Declaimer: I don't own YUGIOH or any of its characters

Stressed out CEO's

Anzu walked out of her bedroom in a white tee that stuck to her skin and a pair of low waist jeans exposing some skin. She walked into the living room where Kaiba was lying on the sofa taking a nap. Kaiba was in one of his battle city outfits, 'typical' she thought, 'maybe I should go shopping with him and actually buy something guys wear.' She went over to him and jumped onto the sofa landing on his stomach.

"Ouch! You going to kill me one day" Kaiba painfully sat up rubbing his stomach. Anzu couldn't help but laugh, Kaiba was a clown sometimes. "Anzu, do you ever wear girl's clothes?" Anzu wrinkled her nose.

"Of course I do, I wear skirts to school everyday." Kaiba smirked

"That doesn't count," Anzu stuck out her tongue and shrugged her shoulders, Kaiba knew to stop talking after the "shrug" if he was to continue to talk she would get annoyed. Ironic, he knew so much about her behavior like if she turned her face away when she talked to him she was either really pissed off or embarrassed, or when she started whining she was on the verge of getting into a horrible hissy fit. "Are you going to give up on boyfriends yet? I see all of them leave you in tears." Anzu closed her eyes to stop tears from falling, it had hurt her that Shane would do something like that to her.

"I'm just happy he didn't do anything to me," She said in a low voice, Kaiba arched an eyebrow as though disagreeing. He lightly pulled up her blue tee to show her the bit marks on her stomach. Anzu hadn't noticed them before maybe because it just happened to her?

Looking at the marks she felt used and tears began to trickle from her eyes. Kaiba was use to Anzu crying and brought her into a warm hug letting her cry into his chest. Anzu burst out crying, letting out her pain , she knew Seto didn't want her to cry, she knew Seto would want her to feel better so she let it all out. "Why? Why did he do that to me? Why?" She said between tears.

"Heh, I'll make sure he's expelled from school before the day is over." Anzu stopped crying and looked into Kaiba's blue eyes, he was so caring and protective towards her. Kaiba handed her a tissue and she blew her nose. She went to the sink to wash her face, drank some water and felt a hundred percent better. Kaiba started to laugh for a moment thinking about all the times he'd made her feel better after a guy did something to her. Last year it was Duke Devilin, she went out with him for five months only to find out he had been in love with Joey's sister Serenity. He remembered how Anzu cried for two days straight, he had to stay with her so she wouldn't end up doing something stupid.

"What's so funny?" Anzu looked at him curiosity lingering in her eyes.

"I'm always the one to make you feel better, I should be getting paid for this."

"Maybe, but I think I've paid you enough with hugs." It was true Anzu had something with hugs, she always hugged him whenever she felt like it. Anzu went to Kaiba and gave him a friendly hug and told him it was getting late and they both had school tomorrow. They said their goodbyes and the day ended.

At school all the girls were disappointed that Shane was gone except Anzu, the teacher told them that he had been expelled, but even he didn't know the cause of it. Anzu smiled she knew that Seto had gotten him expelled for trying to rape her. 'Ah, good o' Seto does the job.' Her friends asked her if she knew what happened because everyone knew she was going out with him and she had told them about the little incident and asked them to keep quite about it.

Even though she loved her friends deeply, (Yugi, Joey, and Tristan) she knew none of them approved of her being close friends with Kaiba. Joey always told her not to get too close to him because he would hurt her somehow one day. Yugi and Tristan just told her to be careful because Kaiba could have his motives for being friends with her. She never believed them, she knew the real Seto Kaiba that was with her. The real Seto Kaiba didn't like to come out unless he was with people he cared about. It had always touched her that Seto had cared for her, he was like a big brother to her in ways always being there for her.

During lunch Anzu walked to Kaiba's locker, she met him at his locker everyday so she could eat lunch with him. She saw Kaiba at his locker with his eyebrows furrowed, she knew something was wrong. She always knew when something was wrong she just could tell from his facial expression. She walked up to his locker with her hands on her hips trying to understand his facial expression.

"Seto what's wrong," Kaiba shot out of his world and stared at Anzu, her face was so cute to him, he had to admit she was attractive, but he tried to keep those little thoughts out of his head.

"Er, nothing" Anzu knew he was lying every time he said 'er' it was fibbing.

"Liar," Nothing got past her, Kaiba knew she knew that he had a problem.

Kaiba started walking and Anzu silently followed next to him, she knew his gestures, the best thing to do was go along with what he did. In this case just follow him. Since they had met and become good friends Anzu never sat with her other friends anymore she always sat with Seto, at first they were mad at her when she sat with him, but by now they were accustomed to it. She and Kaiba would either go to an empty classroom to eat and talk (for privacy) or the library. Kaiba liked going a classroom, because he hated to be with other people. Being isolated was what he liked best. While walking to Anzu's next class she knew plenty of people especially girls were looking at her because she was with Seto Kaiba. She hated the way girls would get pissed off at her just because she was friends with him, she would refer to them as 'jealous bitches.'

Once in the classroom the question's began. "So what's wrong?" Seto pulled out his laptop and let out a quick sigh as he began typing away. Anzu knew what his problem was, too much work and taking care of this little brother. "Seto I'll look after Mokuba until your work load lightens up, everyday after school." Kaiba looked up from his laptop and gave a smirk, a nice smirk not a your-so-stupid-and-you-know-I'm-better-than-you smirk.

"Sometimes I wonder what I'd do without you." Kaiba said as he shut off his laptop.

For the next two weeks Anzu watched Mokuba every night so that Kaiba could do his work. One night Kaiba came home to his mansion to find Anzu asleep on the couch in the living room with Mokuba in his bed fast asleep. He came over to her to see her sleeping form, she looked so innocent, so venerable. He knelt on the floor so he was facing her sweet looking face, thanks to her he was able to do his latest invention, a portable 3-D duel monster's video game. 'Ah, another billion dollars for me' was the most likely result from the game, he had millions of people on reservation for his new game and now he could put it in stores.

"Mmmh, Seto?" It was late at night around eleven o' clock. Anzu opened her eyes slowly and saw Seto looking right at her. He brushed her hair out of her eyes he almost wanted to kiss her, love her, hold her. He was against all of that, he knew he wasn't capable of any of it, or so he thought. Anzu had brought out his personality to the max which was maximum friendship.

"You can sleep here tonight, its late, or I can drop you home." Anzu sat up and yawned, right now she needed a nice warm hug. She stood up and Kaiba stood towering above her and she stretched her arms around his neck and gave him a large warm hug, Seto and her were something more than friends at times, but she could never get the picture of what they were.

"I wanna stay here tonight I'm too sleepy to go anywhere." Anzu flopped onto the sofa and closed her eyes. "Can you carry me to one of your billion rooms I'm too tired to get up."

"No." Kaiba simply said, he was not going to pick her up he was tired too from work.

"Please?"

"No"

"Pretty Please?"

"No"

"With a Cherry on top?" Kaiba knew he had lost, damn Anzu with her little blue eyes and cute voice asking him if he could carry her to a bed.

"I'll try Anzu, but just make sure if I pass out from holding your weight dial 9-1-1" Anzu stuck her tongue out with her eyes closed and stretched her arms out for Kaiba to pick her up. Gently he slipped one arm under he neck touching the soft and gentle feel of her wonderful skin and put another arm under her thighs. Carefully he lifted her weight onto his arms as though he was getting married and taking his wife out of the church. With Anzu's arms around his neck she could feel her weight pressure she was putting on his arms.

"Am I hurting you?" Anzu wondered if she was putting Seto in pain, she didn't want him to get hurt. Smiling Seto looked at her mouthing the words 'no' "Do I weight a lot?" Seto shook his head and climbed up the large fleet of stairs, each step up Anzu watched his face in concern of her weight on his arms. Kaiba kept his face straightly forward as though having a conversation with himself. Once up to the spare bedroom Kaiba smiled as he held Anzu above the bed showing that he would drop her.

"Now Anzu Mazaki for making me carry you, your punishment is this fall." He let go of her and with a slight scream she landed onto the bed. She had expected the bed to hurt her, but instead it was a nice cushion to break her fall.

"Did I hurt you with my weight?" Kaiba smirked and took off his shirt revealing his well toned abs to her.

"Do you think your weight would hurt this fine body?" Showing his very nicely toned abs and arm muscles Anzu began to blush. Sometimes Seto was too much for her, she wondered how she had broken the ice no one could with Seto Kaiba. The ice that made him cold and heartless, she couldn't remember when she broke it. "Well goodnight Anzu" Kissing her on the forehead he began to walk towards the door. Before he left the room he looked to her and said, "Anzu, you scare me sometimes, what happened that day with Shane scared me that I would loose you, just be careful." Anzu smiled, Seto was so protective of her, sometimes she wished she and Kaiba would become a couple, but she brushed her thoughts away knowing how Kaiba felt about love and couples and that whole love stuff.

Seto walked into his room and sighed, he really adored Anzu, but was it love? He had never felt love, he and Anzu had never shared a mouth to mouth kiss or lustful feelings. He decided to brush his thoughts away being friends with Anzu was enough for him. He got his daily hugs, a kiss on the forehead, and lots of friendship love from her and that's all he needed.

Around one AM Anzu realized that she had been awake for two hours and since Seto had tucked her in. She couldn't sleep, she felt scared and alone, she couldn't explain it, but when she was with Seto she felt so safe and protected. Anzu hopped out of her bed and slowly crept out of her room and tip-toed into Seto's room next door. She carefully opened the door and snuck over to his bed. She looked at his face and realized he was awake too, his eyes where not open, but looked as though they were slammed closed and trying to sleep. Anzu knelt down on one knee so she was face to face with Seto's face.

"Seto?" Anzu gently whispered into his ear. Surprisingly Kaiba's eyes shot open and looked at her.

"What are you doing here?" He seemed slightly confused as though maybe he was dreaming seeing her in front of him.

"I can't sleep…..can I sleep with you?" Anzu hadn't meant the words 'can I sleep with you' to come out as though she wanted to really sleep with him, but a large smile spread across his face, not a nice smile, a mischievous one.

"Of course Anzu, just strip out of your tang top and shorts and we'll get started. I have condoms under the bed just grab one and we'll have fun in no time." Anzu's eyes widened, 'stupid Seto always being so stupid.' Anzu ignored Seto and jumped into bed she really wanted to fall asleep because they both had school the next day. His bed was a king sized bed and the blankets and covers were made of silk. Anzu laid next to Seto and began to shiver, 'maybe the AC is on too high' she wrapped the blanket around her, not noticing that she had taken all the blanket Seto had. "Anzu, get out of my bed, if your not going to strip for me get out." Kaiba said lowering his voice as though he was deadly serious. Kaiba was joking of course, but something in what he said hurt Anzu, it made her feel as though Seto stopped caring for her.

"Fine I'll go." Anzu began to rise from the bed, even though Seto was joking she felt as though he wanted her gone. Seto immediately grabbed her arm under the covers and pulled her closer to him.

"I was joking." He said huskily. Kaiba was in boxers and Anzu was in a fitting white tank and red 'short' shorts. He could feel how cold Anzu's body was against his, "Anzu your freezing cold!" Sighing, he pulled her into a hug, trying to warm her up, her legs tangled around his, her upper body clicked perfectly into his, they were made for each other. Kaiba felt a weird tension in his body as though he wanted to let go and kiss her cheeks, her neck, her lips. He had always suppressed those feelings to keep a friendship with Anzu, he never wanted to loose her, he was always too afraid he would loose what he had with Anzu.

"Seto, your only wearing boxers!" Anzu hadn't realized this before, she could feel his chest against hers she was getting uncomfortable, yes, she did want to kiss him, but they were friends, right? Correction, friends do not hug each other at one AM in the morning and they do not end up in a situation like this.

"Hmm…maybe I should take them off?" Anzu hit his arm, and shook her head. She moved back from the hug and looked into his eyes, they were so wonderful, ice blue. Anzu gave him a kiss on the cheek and turned her body around.

"Thanks for the warmth Seto, goodnight." Something inside both of them knew that they wanted each other, but their friendship was stopping them, friendship was the wall that was blocking their developing feelings.

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