CATCHING YOUR EYE
Disclaimers: Number one, I don't own YGO. Number two, if I did, I don't need to sit here writing a fanfic.
A/N: Okay, this is my first MaiXJoey fic and I really hope I make it good. I'm not really good at this stuff ya see, so I'll just try my best… All I need is for you to tell me if you like it. Rating is PG but it might change, so just watch out for sudden updates. And the genre is obviously romance and general. And I am REALLY sorry if the title sucks. I couldn't think of a better one, so please review and tell me if I should change it.
Summary: Mainly MaiXJoey and SetoXSerenity as well. Joey Wheeler is starting his freshman year at Domino High school, and being cheeky got him into a lot of trouble. Then he meets somebody whom he never expected to meet again…
Chapter 1
Joey Wheeler was at the peak of bursting. He was in a trashcan, and if someone probably asked him what he was doing there, he would have said, "Long story, pal." The lid of the trashcan was jammed and the chances of getting out were nearly nil.
But this chapter is not here to tell you about Joey in a dumpster-it's here to tell you why Joey was stuck in there, and to tell you his story of course! Now let's proceed.
FLASHBACK, 2 HOURS BEFORE WE FIND JOEY IN THE DUMPSTER
"JOEY!!! GET UP!" shouted a female's harassed voice from the outside of his wooden door.
"What?!" Joey shouted back. He had just gotten up to find his sister, Serenity, shouting for him to get up.
"YOU'RE LATE!!! COME ON BEFORE WE MISS THE BUS!!!" She shouted back.
Joey grabbed his alarm clock, which was in the shape of a Time wizard. It was 30 minutes to 8:00!
"You darn alarm clock! Why didn't you wake me up!!!!" Joey yelled at it.
"Joey, taking your anger out on a clock isn't the way to solve this! You should be dressed by now!!!" Serenity yelled through the door.
"Alright, alright! I'm opening the door so that you don't have to waste your voice yelling." Joey told his sister. He rushed to the door to open it and in came a beautiful girl with hair as brown as chestnuts with dark chocolate eyes. She was pretty but now she was VERY angry with Joey.
"JOEY! You're not even dressed yet! Don't tell me I have to do it for you!" Serenity said, pouting. She was already dressed. 'Figures,' Joey thought. It was Serenity and Joey's first day in Domino High school, and who knows what would be different. She was so excited that she had slept earlier last night while, as for Joey, he played the role of a couch potato and watched TV till dawn. It was amazing that he still could get up that early in the morning.
"JOEY! WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR!!!!" Serenity exclaimed, throwing a pillow at him.
"Yeah, yeah! Stay in your cockpit, I'll be right down." He said and entered the bathroom. Serenity pouted again and went down.
20 minutes later…
"Okay, I'm done! Let's wait for the bus," Joey said, grabbing his backpack and flinging it over his shoulder.
Serenity was waiting for him on the porch of their small house, sitting on one of the rusty benches. "Finally. The bus is coming, and we'd better not miss it." She said, pointing at the big yellow vehicle. When Joey saw it, he groaned. 'Great, another going back to school sign. I wish I could stay at home…' he thought.
Joey, you don't know how right you will be because it was much better for you to stay at home today rather than facing the freshman troubles of high school.
'So I'll just get through it. Come on, Joey, act cool. You're a freshman now.' Joey thought to himself as he followed Serenity. She chose two seats at the back so they won't be noticed. After all, they were new students, and besides, the older students were occupying the front. They were all chattering along noisily and they didn't mind them at all.
'I wonder if I'll know anyone here.' He thought. He passed a row of seats that were empty except for a tall, brown haired guy sitting in the seat near the window. He had the same cold blue eyes as ever, and he was busy clacking away at his laptop. With all those descriptions, you know that it's…
"KAIBA!!!!" Joey yelled, and he almost knocked the laptop out of Kaiba's hands. The tall CEO stood up. He gave Joey his "death" glare.
"Wheeler. How very nice to see you." He said sarcastically. He turned to Serenity, who was staring at him in shock. "And I see you brought your girlfriend too. Why would she date a wimp like you?" he sneered.
"Serenity is NOT my girlfriend! She's my sister!" Joey yelled. The cool crowd at the front stopped talking and stared at the scene. Soon the whole bus turned their heads to listen to the fight.
"That's kind of hard to believe. She doesn't look anything like a mutt." He said, walking up to Serenity and tilting up her chin with one finger.
She turned to slap him but he caught her hand in a smooth reflex. "Don't you dare insult my brother." She said, glaring at Kaiba.
He laughed. "You Wheelers are downright pathetic." Kaiba said, letting go of Serenity's wrist and bending down to pick up his laptop.
"And you, Kaiba, you are a miserable loser who doesn't care about anyone but himself!" Joey yelled, hurling his fist, aiming to collide it with Kaiba's face. He was ready to damage that handsome face right now.
But it was unable to reach its goal because Kaiba caught Joey's fist with his free hand. The other was picking up the fallen laptop.
"You're going to pay for that, Wheeler. One time I'm gonna mangle you up for good." He said, picking up a silver briefcase and his laptop. The bus had arrived at the school just in time and Kaiba exited first.
Joey was boiling with anger. He was ready to burst. "That psycho! He thinks he's so good. Well, he's asking for trouble." Joey said, clenching his fists.
"Come on, Joey. Let's go." Serenity said, pulling his arm.
"You're not mad after what Kaiba did to you?" Joey said to his sister. She had a red mark on her wrist where Kaiba had touched her.
"Not really, but if that Kaiba tries to get at me again, he'll pay. But it'll help if you ignore him, Joey." Serenity told him.
They went up to the woman handing out class charts and school maps.
"Name please." Said the woman, her voice droning in monotone.
"Wheeler." Said Joey.
"Ah, yes. Here you are. Next." She said and handed them two pieces of paper.
"I hope she won't be our teacher." Serenity whispered to Joey.
Joey laughed silently. "Yeah. By the way, are we in the same class?" he asked, flipping his paper. "Mine says Class F. What about you?" he asked.
"Hmmm… I'm in Class A." she said.
"Oh man, the bell is in 10 minutes. Take care of yourself, Serenity! See ya at lunch." Joey said to his kid sister and went to his locker.
Serenity departed to her own locker a little moment later.
'Now I wonder who is in my class?' he thought. He was headed for the chemistry lab.
'I wonder where Yugi and the others are? I haven't seen them all morning.' He thought.
"Yo dude, you'd be a freshie, right?" said a voice from behind him, grabbing Joey from behind.
"What's your problem??? It's no business of yours if I were a freshman!!!" Joey yelled.
He glanced around. There was no one around to witness it.
"No dudes around to protect you, kid," said the big muscular guy.
"Look, pal! You'd hate to connect your big dopey face with my fist! All I can say to you!" Joey yelled.
"Oh, look, it's the little baby crying for his mommy! He has a punk ass attitude, eh? Well, I can change that! Watch your words! Yo, Rick! Check this guy out! A new freshie for us to play with!!!" he yelled. His partner in crime came across the hall to his friend. "Yo, Bruno. What's up, man?"
"Check this guy out. Thinks he's too cool for school. Well, we'll fix that in a jiffy, won't we?" said Bruno.
"Get your filthy paws off me!" Joey shouted.
"Rick, let's do the honors." Said Bruno.
Joey had no idea about what they were talking about, but he was sure that it wouldn't be nice. He had to punch that guy first.
"Take this!" Joey shouted, punching Bruno's right cheek.
"Crap it! That hurt, buddy! And you know what you're going to get after this!" Bruno threatened.
"You won't like him when he's angry." Rick said, which was no consolation at all.
"It's dumpster time." Bruno said cruelly, and before Joey realized it, he was dropped in a dumpster and the lid was thrown over him.
Serenity, meanwhile, was having her chem. class and was ignorant to her brother's plight.
But she had her own problems to deal with now. Seto Kaiba, the guy that Joey mysteriously had a grudge on, was in her class. And she couldn't concentrate on what her chem. teacher was saying about bases and acids.
It was cruel, the teacher droning on in monotone and she was simply staring at the back of her brother's enemy, as if drilling a hole in his backbone with some eye laser.
She had known for a fact that Kaiba was a complete genius. Who wouldn't know? Practically every class he won an award for academic excellence. So he was given permission to bring a laptop to class so he could type up notes on it. Another reason why the let him use the laptop was because the administration was plain scared of him, and what he would do to them if they got in his way. So he was kind of a spoiled brat too.
She tapped her pen on the desktop, looking at the clock on the wall. 'If only the time would go by faster…' she thought.
"Ms. Wheeler, are you paying attention to anything I am saying?"
The sudden voice change caught Serenity's attention. "Um, yes, sensei?" she said innocently, hoping she could get away with the whole thing unscathed.
"I was asking if you were paying attention to anything I was saying, Ms. Wheeler." Sensei said placidly.
"Um…" she murmured quietly.
"What was the last thing I mentioned?"
"Um… uh…" Serenity said, not able to meet his eye.
Although she saw the look on Kaiba's face. He was smirking.
She wanted to shoot his face right then and there.
"Sit down, Ms. Wheeler. I will let you off the hook for now because it is the first day of school, but next time please listen attentively. The last thing I mentioned was that amino acid and phosphoric acid are two types of acids." He said, and Serenity sat down, thankful that he did not humiliate her any more than that.
But she couldn't wipe the evil smirk off Kaiba's face. So far, that was the only thing she was mad about.
'I wonder how Joey is doing?' she thought aimlessly.
As for Joey, he was having a hell of a time. He even missed his first class!
Plus, he was stuck in there with all those garbage. He was afraid to come out at the fear that someone would spot him and he'll be the laughingstock.
But some luck was still with him, because the lid opened right after the bullies had gone.
Joey thought that he had been gifted with sunlight because the person who opened the lid had long, curly golden locks.
"Is that the sun?" he said and the person jumped.
"Is there someone in there?" the person questioned, and it was a female voice.
"Yeah." He said quickly.
"Okay, I'll get you out then." Said the girl.
She helped him out of the dumpster and when he got out, he got the surprise of his life.
It was Mai! Mai Valentine, the girl who had helped him at the Duelist Kingdom!
She had saved him another time! "Mai! Is that you?" Joey asked in utter surprise.
"Yes, it's me, Joseph Wheeler. And what may I ask were you doing in a dumpster?" she asked, her hands on her hips.
Joey rolled his eyes. She had not changed much. She was wearing a tight tube top showing her curves, and a purple jacket with a matching miniskirt and boots. Her nails were perfectly manicured and she was in tip-top shape, as usual. She looked gorgeous.
"Uh… yeah… some older guys stuck me in the dumpster a minute ago 'cause I told them about my freshman state." Joey said flatly, brushing some dirt off his sleeves.
"Yeah, that's not the first time I heard that story." She said.
"I guess so. Um, so why aren't you in class?" he asked, changing the subject.
"I got a hall pass, silly. I'm on a little break." She said, crossing her arms over her chest.
"I see. Well, I can't go back to my first period now, so I might as well go to the cafeteria and get my recess early." He said.
"Oh. Then I might as well come with you. First period is nearly done anyway and they won't miss me. Besides, it's a long time since we last talked, Joey, so we can go have a little chat." She said, her voice sounding very womanlike.
Joey flashed a smile at her. 'Boy, she hasn't changed much, but I am thinking that she looks really hot. Wait; am I starting to like her in that sense? Don't start down that path, Joey Wheeler!' Joey thought, chiding himself.
After his little thought train, he followed Mai to the cafeteria, holding his soaked with garbage backpack.
A/N: Yay! I am done with the first chapter, finally! I am starting to like this idea! I don't really know what to do next, so don't be expecting chapter 2 very soon. Anyway, stay tuned!
