Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Sad Moments ❯ Chapter 4 ( Chapter 4 )

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AN: YAY! This is the fastest I've ever updated a story before in my life, but then again I've only written 2 stories... -_-' Well anyway I'd like to give a thanks to my wonderful reviewers. Thank you. I hope you guys like this chapter as much as you did the last.

 

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Chapter 4

 

Seto sat at his computer typing waiting for his brother to finish with his homework. He doesn't know if the piece of paper he gave his little brother will do any good for him. He knows math isn't Mokuba's strong point like it is for Seto. He now realizes how much he's pushed his brother away not spending time with him and helping him when he has the chance. Seto soon gives up his attempts to do what little work he had planned on doing at home and stands walking towards the window in his study. He looks out the window watching the cars go by. He wishes that he had never asked Gozaburo (am I spelling that right?) Kaiba to a chess match. It only caused Seto pain growing up living with Gozaburo's punishments for him to be the perfect heir to his company. Seto knows that he was only allowed to live wth Gozaburo because of the thought that he'd be a perfect rival for his true son Noah. Seto had never met Noah till Noah's virtual world, he never knew Gozaburo had an actual son.

 

Seto hears a knock on the door and says "Come in." He doesn't turn around to see who it is, he just continues to look out the window staring towards the city streets. He turns hearing a small sniffle, looking down he sees Mokuba with a few tears in his eyes. Seto walks over and kneels in front of his little brother "Mokuba what's wrong, what seems to be troubling you." Mokuba raises his head and says "Big brother can we talk now I couldn't really concentrate on my homework and in school today, please big brother." Mokuba said trying to plead with his brother. Seto looks at Mokuba and sighs quietly. He says quietly, "Mokuba I promised I would tell you, but Mokuba you won't want to eat after you hear everything I have to say to you, could we please wait till after supper before we talk." "but Seto we have school tomorrow." Mokuba says looking up at Seto. "We won't go tomorrow I won't be able to concentrate with all these memories pooling my head."

 

Mokuba nods his head, "That makes sense big brother I can wait till after supper." Mokuba turns to leave and then looks at his big brother "but uh.. Seto do you know what we're having for supper." Seto shakes his head "No Mokuba I have no clue." "Oh.. well I'll see you at supper than Seto ok." "Alright Mokuba." Mokuba walks out of the room and Seto stands slowly and walks back towards the window. His closes his eyes knowing his little brothers truly upset by the way he said his name instead of big brother. Mokuba has rarely called him Seto unless something was wrong and in that whole confrontation with Mokuba he said Seto a total of three times. Seto looks down sadly knowing now he'd have to come up with an excuse to get him and Mokuba out of school tomorrow. He knows it won't be impossible, but will just take some time. Seto kneels in front of the window placing his forehead against it saying quietly to himself "I hate this, why did our parents have to die, why did I have to challenge Gozaburo I don't want this anymore I just want to be a normal, but I know that that will never happen anymore."

 

He stands and looks one more time out the window before leaving his study and towards his room. He walks into his room and shuts the door taking off his trenchcoat and then the shirt he wore under it. He lowers his head knowing this is how it begain this morning with Mokuba finding out. He now wishes he had brought an extra set of clothes to change into the bathroom with him before he took his normal morning shower. He looks around his room casually and walks towards his bed falling face first on it. His body shakes slightly memories making there way towards his mind. He grabs a pillow and places under his head hiding his face. He doesn't want Mokuba to find him in his room crying. Seto had one memory that kept popping into his mind. That memory was the time that he heard his mother had died giving birth to his baby brother. Seto had at first blamed his mothers death all upon his baby brother. His dad wasn't usually around, he was always working. Then a couple of years later their father never came home. Seto found out the next day that his father had been killed that night.

 

Seto hears footsteps coming down the hall. He knows its Mokuba coming to tell him suppers ready. He hears Mokuba walk into his study, his little brother still thinking that he was in there. He soon hears Mokuba come running out of the study and towards his room. "Seto" Mokuba says before he opens the door. Seto lays there still shaking his face buried within the pillow. "Yes Mokuba" He says sounding muffled from the sound not passing through the pillow. "Can I come in for a minute." Seto thinks about himself crying and if he wants his baby brother to witness his own weakness. "Sure Mokuba you can come in." Mokuba slowly enters and walks over to the big bed sitting on the edge of it he turns to his brother and says "Seto suppers ready." Mokuba looks at Seto's back seeing that scars that trace along it. He places one of his hands on Seto's back and runs his finger along a scar wondering what or who could have caused his big brother such wounds. He feels Seto tense slightly from the touch on his back.

 

Seto keeps telling himself that it was Mokuba touching the scars on his back not Gozaburo, he's dead he can't hurt him anymore. Seto raises his head and looks at Mokuba. He rolls over on his back "Well Mokuba lets go down to supper." Seto says sitting up slowly walking over to his discarded shirt. He picks it up and puts it back on turning to his brother and holds out his hand to him. "Come on Mokuba lets go to supper." Mokuba smiles and runs over to Seto grabbing ahold of his brothers hand. They walk down to the table and sit in their usual seats. Their cook brings them each a plate of food (I don't feel like going into discription of food for some reason.) Seto looks at his food and eats it slowly wanting this meal to last forever so he wouldn't have to tell his little brother. Seto thinks he's not emotionally ready to tell his little brother how he got scars all over his back, with a few that run along his chest. The memories are going to be too great for him to hide for any longer. He places a hand on his head trying to get rid of his headache that developed during this short time period.

 

Mokuba looks up at his brother and notices he doesn't look the greatest. "Big brother are you feeling ok." Mokuba asks concern evident in his voice. Seto looks up at Mokuba slightly and responds "Yeah Mokuba I'm fine just slightly tired" "Do you still want to talk tonight still." Seto nods his head "Yeah I think that it'll be best if I talk to you about this now so I can get this off my mind." Mokuba nods his head "That makes sense big brother." Mokuba drops the subject and goes back to eating his food in quiet. Mokuba's eyes water slightly as he thinks about the possibilities of how those scars came to be on his big brothers back. He keeps his head lowered so Seto doesn't see the tears welling up in his eyes. He raises his hand and wipes them away quickly. He doesn't want to be caught crying at the supper table. Mokuba finishes his food quicker than Seto for a change. He sees his brother picking at his food slowly. He wonders what is taking Seto so long to eat knowing how Seto usually's done before him, but then again Seto usually has so much work to do and usually doesn't eat supper at the table with him.

 

~*~Yugi's House~*~

 

Yugi was sitting down at the dinner table with Joey and his Grandpa. They ordered their food so they wouldn't have to cook anything for that night. Joey looks at Gramps and says "So Gramps house de shop runnin lately." Solomon looks up at Joey and replies "It's been running quite well lately." "Dat's good ta know Gramps." Joey looks down at the pizza on his plate and doesn't eat as much as he normally would. He starts to think about how his dad wouldn't let him eat till he had his chores or whatever his dad had him do for that day. Yugi looks at Joey "Joey, how come you're not eating all you're pizza you've barely eaten two pieces and it's not like you to not eat less than 3 or 4 pieces." Joey looks up at Yug slightly "Well Yug I'm not as hungry as I usually am i guess." Yugi thinks to himself 'That's hard to believe I've known Joey for years and he's never not hungry. Somethings bothering him. I'm going to have to talk to Grandpa tonight to see if he can get Joey to talk to him about anything that's been buggin him or why he's so quiet. Oh i hope Grandpa can knock some sense into Joey. I hate seeing him like this.'

 

Joey stands up not finishing his pizza "Tanks for de pizza Gramps, but would ya mind if I went upstairs ta rest I haven't felt de greatest today." "No Joey I don't mind are you going to be staying in Yugi's room with him." Joey nods his head "Yeah I'm going ta sleep on da floor in a sleepin bag or somethin." Joey walks up the stairs towards Yugi's room. He walks into the bathroom and strips out of his clothes quickly and turns to look in the mirror at the scars running all across his body. He knows he lied to Yugi about how long the abuse had been going on. The abuse he endured had never actually stopped it only lessoned to a point where it wasn't as noticeable but was still happening. Joey runs some bath water not feeling like he has the strength to stand long enough to take a shower. When the tub fills to the point where it won't overflow with him in it he steps into it and relaxes. His eyes start to water as he remembers how often he would get a shower or bath at his house. He knows that he wouldn't have thils privelage if he hadn't done something to please his dad. He sniffles slightly as a few tears run down his face. He would never allow somebody to see him like this. He felt weak at that moment laying in the tub thinking about his abuse.

 

Shaking his head he looks into the water before he slides further into the water. He slides under the water letting the water soad his blonde hair that he cared so much for. He pokes his head above the water after getting his hair wet. Joey reaches up for the shampoo and conditioner so he could wash his hair so it wouldn't look greasy and ragged. He pours a reasonable amount of shampoo into his hand and rubs it into his hair. He lets some of the water out of the tub so he can rinse his hair. He plugs the bathtub up again after he gets the shampoo out of his hair. He opens the conditioner bottle and pours more than enough into his lathering through his blonde hair. Some tears fall from his eyes feeling his fathers dirty hands run through his hair in a supposed 'loving' manor, Joey knows otherwise. He lets some water out of the tub again and turns the water back on so he can get the conditioner out of his hair. He leans back and lets out a frustrated groan as he can't seem to get the memories out of his head. A few more tears run down his face as he reaches up and grabs some soap. He runs the soap all over his body washing away any dirt and grime that is on his body.

 

Yugi looks up the stairs where Joey walked up to go take a nap but he knows Joey won't go to sleep without taking a shower or bath. He hears the water run in the bathroom and walks towards his Grandpa. "Hey Grandpa can I talk to you please." Grandpa looks at Yugi "Of course you can Yugi you never have to ask if you want to talk." "You see Grandpa this has to do with Joey." Solomon looks at Yugi wondering what could be wrong with Joey now. "Well you see Grandpa Joey's dad has started to abuse his again and Joey hasn't been himself lately. I was wondering if there was somethign you could do to keep Joey away from his dad and safe from his abuse again." "Yugi does Joey want me to interfere cause the last time I did something I made it worse for him don't you remember. The abuse only stopped because I went to the police. They took Joey away and let him stay where he would feel safe and he felt the most safe here with you his best friend. The only reason Joey went back to live with his dad was because they thought that he had changed in that few months time." Yugi looks at his Grandpa never hearing why Joey lived with them for those few months.

 

His Grandpa continued, "I don't think Joey wants me to interfere again with the Yugi I want to help him you know I do but what can I do so Joey won't get hurt worse. I know Joey tries to act tough but he can't hide from his dad forever. His dad will always come after him Yugi I want to help him." Yugi interupts him "but Grandpa think about the possibilites of Joey going back to live with his dad his dad could easily kill him and say he killed himself. There's many possible things that could happen to Joey and his father would never be blamed for them. Grandpa you have to think about all the possibilities before we send him to live with his dad again. Please Grandpa." "I'll see what I can do Yugi but I won't do anything unless Joey wants me too."

 

Joey steps out of the water sighing as he wraps a towel around himself. He lets the water out of the tub and picks his clothes up and walks towards Yugi's room with just the towel around his waist. He walks into Yugi's bedroom and walks towards the closet that seems to have not just Yugi's clothes but his. Joey stays at Yugi's house so often that he had no choice but to keep his clothes here in case he doesn't stop home before he comes over to Yugi's. He pulls out a shirt and closes the closet before he walks over to the dresser drawers and opens one of them pulling out a pair of boxers. He drops the towel and slips into the boxers quickly and then pulls the shirt over his head. He walks over to the bed that he has on the floor and crawls into it slowly. He pulls the covers over his body. He rolls onto his stomach and places his head into the pillow and cries from the pain that in his back. He doesn't want to burden Yugi with his problems right now. He doesn't want anyone to see his back and ask them what's on his back. Joey thinks it's just a mark that his father left from using his leather belt on his back.

 

Joey tries to muffle his cries into the pillow, but he doesn't hear the bedroom door open. Yugi walks into the room and sees his best friend on his stomach his back shaking from his cries. He says quietly not wanting to startle Joey "Joey is everything alright." Joey quiets his cries quickly and says in between sniffles "Yeah *sniffle* everythin's *sniffle* fine." Yugi walks over to Joey and places a hand on his back. Joey tries not to scream as Yugi places his hand on his back where his dad used the belt across his back, but he doesn't succed. Yugi pulls his hand back quickly and yells at his Grandpa to hurry up and get up there. Grandpa runs up the stairs as fast as he can and into Yugi's room and sees Joey on the floor on his stomach crying. Grandpa walks over to Yugi and asks him what happened. Yugi explain as Grandpa kneels down next to Joey and asks if he can look at his back. Joey shakes his head not wanting anyone to see his back. "Joey I just want to help you please let me look at your back I promise I won't hurt you." Joey nods his head and he pulls the shirt gently over his head. Grandpa and Yugi gasp seeing the scars that run all across his back.

 

There's one scar that stands out over the rest of them and that's one that's bright red and slightly raised that runs right down the center of his back. "Joey how long has that red mark been there." Joey cries lightly "Since last night." Yugi's eyes widen wondering how Joey could even sit down with that running across his back. "Joey, what was used to hit your back that could've caused that." Joey says quietly "A belt, a leather belt." Grandpa tells Yugi to go and get some ointment and band-aids. Yugi runs into the bathroom and gets the supplies that his Grandpa asks him to, he then runs back into the room and hands them to his Grandpa. "Joey I'm going to put some ointment and bandages on your back to prevent that from becoming infected okay." Joey nods his head. Grandpa tries not to put to much pressure on Joey's back so it doesn't cause him alot of pain. Joey whimpers a few times from the contact. Grandpa then applies the bandages to Joey's back. Joey stays on his stomach not wanting to look up at either of them. "Thanks Gramps." Joey says closing his eyes and falls asleep. Grandpa looks at Joey and sighs. "Grandpa how long do you think that this has been going on." "A long time Yugi, a long time."

 

AN: I think I'll leave it at that for now. I'm going to need a few suggestions for the next chapter. I'm not sure how to explain the abuse that Seto endured from Gozaburo. And I also want to know if I'm spelling his name right. So what did you guys think of that chapter. I hope I didn't make it drag on. If I did just tell me and I'll try and revise it. Well I gotta get going. Please review. I was thinking about bringing Tristan into the next chapter. You guys can tell me if you want me to or not. Well now I really gotta get going talk to you all in the next chapter.