MG666Thanks to all of my reviewers. I still can't believe I actually got
reviews! Thanks again. I think more reviewers wanted yaoi, but I'm not
gonna. Cut me some slack! Marik, disclaimer?
MarikOf course: DISCLAIMER Yu-Gi-Oh, though quite fine, is not mine, hey that rhymes! {o_o;}
Remember: '...' = thoughts to self, "..." = talking.
Oh, and before I forget, remember that this is a long chapter to make up for not updating. Nearly 3,000 words. Took me a long time to write. This will count for chapters 3 and 4. On with the story.
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Chapter 3 & 4- Double Detention & Dares [three D's in a row, ^___^, I'm proud of myself]
"It's 4 o' clock now and you can leave at 8. No exceptions," the Prune said with a glare. It seemed to be that she wished them to kill eachother, because all of the desks were cleared away except for two in the middle facing eachother.
"I'll be down in the teacher's lounge. If either of you leave this room, you will be expelled, no questions asked. And no, Mr. Kaiba, you can not work on your laptop. You may work on school assignments or you can just sit there. Or you two could work on your project." Apparently the Prune and the loony-ass Social Studies teacher were working together to make their lives a living hell.
"If I come back and find blood, you get to clean it up. I'll be back in about an hour to take you to the bathrooms. Until then, NO ONE leaves this room. Heh, have fun." She gave them a wide, evil grin that made her look more like a shriveled-up old toad than ever.
As soon as she shut the door, Joey growled, "That old, dried up, bitter prune." Kaiba couldn't help but chuckle appreciatively. Joey just kind of stared at Kaiba a moment, amazed that he was capable of laughing, but then gave Kaiba a small smile. Kaiba returned the smile that was just a small raising of his lips.
"Man, I didn't know you could smile in any way that wasn't a smirk," Joey commented, surprised by the returned smile.
"I am human, Wheeler, so naturally I do have some kind of sense of humor. Even if I try to avoid it at all costs," Kaiba replied going to one of the desks and sitting down.
"You shouldn't. Then maybe you'll actually get people to like ya, or at least make people be less hostile towards you," Joey said, going to the other desk and sitting. He was amazed that he and Kaiba had been able to carry on a civil conversation. He was still more amazed that Kaiba hadn't called him any doggy names. And even more amazed that Kaiba actually had a sense of humor.
"Whatever, pup. Making friends doesn't help business, it only hurts it. Anyone trying to be your friend is going to stab you in the back," Kaiba responded, taking out some trig [trigonometry] homework.
"Ya know, life isn't just based on work. Ya gotta learn to live a little. Gawd, ya really don't have a life. I would go crazy if all I did was work," Joey said, amazed at the lack of liveliness in Kaiba and confused by it.
"That's why you're not CEO of one of the largest companies in the world."
"Whatever. You still need to loosen up a bit sometimes. Jeez," Joey said, near exasperation. He took out his trig homework too, and began working on it. Trig was one of the few classes he enjoyed and was good at. Math came naturally to him.
They both began working in not companionable, but non-hateful silence.
It had only been about 15 minutes since the Prune left. They both continued to work in silence, but it wasn't a hostile atmosphere. Kaiba glanced at Joey's paper and saw that Joey was as far along as he was. And by the look of it, Joey had all of the answers right as well. Kaiba knew that math was Joey's best subject, but he didn't know Joey was so good at it. Joey looked up and caught Kaiba looking at his paper.
"Now you have to look off a mutt's paper along with having a sense of humor? Are you on crack or something or are you an imposter? Where's the hateable, arrogant bastard we all know and hate?" Joey said, but he did so not with a hateful tone, but a joking one.
"I wasn't copying, Mutt; I was just surprised you can do math so well," Kaiba replied.
"Compliments too now? Who are you and what did you do with Seto?" Joey said without thinking.
"Did you just call me 'Seto', Pup?" Kaiba asked, but he didn't seem angry.
"Uhhhh..." Joey blushed and couldn't think of anything to say. 'I just called him 'Seto'? What is wrong with me? I usually slip up around him, but not enough to call him Seto.'
"It's OK, Pup, just don't do it around any one else," Kaiba said, and just didn't say anything more on the matter.
Joey was confused even more and thought, 'He wasn't mad? Usually if I call him Seto anytime there's a meeting between his Mr. Fist and my Mr. Stomach. Hey...Wait a minute! Did he just say not to call him Seto around others? Does that mean I'm aloud to call him Seto without others around? This is getting way too weird.'
Joey had a sudden idea, and he doesn't get those all the time.
"I gotta idea. If we're both good at this and we both still have like a hundred problems left, why don't we both do half of the remaining problems and then just copy the other half of the problems from eachother's papers. It'll be easier that way, right?" Joey said, not sure what Kaiba would say, but definitely not expecting,
"That's actually a good idea, Pup. I can do these problems easily and all, but it can become tedious and exasperating at a certain point, which we are at," Kaiba said in an almost friendly tone.
Joey nodded his head, kind of shocked. He thought, 'Seto actually liked my idea? Did I just call him Seto in my thoughts? This morning I felt like killing him, and now we're almost being friendly. Maybe I'm just being paranoid. Whatever.'
For the next 30 minutes they worked on different halves of their trig homework. They both finished at the same time and copied eachother's answers down. They just barely finished copying as Prunella came back to take them to the restroom.
"No blood splattered across the walls. I would think by now you would be at eachother's throats in literal terms," the Prune said, sneering.
She lead them to the bathrooms.
Without even thinking about it, they walked right next to eachother and walked shoulder to shoulder. They both realized this at the same time and Kaiba faked a coughing fit and Joey pretended that his shoe untied. The teacher turned around impatiently and they continued towards the bathrooms, careful not to walk too close to eachother.
They used the restroom and got water and Prunella walked them back to the classroom in uncomfortable silence.
"It's about 5:15 now, so only 2 hours and 45 minutes left," she said with sarcasm. "I'll be in the teacher's lounge again and I'll come and check on you again in a couple of hours. I will say again, if either of you leave this classroom, you will be expelled."
With that, she walked out the door and shut it with a loud thud, making the classroom feel more like a prison than ever.
"Well, I don't have any homework besides the trig, and we're done with that. Whadda 'bout you?" Joey said, looking at Kaiba, trying to break the unbearable silence.
"That was the only homework I had as well," Kaiba replied, keeping his expression neutral (better than hostile, right?).
"Could we do any work on our Ancient Egypt project for Social Studies?" Joey asked. Now he was kind of wishing they hadn't split the trig homework because now they had absolutely nothing to do. At all.
"We don't have any of the right materials, the Prune won't let us on any computers, and we wouldn't be aloud to go to the library or anything." Kaiba said all of things matter-of-factly, but he still did look kind of bored.
"Do ya have your duel monster cards?" Joey asked, not sure that even if he did have his cards, he would want to duel.
"No, but now wish I did. Do you have yours?" Kaiba said.
"No, I was hoping you had your deck and we could split it and duel. Oh well."
This left them in an uncomfortable silence yet again and they both fidgeted and couldn't sit still.
Trying to break the silence again, Joey said, "So...how's Mokuba doin'?"
"OK, I guess, but he's becoming more of a Kaiba and I'm not sure if that's a good thing, "Kaiba stated
"How so?" Joey asked.
"Uhh...he's been doing things you would think of me as doing. Like yesterday, he hacked into my personal computer system and changed around all of the settings so that every time I click on something, a chibi Blue- Eyes pops up and sings 'Mary Had A Little Lamb.' Quite sickening, actually. It took me about 2 hours to fix. Of course, he did it so sneakily that the only way I knew it was him is because the security camera caught him," Kaiba said, a small smile forcing its way on to his lips. He had to admit, it made him proud to see Mokuba pull off something like that.
Joey just sniggered and said, "Coming right along as a Kaiba, isn't he?"
"I suppose you could say that. He's also pretty good at playing mind games and manipulating people. He can get the guards to do almost anything now," Kaiba said, making his smile a little bit bigger. "I found him making them do the rabbit hop because he convinced them that was how they had to check for hidden cameras. But, then again, they might be a bit gullible, but you have to Mokuba credit."
Joey laughed out loud, a real laugh that somehow made Kaiba want to laugh too.
Kaiba bit his lip to try to stop himself, but it resulted in him snorting and made Joey start laughing even harder. Pretty soon they were both laughing so hard it hurt their lungs and sides. Nothing was really that funny, but they kept laughing. You know how that feels, it's a bit uncomfortable, but you feel good anyway, laughing so hard. All dignity was forgotten on both their parts. They didn't remember when they fell off their chairs, but the next thing they knew, they were on the floor next to eachother, gasping for air, and still having little fits of laughter.
Kaiba looked up at Joey. Joey's honey-colored eyes were glazed over with tears of mirth. His face was slightly flushed and his hair was messed up a little bit. He had a sheepish, lopsided grin that seemed to light up his face.
Joey met Kaiba's eyes. Kaiba was on his side his face had a rarely seen smile of pure happiness and amusement that made his features, if possible softer. His normally immovable hair was slightly ruffled and hung in his eyes. Then Joey noticed something else. Seto's cobalt, deep eyes had somewhat melted and didn't have a guarded, wary look. Joey was seeing the real Seto, no masks, unleashed, and he bet he was one of the first ones to.
You know how when you get an adrenaline rush, you get like a million thoughts, but its all in one second? Well that's what happening to Joey and Seto now.
They could hardly regain their breath.
TBC
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BUM, BUM, BUMMM!!!
MG666A big cliffy, isn't it? That was hard to write. Hey, that was a long chapter, wasn't it? Like I promised for not updating. My computer at home is finally working again, so I'll keep writing and update soon.
Marik(grudgingly) That chapter was...okay, I guess.
Yami MG666 That chapter kicked some major ass!
Marik Hey, I thought you were on my side!
Yami MG666 Right...any ways, she'll update soon. Please R&R.
NEXT CHAPTER WILL BE PART 2 OF 'Double Detention and Dares.'
PLEASE R&R!
MarikOf course: DISCLAIMER Yu-Gi-Oh, though quite fine, is not mine, hey that rhymes! {o_o;}
Remember: '...' = thoughts to self, "..." = talking.
Oh, and before I forget, remember that this is a long chapter to make up for not updating. Nearly 3,000 words. Took me a long time to write. This will count for chapters 3 and 4. On with the story.
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Chapter 3 & 4- Double Detention & Dares [three D's in a row, ^___^, I'm proud of myself]
"It's 4 o' clock now and you can leave at 8. No exceptions," the Prune said with a glare. It seemed to be that she wished them to kill eachother, because all of the desks were cleared away except for two in the middle facing eachother.
"I'll be down in the teacher's lounge. If either of you leave this room, you will be expelled, no questions asked. And no, Mr. Kaiba, you can not work on your laptop. You may work on school assignments or you can just sit there. Or you two could work on your project." Apparently the Prune and the loony-ass Social Studies teacher were working together to make their lives a living hell.
"If I come back and find blood, you get to clean it up. I'll be back in about an hour to take you to the bathrooms. Until then, NO ONE leaves this room. Heh, have fun." She gave them a wide, evil grin that made her look more like a shriveled-up old toad than ever.
As soon as she shut the door, Joey growled, "That old, dried up, bitter prune." Kaiba couldn't help but chuckle appreciatively. Joey just kind of stared at Kaiba a moment, amazed that he was capable of laughing, but then gave Kaiba a small smile. Kaiba returned the smile that was just a small raising of his lips.
"Man, I didn't know you could smile in any way that wasn't a smirk," Joey commented, surprised by the returned smile.
"I am human, Wheeler, so naturally I do have some kind of sense of humor. Even if I try to avoid it at all costs," Kaiba replied going to one of the desks and sitting down.
"You shouldn't. Then maybe you'll actually get people to like ya, or at least make people be less hostile towards you," Joey said, going to the other desk and sitting. He was amazed that he and Kaiba had been able to carry on a civil conversation. He was still more amazed that Kaiba hadn't called him any doggy names. And even more amazed that Kaiba actually had a sense of humor.
"Whatever, pup. Making friends doesn't help business, it only hurts it. Anyone trying to be your friend is going to stab you in the back," Kaiba responded, taking out some trig [trigonometry] homework.
"Ya know, life isn't just based on work. Ya gotta learn to live a little. Gawd, ya really don't have a life. I would go crazy if all I did was work," Joey said, amazed at the lack of liveliness in Kaiba and confused by it.
"That's why you're not CEO of one of the largest companies in the world."
"Whatever. You still need to loosen up a bit sometimes. Jeez," Joey said, near exasperation. He took out his trig homework too, and began working on it. Trig was one of the few classes he enjoyed and was good at. Math came naturally to him.
They both began working in not companionable, but non-hateful silence.
It had only been about 15 minutes since the Prune left. They both continued to work in silence, but it wasn't a hostile atmosphere. Kaiba glanced at Joey's paper and saw that Joey was as far along as he was. And by the look of it, Joey had all of the answers right as well. Kaiba knew that math was Joey's best subject, but he didn't know Joey was so good at it. Joey looked up and caught Kaiba looking at his paper.
"Now you have to look off a mutt's paper along with having a sense of humor? Are you on crack or something or are you an imposter? Where's the hateable, arrogant bastard we all know and hate?" Joey said, but he did so not with a hateful tone, but a joking one.
"I wasn't copying, Mutt; I was just surprised you can do math so well," Kaiba replied.
"Compliments too now? Who are you and what did you do with Seto?" Joey said without thinking.
"Did you just call me 'Seto', Pup?" Kaiba asked, but he didn't seem angry.
"Uhhhh..." Joey blushed and couldn't think of anything to say. 'I just called him 'Seto'? What is wrong with me? I usually slip up around him, but not enough to call him Seto.'
"It's OK, Pup, just don't do it around any one else," Kaiba said, and just didn't say anything more on the matter.
Joey was confused even more and thought, 'He wasn't mad? Usually if I call him Seto anytime there's a meeting between his Mr. Fist and my Mr. Stomach. Hey...Wait a minute! Did he just say not to call him Seto around others? Does that mean I'm aloud to call him Seto without others around? This is getting way too weird.'
Joey had a sudden idea, and he doesn't get those all the time.
"I gotta idea. If we're both good at this and we both still have like a hundred problems left, why don't we both do half of the remaining problems and then just copy the other half of the problems from eachother's papers. It'll be easier that way, right?" Joey said, not sure what Kaiba would say, but definitely not expecting,
"That's actually a good idea, Pup. I can do these problems easily and all, but it can become tedious and exasperating at a certain point, which we are at," Kaiba said in an almost friendly tone.
Joey nodded his head, kind of shocked. He thought, 'Seto actually liked my idea? Did I just call him Seto in my thoughts? This morning I felt like killing him, and now we're almost being friendly. Maybe I'm just being paranoid. Whatever.'
For the next 30 minutes they worked on different halves of their trig homework. They both finished at the same time and copied eachother's answers down. They just barely finished copying as Prunella came back to take them to the restroom.
"No blood splattered across the walls. I would think by now you would be at eachother's throats in literal terms," the Prune said, sneering.
She lead them to the bathrooms.
Without even thinking about it, they walked right next to eachother and walked shoulder to shoulder. They both realized this at the same time and Kaiba faked a coughing fit and Joey pretended that his shoe untied. The teacher turned around impatiently and they continued towards the bathrooms, careful not to walk too close to eachother.
They used the restroom and got water and Prunella walked them back to the classroom in uncomfortable silence.
"It's about 5:15 now, so only 2 hours and 45 minutes left," she said with sarcasm. "I'll be in the teacher's lounge again and I'll come and check on you again in a couple of hours. I will say again, if either of you leave this classroom, you will be expelled."
With that, she walked out the door and shut it with a loud thud, making the classroom feel more like a prison than ever.
"Well, I don't have any homework besides the trig, and we're done with that. Whadda 'bout you?" Joey said, looking at Kaiba, trying to break the unbearable silence.
"That was the only homework I had as well," Kaiba replied, keeping his expression neutral (better than hostile, right?).
"Could we do any work on our Ancient Egypt project for Social Studies?" Joey asked. Now he was kind of wishing they hadn't split the trig homework because now they had absolutely nothing to do. At all.
"We don't have any of the right materials, the Prune won't let us on any computers, and we wouldn't be aloud to go to the library or anything." Kaiba said all of things matter-of-factly, but he still did look kind of bored.
"Do ya have your duel monster cards?" Joey asked, not sure that even if he did have his cards, he would want to duel.
"No, but now wish I did. Do you have yours?" Kaiba said.
"No, I was hoping you had your deck and we could split it and duel. Oh well."
This left them in an uncomfortable silence yet again and they both fidgeted and couldn't sit still.
Trying to break the silence again, Joey said, "So...how's Mokuba doin'?"
"OK, I guess, but he's becoming more of a Kaiba and I'm not sure if that's a good thing, "Kaiba stated
"How so?" Joey asked.
"Uhh...he's been doing things you would think of me as doing. Like yesterday, he hacked into my personal computer system and changed around all of the settings so that every time I click on something, a chibi Blue- Eyes pops up and sings 'Mary Had A Little Lamb.' Quite sickening, actually. It took me about 2 hours to fix. Of course, he did it so sneakily that the only way I knew it was him is because the security camera caught him," Kaiba said, a small smile forcing its way on to his lips. He had to admit, it made him proud to see Mokuba pull off something like that.
Joey just sniggered and said, "Coming right along as a Kaiba, isn't he?"
"I suppose you could say that. He's also pretty good at playing mind games and manipulating people. He can get the guards to do almost anything now," Kaiba said, making his smile a little bit bigger. "I found him making them do the rabbit hop because he convinced them that was how they had to check for hidden cameras. But, then again, they might be a bit gullible, but you have to Mokuba credit."
Joey laughed out loud, a real laugh that somehow made Kaiba want to laugh too.
Kaiba bit his lip to try to stop himself, but it resulted in him snorting and made Joey start laughing even harder. Pretty soon they were both laughing so hard it hurt their lungs and sides. Nothing was really that funny, but they kept laughing. You know how that feels, it's a bit uncomfortable, but you feel good anyway, laughing so hard. All dignity was forgotten on both their parts. They didn't remember when they fell off their chairs, but the next thing they knew, they were on the floor next to eachother, gasping for air, and still having little fits of laughter.
Kaiba looked up at Joey. Joey's honey-colored eyes were glazed over with tears of mirth. His face was slightly flushed and his hair was messed up a little bit. He had a sheepish, lopsided grin that seemed to light up his face.
Joey met Kaiba's eyes. Kaiba was on his side his face had a rarely seen smile of pure happiness and amusement that made his features, if possible softer. His normally immovable hair was slightly ruffled and hung in his eyes. Then Joey noticed something else. Seto's cobalt, deep eyes had somewhat melted and didn't have a guarded, wary look. Joey was seeing the real Seto, no masks, unleashed, and he bet he was one of the first ones to.
You know how when you get an adrenaline rush, you get like a million thoughts, but its all in one second? Well that's what happening to Joey and Seto now.
They could hardly regain their breath.
TBC
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BUM, BUM, BUMMM!!!
MG666A big cliffy, isn't it? That was hard to write. Hey, that was a long chapter, wasn't it? Like I promised for not updating. My computer at home is finally working again, so I'll keep writing and update soon.
Marik(grudgingly) That chapter was...okay, I guess.
Yami MG666 That chapter kicked some major ass!
Marik Hey, I thought you were on my side!
Yami MG666 Right...any ways, she'll update soon. Please R&R.
NEXT CHAPTER WILL BE PART 2 OF 'Double Detention and Dares.'
PLEASE R&R!