Nine Years

Chapter Four: Not a smirk, but a real smile

"Seto, there's something for you in the mail!," Mokuba shouted as he went into Kaiba's office. "Looks like an invitation."

"There's always something for me in the mail Mokuba," Kaiba said unenthusiastically while reading an e-mail. "Throw it away," he said, his head lazily resting on his right fist while the left hand was on his laptop.

Seto Kaiba was well at least 6'3" now. But his features didn't entirely change. He still had that intimidating look in his eyes and his attitude. After all, he was the most richest man alive in Japan and the youngest CEO, too. He had power, money -of course, a company, and to top it all off...looks. Mostly he would were trench coats and if not that then black, dark blue, gray, or any dark color clothing. Right now he was wearing a gray turtle neck sweater along with black pants and yes, a trench coat -black. Back to where we were before...um...yes... you could say he had everything, but he didn't. He didn't have happiness and as the saying goes, money can't buy happiness.

"Come on Seto, you need to be social," Mokuba said, trying to convince him.

"I don't have to," Kaiba said not looking up at him.

Mokuba let out a small sigh.

Kaiba just rolled his eyes at this, "Who is it from?"

"Mr. Takahashi."

"His third-rate company?...should be saving his money rather than throwing it away," Kaiba said, his eyes now looking up at Mokuba.

"You never know...," Mokuba retorted.

"Who's gonna be there?," Kaiba asked with a little interest in his voice but he easily covered it up.

"How am I supposed to know...why?," Mokuba asked throwing him a curious glance.

"Why do you want to know?," Kaiba shot back.

Mokuba grumbled something, while Kaiba just smirked.

"So are we going?," Mokuba said after a while.

"No."

Meanwhile...

Serenity's Pov:

It's been, what three days since the meeting thus making it five days since my stay in Domino. Wow, the days seem to fly doesn't it? When I heard there was a business party going on, I kind of panicked, not really. I didn't bring any dresses with me. I didn't think there was gonna be any social gatherings. I just packed some ordinary day clothes, business suits, accessories, and etc. So now, here I am, going to a store that I used to shop in back when I was still living here. Its called 'Happy Fashion.' Cherie came along with me; she said she'll help me pick. She reminded me of Mai and her fashion personality. We arrived there and I was kind of surprised. It wasn't the store I really came here for, but instead it was replaced with a much bigger store and it looked like it had a wide variety of clothes. It's called 'My Style.'

"This looks cool," Cherie said.

"Yeah...," I said trailing off a bit, I was still surprised.

"Well stop standing there, come on!," Cherie said dragging my arm.

This store, I have to admit, was...well better than the old one. It did have a lot more clothes and they were all from good designers. I don't know how I know, I mean I'm the last person you ask about that has to do with fashion but I get this feeling. I guess, as Mai would say, fashion intuition. I think Mai is rubbed off some of her knowledge on me. I just kind of skimmed around the dresses, while Cherie was examining them, one by one. They were all pretty but I don't know which would best suit me. I wish Mai were here. No, I can't rely on Mai to help me pick out my dresses!

Ok...let's see...this one's pretty. It was baby blue, had short sleeves but it was cut so that the halves were hanging on. It also had a low V-neckline, and it looked like it would go up to my knees, well a bit farther. I tried it on, it was pretty but the color did not match me. The color of my hair kind of stood out more than the dress so I guess no baby blue.

I changed and looked for more. I saw some pretty one's but I thought of how it would look on me and how much it would stand out. So far...none. Then I saw a dress that would match any color, other than white...black. Well I don't know really how to describe the dress, you had to tie it around your neck and it had low, not really low, V-neckline. The bottom of the dress flared out bit. I showed it to Cherie and she liked it, too. She liked the flared part.

After shopping for my dress, Cherie insisted we go shopping for accessories and matching shoes. Ugh...definitely she had Mai's fashion personality. After that I was hoping that we would go back to the hotel, but instead I was dragged over to the nearest fast food place that you could find. This was going to be a long day.

At Kaiba Mansion...

"Stupid idiot," Kaiba muttered under his breath. He just finished reading the e-mail his secretary send to him -a document. He found the same errors from the same document she send yesterday. He replied back by writing, "you're fired." When he did that, people wouldn't really argue with him -they knew he would win at the end. This week was complex for him. It's the usual, as he would say; late shipments, a problem at this or that department, misused parts, wrong documents, and etc. He now leaned back on his chair, and gave out an aggravated sigh while rubbing his temples. He stared beyond the large window that was behind his desk.

"I need a break," he said finally. Getting up from his black leather chair he headed towards the door. Once outside, he just stood there not knowing where he should go. Some people were staring at him and in return he narrowed his eyes and glared at them which caused them to look away quickly. He started walking now -he decided to walk around the block. Soon after that, he became hungry. How?... his stomach growled. He kind of turned red, for a second. But no one was around that time so he didn't need to save himself from embarrassment. He decided to go to the nearest fast food place. He was waiting for the traffic light to change; he just stared at the fast food place that he was about to go to.

"Damn people who call themselves employee's of my company. Always complaining about something or messing things up! I'm gonna crack if I hear another complaint or if they mess things up to-," he thought, but lost the train of thought when he saw a certain auburn-haired girl coming out of the place he was staring at. Yes, of course, we all know who it is. Anyway, someone was dragging her and she looked all tired and weary. She was carrying two shopping bags and the person dragging her was also carrying a bag but one instead. The light changed, and he started walking but she already turned a corner and didn't see him. He didn't really have any intention of going after her or 'bumping' into her. He acted if nothing happened, well nothing did happen, and went into the fast food place. After that he went back to Kaiba corp.

Back to Serenity and Cherie...

"Huh?," Serenity said suddenly stopped and turned around.

"What's wrong?," Cherie asked, also stopping.

"Um...nothing," she said and continued walking.

"Whatever," Cherie said.

"I had a feeling someone was there a minute ago, someone familiar and I think I forgot something," Serenity thought.

"Oh no!," Serenity said suddenly, again.

"What now," Cherie said rolling her eyes a little.

"I forgot one of my bags! I think I left at the food place!"

"Ugh...Serenity!, come on lets go, if we hurry we can still get it back," Cherie said walking back towards the fast food place.

Meanwhile at Kaiba Corp...

Kaiba entered his office to find Mokuba there.

"About time!, where were you?!," Mokuba asked.

"Took a walk," was all Kaiba said, heading to his desk and turning on his computer.

"Well here are the order forms you wanted."

"Thanks, hey can you retype this document?," he asked giving Mokuba the document he looked at earlier.

"Fine," he mumbled apparently mad at the fact that he had more work to do and he was about to get off.

He turned to leave when Kaiba said, "The invitation that Takahashi send-"

"We're going?," Mokuba said interrupting him.

"If you want too," he said looking out his window, again.

"Cool...wait why?"

"I'm looking forward to meet someone there that is if they are coming."

"Oh...," Mokuba said trailing off a bit, thinking what his brother meant by that.

Mokuba left, while Kaiba saw a certain auburn-haired again carrying three bags now, instead of two, walking side to side with a blacked-haired girl and smiled to himself, not a smirk but a real smile.

(a/n: Ta-da, I'm done! So sorry I took too long to update. I had the end idea but I had no beginning and middle. Don't ask me how I got the end first of this chapter cause I don't know how myself. And as I said before in my other story, when Kaiba actually meets and talks to Kari is going to be a long time from now. I can tell you where he meets her, he meets her at the.........................................not telling you...nya! Hehe...cause that's gonna let people thinking and jumping to conclusions. Ok I'll give you a hint... he meets her at a place where specially trained people take care of people and heals them. Was it a easy hint or not much of one, tell me! Well...sorry but if I told you, it would let out info. For now please review. )