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Ch. 2

Bakura ran as fast as he could to his apartment. He ran up 2 flights of stairs, down the hall, skidded to his room door, pulled open the door and slammed it shut.

"Oh hikari," the voice said again.

This time, a spirit appeared before the boy looking exactly like him except he had spikier hair and colder eyes. The spirit of the Millennium Ring.

"Hikari," his yami said. "Who was that person you ran into?" he asked mischievously.

"Why should I tell you?" Bakura asked as bravely as he could even though he didn't feel brave at all. In fact, Bakura really didn't want to know what his yami could be planning.

He shrugged. "Even if I did have a reason, why should I tell you?" he asked smirking.

He started fading, and before he completely disappeared, he stated, "Make sure you keep an eye out on her before someone else steals her from you." His yami disappeared, but he swore he heard him laughing before he was completely gone, for now.

Oh great! He really is back with a new plan. You weren't sure what you were going to do.

--

Sprinting as fast as she could, Phoenix rounded another corner coming closer and closer to the tallest building in the city. She ran through the glass doors and slid across the marble floor.

"Can…you please…tell me…where…the meeting is…?" she wheezed.

"Sure, hon," she said a little concerned, "but first I need your name."

"It's…Phoenix Smith," Phoenix wheezed, yet again.

"Oh, here you are," she said. "It's on the 13th floor. Here's your pass."

Bing. The elevator rang. The doors opened but before they close, she sneered, "You might want to look nicer than that before the meeting begins."

"I'll try," Phoenix said smiling back. The doors shut.

Phoenix turned around to look into a mirror so see that looked like she had been running against the wind.

10 levels left to go.

She quickly fixed herself up to look acceptable just as the doors were opening.

She was expecting to see older man or a security man standing there waiting. In fact, all she could see was black.

"Hi, I'm Mokuba Kaiba."

She had to look all the way down to see a boy that looked younger standing there. "My brother has been waiting for you. Why do you look a mess? Did something happen? Do I…" A hand covered his mouth causing him to make mmphing sounds. That was surprising.

Phoenix looked up to be captured into icy blue eyes. "Finally, you're here. The sooner we start, the sooner we finish," the guy said.

"Wait! You're the guy I'm supposed to meet?" she asked in disbelief. She thought he was going to be…old.

"Yes I am. Do you have a problem with that?" he asked basically snapping.

"No, no. I just…never mind," she said, deciding not to tell him what she actually thought. He quirked an eyebrow and proceeded towards a door.

She followed assuming he would lead her to the meeting room. Even Mokuba followed.

He shut the door with a snap. "So you're Phoenix Smith. Hm, I thought you would be older…and more mature," he said smirking.

"Hey, I thought the exact same thing, especially the mature part," Phoenix retorted.

"Anyway onto business," he continued ignoring her comment. "Your dad and I are now business partners. I need to make sure that I get all the information on what is going on at his end of the partnership."

"Your father also said you might be interested in a job," Mr. Kaiba stated quite bored. "So…."

"So what?" she asked confused.

"Do you want to be in charge your father's part of the business over here? You do know how to work don't you?" he asked.

Phoenix did not know what to say. "I'll take the job, and yes, I do know how his job works."

"Good. You start tomorrow after school," he said walking out the door with Mokuba close on his heels.

"Wow. He seems friendly,"she muttered sarcastically. With that Phoenix walked off to the elevator back to the main floor in order to start getting prepared for her first day of school.

--

Today was her first day of school. Finally deciding to get up, she did her usual morning routine she used to do back home.

Finally taking out her uniform, she decided that whoever thought of the uniform must have been a man due to the pink blouse, way too short navy skirt, and hideous brown loafers.

She gagged as she looked at her uniform since the loafers and blouse were required. However, no one ever told her that her skirt length had to be that particular length.

Digging through her dresser, Phoenix found an ankle length, navy blue skirt, and since she was required to at least wear a navy blue skirt, this skirt would do.

--

Finally, Phoenix trudged her way up to school hoping it would be a quiet day.

However, her wishes were about to change. She saw…her. Phoenix walked quickly in the other direction hoping she wouldn't spot her. She were about to round the corner when a horrid voice reached her ears.

"Phoenix? Is that you? Wait up," the terrible Tea called.

"Oh no, she spotted me!" she muttered as she sprinted as fast she could towards any hiding place. Phoenix tried to escape her, but she ran into an open door.

"Oh no! Are you okay? Now that we are friends, blah blah blah," Tea said. She smiled that smiled that burned Phoenix's eyes, and Tea yelled out, "Hey Yugi, Joey, Tristan. Look who I found."

"Hey ya, Tea. Hey Phoenix. Long time no see," Joey said sarcastically. Phoenix couldn't believe she was standing with Joey, Tristan, Tea, and...wasn't there another one?

"Isn't there four of you?" Phoenix asked Joey since he seemed the coolest out of all of them.

"Oh yea. Where's Yug?"

"Hey guys. Hi Phoenix," Yugi said as he appeared out of nowhere.

"Yugi! Where have ya been!" Joey yelled so that everyone was looking at him.

"Kaiba challenged me to another duel after school," Yugi sighed. "I don't know why he won't just be our friend."

"Hey who's Kaiba?" you asked racking through your brain trying to remember who he was since he sounded familiar.

"Don't worry about Kaiba, Phoenix," Yugi said.

"Yea, Moneybags is da biggest jerk eva and doesn't even have a life."

Everyone else listening to your conversation sighed loudly and continued on their way. You frowned and thought how that was an interesting way of expressing hate.

--

Everyone at school was staring at Phoenix weirdly as she and the group walked by them. "Phoenix, do you know why everyone is staring at you?" Tristan asked concerned.

"Don't know, don't care," she said as she sat under a shady oak tree. They all frowned as they sat down beside her.

"Sorry I'm late guys," a British accent apologized. "Phoenix? Is that you?"

"Hey, how are you? I'm sorry to run off but …" she stopped realizing she was mumbling.

"Hehe, sorry about that," she said calmly. "Anyway, how are you? What is your name by the way? I guess I was in such a rush that I forgot to ask," she said blushing slightly.

"Oh. It's Bakura," he replied blushing in return. No one beside those two saw the other blush.

After a long conversation, Phoenix hear the bell ring too soon.

"Hey Bakura, are you going to watch Yugi duel after school?" she asked hoping he would.

"Yea I am."

"Great I'll see you after school," she said walking off to her next class.

--

"Alright Yug! Time for ya to bet up Kaiba again!" Joey said leading the group towards the park with Phoenix and Bakura trailing the others. At the park, she was supposed to witness Yugi duel this Kaiba dude.

As she approached the place they were supposed to duel, Phoenix recognized two very familiar people. "Hey…" Phoenix began to say…

TBC

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