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 raven haired boy's worries grew more and more as the days passed by.
"It's been days since I've seen him......." The boy muttered sadly to himself as he recalled the boredom and worry of the past couple of days.
Ever since the incident with his big brother in his bedroom, he hadn't seen him face to face. What has he been doing all this time? In the stupid virtual chambers he bet. He rarely left there in these recent days, not even to really have anything eat or drink.
To make things even worse the strange things continued, the feeling of him being watched over was relentless. The laptop thing had upset him so much that he had it removed from his bedroom; he didn't miss it because it had cause so much trouble for him. Seto had got Rowland to order him a new one that should arrive today, apparently acted like the old laptop was cursed or something, at least that's what he heard Rowland saying to other staff.
The raven haired boy heard his bedroom door open and looked up to see Rowland slowly walking in, carrying things with both hands.
"Sorry Master Mokuba for not knocking." Rowland apologised. "Got my hands full."
"That's alright Rowland." Mokuba excused, he didn't overly mind as long as he wasn't in the middle of something private. His brother was the one that stressed the rule more, and he often did it rudely. "Why have you got some of my clothes from the wash? That isn't your job."
"Oh.... Apparently they were already done earlier. Strange because the cleaning staff and maids are off today, things seem to magically get done around here." Rowland replied, being a little chattier with this Kaiba because he was way friendlier than his older brother. "The cleaner had left clothes in the washing machine but hadn't started on them because today's her day off but strangely when I went down there to check on something they were already done and dry cleaned with the tumble dryer that's combined to the washing machine. I'm starting to think this place has got a ghost running around or something."
"Yea........ Some strange things have been going on around here......" Mokuba muttered in agreement to himself.
Rowland didn't hear the younger Kaiba's words because it was too hushed. He continued to proceed entering the room and put the pile of clothes down on the massive bed. He lifted the clothes up a little to grab the object at the very bottom of the pile and started to carefully handle it.
"What have you got there, Rowland?" Mokuba questioned and tried to peer over with interest, didn't seem to be clothing to him.
"Your laptop, Master Mokuba, has arrived and I thought I'd deliver it to you while I was up here." Rowland answered simply and handed the relatively small machine over to the raven haired boy.
Mokuba spent a minute looking over the laptop and checking its outer looks. "Why isn't it in its box, like they usually do?" He asked finally. "You know, with its manuals and software. How do you expect me to totally set it up without those?"
"That won't be necessary, Master Mokuba." Rowland replied and continued on to explain. "Mr. Kaiba wanted to see and examine it first; he's already done everything on there."
"I see........." Mokuba said hesitantly, he hadn't expected Seto to have it first and set it up for him.
Rowland nodded and quickly put all of the fresh dry clothes away into their rightful places, without saying anything else. "Is there anything else that you need, Master Mokuba?" Rowland questioned finally and looked like he was getting ready to leave the room.
"No thank you Rowland." Mokuba answered and gave him a nod that indicated he was dismissed.
As soon as Rowland left he felt himself huff at no one in particular. Why does Seto have enough time to check his stupid new laptop but won't even come and see him? It was starting to get to the point where it didn't feel like they were family, didn't even feel like they even lived under the same roof. Plus he was getting worried about Kaiba Corp., for once, because with Seto always recently in the Virtual Chambers he couldn't be doing work for the company.
Mokuba sat at his desk with his new laptop switched on and was happily observing how well it ran, well as happy as he could muster up currently. Seto had totally run through everything on there to make it work fast and secure and had uploaded every program he could possibly ever need.
"This thing runs like a dream......." Mokuba muttered to himself as he continued to tap and click into the basically new machine. "To bad Seto could be more bothered to look at a machine more than me."
He couldn't help but feel a little bitter from that fact, Seto didn't want to be near him at the moment but was more than willing to fuss over every machine operated object in the house. Did he really think he had written that crude screensaver message? Possibly think that he rigged the machine to shock him? God knows, he thought it was most likely best to let Seto cool down though and it was obvious he must be in a mood with him because he hasn't bothered to check on him since.
Mokuba let out a little sigh to himself as he clicked on some things and easily managed to get on the internet first time without any problems. First thing he did was sign into his MSN account, like usual. When it had signed in a separate window binged open in front of his usual MSN list, on closer inspection Mokuba quickly figured out it was a contact add request box. He looked at the screen closer to read the email address, which was usually given, but strangely just given the word 'Unknown' where the email address should've been given.
"Should I add him?" Mokuba questioned himself out loud as he put himself into deep consideration. He didn't have an idea who this could possibly be, was it the strange person that had sent him emails before, the one that had tried to convince him that he was Seto? But then again how would it hurt just to add the person? Wasn't like he was a real threat to his life, plus if it was a weirdo he could very easily block him.
Mokuba clicked on the 'Accept' box after the consideration. There was nothing bad that this person could do and most likely just a person that had seen his profile on a network site and just wanted a chat with him. Also he was kind of curious on who it was and what he had to say to him.
The contact immediately became colourful and a 'signed in' box appeared on the bottom right hand corner of his screen. Mokuba frowned a little because it gave no name, just a blank space.
"Hello." Popped up a conversation window before Mokuba had much time to think about it. Once again didn't have any addressed name or an email to base off, mega strange.
"Hello?" Mokuba typed back cautiously, not sure of what else to write with that.
"Mokuba isn't it?" The next message popped up, sounded casual enough........ Mokuba gave a little sigh of relief to himself, so far he didn't sound like a creepy stalker. However it was only the person's second written line.
"Yes, who's this?" Mokuba typed back.
".........." There was a pause for a few moments which made Mokuba feel automatically a little uneasy. Why would a person need time to reply to that?
"Yugi." It replied finally.
"Oh, I have a very good friend called Yugi." Mokuba typed, trying to keep friendly.
"Cool, it's quite a common name, I guess....."
Mokuba was a bit stuck after that for things to say, this person wasn't exactly giving much to work off. "So, why did you add me?"
"Just wanted to get to know you better."
Mokuba pulled a funny face a little at that comment, funny comment. "Wanted to get to know me better after reading my profile?"
"Sure. Yes, let's just put it like that."
Mokuba's brow turned into a frown a little, maybe this person was a little weird, sure made some weird comments.
"So, what's it like living with THE Seto Kaiba?" The person questioned before Mokuba could reply to the last comment.
"How did you know I live with Seto?"
"Oh, wasn't it on your profile?"
"No....... I never put that. I and my brother's lives are private."
"Strange, feels like I know everything about you."
Mokuba was totally on the verge of blocking this person, why did these weird things seem to love to follow him? "I have no idea what you're talking about. Why did you add me? Are you a member of the press or something?"
"No. I've already said, just wanted to get to know you better." It replied simply.
Mokuba didn't care; he was already bored with playing this 'game' with whoever the heck this really was. Being a little curious was one thing but it was most likely risky to keep talking to this person, he might be someone from the press that was trying to dig up dirt on him and his brother. Seto was already mad at him; he didn't want Seto cursing him to death for speaking to someone like this.
Mokuba moved the mouse with his track pad to now hover over the 'Block' button.
"Don't touch that block button, if I were you that is." The person suddenly put up in the message box, making Mokuba nearly jump out of his skin. How the hell did this person know that his mouse clicker was hovering over the 'Block' button?!
"Mean it." The person added, obviously trying to make it sound serious.
Mokuba didn't accept threats though; he learnt that from his big brother. He clicked on the block button anyway and the boxed window darkened.
"That's the last time I'm ever going to add or allow these strange people on my list." Mokuba told himself, shaking his head in dismay.
"Why did you do that?" A fresh MSN chat box opened, making Mokuba jump.
"What the..........!?"Mokuba gasped out of shock. It was that person that he had just blocked. How did he unblock?
"Do you know how rude that is to just block people who are talking to you?" It continued and continued making Mokuba feel even more creeped out.
Mokuba didn't reply to the demanding words of his chatter and just signed off the internet and shut his laptop off. He noticed the machine had started to restart itself instead of the full shut down and knew what was coming, just like his last laptop......... He turned the laptop upside down and wrenched the battery out of the back, stopping it in the process.
Mokuba walked over to his bedroom door and opened it, he placed the laptop and it's wrenched out battery just outside and off to the side of his bedroom door. He no longer wanted something like that in the room; he was starting to think there was something wrong with this mansion. After placing the laptop on the floor he looked up to see the security camera focusing and zooming in on him, he felt an automatic chill run down his spine. No matter what everybody said, someone was watching him.......
Hope you enjoyed the chapter.
Sorry for more delay's, just been so busy with my everyday life and recovering still from my operation. Hope you enjoyed the chapter, I wish I had more time to add detail to this but felt like I needed to update this so........
