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Love or Lust?

Part One: Getting Late

By: Huasheng

of

Huasheng Productions©


Kaiba's door was opened for him by his chauffeur and he climbed out of it quickly, heading inside to give a lecture to his younger brother of "how-you-shouldn't-create-relationships-with-my-employees". Kaiba was on his cell phone talking to some of his considered business partners.

"No. That's obviously a misconception. Look," he said rudely into his cell phone, opening the doors to his enormous mansion, "tomorrow night I'm having a business gathering and I'm sure we could sort things out there. Fine." He shut his cell phone off, dropped his briefcase onto the front foyer's ebony imported marble from Italy. His maid saw that he arrived and quickly ran over to him, picked up his briefcase and ushered him into his study room, all the while giving him the 411 on the messages he received when he was out.

"Whatever." He said rudely cutting her off, "Call Mokuba in here, we need to talk."

"I'm sorry Mr. Kaiba, but that's not possible." The lady said timidly.

"What?" Kaiba asked demandingly, putting down the file he was reviewing.

"Sir, what I mean by that is he went out with a couple of his friends, and won't be back for some time. But he asked me to tell you that he would be home late, and so that you shouldn't worry about him."

"Did he take his cell phone with him?" she shook her as though she was embarrassed by not reminding him. His employee outraged Kaiba, "Get out." She nodded and dismissed herself, leaving the aggravated Kaiba all alone. "Stupid bitch ..." Kaiba mumbled curse words under his breath.

His work consisted of signing papers, signing some more papers, writing letters to the board of trustees, and completing another idea for his soon to be Kaiba Land 2. He was interrupted halfway through his work, the door of his rather large office creaked slowly as the figure emerged from the darkness.

"Umm, Mr. Kaiba, sir, someone is here to see you." She said, the only thing that could be seen by Kaiba was her head.

"I told you that I didn't want to be disturbed –" for once, Kaiba was being the one that was interrupted.

"Well Mr. Kaiba, I'm sure you could push aside your work for me." A voice intimidating a young child said, and caught the attention of the CEO. "Especially if it's about your little brother, am I right?" the voice than came into view as a strong, manly figure emerged from the doorway.

"Maria, leave." Kaiba ordered his maid. She once again nodded obediently and dismissed herself. "Why are you here Smith?" Kaiba asked rudely.

"Just here to take care of business." The man said extending his hand for a greeting, there was no reciprocal from Kaiba. "I see, so let get straight to point, well we're here take your younger brother from you." The man said settling down peacefully into his chair.

"You tried it last time, it didn't work, what on earth makes you think that you'll succeed this time?" Kaiba asked placing his elbows on either side of his arms rests, and than letting his fingertips meet.

"Well Mr. Kaiba we've heard that you've been neglecting your younger brother."

"And who told you that?" Kaiba asked amused by this man's confidence.

"No one other than your younger brother." The man's face had a devious smile that reached from one ear to the other.

"Bullshit."

The other man just shook his head laughing at the ignorance of the youngest CEO in the world. "You really need to learn a couple of things in this world Mr. Kaiba, and that is to trust nobody, and sometimes, not even your own blood, cause they could come back and nip you in the ass."

"What the hell are you talking about Smith?" Kaiba gave him his dirtiest cut eye, but it had no effect on the older man.

The man pulled out something briefcase, it was a tape recorder, "Well Mr. Kaiba lets see what your brother had to say about you," the man opposite of Kaiba pressed a button, and a rather familiar voice spoke.

( "Blah" – Mokuba "Blah" – Therapist )

"I'm here because we need to talk"

"Oh, really Mr. Kaiba, and what might that be about?"

"It's about my brother. He's been to caught up in his work all the time. It doesn't even seem if he cares if I'm alive or dead."

"And how does that make you feel Mokuba?"

"Neglected. Alone." The voice from the recorder paused for a moment, "Sad."

"I see. Do you feel that your brother needs to spend more time with you?"

"Of course! I mean the company can't mean everything to him. He should focus on other things like getting married, or..." the voice trembled.

"Or you?"

"Yeah. He can't always let his work get in the way of family. He promised that it would never happen after what happened in the court rooms weeks ago, but he just doesn't seem to bother with me anymore."

"Do you mean to say that your brother doesn't care about you anymore, that he isn't providing enough support for you?"

"No not at all. I know he loves me, and I know he cares, I just think that he isn't ready to juggle so many things at once. Being the CEO of his multi-billionaire empire, raising me, and than putting up with his ignorant employees, it's just too much for him to handle. I can't even—"

The man pressed another button and the voices from the device came to a halt. He could see the pain in Kaiba's eyes, and didn't want to spoil everything that he had hidden on the tape. "Now Mr. Kaiba, as you can see, I'm in a bit of pickle. You see, I have to ask you to give up one of the most important things in your life,"

"Excuse me?" Kaiba asked infuriated by his statement, "What the fuck do you mean by that?"

"Ohhh, Mr. Kaiba, have I hit a soft spot?" the man said sarcastically, "Well, you either need to give up your company—"

"Never."

"Or, you'll have to give your brother into the social worker's custody."

"Don't fool yourself Smith. I would never give my brother to you, never. You couldn't touch him or me, not even in your dreams."

"Well than Mr. Kaiba, I'm afraid you must give your company into shares to bought off by others, or hand over your company to a loyal employee."

"You're absolutely insane if you think that you will rob me of my brother or my company. You tried it weeks ago, and you failed, there no reason for that to not occur once again." Kaiba said cockily.

"But this time Mr. Kaiba," this time he said his name with emphasis, "I've got your brother's support."

"You and I both know he didn't mean it like that! You've just broken the law! You recorded a private session that he had with his therapist." Kaiba said getting up from his seat and heading for the door.

"That may be Mr. Kaiba, but once the judge hears what your brother had to say about you, I'm sure that will be the least of your problems."

"We'll see about that. I think it's about time that you left." Kaiba said it rudely, trying not show the fear that was buried in his body. "Maria!" he yelled for his maid. The middle-aged lady made her way into the room and waited for further instructions. "Show Mr. Smith where the door is."

"Yes Mr. Kaiba." She waited for the man to follow her. He took his time in removing himself from Kaiba's view.

He lifted from the seat, took slow steps toward Kaiba and spook, "This will not be the last time we speak with each other." And than followed the maid out the door.

Kaiba slammed the door shut behind him as he went back to his desk. He threw around some of his antiques that were spread across the room, so that he could let off some steam.

"AHHH!" he threw his computer off his desk and onto the floor. Pushed his chair across the room. And threw several expensive items onto the floor and against the wall. Who knew what he was capable of doing when it came to losing his brother or his pride – his company.


"Hahahaha. I know!" Serenity and Marik engaged into a comical conversation that left Marik laughing his ass of on the floor. "Oh shit, your killin' me Serenity." He continued with his laughing.

"Whatever." She got up from the couch and headed towards the kitchen.

"Where are you going?" Marik asked, still traces of giggles in his voice.

"I've finally got a job. I believe it deserves a toast, am I right?" she asked, getting two wineglasses out of the cupboard and a bottle a fine Chardonnay.

"Absolutely." He said sitting up straight on the couch and watching her pour the red whine into the shinny clear glasses.

"Here." She said handing him his glass, he watched her ever so carefully. She noticed. "What?" she asked taking a sip from her glass.

"Nothing." He said modestly.

"Marik, I need your help on something." She said setting her glass down on the coffee table in front of them and running over to grab her briefcase. From it she pulled out the contract her boss had given to her earlier that morning.

"What's this?" he asked taking it from her grip.

"It's the contract that Kaiba gave me. He said for me to check it over. And since you are an attorney, I figured that I could use your help." She said lifting her glass once again to her mouth.

"Well it looks fine to me. Go ahead, sigh it." And he handed her the contract and resumed his comfortable position on the couch, slipping from the glass that she gave him.

Serenity signed the contract quickly and slid it back into her briefcase. She picked up her glass and brought it once again to her mouth. Something was wrong. No one made a sound. It was too quiet for comfort.

"Marik, is something wrong?" Serenity asked curiously. He simply shook his head and sniffed his beverage. "Alright, what is it?" she put her glass down, and than his and turned her body so that they were face-to-face. He shook his head again. "Okay I know you don't approve of me working for Kaiba, but I've finally got a job, and I really want to do this."

"You mean work as Kaiba's servant?" he asked raising a brow.

"We've been over this. I'm his personal assistant, not, his servant. Get that through you're your thick head." She said relaxing back into the comfortable couch.

"Your just jealous of my hair, that's all." Marik said playing with his hair.

"You wish!" she said removing a pillow from her side and whacking him with it.

"Hey what was that for?" he asked putting his hands up to block her blow. She continued and hit him harder. "Hey! Stop it!" she hit him with the pillow while he talked making it harder for him to defend himself. "Alright! That's it!" he pushed her off lightly, grabbed a pillow for himself and an evil grin curved upon his brown skin. "I'm gonna get you." He said and she started to run around the apartment, trying to find some kind of defense. "There's no point in running, I'm gonna get you sooner or later." He hunted her down just like he said, but in the kitchen, where she tried to fight him off with a banana.

"Okay! Okay! I give up." She said as she lie on her back, against the floor, and Marik towering her by placing himself upon her stomach to keep her down.

"Apologize." He said deviously.

"Never." She said standing her ground.

"Fine than, I guess I'll just have to tickle it out of you!" he removed himself from her and tickled her till she gave up.

"Okay, okay!" she said out of breath. "I'm sorry."

"As we can see, you still have that soft spot from when you were a child." He said getting up from the floor and walking away to the couch, his back towards her.

She got up from the floor and walked up behind him slowly. When she got close enough to him she pounced on his back. Causing him to fall down onto ground, with his back still facing her. "And you Marik, still have your childhood weakness of thinking that you've won the war, when the battles has just began." She said bring her face down to his ear so that it gave a bit more affect to his defeat. "Now," she said, still her breath could be felt by Marik at the back of his neck, "you, will apologize to me."

"Never." He shot back to her, her own response.

"Alright than, we'll just have to wait like this until you do." She said lifting her head and started to stare at her fingernails.

"Can I atleast turn my position so that it's comfortable?" he asked.

"Nope." She said, still staring.

"Oh, c'mon Serenity, I always let you go when we were young." He explained, trying to negotiate with the situation.

"Alright fine." She said in a defeated tone, removing herself from Marik body. "But I did beat you." She said reminding him.

"Okay than," he said believing the exact opposite of it.

"Your just angry because you still can't beat me." She said resuming her position on the couch.

"Beat me in what?" Marik inquired lifting himself up from the floor, and strolled down next to her.

"Everything." She stated confidently.

"You wish." He picked up his whine glass, and with the push of a button, the television screen lit up.

Their conversation continued of who was the best at everything, and who sucked at what, and old memories of the two of them together, either if it was good or bad. They ended watching the late show movie that night, and both fell asleep on the couch. Or, atleast Serenity did, Marik stayed up all night just watching his princess.

Serenity's head rested on Marik's left shoulder and her arm rested on his thigh. His left arm nestled her closely to his body and his other hand pushed away the loose bangs and locks of hair that fell in front of her face. He admired her, not only for her beauty, but also for her thoughts, her personality, her laugh, her smile, everything about her made him intrigued.

'She's so beautiful.' Marik thought to himself as he could identify the curves of her body and face in the candlelight that lit up the living room section. 'Ohh god, I love her. I love her so much and it hurts. Going on everyday without being able to let her know how much I love her. Going on everyday without being able to touch her the way I want to, talk to her the way I want to, not being able to make love to her, while my body urges and aches for her love. I need to tell her, but when?' he asked himself thinking of the most romantic setting that would make her toes tingle. 'Her birthday! That's pure genius! Yes, but her birthday isn't until two weeks. But I want it to be perfect. And if that means I have to put my passions for her hidden, I'll just have to do so.' His thoughts roamed around her as the subject. Than he drifted off to sleep along with her. Holding her tightly as if she was his only lifeline.


Serenity's eyes opened as the light that seeped through the windows interrupted her from her slumber. She saw that she was in position that she would have been if she were awake. Marik was on his back, lying down on the couch, and she was on top of him, her head resting on his strong, firm chest. His arms around her pulling her body close up to his. And her arms doing the same, one arm cradling his neck and her other hand resting on the left side of his chest. She pulled herself out of his grip and sat at the edge of the couch, viewing his perfect face. It brought joy to her to see how happy and peaceful he was when he was asleep. She looked over to the couch to see that it was 10:35 a.m.

"HOLY SHIT!" Serenity yelled it so loud that Marik too awoke from his enchanting dreams of him and Serenity together, holding hands, making love to each other and having a family together.

"What?" he asked rubbing his eyes with his fists.

She said nothing only stared at the clock in astonishment at how stupid she was for being late on her first day at work. Marik saw what she was looking at and turned his head to see what she was staring so vigorously at.

"What the fuck?" he said jumping up from the couch and heading towards the shower. Serenity saw what he was doing, and there was no way that she was going to let him take his 1-hour shower when they were this late.

"Oh no you don't!" she said racing him to the shower. She beat him to it and he whined like a baby.

"C'mon Serenity! I promise! I'll just be 3 minutes!" he banged on the closed door trying to make her change her mind and let him go first.

"Hell no! I was supposed to give this contract to Kaiba over and hour ago! I probably already lost my job!" she stopped talking, took off all of her clothes and jumped into the tub, and took a two minute shower.

Marik still waiting impatiently outside began to slam his fists against the door. "Hurry up Serenity! We don't have time for this!" he yelled loudly.

"Hold on," she climbed out of the tub, forgetting that she didn't bring a towel with her she yelled for Marik to pass one to her. He got one from the linen closet and passed to her through the halfway closed door, swearing that he wasn't looking at her.

She ran out of the bathroom all dry and everything, with her towel around her body. Marik than proceeded into it and took his 5 minute shower.

Serenity had no time at all to iron any of her business suits, so she decided to wear casual clothes for today. From her closet she pulled out a pair of black low-rise jeans, and a white blouse, that had black buttons, and black thread embroiled at the bottom in an Asian-style pattern. She ran outside to see that Marik already had all of his work clothes on, along with his briefcase and keys in hand. On her way to the door, she grabbed her own slender briefcase and said, "You clean up well Marik." She running down the stair of their apartment building in her Nike sneakers, with black and white strips on it.

"Lets just hope that you can clean up well on making a good excuse, Serenity." He said joining her after locking the door.

They ran into Marik's car and hurried their way to Kaiba Corp. Once she finally got to her destination, Serenity climbed out and ran into the building, still the same man holding open a door for her and said, "You may want to hurry Ms. Frank, Mr. Kaiba is in a terrible mood." Serenity just nodded and ran down into the hallway where the elevators were located. All of them were busy, and Serenity didn't want to be anymore later than she already was, so she used the stairs. It was enough exercise for her to substitute a tri-a-thalon.

Once she finally got there, she was completely out of breath. Panting and holding her chest, now knowing the effect it could have on you if you jogged every morning. She walked over to the mahogany doors and pressed the intercom button, no one answered. She turned the knob to his door to see that it was open, but afraid of what might be inside. She pushed the door open slowly, wanting to turn back right now, but she wasn't about to let Kaiba embarrass her like he did his previous employee.

She crept into the office, checking to see if Kaiba was in there. To her luck he wasn't. Serenity decided to take his absence into her own good fortune. She thought to herself of what she should do. 'I know!' the thought hit her like a bolt of thunder. She quickly pulled out her contract from her briefcase and slid it under the dozens of papers that were spread all over Kaiba's desk. Smart thinking because she quickly pulled out a pen from her briefcase and wrote a note on a piece of paper saying;

Mr. Kaiba,

Sorry but I had to leave before we could meet, I had a family emergency. I'm sure you won't mind, I'll be back as soon as I can. I signed the contract, so I guess it's set.

Anyway, thanks for understanding,

Serenity Frank

She pulled out the contract and stuck the sticky note to it and pushed it back under the papers. She decided that if this scheme was going to work, that she would need to act the part, 'That's right. Pretend that you came in here, he wasn't here so you put the contract on his desk, with the note, ran out, and just came back now.' She said to herself. 'Good, that's all I have to do.'

At that moment her thoughts were interrupted and it was time to put her acting talents into gear, for Kaiba had just stormed into the office, angry as hell.

"What the hell are you doing here?" he asked sitting down into his chair, giving Serenity a deadly glare that could kill with one shot.

"What do you mean?" she asked faking it as well as she could. "Didn't you read the note I left you?" she asked giving him a puzzled look.

"What in god's name are you talking about?" he asked rudely, "You're fired. Now get out." His view went down to the papers across his desk.

"But I signed the contract. You can't fire me."

"I gave you a deadline of 9 a.m., the time now is," he glances at his wristwatch, "11:07 a.m. So leave."

"But I placed the contract on the desk this morning, did you see it?" he gave her a confused look.

"Where, and don't you dare pull something out of your briefcase." He said not wanting to waste anymore of his time.

"Alright. Do I have your permission to go through your desk?" she asked nicely. He just stared. "I'll take that as a yes." And she rummaged through the papers, she did know exactly where it was, but she had to make this believable. Finally she got to her contract, "Here it is." She handed it to him.

He looked at it in disbelief. And than his view drifted to the note. He read it inwardly. 'What the hell? I've been here all morning. Although I was away for a short while. Is she lying, I doubt it, she seems confident enough, or maybe she's just a good actor.' He thought to himself wondering if she was phony.

He put the contract down on the table and just stared at her, trying to assess what was going on. She just stared back, trying to put on a confused look. "Alright, I'll let you have this one, but I have my eye on you." He said to her rudely.

"Okay ..."

"I mean it, one mistake, and you're never going to work n this town ever again." He turned his view to the computer screen but than changed his mind and looked at her again. "What the hell are you wearing?" his face showed disgust.

"Oh," she looked down at her clothes, trying to think of a reasonable excuse, "when I went to go see my mom, ahh ... I fell into the mud, and my sister only these clothes for me. It was the most classiest thing she had." A small smile was on her face, trying to get away with her wrongdoing.

"Whatever. Go get me some coffee, two spoons of –"

"Sugar, dark, no cream, and no milk, I know, I know." And she walked on over to the coffee machine and get his coffee for him. She glided on over to his side and placed it next to him, all the while he watched her slender figure move ever so elegantly. "Mr. Kaiba?" her voice got him back, and focused.

"What?" he asked in his usual rude tone.

"Is there anything else I can do for you?" she asked pleasantly.

"Yeah, sign all of these papers," he handed her a stack of papers, "than write a report on this," he handed her a folder, "and last but not least, I want you to fire these people." And he placed a list on top of the pile that rested in her arms.

"Aren't you supposed to do that sir?" Serenity asked behind the pile of paper.

There was no answer, Serenity guessed that he was giving her a dirty glare, but couldn't see, and she was glad about too. It was too much stress for her.

Serenity headed for the door when her boss's voice caught her attention. "Serenity." She turned around. "Your office is down the hall to the right, next to the elevator."

"Okay," and resumed on her way out, when his voice yet again put her to a halt.

"Tonight I'm having a gathering at my mansion, you know the usual, business partners, colleagues, other assholes and such,"

'Like you?' Serenity thought to herself.

"Anyway, I need you to be there at 8 o'clock sharp, you may leave now." And went back to his work.

Serenity finally walked up to the door and tried to turn the knob but was unsuccessful. "Mr. Kaiba,"

"What?" he asked irritated.

"Do you think you could open the door for me, my hands seem to be full." She said sweetly, in a way that nobody could say "no" to, but there was a first time for everything.

"Do it yourself." He said rudely and went back to staring at his screen.

'Bastard.' She thought to herself as she pulled the door open, but with that success, came a price. Out of her hands fell out the pile of papers. Kaiba saw it and gave her a disgusted look. She was beyond embarrassed and feeling sorry for herself. She picked up the papers and from the ground and proceeded on her way out of her boss's office.


It was around 5:39 p.m. when Serenity had completed all of her tasks. She put them into a pile again and proceeded her way into Kaiba's office. This time when opening the door she pushed it open without dropping a single sheet of numbered paper.

"I see your learning." Kaiba said rudely.

Serenity said nothing, she was exhausted and now she had to go to the Kaiba mansion for a dinner party, just great. She placed the stack of papers on his desk and headed for the door.

"Where are you going?" Kaiba saw she was leaving, and it didn't please him at all.

"Home. I need to get ready for tonight." She said stating the obvious.

"Keep dreaming, we've got plenty of work to do before we can engage in a night of fun and pleasure." He said it with sarcasm in his voice and it was the first time Serenity had ever saw him use humor in communication.

She walked over to his desk and slumped down into the chair in front of him. "What now?"

"Make me some more coffee." He handed her his mug.

"Is that all you consume? If all you drink is caffeine, than I'm surprised that you're not as high as a kite." Serenity said trying to make herself feel comfortable in Kaiba's presence, although no one had been able to accomplish that except for Mokuba.

Kaiba just gave her a deadly glare, obviously not approving of her comment, or any humorous comment she made about him. She just made his coffee and gave it to him. All the while he was starring at her, though she didn't take notice to it.

"Now what?" Serenity asked slumping, once again in her claimed seat.

"Go to your desk, I'm gonna send you a file from my computer, I want you to go over the figures to see if those imbeciles Jack and Harry did them correctly." Kaiba dismissed her with the wave of his hand, and sent her the file through e-mail.

'What the hell is wrong with him? How the hell am I supposed to get ready if I ain't home, ain't got any dress to wear, don't even get me started on the shoes, and most importantly, I won't have any time once I'm done this.' Serenity was outraged by her boss's ignorance when it came to preparing themselves for social events.

Serenity walked down the empty halls of the 67 floor, remembering how brutal it was when she had to run up the flight of stairs. She finally reached the elevator, in front of it was a receptionist desk especially made for her. It resembled the one downstairs, but this one was smaller and blue. Behind the desk was a door, and behind that blue door, was Serenity's office. You'd be surprised by how small it was. It reminded Serenity of a jail cell. Small, inconvenient, boxed-in, and isolated. She opened the door to be yet again disappointed of what this job had to offer. She squished herself in between her desk and the shelf to the right, which held dozens of folders, heavy and as thick as their owner.

She sat uncomfortably in her chair and waited for the file to arrive, it took its time, obviously slowing the process of Serenity ever getting ready for the gathering tonight.


Two hours later and the job was finally done. At that moment Kaiba opened the door to her so called "Office".

"You're still here?" he asked mocking her performance.

"Yes well, if you would have let me go before, I wouldn't be in this mess." She turned of her computer and got out of her office, locked the door to make sure no intruders could proceed inside and than followed Kaiba into the elevator.

"Mr. Kaiba, I don't think that I would be able to come tonight." Serenity said placing a hand on her forehead.

"Why?" Kaiba voice was angered and rude.

"Well, it's almost 8:00, my home is around 30 minutes away from here, when it's gonna take me atleast one hour to get ready, but before I do that I need to go shopping for a dress, and that might be how long I don't know and the—" Kaiba's hand covered her mouth, trying to stop those annoying words from escaping her mouth.

Than he spoke, Serenity looking at him waiting when he was going to remove his hand, "I've got a solution so just SHUT UP!" he yelled at her, realizing that she wasn't talking anymore, he removed his hand. But silence hadn't surrounded the elevator for that long.

"What's your solution?" Serenity asked shifting her briefcase from one hand to the other.

"You'll come straight to my mansion, and you'll get ready there." Kaiba looked at his watch, obviously getting impatient by the time he had to wait in the elevator with his employee.

"You wear dresses?" Serenity asked raising a brow.

"Don't be stupid Frank." Kaiba pulled out his cell phone, pushed a few buttons and brought it up to his ear.

"Yeah. I need you to see if you've got a dress." He paused, as he listened what the person on the other line had to say. "How the hell am I supposed to know what kind of dress. I don't what colour. Do I look like I know the size." Kaiba yelled into the phone aimlessly.

Serenity grabbed the phone out of his grip and spoke in a rather pleasant voice, a big change for the man on the other side. "Hello. Hi. Yes, we need a dress, for pick up." She paused. "Well what do you have?" paused again. "Really?" she said it in disbelief. "No, that's great! I'll take it. What size? Ummmm.... Do you have a 3?" she waited, "Great! Okay! Thank you." She shut the top of the cell phone and handed it back to it's owner. Kaiba grabbed out from her grip and shoved it in his pocket, than his hands followed.

Once their ride finally arrived they both climbed into the limousine, both of them keeping their distance from each other. Kaiba sitting at on end, facing the window, and Serenity on the other side, across from him doing the same, starring out into the window in front of her. After around 13 minutes, they arrived at the boutique where Serenity was going to get her dress. The chauffeur ran in there, with Serenity's credit card, since Kaiba wasn't a gentleman enough to do so himself. When he came back he handed Serenity her dress, which was wrapped and everything, and her credit card.

The Kaiba mansion looked absolutely exquisite in the moonlight, and with all the outdoors lights that shone on the land with pride and glory. Serenity was amazed by the view that stood powerfully in front of her. No one had yet arrived, for the guests were invited at nine o'clock.

The door was held open for Serenity as she stepped out, still her jawing dropping to the ground as she exited it. She followed Kaiba into his mansion, starring at the elegant paintings on the wall, the priceless antiques scattered all over the foyer, sitting on their beautiful podiums, the marble floors that shinned ever so brightly. Obvious they had been recently waxed and buffered.

Kaiba's home resembled his company very much. Outside the building seems so peaceful and quiet, but inside, it was an entirely a different story. The butlers were running around from the kitchen to the room where the guests would be. The cooks were screaming and yelling at each other. And now that Kaiba was home, the place was going to be entirely full of chaos.

Kaiba walked towards the kitchen where all the food was being prepared, when Serenity shouted out to him, "Where am I supposed to get ready?" she asked in the middle of the foyer, feeling rather uncomfortable.

He kept his back facing her and kept walking, "There are plenty of rooms upstairs." And than he was no where to be seen as he entered the kitchen.

Serenity was lazy to ask which one so she just climbed the long flight of marble stairs and went into the nearest room, little did she know who's room it was – Seto Kaiba's.

She opened the large mahogany doors to the room and was pleased with décor, she turned around to close the doors and than locked them. She let her beautiful new dress rest on Kaiba's bed, while she walked over to bathroom and found clean towels for her to use. She undressed herself completely in the bathroom, and took a 10-minute shower, being sure to clean whatever she missed this morning. She came out of the bathroom that could probably house a family of five, once again with a towel around her naked body. She sat in front of a mirror, that had a comfortable seat to sit on, and began to comb through the nasty tangles that were implanted in her wet, silky brown hair.


Meanwhile when Serenity was in the shower, Kaiba grew tired of looking for his assistant in most of the rooms that were on the second floor. He soon gave up and went to his room to get ready, little did he know what was waiting for him on the other side of the door. But he was stopped in his tracks when the door wouldn't open. Restlessly he pulled out his ID card from his wallet and swiped it through the identification device that was stuck on to the beautifully acrylic walls. Within a second the lock was disarmed, but Serenity had not noticed, for it was silent. Kaiba turned the knob of his bedroom door. He walked on in carelessly into the room, still not knowing that another person was in his sanctuary. Serenity too had no idea that someone was in the room with her, Kaiba was big, but was quiet.

Kaiba finally came to realize that she was in her and was outraged that she would choose his room. "What the FUCK do you think you're doing in here?" he asked as loud as an ox. Serenity jumped at the sound of his roars and the comb flew out of her hand.

"What the fuck am I doing?" she repeated him, "What the fuck are you doing? Don't you have any respect to knock before you enter a room that has a woman in it?" she asked just as angry as he was, lifting herself from the seat and walking up to Kaiba, her skin still wet and moist.

"First of all, this is my bloody room, so you shouldn't be here in the first place. And second of all, don't you dare talk to me like that, we both know who the boss is and who the employee is, don't make me remind you." He said rudely. "Why the hell did you even come into my room, have you no common sense." He demanded an answer from her, giving her a look of disgust.

"First of all Kaiba, if I recall what you said, you said that "There are plenty of rooms upstairs"" she said the quotation in a intimidation of Kaiba when he was angry. "Not once did you say, which room, or which room was yours, or not to go into your room." She stood her ground, and stood it well. "So, I don't know why your getting so angry, I did nothing wrong."

Kaiba just gave her a cold glare, which sent all of her pride and confidence down the drain.

"Alright fine, you don't have to be such a baby, I'll leave." She tied the towel around her body tighter, picked up her old clothes and her dress and headed for the door, but was put to a halt by a strong grip on her delicate arm.

She turned her head disapprovingly and watched as Kaiba opened his mouth to speak, "Don't." he said in a cold tone.

Serenity shook of his hand and than spoke her mind freely, "Look Kaiba, I don't what you think I am, but I'm your assistant, not your sex toy."

Kaiba gave her a face in disbelief, "Don't flatter yourself Frank, I said not to leave because some of the assholes have already arrived, and if they were to see a girl in nothing but a towel leave my room, they'll start to talk, and I have no time to try to do damage control on rumors like those." He said pulling out a blue towel from his cabinet of hygienic tools and items. "I'm going into the bathroom, so do whatever the hell you need to do, but you'd better leave before I get out." With out letting her speak her slammed the doors shut of his bathroom.

"Asshole..." Serenity said under her breath.

She went back to her position on the chair in front of the mirror, and started to blow-dry her with the blow-dyer she took with her when she left the bathroom. She blow-dried it straight, so it gave more complements to her beautiful facial features. She dried herself off with one of Kaiba's towels and than unwrapped the new dress she brought for the night's events. It was beautiful. She quickly slid it on to her body. It was just the right fit. The black silk really went well with her beautifully tanned light, soft, and yet firm skin. She walked over to one of those standing mirrors that showed you the full reflection of yourself – from head to toe. It was sleeveless and the neck was in a V-shape. It went low enough to show just the right amount of cleavage to intrigue any man on the face of the earth. The length of it ran down to her knees. But not all of it, other side went down three inches below the knee, creating a diagonal line from one point to the other. (A/N: Thank you Sana for the idea!!! It's just not as well detailed as yours!!!!)

Serenity was quite impressed with how alluring she looked, but she looked a bit professional too. She was looking great, except for the fact that they forgot to get shoes for her. "Holy shit!" she yelled it aloud, "How could I forget?! I can't walk out with sneakers, although I could pull it off." She went it search for ladies shoes in Kaiba's closet, thinking that he probably had some girlfriends that would have left them there by accident.

Kaiba on the other hand had just finished his shower, dried himself off and walked out of the bathroom into his room, freely, – not even the towel was covering him. He just tossed the towel over his shoulder and walked out freely, thinking that Serenity had left, although he was wrong, very, very wrong.

Serenity came out of the closet disappointed that she couldn't find anything of use to her. Looking down at the floor, not making a sound when she looked up she was shocked. Right there, in front of her was her boss – naked! Wearing nothing, nada, not a thing at all. Serenity could help but stare, from his handsome face, covered by his luscious brown locks of wet hair. While his chest was buffed, and firm, his arms were strong and muscled, his torso lean and smooth. While his lower body, was – hold up, what the hell was she doing? She quickly thought up of something that could get her out of this mess.

'Yep, that's right, pretend like you just came in.' Serenity thought to herself. "OH MY GOD!" she yelled aloud and turned her head,

Kaiba was caught off guard by her voice and quickly cover his lower body with a towel. "What the FUCK is wrong with you?" he demanded walking up to her, grabbing her by the arm, turning her to face him and than looking into her eyes with his cold, icy blue orbs. "I thought I told you to leave before I was to come out of the shower!" he yelled at her, towering her with his height.

"And I was going, but that was before I realized that we forgot to get shoes for me. So I went into your closet—"

"My closet?!" he was obviously outraged.

"To see if there was any shoes that maybe a girlfriend of yours would have left behind or something," she said explaining why she did what she did, "Than when I came back out, you were there."

Kaiba looked at her, once again puzzled if she was just a good actress or if she could have been telling the truth and was innocent. He let go of her arm roughly sending her off balance and hand to take a few steps back to recover.

She watched Kaiba as he went over to the side of he luxurious bed and dial a few numbers on the phone pad, and than brought the receiver to his ear. "Yeah, send Maria up here with her shoes, the ones for parties, if she has any." And than slammed it back into place. "We'll see what we can do." He said and than just starred at her, so she starred back at him. She obviously wasn't getting the point of Kaiba's hidden message. He than cleared his throat, trying to get her to catch on.

"What?" she asked tired of trying to guess what he wanted.

"Get out so I can get ready, you moron." He said, in disbelief that she could be so clueless.

"Ohhh ... right." She said embarrassed.

Then a soft knock accompanied by a voice, "Mr. Kaiba sir, it is Maria, with the shoes."

"Come in, Maria," Kaiba said defeated, thinking that he would never get ready, not that he wanted to go down to room full of ass-kissing imbeciles.

The maid opened the door, than saw her boss in nothing but a towel and than looked the other way and was about to leave when Kaiba spoke, "No Maria, it's okay."

She resumed her path back into Kaiba's bedroom, than she saw Serenity. "Oh my, who is this Mr. Kaiba?" the lady asked in her Spanish accent.

"I'm Serenity, and you." Serenity was delighted to see such a cheerful face in a day that was full of Kaiba.

"My name is Maria, darling." And she pulled Serenity into an embrace.

Kaiba just rolled his eyes at the sight of women bonding with each other, "I'll be getting ready in the bathroom." And he picked up all of his garments, clothes, after shave, etc. and walked into the bathroom, shutting it roughly behind him.

Meanwhile the ladies really got to know each other well. Maria showed Serenity the three bags full of shoes that she brought for her. And they mixed and matched to see what pair would go best with the outfit. Kaiba could hear the women and their high voices through the thick door, feeling like that the world was going to blow up. The ladies finally decided what pair would look the best. It was a pair of heels, and strings of leather fabric that held her feet in place, and the strings went up around her calve, making her look like a Greek goddess.

"Wow, you look beautiful Serenity." Maria said, her hands in a bunch, admiring her.

"Thank you Maria. And thank you for the shoes, you're a life saver!" Serenity said hugging Maria tightly.

"Can I tell you something Serenity?" she waited for Serenity's approval. "I think that you and Mr. Kaiba make an adorable couple, it's good to know that he's found a real woman that can give him the care and love that he needs." Maria smile grew wider as she heard what Serenity's response was.

"Maria, you've got it all wrong, we're not in a relationship or anything, I work for him, nothing more." Serenity said in her defense.

"Whatever you say darling. But I've never seen him this pleasant around others before. I think that you have something to do with it." Maria said packing up the bags of shoes and than exiting.

Serenity shook of the thought and just starred herself in the long mirror.


'Finally' Kaiba thought, as he looked at himself in the large mirror in front of him. 'Great. Now all I have to do is get this damn tie on.' He starred at it hard as if it was a human, and that it might be defeated and be easy to put on by himself.

He opened the door of his bathroom with his tie in his hand, to see an amazing sight in front of him – he saw Serenity, in all black. He hadn't noticed how beautiful she looked before. 'Wow.' He thought to himself. But shook the thought out of his mind, trying to focus on what he was to do tonight.

He walked out into the open area where Serenity was and asked where Maria was. Serenity replied by saying "She left, why?"

"I needed help with this tie." He said pushing Serenity aside so he could look in the mirror to do what he needed to do.

"Let me help, Marik has the same problem." She walked up in front of him, grabbed the tie from Kaiba's grip, and began her work.

"Marik?" he asked cocking a brow up high.

"Oh, we live together, it's not what you think."

Kaiba didn't answer, he just watched her. Her hands were around his neck for a short moment when she put the tie around his neck. Than began to tie and pull. Kaiba could see right down her dress, feeling very aroused by the sight. Once she was done he quickly moved his body from her sight, not wanting for her to see the effect she left, by making a rather large bulge in his pants.

Kaiba left the room first, sending in Maria to show Serenity the way around downstairs, but through the way that was used by the staff, for he didn't want anyone to see her coming from his room.

Kaiba already had made his way into the event's area when Serenity was escorted there by Maria. Everyone was stunned, men looking ever so closely, while the women looking in either jealously or disbelief.

One saying, "It's probably fake,"

Most of them unknown to who she was, wanted to greet with her.

TO BE CONTINUED...

Author's Note: That took long! ::wipes sweat off her forehead:: Anyways! Hope you guys enjoyed it, and sorrie I took so long to update. Part two will be up as soon as possible and I think you guys are going to like it. Like it a lot!!! It's about Mokuba!!! And Serenity and Seto!!! Who is this mysterious character known as Mr. Smith? If ya'll want to know, please read and review! Remember all comments greatly appreciated.