Chapter 1: The Invitation
One year after Duelist Kingdom…
It was evening when Seto Kaiba received an invitation from Maxamillion Pegasus to participate in a second duelist kingdom tournament.
'Why the hell would Pegasus want me to participate in one of his tournaments, especially after what happened last time?' Kaiba thought to himself.
It seemed almost as if Pegasus was planning something, but was obviously doing a horrible job at hiding it.
"Andrea", Kaiba yelled (Andrea is his assistant). "Yes, Mr. Kaiba?" she replied, surprised by the sudden excitement in his voice. Just a minute ago he was throwing a fit and ready at hand office supplies at her because she had misjudged a phone call. The call seemed important to her, but apparently he didn't think so.
"Two things, one, make me another cup of coffee, and two, I'm sending you the invitation I got to a dueling tournament from Pegasus. I want you to notify him and tell him I'll be there". "Got it?"
"Yes Mr. Kaiba, but-"
"Yes, I remember what happened last time and I don't want to run the risk of having that happen again, however, it's quite obvious that Pegasus is planning something and I would feel a lot better if I new what it was."
"Ok then, I hope you know what you're doing." Andrea nervously said.
"I always do." Kaiba said assuring her that he knew what he was doing.
The next day Andrea notified Pegasus that Seto Kaiba would be coming.
"Good, this will be fun, hahaha." Pegasus said while giggling and trying to contain his excitement.
'Creepy', Andrea thought to herself.
"Well thank you, Andrea, for calling", "Oh, and tell dear old Kaiba boy that I'm looking forward to seeing him after all these years." He said sarcastically. "Could you do that for me?"
"Uh, yes Mr. Pegasus", Andrea said while wondering how she would tell this to Mr. Kaiba without humiliating herself.
"Thank you, good bye", Pegasus said happily with great satisfaction.
"Oh boy, now I know why Mr. Kaiba finds that Pegasus is annoying as all hell." She said to herself with great sympathy for her boss.
"Mr. Kaiba, I called Pegasus and let him know that you will be attending."
"Ok", he said as if he could care less.
As Andrea started approaching the door she wondered if she should tell Mr. Kaiba how enthusiastic Pegasus was after hearing that he would be coming.
"Andrea!" the volume of his voice made her jump and nearly scared her half to death. She knew this tone in his voice. He usually used it when he could tell that she was hiding something from him, and she was.
"Yes, Mr. Kaiba", she said as innocent as possible.
"There's something you're not telling me. What did Pegasus say?"
Normally she would of said 'I'm not hiding anything', but she knew this was something he should know about.
"Uh, well, Mr. Pegasus said that he was glad that you could participate."
"Exactly how did he say it?" She could tell he wanted to know something so she decided to not fight him and just tell him what he wanted to know.
"Exactly how he said it?" she asked as she prepared herself for the flying office objects being hurled at her.
"Yes", he said in an annoyed tone.
She really didn't want to put in all the enthusiasm and sarcasm in her voice, but if she didn't, well she might as well duck and cover.
"Ok, he said" she straightened up, lowered her voice and wrinkled her face so that she could make the giggling sounds sound real.
"Good this will be fun, hahaha!" "Oh, and tell dear old Kaiba boy that I'm looking forward to seeing him after all these years!"
She felt her cheeks flush and her face glow with humiliation. When she looked at Kaiba to see what his reaction was she saw that his jaw was dropped nearly to the floor and his face was red also. Clearly he couldn't believe that she had done that.
She hugged her arms in front of her and smiled slightly in hope that he wouldn't throw anything or fire her. What happened next was so shocking that she almost fainted.
"Pffft, BWAHAHAHAHAHA!" Kaiba actually laughed, and not just any laugh. He was laughing so hard he started crying and gasping for air. He slammed his head on his desk to hide his tears. "HAHA OWW HAHA!" He managed to choke out.
She couldn't help herself. This was too much, the great Seto Kaiba was nearly dying from laughter. She burst out in laughter along side him and just like him she started crying. Roland came running in, "What is GOING ON?"
Ha literally sprinted over to where poor Mr. Kaiba was pounding his chest to try to stop laughing and be able to breath again.
At least five minutes later Mr. Kaiba finally managed to stop laughing and said, "Sounds exactly like that old pee brain lunatic", "Good job!"
"Uh, haha, thanks, I guess." She said while still laughing.
"UGGGH", Kaiba yelled. "My stomach" "Ouch" "wow, you really know how to make my day!" He happily said.
"Oh, yeah, I guess so." "Sorry for almost killing you." "Just to let you know, I wasn't trying to." She said playfully.
"That's ok, it feels great to be able to laugh every now and then." He said, still holding his stomach and wiping his tears away with the tissue Roland handed him.
"Oh right, I almost forgot to tell you that the tournament starts in two days." She said relieved that she didn't forget the most important detail of all.
"Glad you told me, that's kind of important." He said, acknowledging the fact that it was an important detail.
"Alright then, Roland get a hold of Mokuba right away and tell him to start packing his stuff if he wants to come with me to the tournament, oh and also see if you can get a list of who else will be attending this event."
"Yes, Mr., Kaiba." Roland said with shock still in his voice after seeing his boss laugh more in that one day then he has in his whole life.
"Well, see ya later Andrea", Kaiba said as he stood up to leave for the night. "I've got a tournament to win!"