YUGIOH
Amnesia
Chapter 10.
Kaiba came to school early the next day. After catching up on work at Kaiba Corp, he went on his first date that night with Serenity. But despite that, she wasn't presently the top thing on his mind. After taking on the full responsibilities of Kaiba Corp once again, he had a lot of things to do. Mokuba had gladly returned his cell phone and laptop back to him, now that he was in full control. With mainly Kaiba Corp on his mind, he marched through the halls without a word, and entered the classroom. Kaiba then sat down, pulling out his laptop and papers, and began typing.
Yugi came in about 20 minutes later, saying, "Hey Seto."
"Not now." He said, rather short with Yugi, and kept typing.
Then Joey and Tristan came in, noticing Kaiba, acting.........well, normal. Joey first marched up, saying, "Hey......what do you think you're doing? You know you're not suppose to do this for a week!"
Kaiba stopped, and glared up in their direction......a typical Kaiba glare, making them both flinch.
Kaiba caught the reaction though, not expecting them to respond to him in that way, as if he had just struck them with something. 'What?' He thought. And this wasn't the first time it happened, either. For the last 4 days, Kaiba had noticed certain things he did and said kept making his friends jump and act differently around him. He first dismissed it, figuring they were simply worried about his head injury. But this had been going on for too long.......and he was going to find out why.
Personally, he was getting sick of it. So finally, he stopped his work completely, then got up and approaching them both, asking, "Why did you just do that?"
"Do what?" Joey asked.
"I've noticed certain things I say.......certain things I do, you guys start acting weird around me. Why??" He asked.
Tristan shrugged, "I don't know what you're talking about." Sounding very guilty.
But Joey didn't back down, saying, "Don't change the subject. You're not supposed to be doing this stuff for a week, and you know it!"
Kaiba sighed, giving up on the question, wondering if maybe Tristan was telling the truth, and he was simply seeing things. He sat back down, starting to type again, saying, "I know......but I couldn't just sit there, while my 12 year old brother tried to run the company for me. He's a smart kid, but he's not ready." Once again, Kaiba stopped typing, saying, "I've also been hoping if I could get back to the things I normally do, I could regain my memory."
"So.......has it worked at all?" Joey asked.
"No." Kaiba answered, flat-out. "I don't think I've remembered one thing since I've been back." Kaiba began to wonder if it would ever come back. He's had feelings from different things, but not one bit of memory....he still couldn't remember his own brother.
"I'm sorry, man", Joey said, feeling bad since he caused it.
Kaiba thought a moment, and turned, saying, "Joey.......could you run through a normal day with me, what I usually do on a daily basis?"
"Well...." Joey said, pointing out the laptop. "You come in, you suck your brain into that contraption, typing all day, you do your homework in-between. Then school goes out and you leave, either back home or work.......I'm not sure which."
"So, when do I see you guys?" Kaiba asked.
"At school", Joey said. He sighed, and said, "You're brother was right, Kaiba. You don't normally go see us at the card shop. Well, atleast that's what I think he said to you, on the phone that day. You normally don't have time. You talk with us in-between classes, and during tournaments is when we see and hang out with ya the most. Otherwise, you're glued to that thing, all day." 'So he don't talk to us unless he's insulting us......he don't need to know that.' Joey thought to himself.
Kaiba paused, looking at him without saying a word. He then smiled, and snickered.
"Wh-what? What's so funny?" Joey asked, Tristan equally confused.
"Do you realized you sound like you're jealous with my laptop?" Kaiba laughed.
"What?? Jealous of that stupid thing? That's ridiculous!" Joey said, his face flushing a bit. 'That can't be true, can it? I can't stand the guy........well, normally. Course he's been such a nice guy now, I actually don't mind hanging out with 'em. Geez......could it be true? Nawwww!' Joey shook the thought out of his head, and snapped, "Hey, you wanted me ta tell ya about your day, so I told ya, already! Whaddya want from me?"
"All right....." Kaiba said. "So then, I'll just have to try and imitate my day, and see if it helps."
"So, uh......when are we gonna see ya again. Not that I care or anything.....and I'm not jealous, either!" Joey threw in, trying not to sound jealous, and failing.
"We'll hang out tomorrow. I need to talk to you guys soon, anyway." Kaiba said.