Chapter 9

Previously

As they were walking down the alley, there was something you'll never want Kaiba to see...

"WHO THE HELL DID THIS!" yelled Kaiba.

Kaiba stared at a drawing on the wall. It was a poster of him posing and with graffiti, someone had sprayed a pink tutu and painted it pink on his cheeks as well. This person had also painted ballet shoes on his feet and it was like he was never wearing boots. The boots he always wore weren't in this picture. There were also no sign of erasing there and Kaiba wondered how this person did that.

"I am so going to get this person!After I find him!or her...but I'm going to keep my hopes up, cuz I can't beat a girl up..." Kaiba yelled as he walked away from the picture and mumbled more nonsense to himself.

"No you don't need to!"Serenity screamed.

"Yes I do." He said while shrugging Serenity off of him.

"NO. YOU. DON'T!" she screamed.

"And why is that?" He asked, turning his head towards Serenity.

Serenity just pointed at a spot in the corner of the picture since she was really dizzy from Kaiba waving his arm trying to throw her off of him. He looked there and it said..this picture is by...

Kaiba's blood rushed to his face and he fumed. He tried getting Serenity off of him so he could run, but she wouldn't let go. So he just carried her and ran off to his car to got to...

Bakura's house which was on the other side of town. Serenity got into the passenger seat as Kaiba drove off. To cool off her nerves, she turned on the radio and it said Britney Spears was on live and her song Baby one more time came on. She tried to change the channel but the radio was stuck and you couldn't turn it off or change the channel unless Kaiba stopped the car and turned it off and restarted it. But Kaiba wouldn't stop for anything. She tried to change it again..

and again...

and again...

but no...

it wouldn't turn off...

"DAMN IT! TURN IT OFF!" She screamed. Kaiba barely noticed.

It didn't turn off...

Oh well...

Atleast I don't have to WATCH her dance while she sings. Thought Serenity.

Baby One More Time stopped playing and the next song started playing. Serenity used to like this song but after a while it became annoying. She thought that Kaiba was a very sorrowful person and hid his true feelings inside him. When she looked into his eyes, behind the anger and ice laid a small boy with a broken heart and is misunderstood. She replayed the song in her head, changing it into a song fit for Kaiba.

Early morning, she wakes up

Early morning, he wakes up

there's a knock, knock, knock on the door

It's time for make up, perfect smile

It's time for computer, perfect smirk

It's you they're all waiting for

They go

"Isn't she lovely, this Hollywood girl?"

Isn't he lovely, his extremely great skills

And they say

She's so lucky, she's a star

He's a duelist, he's a star

But she cry, cry, cries in her lonely heart, thinking

but he cry, cry, cries in his lonely heart thinking

If there's nothing missing in my life

Then why do these tears come at night

Lost in an image, in a dream

But there's no one there to wake her up

But there's no one there to wake him up

And the world is spinning, and she keeps on winning

And the world is spinning, and he keeps on winning

But tell me what happens when it stops?

They go

"Isn't she lovely, this Hollywood girl?"

Isn't he lovely, his extremely great skills?

And they say "

She's so lucky, she's a star

He's a duelist, he's a star

But she cry, cry, cries in her lonely heart, thinking

But he cry, cry, cries in his lonely heart thinking

If there's nothing missing in my life

Then why do these tears come at night

Isn't she lucky, this Hollywood girl?

Isn't he lucky, his extremely great skills

She is so lucky, but why does she cry?

He is so lucky, But why does he cry?

If there's nothing missing in her life

If there's nothing missing in his life

Why do tears come at night?

Serenity smirked at how she changed the song to Kaiba's exact life. Kaiba noticed her smirk and decided to ask her why she was smirking.(he noticed her smirk, but not her crazed yell...-.-)

"Why are you smirking?" He asked in an irritated voice.

"Oh nothing" She said as she continued lip singing under her breath. Kaiba made out the words she were saying (after a long period of learning how to read lips when he was younger)and figured out the lyrics.

"You know, I'm pretty content with my life." He said.

"Oh really?" She asked amusedly. "You know, I can see through your act."

"What act?" He asked. He knew that he was sad because of his childhood, but he had finally gotten some closure after Noa and and the Virtual reality.

Serenity looked at him and his confused innocent look or glare and decided to drop it. "Never mind.."

He chose to ignore that last comment and continued driving. For a while, they remained quiet except for the annoying voice of Britney Spears playing on the radio.

As Britney Spears changed to a different artist on the radio, Serenity began swaying her head to the beat of the song. Kaiba looked down at her from the corner of his eye and spotted a huge scar on her upper back. Kaiba, out of curiosity, asked her where she got it. Obviously, he had experienced being beaten and knew that she had gotten that from a bad beating.

"Where did you get that?" He asked eyeing her scar.

She traced his eyes to her back and she quickly turned around so that he wouldn't see it. But as she turned, she revealed a mark on her cheek.

Shit! My make up is wearing off. Thought Serenity.

"Oh..um..it's none of your business." She said.

"I bet your mutt of a brother did that to you. But your right. It's none of my business." Kaiba said cooly, knowing that Joey would do ANYTHING to keep his little sister safe.

"MY BROTHER DIDN'T DO THIS! HE PROTECTS ME FROM THIS! BUT HE CAN'T WITHSTAND OUR DAD'S BEATINGS EITHER and it's all my fault that he gets hurt." She said but quickly clasping her hand over her mouth as tears started to fall.

"Stop with the crying already. So your dad abuses you? You should move into Yugi's and put him in jail. Well, it's none of my business so I don't really care. And don't worry, I won't tell anyone. Just stay careful okay?" He said since he knew what abuse meant and it could be severe. He also knew how it felt to keep it all to yourself so that others won't get hurt and felt sorry for this girl.

"I can never move into Yugi's. He might let us butmy brother and I don't wan-"she started.

"You don't want to involve others in the problem." Kaiba finished. " I know how it feels."

She just stared at him blankly for a few seconds and then went to reapplying make up an her bruises.

They arrived at Bakura's in a few minutes and Kaiba's anger once again consumed him. He practically ran to the door and banged on it. Of course, being a gentleman, he didn't barge in.

"BAKURA! OPEN THIS DOOR RIGHT NOW!" he said banging on the door.

"One minute!" Came the soft voice of Ryou.

Ryou opened the door with his cheery smile and an apron on.

"Oh hello Kaiba. Is there anything I can help you with?" He asked. "Oh hello Serenity. What do you guys need?"

"What the hell were you thinking when you painted that picture of me in ballet outfit?"He asked in a low dangerous voice. Kaiba was surprised that Ryou hadn't flinched at all but recovered quick.

"I'm sorry Kaiba. But you must be referring to...um..my twin." He said since he knew that Kaiba didn't believe in yami's and was grateful that Bakura had gotten his own body. "He's gone grocery shopping for me right now and I don't know when he'll be back. Wait. Here's his cell number."

"Okay." Kaiba said as he grabbed the phone from Ryou and placed it beside his ear, waiting for someone to respond. After several rings, a message picked up with Bakura's voice.

"Hello foolish mortal. I'm Bakura and I am not able to pick up the phone currently. If you are someone other than Ryou, then get lost and if you are one of the idiotic pharaoh's friend or him, then go to hell! Do not leave a message unless you are Ryou or I will find out who you are and kill you slowly and painfully." He said. Then there was evil laughter in the background and then the loud beeeeeeeeep was heard. Kaiba shut off the phone and handed it over to Ryou. Just as he did, Bakura walked in with a bunch of grocery's in his arms.

"Here Ryou. Make dinner now. I'm hungry and...why is the that lame priest and his girlfriend here?" He asked as he just had noticed Kaiba and Serenity.

"Her? My girlfriend? Forget it." Kaiba said as he thought of him and Serenity together. Somehow, this image made him laugh.

"Oh. Here's more groceries." Bakura said as his ring glowed and another forty bags of groceries popped out, filling up the living room. "And here's the change." He said as he gave Ryou about eighteen dollars.

Serenity, Kaiba's and Ryou's mouth's dropped. Kaiba and Ryou were the first to revive.

"Bakura. Where did you get all of these items and I gave you twenty dollars. You gave me back eighteen. You stole this didn't you?" Ryou asked while crossing his arms and tapping his foot.

"No..I didn't steal these. What do you think Ryou?" Bakura asked with noticeable sarcasm.

"Bakura. If you don't return all you stole, then no more T.V. and no more chocolate." Ryou said.

"I don't care.That stupid "soap opera" was just getting stupid! She was just about to go and break his heart and go to the other mortal and doesn't even know that her "true love" is dead!" Bakura said. "It was so pathetic and funny, and chocolate isn't too good to take away from me!If you take chocolate away from me then I don't care.take chocolate away from me!" Bakura said.

Ryou, Kaiba and Serenity just stared at him in confusion.

"What! I don't have anything else to do anyways other than watch stupid soap operas!" Bakura protested. He looked at Ryou and Ryou gave him a I'm not going to cook unless you return those groceries look."Ryou. Cook. Now."Bakura said.

"Not unless you pay for all these groceries. And apologize!" Ryou said poiniting to the door and eyeing Kaiba.

"No. I won't" Bakura said stubbornly.

"Do it or no food." Ryou said, tapping his foot.

Bakura was about to protest but proved that he was hungry when a loud growl escaped from his stomach. "Uh...Fine..Sorry priest." Bakura muttered under his breath so that ONLY Kaiba could hear. He walked out the door towards the grocery store. "I'll rip it up for you." He said as he waved his hands and the bags returned into his ring.

"HEY! Your going the wrong way and you still won't get away with an apology!" Kaiba shouted.

"I ripped it up with my magic idiot and you can't do anything to me." Bakura said."Sheesh...I should've killed this idiot off instead of Mahado...Atleast he would've known a little about magic..."

"What the?" Kaiba said as he turned to Ryou. Ryou just blankly looked at him. He turned back to where Bakura was but he was gone.