Ok I know I said it would take a little while before I start this story but damn I can't find anything that I like (Not that I think you story aren't good or that mines are better, I just can't find one that I like at the current moment.)

Ok for the people who had read my other three stories, (you know which ones I'm referring too) you know that this was supposed to be a sequel, but four stories that all followed each other is too long so I decided against it so this is not a sequel even if it's the same story I was supposed to do, I just changed a few things (Like the purple stone) in the first few chapter so it won't be one.

Last thing: this &&& have three different meaning: same place but later, at the same time but somewhere else but mostly later somewhere else.

Also, I have a strange habit of sometime writing 'I' when I want to write 'hi' I don't know if it's because I'm writing to fast and miss the h or because the two sound the same but don't worry about it if it happen.

Chapter one: Big brother before anything.

Mokuba was woken up by his alarm, again. It was the third time he used the snooze button and drifted back to sleep this morning. He didn't wanted to go to school today, he had a big science test, right now he wished that someone had invented a time freezing machine.

"Hey!!!" Mokuba complained and shielded his eyes from the direct sun that was lighting the whole room. "What gives?"

"Wake up call." Kaiba answered once he finished opening the curtains.

"That's not a call."

"But it's a lot more effective, beside you don't have a phone in your room, but if you really want a call than I can arrange that."

"If you dare to do that you'll regret it." Mokuba warned.

"I'm sure I'll do. Now hurry up or you'll be late." A smile appeared on Mokuba's face when Kaiba left the room, he loved it when his brother was teasing him like that.

Mokuba was slowly preparing, thinking about how much things had changed lately. After everything that happened with Noah and after battle city Kaiba thought about how he treated his little brother, he had change quite few thing, so much that Mokuba sometime wasn't sure this was really his brother but right now he couldn't be more happy, his brother finally was the same older brother he once was before they got adopted, always caring for him and had him as his first priority.

Mokuba sighted, it wasn't true, there was one thing that could made him even happier. Of course to anyone Kaiba was still the same cold hearted jerk he always was, simply because he kept all his smiles, laughs and care for Mokuba and for him only. Sure Mokuba was happy that he now had the brother he always wanted but he would like his brother to actually have someone else in his life like friends, but Kaiba wouldn't trust anyone else than him.

Mokuba was the only one who know what really happened to Kaiba when they were younger, of course he didn't knew near half of it but he knew enough to understand the real motivation of his brother.

Mokuba finally finished preparing himself and went downstairs, Kaiba was already eating when he walked in, he sat down and started to eat his breakfast.

Kaiba looked up at him. "Tonight I have a really important meeting and I'll be home late, you can invite a friend over if you want, you can also order pizza, I let some money on the counter."

Mokuba smiled up at him. "Ok." Sure he really didn't like it when his brother was working late but he considered himself lucky, Kaiba was doing everything he could, even hiring someone else to help him with work, so he could spend time with him, of course there were still a few things he couldn't get out but it was never more often then twice a month and his brother let him do anything when he couldn't be there, even inviting friends, something he could never do before.

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"Hey Mokuba!" Mokuba stopped and turned around, he was expecting this, everyday each time he enter the school someone call him and try to befriend him because of his money.

This time it was Matthew, he was the most popular guy of the elementary school and him and his gang wanted Mokuba to hang out with us. To the opposite of the other one trying to get Mokuba's attention they weren't after his money, they were already loaded, of course they couldn't compete with the Kaibas but they all had more money than they could ever use in all their life.

But truth be told, Mokuba didn't like them, in fact he despised them but didn't let it shown that much since it would turn the entire school against him. They were nothing more then spoiled snobs brats, they were acting as if they were almighty, something that Mokuba hated, he knew money didn't give happiness, after all, except for the mansion, which was actually brought by Gozaburo Kaiba spent more money on charity for orphan or low fun family than he actually used for him and Mokuba.

Mokuba was actually fine with it, he didn't wanted or needed all theses thing Matthew and his friends were showing off every occasion they had, unlike them he wasn't a spoiled brat. But what Mokuba really hated about them was the way they had of thinking that poor people were below everything and were only there to serve them.

Mokuba had been poor, he lived in a orphanage for 2 years and he knew for a fact that poorer people deserved to have what the rich had even more then rich themselves, give big amounts of money to someone who truly knows about being poor and he'll divides it with others in need, give money to a rich and he'll keep it to himself even if he don't need it.

Matthew and his friends were in the second category, they actually believed orphan shouldn't be taken care of, that they were only a pain in the butt and that people should just get rid of them, they were a stain to the city.

Words like those made Mokuba dream of breaking all of Matthew's teeth, but like mentioned earlier, this would cause his own death. Instead Mokuba just showed indifference to the other boys

"Hey Mokuba I was wondering if maybe you'll like to hang around with us after school?" Matthew asked.

Mokuba turned around and continued to walk toward his locker, wishing he could just leave him alone, couldn't this guy catch a clue? "No, I have better things to do."

"You mean staying with that little junk of the street? Come on Mokie you don't have to force yourself to be nice with him, stop pitying him this piece of thrash doesn't deserve you as a friend."

"First of all it's Mokuba to you, second of all I'm not forcing my self to be nice with him or pity him, third he's not a piece of trash he's my friend and last, he deserve to be my friend more than you'll ever do." Mokuba turned around and walked to his classroom where he sat next to the one Matthew called a piece of trash: Ryan.

Ryan smiled when Mokuba sat down. "I see you had a little talk with Matthew." Mokuba nodded. "You really shouldn't care that much about what he kept saying."

"I know but I really hate it when he speaks like that, It insult you, and me." Mokuba added as an after thought.

"Still, look I don't feel insulted because I know I'm better then him, so you have no reason to be."

"I know but he's insulting you and you're my friend, I can't help it."

"Well if what he said is bugging you because it's insulting for me then you should think about it the other way around." Mokuba gave him a confused look. "If you are mad because he's insulting me then tell yourself that he's saying the truth then you won't care anymore." This time Mokuba was really confused.

Ryan sighed. "It's that simple, think of thing the other way around, he's right I'm a little junk of the street, still I'm better than him."

A small smile appeared on Mokuba's face. "I'm sorry for thinking this but its working."

"Don't be, after all it's the truth." This time both of them were laughing.

Once they calmed down Mokuba remembered why he wanted to see him in the first place. "Hey my brother's working late and he said I could have a friend over, you wanna come?"

"Sure"

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That night Kaiba opened the door of the mansion, as soon as he stepped in he could heard kid laughing; Mokuba and Ryan. He walked to the living room to see them watching a movie with popcorn.

"Hey kids."

"Hi Seto" Mokuba answered.

"Listen, I'm going to sleep, you can't stay up all night if you want as long as you let me sleep and don't break anything, ok?"

"Ok" He answered.

Kaiba grabbed the remote and pressed the pause button. "Hey!!!" Both of them complained, they turned around and surprise appeared on their face when they saw it was Kaiba.

"Hi big brother!" Mokuba said, jumping in his arms.

"Hi Mokuba. I see you two are having fun." Kaiba said with a smile looking at the messy room.

"Don't worry we'll fix it." Ryan said.

"Really I don't care about it, as long as you let me sleep." Kaiba yawned and put Mokuba back down. "Goodnight." Kaiba say restarting the movie, but the two kids where already hypnotised by the screen.

"You know, you're lucky to have a brother like him." Ryan said after the movie was finished.

"I know, it's just…"

"Go on." Ryan said.

Mokuba looked away. "It's just that sometime I'd wish he could have friends, you know how much Seto gave up so I could be happy, I just wish it hadn't cost him so much."

"What do you mean by so much?"

This time Mokuba was looking directly at his friend. "You know about my brother's reputation, most of it is true, he act nice toward you because you're my friend, you remember that it took almost 6 month before he let you came here and three more before he stopped giving you those looks."

"Yeah, I remember, he's really intimidating when he wants to."

"You know, he's acting like that for a reason, if he ever find out I told you that he'll kill me so you're better not tell anyone. Our parent's death really shocked him, I was too young to even remember them so it didn't really affect me, after our parent's death our uncle took us in but as soon as he used our entire heritage he dropped us in an orphanage."

"You really didn't have an easy life."

"You can say that again, when Gozaburo adopted us Seto was still fine, at first Gozaburo was really nice to us, I actually loved him as a step-father at this time, Seto did too, at least a little even if he would never admit it. But He only tricked us into trusting him, after about two month he turned around and started to abuse Seto, after that he kinda never trusted anyone again, except me."

"Never?"

Mokuba shook his head no. "No, he never had any friend after that, ever since then he insult everyone who talk to him in any kind of friendly way, I guess that he doesn't want to get hurt again. What I meant to say earlier was that even if I'm happy with what I have I'd be even more if Seto could trust someone and made friends, I can't stop wondering what would happen to him if I disappear."

"So if I understand correctly you are sad because you think he's not happy?"

"Well that's a way to look at it put it's more complicated, I just wish he could open more to people, have a normal life, he doesn't have anyone else than me."

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When Kaiba woke up this morning both of the boys were sleeping peacefully on the couch, he made his best to let them sleep by keeping silent and left for work. He decided to walk to work this morning for two reasons, it was a nice day and it was his driver's day off. Unfortunately for him he met an unwanted person.

"Hey watch where you're going Kaiba." Joey shouted when slightly pushed him with his shoulder maybe not by accident.

"What did you just say? Sorry mutt but I don't speak dog language."

"You're asking for it Kaiba!"

"And what will you do? Bark at me? Or maybe bite me with your little puppy teeth?"

"You'll see, one day I'll get you Seto." Joey said and turned around.

Before Joey could even take a step Kaiba grabbed the back of his collar and twisted his wrist behind his back. "What did you just said Mutt?"

Joey looked behind him straight into Kaiba's eyes. "I said that I'll get you one day."

"After that you moron."

"I said Seto, so what, that's you name."

"No one call me by my first name except Mokuba, if I ever hear this name come out of your mouth I'll make sure you never talk again, is that clear?"

"Gee what's your problem? That's just a name." Kaiba twisted Joey's wrist a little more. "Ok I won't tell it again, happy?"

Kaiba let him go and started to walk again not paying any attention to his insult. He couldn't believe the mutt dared to call him by his first name, he hated what this name represented; a scared weak little child. He couldn't bear to hear this name out of anyone's mouth except for his little brother, because he knew.

Mokuba was the only one who knew who he really was and he was the only one who understood him. He had decided long ago that he would never let anyone hurt him again, that was why he was hiding himself by being the arrogant jerk everyone called Kaiba, he know this was kind of coward but it was better then being hurt.

ok here the first chapter, since I have nothing better to do I'm stating the second right away as I said before never more than one week but that's a maximum it's usually a few day less when I'm in the mood and all my chapters have at least 2000 words so you wont end up with one week of waiting for a little 400 words chapter.