Dragons of Darkness
Chapter Four: Teething Kaibas
Seto grumbled. It had been only a month since his new ‘sons’ came into his life. And now, it seemed like they were never going to let go of him. From the time those two had arrived, he had been doing work at home, attending his meetings by camera, and it will stay that way until those two had reached the end of them being toddlers.
Not only did they cause him trouble at work, but they had been crying all night. They won’t let him sleep. Why? Teeth. They were teething. And they can already crawl. And because they can already crawl, they love getting into small places and letting Seto panic as if it was the end of the world. Of course Seto would panic. There were two tiny dragons lost in that huge mansion of his. What if something had happened while they were in their lost state? Dear god.
And the two geniuses were missing. Like now.
“MOKUBA!” Seto burst through Mokuba’s bedroom door, screaming the boy’s name.
“Seto?” Mokuba paused the game on the PS2 and turned to look at his brother.
“Help me find them!” and left.
“Not again.” Mokuba gave an exasperated sigh and went after Seto after saving his game.
“Seriously, this attachment thing has got to stop!” said Seto, looking under tables, sofas, everything he could see. “You could after them you know!” it wasn’t that he was angry, but it really wasn’t Yami and Yuugi’s fault they were lost. They’re kids. They don’t know anything yet. Well, they knew the perfect thing that would send their father over the edge.
Mokuba looked under everything as well, looking for a sign like their wings or their tail. “Hey, if I look after them they’ll cry. Cry for you, so it’s still no use,” he stepped on something. “OWOWOWOWOWOW!!” he sat on the carpeted floor, rocking his tail. “I’m sorry, I’m sorry,”
“Tell me, is it even possible for a dragon in your age step on his tail?” Seto opened the cabinets under the random tables around the mansion. “I stopped stepping on my tail when I was 100 years old,” he looked under another closet. “Dammit where are they!”
“Seto, you’re gifted, I’m gifted, but I’m not as gifted as you!” Mokuba pouted. He hurt his tail. His poor tail. “I’m sorry…”
Seto raised a brow and crossed his arms. “Mokuba, you’re talking to your tail.” He rolled his eyes until he heard something. “I can hear them!”
“Huh?” Mokuba was faced with Seto running towards him, then past him. “Hey! Wait!” Mokuba ran after him, and they ended up back to Seto’s office. Seto found them in a cabinet under one of the tables in his office. “Hey, you found them,”
“You two better have a damn good reason for – uf!” the two had pounced on him, sending him to the carpeted floor. “- disappearing like that.” Mokuba was giggling by the door. “Is it so hard to get the Yami and Yuugi off of me?”
Mokuba, still giggling grabbed Yami as Yuugi went into Seto’s arms. But, that was a very, very bad idea. “OUCH! HEY!” Yami bit his arm. And Yami looked like he had no intention of letting go. “Let go, Yami! That’s going to bleed!”
Now, Seto was the one laughing, together with a Yuugi that was cutely giving away his baby laugh. “He doesn’t like you.”
“Well, of course he doesn’t! They don’t like anyone else’s scent other than yours!” Mokuba exclaimed, not moving his arm. Moving it would cause even more pain. “Seto, have him let go! It hurts!”
“Yami, let go of Mokuba,” Yami, after a few hesitating moments, let go and was demanding to be put down. Mokuba complied with gusto and watched the boy crawl to Seto and cling to his pants.
Mokuba looked at the bite. “Eeww. He got spit all over my arm. Yuck!” he ran to the nearby bathroom. “You think he’s got rabies?!” Mokuba yelled from the bathroom.
Seto put them down on the playpen near his desk. “Mokuba, what nonsense are you talking about?” he said, then he turned to the twins. “Stay. In. There.” He got two pairs of amethyst orbs staring at him for a reply. “You two…are hopeless,” he sighed and went back to work.
The crying of two dragons woke up Mokuba Kaiba in the middle of the night. He got out of bed sleepily and walked like he was drunk in the halls, headed for Seto’s room. He knocked and opened the door. “Seto? Can’t you put them to sleep?” he yawned, rubbing his eyes as he approached. “Did you give them that rubber thing they’re supposed to chew on?”
“How the hell am I supposed to know they needed those?” said Seto, turning his annoyed gaze from the crying twins to his brother. “I do know anything about parenting!”
Mokuba sighed. “Yeah, yeah, I’ll get it,” Mokuba left the room, closing the door behind him.
A few moments later, the involuntary part of Seto was somehow gone alive again. In a split second, his wings and tail were wrapped protectively around himself and especially the twins. He was again growling uncontrollably at the window. It was those two presences again. He despised those presences. It was as if he didn’t care about the law, and he wanted to break it and kill those two. There were no shadows outside, but he knew they were there.
“He knows we’re here, doesn’t he?” one whispered, to the other as they remained balanced sitting on the tree outside.
“Do you hear his growling?!” whispered the other. “Of course he ******** knows we’re ******** here! He’s going to be raging mad if he sees us,”
Mokuba entered the room, ending up with a ferociously growling Seto. “Ni-niisama?” Seto didn’t reply. Instead, he pulled Yami and Yuugi in closer. Mokuba knew what was happening. Seto’s senses were as sharp as needles. Especially now, that he wasn’t the only one Seto was protecting anymore. “Someone’s outside, isn’t there?” he said, shaking, stepping back behind Seto. Yami and Yuugi stopped crying. Maybe because they knew Seto was there.
Again, Seto didn’t reply. Only growls escaped his mouth. Angry growls. No one is going to hurt my family. Unconsciously, Seto’s tail unwrapped from him and the kids, but it wrapped around Mokuba’s waist and pulling him to the bed. This had gone on for a few minutes, and Mokuba knew that the person or the people outside Seto’s room were gone because he had let go of him and his wings relaxed. “Di-did I scare you?” Seto asked him.
“A little…I’ve never seen you go in full, angry dragon mode before,” Seto pulled him in his arms. “Thanks, Seto, for protecting us,” Mokuba gave the hug back as Seto kissed his forehead.
“As long as I’m here, you’re safe,” Seto gave the twins the frozen rubber and let them chew on it. “All of you are safe,”
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