Chapter 5

Not a word had been spoken between father and son as they rode in the limo approaching the Kaiba mansion. Jay hadn't seen his parents since before the beginning of the trial and had no belongings of his own with him as he entered his new home. Kaiba hoped that buying everything new for Jay would help him accept his fresh start and also cheer him up.

"Welcome to your new home." Kaiba said as Jay stared blankly out of the window. "From now on if you ever want anything, all you have to do is ask." There was still no response so he attempted to carry on the conversation and twist it to what was on his mind. "For example, if you wanted to change your name from Joseph to something else then you may do so."

"My name is Jay." Said the boy in a quiet voice.

"I know." Kaiba nodded. "But on your birth certificate it says Joseph." The fact that his son had the same name as Wheeler made him sick. "I know that lots of kids would love to be able to change their names."

"My mommy gave me my name." Jay replied still looking out the window.

Kaiba didn't say anymore about Jay's first name as the boy had touched a sensitive subject through no fault of his own. He himself would have hated it if Gozaburo had tried to take away his first name. It was one of the two things that he had left to remind him of his mother, Mokuba being the other.

"Your last name will be changed from Wheeler to Kaiba since I'm your father now." Kaiba stated knowing that at least he could change his son's surname without the boy's say so.

"You will never replace my daddy." Jay said sadly as he thought about his parents.

It felt like a knife had just been stabbed into Kaiba's heart as he heard his son compare him to Joey. Anger emerged from his pain but he held it back. "Well surely there must be some kind of new toy that you'd like." There was no reply.

The limo stopped and the two of them got out and made their way to the front door. The door opened before they had even reached it as Kaiba's maid stood there holding it open. From behind her somebody jumped out and yelled; "Surprise!"

"Mokie!" Kaiba exclaimed at seeing his brother. "You're back early."

"So who's this?" Mokuba asked staring down at Jay who he had just noticed.

"This is Jay." Kaiba introduced the boy. "He'll be living with us from now on."

"Hello Jay." Mokuba waved but got no reaction from the boy whatsoever.

"He's had a long hard day." Explained Kaiba before he crouched down to Jay's level. "I want you to go with this lady and she'll take you to your new room. I'll be along shortly."

The maid held out her hand and led Jay up the extravagant stairway and to his room.

Kaiba closed the front door and began to make his way into the kitchen followed by Mokuba who asked; "What made you finally decide to adopt?"

"He's not adopted, he's my son." Kaiba said as he placed two glass tumblers onto the counter. He saw the blank expression on his brother's face. "That makes him your nephew."

"Yeah right, pull the other one." Mokuba exploded into laughter. "You haven't had any kind of relationship with a woman to result in having a child." An evil smile began to creep onto his face. "And now that I think about it, you haven't had any kind of relationship with a guy either, which would lead me to think that you were asexual if I didn't already know that you are extremely unsociable." He stopped and the smiled disappeared from his face as he saw the angry look burning on his brother's face. "Okay I get the hint, I'll shut up now."

Kaiba opened the refrigerator and took out a bottle of mineral water which he opened and poured it into the two tumblers. "It's a long story that I don't wish to retell, but the bottom line is that the mother no longer wants him and contacted me to take him." He picked up on of the waters and gulped it back.

"So I really am an uncle!" Mokuba said in amazement. "But why didn't you tell me sooner?"

"I only found out about him myself a few weeks ago." He picked up the other tumbler which was meant for Jay and began to make his way back to the stairway. "I've only just gotten all of the legal stuff finalised today as well." He decided that Mokuba didn't need to know all of the details.

"This is going to be so cool!" Mokuba shouted with joy and began to race up the stairs to re-meet his nephew.

Over the next couple of months Kaiba spent as much time as possible with Jay. When he wasn't able too be with him, on numerous occasions, Kaiba made sure that he showered his son with gifts; a mistake which lots of parents make to try and buy their child's affection. Although the two of them got along well with each other, Jay still addressed Kaiba as mister, and not father or dad as Kaiba had hoped. But he knew better than to force children to do something they didn't want or weren't ready to do. Eventually Jay would come around in his own time. And knowing that the Wheelers would probably try to take their child back, Kaiba had hired a bunch of lackeys to keep them, and their friends, at bay.

One evening Jay was happily sat in his room as he waited for Kaiba to return home from work. Kaiba Corp was extremely busy at the moment with preparing to launch a new type of technology which would change the way that games were made and played, that Kaiba hadn't been home early for almost a fortnight.

Mokuba approached the open door to Jay's room and knocked gently to get the boy's attention. It was left to him to tell Jay that Kaiba wouldn't be home until late, again.

"Hi, uncle Mokie." Jay said with a smile before he realised that bad news was about to be delivered. His smile vanished. "He's working late again isn't he?"

Mokuba nodded. "I'm sorry." He watched the disappointed boy as he sighed and continued to carry on with some drawings that he had been doing at his desk. He entered the room and made his way over to Jay, passing by mountains of new toys, many of which had not been played with.

"This is for you." Jay turned around and handed Mokuba a drawing of the two of them playing football. At the top it said 'Me and uncle Mokie'.

"Thank you. It's really good." Mokuba smiled in return. He glanced over to the other pictures that Jay had drawn which where sprawled out over his desktop. There was a picture titled 'Me and mister Kaiba' Which Mokuba could make out his brother pushing Jay on a park swing Jay sat colouring a picture of three people which didn't yet have a title. "Who's that a picture of?"

"That's me." Jay pointed out to the biggest person. "That's my little brother, Nathan, and my baby sister, Aurora."

"You have a brother and sister?" Mokuba asked in surprise.

Jay nodded. "I miss them." He said with a croaky voice and reached out for a glass of water that stood on his desk but accidentally knocked it over his drawings. "Oh no!"

"Don't worry about it." Mokuba told his upset nephew. He mopped up the spilt water with an item of clothing that he grabbed from nearby and then picked up the two pictures. "I'll put these somewhere safe to dry."

"Thank you." Jay sniffed as Mokuba left his room.

As he descended the stairs, Mokuba looked at the drawing of Jay and his two siblings when an idea struck him. There was no way that a mother would give up one of her children without the other, so if he could track down the other two he'd persuade his brother to adopt them two. He knew how strongly Kaiba felt about siblings saying together. This way Jay could be with them and have somebody to keep him company during the times that Kaiba was working late.