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If I didn't mention this before, Piper lives in the U.S. and that is where Iason Corporations is based.

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Chapter 1

            "Duel Monsters tournament?" an excited Jounouchii asked his best friend Yugi, while they along with their friends Anzu and Honda sat on the grass in the park eating lunch on that bright Saturday afternoon.

            "Yeah, it's in two weeks, it's sponsored by some American company." Yugi said. "I got an invitation yesterday, I bet you'll get one today." He offered.

            "They better give me one! I got second place at Duelist Kingdom and Fourth in Battle City!" Jounouchii announced.

            Anzu rolled her eyes in despair. "As if we didn't already know that!" she replied. She was joking but Jounouchii tended to annoy her with hid constant bragging of his dueling skills. It wasn't that she didn't like Duel Monsters, she was happy to watch her friends do it but she was a dancer at heart. Cards were so not her thing.

            "I can't wait!" Yugi said. Everyone nodded. "We can miss some school too!" he said excitedly. This sounded like a good idea to everyone.

            "That would be really cool!" Honda agreed.

            On that bright day, as the four best friends discussed Dueling and tournaments, they were having a picnic near a small pond in a medium sized park. Each of them was contently munching on sandwiches or potato chips or sipping cool, clear bottled water.

            Anzu looked up at the sky and sighed. It was so nice out. It was the perfect weather.

            Indeed, it was about eighty degrees out on that day in May. It was definitely abnormally warm. The gang was all in shorts, except for Anzu who preferred to be seen in a skirt and her tall lace up boots. Over all, she looked quite good that day.

            "So what's this corporation?" Anzu asked Yugi, still interested.

            "I think its called something like 'Iason'." He said, scratching his head. "It's a technology company, kinda like Kaiba Corp." he explained.

            "Oh God, don't even bring that name up!" Jounouchii exclaimed.

            "Kaiba." Yugi repeated. Anzu and Honda muffled snickers with their hands, and Jounouchii clenched his fists.

            "Kaiba, Kaiba, Kaiba!" Honda taunted, causing Jounouchii to try and punch him in the face, but Honda dodged, and Jounouchii landed onto the soft grass, his hand in the dirt. He growled and mumbled something before sitting up again.

            Yugi and Anzu were pretty much dying of laughter at this point.

            "C'mon, he's not that bad Jounouchii-kun." Yugi said.

            "Easy for you to say, he doesn't go around calling you a pathetic dog does he?" Jounouchii sputtered.

            Anzu and Yugi again broke into a fit of laughter. They weren't trying to be mean, it was just funny. The whole disliking between Seto Kaiba and Katsuya Jounouchii never ceased to amuse them. The whole concept was hilarious.

            "Besides, I was just saying that the company that's hosting this thing is similar to Kaiba's company." Yugi finished.

            "God!" Honda exclaimed. "All these big companies give me a headache!"

            "Everything gives you a headache, including multiplication." Anzu said, shoving him playfully in the arm.

            "So what if I don't like math?" he mumbled to himself.

            "We have that huge test on Monday." She reminded him.

            "Thank you Miss Mathematics of 2004!" he exclaimed. "God!"

            "It's not my fault that I'm brilliant." She teased.

            Now it was his turn to shove her in the arm. "Who cares about some stupid math test anyway?" he asked. "We're going to another tournament!"

            "You said it!" Anzu agreed.

            Yugi and Jounouchii nodded.

            Anzu's eyes lit up evilly; "You know, Jounouchii, I know one other person who'll probably be at that same tournament…" she began.

            "Are you trying to give me nightmares!?!" he sputtered. "What's with you women?!?"

            Anzu giggled. "Just making sure that you knew." She innocently explained.

            "I HATE KAIBA!" He shouted at the top of his lungs, much to his best friends' horror.

            "Jounouchii, keep your voice down!" Anzu whispered fiercely into his ear. "People are staring!" Jounouchii looked around and scratched the back of his head sheepishly.

            "Sorry." He mumbled. "But this is it! At this tournament, I'm kicking his ass!"

            Honda, Yugi, and Anzu exchanged glances. They were those kinds of glances that involved the eye rolling and everything. Jounouchii was like a bag of hot air. He needed to be popped and brought back down to earth.

            "Don't start with that Jounouchii-kun." Yugi warned. "Every time that you get all excited about beating Kaiba, you get your butt kicked because all you worry about is winning and not actually dueling."

            "Not true!" Jounouchii protested.

            "It is too!" Honda agreed. Anzu nodded as she took a sip from her bottle of water.

            "You're probably right." Jounouchii mumbled, seeing that he clearly wasn't going to win against them in this argument. Though he had to admit to himself that what his friends were saying was indeed true. He hated to admit it.

            "As long as we try our best Jounouchii, remember that this tournament is just for fun, there aren't any evil forces to stop." Yugi said, not jokingly though since he remembered the past few tournaments had been strictly for the sake of the world. Well, the last one wasn't. But Yugi didn't participate in that one; he needed a slight break from dueling. Kaiba had been the champion.

            "I still say that I'm going to kick Kaiba's ass!" Jounouchii announced. "Just try and stop me!"

            "Whatever you say." Anzu replied, giving a look to Honda, who rolled his eyes.

            Jounouchii's mind was made up.

            But, most of all, the friends wanted to have fun in the tournament and not worry about anything. This was just a simple competition with a whole mess of prize money.

            Little did they know of the true ulterior motives of this tournament.

***

            Yugi wasn't the only one to receive an invitation that day.

            Seto Kaiba stared at the elegant script that graced the small, dusty rose card. He was sitting at his desk as usual and he had his feet up on his desk, of course he made sure to move his laptop out of the way first.

            He had taken off his tie and jacket and now all he really wanted to do was go to sleep, but it was only four PM and therefore the company was still open. Who knew what the workers would do if there was no one to manage them properly?

            "Iason." He said the name of the American company slowly. It was familiar, definitely familiar. Then he remembered that his father and the CEO of Iason Corporations used to make business deals quite often.

            'I hated him.' Seto thought to himself. Well, that was nothing new; there really wasn't anyone that he didn't hate.

            Although he knew that there many-a-girl who stared at him constantly. It was good to be hot, and hot he was. Of course cold could be another way to describe him. He was both hot and cold.

            But the truly captivating feature had to be his eyes or maybe that chestnut hair that fell ever so gently over them, softening their hard outline. Then again, it could have very well been the money. He was, after all, a billionaire. It didn't matter. He never liked girls anyway since he didn't like anyone.

            Every time that he hired a new office girl she was the stupidest thing alive. He wasn't even trying to be chauvinistic or anything like that. All those stupid women ever did was either talk on the phone (then he'd have to pay the phone bill cause they used company phones) or go out early to get their hair, nails, or eyebrows done!

            He didn't want to hire this new one, but he was desperate. He needed a secretary, and there she was now.

            "Kaiba-saichou." She mumbled as she walked in with a manila folder in her hand. Shizuka Jounouchii stood in front of his desk, her eyes expressionless. Clearly she wasn't too thrilled with her new place of employment either, but it beat "Burger World".

            She didn't look happy, but she looked good. One had to admit that the black dress pants and peach colored embroidered sleeveless shirt that she wore made her look exceedingly professional, not to mention, sexy.

            "What's this?" he snapped, annoyed at her negligence to knock.

            "The report from the last meeting." She answered, her voice cool and collected. She wanted to spend as little time in this office as she could.

            "Don't you know to knock Jounouchii?" he asked her, narrowing his eyes though he took the folder from her.

            "Gomen." She mumbled not sounding sorry at all. She just didn't want a confrontation right now. It was bad enough that her brother was practically seething when he found out where she was working so now she had Katsuya mad at her.

            "There better be no mistakes in this Jounouchii." He said his voice low but with warning in it. "I have no time for mistakes."

            She bowed her head slightly and walked out the mahogany doors.

            'Seto Kaiba.' She said the name mentally to herself. How great of an idea was it to work for him? He was cold; she'd give him that, but not the complete jerk that her brother had made him out to be. The guy ran a company and was in high school, he must have had more stress then anyone could have even imagined. They couldn't blame him for being a little bit mean sometimes could they?

            Shizuka didn't like Kaiba. Anyone who called her brother names and lowered him was no friend of hers. But she felt something, maybe sympathy.

            It sucked to be so sensitive, but Shizuka Jounouchii felt sorry for the CEO of Kaiba Corp.

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