Chapter Six: Pizza Parlors And Spirits

Yeah, chapter five was long, wasn't it? Don't worry, chapter six has a lot of action (depending on how you view things) and it's not that long! I hope it doesn't totally suck!

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I hope I didn't forget anybody, and if I did, please tell me! So, here's the chapter!

$*$*$*$*$*Kaiba's Limo$*$*$*$*$*

On rare occasions Serenity was allowed to accompany Kaiba to his business meetings because she was his secretary. Today was one of those occasions.

Kaiba watched as his secretary stumbled with multiple schedules in her hands and a face full of embarrassment to hide from her boss whenever those papers slipped from her grip.

Now, Kaiba enjoyed watching the Wheeler girl stagger and make a fool out of herself. It was quite amusing to him.

"Wheeler," he barked.

"Yes, Mr. Kaiba, sir?" Serenity asked as she pushed papers out of her face.

"No eavesdropping on the meeting this time." he said as a sinister smile appeared on his face.

"That was Mokuba's idea." Serenity ever so quietly mumbled as she looked down to the limo floor.

"I said no eavesdropping on the conversation, Wheeler, I didn't want an explanation on whose idea it was."

"Yes, Mr. Kaiba, sir." Serenity replied.

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When the limo came to an abrupt stop two blocks away from its destination, at a small parking lot, Kaiba was agitated.

"WHY are we stopping HERE?" he very furiously asked the chauffeur.

"Sorry, sir, but I can't go any further. We're locked in traffic and the traffic cop is allowing no cars beyond this point."

"Make him allow this vehicle." Kaiba ordered.

"Yes, sir." the chauffeur answered as he got out of the car mumbling something about how this was tampering with the law.

Serenity simply stared and giggled at this.

It was her turn to be amused.

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Kaiba and Serenity watched through one of the limo's multiple windows as the conversation between the chauffeur and the cop took place.

The talk involved a lot of angry hand gestures.

The traffic cop was saying that he couldn't change the law just for Seto Kaiba.

The chauffeur was saying that he had to or else Seto Kaiba would have his head.

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The conversation ended with the chauffeur hesitantly approaching the limousine.

You'd feel a little scared too if you had to tell the Seto Kaiba that he didn't win.

Serenity watched again as the driver came inside the limo, hung his head and said,

"Sorry, sir, but this is as far as I am permitted to take this vehicle."

Now it was time to feel sorry for the traffic cop. You could bet that there would be some sort of bad consequences for him not letting Kaiba get his way.....

The driver carefully opened Kaiba's door. It was as if he was letting some sort of dangerous animal loose in the middle of a city.

Which it actually was....

The dragon left the limo, stepped outside to the traffic cop, and said something to him..

Serenity, who just stepped out of the limo, never actually heard what Kaiba said, but she knew it was strong enough (or possibly scary enough) to make the cop's knees clang and clatter together like two banging spoons.

'Note to self: Never get on Mr. Kaiba's bad side.' Serenity told herself.

After Kaiba was done with his little speech, he continued with his march down the street. Holding himself higher and higher with every step he took.

"Wheeler," he called back.

"Yes, sir?"

"Get over here, I have a meeting to get to." he stipulated.

"Yes, Mr. Kaiba." Serenity replied as she organized her flying papers and hurriedly caught up to him.

$*$*$*$*$*Main Street$*$*$*$*$*

Serenity never actually got what Kaiba's big deal was about walking a couple of blocks until she remembered something:

Kaiba was an egotist. He believed himself to be higher than others, much higher.

Serenity noticed the disgust on his face as he heard the giddy squeals of the fangirls, the stares from young, aspiring duelists, and the flashes from the cameras of tourists.

Kaiba was a star to some people, yet as insensitive as he was, even he didn't always want to be caught up in the Public Eye.

Serenity almost would've felt sorry for him, then she remembered how he treated others around him.

Kaiba treated others poorly and made them feel miserable, so other people in the public made his life miserable.

What goes around, comes around.

$*$*$*$*$*In Front Of The Pizza Parlor$*$*$*$*$*

Now the street that Kaiba and Serenity were walking on held a small pizza parlor.

It was the hangout for most of the teens.

What Serenity feared most was that this was where Yugi and his friends would eat lunch.

And as fate would have it, the clock read 12:08.

During this time, Yugi and his friends would be sitting at a red-rubber booth at the far end of the restaurant.

And where Yugi and his friends were, Joey was.

Serenity nervously gulped as she saw the red and white checkerboard banner of the parlor in the distance.

The parlor also had a HUGE clear glass window. It was very easy to see things through.

'Relax, Serenity, what are the chances that today of all days Joey and his friends are eating pizza there?' Serenity asked herself as she tried to calm herself as well.

But one can never be too careful.

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Kaiba easily strode passed the massive window without any worries or cares of who or what was inside.

But Serenity had to be watching her back.

It only took one simple glance to see Joey sitting on top of the red-rubber booth at the far end of the restaurant. From what Serenity could tell of her short look at him, he was doing his 'Kaiba' impression for he had his shoulders broadened, and his hand on his chest with stern eyes.

Serenity had to duck.

Why didn't Serenity want Joey to see her with Kaiba? Not that that really needs any explanation but first of all, Joey did not approve of Serenity's job. Second of all, Joey did not approve of Kaiba. Finally, Joey would not approve of seeing Kaiba and Serenity together even if she was on her job, and was simply accompanying him to a meeting.

Joey did not trust Kaiba, Joey did not trust Serenity working for Kaiba, Joey could not be trusted after he would see Kaiba and Serenity together.

Kaiba noticed that his secretary was nowhere in sight.

So after Kaiba realized that he had lost his secretary, he looked back and still could not see Serenity.

"Wheeler?" he called as his anger rose.

Serenity, who was still crouched on the ground underneath the parlor window, was trying to crawl through the crowd and quietly answered, "Yes, Mr. Kaiba?"

Kaiba could pinpoint the pinprick of a sewing pin. Depicting Serenity's location in the crowd was no hassle now that he had heard her voice.

Kaiba had to step back a few yards to find his secretary huddled under a rather large window.

"Wheeler," he said as he looked down in hilarity to see her so anxious, "get up from there. You have nothing to fear but your own dignity." he ordered with more amusement.

Serenity crawled until she was safely out of the window's shadow, and in front of a small brick portion of the restaurant.

"Sorry, Mr. Kaiba, I was looking for a lost paper." she lied as she rubbed the back of her neck.

Now, Kaiba was no fool. He could easily see all of Serenity's papers neatly filed and tucked into the pocket of her arms.

"Is that so, Wheeler?" Kaiba asked as he went in front of the parlor window and looked in.

His eyes trailed to the far end of the restaurant, and he saw the unease in Serenity's eyes.

He had a cruel and vicious smirk resting on his face.

"Wheeler?" he called.

"Yes, Mr. Kaiba?" she answered back with tension running through her voice.

"What time is it?" he asked, although he had a watch on.

"It's twelve-thirteen." She replied.

"What time do we have to be at the meeting?" he asked, although he already knew the answer to that question.

"One-fifteen." she answered back.

"I'm in the mood for some lunch." he declared as he looked across the street.

Serenity released a breath of relief because across the street were the finest Five Star restaurants this side of Japan. The rich, high, and mighty often went to these bistros spending from $28.50-$75.80 for a simple cup of coffee.

They had very fine cuisine.

Kaiba was used to eating here.

Serenity had nothing to worry about because Kaiba was gonna eat at one of those restaurants; where else would Seto Kaiba dine?

But one could never be too sure.

Kaiba gave Serenity a sharp look.

He was up to something.

The look he gave Serenity was the exact same slinking smirk he gave her when she first came in for the job interview.

Serenity looked up at him with horror-struck eyes.

"I'm in the mood for some pizza." Kaiba declared as he looked up at the restaurant.

Serenity never knew what fear was until now.

$*$*$*$*$*The Pizza Parlor$*$*$*$*$*

Serenity hid her face behind her multiple papers as she entered.

If she was lucky, her brother wouldn't see her.

Although she had just entered the crowded restaurant, she could hear her brother rambling.

"I just hate that jerk! I hate him! I hate him! I hate him!" Joey yelled. "Poor Serenity's probably working her little self out right now!"

Joey sat on top of the red-rubber booth, obviously declaring his undying hate for Kaiba. Ryou peacefully sat in the booth, pretending to care about Joey's digressions. Yugi was *trying to* explain to Joey that Serenity voluntary went to the job interview. Tea (who unfortunately was sitting next to Joey) was trying to tell Joey to keep his mouth shut while he ate, for some loose cheese slices were flying out of his mouth.

Duke and Tristan were there too, but they were another story. Tristan and Duke defied Yugi and agreed with Joey that Serenity shouldn't have to work for Kaiba.

"I have a job for Serenity in my workshop: She can refill the oil cartridges for the motorcycles." Tristan explained.

"No way! Serenity's a lady and she shouldn't have to work with filth! She should work with me!" Duke objected.

"If Serenity shouldn't have to work with filth, then why are you suggesting that Serenity should work with you?" Tristan angrily asked.

Serenity furtively crept past Joey's booth, but amazingly, as soon as she passed by, Tristan and Duke started sniffing the air.

Serenity could just see Joey through a gap in her papers. Luckily, he hadn't noticed the auburn-haired girl who shared an uncanny resemblance to his sister, yet.

Serenity got in line for pizza, and took off the piece of paper that Kaiba had pinned to her shirt which held the pizza order. He said that a Wheeler could not be trusted with such a task.

"One medium, large topping pizza." Serenity retorted to herself as she read the note.

Then entered Kaiba. He had told Serenity that he would be waiting outside for the delivery, but what fun would it be to wait outside when the action was about to happen here?

Kaiba's already disgusted face started to squirm even more when he saw the red and white checkered tiles, and the soap-smelling, red-checkered floor. His eyes lowered at the sight of common folk eating and gossiping in the sparkly red-rubber booths.

Oh how he hated the general population.

And he loathed pizza or any type of fast food.

But he had a job to do...

He ignored all the stares from the people, and casually leaned himself against a booth only two booths down from Joey's.

Joey started to growl as Kaiba passed by.

"Ignore him." Yugi said.

Joey growled more in return.

Kaiba simply smirked.

Serenity saw Kaiba lean against the booth, and was seething with anger, but she could not say anything to him for Joey was watching Kaiba with narrowed eyes.

In other words, Serenity says something to Kaiba, Joey will see her, and if Joey sees her, well, we'll see what happens.

Serenity was amazed at the location Kaiba had picked to lean against: He was equally away from Serenity as he was from Joey. Kaiba was the center of some sick little triangle he had created for the fun of it.

Serenity saw Kaiba intently watching her.

Serenity could sense Joey's attention angrily shooting daggers at Kaiba.

Serenity's only wish at that moment was that Joey could not and would not follow her boss's eyes.

"Wheeler," Kaiba said as he still stared at Serenity, "make that topping extra cheese." he ordered.

"I ain't your slave so I ain't getting you any pizza, Kaiba!" Joey shouted.

Kaiba's head turned to look at Joey, and then, he did the one thing that at all costs Serenity hoped he wouldn't do.

"Oh, but I wasn't talking to you." Kaiba explained to Joey. Then Kaiba turned his head to look directly back at Serenity. "Did you hear me, Serenity?"

Serenity never believed in hate.

It took Joey about a minute to notice Kaiba's stare at the auburn-haired girl who shared an uncanny resemblance to his sister.

"Serenity?!" Joey asked a little surprised, shocked, and mad at the same time.

Serenity turned her head towards her brother and let her hand take the papers away from her face.

"Uhh....hi, Joey!"

Duke and Tristan immediately raced out of their seats and vied for Serenity's attention.

"Serenity! I knew I smelled you!" both of them exclaimed.

"Did you hear me, Serenity?" Kaiba asked again, very much delighted as this scene unfolded.

"Yes, Mr. Kaiba, sir." Serenity answered with a hertz of -2 pitches.

"I didn't hear you, Wheeler." Kaiba said.

Serenity sighed, "Yes, Mr. Kaiba, sir." she responded.

And this time, it was audible.

Joey was........mad.

"Mr. Kaiba?!!! Mr. Kaiba?!!!" Joey exclaimed hysterically as he ambled up to Kaiba and Serenity.

Kaiba looked quite satisfied with what he had done so far.

"Well, she refused to call me 'master'." Kaiba sneered.

Serenity was mad, really mad.

Joey was mad, really, mad.

"Kaiba!" Joey screamed, "You wanna pick on the Wheelers? Well, let's dance!" He hollered.

Joey was holding up clenched fists.

He was making a scene.

People started staring.

Kaiba wasn't scared.

"No, Joey," Serenity said as she ripped up the note that was pinned to her shirt.

Serenity was paying no attention to the fact that Kaiba was her boss, nor the fact that he was a very powerful man.

"Mr. Kaiba, I may be your secretary, but I am NOT going to allow this kind of treatment to my family. I ignored the first few comments you originally gave me, and I even let that floozy Calista's insults go by, but you have humiliated me for the last time!"

It was as if Serenity was a whole new person.

Like Kaiba actually cared about the puppy dog's sister, or her little outburst.

"And?" Kaiba casually asked, making Serenity's eruption feel useless.

Serenity was going red with hate.

"Ugggghhhhhhh!!!!!" she angrily breathed.

Joey was proud of his little sister's newly-found hate for Kaiba.

Yugi and the others watched horridly as Serenity grabbed a pizza out of a customer's hands and started yelling, "You, Mr. Kaiba, are an arrogant, rude, mean, narcissistic, big-headed, JERK who'll do anything to get his way and crush anything or anyone in his path, and I'm getting really tired of it!"

"Is she mad?" Tea asked.

"Nope." Joey answered smugly, "She's the smartest girl I know."

"And another thing...." Serenity started, but never got to finish.

Serenity was overcome by an absorbing force.

She was left standing in the position she was currently in.

Serenity started breathing fast. She felt like she was choking on something. Something wasn't allowing her to speak. It was like she was no longer in control of her body....

With a flash of golden beams, Yugi's puzzle started to twist and turn. Ryou's shirt started to reveal the impression of the millennium ring, despite his desperate attempts to loosen his shirt and make the impression go away.

Kaiba's attention, for some twisted reason, immediately snapped back to Serenity, but Kaiba didn't feel like himself.

All eyes were on him and Serenity.

He could feel the weight of his cousin Yami's stare upon him.

"Cousin? Yami?" Kaiba asked his mind as he turned around to see, of all people, Yugi, staring at him fixedly. Kaiba stared at him as if this was the first time he ever saw him.

This little staring contest almost instantly brought Kaiba back to Serenity, who hadn't changed and was still holding the pizza in her hands.

But wait! There WAS something different about her now.

Perhaps the rest of the world didn't notice it, and perhaps it was the cheap lighting in the restaurant, but Kaiba could've sworn his life that Serenity's eyes were now a passionate, vibrant, and flamboyant blue. Not the subtle hazel color he had always associated her with.

Serenity could not say anything, but she finally got control of her hand and tried to jerk the pizza at Kaiba, but her hand deliberately tossed the pizza in Tristan's face.

Serenity kept still, Kaiba kept staring at her, and the whole world seemed to drown away.

Kaiba could not control his body, Serenity could hardly move hers.

Duke finally broke the silence by laughing at what Serenity just did to Tristan.

Duke's laughs seemed to echo away in Seto and Serenity's world.

Serenity heard Tristan pull a slice off of his face and throw it at Duke, but it was almost as if she didn't care who or what these people were or did.

Then again a breech in the silence was caused by Joey's ringing tone.

"Stop staring at my sister!" his piercing voice ordered at Kaiba.

This breech seemed to collapse the darkness that was pulling Seto and Serenity into their own world.

Kaiba looked at Joey once again, practically nodded and immediately followed Joey's instructions, and with one wave of his trench coat, walked out of the parlor.

Most people would expect Kaiba to fire Serenity for the threatening comments she gave him.

Serenity watched Kaiba leave the parlor. Her hazel eyes relaxed and searched for the papers that she was carrying earlier. She found them in a mess on the restaurant floor.

She picked up those papers, and started filing and organizing them.

Most people would expect Serenity to quit after how Kaiba treated her.

She waved goodbye to her brother and his friends, and then walked out of the restaurant to find her boss.

"What was that?" Joey asked.

Tea stared with her usual blank face.

Duke and Tristan were left simply staring after Serenity.

//I sense a meddling with the spirits// both Yamis in that room told their hikaris.

Bakura was just interested in whether or not this spirit came with a Millennium Item.

Yugi was worried about his friends, Kaiba and Serenity, for Kaiba knew a lot about these "Egyptian Fairytales" yet refused to believe in them, and Serenity was a mere beginner in all of this.

But what Yugi was most curious about was the fact that both Kaiba AND Serenity acted rather strangely, when Yugi thought only Kaiba had a spirit inside of him.....

$*$*$*$*$*Outside The Parlor$*$*$*$*$*

Serenity found her boss walking many yards ahead of her.

She caught up to him, and she later accompanied him to his meeting.

And they both continued their day as if the fight had happened between two different people and had nothing to do with them.

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Later........

Serenity lay on her bed, recalling the day's events. What was happening to her?

"I hate Kaiba! I hate him soooooooo much!" she declared as she got off the bed and stood firmly on the floor.

She looked at herself in the mirror, she saw a firm young lady who was ready to be independent and stop being the little voice that she was always called.

She stared at herself some more, until she saw something....

It wasn't her standing in the mirror, it was a beautiful girl.

She had sauntering golden hair, and these brilliant, sapphire blue eyes which seemed to be like a beacon of light in the dark room, and the fairest white skin that seemed as if she had layered herself with a light sprinkling of talcum.

Out of sheer shock, Serenity buckled down right where she was, and fainted softly.

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R/R!!!!

Tootles,

Celestial Night