I managed to finish this early so I thought I'd post it early. I'm gonna try to upload a new chapter every Sunday.
Sorry about the time skips. I've tried everything and I couldn't get the dotted line to transfer from Word to FanFiction
I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh! or Fullmetal Alchemist. If I did, they wouldn't make sense!
My beta is still Kimmytrainer!

-Joey's POV-

"Are you serious?" I ask, mouth gaping. I mean, holy shit! I didn't even have to show him my résumé!

"Believe it or not, I am. This is some of the best work I've seen in a while, and I don't say that casually. Everything looks so much more life-like than what we have now."

"Well that works out perfectly," I say. Both Kaiba brothers look at me for further explanation. "I came here in hopes that you would hire me."

Mokuba starts laughing. "Is that why you wanted to show you designs to me? Because you didn't think Seto would even think of looking at it?"

I scratch the back of my head nervously. "Hehe. Yeah."

"Well it's a good think you did that, because I probably wouldn't have time to look at it," Seto says. "So I'm going to assume that you'll take the job."

"Yeah."

"Just so you know, you'll be in a training session for a week. The board of directors don't like to hire people for the important jobs without making sure their competent."

I nod, but still don't quite understand why. Then a crucial question pops into my head, "Is it a paid training session? Not that I care about the money that much. I'm saving up so I can move out of my old man's place."

"You do get paid, but only a fraction of what you'll be getting if you're hired. You'll start on Monday," he says. I reply with a thanks and head for the door. Before I am completely out of Kaiba's office, he stops me and says, "Oh, and try to dress smarter than a t-shirt and jeans." And with that, I walk out the door.

After I walk the twenty-some blocks to the Kame Game Shop. I knock on the back door that leads up to Yugi's apartment. A few minutes later, Yami opens the door.

"'Sup, Yami."

"Hey, Joey. Yugi was starting to worry you weren't going to show," he says.

I look at my watch, and believe it or not, two and a half hours have passed since the graduation ceremony ended. "Wow. I didn't realize it was this late."

So I head upstairs to find Yugi. What I don't expect to find is Yugi's Gramps doing the disco to Ludacris's "How Low" while singing something completely different. "Take it, take it to the floor. Show her, show her how you roll. Drop it, drop it, drop it low."

Yugi walks over to him and says, "Grandpa, what are you singing?"

"I heard it from the box with the moving pictures."

Yugi does a face-palm. "That's called a TV."

I laugh and call out to Yugi. His eyes light up when he spots me. "Joey! You took so long and I started to worry that something happened to you."

"Sorry, Yug'. I kinda lost track of time on the way over here. So who's here besides me?"

"Well, Bakura's in the kitchen using Ryou as a human shield against the toaster and Marik and Malik are in a closet because I wouldn't let them use my room."

"What about Tristan and Duke? Are they here?"

"They left early."

"Sheesh. Is sex the only thing everyone thinks about?"

"Yes," Bakura says from behind me. "And I'm sure that Yami and Marik would agree with me that it's a yami's favorite pastime."

We all laugh and for the remainder of the party we talk about what we're planning to be doing in the future and have a scary movie marathon which results in Ryou and Yugi hiding their faces in their yamis' chests.

[Time Skip]

I wake up at around nine in the morning. Everyone fell asleep in the living room while watching "Saw II", so I had some aches in my shoulders and back courtesy of the hardwood floor.

Yugi's already awake and quietly cleaning up so I whisper, "Hey, Yug'. I gotta go. My dad's gonna be pissed that I was out all night."

"Okay. See you soon, Joey," Yugi whispers back.

I quietly put my shoes back on, grab my jacket, and head out the door. It's somewhat chilly so I put my jacket on and then proceed to walk home (not that I would call it that).

After about thirteen minutes I arrive home. I grab the spare key from the top of the doorframe and unlock it. I go inside to find my dad passed out on the floor with a beer bottle still in his hand. I shake my head in disapproval and walk down the small hallway to my room.

I grab my sketchbook and some pencils and flop down onto the mattress where I plan to spend an hour or two before I have to start making lunch for my dad.

My drawings are mostly of Duel Monsters, but every once in a while I draw my friends or Kaiba. This time, I'm going to draw Kaiba. That small look of amazement and shock that he had when he saw my work was one of those rare moments that he shows emotion. I love drawing him after seeing him show emotion because emotions make it easier for me to make my drawings more lifelike.

I end up drawing Seto with a surprised expression as he sees his Blue-Eyes appear in front of him. There's smoke everywhere and two of the dragons seem to tower over Seto while the third is roaring at the sky. In my opinion, it's probably the best drawing of Seto I've made so far.

I look at the clock and see that it's 11:09 and time for me to cook lunch. I lock my sketchbook the top drawer of my dresser before I head to the kitchen. As I walk through the living room, I see my dad sitting on the couch watching TV.

"Is 'at you, boy?" he asks.

"Yeah, it's me," I reply.

"Where you been at?"

"I fell asleep at Yugi's."

"I thought I tol' you dat I dun' want you hangin' out wit no gay kid!"

"I already told you dad. Yugi's not gay," I say. It's a complete lie, of course, but I wasn't about to tell him the truth. He always believed that by hanging out with Yugi I would catch his 'gayness'. But I guess that it's too late for that 'cuz I've known I was gay for about a year now. And having a homophobic dad, you can probably understand why I haven't told him that yet.

"Yeah, yeah. Jus' make me a grilled cheese san'wich and fuck off."

I obey begrudgingly and make him his lunch.

[Time Skip]

I wake up at 6:45 to the annoying buzzing sound my alarm clock makes. I rush to turn it off so my dad won't freak out on me for waking him up. I'm in and out of the shower within minutes. I brush my teeth and try to make my hair look somewhat more presentable before returning to my room. I put on a pair of black pants (the only pants I own that aren't jeans or my uniform pants) and red, button-up shirt. I quickly eat a bowl of cereal and grab my USB before heading to KaibaCorp.

The walk really isn't that long, so I end up at the front door at about 7:50. I enter the building and walk up to the front desk. There's a new woman there.

"Can I help you?" the woman, Sheska, asks.

"Yes. My name is Joey Wheeler. I'm starting my training today," I tell her.

"Ms. Hawkeye will be your mentor, Mr. Wheeler. She should be here in about five minutes. You can have a seat somewhere in the meantime."

So for a few minutes I sit in one of the comfy chairs that are nearby. A woman with blonde hair walks up to the front desk and talks to Sheska for a while before she walks up to me. I stand and shake the hand she extends.

"Hi. I'm Riza Hawkeye," she says.

"Joey Wheeler," I reply.

"Okay, Mr. Wheeler. You'll be working with me for this week, and if Mr. Kaiba says you get the job, you'll be working in my department. First things first," she starts to walk toward a hallway so I follow. "Mr. Kaiba asked me to take you to get a company ID so you can get access to most of the building. On each floor there's a secretary that acts as security. If you show your ID to them they let you in without any fuss."

We go into a room fairly close to the front and she takes my picture. Ms. Hawkeye walks over to the computer and types a few things on it before she prints and hands me the card.

"This one's only temporary, so you'll have to get a new one if you get the job."

I look at the ID. My picture isn't too bad and it says trainee under my name. "Thanks. So what's next Ms. Hawkeye?" I ask.

"Call me Riza. Well, I can show you around after lunch, so let's just head to my office."

We go back into the lobby and use the elevator to get to floor seven. When the doors open we exit and flash our IDs to the secretary/security girl head towards her office to begin my week as a trainee.

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