Well here is another chapter brought to you by yours truly, I have started university so I won't be updating as much, but I will be writing. I get Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays off, so it will be a lot easier to write on these days, just don't expect them up right away. What I'm doing is a lot of writing like binge writing I guess and then when I'm on some good quality free time, I will correct and post them, as I'm typing this out most of the next chapter is already written, but it wont be up for at least another week or so. Sometimes I might post two or three chapters up at once so if you like reading more than one chapter you will be happy to read this.

Chapter 8

King VS King

November 8th, 2011

Yugi woke up to another day at the tournament. He turned to see if his grandfather was up, but the man was still sleeping which confused Yugi. He turned his attention to the clock that was on his side table which was glowing the time: five in the morning. He sighed as he stared up at the ceiling. There were no sounds of anyone being on the eternal link, so he sighed again. The thoughts of what could happen within the tournament started to flood his mind, like it usually did when there wasn't anything to think about. He wasn't going back to sleep now. He got out of bed and changed into his school uniform pants and a white long sleeve shirt. He quietly walked out of his room and found that Regan wasn't on the couch and the Kaibas door was opened. Yugi walked over to it quietly and peeked inside to see Regan asleep in one bed and Mokuba in the other. He guessed Kaiba wasn't back yet from his trip to wherever he went.

He walked over to the couch and sat down. He didn't know what to do with himself, and he certainly didn't want to prowl on the worst case scenarios. He looked at the table and saw the remote sitting on it. Yugi grabbed it and turned on the TV, the schedule was already posted at this time in the morning, or at least that's what posted around the apartment complex had said. He switched it to the channel the day was on and was stunned that his name was up for the opening day game. 'Why was it only our room members that were being picked for the opening day games? I thought this was supposed to be completely random? Great now I'm thinking too much again. Why head do you do this to me?!' He looked at his opponent to find that it was the champion of Rock Band, Borden Collie. He looked at the game and was even more surprised that it was Chess. He sighed in annoyance. Chess was an intense game of fooling your opponent, which Yugi was more than qualified for. He just was hoping for something that he was more familiar with. He was still, in the eyes of the world, an intermediate player. And intermediate, just doesn't cut it.

Suddenly he heard the front door open and he nearly jumped out of his skin when Kaiba came through the door wearing a black trench coat and same colored fedora. Kaiba closed the door behind him and physically jumped when he noticed Yugi.

"What the hell are you doing up at this time in the morning?"

"I just am," Yugi sighed not wanting to get into an argument. He looked under the tabled and pulled out the game chest.

"What are you doing?"

"I'm getting ready for my game at ten thirty."

"And it requires a board?"

"Yes, I am going against Borden Collie in a chess match. I have to get some practice in before then."

Kaiba grunted and Yugi watched him walk towards his room as he set up the game. When he finished placing all thirty-two pieces in their correct spot, Kaiba came out of the room dressed in his Battle City outfit and sat down on the other side of the chess board. "I'll go first, since I'm white."

Yugi raised an eyebrow in confusion. "You're playing?"

"You can't play chess against yourself." Kaiba retorted as he moved his King's Pawn two spaces.

Yugi didn't answer as he moved his King's Knight in front of the King's Bishop's Pawn. "Nice try Kaiba, I may not play this game as often as I should, but I do know the Four Move Kill."

"Good. That means that Collie won't kill you before you realize what happened. Like a dog sneaking up and eating your food before you eat it."

"Found someone else to call a dog now have you. I'm sure Joey will be upset when he hears about this."

"Joey's a mutt not a pure bred, then again not much difference between them, mutts seem to live longer than pure breeds. I wonder, if you lose to Collie and then Collie beats the mutt, will they have to redo the research books on dogs?" Kaiba asked the rhetorical question as he moved his bishop out.

"And here I thought you were nice?" Yugi moved his Queen's Pawn.

"Don't flatter yourself, I am the only one qualified to beat you in a game, not some wanna be dog that can play a guitar and a few drums on a game. I've seen YouTube videos that have dogs playing real instruments."

The two continued their game and for another hour, they had finally started to come to a conclusion; a Stalemate. Yugi had driven Kaiba into a corner with the last few moves and his Queen not allowing Kaiba's King to move from its spot in the corner of the board.

"I can't believe I actually ended this in a draw!" Yugi exclaimed in shock and excitement.

Kaiba's jaw was someone dropped. "How can an amateur player like you stalemate the World Champion Chess Player?"

"I don't know," Yugi said as he started to pack the game away. "But I do appreciate all the tips and strategies you've given me. Of course you'll say you didn't so, I'll tell you it was very indirectly. And now I know that if the four move kill doesn't work then I'll use the ones I learnt from playing you."

"Just don't plagiarise my moves and slaughtering my name. I still need to beat you for every loss you caused me." Kaiba sneered in annoyance as he stood up.

"Alright," Yugi smiled and then his stomach growled. "Um, Kaiba?"

"Yes?"

"Are you hungry?"

Kaiba looked dumbfounded for a moment and then he nodded his head. "What do you want to eat?"

"Um, whatever I guess, why?"

Kaiba didn't answer as he went into the small kitchen and pulled out a bowl and a frying pan. Yugi walked up to the kitchen counter and watched as he pulled out some eggs, milk and butter. Then he pulled out some toast from the cupboard, but when he turned around he looked slightly irritated. Not wanting to bother him, Yugi sat in the dining room chair in silence as Kaiba grabbed the hotel phone and walked outside of the room. He couldn't make out what Kaiba had asked for, only that he was yelling. And then something came clear through the door.

"I suggest you bring everything in the next minute and a half, or not only will you be fired, you'll have to face my wrath!"

Yugi eyes were wide as Kaiba strolled back into the room and quietly setting the phone down as he continued to do what he was doing like he wasn't yelling at kitchen management a second ago. Within a minute, there was a knock on the door and Kaiba walked to it before Yugi got the chance to get out of his seat. Kaiba didn't say anything as he pulled in a trolley with some noodles and what looked to be salmon or maybe it was a different type of fish, another dozen eggs and a bunch of condiments and spices. Kaiba looked pleased, or at least less of a glare in his eyes as he started back up again. Within forty five minutes, Kaiba and a little bit of help when Yugi volunteered to place the master piece on the table and counter, and Yugi having to clean up after he was done, or at least what little Kaiba hadn't cleaned up along the way, the giant breakfast was served.

Yugi knew it was only a matter of time before Joey and/or Tristan would be awaken from the smell of food so while he had this moment with Kaiba, he decided to join him in the living room with his plate served while Kaiba was munching on his in peace. Yugi took a bit and was in complete astonishment of how good the food really was. It was a mixture of just about everything that can be found on a Japanese breakfast and the North American breakfast. And Yugi was glad he loaded up on what food he managed to pile upon his plate.

"This is absolutely delicious Kaiba."

Kaiba just smirked as he continued eating. The two of them sat for a while just eating and then Kaiba turned to him. "So what are you going to do if this tournament turns ugly?"

"What do you mean?"

"Well from all the tournaments you joined that seem to bring a large amount of people and suddenly someone gets ideas, what are you going to do about it this time? There aren't so many opportunities to fish them out anymore, I'm thinking probably either today or tomorrow is going to be the last of these survival sessions and then it's back into the regular match ups."

"Well other than the fact that a demon assassin came out to play yesterday, I think this tournament is going rather well considering what could be going on by now, like Battle City, even before the tournament started there were the Rare Hunters. But this one seems pretty safe; so far at least."

"Always thinking that the cup is half full, but I guess that is to be expected from a little light bulb like you." Kaiba sighed finishing up his last piece of fish.

"Is there something wrong Kaiba?"

"Nothing's wrong." He answered though Yugi wasn't sure as the CEO turned his head towards his bedroom. "Just on thought of why Brittney would expose the truth right before this tournament. I'm not calling Regan a distraction; I know she can take care of herself. But it's the fact that she is extremely similar to myself as well as you and it's not a good mixture."

"What do you mean by that?" Yugi asked become more and more confused with Kaiba's speech.

"She has the pride of a Kaiba and the 'I don't give a fuck who you are, or what you are capable of, I already know I won' attitude and yet, she is quiet, not cocky unless provoked and most of all loyal to her friends and family. She has stuck out her neck more than once to save every one of us on a few occasions and I know that her luck," Kaiba strained the word luck, in the exact opposite way he used it with Joey. "Will eventually run out and personally even if she wasn't my sister, it would be a complete disaster if she got herself killed."

"I know what you mean." Yugi sighed as he placed his plate on the coffee table, suddenly not hungry anymore. "I truly hope that this whole fiasco will end with everyone that is trying to complete world domination. I'm getting nervous that there are three enemy fronts and not just one. Last I checked World War One and World War Two did not end pretty when three fronts decided to show up. I just hope that they don't truly bond. Brittany's attack was as close as I ever want it to be of a team work situation. I'm just glad that Brittany didn't have complete back up, or I don't think we would have made it out of there alive, or even in one piece."

"The team in the middle got their asses handed to them within a few months both times. We are now heading into month number two now."

"Kaiba I have a favor to ask."

"I'm listen, not sure if I will help you or not, but I am listening."

"Please do everyone a favor and dominate the world. It would make everything so much easier."

Kaiba looked at him and then started to laugh like he just won his title from him. "Yugi, I already have. I just have three bastards trying to steal the power I have, or in our demon case, destroy everything I control."

"Yea, I figured you would say something like that." Yugi said deadpanned. "Well whenever you truly start, you might want to start with Domino and make it the best city in the world, and then you can easily roll into other countries."

"Since when did you have any thought of controlling the world?"

"When I had a pharaoh in my head, I caught onto a few strategies to ruling a group of people. Not really ruling the world. Like you said before to our band name, I save the world from evil doers."

Kaiba looked like he was about to say something when something beeped. Kaiba pulled out his phone and looked at the screen "Hm, well I hope you do well in your chess game, I need to attend something, I may not be there to see it, but I'm sure it will be posted somewhere. Tell my sister and your brother that we are going to practice tonight, but to meet here. I guess," He paused as the TV switched to show the schedule pretty much the same as the last few days, "After the elimination round."

"Where are you going?" Yugi couldn't help but ask. He figured Regan and Mokuba would have become worried if they didn't get an answer from him.

"Good Morning Seto, Yugi." Mokuba yawned as he walked out of his room.

"Morning," Yugi replied.

"Are you heading out again Seto?" Mokuba asked.

"Apparently, but I'll be back, hopefully before Yugi starts his match. I don't want to miss it." Kaiba answered as he got out of his seat.

"Alright, I'll tell Regan." He answered and then turned to the table setting. "Hey, you cooked breakfast and didn't wake anybody up for it; it will get cold at this rate."

"There is a reason for that, if you want to wake everyone up go for it, I'm out of here." And then Kaiba walked out the door as Mokuba started banging on the door of the girls' room.

He then woke Regan up. Yugi shook his head at the kid's enthusiasm and decided to help him out. He walked into his grandfather's room and got him up and then rushed into Atem's room. After he was up the two of them went into Joey and Tristan's room and woke them up telling them breakfast was on the table. Surprisingly, but not really all that surprising, they both got up pretty quick as they rushed out of the room for food.

Everyone was gulping down the food and each of them had a little statement at how good it tasted. After an hour or so, Yugi told Atem and Regan about the band practice.

"Great, it's about time we can practice together." Regan exclaimed.

"Hey, who made breakfast?" Joey asked as Yugi noted that he was on his fifth plate. He didn't realize Kaiba had made so much. "No seriously guys, who made this? This isn't the same cooked food I've been eating since we got here."

"Well it was someone you know, but they aren't in the room right now." Regan started to giggle.

"Grandpa?"

Yugi face palmed himself. "Grandpa is behind you."

Joey turned around to his grandfather, "Oh."

"So who made it?" Tristan asked.

"Seto." Mokuba and Regan said together.

"What!" Most of the room shouted at the same time.

"No way, Kaiba made all of this… delicious food?" Tristan asked in awe.

"Damn, your brother should join Hell's Kitchen, this food is amazing." Téa complimented.

Atem came up behind her and placed an arm around her waist. "I think he would scare Gordon away first round. First thing he's going to do is insult and then Kaiba would no doubt in my mind will retaliate; just not sure of what action he would choose first, either he will yell at him or hit him over the head with one of the cooking items."

"I'm voting on Kaiba hitting him with something." Joey announced. "What about you Regan?"

"Depends on what comes out of his mouth." She answered. "Hey Yugi are you ready for your match?"

"Yea, I just wonder how well this will turn out." He sighed going through all the different strategies.

"Well how about I go with you to the entrance before you head in?" Regan asked.

Yugi smiled, "Sure."

"You two better not be doing anything too crazy, you still have me around." Mokuba butted in.

Regan sighed in annoyance, "Nothing that will be overrating G."

Mokuba grinned. "Good, because I'm pretty sure at the casino was almost pushing 14A."

"It was a kiss, a kiss for Yugi being a really good gambler."

"I'm sure that was it, a kiss that, mind my powerful language, quite passionate and romantic, but I might be over exaggerating I am thirteen after all."

"So, what's so wrong with that?"

"Nothing, until I tell a certain someone."

Regan grinned. "Go for it."

Yugi just shook his head at the two of them. He didn't really mind the victory kiss, but he wasn't going to say anything to interrupt the sibling's fight, if he could call it that.

"When does the game start?" Joey asked interrupting them instead. "Is it the same time?"

"Yea, against Borden Collie." Yugi answered.

"You mean the Rock Band Champion?"

"Yup."

"We'll be rooting for you." Mai told him. "I'm sure you'll do great against him. He probably has never played Chess in his life."

"Nice going Mai, watch him be a really good player all because you jinxed it by saying he was a rookie." Tristan scolded.

"Who cares, Yugi is probably going to own him in a game even if he is good." Joey stated. "Right Yug?"

"Right." Yugi answered and then he frowned. "But what are we supposed to do for the next two hours?"

"Go for a little swim or shower or stuff…" Regan started but she didn't seem like she was really answering the question.

"Shower, hmmm, you know that really isn't that bad of an idea." Yugi said nodding his head.

"It isn't?"

Yugi nodded again as he stood up. "Yes a long shower. I'll see you guys later."

Yugi walked back to his room and grabbed the items he wanted and then went into the bathroom.

Kaiba was walking back towards the stadium; he never understood why they set up the opening day tournaments in the stadium for something, so small. A chess game, in a stadium that was probably big enough to hold a hockey game, he didn't know if Devin was an idiot or just liked to show off what he could do. He walked down another hall as his sleeveless trench coat flowed out behind him. What bugged him that morning was that assassin demon or whatever Atem had sent to the Shadow Realm yesterday. It was bugging him when he left, and it was bugging him again when he started his day. Who had originally sent that demon to this tournament? He wouldn't have cared if it was just sent to kill the Pharaoh, that was something that happened on a daily bases. But the fact that it was eating whoever came along his path; was a little disturbing and the fact that it had tried to eat his sister. Whoever hired him to do the assassination obviously knew who the pharaoh was and didn't care if he went on snacking along the way. Unless they did, and they wanted the competition leveled down. He did find it weird that some of the competitors weren't around anymore as he hadn't seen them since the opening or later. They were allowed to leave if they lost, but it was preferred if they stayed to the ending of the tournament. He didn't know anyone that would leave before the end of the tournament if the accommodations were completely paid for and there was a good show. And if they didn't leave, one demon couldn't have eaten that many.

Kaiba shook his head and growled as another thought appeared in his head. 'There shouldn't have been so many missing if there was really one of them running around. What if there are more? Dammit, stop thinking this way you're becoming worse than Téa when it comes to worrying about nonsense.'

He opened the door to the stadium and looked around. He grinned as he spotted Mokuba mouthing off Joey in the usual spot they have been sitting for past few days. He walked over and looked down at the blond. "Look at you mutt, having a losing battle against a thirteen year old, why don't you try someone your own age, like a four year old, you just might win."

"Just shut it Kaiba, nobody asked for your opinion." Joey growled in annoyance as he sat down in his seat with his arms crossed.

"Well it seems you obviously needed it." Kaiba smirked.

"Regan, he's bugging me."

"Behave children." Regan sighed.

"Children! Who the hell are you calling a child?!" Kaiba and Joey shouted at her, everyone in the section quiet down to listen to the argument.

Regan grinned with glee. "I win."

Kaiba blinked and then glared at what she had done. "You might have this time, but you won't next time."

"Sure I won't."

"Ladies and Gentlemen, Thank you for coming to the second last opening game and the second last elimination round. There will be one more opening tomorrow morning and of course the final elimination, so if anyone is having problems with opponents, I suggest you find a way to get rid of them before you have to face them. The tournament lines will begin after the band opening day, which is this Thursday. So if you haven't practiced with your team, I suggested you get at it if you even want a chance to go against the other players." Devin stated from his microphone. "Now, I am pleased to announce the first board game match of the tournament. Please Welcome Borden Collie, the Lightning Border!"

There was a rush of excitement, mostly from the females in the stadium as he entered the floor below. He gave a smile and the most of the girls all screamed like they were having a fan moment.

"Who the hell does he think he is, last I check there wasn't an achievement to be the best in Rock Band; there is as much skill in it as there is eating a cracker." Kaiba sneered in dismay.

"Sounds like Kaiba's a little jealous." Joey said slyly with that stupid face Kaiba hated.

"Not even close, I hope Yugi puts him in his place, just because he has some looks doesn't make him the best in the world. Only I can pull that off."

"So you are jealous."

"Want to see something interesting Mutt?"

"What I would love to see is you falling down the stairs, but I doubt that's what you're going to show me."

Kaiba pulled out a microphone.

"Where the hell did you get that?" Joey asked in astonishment.

"The person who answers my question can get a photo of me with them!" Kaiba shouted into it. The audience was instantly silent. "Now that I have your attention, here are the rules, you can have up to three others with you and you can't use the internet to answer my question, trust me when I say I know if you do. And when you have the answer write it on the sheet of paper and place it in that bin where you placed your votes for the next game. Now here's my question: Why is it that no matter what color bubble bath you use the bubbles are always white? I will only accept exact answers and you will be called during supper time in the ballroom if you win."

There was silence as Kaiba could feel the glare coming from Borden. He grinned in satisfactory as he turned his mic off and put it away.

"Thank you Mr. Kaiba for your, little contest." Devin announced scratching the back of his head in confusion making Kaiba feel even better. "Now I would like to announce Borden's opponent, the King of Games Yugi Muto!"

There was another scream of delight as Kaiba covered his ears. He didn't mind them as much as he was fine with the fact that they were cheering for a somebody and not some nobody, wannabe.

"Seto, I hope you know what you are doing with that question." Regan interrupted his thoughts.

"Of course, there should only be a handle that will actually know the answer and maybe a quarter of that handful will actually place the answer in the correct terms."

"You're not nice."

"Wasn't trying to be." He answered as Yugi came up to the table.

"Now, who would like to go first? I know! How about we leave it to chance?" Devin announced as someone came up with a box. "The person who draws the shortest stick decides who goes first."

"I'm sensing a short joke." Tristan stated.

"I think that was a burn against Borden." Mai said as Kaiba noticed a little glare sent from Borden to the host.

Yugi and Borden drew sticks and Borden got the shorter one.

"And Borden decides who goes first, so who is it going to me?"

"I'm going first, so Yugi, your pieces are black." Borden answered.

"Alright, good luck Borden." Yugi replied respectfully.

The two of them sat down at their ends and Kaiba was itching for this game to begin.

"Start!" Devin announced as he left the floor.

"I'll move this piece here." Borden announced as he moved his King's Bishop's Pawn forward two pieces.

"I'm pretty sure Chess is supposed to be a quiet game." Yugi said before he made his move.

"That sounds stupid."

"It's supposed to add a tension to the air as two opponents' battle strategies out mentally." Yugi told him as he moved his King's Pawn forward two places.

"Who cares, this is my game, and I'll play it however I want." Borden replied as he moved his King's Knight's Bishop forward two places.

'Why didn't he kill Yugi's pawn with his own?' Kaiba questioned to himself as he looked at the field. 'What's his game play?'

Yugi chuckled slightly causing Kaiba to look over the board again. "Well Borden, maybe you should stay quiet and think about what you would do and then what I would do, because it's game over."

"What do you mean it's over?"

"Watch," Yugi said as he moved his queen diagonally next to the Knight's Pawn. "Checkmate."

The stadium went quiet for the third time in five minutes. Devin ran onto the stage, like he was actually doing something and wasn't expecting such an early finish. He looked at the board and looked dumbfounded. "Well Ladies and Gentlemen, I don't really believe it myself, but Yugi Muto has just beaten the champion of Rock Band to a game of Chess in two moves. Congratulations Yugi for your extremely quick victory, um, well I guess place in your votes for tomorrow's game and your answer's to Seto Kaiba's question for your chance to win a one in a life time opportunity. Good luck to everyone and have fun during the elimination round."

The coward went up in cheers of astonishment and delight and then started to file out with their answers and votes.

Kaiba looked over to Mokuba. "Did that just happen?"

"I guess it did, obviously Mai didn't jinx Yugi's competition." His brother answered in awe.

Kaiba was confused for a moment about the jinx, but he swept it away as he came up with a vote. The group left as one out of the stadium and placed their votes and he figured at least one of them had an answer shoved in there in the box.

Kaiba split off with Mokuba from the rest of the group making sure Regan was with somebody as she went to go see Yugi. To his relief she was with Solomon, Atem and Téa walking down the hall while everyone else went to do their own thing. Kaiba walked with Mokuba back to their suite and came up behind Terry after his family walked into the room. "Terry, can you drive my brother and me to pick up something. I need you to be a crazy son of a bitch when driving your taxi to try and mix yourself up with the other taxis within the city, its rather important."

"Of course," Terry answered at once. "Just let me get my key and jacket and I will meet you out front."

"Thanks," Mokuba said and they entered the room.

Kaiba waited for Mokuba to get ready for their trip. "Are you not going to ask where we are going?"

"No, I already know where we are heading, though I may not know the exact location I know why we are heading out." The boy answered putting on his coat.

"Did you get a hold of Roland or Alex while I was gone to explain the details of the plan?"

"Yes, that was one of the first things I did when you gave me that long list of things to do, Roland said he will be in the country to do as you asked him within the next seventy-two hours or so. Apparently, Dragon Slayers tried to make a mess just before I called and he was expecting another raid last night and tonight. He said he's not leaving until Alex was back from her final training lesson and test which won't be finished until late on the ninth."

"At least there was a reason for him not answering his cellphone and here I was getting a little nervous for leaving him there during this mess."

"Brother, you don't get nervous when it comes to Roland." Mokuba replied in a dead voice.

"Can you at least pretend that I don't have such an egotistic personality that knows when something goes wrong?"

"Why, where is the fun in that?"

"You are hopeless." Kaiba sighed as he stood up. "Ready to go?"

Mokuba nodded and the two of them walked out of the room. Kaiba would text Regan of their absence once they were in the taxi so she wouldn't have to waste time for either of them. The two brothers walked out to the curb of the street where Terry was waiting for them.

The things the two Kaiba brothers do. Who knows what they are up to? Well besides me that is. :P

Anyway hope you enjoyed it, review and stuff.