Midnight Meetings

Seto was in a bit of shock. This couldn't have been the first time Mokuba had done something like this, due to the look of horror on his servant's face. His younger brother went behind his back and that made him a little angry.

"I want the two of you downstairs right now." He grounded out. Mokuba and Shizuka did not need to be told twice. With all haste, they ran downstairs to the living room, not wanting to stir the flames of the elder Kaiba's anger.

The teen sat on Mokuba's bed, breathing in and out, trying to calm himself for what he was about to do next. These things needed to be done with a cool head.

"Mokuba was having a relationship behind my back." He thought. "Not only that, it was with the mutt's sister. On top of that, he asked the servants to play lookout for him." He thought of all the reasons why his brother would do something like that. Most likely, his brother was aware of his 'interactions' with Jounouchi.

Seto also realized that he wasn't angry as much as he was hurt. Perhaps the thing that hurt him was that Mokuba had to go behind his back to pursue this relationship.

He thought about Shizuka. If she was anything like her brother, Mokuba would be in good hands. Of course, this led to his thinking of Jounouchi. Yeah, there was no denying that there was an infatuation. But love? Seto didn't love Yami after all the times they had sex and it was probably mutual. In fact, from what he observed in the park, it looked like he loved Yuugi. But, as far as he knew, the mutt hated him. Seto was not going to start up another no-strings attached relationship at this moment, especially with some dumb mutt that he may or may not be attracted to.

However, at this moment, Seto decided that he wasn't going to deal with his non-existent feelings for Jounouchi. Rather, he was going to deal with his younger brother.

Heading down the stairs, he saw his brother rubbing Shizuka's back, as if to calm her. She must be worried about what was going to happen to her.

As shadows loom with the coming of light, so Seto entered the room. His face was unreadable. Even Mokuba couldn't tell what was going to happen and so he prepared for the worst.

"I am going to speak and you are not to interrupt me until I am finished." The elder Kaiba began. Both Mokuba and Shizuka nodded. "First off, does Jounouchi know about this relationship?" The girl shook her head. "So the two of you were going behind our backs to pursue this relationship? Am I correct to assume that you did this because you were aware of our antagonistic relationship?" Again, they nodded.

Seto closed his eyes and breathed deeply. This was the moment that he might regret saying. "I really don't care whether the two of you are in a relationship but you should have been honest about this. You should have told Jounouchi or myself that you were going out. It would have prevented something like this."

He then turned to Mokuba. "Mokuba, your actions concerning the servants was wrong. They are not your lookouts; they are here to do the tasks that they are paid to do. What you did was wrong. For that you are grounded for a week. No TV, no video games, no going out."

Mokuba would have protested but realized that he was getting off easy. "I'm sorry, Seto." There was nothing left to say after that.

The elder Kaiba nodded. And with that, Seto left without saying anything more. What was there to say? "I'm jealous"? Because he was. After all, even his little brother had someone to love.

Seto sighed and walked further and further away from his house. He didn't care where he was going. He just wanted to leave. The wind blew, causing Seto's brown hair to shuffle in the wind. He ran his fingers through it and looked around. It was weird. He had never noticed before but there were so many couples around him. Everywhere he looked, there were annoying hyper high school girls holding the hands of high school boys. The girls who weren't with anyone were giggling with a group of their friends over how the guy they liked talked to them the other day. It seemed that everyone had someone, and they were all so happy.

Usually Seto never cared. He had more important things to worry about. So why now?

He wouldn't have a problem with getting a girlfriend. Oh no. Every single day at school he would find tons of love letters in his locker with a bunch of different girls asking to go out with him. Not to mention that whenever he walked down the halls, he would have a bunch of vapid fan girls following him.

But he didn't want one of them. They annoyed him. He wanted someone different. And sadly, that someone was Jounouchi Katsuya.

He didn't know what it was that drew him to Jounouchi, though. Jou was so…stupid. Yet, he gave Seto feelings that he never even thought he had.

On the other side of the sidewalk, was Yuugi. There were a bunch of bullies down the block he usually walked down to get home, so he decided to take the long way home. Looking up, he saw Seto.

"Hey, Yami, didn't you need to talk to Kaiba about something?" Yuugi asked Yami through mind link. "Yes, there is, abiou. Do you mind if I take over?" Yami asked back. "No! Of course not!" And with a flash of the Sennen Puzzle, Yami opened his eyes to find that he was in control of his hikari's body.

"Hey! Kaiba!" Yami called out. Seto snapped his head around only to see Yami standing behind him.

"What do you want?" Seto said coldly.

Yami chuckled. It was just like him. "Actually, I wanted to talk to you about something. Something important."

This wasn't my best chapter but it was necessary to finish this so I can continue. From here on in, this will be my own story. The plots will come from me and the direction of the story will come from me. So, I hope that you will join me for the next chapter of Young Hearts, Run Free