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Seto

"Yugi, I know you're a great asset to my team, but I'm not quite sure what to do with you," I admitted as I sat back in my chair. I was in my company office and had called one of my newer and higher level employees, Yugi Muto, in for an informal meeting.

With my skill and four aces, I had finally been able to defeat him. When I dueled him in my tournament after first receiving the platinum dragon, I had not been able to play it. Not only was it buried deep within my deck, but the card I could have used to summon it to my hand was also at the bottom. But some time after that idiotic stunt where Yugi dueled his imaginary friend, I was able to crush him. I had finally won my title back.

I recalled the sweet memory of my victory. I had played it just right, just as I had planned, just to mess with him. When I was down to my last few hundred life points, I played my Sapphire Platinum Dragon. Yugi, not knowing its special abilities, wiped it out, expecting that to be the final blow. The look on his face was priceless when he instead saw my life points rise back up over 4000. Then it only took a strike from my Blue Eyes to remind the world who the true champion was.

Though I had defeated him, I still held a rare certain degree of respect for him. But I also wanted to remind him where his place was—under me—and what better way to do that than become his boss? And besides, what else was Yugi going to do? I recognized that I could still use him to benefit Kaiba Corp., I just had yet to figure out how. At first I had thought to use him for promotional reasons, but he was terrified of crowds. He was not solid enough to go somewhere alone, and I wasn't going to allow his friends to go with him and screw everything up. Nor did he have a technical mind. He knew the game extremely well, though. I knew he was useful, but now I was just trying to figure out how.

"I don't know what to tell you, Kaiba," he apologized in his almost cheerful sounding voice, putting a hand behind his head.

"For now, I'm going to ask you to help Mokuba with his responsibilities. I'm hoping that you will then be able to ease into the company workings as you discover how we run it. I'm giving you and Mokuba the office with large glass windows across the hall. Now get to it."

My phone rang, and Yugi took all of this as his cue to turn and leave. I picked it up as the door closed behind him. "Sir, she's here."

Alone in my office, I grinned. She was an excuse to have a minute to breathe. "Send her up." Within minutes she appeared before me. I had not seen her in several days, and after spending a few days with complete idiots, she was a vision when she walked through those doors. At least, more so than usual.

"Oh Mr. Kaiba, fancy meeting you here," she said sweetly as she closed the doors behind her. "I hate to bother you, you look like you're in the middle of being especially handsome." She was in an exceptionally good mood today. She was happy to see me; she had missed me. I knew this because she had been in this mood before, and she always gave the same reason when I asked why.

She walked over and I waited for her to come to me. I leaned on one arm, resting my fingers above my brow. Just as she was about to perch herself in her usual spot on my desk, I reached out and pulled her into my lap. She faced sideways so she could look at me. "Well hello," she giggled slightly. Mokuba had told me once that he had only ever seen her laugh in my presence, and it was always because she was happy, never maliciously. This was nice and all, but at the moment I desired something else.

I drew her closer to me to kiss her, closing my eyes. All the other areas of my life required a lot from me, and since I was going all the time, it became quite taxing. I knew the value of hard work and determination, and everything had paid off for me since I gave it my all. But that was exactly it, they all depended on me giving and constantly putting in an effort. But with her, she was the one part of my life that I could take whatever I wanted. Nothing was hard, and never had been, only effortless. She required nothing, had never asked anything of me. And even though I had never needed to do anything in particular, I had still earned her. She was not easy to win over, but I had still been capable of it. I was able to have a part of her that no one else had ever come close to having.

I pulled back. She was quiet now, only opening her eyes slowly after a moment. She knew me well enough now to be able to determine the mood I was in, and she responded to it well. She could now sense how tired I was, and knew now that I had no desire to talk. I simply wanted to have her and enjoy the way her body felt. She stayed silent, only eyeing me. I watched my hand as I ran it along her leg, just the tips of my fingers finding their way under her skirt before I moved it back down to rest.

I knew my time with her was already coming to an end, and I was starting to prepare for it. "I have a meeting any minute now," I disclosed.

"Mm," she responded. "I have to leave for my biochemistry class soon, then physiology right after that." She had been taking classes of interest at the university, almost exclusively science. While I used my brain to produce things, she used hers to take in as much information as she could. I enjoyed basking in the glory of my accomplishments and flaunting both my skills and everything I had earned, while she preferred to go unnoticed. I always had an opinion and was very detail-oriented, but she only focused on her few concerns, apathetic to everything else. They say opposites attract, but they are wrong. She was not my opposite.

I preferred having all the spotlight, and she was happy and more comfortable when I took it. She was never competitive with me, never had an opposing view. Since I was one of the few concerns she had, she simply supported whatever was best for me, whatever I wanted. No, she was not my opposite. She was my compliment. She was perfect.

The phone rang and I only reached out to put it on speaker. "What is it?" I grumbled. While I did this, Jem gently placed one hand on the other side of my face, then tenderly kissed my cheek nearest her, trying to stay as quiet as she could.

"Sir, all the potential business partners are here," my secretary informed.

"Send them to the board room," I ordered then reached out to hang up.

Knowing it was time to part, and being as affectionate as she was with me, she took my face in her hands and kissed me gently. When she drew back, she kept her eyes on me, then climbed out of my lap. I opened my drawer and grabbed the file for the meeting before I stood. Seeing that I was leaving too, she paused a moment to wait for me so we could walk together. As we approached the door, I prepared myself, going back to my impersonal persona for yet another meeting. I would have liked just a few more minutes with her, but that was not how it worked.

She reached the double doors first and put one hand on the handle of each, then pulled back. The doors were heavy, and she was small. I almost smiled as I saw her struggle slightly, leaning back a little to get them moving. As soon as we stepped out, she looked over her shoulder. "I'll see you again soon," she declared as she turned to walk away, but before she could I grabbed her arm.

I pulled her back to me, taking another kiss as a substitute for the minutes I didn't have. I wanted more of her, and at the moment didn't particularly care where I was. She drew back slowly, her eyes opening and mouth forming a smile before she turned, delighted. When I looked up, the business partners had almost reached me already. They consisted of about eight men no less than 40 years old. They slowed as she left, clearing a path for her. All of their heads turned as she walked past. Usually, this would have made her extremely uncomfortable, but I had spared her with the distraction and delight of one last kiss.

I had not planned this, but I allowed them one second to behold how ravishing the woman I had just kissed was before I sharply said, "Gentlemen." One by one, they turned to look at me. They could tell that I had caught each one of them gawking at her, and each one of them diverted their eyes when they saw me glaring at them.

I used this moment as a reminder, before the meeting even started, that I could have anything I wanted. However, there was an aspect to this that had been bothering me. They had no way to know her significance or how hard she was to attain. There was no way for them to know that I alone had earned her. A kiss was a good indicator, but it secured nothing. I had thought about this a lot lately, but for now- "The board room is this way," I denounced.

Yeah, I chose to let Kaiba finally win. You only get to be a main character once... right? I did, however, make him wait until the Pharaoh was gone. I also thought it was fitting, because Seto became a great ruler of Egypt when the Pharaoh left before, and 'destiny repeats itself,' or whatever.


Next Chapter: Design

"Did you do it while you were bored during all that free time you have?" he refuted. I was trying to retain a sense in this whole process, and could not risk talking to Mokuba, who would easily have a winning argument.