Perks of the job

By Mushka-kun
Chapter 9 – back to school

Summary: She finally gets back to school, will Seto keep his promise of a smile all day?
Disclaimer: I no own YuGiOh .

'Thoughts/Quoting'
"Speech"

"Anzu..." His voice fluttered through her mind. 'That must have been a dream.' She thought, not opening her eyes. "Anzu…wake up…" She slowly opened her eyes, not wanting to let go of what she thought was a wonderful dream, only to be met by the site of Seto Kaiba's bright blue eyes watching her. "Good morning princess" he smirked. "Seto?" she tried to get up to quickly and landed face first into the carpet. Seto was trying hard not to laugh, Anzu rolled over to face Seto "Don't laugh at me! You scared me! I don't often wake up to a Kaiba in the face!" this set him off. He fell to the sofa in fits of laughter at the angry face she made with the pattern of the carpet on her forehead.
"Hmph! Well I'm going to go get dressed for school, maybe you should do the same," She said pointing at the old pair of jeans he had on.

The two teens got dressed and went to get something to eat, Mokuba had gone to school early because of a field trip, and he wasn't going to be home till late in the evening ether, they were alone. Seto decided he was going to cook them breakfast and cooked off some bacon and got out the breakfast muffins (all things he knew Anzu definitely liked). "Seto-kun, let me help. I can at least do the muffins, you do enough work all the time as it is, you don't need to play chef two." She bumped him playfully when she took the muffins and the knife from him. She cut, toasted and buttered them while he finished off the bacon and then they sat to eat. Seto came down from his seat at top of the table and sat next to Anzu. When they had finished eating it was nearly time to leave. Anzu ran upstairs to do some final prep for going to school and checking that everything looked nice, for once she really cared what everyone thought when she walked through those doors.

Seto drove them both to school and they sat in the parking lot for a minute. "Anzu-san, are you sure you're ready to go back this time?"
"Yes, I need to do this sometime don't I." she had a worried look on her face, Seto hated that face.
"If ANYONE gives you ANY trouble you tell me straight away, okay?"
Anzu giggled at Seto being protective, she knew for sure now that at least he was finally her friend.
"Seto-kun, you're really cute like that." She blushed and kissed him on the cheek. All she could think about was last night, kissing him, falling asleep in his arms. She composed herself and stepped out the car. She walked into the building by herself. Seto found himself watching her walk away; he never knew what to do around her, she was the only person who made him feel nervous.

After a few minutes sat there thinking he got up and went into the school. When he got into the class he was met with the image of all of the boys hugging her and laughing with her. A twinge of jealousy hit him but he didn't let on, he walked up to his seat, sat down and pulled out a book to read. The bell went, everyone sat, classes had begun. Everything was normal in class, except for one thing. One more face was seen. Instead of having his face buried in a book or watching a laptop screen, Seto Kaiba was paying attention and almost getting involved in a lesson. All the teachers know Seto only comes to school out of legal requirement. He doesn't pay attention to lessons yet still gets top of the class every time. He pisses off a lot of teachers, they say he treats this school like it's a game but what they don't know is the person paying for it whenever the school needs extra money is Seto. Kaiba corp gives a lot of money to schools and hospitals and such.

It wasn't the lessons he was really interested in, it was his little nanny. She looked a little bored but happy to be back at school, he noticed that she kept slipping into a day dream. She looked peaceful when she was in her own head. The lessons went by slowly until lunch. He had something special planed for her. The bell rang and everyone got up and ether got out their lunches or moved off to the canteen. Anzu normally made her own lunch but she had forgotten.
"Anzu-chan? Aren't you eating?" said Honda with a mouthful
"I forgot this morning," she blushed "I didn't bring money ether, I'll just eat when I get back."
"You'd think living with money bags you wouldn't have to do it yourself" Jonouchi said stuffing his face.
"Jonouchi-kun! That's so rude! Seto-kun is rich not lazy. He often cooks himself and I make Mokuba-kun's lunches and I bet before I was there he did it. He cooked me breakfast today and everything. There's a lot more to him that you think alright" A slight blush went across her face.
"He also made you lunch, he just forgot to put it in your bag." Said a voice over her shoulder.
Seto was stood there with a pink box in his hand and a cheeky smirk on his face. She blushed and accepted the box.
"Would you like to eat lunch with us Seto-kun?"
"I don't know if your pet would like that." He said with a wink
Jonouchi gave him a glare only to be met with a fierce glare from Anzu. "Ignore him Kaiba-san" Yugi turned to look at Jonouchi. "This is the guy looking after one of your best friends when we couldn't. You can at least eat lunch with him."

Jonouchi nodded and the five of them sat and ate together. The boys have a habit of eating each other's lunches, Kaiba looked very confused as they turned round and ate out of Anzu's lunch box. "Hey, money-bags is actually a good cook." Jonouchi said surprised.
"Why are you surprised? It's Seto Kaiba, if course its good, there's nothing he can't do." Yugi said with a big grin.
Everyone was laughing and joking, even Seto, they finished eating together. Anzu turned to Seto and thanked him for the food. He told her not to worry about it and he was glad the puppies enjoyed it as well. His little comments like that always made her giggle, she liked the fact that he was getting along with her friends. It made him seem all the more perfect.

The bell rang and they sat back down for classes. It went by quickly and nothing particularly interesting happened. At the end of the day everyone collected their things and went to the shoe lockers.
"Anzu-chan, will you be free anytime soon." Yugi asked her giving the puppy-dog look.
"Sunday is my day off, the rest of the time I am still Mokuba's nanny"
"Well at some point I was wondering if we could hang out….and…if you're up to it…visit your mum and dads grave"
Anzu smiled, "of course, mum would be happy to see you and daddy would like a visitor…" she put on her shoes and left her friends with a smile. Seto was waiting in the car at the front gate, she got into the front seat and let out a sigh.
"What's wrong?"
"I think this Sunday I'm gonna' have to suck it up and go to daddy's grave and not cry, Yugi wants to see my mother and then pay his respects"
Seto put his arm around her and pulled her close. "It'll be alright, you're big and brave and strong and even if you do cry it's not a bad thing" he rested his head on hers. "If I'm honest, I still cry sometimes at my mothers and fathers grave"
She looked up at him and hugged him tight. "Come on Anzu-chan, lets cheer up, get Mokuba and do something fun" he smiled down at her.

The two of them waited for Mokuba at his school gates. He came out of the school gates and when he saw them his face lit up, Seto almost never picked him up from school. He ran up to him and gave him a massive hug. Seeing the brothers like this always made Anzu smile. The three of them got into Seto's car and went back to the mansion. "Moki, I have some work to do but I will be done by 5:30. We should do something fun after that okay?"
"okay!" Mokuba had a big grin on his face and ran upstairs.

Mokuba and Anzu got dressed and played games for a while.
"So, was does 'master Mokuba' want to do tonight then?" Anzu said teasing him.
"Master Mokuba wants too…..Go to the movies!" he said posing like a king.
"Anything else your highness?" she said bowing
"We should get food but bring it back to the castle"
The two of them sat there giggling, not noticing the time passing. The door opened and Seto called up the stairs. "Have you two picked what we're doing tonight?" Seto hadn't really done all this for Mokuba for once. He wanted to make this day good for Anzu, especially seeing her get upset over visiting her dad's grave.

The two of them came down the stairs and told him the plans and he agreed. They went to the cinema and Mokuba picked bags of sweets and popcorn and Anzu carried the drinks. Anzu sat in the middle of the two boys, she didn't know what they were watching though. When the movie started both her and Seto realised this wasn't a good idea. It was another one of Mokuba's disturbing horror films, she'd been tricked. She sat there through most of the movie gripping her jacket, all of a sudden, the music changed. Tension built. Something was coming. An almighty shriek came from the film but a real hand jolted her. She screamed and grabbed hold of Seto tightly; she hid face first into his shoulder. Mokuba was trying not to laugh to load as she rose from her hiding place. Mokuba apologised but kept laughing at her, she went bright red. Seto put his arm round her and held her close, even in such a dim light he could tell he she had a cute embarrassed look on her face. She rested her head on his chest and tried to calm down and watch the rest of the movie. She rested her hand on her leg but felt something crawl over to it. At first this made her nervous, then she realised. It was warm, if was soft, it was his other hand, she let him hold it. Tenderly, he cradled her hand in his and stroked her hand with his thumb, he was hoping it would comfort her more than just a cuddle.

The movie ended and the tree of them left together. Anzu gave Mokuba a playful scolded for tricking her into more scary movies and for making her scream like that. He just giggled and that was when he noticed that they were holding hands. This made him giggle. The three of them went and got takeout and took it home. Once they all had eaten Mokuba took himself to bed and left the little couple alone.
"You're a really big scaredy cat for such a 'big brave' girl." He smirked
she gave him a smirk herself then giggled "Horror movies are stupid, end of. Most girls use them as an excuse to get a cuddle of a boy they like."
"So you didn't want that cuddle then?" he was still grinning at her.
"ummm well…" she blushed hard with the questions
"That's what I thought…anyway…Anzu-chan…can I ask you something?"
"Sure?"
"There is a work function this Saturday, me and Mokuba have been invited but I was also was told to bring someone…like a date…would you like to come? I would really haven invited anyone else anyway..." He was trying really hard not to blush.
"I would love to but I don't want to show you up…I don't own anything really nice and I often stand out…"
"You would never show me up! If you're worried about what u wear I'll buy you a dress, you would look beautiful no matter what…and as for standing out…yeah you will, but not for a bad reason, you'll be more pretty than any other women there and there will be music so you could dance…and I know you love that…so yeah…will you be my guest?"
"Of course" she smiled and went bright red.

It was getting late so the two of them went and got ready for bed. Anzu went for a shower in the huge bathroom and changed into her pyjamas in there, handing over her clothes to the maid. She knocked on Seto's door and when he called out opened it quietly. "Just thought I'd say the bathroom is free.
"Anzu-chan, the reason I have never waited outside to use that bathroom is because there's actually an on suite in here… didn't you realise?"
"Oh yeah…sorry, I didn't think about that, little silly of me" she looked down to the floor.
"Are you okay? You seem a little off?"
"Just thinking about the visit with Yugi-kun, little worried to be honest."
"Sit down," he got her to sit on his bed with him. "It will be fine. Yugi is best friend. Your parents liked him and he won't react badly if you cry. He'll be able to comfort you well I think. And if he doesn't then you can come back here and I don't know… do something to make yourself better, okay?" he put his arm round her and made her look at him.
"Thank you Seto-kun…" she stood in front of him and wrapped her arms around him tight. He pulled her down into his lap to get her closer. He kissed her on the forehead.
"S-S-Seto-kun…."
"Yes?"
"Can I stay with you again…I don't want to wake up on my own…"
"Anything you want" he smiled down at her.

She climbed in between the sheets while he went and turned off the lights and drew the curtains. It was quite dark in there, it made Anzu nervous. She could feel him climb in the other side of the bed and a hand land on her shoulder. She turned round and shuffled up closer to him, this was making him nervous, he was only wearing shorts so the feel of her silk pyjamas on his skin made his body tingle. He could feel her breath on his neck and two small hands make their way up and land on his chest. 'One day,' he thought to himself. 'If I'm lucky, I'll have this all to myself…'
"Thank you Seto-kun" she mumbled in a sleepy voice.
"Anytime" he whispered. He kissed her on the forehead again and they held each other till they were asleep in each other's arms.