Chapter two
A haunting past, and new beginnings
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters from Yu-gi-oh, but I do own Katie and her family *smiles* Note: for the one person who did review my first chapter THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!! Sorry for the repeat
Stepping out of the mini-van from the trunk Katie looked around at her new home, Danny followed closely behind her, the car trip had involed little to no talking, except when that creep Kaiba called... "Where's Dragon?" she asked, trying to see him, a man holding some papers and stuff came up to Katie's uncle, "the hoarse is over there", he pointed behind him, Katie let the man talk to her uncle as she went in search of her beloved horse, Danny still close behind her, she smiled at the sight of Dragon, "Hello, how was your trip?"
Dragon responded by nuzzling her hand, "You missed me didn't you?" Dragon nickered softly
"Katie?" Danny looked up at her, his big blue eyes staring up at her "Can I ride Dragon?"
"Maybe, Dragon doesn't let just any body ride him, you want to try?"
He nodded, "Yeah, why doesn't he let any body ride him?"
Katie began to clime over the gate that separated her from her hoarse, Danny followed suit, "I'm not sure, he's very sensitive "Once they had both hopped the fence Dragon came up to them in greeting, after looking at Danny a moment he began to nuzzle him, "He likes you" Katie smiled at the sight of Danny and Dragon, "I'll be back in a sec, k?"
Danny nodded and continued to stork Dragon, Katie returned shortly with a supplies, after she saddled Dragon up she hoisted Danny up on his back, "I'm not letting you ride completely on your own this time, maybe after Dragon gets more used to you I'll start giving you lessons" she led Dragon around the large yard, first at a walk, but then she began to speed up, after a few minutes she was running, then she hoisted her self up on Dragon's back with Danny and went into an all out gallop, Danny was smiling ear to ear, Katie decided she'd talk to T. (her uncle) about signing Danny up for ridding lessons, "I'm turning back now" said Katie slowing down to a walk, she didn't want to exhaust Dragon
"Can we ride again tomorrow?" asked Danny
"Maybe after school"
"Are you seriously going to school tomorrow?!?" asked Danny, he knew he wasn't
"Katie nodded, "When your mom was talking to me she said that I shouldn't let her death stop me from living, but not to forget her, I plan to do just that"
"She said that to me too, but I know she'd want me to take a little time"
"I know, but some part of me is, and had been for months looking forward to school tomorrow, it's a fresh start for me, some thing I need desperately"
Danny nodded, "It's your choice", Danny dismounted, "I'm going to find my room"
"I don't see what that would accomplish, we have no furniture, and very little of your stuff"
"I know, I just want to wander around a big house without getting in trouble for leaving the tour"
Katie smiled; his mother's last words had a big impact on him, "Don't get lost" with that Danny turned and headed for the house, Katie didn't want to go in yet, she decided to wander around out side for a bit, thinking about what had happened to her, she reached the lake and was out of every bodes ear shot, then before she realized what she was doing she was on her hands and knees crying, silently, she couldn't remember the last time she sobbed, maybe when she was about four, no, three, yes, that was right, she had been three the last time she had sobbed, she didn't over her father's death, nor her mother's, nor her aunt, she had cried, but not a sound came from her, she had become very good at hiding her true feelings by putting up a brave act, making jokes, and being a shoulder to cry on, when she wasn't as strong as she pretended to be, she was strong, no doubt about that, she'd be dead if she weren't, she would have been killed, or killed her self, no she was very strong, just not as strong as she led people to believe.
Kaiba drove, no where in particular, just driving around, clearing his head, or trying to, some how that wench he had talked to had gotten to his head, what was her name? He didn't make it out when Mills had said it. I'll make sure she pays, nobody speaks to Seto Kaiba that way, not and live, he wasn't going to kill her, no, he was capable of much worse... Yes, she would pay... Suddenly out of the corner of his eye he saw a little boy, about Mokaba's age with jet black hair, and deep blue eye's that held immense pain, Kaiba rolled down the window and slowed down, "Are you lost?" he wasn't sure why he was helping this boy, very out of character, but there was some thing about him...
The boy looked over, "N-no, I-I know where I'm going"
"You sure?" a voice in the back of his mind was demanding to know why he wanted to help this boy "No" he knew he should make a run for it but some thing in the back of Danny's mind told him not to, one precaution he always took with new people trying to help him was to take a little peek in there mind, as he did so, which took all of a second he learned that it was Seto Kaiba who was offering to help him, he also learned that he didn't know why he was trying to help, he decided to trust his instincts, "Do you know how to get to 672 suvanna lane?"
"672 Suvanna lane, yeah, it's quite a ways from here, what are you doing this far away from home?"
"Thinking"
"I'll give you a ride if you want"
Danny nodded, "Thank you"
Kaiba unlocked the passenger side and the boy climbed in, "So, what's your name?"
"Danny" he knew he was taking a big risk by getting in the car, he knew he shouldn't of, but after reading his mind, he saw he wouldn't hurt him, but he wasn't giving out his last name, "You?"
"Seto Kaiba" why are you telling him that? Why are you helping him? The same voice that had asked him earlier demanded, but his own voice cut in, because it's the right thing to do, but since when do I care about the right thing to do?
Danny had to restrain him self from laughing at what he could hear, he wasn't even trying to see his thoughts, they were showing them self to him, debating on weather he should save him self from his thoughts he realized some thing, the phone call his uncle had gotten, from him, he wasn't the nicest person, but buried very deep with in him was a nice, good, kind person, Danny nodded to him self, he knew what he had to do
"So tell me, why exactly are you this far away from your home, when it's almost dark?"
"Bad planning and the need to get out for a bit"
"Why did you need to get out?"
"I wanted to be alone"
Kaiba thought for a minute, he knew which house was Danny's, it was huge, he could have easily been alone, but he could tell by the child's innocent, eye's that he was telling the truth, just leaving something out...
He stopped the car, he was right in front of the house, "Thank you Mr. Kaiba" said Danny as he got out of the car, he had work to do...
After driving around some more Kaiba ran out of gas, cursing the world of science for not finding a better way to fuel your car he began the long walk to the gas station, after what seemed like a day he got back to his car, the nearest gas station had been an hour away, and the walk back was another hour, he filled up his car turned on the radio and the song 'This time is gonna be the last time' by Lit came on (Not sure if that's the right name) and he drove home, part of him wanted to sleep, but he had other plans...
Katie woke up at 7:00am the next day, "Sleep, need sleep" she muttered to her self as she rolled out of her bed and forgot she no longer had pillows set up to land on, "Ow" She suddenly remembered yesterday, 'Maybe I should stay home' she thought, part of her had already made up her mind, she was going to school, wandering down the hall she managed to find the kitchen, her aunt Rose was cooking
"Morning Katie"
"Morning, what's for breakfast?"
"Eggs and bacon, it'll be a few more minutes, why don't you go watch T.V?"
"No, I need to get ready for school"
"You're going to school today?"
"Yeah, it'll help me take my mind off stuff"
"You sure about this?"
Katie nodded, "Yeah" part of her didn't want to go to school, but she went back to her room and got dressed any way, when she got back to the kitchen a plate loaded with food sat on the table waiting for her, she didn't eat too much, grabbing her bag she headed for the bus stop, 'Domino high, wonder what it's like?' the bus came to a stop in front of her. As she walked up the steps she looked around for an empty seat, a girl with short brown hair and, like every one else, was wearing a preppy school uniform, (Katie also wore one, but she didn't have the bow) waved her over
"Hi my name is Tea Gardener"
"Katie Mills" Katie sat down with her, she seems nice
"So you're the new girl every one's been talking about"
"I guess, that or there's another new girl that has some thing worth talking about is supposed to come today"
"I don't think so" said Tea with a smile, "So how come you transferred?"
"My uncle's work"
"You live with your uncle?"
"Yeah, I have since I was ten"
At that moment the bus stopped, two guys got on the bus, one with scruffy blond hair, and one with brown hair that came to a point, "Hey guys" Tea smiled
"Hey Tea" said the blond, "who's she?"
"This is Katie, she's the new girl, Katie this is Joey and Tristen"
"Hi" Tristen smiled
"Nice to meet ya" said Joey with his New York accent
"Are you from New York?"
"No, my dad is, why?"
"Your accent" at that moment Kaiba caught Katie's eye, "Who's that?" she pointed at Kaiba
"Him? That's Kaiba, the school jerk" said Tristen
Katie muffled a giggle, "How bad is he?"
"On a scale from 1-10, 50" answered Joey
"That's bad, but my old school's nice guy ranked 80"
"Are you serious?" asked Tea
"Unfortunately"
"Joey?" asked Tea, "Where's Serenity?"
"She's walking to school with Mai"
"Your girlfriend and sister hanging out, that can only mean bad things" said Tristen
"Serenity isn't like that!"
"No, but Mai is" countered Tristen
Tea nodded, "It's true"
"Tea, you're supposed to be her friend, so why are you saying that?" asked Joey
"She's my friend, but I can't lie"
Katie, who had been trying no to laugh suddenly realized some one was watching three of them, slowly turning around she found her self facing a guy with black, blond, and purple hair, who was about the height of Danny, "Hi" said Katie
"Hello" said the short guy
Tea suddenly noticed him, "Oh hi Yugi"
"Hello" he said again
"How long have you been there for Yug?" asked Joey
"I got on the bus around the part about Mai is the typ"
Joey sweatdrops "Why didn't you say anything?"
"And stop you two from acting like idiots? I always have to do that, I wanted to see how long it would take for you to stop on your own"
Everyone but Yugi sweatdrops "You done?" asked a cold icy voice from behind them
"Hi Kaiba" said Yugi, ignoring the fact that Joey and Tristen were on the ground still
"Dose your friend and the dog plan to get up soon, or are they going to block every one else's path?"
"Don't call me a dog!" Joey, who looked really angry
"Ok puppy"
Katie giggled, "I know you probably don't realize it, but where I'm from a guy usually calls a girl puppy if he's flirting with her"
Laughter erupts from the bus, "Kaiba, I never knew" said Joey mockingly "I'm sorry, but I'm already spoken for, but I'd like it if we could still be friends"
Kaiba glared and shoved Joey out of the way stalking off the bus, Yugi smiled, "That was impressive, uhh, I'm sorry I didn't catch your name"
"Katie Mills"
Yugi smiled, "I'm Yugi Muto, nice to meet you"
"Hey thanks Kates" said Joey
"Kates?" she raised an eye brow
"Joey abbreviates every one's name" said Tea as they walked out of the bus
Katie followed her new friends to school, "What class do you have first?" asked Joey
"Home room, know where it is?" she asked hopefully
"It's Serenity's first class, she'll help you find it" said Joey
At that moment, as if on cue Serenity and Mai came up to the group, "Hey guys" said the younger looking of the two, she had long reddish brown hair and like every other girl, wore a preppy school uniform
"Hey sis" said Joey
"Serenity Mai, this is Katie, Katie my sister Serenity and my girl friend, Mai"
"Nice to meet you" said Serenity
"Same here" said Katie
Mai looked over as if she was bored, "Hi" she said in a flat tone
"What class do you have first?" asked Serenity
"Home room"
"Me too, I'll help you find it"
"Thanks, I don't know where any of my classes are!" said Katie, knowing that it was true
"We'll help you out" said Serenity
"Between us all, you'll get around without getting lost too much" said Yugi playfully
The warning bell rang, Serenity and Katie made there way too home room, as they got there the teacher pulled Katie "Miss Mills, I'd like to introduce you to the class, Miss Wheeler, please take your seat"
Katie was forced to wait out side class while she waited for the teacher to introduce her "O.k class, settle down!" the teacher yelled, the class went silent, clearing her through her teacher continued "As most of you know, we have a new student in our midst, Katie come in here please" Katie walked in the room and looked around, every one was staring at her "O.k class, this is Katie Mills, Miss Mills, please take a seat beside Mr. Kaiba"
"Great" he muttered to him self raising his hand so she knew where to sit
She sat down beside him, "I'm sorry about earlier, but I wasn't making it up" she said
Kaiba looked over at her, "Why are you telling me this?" he asked, his cold piercing blue eyes glaring at her
"Because it's true, and I don't like making enemies when I first meet some one" she said
"I see, you're the type who likes to be every ones friend then I presume?" he asked his voice dripping with ice
"No, I'm the type who gets to know a person before shoving them away" her voice had gotten a sharp edge to it
For some reason beyond his understanding Kaiba decided that he might as well be semi-nice to her till he could be sure about her "Fine" he said as he opened his English book, he hadn't finished his home work from the night before, he had been too tiered "Have you ever read 'A hitch hikers guide to the galaxy'?" he asked
"Yeah, why?" she looked over at him
"I'm reading it in English and it makes no dammed scene what so ever and I need help with these questions"
Katie was starting to like Domino high, first the people weren't pure evil, and they read hitch hikers guide to that galaxy in English, "Can I see the questions?"
He handed her a sheet "I don't know why any one would want to write some thing as pointless as this, it has no plot!"
"That's the point; it's meant for the strange and odd, if you have a warped sense of humour it's hilarious"
"Well, I don't have a twisted sense of humour"
"No, and judging by your answers you don't have one at all"
He glared at her as she wrote on the sheet, "Here" she handed it back to him
He looked over the answers, "the teacher will know I didn't write this, I would never look at a book this way"
"I have a tendency to look at every thing from all possible angles"
Kaiba looked at her "I don't know many people who bother"
"It's a useful tendency"
"How, seems like some thing that could confuse you"
"It can, but where I work I need to try and come up with solutions that every body wins"
"Where do you work?"
"My uncles company" Katie had decided that she didn't want any one to realize who her uncle was
Kaiba nodded, "I'm supposed to do that where I work, but I never bother"
"Why? If you're really good, you can bring productivity up, sales up, and lower expenses!"
"All at once? Out of the people I do know who bother; none of them are that good"
"Nobody's that good, you'd have to be some kind of super computer to be that good"
Kaiba laughed, but the teacher heard and got mad at him for talking in class, although, secretly it was nice to see him finally being social. Serenity made a mental note to her self that Kaiba did have a sense of humour, despite popular belief.
After about ten minutes the bell rang, Katie said bid Kaiba good bye and met up with Serenity, "So, did you almost kill Kaiba?" asked Serenity playfully
"No, but he seemed nice to me, why dose your brother hate him so much?"
"Uhhhh, it's a long story" said Serenity knowing that she wasn't supposed to talk about Dullest Kingdom
Kaiba walked to his next class, gym. The only time Kaiba could stand Joey was in gym, between him, Tristen and Joey they were unbeatable. He smiled (a rare site) knowing that today they were playing doge ball, girls against guys, it was so easy, some times Tea and Mia were hard to hit, but when the gym teacher started to throw more balls in. He let a small laughed escape.
"Kiaba, did you just laugh?"
Kaiba turned around to see Joey, Tristen, Bakura and Yugi, "Yeah, so?" he asked his voice chilled with ice
"I've never heard you laugh unless it was at some one" said Joey
Yugi saw the evil look Kaiba was giving Joey, so he decided he should intervene before it got ugly "Have you met that new girl Kaiba?" Yugi said the first thing that came to mind, he had been talking to Katie about a minute ago, although Yugi remembered the bus
"Yeah, I sit beside her in home room"
The five of them walked into the change rooms. After a few minutes every one was in the gym, Kaiba looked at the girls, they all looked so, hopeless, they knew they would lose, but then he noticed Katie, unlike every other girl in the room, who were complaining and trying to think of ways to get out of gym she was strategizing! She had been briefed on how Kaiba, Joey and Tristen never lost, and was determined that they would.
They gym teacher threw the ball up in the air and Tea grabbed it, she threw it with all her might at Bakura, he was down. Joey scooped up the ball and with a running start threw it at the girls, it was heading right for Mia, but she ducked and one of the girls grabbed it and chucked it, and missed completely. The game continued until it was Kaiba and Katie left, she was good, she had gotten Tristen and Joey out, and Kiaba wasn't sure how much longer he'd be able to play, then the teacher threw in a third ball, Kaiba had one and Joey the other, all other guys on the team wasted no time in getting the other to Tristen, Katie was going down. It was obvious that she knew what they were going to do, but that wasn't going to help her. Joey counted to three and they all threw, but in an amazing show of agility Katie dogged all three balls, she caught one, and sent the other two to Mai and Tea. Kaiba looked at the three girl, they had him surrounded, he knew he wasn't quick enough to doge all three balls, Katie smiled
"One, two, THREE!" at that moment all three balls came hurling toward him, he ducked and two zoomed over his head, then the third ball, the one shot by Tea, hit him, the cheers that came from the girls, and gym, teacher were deafening, the girl hoisted Tea and Katie up on there shoulders and carried them to the change rooms
Kaiba, who was exhausted fell to the ground panting, "Hey Kaiba, you o.k?" he looked up, Katie stood there, she was dressed in her school uniform, except she didn't wear the bow, had he been trying to catch his breath for that long?
He nodded, "Yeah, I'm fine"
Katie smiled, "Good" she offered her hand to help him up, he excepted it
"Your good" he said still a little out of breath
"Thanks, so are you" she answered, she was also still a bit out of breath
After he was standing there eyes met, Kaiba still held Katies hand, they both stopped, for a brief moment, there eyes locked, it was as if they could see into each other souls, Kaiba's icy cold blue eyes stared deep into Katie's warm grey ones, after about a second they both realized where they were again and let go of each other's hand, but the feeling of her hand didn't leave Kaiba till much later that day.
Lunch. And not a moment too soon, Kaiba felt like he could have eaten like Joey. He let himself be hoarded to the cafeteria, he ate quickly and went outside to do some work. He checked his e-mail and looked at some of the production charts; he spent the rest of lunch working. The bell for next period rang and he headed for English, his hand tingled as his thoughts slipped to Katie, he took his seat at the back of the class, he liked his seat because it offered him solitude, he was the only one in the back row, the bell rang for class to start
"O.k class, as you know we have a new student, Katie" she said her name as an intro and beckoning "You can take a seat, hmm, where shall I put you, beside, Mr. Kaiba"
'So much for solitude' he thought as Katie came and sat beside him, 'well atleast it's her and not Joey' he smiled as she sat down, "Hi"
"Hello, tell me, are you bribing teachers to put me beside you?" she asked playfully
"Nope, are you?"
"No"
"O.k class, open your books to page 100, Katie you can share a book with Mr. Kaiba till I get you one"
"Now your sure your not bribing the teacher?" asked Katie as she moved closer
"Positive the teachers just seem to think we won't be noisy or some thing" he said as he flipped to page 100. The rest of the period was rather uneventful, Kaiba, like usual got upset at the whole pointlessness of the book, and Katie explained what the author meant
Kaiba made his way through crowded halls to Science class, it was laughably easy, mechanics in the most primitive form, and he had taken academic. He got to class and took his seat in the back of the class all alone, why did no one sit in the back row? The bell for class to start rang, and to his surprise the teacher introduced a new student, 'she's in all my classes!' and after a second Katie was instructed to sit beside Kaiba, 'and sits beside me in every class'
Katie eyed him; he knew she was fighting the urge to ask him if he was bribing the teachers
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters from Yu-gi-oh, but I do own Katie and her family *smiles* Note: for the one person who did review my first chapter THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!! Sorry for the repeat
Stepping out of the mini-van from the trunk Katie looked around at her new home, Danny followed closely behind her, the car trip had involed little to no talking, except when that creep Kaiba called... "Where's Dragon?" she asked, trying to see him, a man holding some papers and stuff came up to Katie's uncle, "the hoarse is over there", he pointed behind him, Katie let the man talk to her uncle as she went in search of her beloved horse, Danny still close behind her, she smiled at the sight of Dragon, "Hello, how was your trip?"
Dragon responded by nuzzling her hand, "You missed me didn't you?" Dragon nickered softly
"Katie?" Danny looked up at her, his big blue eyes staring up at her "Can I ride Dragon?"
"Maybe, Dragon doesn't let just any body ride him, you want to try?"
He nodded, "Yeah, why doesn't he let any body ride him?"
Katie began to clime over the gate that separated her from her hoarse, Danny followed suit, "I'm not sure, he's very sensitive "Once they had both hopped the fence Dragon came up to them in greeting, after looking at Danny a moment he began to nuzzle him, "He likes you" Katie smiled at the sight of Danny and Dragon, "I'll be back in a sec, k?"
Danny nodded and continued to stork Dragon, Katie returned shortly with a supplies, after she saddled Dragon up she hoisted Danny up on his back, "I'm not letting you ride completely on your own this time, maybe after Dragon gets more used to you I'll start giving you lessons" she led Dragon around the large yard, first at a walk, but then she began to speed up, after a few minutes she was running, then she hoisted her self up on Dragon's back with Danny and went into an all out gallop, Danny was smiling ear to ear, Katie decided she'd talk to T. (her uncle) about signing Danny up for ridding lessons, "I'm turning back now" said Katie slowing down to a walk, she didn't want to exhaust Dragon
"Can we ride again tomorrow?" asked Danny
"Maybe after school"
"Are you seriously going to school tomorrow?!?" asked Danny, he knew he wasn't
"Katie nodded, "When your mom was talking to me she said that I shouldn't let her death stop me from living, but not to forget her, I plan to do just that"
"She said that to me too, but I know she'd want me to take a little time"
"I know, but some part of me is, and had been for months looking forward to school tomorrow, it's a fresh start for me, some thing I need desperately"
Danny nodded, "It's your choice", Danny dismounted, "I'm going to find my room"
"I don't see what that would accomplish, we have no furniture, and very little of your stuff"
"I know, I just want to wander around a big house without getting in trouble for leaving the tour"
Katie smiled; his mother's last words had a big impact on him, "Don't get lost" with that Danny turned and headed for the house, Katie didn't want to go in yet, she decided to wander around out side for a bit, thinking about what had happened to her, she reached the lake and was out of every bodes ear shot, then before she realized what she was doing she was on her hands and knees crying, silently, she couldn't remember the last time she sobbed, maybe when she was about four, no, three, yes, that was right, she had been three the last time she had sobbed, she didn't over her father's death, nor her mother's, nor her aunt, she had cried, but not a sound came from her, she had become very good at hiding her true feelings by putting up a brave act, making jokes, and being a shoulder to cry on, when she wasn't as strong as she pretended to be, she was strong, no doubt about that, she'd be dead if she weren't, she would have been killed, or killed her self, no she was very strong, just not as strong as she led people to believe.
Kaiba drove, no where in particular, just driving around, clearing his head, or trying to, some how that wench he had talked to had gotten to his head, what was her name? He didn't make it out when Mills had said it. I'll make sure she pays, nobody speaks to Seto Kaiba that way, not and live, he wasn't going to kill her, no, he was capable of much worse... Yes, she would pay... Suddenly out of the corner of his eye he saw a little boy, about Mokaba's age with jet black hair, and deep blue eye's that held immense pain, Kaiba rolled down the window and slowed down, "Are you lost?" he wasn't sure why he was helping this boy, very out of character, but there was some thing about him...
The boy looked over, "N-no, I-I know where I'm going"
"You sure?" a voice in the back of his mind was demanding to know why he wanted to help this boy "No" he knew he should make a run for it but some thing in the back of Danny's mind told him not to, one precaution he always took with new people trying to help him was to take a little peek in there mind, as he did so, which took all of a second he learned that it was Seto Kaiba who was offering to help him, he also learned that he didn't know why he was trying to help, he decided to trust his instincts, "Do you know how to get to 672 suvanna lane?"
"672 Suvanna lane, yeah, it's quite a ways from here, what are you doing this far away from home?"
"Thinking"
"I'll give you a ride if you want"
Danny nodded, "Thank you"
Kaiba unlocked the passenger side and the boy climbed in, "So, what's your name?"
"Danny" he knew he was taking a big risk by getting in the car, he knew he shouldn't of, but after reading his mind, he saw he wouldn't hurt him, but he wasn't giving out his last name, "You?"
"Seto Kaiba" why are you telling him that? Why are you helping him? The same voice that had asked him earlier demanded, but his own voice cut in, because it's the right thing to do, but since when do I care about the right thing to do?
Danny had to restrain him self from laughing at what he could hear, he wasn't even trying to see his thoughts, they were showing them self to him, debating on weather he should save him self from his thoughts he realized some thing, the phone call his uncle had gotten, from him, he wasn't the nicest person, but buried very deep with in him was a nice, good, kind person, Danny nodded to him self, he knew what he had to do
"So tell me, why exactly are you this far away from your home, when it's almost dark?"
"Bad planning and the need to get out for a bit"
"Why did you need to get out?"
"I wanted to be alone"
Kaiba thought for a minute, he knew which house was Danny's, it was huge, he could have easily been alone, but he could tell by the child's innocent, eye's that he was telling the truth, just leaving something out...
He stopped the car, he was right in front of the house, "Thank you Mr. Kaiba" said Danny as he got out of the car, he had work to do...
After driving around some more Kaiba ran out of gas, cursing the world of science for not finding a better way to fuel your car he began the long walk to the gas station, after what seemed like a day he got back to his car, the nearest gas station had been an hour away, and the walk back was another hour, he filled up his car turned on the radio and the song 'This time is gonna be the last time' by Lit came on (Not sure if that's the right name) and he drove home, part of him wanted to sleep, but he had other plans...
Katie woke up at 7:00am the next day, "Sleep, need sleep" she muttered to her self as she rolled out of her bed and forgot she no longer had pillows set up to land on, "Ow" She suddenly remembered yesterday, 'Maybe I should stay home' she thought, part of her had already made up her mind, she was going to school, wandering down the hall she managed to find the kitchen, her aunt Rose was cooking
"Morning Katie"
"Morning, what's for breakfast?"
"Eggs and bacon, it'll be a few more minutes, why don't you go watch T.V?"
"No, I need to get ready for school"
"You're going to school today?"
"Yeah, it'll help me take my mind off stuff"
"You sure about this?"
Katie nodded, "Yeah" part of her didn't want to go to school, but she went back to her room and got dressed any way, when she got back to the kitchen a plate loaded with food sat on the table waiting for her, she didn't eat too much, grabbing her bag she headed for the bus stop, 'Domino high, wonder what it's like?' the bus came to a stop in front of her. As she walked up the steps she looked around for an empty seat, a girl with short brown hair and, like every one else, was wearing a preppy school uniform, (Katie also wore one, but she didn't have the bow) waved her over
"Hi my name is Tea Gardener"
"Katie Mills" Katie sat down with her, she seems nice
"So you're the new girl every one's been talking about"
"I guess, that or there's another new girl that has some thing worth talking about is supposed to come today"
"I don't think so" said Tea with a smile, "So how come you transferred?"
"My uncle's work"
"You live with your uncle?"
"Yeah, I have since I was ten"
At that moment the bus stopped, two guys got on the bus, one with scruffy blond hair, and one with brown hair that came to a point, "Hey guys" Tea smiled
"Hey Tea" said the blond, "who's she?"
"This is Katie, she's the new girl, Katie this is Joey and Tristen"
"Hi" Tristen smiled
"Nice to meet ya" said Joey with his New York accent
"Are you from New York?"
"No, my dad is, why?"
"Your accent" at that moment Kaiba caught Katie's eye, "Who's that?" she pointed at Kaiba
"Him? That's Kaiba, the school jerk" said Tristen
Katie muffled a giggle, "How bad is he?"
"On a scale from 1-10, 50" answered Joey
"That's bad, but my old school's nice guy ranked 80"
"Are you serious?" asked Tea
"Unfortunately"
"Joey?" asked Tea, "Where's Serenity?"
"She's walking to school with Mai"
"Your girlfriend and sister hanging out, that can only mean bad things" said Tristen
"Serenity isn't like that!"
"No, but Mai is" countered Tristen
Tea nodded, "It's true"
"Tea, you're supposed to be her friend, so why are you saying that?" asked Joey
"She's my friend, but I can't lie"
Katie, who had been trying no to laugh suddenly realized some one was watching three of them, slowly turning around she found her self facing a guy with black, blond, and purple hair, who was about the height of Danny, "Hi" said Katie
"Hello" said the short guy
Tea suddenly noticed him, "Oh hi Yugi"
"Hello" he said again
"How long have you been there for Yug?" asked Joey
"I got on the bus around the part about Mai is the typ"
Joey sweatdrops "Why didn't you say anything?"
"And stop you two from acting like idiots? I always have to do that, I wanted to see how long it would take for you to stop on your own"
Everyone but Yugi sweatdrops "You done?" asked a cold icy voice from behind them
"Hi Kaiba" said Yugi, ignoring the fact that Joey and Tristen were on the ground still
"Dose your friend and the dog plan to get up soon, or are they going to block every one else's path?"
"Don't call me a dog!" Joey, who looked really angry
"Ok puppy"
Katie giggled, "I know you probably don't realize it, but where I'm from a guy usually calls a girl puppy if he's flirting with her"
Laughter erupts from the bus, "Kaiba, I never knew" said Joey mockingly "I'm sorry, but I'm already spoken for, but I'd like it if we could still be friends"
Kaiba glared and shoved Joey out of the way stalking off the bus, Yugi smiled, "That was impressive, uhh, I'm sorry I didn't catch your name"
"Katie Mills"
Yugi smiled, "I'm Yugi Muto, nice to meet you"
"Hey thanks Kates" said Joey
"Kates?" she raised an eye brow
"Joey abbreviates every one's name" said Tea as they walked out of the bus
Katie followed her new friends to school, "What class do you have first?" asked Joey
"Home room, know where it is?" she asked hopefully
"It's Serenity's first class, she'll help you find it" said Joey
At that moment, as if on cue Serenity and Mai came up to the group, "Hey guys" said the younger looking of the two, she had long reddish brown hair and like every other girl, wore a preppy school uniform
"Hey sis" said Joey
"Serenity Mai, this is Katie, Katie my sister Serenity and my girl friend, Mai"
"Nice to meet you" said Serenity
"Same here" said Katie
Mai looked over as if she was bored, "Hi" she said in a flat tone
"What class do you have first?" asked Serenity
"Home room"
"Me too, I'll help you find it"
"Thanks, I don't know where any of my classes are!" said Katie, knowing that it was true
"We'll help you out" said Serenity
"Between us all, you'll get around without getting lost too much" said Yugi playfully
The warning bell rang, Serenity and Katie made there way too home room, as they got there the teacher pulled Katie "Miss Mills, I'd like to introduce you to the class, Miss Wheeler, please take your seat"
Katie was forced to wait out side class while she waited for the teacher to introduce her "O.k class, settle down!" the teacher yelled, the class went silent, clearing her through her teacher continued "As most of you know, we have a new student in our midst, Katie come in here please" Katie walked in the room and looked around, every one was staring at her "O.k class, this is Katie Mills, Miss Mills, please take a seat beside Mr. Kaiba"
"Great" he muttered to him self raising his hand so she knew where to sit
She sat down beside him, "I'm sorry about earlier, but I wasn't making it up" she said
Kaiba looked over at her, "Why are you telling me this?" he asked, his cold piercing blue eyes glaring at her
"Because it's true, and I don't like making enemies when I first meet some one" she said
"I see, you're the type who likes to be every ones friend then I presume?" he asked his voice dripping with ice
"No, I'm the type who gets to know a person before shoving them away" her voice had gotten a sharp edge to it
For some reason beyond his understanding Kaiba decided that he might as well be semi-nice to her till he could be sure about her "Fine" he said as he opened his English book, he hadn't finished his home work from the night before, he had been too tiered "Have you ever read 'A hitch hikers guide to the galaxy'?" he asked
"Yeah, why?" she looked over at him
"I'm reading it in English and it makes no dammed scene what so ever and I need help with these questions"
Katie was starting to like Domino high, first the people weren't pure evil, and they read hitch hikers guide to that galaxy in English, "Can I see the questions?"
He handed her a sheet "I don't know why any one would want to write some thing as pointless as this, it has no plot!"
"That's the point; it's meant for the strange and odd, if you have a warped sense of humour it's hilarious"
"Well, I don't have a twisted sense of humour"
"No, and judging by your answers you don't have one at all"
He glared at her as she wrote on the sheet, "Here" she handed it back to him
He looked over the answers, "the teacher will know I didn't write this, I would never look at a book this way"
"I have a tendency to look at every thing from all possible angles"
Kaiba looked at her "I don't know many people who bother"
"It's a useful tendency"
"How, seems like some thing that could confuse you"
"It can, but where I work I need to try and come up with solutions that every body wins"
"Where do you work?"
"My uncles company" Katie had decided that she didn't want any one to realize who her uncle was
Kaiba nodded, "I'm supposed to do that where I work, but I never bother"
"Why? If you're really good, you can bring productivity up, sales up, and lower expenses!"
"All at once? Out of the people I do know who bother; none of them are that good"
"Nobody's that good, you'd have to be some kind of super computer to be that good"
Kaiba laughed, but the teacher heard and got mad at him for talking in class, although, secretly it was nice to see him finally being social. Serenity made a mental note to her self that Kaiba did have a sense of humour, despite popular belief.
After about ten minutes the bell rang, Katie said bid Kaiba good bye and met up with Serenity, "So, did you almost kill Kaiba?" asked Serenity playfully
"No, but he seemed nice to me, why dose your brother hate him so much?"
"Uhhhh, it's a long story" said Serenity knowing that she wasn't supposed to talk about Dullest Kingdom
Kaiba walked to his next class, gym. The only time Kaiba could stand Joey was in gym, between him, Tristen and Joey they were unbeatable. He smiled (a rare site) knowing that today they were playing doge ball, girls against guys, it was so easy, some times Tea and Mia were hard to hit, but when the gym teacher started to throw more balls in. He let a small laughed escape.
"Kiaba, did you just laugh?"
Kaiba turned around to see Joey, Tristen, Bakura and Yugi, "Yeah, so?" he asked his voice chilled with ice
"I've never heard you laugh unless it was at some one" said Joey
Yugi saw the evil look Kaiba was giving Joey, so he decided he should intervene before it got ugly "Have you met that new girl Kaiba?" Yugi said the first thing that came to mind, he had been talking to Katie about a minute ago, although Yugi remembered the bus
"Yeah, I sit beside her in home room"
The five of them walked into the change rooms. After a few minutes every one was in the gym, Kaiba looked at the girls, they all looked so, hopeless, they knew they would lose, but then he noticed Katie, unlike every other girl in the room, who were complaining and trying to think of ways to get out of gym she was strategizing! She had been briefed on how Kaiba, Joey and Tristen never lost, and was determined that they would.
They gym teacher threw the ball up in the air and Tea grabbed it, she threw it with all her might at Bakura, he was down. Joey scooped up the ball and with a running start threw it at the girls, it was heading right for Mia, but she ducked and one of the girls grabbed it and chucked it, and missed completely. The game continued until it was Kaiba and Katie left, she was good, she had gotten Tristen and Joey out, and Kiaba wasn't sure how much longer he'd be able to play, then the teacher threw in a third ball, Kaiba had one and Joey the other, all other guys on the team wasted no time in getting the other to Tristen, Katie was going down. It was obvious that she knew what they were going to do, but that wasn't going to help her. Joey counted to three and they all threw, but in an amazing show of agility Katie dogged all three balls, she caught one, and sent the other two to Mai and Tea. Kaiba looked at the three girl, they had him surrounded, he knew he wasn't quick enough to doge all three balls, Katie smiled
"One, two, THREE!" at that moment all three balls came hurling toward him, he ducked and two zoomed over his head, then the third ball, the one shot by Tea, hit him, the cheers that came from the girls, and gym, teacher were deafening, the girl hoisted Tea and Katie up on there shoulders and carried them to the change rooms
Kaiba, who was exhausted fell to the ground panting, "Hey Kaiba, you o.k?" he looked up, Katie stood there, she was dressed in her school uniform, except she didn't wear the bow, had he been trying to catch his breath for that long?
He nodded, "Yeah, I'm fine"
Katie smiled, "Good" she offered her hand to help him up, he excepted it
"Your good" he said still a little out of breath
"Thanks, so are you" she answered, she was also still a bit out of breath
After he was standing there eyes met, Kaiba still held Katies hand, they both stopped, for a brief moment, there eyes locked, it was as if they could see into each other souls, Kaiba's icy cold blue eyes stared deep into Katie's warm grey ones, after about a second they both realized where they were again and let go of each other's hand, but the feeling of her hand didn't leave Kaiba till much later that day.
Lunch. And not a moment too soon, Kaiba felt like he could have eaten like Joey. He let himself be hoarded to the cafeteria, he ate quickly and went outside to do some work. He checked his e-mail and looked at some of the production charts; he spent the rest of lunch working. The bell for next period rang and he headed for English, his hand tingled as his thoughts slipped to Katie, he took his seat at the back of the class, he liked his seat because it offered him solitude, he was the only one in the back row, the bell rang for class to start
"O.k class, as you know we have a new student, Katie" she said her name as an intro and beckoning "You can take a seat, hmm, where shall I put you, beside, Mr. Kaiba"
'So much for solitude' he thought as Katie came and sat beside him, 'well atleast it's her and not Joey' he smiled as she sat down, "Hi"
"Hello, tell me, are you bribing teachers to put me beside you?" she asked playfully
"Nope, are you?"
"No"
"O.k class, open your books to page 100, Katie you can share a book with Mr. Kaiba till I get you one"
"Now your sure your not bribing the teacher?" asked Katie as she moved closer
"Positive the teachers just seem to think we won't be noisy or some thing" he said as he flipped to page 100. The rest of the period was rather uneventful, Kaiba, like usual got upset at the whole pointlessness of the book, and Katie explained what the author meant
Kaiba made his way through crowded halls to Science class, it was laughably easy, mechanics in the most primitive form, and he had taken academic. He got to class and took his seat in the back of the class all alone, why did no one sit in the back row? The bell for class to start rang, and to his surprise the teacher introduced a new student, 'she's in all my classes!' and after a second Katie was instructed to sit beside Kaiba, 'and sits beside me in every class'
Katie eyed him; he knew she was fighting the urge to ask him if he was bribing the teachers