Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Hot as Ice ❯ Somethings you will never forget ( Chapter 3 )

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Hot as Ice

Note: Translations from http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_txt

RECAP

~ “You've met him…before you came to my place,” certainty in his voice… “Brother,”~

STORY START

“Brother?!” Joey shrieked and both twins flinched though Seth showed it more and silence descended on the yard as student looked up stunned. Their reaction to Seth, who they'd all thought was Seto, had been amusing but this was odd, Seth wasn't used to sudden all over silences.

“Yes,” Seth said cheerfully, Seto just looking at the blond with distaste, though Seth could see something behind it, something…warm.

“HOW?”

“We have the same parents,” Seth said patiently as Seto scoffed and turned to the doors saying “You truly are an idiot mutt,” before shoving the doors open and striding in, his movements swift, graceful…calculated. Seth wondered if his twin counted the inches of each stride, making each identical, precise, he seemed like he would.

“Bastard!” Joey snarled glaring at his brothers retreating back before turning blazing golden eyes to Seth who just stared back at him and his friends with calm, warm eyes.

“Your related to that…that…THAT!”

“That what Joey?”

“I can't think of a word bad enough okay!”

“…Please don't speak badly about my twin,” Seth said softly making his eyes soft, sweet, pleading and Yugi's mouth fell open ever so slightly, a slight flush taking over his cheeks as girls behind their group giggled, some swooning and one fainting rather dramatically.

“You're twins?”

“Which of you is older?”

“I'll bet its Kaiba!”

“Why haven't we heard of this before?”

“Why weren't you adopted with Kaiba and the kid?”

Questions came at the Egyptian and he blinked trying to assimilate each one, and then waited for silence before speaking, “Yes, we are, I'm the eldest, I was sent to another orphanage, and we were separated at 8 so we wouldn't talk about it much now would we and Tristan that kid is Mokuba.”

Before more questions could be thrown his way the bell range making him jump, before sighing in relief.

Lunch

Looking over at his twin from his spot with Yugi and his new Domino friends in the lunch line Seth felt his heart wrench at the sight of his younger brother sitting all alone, looking very much an adult as he typed away on his laptop, not even looking at his lunch. He wondered if Seto had been given the same love and affection he had and doubted it; just by the way he moved away from physical contact, the way he spoke said he had ended up with a cold fish.

Leaving his friends he made a beeline for his twin, dodging a few bits of thrown food and people on his way and he sat down in front of Seto. Waiting for his twin to look up from his laptop but instead got an impatient “What?” as the tap, tap, tap of the keys reached his ears and he asked “Don't I even warrant eye contact?” Sighing Seto looked up, guarded eyes meting open warm ones, a stony pail face mirrored by a smiling golden one and silence rained only broken when Yugi walked over to timidly ask “Seth, can we sit with you?”

His smile turning to a grin Seth said “Sure, little one, I' m sure my brother wont mind,” though he knew his twin would mind very much but he like Yugi and he wanted his twin to too because he had designs on the boy which he wasn't about to let go of.

“Okay,” Yugi said looking fearfully at Seto who was still staring at his twin not even acknowledging them even as they sat, though all his friends sat on his side, none daring to encroach on Seto's bench. As Yugi pushed a tray of food in front of Seth, Joey asked “What are we doing? Why are we sit'en with moneybags?” and only Seth noticed the slight, almost non existent tightening around his brothers eyes.

“Joey, shut up,” he said still not looking away from his twin, nether giving in, nether looking away, and nether blinking. Conversation began slowly between the others as Yugi and Joey watched the staring competition, the battle of wills that nether twin would loose. Laughter built in Seths' chest as he stared at his twin, his lips twitching and he had to hold his breath to stop from breaking down in hysteria. His face soon becoming an odd shade of red and all it took was the slightest rising of one of Setos' perfectly shaped eyebrows for him to break.

Rich, breathless laughter filled the cafeteria as the elder twin became hysterical, gasping for breath as he laughed until tears filled and spilled from his eyes and he couldn't get enough oxygen. A slight frown caressed the CEO's face as he watched, confusion plan on Yugi and Joey's faces as they watched the Egyptian make a breathless wheezing sound, tears making treks down his cheeks.

“What's so funny?” Joey asked wanting in on the joke and even the CEO had to concur with the question, what was so funny? Another question popped into his mind, when was the last time he'd genuinely, wholeheartedly laughed? Not chuckle or snicker or laugh like he was insane, but laugh because he found something that funny?

Brushing the wetness from his cheeks Seth said his voice husky “I don't know, I really don't know,” even as another chuckle fell from his lips.

Astonishment widened violet and golden eyes, blue, green and brown eyes stared at him as if he were crazy, soft brown eyes with slight confusion though his twins were back on the laptop screen in front of him. Frowning his irritation, Seth pushed the lid down, not caring as his brother glared at him and asked, his voice soft, his eyes kind “When was the last time you did something for yourself? That you truly wanted to do?”

Silence filled the table as all eyes turned to the glaring man on the opposite side, “Well?” Seth asked eyebrows rising though he never lifted his hand from the back of the laptop. “...” those cool blue eyes narrowed and finally he snapped “Built a Jet.”

“Not what were you doing, when you did it,” Seth counted, though suitably impressed and watch those oddly thin shoulder were thrown back in challenge before the man snapped “Three years ago.”

The implication that left burned into Joeys mind and he blurted out his thought with out thought, “But, all da duels! You had to have wanted to do those!”

“Is there any filter between your brain and your mouth Joey?” Seth asked which was then counted by Seto who said “I wasn't even aware the mutt had one, now unhand my laptop.”

“OF cause I have a brain!” Joey snapped “Now answer the question ya idiot!”

Eyebrows rose on the elder twins face as he stared at the blond and wondered briefly if the boy had life insurance. Seto was not someone you messed with. Even he could see that.

7pm

“You never did answer Joeys question,” Seth said leaning back in his chair in the impressive dining room of the Kaiba mansion that was cold, vaguely sinister and left a bad taste in his mouth. Seto sat at the head of the table, Mokuba at his right and Seth on his left.

“What question?” the boy asked pulling the spoon from his mouth, his chocolate ice-cream forgotten as he looked from one brother to the other. He was suddenly glade they had slightly different skin tones, clothing styles (Seto's promoting power while Seths was more comfort and easy movement) and attitudes, again nearly total opposites with Seto cold, and indifferent and Seth warm, caring and genuinely interested.

“If Seto didn't enjoy duelling why does he? Why does he challenge Yugi again and again all the while knowing he was going to get him butt kick,” Seth said looking back at Seto saying “Don't deny you know you'll lose, you're too smart for that.”

Sighing Seto pushed the rest of his dinner, which he'd barely touched in the first place away “You tell those friends of yours and I'll skin you,” he said meeting those blue eyes that were so similar to his own yet so completely different. “Games are a defence mechanism, I know it, I enjoy things that have a prepose…or I did,” he said his face neutrally thoughtful.

“Yeah, I remember, you and dad used to send hours playing one game or another,” Seth said.

“I remember,” Seto agreed before standing “I'm done, I'll be in my office if you need me,” he said and Seth frowned “You've barely eaten a thing Seto,” worry in his eyes.

“I've had enough,” the man said and Seth whispered as he watched his brother leave the room “Where you ever a child again, Seto? Did you get to use that beautiful brain for things you wanted to?”

“No.”