To Kill A Kaiba

*Enjoy*


The first rays of the morning sun spills through the window of the
Kame Game Shop turning blonde locks golden.

Jou stirs slightly at the disturbance, not having leaving his perch
from the windowsill.

A cordless phone lies snuggled under his side as
one slight move told him that sleeping on such technology isn't the
most comfortable.

Thus hazel eyes slowly opens...

Sitting up, he winces at his sore side and with a bandaged hand he
idly rubs the offending spot.

Damn phone…

The blond grew still….the phone….Mokuba's call.

Frantically, he grabs the phone and flips through the caller id,
hoping that Mokuba had tried to call during his slumber and with some
good news.

However, to his disappointment, there were no other calls from the
smaller Kaiba.

Well I guess no news is good news, I suppose Jou thought to himself.
Maybe I should call, mahself….but what would I say….

What was he suppose to say indeed...

Jou quietly curses to himself.

That duel was suppose to stay in Domino City Park!

But thanks to the media, that damn duel had
already made national headlines.

He clearly remembered last night, when he and the gang saw that
broadcast; it did not bode well for Kaiba at all…

Flashback

"Wow so Kaiba is missing?" Otogi asks flipping through channels, " I
guess no fillet a la lemon for him tonight"

Jou casts a warning glare over the dice master's way.

Yugi quickly intervenes, "Let's all just focus in helping anyway we
can to get him back safe at home. Mokuba and Roland are out looking
for him as we speak."

"If its help that he needs, then maybe he should find a priest," Honda
gently puts his hand over Otogi's hand that held the remote and in
turn the raven-haired teen stops flipping the channels.

The blond gasps as he saw Kaiba's and his image on T.V

"Because the media is about to make him say his prayers…" Honda added
quietly.

The room went silently as everyone attentively listens to the bastard
reporters…

"Hai, minnasan*! What you see here is actual footage! Thanks to one of
our cameraman, who chose to have his name withheld at this time, was
on an outing with his family when he stumbled across this spectacle!
The CEO of Kaiba Corp, Kaiba Seto has again slipped down another
notch! This time to former Battle City Finalist, Jounouchi Katsuya"

Jounouchi threw his head down in his hands and groaned, it wasn't
unusual for him to be on T.V. Hell, back in the day with the Hirutani
Gang, it was almost on a daily basis when his mug shot would be
plastered in living rooms across Domino City in the Wanted segment…and
he loved it!

But now in a more positive light, it saddened the blonde duelist, in
fact, it made him want to hurl! How dare does bastards use him as a
weapon to further humiliate his love! However the reality still stood
and the reporters continue…

"What do you say, Neguchi-san, has Kaiba-sama passed his prime? He has
yet to gain control again of top duelist status and now he loses to
the supposing third best, are we going to continue to see this decline?"

A dark-browned eyed beauty with long silky light brown hair in a
frilly pink top turns towards an average-looking black-haired,
black-eyed man in a white collar top, expecting his answer.

"Well, Saikiko-san, it does appear that Kaiba-sama hasn't been showing
us much of a show in recent weeks, no months and its started to effect
the masses"

Picking up a couple of printed paper, "Kaiba Corp stocks, even though
still strong had pummeled and some faithful customers of Kaiba Corp
are converting to another big gaming company, Industrial Illusions."

Turning back to the pretty reporter, "I say it's the lesser of two
evils, either attempt to focus on his dueling and continue to lose
business to rival companies or focus more on his company and retire
from duel monsters."

"I see well it seems that our former hero, Kaiba Seto has finally met
his krypto…" The woman never did finish her smart quip because her
face had met an untimely end to Jounouchi's fist.

RING! RING…RING! RING! (End of Flashback)

The blond jumps violently to the phone in his hand and without
thinking pushes the button, "Yo, Mokie…Didja find Kaiba?"

This in turn jolted the others awake and as sleepy eyes turns towards
the hazel-eyed teen, his face failed dramatically. "Ah, Gomen Nasai*,
Motou-san."

It was just the old man.

Reluctantly turning towards Yugi, who in turn jumps up immediately to
get the phone from him, Jou gave a sigh. He and that phone had a date
as soon as the little one finishes.

Turning to the broken T.V with glass in a nearby trash can, Jou
internally winces. And as soon as he can get some cash, he will have
to buy the Motous a new T.V. set as well.

The Kaiba Mansion

A small hand dips a cloth in a small white porcelain bowl on an
elegant black table stand and places on a pale smooth forehead.

Trimmed eyebrows wrinkle slightly at the coolness.

"Mura-sensei said that you're lucky that you didn't catch pneumonia,
Nii-san."

Blue-eyes slowly open, revealing the caring big grey eyes of a worried
ototou*.

"Mokie?" Seto rasps out, "How long have I've been asleep?"

Mokuba chuckled a bit, "You were out as soon as we got you into the
limo yesterday evening."

As the smaller Kaiba gets up, "It's Saturday, almost 2 in the
afternoon now."

Disappearing into the bathroom, Mokuba quickly re-emerges but this
time with a prescription bottle. "Mura-sensei also said that you
haven't been getting enough of your vitamins and minerals."

Mokuba pops open the bottle and gives Seto three capsules and a glass
of water that was already on the night stand.

"If you going to roam around in the rain like that, your immune system
should be stronger" the little boy quips gently.

Seto hums at the comment and proceeds to take his vitamins but then
immediately notice the obvious discomfort of his little brother.

"There's something else you're not telling me." Seto accuses as he
shifts into a more comfortable elevated position to drink his water.

Mokuba openly fidgets. He wanted so much to ask his brother about Jou
and just how much he remembers from last night. Just like everyone
else, he knew about the park duel. The news was playing the footage
like an old classic rerun so he had a chance to look at it earlier
today but somehow deep within him, there was something more.

"Mokie." Seto said calmly.

The little one lifts his head up, "H-Hai, your lawyer, Ichiro-sensei
called earlier. He wanted to talk about the duel footage from
yesterday and your course of action. The whole city of Domino is
really rattled by the whole thing."

Seto abruptly snorts. Bitches, all of them. They wanted to so much to
see him fall and now that he had, they still aren't satisfied. Its
funny how they slow to respond to very generous acts on his part, like
say donate all of the proceeds of past dueling tournaments to charity,
but he loses a stupid duel and they all over him like white on sushi
rice. Seto sighs; no one was ever satisfied with him…not even that
bastard……

Flashback

Crack! A small boy with broken blue eyes lets out a wail as the whip
licks across his back. Small hands deathly gripping the edge of a
desk, Gozaburo-sama's.

"WHAT THE FUCK IS A 99%! WHAT THE HELL DID I LOCK YOUR DUMBASS IN THE
CLOSET FOR??" shrieks Gozaburo slapping down the latest homemade test
he had made for his impossible adopted son.

"I-i-it's v-v-very hard t-t-to study in the d-d-dark, Gozaburo-sama.",
the auburn-haired child whispers, tears sliding down his face.

"My son, Noa could do these formulas blindfolded!" sneers the abusive
tyrant.

Then without warning, he grabs the boy's hair and slams him face first
into the floor. The small child lies motionless. Only a heaving chest
signals that he was still alive.

"You're pathetic." Gozaburo sends another wave of pain with his whip
across the broken boy's back. "You thought you were so fucking clever
with that chess game, but then again if I was as useless as you I
would've resorted to such tactics as well."

Gozaburo steps back and turn towards the window. "It sickens me that
weaklings like you are left to live and my much more promising son had
to die. And what sickens me even more is that I actually had the
audacity to think you had the potential like my son."

Slowly, the boy lifts his head up, with tears and a bloody nose, "But
that's just it…" He whispers.

Gozaburo turns to glare at the lost youth with slight surprise.

"I'm not Noa….and then at the top of his lungs, " I'M NOT EVEN A KAIBA!"

End Flashback

Seto never did remember much after that, Gozaburo had made sure of it.

However, realization had struck the blue-eyed teen.

I'm not even a Kaiba.

So why the hell am I putting up with this shit?! I'm not even really a
fucking Kaiba. Who the fuck am I? All my life as Kaiba, I had strived
to be the best, for that bastard, for the company, for duel monsters,
for Jou…

"Uh, Nii-san?" Mokuba asked cautiously, "Are you ok?"

Seto flinches but then he smiles. "You know it's funny, I own an
amusement park but never really enjoyed it. How about it?"

Mokuba would've visually thanked every god there was for such an
opportunity but instead he settles for, "Are you sure? You still need
bed rest."

Seto chuckled, "Of course, but not today. We'll leave tomorrow morning
and spend the whole day there."

This time the overexcited child didn't hold back….

"Hontou ni*?! You mean it!?"

Seto simply laughs at the cute way his brother's face lit up.

Mokuba a whoop and then exclaims, "We should sit here right now and
plan the whole day together! I want to ride everything twice!"

Seto sighs and closes his eyes in contemplation, but quickly opens
them, his mind made up.

"In a minute, Mokie but first I think I shouldn't keep Ichiro-sensei
waiting on my course of action. Since I definitely have one."

The smaller Kaiba falters a little; there was something in his
Nii-san's eyes that he couldn't decipher.

"Hai. I'll get the phone." Mokuba went across the huge room to
retrieve his brother's cell.

If those bastards think they have the story of a lifetime, I'm about
to blow their asses right out of the water, Seto thought vehemently
but then his facial features soften.

Jou.

Dammit, if the mutt wasn't right. He did knock me down a peg. Shit,
he knocked me down rock-bottom.

A searing burn clenches his heart; it just went to show how much Jou
really hated him….

"Hai, doozo*. Nii-sama." Seto calmly takes the phone and flips it
open, a gleam set in his eyes as he dialed the number and said
tersely, "Hai, Ichiro-san. Get those bastards from the Channel 5 news
on the phone…I'll give them a fucking story."

At the Jounouchi Residence

Jou steps into his room after just coming from Yugi's and flips on the
T.V habitually.

"Now dat I'm alone, I can make dat phone call."

He had decided against calling with his friends around, right now
meddling in his so-call love life is not going to make this situation
easier.

Besides, they will ask questions that he really doesn't have the
answers to right now. Digging in his bag for the number he had gotten
off Yugi's caller ID, he came across a familiar deck of cards.

Slowly pulling them out, he stares with longing at them thinking of
its owner. He closes his eyes and envisions that Adonis-like face, he
could even hear the owner's voice…..

Voice?

It took Jou a moment to realize that said voice actually came from his
T.V set.

Whirling around, he gasps as he gazed upon such a beauty that should
be censored from T.V altogether. It was Kaiba Seto, standing outside
of his front door looking…..well, fuckable.

He was in white silk pajamas, the shirt left unbuttoned. So entranced
was the blond, that he almost completely didn't hear what Kaiba is
saying.

"I will still continue to deliver to the public the best of what Kaiba
Corp has to offer, that will never change. In fact, I think it's in my
best interest to not only look out for the well-being of my company
but the well-being of family." Seto pauses to look fondly at his
brother, who stood by his side. "So that's why I decided that for here
on out, I, Kaiba Seto, officially retire from duel monsters."

As soon as that left the young CEO's mouth, questions flew. However
one certain blonde didn't hear them. Once again an array of cards
found purchase on the ground, one card, and The Blue Eyes White Dragon
lies silently by an occupied sneaker.

"Please one question at a time, and please call me Seto. The Kaiba you
knew, is no more"

To Be Continued……………

*Minna-san-everybody

*Goman Nasai- sorry

*Ototo- little brother

*Hontou ni- really?