Bhakti: I am just a crazy fan girl, Yu-Gi-Oh! Is not owned by me, nor is anything associated with it. *taps foot awaiting Dragonfly*
*Dragonfly appears*
DF: On with the fict!
Baka and Bishounen:
Chapter 4: Business as Usual
They say rumors spread like wild fire, but they forgot to mention they are also as damaging. A gay CEO was abnormal, or at least, to the general public, and abnormal was unknown and unknown was not to be trusted. In other words, stocks would fall and business men would grumble. The media had made its way to Kaiba before he could leave the store. Kaiba was lucky, the camera worshiped him, and he made a public appearance right out side the store to explain the misunderstanding. His laugh sounded genuine, like his company's future didn't rely on this one conversation, he was pulling this off better then Bill Clinton.
"Well, usually "you could do better" refers to relationships, but it just wasn't the case. I was simply going over whom I was inviting to my little get to together, tomorrow in fact, some friends from school, Joseph Wheeler, along with his sister, and other local accomplished duelists, like Yugi Motou. Obviously my little brother thinks I can make better friends then some average kids, but all rich kids, really long to be average I think, and I also think his sister is well above average" When lying, stay as close to the truth as possible, "and as for "but he's a boy" well-" here there was a perfect movie star laugh, "My little brother seems to think if I have a party it's going to be like a hip hop music video, you know, with girls everywhere, but I'm striving more towards a classic event, maybe I'm part of a dying breed" Another array of charismatic looks, but still instilled with the his coldness, Kaiba doubted his heart would ever really thaw, it was freezer burned for sure.
It didn't help that he felt sick inside for claiming that he had feelings for Joseph's little sister. All theses emotions were making him ill. He debated with himself again. She was the only girl whose existence was known to him, and he knew she was just under his age. On the outside he appeared to be a hopelessly romantic CEO. Well, perhaps that was where he was headed, but now they knew very little about what his reality was, the only person who he wanted to know about his reality was Joey. He just hoped that he could run a company and try to play his game, one that he was beginning to find stupid and pointless, but the nagging was still there, and if he didn't make it stop he knew that he wouldn't even be able to run a lemonade stand. He shouldn't have ventured so blindly into this mess, and now, it was much too late.
Serenity was also a way to get to Joey, he needed Joey to show up, and Serenity was a dumb school girl in Kaiba's books, so there wouldn't be any difficulty there. He let out a smirk because he was using her, but to the outside world it was because he admired some plain girl, some girl that could be half a million other girls who would be watching a press release with Seto Kaiba. This is actually going to be good for business mused Kaiba, still smirking as he left the podium. Now everyone saw Seto Kaiba as the prince from a fairy tale. The party could be taken right out of a story book, perfect to deceive and sooth the fickle masses.
The invitations were already being sent, Kaiba was paging his computer as he left. The only problem was that to cover his ass, Joey wheeler would probably never speak to him, and he'd probably be just as disillusioned as everyone by the press release, and Kaiba had to act so damn nice on screen! Everyone would think he'd turned over a new leaf or some disgusting puke like that. The media had gotten all over him before he could make a plan, and that was the first thing that popped into his head. He'd make it work though. He was furious now, which wasn't that great for publicity. At least the heat would die down after, the get together.
Kaiba cancelled any meets he had and stormed off to his work shop. He vented his rage by fiercely devoting himself to his inventions, unfortunately, his brain was working a lot slower, and he continuously made mistake and broke things. He snapped, grabbed a crow bar, and obliterated what had taken months or years to construct. He didn't stop on a few inventions, but totaled tables and cabinets, and what ever was unfortunately in his way, he tore the place apart. He was lying on the floor in the wreckage after all his rage was expressed. He'd needed to vent, and not being able to let any body know about it this time forced him to destroy some of his most cherished possessions. They could be rebuilt, and the plans still remained, but, just the fact that he'd lost control scared him. The game wasn't fun anymore. His goal seemed so far away. He'd ruined everything. When it came down to his publicity or Joey he'd chosen the tens of thousands of cold people who never would really care, versus his hopes for love. But what were his chances… really. They seemed so slim now.
At this Kaiba blinked. He realized that Joey or Yugi would never give up at this moment. He was almost sent flying off a roof because he thought that there was but one way out. Some where deep down inside Seto Kaiba there was a new found hope left, one that was stifled before he was mind crushed, and afraid to take flight afterwards, one that now forced him to stand up, call the maids, and leave, to find Joey.
Just as he left the building he saw Mokuba sneaking in through the gate. "Mokuba! What are you doing here? How long have you been able to do that?"
Mokuba ignored his brother somewhat and stated "You lied to all those people! How could you?"
"They wouldn't understand Mokuba, you didn't even understand" Kaiba covered his mouth like a dramatic scene from a soap opera. He just insulted his little brother. The game couldn't do this to him, could it? Damn this trouble!
Mokuba was upset by his brother scolding him. "I don't deserve this, just because you're a fag-!" At this Mokuba ran off, tears burning in his eyes, he was young, and didn't know how deeply he had just hurt his Big Brother.
Kaiba had never felt so alone in his entire life. Suddenly he was isolated. He never knew his inner pain could actually increase to such dizzying heights. He couldn't even manage a response to Mokuba. He was suddenly filled with the urge to run to the happy go lucky blonde right now, cry on his shoulder, and tell him, everything.
He had a deep feeling that Joey could make it better. But that was what caused all this pain in the first place. Kaiba was dazed, confused, upset, and the rage was back. He was glad Mokuba wasn't around any longer, he didn't want anyone to see him like this, the only person in the world he wanted to see in fact, was the Chihuahua, he wanted his smile, his scowl, anything. There was something, something about him that Kaiba needed. He couldn't even say what it was but he was willing to give up everything he knew to find out. Kaiba pounded his fist into the window of the guard post by the gate in anger. There hadn't been a guard since he bought the place. Some how, within he found an unopened bottle of hard liquor. Getting drunk wouldn't actually solve his problems, but they would be warded away wouldn't they? Normally Kaiba would have seen alcohol as doom, wasteful destruction, but if he didn't do something he would find a more violent way to solve his dilemma. He tore the lid off against the gate and took a sip. It was going to be a long night, though he might not remember much of it.