Title: Super Rich Kids
Pairings: Current Trustshipping (Seto/Ishizu), Eventual Puppyshipping (Seto/Joey), Revolutionshipping (Atem/Téa), others will be determined as I write
Rating: T
Words (Chapter 1): 1,163
Author's Notes: This fic is an AU fic. It will include mentions/possibly descriptions of abuse, both het and slash relationships, altered ages, people/families living in Domino that normally wouldn't, a female OC, edited family history, and people having their own bodies that didn't (Atem, Yami Bakura, and Noah. No, not Yami Marik because I don't think of him as his own person, sorry to those who like him.) It also completely ignores that rule about students not having jobs that I think is mentioned in the manga/original Japanese because basically everyone will have jobs. If you can handle all of that or at least want to give it a chance, please proceed.
Atem, Bakura, Ishizu, Seto – 19
Yugi, Joey, Tristan, Ryou, Marik, Duke, Téa, Naomi - 17
Serenity, Noah - 16
Rebecca, Mokuba -14
Have you guys seen that reddit thing that was like, 'the moment filthy rich kids realize they're filthy rich'? I saw it a short while ago and one comment was from a mother about when she realized she'd accidentally spoiled her kids rotten and made them do things like volunteer and visit the less fortunate, and so on. That inspired this because I can just imagine Seto, with all the Kaiba money in the world but not all the time in the world, accidentally letting Mokuba (and in this case because it's AU, Noah and a sister) become spoiled and he doesn't like it. Yes, this has an OC, I couldn't help myself. I hope y'all don't hate her but I just had this thought out in my head and I couldn't shake her. I know it can be really hard to make an OC that's related to a main character but please, give her a chance. Also, I did want to include a little backstory on Noah's mother because the dub basically ignored her?
"Mr. Kaiba, are the rumors about you proposing to Ishizu true?"
Was it too much to ask for a day of peace?
"Mr. Kaiba, who do you think vandalized your father's grave?"
One day. That's all he wanted. Also, it was his stepfather's grave, thank you very much.
"Mr. Kaiba, your sister was seen on the back of a motorcycle with an unidentified male. Do you have a comment?"
Yeah, the comment being that if the reporter had even half a brain in his head he'd have identified the male and realized it wasn't even half as good of a story as he seemed to think it was.
He got to his car without sparing a word to the reporters, thanking his driver with a nod for opening the door to the back. He let his head fall against the leather seats and let out a deep breath.
He hated the press. While he understood people doing what they could for a living, he never understood tabloid press. He had very precise answers to their questions (no, he hadn't proposed and he wasn't about to; anyone could have vandalized Gozaburo's grave because no one liked him; his sister was best friends with Ishizu's openly gay brother and no matter how much Seto would try, nothing stopped Naomi from going on that damn bike) but the fact was it wasn't their business – nor was it the business of thousands of their readers who put his family under a microscope.
Clearly, he didn't have enough stress in his life at only nineteen years old. Running a multibillion dollar company basically by himself and turning it into what it was and now that his stepmother had passed away, taking care of three younger siblings wasn't enough; no, he had to deal with tabloids.
"Are we picking up Ms. Ishtar?" the driver asked when he got into the front seat and Seto held back a groan. He'd forgotten what day it was; every Friday was family dinner night with Ishizu and her brothers as well as the Kaibas.
"Yes, we are," he answered finally, and as the limo pulled away, he pulled out his phone to let her know they were on their way.
When they arrived, Ishizu came out looking as beautiful as ever, but Seto didn't have it on his mind to tell her that. She didn't seem insulted, instead just greeted him and shifted over a bit to let her older brother in as well. They rode in silence, but a few times Seto caught his girlfriend's eyes and knew he'd have to explain everything on his mind when they were alone together.
Arriving back at the Kaiba mansion, he held back the sigh as he put his briefcase down by the door and walked around to find his siblings. He told Ishizu and Odion to make themselves comfortable, but he had a feeling they knew to anyway and were only waiting to be polite.
His first trip was down the hall to the game room, where he found his two younger brothers playing video games. The television was going so loud that the car crashes in the racing game sounded like they were happening in real life, in the mansion. "Guys," he started, but they hadn't heard him come in at all. "Guys!" Still nothing.
Seto sighed to himself. He hated to be that guardian but he had no choice. He walked in front of the television, making them pause. He held up his hand to silence the jumbled protests and the two fell quiet.
"We have guests, and it is almost dinner time. Time to stop playing."
The two boys rolled their eyes and got up. "Do we really need to have this dinner every week? It's boring," Noah whined, sounding more like twelve than his actual age of sixteen.
"At this point, the Ishtars aren't even guests. They're practically family."
"Haven't you heard, Mokuba? Seto's proposing, it's all over the news. They are family."
Seto gently bopped Noah on the back of his head as the two younger teenagers laughed. "Stop making such a mess in here. You're going to attract bugs."
"Not if Diona does her job right," Mokuba replied with a shrug. Seto grimaced at the tone of his voice, shaking his head.
"Where's our sister?"
The other two looked at each other before looking around innocently. Or at least, Seto assumed they were trying to look innocent. Maybe they were aiming for 'pretending to look innocent but really looking mischievous as hell' because that was what they were achieving.
"I swear to god, if she's not in this house," he growled. This was not the day for his siblings to be testing his patience. He marched out of the game room after Mokuba and Noah, stomping up the main stairs.
"Seto? Are you okay?"
He didn't stop to answer his girlfriend's question, finding his way to the room he was looking for. He tried the knob first, but seeing as it was locked, he knocked a couple of times.
"Uh…" The voice on the other side of the door was definitely not his sister's, but he knew whose it was. "Who is it?"
"Marik, open the door. It's time for the dinner."
"Oh, okay, well, Naomi and I are a little busy right now. So we'll be down soon."
Seto took a deep breath and rolled his eyes. "Or, you can open the door right now."
"Well, we're naked right now. Trying on clothes and things."
"Marik. Open this door."
"Nope, too naked."
"Naomi isn't in there, is she?"
"Of course she is!"
"Then let her say something to me."
There was a moment of silence before a falsetto voice piped up, "Hi, Seto. Be down soon!"
"Marik, open this damn door!" There was a sigh on the other end of the door before the lock clicked and it swung open. "You should really work on your imitation of her if you're going to try that. Where is she?"
"I don't know."
"Marik…"
"I swear on Ra. I don't know where she is."
"She's with him, isn't she?"
Marik didn't say anything, but the grimace on his face gave him away. Seto shook his head, pulling his phone out from his pocket and dialing his sister's number. The ringtone began to go off right outside the window and Seto walked over to it, looking at the ladder that he had no idea had been against the window.
His sister looked up, and he was sure he saw her deer in the headlights look. He watched as she lifted the phone to her ear. "Hi, Seto. What'cha doing up in my room?"
He raised an eyebrow at the blue-haired figure below. "Waiting to ground you. Would it be easier if you just came around to the front door?"
"Probably," she answered with a nod, moving away from the ladder and making her way to the front of the mansion.
Author's Notes: The way I'm going to set this up is that every chapter goes by with another member of the Kaiba family as the focus, in age order. Seto, Naomi, Noah, Mokuba, and then the fifth one is going to be a flashback. I have a lot of good ideas for this so I really hope you guys like it! For those who've read my other stuff, I talk often about how much I love the Kaiba family dynamic and Noah and I just really wanted to write something like this. Thank you for reading, please let me know what you think. I was going to wait to post this for me to have 1-5 written, but I was too anxious...
