Feb 24 2007: Author's Notes: Well, it's been a little while but I hope people are still interested in this fiction. crosses fingers Guess I'll see. Sorry that this chapter is a little short frown Guess I gotta get back into the swing of things.

Masquerade

Chapter Three overview: Anzu and Kaiba do end up together on the project for class (you really didn't expect anything else) and he's already making her really angry. He discovers that she's the woman he had an affair with days before and while she isn't certain of his identity to that regard he makes plans to torture her.

Chapter Four: Alluring Cruelty

Anzu had arrived an hour early to the school and was yawning with a stretch in the cool November morning air, her breath steaming for a moment before slowly fading away into gray. She closed her eyes and if it wasn't so chilly she would take up a nap on the bench not far away - so much for Kaiba meeting her early to work on the project.

"Couldn't he have done this after school?" she asked aloud with annoyance as a limo turned onto the street where she waited near the front of the building. She waited for it to drive up and the back door opened, the cerulean eyed CEO waiting inside for her in his school uniform. He didn't make a motion to get out but neither did she make a motion to get into the vehicle.

"Would you rather discuss this outside Mazaki?" he commented rudely. "Get in the limo."

She gritted her teeth and slammed the door after getting in. "You don't have to be such a jerk Kaiba!"

"Do you have your list of possible difficulties?" he asked her seriously, ignoring her insult toward his etiquette. "I have one here and I figured we should finish writing out a common list."

"How about argumentative issues?" she suggested sarcastically. "I think considering possible murder could be a problem for a 'couple'."

"If you aren't going to take this with some semblance of thought then you shouldn't have badgered me into meeting you Mazaki." He sighed, closing the folder he'd pulled out of his briefcase as soon as he'd opened it. "I do have other things to do with my time than work on this little game, losing sleep for me is a little more grim for me…"

"I don't want to lose sleep either Kaiba." she snapped at him. "Let's just get on with this damn thing…show me the list you made for it and we'll discuss it."

"Sure." He leaned close as he handed her the folder, watching her with contemplation of her response to his sudden proximity. "Anything else Mazaki?"

"Um…" she swallowed and blushed slightly as she remembered the weekend before, shaking her head. "No…no thank you…"

She had dropped her eyes to look at the folder and was about to snap at Kaiba to sit in his own chair when he cut her off.

"You know Mazaki - if you want to have sex in my manor - you could have the decency to pick a room other than mine. You didn't think I have camera's in the mansion? What sort of moron do you take me for? Did you think I wouldn't find out?" he asked her, making her suddenly look like a sunburned tomato and assuring that she was the one.

"I…I…I…" she stumbled over the rather simple word…brain jarred by the fact that Kaiba could possibly have a video of her having sex with someone she didn't even know. "…I…"

"Very articulate." he was enjoying making her flush more as he continued. "You sound a little like you did then…except I believe it was more like 'ooh' than 'I'. Here I thought you were one of the virgin until marriage sorts."

"It's not like that…" she tried to protest. Even though it was rather close to that…she'd wanted it even if it wasn't right. "…it was…"

He didn't answer that one with a comment - he wanted to hear what she thought about it.

Amazing. She thought but shook her head a little. "…it was just a sort of mistake…I didn't know that it was your room."

"And ignorance makes it better?" he pushed a little closer, starting back into her eyes as she looked up at him.

"I…" she paused at his closeness, their noses almost touching. "What are you…"

She paused when he kissed her, pulling her closer to him and curling his arms around her body…she froze in a moment of shock but didn't tug herself free of the deep kiss, letting out a small sigh instead…she'd never imagined that Kaiba could make her feel like this…

Then when the thought hit her she stopped, pushing away. "Wait…you…you are the mystery guy…"

"Afraid not…" he replied huskily, curling fingers into her hair and kissing her neck instead. "…wishful thinking Mazaki?"

"No." she insisted. "What the hell are you doing?"

Of course the question was hard to quite seem honestly agitated by…not when she had crawled into his lap and straddled him just from the long kiss - what the hell am I doing?

"Me?" he raised an infuriatingly sexy brow back at her. "You are the one that scrabbled on top of me just because I kissed you…so either you really believed I was this other guy of yours or you are taking participation of this project a lot more seriously than I thought you meant. I don't really mind but I'd request that you get tested for any possible sexually transmitted diseases if you want to actually go further. It's nothing personal but if you are in the habit of sleeping with people you don't know it's just safe for everyone involved with you."

She was about to tell him off again, she hopped away from his lap but the words about STD's made her sober up completely - she'd rarely actually slept with anyone…the guy from the party had been her second…which was all the more reason to be a little worried. She hadn't stopped to think at all about if he went with her so willingly because there could be something wrong with him.

"I…don't really have the money for that sort of thing…" she blinked back tears and hugged the folder to her chest. "I can't go to the free clinic without my mother's permission though…"

That made even the normally cruel Seto Kaiba pause - he'd only meant to scare her not to make her cry - but if he wanted to keep up the cold appearance he couldn't just reach out to her. He didn't want her to be even slightly aware he was the real one she'd been with - and having those tests done on her was the perfect cover. "Well if your that willing to climb into my lap I'll have my doctors look at you this weekend. You can come by to discuss the project tomorrow if you want and I'll have them do the tests then."

"I'm not going to sleep with you Kaiba." she snapped at him rudely.

"Yes…you say that now…but just in case you make another of those 'mistakes' of yours I'd rather you have been tested and I'm aware of what those results are…unless you are going to start blubbering again for some damn reason…it's a free and easy way out for you…why the complaints?"

"…fine." she finally agreed. It wasn't like she had much choice but Kaiba seeming to be interested in having sex with her was making her feel a little queasy. It feels like I'm making a deal with the devil…

"If it's bothering you that much you can just write a copy of my notes later and we'll just go with the list that I created in class today." He suggested in a rare show of half-kindness. "We're probably better off that way anyway."

Never mind about the kindness part.

"You know fine whatever, do what you want. I'm going to go to the cafeteria and get myself some breakfast." She sighed at the inhuman guy sitting across from her before she got out of his limo and slammed the door shut loud enough that she was sorry she gained the attention of her other classmates - she still looked rather disheveled from the whole expereience and that wouldn't do well for rumors. She really just needed some food to help settle her mind and stomach...

End Chapter

This chapter was fun- yeah Kaiba is a tad cruel but he's always been pretty mean. A littler shorter than I wanted but it'll do for now I think.

-Aura

To my reviewers:

The-hinotori - Aw - sorry that you had to wait - hope it was worth it.

AzureSeal12 - There's more to his plan than this chapter but it's pretty evil of him really. Poor Anzu.

R0gue lebeau - Well they didn't exactly work on homework - unless you think that the whole interchange was for the project - but Kaiba can be sort of a mean guy heh.

Majin Lu - Blush Naw. It was okay - I'm not really good at writing that sort of thing. Thanks for the comment though. And I'm always open to suggestions. Brazil huh? That's pretty neat! I can't say I'm from anywhere remotely interesting; being I'm from the rather boring Indiana in the US. yawn Hope you continue to enjoy my story.