Oh my gosh I'm so beat up right now, I had this stupid super big otitis all day and it hurt a lot, it's so big half of my head and all my neck hurt, I'm up since three in the morning because of it and I hear sound as if people were speakingthrough a piper. Anyway this chapter was ready a long time ago and since the site is now ok here you go.
Chapter nine: Back to Domino.
After a week at his old house Kaiba made it back to Domino city, with of course a few souvenir like the picture with his family, the letter for Mokuba, even if no one would ever read it and of course Frosty who acted more like a puppy than a dog who should be dead around five years ago.
When he arrived he noticed a black car parked in his always and cursed under his breath; those damn social worker. He exited his limo with Frosty following him and left the maids take care of his things, he couldn't get away from them this time. He entered the house and went directly to the living room knowing they would make themselves at home with or without his approval.
"May I help you?" Kaiba asked.
"Ah Seto glad to see you are back." One of them said.
"You'll excuse me for not returning the favour." Kaiba said.
"I suppose you know why we are here." The second one said.
"You forgot where the door is?" Kaiba asked with sarcasm.
"Hm I hope you know that insult won't get you out of this one, you perfectly know the terms of you being consider a legal adult state that you must go the school until you are at least 18, we were informed by your principal that he gave you a warning about not respecting this term but that you still refused to go which mean you are going to be send back to foster care." The first one said.
"Isn't there any arrangement we can do?" Kaiba asked.
"I'm afraid it's too late, you should have thought about it before deciding to drop out of school."
"Alright, now I have enough of this." Kaiba said taking something out of his pocket, he walked toward on of the social worker took his hand and put something in it. "Here, happy now?" Kaiba asked.
The social worker counted the money Kaiba put in his hand with a smile. "There's exam retake at the end of the week for people who failed their exam, we'll said a few words to your principal so he let you do them." The social worker said.
"Great, now I hope you remember where the door his." Kaiba said.
"Of course, we'll leave you this instant, just don't forget, this Friday at 8." The second one said before leaving.
After getting reed of the social worker Kaiba decided to take back his place at Kaiba Corp. after all, the real reason why he changed Kaiba Corp. to a gaming company was because he had a dream, a dream only Mokuba knew, and he indented to make his father proud by reaching it.
Kaiba knew what his little brother wanted the most was for him to have friends, but he knew that wasn't going to happen, unless something happen that made him have his heart back he would never be able to trust anyone.
As for Davy, he was an exception, just like Mokuba, he was able to trust him because they were friends before he lost his heart, of course he enjoyed staying at the park, but that was mainly because of Davy, he could stay with the other's, but Davy was the only one he trusted and considered a friend. Davy and Mokuba were the only two persons Kaiba allowed to see his true self and that would always be like that.
But there was one thing Kaiba could do, Mokuba was right, he worked too much, in fact that was one of the reason why he lost his brother, he was so concentrate in his work that he wasn't even paying attention to him. The reason why he never hired anyone was because he didn't trust them and he wanted his work to be perfect, but perfection didn't exist and he couldn't continue to work this much, but he knew very well who could do a part of his work.
He had found who had made his job while he was gone, a young woman named Judith, she worked as a normal programmer, he had looked over the data on her, she was quite impressive, she may not be as intelligent as him but she was way over the average, she could do a lot more than just programming and she didn't had to go to school. He always considered people who made other do their job lazy, but maybe they weren't all so lazy after all, if it allowed them to have a life. His thoughts were interrupted by a small knock on the door.
"Enter" He simply said.
The young woman entered his office, she did looked anxious, after all when people doing her job were call into their boss's office it was not usually for a good new.
"Are you Judith Thompson?" Kaiba asked. All the young woman could do was nodding. "You may sit down." Kaiba said motioning toward a chair.
"I found out you were the one doing my job while I was gone, may I know why?" Kaiba asked.
"Had your company went down I would have been going down with it, and right now there is no job offer anywhere." She slowly said.
"I saw that your competences are far over the need of the job you are doing, and I also saw how skilled you are. That's why I made you came here, I'll like to offer you a better job, more fitting your skills." Kaiba said.
"And what would that job be?" She asked.
"Well as you already probably know I still have to go to school so unlike you I cant work during the day, which result in ending up working half of the night everyday and every free time I have. This job would consist in doing a certain portion of my work during the day, after all that's what you studied to do and the paid is much more interesting than the one you currently have for the same amount of time." Kaiba said. "So what do you think?"
"I'm taking it" She said.
"Great you are starting tomorrow at 8, just ask Madison she'll lead you to your new office." Kaiba said.
After taking care of a few things Kaiba decided to go see Davy so he headed toward the park, with Frosty who was waiting for him in front of Kaiba Corp., how in hell the dog exited the mansion and ended up here was beyond Kaiba's knowledge, anyway he would probably keep the kids busy.
But Kaiba didn't have to wait until he was in the park to see his friend, doing his work for all the kids at the park. Poor woman, she was in for quite a surprise when she'll realize she'd been robbed, like it you'll throw her out in the road, she was one of the most loaded person of the city, Davy really know how to chose his victims.
One he had steal the woman's wallet he went to an alley were no one could see him, except Kaiba who saw it as a great occasion to get the best out of him. Kaiba slowly walked toward the alley and behind him without his friend to realise it.
"Now now kid, you should know stealing is a bad thing." Kaiba said poking his finger in his friend's back. Davy instantly froze in his track. "Aren't you a little greedy one, stealing away from poor defenceless woman." Kaiba added.
That's when something lighted up in Davy's mind, he knew that voice. "Seto." He complained turning around. "You jerk; you scared the life out of me." He stopped and looked carefully at Kaiba. "You're smiling." He said pointing his face.
"Why wouldn't I be, you should have seen yourself, it was priceless." Kaiba said.
"Ok, something is definitely wrong with you, first you are joking and then you are smiling, are you sick?" Davy asked putting his hand on Kaiba's forehead.
"Let just say that I followed your advice." Kaiba said.
"Ohhhh so you didn't pass the last week locked into your room, Jim owes me his lunch." Davy said.
"Hey you two, stop right there." They both heard.
Both of them turned to the right to see two policemen running toward them, looks like the old woman realised her wallet was missing.
"In that kind of situation I suppose running is an intelligent choice." Kaiba said as they started to run the other way.
"Don't you think it would do a stain to your reputation if they recognise you?" Davy asked.
"What about what would happen if they catch me with a street thief?" Kaiba said.
"Good point."
The pursuit didn't lasted very long, eating donuts all day while sitting in a car really leave a mark after a few years. (Don't feel insulted if you know a cop it's just a joke.) Once they were sure the two cops were gone they stopped to catch their breath.
"So who's this?" Davy said pointing the dog.
"Oh I had totally forgot he was there, that's Frosty my parent gave him to me when I was one, I found him inside the house." Kaiba said.
"You mean the dog was still in the house after 8 years, no one took care of him?" Davy asked in disbelieve.
"What really surprise me is that he's still alive after all this time, he's almost as old as me." Kaiba said. (Just a note for people who don't know: big dogs like Frosty usually live a maximum of around 10 years if they are healthy.)
Kaiba and Davy walked around town, talking about what had happened during the week, Kaiba also told him about the dream.
"So, you are going back to live in the city?" Davy asked.
Kaiba nodded. "I have to live my life plus I have my dreams and I have to realise them.
"I understand, your lucky you know, not anyone can follow their dreams." Davy said entering the park with Kaiba.
In no time all the kids were asking to play with Frosty.
"hmmm let's see do you really deserve it?" Davy said faking to think really hard if he should let them play with the dog. "Ask Seto, it's his dog after all."
Kaiba looked at the kids who were now pleading him and found himself in front of 15 pairs of puppy dog eyes, this was too much for him. "Sorry Frosty." He said. "Go ahead just give him back in one piece."
"Scary isn't it?" Davy asked, referring to the army of puppy eyes.
"I always wondered where Mokuba learned that." Kaiba answered.
They passed the rest of the day talking about stuff while the poor Frosty struggled to save his life. When the sun started to go down, Kaiba decided to leave, for the day at least, he spend most of his free time with Davy until Friday arrived.
Kaiba had to get up at seven to go to school that day, right now he wanted to kill the jerk who decided school should start at 8 in the morning. He was walking to the classroom where student can retake exam, he was in for quite a day, he had to do all the exams in one day. When he entered he saw a most familiar face, he decided that a little entertainment would help before working.
"Since when are dogs allowed to go to school?" He asked.
Joey turned around, he knew that voice but he couldn't believe it was him, it couldn't be him right, it was him.
"And what about you, your new parents forced you to go back to school?" Joey asked.
Kaiba let out a small laugh. "Like I'll let them send me back to a foster home."
"So you paid them right? I didn't know you would go that low." Joey said.
"I'm surprise you caught that one, but at least that way I'm not stuck with a drunken man who would treat me like a dog, not like a certain someone I know." Kaiba said.
Joey could feel the anger rising in him; he perfectly knew Kaiba was referring to him, right now he felt like killing him but the teacher walked in at that time so he decided to just let it go, for now.
This day was so far the most horrible one since Kaiba came back to Domino, first of all guess who was watching the exam, if you guessed Filion you were wrong, it was the gym teacher, the old guy had been an army general for the last 35 years and he considered the new generation as a bunch of baby, he kept yelling every five minute to everyone who would space out for a second, stretch, or simply wasn't keeping his back as straight as a wall.
Kaiba didn't had any problem with math, history, chemistry and all other thing's like that, what became more difficult was writing comprehension, you can be the best genius in the world those stupid thing are always dead boring. 'What will you do this summer'??? Who's the imbecile who decides the subject of writing comprehension anyway??? Kaiba asked himself staring at the subject. The other thing that was annoying with writing comprehension is that it always takes an awfully long amount of time.
Once every little stupid test was over, Kaiba left the school swearing no to ever come anywhere near it before next year start. He was almost the last one to left the school that day, he had such a headache, he went directly home took some pills and fell asleep in a second.
Joey took it more slowly, he only had two exam to retake, which only took him half the day, his friends helped him study everyday for the last month so he wasn't going to do it fast and fail it again, this time he would do everything it take to succeed. He found it surprising to actually understand the question, maybe asking Tea to help him study wasn't such a bad idea after all, what he didn't get was why Tea was acting so strange around him lately.hintKaiba, kisshint
"So Joey, how was it?" Yugi asked when Joey exited the school.
"Good." Joey replied al little too sharp.
"What's your problem, it was just a question." Tea said.
"Yea you look like you saw Kaiba." Tristan Joked.
"That the problem, I did saw him." Joey replied still in a bad mood.
"And judging for your mood I'll saw he got on your nerves." Yugi said.
"He did more than got on my nerves, this jerk really deserve my first, we never should have help him when those guys were beating him." Joey said.
"Hey that remain me, I saw him the other day with a strange guy, I'm pretty sure it was the same guy than the one who lead this gang who attacked him." Tristan said.
"What, you mean you saw him, why didn't you tell me?" Joey yelled.
"Actually I saw him too, about two week's ago, he didn't looked so well, he even asked me something." Yugi said thinking back at the strange conversation he had with Kaiba.
"Why am I the last one to learn those things, you could at least have tell me he was back, at least I would have been expecting him." Joey said.
The rest of the summer passed really fast, like always, Joey forgot about Kaiba for the rest of the summer, he stayed with his friends all the time getting cream at duel monster by Yugi everyday, which now bring the score at 295 duel and 295 victories for Yugi. As for Kaiba, well he did various things, he worked at Kaiba Corp. a little bit, he spends most of his time at his old house or with Davy.
Soon the summer was over. Kaiba was sitting in his room, looking the sunset by the window, just relaxing, something he didn't allowed himself to do for so long. So far he enjoyed the life he allowed himself to have, with his friend or just not doing anything, thanks to Judith, without counting the meeting he had a lot less work to do, only about two hours per day, which was far better than the 10 hours he usually had added to school at least now he could go to sleep at decent hours.
Tomorrow he'll have to go back to school, ok it wasn't really a real day, only get your schedule and listening to teacher's speech all day long, hearing the same rules for the 100th time already, really boring actually and a big lost of time but skipping the first day wasn't really someone Kaiba could afford, the only thing he could hope for was to not be stuck with Yugi and his friends this year.
Arrow: Dream on Kaiba, here another finished, and half rewritten chapter, only one more to repair.