he might as well surrender for once. He'd already angered Mokuba, when he obviously hadn't done anything, and he didn't particularly want a massive blow out of an argument with him.
"That's what I've been questioning." Mokuba huffed and crossed his arms across his chest and scowled at the now turned on laptop. "I want a new laptop or something, this one's crazed."
Bing Bing!
Before Mokuba could get up off the massive bed to check the email Seto had already bounced off his seat and walked over to the laptop. Seto's face said it all that he wasn't very happy, he was now also slightly curious as to how and why this had turned itself on. When he got closer he also noticed that the webcam light was blinking with red and it had connected to the internet, had also signed into Mokuba's email account, hence why it had binged with a message.
"Do you have this thing on automatic sign in or something?" Seto questioned to Mokuba, while still staring at the laptop.
"No." Mokuba replied simply, shaking his head with the reply even though Seto didn't see it.
Seto proceeded to go and press a button on the laptops keyboard but literally got the shock of his life when the button he was touching sparked up and slightly zapped him in the finger. Seto instantly retracted his finger off instinct and glare at the machine.
"What's the matter, Seto?" Mokuba asked with a slightly worried expression on his face.
"Stupid thing tried to shock me when I pressed a button." Seto grunted and glared at the machine like it had just tried to bite him.
Seto went to touch a button again and got the same effect as before but it was worse and electrocuted his whole hand. Seto yelled out in pain and grasped that hand with the other. His eyes darted onto the screen when it suddenly changed to screensaver mode and had the black screen with some writing whizzing across. Even with the bad pain in his hand he had curiosity to see what the wording said.
USER NOT PERMITTED ON THIS LAPTOP! THIS EXACT USER WILL BE EXECUTED! USER=SETO KAIBA!
For a moment Seto's mouth hung slightly open and was stunned by the words that were written on the screen. He heard footsteps rush over to him from behind and automatically knew it was Mokuba.
"Seto! Are you alright?!" Mokuba asked in a panicky voice, trying to look at the hand that had gotten shocked.
"What's the meaning of this, Mokuba?" Seto demanded darkly, not even looking at his baby brother.
Mokuba's face showed confusion at first but then figured out what he meant, the computer screen. He looked at it and read the words going across on the screensaver. "I.......... I don't know why it's saying that....... I didn't write that."
Seto didn't reply verbally, he just turned and started to walk off, still clutching his shocked hand with the other.
"Seto! Where are you going?! You know I didn't write that!" Mokuba called after Seto with an extremely worried look on his face, Seto didn't think he really wrote that....... Did he? He'd never seen that message before in his life. Seto seemed to almost have a dark look on his face, it scared him.
"I'm going to the virtual chambers." Seto replied simply as he continued to walk off, to leave his younger brothers bedroom.
"But Seto....... Your hand. We should get a doctor to look at it or something......." Mokuba tried to protest, thinking it must be bad if Seto was holding it that way.
"No." Seto snapped back bluntly. "I'm going to the virtual chambers; I'll feel better after that."
"The virtual chambers won't help you with that........" Mokuba continued with his protest but got cut off by Seto.
"I said no, Mokuba. And don't touch that laptop again, or better yet, just rip the power out of it from the socket." Seto replied as he left the room, making it almost sound like an order/instruction.
Mokuba just stood there a second, completely dazed from all that had just happened. He took Seto's advice though and walked over and yanked the power charger out of the wall, making the laptop switch off, must've not had any power in its battery.
Mokuba now felt completely tired from all the stress and confusion and noticed that it was now starting to get late. He put himself into his pyjamas and settled into his massive double bed and very soon fell into a distressed sleep.
He was very concerned about his big brother and worried that his hand needed medical attention but he knew that Seto's word is virtually law. If Seto said he wasn't going to have it checked then there was virtually nothing he could do. Plus what was with him and that virtual chamber? What was so special about it that had gotten Seto so obsessed about it........? Seto was starting to act weirder and weirder, in personality wise. That facial expression before he left his bedroom........ It was so dark all of a sudden. Maybe he didn't believe him, thought that he had done all these things. Oh well....... Nothing he could do right now, especially with Seto not willing to listen to him.
Little did the sleeping Mokuba know though, the little red webcam light on his laptop had just flashed on and was focused in his direction........... Watching him sleep......
Hope you enjoyed the chapter.
Sorry for the longer wait for this chapter, a longer gap than when the others were done. Had a 2nd knee surgery and it went well : ) Just delayed me on everything. Anyways hope you liked the chapter and review.
