The afternoon sun shined down on the city below as its residents slowly made their way home after a long day of work. The city was bustling as people swarmed the streets, the sidewalk full to the brim and cars passing by. Everyone was more than happy to get home and just relax with their families and/or friends.
All except one.
Seto Kaiba sighed as he slowly packed up his things in his office, at the top floor of the tallest building in Domino, the Kaiba Tower as it was called. He was CEO, president and owner of said building and company, ever since his stepfather's death when he was just turning sixteen. Now, at 21, he was one of the most famous and most influential people in the entire damn world, yet he wasn't free in his own city.
Before Seto took over, the mayor Mr. White had spoken to Gozaboro Kaiba about a marriage proposal when Seto was still only 15, the same age as the man's daughter. Gozaoro had refused the offer, since he knew Seto had feelings for a certain girl that just left for Egypt back then, and asked the man to never bring it up again. However, just a month or so later, Mr. White came back to the KC HQ office and demanded that Gozboro tear down the massive building. It turned out that KC was built on a piece of land that had been meant to be a park, and now the mayor wanted to built that park after the huge building stood there for almost a hundred years. Gozaboro was stunned and he demanded documents about the claim, and once he and his lawyers went over every detail, he almost had a heart attack.
The only way for the main HQ of Kaiba Corp to remain standing was for Gozaboro to force Seto into an engagement with Kisara. Needless to say, Seto was furious and refused it until Gozaboro threatened to return Mokuba to the orphanage. At the threat, Seto said that he'll think about it. A week later, Seto called Gozaboro to the office and told him he took over 49% of the company and that he'll continue buying unless Gozaboro calls the engagement off. Gozaboro had another heart attack, but survived. When he woke up in the hospital, he told Seto what happened and apologized for the empty threat. A couple of days later, Gozaboro Kaiba joined Seto's birth parents where everyone once goes. In the end, Seto had agreed to the engagement just before Gozaboro's last breaths, so it stuck up until now.
Seto became the legal guardian of both his little brothers, Mokuba, who had then been only 8, and Noah, who had been 9. He took full control of the company, fired the board of directors and reformed the once weapons company to sell and make only games.
For some five years now, he was dealing with all of that, on top of having a bitch for a fiancée, and he was really sick of it. Not the work, no. He was a workaholic. He was just tired of it all. It was all so dull and it made him wonder what happened to the days his only worry was if his best friend was going to tackle him to the floor. He shook his head, not wanting to think about it, and locked up his office.
His secretary gawked at him as he passed by, and it was a perfectly normal reaction. She was one of the few employees that managed to stay in the company for longer than a few weeks, even almost making a record of being there for three years, and she had never seen him leave the office before 21:30 before. As he made his way through the corridors, the rest of his employees all stared at him, mostly the female population. He wasn't all that surprised. He knew he was handsome with his tall, muscular, lean frame, tick brown hair and the deepest blue eyes anyone has ever seen. He wore a crisp white suit, a light blue dress shirt and a darker blue tie. His gait was confident, his strides long and his glare was frightening, able to make even a grown man fall to tears.
He finally made it to his personal elevator, took it down to the garage and was off in his blue and white Lamborghini Veneno and sped down the streets of Domino City, ignoring the traffic infested streets and heading straight for the highway. The cops didn't dare stop the speeding car, as it was licensed KAIBA 1, which served as a fair warning that they could easily lose their jobs in seconds.
Despite the mayor being the head of the city, Seto was its heart. He was the most influential man in whole of Japan and his company's new popularity made Domino a real gaming spot. He practically owned the city, except on paper, and many even called it the ''City of games''. Gamers from all around the world flew into Domino just so they could try out his games. And that's not even mentioning his theme park, Kaiba Land.
Seto sighed as he thought of who he should have been able to celebrate all his successes with, but he just shook his head. He wasn't sure why he was thinking about her so much. Sure, she was always there, at the back of his mind, but he had been rather nostalgic the last few days. He had dreamed about her three times and remembered all the silly thing they had ever done when they were two carefree kids. It was rather distracting, although not unpleasant.
He sighed again. Compared to her, Kisara was a demon. She threw bitchfits daily, complained about everything, demanded that he take her shopping, insulted some of his most loyal staff members, annoyed him to no end while he was working, complained about dinner, argued with his brothers or his head maid, complained about said maid, whined about everything, complained and, oh did he mention she complained?
Though, Kisara could be described beautiful on the outside with her long white hair, fair skin and eyes almost as blue as Seto's, no one at the Kaiba Mansion could stand her. Akiko, the head maid, didn't dare complain since she knew her master wasn't willingly in such a relationship with her and she just respected and cared for him too much. Hobson, his most fateful butler, always tried to calm everyone down after one of Kisara's bitchfits, especially if their young master had to endure them, but he too couldn't stand the woman. Roland and Fugata, Seto's bodyguards, always tried to avoid crossing her path for the temptation of drawing a gun and shooting her was too great, even for them. The cooks were in the worst possible situation, since she often came into the kitchen to complain and they just wanted to stab her with one of the numerous knives at their disposal.
Even Mokuba and Noah couldn't stand her. Mokuba, ever the nice Kaiba, tried to be polite to her but everyone could see how strained his voice and smile are whenever he talked to her. Noah, on the other hand, didn't have as much restraint and control over his emotions like Seto, so he often threw things at her. The most memorable one always put a smile on Seto's face. Kisara was over at the mansion one night for diner and was complaining like usual. Except the thing, or rather person, who she was complaining about wasn't really appropriate. It was on Gozaboto's second death anniversary and the three Kaibas had made plans to spend it together, but Kisara had came uninvited and they couldn't get rid of her. So, at diner she started complaining about something Gozaboro once said about her favorite mall, annoying the man's only biological son until finally, Noah snapped. He took his plate of spaghetti and threw it with all his might at Kisara, stunning her speechless and telling her to fuck off, pointing to the door. He then took a few onion breads and stormed off to the informal dinning room. Seto and Mokuba had burst out laughing while Kisara fumed, then took their plates, got one more for Noah, and followed the green-haired teen out of the room.
Kisara never came at Gozaboro's death anniversary, ever again.
Seto chuckled at the memory as he entered his grounds. The mansion, and the property around it, was huge and could easily be mistaken for a castle. As he parked his car, he thought about the evening he was going to endure now.
Mokuba had invited some of his(Seto's) old classmates who he was really good friends with to come over and spend the night at the big mansion. Seto had never liked the group, but they were Mokuba's friends and so he wouldn't kill them for always annoying him to no end. The group was usually consisting of five people, but there are times when it extends to Mokuba's friends' friends coming along. It wouldn't be that bad if it weren't the night Kisara usually came by.
Seto massaged his forehead as he entered through the front doors, where he was greeted by Hobson. He could already feel the headache coming on as he heard the number of different voices coming from his game room.
'Great! It's the extended geek squad!'
The young CEO sighed as he was greeted by his maids and the by his teenage brothers as they enthusiastically gave him hugs. Mokuba had long, raven hair and gray eyes. His skin was a bit darker than Seto and Noah's. He was wearing a black shirt, yellow vest and jeans. Noah had aquamarine hair and eyes a little lighter shade of blue than Seto's own cobalt ones. Noah was dressed in a white uniform-like outfit, except he had shorts on instead of pants. Both were around to Seto's shoulders, Noah an inch taller then the youngest Kaiba brother. Noah was four years old when Seto and Mokuba first came to the mansion. He and Mokuba soon became like real brothers, and Seto took to being just as overprotective with Noah as he was with Mokuba.
''Hi, Nii-sama! How was your day?''
Seto smiled at his only blood relative that he cared about. Their parents died when they were young. Their mother died in a car accident as she was rushing to her sister, who was in another hospital, just a few hours after she gave birth to Mokuba, and their father died a year and a half or so later in the same way. They were then taken in by their aunt, but she just took their inheritance and dropped them off at the nearest orphanage. They stayed there for a year before Seto defeated Gozaboro in a game of chess and the man adopted them.
''It was good enough. How was your day? Did you two have fun trying to burn down the mansion?'' He teased his brothers. Mokuba snickered as Noah had actually once started a fire in the kitchen when he accidentally put Kisara's favorite purse in the oven. Seto had never let him live it down.
''It only happened once! And I was what, ten? I did it because she was annoying me!'' Noah yelled, exasperated. He hated how Seto always teased him about it, but he didn't regret doing it.
''True, but you could have gotten hurt.'' Seto glared at him until he promised never to do something like that again. He knew that Seto had been worried sick when he heard that Noah was near the fire when it happened, and he didn't want to worry him like that.
''Is dat moneybags I hear?'' Could be heard from the game room in an annoying Brooklyn accent.
Seto growled and loudly said. ''What have I told you about letting stray Mutts into the house?''
''That's it!'' The voice raged and a few seconds later, Seto was flooring a blond his age with goofy hair and hazel eyes. The trapped young man growled and Seto snorted as he sat on top of the other's back. ''When will you learn, Wheeler, that I am a master of many martial arts? And stop glowering, you'll ruin my carpet!''
''Fuck you, Kaiba!'' Came the mufled reply.
Seto put some pressure in between Joey's shoulder blades. ''What was that, Mutt?''
Joey cried out and Seto released him. The blond was up on his feet and was about to yell at the CEO when the rest of the group came.
A short boy with huge amethyst eyes, spiky three-colored hair and still wearing a high school uniform (he wasn't in high school, folks) greeted the master of the house. ''Hi, Kaiba. How was your day?''
''Yugi.'' The eldest Kaiba grunted and nodded. He just couldn't help but be a bit nicer to this guy, since he reminded him of-
Seto shook his head and took count of how many geeks he had in his home right about now. He saw the albino, British twins, Ryou and Bakura Bakura. The Mutt and his sister, Serenity, were there, as well as the poor girl's two shadows, Tristan and Duke. There were two other twins, Malik and Marik from Egypt. Seto thanked his luck stars that their sister wasn't there; she really pissed him off. Mai, a blond duelist in purple leather, was looking rather bored of the sight of her boyfriend ready to get floored again. The friendship girl, Tea, was also there, as well as a red-head, Amelda.
'On second thought, get Ishizu here instead of these two.'
Tea Gardner and Amelda Radip were both 'in love' with Seto, and would often fight with Kisara until Seto threw all three out. The next day, Seto would have a monster headache and would go into sadistic business mode all the while he got useless texts from Kisara and her complaining about the night before.
''Geez, what put ya in such a mood, moneybags? Usually ya just step aside and let me crash to the ground.'' Joey said as he rubbed his head and rolled his shoulders. He would never admit it, but he was afraid of Kaiba when he's in such a bad mood. This was a routine that happened every time Joey came here, but Seto rarely aimed for actually hurting the blond.
''Guess who's coming over tonight, Mutt?''
The group winced as the CEO growled it out. They, too, didn't like Kisara and pitied the brunet immensely. Kisara could only be shut up by Mai or Ishizu, but it mostly took both women to be present for he to stop complaining.
''I feel for ya, Kaiba.'' Seto was surprised by he sincerity he heard in Joey's voice as he said that, so he only responded with a nod.
''That's not the whole thing, is it?'' Noah asked as he suspiciously glared at his older brother.
Seto sighed for who knows which time that day. ''No, I guess it's not.''
''You have everything you could possibly want and can get anything you don't have but want! What more could you possibly want?!'' Bakura yelled, not believing that Seto was in such a mood. The two of them weren't all that good with each other, but he didn't want to see the brunet like this anymore than the rest of them. ''You have the best cars, a huge and successful company, a family that loves you and the most beautiful, but incredibly bitchy, fiancée in the world!''
''Not everything has to do with material possessions!'' Seto growled out as he glared the thief down. ''And what I really want right now is my best friend! And there ARE far more beautiful girls than Kisara out there!''
Silence.
The group erupted with laughter, no one being the exception. Not even the ever polite Ryou, or the younger Kaibas. Seto glared at the group like they were the most disgusting thing he had ever seen.
''No, seriously Kaiba?'' Tristan managed.
Seto growled, annoyed.
Joe finally calms down enough to say. "I don't really believe you having a friend other than us, so I'll just ignore that, but ... Kaiba, man, there's no girl hotter than Kisara! I mean, look at me! I love Mai more than anything, yet even I consider her beautiful! There's just not a girl who can compare to her, and she's your fiance!"
"There is a girl far more beautiful than Kisara can ever hope to be!" Seto still insisted.
Noah and Mokuba exchange looks. "Sorry, Seto-nii, but even I, who hate her to the extent that I want to kill myself just to avoidher, tthink that she's the most beautiful girl in the world."
"Yeah, Nii-sama. She may be a bitch, but she's the most exotic girl I've ever seen!"
"That's just it, Mokuba. You haven't met my friend." Seto scuffs. His left eyebrow twitches as the group once again burst out laughing. He growled at them as they hear the doorbell. That's odd. Shouldn't have the guards stopped whoever it was?
He started towards the doors just as he heard his younger brother say that no such girl could exist. "Supermodels can't compare to her, especially in bitchiness!"
He chuckled at that. "I won't argue with that, but there is a girl who is far more sexy than the Bitch. I'll show you her picture after I deal with whoever this is!" He yanked open the mansion front door and barked "Wha-!" only to be cut off when something collide with him, sending him to the floor with the intruder on top of him.
"Seto!" The group behind him yelled as they ran to help him.
