Disclaimer: I do not, nor do I suppose I ever will, own Yu-Gi-Oh.

Note: *sentence* means someone is thinking.

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Kaiba jerked up from the bed, coming fully awake, as his alarm clock rang out, piercing the previously calm silence.

*Stupid alarm.* he growled, almost crushing his clock as he turned the alarm off.

He got up with a sigh, and walked over to the computer and turned it on. He had about an hour, he guessed, before he had to leave for school. If he was lucky, the letter he had sent out last night would be answered.

Sure enough, the screen flashed with a message saying he had mail. Now all he needed was to have gotten the right piece of mail.

He opened it and started to read.

"Mr. Kaiba,
In response to your request, the following student has been admitted into Domino High School: Tammy. We ask that she picks up a schedule in the counseling office before school starts. Thank you."

Kaiba sighed, not sure that enrolling her into his school had been as good of an idea as he had first thought it would be. He had only thought that it would be amusing to see her go to school. Now that he thought some more about it, *This will be a very long day.*

Kaiba winced at what her reaction was expected to be when he told her. *A very, very long day indeed.*

***

Tammy lay on the bed, wishing the sun didn't shine so brightly through the window. Closing the curtains had not made that much of a difference.

She moaned. She had not been able to get back to sleep after what could have been considered a pretty sleepless night. *I hope no one decides to get in my way today. Feel sorry from them already.*

There was a soft, almost hesitant knock at the door. She rolled over and tried to ignore it. It came again, more urgent. She closed her eyes and tried to sleep, in no mood to see who it was. Several more knocks came, all of which she ignored the best she could.

*I've never been much of a morning person.* she thought tiredly. *And this is not precisely the best of mornings.*

Finally, whoever it was seemed to have grown extremely frustrated, and there came a loud bang as the person kicked the door in annoyance.

"Girl!" A voice roared- it was Kaiba. "If you don't open the stupid door right now, I swear I will break it down, and whatever gods or god you might happen to believe in help you if you're not wearing anything."

With a curse, she sat up in bed, made sure her clothes were decent (and actually on), and wrenched the door open. Kaiba swore, almost falling inside the room.

"What," she snapped impatiently. "Could be so urgent that you would want to break the door down at seven in the morning?"

"If you don't hurry up," he said, with an I'm-only-talking-to-you- because-I-have-to tone of voice. "We'll be late for school."

She glared at him. "We? You are the only one who's going to school."

"I enrolled you into the local high school." He said flatly, and then added hurriedly, "And don't comment right now. It's a little late to do anything about it."

Her answer was calm, which would have frightened him more than if she had shouted, if-if he got frightened at all.

"It wouldn't be too late to kill you- and do the world a bit of good while I'm at it."

He glared at her, saying nothing. And then, with a swish of his trench coat, Kaiba stalked out of the room and down the hall, disappearing down the stairs.

With a sigh, it was no good to argue anyways, *Especially,* she thought, *with someone as stubborn as Kaiba.*

Tammy went to the closet, where the various outfits she and Mai had picked out were hanging. *Thankfully, I picked out most of them.* she thought, looking at one less the modest outfit with great distaste.

She picked out a pair of dark-blue jeans, a white shirt, and a dark green jacket. The school had it own uniform, she recalled, but luckily, she hadn't received one yet.

She headed downstairs, and had to stop to think where she was supposed to be headed. Thankfully, she saw Mokuba coming in the other direction.

"Hey, Tammy!" he called cheerfully. "I'll show you to the dining room. Seto asked me to come and look for you. He thought you might get lost."

"Figures." She muttered, and to her surprise, heard Mokuba laugh.

"Seto's like that." He told her. "But really, you can't judge him by the way he usually acts. He's really nice once you get to know him."

"So I take it no one's bothered to really get to know him?" she asked dryly.

Mokuba grinned. "He is my brother, so I can't say too much." He looked over at her, and his tone became completely serious, a contrast to his previously joking mood. "You should try though. I think you're the only person who's really like him."

"Not today." She said tiredly, meaning the part about trying.

Mokuba laughed, and then stopped in front of a room. The double doors were opened wide, to spare anyone who wanted to enter the agony of having to struggle to get them open.

Inside, seated at the table, Kaiba had already almost finished his breakfast, and was working on his computer. He barely glanced at Tammy and Mokuba as they entered.

"Good morning." He murmured distractedly.

"A little late, aren't we." A voice sneered, and it was obvious who the speaker was. There came a pause, and then, "Either way, there's nothing good about it."

He looked up, and saw her lean her head down on the table. He smirked. "What? Didn't you get enough sleep?"

"No." she said flatly.

"That's nice." He replied coolly, with a more than obvious touch of sarcasm. "What do you want for breakfast?"

"Nothing." She said dully. "Not hungry."

He shrugged. "Suit yourself then."

So it was, half an hour later, Tammy found herself in Kaiba's limo, on her way to her first day at Domino High School.

***

There were more people out in the courtyard than Tammy would have liked, but she stepped resolutely out of the limo, carefully keeping her face blank. She moved to the side to let Kaiba climb out.

Kaiba felt her stiffen as she looked around at the mass of people gathered outside the school. He was used to it, naturally, the groups of friends chattering happily, although he had never bothered to join them. He spotted Yugi and his gang some distance away, and saw them glance over curiously. He also deliberately ignored the glances of the other students in the courtyard.

"Follow me." He hissed almost inaudibly.

Tammy obliged, not planning to argue, since she would have done so anyways. The school was large, of course, considering the number of students that went there. And the counselor was nice enough, confirming the courses she would be taking, and making sure the electives were to her liking. Since it was Kaiba who had signed her up for the classes . . . surprisingly, they were fine.

***

Tammy sighed, scanning the schedule, and leaned back in the desk. She had seven classes in all, four required ones, Spanish- for some reason, and two others whose purpose remained unknown as of yet. Worse, after comparing schedules, she had about half her classes with Kaiba, and had an ever- growing suspicion that he had simply signed her up for the classes he himself was taking to save himself some time.

*He could have not bothered at all.* she thought grumpily, her bad mood becoming worse as the day proceeded, and it had not been more than two hours since she had awoken.

All of this, though, could not have been worse than having to change into the school uniform, which she, personally, thought showed a little too much everywhere, and consisted of a blouse and skirt, which was pink, in the first place.

Yet, that was amended when she found time before class to get Kaiba to show her the library, and get a good book. Then . . . classes.

So it was, that she was in first period-Math, ten minutes early, seated in the very back corner of the classroom, and Kaiba at the far end. She cast a glare in his direction.

Kaiba noticed he was sitting next to Yugi, but was too tired to care. He also noticed Tammy glare at him, and he himself in turn, finding he had enough energy left to try her temper, raised an eyebrow, his expression innocent. With a second irritated glance at him, she turned back in her seat.

A group of girls walked in, talking and laughing. They ignored both him and Yugi, but one of them stopped when she noticed Tammy. Kaiba watched as the girl say something to the others and they all laughed. Tammy, he noted, had pretended to have not seen them at all, and was reading her book.

Tammy looked up as the first girl detached herself from the snickering group and walked towards her.

*Like I said, feel sorry for anyone who messes with me today.*

"So," the girl said, her voice loud, so that her friends could hear. "You're the new girl aren't you?"

Her reply was soft, albeit cold, but was loud enough for all of them in the room, which was the girl's friends, Kaiba, and Yami, whom Yugi had guessed correctly, would like to see this.

"It sure seems that way." She said somewhat sarcastically.

The girl's face flickered momentarily with anger, and then. "Where do you live?"

"I'm staying at Kaiba's place." She replied coolly.

The girl laughed mockingly. "What? Who would want to stay with that heartless b******?"

(I try not to put this sort of stuff in, but knowing teens, it makes it realistic. Sorry to anyone who doesn't like it. If you want to, complain, and I'll make sure to not do it in the future. ^.^)

Kaiba sat up in his desk indignantly. *Why . . . Let me show her who she's insulting! I am going to beat her up and then some.*

As if sensing his thoughts, Yugi (Yami) reached over and placed a hand on his shoulder. He shrugged it off angrily.

"Wait." He told him softly. "I want to see what happens."

Indeed, looking over towards Tammy, he remembered she hadn't been in a good mood at all, something about not getting enough rest. It would be just as good to see what she did to the girl.

Tammy felt herself get slightly annoyed. She raised one eyebrow delicately. "I'm not sure, though, if you can be one to call other people names."

"You little b-" the girl snarled, but Tammy cut her off.

"You're more of one than I ever will be." She responded calmly. "So I hope you're ready to have puppies when you're older, if anyone will-"

"Like I was saying," the girl interrupted loudly, and with the exception of her friends, everyone else knew that Tammy had won that round. "Who would want to stay at Kaiba's mansion?"

"Besides the fact that it's a mansion and it's less than likely that you will ever see the inside of one?" Tammy asked.

Kaiba looked over at Yugi (Yami) and saw that he was grinning, and when he glanced over at him and noticed he was looking, tried to hide it, and failed. Kaiba shook his head slightly. Yet, he had to admit, it was hard to beat Tammy with words.

"Unless you and him. . ." the girl suggested darkly.

Kaiba felt his anger rise again, but then noticed something that made amusement take its place- the girl had pushed Tammy a bit too far.

Yami silently thanked Yugi for letting him watch this. It had improved his mood greatly after a night of somewhat disturbing dreams. He also noted that Kaiba was having fun as a spectator of the argument.

"If I didn't know better," she hissed coldly, feeling the anger seethe inside her, and knew that it was not a good thing. *I don't think I feel sorry for her for messing with me anymore.* "I'd say you were jealous."

"Me? Jealous? Dream on."

She let a humorless smile cross her features. "I don't have to. Besides, even if you did like him, I doubt that anybody, much less Kaiba, would like you back."

Kaiba gave a half startled jerk. He did not like the turn this argument was taking.

"Kaiba doesn't like anyone at all." The girl retorted contemptuously. "In fact, I don't think he cares about anybody other than himself."

Kaiba felt himself growl deep within his throat. A hand found its way back onto his shoulder, and he didn't bother to shake it off a second time.

"Kaiba," Yami whispered soothingly, "Just let Tammy handle this, for once. If you interrupt now, they'll make comments."

Kaiba felt his face heat up at the thought. "Okay," he said quickly, "never mind."

Yami laughed softly at Kaiba's reaction, one that he had known was coming.

"You know," Kaiba said, after a while, "You're not all that bad, Yugi."

Yami was started, and chose wisely to not say anything at all, but turned instead, to the argument, which he had a feeling was coming to an end, as class was about to start.

"That's where you're wrong." Tammy told the girl, surprising even herself that she was totally serious.

"Fine." The girl crossed her arms and settled back. "Try to name two people he cares about."

Tammy thought for a minute. "His brother, Mokuba and himself."

*Hey, that wasn't fair.* Kaiba protested mentally.

Apparently, the girl thought so too. "You can't name him."

"Why?" Tammy reasoned. "He cares, doesn't he?"

"Someone other than himself then." The girl said smugly.

Tammy remained quiet, and then said slowly. "I suppose that would be something he will choose to reveal in his own time."

"So you don't know."

She fought the urge to roll her eyes. "If I did, I wouldn't tell you anyways. There's a difference."

With an exaggerated, exasperated sigh, the girl turned, gave her one last loathing glare, and went to join her friends. She ignored the hostile looks the group gave her, and turned back to her book.

"Well, that was interesting." Kaiba commented to nobody in particular.

"Yeah." Yami agreed truthfully. "So, who else do you care about." He ventured.

In a good mood, Kaiba chose to not reply with a cutting remark. A rare grin crossed his face as he mimicked, "I'll tell you 'in my own time'."

With a short laugh, Yami traded places with Yugi, who had begun to regret letting Yami out to watch in the first place, although from his place, he had been able to watch the preceding events.

Tammy looked over at Kaiba and Yugi and noted sourly that they had been amused at her expense. She glared at the two of them, and they grinned in response. The bell rang, and the rest of the class poured into the room and took their seats. With a twinge, Tammy remembered that there were six more classes to go, and the first had only just begun. *This will be a very long day indeed.*

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So, I hope ya'll liked chapter six. Remember to review and tell me what you thought, and if there is anything I can correct. Also, I've posted another story, one-shot, called "When Games Cross". Feel free to take a look and drop a review. Thanks! ^-^