Teaseshipping (Seto x Jonouchi x Ryo)

"Never again," he swore to himself. "Never. Again."

It had started out so normally. Yugi had come to KaibaCorp for a duel, and Jonouchi and Bakura had been tagging along. Kaiba had not liked having the mutt and the she-male coming to watch their duel, but he had tolerated it since it was the only way Yugi would have come.

And then, of course, the breaker had to go down. And all the mechanics were out on Christmas holiday at the exact same time. God must have been playing a practical joke, because the only person left in the entire building that could fix the breaker was Kaiba himself. So he had had to go all the way down to the basement to fix it.

And Jonouchi had decided to follow him (something about seeing all of Kaiba's dirty secrets – stupid, really, if he had dirty secrets he would have buried them on another continent and not his company's basement, because then no one could trace him back to it) and Ryo mentioned that he had some experience with electricity and had offered to come down and help. Apparently, according to Jonouchi, Kaiba had made some grunt that made them think it was okay with them following him. Yugi muttered something about hating basements and said he would wait in the lobby.

And then the door had locked inexplicably when they tried to get back upstairs.

So Seto Kaiba was stuck in the basement with the mutt and the she-male.

"Grhg!" Jonouchi said, heaving against the door again. "Won't – budge!"

"Of course it won't, you stupid mutt," Kaiba snarled, way more on edge than he would have liked. "I pride myself on security. If a door is locked, it stays locked. Brute force certainly won't solve any of our problems."

"Is the door connected to the electrical system?" Ryo asked.

"No. The basement door is just a normal, low-tech padlock," Kaiba said, trying to ignore everyone. He pulled at some plugs and started tinkering with the grid. If he could just get the system back online, he could call upstairs and get someone to unlock the door. How on earth had it even gotten locked? Someone was clearly playing a practical joke on him – either that or someone was actually trying to break into KaibaCorp and keep him out of the way.

"Kaiba-san, that's the wrong plug," Ryo said suddenly. "You're connecting the lobby lights with the telephone lines."

"What?"

Kaiba actually looked at what he was doing and found that Ryo was right. He swore at himself mentally for allowing his mind to wander.

"Hey, maybe we can get out through a ventilation shaft!" Jonouchi said. "I wonder where the vents are..."

The blond boy started prowling down the rows of boxes, peering around rows and into crannies.

Idiot, Kaiba thought. The ventilation shafts were barely big enough for a two year old to fit through down here. Otherwise they would have been a severe security hazard.

"My cell phone doesn't have reception," Ryo said. "What about yours, Kaiba? We could call Yugi."

At least someone was being logical, Kaiba allowed.

"Tried. We're under too much rock here to get the signals."

Jonouchi yelped somewhere and Kaiba heard something crash. He groaned, but forced himself to ignore it. He just hoped that wasn't the box with the Duel Disk prototypes.

Never again, he thought again. Never, ever, ever, again. I am never letting all the engineers take their holiday break at the same time.

A/N: aw, poor Kaiba. Stuck in the basement with Ryo and Jonouchi. :D I couldn't help myself, I just wanted to lock them all up together (which sounds dirty...sorry. X3) Next up is Tauntshipping (Pegasus x Marik x Yami no Yugi x Seto).