Watching Kaiba react to his words was like having his nail torn out by the root: painful, and would stick with him forever.
He...hadn't meant to say it like that. He should have eased him into it, acted gentle and soothing instead of... that.
But--
What was he supposed to do?
He saw him.
He saw the pod fall to earth, he saw the wreckage. He'd taken time out to go into the mountains to forget everything that happened with Aigami so he could focus on university entrance exams, but that did nothing.
When he saw that pod and found Seto Kaiba inside: unconscious, mangled, with his eyes fluttering like he was in a very deep sleep, he knew he couldn't think about anything else.
He called Mokuba immediately, of course.
The kid came in a helicopter with the same energy and determination he would so often see on his brother. He commanded the scene with ease, but kept to Yuugi's side like glue through the process.
Within a week, Mokuba gave Yuugi a job acting as private R&D. On paper, he would work on and develop innovative technologies for KaibaCorp. In reality, he gave him the space and resources to learn and work on his own game without any interference.
"You wanted to go to school to make games, right?" He'd asked. "You missed the entrance exams to help me with my brother. It's the least I can do.
"Besides...he wouldn't have said it aloud, but I know he was planning on poaching you the second you graduated. I'm just ahead of the curve."
At the memory, Yuugi almost smiled.
Instead...
He took a breath.
"You fell back to Earth not long after launching," Yuugi said. "In the mountains not far from Domino City. Nobody knows what happened but me, Mokuba, Isono, and your doctors."
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He...hadn't meant to say it like that. He should have eased him into it, acted gentle and soothing instead of... that.
But--
What was he supposed to do?
He saw him.
He saw the pod fall to earth, he saw the wreckage. He'd taken time out to go into the mountains to forget everything that happened with Aigami so he could focus on university entrance exams, but that did nothing.
When he saw that pod and found Seto Kaiba inside: unconscious, mangled, with his eyes fluttering like he was in a very deep sleep, he knew he couldn't think about anything else.
He called Mokuba immediately, of course.
The kid came in a helicopter with the same energy and determination he would so often see on his brother. He commanded the scene with ease, but kept to Yuugi's side like glue through the process.
Within a week, Mokuba gave Yuugi a job acting as private R&D. On paper, he would work on and develop innovative technologies for KaibaCorp. In reality, he gave him the space and resources to learn and work on his own game without any interference.
"You wanted to go to school to make games, right?" He'd asked. "You missed the entrance exams to help me with my brother. It's the least I can do.
"Besides...he wouldn't have said it aloud, but I know he was planning on poaching you the second you graduated. I'm just ahead of the curve."
At the memory, Yuugi almost smiled.
Instead...
He took a breath.
"You fell back to Earth not long after launching," Yuugi said. "In the mountains not far from Domino City. Nobody knows what happened but me, Mokuba, Isono, and your doctors."