Can't Buy Me Love

By: Blue Eyes Demon

Disclaimer: NO, NO, N-O, and finally NO!!!!!!!!!!! I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh; I own nothing of real value. I do own Nikko!!!! Don't copy her!!!!

Note: I decided to put this chapter up on my birthday (September 14th)!!! I hope you enjoy it. Thank you so much to the people who reviewed this story and I hope I get as good of reviews like that. Thank you and enjoy!

Chapter III: Monday, facing the school



Nikko woke up to find papers all over her bed; she stretched and looked at her clock, to find it said 8:00am. Her eyes widen as she bolted up out of bed and gasped, "Oh my God! I'm late for school, I have only 30 minutes to get dressed and to school.

She raced to put on her uniform, she brushed her hair and grabbed her book bag and left. As she was leaving she realized she forgot something, she went back into her room and saw a disk on her dresser. She breathed a sigh of relief and grabbed the disk; "I can't believe I almost forgot the disk that has the newspaper on it. I went to so much trouble over this!"

At that moment a memory of her conversation with Kaiba flashed through her head, she shook her head to get the image of Kaiba out her head, "Yes all because of that stupid bastard." She put the disk in her bag and left the room, not realizing what else she forgot was lying on her bed.

She closed the door of her house as she left and looked at her watch, she now had 15 minutes left to reach the school, "I guess I'm going to have to run." She ran down the street, a few minutes later she stopped out of breath, "I'm-no-not going to-to make it on t-time." She just decided to walk when a familiar looking limo passed by and stopped right in front of her.

The back window of the limo pulled down and a familiar face looked out of it. Kaiba looked at her and smirked, "Well, well looks like your going to be late!"

Nikko gave him a hard glare, "Don't patronize me you jerk! You're not exactly on time ether, and after that lecture you gave me yesterday." She looked into the limo and saw another figure sitting there, he had back ruffled hair, and a very board look on his face.

Kaiba replied back, "I had a bit of trouble, my brother here is not that fond of going to school. He thought he could skip it today."

Nikko looked surprised at that moment when he told her about his brother, "I-I didn't know you had a brother!"

Kaiba smiled and said, "Well now you do" He changed the topic, "How about if I give you a ride, I seem to be giving you a lot of rides lately"

Nikko was relived at the request, "Thank you so much. At least I won't be as late." Nikko opened up the door and stepped into the car.

Kaiba then asked her, "You don't mind if I drop my brother off first I just want to make sure that he goes to school." After he said that he gave his brother a stern look, "If I hear from the school that you skipped out again, Mokuba I'm going to have to get you a private tutor and restrict you to the house. Is that clear?"

Mokuba just looked at his brother admitting defeat and answered, "Yes, nii- sama."

Nikko looked at Mokuba's sad face, she didn't liked to see him all sad, so she decided to cheer him up, "Don't worry Mokuba it's not that bad, even though school can be boring sometimes it still has it's good points. If you didn't have school what would you do all day?"

Mokuba looked up at her wondering why she wants to talk to him, "I guess play with my Playstation 2 all day, that might not be bad!"

Nikko smiled at Mokuba with an understanding look, "Fun for now you think, but what will you do after you played Tekken Tag dozens of times that you get board of it? Also whom will you play with? All of the other kids will be at school and your brother here will be at school too, so you would be alone in the house all day."

Mokuba looked at her wondering if she was serious, then he thought about what she had said for a moment and replied, "I guess your right, I would be board, and even more board then I am at school"

Nikko smiled at him thinking of how cute he is, "There must be some subjects in school that you do like?"

Mokuba's faced brightened up, "Yes, I like science, because the teacher shows us fun things, and sometimes we blow things up!"

Nikko giggled, "See Mokuba! You do like school!"

Kaiba was listening to this conversation the whole time wondering where does she get these ideas. He interrupted them, "Mokuba were almost at your school so don't forget to behave properly."

Mokuba rolled his eyes, "I will, nii-sama." He looked at Nikko and said, "Could you please tell me your name, and will I see you after school?"

Nikko smiled and answered back, "My name is Nikko and I'm sorry I don't think I'll be seeing you after school, but I'm very glad to meet you."

Mokuba grabbed his stuff ready to leave and replied, "Oh, I thought I might because I thought you were my brother's girlfriend." He left the limo leaving a very stunned Kaiba and Nikko.

Kaiba and Nikko both blushed and stared in shock after hearing what Mokuba said and Kaiba replied, "I don't know where Mokuba would of gotten that one, he has quite an imagination."

Nikko then laughed, "I'll say, your brother is something though. You have a very cute brother."

They both said nothing for the rest of the way and when they got to the school they both stepped out of the limo and Kaiba said, "Remember our meeting at lunch I don't expect you to be hanging out with your friends."

Nikko then replied back, "I won't, just get off my back!!!" She then ran up the steps of the school trying not to be late, Kaiba didn't really care for running and just walked.

Nikko got to the classroom just after the teacher did role call. Nikko was out of breath and the teacher noticed her and just then Kaiba walked in to. Everyone stared in shock because Kaiba was never late. The teacher looked at Nikko sternly and said, "Matahiro, how many times do I have to tell you to be here on time?" The teacher then turned his glaze on to Kaiba and said, "Kaiba why are you late? You of all people should know the importance of being on time. Detention both of you on Thursday"

Nikko then looked shock and shouted, "I have a newspaper meeting on Thursday, Sumoji-sensei!"

Sumoji just looked at her, "I'm sorry you should of made that a consideration before you decided to be late, this school does not accept lateness. Please take your seat"

Nikko then lost her temper and shouted, "It wasn't my fault, and it defiantly wasn't Ka-"

Kaiba then looked at her sternly as if to say don't bother in even trying to explain. Nikko quietens down and goes to her seat.

A blonde haired boy who sat next to her looked at her and said, "What was that all about? I've never seen you so mad before for being late.

Nikko just looked at him sternly and said, "It's none of your business, Jonouchi!"

Jonouchi just looked at her and asked, "What's your problem today? Did Kaiba say something to you? If he did I'll beat him up!"

Nikko then answered back harshly, "It had nothing to do with Kaiba. Just leave me alone right now." She then went back to her work.

A boy with weird spiky hair who sat next to Jonouchi said, "It's ok Jonouchi, maybe she just has a lot of things on her mind, well see her at lunch."

Jonouchi looked at him and smiled, "Ok, Yugi. I hope your right though." They all went back to their schoolwork.

Kaiba sat in his desk watching the whole scene and wondered, 'I know what Nikko was going to do; she was going to say about why I was late. Why would she bother, she hates me, I see it every time she looks at me, why would she try to stick up for me? I don't understand her at all, she's unusual.' He stopped wondering and returned to his work.

At lunch Nikko put her things in her locker and prepared for what was ahead of her. The thought of sitting with Kaiba all lunch time in front of the whole school made her cringe in her stomach, 'That stupid Kaiba, why can't we do this after school! Oh yes, the newspaper, but still-ohhh! He makes me so mad!!' Nikko though as she grabbed her lunch and entered the cafeteria.

There was Kaiba sitting at the table eating his lunch and looking over some papers, 'Doesn't he ever give it a rest?' Nikko though as she traveled over to where he was sitting.

Kaiba glared at her as she made her way towards him and thought, 'Why does she bother me so much? Everything she does undermines my authority'

Nikko sat beside him and took out her lunch, just then Yugi, Jonouchi, Anzu, and Honda entered the cafeteria. They were making there way to the usual table they sat at when Honda spotted Nikko in the distance, "Hey that looks like Nikko. What is she doing way over there? Who's that beside her?" he wondered has he pointed to the direction where Nikko was sitting at.

Tea looked over the crowded tables and spotted Nikko and the person whom she was sitting with, and she recognized that person, "That person Nikko is sitting with, looks like Kaiba." Tea wondered with a surprised look on her face.

They all look in that direction and see Nikko eating and talking with Kaiba. Yugi replied, "That's weird I never knew Nikko wanted to talk to Kaiba?

Jonouchi then looked at Yugi and said, "Nikko's talking to Kaiba, am I seeing things right?? She hardly says anything to us, but she can just waltz over and talk to Kaiba?"

Yugi sat down at then table, "I guess so, it's up Nikko who she eats lunch with not us. Maybe if she becomes friends with Kaiba he might start to act nicer and we'd might get to know him!"

Anzu then hugged Yugi, "That's just like you Yugi, to look on the bright side of things." Anzu sat down and took out her lunch while Yugi blushed with bewilderment.

At the table where Kaiba and Nikko were sitting, Kaiba asked a question, "So did you bring the papers that I gave you on Sunday?"

Nikko looked though her bag finding no papers there. Nikko gasped realizing where she left them, "Oh no! I left them on my bed!! I was reading them last night when I fell asleep and I woke up late-"

Kaiba cut her short, "Let me guess there still on your bed?" He smirked sarcastically.

Nikko looked furious and nodded her head, "Now don't be sarcastic with me! Yes, but I remember most of it. It was about some kind of duelling game that you played with cards and you threw some kind of disk. What was it? Duel-duel warrior? No. Duel-duel-"

Kaiba rolled his eyes not believe what he was hearing, "You mean Duel Monsters."

Nikko jumped up and shouted, "YES!!! That's it!"

Kaiba then looked at her strangely, "You never heard of Duel Monsters?" Kaiba thought everyone on Earth knew and played it.

Nikko lowed her head and felt bad that she didn't understand, "No, not really. I've heard a bit but I never bothered. Do you know about it?"

Kaiba rolled his eyes again, "Well I happen to be world champion."

Nikko looked at Kaiba, "Your world champion? Boy my dumb luck, I don't know anything about Duel Monsters and I go insult the world champion."

Kaiba felt bad for her even though he didn't understand why, 'Why do I care? Normally if this would of happened I would of left the table and thought that she was an idiot for not knowing the game, but somehow it's different.' Kaiba wondered in deep though for a second.

Kaiba then realized that lunch was almost over, "We should be heading to our lockers for the next class."

Nikko stood up and asked Kaiba, "We didn't do a thing all lunch."

Kaiba stood up and said, "That's ok, remember we have this evening, don't be late" he walked towards the exit of the cafeteria.

Nikko stood there for a minute, "Kaiba can be very strange at times. One minute you want to yell at him, but the next you want to be friendly." Nikko was the last to leave the cafeteria.