Corad: You know, I can't believe people actually read and reviewed this. That's a first! Thanks for the reviews guys. I'm glad you like this so far. After the next couple of chapters though, I'm going to cut down on words and limit the things Kaiba thinks about, so it's not as boring and long. Well, I hope you like this chapter if you're still reading this!

I don't own Yugioh but I own the whole creation of friendship week.


Chapter 4 – So it begins…

"We're what!" I spit, glaring past Mokuba's bushy head to the front of the van. I still can't seem to understand the meaning of canoeing. I know what it is and everything, but doing it with these morons.

"You said you wouldn't complain, Seto." Mokuba starts up, turning around to meet my glaring, hate filled face. My eyes fall to his pleading expression, and can't help but feel slightly guilty.

"Yeah Kaiba. We've organized four canoes for hire at the national park for two hours." Yugi says, clapping his hands together. He's still all cheery even though I've made it quite clear I'm not doing it. As if I'd want to sit in a boat for two hours, paddling down some creek.

The conversation seemed to have dropped after that. Mokuba had made it quite clear too that he wanted me to keep quiet and enjoy, even if it were forced, the activity. So now, I was sitting silently, squashed between the arm rest of the car and Duke, listening to some song on the radio.

The song choice was bad enough, let alone all the geeks, including Mokuba, singing to it. My eye twitched unpleasantly, as we sped down the highway to the national park. "It's times like these you learn to live again. It's times like these you give and give again. It's time like these you learn to love again. It's time like these time and time again!"

Who ever thought Tristan and Duke could sing so badly? Their voices are beginning to drive me up the wall, trying to sing in time with the song (A/N The Foo Fighters – Times like these – I like this song, even though Seto called it a bad song choice. It's just him, so don't get offended). "Hey Kaiba, join in!" Tea is looking at me, smiling brightly as the rest of the car sings along. I roll my eyes, not really in the mood for enjoyment of this sort.

"Oh come on, rich boy!" Ok, that does it! These Morons want my input, then fine! They can have my input! I wait for the chorus, before smiling cruelly to myself. "It's times like these you learn to curse again. It's times like these you kill and kill again. It's times like these you learn to hate again. It's times like these time and time again." I sit back satisfied, watching all the horrorstruck faces around me. It feels good to be center of attention, even if it's for giving them all shock.

"Oh, well, that was nice, Kaiba." Yugi says eventually, turning back around in his seat to face the front. After that, no one attempts to sing to anything else. They probably know if they do, I'll screw around with the lyrics, turning them into hateful, evil ones.

Ten more minutes goes by in almost silence. Only the radio, which has been turned down significantly, is the only noise source. Duke and Tristan are whispering amongst each other. I can't exactly make out what they're saying, and I probably don't want to know either.

I look up at the front of the car, and see Yugi pointing out the windscreen. He must be giving his Yami directions or something. I still can't get over that fact that he is still allowed to drive. He ran through numerous red lights, fences, narrowly missed an old couple, and made a bus full of nuns crash into the school, all because he wanted to talk to me.

"We're almost there." Yugi sighs, pulling out some forms and flipping through them. "Before we go though, you have to fill out this form. It's basically saying that if you break a leg or drown or anything; you won't hold the canoeing company responsible."

Yugi hands out the forms, and a couple of pens around the van. I get given one, and by the looks of it, Yugi was right. I still don't have a pen yet, but I realize Duke has one. "Yoink!" I say, snatching the pen out his hands. He opens his mouth to complain, but thinks better of it. For all he knows, I could have a couple of body guards hiding under the car.

"What kind of rubbish is this!" I hiss, getting to the point where it says I don't hold the company in charge of any accidents or deaths. "Well, if anything bad happens, they just don't want to get sued." Right, that makes a lot of sense – not. I fill out the whole form anyway, and toss it back up to Yugi. Duke is still pouting at the pen loss, so I fling is at his head.

I smirk as he wipes ink off his temple, and go back to staring out the window. Yugi didn't lie when he said we were almost there. His Yami was just pulling into the dirt car park now, and some people were unbuckling and gathering up any belongings.

"When we get out, follow the trail for five minutes over there, and we should have arrived." Yami states, turning off the ignition and putting the handbrake on. So, this is officially the start of nightmare adventures one. Joy.

"Quick, we're late!" Yugi says, jumping nervously about, grabbing backpacks out the boot. Mokuba picks up our bag, so I head off down the trail with him at my heels. "So Seto. Are you looking forward to this?" He asks, struggling to keep up. "No Mokuba. I could be doing something worthwhile now, not this crp." I reply, and I figure I've made myself clear when he falls silent.

I can hear the geeks in the distant, laughing and carrying on. I hope a big grizzly bear comes out the forest. Maybe then they'll let me go home. Mokuba seems to be quietly laughing at something, but I try to ignore it. He most likely finds the idiot down the tracks funny in some way.

"Mokuba, go join them if you want." I hiss, signaling for him to shut up. "But Seto. Maybe if you didn't walk so fast! Do you even know where we're going?" He shouts, and I feel him walk into the back of me when I stop. "As a matter of fact, I do." I say smugly, looking up at the small, timber building with Canoe Hire written on the front.

"Oh." He mutters, and walks on towards the entrance. So, at least I've proven my intelligent sense of direction. I mean, how hard could it have been anyway? Just following the basic, leaved path through a forest.

I dwell on the thought, until Yugi and the others show up. "Gees, you're fast Kaiba." Wheeler pants, wiping sweat off his face. "Whatever." I mutter, gazing over at four canoes already lined up along the bank.

"Well, I'll go organize this. Maybe if you guys get into pairs or something." Yugi suggests, before him and his Yami go into the wooden building. Great, I'm not going with any of these idiots. I turn to Mokuba, but see him talking to Tea. Don't you dare Mokuba! Don't you dare!

I stride over to him, and cross my arms, leering at his uncomfortable face. "Um, Seto. Tea offered to go with me, and I thought, well…" He trails off, my rage rising again. "I wanted to go with someone who didn't complain and carry on all the time." I spit, imitating his voice.

He nods timidly, so I step back, hands raised up. "Fine. You want to abandon me, to go with this, then fine!" I say, pointing to Tea. Mokuba shudders a bit, before I stalk off to a spare portion of space away from everyone else.

Yugi comes back shortly afterwards, his hands full of life jackets. His Yami isn't carrying any, and I begin to wonder why when Yugi calls us in. I walk up stiffly to the group, and glare at Yugi. I'm trying to make him feel as uncomfortable as I can. "Well, we only have six life jackets. The instructor isn't fit enough to give us a lesson in canoeing. I think he may have had a bit too much to drink last night."

Ok, so let me get this straight. This so called company makes us sign pathetic forms so we don't sue them for any accidents or deaths, but yet they don't teach us how to control these stupid heaps of trash, and expect us to know how.

My eye is twitching again, and I try and push the rage down to my gut. "Just grab a life jacket and canoe, and then we'll go." Yami says, sounding even more bored than I am. I watch in annoyance as one by one the life jackets are taken. I don't need one, as far as I'm concerned.

"Hey Kaiba. Looks like we're left." I turn and glare at Wheeler, who is also life jacket free. This nightmare adventure has moved up a notch on the scale. "I'm not canoeing with you." I mutter, my eyes turning to slits. He shrugs and points at the others all in pairs, lifting the canoes to the water.

"Just get in, Kaiba!" Oh, so now dice boy wants some! Just because him and Tristan are almost ready to go. Accepting my defeat, only just, I grab a paddle and stride over to the boat. Wheeler is beginning to aggravate me, even though he hasn't done anything yet. Strange.

"All set?" Yugi asks, from the front of his and Yami's canoe. I jump into the back of ours, and get a whole stream of insults thrown at me by Joey. "Can it now, Wheeler, unless you'd like to attempt to paddle on your own." I growl threateningly, putting the paddle into the water.

By the looks on his face, he wanted the back. Trust me; if I don't get the seat I want in this trashy canoe, then his little boating ride of fun will be a nightmare for him.

"Nrgh, Kaiba." He mutters, getting in and rocking the canoe so much it feels like it's about to capsize. I grip the sides and try to steady it, before shouting at the top of my lungs at him. This isn't going to work. Even if it did, something terrible would go wrong anyway.

"Let's go. Joey, Kaiba, you guys go first. We'll be right behind." Yugi is irritating me again. Doesn't he trust us or something at the back? I reckon he thinks I'll start hitting Wheeler on the head with the end of the paddle. Seems like something he'll believe.

"Fine." I snap, pushing the canoe out of the shallow water with the paddle. It takes a while to steady the boat again. Wheeler's already started up about me behaving and not tipping the boat over on purpose or anything. Ok, why would I want to anyway? These are my best clothes, as if I'd want to get them drenched.

"Shut it now, or I will." I growl, bringing the paddle out the water and pushing it back in. We're gliding along the stream, and I can just hear Yugi and friends laughing again. By the sounds of it they're fairly far away.

"Slow down, Wheeler." I say loudly, pulling my paddle out the water and resting it on my knee. I want to see how far ahead we are, but I don't want to risk tipping the boat. God knows how deep it is, or what's down there in the water.

"They'll catch up eventually. There's two hours of 'dis. Remember?" Joey shouts back, so I start to paddle again. It's silent as we move down this so called, 'pleasant' stream. Only things around us are trees and rocks, go figure cause we're in a rainforest.

There's no sign of the geeks yet, and I can't even hear them anymore. Joey doesn't seem concerned, well, only until we reach a fork in the creek. "Which way, Wheeler?" I spit, holding the paddle still. He looks down one route then the other.

Silence is not a good thing. "Well?" I snap again, and he shrugs. "I dunno. Yugi said nothin' about a split in the creek. Maybe we should wait for 'em." He really must be stupid. We can't wait for them, because the damn current is carrying us along.

"What do you mean? Just pick one! We can't wait here all day, or we'll run into those rocks!" I shout, pointing to a large group of rocks poking out the surface of the water right at the split.

I watch the back of his head look one way from the other, before he points down the safest looking route. "Dis way." He mutters, paddling again. I do the same, just narrowly missing the jagged rocks. He sighs when we attempt to straighten up the canoe, but fail miserable.

For some reason, we're turning around in circles, but still moving down the creek. This really can't be a good thing. "Ok Wheeler, what have you done?" I ask, pushing us away from another large rock with my paddle.

"What have I done? What about you?" He snaps, turning around to see my angry face. Although he's glaring at me, his face will never match mine. My eyes are tiny slits, my mouth is one, small single line, and my shoulders are rigid in rage.

He seems to get the point, and looks away from me. So, I'm still concerned of the circular motion of this canoe, and the fact that I haven't seen or heard any on the others since we left the shore. I get even more concerned when we go over a little crest in the water, and Joey screams so loudly it seems to deafen my ears.

I quickly look forward, and almost scream myself. We must really have bad luck or something, because I'm staring right white water rapids about twenty meters away.


Corad: Was that chapter ok? I hope so anyway. Probably wondering what happens to Kaiba and Joey. If you want to know, maybe a review will get it up sooner. If not, it'll be up all the same. Well, I'll see you guys later in about three days! And I hope you're enjoying this my friend. You know who you are!