Corad: Hey guys. Thanks for all those nice reviews. I'm surprised ppl actually like this. It's really quite strange, but anyhow. I'll keep updating but it may take longer, coz now I have to write more chappies. These were already written and just sitting on my 'puter.
I don't own Yugioh, but if I did, they'd have a friendship week, and Kaiba would be the victim.
Chapter 5 - Canoing gone Terribly, terribly wrong
"You idiot!" I scream, whacking Wheeler on the head with my paddle. "This is all you're fault! I'm gonna die because of you!" I hit him again, and he attempts to grab the end of my paddle. He fails, and I attack him again…and again…and again…until we both scream as our canoe nears the rapids.
This is completely Wheeler's fault. If he had chosen the right route, or better yet, discussed the river system with Yugi before he boarded the canoe, then we wouldn't be in this mess. I watch as he feebly attempts to steer the thing, but instead gets his paddle caught on a rock.
Watching in horror as it's ripped from his grasp, he starts screaming at it as it's floating down the rapids. Great thinking Wheeler, just great. Now all we have left is my paddle, which I have better use for; beating him on the head with it.
"Quick Kaiba, get us away from that rock!" He shouts, pointing to a single jagged rock. I consider this for a moment, before shoving it into the water, and attempting to force our canoe away from it. I fail miserably, and feel my paddle snap in half. "We have a slight problem." I mutter solemnly, holding up half the handle.
Joey spins around, to see most of my paddle gone, and he roars in irritation. Oh, so it's my fault now? "Get a hold of yourself." I spit, tossing the worthless broken paddle into the speeding water. "How can I when we've lost both paddles, are heading straight into death rapids, and my last thread of life was spent with you!"
He's overreacting. How is he so sure we're gonna die anyway? I'm beginning to think twice about that mental statement, when the canoe starts jolting around. It begins I suppose.
"Hold on tight!" I yell, for once treating him like a human being. I know without his help and balance, the canoe will tip, we'll plunge into the water, and all hopes and dreams will be shattered by numerous rocks below the surface.
"Whatever….Argh!" He screeches, gripping the sides so much that his hands are turning white. The boat is rocking so much, and I can hear it scraping against rocks under and beside it. I seriously hope the rapids smooth out soon, and we can drift to the shore and never step foot in a canoe again.
No luck what so ever. It began with a single hard tilt from a nearby rock, that sent us almost into the water. My hands are turning white to, and a fair amount of sweat is gathering on them. It'll be over soon. Rapids don't last forever, and even if they did, it wouldn't be here.
"Prepare ya self Kaiba!" I look ahead, and see a mini waterfall just meters from us. I have no time to react from the speed we're travelling, before we fly down it.
Water is sprayed up around us, and I feel the strongest bump yet. Unfortunately for us, that one bump killed our canoe. Find it hard to believe, but the boat just split in half, and Wheeler and I are thrown into the rapids. This was the worst thing I thought could happen. It's gonna be a miracle to get us out of this mess.
"Kaiba!" I manage to get my head above the surface, and take the biggest gulp of air. Yes, Wheeler is trying to communicate with me, even though it's the worst time. Doesn't he know to shut up and save his breath?
"What!" I yell, just spotting his head a few meters away bobbing down the rapids. He waves at me, and points at a low lying tree branch in the distance. Yeah, that would be a good escape route, if we actually managed to survive to reach it.
This must be the first time I've ever been down rapids. It's kinda uncomfortable, having yourself hit every possible rock and branch in the water. I wonder how Wheeler is coping with it. Without knowing what's happening, I'm thrust under the water again, and all I see is white. Now I know why they call them white water rapids.
I eventually struggle to the surface, and flick my hair out my eyes. Mokuba's always told me to get a haircut, but all I've said to him was "Like wise". Maybe I should've listened to him.
"Hey Kaiba! Over hear!" I scan the rapids quickly, looking for a blonde head, but don't find one. Great, now where is he? "Quick!" I jerk my head up again, and see him clinging onto the branch. Oh, so he is good for something. I wade over to him best I can, finding it almost impossible due to the fact that my recently deformed paddle hit me in me face.
I reach his side eventually, and cling onto the branch as well. Now all we need is to slide along to the shore, and somehow drag ourselves out.
"Hey Kaiba. Little help?" Wheeler asks, seeming like he's about to let go. To be honest, this branch is slippery, and the force of the water makes it even harder to hold on. "Fine." I snap, pulling myself as far out of the water as far as I can to sit on the branch.
I don't trust the branch though. It's so old, like Solomon I suppose, and it's creaking under my weight. "Wheeler, find this hard to believe, but…" I don't get to finish, as the branch snaps off and I'm sent into the rapids again. Wheeler is screaming at me from behind. He's still holding onto the rotted branch for dear life, where as I'm just letting the current take me along.
Spending the next few distorted minutes keeping my head above the surface, and having stream after stream of insults thrown at me by Wheeler, I reckon I've lived through hell. "Wheeler, shut it now, or I will somehow make my way to you, and force your head under water!" I shout, turning around to face him. To be honest, it feels really weird to be travelling backwards.
"Nrrgghh, if you were here now, I'd kill ya!" Joey screams, raising a fist and shaking it threateningly. We carry on like this, before the rapids start to slow down, and we're moving at an easy pace. I now totally regret coming with Yugi and his geeks. I could be having fun now tormenting my security guards.
"You have no friends; you hate friendship, and another thing! YOU SMELL BAD!" Joey is getting dangerously close to my anger peak now. I've endured quite a bit from him, after spending about ten minutes swimming down White water with him insulting me after every time he's granted time to breath.
I decide to shut him out completely, but instead focus on swimming towards the shore. This is the perfect opportunity to get out, and I have no idea if there's more speeding water further down track. Ignoring Wheeler completely, I swim swiftly to the edge, and crawl out.
By the sounds of it, Joey did the same. He's panting and ranting on still, before he collapses face first into the muddy sand. What an idiot. As if you'd waste your breath to insult someone.
I drop my face into the sand, and get a mouth full of it. Yuck! "That's disgusting!" I say, spitting it out. It turn to look at Wheeler, but he's still looking dead. Yeah, I feel like that too.
"Ok, get up. We have to find the others." I snap, getting to my feet and brushing dirt and sand off my wet clothes. It's hard when the grains of sand and dirt mix with the wetness, and it forms mud. I seriously hope I can get these out later.
"But I'm still stuffed." Wheeler whines, lifting his head pathetically to look at my angry face. I just glare at him, and he soon realizes I mean it. "Ok, Ok. Just hold ya horses." He groans, standing up and brushing his mattered and wet hair back.
I just roll my eyes when I pass him to enter the forest. This is the only way out, or if you'd rather jump back in the river and hope it'll take you somewhere happy. "Hurry Up!" I snap in Wheeler's direction, and he reacts with a disgruntled sigh.
"Whatever Kaiba. Could it hurt to be nice just dis once?" So like him to say something like that. Of course it would hurt. Being nice is right at the bottom of my personality list. "Get moving." I hiss, pointing into the forest. He glares at me before disappearing into the trees. Figuring I'd better get moving too, I follow Wheeler in.
"Kaiba, You'd better know you're way, cause if ya don't." He mutters, flinging a branch in my face. I hiss as it collides with my face. Great, way to get whipped by a bush. "Watch what you do Wheeler, or I'll have to forcefully get you lost." I snarl, the stinging in my cheek subsiding.
Together we wander around aimlessly, hopelessly lost. I try and keep a positive mind, but it keeps telling me Wheeler is a mutt, Yugi is a porcupine headed freak, and his geeky friends are all losers. Maybe if I had just said no to this little organized activity, I wouldn't be here, using all my energy up walking around a forest.
"Hey, maybe it's over here." He says abruptly, and I follow his pointing hand to see a slight ray of light peering through the trees. "You'd better be right." I snap, striding past him towards the light. I hear him growl sceptically, as I trample over every wildlife/plant life that's in my way.
"Good thinking Wheeler." I murmur, looking through the light and seeing a small park with picnic tables and Barbeques. At least it's a start. I push through the remaining branches, and smile evilly when I hear Joey yelp. Maybe he should have seen that branch coming.
"Yes, we're out!" I say, raising my arms up high in victory. I don't know where the hell we are, but at least I'm free from the forest wrath. "Hey, the others are over there." Joey says, wandering out behind me. Oh, so they are, sitting there at a table, confabbing about how much fun they've all just had.
Shaking in sudden unexpected rageI storm over to the picnic table which is about fifty meters away. Mokuba spots me first, and stands up waving. "Hi Seto!" My eye is twitching unpleasantly again, and my hands are turning to little balls of fist. "Don't even start, Mokuba." I sneer, coming to a halt next to Yugi.
"Yyyyyooouuuu!" I growl threateningly, pointing at Yugi who is sitting innocently at the table. "You did this. It was yyyyyoooouuuuuu!" Yugi and the others are all looking at me as if I've grown another head or something. They only change their attitude when Joey wanders up to them.
"Oh, Hi Joey. Had Fun?" Yugi asked, completely ignoring the way I'm staring at him. "Well, kinda I guess." He mutters, looking at me briefly before sitting on the grass. "We had the best time. We saw little deer, a few otters, and…" Tea begins, but gets cut off by Yugi.
"What happened to you guys anyway. You left before us, so……" Awww, little Yugi wanna know what happened does he? Well, he can't handle the truth! "We went down the wrong route because somebody didn't tell us the way to go." I snap, my fingernails digging into my palm now. Oh, so now he looks guilty. Guilty of a crime he definitely committed.
"Sorry guys. It must have slipped my mind," he mutters, turning away and avoiding my fire burning glare. "Well, your little mind slipping stunt almost got us killed! We went down ten minutes worth of Rapids, wandered aimlessly around the forest for and hour, and come out here to find you all safe and dry! If you dare ask me to join in again!"
I'm breathing hard, a finger pointing around at the group, especially Yugi. Joey hasn't said anything to back me up, and Mokuba is acting like he doesn't really care. "He said he was sorry," Tristan murmurs, leaping off the top of the table. "I don't care. Sorry doesn't fix this!" I yell, pointing to the smudged dirt and sand in my clothes. "Yeah, but we told you to wear summer clothes! If you had!" Duke snaps, standing up as well.
Ok, I get it. They're all against me. All of them. "Fine, then don't ask me to join in again, or I will personally have you assassinated," I hiss, pulling out my cell phone from Mokuba's bag. I dial Roland's number, and wait for him to answer.
"Hello, Roland speaking." Excellent, I won't have to ride in the geek mobile again. "Yes Roland. Can you bring my helicopter to this stupid national park?" I say, grinning at all they're worried faces.
"Um sir. I hate to tell you this, but you blew it up, remember?" he replies hesitantly, and I stand back from the phone, letting it sink in. "You did what!" I shout, spit flying out my mouth in rage. "Actually, you did it sir. You flew it into the helipad about this time yesterday. The fire is still burning on it."
"And?" I ask; my voice about to crack again. "Well, I can't pick you up, unless you're willing to buy another helicopter that is." I press the end call button, and snap my phone shut. Everyone else watched as I slide it into my pants pocket. I really couldn't care if it died because of how wet my pants were.
"Ok, it seems I am helicopter free, so if you just drop me off at home, I won't have to see you again," I say calmly, looking at Yugi who is trying to cower behind his Yami. "Ok," Yugi says quietly, and I shove Duke away from the seat so I can sit down.
"Maybe we should head off now then," Tea suggests, getting up and picking her bag up. It seems everyone must have agreed, because I find myself five minutes later sitting in the back seat of the van again.
Another ten minutes or so, and we've stopped outside my mansion. Just before I get out though, Yugi claims he'll be here same time tomorrow. Before I have time to argue back, Wheeler's slammed the door shut, and the Van is speeding off down the road.
I turn to Mokuba, who is smiling brightly again. "Why are you so happy?" I snap, pulling out my keys to unlock the door. "Because we're going out again," he replies, wandering into the house, leaving me to acknowledge what he'd just said. Great. Another Yugi based fun filled day tomorrow. I can hardly wait – not.
Corad: I apologize for the length of this, and the grammer mistakes through out this. I didn't have time to fix it all up, but I hope you guys understood it ok. In the next chapters, they'll be about half the size of this, coz really if you look at it, it's sort of too long. Well, I hope you enjoyed and if you have the time, all reviews will be appreciated. Thanks guys!
