Myaami: Before proceeding with the fic, I'd like to thank a few people. *eh hem*

Difinity for helping us review our first copy of it

Shiz for helping us out with the beginning.

Mya: Okay! Now without further delay, here's the story!

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Of all the things that he'd been called in his life, he never would have expected this coming.

Rich boy. Money bags.

But this one shook him completely. It seemed that his life was going in a completely different direction now, and would never be the same.

What really got on his nerves, however, was why it had to happen to him. And the other person, who's in this with him, had to be that...mutt.

In Seto Kaiba's mind if this had happened with anyone else, he wouldn't have minded as much. But Joey Wheeler was not anyone else.

Downtown Domino was no where near as beautiful or friendly, not to mention clean, as the city itself. Its atmosphere held a certain grudge in the air, that made most people stay away from it. But if a family was dealing with money loss, that was a different story.

The area itself consisted of close apartment buildings with broken windows. The tint of rusty brown in them clashed with its ugly pea green doors. Around every few buildings was a narrow brick alleyway with very little light, and surrounding the town were many moldy working power poles.

In one of the only alleys were light glittered down into it, was a figure crouched over. To his side was a large toolbox, and on both his wrists were bulky new duel disks. He groped around the empty space infront of him, as if looking for something.

"Where did I put that bag..." Seto Kaiba said to himself. He was very irritated, and was forcing himself to finish before school started that day.

Kaiba had been up since about three o' clock that Tuesday morning to work in secret on his new duel disks. His knowledge of the media helped him conclude that doing this in the morning in Downtown Domino would prevent news coverage. Kaiba hated that. The microphones always being in his face and looking at those sweaty reporters who think they serve a purpose in the world drove him crazy.

Kaiba let out a sigh of frustration as he jammed a screwdriver into the duel disk. Biting his tongue, he continued to fidget with it, trying to change the wire connection.

"Where the hell are my screws!" he shouted. He almost smashed the disk into the wall, when a voice interrupted him from behind.

"What are you talkin' about?" The voice asked.

Kaiba looked over his shoulder to see whom the voice belonged to. He saw a tall teen leaning against a nearby power pole. His arms were crossed over his chest and he wore a calm, yet serious look on his face. Kaiba smirked, while his anger settled down to a relaxing level. "Nothing that you're flea sized brain would ever understand, mutt."

Joey uncrossed his arms and balled them up into fists. "Hey you wanna fight Kaiba?"

Kaiba turned his head back and stood up. Without warning, he swiftly threw Joey a duel disk that he had removed from his wrist.

Joey didn't have a very high reaction rate therefore it was almost at his head by the time he knew it was coming. Taking a few steps back, he caught the disk, just in time to trip over the power pole he had been leaning against.

"ACK!" Joey cried as he was in mid-fall. Then with a loud 'thump' he hit the pole.

Kaiba rolled his eyes and shook his head before he turned around to his previous work. He glanced down a clock in his toolbox to see how much longer he had to work until school began.

The boy winced as he took a double take at the small clock. He quickly stuffed everything away in his metallic briefcase, then he stood up and 'power walked' out of the alley.

"Betta hurry up Wheeler, ya got twenty five minutes!" Kaiba warned Joey before dashing up the street to peaceful Domino.

Halfway to school, Kaiba finally stopped as something hit him. (A/N: Not literally) 'Did I sound like...' He shuddered when he realized who he had been thinking about. Then he began mentally laughing at himself for ever thinking of that. But he couldn't hold in his laugh for that long and soon enough, he was laughing out loud.

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When Kaiba arrived at school, he was a little confused at his fellow students' actions. Instead of the people normally stepping aside for him to walk up to the entrance, people were actually...bumping into him!

Shock.

That was the way Kaiba felt. He was shocked that people would dare disrespect him and his title of CEO of Kaiba Corp.

While his train of thought was far from him, someone knocked him down, smack on his bottom.

"Hey watch were you're going, mutt!" The large boy called over his shoulder before proceeding into the school. Kaiba froze. He couldn't believe the way he was being treated and spoken to today. Just the other day, people didn't even bother to talk to him, or even look at him.

"Who do you think you're dealin' with 'ere?" Kaiba yelled as he stood up, brushing himself off. The bully stopped dead in his tracks, and slowly turned around, glaring daggers at Kaiba.

Kaiba starred right back, until a gentle tug was felt on his arm.

"Come on Joey, just ignore him." Yugi said to...him? 'What is Yugi doing talking to me? And did he just...call...me...'

"Yeah, come on Joey, we gotta get to class or we'll be late." Tea added as he and Yugi helped guild Kaiba into the building.

But of all the people to walk right in front of them...it was him.

"Watch were you're going Kaiba!" Tristan threatened the boy who passed them by.

'Kaiba? No, I'm Kaiba!' he thought to himself. Kaiba was very confused. First he thought he sounded like the mutt, then people treat him like anyone else, and Wheeler's friends were talking to him, and now! Now, he saw himself walk right infront of him!

The boy turned around, and when he saw who was there, a wide grin spread across his face. A grin of revenge. He glared right at Kaiba before turning and quickly walking into the building.

Kaiba was speechless, not to mention motionless. He tried to move his feet towards the kid who looked like him, but his legs failed. With a little help from his new 'friends', they were able to get Kaiba inside the building and at his locker in twenty minutes. Just in time for school to begin.

After standing at 'his' locker for a few minutes, he snapped back to reality. Kaiba lowered his eyes, and charged towards his first class.

When he got there, he kicked open the door that was shut tightly. Now shaking in furry and frustration, he stepped up into the doorway.

"WHERE'S WHEELER!" he snarled.

The class just looked at him dumbfounded. They didn't get it, but soon enough, someone broke the awkward silence. Yugi.

"Umm...Are you feeling alright Joey?"

He couldn't have been talking to him. But as the class continued to look at him, he realized...Yugi was.

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Mya: So how was it?

Myaami: This was out first attempt at a good fic, so I hope it turns out okay.

Mya: Once again, please review for us! If we don't get that many, we might not continue!

Myaami: I hope you liked it! ^_^