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A/N: Yay! Chapter three is here! And people, this world is one class mix-up.. :p. And to XvXChaosMagicianGirlXvX, thanks a bunch! I'd reward you with my most valuable thing in the world, the key to my skittles treasure chest across the rainbow! If I can still find it. Taste the rainbow...


Chapter three: Akward unexpectations?

"Akina, wake up! It's the first day of school and you're going to start out a new school year without being late every single day!"

Akina awoke to the sound of her mother's sweet but weak voice. She stretched her legs and arms, then threw her blanket off of her. Sitting up, she rubbed her eyes.

"What time is it?" Akina asked her mother wearily.

"You have exactly 20 minutes to get ready for school. Now hussle!" Akina's mother Sakari urged.

Akina jumped out of bed. "Well, why didn't you wake me up earlier?" she questioned while going to the bathroom. She slammed the bathroom door closed behind her in anger.

Akina looked at herself in the mirror. Her hair was poufed up from her ponytail and she could barely open her drooping eyelids. Any other person would've looked horrible waking up this early in the morning, too.

'Stupid woman... Doesn't she care I'm going to be late?'

After finishing up in the bathroom Akina went inside her mother's closet to fetch her school uniform. She literally cringed by just looking at it.

"Ugh.. It's even worse than my other one."

But since she didn't have any other option to choose from, she changed into it.

"I look like some preppy cheerleader.." Akina groaned.

Her backpack was already hanging on the door knob. She was almost good to go. The last thing that needed attending to was for her to go and brush her brown hair neatly, and play it up in a bun.

When she was done she trudged down the stairs and into the kitchen where her mother was sitting, busy drinking her morning coffee.

"Hey ma, I'm just going to go now, okay?" said Akina, walking past her to the door. She slung her backpack over her shoulder, and grabbed her keys off the kitchen table.

The sound of her mother's mug hitting the counter echoed throughout the room. "You don't want any breakfast?" her mom enquired.

'Doesn't she know by now I never eat breakfast in the morning during the school year?'

"No. And remember, I have work today," Akina answered back, ready to open the door and leave.

"You haven't even told me what job you got. What is it?" her mother wanted to know.

Akina paused a bit. She had hoped her mother would never bring that up. Wishful thinking on her part. Well, every mother deserved to know what their child is doing for labour. Especially if the child is under eighteen years of age. But in some cases, it just wasn't their business.

She then responded lowly, "I'm a cashier." And left.

As Akina was walking through the streets of Domino, she was deep in thoughts of agony and retrospect.

The air rushed inside her nostrils, and she breathed in and out the fresh environment around her. The rising sun was starting to shine down.

'If mom knew I was a janitor, she'd make me quit just like that. "Oh, that's unhealthy. Oh, that's too dirty. You could do better than that!" Well, that was my best, so just live with it!'

Akina waited at the stoplight to cross the street. For some strange reason, she started to look at her right wrist. She examined it carefully for a moment.

'Do I need a watch or something?'

When the signal was okay to walk, she continued. Her tiring hours at KC were half of the day coming. She'd have to change clothes after school and go back there. At least she wasn't responsible for opening up the building anymore. That would be annoying.

By the time she was in front of Domino high school, she took a deep breath, and looked over the grey, stone building. Starting up the steps, she noticed it was serene and quiet around her. No one in sight. Good.

As she tried to push open the door, it wouldn't budge. She tried and tried but it wouldn't open. Akina rattled the door as hard as she could. But to no avail.

"Hey, I said open!"

She tried the other doors of the school, but came up with the same results. Backing up a little from the last door, she checked if there was anyone inside the class rooms. All that she could see were rooms shrouded in darkness.

The grass reaching up to her ankles felt wet. She sought a sort of refuge under a three that stood on campus, and decided to wait for someone to come along.

Akina folded her arms, worried. "Am I that early?" she asked herself. "Maybe tomorrow is the first day of school…"

Akina looked around to see if there was any clock in sight. Luckily, she spotted one built on the side of Domino church's tower. She squinted her eyes to see what time it was.

"Ummmmm...it is... 6:35. 6:40?"

She remembered that for this school you had to be in by 8:20, or you'd be considered late. But how could it be 6:35?

'Unless mom can't tell the time anymore and she's gone blind... Or she tricked me! Aaahhhh! She did the same thing last year! Darn it!

"And why didn't I grab anything to eat?"

Akina stooped low to the ground, grabbing her stomach. Just thinking of food made her stomach growl. And the fact she didn't eat anything last night either.

"Oh man, that's just my rotten luck! " she cursed her current situation to hell and back.


"Mr. Kaiba. You know that next week is Mr. Sagara's cocktail party. And surprisingly, you are the guest of honour," said Roland while driving the limousine.

Kaiba, as he was looking outside of the window, heard. "Yes, I already know that."

'And in Mr. Sagara's eyes, I'm the only reason he's even throwing that party...'

"And as the guest of honour, you are required to attend with a date? No?"

"Yes. I know. You don't have to remind me. And this time, make sure Mokuba gets to school on time for his exam. It's an extra hour for him."

"Yes, Master Kaiba."

Roland dropped Kaiba off at the front entrance of Domino High.

Before Kaiba stepped out, he swore he saw a dark figure sitting against a tree. Without caring, he shut the limousine door and watched it drive off.

With his briefcase in hand, containing the entire tech he needed, he began slowly walking up the stairs to the door. As always he was one to go early to school for reasons he kept to himself.


Akina stood up again while thinking what she should do now. She didn't want to go back home. She was mad at her mother for doing what she did, making her end up in her current predicament. Especially because this was her first day and on a new school as well for crying out loud.

'Maybe, I could go to a store and get something to eat. I really don't feel like standing around here any longer. No, wait… I have no money on me…Damn; it is cold out here or what?'

Akina rubbed her hands up and down her arms, trying to conjure up some desperately needed warmth. This breezy school skirt wasn't really doing anything useful other than irritating the hell out of her.

Suddenly, she heard footsteps..

Clit..Clat..Clit..Clat..Clit..Clat..Clit..Clat..

Akina turned her head in the direction the sound was coming from. Someone was coming. She observed it was a brow-haired male starting up the steps leading to the main school entrance. From the back you could tell he was wearing a uniform.

'Maybe that's a teacher..'

Well, if it was a teacher, this was her chance to get inside the school.

Akina approached him quietly, and rather carefully.

"Hey! Could you open the door for me? I'm kind of new to this school!" Akina exclaimed in a jolly voice, as she slowly closed the distance between them.

The closer she got something seemed to click inside her mind. He seemed really familiar for some peculiar reason.

The male turned around to see who had called out to him.

Ocean blue eyes met with shocked, warm, honey ones. Akina's mouth managed to let out a small gasp.

'Uh-uh, this can't be happening! No, I don't believe this!' "Wh- What are you doing here," she blurted out, baffled. A certain surprised stutter was mixed into her sentence.

Of all the places to run into him, it had to be here!

Kaiba, on the other hand, was a bit surprised to see one of his employees here as well. He had never seen her before in his younger years at this school. She was probably a freshman, considering how young she looked.

When the surprise effect wore off however, he retorted sarcastically, "What does it look like I'm doing?"

What an idiot! What other business would he have here other than attending school. "For your information, I attend school here. Is that such a shocking surprise for a simpleton like yourself to discover?"

Akina huffed angrily at his rude remark. "Who wouldn't be surprised?" she bit back annoyed. "One, you're my boss, and two, you look like you're about twenty."

"Looks like appearances aren't everything, hmm?" he sneered haughtily. Turning around, he rang the doorbell of the school, ignoring her on purpose.

Akina watched him, fuming.

'Obnoxious extraordinaire first-class jerk!'

The door clicked and it was now enabled to open. Kaiba pushed open the door and went inside. Akina followed after him, burning holes into his back with one of the fiercest glares she could muster.

Like at any new school, you had to know where to go at the right time. The problem here was, Akina did not know where to go. So seeing kaiba stride off to somewhere she could only guess, she followed him.

Just after a few steps, Kaiba heard her breathing behind him. He turned around to face her. "Do you mind? I don't like having anyone breathe down my neck, thank you very much," he told her off.

Akina almost walked right into his chest if she hadn't stopped at that moment. She looked up at him, straight in the eye. "Geez, what's your problem! Stop being so damn rude!" she threw at him acidly. "Now, if you don't mind, excuse me. You're in my way!"

"You're excused." Kaiba took a step back and let her pass by him. 'I bet she doesn't even know where the hell she's going…'

Akina pranced right past him. Pissed of royally by now, she continued on, leaving Mister. Rude bastard behind, allowing him his "precious space".

"Ashole.." What was his problem anyway?

She didn't want to look like some hatched chick following the first person it sees. She would find her way, somehow. How hard could it be?

Turning right, she heard Kaiba go through some double doors which could've led upstairs. Good, now he wouldn't be in her presence, unable to piss her off any longer, and he wouldn't be a witness to seeing her wander the corridors aimlessly.

Akina heard nothing. Not even a copying machine that you can hear at any average school operating. It was silent. Kind of scary….

She stood still for a minute, her eyes travelling down the rest of the hallway. She was taking her "sweet" time. Her legs moving forward again, and up ahead; she took the next turn to her right. Her heart started to beat faster. Just about anything could pop up at any given moment. A kidnapper, a killer, some little troll, a kitten, a dog, a..!

'And hold it right there, Akina…' she mentally chided herself for her stupid thoughts.

Just when she was about to take a turn, she bumped into someone who was coming from the other way. She let out a startled squeak, "AH!"

The person turned out to be a man. By his apparel, he was a teacher. By accidentally bumping into him, the cup of coffee he was holding spilled all over him.

"Oh, hot, hot!" he shrieked, jumping at the pain sensations that flooded him because of the hot liquid that was now on him, soaking his shirt and staining the rest of his clothes.

Akina was relieved that it was only a teacher. She put her hand to her chest, feeling her heart thump erratically.

"Oh my god, you scared me so badly... And I'm so sorry..." She reached down to retrieve the now empty cup. "Eh, here's your cup," she handed it back to him, smiling sheepishly and blushing profusely at the stupid stunt she had just pulled.

"It's alright..," he kindly offered, "You didn't do it on purpose." He looked up at Akina, meeting her gaze. The second he did, a smile was planted upon his face. "Say, it's kind of early for you be at school isn't it?"

"I guess," Akina replied, unsure of what to say.

"I don't think I've seen you at our school before.. Are you a new student?"

"Yes.."

"I see. Are you in need of assistance? Do you know where to go?"

"Yeah, um, do you happen to know where homeroom 201 is?" Akina asked, politely.

"Homeroom 201? That's my room! It's such a nice surprise to have you as one of my students. Mr. Takani. Nice to meet you." He then brought out his hand to for her to shake.

Akina took his hand and shook it. "Akina Ishii," she introduced herself, paired up with a glistening smile. His hand felt warm and a calm vibe came over her.

'Maybe it'll be good to have him as a teacher.'

Mr. Takani then continued. "Well, to get to my class right now, just go upstairs to the second floor and look around for room 201 and eventually you'll find it. I have some errands I have to run. Again, it was nice meeting you Akina. I hope your new school year here beats the rest of them you had at your old school," he said.

Akina managed to crack a smile again. "Yeah..."

The walls were painted the hue of honey. The lockers were red-orange, as if all of them were traffic cones, all lined up on the street. She could hear her footsteps echo as she walked away from her new teacher Mr. Takani.

The sign indicating homeroom number 201 marked the end of her mini journey. Akina put her hand on the doorknob, and twisted it. 'So this is going to be my homeroom from now on..'

Inside she found nothing but an ordinary, boring classroom. It was quiet; the sunlight was streaming in through the window. There was a chalkboard, desks and Kaiba.

'Am I going to run into him where ever I go for the rest of my life!'

Akina stepped back outside the door and looked at the homeroom sign again. It was room 201 for sure.

"Is this really room 201? Or is my life going upside down today?" she asked herself aloud, enough to let Kaiba hear.

Kaiba was sitting in a desk on the left side of the class room. He looked up as soon as the door opened, distracted from what he had been working on.

Raising a slender eye-brow at her comment, he noted, "Are you sure this is where you need to be. I think you missed the sign that clearly stated: Insane, retarded people, this way. You see, this is a school, not a mental institution. The latter I believe is a place where people who talk to themselves belong."

Restraining an angry growl at his aggravating insult, she glared at him, and only told him four simple, but effective words, "Just shut up already!"


A proportion of the time slowly passed by, leaving Akina drowsy from boredom. She rested her head on her desk, hoping to fall asleep. Unfortunately it was difficult for her, so she kept tossing her head from left to right. Never expected for this to happen to her on the first day of school.. Especially with that certain someone..

Kaiba was silently reading a book. Neither of them had spoken to each other ever since she had "kindly" told him to keep his yap shut.

Akina looked over at Kaiba. Ever since she sat down in the back of the room, his focus had returned to hisbook, never once sparing a glance at his surroundings. The content of the book seemed to have hypnotised him into a trance.

Averting her gaze to the clock on the wall, she read that it was 7.46 AM. 'Great! About twenty five more minutes of tedious boredom to suffer through,' she thought to herself sarcastically, mentally rolling her eyes.

Akina let out a rather disappointed sigh. Both of them weren't talking to each other, much like total strangers in the same room. Literally. 'Might as well attempt conversation. Although I can tell from earlier experiences that this task is going to be even more tedious than suffering another thirty minutes from boredom.'

Feeling brave enough to take the risk, Akina got up from her seat quietly, and walked over to the front of the classroom to the desk right beside Kaiba. She sat down, and peeked over to what he was reading.

"So...," she communicated curiously, "Whatcha reading?"

Automatically, the book was shoved closed right in her face. Kaiba gently placed it on his desk and turned to look at his new, unwanted neighbour, breathing down his neck, again..

"I see you're breathing down my neck again," he replied, coolly. His blue eyes regarded her coldly with a scrutinising indifference.

Akina's left-eye twitched as he uttered another rude remark. However, purposefully ignoring his infuriating comment, she renewed her effort of trying to engage in a civil conversation, if only to not give him the satisfaction to witness his words were having any effect whatsoever.

She checked to see the cover of his book. "The Watcher? It seems like an interesting book. Is it?" Akina asked, casually leaning on the palm of her hand, ignoring what he had previous said.

Kaiba only scowled at the response he was given. Deciding his time would be better spend reading, than talking to this simpleton of a janitor, Kaiba returned his attention to his book, not responding to Akina's question.

Akina clenched her fists when she noticed he ignored her just like that, although there was doubt he heard what she had said. "Hey, are you deaf or something? I asked you a simple question. Why do you have to behave like such an obnoxious brat with a stick stuck up his ass!" The tone in which she spoke was very reasonable, and she was trying to refrain from hurling back insults as well.

For a few moments his icy blue eyes calmly regarded her, before he decided to respond," Do I look like I care? I will state this bluntly without sugarcoating my words. You're being a damn pain in the ass. Is it too much to ask if you would kindly return to your seat, and leave me to read my book in peace, without you harassing me? It would also benefit me, if I did not have to continue the experience of having you breathing down my neck. It is highly unpleasant and that's stating it lightly,"

Akina, having closed her eyes for a few moments, opened them again abruptly. Biting her lip in pure frustration, she decided she had enough. So before she would completely lose her temper and give him a swift, harsh kick to his rear end, she decided to forfeit her attempt at making conversation.

"You know what?" she all but roared, "Just forget it! I don't even know why I bothered," she spit out with barely veiled contempt, and with that said, she stalked back to her own seat.

Kaiba didn't flinch, he didn't blink, and he wasn't fazed at all by Akina's parting words. He calmly picked up his book again, turned to the next page, and resumed his reading. Akina noticed this and only growled under her breath, and placing her head on the table, she continued to sulk.

After another few agonising long minutes passed by, the door to the classroom opened, and Mr. Takani, her home room teacher entered.

"I see you were able to find your way, Akina," he noted, a kind smile adorning his face as he locked gazes with her. "I guess you've already met Mr. Kaiba," he motioned toward the seat said person was currently occupying. Kaiba looked up when his name was called, briefly nodding at Mr. Takani, acknowledging his presence. Mr. Takani gave back a curt nod as well, while saying: "Good morning, Mr. Kaiba,"

Akina looked from her teacher to Kaiba, and muttered with a frown aimed in her bosses' direction," Yes, indeed I did.."

Mr. Takani, witnessing the exchange between his students, raised one of his eye-brows slightly. "I see…" he replied. "Well, Akina, since you're new at this school and all, how about Mr. Kaiba will take you on a short tour of the school grounds?" he suggested.

Both of them were very unhappy to agree with the suggestion, but they were both left no choice as Mr. Takani shushed them out of the classroom without listening to the buts and excuses the two of them expressed.

They were both silent most of the time during the tour, a mutual agreement of not speaking to each other established.

Along the way, a numerous amount of teachers passed by, greeting the both of them, and referring to the first day of school. Mostly they greeted Kaiba who was obviously well known.

During the tour, Kaiba at least introduced Akina to some of the authority figures of the school, and he pointed out which rooms were which.

A flock of students had already arrived at the school. There were students who were freshman, starting their first year here, and other's who were starting their second or third year.

Some guys were aiming suspicious looks in Kaiba's and Akina's direction when they walked by them, and some girls were actually confounded and dead surprised to see them walking together. Akina was well aware of all the stares that she received, and feeling very embarrassed she quickened her steps, trying to get ahead of Kaiba, and make it look as if they were complete strangers. Kaiba didn't seem fazed in the least, and even if he did, the vacant, emotionless expression on his face didn't give it away. His gaze was directed forward, and his stride was brisk and determined.

They finally arrived at the last place that Kaiba hadn't shown to her yet. It was the roof of the school.

"Are you afraid of heights?" he asked Akina.

Akina gave him an odd look from his random question. "Yes, I'm honestly am. Why do you ask?"

Involuntarily she thought back to when she was cleaning his windows and had damaged them. The horrible, embarrassing times…

"Because if I brought you up there, you'd probably bawl and beg me to go back inside the second you step two feet into the area."

She folded her arms and replied, "Well, let's see about that."

And of course, he was right. When they were upon the roof, the sun was shining brightly and the condition was breezy outside. But even though a fence of nine feet high was around the entire perimeter of the roof, it still spooked her out, and she couldn't help but feel how she felt back when she was high upon Kaiba Corp, while looking down at the small people and objects that looked like little parasites from all the way up there. She felt the exact same feeling now.

Kaiba walked ahead to the fence. He took a deep breath, sniffing up the crisp, cool air. He looked back at Akina, who was still standing at the doorway of the entrance to the roof.

"So, how do you feel right now?" His tone was taunting and highly sarcastic, a grin smearing his face.

Shaking inside, goose bumps rising, she responded, "Just fine..." She took a few steps towards where Kaiba was standing, examining the things around her.

The sound of people's voices was coming from far away, originating from inside the school. They were getting closer, and closer, until..

Yugi and Joey entered the roof. Akina turned around to see one unfamiliar boy and recognizing the other as Serenity's older brother almost right away. When Joey's eyes saw Akina standing right there, he thought he was going insane. He had thought he would never see her again, but luckily he did. But the worst part was why was she standing there, together, with Seto Kaiba?

Akina waved a silent hello, sending it over to Joey. He waved back to her too. Yugi found this very peculiar.

He motioned over to Joey. "Hey, Joey, who is that girl?" he asked, curiously. They both walked over to the opposite side of where Akina and Kaiba were.

"She's that girl who kicked butt to save my sister. Shocking, huh?"

"Wow, she's that girl Serenity keeps talking about? Oh, there's Kaiba too. Hello there Kaiba!" yelled Yugi.

Kaiba suddenly turned around to see who had called out to him. A squeaky little voice reminded him of who he thought it was. He saw Joey and Yugi there.

"Well, well, well, if it isn't the golden retriever who escaped from the pound. Better use your chances wisely or else the dog catcher will come and hunt you down," Kaiba cruelly explained. Akina let out a giggle by his rude but strangely, funny comment.

"Yeah, you haven't changed a bit ol' moneybags..." Joey replied. He was surely unhappy to see Seto Kaiba again this year.

Akina looked ahead to Joey and Yugi talking to each other. She had wondered how she should go about meeting people, but now knowing that Joey attended this school, then his sister Serenity must come here, too. She didn't look all the young. So with that in mind, Akina ran back into the building to see if she could find Serenity alone as a surprise.

Kaiba looked back to find Akina running away from him. He raised his eyebrow, confused, but then dismissed the scene that occurred just as quickly. 'Good riddance…'

"I was wonderin' how long she could take your god awful presence, money bags. I give her credit for puttin' up witchu for more than a few spare seconds, though," scoffed Joey.

"On the contrary, you should give me some credit. It is I who must put with you every single day," He stressed out the word every and me clearly. His insults never seized to rattle this particular target. Not that he cared.

"Just shut up," huffed Joey, an annoyed frown now marring his face. No matter the situation, moneybags always had to have a witty, smart-ass comeback at the ready. For once, just once, he wished he could beat Kaiba in a verbal spar. That wasn't going to happen anytime soon.

"Gladly," he replied dryly, and a knowing sneer gracing his lips, he turned around, brushing Joey off rudely and ending their "conversation".

An aggravated growl was Joey's only audible response.

Yugi was silent during the boy's banter, only voicing his opinion in a wistful sigh, and shaking his head a few times for emphasis.


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