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Now for the chapter.
Dumb school projects.
Monday morning. 7:00. Two Months After Battle City.
Serenity was making breakfast for her brother and herself. Of course he hadn't waken up yet and unless she got some nice cold water and poured it on him he wouldn't. She had learned that after living with him for these past two months. Once breakfast was about 5 minutes to done she set off to her brothers room equipped with a big glass of ice-cold water. She went into his room and was about to pour the water on him when he bolted up.
Serenity thought she was caught doing what her brother had asked her no to do so many times but he was still asleep just talking and sitting up in the process. She could hear him muttering things like 'dat's my doughnut' and 'ummmmmm giant milkshake'. So figuring he was still asleep she poured the entire glass on him.
His eyes shot open and immediately focused on his little sister. "Serenity I asked you not to do dat!"
"Oh, I know Joey but it's the only way to get you up. I mean you sleep like a rock."
"Dat's it little sis. You going down."
He jumped off the bed and onto Serenity. She defensively put up her hands in front of her while Joey tickled her non-stop. They were laughing uncontrollably until they heard the front door open. They heard the footsteps of their worst nightmare. Their father.
"He never comes home this early Joey. What do you think happened?" She whispered it in hopes their father would just ignore them if they were quiet.
"I don't know." But unfortunately their father was in a very bad hang over so they weren't so lucky. He stopped outside of Serenity's room, which is the first of the three. They heard him open the door. Mumbling something they couldn't understand he shut it and continued down the hall until he reached Joey's. They heard him turn they handle. Joey had gotten in front of Serenity out of habit and to protect her.
Their father walked in the room and laughed at what he saw. "Honestly. Are you that pathetic Serenity that you always have to hide behind your brother? You're worthless."
His words always hurt her no matter what Joey said after wards. She always believed them.
"Don't listen to him Serenity. You know he's lying."
"And why would I lie. There's no reason for me to. You're an idiot Joey. Why would I lie to you two. You don't deserve to live in this apartment. You're a dog Joey, a dog. But at least you're worth more than your pathetic sister. At least you can fight."
After saying that, he through a punch at Joey to get him out of the way to advance on Serenity. "Lets see how long you'll last this time Serenity. Last time you got how long? Ten minutes?" He slapped her across the face and she fell to the floor. Joey got back up and tried to stop him but he wasn't strong enough. Mr. Wheeler just threw him to the ground again. "I have no interest in hurting you this morning Joey, unless you give me reason to. All I want to see is how long your sister will last." He does this often. Always leaving Joey out of it. Unless Joey tried to stop him. He would just go for Serenity because he liked torturing her.
He started to hit her again, but Joey wouldn't let him. This time Joey got that glass Serenity was holding and hit his father on the head with it. "I don't care what your sick mind wants to do with me, but you will NEVER hurt Serenity." (Dramatic hero music starts to play.)
Serenity stood up and looked at her unconscious father. Then she ran and gave her brother a hug. "Thank you Joey."
"Hey, what are big brothers for? Come on. Lets jus leave him here. We need to get all patched up again."
"Yeah we don't look very presentable for school huh?"
Joey led the way to the kitchen where the first aid kit was. "Hey Serenity?"
"Yes Joey?"
"Breakfast is a little burnt don't ya think?" He held up the pan she was using to cook eggs in one hand and in the other he held the pan that was used to cook beacon. Both of the contents where black and burnt. She laughed and then Joey joined in. "I guess we could just have take out."
"Ya but Ren, money is really short. We would be better off if we just went without."
"Fine. I'm going to go get ready for school." She turned and walked back into her room. Joey stared at the burnt food and laughed then remembering why he had gone into the kitchen in the first place, he got out the first aid kit and started to tend to himself. Once Serenity gets back I should clean her up a bit too. He then walked into his room, and seeing that his dad was there, took his school stuff out. Including his books, homework, and uniform. He went to go change in the bathroom.
When he got back out and walked into the family room he saw Serenity covering up her bruises with some cover up. She was dressed in her uniform too.
"We should probably get going unless we want to be late." She told him. Joey nodded in agreement. They had agreed to yugi and the other that they would meet them a the game shop this morning so they could all go together. Since they had no car they had to walk to the game shop and it was a long walk. So they had to run most of the way so they weren't late.
Huffing and puffing the made it to the game shop just as everyone else was about to leave.
"Hey I didn't think you guys were coming." Said yugi. He looked a little worried.
"Yeah, uh sorry we're late everyone we had a little uh trouble with cooking breakfast. A small fire. Sorry." Serenity answered because Joey was still panting from running that far. She looked at Yugi and smiled to reassure him that everything was ok. But he still had his doubts. He had seen them coming up and Serenity was limping.
"That's alright Serenity." Said Tea "we just better hurry or else we'll be late." With that all of them started to run again. With Serenity and Yugi in the back as usual. Because of Serenity's foot though, Yugi was ahead of her. He took that time to see what was really wrong with her. A fire doesn't do that to people. When Serenity looked up she saw that Yugi had turned into Yami and he had stopped. Oh snap. not good. What if he asks me what's wrong? She caught up to him and slowed down to a walk.
"Yes Yami."
"You knew I changed?"
"I saw the light when I looked up."
"Oh. Umm Serenity what really happened this morning and why are you limping?"
"I told you. The was a fire while Joey was trying to cook. I hadn't woken up yet, so he made or tried to make breakfast and it didn't work. The reason I'm limping is because I tripped when I was running down the stairs to help him. See nothing happened. Just a freak accident."
He look at her suspiciously. There were no stairs in their apartment and Yugi-or Yami- knew that well. Having been over there so many times. "Look Serenity I know your lying. Why aren't you telling me the truth?"
"I am Yami."
They had almost reached the front doors of the school. They had to separate to go to their different classes so Yami told her he would talk to her later and hoped she will tell him the truth next time. They separated and started towards their own lockers. Serenity got rid of the books she wouldn't need and headed towards Psychology. Her first class. A class she also had with Seto. And the teacher is planning something that will make those two very angry.
She took a seat next to her friend Cassie. And they started gossiping about some random stuff. When the teacher walked in.
"Everyone stop talking. Pay attention. Today I am giving you a project that you will work on during class. That project is to make up a theory about human behavior and prove it."
A student named Dominic raised his hand. But the teacher didn't call on him because she knew what he was going to ask.
"And no Dominic you can't pick your partners. I have already taken the privilege of doing that." She took a break to look at every one in the class. Most were paying attention. Only one seemed to be totally spaced out. And that student was typing non-stop at his laptop.
"Mister Kaiba. I couldn't help but notice that you weren't paying attention. Is that because you seem to think that KaibaCorp. is more important than your education. I hate to tell this, but you are wrong."
Seto stopped typing, closed his laptop and looked up. "I hate to tell YOU this but, KaibaCorp. does supply the computer system for this and many other schools so if I don't keep my company at tip top shape the computer system may crash and may even blow up 8 schools in this district so before you go badgering me about paying attention maybe you should put that into consideration." He gave one of his smirks and then looked expectantly at the teacher.
The class was silent after his speech. While Serenity was thinking about how Seto was probably in a bad mood, the teacher was calling off the pairs. Once she called Cassie's name she paid attention hoping she would be her partner, but she wasn't. Cassie's partner was Dominic, the boy who would've had a question if the teacher didn't know him so well. The next name called was Seto's and then her own name. Oh great I'm stuck with Seto. She picked up her thing and moved next to him. Seto hadn't heard who is partner was because he was typing at his laptop again. He looked up and saw that Serenity was.
That's the mutt's sister. She was on my blimp during the finales. She's so pretty. He started to blush but controlled his hormones before Serenity could see.
"Why are you sitting here Serenity?"
She looked up at him with a DUH! Expression on her face but didn't say anything rude only that they were partners for the project.
"What project?"
Serenity sighed and explained what the teacher had told them to do.
"Hn. I'm not doing this. It is a waste of time. You're working alone." (A/N: Hiei moment. The whole Hn thing just had to happen. I could not resist.)
"What? You can't do that. We're PARTNERS. Do you understand what that means?"
"Of course I do. I'm not an idiot like yourself."
He turned his head away so she couldn't see him blush. He didn't like insulting the woman he had a crush on.
"WHAT DID YOU JUST CALL ME?!?!?!?!?!?!? EXCUSE ME MISTER KAIBA BUT I DON'T APPRECIATE BEING SPOKEN TO LIKE THAT!!!! ESPECIALLY FROM SOME ONE THAT I USED TO—eep!" She had almost told. She had almost admitted to him that she used to have a crush on him during battle city.
"Fine just shut your mouth." He pointed to the other people in the class and they were all staring at them.
"Ms. Wheeler? Is there a problem?"
Serenity stood up. "No. I'm fine."
"Good. Now I suggest you get back to work."
"Yes." Serenity sat back down and glared at Seto.
"Ohh trying to intimidate my now huh? Whatever lets just start this and get it over with."
"Fine." The two started working. When they finished Serenity thanked him for deciding to help with their project.
"Yeah whatever. You could've at least helped. I basically had to do it all idiot."
"I told you stop calling me that."
They were both walking out of the class room and unfortunately they had the next class together too. So they decided to argue while they were walking. Seto was having a very hard time controlling himself in front of her. He got the hard urge to just kiss her. It was hard for him to control and he knew he would eventually lose to this fight.
So he decided to act on it. He pulled her over into an empty hallway.
"What are you doing Kaiba?" This reminded her of their run in on his blimp. Of course she totally forgot Joey was with her then.
He didn't answer but instead looked at the ground.
"Kai-" Before she could finish the sentence Seto had kissed her. And before she knew she was kissing back. It lasted for a few seconds until they broke apart. Serenity was now falling in love with him again. They smiled at each other.
"Wow." Serenity said quietly.
Seto laughed. He put his hand on her shoulder and said. "How you like to go out with me sometime?"
"I would like that."
"Me too."
They two walked to class and the rest of the day went great.
So I hope you liked it. Again sorry for the late update. I have been busy lately. Like watching the YGO movie. It is good and I advise you all to go and see it. Review Please. And I know that chapter was kinda lame, but I'm really bored and I had to get them to kiss some how right?