Chapter 19.

Mokuba joined Kaiba that day to work. Kaiba attempted to make calls to the lab to get information on the person, as soon as Mokuba left the room for anything, but all they would tell him was the information that Mokuba told them to tell Kaiba, pissing him off to no end. He could probably threaten the information out of the workers, but then Mokuba would catch wind of it, and he would be in trouble for breaking his promise, yet again.

So finally he gave in, and the brothers gathered what was needed, and headed to another office to work together on the water ride project. As they began to work, the secretary paged him from the speaker box in the office. "What is it?" He asked, after pushing the button.

The secretary stated, "Mr. Kaiba, another temp worker has been assigned to your facility." Which could be heard by anyone in the room, from the speaker box.

"Then send him to his job....why are you bothering me with it?" Kaiba asked.

"Well....this woman's been assigned as your personal assistant." She stated.

There was a pause, as Kaiba looked over at Mokuba, asking, "More planning from last night?"

"No." Mokuba lied. "I did put in for you to have an assistant, but that was months ago. It must have just gotten through."

"....why?" He asked. "You know I don't like or need assistance."

"Yes you do. If you have someone helping you, maybe you can get home sooner, and we could do more things that aren't work-related." Mokuba said. Kaiba continued to give him the 'glare'. Mokuba sighed, "It's just a temp-worker, it's not permanent! It's on a 6 month signed contract, that is gone as soon as the 6 months are over, no strings attached."

"Knowing you, I find that hard to believe." Kaiba stated, then clicked the intercom, saying, "Fine, send him in."

The temp worker wasn't a he but a she. The blond entered the room, and was acting a bit awkward. But Kaiba didn't find that too surprising. After all, everyone acts awkward around him, especially when they first meet him. Fear and insecurity on a new employee was always an enjoyable trait to see, especially when they squirmed.

"Uh....hey, I mean, hi." She smiled.

Mokuba and Kaiba just stared for a moment at her. Mokuba rolled his eyes, already seeing a problem, as Kaiba sighed and shook his head in disapproving manner. "Now you see why I try not to hire too many temp workers." Kaiba mentioned to Mokuba.

"What? Did I do something wrong?" She asked.

Kaiba snapped coldly, "When you are dealing with your superior, meaning me, you will at all times refer to me as Master Kaiba."

"Master??" The woman snapped.

"Uh....Mister Kaiba is fine too, right Seto?" Mokuba smiled.

Kaiba glared at his brother, and the woman decided this was the best time to jump in saying with much more politeness, "I really apologize for not calling you that, Mister Kaiba. I'm new, and I'll try my best to do better....sir."

That brought Kaiba's attention back to the newbee, and the apology and politeness thing was acceptable enough, that he let Mokuba overstepping his authority in front of a nobody worker like that, slide for now.

He pulled up the sheet that was printed to him from his secretary, looking over the temp worker's file. "So you are Jasmine Watana, from Brooklyn, NY, transferred here for more work and experience in Japan. Your parents were Japanese, and moved to the US at birth....you are fluent in both languages."

'I am?' Jasmine thought, hoping he didn't test her on her so-called 'fluent' English. While Mokuba was rolling his eyes, thinking, 'I told them to make sure the name was no where near the original!' Catching the J and W, very easily.

"So your experience is working as a secretarial....'assistant' in your last job, at Kaiba Corp in New York, also as a temp worker." Kaiba stated.

"Uh....yeah. Oh, I mean....Mr. Kaiba. I'm hoping if I do enough temp work, I'll move up enough in the ladder to be a permanent worker." She said, putting on a fake smile.

"Obviously you're going to need 'a lot' of experience, because you're far from making such a jump." Kaiba sneered, causing her to scowl at him, but managed to keep her tongue.

"So....what would you want me to do, Mister Kaiba?" Trying not to emphasize the mister, though it could still be heard a bit.

Kaiba caught it and glared....Mokuba could feel the tension in the room as thick as water. "For starters, you can fetch me a coffee. I'm sure if you have trouble with that, you can ask any of the 'permanent' help, here."

"Fine, 'sir'....I will." She said, and turned heading out the door of their office.

Kaiba paused, and turned to Mokuba, saying, "Can we fire temp help?"

"No....unless they do something really drastic, we gotta keep them for the full term....it's under contract." Mokuba sighed. He was hoping 'Jasmine' wasn't going to be this unprofessional, but then what did he expect, after the heated battle that she got into with him just the other night? Obviously it was still affecting her.

Kaiba paused, thinking about that. "Maybe she'll do something drastic. She's already partial way there."

"She 'is' American. They tend to be more lax down there. Maybe once she's up here, she'll learn better through us." Mokuba said.

"Or crash and burn. Where were we?" Kaiba asked.