Yo people! Yeah I took a long break….sorry but now I'm back! Man I've been playing this online game called Maplestory so much….well not that much but I've been playing it with my friends. It's a good game…and me and my friends agreed to play it like once a week cause we don't want to spend so much time on it….and we played yesterday and then we all got off…and I got back on to level up one more level so I'd be equal to my friend only to find that both of my friends were on there! XD and this morning I got on and so were they again….oh well…I'm gonna be a thief! MUAHAHAHAAHAHA! Ok…that's enough…
Disclaimer: I don't own yu-gi-oh or the care bears, now…
Nobody Cares Like a Bear
By Eveilly Autumns
Chapter 12: Seto Kaiba and the Banana Shark
The maid and Tenderheart were on their way to Dr. Anthony's office. On the way there they saw some construction workers fixing the charred parts of the KC building. The care bear family had caused it but the maid wasn't angry at them. They hadn't done it purposely. But seeing the building just somehow made the maid more determined to stop Dr. Anthony from pulling off his dastardly scheme.
It wasn't long before the two of them reached the building that held Dr. Anthony's office. Of course Tenderheart was inside a bag the maid was carrying (even in Domino City it wasn't exactly normal for a care bear to be walking around) but Tenderheart peeked out to look at the building. It was tall and gray and dull. Not only that, it had ugly purple curtains—that should have been the first sign that the place was messed up.
"What now?" the maid whispered. After all, she was in front of a psychiatrist building and if anyone saw saw her seemingly talking to her bag…well she'd probly end up in there and she did NOT want that to happen.
"Well we can't just go in there like this. Dr. Anthony will just blackmail you again," Tenderheart replied.
"Then what are we supposed to do? I don't think calling the police would be very smart…" The maid could only imagine that one: you have to help me cause I taped Kaiba shredding a care bear to bits and now a psychiatrist is blackmailing me into getting more information about it! And that's without even mentioning the care bears…
"We'll have to disguise ourselves and sneak in."
"How?"
"There's a mall around here right?"
"Yeah."
"I'm sure we could find something there…"
Domino High
Kaiba had finished searching one hallway and had no luck finding any of the bears. But that meant that they had to be in one of the two other hallways around there. They were probably all hiding together, huddling up against each other like the cowards that they were…
Kaiba grinned. He knew it was only a matter of time before he had the pesks in his clutches and he could make them pay for messing with him…soon they would be trapped like rats. And he wasn't sure what Yugi 'n' friends had to do with it but if they were involved in any way they would get what was coming to them too…especially the mutt…
Kaiba passed the janitor's closet. "I should check to make sure that that bear didn't slip through the maid's fingers…" Kaiba opened the door of the janitor's closet to find…
….the janitor. No maid. No Tenderheart.
"What are you doing here?" Kaiba demanded.
The janitor nearly had a heart attack (he wasn't the healthiest person in the world) when Kaiba was yelling at him. Kaiba was yelling at him. Kaiba, one of the most powerful people in the world!
"Well, Mr. Kaiba, I was just getting sum scrubbing bubbles stuff n I—"
"Was there a girl in here with a…" Kaiba decided against saying a care bear was in there (though the janitor would have probly believed him anyway) "Was there a girl in here when you got here?" Kaiba demanded with utmost urgency.
"No, there wasn't nuttin in here but me mop n—"
"Damn it!" Kaiba muttered and left the closet, slamming the door behind him.
"I thought this job would be easy and un-stressful," the janitor moaned, "and what was Mr. Kaiba doin putting some girl in here…"
Domino City Mall
"So what are we looking for again?" the maid asked, walking through the mall.
"Any shops that sell costumes or—"
"Wigs?" the maid filled in, spotting a wig shop.
"Exactly. Do you see one?" Tenderheart asked.
"Yeah," the maid said, entering the store. Immediately she was ambushed by one of the clerks.
"Why hello there young lady, can I help you?" the clerk said, way too enthusiastically. But who could blame her for being overjoyed, considering that the maid was the first customer she'd had all day. Wig shops aren't exactly the most popular stores.
"Ummm…." The maid began, thinking seriously about turning and bolting out the door. The clerk herself had a wig that was like 20 feet tall and purple colored. Plus she was wearing those librarian-type glasses and a dress that made her look like a fat zebra. "Actually I was just browsing…"
"Ah, well allow me to help you browse my dear!" the clerk said, grabbing the maid's arm and pulling her through the store. Evidently the clerk had the strength of a zebra too. "Now here you see our finest selection," the clerk began, "this gorgeous wig here is made of the finest cat hair…"
"That's really nice, but I think I have to go now," the maid struggled to break free but the clerk paid no attention to that and just kept on showing her the wigs. "We have all kinds of wigs made of all kinds of hair—here's a walrus hair wig and a squirrel hair wig…ooh and an Emu hair wig…"
"Emu's don't have hair, they're birds!" the maid blurted out. She could hold her tongue when the clerk was rattling off the types of wigs but when the clerk started lying about Emus, well, that was something else.
"Oh well I don't make the wigs, I only sell them!" the clerk said with a giddy laugh. "Oh and here's a bear hair wig…"
"What?" Tenderheart asked, a bit disturbed.
The maid was agitated now so she looked away from the annoying clerk and gasped. That wig, she thought, the one over on that shelf…it's the same one Dr. Anthony wears! Exactly the same as his! That proves he's a phony! That's it…I'm getting out of here! But how? The clerk would never let her leave without buying something and she wasn't gonna buy one of these fakeo wigs, so she had to distract the clerk….
"Can you tell me about that one?" the maid asked, pointing to the wig high up..
"Of course…" and as she reached up to get the wig, the maid grabbed hold of the clerk's purple one and yanked it off. The clerk began screaming immediately; she was completely bald underneath.
"MY HAIR!" she screamed, as the maid threw it across the store and the clerk stampeded for it. The maid wasted no time in rushing out the door and into the elevator before the clerk could do anything. She immediately told Tenderheart about the wig that looked like Dr. Anthony's.
"I see…but boy that was close," Tenderheart whispered once they were to safety, "we need to be more careful; the mall can be a very hazardous place…"
Meanwhile, Back at school
Kaiba was rushing around the halls, searching. But not for all the care bears this time, now he was looking for the maid (and Tenderheart too).
"Can't she even do a simple job?" Kaiba muttered as he ran, "all I asked was for her to watch that damned bear and now they're both gone…" Kaiba stopped. He was back at the janitor's closet where he had begun. The maid and Tenderheart were either hiding really well or not in the school anymore. Kaiba had had enough hide and seek to last him a lifetime so he decided they must have left the building.
He flipped open his cell phone and dialed the number for his mansion. No answer. Then he dialed the maid's cell number.
Back at the mall….
….the maid's phone began to ring.
"Hey, your phone is ringing!" Tenderheart pointed out. The maid reached into her bag and Tenderheart handed her the phone. Without even thinking she answered it.
"Hello?"
"WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU?" Kaiba screamed so loud that several of the people standing nearby heard it and looked over to the maid in concern.
"Ummm…ummm," the maid had no idea what to do. But she couldn't talk to Seto, that was for sure. "Ummm, bye!" she said, hung up, and turned the phone off. The people were still staring at her, so she improvised, "Uh, ex-boyfriend." That seemed to satisfy them and they looked away.
"Really?" Tenderheart asked, "That explains a lot…"
"No! Not really, I just made it up…but what are we gonna do now? Seto knows we're gone…" Silently she cursed at herself for acting to stupid; she was just getting in deeper. It'd be a miracle if Seto didn't fire her before the day was through. Then again, with the care bears around anything could happen…
At School
"She hung up on me?" Kaiba said, furious. She dared to hang up on him after leaving the closet, most likely with Tenderheart, after he deliberately told her not to? He tried calling again but of course the phone was off now. That meant only one thing: Kaiba was going to have to look for the maid and Tenderheart himself.
Another part of school
"Why was Kaiba running around like dat?" Joey asked; Kaiba had blown right past them a few minutes earlier.
"I don't know but it didn't look like he was searching for us," Yugi said, "I think he was looking for someone else."
"Tenderheart…I hope you're okay," Good Luck bear sighed.
Back at the mall
"So if wigs are out of the question, what now?" the maid asked, sounding defeated.
"We can't give up now, maid, don't lose hope," Tenderheart said, "we'll just have to find some other disguise."
"Like what? I don't think a Halloween costume would work."
"Hmmm…" Tenderheart peeked his head out from the bag. And then he saw it; the perfect disguise. "Look over there!"
"What? Where…" the maid stopped. She saw it too. "Oh no, I don't think I'm that desperate. They'd never let us into Dr. Anthony's office dressed like that."
"We'll think of some excuse for them to let us in! And no body would recognize us in those costumes!"
"You have a point…what other choice do we have?" the maid said and walked over to the restaurant. "Excuse me sir but I couldn't help but notice your flyer posted here. It says you need someone to dress up in food costumes and advertise your place."
"Yeah, are you interested?"
"Yes, me and my friend."
"What friend?"
"Er…he's not here yet but he will be."
"Ok, well I'll get the costumes and you can go and change," the man said and rummaged around behind the counter for awhile before emerging with the two costumes; they were perfectly sized for the maid and Tenderheart. "Here you go!"
"Thanks," the maid replied and took the costumes into the bathroom. She laid them out on the floor. "A banana and a cherry?" she asked.
"No," Tenderheart said. He had come out of the bag to get a better look at the costumes. "They're the mascots for the restaurant—a cherry crab and a banana shark." And sure enough, Tenderheart was right. (Care bears are never wrong, duh) The cherry had crab arms extending from it and the banana shark had eyes, teeth (that were seriously distorted), and the bottom of it was shaped like a fin. The 'banana' was peeled and the two peels coming down served as fins. It was one of those things you never think about…how much bananas really look like sharks.
"Well we'd better put these on…no time to waste."
Streets of Domino
Kaiba was walking around the streets of Domino, blindly searching for the maid and Tenderheart. Usually he wouldn't have even thought about looking around with absolutely no idea where to search but he was desperate. Was the maid working with the care bears or did Tenderheart trick her? He had to get to the bottom of this…
Mall
I can't believe we're actually doing this…" the maid said as her and Tenderheart emerged from the bathroom in the costumes. The cherry crab was a small costume so it fit Tenderheart…at least it fit him well enough. "What are we supposed to advertise?"
"Smoothies and fruit salad I think," began Tenderheart, "but it doesn't matter since we won't be doing any advertising."
"Are we just gonna walk outta here like this?" The maid thought enough people were staring at them in the mall; she didn't wanna have to walk outside or worse, into the psychiatrist building. Seto had better appreciate what she was doing for him…
"Hey look there!" Tenderheart said, trying to point to a store. Of course it was useless to point in an overgrown cherry crab costume so he turned the direction instead.
"Yeah it's an electronics store."
"Look in the window." The maid looked and saw that Tenderheart's attention had been caught by a video camera 50 percent off.
"I have one at the mansion," the maid said.
"But are you really gonna trudge all the way there to get it?"
"No."
"Then we'll have to buy it."
"But I didn't bring barely any money with me," she said. "Seto called me so suddenly that I didn't even think about grabbing any."
"Well we need that camera. If what you said about Dr. Anthony and the wig is true than we'll need to tape it while you un-wig him. But if we can't buy it…then onto plan B."
"Which is…?"
"We'll have to borrow it."
"Steal it?"
"Borrow it. We'll bring it back when we're done," Tenderheart declared. Tenderheart was probably the only one who actually means it when he says he'd bring it back. "There's no time to waste."
The maid was about to argue but thought, who am I to say anything? I'm the one who's desperate here…. "Ok let's do it," she agreed and led the way to the store. "How are we gonna get it?"
"I'll distract them and you grab it. Hide it in your mouth."
"Ok," the maid said. Her shark mouth, which was what she saw through, was definately large enough to fit the camera.
"Excuse me everyone but have you all heard about the exciting new flavor smoothie?" Tenderheart said and everyone turned to him then laughed at his costume. "That's right, the new flavor is…er…coconut applesauce." That drew some 'ews' from the audience. But Tenderheart just continued to rant on as the maid moved closer to the camera, as discretely as she could. (Which wasn't very discrete at all since she was bright yellow)
"Mommy, it's Tenderheart," one little girl said. "The cherry is Tenderheart; it's his voice.
"Of course it is honey," said her mom, not paying attention.
Tenderheart sweatdropped. Were they onto him already?
The maid was at the camera. She was about to grab it and stuff it into her shark mouth.
"Mommy look at the shark," the little girl said, seeing the maid grab the camera and put it into her mouth, then signal to Tenderheart that it was time to go.
"So everyone go and taste it!" Tenderheart said and most of them actually left the store to go taste the coconut applesauce smoothie. But then the store manager noticed…
"…hey the camera is gone!"
"The shark took it!" the little girl said as the maid gave her a look of pure malice. "It's not my fault; I watch the care bears and you're not supposed to take what doesn't belong to you!" The maid turned her gaze on Tenderheart. He pointed to the door and they both ran.
"Come back!" the manager cried and chased after them. "Thieves!"
"Hey there isn't any coconut applesauce smoothie flavor!" one guy said, "hey there's that cherry crab…let's get him!" Everyone roared in agreement and they went chasing after the maid and Tenderheart like an…well…an angry mob of people.
"And they're taking my costumes!" the restaurant owner yelled, joining the chase.
"This wasn't the brightest idea!" the maid yelled, trying her best to run in the costume but of course she couldn't so she had to hop. It was a good thing she was good at hopping.
"It's not my fault," Tenderheart said, "I'm just a care bear!"
"Hey you're that girl who pulled my hair off!" the wig clerk yelled as they dashed past her store. She joined in on the chase, holding her hair so it wouldn't fly off. And a bunch of other random people joined in the chase, just for the heck of it. I mean, if you saw a stampede of people hurtling after a banana shark and cherry crab wouldn't you join in the chase? You know you would.
Street outside of mall
Kaiba had been walking for a long time and there was no sign of the maid or Tenderheart. Where could they be….
Mall
"There's no where to go!" the maid pointed out, since they were about to come to a wall. Now she would probly get arrested and Seto would hate her even more. "We're at a dead end!"
"No, we're not! The wall is glass and we're only on the second floor right?"
"What are you saying?" the maid screeched.
"Jump!" Tenderheart commanded and together the two of them bashed against the glass window wall and out onto the street where a certain someone was standing.
Street
CRASH! Kaiba heard the crash before he saw it. He turned and the window was broken. On top of that, two figures were hurtling towards him. A banana with teeth and a cherry with arms?
BAM! You guessed it. Poor Seto got knocked to the ground by the maid and Tenderheart.
"What the—" Kaiba didn't even have a chance to finish cursing.
"SETO!" the maid yelled in happiness; she hadn't yet let it sink in that Kaiba would be mad enough to kill when she got off of him. She was just glad that they had escaped from the mob of people.
"Who the hell are you?" Kaiba roared as soon as he was through his shock. All he had heard was a female voice. He hoped that the fangirls weren't getting this desperate.
"Seto it's me, the maid!" the maid said and Seto realized that it was her. He was actually speechless and that was a rarity.
"We need to go!" Tenderheart reminded them and the three of them got to their feet. "This way!" Tenderheart led the way and the maid pulled Seto along before he could object. The trio slipped into a back alley of the city and stopped to catch their breath in the momentary safety. Sad, having to find safety in a back alley.
"Now would you tell me what in the hell is going on?" Kaiba snapped.
The maid didn't answer; she didn't know what to reply with.
"You have to tell him the truth now maid, there's no other way," Tenderheart said, removing his costume. The maid's had already fallen half off and she got out of the rest of it. (The costume just slipped on over her clothes)
"But I can't…"
"Tell me what?" Kaiba demanded.
"Okay…" the maid gave in. "It's Dr. Anthony."
"Who?"
"The psychiatrist….see, I kinda taped you the other day…"
"Taped me doing what?" Kaiba asked, getting worried now.
"Taped you destroying that stuffed care bear and some other stuff….and now Dr. Anthony is threatening me if I don't get more info for him."
"Threatening to do what?" Kaiba didn't like where this was going.
"To show it on TV," the maid said, beginning to cry.
Seto was spellbound. He said nothing. The maid and Tenderheart braced themselves; waiting for the raging bull to explode.
End of Chapter 12
Well that's it for chapter 12. How you like it?
Rants for yugioh now! Ha! Leon won! Yay! And Kaiba is dueling Ziegfried? Awesome! Kaiba looks so hot when he duels! But man, there's nothing else to rant about in it…ok then I guess that's all the ranting! Maybe you guys could rant some…
…and by the way thanx to everyone who reviewed! It was more people than ever before! I really enjoyed reading everybody's reviews so keep it up!
Well I guess that's it, so see you next chapty!
Preview: how will Seto react when the maid tells him about Dr. Anthony? And will Dr. Anthony get what's coming to him?
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