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"Why didn't I tell Warren about Mokuba?" Seto asked.
"You heard me, now answer it!" Joey yelled in responce.
"Why in the world would you-?"
"Stop avoiding the question, Kaiba!" Joey said sternly, glaring Seto in the eyes. "Answer me."
"Well, I..." Seto began, trailing off before he said anything more. Then a light began to glow from Joey's dual disk.
"Wrong answer!" Joey said. Then the yellow light shot from Joey's graveyard onto the field.
"So you can summon your monster; what is it, Baby Dragon?"
"Close. You see, Baby Dragon wasn't destroyed by Time Wizard; he was aged! Thousand Year-Old Dragon, come on out!!" The ancient dragon stood, glaring at Red-Eyes, both of their attack's hovering over their heads.
"You'll be able to destroy him, at the cost of your own monster," Seto began. "But then you don't have anything."
"Oh contraire..." Joey held a card above his head. "Bye-bye Scapegoat, hello
"The Flame Swordsman... Do you honestly believe-?"
"Shut it, Kaiba!" Joey said. "Thousand Dragon..." Joey stopped, swallowed, and then sighed. "Destroy Red-Eyes." All the enthusiasm had left his voice, and silence filled the area. Thousand Dragon spat a fireball, as did Red-Eyes, and the two dragons shattered as the attacks collided.
"That must have taken a lot of effort," Kaiba said. "Weren't you just saying how you wouldn't do something like that a few seconds ago?"
"Red understands..." Joey said, his hair covering his eyes as his mind replayed what happened. "And now it's time for him to return. Flame Swordsman!" The swordsman ran at Seto, and then slashed him across the chest. Kaiba's LifePoints fell from 1700 to 0, and the holograms faded.
"See Yug, I didn't need your help," Joey said. "I can handle myself just fine. Now hand it over, Seto." Joey walked over to Kaiba, and held out the Blue-Eyes White Dragon. Kaiba held the Red-Eyes Black Dragon in his hand, reaches out, and took his dragon back, keeping both cards.
"HEY!" Joey yelled.
"I'm having this rematch with Yugi, even if it means playing dirty!" Seto then pushed Joey onto the ground, and faced Yugi.
"SETO!" Yugi shouted, stepping up to him.
"Now, it's time for you to hand over the Dark Magican, Moto!" Seto said, prepairing his dual disk.
Yugi forced his cards into his own dual disk, and glared at Kaiba. "You won't get away with how you treated my friend, Seto!"
"And how do you expect to stop me?"
Warren was silent. The story of his uncle played over and over in his mind as his mother sat next to him. He couldn't believe any of it was true, yet it seemed as real as anything he could imagine. He couldn't think of anything to say in responce, until...
"Why-?" he began, but then decided that wasn't right either.
"It doesn't matter why," Mrs. Kaiba said, standing up from the couch. "But now you understand your father a little better." Once again, Warren was silent, and his mother left him alone to be by himself as he digested the story.
"How...? No, not that either." He looked again at the picture of his young uncle, and then at the door.
"Mother!" he said, trying to get her attention from the other room.
"Yes?" she called back without comming out.
"Where'd father go?" Warren stood up, putting on his jacket.
"He went to the Wheeler's to get back Blue-Eyes."
"The Blue-Eyes I lost..." Warren thought as he stepped out the door, slamming it shut.
"Dark Magician!" Yugi shouted, directing his open hand towards a defencless Kaiba.
"How!?" Seto thought. His 1200 LifePoints floated next to him, as a reminder of fact he was a dead man in this duel. "How could he stay so STRONG!?!?"
"Attack!" The Dark Magician leapt across the field, and released a burst of dark energy inches from Kaiba's chest, throwing him several feet backwards.
"Hologram my ass!" Joey said. Mai hit him.
"Joey!"
The holograms faded, and Yugi walked over to the falled Kaiba. "Hand it over, Seto!"
"A duel really brings out the Pharaoh in you..." Kaiba said, to which Yugi stomped on his chest.
"NOW!" The card fell from Kaiba's hand as Yugi stomped on him, and Yugi bent down to pick it up. As he was near the ground, Kaiba whispered in his ear.
"We're too old to be dueling, still, aren't we? I mean, Pegasus dueled, but he was the creator; he didn't have a chance to when he was young. We've outlived our dueling days... It's time for our kids to fight these battles in our place, isn't it?"
"What are you talking about, Kaiba?" Yugi asked, his rough voice hard to keep quiet.
"Well, we had so much "fun" and "adventures" when we were younger, don't you remember? It's time for our kids to experience that, don't you think?"
"DAD!" came a voice from on top of the hill near the Wheeler's house. Both Yugi and Seto turned their heads to see Warren Kaiba running down.
"I suggest you get off of me," Kaiba said. Yugi stepped back, and then walked over to Joey, handing him Red-Eyes.
"Thanks... Say, what was that about?"
"That... Was an agreement between us."
"An agreement!? Are you mad? You probably-"
"Not a deal. But Kaiba said something, and I agree."
"Which was?"
Yugi turned to face his friend face-on, and gave a small smirk. "Tomorrow, we teach our kids to duel!"
JJ and Mark looked at each other. "Duel!?" they said in unison, excited.
"Duel?" Mai replied. "I nearly beat Joey back in Duelist Kingdom... Maybe I should join these classes."
"Yugi, are you sure?" Tea asked.
"Tea, don't you remember the adventures we went on?" Yugi asked. "Kaiba just made the best point I've ever heard him make; our kids should have adventures like that."
"Well..." Tea said, looking towards her over-excited son. "Then you'd better not leave me out of this!" she said, breaking out into a huge smile.
"Well then, it's settled!" Joey said, looking proud. "Tomorrow, the YuJo Duel Academy is open for buisness! Ha-HA!"
"Why is it YuJo?" Mai asked. "We're helping, too."
"Well..."
While Yugi, Joey, and their familes had their discussions, Warren had something he need to speak with Seto about.
"Dad-"
"Why with "dad"?" Seto asked. "It used to always be "father", and now "dad"? Why the big change?"
"That doesn't matter! Dad, why didn't you tell me about Uncle Mokuba!?" Seto froze, only the laughing of the two familes a short distance away cutting through the intense silence between him and his son.
"Who-"
"Mother told me about Mokuba. The whole story, I might add. Why didn't you think I should know?"
"Warren-" Seto began.
"Just answer me this," Warren cut in. "Mother says it's because you can't talk about it anymore; she said the last time you tried to tell the story, it took you eight tries because you broke down crying in the middle. And those tries were starting from where you left off. Is it true?" Warren looked into his father's eyes, the eyes he had never seen any emotion except slight anger from, looking for the truth. Seto closed his eyes softly, and even without a word or head movement, Warren knew the answer. He stood up, and began to leave, thinking his father would want some peace, when there was something tugging at his collar.
"You know the Moto and Wheeler kid?" Seto said, his voice just as emotionless as it always was, obviously having moved onto a new subject.
"Yeah; they're the ones who took the card from me."
"Which you took from me." Seto responded. "We're going to practice so you can defeat those kids ten times out of ten."
"Why?" Warren said. "You got the card back, what else did they do to you?"
"It's not that..." Seto said. "I can't defeat their parents anymore... Their fathers, at least. Yugi defeated me in three turns; it was enfuriating!" Seto's hands clenched into fists as he fought the temptation to swear. "You're going to defeat their sons and prove once again that the Kaiba family is better than both of them together!"
"Why do you hate the Wheeler's and Moto's so much?" Warren asked. For a moment, Seto was silent, until he found the words.
"They've humiliated me too many times to count. I'm just trying to even the scores."
"So you're using me to do so?" Warren asked.
"You want to be the strongest duelist of your generation, right?" Seto asked, to which Warren nodded. "Well, those two are the sons of the strongest duelists of their generation. Moto on top, then Wheeler."
"How did Mr. Moto get such a title?" Warren asked.
"His opponent, a person we may talk about later, had all three Egyptian God Cards on the field at once, and Yugi still won the duel."
"He defeated all three God Cards!?" Warren said, his eyes wide and his jaw dropped.
"And not only that one time; he won Slifer in a duel during a tournement I set up from some mime... He won Ra from some poser Marik, and he won Obelisk from yours truely fair and square."
"You had one of the God Cards!?"
"I'm not done," Seto said. "Yugi Moto defeated each God Card individually, and then defeated all three of them in the same duel, on the same turn." Warren staggered, and Seto held out his arm to his son.
"D-do you think Mark could be that strong...?" Warren asked, and then looked over at the laughing, joking families.
"If Yugi's teaching him, he could be. Yugi could probably give his son his own deck."
Warren was silent, taking in the power of his new rival, Mark Moto, and thinking about how he could ever beat him.
"Let's go; we need to get started," Warren said, tugging on Seto's sleeve to go home. Looking down at his Blue-Eyes, and then out over the two people he spent much of his time as a duelist with, Seto smirked and went with his son to begin training for the day he could defeat the son of the King of Games.
As Yugi and his family were about to set off for home, Joey stopped them for a couple last questions.
"So, where'll we be meeting?" Joey asked.
"Come to my house tomorrow," Yugi answered. "We'll begin whenever you show up."
"Sounds good. One last question."
"Yeah, Jo?"
"What do you think we'll start with first?"
Yugi flashed his Dark Magician at Joey, who looked down at his newly-recovered Red-Eyes. "What else would we start with?"
"You heard me, now answer it!" Joey yelled in responce.
"Why in the world would you-?"
"Stop avoiding the question, Kaiba!" Joey said sternly, glaring Seto in the eyes. "Answer me."
"Well, I..." Seto began, trailing off before he said anything more. Then a light began to glow from Joey's dual disk.
"Wrong answer!" Joey said. Then the yellow light shot from Joey's graveyard onto the field.
"So you can summon your monster; what is it, Baby Dragon?"
"Close. You see, Baby Dragon wasn't destroyed by Time Wizard; he was aged! Thousand Year-Old Dragon, come on out!!" The ancient dragon stood, glaring at Red-Eyes, both of their attack's hovering over their heads.
"You'll be able to destroy him, at the cost of your own monster," Seto began. "But then you don't have anything."
"Oh contraire..." Joey held a card above his head. "Bye-bye Scapegoat, hello
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!!" One of the fluffballs began to glow and then morphed into a tall warrior carrying an orange sword as Joey slapped it's card on his dual disk."The Flame Swordsman... Do you honestly believe-?"
"Shut it, Kaiba!" Joey said. "Thousand Dragon..." Joey stopped, swallowed, and then sighed. "Destroy Red-Eyes." All the enthusiasm had left his voice, and silence filled the area. Thousand Dragon spat a fireball, as did Red-Eyes, and the two dragons shattered as the attacks collided.
"That must have taken a lot of effort," Kaiba said. "Weren't you just saying how you wouldn't do something like that a few seconds ago?"
"Red understands..." Joey said, his hair covering his eyes as his mind replayed what happened. "And now it's time for him to return. Flame Swordsman!" The swordsman ran at Seto, and then slashed him across the chest. Kaiba's LifePoints fell from 1700 to 0, and the holograms faded.
"See Yug, I didn't need your help," Joey said. "I can handle myself just fine. Now hand it over, Seto." Joey walked over to Kaiba, and held out the Blue-Eyes White Dragon. Kaiba held the Red-Eyes Black Dragon in his hand, reaches out, and took his dragon back, keeping both cards.
"HEY!" Joey yelled.
"I'm having this rematch with Yugi, even if it means playing dirty!" Seto then pushed Joey onto the ground, and faced Yugi.
"SETO!" Yugi shouted, stepping up to him.
"Now, it's time for you to hand over the Dark Magican, Moto!" Seto said, prepairing his dual disk.
Yugi forced his cards into his own dual disk, and glared at Kaiba. "You won't get away with how you treated my friend, Seto!"
"And how do you expect to stop me?"
Warren was silent. The story of his uncle played over and over in his mind as his mother sat next to him. He couldn't believe any of it was true, yet it seemed as real as anything he could imagine. He couldn't think of anything to say in responce, until...
"Why-?" he began, but then decided that wasn't right either.
"It doesn't matter why," Mrs. Kaiba said, standing up from the couch. "But now you understand your father a little better." Once again, Warren was silent, and his mother left him alone to be by himself as he digested the story.
"How...? No, not that either." He looked again at the picture of his young uncle, and then at the door.
"Mother!" he said, trying to get her attention from the other room.
"Yes?" she called back without comming out.
"Where'd father go?" Warren stood up, putting on his jacket.
"He went to the Wheeler's to get back Blue-Eyes."
"The Blue-Eyes I lost..." Warren thought as he stepped out the door, slamming it shut.
"Dark Magician!" Yugi shouted, directing his open hand towards a defencless Kaiba.
"How!?" Seto thought. His 1200 LifePoints floated next to him, as a reminder of fact he was a dead man in this duel. "How could he stay so STRONG!?!?"
"Attack!" The Dark Magician leapt across the field, and released a burst of dark energy inches from Kaiba's chest, throwing him several feet backwards.
"Hologram my ass!" Joey said. Mai hit him.
"Joey!"
The holograms faded, and Yugi walked over to the falled Kaiba. "Hand it over, Seto!"
"A duel really brings out the Pharaoh in you..." Kaiba said, to which Yugi stomped on his chest.
"NOW!" The card fell from Kaiba's hand as Yugi stomped on him, and Yugi bent down to pick it up. As he was near the ground, Kaiba whispered in his ear.
"We're too old to be dueling, still, aren't we? I mean, Pegasus dueled, but he was the creator; he didn't have a chance to when he was young. We've outlived our dueling days... It's time for our kids to fight these battles in our place, isn't it?"
"What are you talking about, Kaiba?" Yugi asked, his rough voice hard to keep quiet.
"Well, we had so much "fun" and "adventures" when we were younger, don't you remember? It's time for our kids to experience that, don't you think?"
"DAD!" came a voice from on top of the hill near the Wheeler's house. Both Yugi and Seto turned their heads to see Warren Kaiba running down.
"I suggest you get off of me," Kaiba said. Yugi stepped back, and then walked over to Joey, handing him Red-Eyes.
"Thanks... Say, what was that about?"
"That... Was an agreement between us."
"An agreement!? Are you mad? You probably-"
"Not a deal. But Kaiba said something, and I agree."
"Which was?"
Yugi turned to face his friend face-on, and gave a small smirk. "Tomorrow, we teach our kids to duel!"
JJ and Mark looked at each other. "Duel!?" they said in unison, excited.
"Duel?" Mai replied. "I nearly beat Joey back in Duelist Kingdom... Maybe I should join these classes."
"Yugi, are you sure?" Tea asked.
"Tea, don't you remember the adventures we went on?" Yugi asked. "Kaiba just made the best point I've ever heard him make; our kids should have adventures like that."
"Well..." Tea said, looking towards her over-excited son. "Then you'd better not leave me out of this!" she said, breaking out into a huge smile.
"Well then, it's settled!" Joey said, looking proud. "Tomorrow, the YuJo Duel Academy is open for buisness! Ha-HA!"
"Why is it YuJo?" Mai asked. "We're helping, too."
"Well..."
While Yugi, Joey, and their familes had their discussions, Warren had something he need to speak with Seto about.
"Dad-"
"Why with "dad"?" Seto asked. "It used to always be "father", and now "dad"? Why the big change?"
"That doesn't matter! Dad, why didn't you tell me about Uncle Mokuba!?" Seto froze, only the laughing of the two familes a short distance away cutting through the intense silence between him and his son.
"Who-"
"Mother told me about Mokuba. The whole story, I might add. Why didn't you think I should know?"
"Warren-" Seto began.
"Just answer me this," Warren cut in. "Mother says it's because you can't talk about it anymore; she said the last time you tried to tell the story, it took you eight tries because you broke down crying in the middle. And those tries were starting from where you left off. Is it true?" Warren looked into his father's eyes, the eyes he had never seen any emotion except slight anger from, looking for the truth. Seto closed his eyes softly, and even without a word or head movement, Warren knew the answer. He stood up, and began to leave, thinking his father would want some peace, when there was something tugging at his collar.
"You know the Moto and Wheeler kid?" Seto said, his voice just as emotionless as it always was, obviously having moved onto a new subject.
"Yeah; they're the ones who took the card from me."
"Which you took from me." Seto responded. "We're going to practice so you can defeat those kids ten times out of ten."
"Why?" Warren said. "You got the card back, what else did they do to you?"
"It's not that..." Seto said. "I can't defeat their parents anymore... Their fathers, at least. Yugi defeated me in three turns; it was enfuriating!" Seto's hands clenched into fists as he fought the temptation to swear. "You're going to defeat their sons and prove once again that the Kaiba family is better than both of them together!"
"Why do you hate the Wheeler's and Moto's so much?" Warren asked. For a moment, Seto was silent, until he found the words.
"They've humiliated me too many times to count. I'm just trying to even the scores."
"So you're using me to do so?" Warren asked.
"You want to be the strongest duelist of your generation, right?" Seto asked, to which Warren nodded. "Well, those two are the sons of the strongest duelists of their generation. Moto on top, then Wheeler."
"How did Mr. Moto get such a title?" Warren asked.
"His opponent, a person we may talk about later, had all three Egyptian God Cards on the field at once, and Yugi still won the duel."
"He defeated all three God Cards!?" Warren said, his eyes wide and his jaw dropped.
"And not only that one time; he won Slifer in a duel during a tournement I set up from some mime... He won Ra from some poser Marik, and he won Obelisk from yours truely fair and square."
"You had one of the God Cards!?"
"I'm not done," Seto said. "Yugi Moto defeated each God Card individually, and then defeated all three of them in the same duel, on the same turn." Warren staggered, and Seto held out his arm to his son.
"D-do you think Mark could be that strong...?" Warren asked, and then looked over at the laughing, joking families.
"If Yugi's teaching him, he could be. Yugi could probably give his son his own deck."
Warren was silent, taking in the power of his new rival, Mark Moto, and thinking about how he could ever beat him.
"Let's go; we need to get started," Warren said, tugging on Seto's sleeve to go home. Looking down at his Blue-Eyes, and then out over the two people he spent much of his time as a duelist with, Seto smirked and went with his son to begin training for the day he could defeat the son of the King of Games.
As Yugi and his family were about to set off for home, Joey stopped them for a couple last questions.
"So, where'll we be meeting?" Joey asked.
"Come to my house tomorrow," Yugi answered. "We'll begin whenever you show up."
"Sounds good. One last question."
"Yeah, Jo?"
"What do you think we'll start with first?"
Yugi flashed his Dark Magician at Joey, who looked down at his newly-recovered Red-Eyes. "What else would we start with?"