Here's chapter four! I hope you like!
Chapter 4: So, What Are You Doing Over Vacation?
This was it; the class that Mokuba hated was now upon him. He stood in front of the doorway and looked inside. One could see the colorful posters and cut outs of addition and multiplication symbols that hung on the walls. On the other wall, there hung tests that had received 100%, needless to say, Mokuba's test was not up there. Kai's was.
He's a genius though. He thought in regards to his friend. But, of course, Lara's test hung there smugly as well.
Since there was no way around it, Mokuba walked into the classroom and made his way quietly to the back of the room. Riku and Kai already were sitting there waiting for him.
In their math class, the students sat in groups of four in small clusters of desks. Mokuba, Riku, and Kai always sat together, and usually that worked out fine because the class didn't divide into even groups of four.
Mokuba placed his books down on the desk, making a large bang as he let his book fall hard onto the wooden surface. Riku looked up; Kai didn't since he didn't care.
"What took you?" she asked cheerfully, though she was only trying to cheer her friend up because she knew quite well that this was not his favorite class.
He didn't respond, he just glared, and sat down into the chair and placed his head into his open palms.
"C'mon Mokuba, cheer up will you?" Riku pleaded. "The test is tomorrow, so why don't I help you after school?" she suggested with, what she hoped was, enthusiasm.
"It won't make a difference." He mumbled.
"Sure it will, if we study together then tomorrow you'll get a 100% on that test!" she said.
"No it won't." Now he was just being stubborn.
"Give it up Riku, he's bent on failing." Kai said. Riku quickly turned towards him, anger flaring in her large eyes.
"Kai! You insensitive…" He cut her off. Rude!
"I'm just telling you how it is." He shrugged and went back to reading.
"Don't you want to help your friend?" she asked. "You can be such a jerk sometimes!" she fumed. "Scratch that, you're always a jerk~ I don't know why I'm friends with you!" Then she turned back towards Mokuba. "Ignore him Mokuba." She said. "So are you sure that you don't want to study?" she asked one last time, if she could, she would force him to study.
"No." he replied. Though she might have tried to convince him again, the teacher called the class to attention.
"Class, you all know that the test is tomorrow right?" Was the first thing that he asked.
"Hai sensei!" The group of nineteen ten-year-olds chirruped.
"Good, so then are there any questions on the homework that you may have, remember that this test counts twice in my grade book?"
A couple of students raised their hands to ask questions. Mokuba knew that he should also raise his hand but he didn't. It didn't matter. Nothing was going to save him.
Mokuba tried to pay attention while the teacher walked the students through the questions that they asked, but it didn't come to him. He just didn't get it. Riku, on the other hand, took excellent notes since she was still intent on studying with Mokuba after school.
She jammed him hard on the shoulder, and shoved her notebook in front of him. She had written down each step and explained each one with side notes. Kai looked over also. "I'm impressed." He whispered to her, hoping that teacher didn't hear.
Riku put on one of those smug smiles.
"You have no life." Kai added.
Her smile vanished and she gave him another death glare. "Why do I talk to you?" she whispered back fiercely.
He shrugged. "I'm irresistible." He said.
Riku rolled her eyes and stuck her tongue out at him briefly, and he did the same to her. Mokuba stared at her notebook. Surprisingly, he actually understood what was written now. She had taken really good notes.
"Does that help?" she asked. He nodded. "Take it home and study it for tomorrow." She said.
Mokuba nodded. "Thanks Riku!" he whispered loudly into her ear.
Maybe he wasn't doomed for tomorrow. Just maybe, there was some hope for him yet.
***
"Thank god that school is over!" Jounouchii exclaimed to his friends. They all nodded, and as they all knew, there was now a one week break from school.
"You said it Jounouchii-kun!" Yugi agreed.
Honda and Otogi weren't really paying attention to the conversation at hand, they were scheming. There was no school, which meant Shizuka was free all week, or so they thought, not knowing of her determination to get a job that week.
Therefore, the two love-sick boys were planning the perfect way to get Shizuka to go out. Each one had his own method of making her swoon, yet instead of putting their plans into action, the two boys just argued with each other as to whose plan was better.
At this rate, neither of them would get a date.
"What are you gonna do Jounouchii?" Yugi asked.
"I'm gonna stay home and watch TV!" he announced, ah nothing made Jounouchii happier then doing nothing. "Oh and we can duel a whole lot to get ready for the summer tournaments eh?"
"Sure!" Yugi agreed.
"Ugh!" Anzu exclaimed. "Is that all you two think about? That card game?"
Jounouchii and Yugi nodded at the same time.
"Well…" she began. "Maybe I want to learn to play better too!" she blurted out.
"You want to play duel monsters Anzu?" Yugi asked, interested.
"Well, it looks like fun." She admitted.
"Well then you could play with us over the break!"
"Her?" Jounouchii drawled. "Get ready to get you ass kicked Anzu!"
"Whatever!" she rolled her eyes. "Let's think back to when you were first learning, who beat who?" she asked.
Jounouchii stood in thought and Anzu and Yugi giggled watching his confused expressions.
"Anzu beat you all the time in the beginning Jounouchii-kun!" Yugi said, still laughing.
"Anyway, you have some math to learn." She said. "What did sensei tell you?" she asked.
"Oh yeah, how did that go?" Yugi asked. They were both referring to the short meeting that Jounouchii had had with the math teacher because of his test grade.
"He just said that I should try harder because I'm capable of better work and that crap." He said. "Nothing new."
"Well, he has a point." Yugi said. Anzu nodded.
"Yeah well, it's vacation! No on even mention school to me!" he ordered.
His friends smiled. He was right. This was not the time to think about school. There wasn't any for a week!
***
Seto Kaiba was also thrilled that there was no school, of course for different reasons.
He didn't need to hone his skills for the upcoming tournaments, since he was sure that they would be a snap to win.
No, he could finally get down to business and put all of his energy into running Kaiba Corp. He knew that the company was slacking as a result of him being in school. Now he could fire the employees that were not working hard enough and hire new ones, which wouldn't last long, so the cycle would have to be repeated.
There was a knock on his door.
"What do you want?" he snapped as the person slowly opened the door. It was just one of girls that took down appointments for him. He really hoped that he wasn't completely booked.
"Kaiba-saichou…" she began. She paused, waiting for him to tell her to continue.
"I don't have all day!" he growled.
"Right, sumimasen, you received an invitation to a cocktail party, and here it is." She quickly placed it onto his desk and backed away. She bowed quickly and ran out of the office. She knew that her boss hated social gatherings.
Annoyed, yes he's always annoyed, he ripped open the card and looked at it. It was for a business party. These were the worst kinds. He was supposed to have a meeting with all of these people and then drink with them. This would be great.
But, this was no small time event. Every one who was someone were gathering to discuss and hopefully make mergers and deals between companies. He did not want to make any deals with anyone, but he couldn't get out of this one.
"Why must my day always end up being so god damn awful?" he asked himself. Even better, this meeting was in The United States.
Another thing that he really hated were airplanes. He liked helicopters, especially his own, but you couldn't fly across the ocean in one.
The meeting/ party was in two weeks and he had to go. He quickly sent for the girl that had brought him this letter in the first place.
"Give them an affirmative response." He said blankly, handing her the invitation.
"Hai!" she said and left as quickly as she had come.
He took out an expensive, black fountain pen and marked on his desk-top calendar that he had this meeting.
Some morons are going to try to convince me to make some kind of deals with them, and God it's going to be really messed up. Speaking of which, I really need to hire a secretary before then, someone has to take notes.
He was sure that each hot-shot executive would have his or her secretary along with them, and they would write down every word that came out the idiots' mouths.
Well, on the bright side, he would get to miss school for this meeting, and though he didn't know it yet there was another good aspect.
Shizuka Jounouchii…Damn, what the hell?
Once again, he was daydreaming. Daydreaming about that completely gorgeous girl that he had a major crush on.
This was getting a little too ridiculous for him. Why did he like her? She was below him and not rich, and the mutt's sister. He had a crush on Katsuya Jounouchii's sister?!? What was this world coming to?
But still, he couldn't get the image of her deep eyes out of his mind and the thought of burying his face in her hair had occurred to him more then once in the past hour and a half.
Ah, the power of love.
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