He quickly ducked and gave a yell as Serena hosed him with water from the garden hose. She had dragged it in through the kitchen window and was finally paying all of them back for her misery.
"Fire, Fire, fire" she chanted as she continued to spray them with water. The boys scrambled around the room attempting to find something to shield them from the onslaught of water. Serena continued to crow triumphantly as she aimed at whoever had nothing to block them. Seto was completely soaked.
"Get her!" he said as Serena quickly dropped the hose and ran out the house. She was closely followed by Mokuba, Yami, Yugi, and Joey.
"Thanks for a great dinner!" Duke yelled after her. "Bet she never did that before!" Duke said addressing Seto with a grin.
"Well, she did now!" Seto replied as he smiled at her antics. Serena ran out the front door and into the trees that surrounded the house. She hid behind the house and waited for one of the boys to appear. The boys followed close on her heels, searching for her. Serena waited and jumped out; grabbing Yugi around the waist with her still glued to the plate hands.
"I gottcha!" she yelled as the other boys heard her yell. They quickly ran to where she was and tackled her. They then tickled her until she couldn't breathe.
"Stop tickling me!" she managed to get out between gasps for breath. Serena managed to get away and run. The boys cheerfully following her.
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"Come on, time to get up!" Serena called to the boys the next morning as she walked into their room.
"Go to the bathroom, get dressed, and…do whatever you normally do." She said as they boys groggily pulled themselves out of bed.
"Will you spray us with the hose again?" Joey asked hopefully.
"Well, that depends." She said ruffling his hair. "Now get ready for school!" she said giving him a push toward the bathroom.
"I don't want to go; the teacher is a big, fat, cow!" Mokuba complained as he followed his brothers downstairs for breakfast.
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"Kaiba boys come up here!" Mrs. Burbridge yelled annoyed as all four boy trooped up to her desk.
"Your teacher tells me you don't want to take these test!" Mrs. Burbridge said condescendingly.
"I don't want to be here and I want to go home!" Mokuba shouted at her.
"You can go sit in the corner, until you learn to respect your teachers!" Mrs. Burbridge said glaring at the black haired boy. "Yami! Stop fidgeting!" she ordered at Yami who had his hand on his back scratching furiously.
"We're in real bad shape!" Yami protested as he continued to scratch. The other three were scratching as well. Mokuba, who had been sentenced to the corner, was rubbing his back up and down against the wall.
"Nonsense! Mokuba, Sit still!" Mrs. Burbridge yelled at him. She then folded her hands with a sigh. "Is anyone at your house right now?" she asked exasperated.
"Umm… our mother is." Yami spoke up. Mrs. Burbridge looked at him sharply.
"You have a mother now? You brother got married?" she questioned.
"Umm… yeah, he got married so they're our parents now." Yugi lied.
"Well good! Then I'm calling BOTH of them!"
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Serena walked annoyed into the empty classroom that Mrs. Burbridge had told her to go to. Mrs. Burbride was sitting at a desk, while the boys sat miserably at a desk facing the corner, attempting not to scratch. They got yelled at whenever they did.
"Hello, Mrs. Burbridge, I'm Kanna Kaiba" Serena said standing in front of the desk.
"Well Mrs. Kaiba. It seems as though your boys believe they are above taking the Schorstman and Heimlichan tests." Mrs. Burbridge said condescendingly.
"I'm sorry, what are the Schorstman and Heimlichan tests?" Serena asked quietly. She was not happy about receiving a call from the school informing her of her boys miscreant behavior.
"We find them very valuable in measuring the intelligence of young students. The children are slovenly, incorrigible, and are being raised by a father who clearly isn't interested in their welfare, but is himself just a large, spoiled, child who happens to be a workaholic. Joey sit! Your children are a discipline problem." Mrs. Burbridge said cruelly pointing at the four miserable boys at the table. Seto had been standing outside the doorway for during most of the conversation. He had heard what that woman had called him and he wasn't happy about it.
"I know they are a discipline problem." Serena agreed. "I've had problems with them myself." Serena walked over to where the boys sat looking pitiful.
"What did you guys do now!" she hissed at them.
"They decided to play sick. And NOT very convincingly!" Mrs. Burbridge spat at them. Mrs. Burbridge then moved over to her desk to look at some results that had just been placed on her desk as Serena walked closer to the boys, arms crossed. When she got a closer look, the scowl on her face changed when she saw the red spots covering the boys faces and arms. "Oh my gosh." She muttered as she examined them.
"Mrs. Burbridge would you come here?" she asked sweetly. "Has it escaped your attention that these children are covering from head to toe in poison oak!"
"No!...well, yes." Mrs. Burbridge stuttered when she realized that they were.
"But what!" Serena snapped at her, going on the defensive. "My children are in need of medical attention, and all you can do it sit there and smugly lecture me on the importance of tests! Test whose results couldn't possible be measured? Least of all by compulsive Huns!" Serena said slowly advancing causing Mrs. Burbridge to back up slowly away from the protective mother figure.
"And you may think that my husband is a large child!" Serena continued. "But I know he isn't and besides that is none of your business, and these children may be rotten, but they're mine! And I think that they are bright and sensitive, so I have no doubts whatsoever about their intelligence. I do, however, have serious doubts about yours!" Serena finished with a final yell making Mrs. Burbridge fall back into her chair shell shocked. "Kids, get in the car." Serena added softly. "MOVE!" she commanded when they hesitated. The boys grabbed their books and left the room.
"Discipline problem? My regards to schortsman and heimlichic!" she spat as she followed her boys out into the hallway, not seeing Seto who had heard the entire conversation.
"She sure told her off!" Joey commented walking down the hall.
"Dad never did anything like that!" Yugi added about Seto.
"I'm itchy!" Mokuba said.
"Well, what do you expect when you roll around in poison oak?" Serena asked as she ushered them out the door. Seto continued to stare at them until they were out of sight, amazed that, after everything they had done to her, Serena had stuck up for them…and him.