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Leigha sat at her desk with another cup of coffee in her hands. She kept wondering what had tempted her to play that trick on Kaiba, her own boss. But she loved the look on his face when he saw her push him away, she knew she didn't have any of those feelings for him, especially him. 'He's my boss, nothing can happen between us' she convinced herself that was the deal. She knew that if she got into any relationships it would effect her systematic way of life. Never in her life she possessed a boyfriend, and she sure as hell wasn't going to change that now.
Seto woke with a start. His laptop had started to make sounds and finally it woke him up. He quickly typed in a password and his computer had stopped beeping. Seto started to rub at his temples when he heard a knock at the door.
"Yes, come in" he growled.
Leigha walked in with a half cup of coffee in her hands. She walked up to Seto's desk and dropped a stack of papers on his desk.
"Administrators told me to give this to you," she said.
Seto eyed Leigha before he turned to the papers. The pile must have been over 1000 pages. He groaned in frustration at the sight. 'Another long night, this will take forever' he thought. He waved as a gesture to leave but before she did she had started to talk again.
"Mr. Kaiba, I'm requesting if I can leave early tonight, I have some other things to attend to and-" Seto had cut her short by raising a hand.
"Ms. Mouto, it's only 6," he looked up from the stack of papers into her eyes. For the first time she felt afraid, and started to step back, but she fought back and took another step forward to his desk and slammed her hands on the desk.
"Mr. Kaiba, I'm only asking you nicely once, sometimes other matters are more important then working here all the time," she snapped.
Seto's eyes started to narrow into an intense stare. Neither Leigha nor Seto would back down. Both were staring hatefully into each other's eyes.
"Fine, but I'm only staying another hour and a half anyway, but I'm leaving right after," she stormed out of the office with a loud bang.
Seto smirked that he had won, but it turned into a frown when he realized that he still had the pile of paperwork to finish. He quickly grabbed a pen out of his desk and started right away.
"Seto, are you almost finished?" Mokuba asked. It had been 4 hours since Seto had started. "It's getting late, we should go home," he had his big puppy eyes looking up at him. Seto softened for a bit but then said, "Mokuba, I can call a limo for you, but I still have a lot of work to do," and he reverted his eyes back to the papers in front of him. He only had 100 pages to go, and then he could go home and get some rest. Each page of his pile had only asked for a signature and a few comments, but he had to make sure he read it all in case there was something in there about giving up Kaiba Corp. or something along those lines.
An hour later Seto placed his pen on the desk, and looked over at his brother sleeping on his couch. Seto leaned back in his chair and placed his hands behind his head and his eyelids became heavy once again. Before he could fall asleep, he heard a loud crash along with a few mumbled profanities. It was too late for someone to still be at Kaiba Corp. except him, especially at 2 in the morning. Seto got up from his chair and swiftly strode to his door and opened it. There he saw a distressed Leigha, on the ground on her knees, with papers all around her and a chair on the ground. She had her laptop in her hands, and quickly got up. Seto couldn't help but notice her face with a small hint of red on her cheeks. She was embarrassed! He couldn't help but smirk at her in such a vulnerable position. (A/N: Argh, I meant like…he knew what happened. Not what she could do, GOD shakes head) She started collecting the papers all around here, neither had said a word to each other. But Seto stood at the door watching her clean up the mess.
"So, you're just going to stand there and not even help?" she asked she didn't even look at him, but he could tell her eyes were narrowing.
"It isn't my mess," he shot back.
"Well, don't you think it's rude you just standing there while I'm cleaning up?" she finally looked at his tall figure at the frame of the door. Her green eyes looked brilliant in such a dark room, but they were narrowed so you could see just a bit of green, they sparkled when they reflected the moon's light through the window.
"As I said before, it isn't my mess," he looked away out the window and at the moon. If he kept looking her, he knew his hormones would take over again and something would happen related to earlier.
"You're such a jerk," she muttered and turned back to cleaning her mess.
Seto was about to reply back but Mokuba walked out of Seto's office with a mumble and into the hall where Seto and Leigha were. He was rubbing his eyes and spoke, "Seto, are you done yet?" he yawned. "Yes Mokuba, let's go home," and turned back into his office, leaving Mokuba out with Leigha.
"Are you alright?" he asked. "I heard something crash and it woke me up," he had a sleepy smile on his face, and Leigha's face softened from her spat with Seto.
"Oh, I'm fine, thank you, I just tripped and fell, along with my papers and a chair," she pointed at the chair behind her.
"Let me help you," he started to clean up the rest of her papers. Leigha's eyes started to water but she wiped the tears away from her cheeks as soon as they fell, but that couldn't keep Mokuba from noticing.
"Are you sure you're alright?" his eyes plastered with concern. Leigha wondered why Seto and Mokuba were so different.
"You're so nice, so sincere, so different from your older brother," she looked at him but he didn't look thankful, but rather sad and disappointed.
"Seto isn't all that bad, he's just gone through a lot while our stepfather owned Kaiba Corp." he said.
"I won't be nosy and ask what happened," she put a grin on her face and picked up the last of the papers and put the chair back in it's place.
"Thank you Mokuba, you were very helpful, good night" she started to walk away but Mokuba stopped her.
"Leigha, I don't think my brother was the reason you were crying, why are you here so late? What happened to you?" he grabbed her arm before she turned to leave.
Leigha stood there for a moment. She didn't know what to say to him, she didn't know him all that well. And she didn't want to worry him with her problems.
"No, your brother wasn't the reason I was crying," she looked down a grin still on her face, but she turned to Mokuba. "Your brother just made me cry, he just made me lose it, if that makes any sense," she was now letting her tears flow freely.
He nodded at her to say he understood. "I'm sorry," he looked sincere. Before she could walk out again Mokuba hugged her. She didn't know what to do but hug him back. She had only known the boy for a day, but he was so kind, so friendly, she couldn't break that, so she hugged him in return. "Thank you," she whispered. Mokuba let go and Leigha smiled instead of her usual grins at him.
"Mokuba, if I had ever had a brother, I would only hope he would be as kind as you would," she said to him. Mokuba smiled warmly and said good night to her and things would only get better and went back to Seto's office.
Meanwhile, Seto had just hung up with his driver when he heard crying at the door. He was about to kill Leigha for hurting Mokuba but when he was seconds away from pulling the door off it's hinges he heard Mokuba speaking and realized Mokuba wasn't crying, but Leigha. He pressed his ear to the door and listened to Leigha.
"No, your brother wasn't the reason I was crying," he heard her say. "Your brother just made me cry, he just made me lose it, if that makes any sense," she finished. Seto bit his lip, but kept listening. There was silence for a few seconds but he heard Mokuba speak. "I'm sorry," he sounded sad. There was complete silence after that, and Seto was going to open the door but he heard a soft 'Thank you' and just stood back again. But he could still hear someone speaking. "Mokuba, if I had ever had a brother, I would only hope he would be as kind as you would," Leigha had spoke. Seto didn't know why, but he felt sorry for her. With no siblings to go to instead of her parents. Before he could walk away the door, it had opened and hit him full in the face.
"Seto!" Mokuba yelled. "Are you okay!" he was at Seto's side now.
Seto had groaned in response.
Mokuba had helped Seto up before he had spoke.
"The limo should be here by now, let's go," he started to rub his nose as he grabbed his things and walked out with Mokuba at his side.
The car ride home was quiet. Both Seto and Mokuba were tired, but there was a different atmosphere then just plain exhaustion. Both of them wanted to know why Leigha had been crying, but Seto more in the reason of curiosity, and Mokuba concern.
The limo reached the Kaiba mansion and the driver opened the door. Seto and Mokuba got out, and headed to the front doors of the mansion where both their beds had waited for them all day.
As Leigha headed down the street to her apartment she was frightened. It was 2 in the morning, but nobody was outside. She thought that all the rapists were hiding and she started to walk faster. Soon her walk was turning into a jog, and then a run. She finally reached her door and fidgeted for the keys and hastily opened the door and locked it once she was inside. Her heart was racing as she put her stuff away and went to bed, waiting for the next day to come.