Only in Tokyo
Disclaimer: I own nothing
Author: Skitter160
Author's note: No this chapter is not done, I just split it into two parts cause school and office at once just doesn't seem like a good idea atm. But the next chapter part will be out soon! (soon being at least a month, god school is crazy) I'm very sorry for my long absence but please enjoy! OH and review pretty please?
Joey stood waiting as the phone of Yugi's Grandpa's shop rang.
"Hello?" Yugi's Grandpa answered politely.
"Hello, is Yugi there?" Joey answered with a smile.
"Just a minute Joey." He set down the phone a second and in the background Joey heard him holler at Yugi to pick up the phone.
"Hello?" Yugi answered the phone, hearing a click of the other phone being hung up.
"Hey Yug" Joey smiled happily. "How's the gang?" He asked as he went to warm up some ramen.
"Oh hey Joey" Yugi smiled warmly and told the group it was Joey.
"Put him on speaker." Duke shouted from across the room.
"Is that alright Joey?" Yugi asked quietly.
"Sure." Joey heard the click and smiled as he greeted them. "Hey guys."
"How was" "Did he" "Are you okay?" They all spoke at once.
"Calm down." Joey chuckled as the microwave beeped that his supper was done.
"So how did it go?" Yugi asked.
"It went pretty well." Joey smiled sadly. "I get my own office and Kaiba was kind of nice." He took a slurp of his ramen. "Oh yeah Akira's here too, her Mom is Kaiba's new sectary."
"Oh?" Serenity recalled the little girl.
"But the strangest part is how Kaiba helped them." Joey admitted.
"What do you mean?" Téa asked curiously.
"Well…" Joey jumped into an explanation of the day's events.
It was around two hours later when Joey got off the phone, talking to his friends had made him hopeful. He was about to do his homework when he spotted the sketch he had started on the canvas. It was a young man sitting at a desk a laptop sitting before him, his features had yet to be added, but it spurred a thought within Joey and he picked up his pencil and began to add details to the sketch as if in a trance until he finished the sketch. Pulling back Joey finally examined his work and was surprised to see the results.
On the canvas the boy still sat at the desk typing on a laptop, his features exactly like Kaiba's, behind him the spirit of a dragon was raising from him, a dragon much like Blue Eyes White Dragon. In the background you could see different objects like an office and beside the boy a mug of coffee.
Looking at the time Joey decided he still had some time so he picked up his smock and began to paint. As the painting began to take on life he fell further into a trance and never noticed as the hours passed. As the hours passed all he could think of was the image of Kaiba typing at his desk. Finishing the first layer of the painting Joey spotted the time. 'Shit! I need to get to bed!' He thought as he put his things away and removing his smock on the way to the shower.
But as he lay in bed he couldn't stop his thoughts as a few tears formed in his eyes. 'How can I do this?' He asked himself as he lay there trying to fall asleep. 'How can I pretend that he didn't know me? How can I make him remember?' Finally he fell asleep with the thought that he would make Kaiba remember no matter what. But in the end woke a few hours later after tossing and turning to nightmares. When he did eventually fall asleep again he was hugging his Red Eyes plushie to him.
Joey was once again surprised to wake up at five in the morning. That's when it clicked that this was when Kaiba woke up. 'Shit!' Joey thought snuggling into his bed defiantly, it didn't work he was awake. Dragging himself out of bed he decided he didn't have a choice but to go to school with Yugi and Kaiba both liable to get mad. Putting on his uniform on he grabbed his laptop and put it in his bag before heading off to school never once looking over at his drying painting.
Arriving at school he wasn't that surprised to see Kaiba waiting in his desk, though it did almost make his heart skip a beat as Kaiba turned to look at him. "Morning." Joey greeted him as cheerfully as he could considering Duke was also there leaning on the desk next to Joey's he assumed threatening Kaiba.
Kaiba nodded his head in reply and stood from Joey's desk allowing him to sit. While Duke smiled warmly and winked. "Did you bring it?" Kaiba asked quietly as Joey sat down.
"Yeah." Joey brought his green laptop and was happy to see Kaiba grin.
And to their surprise Kaiba patted Joey's head. "Good Mutt. Now start it up." Joey blushed furiously and Duke looked on in almost terrified awe. "Here." Kaiba turned the laptop and opened the disk compartment and placed a small disk inside. "This will install all of the necessary programs." He explained as he began the installation process. "I'll be sending you work later today." He said as he turned the laptop back to Joey.
Duke spoke up as Joey looked at the download process. "Kaiba has agreed to allow me to help you if you need help with the computer since neither of us is sure how many programs you know, and I sit next to you." Duke smiled. "But only the programs, kay?" He smiled until Joey nodded though Joey doubted he would need the help.
Kaiba and Duke both then went into explaining what each program was as Joey took mental notes.
'Why is he glaring at me?' Duke thought as Kaiba once again glared at him over Joey's head. 'He's the one that asked me, well demanded I help Joey.' He reasoned as he pointed to a program on the screen, his other hand resting on Joey's shoulder and he felt Kaiba's glare intensify a thousand fold. 'Wait…' He noticed his hand on Joey's shoulder and lifted it feeling Kaiba's glare lessen a little bit. 'So he doesn't like me around Joey…? Does that mean he remembers or that he just feels it and is confused?' Ignoring these thoughts altogether Duke continued to instruct Joey in the use of the program.
Glaring at Duke for the umpteenth time Kaiba finally realized he was glaring at him. 'Why am I glaring at Duke? I'm the one that asked him to help.' Kaiba spotted Duke's hand on Joey's shoulder and he glared once more this time deadlier. 'How dare he touch my Mutt!' Kaiba heard faintly from somewhere in the back of his mind but ignored it as a fact that he was better than Joey in everything making him his master so it made sense. His glare lessened when Duke's hand lifted and he heard Joey asking a question. As he answered Joey's question Kaiba was no longer sure he wanted Duke helping Joey, as he thought about the way Duke looked at him it made his blood boil, he wasn't sure why but it felt familiar to him. Actually he felt like he should be killing Duke for looking at his Mutt at all, but that he also owed him for something. Kaiba did not like this feeling and especially did not like owing anyone anything. As he took his seat after having explained all of the programs the door opened and Yugi, Tristan, and Téa entered the room walking over to Joey's desk and he stopped paying attention propping open a book. But every five minutes he found himself loosing focus hearing Joey's loud voice disrupt his thoughts. Eventually the teacher arrived and Joey's voice died away, but he still couldn't focus finding himself looking up at Joey every five minutes. He couldn't say he wasn't glad that art was next and that he would be busy doing whatever their new project was.
Meanwhile in Mokuba's classroom the teacher was introducing a new student. "Class this is Akira Suzuki." The teacher said as Akira stood next to him wearing the school uniform, her hair up in pigtails with a green bow tied at the top of each. "Is there anything you'd like to say?" The teacher asked her.
"Please be nice to me this is my first time out of Tokyo." Akira smiled bowing a little and winking as at Mokuba who sat in the front. All the girls were a little peeved at the way she was looking at Mokuba and all the guys were rather taken by her charms. After being assigned a seat the open seat in the middle of the room Akira took her seat and class began. To her surprise she received a note immediately; it was from Mokuba asking her to eat lunch with him. Looking up at him she nodded with a smile. But by the time lunch rolled around she was frowning as she walked up to Mokuba. "I'm hungry." She grumbled as she reached him. While the other girls in class glared and whispered behind her receiving a death glare from her making them scamper away.
Mokuba smiled and he spotted her bento that was covered with a blue handkerchief that had black hearts connected by little rainbows all over it. "Then let's go." He said heading towards the library instead of the cafeteria.
"Where are we going?" Akira asked quietly as they headed to a part of the building she hadn't been shown.
"It's the old library, it's not as well known as the main library." Mokuba smiled as he opened the doors to a large room was filled with bookshelves that contained older looking books they weren't dusty just looked well used. The library itself was just that and a small desk in the front where a man sat smiling as he typed on a computer. "Hey Ronin" Mokuba waved and the man waved back without looking up.
"I'll guard it like normal." The man chuckled as he finished typing and looked up. Spotting Akira he frowned. "Who's this?" He asked standing up and looking her over.
"Ak" Mokuba started before Akira elbowed him lightly and he stopped.
"I can speak." Akira smiled and bowed. "I'm Akira Suzuki, a transfer student."
"Transfer student?" Ronin looked at Mokuba knowingly making him blush. "I'm Velic Ronin." He bowed a little. "I'll make sure no one disturbs you two as you eat." He smiled as Mokuba pulled her towards the back of the library to a couple of tables hidden in a corner by bookshelves. 'I'd never thought she would be so cute.' Ronin smiled as he went back to work.
As they were eating Mokuba took the opportunity to explain what was going on with his brother and Joey. Akira didn't seem that surprised. "I figured something was wrong when I saw them interact at the office." She frowned. "So what should we do?" She asked handing Mokuba a packet of photos. "I printed the photos, could they help?"
"They might." Mokuba smiled sadly. "But they might ruin things too." Akira nodded and they spent the rest of lunch discussing ways to help Joey.
It was lunch time and Joey was not happy. During Art they had been assigned to create a piece for an a display in the center of town. It wasn't optional. As much as Joey hated showing his work it was torture.
It was lunch time and Joey was not happy. During Art they had been assigned to create a piece for an art display in the center of town. It wasn't optional. As much as Joey hated showing his work it was mandatory and he wasn't doing well enough in any class to complain. Sighing he ate his lunch quietly as Kaiba passed by their table, he couldn't help watching from the corner of his eye.
On his way to his table Kaiba noticed he was watching Joey out of the corner of his eye. Suddenly he stopped halfway to his table an image of a dinner rushing through his mind. He was holding someone's hand, they were confessing something, something that made even him a little nervous. Looking over he saw golden hair but the rest was too blurry to see shaking his head he continued to his table and whipped out his laptop to begin sending Joey his work. It wasn't until the fifth time he glanced at Joey that he noticed he was doing it as he thought of the golden hair something clicked. Joey was in Tokyo, and so was Mai. Kaiba thought about this and tried to recall if he spent anytime with either of them, but he couldn't think of any amount of time spent with the Mutt. Then he recalled spending time with Mai, but that golden mane could not have belonged to a whore like her Kaiba reasoned as he came to believe it was neither of them and had to be a woman from Tokyo. Upon deciding this Kaiba went back to work and lunch wore on leading into history class. Before class he informed Joey he had sent him his work.
As their history lesson went on Joey, who was otherwise falling asleep, pulled out his laptop and began to work. He was done by the time school was released and went to meet Kaiba at the limo. The limo ride was relatively quiet as Joey tried to avoid looking at Kaiba as he typed, but he thought he could feel Kaiba glance at him every few minutes but he was too afraid to look and be wrong. 'What should I do for the art show?' He thought letting his mind wander. 'There's always that new piece I started on.' As the limo stopped at Mokuba's school Joey looked up after hearing Kaiba close his laptop and smiled as he saw Akira and Mokuba standing there waiting.
"Hello!" Akira greeted Kaiba as he stepped out.
"Seto, do you mind if Akira comes with us?" Mokuba asked before Kaiba could get a word in.
"…As long as you two leave us alone while we work." Kaiba smiled motioning them into the limo and they climbed in and started off to Kaiba Corp. A few moments of silence passed before anyone spoke. "So how do you like the house?" Kaiba asked quietly as his hands sat folded over his lap while he sat next to Joey, for some reason he found himself wanting to reach out and touch the boy next to him.
"It's amazing!" Akira smiled happily. "My room's huge and it's green!" She smiled happily and Mokuba smiled back at her.
"I'm glad you like it." Mokuba said smiling happily.
"Was there anything you or your Mother wanted removed?" Kaiba asked looking out the window.
"Actually…I haven't done much exploring yet, the house is pretty big." Akira smiled as she remembered the feel of having a big place once again.
"I see." Kaiba said quietly and nodded. "Just be sure to let me know if either of you find anything."
"So how was your first day at your new school?" Joey asked Akira after a few moments of silence.
"It was interesting…" Akira smiled as she recalled the way the girls were all jealous of how her and Mokuba interacted and then her lunch with Mokuba.
"What do you think of it?" Mokuba asked smiling at her happily. He had not been expecting her to be so happy with the school, little did he know it was him.
"It's actually pretty nice, it's not as big as my old school, but I think my favorite part is the old library." Akira smiled happily thinking of the smell of old books, a smell much better than that of a new one.
"The old library?" Joey asked and Kaiba lifted his eyebrow.
'This is the first time Mokuba has let anyone join him there…' Kaiba thought as he recalled the days before the library when Mokuba would be bugged by countless girls. But seeing the way Mokuba smiled happily at Akira somehow assured him.
"It's where I eat lunch to avoid the girls." Mokuba frowned a bit at the memories.
"Don't worry Mokuba I won't tell anyone." Akira patted his shoulder.
Joey thought a moment on this and recalled he used to not see Kaiba during lunch until at least high school. "Did you have to do that as well Set-Kaiba?" Joey quickly corrected himself.
Kaiba sat there a moment allowing Joey's mistake to slip by in reprimand but in his mind he was somewhat disappointed that Joey had corrected himself, and he wasn't sure why. In the back of his mind a faint echo of his thoughts was coming close to his ears but it was too garbled to understand. "Yes I did have to at one point." Kaiba said as if it were nothing.
"I'm sorry Kaiba." Joey looked at him with the sadiest eyes Kaiba had ever seen.
Kaiba couldn't help but pat his head. "It's not your fault Mutt." He muttered as he did so.
This was extremely shocking to the driver who could see them in the mirror. But being the good driver he was and paid to be he let it slide through his mind with only the thought. 'I didn't know Mr. Kaiba could be so gentle.'
Author's note: Next part on to the office, Yugi's date, and Paintings I totally forgot those last time lol I'll try to remember them next part but don't hold me to it, I take it where the haunting dreams tell me to.