Chapter 6: Bonding


Nuriko: Hello again everyone. I'd like to thank Jennifer Lopez for the idea of this chapter. Also to Yami-kun, don't worry, I'm very bad at DDR too ^_^; Finally a thank you to all the readers! You guys are great ^_^

Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh, so there.


Joey sat down on his bed.

'Okay, so I was wrong, Kaiba's isn't half bad. Either that or he's decent around my sister' Joey sighed. 'I guess I should give him a chance'

The next day Joey awoke earlier than his sister and proceeded to make an important phone call...to none other than Seto Kaiba.

"Hello, KaibaCorp, Mokuba Kaiba speaking"

"Hey Mokuba, can I speak to your brother? This is Joey"

"Oh okay. One second Joey...SETOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO PHONE CALL FOR YOUUUUU!!!" Joey winced as Mokuba called his brother. Joey heard someone pick up on another line.

"Hello this is Seto Kaiba"

"Hey Kaiba"

"...What do you want?" Seto sighed, he really didn't want to get into another fight with Serenity's brother. He had to learn to accept him for her sake even if it killed him.

"Could we meet somewhere today to talk?"

"Why?"

"Because we need to talk, so just meet me in the lobby of your office at 1!" Joey hung up.

"Hey wait!" The only answer Seto received was the dial tone of his office phone. "Great..." He mumbled, he had 2 hours to finish his work and then he was off to talk with Joey.

Within an hour Serenity was up and getting ready to go to work at Kaiba Corp.

"Hey Sis, mind if I tag along?" Joey asked.

"Sure Joey!" She said happily. They both headed downtown and spilt up once they reached Kaiba Corp. Joey still had an hour till his scheduled meeting.

Serenity, as usual went to the 10th floor of the building and played some games with Mokuba. At 1 o'clock Seto checked up on them and told Serenity that he was going out for a little while. He then headed to the first floor and met with Joey.

"Come on, let's go find somewhere to talk" Joey walked out the door and down the street to a small park with Seto following.

They both settled on the seats of a picnic table.

"So why do you want to talk to me again?" Seto asked, his voice cold and less than enthused to be here.

"Well, I want a chance to get to know you better...well...because you're going out with my sister" Joey explained. Seto raised an eyebrow.

"You want to get to know me? That's something I never thought I'd hear from a puppy dog like you"

Joey scowled. "Hey, stop calling me by that name would ya?"

"Yeah fine, it just stuck so well after our first duel"

"Thanks...well I'm a much better duelist now, after Battle City and all" Joey said.

"Yeah...I guess"

"So Kaiba, tell me about yourself"

"Not much to say, my real parents are dead, Mokuba is my only family now, I have to run a company and I like to duel"

"Your parents are dead?" Joey blinked, he had never known. Maybe that was why Kaiba never made any friends at school or on Duelist Island, was he afraid of loosing them?

"Correct, they both died when I was little"

"Oh...I'm sorry"

"I don't need anyone to feel sorry for me"

"Fine, have it your way" This wasn't really going the way Joey had planned.

"So what do you like about my sister?" Joey asked.

"Serenity? Well...she's nice, understanding and there's something else...that I can't really describe that makes me like her...What about you, how long have you been going out with that other duelist...Mai Valentine?"

"Since Battle City" Joey admitted.

The two continued conversations for quite a while, trying to get to know each other after all these years of hating each other.

Kaiba looked at his watch, it was already 5?! He had spent 4 hours talking to Joey?!

"Hey, I got to go, I still have a lot of work to get done" Kaiba said, he stood and shook hands with Joey.

"It was nice talking to ya Kaiba, I'm glad Serenity likes you" Joey said as he walked off.

At 8 Serenity was let off her job and given her first paycheck. She thanked Kaiba and left, not knowing if he'd like public affection around his office.

When she got home she had an email from Seto on her computer. It read:

Serenity-
Would you like to go out tomorrow after you're done with work? It's up to you.
-Seto Kaiba

She replied with a simple "I'd love to" before heading to bed. Joey also lie in bed thinking about what he had talked about with Kaiba.

'He's really not that bad...'




Nuriko: Short chapter ^^; Gomen. Anyways please review and NO FLAMES!!! Sheesh I already got another one. Read people!! Please!! Anyways time to deal with the flame that is now burning up my lawn --;

Bakura: *comes over in a Gundam*

Nuriko: Where the hell did you get that? O.o;

Bakura: The nameplate inside says...Domon...who ever that is.

Nuriko: He's from G-Gundam --;

Bakura: Oh...hey he's the one that's looking for his brother...right?

Nuriko: Yup. Okay, go ahead Bakura...

Bakura: Shining Finger!! *uses Domon's trademark move*

Nuriko: ^^;

Flame: *gets bigger*

Ryou: *walks over to flame and pours a little cup of water on it. Flame goes out*

Nuriko: Thank you Ryou.

Malik: *still sitting at kissing booth* *kisses Princess Saphire 5 times* ^_^

Isis: *walks over with money*

Malik: O.o;

Isis: *grin*

Malik: *kisses Isis and then passes out*

Yami Malik: *pokes Malik* poke...poke...poke...poke...poke...poke.........

Nuriko: Who wants to take over Malik's kissing booth?

Bakura: I will ^_^

Nuriko: Okay ^^;; Ryou, why don't you go too?

Ryou: ^.^;; Okay...if you think it's okay...

Nuriko: Bakura and Ryou kisses, 2 dollars apiece!!!

Serenity: *comes out of nowhere* Stay tuned for the next chapter!

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