Disclaimer: Journey Maker doesn't own Yugioh, but the Poem is mine...

Chapter Eight

As Joseph was driving down the street towards the Hotel where Seto and his wife were staying, all of a sudden there was a car coming towards his at a high rate of speed.

Mokuba yelled, "WATCH OUT!"

Joseph yelled, "OH MY GOD!"

Then all of a sudden, the other car hit his car head on. There was this horrible sound of metal hitting metal. Cars around them were trying to get out of the way, people were screaming and then there was a terrible silence.

In the Hotel room where Seto and Tea were staying, Seto was sitting on the couch when he stood up and yelled, "MOKUBA!"

Tea started shaking because she could almost feel the pain her husband was feeling. Seto grabbed hold of the chair that was near him and he said, "Something's happened to my brother."

Seto fell to his knees, tears ran down his cheeks as he felt the bond between them break, and then there was this terrible emptiness.

Tea got down next to Seto, she took him into her arms, and she started whispering soothing words to him. Seto stood up and wiped his face and then he said, "I've got to find out what happened."

Then there was a knocking sound on the door, and when Seto opened the door, there were two Policemen standing there and one of them said, "Are you Seto Kaiba?"

Seto nodded that he was and the other Policeman said, "Sir, we hate to tell you but your brother was involved in a fatal car accident. We will need you to come down to the Morgue to identify the body."

Seto just stood there not believing what he had just heard, his brother was dead, not just could not be. His brother was alive; he had just called and spoken to him. These Officers had to be wrong.

Tea walked over to where Seto was and she said, "My husband and I will be down in a little while, will you please leave."

Tea closed the door and she helped Seto back into the other room and then she picked up the phone and she called the Manor and spoke with Roland.

"Roland, I need you to get to New York as soon as you can. The Police were just here and they old Seto that Mokuba had just been in a tragic automobile accident and we will need you." Tea told him.

Roland told Tea, "I'll be there in a few hours, please take care of yourself, you don't need to subject yourself to any stress, you're pregnant and any undue stress could be devastating to your condition."

Tea hung up the phone, then she went over and sat down next to Seto, and she told him, "I just called and spoke to Roland and he said that he'll be here in a few hours. We need to go and identify the body and find out what exactly happened."

Seto looked at his wife with tears falling down his face and he said, "I know, but it's going to be so damn hard. He was suppose to graduate and go on to become the worlds best pianist and now this, it just can't be happening."

Seto got up, he turned to his wife, he wiped the tears from his face, and Tea helped him get to the bathroom where he washed his face.

Tea went to the phone, called down to the front desk, and asked the man there, "Could you please have a car brought around front, my husband and I have to go somewhere."

The man told her, "I'll have a car waiting for you and your husband."

Then Tea and Seto walked out the door and as they went to the elevator, Seto really did not want to enter it, but Tea took his hand and they got in. As the elevator opened on the ground floor, they got out, walked outside, and got into the car.

Tea then asked the driver, "Please take us to the Police Station."

When the driver pulled up out front of the Police Station, he opened the door and helped Tea out and when Seto got out he said, "Please wait here, we will need you to take us back to the Hotel."

They walked inside and as they went up to the Desk Sergeant, Tea said, "My husband, Seto Kaiba was just informed that his younger brother Mokuba James Kaiba was involved in an accident."

The Desk Sergeant then motioned for another Officer to come over and take both Mr. and Mrs. Kaiba into the other room. "Detective James will be in to speak to the two of you." The Sergeant told them.

As they sat there, the door opened and a man came in and he held out his hand to Seto and he said, "My name is Detective James, and I will need Mr. Kaiba to come with me and identify the body. "

Tea then said, "I will be coming too."

The Detective led the way down the corridor and when they got to the double doors with the words CITY MORGUE written on them, Seto tensed up and Tea whispered, "It'll be alright, I'm here with you."

The Detective gave each of them a mask to put on and then he took them into a room where a body was lying on a table with a sheet over it. "This is the body that was taken from the wreckage of the car. Is this the body of your brother?"

The Coroner then lifted the sheet and Seto wanted to just die, there lay his brother and his body was a broken shell. Seto nodded that it was his brother, and as tears streamed down his face Seto asked, "Was he in a car with someone else?"

The Detective nodded that he was and then Seto asked, "Was the other person's name Joseph William Wheeler?"

The Detective knew that it was against the rules, but this young man had just identified the body of his brother, and he said, "Yes the driver's name was Joseph William Wheeler, why do you know who he is?"

Tea said, "He was a good friend of Mokuba's."

The Detective showed them the way out and as they got outside, Seto leaned against the wall and he just fell apart. He had just identified the body of his little brother, the one that he had promised his father that he would always protect and he wasn't there to keep him from dying.

Tea touched Seto's arm, he wiped his face, they walked out of the Police Station, and as they got back into the car, the driver took them back to the Hotel. They got out of the car and walked back to their room.

When they got back inside the room, Tea closed the door, she watched her husband walk back into the other room, and it broke her heart to see him like this.

He was dealing with the death of his little brother, the one person whom he had promised to keep safe, and now this. Tea wanted to take away some of the pain that her husband was feeling, but she knew that he would have to deal with this alone. She would be there for him, but right now, he needed to be alone.

Back in Domino:

Roland got into his car and he drove to the airport and when he got there he boarded the private jet owned by Kaiba Corp., the pilot took off, and soon he would be in New York and be there to help Tea keep Seto from falling completely apart over the death of Mokuba.

Back in New York:

Being that both Joseph and Mokuba had their identification cards on them that said that they were associated with Juilliard, Dean Peters was notified of the accident that took the lives of both of them.

Dean Peters was devastated by the News, and he called a Meeting of all the Professors and he related to them what the Detective had told him.

Ms. Periwinkle couldn't believe it; she had just talked to Mokuba and now this. She went to the Dean and she asked him, "Is there anyway that I can go talk to Mokuba's brother, I have some things in the Music Department that belongs to him."

Dean Peters told her, "I'll drive you there myself and we'll see if Mr. Kaiba will speak to us."

Tea opened the door, there stood two people, and Dean Peters said, "My name is Dean Peters and this is Ms. Periwinkle, we want to know if we can speak to Mokuba's brother?"

Tea let them in and she said, "Let me go see if Seto will talk to you."

Seto came out of the room and he asked, "Why are you here?"

Ms. Periwinkle said, "Mokuba was in my Music Class and he was one my best students. He has talked about how you let him come to Juilliard and that he has wanted to make you proud of him. I've got some of these things that he left in the Music room and I want you to have them."

She gave Seto the envelope and as he stood there looking at it, Ms. Periwinkle said, "I'm so sorry for your loss."

Seto smiled at her and he said, "Thank you for coming, Mokie has talked so fondly of you and I want to thank you for encouraging him to want to learn more about music."

Ms. Periwinkle then asked him, "There is a small Chapel near the Campus and I was wondering if you could have the services there. All the students who were in the Music Class will love to come and pay their respects."

Tea then said, "That is a very nice thing to say, I'm sure that we can do that, can't we Seto?"

Seto looked at Tea and then he said, "Alright, I will make the arrangements and I'll let you know when the time is, and thank you both for coming here."

After they left, Seto went back into the other room and as he sat down, he opened the envelope and took out the things that Ms. Periwinkle brought.

Inside he found several songs that Mokuba had written and the one that he was going to play at the Concert.

There was a cassette, Tea took it and put it into the stereo, and when Seto heard the haunting song and he read what the title of the song was, it brought tears to his eyes.

Then there was a Poem that Mokuba had written and as Seto started reading it, he stopped, he could not continue. Tea took it and she read what the Poem said:

Poem for Seto

Yesterday, When I was young, you were there to keep me safe

You were the one who was there for me if I got scare

I was never alone, because you were there for me

Today, I am standing here and telling the world how proud of you I am

You are the one who is always there for me no matter what

I was never alone, because you were there for me

Tomorrow, I know that I will be the best that I can be and it is all because of you

You have showed me how to make it in this strange world

I was never alone, because you were there for me….

When Tea was through reading the Poem tears were running down her face, she looked at Seto, and she softly said, "Mokie loved you so very much."

There was a knock on the door, when Tea opened it there stood Roland, she just completely fell apart, he put his arms around her and led her back into the room, and as he had her sit down, Seto stood up and he whispered, "He's gone."

Seto passed out and Roland caught him before he hit the floor. Tea stood there as tears ran down her face, and Roland laid Seto on the couch and then he turned to Tea and he said, "Call down to the desk and ask if they have a doctor on call."

Please R&R..

Chapter Nine Coming Up..Saying good-bye to Mokuba and Joseph...