Title: Super Rich Kids
Pairings: Current Trustshipping (Seto/Ishizu), Eventual Puppyshipping (Seto/Joey), Revolutionshipping (Atem/Téa), others will be determined as I write
Rating: T
Words (Chapter 7): 1,379
Author's Notes: It's been a while since I've been able to write and I'm sorry. Hopping back into school has been more stressful than I thought and every time I try to write, words don't seem to flow. I'm currently writing a request as well, so if you have any, maybe send them? I think I'll accept a couple and hope it gets my juices flowing. Anyway, this one's back to Naomi's POV so I hope you guys enjoy it. Showing a little more of her and her life.
Naomi huffed as she checked her phone in class. It was the last class of the day, given that it was a half-day whenever parent-teacher conferences came around, and she'd made plans with one of her friends from another school.
The blue-haired girl didn't have many friends at Domino High; most of the people she did consider friends were more of the socialite standing who attended the private school in Domino City, Silver Valley Academy. It was the same school her boyfriend, Jagger Princeton, attended. For a long while, she never understood why her parents put her and her brothers into a public school, but their mom insisted that Domino was a good school and they needed to have an essence of normalcy.
That being said, she did have a couple of acquaintances she went to school with, and of course, Marik. The acquaintances in question were mostly through said blond or through her ex-boyfriend, she didn't really see them outside school since she and Atem broke up.
The constant messages weren't from her friend that was supposed to be picking her up, though. That she would understand and be fine with. No, they were instead from the aforementioned boyfriend who'd heard that the friend in question might have been getting a lift from her older brother who, according to Jagger, had an obvious thing for Naomi which made him not want to let her hang out with him.
Naomi pointed out the fact that she'd only met the guy twice and it was no one's place to let her hang out with anyone, thank you very much. Except that only bothered him more and now he wouldn't give her a second's piece.
Marik shot her a questioning glance as she put her phone back in her bag, but she shrugged, waiting to explain until they got out of the classroom and went towards their lockers, thankfully pretty close together.
"I really don't understand why you're even still with that jerk," Marik grumbled, closing his locker. He looked at his best friend who no longer seemed as upset as she'd been in class, but he had a feeling she was just putting up a front.
"Because, in the words of the great Queen Madonna," Naomi began, taking her change of clothes from the locker, "'The boy with the cold hard cash is always Mr. Right.'" She winked, putting her textbooks where the bag of clothes used to be.
Marik shook his head, rolling his eyes. "You are not going to be happy if you keep up that stance."
She answered with a small laugh. "Watch me," she said, giving him a wink and shutting her locker. She walked away, singing under her breath.
"Yeah, I am," she didn't hear him mumble.
"I can't believe he said he would do that. You don't think he actually is, right?" Mari asked, her brown eyes wide as they ate their lunch.
Naomi laughed. "Mar, look at everything we just bought. Do you think he's taking away my cards and all that?" She motioned to the bags of goodies (clothes, makeup, and shoes mostly) that they'd aquired on this trip to the mall.
"I mean, I guess that's true. Do you want dessert?"
"No, I'm good. It's nearly skating time again, I've got to start practicing and eating better." Her friend nodded as she signaled the waiter to bring the check. She immediately handed her card over to him, packing up her bag.
"Excuse me, Miss, you card was uh..." The waiter returned, looking awkward as he whispered, "declined."
"It was what?" Naomi asked in shock.
Mari leaned in and quietly repeated, "Declined."
"I heard him, Mari, but that's impossible. It's an unlimited card. Try it again."
"We did, Miss... Four times."
Naomi shook her head, getting out another card.
"Do you think Seto actua-"
"Don't, Mari. He may have messed with that one card but he didn't touch the account. He can't." She handed the other card to the waiter and watched him walk off.
"Are you sure? I mean, he is your guardian, and you're not of age..."
She glared at her redheaded friend, who stopped talking. They sat in silence until the waiter came back, looking awkward still.
"I'm sorry, but-"
"Don't tell me. You can't be serious right now."
"Naomi, don't fight it, this is starting to become a scene," Mari whispered, grabbing her purse and handing a card to the waiter, who scurried off to try it. "You did spend a lot today on our stuff, it's only right I get the tab for lunch anyway," she insisted.
Naomi tucked her blue hair behind her ear, thinking of all the ways she wanted to strangle her older brother. "I'm going to need you to take me to the office," she announced, looking up at the other girl.
"Oh, uh..." The waiter came back and handed Mari the receipt and her card back. "Well, it's just, this is a lot I'm charging and my dad gets the text alerts so he's going to want me home to explain as soon as possible." She smiled awkwardly, signing and putting in a tip amount. "I'm going to go look for my brother. You can get home on your own, right? Thank you for today."
Before Naomi could answer, Mari was up, grabbing her bags as fast as possible. "Are you kidding me? I paid for our vacation to Bermuda. Marissa, you owe me."
Mari shrugged, making a pained face and rushing out of there, leaving a very shocked Naomi behind. After a few minutes of sitting in stunned silence, she looked over at her bags and sighed, pulling out her phone.
"Roland. I need you to come pick me up..."
"I don't care how busy he is, I'm going in."
"Miss Kaiba, please."
Naomi ignored the pleas of the secretary and barged into her brother's office. "Who the hell do you think you are? You had no right."
Seto, ever the stoic jerk, didn't even look up from the paperwork he was reviewing, as if he expected this intrusion. "To what, exactly, are you referring?"
"You took away my credit card!"
"I did not take it away, I put a monthly limit on it. It is not my fault that you spent the entire month's limit on one shopping spree."
"You didn't even tell me!"
"I told you yesterday, and I told Noah and Mokuba the same thing. Notice they're not in here yelling at me."
"They don't have friends to go out with! Of course they haven't noticed yet!"
"Stop screaming already, Naomi, the dramatics are getting old now."
"Dramatics? Dramatics? You take away my money, money you have much less of a business having control of than me, over what? A few bad grades? But I'm dramatic?"
Seto took a breath and finally looked up at her. "Yes. You are. Taking away a child's allowance when they break the rules or don't keep up their grades is not a new concept, something you'd know if you hung out with anyone other than the spoiled nouveau riche."
"My account is mine, Seto."
"Actually, it's not yours until you turn eighteen, which isn't for a few more months."
Naomi shook her head, slamming her hands on the desk. "Do you know how embarrassing it is to have a credit card declined, Seto?"
"Maybe you'll think twice about spending on ridiculous things."
"I was eating!"
"Before you were eating, you visited three makeup stores, one shoe shop, and a total of five boutiques. Maybe you should have eaten first."
Naomi stared at her brother. "What the hell am I supposed to do for money then?"
"Chores will earn you some. Working will earn you the rest. I did tell you things were going to change."
Seto went back to his work and Naomi huffed.
"You know, when I look bad, you look bad. The Kaiba name reflects on all of us."
"So do us all a favor and stop throwing tantrums in the KaibaCorp. building."
"You'll regret this, Seto. I'm not sure how yet, but you will. I'll make sure of it."
With that, Naomi strutted out of the office, not listening to see if her brother had a response.
Author's Notes: Thank you for reading, I'd really love it if you guys let me know what you think. It's really encouraging when you do. Next chapter we're back to Noah and him figuring out the punishment, then Mokuba, then another flashback. I hope you guys are liking this story so far.