Well, here's chapter 2. I hope you like it! Please review and let me know what you think! Thank you!
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"Oi, oi! Hello, Seto-kun!" Seto glanced casually up from his work as the bell rang. A blonde girl leaned against his desk and smiled a large, toothy grin down at him.
"Hiya, Seto! How are ya, cutie?"
The lean man's expression did not change, but his eyes seemed to grow darker as he snapped his laptop closed,
"No one gave you any type of permission to call me by my given name. I've already made it clear to you that I have no such interest in you. Now," he said coldly, looking up at her with a look that could make a grown man cower, "Get out of my sight, you low-life."
The blonde girl's eyes grew wide and her bright red lips parted as her jaw dropped. She suddenly snapped out of it, donned a disgusted look, as all but burst out of the classroom.
Shizuka silently rose from her seat and began to gather her things quickly. She didn't want to irritate The Seto Kaiba any more than he already was.
Seto walked to the door, but paused for a moment, withhisright handlingering on the doorknob. Where had he seen that girl before? She seemed so familliar.
He turned back to the redhead. She swung her bookbag onto her shoulder and then looked up and accidentaly locked his gaze. Shizuka stood wide-eyed for a moment under his intense stare and felt her knees go weak. Her heart fluttered, although she knew not the reason.
He broke the gaze and opened the door, and swiftly exited without a word. Once in the hall, he again felt the dozens of pairs of eyes staring at him, he heard the whispers. True, fame could be wonderful, but everyday at school just became too tedious.
Frankly, he was tired of all those obnoxious flirty girls who was far too overconfident. He had never liked that kind of girl in the first place. They would always speak their minds before thinking and had too high of an opinion of themselves.
Another girl, this time one with baked skin and large, gold earrings planted herself in his path.
"Hi Kaiba-kun! I was wondering if you wanted to join me for lunch today." She asked as she flashed a laser-whitened smile at him.
"No." Kaiba said bluntly as he began to walk past her.
"B-But Kaiba-kun! I really like you! Why don't you like me!?" She cried, trying to convince him to change his mind.
Seto rolled his eyes and stopped,
"Why do you like me?" he asked, though he already knew the answer.
The stick-thin girl was silent for a moment and then grinned,
"Well, for starters, you're totally and completly hot! And like, what girl wouldn't totally love a guy who owns his own company! And I mean I like hear you're really smart and stuff and you're really rich! I love you!"
Kaiba smirked and chuckled to himself as he walked on,
"You know nothing whatsoever about me and yet you claim to love me," he mused, mostly to himself, "The reasons you gave aren't reasons to go out with someone." he said, leaving the popular girl's mouth agape.
The rest of his morning went fairly normally. He had four more shallow professions of love by lunchtime and by the time the lunch release bell sounded, he was ready to fire someone just to get his anger out.
He usually went off-campus to eat his lunch, just to get away from those crazy highschool girls for an hour, but he wasn't very hungry, so he decided just to sit outside and work.
In the back of the school, there was a spacious courtyard, so he took a seat on the garden wall. He took out his ever-present laptop and began to calculate the weekly budget that some slacker (who claimed to be dying from cancer. Sure. That's what they all say) was supposed to be taking care of. But while deeply focoused, he became aware of a subtle sniftling noise.
He glanced to his left and became aware of a pale redheaded girl just adjacent to him. Curious, she was the girl sitting next to him in his math class, if he was not mistaken.
Where had he seen that girl before? His fingers ceased typing as he searched his memory, Where had it been-- Duelist City? Battle Kingdom? Yes... it had... but how was she connected? She wasn't someone he had duelled... why did he remember her?
The blimp! The dock! That's where he remembered her from. He looked to his left, out and studdied her from the corner of his deep blue eyes. Yes... she was that one who hung with Yuugi... she was that dog's sister!
But if that was the case, and she really was one of that pipsqueaks's fanclub, why was she sitting by herself and crying? Shouldn't she have been with her brother or something. he returned to typing but found his workpace slow as his eyes continued to drift back to the crying girl.
He wasn't the type to normally care when he saw a girl cry. Usually, with the kind of girls at Domino, they were usually crying over a broken nail or some tiny blackhead. But she--
He was awoken from his thoughts by the first bell. He solemnly closed and returned his laptop to his briefcase, stood, and brushed himself off.
He walked past the crying girl but then, for reasons unknown, something caused his to stop. He sighed and turned back to the shaking lady
"You're going to be late." Shizuka shot up. Her cheeks immeaditely pinkened. Her eyes were tear-stained and bloodshot and her nose had a slight tinge of red to it.
"I--I... I'm sorry... what?" She asked, clearly confused and totally out of it.
"The second bell just rang. You only have one more and the late bell. Better get going." He said, his deep melodious voice tickling Shizuka's ears.
She turned and gathered her things from around her, quite embarrassed to have missed two bells. And to be caught by THE Seto Kaiba-- and crying too!
"Take this." Shizuka whirled around and found herself facing Kaiba's wide, muscular chest. She looked up-- way up-- and found the man smirking, not unkindly, down at her.
"Here." He gently pressed a handkerchief into her hand.
"Thank---" Shizuka was rendered speechless as she caught his gaze. It was completely mesmerizing. Seto, in turn, could not find the exact reason that he was caught-- absolutely stunned-- by the girl's eyes.
The two both snapped out of their daze as the third bell rang. Shizuka blushed and focused her gaze on the handkerchief.
"Thank you, Kaiba-sama." she whispered as she rushed out of the courtyard.
Kaiba stood a moment more before sauntering on into his class. He didn't think, for some reason, that he would be concentrating very much on school… or his work.
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Well? I hope you like it so far! Man, I wish my fiction could be real. (If it was, maybe I wouldn't be ignored so XD) Anyhoo, please review! Thank you!
Mysteria Pearl