dragonwitch250, You again! Hi! I'm glad that you're enjoying my fic until now ! :D. Yami will defintely be a little... avenging, with the people who hurt Seto and\or Mokie. A bit too avenging actually...

Howl3, I'm very glad that you're liking it! I'm writting this exactly because of that reason- I couldn't find an Au like this anywhere! Tehehe, I'm not going to give away spoilers of my own fic but I'll tell you one thing: I'm a canon bitch. I love canon accuracy. I love accuracy. Accuracy in general.

gracefulmiracle, Hey, I think I know you! I loved your Prideshipping fics! :D. I'm very glad that you're enjoying my fic that much! xD. The bullies will definitely have a terrible ending, but I'll try to tune the gore down, because fluff and gore don't usually mix!

Should I turn this fic into Prideshipping when Seto gets older? I'm still not sure, but it could be really fun to write instead of a platonic relationship... (o\\o)

Warnings: Gore innuendos.

He was feeling very well.

Very, very well.

That's weird. He usually just wakes up in a good mood after a good night's sleep, but the thin blankets of the orphanage kept him away from that luxury. He is a person who gets cold very easily, especially at night and he just can't sleep well without the warm, thick, furry blankets from his parents mansion tightly wrapped around him.

But now... something was different. For some reason, he felt warm and comfortable. He cringed even more over his bed and took a deep breath of satisfaction before the smell of smoke and dust made him sneeze. Grimacing, he turned and buried his head further into his warm pillow, just so the smell intensified tenfold. To make matters worse, something was persistently ruffling his hair with warm air gusts. He couldn't have one day to rest in this damn place?

"Leave me alone ..." he muttered, frustrated.

His entire bed curled around him. What the?

With a leap, Seto opened his eyes. The first thing he saw was a bright yellow almondy eye winking at him.

"GAAAAAAAAH" He yelled, trying to move away, but falling over the bunk edge instead. "Oh shit I was on the upper bed oh no no oh AAAAAGH!" He closed his eyes.

Pump.

"W-Wha?" Murmured the blue-eyed boy, shuddering when he saw that he still had a few feet to go before hitting the ground. He grabbed the black creature's gigantic fingers firmly, swallowing hard. The beast had caught him- somehow before he shattered on the ground. Just the hand of the weird being alone involved his entire body, but fortunately, the creature wasn't squeezing him. Instead, it was carefully pulling him right back up.

"S-Such a long arm!" The little boy said with admiration. "How in the world could anything have such a huge body? Screw that, how in the world anything like that could even exist?!" He thought as the creature gently placed him on the corner where the bed leaned back against the wall, retracting its arm to a smaller size.

Still trembling and frightened by the imminent fall and the huge thing looking at him from the edge of the bed, Seto wiped the sweat from his brow with the sleeve of his shirt. That was when he realized with surprise that he wasn't feeling any pain. Looking at his arms, he saw no bruising. Groping his face, he felt no cuts. Even when he smelled his clothes, there was no sign of blood or debris, only a persistent and bizarre smell of smoke and dust.

Plus his teeth ... they were back !?

Hesitantly, he looked up to the huge humanoid form that was curiously examining the covers that had fallen from his bed, turning its head to the side.

"Y-you ... you did this?" He asked, gesturing to himself. The creature looked at him in confusion, before approaching slowly, soon getting face to face with the brown haired boy. "Ghnnnn?"

"I-I mean ... you healed me?" Seto was a little embarrassed by his clumsiness, but it was a little unnerving to stand in front of such a... unnatural being. "I mean, it doesn't even have pupils! What's up with that? How I'm supposed to know when this thing is actually looking at me?!"

Golden eyes closed and opened slowly. While a gurgling sound was coming out from somewhere in the body of the shadow-like thing, it nodded happily, one of the strange black tentacles that casually moved behind the creature's back suddenly curling up on the smaller one's rosy forearm.

"Hey hey hey!" Seto chided, trying to unroll the gooey appendix from his arm.

"Nii-sama?"

"M-Mokuba ?!" The boy exclaimed, looking at the door.

"Can I go in?"

"N-No!" Seto said, pulling the black thing by what should be its neck to try to force it to lie on the bed.

It didn't work.

"Please!" Whispered the boy, trying to push the creature down again. With a gurgling grunt, the thing relented, laying in bed. Or ... curling in bed, Seto wasn't that sure, and honestly didn't care at the time. The blue-eyed boy came down from the bunk and grabbed the blankets that had fallen before desperately, before throwing them back on his bed and going up again, covering the slimy being and trying to make it quit moaning and struggling miserably under the covers.

"Shh! Shhhh!"

"Nii-sama?"

"I-I'm going! Shhh! Be quiet! Stop moving your little ... giant ..."

Seto froze when he heard the door opening. Fortunately, the creature also had frozen, then his bed seemed ... partially normal.

"Nii-sama!" The black-haired boy greeted cheerfully. Looking to his little brother, Seto felt as if a knife had suddenly pierced his chest.

The little boy had gauzes wrapped around his head, chest and legs. One of his tiny arms was immobilized with plaster, which even had some signatures of the kindest children in the orphanage already. His gray-black eyes sparkled with joy anyway, his uninjured arm waving to his older brother.

"Wow! You really gave a good beating to those guys! The other boys said that they ended up in the hospital!" Cried the child while Seto got down from the bunk, split between looking at his bed nervously and looking at Mookie in confusion.

"They ... are in the hospital?" The older boy asked. Well, that explained why their room was so empty. Stealing a glance at the covers, he widened his eyes when he saw a black tentacle swaying leisurely on the edge of the bed.

Seto stepped in front of Mokuba. "Oh, yeah, they're in the hospital! You wouldn't believe the beating that I gave them, I- they- I scared them away!" The taller one spoke nervously while he tried to push the slimy appendix right back inside. The dark tentacle began to curl around his fingers.

"Really nii-sama ?! That's so cool!" The child cried excitedly.

"Yeah, yeah!" Smiled the blue-eyed boy. "So, Mookie, umm, you shouldn't be going to class? You'll have a science test today won't you? You'd better hurry."

"Nii-saaaaamaa! There's still more than half an hour left!"

"S-So go study! Or grab a snack, you know that you can't concentrate well with an empty stomach-" Seto punched the edge of the bed, crushing the tentacle that was stroking his fingers. The boy flinched. That must have hurt.

A loud whimper made both children freeze.

"Nii-sama?"

"Damn, I'm so hungry, let's go to the dinning hall, you go first."

"But ..."

"NOW!"

"Alright, geez!" Mokuba complained before rushing out of the room.

With a relieved sigh, Seto 'locked' the door with a chair and turned to the bunk. Removing the covers, he found the creature who had healed him cowering in a corner, holding a crooked tentacle with a pain filled face.

"Are you okay?" Seto asked, feeling slightly guilty. The thing shouldn't have been curling up on him after all!

He tried to examine the twisted tentacle, but the shadow pulled it away. "Let me see it!" Demanded the boy, holding out his hand. Hesitantly, it extended the hurt appendix to the boy with a gulp, even when the blue eyed held it carefully.

"Ouch!" He muttered when he saw the damage that he had done. "Sorry ... black thing that came out of my puzzle ..." Making a mental note to look for the Puzzle later, Seto massaged the injured appendage until the creature could move it again.

"Better?" He asked when he saw the shadow swinging its tentacle happily. After seeing the being wave in confirmation, Seto came down from his bed and quickly packed up his materials to go to class. He was almost closing his backpack when he suddenly realized.

"What I'm going to do with you?" He asked, looking at the creature in his bed. He couldn't leave it on his bed like that all day, at some point someone was bound to see it. He didn't want the orphanage staff to freak out or try to kill the strange being. It seemed to be ... a nice guy. Or girl.

The shadow quietly jumped to the ground and held out something to him.

"The Puzzle!" Sighed the boy. "It was with you all along? I better hide it before someone-" The thing barred his way. "What? I'm late to class!" He was barred by the thing again. "Stop it!"

The creature did that 'no' with its head.

"You want me to take it with me, that's it?" The creature did that 'yes' with its head.

"Well, I can't! If someone see it they will want to steal it from me!"

The being gave a smile that was positively terrifying, and pushed the pyramid closer to Seto.

"Ugh, fine, but if someone tries to beat me to get this thing I swear I'll use you as a whatever-you-are shield, am I clear?"

The being waved joyfully, jumping into the smaller one's bag. Seto let out a startled shriek at the sight of the huge amount of dense smoke coming into his backpack, and hesitantly looked inside to see two small golden eyes staring at him.

"You ... you can shrink?" The thing smiled again. It was not that frightening anymore.

The boy stood still for a few seconds to let the information sink in.

Then he smiled.

"Hehehe." Seto ruffled the little thing's hair with two fingers. "Cute."

CHOMP!

"OUCH! You little-!" Seto started but was interrupted by the "Get your ass in class" alarm.

"I'll get revenge. I swear." The kid said the he closed his bag and put it on. He could feel the damn giggles in his bag ans he went to class. Damn black thing.

Some hours later ...

The day was much easier than Seto imagined it would be. He put the bag on his lap, just in case, but didn't need to do much more than push some tentacles right back in every once in a while.

The class went well, except when he dropped one of his pencils and the shadow caught it for him. Fortunately no one seemed to notice.

Seto couldn't finish his lunch because what happened last night still was making his stomach wrap. Sighing, he looked at the cookies remaining on his hands. Then he looked at the backpack. So at his hands again.

Slowly pulling the ziper up, he put his hand inside and let the creature eat the cookies. He bit his lip to keep himself away from laughing when it started to lick his fingers. "I hope that this kind of food won't harm it. What should I use to feed something like that anyway?"

"The bodies were found in front of the local orphanage, at 6:30 am ... autopsies indicate drowning, but the experts still don't know how ... five healthy teenagers of sixteen to eighteen years ... a liquid similar to petroleum was found in the lungs of the victims ... some of the members of the youth were not found ... are still in the hospital waiting for indentification ... the bodies are unrecognizable to the owners of the orphanage ... "

Seto looked at the TV with surprise. A murder? Right in front of the orphanage?

Shivering, the boy took his hand out of the bag. A dark, viscous liquid was now staining the palm of his hand. "Ewww!" He muttered, wiping it at the bottom of the table. Or trying to.

Leaving his place to approach the TV- A very old, low quality equipment, which sizzled annoyingly every few seconds- the blue-eyed boy adjusted the antenna with expectation. This program always aired before the morning cartoons, but that was the first time that Seto heard about a murder so close to his new home. Were they children of the orphanage, like him? The boy gulped at the thought.

" We don't know who the victims were, but we are pretty sure they were orphans. The bodies are so disfigured that we can't distinguish their sex, but most of their internal organs are intact. The lungs are filled with some kind of dark oil, and no, it's not petroleum, we don't know what it actually is yet. It isn't flammable and seems to be much thicker than regular oil. It's not something that any of us had ever seen before. ' Said the expert Jordan Steele. The crime scene is being examined as gigantic symbols were left behind, similar to a chess board ... with three columns that have ten squares each. The symbols were engraved on the soil ... with nearly four inch... slits marking the edges ... "

Seto slapped the machine's top several times when static took over the screen. He was frustrated and astounded, and he needed to know what happened!

Could the victims be ...

The boy shook his head. No! Mookie said they were in the hospital!

"But he didn't say where in the hospital, did he?" Seto shook his head to get rid of thoughts-and of the tiny speck of satisfaction that plagued his mind.

The bell rang, signaling the end of recess.

Hours later,

Seto settled into his bed. Mokuba was already asleep when he came to their room, the little one must have had a tiring day. Other boys were already on the beds that used to be from bullies who humiliated him the day before.

This place seemed to get more and more crowded at each day.

Skyrocketing to his bed and covering himself completely with his blankets, Seto opened his backpack and let the smoky being come out. It soon was huge again, curling around the boy. The thing stretched, yawning.

"Are you ... going to just stay here? Like, with me? Don't you have somewhere else to go or something? I can't just let you living here like this forever ..."

Seto wasn't sure if the creature was listening because it was casually ruffling his hair, making random noises from time to time. Sighing, the boy put himself to sleep.

The smell of smoke and dust wasn't that unbearable anymore.

Their first meeting was kinda awnkard wasn't it? I like it.

Huge thanks to everyone who commented and faved my fic! I honestly appreciate it ! : D