That's Just Life
Disclaimer: I don't Yu-Gi-Oh! Ya'all know that.
ANZU MAZAKI TURNED off her TV in the living room and headed upstairs. For an hour already, Anzu had done nothing but flip through channels, hoping to find something good on TV. She was expected to meet Kaiba at Domino High's school gym at 7:00 PM, but right now it was only 5:30 PM. Anzu still had nearly An hour to kill (she needs at least half and hour to get dressed and get to Domino High).
Anzu entered her bedroom and turned on the lights. Lying on her bed, Anzu noticed something hard under her blanket. Anzu frowned and lifted her blanket. There, in the center of her bed, sat her monthly fashion magazine. Anzu picked it up and began scanning through it. Anzu had read the magazine about 20 times already, but this was the first time she had noticed the decorative Shoe advertisement.
"15TH TRI-ANNUAL SHOE GALA, HOSTED BY LEGENDARY SHOE DESIGNER KAZUKI YAMANE" Anzu read aloud. She smiled. Now this was something that Anzu needed in her life. Scanning up and down the advertisement, Anzu's smile faded as she read the following: SELECTED PATRONS INVITED ONLY.
Selected Patrons Invited Only? What the hell is that supposed to mean? Anzu thought, throwing the magazine across the room, forcing it to crash into the wall before landing safely on the carpetted floor.
Anzu sighed. Life was getting so selective these days.
KAIBA SIGHED AS he read the invitation in front of him:
Dear Seto Kaiba, CEO of Kaiba Corporation,
I am glad to announce that you have been one of the selected patrons giving the chance to attend the 15th Tri-Annual Shoe Gala, hosted by Legendary Shoe Designer Kazuki Yamane. The Gala will be held at the Musuem of Minako, and will begin at 8:00 PM. Please remember to bring this invitation as proof of admission. Because this gala is so private, we are only allowing you to bring one guest.
Hope to see you there,
Kazuki Yamane for Kazuyo Nakano
Kaiba continued to look at the invitation, even after he read it. How ridicuolous. Why would he, Seto Kaiba, go to a place just to look at a bunch of old vintage shoes? First and foremost, Kaiba wasn't a girl, so shoes didn't even interest him. Second, he was already busy helping Anzu, meaning he couldn't really find the time to go anyways.
Anzu...this gala is more of her thing, Kaiba thought to himself, remembering the whole pond incident. After Anzu had pushed him into the pond, Kaiba ended up going to Anzu's place, where she had managed to find an outfit that once belonged to her father (her parents were out on business, so she didn't have to the whole introducing thing to anyone). Lucky for Kaiba, the whole outfit was Versace. After that, he and Anzu sat down for a cup of coffee (well, Kaiba did anyways, Anzu got herself a Mountain Dew). For about an hour, they talked about almost everything: How Kaiba was an ass, fashion, money, parents, how Kaiba was an ass, the whole thing.
Kaiba didn't really want to admit it, but he kinda enjoyed Anzu's company...when she was calm and cool. She talked a lot more intelligeantly than Yugi and the others, and she had really interesting opinions. For the whole hour, Kaiba felt quite drawn to her. Of course, he was still pissed at Anzu for pushing him in the pond, ruining his Chanel shirt.
Kaiba checked out his Bvlgari watch. 6:45 PM. Already dressed in a grey long-sleeved Ralph Lauren shirt, Armani pants, and a brand new Roberto Cavalli trenchcoat, Kaiba was ready to head to Domino Highschool. This time however, Kaiba was prepared: He brought and extra outfit and left it in the Mercedes-Benz, just in case Anzu wanted play another water game. Of course, Kaiba chuckled, she isn't going to win this time. Stuffing Kazuki Yamane's invitation into his pocket, Kaiba headed for the exit.
ANZU WALKED TO Domino Highscool, taking her time as she looked at the natural environment surrounding her. By the time she got to Domino High, she would be a bit early, since she left her house at 6:40 PM. She was quite astonished at herself, having been able to find something to wear in less than 20 minutes. Her choice for tonight: blue Christian Dior denim capris, a pink Michael Star T-shirt, and a blue waist-length jacket by Prada (These are the same colors as Anzu's school uniform). Instead of the famous heels and pumps she mostly wore, Anzu decided to go simple by putting on blue and white Nike shoes. And, instead of carrying her usual expensive clutches and purses, Anzu once more went with simple, carrying a blue cotton twill bag by Gap. Perhaps she was wearing simple, but Anzu still looked gorgeous.
Taking a turn that would lead to the school, Anzu's eyes widened and her jaw dropped as she looked at the scene in front of her.
There was about 4 firefigher trucks, all lined up in front of the school. Anzu's eyes widened even more as she looked up at the school itself. There, at the west side of the school, a gigantic fire was burning. The firefighter's were using the hoses to get the fire out, but so far to no avail.
Anzu wanted to scream. The west side of Domino High...is the gym Anzu couldn't believe it. The gym, the place where the Summer Dance, was now all in ruins!
This can't be happening, Anzu thought to herself desperately. This all just a horrible dream. I'll close my eyes, then open them again, and there will be no fire. It will be just a boring, old highschool that's about to go down in history.
Anzu wanted to close her eyes, but was too stunned to. Right now Anzu really wanted to faint, but that would mean having to dirty her outfit. Only when Kaiba's Mercedes-Benz came up beside her and Kaiba came out did Anzu feel safe enough to faint, knowing that he would be the one to catch her.
KAIBA WAS A little surprised at the scene he was looking at. The west side of Domino High was completely enveloped in flames. It took Kaiba a while to finally remember that the gym that being used for the Summer Dance was located on the west side of the school. Basically, the gym was getting destroyed right before his eyes.
The CEO of Kaiba Corporation smirked. Without a gym, the Summer Dance had no place to be held. That meant only one thing: The Summer Dance had to be cancelled.
Kaiba couldn't help but feel happy. Now he no longer had to go anywhere at 7:00 (save for Kaiba Corp), and now he was free from Anzu Mazaki, no longer having to take orders from her.
Speaking of Anzu, Kaiba thought as he turned his head to the side. Anzu was standing beside him, completely wide-eyed and shocked. There was silence between them (as usual), until Anzu finally spoke up.
"I can't believe this is happening," Anzu squeaked.
Kaiba stood there, watching the fire. He was listenning to Anzu, but didn't know what to say. He was never a man to support and help someone, so he just stood there, silent.
The next thing Kaiba knew was that Anzu had fainted, her body landing right on Kaiba's. Kaiba soon caught her in his arms, confused. He looked at her tired and innocent face, and wondered what she was doing.
Before Anzu went into full faint mode, she opened her eyes and looked at Kaiba. "Sorry, didn't want to faint on the ground and ruin my new Christian Dior capris."
And with that Anzu blanked out, still lying safely in his arms.
ANZU AWOKE, UNSURE of what was going on or where she was. All Anzu knew was that she was in a bedroom, since she was lying on a bed. And a really nice one too. Anzu guessed she was in a someone's house. But after looking out the window, Anzu had doubts.
"Whoa, I didn't know a house could be so high up," Anzu said aloud, still looking at the high landscape outside the window.
"That's cause you're not in a house Anzu! You're in a penthouse!" A childish male voice responded to Anzu's observation.
Anzu was surprised. Really? Me? In a penthouse? Where the hell am I?
She turned around as quickly as possible, almost falling off the large bed she was in.
At the entrance of the bedroom stood Mokuba Kaiba, his big shaggy hair still kept in its place. Anzu was glad to know that unlike his older brother, Mokuba was a peoples person, happy to help whenever possible. She smiled.
"Hey Mokuba."
Mokuba smiled. "Hey Anzu! How ya doing?"
Anzu looked around the room again before answering. "Not bad, I think. But um, Mokuba, if I may ask, where am I?"
Mokuba's smile got bigger. "You're at the Kaibas penthouse!"
The Kaibas penthouse? Didn't Kaiba and Mokuba live in a mansion? Anzu thought to herself.
"Mokuba, why am I here in the first place?" Anzu asked politely.
Mokuba scratched his head. "Let me see now...oh yeah! Seto told me that you fainted and he felt sorry for you and he decided to bring you to our place until you woke up. But now that you're awake, we can play,play PLAY!"
Anzu felt flattered that Mokuba wanted to be with her so much. But honestly, all Anzu wanted to do right now was sit and think. Think about what she was supposed to do now, seeing as to the fact there was a 99.999% of the Summer Dance being cancelled, since there was no where to have it.
"Mokuba, can I ask where Kaiba is?"
"He's in the family room, resting. I don't suggest bothering though, he might get grumpy and mean on you."
Anzu smiled as she got out of bed and headed for the door, ruffling Mokuba's hair. She asked for the directions to the family room, telling Mokuba that she would heed his warning.
"And then we'll get to hang out later right?" Mokuba asked, pouting. Anzu could never say no to the pouting, unlike Kaiba.
"You betcha Mokuba."
KAIBA WAS TIRED. To be truthful, Kaiba had never felt this tired in his whole entire life. His arms felt so heavy and he could hardly move his legs. Kaiba Corp's stats had gone down a bit, and Kaiba had spent nearly 2 days straight trying to bring it back up. He was successful in doing this; but it had costed him hours of sleep that he needed so badly.
All I need to is just close my eyes for a little bit, Kaiba thought tiringly. Just close my eyes for a litt-
"Kaiba."
Kaiba forced himself to open his eyes and see who had just said his name. He looked up.
Oh crap, not her, Kaiba thought helplessly as he glared at Anzu.
"What do you want?" Kaiba snapped. Anzu didn't budge.
She smiled perkily. "Thought we could share our endless pain together."
Kaiba frowned a bit. "Share our endless pain? About what?"
Anzu took a sit in one of the expensive leather chairs, across from Kaiba, who was sitting on the sofa. She looked at him. "What? You mean you're not even the slightest bit sad that the Summer Dance might be cancelled?"
Kaiba corrected Anzu. "It will be cancelled, Mazaki. No gym, no dance.
Anzu felt hurt, but not surprised. She kept telling herself that Kaiba could never be as anticipated as she was about the Summer Dance. It was her last year in highschool, and she wanted to be a household name at Domino High. She wanted to be known throughout the whole school as "the best organizer for the Summer Dance". Of course, Kaiba could never care about things like this, he was too busy with his company and taking care of Mokuba. Plus, he had never wanted to help put in the first place; he was only volunteering because he wouldn't be able to graduate if he didn't finish his community service time.
Anzu sighed.Kaiba was also right too. The Summer Dance would surely be cancelled, no doubt about that. The school gym was the only place where the Summer Dance could be held. But now that the gym was nothing but ashes, the Summer Dance no longer had a location. Why did Kaiba always have to be right?
"Oh, if only I could get into Yamane's shoe gala, I would be so happy!" Anzu exlcaimed, all frustrated.
Kaiba's eyes, which had been closed after Anzu had taken a seat, were now wide open. Did she just say Yamane's shoe gala? As in Kazuki Yamane's 15th Tri-Annual Shoe Gala?
Kaiba snickered to himself, reaching for one of his pockets. He took out the Yamane's invitation.
"Well, if I'm correct, I'm one of the selected patrons invited to that stupid gala, and it says here that I'm aloud to bring one guest," Kaiba watched in amusement as Anzu gave him the look of shock and envy.
For a moment, the whole room was silent. Kaiba knew what Anzu was thinking.
"What you think I'm actually gonna ask you to come with me to that damn shoe gala?" Kaiba asked Anzu, curious of her answer.
Anzu nodded her head furiously, staring at Kaiba. "I mean, come on Kaiba, who else are you going to invite?"
"What makes you think that I'm even going?" Kaiba asked.
Anzu looked surprised. "Well, if you're not going, how bout just nicely handing the invitation over to someone who actually wants to!"
Kaiba smiled evilly, the tiredness in him slipping away slowly. "You want the invitation? Come and get it then."
Anzu's eyes narrowed. At first Kaiba didn't think Anzu would listen to him, but it seem she did. Without warning Anzu threw herself at Kaiba-well, more like invitation, hands open, ready to grab the invitation right out of Kaiba's hands. But Kaiba was too fast for Anzu; he brought his arm up, unabling Anzu to reach paper that would admit her into the shoe gala.
For about 5 minutes or something, Kaiba and Anzu seemed to moving around everywhere. Kaiba continue to bring his arm up, then down, then every other place where Anzu was unable to reach. When Anzu tried to grab the invitation that was dangling above her, it ended up going down. And when she went down to grab the invitation, Kaiba would raise his arm again. Eventually however, Anzu found Kaiba's weakness: tickling.
First she poked him, noticing that he jumped away from her a little. Still trying to grab the invitation, Anzu poked him again. And like before, he jumped away from her. Finally, without hesitation, Anzu tickled Kaiba's neck.
The deed was done. The great CEO had fallen.
First Kaiba had gone into small fits of giggles, until finally he could take it no more, and roared out with laughter. This surprised Anzu, since she never heard him laugh before (the evil laugh does not count). Yet even though he was laughing his ass off, Kaiba managed to move the hand that carried the invitation.
Without even noticing, Anzu was on top of Kaiba, tickling him continuously, while still trying to get hold of the invitation. If anybody had actually walked in on the two, they would've assume both where doing something very,very inappropriate.
"Come on Kaiba, hand over the invitation NOW!" Anzu commanded evily, yet there was still a tone of kindess in her voice. "This is the least you could do for a poor soul like me! I'm the one forced to suffer here!"
Kaiba couldn't help but enjoy this. Here he was, being serverly tickled by Anzu Mazaki, probably the one person he didn't dare get close too. But oddly enough, Anzu was on top of him, trying her best to grab a hold of a stupid invitation. She actually looked kinda cute. And from where Kaiba was lying, Anzu's chest wasn't so bad either.
Kaiba laughed even harder. Anzu tickled him even harder. Finally though, Kaiba pushed Anzu off of him, forcing her to fall right onto the elegeant floor. He took the invitation and placed it in the inside breast pocket of his Roberto Cavalli jacket.
Anzu lay there, watching Kaiba's actions. "What? You mean you're not going to give me the invitation?"
Kaiba smirked. "You couldn't get it out my hands. Too bad."
Without even a "bye", Kaiba walked out of the family room, leaving Anzu to lie there, sulking.
Author's Notes: This is the most BORING chapter I have ever written in my entire life. Honestly, it is. But it had to be done. Now I know what you're thinking: Wasn't the story suppose to have Kaiba working for Anzu at the Summer Dance? How can the story continue, now that the Summer Dance is cancelled? DO NO FEAR. Keep in mind that I said this story is around Kaiba working for Anzu, and I vow to keep it that way....for about maybe 6 chapters anyways. So yes, the Summer Dance is no more, but that doesn't mean Kaiba won't end up working for Anzu for something else...OOPS! said too much. BTW, thank you, thank you, THANK YOU for all the reviews! If it weren't for so many of them, I'd probably abandon this fic already. So please, keep bringing those hot reviews in!
List of fashion labels used in this chapter:
- Kazuyo Nakano (Yes, this is a real fashion label)
- Chanel
- Ralph Lauren
- Gorgio Armani (Armani)
- Roberto Cavalli
- Christian Dior
- Michael Star
- Prada
- Nike
- Gap
P.S - Sry if Kaiba and Anzu were a bit OOC. Promise that next chapter, they will be back to normal.