Chapter Three

The next morning, Mrs. Yasune woke Delia up an hour earlier than usual. Today was the day her wayward daughter began studying at Kaiba's company. She had complete confidence that Mr. Kaiba would turn Delia into an obedient daughter, if not a good student, in a month or so.

"I really don't want to go, Mom," Delia whined groggily.

"Too bad, Delia. You got yourself into this situation. If you'd just listened to me or Dad once, you would be in the same school as your sister. Now hurry up and get ready. We're going to be late."

Swearing under her breath, Delia climbed out of bed. She showered quickly and dressed in black despite her mom's warnings.

"Give me your phone," Mrs. Yasune suddenly said as they were about to leave.

"What?"

"Actually, give me your phone and your purse."

"Mom…" Delia couldn't believe this was happening.

"Delia, now!"

Delia reluctantly handed her phone and purse to her mom. Now she had nothing. She would be stuck at Kaiba Corp without a cellphone or any money at all. When had her mom become so astute in dealing with her?

As they drove to Kaiba Corp, Delia thought about the conversation she had with Hara last night about what had happened. Hara had actually blushed when Delia told her what Kaiba had said about her. She had also envied Delia about having Kaiba as a teacher. The memory brought a smile to Delia's lips.

Maybe it wouldn't be so bad. I'll just see it as doing my sister a favor.

It turned out that she will be staying in Kaiba's personal office. They had already set up another desk for her in front of all the bookshelves. She thought he was taking this job way too seriously. She totally expected him to lock her up in another small room and just leave her alone to do whatever she wished in that room. Instead, she gets to see his grim and arrogant—and handsome—face for eight hours.

Oh boy.

While Delia waited for her mom and Kaiba to sign the contract, she looked for an escape route to use when Kaiba wasn't near, but before she could find one, they finished. That had to be the fastest contract signing ever.

"Mrs. Yasune, I hope it is all right if I assign Steven and Dan to look after your daughter when I am not here. I have heard how mischievous Miss Yasune can be."

Her mom smiled. "Of course. Any way to teach her is fine, as long as it works."

Soon, Delia was alone with Kaiba in the office.

"Now that everything is finished, we will set up several rules." Kaiba perched on the edge of his desk with his arms crossed and looked at her.

"What rules?" Delia asked defiantly.

"First, don't ever disturb me no matter what I am doing."

"As if I'd ever want to."

He frowned at her interruption. She glared back at him without apology. He continued, "I won't always be in the office, but I'll send somebody to help you if you have any problems. Second, let me just make it clear that you won't be able to escape from this building…"

"But if I do, I get the day off," she challenged.

He chuckled softly. She hated to admit it, but he had a very pleasant smile. "Fine. If you manage to get out of this building, then you get the day off. I won't even say anything to Mrs. Yasune. However, if you try and fail, then I will double your workload."

"Deal!"

"Good. Lastly, you'll have to listen to me no matter what. I am the boss here, so you'll have to obey me."

"You can't expect me to follow that rule!" Delia shot back, incensed that he would think to control her this way. She didn't even obey her parents. What made he think she'd obey him?

"We'll see." He sat down in his chair and started to flip through the files on his desk.

"What am I supposed to do now?" Delia asked as she looked at the stacks of papers on her desks.

"Those are some test I obtained for you. I want you to take them so I can assess what level you are on. Don't worry. I'm not expecting much. Just do your best," Kaiba replied without looked at her.

Not expecting much huh? I'll show him! Delia thought angrily.

She started with the English test. After about an hour of that, she wanted to give up. It wasn't like she didn't know the answers to the problems. She was fluent in English. She just hated grammar. And the test questions were so tedious. She bet Kaiba got these just to bore her to tears. However, she forced herself to plow through them whenever she thought of Kaiba's condescending comments.

Three hours later, Kaiba left for a short meeting, as he put it. Delia finally put down the pencil and stopped working. She studied the room, once again looking for a way to escape. She knew Steven and Dan were both standing outside, but there wasn't any other way out of this place except for the front door. The ventilation shaft was too small for her to fit in. She couldn't jump out of the window since the office was on the nineteenth floor.

She stared at the door while her mind worked furiously for a way to get out. Sometimes she thought that if she spent half as much energy on studying as she did on getting into trouble, she would not be in this predicament right now, but that was beside the point.

Suddenly, she had an idea. She wasn't sure if it'll work, but it was worth a try.

Steven and Dan stood outside Mr. Kaiba's office, both thinking that this was pointless. They could be doing so many other things right now. They had no idea why Mr. Kaiba accepted this stupid job looking after a girl, even if the pay was good.

Dan sighed and glanced at the clock. It was only eleven. They still have six more hours of this.

As Dan was thinking, he thought he heard something from the room. Steven and Dan's eyes met as they nodded to each other and stood by the door quietly. Mr. Kaiba had warned them to not underestimate the girl inside. They decided to ignore whatever tactics the girl was using and didn't budge from their spots.

Seconds later, they heard a loud crash from inside. All sorts of possibilities ran through the two guards' heads, until finally Steven hissed, "The girl's trying to go through the vent!"

Without waiting for his partner's reply, Steven opened the door and rushed in. Dan looked into the room from outside and saw that the opening to the ventilation shaft was torn off. The window was also shattered. The girl was nowhere in the room. He rushed in after Steven. Mr. Kaiba was going to kill them if the girl really escaped.

However, once he was in the middle of the room, something hit him hard on the head. The last thing he heard before he lost consciousness was the loud banging of the door.

Delia jumped out of her seat and went to the ventilation shaft. She ripped off the opening lightly. Then she walked to the door. Once against the door, she threw the opening against the glass window with all of her might. A loud crash sounded as part of the window shattered. She really felt guilty about destroying the glass, but Kaiba deserved it for locking her in here. Maybe he'd get so pissed off that he'd drop her off at her mom's office and be done with her.

A few minutes after the crash, the door swung open. One bodyguard rushed into the room. His eyes immediately focused on the ventilation shaft, as if the windows were still completely intact.

Come on, where's the other one?

Soon, the second one barged in as well. They both stood in the middle of the room. She couldn't have planned it better. She knew that she probably shouldn't hurt them, but they were Kaiba's cronies. A little pain would serve them well.

From her position behind the door, she rushed the two guards. She kicked the second guard's head from behind. He went down instantly. The first guard spun around and lunged to catch her. However, she was a lot faster than him. She punched him in the gut. When he bent over, clutching his stomach, she kneed him in the face. He slumped down on the floor in no time. She looked down at their unconscious bodies with satisfaction.

Serves them right.

She didn't waste another second and ran outside, slamming the door behind her. She waited for the elevator impatiently. She would've taken the stairs, but she couldn't find it. What kind of idiot works at a building without stairs to the topmost floor?

Finally, the elevator arrived after what seemed like forever. She hurriedly rushed in.

And bumped into a familiar hard chest.

"Kaiba!" Delia gasped. Her eyes met the cold blue of his.

"Already running, aren't we?" He grabbed her wrist harshly and dragged her after him toward his office.

Damn! And I almost got away too! She fought against his grip, but his fingers were like a vise around her wrist. The more she fought, the tighter they became.

Kaiba unlocked the door with his keys and threw her inside. She tripped over Dan's body on the floor and landed in a heap between the two unconscious guards. Seeing the two unconscious large men in the middle of the floor, Kaiba poked his head outside of the door and shouted, "Security!"

Seconds later, two smaller men dressed in security uniforms rushed in. "Yes, Mr. Kaiba?" One of them asked.

Kaiba pointed to Dan and Steven. "Get those two out of here."

"Yes, sir!" They each grabbed one of the guards and dragged them out of the room. Kaiba slammed the door shut behind them. Delia stared up at him insolently, wondering what kind of punishment he'd exact.

"You, go back to your desk and finish those test. I have more things than those tests for you today," he grounded out in a growl and returned to his desk.

She gave him a death glare and sat back down in her chair. "I'm not paying for that window!" she said first before Kaiba even noticed it.

Kaiba looked back to the window. His frown deepened. "Just get back to your work," he said and then called someone on the phone.

She didn't bother talking to him anymore and started doing the test again.

The rest of the day was a complete nightmare. After her tests, Kaiba gave her thirty extremely hard problems for every subject: Calculus, English, Japanese, Chemistry, Government, Economics, and Japanese History. He said that if she didn't finish, they would be homework.

Homework! He gave me homework! Delia slammed the packets on her desk back home later that night. Screw him. I'm not doing any of this! Instead, she climbed in bed and went to sleep.

It had been a long day.

The next morning, Delia woke up at five since she had slept so early the night before. She wanted to go back to sleep, but suddenly thought that she could escape now before her mom actually woke up. She almost jumped out of bed in elation. After taking a quick shower, she pulled on a pair of black shorts, a black tank top, and a pair of black boots. Before she left, she also "borrowed" Hara's extra set of school uniform.

Now she was finally going to get her revenge on Duke.

First, since it was still early in the morning, she went to eat some breakfast. When she saw it was finally time for school to start, she changed at the restaurant and drove to Domino High School. Since she was wearing Hara's uniform, she blended in easily with the students and got in with no problem.

She soon spotted Duke hanging out with some guys. She followed him sneakily to his classroom all the while planning her revenge. She made her first move before lunch. She dumped a bucket of water on him from the roof while he was on the ground below. It was so much fun to see the astonished look on his face and hear him swear.

During lunch, she told some of the girls whom she had seen hanging around Duke that he wanted to see them. They instantly crowded all over Duke while he had no idea what was going on. She almost felt sorry for him. Almost.

The third time she dumped the janitor's detergent on him. His clothes turned all white after several minutes. Everywhere he went, water dripped from his clothes while leaving the ground in a colorful palette. Once in the hallway, she tripped him out of spite, making him fall flat on his face. She took satisfaction in the fact everybody laughed at him. However, he almost caught her that time, but she was rather fast at running away. Yet, to her disappointment, school ended way too soon.

She was on the roof of the school building thinking of the finale when a pair of arms locked around her waist.

"Found you!"

Her head whipped around and met Duke's emerald eyes.

"Let me go!" She struggled and wiggled out of his grip. She laughed as she stared him dressed completely in white as if his clothes were made out of paper.

"I knew it! No one could possibly do this to me other than you!" Duke said with a frown and crossed his arms.

She was still smiling as she spoke, "You deserved it. I've been here for almost a week, and you haven't even paid me a visit yet. You haven't called me either. Some best friend you are."

The frown disappeared on his face as she turned away, refusing to look at him.

"Delia, I'm sorry. I know I should've told you, but I just got caught up in everything. I even planned to move back after everything was over, but I really like it here. Also, I opened my shop. Can you believe it? Pegasus actually signed the game contract with me!"

"That's great!"

She couldn't not feel happy for him. After all, he was her best friend. However, she wouldn't forgive him this easily. "But…I was lonely in Tokyo. I mean, all the others are fun to hang out with, but it didn't feel right without you. Hara is also wonderful, but Hara is Hara. I can't tell her things that I can tell you," Delia said with a pout.

"I'm sorry. Look, I'd do anything to make it up to you!" Duke slung his arm over her shoulders.

"Anything?" she asked him to make sure.

"Have I ever lied to you?" Duke faked a hurt look.

"No, it's just that I don't know what I want you to do," she said with a laugh.

"So here's where you're hiding!" The door to the roof suddenly banged open and Kaiba stormed out with Hara behind him. Delia glared at her twin, who could only blush and mouth, "I'm sorry."

Suddenly, Delia had a wonderful idea. She tugged on Duke's arm.

"Yes?" he asked without even bothering to look at Kaiba.

"Defeat him in Duel Monsters and I'll forgive you," Delia muttered.

The color drained from Duke's face and he gulped.

"Are you scared?" she asked him, aghast. The Duke she knew wasn't scared of anyone or anything.

"No! Of course not!"

"Perfect!" She nodded and finally turned her attention to Kaiba, who looked like he was about to explode with fury. She didn't understand why he was so pissed off, since he was getting paid without having to work. Besides, she had only taken one day off. Whatever, she would never figure him out.

Instead, she pointed her finger at him and announced with all the dramatics befitting a soap opera actress, "Mr. Kaiba, Duke challenges you to a duel!"

A/N: Sorry this took me so long to update. It's almost finals for me, so after this chapter it'll be at least two or three weeks before I update again, but I hope everyone enjoyed this chapter!!

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