Under Circumstances || Better Titled: What The Hell Are You Doing, Kaiba?

Stop keeping everyone awake, Kaiba.

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"Kaiba, sit your ass down!" The Mutt yelled for what was surely the fifth time.

"Don't tell me what to do, Fleabag." I replied as I paced the length of my lush couch. The dog insult was acknowledged with a growl, typical.

"You ain't doing Mokie any good pacing back and forth!" He shouted. "And you're gonna waste you're energy!"

"Why the hell do you care?" I shot him the coldest look I could muster, which caused him to flinch, but being the persistent garbage he was, he glared back, fire raging in his eyes.

"Cause yer not da only one wit' a younga' siblin' out dere! Shizuka's dere!" I froze in place as the mongrel shrank back into his seat on my couch, I had forgotten all about the small girl, she was in Mokuba's class, maybe, just maybe, they were together out there. Wherever they could be. I shouldn't have started worrying, Mokuba was smart, he was tough, he had been through everything I had, maybe even more. He was safe, and I knew he'd keep the young Kawai girl safe, and I knew he'd die before letting his friends suffer. He learned that from me, even if I didn't seem the type. I turned to the Mutt, a faint smile gracing my lips, but it soon faded as I saw he was near to tears, and for some strange reason I felt the need to comfort that trash, my so called 'rival', despite the fact that he was more suited to be the rival of a dueling monkey, that street rat. Too bad I couldn't stop myself, I didn't enjoy it when someone even got a glimpse of what I had been hiding.

"Pull yourself together." I glowered down at the Mutt. "There's no need to worry, for your sister . . or Mokuba, they're in the same class, my brother won't let her get hurt." He glanced up at me.

"Since when do you give a crap about whether or not I'm together? It ain't gonna effect you."

"I don't, but I'd rather not watch as you lower yourself to bawling like a child. So quit it." Obviously the message didn't get across to him, or any of his idiotic friends, they all began chanting about how "Kaiba has a heart after all!", "Maybe he didn't just bring us along as live bait!", "He actually cares about people!" The nerve. Yet their chanting did seem to cheer up the dog, so there wasn't much to complain about, at least they were all distracted from their previous worries.

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The night wore on until the sun rose, there was still no word from Mokuba, or Jounouchi's sister. Patience was running thin amongst our group. We didn't want to stick around too long, this manor wasn't a fortress, we'd be invaded at one point, we needed to leave sometime. Jounouchi and I tried to stretch our time, the others tried to leave as soon as possible, Otogi, Honda, and Mazaki, along with Bakura, were already loading up the food, water and anything else I deemed necessary.

Jou splayed himself over my couch as we watched the clock tic.

"Do you think they're gonna show?"

"Maybe not here....but we will find them, sometime, on the run, we're bound to run into each other, this is a small country."

"Yeah..with lotsa people...we might as well just give in..." He looked down, eyes empty, devoid of the fire they usually held. This was off-putting.

"Don't think like that, if you do we'll no doubt end up dead, I know I'm not going to give up, what ever happened to your fighting spirit?"

"Whaddya care? I think I can give up when I want to, the world has pretty much gone to shit and it doesn't really look like anythings being done about all the murder and shit."