LefthandedFreak: Huzzo everyone! And welcome to the second chapter of Fate's Underhanded Tactics because I was basically born on a computer and I have nothing else to do. Besides. It's 12:29 A.M.
Seto and Joey: (pop up from behind counter) We're in this chapter!
LefthandedFreak: Ummm,yeah. But it's not like you two had to wait forever. It was only one chapter!
Seto: A chapter too long!
Joey: I agree!
Seto: Beside, who really wants to know about Yami and the toaster demon
LefthandedFreak: You do sort of have a point
Yami: (offstage) HEY!
LefthandedFreak: Anyways, I hope you all enjoy this Chapter as much as the last. And I would like to thank my only reviewer. (drumroll) Dagger! (hugs) Thank you's! Anyways, I sorta noticed the same thing about the lack of stories between this great four pair relationship but never really thought about writing one until I joined the site.(gives you a plushie of Fate) It's all I could afford. Plus, I also read your story about Seto and Yami and Yugi and a certain office chair...somethings are better kept at home, eh? Hehehe!
Now, since all of you know the Disclaimer (it can be found in Chapter One) and the warning (Also in One) I will make no further ado and start the bloody story!
"300 hundred ways to prepare chocolate?"
"Check", Fate mumbled as she rummaged through her bag. She had made it to Earth alright, just like every other time, and was now unpacking in an apartment. Let's just say that the place just happened to have an extra room.
"More than Love?"
"Check"
"100 Ways to Make Cabbage?"
"Hmm?..Oh yeah, here it is"
"Tinsle, not just for Trees?"
Fate spun around facing, to the untrained eye, nothing but little floating particles in the air. Her gaze shifted to her calculator laying on a desk that was piled with books and a clipboard.
" Tinsle?", she asked, slightly bemused and slightly annoyed. The calculator, at that moment, decided to join the world of the living and bounced off the desk and into the air, floating a few inches from the young girl.
"Yes, did you bring it?"
Fate rummaged through the books and sighed, "Why did I bring a book about tinsle? It's not like I need it for this job or anything. In fact", she waved her hands agrrivated like at the rest of the books, piled in various stacks all over the room, "I don't need all of this. Well, maybe I'd need the chocolate one but, everything else can go back."
"Except the tinsle", muttered the calculator.
"What was that?"
"Nothing", the calculator tried to appear innocent (AN: Is that possible?) before floating over to the other end of the room. "Anyways, if you don't need all this, send it back and you better do it quick. That bag of yours", the forlorn bag seemed to fall a bit at having been addressed, "Has a mind of its own"
Fate raised a brow amused, "Kind of like you, eh Jarald? I mean, how many calculators can talk?"
"How many bags can think?", Jarald the Calculator asked, glaring at the unmoving bag.
"Oh calm down, it'll find it's way back home. Right bag?", the bag straightened a bit. "Yes, that's a good bag! Who's a good bag? Yousa good bag!", Fate cuddled the bag in her arms as it squirmed a bit and did a baggish version of a lick, but having no tongue, just managed to rub against her cheek, causing the brunette to laugh. "Now now, let's not get too excited"
"Gods know we wouldn't want that", muttered Jarald
"What was that?"
"Nothing"
"Mr. Kaiba", an intercom rang out a voice. The telecom seemed sort of out of place when compared to all the big an expensive equipment in the room. Kaiba, a very wealthy brunette, sighed from his chair placed in front of his glass window about a hundred floors above the earths surface, while stirring a hot cup of coffee with a spoon absentmindedly. He reached over, a bit sluggish like, and clicked the tiny red button.
"Yes, what is it Ann?"
"The applicant for the technical posistion, sir, has passed all her tests. "
Kiaba sighed, annoyed that his happy (AN: jaw drops) moment was interrupted by another employee, or future employee as it stood, already. "I'll be right there", he said standing up from his desk.
"No need", a young brunnette haired girl, wearing a long blue skirt and short sleeved top slided into the room. "I came to you. Kind of makes sense to meet your almost new boss in his office, right?"
Ok. She had scored some points. Kiaba nodded to a chair opposite of him, not commenting on her words of wisdom before he slided into his own, big, comfy chair. Oh it was to die for!
"What do you think, sir?"
"Hmm?", Kaiba snapped out of his comfortable daze and back onto the girl.
"I told you I received a total score of 99 points, sir, on the test"
Kaiba wanted to pour hot coffee on his pants, just to make sure he wasn't dreaming. "What! Noone's every got that kind of score. Well, except for me that is", Kaiba had a sort of smug look on his face as he said this before turning back to his problem at hand.
"I just know my material, sir"
" And what about the question?"
"Sir?"
"The question you missed. Which one was it?", Kaiba asked as he leered at her. She made no movement to avoid his gaze and just looked right at him. Well, actually sort of past him. She had creepy eyes, Kaiba noted.
"Well, er, it was the one about what I would do if a man came on to me at work and we were in your office and...um, I'd rather not repeat the rest. But the main question was if I would tell you. I didn't know how to answer that, sir"
"And why not?", Kaiba asked. Great, another one to make use of his desk like that Mary-Ellen. He shivered as he remembered their brief conversation. Brief because he fired the girl minutes later. Also brief cause he needed to order a new desk.
"Because I beleive in abstinance, sir. No sexual activity until marriage, sir and since I am not in a royal rush to do that, I surround myself with my work. Probably explaining my top score, sir"
Kaiba eyes narrowed.He wasn't sure if he could beleive her, but then again, she did score the highest than anyone. Well, except for Kaiba, that is.
"Alright, your hired Miss...er?"
"Fate, sir. Just call me Fate", the young girl smiled as her calculator glared up at her from her pocket.
"Very well than. You start in two days, Wednesday, ok?"
"That's fine sire. Oh, I was also wondering, sir, if you knew my cousin. We've never met but I was told that you've meet him a couple of times. He goes by the name of Joey Wheeler?"
Kaiba's face seemed to pale. Great, he had hired a relative of the stupid blockhead of a human being, and not only that, she was incredibly smart. Obviously, some genes didn't pass to one side of the family.
"This is not a casual conversation, Miss Fate."
"Actually sir, it will be until Wednesday. Besides, I really need a place to stay since I just arrived", Kaiba raised his brow.
"Just arrived?"
"I find work more important, sir, so it was very of me to get a job, sir, before a place to stay"
Kaiba sighed, annoyed that he was doing so," My secretary will give you his address. I'll inform her that your on your way", he leaned over his desk and exchanged a few words with the secretary before gazzing back up. The door swung shut gently. Now, Kaiba could finally get back to that afternoon nap that he was thinking about only five minutes ago and Fate could get onto her real job. Phase one, complete.
Joey laid still on his couch, sighing in vain. Mai had disappeared after an hour of shopping and it took him three hours later to finally figure that she had dumped him. What a day. His head hurt, his legs hurt, his heart hurt and it was only starting to get worse.
"Here kitty, kitty, kitty"
'What the hell? Who is that' Joey thought as he heard the voice drift from the side of his house.
"Come on kitty, get down from there"
Well, as long as they stayed away from him, he was perfectly fine.
"Great, I can't reach from there"
Joey looked up as he heard a few bitter curse words before his doorbell rang, shortly afterwards. Sighing, he pushed himself up and off the couch, stumbling a bit as he opened the door.
"Excuse me for bothering you, sir, but my cat accidently ran up your tree in the backyard and..."
Joey cut the brunnette girl off,"...You were wondering if you could go get it?"
Fate nodded, smiling," That, and if you had a ladder. I don't climb trees. I guees you could say I'm afraid of heights", she blushed sort of sheepishly. Of course she was only acting but I guees you could say it wasn't too hard to do. She really wasn't fond of heights.
Joey sighed. He didn't have a ladder. He never USED one so why buy one? And since this girl was afraid of heights, it looked like he was going to have to handle this. "Follow me. I'll get your kitty". Saying that made him think of all those old sterotypicall things about firefighters as he lead Fate towards the back.
"It's that tree, over there", Fate pointed to the oldest, most deadest looking tree in the whole backyard. It was if the tree had never had a happy day in its entire treeish life. Joey sort of felt like that decaying trunk of misery at that moment as he headed over to it. There, sitting a few branches into the dead oak, was a gray and white cat, licking itself happily as it stared down at Joey. 'Yeah', Joey thought, 'I bet your enjoying this aren't you?'. He made a grab for the runaway creature but only got so far before it tore up another branch. Cursing, Joey lifted himself into the dead branches.
"Come here you stupid animal", Joey said aggrivated. Usually, he was quite sweet to animals but today was just not the day to screw around with him and this cat was absolutly looking forward to doing so. Reaching again for the astray fealine, it batted his hand with a paw before scurrying up another branch. The tree moaned in agony of the weight being placed on its poor, little, weak branches and gave out on Joey, just as he was about to swipe the too happy beast from the third landing.
There was a crack and a searing hot pain ran up and down his arm as he landed with a loud thud.
"AHHH!", Joey hollered as he grasped his broken arm, causing more pain to fly up is body.
"Hey, don't touch it, it'll only make it worse", Fate reached over and pulled his grasping arm away, no doubt inflicting more bodily pain.
"AGH! That hurt!"
"Sorry"
"No, no, it's ok.", he waved her away but she didn't budge.
"Here, let me take you inside and set it. It'll hurt like hell then, but it'll make it heal correctly and it won't take forever if we just sit around and wait for an ambulance.", Fate smiled wrily.
" What, are you some kind of doctor?"
"You could say that. I just graduated from med school"
Joey looked at her in disbeleif. "How old are you?"
"16. I was highly advanced for my age". Oh, if he only knew.
"16! You must rank really high", Joey gaped at her as she blew a strand of hair from her face.
"Yeah, well I don't brag about it. By the way I'm Fate. Who are you?", she raised her hand as if waiting for him to cough up sme cash before he grasped hers with his own hand in a mild shake.
"Joey"
"That's a nice name." There was a moment of silence. The cat didn't really care for the all to silent moment so it decided to be nice and jump down...
...right onto Joey's poor arm.
"AHHHHHHHHHHH"
LefthandedFreak: That's it for now!
Joey: You hate me, don't you?
LefthandedFreak: Maybe...
Joey: (mumbles)
LefthandedFreak: Anyways I'm up for Ideas. I could always improve. oh, and Read and Review please!
Seto: Why do they call it READ and review if they've already read the story?
LefthandedFreak: Um...I dunno...Maybe it'll remain a mystery. (They sit in silence for a moment) Anyways, I'll see you later! (yawns)Goodnight!