Chapter 6

It was nearing lunchtime as Kaiba sat behind the desk in his office. Busily typing away on his laptop he would not be stopping to eat until he had finished putting together the speech for the meeting he had that afternoon. Normally he didn't have any problems with speeches but just recently he found himself reciting children's songs and stories inside his head which made it difficult to concentrate. He stopped to reread what was typed and frowned before he deleted the last paragraph as he was sure that his business partners didn't what to know where and how it was best to eat green eggs and ham.

Letting out a sigh Kaiba flopped back in his chair. It seemed so long since he had spent time with Jay. Sure he phoned his son each night before bedtime to read him a goodnight story or rhyme but it just wasn't the same. He longed to be with him to make up for all those years that he wasn't around and prove that he could be a good father.

Suddenly the doors to his office flew open and Mokuba entered at a quick pace. Kaiba knew instantly that something was wrong as his brother always phoned ahead and knocked before entering his work space. He stood up from his chair. "Mokie what's wrong?" he asked fearing that something had happened to Jay, but Mokuba didn't answer as he continued to head straight towards him.

What happened next Kaiba would not have expecting in a million years but did. He staggered slightly as he was struck in his jaw by his brother's fist. The inside of his lip cut as it rubbed against his teeth and warm blood oozed out. He put his fingers up to the wound as he stared at his brother.

Mokuba rubbed his hand and whimpered slightly not knowing just how much the punch would hurt him too. He looked up and met his older brother's shocked look. "Sorry, I didn't mean to make you bleed." He apologised on seeing the blood before his voice turned cold. "But you deserved it."

Kaiba looked at the blood on his fingertips and slowly rubbed them together. "Please do enlighten me to your reasoning." He spoke with a hint of anger in his voice that he tried his best to hold back.

"You lied to me. Again!" snapped Mokuba. "But more importantly, you lied to Jay."

"What are you talking about?" Kaiba asked as he sat back down in his chair.

"I've spoken to our lawyers and they told me everything about how you got custody over Jay." He explained, but didn't say that he'd been trying to trace Jay's siblings through them.

"And?" Kaiba asked with an eyebrow raised. He did his best to stay calm as he knew that his younger brother would have disapproved of the whole thing.

"You bribed a judge to get what you wanted!" Mokuba screamed in disbelief. "And then you made him believe that his family didn't want him anymore!"

"He needed to be here with us, where he belongs." Kaiba tried to make Mokuba see that Jay should have been with him from the start. Then he grumbled; "Not with those Wheelers."

"They're his family!" Mokuba screamed again.

"He's my son." Kaiba said through clenched teeth. Why couldn't Mokuba see the situation through his eyes? If it was him who had found out that he had a son, he knew that Mokuba would surely do the same, or at least a similar, thing. But then again Mokuba was the kind of man who would be there from day one of his child's birth.

"Is that really the reason why you wanted him? Because of his bloodline?" Mokuba asked as he slowly leaned onto his brother's desk. "Or did you just want to get at Joey?"

"How dare you question me on something like that!" finally losing control of his temper, Kaiba rose and reached out towards Mokuba who was faster than him and stepped quickly out of his range. He couldn't believe that his own brother thought that he'd only done what he had to spite Joey. That was just an added bonus. "This is my son we're talking about."

"I know, which is why it's important that he's not being used as a weapon in some stupid little conflict between the two of you." Mokuba let out a sigh. "Children aren't possessions that you can just buy or take from others. They're people just like the rest of us, but unfortunately they don't have the chance to say what's best for them. That's decided by their parents and the law. You corrupted the law to your own means which makes you no better than our stepfather." Kaiba listen to what his brother had to say but stared at Mokuba coldly for comparing him to Gozaburo. Mokuba continued; "You've ruined a perfectly happy child."

"I haven't ruined him." Kaiba argued.

"Really?" Mokuba's eyebrows were both raised with sarcastic surprise. "How much time have you spent with Jay recently? You're the CEO of your own company so surely you could arrange to spend time with him…"

"I've been busy." Kaiba interrupted as he seated himself once more.

"You're always busy!" Mokuba exclaimed. "If you bothered to spend time with him you'd see that he's miserable. All of the toys that you bought him to try and bribe his affection remain in their boxes as he'd rather draw. He draws pictures of the things he loves and what makes him happy." He reached inside his pocket, removed and unfolded the picture of Jay, Nathan and Aurora, before he passed it across to his brother. "These are the two people he loves and misses the most."

Staring down at the picture Kaiba had a hard time trying to figure out who the people were. He guessed that one of them was his son and that the others were Joey and Mai. It was hard to tell what the young boy had drawn as it was all blurred after having water spilt on it.

"They're his brother and sister." Mokuba explained.

"My heart bleeds." Kaiba said rolling his eyes and turning in his chair so that his back was now facing his brother. A sign that he wasn't going to pay anymore attention to what would be said.

"You tore siblings apart." Mokuba said trying to keep himself from shouting. This was the thing that he found hardest to take as his brother had believed very strongly in them staying together back when they where at the orphanage. He got no reply from the chair. "I give up! It's no good trying to talk to you when you're like this. It's just proof that you're still the same insensitive, arrogant asshole that Gozaburo created." He shouted but still got no answer.

As Mokuba made his way out of the office he stopped. His voice remained calm as he spoke; "Seto, you're my brother and I will always love you because of that, but don't expect me to stand by you as you do something that I don't agree with." And then he was gone.

Kaiba heard the door close as Mokuba left the room. He turned back round and placed the drawing flat on the desk. He had been biting on his swollen lip and his eyes were watering slightly. Mokuba knew his weak spot, which would make him think hard about what he had done. How could he have tore Jay away from his brother and sister and not thought about how each one was feeling? Closing his eyes, he leaned back in his chair and thought about what he should do next.

Two hours later when his phone rang he was still sat like that with wet checks. He wiped his eyes before picking up the phone. "Kaiba." He said as usual.

"The limo's ready for you sir." Roland's voice came down the line.

He had forgotten all about the meeting he was due to attend. "It won't be needed." Kaiba said as he stared at the screensaver on his laptop, which was a continuous loop of pictures of Jay. "Tell them to postpone the meeting. No tell them to cancel the whole thing. I have more important matters to be dealing with." He slammed down the receiver.

The picture of Jay that was currently being shown was of the first time he had smiled after coming to live at the mansion. Kaiba smiled at the sight and memory of that day as tears rolled down his face.