Chapter 21: Officially a secret.
When Anzu entered the classroom she was bearing that little 'in heaven' smile, something that didn't pass unnoticed by Joey who had spent the entire lunchtime looking after her. He looked at her questioningly. "Where were you?" He asked as she sat down at her usual spot beside him.
"That is none of your business." She answered with that same dreamy smile.
"Come on Anzu, we're friends right? I swear I wont overreact over this." The blond boy pleaded.
"No, I told you it was none of your business." Anzu answered.
"And I suppose that the reason why you look so happy is also a national secret?" Tristan asked.
Anzu didn't answer; she simply nodded and turned out to look at the front as the teacher began his class, though Joey had doubts that she was even paying attention to him.
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"It's too bad you can't stay with Kaiba." Yugi said with a mischievous smile. "I'm sure you would have loved too."
Anzu blushed, for the rest of the day Yugi didn't mention Kaiba, and for a reason, Joey was there, trying to figure out what was wrong with her. But at the moment, They were walking back to their house and Joey and Tristan had to go the other way, resulting in her and Yugi walking alone and the shorter kid had more than one question.
"That wouldn't be very smart, considering he's the reason why I'm grounded." Anzu admitted.
"Really?" Yugi asked.
"My father came back earlier, as you already know, and he happened to see me with Seto in the mall and he threw a fit, you know how much he hates him."
"Don't feel insulted but I don't think your father like anyone, well at least not any boy. He's a little bit overprotective if you ask me."
"And Joey thinks that Seto is a self centered egoistical snob, he obviously never met my father. And I hope he'll never do." Anzu answered with a smile. "I would be grounded for life."
"I'd like to tell you that it's not that bad and that they have good reasons to act the way they do but even I have to admit that your parents are plain weird and probably a little bit behind their time too." Yugi said before grinning suddenly. "So, since when has this thing been going out between you and Kaiba?"
Anzu thought about it for a second. "Sometime during the school trip." She admitted.
"And you haven't told us anything about it? That was almost four months ago." Yugi said.
"There wasn't much to say, nothing really serious was going out, it was rather confusing, one second he kissed me and the next he was acting as if nothing ever happened." Anzu sighed at the memory of those times.
"He was probably just confused with himself." Yugi said. "Kaiba's not one to take his feelings into consideration and he has been betrayed too much in the past to trust people easily."
"How do you know that much?" Anzu asked, intrigued as to how he could know so much about Kaiba while she knew almost nothing.
"Mokuba told me. He came to me a few times after he had a fight with Kaiba, however he never told me much, that's about all that I know." Yugi said. "But I'd like you to stay silent about this, I'm not supposed to tell."
"Don't worry, it's not like I'm in any position to start telling your secret to everyone." She said with a shy smile.
"So, are the two of you going out together?" Yugi asked, changing the subject.
Anzu nodded with a light smile, she herself couldn't believe that her and Seto were going out together. "Yes." She admitted. "But I'm not supposed to tell anyone, for now we're keeping it a secret."
"You know you should be careful, Kaiba is being watched none stop by people looking for scandals, it's only a matter of time before someone finds out and in less than one hour the entire world will know." Yugi said.
"I know, which is the main reason why we are keeping it a secret, I don't want my father or Joey to find out about this in the morning newspaper." Anzu said. "Can I count on you to keep it under silence?"
"I'll do what I can, but you know Joey suspects that something is going on, and I'm pretty sure he has his doubts that I know something he doesn't." Yugi warned. "You know I'm not good at lying, I won't say a thing but I won't cover you again. Joey will find out eventually, he's really determined to find out what is going on."
Anzu sighed. "I know, Joey could do wonders if he spent just half of the energy he's wasting on Seto to study. But how am I supposed to tell him that I'm going out with Seto without him throwing a fit?"
"Who's going to throw a fit?"
Anzu jumped in surprise when she saw Joey standing just a few meters away. "Joey…..What are you doing here?" She asked, Joey's house was on the other side so why was he here right now?"
The blond shrugged. "I needed food so I was going to the market. Gee, you two are really slow, what are you still doing here."
"We were talking, that's all." Anzu said, her and Yugi had stop walking for at least 5 minutes now, so it wasn't really a surprise the Joey caught up with them.
"You know it's possible to walk and talk at the same time right?" Joey said.
"Yea, we just got caught up." Yugi said with a smile.
"I see." Joey smiled. "So, who's going to throw a fit?"
After much fooling around and change of subject Anzu was finally able to make Joey forget about the small piece of the conversation the he heard, or at least that's what she thought, true to his words Yugi didn't help her out of this one, he just watched her try to get out of explaining anything. When they reached the market they parted way with Joey and continued toward their homes.
"You know that could have been a good opportunity to tell him." Yugi said.
"Yea, good way to have him make a scene." Anzu said.
Yugi sighed, he was once again stuck in the middle of something he didn't want to be part of.
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Joey watched Anzu walking about for a few second before finally getting inside, he knew she was hiding something from him, sometime playing dumb did has its advantages. What he hadn't told was that he heard a little bit more than he let her know, he had heard her say the name Seto, he was more determined than ever to find out what was between her and him, he swore to himself that if the CEO is hurting her in any way he would kill him.
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When Kaiba arrived home later that evening he was exhausted but he hadn't been this happy in a long time. He silently made his way to his room so that he wouldn't wake his little brother, Mokuba was probably worried about him, he shouldn't be working that hard again but he just couldn't do anything about it. When he entered his room he found Mokuba sleeping in his bed, Kaiba sighed, it was obvious his little brother stayed up as late as he could to wait for him, he couldn't help but think that it wasn't healthy for his little brother to be doing such a thing, but who was he to talk.
Presuming that the small kid probably needed the rest, Kaiba thought it would be best to let him sleep there, he walked in his bathroom to change and get ready for bed, when he settle under the cover Mokuba turned around sleepily and opened one sleepy eyes and looked at him.
"What time is it?" He asked in a sleepy voice.
"Too late for you to be up." Kaiba answered, not wanting to keep his brother awake with useless arguing.
"You said….that you'd be more careful." Mokuba said tiredly before going back to sleep.
"I know." Kaiba answered but knew he wasn't heard.
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When Kaiba woke up the next morning Mokuba was still deep in sleep, he sighed before shaking the kid a little. "Come on kid. It's time to wake up."
"5 more minutes." Mokuba replied incoherently.
"If I let you sleep more than you'll be late for school." Kaiba answered, getting out of bed himself.
"Who cares?" Mokuba replied back.
"Me for that matters, your grades have been dropping a lot lately." Getting ready for bed.
"So what?" The kid answered in a less than friendly way.
"Mokuba Kaiba get up now. I don't feel like dealing with your childish antics this morning." Kaiba said sternly.
"You call those childish antics? I was worried about you, you just spent two weeks in bed because you overworked yourself again, you promised me you'll be more careful about your health but you didn't, you came back at 4 in the morning." Mokuba yelled.
"I do not believe you are in any position to lecture me, first because I'm the one in charge here and second because you stayed up waiting for me even if I forbid you to do so more than once." Kaiba said.
"Fine, since it seems I don't have the right to worry about you anymore than I won't do so anymore. Do as you please and work yourself to death, I don't care anymore." Mokuba yelled before getting out of the room and slamming the door.
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When Kaiba entered the kitchen he saw his little brother eating silently, he could tell by the kid's posture that he was still mad at him. He poured himself a cup of coffee and grab the first thing he found, an apple, that was usually what he did every morning, every free minute he had was spent on work so he never had the time to eat properly.
However, this morning, something was different, usually he could hear Mokuba trying to convince him to eat more and telling him that he should take better care of himself, it felt weird not to hear it. He turned around to look at his brother but only received a glare.
Kaiba sighed. "Mokuba, could you stop that already?"
"I'm not doing anything." Mokuba replied, which was the truth actually.
"Mokuba listen to me." Kaiba said sitting next to him. "I told you times and times again that I have work to do, you understand that."
"Actually no" Mokuba yelled. "I don't understand why you need to work so much, what's the point of working all the time like that, we already have more than what we need anyway."
"So you want me to sell the company, is that it?" Kaiba asked.
"Yes!" Mokuba yelled before grabbing his things and leaving for school.
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When Kaiba arrived at school he was in a bad mood, he once again had a fight with his little brother, he was tired and hungry, what bothered him the most was that this was an ordinary day for him. It seemed everything was going back to normal, sure nothing wrong happened while he was sick, but before then he used to argue a lot more with his little brother because of work mostly. And now that he spent two weeks in bed, his desk disappeared under work so he was nowhere near taking things lightly.
And now was certainly not the time for Joey and Tristan to be fighting and for Joey to trip and fell on Kaiba. Not expecting the sudden overweight on his back, he wasn't fast enough to react and ended up falling on the floor with Joey. Kaiba groaned as he pushed Joey away from him. "Stupid mutt, can't you watch where you're going?" He asked angrily, yet another thing to add to the list of why this was a fabulous day.
"Actually yes, why else do you think I fell on you?" Joey answered bitterly.
"You want those in alphabetical order?" The young CEO said with a smirk.
"Are you ok Kaiba?" Yugi asked.
"There are laws about keeping a leash on you dog you know." Kaiba said as he stood up.
"How many times will I have to tell you to stop calling me a dog?" Joey asked madly.
"The day you'll prove to me that you are worthy to be called a monkey." Kaiba replied.
"Why you!!!" Joey growled, his fist ready to pack a few punches on Kaiba.
"What, you're going to get violent now? After pushing me on the ground? I suggest you get your dog checked for rabies Yugi." Kaiba said with a smirk.
"I am not a DOG!!!!!!" Joey yelled before attempting to hit Kaiba in the face. Kaiba who had seen it coming from miles away simply dodged lightly to the right, Joey's fist impacted right into a locker door, sending pain through his entire arm and some damage on the innocent door.
"Damaging school propriety is a serious offense Wheeler, once that I'm sure the principal doesn't take lightly." Kaiba smirked, directing Joey to look behind him.
When he did, he saw the principal heading his way and he didn't look happy at all.
"Good look walking yourself out of this one." Kaiba said with a smirk before walking away.
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"What a jerk." Joey said when the principal finally let him go, a good hour later. He was waiting in line with Yugi and Tristan to get lunch.
"Who? Kaiba, or the principal?" Tristan asked.
"Both." Joey answered resolutely.
"You know Joey, you're the one who fell on him first." Yugi said.
"Not you too." Joey whined. "First Anzu starts taking Kaiba's side and now you. Hey, speaking of Anzu, where is she now?"
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"What's wrong?"
Kaiba looked up from him laptop and saw Anzu sitting on the chair next to him, he was surprise that she got this near without him ever hearing her.
"Nothing." Kaiba answered.
"I can tell it's not true, you rarely get such a reaction from Joey, so, what happened?"
Seto sighed, it was new to him to have someone actually caring to know his problem, but he had decided that he would try to open up and trust Anzu more, especially now that they were officially going out together, even if it was a secret. "It's just, I had a fight with Mokuba." He admitted. "It's happening a lot lately and each time it gets worst."
"What are you arguing about?" She asked even though she had a good idea.
"It's quite obvious, he thinks that I'm working too much and not taking enough care of myself and that I'm not there for him either." He said.
"I hate to tell you this but, I think he's actually right, you worked late last night didn't you, or should I say morning?" She asked.
"Morning." Kaiba admitted guiltily.
Anzu sighed. "Seto, you've been sick for two weeks, you should take it easy, you can't keep up like that."
"I know, but after two weeks of absence I have quite a lot of work to check. I can't really help it, and as much as I hate to say this Mokuba is not really helping." Kaiba said.
"He's just worried about you, he's scared of losing you too you know." Anzu said.
"He said he wanted me to sell Kaiba Corp." Seto said after a moment of silence.
"Well, why don't you?" Anzu asked.
Kaiba's eyes grew open and he stared at her. "Because I like it, it's the only place ever since my father died where no one can order me around, beside I really love doing that and I couldn't think of anything else to do with my life, it's what I want to do."
"But you can't go on like that forever. You'll kill yourself one day. Did you ever think about hiring someone to help you?" Anzu asked.
"I did, when I first took over I was far from being able to handle everything myself but all of them tried to kill me to take over, three times." Kaiba said with disgust.
"Right…" Anzu said, remembering everything the big 5 did to try and take over. "But you could try someone else."
"You know I don't really trust people that much. And beside, once the year will be over then I won't have to do to school anymore, I just have to keep up until then." Kaiba said.
"Are you sure about this?"
Kaiba smiled. "You worries too much, I'll be just fine, in six months I'll have all the time I need to take care of myself." He kissed her lightly.
She pushed him away slightly "And what will you do until then?" She asked worryingly.
"I've been fine for 3 years I can manage a few months more." He answered with another smile and another kiss.
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Alright, I'm stopping here, sorry for the long update but I had an exam, which I did earlier today actually, and I have another one on Tuesday, and the end of the term is coming up in two weeks, that means a lot of exam in the same week so I don't know if I'll have the time to update again before the beginning of the vacation.
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