Disclaimers: I don't own Yu-gi-oh, but the characters 'Neko' and 'Nataku' belong to me and my friend.
Millennium Shades
Kaiba Seto was busily working on important CEO of a major corporation stuff when he noticed the time.
"Oh no. I was supposed to go pick up those foreign exchange students today. There's still time, if I leave now, but… This document can't wait that long."
"Why don't you send me, oniisan?" Mokuba asked. "I can go just as easily as you can."
"You're right." Seto opened his desk drawer and pulled out a few papers, which he handed to Mokuba. "There's their flight information and the descriptions of themselves they sent a while back.
"Wow, their Japanese is pretty good!" Mokuba commented, looking at the descriptions. "Well, I guess I better get going. See ya, oniisan." Seto made no reply as he was already back to business.
* * * * *
"Let's see… This is where their luggage should come out, so this is a good spot to wait," Mokuba said to himself, checking the papers Seto gave him. He went over the descriptions one more time, to remind himself of what he was looking for. "All right. One's a guy with long brown hair and glasses named Natasha, but wants to be called 'Neko.' Huh, wonder why he wants to be called 'cat'? Anyway, the other's a girl with short red hair named Christina, but wants to be called 'Nataku.'" With descriptions fresh in mind, Mokuba started to scan the crowd.
* * * * *
"A-choo! Wo-wo-wooah! thud! Owwwww." Christina, also known as Nataku, sat indignantly on the floor, weighed down by baggage and rubbing her posterior.
"Bless you. Are you sure you don't want me to help you with those?" Natasha, called Neko, asked her friend. While Nataku was struggling with her five bags, Neko had already donned her backpack and her only other piece of luggage, a rolling suitcase, was ready and waiting.
"I can handle it Neko!" Nataku said, trying to get up again. Neko sighed and resumed scanning the crowd for their host. She spotted a young boy who was looking around holding a paper with a familiar face drawn on the back.
"Hey, 'Taku. Did you draw Chichiri on the back of your letter?"
"Huh? Oh. Yeah. Wh- ah! thud! Ow."
"I think I see our ride." Neko turned back to her friend to find her on the ground again. "And you're the brawn? *Sigh* Give me the bags."
"I can-"
"Just give me the bags. It's like twenty feet. Come on!"
"Fine!"
Neko reached over and took two of her friend's bags, slinging one over her shoulder and securing the other to the handle of Nataku's rolling suitcase.
Nataku mock glared at Neko. "Sure, make me feel like a dumbass."
"You can hate me when we get there, okay? Shall we?" she asked, taking both suitcases in hand. Indicating direction with her chin: "He's over there."
"Lez go!" Nataku said, taking the lead at first, but then dropping back to let Neko get in front. "On second thought, you talk to him, Neko."
"Me?"
"You were always better in Japanese that me!"
"So?! Grr. All right. Wus."
"So what if I am?"
"Sigh" As they approached the boy, he noticed them and seemed to be checking something on the papers he was holding. "Oi! Otoutosan! Konnichi wa." Neko called out.
"What'er you doing! That's not very polite!" Nataku hissed.
"He's like ten years old. Besides, you didn't want to talk so either put up or shut up." Turning back to the boy, Neko said, "Anou… Kaiba Seto-san desu ka?" The boy smiled and shook his head, causing all of his messy waist-length black hair to move.
"Iie, boku wa Kaiba Mokuba desu. Kaiba Seto-san wa boku no oniisan desu." Mokuba looked a little unsure as he asked, "Sore wa Nataku-san to Neko-san desu ka?"
"Hai, sou desu. Boku wa Neko desu. Kore wa Nataku-chan desu." Neko answered. "Hajimemashite," she and Nataku said together.
Mokuba looked a little confused, but continue on. "Hajimemashite. Ja, uchi ni ikimasen ka?"
"Hai, ikimashou, ne." With that, Mokuba nodded and led the girls to his waiting limo.
"He...? A limo?! Sugoi! Our host must be rich!" Nataku exclaimed as the ever-present attendant led the two girls to deposit their bags in the trunk.
"Looks like," Neko agreed as they climbed into the back seat with Mokuba.
"Anou, Neko-san," Mokuba began. [1]
"Hm?"
"I don't mean to be rude, and your Japanese is really good, but…"
Neko smiled. "Go ahead Mokuba-kun. I'm not gonna bite or anything."
"Well, It's just that you've used 'boku' several times. I don't know if your teacher told you but…"
"I know, it's typically a guy word. But it's also casual, ne?" Neko interrupted. Mokuba nodded. "Well, I'm being causal. Besides, 'boku' is so much quicker both to write and say, it's just not fair that girls have to use 'watashi' all the time. So I don't plan to." [2]
Mokuba looked a little stunned and said nothing.
"Or in other words," Nataku finally piped in, "She just wants to be weird."
"Psh! Like you don't use 'boku' also," Neko said, casting a sly glance at Nataku.
"Yeah, well, I don't use it nearly as much as you…" Neko started laughing. "Oh go… I don't know… Jump off a cliff or something!" Nataku growled at her friend while shaking a fist at her.
Mokuba couldn't stand it anymore. He burst out laughing, causing both girls to stop and look at him. Then they too started laughing, and the three continued to laugh and laugh.
[1] – From this point on, everything spoken is in Japanese unless otherwise specified. This is for the ease of the reader as well as the fact that I'm too lazy to try to write much more complicated things in Japanese.
Oh yeah, all the Japanese before here translates as follows:
"Hey! Little brother! Hello! Um… Are you Seto Kaiba?"
"No, I'm Mokuba Kaiba. Seto Kaiba is my older brother. Are you Nataku and Neko?"
"Yes, that's right. I'm Neko. She's Nataku."
"Pleased to meet you."
"Pleased to meet you. So, shall we go home?"
"Yes, let's go.
[2] – For anyone who doesn't know, 'boku' is the Japanese word for 'I' used typically only by guys. 'watashi' is the polite way to say 'I' and can be used by anyone, but girls use it almost exclusively.
Other stuff – this is my first Yu-gi-oh fanfic and I don't know where it's going (and the title was just kinda pulled out of the air… so don't ask. ^^;) But there's gonna be lots of weird stuff happening, after all, Kaiba's hosting two 'crazy Americans' who will be living up to the name, and then some. Comments and suggestions would be appreciated if you've got any ideas.