Hey people! Hope you're having a great break and everything! Thanks for your great feedback. You all seem to like the idea of a little romance, and I'm thinking of some couples. I think Tea/Bakura are pretty set, and maybe some others. Hmmm…well, you're all probably waiting for the story, so here goes! Chapter 7 of "It's All Business"

Disclaimer: All characters and figures used in this story belong to their rightful owner, Kazuki Takahashi.

As we last left the gang, everyone was getting ready to board the plane, and Malik had just arrived in the airport and had found the gang using Bakura's hair. And they also had a mysterious person come and watch their every mood. Poor civilization.

Seto: I don't know what that joker's trying to pull, but he's going to regret this.

Yami: Where the hell is that retarded tomb keeper?

Ryou: There he is! I think!

Malik wove his way through the other passengers, making his way towards Bakura.

Malik: Tomb Robber! I must thank you!

Bakura: What? What the hell for?

Malik: I never knew that you being an albino would help me so much!

Bakura: (O__O) I AM NOT AN ALBINO!!!!

Ryou: (Flinching and mumbling) What is with that? People come up to me at random times and ask me if my descendants were naked mole rats.

Yugi: (O__o) Right…(backing away from Ryou slowly) 

Seto: There you are you pathetic buffoon. We're getting ready to leave, so if you don't get out your tickets now, I'm leaving you all behind!

Everyone got out their plane tickets and got into the long line. The flight attendant who was checking tickets seemed to be having a bit of a problem, however. Soon it was Seto's turn…uh oh.

Flight attendant: Hello sir, welcome to the ASANA Airlines! (I just made that up ^__^;)

Seto: (Nodding briefly and handed her his ticket)

Flight attendant: (Studying ticket extremely closely)

Seto: (Waiting)

Flight attendant: (Still peering at the ticket as though it were a check for a million dollars)

Seto: (-__-)

Flight attendant: (Getting out a magnifying glass)

Seto: (O__O)

Flight attendant: Very well, that seems to be in order, enjoy your flight!

Seto: (Snatching up his ticket) What do you teach you?! How to check for counterfeiters? 

Everyone else watched the pathetic scene with wide eyes.

Flight attendant: Righto! Who's next?

Everyone: (MAJOR sweatdrop) (O__O)

Soon after about an hour, everyone was aboard the first class part of the plane. They sure had to hand it to Kaiba. He liked to travel in style. Their seats were already chosen, so they made their way to them. They needed to get comfortable because they were to be seated with the same person for over eleven hours.

Seto: All right you geeks, I'm sure you can find your seats without a personal guide.

Joey: Uh…where's my seat?

Seto: (-__-) I should've known.

Yugi: Joey, your ticket gives your seat. It's right there, see?

Joey: Ah…yeah…I knew that.

Seto: Mutt, you're stupidity amazes me.

Joey: Hey! That's an insult to my brain!

Seto: Good.

Joey: (Thinking hard) Hey!

Seto: (Shaking his head sadly) I just had to bring him along, didn't I?

Seto quickly made his way to his seat and just waited there with a stone-like expression on his face. Everyone else gradually made it to their seats, and with dismay, and some with delight found their seating partners.

The rows were in groups of two and three, but the seats were extremely close together, so that it was basically a long row of seats across the plane.

ORDER:

(In seat of two people)

Yugi and Ryou

(In seat of three people)

Duke, Tristan, and Joey

(In another seat of three)

Kaiba, Yami, and Malik

(In another seat of two)

Tea and Bakura

Yugi and Ryou smiled happily, glad that they weren't seated next to their insane yamis. Duke, Tristan, and Joey were fairly satisfied, but Kaiba, Yami, Malik, Tea, and Bakura were a whole different story.

Malik: Hell no!

Yami: I'm sitting…right between them! (O__O)

Kaiba: (-__-) I'm going to sue this airline for every penny it's got.

Tea: What?! No way! Hey! Yugi, Ryou! I'll…uh…switch you seats!

Bakura: No freakin' way am I sitting next to the happy-go-lucky girl! (He said staring strangely over at Tea)

Everyone else shook their heads sympathetically, and a flight stewardess came over to address the problem.

Flight attendant: Is there anything I can do for you? Your arguments are holding up the other passengers.

Seto: Your airline has seriously made a grave problem.


Flight attendant: Oh? How so, sir? (She said, trying to be polite)

Seto: I am not sitting with those freaks of nature. (He said pointing towards Yami and Malik)

Flight attendant: I'm sorry, sir, but you'll have to work that out with your fellow passengers, but for the mean time, would you please take your assigned seats? Other people would like to go through to their own seats.

Seto grudgingly sat down next to Yami and started muttering under his breath.

Ryou: (Whispering to Yugi) They don't look so happy, do they, Yugi?

Yugi: (-__-) Noooo…how on earth did you figure that out Ryou?

Ryou: (O__o) You don't have to be mean about it!

Yugi: I'm sorry, Ryou. I'm just worried about those three. They're not really likely to get along at all on this trip.

Ryou: (^__^) I'm sure they'll be fine, Yugi. You'll see!

Just then they all heard a large bang from the happy trio.

Malik: What the hell Pharaoh? Keep your grubby paws on your own magazines!

Yami: You've got the only magazines on the whole row, you bleached surfer boy!

Seto: Will you two shut up? Find something constructive to do without making any noise, or I'll make sure you never work in your entire life.

Yami and Malik: Shut up!

Kaiba: (O__O)

Yugi and Ryou: (O__O) Oh boy…

Meanwhile, Tea and Bakura were having their own problems.

Bakura: I am not sitting by that window.

Tea: (Exasperated) Your ticket says you sit next to the window, so sit by the stupid window!

Bakura: No!

Tea: Why not?

Bakura: Why don't you?

Tea: Because I'm going to sit where my ticket told me.

Bakura: Oh! So if your damn ticket told you to go jump off the plane, you would do it?

Tea: (O__o) No! I'm just saying, that we were given assigned seats, so we should stick to them! What are you so afraid of?


Bakura: Afraid? Me? What are you on, you foolish mortal girl?

Tea: (Frustrated) Fine. We'll do this the hard way.

Tea pushed Bakura into the seat and shoved him next to the window. After her little adventure, she seated herself easily next to the aisle.

Tea: That wasn't so bad now, was it?

Bakura: (O__O) Evil demon!

As everyone got comfortable in the first class cabin, the flight was finally about to begin. They relaxed for a while. Yugi and Ryou had each brought some games so they could entertain themselves and the others while on the plane. Seto had brought his laptop and all of his other technical marvels, Joey and his seat-mates just talked and listened to music. Tea had brought along some novels and her headset to pass away the time. But as for the others, they just sat there, stiff and uncomfortable.

Yami: Kaiba!

Seto: (Jumping up from his seat) (O__O) What?

Yami: Could I borrow one of your computers?

Seto: (Looking at Yami as though he were insane) W-what?

Yami: Could—I—borrow—

Seto: I heard you, but I didn't think you were serious! (Started laughing)

Yami: (O__O) Guess not.

Yami, put down, turned to his left towards Malik.

Malik: Don't talk to me…

Yami: (O__O)

Malik: Don't look at me, don't breath on me, and especially don't talk to me!

Yami: Someone forgot to take their drug dosage.

Malik: (-__-) Say that again and I'll take my Millennium Rod and make you look like a corndog.

Yami: I'd like to see you try.

Malik: (^__^) Really?

Yami: (O__O) No…never mind.

Meanwhile, Yugi and Ryou were passing away the time quite nicely…even though their plane hadn't even taken off yet. Just then, the captain's voice spoke over the intercom.

Captain: Welcome ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for choosing ASANA Airlines as your choice of flight. We will be taking off shortly, so please observe the following safety procedures, and we'll have a wonderful flight.

The big screens in the front of the cabin lit up with a man and a woman on the screen. They went through where all the exits were, and how to put life jackets on, and how to put on that weird mask. They also showed the big slide for emergency evacuation, and by the time the show was over, the engines rumbled to life, and the plane began its takeoff.

Once the plane was in the air, the seatbelt signs went off and everyone waited until it was time to land in…11 hours!

Yugi: Hey Ryou, do you have that game that I played at your house before?

Ryou: Which one?

Yugi: The Mario one.

Ryou: Oh! Oh…uh…I used to have it, except Bakura kept losing, so he planted a bomb underneath it and blew it up.

Yugi: (O__O) Right…uh how about the other one?

Tristan: So…

Joey: WHAT!!

Duke and Tristan: (O__O) Dude, are you okay?

Joey didn't answer for a moment, and then Duke figured it out.

Duke: (-__-) (He reached over and plucked out the ear plugs that Joey had stuffed in his ears before take-off)

Joey: Wow. I can hear!

Duke and Tristan: (-__-) Save us.

Kaiba: (Click, click, click, click)

Yami: (O__O)

Malik: (-__-)

Kaiba: (Click, click, click…click)

Yami: Dear Ra make the noise stop!

Seto: (Glaring) If it bugs you so much, then just wear earplugs!

Malik: He's right, you nerd! Stop typing!

Seto: Nerd?

Malik: Yeah! All you do is work, work, work, and you invent stuff. And you get good grades! Hell, if we put on some retarded glasses on you and gave you a pocket calculator, you'd be one heck of a nerd!

Yami: (Snickering)

Seto: (O__O) What are you talking about, you albino-wanna-be?

Malik: (-__-) Smooth…real smooth.

Meanwhile, things were pretty quiet where Tea and Bakura sat. Tea was reading one of her romance novels, while Bakura looked like he wanted to kill and kill again.

Tea: OMG! No!!

Bakura: (Thinking) 'This female is the weirdest person I've ever met' (Out loud) What? What's wrong now?

Tea: (Sobbing) Brad! Brad's leaving Tanya and going back to Samantha! Nooo!

Bakura: (O__O) What the hell?

Tea: But Brad doesn't know that Samantha was already leaving for Hawaii to meet Greg!

Bakura: (-__-) Right. (Thinking: 'This girl needs help.')

Everyone: (Thinking: This is going to be one LONG trip.) (-__-;)

So, with that last wonderful thought, the plane was leaving straight for…well, who knows where. But it certainly seemed like it was to be an eventful trip. Not that anyone, not even Kaiba, knew what it was for. So, with everyone trying to pass away the time, and Tea worrying about poor Brad and Tanya, the gang was headed towards what would soon become the most interesting summer vacation they would ever have.

Well, there's the end of chapter 7! I seem to be dragging stuff along, don't I? Well, I'll try to make things a little quicker, but still with a lot of detail! Does anyone have an idea about where they're going? Or what the company's about? Hmm??? Well, put it in your reviews and I'll see if any of you come close! Well, I really hope you enjoyed. This chapter was a bit longer than what I usually do, so how was it? If you have any questions, comments, or cries of outrage, feel free to let it all out. Well, have a great time doing whatever you do, and see you all next time! (^__^)

~K.L. Kat