~Disturbing The Pieces~

PART I

Brokenness

Seto sat at HIS desk in HIS office in HIS building for HIS birthday, yet again.

You would think a teenager who could have anything he ever wanted would be as happy as a clam, but he wasn't. He grew tired of the same routine every day. He grew tired of the amazing amount of respect his employees gave him. He wanted to be argued with, throw around, beat up, forced to walk to school, go hungry, DIE. Or, at least, be given the chance to live. For what is the definition of life? Is life sitting in an empty room day after day after day from 3 to 10pm on school days and 6am 'til on others? Was his life being wasted? He was only 18 for crying out loud, shouldn't he be given a chance just like all the other kids his age?

Seto sighed as these thoughts raced through his mind. The truth simply was, he could, and would, NEVER be like everyone else. Since he was born into the Kaiba surname, he was cursed to always be better than everyone else, to always be the alpha male, to always be obeyed, to always be praised…why was he complaining?

Well, because even the best things in life get old, and was this born right to be better than all others even that great to begin with?

No, it isn't. Seto thought with a sigh.

No one at school wanted to come anywhere near him. No one wanted to tick him off. No one wanted anything to do with him at Kaiba High.

Maybe I should attend a school that isn't named after me. He thought, and then it hit him. Domino Academy, the perfect place to go. For wasn't it Domino Academy that wasn't 'good enough' for the Kaibas? Wasn't it Domino Academy that was home to people who were his 'friends'?

Yes! He thought. Yugi and Mai and Tristen and the Mutt go there! THEY will talk to me! THEY are my friends!

Seto was suddenly overcome with extreme joy. He waited the rest of his boring day in angst and anticipation. While he waited, he phoned his secretary, April, to get him all necessary registration forms to attend Domino Academy.

At least these people are good for something. He thought when she brought in the papers. He said his thanks, got a surprised 'your welcome, Kaiba sir' in return and went about filling out the forms. Of course, he could've made April do it for him, but he needed something to occupy his time, and it might as well be something he enjoyed doing.

As soon as the clock hit 12, his lunch break, he told April he would be taking the rest of the day off to attend to some 'business'. The word almost made him laugh. Business was why his life was screwed up in the first place, why his valuable soul was being wasted, and now he was taking off to do more? Was he nuts?

Why no, no I'm not. I'm about to turn this life around.

He hopped in his big BMW station wagon, the only thing he had to himself, and drove home to drop it off and tell Mokuba he had some things to take care of and would be back by nightfall.

Then Seto commenced in walking to Domino Academy. It wasn't far from his home surprisingly, only a few blocks away, and if Seto was to get a girlfriend, he would need to work on the abs that were slowly dwindling away because of his CEO habit. So, he walked, and when he found himself in the front office of that school, the secretary putting his name into the system and filing his paperwork, the world began to smell new to him, everything felt different, like it had really flipped upside down.

He smirked. This is my new chance, the only one I get, I should be worried I'll mess it up, but right now, it just feels WAY too damn good.