A/N: I am soooooooooooooo sorry! I've been incredibly busy! I wanted to update so much sooner but I couldn't. By the way, this is the first chapter of this story that takes place in the present day, also used the English names. Anddddddd, I changed Mai's age slightly to fit with the story line. I hope all of you enjoy this super late chapter haha.
I DO NOT OWN SAILOR MOON OR YU-GI-OH!
Chapter 7- Ready or Not
Serena Tsukino shoved the last of her things into her shiny, red, brand-new Nissan Sentra. Her parents had bought her a new car as her going-off-to college gift if she kept up her grades during her senior year of high school. Serena had worked hard for it and was thankful for her new vehicle.
Serena was traveling to Domino City to attend The University of Domino City Japan. Serena had jitters. She was so excited to attend college. Serena had worried for a while during high school that she wasn't going to make it into a four-year university because some of her grades were below standard, but thankfully she made it. Freshman year of college was about to begin and Serena couldn't be more thrilled.
"Have a safe trip, sweetheart," Serena's mother said as she hugged Serena tightly, "Domino City is only forty-five minutes away, it's not that bad of a drive," Serena's mother said, trying to reassure her, "and remember if you ever need anything your father and I are always here for you."
Serena smiled, "Thanks mom," She let go of the embrace, "I promise to stay in-touch everyday."
Serena's father smiled broadly and spread his arms out wide, "Come here," he said.
Serena made her way over to her father and gave him a big hug, "I love you guys," she said, tears threatening to fall from her eyes.
"We know you'll get homesick, darling," Serena's father began, "the first month of college is always the hardest, but it'll get better, you've just got to tough it out. I promise you it will get better the longer you're there."
"Thanks dad," Serena said as she let go of the hug.
Luna, Serena's black cat, appeared from behind Serena's mother. Luna rubbed her face against Serena's leg and purred. "Luna!" Serena bent over and picked up the furry feline, "I'm going to miss you. Take care of the family for me, okay?" Luna continued to purr as Serena cradled the cat in her arms.
"We'll take good care of her," Serena's mother assured, "Like we always do."
Serena nodded, "I should get going," She handed Luna over to her mother, "Goodbye! I love you!"
Her parents nodded and Serena hopped into the driver's seat of her new Nissan Sentra. She turned the keys and the engine roared to life. Serena stuck her hand out of the window and waved to her parents. They waved back as Serena drove away.
Seto Kaiba couldn't understand it all. Why was he doing this? Was this some kind of sick joke that someone was playing? Had something gone wrong with his company and he had no other option? Last time he checked his company was doing just fine. So what compelled him to do…. this?
Seto Kaiba, CEO and president of Kaiba Corporations, was driving his black Maserati to his very first day of college. Seto Kaiba was a billionaire, so what exactly compelled him to further his education when it was truly unnecessary? Kaiba had been pondering this thought all morning until it finally struck him why he was doing this.
Mokuba Kaiba, Seto's younger sibling, had attempted to convince him to attend college saying, 'It would be a good experience.' Mokuba helped to convince him, but not completely. The media was dying to know what the young CEO's plans were and everything got so out of hand that even some of Kaiba Corps business partners were wanting Kaiba to take at least a few classes just to 'sharpen his skills.' It was all a bunch of bull crap to Kaiba, but in the end he decided it would be in his best interest to take a few credits.
So, to conclude Kaiba's thought process, all of this college nonsense was his own self-doing….son of a bitch! Now he was paying for it by taking a class that started at 7am every freaking weekday morning. How had he managed to get himself into this kind of predicament? Balancing college and a multi-billion dollar corporation was unheard of, and somehow Seto Kaiba had to find a way to do it.
After about twenty minutes of driving and thinking, Kaiba pulled into the schools parking lot and cut the engine. He grabbed his book bag that was lying on the passenger seat and dug through it until he found the campus map. He checked to make sure he was parked by the correct building and began looking for the room number of his first class.
Students stared as Kaiba got out of his vehicle. It wasn't everyday that a college student was driving a Maserati, it also wasn't everyday that Seto Kaiba was attending your university. Kaiba ignored the stares and walked toward his class.
The last box had been unpacked! Everything was finally in its proper place. Yugi Moto sighed heavily as he sprawled out on his new bed in his dorm room at Domino University. Yugi's best friend, Joey Wheeler, was rooming with him and was finished with his unpacking as well.
Joey mimicked Yugi and sprawled out on his own bed and gave a heavy sigh of relief, "Man, I'm so glad that's over with! My muscles are so sore!"
"Tell me about it," Yugi exclaimed, "I'm ready for a nap."
Joey sat up quickly, "No Yug, we've gotta explore the campus first! It's the perfect time to meet new people."
"Joey, we've already seen the campus, and some people haven't even moved in yet. We have plenty of time to meet people later," Yugi yawned loudly, "Right now I just wanna sleep."
"Come on Yug!" Joey whined, "It's ten in the morning! There's so much day ahead of us!"
Yugi rolled his eyes, "Fine…." He hopped off his bed and slipped on his shoes, "Where do you wanna go first?"
Mai Valentine brushed her long blonde hair for the eighth time in ten minutes. She was primping herself up to meet her new roommate. Mai had finished unpacking all of her things and the only thing she was waiting for was the arrival of her roommate. There was nothing better to do than to look her best.
After brushing her hair, Mai grabbed her phone and checked her text messages. There were no new messages. She was expecting a message from her roommate, who was supposed to text Mai when she arrived.
Mai huffed and grabbed her hair brush. She combed through her curly locks rapidly, impatiently. Where was her roommate from again? Not that far away, right? If she had left this morning she should've been here by now. Mai couldn't stand to wait anymore. She impatiently looked at her phone again. Still nothing. What the hell?
Mai abruptly slammed her phone down on her desk and pulled on a pair of brown, Gucci boots. She whipped open the dorm room door and stopped in her tracks when she saw someone on the other side.
"I'm sorry, I completely forgot to text you that I was here." A girl with long blonde hair pulled up into two balls atop her head was standing just outside of the doorway. She was carrying two large boxes and they looked extremely heavy.
"Oh, goodness, it's perfectly alright," Mai said as she grabbed the top box from the blonde haired girl, "let me help you out." As the two of them set the boxes down inside the dorm room, they turned to each other and shook hands.
"It's so nice to finally meet you, Mai," the girl said.
"Yes, it's so nice to meet you too, Serena."
Serena smiled and pointed to the door, "I'll be right back, I have more of my stuff in the car."
"Let me help," Mai said as she gave Serena a pleasant smile.
The two girls made their way out to Serena's car and grabbed as many boxes as they could carry. Mai noticed that there were still a handful of boxes left. With only two people this job would be extremely difficult.
In the back of her mind, Mai wondered if all Serena's stuff was going to fit into their dorm room. Mai knew that dorm room living was a 'pack lightly' affair. If someone brought too much stuff they'd have to throw it away or try and cram it in. If someone didn't bring enough they could just stop by a nearby store to pick up what they needed.
Mai was an expert at dorm room living, it being her junior year of college and the fact that when she left her parents at age sixteen, she lived in a dinky one bedroom apartment. The thought of Mai's parents disgusted her to no end; at least she received her Mercedes Benz convertible as a birthday gift from them before talking off for good. The suckers never saw it coming.
"I think we're going to have to make a second trip back down here," Serena said, pulling Mai away from her thoughts.
Mai simply nodded and grabbed as many boxes as she could carry. They were ridiculously heavy. What did Serena have in there anyways, bricks?
"Mai!" A familiar Brooklyn accent made the two blondes turn around.
"Joey!" Mai said, she tried to turn too abruptly and almost lost her balance from the weight of the boxes.
"Whoa, hold on!" Joey ran towards Mai and grabbed the top box before she completely lost her balance, "There we go, much better," he said as he was able to see more of Mai's face.
"Joey Wheeler," Mai began, "fancy seeing you here. You actually graduated high school, huh?"
Joey chuckled, "Since when did you start dissing me like Kaiba?"
Mai snickered, "Joey, I've always dissed you."
Joey smiled broadly, he was very happy to see her; it had been way too long, "So, how are ya, Mai?"
She gave him a genuine smile and said, "Very good, what about you?"
"Good, glad to be here," He paused and thought over what he was going to say next but decided that Mai was a long time friend, and a trustworthy one at that, "to be honest with ya, I didn't think I'd make it to college. My grades haven't always been the best."
"I hear ya!" Serena piped in from behind Mai, "I had to work my butt off to get here. I was kind of a slacker in my earlier years of high school."
Joey chuckled, "Yeah, me too!"
Serena smiled, "I'm Serena, Mai's roommate. I'd shake your hand but I think all of our hands are full," she said, indicating to the heavy boxes they all held onto.
"It's okay," he said, "the names Joey Wheeler, old buddy of Mai's, and…." Joey turned around looking for Yugi.
Yugi appeared from behind Serena's car holding one of her boxes, "Yugi Moto, nice to meet you Serena."
Serena and Mai didn't even notice Yugi and they were taken by surprise at his presence.
"Yugi!" Mai exclaimed, "It's so good to see you! I didn't even notice you were with Joey!"
Yugi gave her a friendly smile, "That's okay, it's the vertically challenged thing I've got going on. I'm easy to miss." The four of them laughed.
"Thanks for helping me with this stuff you guys," Serena said, "I truly appreciate it."
"It's no big deal!" Joey said, "Where's your room?"
"This way," Mai said, leading the way. The group made their way through the narrow hallways of the girl's dorm. The building was older than some of the other dorms but it still looked nice, with a fresh coat of paint on the walls, and brand new flooring. The smells of reconstruction were evident and pleasant, giving the building a presence of rebirth.
"Wait," Joey began as they started up the stairs to the third floor, "So, are you two rooming together? Aren't you a junior, Mai?"
"Yeah," She said, "Serena requested for us to be roomies."
"What, why would you do that, Serena? I can't believe you'd wanna room with someone like Mai," Joey joked.
"If I wasn't carrying these boxes I'd punch you in the face, Wheeler," Mai mocked.
"I requested Mai because I wanted to be with someone who had already experienced part of college," Serena explained, "That way I could focus more on my studies and have help too."
"That makes perfect sense," Yugi said, "What a good idea, Serena."
Serena smiled, "Thank you!"
Kaiba took notes at a brisk pace, and as his hand was cramping from all of the writing, he wished he wouldn't have signed up for any courses at all. Kaiba despised school and anything that reflected it.
Gozaburo Kaiba, Seto's horrid step-father, made Seto slave away at his studies after he and Mokuba were adopted by the man. Kaiba vividly remembered the sleepless nights and the excruciating hunger he suffered from not being fed because his school work wasn't finished. The most pain-staking memories were the awful beatings Kaiba would receive from his sadistic step-father for not completing the homework assignments on time.
Kaiba pushed his thoughts to the back of his mind. The one good thing he got out of Gozaburo's horrendous studies was the ability to focus. He would have been killed by the mad man if he didn't develop his focusing skills.
The class was dragging on and as Kaiba listened to what the professor was saying he noticed that some students in the massive lecture hall had fallen asleep and were snoring loudly.
Kaiba shook his head in disgust, 'Falling asleep in college. You've got to be kidding me….'
Just when Kaiba thought people couldn't get any stupider….
"Hey, what did he just say?" A boy with obnoxious blonde hair sitting next to Kaiba asked. It reminded him of Joey Wheeler…. dog….
"Hey man, do you know what the professor just said?"
Kaiba ignored him and kept on writing. He refused to talk to idiots.
"Dude, what did Mr. Jacobs just say?" The boy was relentless.
Kaiba still refused to speak to the blonde haired dimwit. In the back of his mind, he hoped that the kid was talking to somebody else.
"What's your problem, man?" the boy asked, "Stop ignoring me and just tell me what Mr. Jacobs said. It's not that hard is it?"
Kaiba's hopes crumbled.
'He said to go jump off a cliff,' Kaiba thought, before saying, "He said to look over the economics chapter on page eighty-seven for homework. You would've known that if you were paying closer attention."
The boy looked pissed, "Gee man, relax, I was only asking because it's hard to hear this far up in the room. Sorry…."
'You should be,' Kaiba thought, his anger rising at the idiotic blonde boy to his right, "Maybe try a seat in the front next time," Kaiba said in his usual sarcastic tone of voice.
"Maybe all of the front seats were gone?" Spoke a boy sitting on the other side of Kaiba. He had jet black hair and unmistakably sharp, dark, facial features to match.
Kaiba scoffed at the rude male to his left, "Who asked you?"
The dark haired boy gave Kaiba a cocky smirk, "No one, I just know my opinion matters more when I give people the respect they deserve right away."
Kaiba was thrown for a loop by the boy's comment. Did this imbecile even know who he was? He was Seto Freakin' Kaiba! No one talked to him like that without paying for it.
"Hey, thanks for sticking up for me, man!" Said the blonde boy to the dark haired boy, "Look dude," the blonde began, turning towards Kaiba, "I don't mean to start anything. Sorry, I was just asking."
Kaiba didn't respond. He was pondering on how he ended up sitting next to two stupid people.
"You're welcome," the dark haired boy said, "I'm Vincent by the way."
The blonde boy smiled, "Cool, I'm Ahmose!"
"Would you two spare me?" Kaiba interrupted, "Some of us are actually trying to pay attention."
"Who are you anyways?" Vincent asked, "You're very condescending for a freshman…."
Kaiba chuckled, "What? Is this high school now, threatening the freshman? If you must know, I'm Seto Kaiba."
"You're the Seto Kaiba!" Ahmose exclaimed, "No way! I should've recognized you right away, but I'm not from Domino."
"Cool," Kaiba mumbled in an irritated voice. He was getting pretty tired of these two and wanted nothing more than to just leave.
Vincent crossed his arms and smirked cockily towards Kaiba, "I guess that explains the poor attitude."
Ahmose chuckled and Kaiba didn't say anything, he didn't have to, class was over in ten minutes and then he could distance himself from these two losers….forever….
A/N: Well, I am sorry about the wait, and all of the grammar mistakes that are probably in this. I am determined to finish this story so don't fret! I will finish it! So, until next time!
