Chapter Two

Seto walked down the hall, after he had left Bakura's office he had asked the secretary were Malik's office was she told him it was right down the hall on the other side of the building. Seto wondered how long it would take Bakura to look at the last page.

When Seto reached Malik's office, the secretary told him that he was expected, and that he could go in. Seto glanced at the door to the Egyptian's office, there was a blind over the window and it was shut. Seto knew he needed to be careful or he might find himself in an awkward position, considering the type of person Malik really was.

Seto opened the door quietly, he saw Malik sitting on his desk with his shirt off and Yugi was on his lap kissing his neck. Malik looked over a Seto without saying anything, it was obvious Yugi didn't hear the door open. Seto wasn't sure if he should say anything, he knew something like this was going to happen.

"So, how did it go?" asked Malik sounding rather nonchalant considering his lover was on his lap.

"Ryou is still probably steaming over that picture you showed him, what was it of anyway?" replied Seto as he shut the door behind him.

Yugi froze when he heard Seto's voice, he turned nearly falling of Malik's lap and the desk. Seto smirked, his ice blue eye's flickering with amusement. Yugi glared at him then got off Malik's lap and walked across the room.

"Don't be angry with me because you didn't hear the door open, I was given permission to enter," said Seto.

"So did you sign?" asked Malik this time sounding eager, he loved getting new models.

"Yes, but it might take Ryou a while to figure out that I did," answered Seto with a devilish smile.

"Why?" asked Malik curious, tilting his head.

"Because I told him that I didn't, because of something that was written on the last page. I wonder how long it'll take him to figure out," replied Seto smirking slightly.

There was a knock on the door, Malik glanced over at it, already knowing who it would be.

"Go away, Thief," said Malik.

"Bite me!" yelled a voice from the other side of the door.

"Be glad too, where and how hard?!"

The door opened, "Your sick, Malik, very sick."

"Not as sick as you I'm afraid, 'Kura," replied Malik.

Bakura rolled his eyes, then looked at Seto. Seto met his eye's with a pretend glare.

"You're a real bastard, Kaiba," said Bakura, returning the fake glare with a real one.

"That'll be the second thing you learn about me, I am a bastard. Though it's really not my fault you couldn't catch my clue right away," explained Seto shrugging.

"Yeah, what-ever," said Bakura turning back to Malik just now noticing something, which made him slightly confused, "Why do you have your shirt off?"

"No reason," said Malik looking away giving a slight blush.

Bakura looked over at Yugi, who still looked embarrassed, then he turned his attention to Malik, who still looking at the wall on his left side.

"Malik, stop 'banging' our models," said Bakura sounding rather casual but still annoyed.

"Aww, but Yugi is just so cute!" whined Malik.

"I won't allow it, and the next time I catch you…I'll fire Yugi," replied Bakura in a rather malicious tone.

"What?" exclaimed Yugi sounding shocked and looking from Malik to Bakura repeatedly.

Malik glared at Bakura, then smirked, "Fine, but I'll hold you to it. If I can't 'bang' Yugi then you have to stay away from Seto."

Bakura bit his lip looking down for a moment, "Fine."

Yugi and Seto exchanged glances wondering how long this agreement would last. Suddenly, there was another knock on Malik's door, the person didn't wait for permission to enter as they entered shortly after knocking. It was a young woman with long brown hair, she wore a camera around her neck, she looked upset about something.

"Mr. Ishtar! We have a schedule to keep, and we can't keep it if you don't show up for the photo shoots!" exclaimed the girl in a high-pitched voice sounding rather desperate.

Malik took a few steps back as the girl advanced, "Uh, yes…but you see I was in a very important meeting…and…"

"Mr. Ishtar! I know you had no meetings today! I checked!" The girl looked like she was on the verge of tears.

"Malik, you're screwing up the schedule again?" asked Bakura sounding as if he had a headache.

The girl turned, she hadn't noticed that anyone else was in the room, "Oh, Good morning, Bakura."

"I did not screw up the schedule, it was your shoot, but you switched at the last second so you could meet with Seto this morning," said Malik giving Bakura a look.

"Seto?" said the girl sounding shocked, "Seto Kaiba? He's not working here is he?" She looked between Malik and Bakura.

It was then that Seto realized who the girl was, "Gardner? Yugi, you never told me that she worked here too."

Tea spun around and stared at Seto as Yugi spoke, "I had forgotten, I don't see her much."

"Kaiba? Why would you work here?" asked Tea still sounding extremely shocked.

Seto smirked, "Why wouldn't I work here?"

"Ah, which reminds me," said Malik suddenly, "I have your new schedule, Yugi." He handed a folded up piece of paper to Yugi, then turned to Seto, "I'll get yours figured out by tomorrow, but we need to do tester shots, so you could either do them today or tomorrow morning."

"Tester shots?" asked Seto sounding unsure about what those were.

"You know, just fifteen minutes or so of simple shots, so we can get lighting and get our developers to figure out how there going to go about printing the shots for the 'zine. All of that behind the scenes technical crap," explained Malik waving his hand as if it was no big deal.

"Right," said Seto slowly nodding, "Yeah…I can do that today."

"Good," said Bakura as he dragged Seto out of Malik's office.

"Good luck, Kaiba!" called Tea, then she turned to Malik, "We need to go, your models are waiting for you."

"Yes, yes…" said Malik waving Tea off, then he winked at Yugi and walked out his office closely followed by Tea carrying his shirt and telling him to put it on.

Yugi left Malik's office a few minutes later looking at his new schedule and thinking that maybe it wasn't such a good idea that he invited Seto to work at 'Explicit.'

Bakura lead Kaiba to a blank shooting area, there were very few people around. Bakura told them to all clear out, and they all left immediately. Bakura picked up his camera and adjusted the lights. Seto stood still watching him, not knowing what he was supposed to be doing.

Once Bakura was finished messing with the lights and checking his camera, he turned to Seto. "Strip." was the command, Seto stared at Bakura, not sure if he had heard right.

"Excuse me?"

Bakura smirked and repeated the command, "Strip. It's in the contract if your curious, all tester photos are in the nude."

Seto thought back to the contract, somehow he had missed that part.

"I'll show you a copy, if you don't believe me," said Bakura waiting for Seto response.

"No, I believe you," replied Seto taking off his trench coat, "I'm not making a show out of it though." He took off his shirt.

"Aww, why not?" asked Bakura pouting and trying to look cutely disappointed.

Seto gave Bakura a weird look, and turned around as he unbuckled his belt.

Gods, this is awkward, thought Seto as he stood naked in front of Bakura, a few minutes later. It had taken Seto some time to take off his boxers, mostly because he knew Bakura was attracted to him.

Bakura smirked when Seto turned around, and then looked him up and down.

"Can we get on with it?" asked Seto wanting to get the photos over as quickly as possible.

"You know your going to have to get used to this if your going to be successful here," stated Bakura as he took a few shot's from random angles and perspectives.

"I know that," snapped Seto.

Bakura smiled and took a few more pictures, "Okay, done. You can get dressed now."

Thank god, thought Seto as he put it clothes on, when he was buttoning up his shirt he had a thought, "How many photographers do you have?"

"Well…" Bakura thought for a moment fiddling with his camera, "We have five, including Malik and myself."

"There are only five people taking photos for the magazine?" asked Seto sounding surprised there were so few people actually taking the photo's when the magazine was so huge.

"Well, there should be seven. Tea won't do anything on her own, she mostly follows Malik around and does what he tells her to do. She's an amazing photographer but she gets really embarrassed about asking the modals to pose for her in different ways, she's become Malik's assistant and spends most of her time getting him to the shoot floor," explained Bakura.

"And the seventh?" asked Seto sounding mildly interested.

"She's still finishing school, and won't start for a few more months, but I've seen some of her prelim stuff and it's very good. She has a knack for getting modals to do things they wouldn't normally," answered Bakura with a slightly sadistic smile.

"Should I be worried or impressed?" asked Seto.

"Both," replied Bakura.

Bakura took Seto on a tour of the 'Explicit' building after he had dropped off the film to the tech crew. The tour took about a half an hour and took Seto around most of the building, ending with the break room. Bakura and Seto entered the break room together.

"OH MY GOD! I CAN'T FRICKIN' BELIEVE IT!"

Seto took a slight step back wondering who suddenly shouted. He soon found out when a familiar Blonde and Brunet appeared in front of them. Seto shot Joey a glare, but Joey only smiled in return.

"Good job, 'Kura. You finally got him," stated Tristan with a small smirk of his own.

Bakura smiled at the twosome, "You'll take good care of him, won't you? I have a shoot in five minutes."

Seto stared at Bakura unbelieving, was he really going to leave him with Joey and Tristan? Wait a second…why am I afraid of Tristan and his mutt? He looked back at the twosome and saw the malicious smiles. That's why…

"Don't worry, we'll take good care of 'Rich boy' while you're away," answered Joey winking at Bakura and putting his arm around Seto's shoulder.

"Okay, I'll leave him to you two, then," Bakura turned and started to leave the Break Room, "Bye, bye, 'Rich Boy.'" He gave Seto a slight wave before leaving for the shoot floor.

Seto glared at Bakura as he left, but his attention was soon jerked back to Joey and Tristan. They dragged him over to a table in the back, and basically forced him to sit down.

"So CEO turned Porn Model, huh?" stated Joey, folding his hands and placing them beneath his chin. He smiled at Seto waiting for an answer.

"It's not like I had much of a choice, I'm over qualified for everything else," muttered Seto looking away. I can't believe that was the first thing Joey Wheeler said to me after four years.

Joey and Tristan exchanged glances, they smirked in sync. They knew that there had to be other reasons for the X-CEO to go to work 'Explicit' instead of a company that was more closely related to his old company.

Seto glanced at the twosome, "So how did you three come to work here anyway?" Seto was including Yugi in the question, the guy did not look like someone who would be a porn model.

"Well, we weren't fit for much else. Barely made it through High School, so why would we go to college?" started Joey thinking a bit, "We were surprised, when Bakura came to us two years ago an offered us jobs here."

Tristan nodded, "Yeah, he didn't even have a business degree or anything, he just had the building. Back then, it was just Malik and him taking the pictures and printing the 'zine themselves. And now," he trailed off looking around the building, "Well, you can see."

"Of course that's just our story," stated Joey giving a slight shrug, "I don't know why Yugi decided to join up. He went to college and has a two year degree. We always thought that he would either take over his Grandpa's game shop or become an archeologist or somethin'."

"What about Gardner?" asked Seto looking interested, "She was always talking about going to study dance in New York in High School."

"Oh, she still has that dream," replied Tristan, "she just doesn't have the funding. They offered her a job as a model first, but she declined. Few months later she came back with a portfolio of pictures she had taken and Bakura told her that she could a photographer."

"But of course, she works side by side with Malik once and she becomes his assistant. She's only been here for a year though," explained Joey.

Seto gave a slight nod to show he understood, but he still had other questions. He had never once gave thought to the possibility of Yugi and his little friends running and being in a porn magazine. If someone had told him that, that was what they were going to be doing two years out of High School he probably would have asked them what drug they were on. Of course he had never considered that he would end up working for a place like 'Explicit,' and yet here he was in the building's break room, contract signed and everything.

"So when did Ryou start having the wild fantasies about starting a Porn Magazine?" asked Seto.

Joey and Tristan looked at each other, they weren't sure of when the idea started, "Well," started Tristan slowly, "he started to talk about it a little around the spring of our Senior year. Though we never thought he was serious."

Joey laughed, "He even offered us all jobs back then. Do you remember? Said it with a straight face and everything, I don't think I've ever seen Tea turn so red before."

Tristan nodded, "Yug went white as a sheet." He smiled at Seto, "He even told us that he wanted you to model for him, never thought it would happen, but there you are."

"Yeah," murmured Seto sounding distracted. For some reason, Bakura being able to get a multi-million dollar company up from nothing reminded him of his old company. He had basically built Kaiba corp. up from nothing, but he didn't have to start from scratch, he just started over. Needless to say, what Bakura had done from a big business stand point was impressive.

He looked at the twosome who were sitting across from him, they were reminiscing about the past. He gave a short sigh. High School seemed so close and yet it seemed like it was so long ago.

He could remember his first meetings with each member of Yugi's group at Duelist Kingdom. Back then they were just annoying opponents to be crushed and nothing more. He had never expected things to turn out as they had, fate and destiny were strange.

Back then he was a cold, ruthless, duelist that would stop at nothing to achieve his goals. He went to school while running a multi-billion dollar corporation. The game, duel monsters, had thrown Seto into so many weird 'adventures.' Each one seemed to have a deeper setting, all routed in some sort of magic. Back then he didn't believe so, but he learned with the last encounter before their Senior year in High School, that there might have been something more then what he had seen in those duels. It was stupid to think that a card game could control someone's life, but that was how High School was. It was either one obsession or another, supposing that obsession didn't suddenly turn into a life or death thing. Such a weird concept to die over a Card Game, but someone had always tried to force it to something like that.

"Hey, Kaiba, you in there?"

Seto looked up slightly confused, "What?"

Joey smiled, "You drifted off into space for a while."

"I was…just thinking about the past," stated Seto looking at the table.