Hello everyone,
This is my second story in here. Today is my first day for the first semester of the new school year. While I enjoy myself at school, you do the same here with my story.
Disclaimer: I don't own YU-GI-Oh or any of its characters or else I would not have written this disclaimer, duh!
Chapter One: Frustration, Plots and More Frustration.
"Dad, you are going to Kaiba Corp, right?" The big mansion echoed with the voice of the young seventeen year old son of the President of the Hayford Corporation.
He kept on speaking without giving his father a chance of replying.
"You'll meet Seto Kaiba. Oh my god, I've always wanted to meet him. I heard so much about what he had accomplished at such a young age, should I precise that I am as old as he is? I'm sure that you are going to get this deal. You are going to-"
"Daniel, that's it! Don't you think that you are talking too much? Take a breath, son."
Georges Hayford, a tall, large man in his late fifties smiled at his son behaviour. His wife, Marion Hayford died sixteen years ago and until now, he had brought up his only son and gifted him all the pleasures in the world.
"But dad-"
Daniel started again.
"It's only a simple deal for a new dual disk system, it's not like I'm going to own the so famous company." Georges interrupted again.
He knew that he was lying to his son but he also knew that it was for his own good.
It has been twenty years since he wanted to strike a deal with the Kaiba Corporation and the time had come for him to take over the company of his old rival, Gozaburo Kaiba.
He looked at the file in his hand and smirked inwardly. He was going to gift his son the Kaiba Corporation on his birthday and he would make sure of that.
'The time has come, Gozaburo.So what if you are dead my dear enemy, your son's lack of experience should do. Oops, sorry, I mean your adopted son, is no match for all my years of experience and knowledge about the business world.
And today shall be the day that either of our companies falls and I'm sure that it is not going to be mine.' His train of thoughts were put to a stop by the cheerful voice of his son
"Daddy? Dad, are you even listening to me?" Daniel waved his hand in front of his father's face. He walked up to his father and adjusted the latter's tie. "
There it is. Good luck, Dad, the work for which you'll be gone will be accomplished successfully." he finished with a huge smile.
Georges stroked his son's chin and made his way out of the mansion to his limousine. Upon entering his escorting vehicle he smirked. "You are right son;
everything is going to be alright."
"Nothing will be alright, understand? Nothing will be alright!!!"
Téa Gardner was venting her frustration on her room mate, Serenity Wheeler.
Serenity was wearing a light green skimpy short dress.
The girl has been watching her model Mai Valentine for too long. Her hair was done in a ponytail and she wore much make up and lots of pink lip's gloss. She was in high black stiletto heels. Téa always complained to her about her lack of sense in clothing but Serenity only replied that she was jealous and envious of her. Like hell, she would be.
Téa wore a black pretty short-sleeved blouse and a much more decent red mini-skirt. She wore a light make-up comprised of a shallow apply of red lip gloss and a little of mascara and blush enhanced her already nice-looking face. Finally, she had adorned her beautiful brown locks with two red hairclips on each side, holding her hair beautifully.
The young brunette was currently searching for her project file and so the fact that she was bare foot at that time was understandable. The previous day was the deadline of the submission of the business yearly project. She had successfully made a good excuse to her teacher for not having submitted her project but the latter said that she was given until tomorrow to submit it. And that tomorrow was a week-end day.
The house was in a complete mess. Several files were on the floor and the papers were spread like a fitted carpet.
"Who does she think I am? It's Saturday, damn it. There is no school on Saturdays and I don't work on Saturdays unlike certain someone." Her brows frowned in anger at the thought of a well known CEO. "Couldn't she just tell me to bring it on Monday? At least, I would have my weekend for myself and not devoted to the research of a lost project." Téa was irritated, she might as well pull all of her hair out and still she would not have calmed down. "Just where are you hiding? Come on out! Come to mama. I'm not going to eat you; I'm just going to…to rip you bit by bit if you don't come out this instant."
Téa knelt down and looked under the bed, the couch, the table, the chairs and the cupboard; well, to sum up, she looked for it almost everywhere. She was on the verge of exploding like a volcano, a bomb or a missile. She could go and propose herself as the discovery of a new weapon to be used only once. The fact was: she was dangerously annoyed.
Serenity was laughing at the sight of her friend. "I'm going out for sometime. See ya later", she said before taking her black coat and her brown handbag and tiptoed away as quickly as possible.
"You deserter, come back here at once and help me find this…this thing!!!" But Tea's voice fell on deaf ears as she watched Serenity get out of the apartment. She resumed her research and sighed. "You can just go to hell!" she whispered.
"NO! I'm not going to!" Mokuba's usually little sweet voice which was sounding much shriller, rang in the ears of the poor maid, who was compelled to give him his vegetables and medicines. The maid immediately put her hands on her ears to avoid any hearing problems that she was sure to suffer in some moments. After all she had been enduring that for one week.
Mokuba has only been alittle ill according to himself. However his big brother was not on the same train of thoughts as he was. Seto Kaiba had specifically and strictly asked or better, ordered his maids and any other workers to take good care of Mokuba. Good care did not mean to pamper to him, good care meant having Mokuba eating healthily i.e. no more chocolates and other snacks, no going out and sleeping early. It was one week since the little boy got this flu and the damn disease has not yet taken the exit door.
One week since he gulped down a whole box of ice-cream before going to take a cold shower. One week since he had last talked to his big brother nicely as the good boy that he was.
"Please Master Mokuba, your brother wants you to be healthy again. We all want you to be and the only way for you to get well is to eat these." The maid said pointing to the plate containing food and medicines, carefully placed on the table next to Mokuba's bed.
"I said NO, do I have to spell it for you?" Mokuba's tone of voice shocked more than one, except for the one person who was leaning on the rail of the opened door frame, Seto Kaiba.
He made his way towards Mokuba's bed and ordered everybody else to get out of the room. Kaiba sat on his little brother's bed next to him.
"So you are not going to eat the vegetables and your medicines?" To Mokuba's surprise, his brother's voice was calm and gentle. He shook his head and mouthed a no.
"Very well then, you don't have to eat then, though I thought, and you knew that you and I would go somewhere pleasant together this evening. But it seems to me that you don't want to go so I won't force you."
Mokuba's eyes widened. Was his brother indirectly blackmailing him into eating this? 'But if eating all these non-important things will earn me some time with you, big brother, then I might as well try to swallow them but before, let me try to get you in my trap again.'
"Please, big brother, do I really have to eat these?" he asked, putting on his best act of puppy eyes. Kaiba swallowed hard.
He could not resist that blessed quality of his brother. That trick always worked but not that time. 'No,no, look elsewhere Seto, just don't look at his eyes. Come on, you are strong, you can do it. "I can do it" Seto said aloud replacing the puppy look on Mokuba's face by a puzzled one. 'Jackpot! I did it, I'm just too good.' Seto remarked, sighed and smiled inwardly. He was so proud of himself. He then nodded and smiled warmly: "Yes Mokuba, that's the condition to our little trip for tonight. I've got to go now. You better eat or else, you know what will happen."
Kaiba got up to exit the room when Mokuba grabbed his right arm: "Big brother, where are you going?" Seto back pedalled and put his hands on the small shoulders of Mokuba in a reassuring manner, "There's a meeting with the president of Hayford Corp today. I know that I've promised you not to work this week-end but this meeting is very important and it is my only work for this week-end. So, can I go now?"
Mokuba nodded, released his brother and whispered, "I love you, Seto." Seto got up, opened the door and looked back at his brother before exiting. I love you too, Mokuba. He thought and then, he ordered his maids to get back to their work and to attend Mokuba.
Seto headed for his limousine where Roland was waiting for him. He entered saying, "Roland, get to Kaiba Corp, I've got a meeting to attend and a company to put in its place."
Georges Hayford, accompanied by his body guards was waiting in the air-conditioned waiting room outside of Seto Kaiba's office. The meeting was not due before eleven o'clock and right then, there was still about half an hour of waiting.
Mr. Hayford was thinking of his revenge and the fool-proof plan that he had schemed. He has been buying shares of Kaiba Corp and these shares was owned by one of his anonymous co-businessman and during the meeting that was going to be held, his trusted partner will reveal his identity by sending a fax to Seto Kaiba. 'Then, the CEO of Kaiba Corp will be crushed and the company will be mine.This is not a deal for a mere dual disk system, Seto Kaiba, this is my payback to your step-father. Even if you are the one who is going to suffer. This is the take-over of Kaiba Corp by Hayford Corp. And there will be nothing that will prevent this, nothing! Soon, my son will be the wealthiest, the most loved and the most powerful businessman ever.'
"Never, I'm never going to fine it. It's over; I'll definitely get a zero. My teacher asked me to meet her at eleven at the coffee-shop and I have another darned half an hour to go and find the cursed file." Téa was worried, angry, and afraid. She was in a mixture of emotions and all that because of a silly missing file. She was standing in the middle of the kitchen, her head hung in her hands.
"Look, I'm sorry OK? Now, come out and let me handle you. You know I love you very much. I worked on you for fortnights and I did not sleep or eat several times just because of you. Please, don't make my efforts go in vain. I know that you are a very good project so listen to me and come out of your hide-out" Téa said in a defeated tone. Her eyes widened.
'What am I doing? I'm talking to a project as if it is human. That's it, I've lost my mind. I'm going mad. All this for a missing project I can as well go and report to the police for its missing. Here you go again Téa, you are losing it!'
"Ah! The fuck with that!" She declared kicking her fridge and causing it to budge a little. Just then, something fell on Téa's head with a loud thump. She rubbed her head and glanced down.
"I can't believe this!!!" She bent down and pick up the now found file. "You were here, oh my god; you were here all this time. How did you get up there? Why didn't you show yourself before? You wanted to bother me because of all the times that I've cursed you since this morning?" She eyed the project, "Okay my baby, I'm sorry!!!" Téa was once again talking to a pile of papers and she was hugging it while her eyes moistened a little with tears of happiness and relief.
Regaining herself and her mind, she made a quick check of herself before going out to the coffee shop for her meeting with her oh so favourite teacher. She put a pair of leather black flat shoes, put on her red coat, took her black hand-bag and without forgetting her file, she made her way to the coffee-shop.
There was only ten minutes left so she hurried in the streets only to be bumped by a young gentleman. Her bag, his files and hers fell down and got entangled.
"Oh no! Not now. I don't have time for this." She let out between intakes of oxygen.
"You can go ahead, here, take your files and your bag, I'll manage with mine." A young male voice spoke as the one to whom the voice belonged watched Téa's worried face.
Téa was not even paying enough attention to remember to thank the person; she got up and hurried away. But the good girl that she was quickly took control of her tensed body and while running, she turned back and shouted, "I'm really sorry and thanks for being so kind.
'You are welcome.' The young man smiled and got up with his files in hand. Though he did not turn and see who was speaking, he knew it was the girl with whom he collided and he knew that those words were meant for him. He walked down the street and entered his limousine. "Driver, please drive back to Hayford Mansion."
Téa had finally reached the coffee-shop and she spotted her teacher sitting at one of the corner's table. 'This fat lady. I can't stand her. Quick Téa, just go, give this to her and get the hell out of here. Make an excuse. But what excuse? Just say that you have to go meet some friend, correction, some ill friend.' Téa smirked. She had got the perfect excuse.
She marched up timidly up to the table and cleared her throat. "Excuse me Mrs Naomi?"
"Yes?" Seto Kaiba's rather annoyed secretary asked the old man glaring daggers at her from the other side of her desk. "Where's your boss?" Georges Hayford asked rather angrily. "Sir, the meeting is about to start in five minutes and Mr Kaiba is already in the building. He will-" Her statement was interrupted by the sound of the lift opening and out came, Seto Kaiba.
Each and every worker got up and greeted their boss with a good morning. Seto however, just nodded in response and made his way towards Hayford. "Mr. Hayford, if you will?" Seto said indicating his office. "But of course, Mr. Kaiba."
Both of them entered Seto's office and Seto asked his secretary to hold all his calls and that nobody or nothing should interrupt this meeting.
'Time to start the end of all this' Seto thought determinedly. He took his normal seat in the tall leather chair and motioned for Hayford to sit down as well.
"Shall we?" Hayford asked with a smug.
"I shall minus ten marks for the late submission of this project." Mrs. Naomi said flatly to one of her very hard-working students, Téa Gardner.
Téa sighed in the coffee-shop. On the other hand, Seto sighed in his office. Both were in different locations, with different persons of different gender, but both were thinking the same thing, at the same time.
'This is going to be one hell of a meeting!'
Author's Note : That's it for the first chapter. If you have suggestions, you can tell me through your reviews or send me a message. I'll try my best to please everyone without actually endangering the plot of the foreplanned story. Please review. Constructive criticsm is accepted.