A/N: I LOVE Darren Shan's adult books. Seriously. I mean, I read the Saga Of Darren Shan aaaages ago and loved them, I read the Demonata and loved it, but this City series? Woahzahs. He has so much more room to move without the confines of 'childrens' books XD. And Jeery's snarky insult to the Klu Kluxer, as a black guy, was AWESOME.

~Ava

~XxX~

"FUCK YES!" I punched the air after my triumphant yell, losing my composure at the sight of Kaiba's Blue Eye's White Dragon destroying the satallite that had been the main threat to him for the past fifteen minutes or so.

"And my Blue Eye's powerful destruction of your card brings your life points," He paused, a smug smile on his face, "to zero." I snickered as I heard Joey's voice float over the gap between the bridge sides.

"Woah...he actually did it." Serenity nodded furiously at her brother's words.

"And now we can get Mokuba and Tristan's body back." She said, her voice firm. I admired that girl in a strange way, she was oddly uncorrupted by the cynisism of those around her and seemed to be a perpetual optimist. Kaiba walked up to the kneeling and defeated Jinzo/Lector.

"Mokuba. Where is he?" His voice left little room for emotion as Jinzo/Lector started to laugh again.

"You'll never see your brother again, but I assure you, you'll be seeing me sooner than you think. I'll be back. And I'll claim your body for my own." His laughing was still ringing out along the bridge as he dissolved into binary and left no trace that he'd even been there. I turned towards the pick-up truck at the sound of crackling, the gap in the bridge fizzling into solidity. My friends raced over the new section towards us as a tunnel waved into life infront of Kaiba and myself. Without a second thought he raced towards it, Yugi yelling at him.

"Kaiba! We're coming with you!" Joey snorted and muttered something under his breath at his best fried's words, Kaiba half-turned and glared at Yugi.

"Don't you dare Moto. This is a family matter. Which I have to solve on my own." He shot me a look with his last three words, as if he could read my mind, before turning on his heel and running into the tunnel. Barely a second passed before I made a move to go after him, feeling Teá's hand on my shoulder as the others argued their opinions.

"...You're going anyway aren't you?" Teá asked, smirking slightly as I nodded, "I don't know what you see there Sophie, I mean, he's an ass." I wasted no time with my answer, keen to run.

"I know he's an ass, and I don't know why I like him. It's more..." I paused for a second, frowning slightly, "it's more, I'm determined to gain his trust. I know when it was that I fell in determination with him though." I said, turning my body back to the tunnel, ready to run.

"When was it then?" She asked, that same look in her eyes from the blimp, like she already knew.

"When he told me he wasn't my friend." I answered honestly, taking note of her slight smirk.

"That doesn't make any sense Soph." She said, smile twinging her lips.

"I know." I said, mirroring her expression, "But we never had any to begin with." I finished, running into the tunnel a full twenty seconds after him and thanking myself for ripping the heels off my shoes.

~XxX~

I caught up with Kaiba at what appeared to be a cliché fork in the road, he turned his head at the sound of footsteps, probably thinking of one of the Big Five, but frowned heavily and turned his head away at the sight of me.

"I said this was a family matter Callaghan." He said, his tone demanded an answer.

"I don't care for your words Kaiba." I snapped back before glaring at the fork ahead of us.

"I do not want to have to deal with you right now Callaghan." He hissed back glaring at me from the corner of his eyes as I folded my arms petulantly.

"Well that's too damn bad." I said back, refusing to leave.

"I will not tolerate your INSOLENT attitude right now Callaghan, I don't have the LUXURY to indulge you." His words were harsher than I'd expected which instantly got my hackles up, "Especially after your idiocy."

"What's that supposed to mean Kaiba?" I asked, frowning at his words, he glared sidways at me.

"You fumbled keeping my brother in your safety." He said, no hate behind his voice, just a cold finality. I flashed back to what I had said jokingly earlier, about being wounded by his words, this time thinking it not funny.

"Do-" I stumbled over my words as I felt the subtle force behind what he had said, "Don't say that." Shaking my head as I grabbed his upper arm, forcing him to look at me, "I-if something like this happened to either of you, any of you, because of me," my voice shuddered a little, "I couldn't take that." There was a second of silence, in which I refused to let go of his arm.

"SETO, HELP!"

Both of our heads snapped away from the other, instead staring down the righ-hand tunnel. Kaiba broke my grip instantly, running into the dark; though it didn't matter, I was several steps behind him.

"Mokuba?" I caught up with him in time to see the younger Kaiba standing directly infront of us, I smiled a tad at Kaiba's word of recognition as I leant against the wall and breathed heavily.

"Mokubaaa-" I choked on my words as I saw what was happening infront of us, "-aackk, Noah." I finished as Mokuba's head was replaced by Noah's, I glanced across to Kaiba, who was tight-lipped and glaring at Noah in a manner that made me feel that if looks were bullets, Noah would be dead. At least, until a white light blinded me for the second time that day.

~XxX~

A/N: Apologies for the short chapter, but College is overwhelming me again, I will continue to faithfully update this, but it's taking a back seat. Especially since I'm changing my History A-Level to either Psychology or Goverment&Politics...

~Ava