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Chapter 9

"Well then where do you suggest looking?" Joey asked a little annoyed that nothing useful was found in Mai's apartment.

"I don't know maybe we should ask her neighbors if they saw her two days ago," Tea suggested.

Joey didn't wait for the girls to join him or even bother saying anything. He just took off and banged on the first door they were close to.

"Joey! My God! They're not going to open if you bang down their door!" Serenity scolded.

"Yeah but if I bang down the door they won't have to open it," Joey said with a smug look on his face.

Even how ironic it was nobody was home in the apartment they chose to knock at. They did bang and Joey yelled but the home was vacant.

"Let's try another one," Joey said about to move on to the next door.

"Joey no! We'll have to do this tomorrow. It's getting late!" Serenity said.

"How late could it be?" Joey asked wanting to continue his search.

"It's like six o'clock! It's getting dark. Besides people are eating dinner and Tea and I need to eat too!" Serenity said in her defense.

"For the love of God, Sis! Mai could be anywhere, starving!"

"Joey, please! We have to look tomorrow!"

"Fine."

They left the building and walked down the stairs to sidewalk towards Tea's car.

"We have to ask people about Mai tomorrow, you guys," Joey said still annoyed at their early leaving.

They had to cross the street to get to their car where they parked. However, they didn't see a red sports car speeding through the street. They only saw it in time to run backwards from the street and the car slammed on its brakes.

"HOLY SHIT!" Joey yelled.

"Who was that?" Serenity said about to faint.

The owner of the car stepped out to check the damage. Unfortunately for Joey, Tea, and Serenity the owner of car was Seto Kaiba, the stuck up CEO of Kaiba Co. Unsurprisingly Kaiba didn't care a thing about Joey, Serenity or Tea. He was more concerned about his car.

"Well thank you very much! You idiots you damaged my car! And I'm so glad that I got to run into you of all people," Kaiba said sarcastically ready to explode in anger.

"You were the one who was speeding down a local street!" Tea scolded.

"Look, fighting with you is pointless besides you geeks aren't worth my time."

"Get lost rich-boy," Joey growled.

"Oh if you say so," Kaiba said sarcastically.

"Wait!" Serenity called to him as he started to walk to his car. "Maybe you could help us find Mai," Serenity said, trying to help.

Serenity didn't get that everyone she knew hated Kaiba and never asked for his help. She did know that Kaiba was a very rich and powerful man and she figured he could help them.

"Maybe he can use his satellites or something…" Serenity said hopefully.

"Serenity come on its Kaiba, he hates us," Joey said.

Kaiba sorely hated Joey and all of his retarded friends and would normally never help them for his life but he couldn't help but notice how amazingly attractive Joey's sister was. (He hated calling her Joey's sister but it wasn't like him to call someone didn't like (or really know well) by their first name). She was begging him and it pained him to ignore the beauty begging for his help. He really didn't want to like Serenity and in truth he didn't know how he felt about her. But it felt wrong to ignore her.

"I don't see why I should help you or one of your stupid friends so if you don't mind I'll be on my way," Kaiba said with no respect in his voice and his nose turned up.

"Are you sure you can't help us?" Serenity asked in a quiet voice and her puppy eyes pleading at him.

Kaiba hated that she was looking at him like that. He wanted her to stop. She was bringing out his weakness. She looked so cute, too cute. He didn't want to help. But he couldn't disregard her begging eyes. She wasn't just asking him to help she was telling him to.

"I TOLD YOU I'M BUSY," Kaiba snapped he said looking away from them. Without saying anything else he stormed back into his car, (which apparently wasn't damaged too bad because it ran just fine). Tea, Serenity, and Joey quickly got out of his way and he sped away in his flashy car.

"Son of a bitch…" Joey mumbled after the car had turned on into the next street. "Why would you think, for one minute that Kaiba would actually help us?" Joey questioned his sister.

"Ok, Joey, you're right Kaiba is mean but he really could help us at this point." Serenity was trying to point out that Kaiba was not as evil as they all thought. He just seemed misunderstood. She knew it was crazy but in a way she felt bad for him.

"Serenity, I don't think 'mean' really describes what Kaiba is! In fact there aren't words that describe what a bastard he is!" Joey nearly yelled. He hated even looking at Kaiba.

"You know, I think you guys should take the time to get to know Kaiba before you start criticize him! He doesn't have any friends! If I were him I would start to shut myself out of the world like he does just because it's been so long since he really had anyone he knew and loved," Serenity argued.

"Look I don't care for Kaiba or about him so if he really needs friends he's looking in the wrong direction," Joey retorted.

"Guys, lets just go back to my place and forget this ever happened," Tea said to them both trying to stop the madness.

Serenity didn't want to 'forget this ever happened'. She knew they could use Kaiba's help and he could use theirs or if things remained the way they were just hers. At this point she was the only one who could understand him. Besides she was just as concerned about Mai as Joey was and it bothered her they weren't using a helpful resource.

Mai woke up a few hours later. She was worse then she was when she fell asleep. She was dizzier. She tried in her best efforts to stand but the pain in her leg she twisted reminded her that she hadn't recovered yet. She looked over in the direction of the cell door.

She saw much to her astonishment a bucket of water. She blinked several times to make sure her eyes hadn't deceived her. After a moment she realized that she couldn't have been wrong. In an ungraceful motion she lifted herself up with the help of one of the walls and limped over to the bucket of water.

It tasted as good as it looked. As she drank she also remembered that being a lady was as important as the water and if anyone was to walk by they would have seen her practically throwing water on her face. So she drank politely even though no one walked by and saw her drinking furiously and even through she needed water more than she ever needed it before.

After many badly needed gulps of water, Mai tried her very best to drag the bucket back to her favorite corner of the cell, that way if anyone wanted to steal it from her they would have to come in and open the door.

She was very exhausted even after she satisfied her thirst. She was in need of some more food and she was losing weight. (Like she really needs too).

"I'm going to die here," she groaned. Still very beat.

Through her own despair she didn't hear the footsteps coming up to her cell. She only realized it when a voice from the door of cell said to her "You will not die here."

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