Disclaimers: I don't own Yu-gi-oh, but the characters 'Neko' and 'Nataku' belong to me and my friend.
Millennium Shades
The next day, Kaiba was waiting quite impatiently next to his limo in front of his school.
"Where are they?! School ended ten minutes ago!" he muttered to himself, trying to ignore the looks he was getting from the other students. Most were unused to seeing Kaiba stay any length of time after school, Yuugi and his friends included.
"Hey Kaiba! What's going on?" Yuugi asked as he and his friends, Jounichi, Anzu, and Honda, walked up to the CEO.
"Yeah, you're usually gone by now. You waitin' for someone? " Jou added.
"Yes, I'm waiting for someone," Kaiba answered tersely, then went back to watching the school's doors.
"Jeez, talkative as ever I see," Joey mumbled as Kaiba spotted the two he was waiting on. The two girls easily spotted Kaiba and half-ran over to him.
"Gomen nasai, Kaiba-san! We didn't mean to keep you waiting!" The first, Neko, said stopping a few feet away. "Nataku was taking forever to change…"
"Neko! I didn't take that long!" Nataku exclaimed indignantly coming up behind her friend.
"Do you two go to this school?" Yuugi asked, recognizing the two from the game shop yesterday.
"Huh? Oh! It's the guys from that game store! Yeah, we go to this school. Now anyway," Nataku said.
"Then where are you uniforms? Or have you received them yet?" Anzu asked eyeing the two girls.
Instead of the uniform that Anzu, and every other girl at the school, was wearing, Neko wore carpenter style blue jeans with a hole in the right knee, a faded black v-neck shirt with an unbuttoned green button-down shirt over it, and brown hiking boots. In the way of accessories, she wore three belts with silver buckles (one normally, the other two diagonally across her hips, one of which sported a dueling deck case), a pair of fingerless black gloves, a black ribbon choker and a necklace with an ankh on it, the long bar of which was a crystal.
Nataku, on the other hand, wore a beige midriff-bearing turtleneck, black, hip-hugging jeans with a slight flare at the ends and simple black shoes. Over this, she also wore a full-length black trench coat with red lining. She too wore a necklace with an ankh, though hers was a simple metal charm, and one black belt with a silver buckle. She also had a dueling deck case, but hers was on a strap around one of her thighs.
"We've received our uniforms," Neko admitted, "but we're not going to willingly wear them outside of school."
"Why not?" Anzu asked, not seeing anything that bad about the uniforms.
"Well…" Neko started.
"First off: they're pink. Secondly: the skirt is way too damn short. And third: the bows are ridiculous," Nataku said bluntly, beating Neko to it. Neko sighed.
"Yeah, basically what she said. Though I was trying to find a nicer way to say it." Nataku just shrugged as Anzu tugged a little at the hem of her skirt. "Anyway, I'm Neko and this here's Nataku," Neko said by way of introduction. "We're both third years." Yuugi-tachi followed suit and the girls learned that they were all first years, like Kaiba.
"Really, Yuugi-kun? You're a first year in high school? I would've pegged you for a sixth year elementary, or maybe a first year in junior high. I mean, my brother's about your height, and he's a sixth year elementary," Neko said innocently, before realizing her mistake as Yuugi pouted and looked down. "Aa! I'm sorry Yuugi-kun!"
"Don't worry, she didn't mean it to be mean. We're the short people in our group too," Nataku added, trying to make him feel better as Kaiba cleared his throat.
"I have a company to run," he said simply, his arms crossed.
"Aa, Kaiba-san! Sorry. Forgot all about you. Eto…" Nataku and Neko looked at each other, then back at Kaiba.
"Anou… You can go ahead Kaiba-san. We'd like to talk to Yuugi-tachi some more." Kaiba huffed but handed Nataku a card before turning to leave.
"Huh? What's…"
"Call if you need a ride home," was all Kaiba said before he shut the door.
"It's so weird living with a rich guy," Neko said a moment after the limo had pulled away. Nataku nodded in agreement while pocketing the card.
"So," Yuugi asked, "What do you guys want to do?"
Notes- The whole 'third year' 'first year' thing is the way they tell grade level. 1–6 elementary is 1–6 grades; 1–3 middle/junior high is 7-9 grades; 1-3 high school is 10-12 grades. I know they're actually only 9th graders, but I made them 10th grades so we all go to the same school. Another thing I know, but I'm changing: all the bios I've read say Yuugi's 5 feet tall. I don't buy that. If he's 5 feet, that makes everyone else about 7. Doesn't work for me, so Yuugi is now about 4 feet tall. Oh yeah, FYI Nataku and Neko are 5'3 and 5'1 respectively.