The Best Friend Complication (meh, I'm thinking about changing the title to Love Triangle...your thoughts?)
Disclaimer: Do NOT own Yu-Gi-Oh! There.
Chapter One: It All Began With a Muffin…
I hope you like it! (I just thought it would be interesting to write about who Seto would choose: Serenity or Tea?...Actually you the reader get to decide that but I'll get to that after you finish reading)
Click, click, click…
So was the ritual clicking against the computer keys of Kaiba Corporation's largest secretary base, home to over 1,000 unhappy, bored women.
Well, until the irresistibly cute Mokuba left the proximity. No one could slack off with his slave-driving puppy eyes…
There was a collective sigh of relief as soon as he left, and all the women started chatting amongst themselves, abandoning the keyboard.
Now, if one looked closely one would see an odd occurrence: was someone actually still typing? Ah, there was. A newbie. Tch.
Serenity Wheeler was busily typing against the keyboard a dictatedemail to Dungeon Dice MonstersCorporation. She was supposed to be typing the exact words of the KC administrator to Duke Devlin, president of that company. Unfortunately since the said president had realized that she worked for KC, he called her constantly.
Dear Duke Devlin,
"Serenity! Is that you?" said the giddy dice boy. Serenity gave a moan of frustration; the irritating, arrogant guy was constantly calling her for a date. So far Serenity had rejected him a record of 43 times. Had Duke finally gotten the hint through his thick head? Hell no.
"Of course Duke. Who else could I be? I'm very busy right now though writing an emailto your corporation so-" Serenity started out politely. Of course, Duke heard nothing.
"Oh you are! How sweet Serenity! You can gush about me in your email; it's so sweet that you're working Serenity at KC in preparation for working at my corporation blahblahblah…" Duke said, oblivious to Serenity pounding her head against the computer monitor. She hated how Duke always portrayed as the weak, boyfriend-needy, obsessed Devlin fangirl. She tried to ignore his typing and continue on with heremail informing Duke that KC was interested in buying his corporation.
"Just wondering if you were interested in me picking you up at eight for an expensive dinner…" Duke drawled out with Serenity was sure a self-centered wink.
Conceited little twit.
Serenity growled, plugged out her headphone, and started changing her email.
Kaiba Corporation regrets to inform you (Serenity smirks)…that unless immediate foreclosure is announced by your Dungeon Dice Monsters Corporation, Kaiba Corporation will be forced to take drastic measures. These drastic measures would involve in a corporate takeover, or perhaps less official means that could be...health hazardous.
Sincerely, (Serenity's smirk grows wider here) XOXO
Seto Kaiba, CEO of Kaiba CorporationPerfect. Serenity grinned at imagining "Dukie's" face when he read the 'health hazardous' means. Duke was a wimp when it came to threats; he'd be paranoid for months. Serenity's slender hand moved her mouse over to the send button. The deprived evil inside her begged her to click it and see the arrogant jerk suffer. Of course, the overwhelming good little Serenity would never send this to him.
"SERENITY!" yelled the neighboring secretary as she jostled Serenity's back as if the yelling wasn't enough and Serenity needed to be a human cyclone in order to hear her.
"What the-" Her hand moved dangerously towards the clicker.
WHAM! One particularly jostle had Serenity's face kissing the computer monitor. Literally.
Your mail has been sent.
Crud.
"Oh my god, Serenity are you okay?" said that high-pitched, screechy voice that Mrs. Wagner held. 'Other than my head throbbing and now having a red mark that looks like a zit, I'm just wonderful,' thought Serenity with her thoughts oozing sarcasm.
Her boss was NOT going to be happy with the email. Especially if it was the infamously bad-tempered Seto Kaiba.
In other words, she was royally screwed.
"Oh, it's a little bruise, but I'll be okay."
"Bruise? It looks like a huge pimple if you ask me," replied the comforting Mrs. Wagner with her penciled-in eyebrows slightly raised on her botoxed face. Serenity always gave a subconscious wince whenever she saw her, but who wouldn't? Mrs. Wagner also had breast augmentation but for her ripe age of fifty, gravity did it more harm than good. If that wasn't scarring enough for Serenity's eyes she had a nice big hairy mole to look at beside her neon red lips that the young secretary personally thought Mrs. Wagner should have corrected instead of her cleavage size. And to top it all off was a too-tight, too-short business suit that showed too much for poor Serenity. It was all she could to not drop down on her knees and beg for mercy from the fashion disaster.
So Serenity merely had her eyes twitching madly as the woman swung her colossal cleavage towards the poor girl. "So what are you doing Serenity?" she said in that nasal voice.
I don't know…how about MY JOB!
"Nothing really…" Serenity replied absently but Mrs. Wagner was ignoring the newbie secretary as soon as she heard the whoosh against the far doors. All the secretaries' eyes immediately stopped conversation and trained their greedy eyes over to that door.
If there was one upside to their minimum-wage secretary jobs, this was it. There was only one way for CEO Seto Kaiba to make it to his office: through the secretaries. Or as Kaiba quaintly called it: the mob of hell. All the secretaries were leaning out of their cubicles and ogling every perfect square that was their boss.
Even saintly Serenity gave the tall figure in the distance a glance. Well, to see if he was wearing the pants. He was. Serenity fought the urge to drool.
The pants were the business pants Kaiba had bought two years ago and so far had failed to notice that the pants were just a wee bit too small for him. So small in fact that everyone got a good look at his perfect, tight, round bottom.
She would not drool, she wasbetter than that. Serenity went to plan B instead: the muffin. Muffin, you may wonder? Yes, a muffin was Serenity's plan to beat her lust for Kaiba. She took a deep bite out of her banana nut muffin as she saw the pants focus into view. The girl subconsciously leaned her head out of her meager cubicle and took another bite of her delicious muffin. Every secretary was giggling madly as the haughty CEO made his silent yet sure footsteps toward his office. Every secretary hoped that said CEO would grace his penetrating icy blue eyes on themselves so they could die happy.
Serenity tilted her chin forward so she could get a better look at him. She wasn't obsessed…she was simply looking at her boss. There was nothing wrong with that!
'Ah, but you want to do more than just look don't you Serenity?' whispered her evil naughty half. Nonsense, good Serenity thought, she just needed to take another bite of her muffin.
By this point the young secretary was leaning so far over the open area of her cubicle that …
THUMP.
Graceful. Serenity Wheeler now lay in a tumbled heap on the floor. One point against Serenity.
In front of Seto Kaiba. Her extremely hot boss. Two points.
Oh, and she was showing her underwear to said hot boss. Jackpot!
We have a winner for stupidity!
Serenity felt a pink blush creep up her cheeks as she stared at Kaiba's well-polished black business shoes. She slowly forced her eyes to trail upward: past the infamous pants, past the white oxford shirt that couldn't conceal well-toned muscles, and Serenity rested her eyes on Kaiba's pristine lips. She couldn't bear to look up at those icy eyes. Well, until she heard this:
"Nice panties," came the sexy, husky voice of Seto Kaiba.
A flaming red Serenity flashed her hazel eyes up to Kaiba's and saw them mocking her. His face was lit up in a smirk, and he seemed to find a lot of amusement in Serenity's embarrassing predicament.
And this irked Serenity.
"You-you pervert!" Serenity yelled uncharacteristically.
Kaiba raised his eyebrows as his smirk intensified. Serenity was becoming insane having to look at that smirk taunt her from above.
Personally Kaiba thought it was rather entertaining to see little Serenity get worked up. Her blushing face with its wild hazel eyes and pursed generous lips contrasted with her dainty porcelain body.
"My, my then the saying is true. Red-heads are hot-tempered." Kaiba said with a chuckle as he gave Serenity's business skirt a closer glance to see her colorful lingerie. Serenity growled; she was having a bad day and no one, not even the sexy Seto Kaiba, was going to piss her off now. Yes, Serenity's evil side had finally won.
"First off, IT'S NOT SUPPOSED TO BE RED! IT'S CHESNUT! And that's a STUPID saying anyways!" she roared from her petite frame. Kaiba just gave her a condescending smirk that clearly read 'And you just confirmed my theory'.
"Most human beings are supposed to eat in the cafeteria. (raising of eyebrows) I guess you are the exception. Next time girl, eat where you are supposed to unless you want to be working the cashier for McDonald's," Seto said disdainfully as he glanced at the muffin crumbs decorating Serenity's chestnut/red hair and her clothes. Serenity's face blushed redder if that was possible. Kaiba turned around clearly signaling that humiliating-the-secretary time was over, "Now, if you'll excuse me girl, however amusing this is to watch I have more important things to attend to. You should buy some acne cream as well." Dismissal as well as taunting were clearly heard in his voice.
Serenity didn't know if it was the email to Duke that was probably going to get her fired, the zitlike bruise on her head, the scarring of Mrs. Wagner, or the arrogant sexy Seto Kaiba's humiliation of her that caused her to crack. All she knew was her slim, pale hand picking up the remains of the banana nut muffin. Her sanity screamed for her to stop and think it over; she needed this job! Unfortunately, this was the day Serenity snapped.
Her narrowed hazel eyes were scheming as they gazed at the banana nut muffin that would be Kaiba's demise. With a smirk that matched Seto's, Serenity hurled the muffin with all her might at Seto Kaiba's perfectly groomed brunette head.
THWACK.
The muffin had landed.
There are very few things that can cause Seto Kaiba to lose his temper. That short list included the geek squad, losing, and someone stealing Mokuba. A banana nut muffin was now added to that list.
"Who. Threw. That. Muffin!" Kaiba whispered in his most chilling voice. All the nearby secretaries started quaking in fear; besides being the youngest, most successful CEO in Japan, Seto Kaiba also held the record of firing the most employees in one hour. Fortunately, Kaiba needn't look far to find his answer.
"Serenity did it! Ooooh! Oooh! It was Serenity!" shrilled Mrs. Wagner in her impersonation of a chimpanzee. Soon in a vie for Kaiba's praise all the secretaries had their fingers pointing towards poor Serenity.
'What friends I have', thought Serenity with disdain as the Secretary 'mob of hell' was transformed into a living monkey zoo.
"So this is what mankind has evolved itself to. Beautiful." muttered a disgruntled Serenity. She never saw the amused smirk a CEO gave following the comment. But that would be because the CEO remembered himself, wiped the smirk off his face, and said snidely, "Well better a monkey than a mutt."
Serenity thought it best not to retort. Her anger and mischief was spent for an eternity, and now Serenity was deeply regretting her actions against her boss.
Because even though throwing a muffin at your boss's head is very satisfying...it also means you are definitely now unemployed. With a cringe she could already imagine wearing the McDonald's uniform with a greasy hairnet and all.
"Kaiba I am so sorry," she pleaded with her doe-like hazel eyes that would've melted the majority of Domino's male population. Not Seto Kaiba.
"Mutt. My office. 12:30. We'll be discussing your current position at my corporation." Kaiba said shortly before parting in his monstrous yet graceful strides. Then he remembered something…
"Wheeler?" he asked in his gruff, sexy voice.
"Yes?" Serenity asked her eyes full of hope that Kaiba would a) forgive her (fat chance) b) confess that he was wrong in remarking about her unmentionables (also fat chance) or c) take her in his arms and make mad monkey- Where the hell was her good conscious? No, as one can guess it was none of the above choices.
"Buy some new lingerie and God have mercy, never eat another muffin." he said curtly, his face hidden in a shadow.
But she could've sworn hegave her a devilishwink as he left with an elegant swoosh.
Serenity was infuriated beyond belief at the arrogant man! That insolent pervert! Why she oughta-
And then she got a good look at his rotund heiny.
Drool. Traitorous mind! Ah, Seto Kaiba was just too hot for Serenity's conscious. Serenity got up from her cubicle and began to make preparations for her inevitable firing. She was going to need to apologize about the 'Duke' incident, complain to her BFF Tea, buy a pint of melt-your-sorrow cookie dough ice cream, and beg for her final paycheck. Then Serenity remembered that perfect bottom belonging to an infuriating CEO, and giving a resigned sigh to her evilness, she knew one necessity she needed to have above all else in order to keep her sanity…
Serenity was going to need another muffin.
Seto Kaiba glared at for once, not a meek human, but a stupid piece of paper that was spelling his demise on his elaborate office desk.
Damn paper…
Because as the paper confirmed, for once in his life Kaiba found himself in a corporate situation that he had never faced before.
He was losing profits. He was actually being BEATEN by the competition. Oh, and this is where it got good: who was the competition that was whooping Kaiba Corp's butt?
Dungeon Dice Monsters Company. With none other than airhead, pretty boy Duke Devlin as their almighty leader of spaziness.
Which is how Seto Kaiba found himself pounding his head on his desk muttering self-piyingly, "Why? Why him? Why did I have to lose to a ditz?"
Except the annoying paper sheaf told him exactly why Kaiba had lost to a ditz. Because said ditz was appealing to the youth. Because although Kaiba was ranked as the #1 most eligible bachelor three years in a row, the whole country knew that having him was a lost dream. So they had moved onto a more reachable figure: pretty boy Duke. It didn't hurt that he had cheerleaders, celebrity endorsers, a monthly sport car giveaway, as well as weekly girlfriends.
Kaiba Corp was becoming, dare Seto think it, outdated compared to a company which superseded it in hipness, and overall popularity. This fact irked Kaiba to no end who couldn't stand to be second.
Not to a pretty boy spaz.
Especially not to a pretty boy spaz, Kaiba thought as he flicked yet another muffin crumb out of his hair. Thinking of the 'muffin incident' brought both a frown and an unwilling twitch of a smile onto a solemn CEO's face as he continued glancing through the paper his executives had slaved over. Finally reaching the solution to the problem, Seto groaned reading it although he somewhatknew this was coming all along. How did that maddening little saying go? Oh yes, if you can't beat 'em, join 'em. Stupid redneck saying. That his executives now followed, and the great Kaiba himself was now going to heed. Gee wiz.
Kaiba ran his fingers through his thick brown hair in frustration as he knew the only way to beat Duke Devlin's Corporation was for Kaiba Corp to become…hip. (shudder)
And to be hip Kaiba Corp needed a celebrity endorser.
And as the exasperating paper eagerly confirmed, the #1 most famous celebrity in Japan at this moment was- Kaiba read it and literally recoiled away- the dancer, Tea Gardner.
Lovely. Fate hated him. He was going to use an annoying, friendship-lover cheerleader against a spaz and his pretty boy goons. This was going to be the battle of the century.
God, how could he forget her little daily friendship speeches in high school? That musketeer carp she went on about being 'one for all!' Those pretty azure eyes that alwaysbegged him to change his ways…Pretty! Where in God's name did that come from?
Lack of sleep, that was it, lack of sleep. Or insanity. Kaiba preferred the former.
But the more Seto thought about it…the more he warmed up to the idea. Here in his territory, little dancing Tea would be lost in the corporate world. She would detest it beyond belief, but stubborn Tea would need him to survive in this world. Seto Kaiba smirked.
Call it years of high school torture revenge of listening to that girl's ranting and bubbling enthusiasm. Call it immature. Kaiba honestly didn't care what you thought.
It was payback time.
"Yes, Lester could you find me a certain Tea Gardner's phone number for me. Thank you. Set an appointment…Call it a classmate reunion.(Kaiba rethought that) Better yet, offer her millionsto bribe her." Kaiba said with a calculating sneer on his perfect face. Things were looking up. Beat the number one celebrity in Japan, Dukie.
In such a good mood, Seto even tried the remains of muffin on his desk. Hmmm, not bad. He remembered the petite secretary flushed face when she saw his gaze on her form. Though Kaiba would rather admit Yami might be a pharaoh, deep down he thought the mutt's tantrums were rather cute. But she was just the stupid mutt's sister. All the Wheelers were good at was for amusement.
But he then remembered Serenity's huge hazel eyes pleading at him for mercy. Strangely enough, Kaiba thought for a moment that those entrancing eyes werehypnotic and Kaiba found himself drowning in their warm, comforting, kind gaze.
Tch, he really needed some coffee.
"Lester?" Seto asked brusquely into his intercom.
"Yes, sir?"
"Send up a black coffee immediately." The stoic CEO said with what could almost be hints of desperation in his voice. First Serenity Wheeler, kid sister of moron Joey Wheeler (that was bad genetics right there), and now Tea Gardner (cheerleader and royal pain in Kaiba's butt). This was turning out to be a bad day.
Yet in his unbiased memory he recalled Serenity's face stuffed with a muffin as the crumbs spilled over her hair, chin, and ruined business suit. And then Kaiba did a very very rare thing (so rare that even Mokuba was taken aback whenever he heard it): he laughed. Full-throated, ringing, not mocking laughter filled the silent sound-proofed office building. However bad this day was turning out to be, Seto thought, it was certainly interesting...well, as long as Seto Kaiba was in control.
Kaiba gave an enigmatic smirk. Just how it should be. There had yet to be a person who bested Kaiba...so far.
"Lester?"
"Something else, sir?"
"Yes. Send up a banana nut muffin as well."
How do you think of my first Seto/Serenity/(and soon to be Tea) fic? (I hope I was somewhat original) Sorry if the words sometimes run together, my computer is messed up...:(
Now you get to decide the pairings: Seto/Serenity or Seto/Tea? Vote now! Although I like both pairings and I already have a preference…whatever you decide I will write!
So please review! (I'm on spring break now so the faster the reviews, the faster the updates) Oh, and happy belated St. Patrick's Day!
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