Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Joey's Big Brother ❯ The Feeling's Mutual ( Chapter 7 )

LusciousDragon: Ok, so I haven't updated in forever, sorry……

ShadowDragon: Yes, its official, my hikari has no life!!

LD: You asked for it!!! Yami!!!!!!!!!

*POOF…* Yami appears next to LusciousDragon,

Yami: What?

LD: Tie her up!!

SD: When I get my hands on you, I'll hurt you so bad!!

LD: Oh and Yami would you mind terribly if you did the disclaimer?

Yami: Yes actually I would mind, I'm kinda in the middle of an intimate moment with my hikari!!

LD: Ooooooooooo……………

Yami: *mumbles* hate her so much…

LD: What was that?

Yami: Nothing, now, LusciousDragon does not own Yu-gi-oh, which is something I thank the gods for everyday. Because if she did, life would be hell!!

LD: Bye…have FUN with Yugi *giggle*

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*The Feelings Mutual: (Day 2) ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

"Wake up Joey, come on, come on, wake up!!!!" Mokuba bounced into Joey's room, an unwelcome ball of energy.

"Go away." Joey mumbled into his pillow.

"You'd better get up, before breakfast is gone!!"

"What's for breakfast?"

"Hmmm… Scrambled eggs, French toast, sausages, pancakes, waffles, toast, cereal…"

"All right, I'm up, I'm up!!!"

"Ummm… Bye..."

"What?" Joey said, rubbing the sleep from his eyes.

Mokuba yelled back over his shoulder, as he ran from the room, "It's 7 AM on a Saturday, and the cook doesn't come till 10!!"

` "Why, you… little… get back here!!!!" Joey said as he tore after the younger boy. Joey cornered him in front of a doorway on the second floor. Mokuba started to beat the door with his fists, and it swung open…to reveal a very sleepy Seto.

"What do you want?" He asked, as he stifled a yawn, he was wearing silk boxers, and was clearly annoyed at being interrupted. Mokuba scurried off, as Kaiba started to yell at Joey, "What the hell do you think you're doing, banging on my door at this hour? You think you can go banging on my door at any hour you wish! You're not even a guest… You're just staying here because you are a stupid mutt who can't learn. Leave me alone…"

"But, Kaiba, Mokuba was the one who…"

"Leave my room this instant!!!!"

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At ten in the morning, a very tired looking group of people came down to breakfast. Joey, who was still exhausted from his `morning run' had collapsed on his bed, and had not the will power, nor the inclination to bother changing into proper clothes. Mokuba, who was a morning person, was the widest awake, but his hair was flattened at the back, from sleeping on it, and he was still wearing his pajamas, which had pictures of duel monsters on them. Kaiba was the only one who was dressed, in his dark blue trench coat [AN: Is it a trench coat????]. However, the fact that he wasn't fully awake was made clear when he poured orange juice into a plate [AN: I did that once]. Joey stuffed his face, as he always does, while Kaiba looked on disgusted. Mokuba ate much slower than Joey, as Seto had warned him about the risks of choking. When they were done, they left the table, as Joey grabbed one last donut to munch on.

"So, what should we do today?" Mokuba asked brightly.

Joey replied, but due to the fact that he had a donut in his mouth, no one understood him.

"Didn't anyone ever teach you not to eat and speak at the same time? It's rude, not to mention gross."

Joey swallowed and then said, "It's just a donut, how gross is that?"

"When you're the one chewing it… VERY!!!!"

"Let's go to the beach!" Mokuba said, interrupting the two older boys, who didn't answer, they were to busy glaring at each other. Mokuba tugged on his brother's coat, and said, half-whining, "Come ON!! I WANNA go to the BEACH!!!!"

"Count me in, the beach is the best!!!" Joey said, with a lot more enthusiasm, than he had shown all day, except when he was chasing Mokuba…

"…Fine…" Kaiba acceded, "as long as the Mutt behaves…"

"You should be more worried about how you behave, you're such a jerk, people don't want to be around you." Another fight might have erupted, if Mokuba hadn't dragged Joey away.

"We gotta go pack."

"It's the middle of December, what can do at the beach?"

"Well, we can go on the boardwalk, and we can still build sandcastles, and chase seagulls, and scare old people who are walking on the beach, and…"

"Forget I asked," Joey said quickly.

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"Yes, we're almost there, Mokuba announced.

Joey was still muttering darkly in the back seat of Kaiba's convertible. "Lousy Kaiba, letting his little brother sit in the front, and making me sit in the back, with all of Mokuba's sand toys."

It was an unbelievably nice day, and Mokuba was leaning out the window, and then he said, "I can smell it, the air smells like salt, that means we're getting close." Kaiba nodded, his eyes still focused on the road.

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It was noon, and there was no one on the beach except them, and a few lone seagulls.

"Let's break for lunch, I'm starved!!" Joey, of course, was always thinking about his stomach.

They unpacked the picnic basket, which had been kept in the trunk, well out of Joey's reach, onto a blanket which they placed on the sand. The cold cuts, which had been packed, along with dessert, and snacks, was enough to satisfy even Joey. Mokuba pestered Joey to help him build a sand castle, while Kaiba set up a chair to bask in the warmth of the sun's rays. Joey gave in, and started to dig the moat, which was huge. Mokuba started on the castle itself, and a half and hour later, they stood back, to admire there castle. Kaiba by this time was asleep, and an evil scheme entered Joey's brain. Enlisting the eager help of Mokuba, they started to dig around Kaiba's chair, it was exhausting work, but Joey, who did most of the work, was able to handle it. At last the hole, or moat, was dug, they had only dug till they hit water. But, since Kaiba was camped out so far from the ocean, it was very deep, by the time they reached water. Then they had to start dragging pails of sea water, from the freezing cold ocean, however, Mokuba wanted to know why.

Joey explained, "See, when you dig around something, and you hit water, the water will wear away at the sides of whatever you dug around." Seeing that Mokuba was still confused, he made it clearer, "Say we dug the moat from your castle, until it hit water… The moat, which surrounds the castle, would have water in it, the water would cause the foundation under the castle to give way, causing it to collapse from lack of support."

Realization dawned on Mokuba, "Ohhhh… I get it!!!!!" With this, the duo started to fill the moat....

All the while, Kaiba slept, blissfully unaware of what was happening.

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Kaiba was in a deep slumber when it happened, suddenly, with no warning, he fell, chair and all, into a deep pit, filled with frigid water, and much sand. His fall caused much of the sand that was on the sides of the pit to fall down on top of him. He was understandably furious. A shaggy blond head popped into view, a long way up. "Wheeler," Kaiba muttered.

"Yep. And if you wish to get out, you have to be nice to me all day. Or else I'll just leave you there, while me and Mokuba get ice cream, and let you stand there till some stranger takes pity on you. Also you can't call me Mutt. So, what'll it be?"

Soaking wet, and coated in sand, Kaiba was stripped of his pride. "All right, M…Wheeler…"

Joey reached down, and grabbed his arm, and helped him up. Kaiba brushed the sand off, and said, brusquely, "Come on, we're going to the boardwalk."

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"Mmmm… Thanks for the ice cream Seto," Mokuba said.

"You're welcome," Kaiba said. Although he was still annoyed at Wheeler for making him look like a fool, he couldn't stay mad at Mokuba for long.

"Wheeler, watch Mokuba for a minute while I go throw out the trash."

"Sure," Joey said, not really thinking. He was totally into his butterscotch ice cream.

"Joey, I want a balloon, see, that one, with the Blue Eye's White Dragon."

"Sure, go get it, then come right back."

"OK, Joey, I won't be gone more than a few minutes."

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"Where's Mokuba?" Kaiba asked when he came back.

"Went off to buy a balloon."

"You let him go off on his own?"

"Relax, he's old enough to take care of himself, you're smothering him Kaiba!!"

"I don't see him."

"Look, he went over there to buy a balloon, a Blue Eyes White Dragon."

"When was this?"

"5 minutes ago."

"WHAT? He should be back by now… Mokuba!"

"I bet he went to the bathroom or something…"

"You stupid fool, you lost my brother!!!! MOKUBA!!!"

"No I didn't."

"MOKUBA!!!! MOKUBA!!! WHERE ARE YOU!!!!" Kaiba's cry echoed on the empty pier, where Mokuba was no where to be found…