Chapter 12.

Kaiba was sitting in his office at home, with Mokuba on his lap. Together, they were making ideas where to put various water rides, and the design of them. "Oh, I know....in the walking area here, why don't we put these hanging showers, and sprinklers around, too!"

"Mokuba, they have water everywhere in this park. Why bother doing that? They have shower areas...." Kaiba said.

"I know, but it's fun running into sprinklers and stuff. I figured for kids, it would be great running through those, while they're heading to the next ride!" Mokuba said.

Kaiba sighed, saying, "All right....we'll throw in some sprinklers." At that moment, the phone rang. Mokuba was going to reach for it, but he said, "I got it....it's probably Mai. Kaiba." He answered.

"Hey Kaiba! I saw yer face in the newspaper today with Mai....care to explain this to me?" Joey was practically yelling on the phone to him.

"Seto....who is it?" Mokuba asked.

"Hold on." Kaiba said calmly in the phone, putting his hand on the mouth piece. He looked down, saying to his brother, "One of the stock-holders. Why don't you go in the other room for a bit....this is going to take awhile."

"Well....okay." Mokuba said, getting off his lap, and heading out of his office.

Kaiba followed, closing and locking the door, saying, "I was going to call you about this matter. I didn't get a chance to."

"Yeah, sure you were....just like the last time. I didn't plan on staying away so you can have some play time with your new arm-candy, Kaiba!" Joey spat back.

Kaiba stated, "I planned on breaking it off, but I decided maybe it would look good for public image."

"You and you're image crap! You know I didn't stand for it when you threw that in my face before. What made you think I was gonna go for it this time??" Joey asked.

Kaiba snarled back, "I thought the point was already made that I'm not interested in her! What do you care if I use some blond bimbo or not? It's not like she means anything to me! I'll toss her away, when she served her purpose. Besides, one or two more pictures like that, and we can probably start seeing each other a couple weeks earlier. It's not like I'm sleeping with her...."

"Huh....I wouldn't be surprised if you did, you already slept with my best friend, once." Joey pouted, causing Yugi to blush.

Kaiba growled, "Don't bring that up again. I was not in the right state of mind then, and you know it."

"Oh yeah, you were too girlie to be honest with me. Gimme a break!" Joey snapped.

"Fine, next time you can be thrown in the machine, and see how you deal with it!" Kaiba snapped back.

Joey relied, "Fine, you find me another machine, and I'll show ya how ta handle it....it would probably be a hell of a lot better than you did! And stay away from Mai!!"

Kaiba slammed the phone down. He didn't need this....why couldn't he get it in his head that he wasn't interested in her?

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There was a click on the other side of the line, as Joey snapped, "Don't you hang up on me!!" And started slamming Yugi's receiver against the phone, over and over again.

"Joey, Joey, don't do that!!" Yugi exclaimed.

Joey stood for a minute, saying, "Fine....he wants to play that way, so can I." And stormed out the door.

"But Joey!" Yugi said....but too late, he was gone.. "He's going to get them both in trouble...." Yugi muttered to Yami.