When vengeance goes too far
Chapter 1; Kaiba's humiliation
Disclaimer: I don't any of the characters from Yu-Gi-Oh! They are the property of Kazuki Takahashi and Shonen Jump.
It was a beautiful day in the city of Domino, Japan. The sun shone over the city warming the air and the people of Domino went about their daily business. At Domino High School, Yugi Moto, Tea Gardner, Joey Wheeler and Tristen Taylor were walking out of the premises after another boring day at school.
"Man," Tristen, said, "I thought the day would never end."
"You said it Tristen," Joey, said, "Man, dat was da most boring day of school ever."
Yugi said, "I dunno guys. It seemed as boring as usual to me."
Tea said, "Whatever, let's just enjoy the rest of this day. Anyway, we have to meet Serenity."
"Serenity," Tristen said in a loving tone. Ever since the whole Battle City incident, Tristen had been madly in love with Serenity. Duke Devlin was also madly in love with Serenity, but he'd been to busy with Dungeon Dice Monsters recently. Serenity had moved in with her brother now. It had taken some convincing to get her mother to agree to it, since she and Joey still had issues. However, in the end, Mrs Wheeler decided to let Serenity stay with Joey; mainly because of Serenity's endless nagging.
"Hey guys," came a familiar voice. It was Serenity and she ran towards the group.
"Hey sis," Joey, said, "So how's life treatin' ya?" Serenity ran into Joey's embrace.
"I'm fine Joey," Serenity, said, "By the way; I was hoping that you'd show me more about Duel Monsters. I really like the game."
"No problem sis," Joey, said, "I'll teach how ta play, though I don't know why. Didn't ya already beat dat Nezbitt guy during da Virtual World escapade?"
"Yeah," Serenity, admitted, "But that was just down to pure luck. I knew practically nothing about the game then."
"Well don't worry," Joey, said, "When you're done, you'll be up to my level of duelling."
"Which is the lowest level on all," came a voice that Joey didn't want to hear.
"Kaiba," Joey, hissed, "Whadda ya want Moneybags?"
"Just thought I'd make a point Wheeler," Kaiba, said, "Mutts like you are nothing more than third-rate wannabes with no real talent."
"Oh yeah," Joey, said, "Then how is it dat I made runner-up in Duellist Kingdom? How is it dat I made it so far in your Battle City tournament?"
"Easy Joey," Tea, said, "Just ignore him."
Kaiba said, "At Duellist Kingdom, you had Yugi to bail you out and I guess I overestimated the duelling skills of some of the people I invited to participate in the Battle City tournament. Anyone stupid enough to lose to you must have no idea how to plat Duel Monsters in the first place."
Joey growled and Tristen and Tea moved to restrain him from lashing out at Kaiba.
"Lemme at 'im," Joey, said, "I'll show him who's chump round here."
"Don't brother man," Tristen, said, "You'll just embarrass yourself."
Kaiba smirked and said, "Yeah, that's right mutt, hide behind your little geek squad."
Joey continued to struggle against Tristen and Tea's grip while Yugi just sighed. "Why must it always be like this between Joey and Kaiba?" he thought.
However, what happened next shocked everyone, including Kaiba. Serenity walked up to Kaiba and glared at him right in his face.
"You have some nerve insulting my brother like that," she said, "You've insulted my brother for quite a while now and I'm getting sick of it."
"I'm just pointing out the truth," Kaiba said smartly, after regaining his composure, "If you can't accept it, that's your problem Wheeler. Your brother's a loser."
"Says you," Serenity said, as her glare intensified, "I'm sick of those insults you overrated bastard."
Kaiba was shocked. No one had ever stood up to him like this before, not even Yugi.
"What did you call me?" he said, clearly outraged.
Serenity moved her face closer to Kaiba's and said, "I said that you're an overrated bastard. I think the main reason you put my brother down is because you know his potential as a duellist and you see him as a threat to your already damaged reputation and to make yourself feel big about yourself. Well I have news for you Seto Kaiba; you're not as high and mighty as you like to think you are. You're not a god. You are a human being just like everyone else. Maybe it's you that's the dog, the mutt and an overrated duellist to boot." To emphasize her point, she push Kaiba backwards. Kaiba was in too much shock to even realise what was happening.
"You're nothing but a bully," Serenity, continued, "You like making others feel like dirt just so that you can stay on top and keep everyone else beneath you and why? Just because you feel that you're the only one that has a right to be so great. Well I have more news for you; you're not the only rich guy in the world. I know of many people that are at least ten times richer than you'll ever be and maybe some of them are like you, rich snobs that are used to having everything handed to them and that don't know the meaning of the words, hard work. Face it Kaiba, you're an overrated big-shot that can't handle the truth. Your time as the number one duellist is done. You had your fun, now it's time that you just accept it and move on. However, you're so full of yourself that you think that only you have the right to be an elite duellist. I bet it you had your way, you'd be the only duellist in the world. You forget that you were an amateur at Duel Monsters at one point."
To say that Kaiba was enraged was an understatement, he was absolutely livid He had to admit that Serenity did have a lot of guts standing up to him like that. However, no one, not even Joey had ever called him overrated. It was a word that Kaiba despised and no one ever used to describe him, at least until now.
Serenity sighed. "I guess you'll never accept the truth. The world doesn't revolve around you Kaiba," she said, "You're only human and all humans die eventually, so you can't be the number one duellist forever."
"You dare speak to me like that," Kaiba, said angrily, "You have a lot of nerve speaking to me like that."
However, Serenity just said, "Like you said to Joey, I'm just pointing out the truth, the truth that you're just human. You've spent so much time with your precious machines that you forgot what it's like to be human. You may not have liked your stepfather, but I can plainly see that his personality has rubbed off on you. You're just like Gozaburo, a ruthless, heartless bastard that doesn't care who gets hurt, just so long as you get you want, the world can burn for all you care." In her anger, she pushed Kaiba again. Kaiba stumbled back and suddenly slipped and fell on his butt in a puddle that surrounded a fire hydrant that some kids had set off earlier that day.
"Why you…" Kaiba said, as he got up. He suddenly realised that passers by had stopped and stared at him. Apparently, Serenity's outburst had attracted a crowd. Feeling more humiliated than he'd ever felt before, Kaiba glared at Serenity with a look that would have probably have caused even Yami Marik to cower in fear if he had been there. Never before in his life had Seto Kaiba felt so humiliated. Even his defeats to Yugi didn't feel as humiliating as this. Pegasus's toon monsters making him look like an amateur wasn't as humiliating as this. His limo parked at the side of the hydrant and Kaiba entered it
"Get me out of here," Kaiba said in a deathly threatening tone to the driver.
"Y…y…yes sir," the driver said, startled at his master's threatening tone. He figured that something must've happened, but he knew that it was not his place to ask what, especially with the mood that Kaiba was in now
The group made up of Yugi, Tea, Joey and Tristen all recovered from their shock over Serenity's outburst. Yami came out of the Millennium Puzzle in astral form (that ghost like form that only Yugi can see. If you watch the fifth episode of the Tenchi OVA series, then you'll see that Ryoko had a similar ability). He had a look of concern on his face.
"Wow sis," Joey, said, "You really put Moneybags in his place. I don't think I ever saw anyone stand up to Kaiba like dat before."
"Serenity said, "Well someone had to stand up to him. I can't stand the way he treats you Joey. No one deserves to be treated like that."
"Right on Serenity," Tristen, said, "You're my heroine."
"Oh it was nothing," Serenity, said, "I just lost my patience with Kaiba that's all."
Yami looked at Yugi and said, "I think that that was mistake."
"I think so to Yami," Yugi, said, "Serenity may have just made herself a new enemy in Kaiba."
Yami said, "I believe the modern-day term is awakened a sleeping giant."
Yugi nodded. "Only time will tell," he said. He was definitely concerned about Serenity's well-being. Kaiba was not-known to take blows to his pride lying down and Serenity just dealt a major blow to his pride. Yugi saw that Kaiba's level of humiliation far exceeded the levels of humiliation he felt when he was defeated by him and Pegasus combined. What frightened him the most was that Kaiba had horrible methods of gaining his revenge and with the level of humiliation he felt when Serenity had pushed him, Yugi was sure that the results would be devastating and maybe do irreparable damage to Serenity's emotional state.
Meanwhile in Kaiba's limo, Kaiba growled.
"You'll pay for this Wheelerette," he growled, "Mark my words, you'll pay dearly for this and when I'm through with you, you'll be begging me for forgiveness, but unfortunately for you, I have none."
The driver felt the hairs on his back stand on end. Though to him, Kaiba's words were incoherent, he knew that they weren't pleasant to whoever had humiliated him and now the poor driver was involuntarily overhearing his master complain to himself and plot his revenge.
"I shouldda taken my father's advice and become a dentist, but no, I had to become a chauffeur to the most bitter person in the world," he complained in his thoughts.
Kaiba began to plot his revenge. He didn't notice or care for his driver's discomfort. All that mattered was revenge, revenge against Serenity Wheeler for humiliating him. Serenity would feel his wrath and learn that no one humiliated him and got away with it. Kaiba was planning to devastate her to the point of irreparability, in which she'd never recover.
"No one makes a fool out of Seto Kaiba and gets away with it unscathed," he thought just as his limo reached Kaiba Corp headquarters
Author's notes- So Kaiba's now got it in for Serenity. Will Kaiba's vengeance go too far? Obviously, the title's the giveaway. Next chapter is where Kaiba puts his plan into action. However, just how devastated will Serenity be when she fall victim to Kaiba's plan? I clearly see Kaiba as the Vegeta of Yu-Gi-Oh and his rivalry with Yugi is like Goku and Vegeta's rivalry in Dragonball Z, only Kaiba's not out to kill Yugi like Vegeta's out to kill Goku. I just thought that I'd clear up the whole Joey/Kaiba rivalry. I honestly feel that Kaiba secretly knows how good Joey is and that he's always putting him down because he sees him as a threat to his duelling status and in my opinion, Joey should be grateful that he lost his duel to Kaiba in the Battle City Finals Saga because if he had won, who knows what Kaiba would've done in he had have won because it's bad enough that Yugi managed to beat him, for Joey to have knocked his rank down to third best duellist would probably be unbearable. Anyway, in my Tenchi in Tokyo/Yu-Gi-Oh crossover series, Kaiba will have to deal with the fact that there are two people he can't beat and to top it off, Yugi (from Tenchi in Tokyo) was able to beat Kaiba's greatest rival, Yugi Moto, which probably will aggravate him. Anyway, till next time.