Title: Hide and seek

Summary: Demons from an underground society kidnap Mokuba so they could use him as a sacrifice to bring back the king of demons.

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Mokuba's POV

My heart is beating rapidly. My eyes are closed but I know a little about my area. I'm in a small location, greenish brown leaves surround me. My two feet are up to my chest while both my arms are wrapped around my knees, so—in short—you can say I was in fetal position. I couldn't hear anything except the sound of wind brushing the leaves against my arm and—slightly—my back. My whole body was tensed but I wasn't about to let my opponent find me.

It's been a few minutes and I relax. My shoulders aren't scrunched and my breathing becomes slightly more eased. I didn't know that that was my mistake. He noticed minor movements around my location.

I close my eyes and scrunch up my shoulders again. I try to stay calm and breathe with ease but it's light. My eyes are opened into slits when I heard nothing, nothing. Not even the blowing of the wind or the sound of branches ribbing against each other, nothing……

Crunch, crunch, crunch

There it was; the sound of leaves getting stepped on, he knew where I was and he's coming for me. My eyes widened, I try to find an exit. Yes, my chances of escaping are decreasing as his chances of finding me are increasing but I have only one chance. My body weight and size may not be able to pull it off but –yes, another but—I can't give up, my possibility of safety is at stake.

I inhale deeply and try to make a run for it, I hesitate. If I do, I'll be exposing myself completely to him. What do I do? Aha! I-I could—

A hand grabbed my shoulder, the hand's owner had a smooth but monotone voice as he said, "I found you."

There was shiver up my spine when I was touched by that cold hand. I inhaled and exhaled one more time before I turned to face him with a small pout stitched, "Uwaa Niisama, how can you always find me? Even when I was small you were able to find me."

Niisama smirked, now I'm not talking about an 'I'll beat you in a duel' smirk, it was a sincere but sly smirk, "I'm your brother, by instinct I know where you are and what you're feeling." I don't know why but just hearing that makes me feel elated. I heard those words before, many times in fact and I feel elated those times too.

Bond. That's what is, Niisama and I share a bond or a connection that most people don't have with each other. Having a bond like that could be a bad thing or it could be good. To me it's a good thing and that's all that matters.

I smile as I try to get up but I slipped on a branch, "I-itai~" My face was slightly red, I've been a bit clumsy lately, I don't get how Niisama was able to put up with me getting hurt so much. I rubbed my head with the back of my hand.

I heard a small chuckle from my elder brother, he reached out his hand so I could grab it and I did. As soon as I stood up, I brushed any kind of visible dirt off my pants and sleeves. Niisama ruffled my already messy hair, "Are you okay? You want to stop playing?"

My eyes widened, of course I don't want to stop playing!! Why would he think that!? I have been waiting to play a game with Niisama for a long time and just because I lost doesn't mean that I'm not having fun anymore! I take a mental breath then I began to pout, "No, I want to keep playing but…" there's always a 'but', I look up at Niisama, "I'm actually kind of thirsty, can we get something to drink now?"

I saw it…I saw it, Niisama was smiling well, it was half a smile but it still counted as a smile. "Of course, is there anything you would like to drink?" he already started walking ahead of me.

I had to run to keep up with him. Niisama needs to walk slower for me, I'm not very athletic you know, "Hm, don't know, how about green tea with a hint of honey. Oh I want some Pocky too!" weird combination? Maybe. Do I like it? Yes.

Niisama stopped walking right when I finished my sentence. I looked up at him tilting my head. My older brother stared at me, "Pocky and green tea? First of all, you are not eating Pocky after all that ice cream you ate an hour ago and when did you ever start liking green tea. I don't even like green tea Mokuba."

I frown and stop along side with Niisama, "Okay fine, no Pocky but I still want to drink green tea. I drank it once when we were younger and I just started to…like it." That was the truth, not very descriptive but the truth. Gozaburo never let me drink juice, soda, and only occasionally I was allowed water so green tea was the only type of drink to quench my thirst. When Gozaburo found out I drank it—he wasn't mad since he didn't drink that much either—he would force me to drink two whole bottles when I was thirsty. I started to like it, I never told Niisama nor do I plan on telling him in the future.

Niisama sighed but I could tell it wasn't a disappointed or mad sigh. As soon as he started to walk, I did the same. I can't be left behind, ne? When I grabbed Niisama's arm, we started to discuss our lunch plans.

Two things were looking at both Niisama and me. I was too busy talking with Niisama to notice them. They had on cloaks which were the color dark blue, if you were very far away, it would look black instead of dark blue. The two creatures looked as if they were human but they also looked like…a monster.

"Kwek blorg frum kow op." said one of the creatures in a whisper, now I don't know what it just said. If I did know, I would've translated for you but on the other hand, I do know it had to be something bad. The other creature, much taller than the one that spoke, growled and hit the shorter one, "Eai prok reoow, eai prok reoow!! Jig jug lom." The creature that got yelled at looked down, "Dub fweeb." Then it pulled something out of his cloak, "Kop nio loq fwo." It was handing it to the taller one. The taller creature glared, "Mak for num no pok svolei ndi, kowi? Whash, jiddy no sjiolli." The shorter creature put it back in its cloak. The taller creature then went back to watching Niisama and me until we went inside the manor.

Niisama handed me a glad of green tea with a little honey, "Arigato Niisama." I smile cutely. I'm always cute, a big problem of mine. Everyone keeps saying, "Aww look at that cute little boy!" I really wish people would stop saying that to me. It's annoying, I know, I know, I'm cute but…I don't want to be cute. If I'm cute, people will keep confusing me with a girl, it's happened before you know, many, many times.

Niisama sat next to me drinking water, "So Mokuba, are you enjoying your day with me?" I blink a few times. Honestly, I wonder what's going on in his head. I'm the one who made him play with me. This is the second time he asked me a question like that.

I pout; a pout that looks cute, really, when will my cute phase wear out? "Niisama! Why do you keep asking me things like that? Of course I enjoy being with you. I always enjoy being with you!" I take sip of my green tea. Yum, I just love green tea. I don't know if a child my age should be drinking it but I love it even if it brings me back a few unwanted memories.

Niisama laughed; a light laugh that is. When he laughs loudly, it sounds like an evil laugh, "Sorry, I just want to make sure you enjoy every single minute of this day." Now I don't know about you but I just thought that was so nice of him to say something like that. I fumble with hem of my sleeve for moment.

My brother frowned at me; I'm guessing he thought something was wrong, "Is there something wrong, Mokuba?" bulls-eye. Niisama's protective of me but I'm positive you already know that, ne?

I feel a slight tingle on my body. I push myself out of the chair and start to walk. Niisama's face had a frown upon it, "Mokuba?"

I turn my head slightly to face him, "Ah Niisama, I have to use the bathroom, be right back, then we can play again, kay?" I smile which said, "Everything's alright". Niisama nodded, he was saying something but I wasn't listening.

I found the closest bathroom and used it. After I was done, I went to my room instead the dining room. When I arrived, I went under my bed. I got a few scratches on my face, no big deal. It took me twenty to twenty-five seconds to get the present I had for Niisama. I scanned the present to make sure no harm came to it. I smile, today's not special. Just a regular day but I want do something special for Niisama. He's done so much for me; he gave up so much for me so I should at least do a little something for him.

As I was about to leave, there was a knock on my window and you know how curious I can get with things. As foolish as I was, I walked near it a bit hesitantly. It could've been another one of my stalkers but it could be a new one since all of my stalkers are currently in jail.

I exhaled kind of in relief, it wasn't a stalker, in fact; it wasn't anything except my imagination, "First I'm getting clumsier and now I'm hallucinating…" I shook my head and laughed at myself. I was about to leave my room and give the present to Niisama until I heard that noise again but this time I ignore it.

I was only a few inches from the door until a gust of wind—I think that was it—closed it. My heart was beating fast and I dropped the present as quickly as I turned to see where it came from.

My eyes widened and I felt vibrations over my body when I saw who it was or what it was. A creature wearing dark blue cloak was sitting on the window that I know didn't open. Another creature—taller than the one sitting on my window—was walking close to me saying, "Heil opin wo nuein, heil opin wo nuein, heil opin wo nuein!" as soon it said the last "Heil opin wo nuein", it lunged at me. I couldn't tell if it was smirking or angry since the hood of its cloak was covering his face.

He was holding on to my neck but he wasn't trying to kill me, he was just holding on to it lightly as he yelled, "Efilo! Piuj diow qoioi!" the one on my window got off and was walking towards me hesitantly. It backed away but then began to walk towards me again.

The one whose hands are around my neck yelled, "Efilo! Kio polew nio! Piuj nui diow jiollew!!" it was obvious that the taller creature was getting mad at the shorter one.

The shorter creature got something out of his cloak; it was a small black bottle with strange writings on it. The demon, whose arms are on my neck were now holding both my arms in a very tight grip. The shorter creature's face was also hidden so I wasn't able to see it but when he spoke, it sounded sad even if I couldn't understand what it said, "S-slio, jii…j-jii un, un, un slio."

The short creature opened the bottle and held it with his right hand; it used his left hand to hold my jaw line. He held my jaw line very tightly which made my mouth open, "Slio…jii slio." That was last thing it said before it poured the liquid in the bottle into my mouth.

He liquid ran down my throat, it tasted awful. My whole body felt as if it was burning in fire, my head felt as if it was shrinking very painfully. The tears that fell down my eyes felt like acid running down my face. Everything was hurting, everything I could see was spinning but I didn't lose conscious, I wanted to though. At least when I'm unconscious I can't feel the pain these two monsters did to me.

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Okay this chapter may have been a bit boring but I'll try to make this story more exciting x]

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