Next Chapter of my Yu-Gi-Oh story! I began and finished writing this in an all nighter I pulled for no reason other than INSOMNIA! * cries internally *

Okay.. Anyways I have nothing to say right now soo ENJOY!

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Seto didn't understand what made Mokuba get so attached to the Geek Squad. He walways was close to them, from the moment they met during Duelist Kingdom when Mokuba was trying to find him. Even before that they had been a thorn in his side. Maybe it was just him being overprotective.. Or maybe he just hated them. It didn't help that Mokuba became so close, they were having sleepovers and even came over to his mansion today! Oh yes, he remembered how many hours that Mokuba begged and pleaded for Seto to let them to come over, more than a whole hour. He even began preaching it practically religiously until he got his way, even in the smallest of conversations.

"Are you ready for summer Mokuba?"

"I'd be more ready if you let Yugi and his friends come over!"

"Good morning Mokuba"

"It is a good morning, because you're gonna let Yugi and his friends come over!"

"What do you want for lunch, Moki?"

"We should figure out what Yugi and his friends want to eat for when they COME OVER!"

Oh yes, he wanted to tear his hair out. But he's a sucker for Mokuba, never could say before even now. He wanted Mokuba to have the childhood he didn't get to have, which included inviting friends over, even if he didn't like them. Never once had Seto had a friend come over, Gozuboro was ruthless. At that thought, the middle of his chest, near his heart started throbbing painfully. He groaned and forced himself up, and walked to the kitchen.

Inside the kitchen, Seto could hear the up roaring laughter upstairs, and a pang of sadness hit him as he heard that. How he wished he could have friends.. but he couldn't.. He went back to digging in the cupboard, and pulling out his painkillers and anti-depressents, he heard movement but ignored it., thinking it was one of the maids or something, taking his meds and walked back to the computer, he couldn't think about it now, he had work to do.

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"What Can you tell us, Mokuba?" Yugi asked worriedly, he always knew Kaiba had a heart, he had shown it several times, but maybe these things were stopping him from being friends with them. Mokuba was wringing his fingers together and looked towards the door repeatedly as if worried his older brother would walk through the door and hear what they were talking about, which was a very good fear.

"Well, it's mainly Gozuboro's fault.. You know how h-he needed someone to take his place, and how he made my brother become s-super smart, b-but it was much w-worse than that.." Mokuba began," He would starve him, make him stay up days on end without sleep doing impossible problems, he used to beat us too.. But Seto got hit a lot more than me..." Yugi's eyes widened in shock, he knew Gozuboro was a power-hungry buisnessman, but he never thought he would go as far as to abuse Seto! Even Jou looked sad, and he usually hated Kaiba.

"Well, why didn't Kaiba just tell someone?" Honda asked," He could have gotten you out of the situation!" Mokuba shook his head and said," No, he couldn't have. We would have been taken away and probably separated, and if he tried Gozuboro would have done something bad to him.. He.." Mokuba stopped talking and started crying again.

"Don't worry Mokuba, we'll help you and Kaiba get better in no time," Anzu said softly, and the young boy smiled happily and whispered," Thank you..."

"Hey! Hey! No no no!" They suddenly heard Kaiba's voice, and they all dashed downstairs to see his older brother crouched slightly, and their new puppy (Which Mokuba saved off the street) holding some piece of paper on his jaws.

"My essay!" Mokuba shrieked in realization, he had already finished the assignment the teacher had given them over the summer, he wasn't about to do it again! "Dragon put that down!" The puppy's tail just started wagging faster as he turned to look at Mokuba, taking his eyes off of Seto, who lunged forward and missed the pup by a second, who dashed away and towards Mokuba, who tried to grab the pup as well. He dashed between Mokuba's legs, and this time Jou tried to grab the dog, and failed miserably as he crashed to the ground as well, the dog dashing into the kitchen. Seto ran into the kitchen, blocking one exit while Mokuba kept the other side blocked.

Seto looked over and grabbed a piece of beef from his uneaten plate on the table and held it out. "Dragon! Look, food!" He quickly said, and the dog looked over, tail wagging once again with more excitement. Any faster and he'd probably fly away. He dropped the papers and bounded towards Seto to get the food. Mokuba snatched the papers and placed them on the counter, high from where Dragon could reach them. Seto gave the pup the piece of beef and ruffled his fur. "Little troublemaker.." He muttered in a half-angry half-amused tone.

"Didn't think you would own a dog, Kaiba," Jou challenged playfully, breaking the silence. Surprisingly, Seto didn't glare back, instead he gave an amused smirk. "It's not that I bought one, it's just that SOMEONE has a habit of bringing animals home," Seto accused, staring at Mokuba, who was blushing sheepishly.

"I only brought five cats home!" Mokuba snapped, to which Seto snorted. "Yeah, in the last week.." He retorted. Mokuba crossed his arms and muttered something about 'cats being adorable' and looked away.

Yugi decided to take action. "Uh, Kaiba, we were going to go to have lunch at in the park Wednesday.. and Mokuba was coming too, I was wondering if you'd like to come too?" He stuttered quickly, and a hundred different emotions passed through Seto's face in a matter of moments. He seemed, confused and unsure of what to say.

"Uhh.. I-I guess I could.. I have nothing to do then.." He muttered, looking away to avoid eye contact. He was confused at their sudden change of attitude, but he didn't have the courage to say no for some reason.

"Great! We'll see you then!" Yugi said, and left with his friends. Shiuzuka was the first to break the silence. "Wow.. I never thought the Kaiba brothers were depressed or that Mr. Kaiba could.. do that to kids.." She muttered.

"Might explain why he doesn't trust us and is mean, maybe he never really had friends before.." Honda said gently.

"We'll figure it out later," Yugi said," For now I wanna finish my homework for the summer so I can concentrate on this" The others nodded in agreement and split up to head home, wondering what the next few weeks would bring.