Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ The Young God ❯ Chapter 1b ( Chapter 2 )

Chapter 1b

Seto Kaiba growled.

" How long?" He yelled at the ceiling. " Hai or Iie! I need an answer here! Even if I can't, it would make me feel a lot better!"

No answer. He was the only one in the house. Mokuba was out with Jounouchi and the others.

Seto grumbled a little. " So this is what it feels like being the youngest. First I have to start out as a baby all over again, age ten times faster, have my mortal parents killed and now I have no one to watch over me. No wonder the mortals had those dumb religions about gods. If only I were about two hundred years older. Then the council wouldn't have chosen me. But then again, I was the only one that had ever been here before." Seto sighed. " Wonder when Yami's going to remember. I would think that guy had a memory, being a pharaoh and all." He sighed.
" With Mokuba out, the only good thing is I can use my powers without worrying about him." Seto waved his hand. The glass vase shattered. " So wanted to do that."

Ring!

Seto blinked. " Hm. From the office again?" He tapped the air. The speaker went on.

" Moshi moshi?"
" Seto!" It was Yugi. " So this is where you were! I thought you'd be in the office!"
" I was." Seto said smugly. He didn't mention that he teleported home once he got out of the building just a few seconds ago. " Why did you call?"
" Well..." At this Yugi sounded smug himself. " Yami was having some trouble right now...he found a golden circlet with a sapphire in it just scattered on the street, mentioned you, and just...blacked out..."
Hm. Seto thought. He found the circlet! Lost that a long time ago. Now how to get it back-wait a minute, he fainted?
" Oh, is he alright?" Seto asked, as coldly as he could, getting up.
" Well, we're thinking that this circlet probably belonged to you, Yami mentioned something about that, and we just assumed..."
Good thing he's not one of my employees. Seto thought. Wait a minute. I made that a habit. Too bad, been in this world too long.
" So, what do you want me to do?" Seto asked.
" Isn't it obvious Kaiba?" Jou shouted in the background. " Get your butt over here!"
Hmph. Wish he wouldn't be so rude. I could turn him into an ant if I want to. And squash him. But that wouldn't be good. Seto thought.
" Wait there. Where are you?"
" We're at the game shop." Yugi answered. " Hai, Mokuba's here." There was something like " Hi Oni-chan!" in the background, but Seto couldn't make it out clearly.

Sighing, Seto told Yugi that he will come over to check out what happened to Yami and the whole deal with the circlet, thinking to himself that even for humans this is too illogical, and thought about just teleporting there. He thought better of it, and got into his car, driving there in a mortal fashion.

The circlet was exactly the same. Yami looked pale and tired. He never took his eyes off Seto the entire time he was here.

Seto basically was wondering how he should put it. If he put the circlet over his head, which was what the circlet basically wants, they were going to get suspicious, especially if the sapphire starts glowing. If he just took in away, they'll think he's stealing it.

Some dilemma.

" Well?" Yami blurted out. " Put it on. You know it's yours."
Seto looked at him carefully. Poor Yami. Had all those memories blasting at him. No wonder he's so cranky; that couldn't be helped. But he's a pharaoh, and pharaoh's should know that they must look confident and not distressed.

Ignoring the thought, Seto turned the circlet over. Geez, am I ever going to get it now.
" Ano...Kaiba?" Jou blinked. " Why are you putting it over your head?"
" Strange isn't it?" Was his reply. " Something like this is actually a crown."
The sapphire, to his distress, did glow, and the others, to his distress, did get suspicious.
" Ano...Kaiba?" Honda began. " Why is the sapphire glowing?"
" Hm? What do you think?" Kaiba asked, using his quick wits. " It reflects light, you baka."
" You're the one." Anzu blinked. " It's definitely glowing. Usually if light reflected off it, it would be white."
" Sun." Seto answered. " The sun."

Yami blinked. He's a better liar now. He sighed to himself quietly. How can I forget?
Seto looked at him and Yami jerked. That was exactly how he looked like at the banquet. He thought. This is it. I have to talk to him.
" So you remembered." Was his quiet statement. So quiet, like Seto had always been. Seto, the High Priest. Seto, the Champion. Seto, the god.
" Took you long enough." Seto smiled, leaning against the window. " I was getting lonely."
" I guess I didn't believe you."
" Gods never break their promises. Of course, you probably didn't expect me to come in this form."
" Seto, the bastard? Iie."
" Hai, well, I was forced to. The council wanted me to act as a mortal again, because they needed some information on their ' children'. Ah, like all parents. They never understand their children."
" So true."
" So what do you plan to do now?"
" Catch up, I guess." Yami looked at Seto. " How come you never spoke?"
" Haven't you figured it out already?" Seto smiled kindly. " I've grown better at lying. I don't need to confess anymore."

Yami swallowed. " Are you angry at me?" He suddenly asked.
Seto looked at Yami. " For beating me in a duel?" He asked, good naturedly, " Or for forgetting our whole history?"

Yami was silent.

" Belumfel." Seto sighed. " Five thousand years is a long time. You don't even remember your own name. How can I be angry? But for the duel, well, you owe me another one. I never knew you still had Exodia."
" Iie. It was Yugi's Grandpa who had it."
" Remember the first time we met?" Seto asked. " I was dueling Setit."
" He was a good player."
" He was. Why is this game so serious though? It's only a pack of...monsters."
" To hear you say that!"
" I've said it before. But not in these years."
Yami laughed. They sank back to the uncomfortable silence.
" So...what do you remember, really?"
" Everything."
" So you remember the bird?"
" The bird. Of course I remember the bird." Yami sighed. " I also remember the dragon. Came right out of that thing."
Seto smiled, polishing the sapphire. " Seems like yesterday."
" Hai."
Silence.
" I'm sorry." Seto sighed. " You couldn't know."
" I couldn't know." Yami growled. " I couldn't know anything. You couldn't do anything either."
" Tell me, Belumfel, if you knew you would be imprisoned in the millennium puzzle, would you still have done it?"
Yami was silent.
" So wait a minute." Joey blinked. " Kaiba is a god? He and you met before?"
" Hai." Yami blinked. " I just never remembered."
" Whoa, then why was Kaiba always a jerk before?"

Seto choked, and laughed nervously. " I...am going through...teenagerhood..."
" NOW?" Yami cried, incredulous. " So that means that time when you were thirteen-"
" I was more or less five, maybe less." Seto laughed even more nervously. " And this was one of those times when we go through...' puberty', and so my powers begin to fully develop...which also means I can't control them as well. I wasn't supposed to let anyone know for the first sixteen years, so...I had to find some way to keep everyone away!"
" So does that mean Mokuba's a god too?"

Seto seemed to find it difficult to answer. " Um...actually...iie, Mokuba's not immortal, because we don't...we aren't...we're not..."
" But then if Mokuba's not your brother, then..."
" Actually he is. And he isn't." Seto shot Mokuba a nervous glance. " Soulwise he isn't, but I gave myself a new body since my old one was destroyed-"
" You were destroyed?" Yami asked.
Seto did not like where this conversation is going.
" I guess I ought to give you a hint on what happened." He told Yami. " About two thousand and fifty years after you banned the Shadow Games, I was at the council when one of the gates opened and in poured the monsters. Unfortunately, they recognized me as one of their masters, and commanded me to free them so they could go down to Earth. The other gods were shocked because they never believed anything I said, and so they couldn't really protect me. I split away from my body and escaped to the world of the dead, waiting for an opportunity to be ' reincarnated'. Unfortunately I missed all but the Kaiba one, so...Mokuba is my brother. But he's not immortal."
" Prove it." Honda answered doubtfully. " Prove that you're immortal."
Seto smirked. Honda didn't like that look, and suddenly Honda found himself in...the Shadow Realm.
" Happy now?"
" Hai, now get me out of here!"
" Don't do that again." Yami warned.
" Hey, I'm a teenager." Seto slid off the table he was sitting on, the action already surprising most of the others.
" Seto, if you're immortal, how come you weren't able to escape that game of yours?" Mokuba asked quietly.
Seto stared at Mokuba for a minute.
" We never really expected humans to develop technology." Seto replied uncomfortably. " It wasn't one of our plans, which was another reason why I had gained so much interest to it, but technology was a new form of magic we don't really understand. I could not work my powers in it. Which was partly why I didn't think the Heart of the Cards would work."
" Seto, are you alright?" Mokuba suddenly asked.

Seto blinked at Mokuba and the two brothers stared at each other for a minute.

" Actually, iie." Seto's voice was barely a whisper. " You remembering was a sign, Yami. I was ill. I would have defended myself that time if I weren't, but I was ill. I still am. And the gods want me back, but if I do..."
" You die." Yami answered.