Death before Love

Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh, or any of the characters, I only own this story and a few of my OC''. This is the only disclaimer I am writing.

Description: Living in the forest with his little sister and father, Jou is stuck away from all civilization because of a rare cancer causing as tumor in his brain. Mokuba loses footing on hike and falls into a fast flowing river, saved by what he believes was an angel, and his brother Seto desperately searching for him, can Jou and Seto find love, and will Jou live long enough to know what love is? Pairings: Seto/Jou, slight Moku/Jou.

"Papa?" Jou asked hesitantly, peering into his father's room.

"Come in son, come..." His father's words were broken apart as a harsh and painful coughing fit wracked his body.

"Oh papa!" Jou screamed as he ran to help his father. "What do I do papa, please tell me!"

"Go..." He gasped out between coughs. "Go play with your sis... sister. I will... I will be fine."

"But papa...."

"Just go Katsuya!"

Jou's head fell, trying to hide the silver tears spilling down his cheeks as he went outside to find his sister, Shizuka. He found his sister staring down at the river next to their small house. "Umm, Shizuka, what are you doing, you know we're not allowed to play near there, the river could kill us."

" I though I saw something, it looked like that thing Daddy called a back pack."

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"Mokuba. I told you to be careful crossing the bridge." Kaiba shouted as he pulled his brother onto a rocky ledge. "I almost lost you."

"I'm sorry big brother, but your bag, I lost it in the river..."

"It's ok, it was just held some matches and space blankets. Why did you ever talk me into doing this?"

"But brother, you put your laptop and company information in the pack too." Mokuba cried as he stared at the river. "How do we get that stuff back?"

"We'll just have to walk down the river until find it, now come on." Kaiba went to pull his brother up onto sturdy land with him; hastily noticing Mokuba wasn't there. Not fast enough to turn a grab his little brother Mokuba fell into the river, and was dragged farther down and under the water by the swift current. "MOKUBA!!!!!"

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Shizuka stared down at the water while Jou sat on a nearby stump whittling a long stick to fashion a bow. Shizuka's eyes widened greatly as she took in the sight of a pale, black haired boy floating atop the river. "Big brother! There is a boy in the river!" She cried, standing up and removing her over shirt, before jumping in after the boy.

Jou looked up just in time to see his sister fling herself into the water. "Shizuka! You can't swim!"

But he was too late, she was already trying to get to the boy in the water, spluttering she reached him and held tight. "Hey kid! Wake up!"

"Merrmm..." Mokuba slurred out as he slowly opened his eyes to focus, barely noticing how cold he was, and that he was moving quite fast. "Where...." He began to ask before catching a look at the person speaking to him, she had bright eyes, huge, looking quite scared, and draping wet red hair. "An angel..." He asked lightly before passing out again.

"Hang on... hang on kid..." Shizuka spluttered as she tried her hardest to stay afloat. "Big brother."

"Hold on Shizuka, I'm coming!" Jou shouted before plunging into the river after the two. After minutes of swimming, which seemed like hours to him, Jou noticed to end of the river, which to his anger and fear, ended in a waterfall, pooling into a small water body below. "SHIZUKA!"

Shizuka forced herself underwater to hold the boy she found up above, skidding her bare feet across the pebbles under her feet she slowly and painfully raised him out of the water, holding her breath, eyes open, slightly blurred from the rushing water, she saw a rock in the water, getting closer to it she saw the boys shirt get caught on the surface, not noticing she had lost her footing her face smacked against the surface, knocking her unconscious under water.

Jou swam with all his might towards the boy, noticing he was out like a light, he pushed him further onto the rock before noticing his sister was nowhere to be seen, and that a slight flow of blood was in the river. "Shizuka!"

He toppled out of the water and rushed down a path leading to the bottom of the waterfall, but when he got there, it was to late, Shizuka's body was lying motionless, face down, in the water. "Shizuka?" He tried to get a response from her, but it was to late, she was dead.

TBC

What do you think so far, should I continue?

Raven-San