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Two

The two brothers ate the rest of their dinner in complete and total silence. The once had-been orphans knew not of what they would expect from the weeks to come, but could predict it wouldn't be good. It wasn't long after they had finished their dinner that Hobson had paid another visit to them.

"Alright, it's time to go to bed now. Chop chop," He said, clapping his hands together a couple times. Mokuba and Seto got up at the same time, almost like robots without even realizing it, and walked towards Hobson. Seto took the lead while Mokuba would follow his brother close from behind. The anxiety was already beginning to return.

"Seto," Hobson declared, grasping Seto's attention, "Don't stay up too late, for your have your first lesson in the next five hours. Your teacher should be flying in from China very soon, and we'd hate to have you falling asleep in his class." Seto said nothing, but nodded. Mokuba was staring at his brother, bewildered. Didn't it bother him that he would only have five hours of sleep before he had to go to a lesson?

But then again, Mokuba thought to himself, Seto hadn't been much of a sleeper to begin with. Every since their parents had died, Seto never really slept. Mokuba earliest memories at night would be of his younger self waking up in the middle of the night from a nightmare or a trip to the bathroom, and finding Seto nearby, awake. It seemed like he never slept. Mokuba wondered how he did it.

Hobson stopped, and Mokuba assumed this was where Seto would be sleeping for the night. He couldn't help but have his heart feel like it was being torn as he looked up at the back of his older brother's head.

"This is your room Seto, remember to get as much sleep as you can," Hobson turned to Mokuba, and Mokuba's lower lip quivered from the evil look on his face, "Come along Mokuba, leave your brother to sleep." Mokuba turned to look back up at his brother's face, which still worse the stone cold mask of no emotions. Mokuba gulped and looked down at the ground.

"Yes sir…" Mokuba mumbled sorrowfully. He began following Hobson, but not before he felt a hand being place on his shoulder. Mokuba stopped almost immediately from the touch, his leg had even stopped in mid air. Mokuba had frozen himself into time.

"Mokuba…"

"Yes, Nii-sama?" Mokuba turned back to look at his brother once more. It was now obvious that it was paining him to let him go off on his own.

"Good night." It wasn't much, but that was all Mokuba needed to hear to confirm that his brother cared, that he would never want Mokuba to leave his side. It was the only thing he needed to hear.

"Good night, Nii-sama." Seto smiled at the sound of his title, his purpose, the role he filled in Mokuba's eyes. He was his older brother, his master, his sworn protector. There was no job or title Seto would've wanted more than to be seen as that figure in his younger brother's eyes.

"Alright, let's move it along," Hobson said, tugging Mokuba down the hallway. Mokuba gave a small wave of goodbye before being turned completely around by Hobson's forceful hands. Seto watched his brother leave until he was completely out of site, and then proceeded to go into his bedroom. It was going to be a long night, and Seto wasn't going to like it. Not one bit.

Back in the outskirts of the Mansion, Hobson was still leading Mokuba all the way down to his room. It was strange, because Mokuba hadn't remembered his room being this far. But when he had asked, Hobson had said something about his master changing the rooms for other purposes. Mokuba remained quiet after that, occasionally looking back down the hallway to see if his brother was there, but always knowing he wouldn't be even when he discovered that he wasn't.

Hobson stopped and opened the door to one room that seemed to be miles away from the room his brother was in. Hobson held out his arm as if he were presenting it to Mokuba like it were a prize.

"And here is your room, Mokuba. Enjoy." Mokuba frowned and walked into the room. The room was huge, possibly the biggest room he could've ever imagined. Mokuba felt like the room itself could've been an entire house; it seemed so big in comparison to him. Mokuba glanced over at the bed against the wall, and his eyes widened even more. He was such a tiny boy, how on earth was he going to fill an entire bed?

The thought left his mind when a new idea replaced it. Mokuba wanted to go and jump on the bed; it was probably the bounciest bed in the world. Mokuba quickly threw off his shoes and started running towards it. He leapt into the air and fell on the bed, bell first. Mokuba felt his body bounce immediately upwards, and laughed with delight as he continued to do it. The bed was built like a trampoline! Mokuba couldn't remembered another time in his life when he had had this much fun.

But the laughing had ceased when Mokuba had jumped too high and had accidentally hit his head on the overhang above the bed. Mokuba hadn't his head hard, but he had hit his head in a particular place. Mokuba stopped jumping and left his body fall back onto the bed. He rubbed his head a bit to sooth the pain, and felt a bump that hadn't been there originally.

"Severe?" Mokuba heard himself say, just before the sound of glass was heard in his flashback. Mokuba rubbed it a bit more, this time out of fear. Gozaburo had thrown a plate at him and hit his head right onto his skull. The thought of Gozaburo wasn't a pleasant one.

"Greetings Mokuba." Mokuba practically threw himself off the bed; he had been so surprised and shocked. Mokuba scrambled to get to his feet to see who the intruder was, when he discovered it to be, none other than Gozaburo Kaiba himself. Mokuba crawled away quickly and swiftly in an attempt to get away.

Gozaburo was standing completely still in the middle of the room, his hands behind his back, and a grin on his face.

"I said, 'Greetings Mokuba'." Gozaburo said with a stern voice. Mokuba made sure to be at least ten feet away before he dared to answer him back.

"Hello," Mokuba said in a quiet voice. Gozaburo began walking closer to him.

"Mokuba… I think we're going to have a problem." Mokuba began inching farther and farther away as Gozaburo began stepping closer and closer to him. Mokuba swallowed hard for the third time in those five seconds, before gathering the courage to answer Gozaburo again.

"We are…?" Mokuba asked nervously. Gozaburo nodded and stopped. Mokuba had been forced to stop too, since now he was standing in the corner of the room. There was no where else to run. The lion had found his prey.

"Sadly, yes."

"But… why?"

"Because you're going to get in the way." There was silence between them. Mokuba wanted to ask how he was going to do that, but by that point he had become too scared. Gozaburo could see this and felt all he could do was laugh. It was a purely wonderful site to see. He continued, "It's obvious that Seto cares about you very much. He tries to hide it, but you'd have to be blind to see the bond you two boys share with one another."

Mokuba didn't know where Gozaburo was going with this. At the same time, he didn't particularly want to know. The more Gozaburo talked, the more Mokuba's body began to quiver with fear.

"It may seem pure and innocent now, but I'm quite positive this will become a problem later on." Mokuba didn't know what to say, in fact, he wasn't even fully sure what Gozaburo meant. How was his bond with Seto going to get in the way? And if it did… what did it get in the way of? Mokuba was very confused, and was tempted to ask for himself, but then he remembered the plate crashing against his skull. Unconsciously, Mokuba rubbed the bump on his head.

"So… in order to keep things as planned, I'm going to need you to stay away from your brother as much as possible." Then came a response Mokuba simply could not hold back.

"What?" Mokuba said, with more of an attitude then he would've wanted in his tone of voice. Mokuba immediately regretted it by the look on Gozaburo's face. Mokuba could suddenly tell that this man meant business, and that he wasn't afraid to hurt Mokuba again, if necessary. Mokuba cringed at the thought.

"I said; Stay away from Seto. He's going to have a lot of work to do now that he's under my wing, and he doesn't need his little 'kid brother' distracting him from his duties. He's a Kaiba now; he has a name to live up to. So leave him alone or believe me… there will be even more severe consequences," Gozaburo paused for a moment, before turning his back and walking towards the door, "That is all. Good night."

Mokuba stood there, his body still quivering. But he couldn't just stand there, and he couldn't just let the things Gozaburo had said go without a response. Mokuba didn't know where he was getting all this courage from to speak his mind, but it would probably be the one thing that would bring him down. Or at least, beat him down under the hard fist of Gozaburo.

"I'm a Kaiba, too," Mokuba said boldly, causing Gozaburo to stop just before he was about to walk out the door. The door knob was still in his hands; his whole body had come to a complete stop.

"No, you're not." There was silence. "You're nothing more than an orphan that no one wanted, and a pawn in a bet that I, unfortunately, lost. Seto is going to be the next heir to the Kaiba Corporation throne, and you are nothing. Do not think otherwise." Gozaburo left the room. Mokuba didn't know how to feel about the words he had just heard. He didn't know what to make of them.

Was Mokuba supposed to be upset? Was he supposed to care what Gozaburo thought of him? He knew Seto didn't feel the same way, he almost knew it instinctively. But still… to be told he was worthless by someone else, it hurt. It was bound to hurt his feelings. Or at least that was how Mokuba reasoned it to himself when he found tears forming in his eyes.

Mokuba let his body slide to the ground and sat there for a while, possibly even hours. It would be a while more before he would get up and climb into bed, Gozaburo's words still floating around in his head. Gozaburo said he was nothing… but Mokuba knew that wasn't true. He was something, not only that, but he was something to Seto. Another signal that let him know he wasn't all that worthless was the fact that Gozaburo was even talking to him, that he was warning him and forbidding him to be near Seto.

But Mokuba knew, maybe even better than he wanted to know, that it wasn't a good sign. Gozaburo had made a threat towards him, and Mokuba would suffer if he didn't comply.

It was going to be a long night before Mokuba could find the courage to finally fall asleep that night.

Seto wasn't much of a sleeper, and Seto himself had been aware of that for quite some time. But, if need be, Seto did have the power to make his body fall asleep. His body would comply, especially for a specific purpose or event. But Seto was finding that the forced sleep wasn't turning on as easily as Seto would've wished.

Seto turned onto his side and pulled the covers up Andover his shoulder. His eyes glanced all across the room, the light was off but his eyes had already adjusted to the darkness that he could see his room pretty clearly. Most of the room was occupied by boxes of his things that he still hadn't had the chance to unpack. Besides the boxes, his room was rather big and empty.

Seto sighed and turned again, deciding his mind would be a better place to wander about. He thought about the events that had happened earlier that day, and thought back to his younger brother. Seto knew he wouldn't be seeing Mokuba as often anymore now that they had moved into the Kaiba Mansion, but all of this was for his own good, so Seto had to try and keep himself from falling back into old habits. He had to keep his eye on the prize and focus on training only.

There was a click and a creak as the bedroom door was being opened. Seto's body became completely still and he closed his eyes, pretending to sleep. A man, a rather tall man at that, was beginning to walk towards his bed. Seto stayed perfectly still, even though his mind was racing. Should he run? Or was someone simply checking up on him? In this new home, Seto didn't know what to expect.

Seto braced himself for the worst as the body present in the room stopped right next to his bed. A hand came out of no where was and rested on Seto's forehead/head. The hand was big and cold as ice; it almost sent a shiver down his spine from the mere touch. Then Seto realized who it was that was in his room with a hand on his head.

"Sleep Seto. You're going to need all the sleep you can get in time." The hand left, as well as the man himself. The door clicked once it was closed all the way, and all was silent once more. Seto's heart was racing, despite the fact that he needed the sleep he felt he could never grasp. And when he fell asleep, nightmares came and went. It was the start of a new era, a black beginning.

Darkness.

A/N: Hey guys! I don't know why I ended this chapter on the note of darkness, but it just seemed like the right word to say after that last sentence. But maybe that's just me. So what did you think!? This chapter wasn't pulled from one of my old files, so this was all basically present-day me writing this to you. Is it any different? I don't know, maybe it's not and I'm just lying to myself. Anyhow, more is on the way! I'm so excited, I might actually pee my pants! Although not literally… sort of. Hahaha, thanks for reading!

P.S: I loved all the hell yeahs I got in all of your reviews. Something tells me I'm going to have a lot of fun with this reading crowd I'd got for this story.