Battle 05: Chopsticks
The Kaiba twins, Laria and Seto, stared at their younger brother, Mokuba. The boy with the purple eyes was calmly eating his dinner, oblivious to the fact that he was being stared at by his siblings, or at least he tried to pretend he didn't notice.
Tired of having his siblings argue about everything, including their preferences in eating utensils, Mokuba decided to enter neutral grounds. Using a spork hybrid or a half spoon half fork mutant, was forbidden, those were offensive to both spoons and forks and therefore offensive to both his siblings.
Mokuba had attempted to remain neutral and on both his siblings' good sides, as it meant more birthday and Christmas presents and better hand me down duel monster cards, but his attempt to equally use a spoon and fork at the same time failed miserably. His dear siblings, because truly he loved them dearly insanity aside, always found something wrong with poor little Mokuba's eating methods.
"How come you have the spoon on your left hand and the fork on your right?" Seto had asked sounding more offended than that time someone confused the Blue Eyes White Dragon with a lizard; though he probably would have been more offended had he heard correctly and noticed that the novice aka noob was incorrectly saying that the Blue Eyes White Dragon was a wizard type, because any word that was somewhat related to the Dark Magician could not be used to describe Seto's precious Blue Eyes White Dragon.
"How come you're eating the yummier food with the spoon and not the fork?" Laria had made it sound as if it was the biggest tragedy of the century.
No matter how hard Mokuba tried to be fair between the two eating utensils, he found that it was simply impossible. Why did his siblings have to argue about everything and always pick opposing sides? He didn't know.
Finally, Mokuba had enough and cracked under pressure. Both Seto and Laria had been uncharacteristically quiet since the time Mokuba ran away from the dinner table and locked himself in his room, refusing to touch neither spoon nor fork.
When the next day came and the three siblings were once again together for a meal, Mokuba was scolded for eating with his hands instead of his spoon. As you might have guessed the one that scolded him was Seto.
At first Laria took Mokuba's habit of eating with his hands as nothing unusual. He was a little kid, and little kids loved to eat with their hands and get their faces all messy with ketchup, sauce, chocolate syrup or whatever brightly colored substance was in their food, it was normal. But when the behavior continued although Mokuba had a "perfectly good fork" sitting right in front of him on the table, Laria was starting to get impatient. The boy was either stalling for time to think about his choice or blatantly refusing to choose.
In an effort to end their endless sibling rivalry, at least for the time being, by breaking the eating utensil tie between Seto's spoons and Laria's forks, the Kaiba twins agreed on forbidding Mokuba from eating with his hands. But the twins only said Mokuba had to use eating utensils and did not specify which ones, assuming that Mokuba would have no choice but to pick a spoon or a fork.
The Kaiba twins were proven wrong when he next day Mokuba abided their rules by using eating utensils, but he did not touch a spoon or fork. He was using chopsticks.
That's when Laria and Seto realized the gravity of their problem. With all the pressure they put on Mokuba to take their respective sides, they had pushed the boy into taking a side of his own. But those chopsticks, what were they? Allies of the spoons? Allies of the forks? Neutral? Or perhaps the ultimate enemy of both?
End of Battle 05
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Disclaimer, I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh! and I don't own Laria Kaiba, she belongs to the author by the same name, hi sis! (waves) Okay, I love you, bye-bye.