8 reviews so far! I'm pretty proud of that number, for this only being the 3rd chapter! If you thought boxers were a nice outfit for Seto, you'll really like this chapter! I hope everyone is enjoying this fic so far. I'm a bit concerned. The plot bunnies are being a bit too generous and it's making me worry! But as long as the plot bunnies allow it, I will continue to update frequently! So, read, review, and enjoy! And again, this whole thing is written without word, and I think I'm catching all of the errors. I did catch a spelling error in the word "congratulations" which somehow I replaced the 't' with a 'd' so sorry about that! Anyhoo, enjoy!
Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh!. I bet some people wish I did, though. Especially all of the Kaiba fans out there! Because we all know what HE would be wearing during those indoor shoots in the Kaiba mansion!!! Whooo!!!!!
Warnings: Slight swearing, a tiny bit of violence, and a really hot Seto Kaiba so you might need some ice to cool down (wink wink)
CHAPTER THREE - THE WORST CLASS EVER
Seto never really enjoyed this time of the day and especially not this day of the week. It was monday, time to arrive at school and that meant another day of torture. Should someone as successful as himself really be in school, of all places? High school was a breeding ground for stupidity, and a fine example of said stupidity was seen in his rival, Yugi Moto, and his rivals worthless friend, Joey Wheeler.
Seto grumbled on his way to class, hating his first class the worst. Gym. Whatever evil being decided that boys needed to wear tiny shorts and run around a lot should be sent directly to his office for scolding.
Seto changed into the offending blue shorts that he hated so much and sat down on a bench, waiting for the rest of his classmates to arrive and suffer the same torture. It was not that he did not like the way he looked in tiny blue shorts and he did not mind being around the other boys in such attire. The problem with the shorts, was that this particular gym class was co-ed, and that meant that there were squealing girls who felt that boys in blue shorts were to be drooled over and flirted with. Seto did not like girls squealing over him and leaving puddles of drool for him to slip on.
Because of these shorts, gym was now officially considered the root of all evil.
"Up late?" a familiar voice softly spoke in Seto's direction.
"Hmph. More like 'bad weekend'," he replied.
"Oh? What happened?" asked a boy with long white hair and chocolate brown eyes, sitting down on the bench, facing the CEO.
"Humiliation, helplessness, and I'm pretty sure someone molested me."
Ryou's eyes widened, "Who?!"
"I don't remember her name. I was at that big party I mentioned to you on Friday at lunch, and someone slipped me something. Next thing I know, I wake up in some strange house and this annoying little bitch is trying to lie to me. She says she didn't take advantage of me, but that's crazy talk. I've seen how those girls act around me when I'm perfectly normal, so I know she must've done something to me!"
Ryou gave a look of sympathy, but quickly turned away because some of the other boys were walking into the locker room, and Seto didn't like people to see him talking to anyone, not even his best friend.
Pandora walked into the locker room, following one of her cousin's friends. Luckily for her, Evelyn had a lot of friends in that school and Evelyn also just happened to be the most popular girl there. Her friend Tiffany had offered to help Pandora out for their first class, since they both had gym.
"Here, this is your uniform," Tiffany handed her a shirt and shorts.
Tiffany began changing into her own uniform and Pandora had hers on before Tiffany even managed to get her gym shorts on.
"Don't these make my butt look really big? Are there any bigger ones?" Pandora tugged at her shirt, trying to make it go further down but it stayed at her waist.
"Your butt will be big no matter what you wear, and no. Those are the shorts we all have to wear. You'll like it though. This class is co-ed so maybe you'll get some of the boys to flirt back with you!" Tiffany squealed, "There sure are some hotties in this class!"
Pandora faked a smile and frowned inwardly. She loved boys but she wasn't really the flirting type. She also didn't realy like showing off so much of her body. Everything about her body was perfect, but it made her uncomfortable to wear clothes that showed it, because she was too much of a tomboy and the only time she ever wore clothes that showed her stuff was when she was on one of her little missions to steal money or posessions.
The gym coach walked in and took attendance, asking Pandora to fill out a few forms, and then asked the girls to do a few warm-ups. Pandora stood close to Tiffany but tried to get to know the other girls. Finally, it was time to join the boys for the weekly sport, and all of the girls walked out of the small room they were in into the larger gym.
Tiffany walked up to a group of boys and instantly began flirting, so that was Pandora's cue to find someone else to talk to for a while. Someone instantly caught her eye, but it was one of the boys.
"Hi," she began, walking up to the boy, "I'm Pandora."
The boy looked up at her from his spot on the bleachers and smiled brightly at her, "Hi. I'm Ryou. You must be new, right?"
Pandora nodded, "How come you're all by yourself?"
Ryou just shrugged his shoulders, "I just don't have many friends in this school."
"Well, since I'm new, do you think maybe I could be your friend?"
Ryou stood and his smile grew even bigger and brighter at the thought, "That sounds great!"
Tiffany walked up to the two of them and grabbed Pandora's arm, "That boy is social destruction. Don't talk to him or else you'll never be as popular as I am."
Tiffany hadn't even bothered to whisper her thoughts or pull Pandora to the side, and a look of sadness crossed Ryou's face.
"You know, I've never really been much for the popular stuff. It's too restricting. They say the only thing that my cousin and I have in common is our eye color. So, I guess I won't be very popular then, will I?" Pandora said more than asked, pulling away from Tiffany and grabbing Ryou's arm and walking away with him.
"That was really brave of you to stand up to her like that!" Ryou was astounded by Pandora's actions.
"Not really. Bitch had it comming. I didn't really like those girls anyway. I'm sure you know Evelyn Shindou?" Ryou nodded, "Well, she's my cousin. I'm living with her. I'm from America and I'm in Japan for a while."
Ryou was genuinely interested and wished he had something interesting to tell her, but all of his stories had chased away everyone else. He'd been friends with Yugi until the evil spirit that lived inside of his Millennium Ring had taken over his body and tried to kill Yugi. He had been friends with Joey and Tristan but they never understood half of what he was telling them anyway, so they were bored with him. Tea had been more interested in girl things. At the moment, Seto Kaiba was Ryou's only friend, and hopefully he could manage to keep his newest friend for a while.
"I'm from England, but my father moved here after my mother passed away when I was little. He's an archeologist and is always away on digs, so I pretty much live alone," he wondered if he should tell her about Bakura, but thought better of it, "I don't have any siblings so I'm usually pretty lonely."
Ryou blushed, realizing that he'd just made himself sound desperate for someone to be his friend, but Pandora only laughed a bit.
The entire gym class was grouping around the two coaches and it was time for the daily sport to begin. Pandora was too busy thinking about what to do that evening to hear what was supposed to be going on, and so it wasn't until she heard an unhappy moan come from Ryou that she realized she'd missed something relavant.
"What's wrong?" she asked him, hoping he'd tell her what they were doing that day.
"I hate track! We have to spend the whole class running laps around a football field! I don't want to do this!"
Pandora noticed Tiffany and two other girls dragging three boys out the door behind the coaches, neither of the coaches seeing this. They were apparently skipping class, which didn't seem like a bad idea, and Pandora was about to do it herself, when she heard a familiar voice.
"Why are you here?!"
Pandora turned to her left to see none other than Seto Kaiba, wide eyed and staring at her. The rest of the class was headed outside to the football field, and the only three left in the gym were Ryou, Pandora and Seto.
"This is my school now," Pandora explained, trying to intimidate Seto.
"I should've known. I thought that was Evelyn the other day. Ryou, don't talk to her. She's nothing but trouble!" Seto ordered, walking past them and towards the door that everyone else had left through.
Ryou hesitated for a moment, then began to follow Seto, but turned back to Pandora, motioning for her to follow. He wasn't going to leave his new friend behind.
"Seto, wait up!" Ryou called.
"What is it?" Seto asked, glaring at Pandora who was standing behind Ryou.
"What's wrong with her? She's my new friend and I think she's very nice!" Ryou defended.
"You're British. You think everyone is 'nice'. Do you remember what I told you this morning in the locker room?" Seto waited for Ryou to nod before he continued, "This is the girl who abducted me."
Pandora's jaw dropped and Ryou looked to her, hoping that it wasn't true. The look on her face showed that she knew what Seto was talking about, but she obviously did not agree to the story happening the way Seto said it had.
Seto glared at her, angry that she had seen him the way that she had that weekend and now she was invading his school and trying to steal his only friend! He was more hurt than anything else, but the best way to eliminate this sort of problem was to eliminate the factor, and she was the factor. He would not be able to convince Ryou that she was a horrible person unless he had some sort of proof that she was just like every other girl, and to his dismay, she hadn't made any attempt to flirt with him yet. He decided that he would continue with the class the way he normally did, pretending that he no longer cared that Ryou was spending time with her, and when she started making her comments, Ryou would hear her and know that she was just another money-hungry girl who thought that the best way to get what she desiered was to use her body to her advantage.
Seto walked off, leaving Ryou and Pandora there in silence.
"I don't know what he told you about me but I never abducted him! I was at some stupid party and some stupid girl had drugged him up and was taking advantage of him! I helped him out at a meeting and then I let him stay in my room while I slept on the couch! You can trust whoever you want but the truth is that I was never anything but nice to him, and he didn't give me so much as a sincere thank-you!"
Pandora was so angry that she was nearly in tears, but Ryou placed his hands on her shoulders, "I believe you. He can really be a cold person when you don't know him like I do. If that is true, then he's probably embarassed. He probably thinks you'll try to ruin his reputation by telling everyone what happened."
Pandora thought about that for a minute and realized that Ryou was right. It must be difficult to be so high up in power because people expect so much of you. Everyone watches everything you do and the first chance they get to ruin you, they'll take. She decided to shrug it off. As long as Ryou trusted her, that was all that mattered.
Seto jogged around the track, trying to ignore the girls screaming cheers at him and wished the class was a lot shorter. The girls usually walked around the track and so every time he would pass them, they would make an attempt to get him to stop and talk to them. It was like playing pinball only instead of trying to stay out of the little gutter, you also had to avoid all of the obstacles! He could see Ryou and Pandora walking together, just talking, and he felt a bit of jealousy but ignored it, deciding to take his anger out on someone else. His target was ahead of him, walking backwards and talking to Yugi.
He jogged past the two without notice and then stopped, tripping Joey as he took another step backwards, and a group of girls began to laugh viciously along with Seto while Yugi glared and helped his friend back up. Seto just smirked and continued around the track, almost wishing he'd stayed longer to hear the comments they were saying about him.
He was approaching Ryou and Pandora and thought about what he should do. He pushed past them, right between the two and knocked them both to the side. Ryou ignored it because he was used to Seto's odd behavior, but Pandora was not pleased at all.
"You're such an asshole!" she screamed at him, causing him to laugh a little bit.
Just as Pandora finished screaming her sentence, she felt two arms wrap around her waist and a head plop on her shoulder, "Eh, don't worry 'bout him. He's just a jerk!"
Pandora turned around to face a blonde boy who had decided to talk to her after seeing Seto push her around the same way he'd had done to him so many times. Pandora simply pulled away.
"I really don't like to be touched. . ." she tried not to be rude, but grabbing someone randomly was awfully rude, whether it was meant to be or not.
"I'm Joey Wheeler, and this is my pal Yugi Moto! That Kaiba jerk treats us the same way. You can hang with us if you like!" Joey offered.
Pandora looked to Ryou, who was looking down, "What do you say, Ryou? Want to walk with them?"
Before Ryou could say anything, Joey coldly responded, "The invite was for one, not him,"
"Then you're no better than Seto," Pandora said, walking off with Ryou, and once they were out of earshot, she turned to him, "what was that all about?"
"Well, I was friends with them a long time ago, but," again, Bakura was in the way of finishing his sentence, "I wasn't cool enough for them."
Pandora nodded, pleased with the answer, and they continued to walk. She tried to ignore the catcalls from the boys they passed and really began wishing that the shirts were longer or the shorts weren't so short! She knew she looked good because she was receiving hungry stares from all around, but it was also embarassing!
Seto saw how the other boys were calling to her and trying to flirt with her, and he was a bit frustrated when she didn't flirt right back. If she didn't start flirting or showing off by tying up her shirt like the other girls did, he might actually have to admit that she wasn't like the rest of them. An idea struck, and while it was probably the last thing he ever wanted to do, it was also the only thing that would ever work. Once he had his proof, he could use Ryou's power of being nice to people to find some blackmail on her and ruin her life. He hated girls like these, and when a chance to ruin their reputations came about, he never turned it down!
He walked up to the two and stood closest to Pandora. Two green eyes glared at him and suddenly he felt a pang of guilt for trying to trick her. Looking directly into her eyes brought back a tiny puzzle piece of a memory from friday night, remembering the blonde girl who had followed him around and seeing those same eyes when the blonde finally decided to give up. But he was going to prove that all girls were the same and that they were only out for two things, both of which, he had!
"You look really hot in that gym uniform," he coaxed her to start flirting with him, but instead, he got the shock of his life.
Following a slap in the face and a slur of swear words, she continued to chew him out, and it was when he saw the coaches approaching them that he decided to begin walking off.
"Get back here!" she screamed at him, beginning to chase after him.
Ryou tried to pull her back but it was too late. The pursuit had already begun and the coaches couldn't catch up to them. Seeing Pandora right behind him, Seto began running around the track, thinking that she would never be able to catch him, but he felt her fingers brush against his neck, and he knew she was trying to take him down by pulling his hair. He decided that if she was going to try and embarass him in the worst class ever, he would have to be the one to do the embarassing. He stopped running, turned around and grabbed her by the arm. This happened so fast that she was caught off-guard, and when she spun around from the force and speed of the event that took place, he let her arm go and she hit the track hard.
The coaches came jogging up to them along with Ryou. Most of the girls began to laugh and several boys tried to help Pandora to her feet. Her knee had been scraped up pretty badly and was bleeding and the palms of her hands felt like they were on fire.
Seto wasn't sure if he felt like laughing along with the girls or offering to help her up with the boys. He was angry with her for chasing after him and trying to embarass him, but he had to admit, he'd really been the one to start it. Either way, he wasn't about to help her up. The coaches both offered to help her up while writing office referalls and nurse's slips for the both of them, but Pandora was still too angry to let it die with that.
She stood up and Miss Vaga, the girls' coach, had to hold her back from getting to Seto. She bared her teeth at him and several of the girls gasped in surprise that someone would dare be angry at their precious Seto Kaiba!
"If it's the last thing I do, Seto Kaiba, I will make you regret ever messing with me!"
Ryou had been volunteered to escort them to the office since he was the only one who could seem to hold the peace between the two, and both teens kept their arms crossed the entire way to the nurse's office. Once they were there, the nurse took a look at Seto who was fine, bandaged Pandora's knee up, allowed them to change back into their regular clothes and then Ryou walked with them to the principal's office.
The principal, Mr. Kuramada, was not entertained by the event that had just taken place.
"Mr. Kaiba, you are a straight A student, you own your own company, and yet here you are, in my office, for fighting during class? You should be ashamed," he shook his head at the boy, "and Miss Shindou, you are even worse! You attacked another student and then made threats in front of your classmates! Give me one good reason why I shouldn't suspend you!" he raised his voice at the girl.
Pandora opened her mouth but no words came out. Seto looked to her and expected her to say something sarcastic, but realized she was truly speechless. She looked like a deer caught in a car's headlights, confused and afraid of what would happen next.
"You've already been kicked out of four schools before this one, are you trying to set a record?!" Mr. Kuramada asked.
Seto decided it was time to speak up. He didn't know what she'd done to get herself into trouble before, and it was most likely because of that temper of hers, but he couldn't deny that he had egged her on and that if he hadn't been toying with her for his own causes, they wouldn't be there.
"I'm sorry, sir, but I cannot allow Miss Shindou, here, to take this much blame. I taunted her. She was walking with a friend and I was angry because she was ignoring me, so I pushed her too far. She had no right to try and attack me. . .twice. . .but I did cause this."
Mr. Kuramada's face softened and he looked between the both of them, "I don't ever want to see the two of you in here together again, do you understand me?"
They both nodded, stood, and bowed. Then, they exited as quickly as they possibly could.
If there was only one thing in the world both Seto and Pandora could agree on, it was that gym had to be the worst class ever!
END OF CHAPTER THREE
Peggi: Yay! Another great chapter complete! I think I speak for everyone when I say that those really short gym shorts aren't always such a bad thing, so long as they're on the right guy!!! I'd like to take a minute to thank my reviewers thus far!
TheFemalePharaoh - who reviewed both chapter 1 and 2! Here's a cookie! (hands a cookie)
Yami Half-Demon - for reviewing chapter 1!
Agent Malkere - you reviewed chapter two, so here's a cookie for you too! (hands a cookie)
James - you ACTUALLY read AND reviewed chapters 1 and 2 so here are TWO cookies! (hands 2 cookies)
Dzerzhina - who reviewed chapter 2, so you get a cookie (hands a cookie)
and of COURSE!!!
Eevee - Who reviewed chapters 1 and 2. So you get a cake that Shiryu pops out of. And is covered in cookies D (hands her the cake)
If you want cookies, you must read and review all of my chapters or at least the latest chapter! If you want to be in this, I can fit a few people in a little later on so anyone who wants to join in, just send in a name to use and what you want to look like.
Bakura: Why would anyone volunteer to be in one of these crappy stories?
Peggi: So that they can make out with YOU, Bakura.
Bakura:. . .
Seto: No, I don't think she's joking.
Bakura: AAAAAHHHHHH (runs away)
Peggi: Works every time! Anyhoo, hope you liked chapter 3! I'll write chapter 4 as soon as I can! Thanks for reading!!!!