Dragons of Darkness
Chapter Three: Instincts
Seto stared at the two small dragons on his bed. Mokuba had insisted to have them sleep with him, since if they gave the two their own room, they would probably cry their lungs out for their ‘mother’. Names. He must say, the names he and Mokuba gave the two really fit them well.
Hours earlier
“I’ll call this one Yami.” Seto said flatly, pointing to the boy that had wilder hair than the other, as he sat on the sofa beside them, with Mokuba on the other side. The one that had crimson tips.
“Why?” the boy asked, not knowing what was going in his brother’s mind. “Yami, means darkness,”
“Because, I found them in a dark place,”
Mokuba thought for a second. Maybe he should give the other one a name that would resemble him and his brother. That would be good. And it should be a cute name, since this baby was cute. The other one was handsome. “I know what I’ll name this one!” Mokuba knew exactly what it meant, and it was something both he and his brother loved.
“What?” Seto turned his gaze from the fireplace to Mokuba.
“Yuugi!”
“Games?”
“Well, you and I love games, right, Seto? So I thought it’d be perfect!” Mokuba smiled. “Besides, Yuugi is a cute name, fits him very well!”
Seto sat on the edge of the bed. Yami and Yuugi Kaiba. Not bad. Of course, he’ll have to go all the trouble of the papers, registration, adoption, guardianship. He absolutely hated politics. Absolutely hated it. But, it was nothing money can’t fix.
He chuckled. The two were wearing Mokuba’s old baby clothes. He had them in a box. He didn’t know why he had them. He just did. Maybe it was that time when they were given up to the orphanage. Mokuba was still small then. Glancing at the clock, he discovered that it was already one thirty in the morning. Maybe he shouldn’t go to work tomorrow. It’s not like he’ll have the energy to wake up. He surrendered to his sleepiness and pulled up the covers.
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“a*****e, shut up, if you want to get you son back as much as I want to get my daughter back, we have to spy on his son of a b***h,” it was one of the men that had gotten in Seto’s way earlier that night. “It’s not like we have much of a choice. His and Her Majesty are dead. We are the only ones capable of looking after these two, because we were the ones who were ordered by the nobles!”
“Come on, His and Her Majesty’s dead. Can’t we just leave these two Highnesses? Cuz it looks like they’ve landed in a good family.” Both of them hovered outside Seto’s huge windows, and it was still raining. “I mean, look at the size of this house! The man’s freaking rich!”
“Shut the ******** up,”
Two whispering voices woke the young billionaire up in the midst of his sleeping. Sensing other dragons’ presences, he snapped his eyes open and spread his wings and wrapped his wings around the kids and himself protectively, growling at the window. There were two shadows outside, watching them. Without thinking, this tail went around the young ones and he didn’t cease his growling. It was as if someone was going to hurt them. He stood his guard, and letting his senses and his nose be as alert as ever. His fangs were showing, a clear sign that he was ready to attack anyone.
After a few moments, the two figures outside the window left, but Seto didn’t move his wings and his tail, and he lowered the volume of his growling. Not trusting his sight at the moment, he stayed in that position until sleep completely invaded his mind again.
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“Huh? Seto isn’t awake yet?” Mokuba asked the butler who attended to his needs that morning in the dining hall. “It’s very unusual for him not to be awake at nine in the morning,” he said, taking the glass of milk that was handed to him. “Wait, maybe he went to work early…no, that’s impossible. Yami and Yuugi should be crying if he was,” he asked for his new nephews’ bottles and stood up and left his half finished breakfast on the table, running to Seto’s room.
He knocked first, before entering. He saw Seto’s wings weren’t relaxed, and was covered around him. He was also facing the window, his tail curled up around him. Mokuba stood between the windows and the bed. Seto, sensing the shadow, snapped his eyes open and growled.
“Whoa, whoa! Seto! Calm down!” Mokuba jumped back a bit.
“Huh?” Seto had realized that it was Mokuba who had cast that shadow over him. “Mokuba! Gomen!” Seto relaxed his wings and unwrapped his tail around him and the ones he was protecting.
“So, why were you in that position?” Mokuba sat on the edge of the bed, and watched the two hatchlings wake up. He smiled. “Cute,” he gave both of them the bottles.
“Something happened last night, or more like this morning,” he said as he sat on the bed, his elbow rested on his thigh, and he rested his head on his hand.
“Something? What do you mean something?”
“I don’t know…it was like I can’t control myself.” He tried to explain. “I felt two dragons outside the window last night. The ones that had gotten in my way while I was headed for home. Then I suddenly woke up and crouched above these two and my wings moved themselves and covered. So did my tail. It wrapped around us, and I was growling uncontrollably,”
“I know what that’s called. I just can’t pinpoint it,” he thought for a second. “You don’t know this stuff because Gouzaburou didn’t put any of these biology stuff in your head…I know what that’s called…”
“Yeah, the b*****d left out the important parts-”
“Instinct!” Mokuba exclaimed, catching Seto off guard, and the billionaire stared at the boy. “It’s what it’s called!”
“Explain.”
“Since Yami and Yuugi became attached to you, it’s probably what happened to you as well. Your inner dragon was protecting them last night, and jeeze, you’re a protective parent,”
“Hey, it’s not like I can control it!”
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