Hi everyone, here's the next update, things are starting to move but I didn't put everything I wanted, it's long enough as it is and I have things to do tomorrow morning and it's getting late. By the way, the Sens will lose, go duck go (technically I don't care who wins as long as it's not a team from Ontario lolll, that's the story of Quebec)
Oh yea, I'M 18!!!!!!!! (I so not feel any different from a few days ago, but now I can legally go out in bars lolll, as if my age ever stopped me before.)
Chapter sixteen: Repairing past errors.
(still the same evening (or rather night since it's getting really late by now))
"It doesn't matter, find whoever is responsible of this and make him fix things, it was supposed to be ready for today." Seto said, walking quickly down the hallways of Kaiba Corp. Things had got hard for him since Meyli was gone, after he graduated he could work more and therefore the company grew but running it on his own proved to be difficult for the young CEO and Mokuba was nowhere to be found, not surprisingly since he was the one who threw him out. He walked in his office and quickly closed the door before any of the annoying people following him could enter, he needed peace, he laid his back against the door and sighed, he would most likely spend the night here, again.
A soft sound brought him out of his small relaxation, his body tensed up instantly and he looked up, hazel stared back at him. "What are you doing here Wheeler?" He asked his new brother in law menacingly.
Joey stayed comfortably seated in the chair in front of Seto's desk. "I came here to talk to you, obviously." He stated the obvious, why else would he have come to Seto's office if not to talk to him?
Seto only glared back. "Leave." Was his only answer as he passed in front of him and sat at his own chair behind his desk. "Are you deaf?" He asked when he saw Joey hadn't move a single inch.
"We really are too idiots you know." Joey stated.
"Don't put me in the same bag as you, you are the retarded one here." Seto spat back.
"Yea, I guess you are right." Joey said, lowering his eyes, not facing Seto anymore.
Seto blinked and shook his head slightly, there was no way he heard that right. "What?"
"You are right, I am an idiot, and a loser, I'm always messing up everything in my life." Joey said still not looking up.
Seto stayed silent, he had no idea what to say, torn between his feelings and pride, the last and only time he had seen Joey like that was when his father died, and back then he had been seriously worried that the blond would hurt himself.
"Sometimes I envy you." Joey finally said. "To be able to totally isolate yourself from everything and throw everything away without remorse, it must be nice to feel nothing."
"…It's the worst felling you could ever have." Seto said, he said it so softly that Joey barely heard him. Kaiba laughed lightly, it was one of those laugh one does to ease himself, without any trace of joy. "At one point I simply couldn't take it anymore, I felt so much pain I couldn't bear it any longer, I thought that it would all go away if I stooped caring, which I did." Seto said. "I works, for a while, but your emotion always catch up with you, soon you end up locked in with your inner demons, with everyone you care about worrying about you and tried to help you, but you're too much afraid they might hurt you to accept their help. It's horrible Joey, it's cold and dark, everything you always wanted, everything you need is right there next to you but you're keeping yourself from grasping it because you feel you couldn't take it to be hurt again."
"I never meant to hurt you, I really sorry." Joey said. "What I said, I didn't mean it, you did a lot of things for me and I'm grateful for it, out of everyone you are probably the person who understands me the best, you are a valuable friend, not just to me, but to everyone else, don't make yourself and everyone else suffer because of my stupid mistakes and more importantly, don't make the same mistake I did, you only have one family."
They stayed silent, Seto closed his eyes and tried to pull his thoughts together, he wasn't sure of much things right now, did he really want to lose his sister again, not to mention all his friends and live the rest of his life in solitude. "Where is Meyli?" He finally asked, his voice was low and there was a tired smile on his lips.
"She's with Anzu, right now they must be discussing about just how much of a bastard I am." Joey said.
"You two had a fight?" Seto asked, not really surprised, but it explained Joey's depressed attitude.
"She heard what happened between us and was not really happy about it, I said a few things I should have and the argument slipped into 'forbidden' territories." Joey explained, not really wanting to get into the details.
"About Shizuka am I right?" Seto asked. Joey kept silent and looked away. Joey's silence was enough to answer the CEO's question, he didn't really know the details of what happened since he wasn't really friend with them back then and never dared to ask, it wasn't his business, all he knew was that Shizuka completely disappeared a little over four years ago and that she didn't leave on good term with Joey, the siblings had no contacts since then, well none that he knew of. Seto sighed and laid back in his seat. "You know, if it really is bothering you like that you should go see her and make things up, she is your only relative after all."
"You know nothing about what happened." Joey spat, glaring at Seto, he hated to talk about his sister.
"Maybe so, but I know how it feels." Seto said, keeping his calm, he could understand Joey, he passed about 10 years of his life without any news of his sister. "A wise person told me one day that it was never to late to change things as long as you want to. Just go talk to her."
A small tired smile appeared on Joey's face, he was the one who told Seto these words years ago. "Tell Meyli that I'll be out of town for a while ok?"
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The next morning Kaiba knocked on the door of the smaller apartment, it was different from the one Anzu had rented when she first arrived in the city, it was a lot smaller from what he could tell. Everyone has been surprised when she moved a second time soon after Raven arrived, especially to move in a smaller apartment, which she explained as being easier to take care of. Luckily for him it was Anzu who open the door, the surprise was apparent on her face when she saw him, Seto on the other hand remained expressionless, it was his usual reaction when he was feeling uneasy. They stayed there, staring at one another in silence, Anzu was the first one to talk.
"You are here for Meyli are you not?" She asked.
Seto nodded. "Is she still here?"
Anzu hesitated for a few second. "Well…she didn't stay long yesterday, I wasn't feeling well. Raven offered to take her home but she refused. I thought she went back to the mansion."
"On foot? She didn't take anything before leaving her house, that's 10 kilometres away." Seto said, anger was raising inside of him. "Are you telling me that you left your best friend, who is 4 months pregnant, leave alone at night after you were attacked yourself? What a friend you are."
Anzu also was starting to become angry, what right did he have to come and comment on her friendship after he fought with her boyfriend at his sister's wedding and throwing her out? She raised her hand and poked him forcefully in the chest. "Well sorry, but she just had to accept to let Raven take her back home so don't blame me."
Seto opened his mouth to protest but he noticed something weird, he grabbed he wrist to get a better look. "What's this?" He asked.
"It's nothing." She said, she pulled her arm back but Seto wouldn't let go.
With his other hand he lifted her sleeve up to her elbow, showing a purple mark on her arm, now that he could get a closer look he realised that the mark had the form of a hand. "That's doesn't look like nothing to me. Who did this to you?"
Anzu pulled back again and this time Seto let her take her arm back. "No one, it's just a bruise, no need to get all worked up over it."
Seto chuckled darkly. "Let me guess, you fall down the stairs, or you slipped on your own foot, or maybe you hurt yourself with the refrigerator? Don't take me lightly, I know all those stupid excuse and I know better, I can see this is a hand mark."
"So what? Yes it is, I am a dancer you know, I dance with people and accident happens, it's not the first time and certainly not the last one, I fell while dancing and the guy dancing with me tried to stop me from falling." She said sternly, not letting any room for discussion.
"What's going on here?" Raven asked, appearing behind Anzu.
Seto and him glared at each other for a few second. "I was leaving." Seto finally said. "I came to get Meyli but apparently she already left." He turned around and left, he didn't really believe Anzu but her explanation was plausible, it had already happen before, also bringing it up in front of Raven wouldn't do anyone any good, actually if he was right it would only make things worst for Anzu. He quickly sat in his car and left, right now he would focus on Meyli, whatever was going on with Anzu would have to wait. If Meyli wasn't with Anzu there was only one other place she might have been, he grabbed his cell phone which was attached on his belt and dialled the familiar number.
"Yes….." Yugi answered sleepily.
Seto knew that Yugi had to leave for the weekend and that he probably arrived only a few hours ago and was most likely half dead with lack of sleep but he was worried. "Yugi, it's me." He said. Yugi mumbled in return. "Sorry to wake you up but do you kno-"
"Yes." Yugi answered.
Seto ignored the fact that Yugi just cut him off. "And wh-"
"Here." Yugi cut him off again.
This time Seto grunted, he hated it when Yugi answered his questions before he even had the time to finish them, to him it meant that he was predictable and he hated it, it felt like a weakness to him. "And by 'here' do you mea-"
"Yes."
Starting to get really annoyed Seto snapped back. "Will you st-"
"No." Yugi answered, with a hint of amusement.
Seto took a deep breath to calm his nerve. "What about M-"
"He's here too." Yugi answered.
A smirk appeared on Seto's face. "Did I mention how much you a-"
"Not as much as you annoy me waking me up when you know I spent half of the night on a plane." Yugi countered.
"I'll be there soon." Seto said with a smile before hanging up, he sure missed his somewhat polite nagging with Yugi.
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Meyli yawned and stretched as she entered the kitchen, she didn't have an extremely good night, there were just too many things bothering her right now, if Yugi did not have any coffee in his house some heads will fall.
"Slept well?"
Meyli stumbled backward, holding herself against the wall, she was convinced she had an heart attack. "Y-Yugi…….good morning?" She said uneasily, after all she slept in his house with Mokuba while he was gone without even informing him, he must have been surprised when he arrived.
"Want some?" Yugi asked, slightly raising his coffee, he usually didn't drink coffee but he was only able to sleep three hours before Seto's phone call.
"Hum…yea…" She answered sitting down at the table. Yugi stood up, picked up a cup from the cupboard and served her some. "How are you? I suppose you didn't end up here for no reason. You fought with Joey am I right?"
Meyli smiled slightly, enjoying the taste of black coffee. "Is there a way to keep anything from you?"
Yugi just smiled with support. "Don't worry, things will get better soon." However his expression suddenly turned more serious. "But why didn't you go to see Anzu? You two are very close and you usually go see her when you don't feel right."
"Like I said, we can't hide anything from you." She sighed, getting ready to share her worries concerning Anzu with him when the door opened. Both of then looked up when Seto appeared in the kitchen, Yugi slightly waved in welcoming. The Kaiba twins looked at each other uneasily for a while, Yugi looked between them with amusement, after a while he just stood up and discretely walked out of the room.
After a few more moments of silence Meyli finally spoke. "Mokuba is sleeping on the couch." She told him, turning her back to him.
Seto sighed, he took a few steps until he was right beside her. "It's you I wanted to see."
Surprised, Meyli looked up at her brother, she had hoped for this for such a long time. It had been two weeks since she last saw her brother, she was worried by the bags under his eyes, she guessed that he spent most of those two weeks working as he usually did when he wasn't feeling right.
"I'm sorry." Seto said. "For everything I've said and done to you." He added, lowering his head. "What I did was horrible and I have no excuse. Will you forgive me?" He asked, looking in her eyes.
Tears of joys were forming up in Meyli's eyes, she stood up and threw her arms around her brother's neck, hugging him tightly. "That's a stupid question, or course I forgive you." She broke up the hug to look at him. "I'm sorry too. I should have listened to you instead of accusing you like that." She said.
"It's alright, don't worry about it." Seto said.
"So, does that mean that we are an happy little family again?" Both twins turned their head toward the source of the sound. Mokuba was standing in the door with a grin on his face, Yugi was standing next to him. "Then you have no reason to ground me because I picked Meyli up at the airport."
"Nice try." Seto said with a grin of his own. "But I'm not going to let you off the hook that easily after stealing my car."
Mokuba shrugged lazily. "At least I tried." He sat down at the table followed by Yugi who served himself a second cup of coffee.
"How did you know I was here?" Meyli asked Seto.
"I had a talk with Joey." Seto said.
"Oh." Meyli's mood suddenly dropped. "And how is he?"
He shrugged. "He manages. He told me to tell you that he'll be away for a little while."
Meyli was surprised to hear it. "Where is he?"
"He didn't told me, but if I had to guess I'd say he went to see Shizuka." He answered.
"Shizuka?" Yugi said with astonishment.
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Joey waited patiently for someone to open the door, he hadn't been this nervous since the day he asked Meyli to marry him, the last time he saw his sister hadn't been joyful, sure she made various attempt to talk to him but he never gave her the chance until she eventually gave up, technically she had no reason to forgive him or even talk to him. The door finally opened and a small red haired boy appeared in the doorway, he was at most 3 years old with bright green eyes.
"Hi!!!!" The little boy greeted him cheerfully, reminding Joey slightly of Mokuba, however twice as cute.
Joey couldn't help himself but smile, the little kid was just too cute, he knelt down in front of him. "Hi, you must be Jayson am I right?" The little kid nodded happily. "Tell me, is your mother here?" The kid nodded again and disappeared inside the house and Joey could hear him calling for his mother through the door.
Joey stood up again and waited patiently, soon the door opened again and a young woman appeared, when she saw Joey right in front of her she froze. "Joey?"
"Hi sis." Joey replied uneasily.
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This is it for now, so now everyone is happy again, Seto is getting suspicious and next time Shizuka will tell Joey something troubling.
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