Hi everybody!! ^_^ Here's the second chapter of BUSINESS AND A MOVIE. I just wanna warn you that this chapter might skip around a bit. We go from one day to the next day to later that night and blah blah blah and the blue blue blue and the blib blib blib. So I hope you guys don't mind. Also, this is the chapter where we start linking Kea and Kaiba together in one way or another! ... heh heh heh ... I wonder if you guys will be able to figure out what I have planned for this story ...

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"You crashed my limo!" she exclaimed. "Gabe, call us another limo!" She turned back to the limo driver and loudly said, "You're fired!"

Kea stopped when he thought she heard an echo on the words 'you're fired'. She and Gabe looked around until they saw a similar scene taking place with the vehicle that crashed into Kea's limo.

"Kea," Gabe said. "That's Seto Kaiba."

"Are you thinkin' what I'm thinkin', Kea?" Gabe asked, an idea forming in his head about a possible alliance with Kaiba Corporation and boosting their sales, nearly always having business on his mind.

"Yeah, this jerk's paying for my smashed ride," Kea replied, beginning to walk around the back of the limo towards Kaiba.

"What? ... No, Kea, wait!" Gabe exclaimed, quickly following after Kea. But her strides were long and she reached Kaiba before Gabe could stop her.

"Mr. Kaiba," Kea said to get Kaiba's attention.

Kaiba turned slightly and looked at Kea, recognizing her immediately as the female CEO in Domino for the week. "Miss Shatsana," he said, nodding slightly as a greeting.

"I expect you'll be paying for the damages to my limo?" Kea said, more as it was a demand than a question.

Kaiba snorted. "Hah, right after you make out the check for my damages."

Cocking an eyebrow, Kea said, "You've barely got a dent in your little hummer there, kid, the front of my limo is SMASHED! And you're paying for it!"

"I'm sure you have other limos," Kaiba said plainly.

Kea sighed and forced a phony smile, sarcastically saying, "Yeah. Y'know what? I do. But I happen to like this one. So cough up the checkbook, moneybags!"

"Moneybags! You're the one to talk, Miss richest-female-in-the-world!"

"Oh well exc-USE me Mr. Most-successful-male-prostitute in Japan!"

"WHAT DID YOU JUST CALL ME?!"

"YOU HEARD ME LOUD AND CLEAR, MUTT!"

Rolling his eyes, Gabe took out a cell phone and began to call for another limo while Kea and Kaiba argued. He didn't pay much attention to the constant spewing of insults; he was used to it when Kea got angry at an immature coworker.

After calling for a new ride, Gabe leaned on the black limo and watched as angry cars piled up behind the two busted limos. People were honking their horns and screaming profanity like he had never heard. It was somewhat amusing because neither CEO looked like they had any idea what was going on.

"You could get in your limo and drive away right now!" Kea yelled. "I won't be able to even get this thing out of the street! And I just fired my driver!"

"You're not the only one who just fired a worthless employee, join the damn club!" Kaiba yelled back.

It was another few minutes until Kea's limo arrived. Gabe called Kea loudly in Spanish and told her to go. Kea stopped in the middle of screaming at Kaiba, still fuming mad. She quickly whipped out a business card from the inside pocket of her trench coat, and a pen to go with it. "You're gonna pay for these damages," Kea said as she began scribbling on the back of the card. She handed it to him and said, "Call me and we'll arrange something. If you don't call me, trust me, I will be stopping by Kaiba Corporation so you can prepare yourself for a fat American lawsuit."

Kaiba snatched the card and shoved it in pocket. "I will call you, indeed," he said, "but only because YOU are paying for MY damages. He turned on his heel and said, "Good day."

Kea watched for a moment as Kaiba began walking away, then softly mumbled, "I hope you fall in a manhole."

-----------------------------THE NEXT AFTERNOON----------------------------- -

Click, click, click.

"Here's your coffee big brother," a small black-haired boy said sweetly as he walked into Kaiba's office. He placed the cup shakily on the desk as to not spill anything, then stepped back and smiled, proud of himself that not a drop ended up on Kaiba's new carpet.

"Thank you, Mokuba," Kaiba said to his younger brother.

Click, click, click.

Mokuba tilted his head and listened to the sound that Kaiba's keys were making, seeing how his brother's eyes were glued to the screen, never once looking at the loud keyboard. Mokuba himself couldn't type half as fast as Kaiba could, and he was still staring down at the keyboard whenever he typed even a word.

Shrugging off the thought of the keyboard, Mokuba sat down on the couch in his brother's office, turning on the large-screened TV to see what was on. The first thing that popped up on the screen was a shot of Kea Shatsana stepping out of her limo in downtown Tokyo for a meeting. Kaiba caught this image briefly before Mokuba changed the channel to cartoons.

*I can't believe she had the audacity to challenge me,* Kaiba thought, thinking back to the previous day when Kea confronted him about her limo. He continued working on one of his latest projects for Kaiba Corp, tapping the keys at an unnatural speed.

Click, click, click.

The sound of the keys on the keyboard relaxed Kaiba a bit and he slouched in his chair. *She's got an attitude ...* he thought. *Hmph. I'll teach her to get an attitude with Seto Kaiba. American or not, nobody messes with me.*

Mindlessly, Kaiba whipped out the business card Kea had given him earlier that day and picked up his office phone. He began dialing the digits to the cell phone number Kea had given him, then waited as the phone rang a few times. Kea's annoyed voice picked up the phone.

"Who are you and what do you want, I'm busy," Kea said impatiently.

"Too busy to fill out a check for limo damages?"

Kea sighed heavily. "Mr. Kaiba," she said slowly. "Look, I'm gonna be civil with you right now because I've got a lot of work to do and, frankly, I don't want to waste my time and breath on you."

"Hmph," Kaiba said simply.

"Yes, so all I want you to do is mail a check paying for the repairs to my limo to Japanese headquarters of Shatsana Incorporated in Tokyo, and we'll be even."

"What about my damages?" Kaiba asked shortly.

The response was quick. "You're the richest man in the world, Kaiba, pay for your own freakin' damages."

"And you're the richest WOMAN in the world, Miss Shatsana, I'm sure you can afford a few bills, as well," Kaiba shot back at her.

"Well, I don't clean up messes I don't make," Kea said.

"Then we've got something in common."

Kea sighed. When she began speaking again, Kaiba detected a fall in her voice, as if she was letting down her tough image just a tad. "Look. Kaiba. I have a lot of work to do and I'm behind because of a meeting I missed yesterday after the limo crashed. Let me level with you. We're both responsible people and we can take care of this without name calling like yesterday."

"You have a point," Kaiba said. "Although I must admit, this does sound a bit odd coming from someone who called me the best male prostitute in Japan."

"Hey, it coulda been worse, I coulda called you the worst male prostitute in Japan," Kea replied. She laughed a little, and heard Kaiba chuckle a bit on the other line. "Okay, how about we meet and discuss this later. Does that sound reasonable? I'd like to discuss some other things with you, also."

"Fine," Kaiba said. "This evening at 5:00. Are you free?"

"Hold on, let me get my Palm Pilot," Kea said. She reached over to the dresser next to the hotel room bed and began searching through her calendar. Finding tonight's schedule, she said, "Make it 5:30 and you've got a deal."

"Then 5:30 it is," Kaiba said. "Expect my new, in-tact limo to be at your hotel at exactly that time."

Kea smiled at Kaiba's crack about his limo. "Good, let me give you the address."

When Kea was off the phone with Kaiba, she began burying herself in her paperwork, not giving Kaiba or her old limo another thought.

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Kea and Kaiba sat in silence at a small table in a little restaurant Kaiba was used to holding business dinners in. The setting was quiet; soft Chinese music was playing in the background as waiters and waitresses in kimonos walked around with trays in their hands.

Finally, Kea sighed deeply and said, "Are you paying for my damages or not, Mr. Kaiba?"

"Most definitely not, Miss Shatsana," Kaiba replied.

"Call me Kea," was the response he got. Kea picked up her glass and sipped a bit of water from it, locking eyes with Kaiba for a moment.

"Then call me Kaiba."

"I'll call you whatever name you sign on the check."

"Then you won't be calling me anything, now, will you?"

Kea placed her glass down firmly and stared into Kaiba's eyes. "You don't give in, do you?" she said. When Kaiba smirked, she returned it in full. "I like it," she said. "I'm used to feebleminded monkeys running around doing everything I say, even if it's just a mindless mumble. For once I like having someone around who won't take no for an answer."

"I must admit, I find myself feeling the same way," Kaiba said.

Their food arrived then, cutting their conversation short. They restricted themselves from speaking and both began their meals. It was nice and peaceful until Kea felt someone tap her on the shoulder. She turned slightly to see who it was, only to come face-to-face with a tall, happy- looking Chinese woman.

"Kea! Ni hao! Ni hao ma!"

"Uh, ni hao," Kea said to the woman, surprised that she was indeed seeing who she was seeing. "I'm just fine, but please ... what are you doing here?"

"Oh, I'm visiting Domino for a week and I heard you were coming in to town! Why I didn't expect you see you in a fancy place like this, you'd rather be in McDonalds, wouldn't you, honey!"

"Please, Mrs. Ming, not now, I'm in the middle of a business meeting," Kea said, shaking her head at the woman.

"Oh, oh, I'm sorry," Mrs. Ming said, bowing slightly. She turned to Kaiba and bowed, saying, "I'm sorry, sir. I'll be leaving now, Kea, goodbye!" "Yeah, bye," Kea said dully.

Once the woman was gone, Kaiba asked, "Who was that annoyingly chipper woman?"

Kea half-smiled at Kaiba's description of Mrs. Ming and replied, "My old foster mother. She took care of me for a year or so in China before I moved to another house."

"Foster mother? I didn't know you were in foster care."

Kea nodded. "Yeah," she said. "After my parents died, they shipped me from America to Domino so I could live with my godfather, and he put me in foster care after a while. It eventually moved me to China."

Kaiba remained silent after she said this. His parents had died, also, so he could understand what Kea had gone through. He couldn't help but wonder why her godfather gave her up.

"My parents died, as well," Kaiba stated simply.

"Ooh ... I'm sorry," Kea said, taking a moment to look at Kaiba with sympathetic eyes. "Were you put in foster care, too?"

"No, an orphanage," Kaiba said. "I was adopted later. My brother and I. I wouldn't let us be split apart."

Kea smiled a bit and said, "I know how that feels. After going for three years without my cousin Gabe, I had my last foster parents call the orphanage Gabe was at and make a big deal about it until they put us together under one roof."

"Your cousin? Is that who he is to you?" Kaiba asked. He thought about it, then said, "Now that you mention that, I do see the resemblance."

"It's in the eyes," Kea said, smiling. "I've heard it before. Yeah anyway, I've seen your brother. Before our run-in with the limos, that is. He looked very familiar and it wasn't until I had talked to him for a while that I realized it was you that he looked like. I didn't quite place all the talk about his big brother until he started talking about how"- Kea changed her voice to imitate Mokuba's-"big brother wears trench coats that look just like yours and even have the little intercom thingy that yours has."

Kaiba found himself chuckling at Kea's imitation of his brother. "He's a good kid," he said.

"Yeah," Kea said. Then, after a moment, she continued. "Forget about the limo, I'll pay for it myself. I was just pissed off at the time it happened, then I was persistent when I found out you weren't backing down. My apologies."

The table was quiet through the rest of dinner. Once the meal was over and the two began leaving the restaurant, Kaiba said, "You said you wanted to talk to me about something else."

"Huh? Oh yeah," Kea said. "I guess we'll have to meet about it later because my ride's here and I really do have a lot of work to do, still."

"All right," Kaiba agreed. "Same time tomorrow?"

"Yeah," Kea said, beginning to walk towards her limo. "But this time, I pick the restaurant!" She waved slightly to Kaiba and hopped in the backseat of the limo, which sped away quickly once she was safely in.

Kaiba watched the limo drive off and began walking towards his own limo. *There's something about that girl,* he thought as his own limo pulled off. Taking out his laptop, he began to do run a government search on Kea Shatsana.

"Files blocked," the computer spoke.

Kaiba slammed his laptop shut, knowing that Kea had secured her own government files, and he didn't even bother trying to hack into it. His mind was too tired. But there was something about that girl, and he was determined to find out why he felt so connected to her ...

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Tada! Chapter two. Let me know what you guys think, okay? I promise, it'll get interesting next chapter! More of Kea's past will be brought up, along with small link to Kaiba's childhood ...