Love: A Somewhat Way Out Of Life
A Serenity Wheeler and Seto Kaiba Love Story
By: Sailor Dark, Sailor Light, and Sailor Dream
Hey Ppls, I'm writing 2 stories at the same time:
Love: A Somewhat Way Out of Life, Happy Holidays: Part Three: Happy Valentines Day, Serena!
I am writing way too much, but I'll tell you one thing, my school gets out in nine days so in the summer, their will be more updates and more writing! My best friend, Sailor Dream, (also known and Sari Chibi, read Darkness is Falling Within Me for more information) Helped me with the idea of how she got let go to how Kaiba hired her. (If you're lost then read the story below...) I really love the reviews that everybody is sending me on all of my stories that I've written, well, I better let you read this one so you can review it! C-ya Later!
Sailor Dark
Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh, but I do own this story and the plots made by me, Sailor Dream and Sailor Light, and please do not steal them!!!
Chapter One- Pain & Suffering
"Seto?" Mokuba Kaiba asked as he walked into his big brother's office; Seto Kaiba was sitting at his desk, and papers were all over the floor. Mokuba frowned at Kaiba's lack of answer; he called his name more loudly, "Seto!" This time the frustrated CEO answered.
"What is it, Mokuba?" He demanded, he stopped working for a second; his icy blue eyes piercing into Mokuba's soft violet ones. His chocolate hair was a mess, and his eyes were bloodshot. Kaiba was trying to finish a report on his laptop; but this was the 17th time Mokuba has interrupted him, "Can't you see I'm busy?!" He began to work again.
Mokuba flinched. "I have something for you."
"Set it on my desk!" Kaiba snapped, he was just about to pick up his pen, when the phone rang.
"Kaiba" He said, rubbing his temples. Mokuba took the chance to place one of Kaiba's Blue-Eyes White Dragon cards on the keys of the laptop. Then left Kaiba's office as soon as he possibly could.
Kaiba finished his phone conversation and slammed the receiver back down on the base; and he was going to pick up his pen and write down some calculations, when he saw something lying on his keyboard of his laptop. It was the Blue-Eyes White Dragon Card, apparently, Mokuba had placed it there.
Seto shifted restlessly, he was up all night finishing the new Dual Disk that was suppose to go out on market today; but with things running so slow, the Dual Disk wasn't going out until next week. This put Kaiba in sleepless nights on end. He picked up his Blue-Eyes.
Kaiba pulled out his Dual Monsters Deck and placed the Blue-Eyes on top with the other two; he owned the only three in the world.
Suddenly, Kaiba felt dizzy; Probably from all this work, he thought. He got up from his chair; his muscles ached from sitting in his chair all night. He yawned and stretched his muscles, only wincing from the pain that soared through his back.
Kaiba pulled his white trench coat from the back of his chair and slipped it on; Might as well get some air... He thought; walking out of his office. He ignored the protests from Mokuba and just told him that he would be back in a while.
Once outside, Kaiba felt his mood rise a little; he stopped just to feel the air blow on his face; swishing his brown hair all around. Being in that office always put Kaiba in a bad mood, and he almost never went outside; unless he had to walk to his limo or helicopter.
After being outside for a while, Kaiba called Mokuba and a limo to take them home. While driving, Kaiba saw the familiar figure of Joey Wheeler, and his sister Serenity Wheeler. Kaiba motioned for the driver to stop and he rolled down the window.
"Hey Wheeler, why don't you walk in the road and get ran over like a dog should?" Kaiba smirked. Serenity glared at him, she's only seen him a few times, but she already had something against him.
"Keep driving, Kaiba!" Joey replied, nudging Serenity in the back, to get her to walk again; Serenity didn't budge. She was looking at him with full hatetred in her dark brown eyes.
"What are you looking at?" He snapped at her, he took in her site, and then shook his head to get rid of it. The shirt and shorts she was wearing fitted her body perfectly. Kaiba shook his head again; he was sickened at himself for even looking at her this way. He rolled up his window and the limo drove away from the siblings.
It wasn't long before the drive home had taken a toll on Kaiba; he was half-way asleep until Mokuba woke him saying, "Big brother, were home."
Kaiba groaned as he stepped out of the limo, stumbling up the stairs to his mansion. Once inside, Seto walked up five flights of stairs, in which he barley made it to his cluttered room. Blue prints of the new Dual Disk were all over his walls, stacks of important papers were getting high on his desk. Clothes were littering the floor; covering up the dark blue carpet. Seto Kaiba sighed.
Kaiba walked over to and collapsed on his bed, his muscles immediately relaxed and Kaiba breathed out another sigh. His legs were aching now, "Damn Stairs." He muttered angrily, shutting his eyes; Mokuba walked unto the room.
Once he saw his brother trying to sleep peacefully, Mokuba started to silently creep out of his room when he saw his big brother; only hurting his toe by jamming it into Kaiba's dresser. He managed to muffle an 'ow!' in his shirt collar, but Kaiba heard the noise and his eyes flew open to see a hurt Mokuba rubbing his toe.
"What do you want now?" He hissed, sitting up and glaring at his violet eyes.
Mokuba was silent; tears filled his eyes as he said, "Seto, what happened to you?"
"What do you mean?" He snapped back, crossing his arms over his chest, "Maybe if you stop bugging me, I'd be in a better mood!" He broke eye contact. Tears started to fall down Mokuba's face freely.
"Quit your blubbering and go to bed, it's late, and I've got work tomorrow! Now, you either ask me what you came in here for or you go to bed; and you better get up tomorrow because I'm not going to waste any more time than I need to take you to school!" During his proclamation, Mokuba felt anger rise within him. Seto's been like this for weeks now and Mokuba was getting a little ticked off at him.
"What happened to you Seto?! You're never out of your office, you always come home in a bad mood, and you never talk to me anymore! Yes, I know that you have to work, and yes, I know that you have to run a company! Seto, you're letting life slip right passed you! I hate seeing you this way, what ever happened to the Seto that at leased said 'goodnight' every once and a while? You're throwing your life away, and I'm always going to be a big part in some kind of game, aren't I Seto? Aren't I? Well, you know what? I'm tired of it!!!" Mokuba stalked out of the room, slamming the door behind him.
Kaiba laid back down, Mokuba never talked to him that way before. He muttered only two words before falling into a restless sleep, "Damn Life!"
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"Sis?" Joey walked into his little sister's bedroom, to see her sleeping peacefully. If he didn't wake her up now, she would be even later for work. "Sis, Serenity?"
Joey walked over to her lightly shaking her on the shoulder; Serenity lifted her head from the pillow, and mumbled something about chocolate cake, Joey chuckled in response. "Joey, just five more minutes?"
"Come on, you'll be late." He gently helped her stand on her feet; she let out a long yawn and stretched. "Promise me you'll get ready?" He asked. Giving her a warning look.
"I Promise." She replied, and walked over to her closet, to pull out a business suit. She mumbled and cursed her job as she slipped the suit on; she hated working at something she tried to stay away from. She ran a brush through her long auburn hair.
After tinting her lips pink, she hurried out of her room and into her car. Joey yelled 'Goodbye' to her as she drove off; her usual sweet-tempered mood was changed as she hit morning traffic. As soon as she made it into the Bank of America parking lot, Serenity rushed into the building.
"Serenity, you're late!"
"I know, I know, I had end of the year exams yesterday!" Serenity called back to her fellow worker; who stepped into Serenity's office. Serenity was about to add up some money slips when Tea Gardner put her hand on the paper. Serenity looked up at her.
"Please Tea, I need to finish this!" Tea just shook her head, "You need rest, Serenity."
"I can't help that!" She shot back, moving Tea's hand out of the way so she could work. She heard Tea breathe a sigh before she left the room, leaving Serenity alone to finish her work.
Serenity was thankful that it was only a half-day; this made work a little easier for her.
"Shit!" She said as she finally saw her watch; she had just missed her lunch hour for the 4th time this week! "Damn it!" She cursed again; she just noticed that she did three hours of calculations wrong; every single number was off.
"Serenity?" Tea popped her head into Serenity's office, "Boss told me to come get ya!"
Serenity groaned as she got up from her chair, "What now?"
She was already in a bad mood; she didn't need anything else to give her mood more fuel. As she opened the door to Luke's, her boss', office; she bumped into another person's shoulder.
"Watch where you're going!" Came the raspy voice of Seto Kaiba. When he realized who she was, Serenity saw him smirk. "Oh look, the dog's sister." Serenity glared hatefully at the CEO. She was so glad that she didn't work for that bastard!
Serenity pushed past him and walked up to Luke's desk; nervousness flooding through her body.
"Please sit down." Said Luke calmly, placing his hands neatly folded on his desk. Serenity sat down.
"I have a meeting so I'm gonna cut this quick," He took a deep breath, "I'm very sorry Serenity, but I'm going to have to let you go..."
Serenity stared at him, surprised; then he spoke again, making the situation worse, "I guess banking isn't really your thing..." He picked up his suitcase and walked out of the room, Serenity was just about to curse when Tea walked into the doorway.
"What happened?" She asked when she saw Serenity's angry face. She knew something was wrong.
"He let me go! I can't believe that guy!"
She got up from the chair and stormed back into her office' Tea following. She began to stuff what was her's into her bag; after she was finished she decided just to go home and talk to Joey. After saying goodbye to Tea, Serenity climbed into her car and drove to her and Joey's apartment.
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"Damn it Joey! I can't believe this!" Serenity just got home and was talking to Joey; who was just staring at her because she had cursed in front of Joey for the first time.
Then Serenity started crying, "What am I going to do?" Joey pulled her close and let Serenity cry on his shoulder. After crying until she couldn't, she promised Joey that she would try to find another job tomorrow. Then, something in Joey's brain clicked and he go up from the couch and picked up an envelope from the kitchen countertop. "Here," He said, giving it to Serenity.
"My results!" Serenity ripped open the envelope and peered inside, she pulled out the test scores and saw that they were all passing. Then when she looked at her business test score, she couldn't believe her eyes! Serenity made the highest marks you could possibly get on one of these test! She looked at Joey, who was beaming at her; she threw her arms around his neck and pulled him into a big bear hug!
"Guess you got good marks!" He said laughing.
"Yeah, I made perfect marks!"
"Great!" He said grinning, "Let's celebrate!"
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"Damn!" Kaiba mumbled, he was looking through some files that random collage's had sent him. They picked different students that made decent marks, so that Kaiba could hire one to work at Kaiba Corp. He flipped a paper and the name of the person struck his mind, "Yeah sure, I'll hire this mutt..." He mumbled, laughing at the poor marks on the page. Joey just barley passed any of his classes!
Kaiba smirked at the paper before he crumpled it up and dropped it in a trash can by his desk. I'll never hire that dog! He thought, flipping through some more files. Then his eyes fell on the next paper, this person's marks were perfect! All the marks that qualified for the job were all just perfect. Then, the name, Kaiba nearly lost his lunch when he saw who he was about to hire, but this person; this one person was the only one with the best marks. Kaiba sighed and wrote down the person's number; shaking, he put down his pen and muttered, "Welcome to Kaiba Corp., Serenity Wheeler..."
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"Joey?" Serenity peeked into his room, Joey was playing a video game and, to Serenity, it looked like he stayed up all night playing it. "Joey, were you up all night?" She asked, but Joey didn't answer her.
"Joey!" She yelled, finally getting the blonde's attention.
"What?!" He yelled back, not even looking up from his game, "You're gonna make me lose!"
Then something exploded on the screen.
"See what you did Serenity?!"
Serenity rolled her eyes and walked across his room; with a swift movement, she opened the curtains making Sunlight flood into the room.
"Serenity!" Joey yelled as he shielded his eyes from the blinding light, "What did you do that for?!"
"Joey!" She said as she walked back over to him, but instead she stepped on a piece of cold pizza, "Ugh, Joey Gross!" She said, peeling the piece of pizza off of her foot; good thing she had her shoes on... "Do you EVER clean your room?!"
"No, not exactly..." Joey quickly changed the subject, "Hey, did you hear that Kaiba ids going to hire someone to be his secretary?""What?!" Serenity looked at Joey, appalled, "Who would work for that jerk?!"
"Exactly!" Joey said back, shutting off his Playstation 2.
"Hey, I came to ask you if you were doing anything today." Serenity grabbed the offered hand and helped Joey off of his messy floor.
"I thought about meeting Tristan, but other than that; no."
"Well, Tea, Yugi, Duke and I were going to the park to dual. They told me to ask you if you wanted to come." She began to walk out of his room, "So, do you want to?"
Joey considered this for a moment before shaking his head, "Naw, I promised Tristan that I would meet him."
"Oh..." Serenity cast her brother a longing look before she walked out of his room. When she had her hand in the doorknob of the front door; the phone began to ring. Serenity called, "I got it!" To Joey before she picked up the phone.
"Hello?"
A frustrated sigh came from the other end of the line, and then it said, "Mokuba, I'm on the phone!"
Confused, Serenity tried again, "Hello?"
The voice was sharp and cold, "Is this Serenity Wheeler?"
"This is she..."
"It's Seto Kaiba."
"Oh."
"I'm calling to inform you of your new job."
"What?" She asked, very confused now. On the other end of the line, Seto Kaiba rolled his icy blue eyes.
"A Job Wheeler, J-O-B."
"I know how to spell Kaiba!"
"Let me put this in simpler words for you: You work for me now. Be at the top floor of the Kaiba Corporation building tomorrow at 7:00am sharp!"
A click told Serenity that Kaiba had hung up; the receiver fell from her hands...
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End of Chapter One!
Kaiba's wearing his Battle City outfit.
Thanks for reading; I'm already working on the next chapter so stay tuned!!!
Sailor Dark
