AmePiper: I've been having a bad week too! Geez, gotta hate when that happens, eh? Oh, I totally had a feeling you were from Britain. Yeah, I'm American. Although I think I reserve the right to call myself European… kinda. My Mom immigrated from Italy, her main homeland, she kinda lived all over the world. I'm glad you liked the chapter! I have a feeling you'll like this chapter a lot too. Thanks for the review!

STEPHENS #1 FAN!: I WANT TO BE YOU WHEN I GROW UP AND MARRY ALPHONS TWO! I love you.

Afiong Bassey: Hahaha, yeah, Seto doesn't quite know how to be 'hip' in this country. I'm glad you're involved in the story, I like the make my readers have a connection to a story rather than just reading it and being disconnected from it. I'm glad you're not mad and I hope you enjoy this chapter!

Mystical Sand: I'm glad you're liking Steven, cause I definately have a lot more ideas for him for the rest of the story and I'm planning on giving him more of a back story than I had originially planned to give him when I first started this story. I have a lot more ideas for this story and I think you're going to be really pleased with the results. And, oh yeah, here's the Pegasus/Seto confrontation you've been waiting for! Thanks for the review.

Chapter 9

Welcome to America

"I'm sorry, you're just not what we're looking for." Seto slammed down the phone in anger and let out a loud yell in frustration. Steven looked over from where he stood as he was cleaning the kitchen over at Seto.

"Still no luck?" Steven asked. Seto turned his head and glared. Steven quickly looked away and started cleaning again.

"I can't believe this…" Seto said to himself, "You would never be able to guess that I've made millions of dollars by the way these people treat me. They see me like I'm some sort of kid. Inexperienced and arrogant, ha. As if they have the right to judge me because I only have a high school diploma. At least I have that, I was quite ready to quite school back in Japan."

"Well, you'll find America is quite different from Japan," Steven stated, "I don't know how things worked in Japan, but in America often times you'll find having a college degree will make a big difference on the business field. People will make hundreds and maybe thousands of dollars more than some people just on the fact that they have a college degree." Once again, Seto gave Steven that deathly glare. But this time Steven wasn't frightened by it and continued. "Just hear me out…"

"I'm not paying you to talk, I'm paying you to work" Seto spat. Steven opened his mouth to reply when the door bell rang. Steven and Seto both looked at each other. "Well, go get it." Steven rolled his eyes as he set the rag he had been cleaning with on the counter and headed to the door. He turned the knob and the stranger walked in almost immediately as if he had lived there all his life.

"Kaiba-boy! What a pleasant surprise!" Pegasus said in a seductive voice as he strolled into the room. Seto stood to his feet.

"Pegasus, how did you find out where I lived?"

"Believe me Kaiba, I have my ways." Seto stood up in a position that looked as though he was getting ready to fight which only caused Pegasus to smile. "I hear you're trying to rebuild the Kaiba Corp. empire. Not going to well, is it?"

"Yeah, because you stole MY ideas and established them here! I'll sue you before you know it." Pegasus laughed in response. His laughter echoed through out the house leaving an eerie feeling in the room once he had finished.

"Oh Kaiba-boy, you never cease to amuse me. There's no way you'll be able to prove anything. I own the gaming company in this country and there's nothing you can do about it."

"Oh, and is that why you're here?" Seto gritted his teeth. He could feel his body beginning to heat up. His fists itching to fight, but Seto held his ground. He would handle this situation civilly. He couldn't show Pegasus it affected him.

"Not quite" Pegasus said, sitting himself down on the couch. His eyes wandered the room, searching the area. "Where's that squirt of a brother you have?" Seto's heart jumped at the thought of Mokuba. Seto couldn't let Pegasus near his brother, he wouldn't risk Mokuba getting hurt.

"He has nothing to do with this, leave Mokuba out of it."

"Oh please Kaiba-boy, as if I don't know the reason why you left that wretched country Japan." Seto's eyes widened. How did Pegasus know what had happened? No one except the doctor and Isono knew his reasons behind leaving, how could he have possibly found out? Seto tried to shake off his anxiety and stay in control of the situation.

"Look Pegasus, I don't know what you've found out, but I could care less. Now tell me why you're here before I call the police to remove you from this house."

"Now, now Kaiba-boy, no reason to be so spiteful. I simply came here to… make you an offer." Seto raised one eyebrow.

"What kind of offer would that be exactly?" A grin emerged on Pegasus's face as he stood to his feet.

"A job offer."

"No."

"Are you sure you want do that Kaiba?"

"There is no way in HELL I'm working for you. I'd rather choke myself than work for the likes of you." The room became very quiet. Pegasus looked over and grabbed a picture of Mokuba off the coffee table near the couch, staring at the picture with much interest. Pegasus gave a sigh before speaking again.

"It's a pity you feel that way considering you probably won't find any other places that will hire someone like you to work for them. That means you'll be unemployed," Pegasus looked up to Seto, "And then what will happen to your dear little brother?"

"I have other ways of getting money, Pegasus."

"Of course you do. That is until I shut down your precise Kaiba Corp. in Japan." Seto's heart stop in mid-beat. His hands began to shake.

"What did you say?"

"That's right Seto. After you left, I made an offer to the new president of Kaiba Corp. An offer he couldn't refuse. Now I own Kaiba Corp., and I have every intent of shutting it down for good." Seto could barely breathe. How could this be happening? His company? His dream? Everything he had ever worked for, gone? "Looks like you're going to be out of money soon." Reality was hitting Seto hard. What was he going to do? If Kaiba Corp. really was going to be shut down, how would he live?

"I can tell this is a hard time for you" Pegasus stated, "I'll be back later to hear what you have to say in response to my offer. But otherwise, welcome to America my dear old friend." And with that, the great Maximillion Pegasus left, leaving the great Seto Kaiba in shock and jobless.

"And that's when Charles Darwin thought up his theory of evolution." Mokuba would've liked to learn about Darwinism in class, he would've liked to pay attention and truly listened to what his teacher had to say. But it was quite difficult when John and his other buddies in class were doing everything to make sure he was miserable. The constant spit balls and paper clips thrown to the back of his head gave Mokuba a headache by the end of class.

The bell rang and Mokuba was happy to be one of the first people out the door. A chance at freedom was what Mokuba needed. The headache Mokuba had was finally beginning to go away when someone came up from behind him and shoved him into the lockers as he was walking through the hallway. "That's for pearl harbor!" one of John's friends shouted before snickering as they walked away.

Mokuba was left in the hallway confused and feeling bad. He didn't quite know what John's friend meant by "that's for pearl harbor" but then he just guessed that it was just one of those racist and ignorant comments. Mokuba sighed. His day had already been going really terrible and then John's friend went and said that to him. Mokuba had felt lower than he did before as he slowly made his way to English class. He stopped when he saw a student skating through the hallway on some sort of wheely shoes. Mokuba stopped and stared like the rest of his classmates as he proceeded to do some tricks until the teachers yelled at him to come to class. Mokuba made his way towards class, as did everyone else when a hand reached for his shoulder.

"Hey, aren't you the new kid? From Japan?" the boy on the wheels asked. Mokuba turned around and stared at him. Someone had approached him, and hadn't made a mean comment. "My name is James Gooding, but you can call me Jimmy. What's your name?"

"Oh… well, my name's Mokuba Kaiba." Jimmy held out his hand. Mokuba stared at it for a while.

"Shake hands?"

"Oh, right." Mokuba and Jimmy took each other's hand and shook it. Mokuba felt slightly embarrassed for his inexperienced ways. "Nice to meet you."

"Same." The bell rang.

"Uh oh." Both Jimmy and Mokuba rushed into class. But Mokuba didn't care that the teacher was most likely going to yell at him, he was too happy knowing there was one person in this whole school that was civil to him and he couldn't wait for the next chance to talk to him some more.

When the bell rang signaling next period, Mokuba rushed to Jimmy's side. "Hey, sorry about making you late." Mokuba apologized.

"Oh, it's no problem at all. The teacher already has it out for me because I skate in the hallways and the teachers hate it when I do that."

"Oh, I see." Jimmy and Mokuba started walking together through the hallway. "So what class do you have now?"

"I have lunch, you?"

"Same!"

"Cool, want to sit with me and my friends?" Mokuba nodded. This was just too good to be true. He couldn't believe he was actually going to be sitting with someone today. He was starting to think maybe this day hadn't been ruined.

Mokuba followed quickly behind Jimmy as he skated his way over to the table. "Guys, I want you to meet Mokuba. Mokuba, this is Elizabeth," Jimmy pointed to a short girl with long black hair and glowing green eyes, whom gave him a tiny wave shyly, "This is Christopher, but he likes to be called Chris." He pointed to a somewhat tall guy that had bushy blonde hair and a surfer look to him.

"Hey." He said, holding out his fist. Mokuba stared at it for a moment.

"This is what you do," Jimmy instructed, forming his own hand into a fist and hitting Chris's fist with his own. "It's called pounding it, it's kind of like shaking hands."

"Except much cooler" Chris added, the girl that sat beside him roller her eyes in response to his statement. Mokuba turned and noticed her, and found himself staring, he was very interested in finding out who she was.

"And last but not least, this is Marie." Chris pointed to the tall girl with blue eyes and radiant beauty. She smiled.

"Welcome to America."

A/N: I told you I was gonna update fast!!! The next day baby, I'm on a roll here. Wow, this is going to be a long author's note, I hope you guys don't mind. Okay, so I totally didn't mean for both those scenes to end with "Welcome to America", I just sort of discovered it after I made some edits. Kind of quirky though, right? Well, I thought it was cute. Anyways, like I said, I updated much more quickly this time, I didn't I? I can't wait to get started on the next chapter! What will be in store for our heroes next? Hope you're enjoying reading this story as much as I'm enjoying writing it! Oh, and on a side note, the shoes that Jimmy was wearing, their these kinds of shoes that look like shoes, but if you do a certain thing, wheels pop out of the bottom and you can skate along. Yeah, they're pretty spiffy, my friend had a pair once. He told me their called heelys or something, but anyways, just wanted to let you guys know so you wouldn't think he was just skating around school with roller blades. Yeah, just thought I'd let you guys know.