Perks of the job

By Mushka-kun
Chapter 14 – Routines

Summary: Lives are full of routines but Seto seems to like Anzu's best.
Disclaimer: I no own YuGiOh .
'Thoughts/Quoting'
"Speech"
*Sound*
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Another day; another class. The students watched as the teacher droned on about things that had append over a hundred years ago, none of them cared at that point in time. In just over a week they were going to have their end of year dance. This is the most important time for these teens, couples get to flaunt themselves for everyone and the single ones hope to find someone. This year it was going to be different. Not only was Seto Kaiba going but he was taking Anzu Mazaki, his arch rivals 'cheer leader.' The fan club was not best pleased, they all had fantasied over the day when Seto would confess to them, not that that would ever happen. Anzu had grown tired of their pathetic looks they'd given her; one of them had burst into tears when she saw her. It's not like everyone knew they were together, they just knew he was taking her to the dance. Teens are stupid and over reactive.

The ridiculous-ness of the students was starting to irate Seto. He hated people talking about his personal life and thinking that they know all about him, idiots, all of them. But oh well, one more year and he wouldn't see these children nearly every day. He could focus on his work and the few people that meant something to him, Mokuba and Anzu. The holidays would be here soon, Christmas. The days had already started getting colder. A few more weeks and it'd be here. He didn't much like Christmas but Mokuba always did and this year, there was a glimmer of hope that Anzu would be with them, he knew how bright and sparkly she got over the holiday season. Before everything had happened between them, that was the main time he noticed her, she always looked amazing at Christmas time, she seemed to glow. Always happy and grinning, on other people he found it nearly unbearable but with her it was almost warming.

School ended and had spent the day pondering about the rest of the year; he was staring into the distance when Anzu found him.
"Hey! Seto-kun! It's not like you to be all spacy" She giggled and nudged him on the shoulder.
"Oh, um, sorry." He kissed her on the cheek and the two of them got into the car. This was a routine they had, Seto liked their little routines, he liked knowing what to expect.
"Anzu-chan, you know the dance is next week?"
"yes?"
"Well because I'm having that night off and the day after I will be working every day till then, possibly a bit later than normal"
Anzu was used to this now, whenever he took time off, he worked choca-block after or would for days before hand.
"Yeah, that's fine, I'll let Mokuba know too."
"Sorry, by the way, I told Moki you'd take him with you to get your dress, he was kinda' excited to help you pick, maybe you two could do that today?"
"I don't really have the money to get a new dress."

As far as Anzu was concerned she wasn't being paid to be the nanny anymore, she was living there so it was more an exchange of services. Seto thought that was stupid.
"Don't be silly, I'm getting you your dress. Anyway, you have money in your bank or haven't you looked in a while."
Seto had been putting money in there for her, little and often.

He dropped her off at the mansion with Mokuba and went to work. Once they were both dressed they headed out into town and started going through different clothe shops. Anzu didn't want to go to the really expensive store again, paying so much on one dress always made her feel guilty. When they had gotten to the forth store Mokuba had begun to wonder why she was so worried about how she would look. She was pretty in all the dresses he'd seen her try on.
"Anzu-chan, how about this one?" Mokuba had picked out a dress.
"Ooh thats pretty!" It was a short, silk looking dress. It was tight sweet heart fitting at the top and it puffed out after the waist. The main part of the dress was red but all the detailing was black, like roses climbing up the side.
"It's perfect!" she took the dress off him and went and tried it on, Mokuba had a good eye, he picked out her size first time. She came out the dressing room with her hands on her hips, Mokuba started clapping as she posed in silly ways.
"Is that the one?" he asked.
"Yes! For sure!" she took off the dressed and paid for it.

The rest of the day passed by fast, they played together and she fed him and he went to bed. Anzu decided that Seto wasn't allowed to know what dress she had gotten yet. She picked a random room in the mansion and hid it. She told the head maid and to make sure she didn't move it if they cleaned in that room within the next few days. She climbed into bed and turned on the TV in the room, it wasn't a big extravagant one like in other rooms, it was just a normal little TV. The nights had gotten colder, her normal tiny pyjamas weren't really enough so she took it upon herself to go through all of Seto's clothes, being careful not to make a mess, and find the warmest looking jumper she could. It was a rather large blue one. She thought she'd give Seto a little shock when he finally came home. She stripped off everything and put on the jumper, so she was completely naked underneath. She also wrote a note on the fridge 'Dinners in here, your treats up stairs' and then climbed back in bed.

It seemed like an eternity had passed before she started hearing the faint sounds of someone walking in the tiled hall way. Seto went into the kitchen and found her little note and started grinning to himself. He skipped dinner and went straight for his 'treat'. He went to his room to see the door open a crack; he could see her pyjamas on the floor, his grin grew. He opened the door to find her laid out on the bed in one of his jumpers; she was on her side facing away from him. He took of tie and shirt and laid down behind her, kissing her neck and running his hand up her smooth, toned legs. He loved her legs, never met a girl with legs like that before, must be all the dancing. His hands continued to under the jumper and a shot of excitement went through him when he realised there wasn't the normal lacy material blocking him from the full wonders of her body.
"You took your time." She turned around to face him.

The two of them spent the rest of the night untwined in each other's arms. Anzu had almost made it into a routine, every night for the rest of the week she had given him some sort of surprise to get home to, she knew that it was the best way for him to get all his work done on time, to give him an incentive to be home. She counted down the days till the dance. The school was bussing. There was going to be a speech and a performance and then the dance. This made her even more excited as she was asked to perform; some of the boys from the concert band were going to do an instrumental solo but thought it'd be more interesting if she danced. She had a recording of what they were going to play and had a week to create a dance routine to it. She wished she could dance with a partner though.

It was 3 days till the dance, she was in her old room in the mansion, she and the maids had cleared it so she had room. Mokuba had gone to bed and Seto wasn't due to come home for about an hour. She was practising her routine, being careful to make her landings as soft as possible to not wake Mokuba. The music was slow and beautiful, it would have made the perfect couples first dance, she felt that no matter how much work she put into it, it still wouldn't have been as good as if a couple was dancing to it. She spun and twirled and leapt, she was graceful like a swan.

Seto had finished work a little early so he eagerly went home; thinking about what he'd be met with this time. He quietly walked up stairs and that's when he heard the music. He followed it to Anzu's old room, he pushed open the door and watched as Anzu seemed to float on air. She hadn't told him about the performance, thought it'd be a nice surprise. He crept in behind her and snaked his hands around her tummy. She turned around and the two of them danced together. She was surprised about how good he was. He spun her and lifted her up and pulled her close to him and just held her there.
"I never knew you could dance like that Seto-kun" Anzu said kissing him softly
"I'm Seto Kaiba, I can do anything, I thought you knew this." He smirked.

She explained to him what was happening that night and wheals started turning in his head. He was going to make it really special for her. After that he watched her practise every opportunity he got. When the day of the dance arrived, the whole year group as bussing, their class was A-1 so they did most of the work setting up for the evening. By 'they' it meant the class president bossed everyone around, Anzu spent the day running about doing more work than all of the boys put together and Seto Kaiba sat at the back and glared when anyone went near him.
"Anzu-chan, come practise with us please." Called out one of the concert band boys.
"Okay!" she ran off with them and was soon followed by Seto. He made a point of not being seen by them, he sat at the back of the main hall, and this was where the speech and performance would happen. The boys played and Anzu danced, 'She's amazing' Seto thought to himself. 'But I know how this night will be better.'