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Chapter 2: Beginning- Enter 'Perfection', delay 'Complication'
Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep.
The shrill whining of the digital alarm clock jerked a brown- haired, blue- eyed CEO out of peaceful sleep. A hand snuck out from underneath white covers and hit the 'Snooze' button with what was probably more force the needed. Kaiba sat up, blinking and trying to snap himself out of the groggy post- sleep, pre- coffee stage.
He hated mornings. With a burning passion. He hated having to go to school. He really didn't see why he had to, when it came to knowledge. But he knew that no High School drop- out would even be considered for running KaibaCorp, the law required all people under the age of seventeen ot go to school at least 170 days a year, and that completing high school was what his adoptive father, Gozaboro (Even thinking his name left a nasty taste behind... yech!) had required him to do in his... would you call it a will? Or a last- minute testimony? Whatever it was. Kaiba really didn't care, since he hated the guy anyways.
Dragging himself out of bed, he grabbed a white fluffy towel, one of many in a stack outside the bathroom door, and headed into the bathroom to get ready for the day.
[-_-_-_-]
"Here you go. Eat up now, we need you to be strong." The woman said, placing a bowl of red, thick warm liquid in front of the newly christened Katsuya Jonouchi sitting at her table. Instead of her usual lab coat, she was wearing regular street clothes instead of a white, long lab coat, an outfit which consisted of Blue Jeans, a grey t-shirt with purple, swirled designs imprinted on it, and had her hair pulled back in a ponytail.
"What... is this?" Jonouchi asked softly as he picked up a spoon that the woman handed to him. So he had to learn everything from scratch, hm? That was all well and good, but he couldn't learn if he was starved to death.
"It's food. Go on now, eat up."
Jonouchi took one last look at the liquid before setting the spoon down, and slurping the blood right from the bowl, ignoring the bits of it that ran in rivulets down his chin; much like a child slurping milk from his cereal bowl. He finished not a minute later, wiping his mouth off on his sleeve, leaving pale red stains on the white fabric.
"Ahh... You're just like my son! Come on, we'll get you a clean shirt..." She said pulling Jonouchi behind her to go and get another shirt. He was supposed to go to school today. It was going to be a long day. Maybe she'd just download and instal basic Tenth grade vocabulary and be done with it. She beckoned Jonouchi over to the computer, holding up a connector cord.
[Domino High School-- Tenth Grade hall, Room 12 B]
"H- hello Kaiba- Sama!!"
"Good Morning, Kaiba- Sama!!"
"Ah, Kaiba- Sama! Good morning!"
"Hello, Kaiba- Sama!!"
Every day, since he enrolled in High School, fangirls galore were always bidding him 'Good Morning' and 'Good Afternoon' and asking him out on dates. It aggravated him to no end. Sometimes he just wanted to run back home and just lay in bed all day away from the stupid fangirls and his job. Ah, well. You put up with the world and do the best you can. He kept his best poker face on, ignoring all the stupid chattering girls (And occasional boy), and glaring, jealous boys.
He sat down at his seat in the back of the class, pulling out 'The Jungle'.
It would have disturbed him greatly had not the FDA already been established.
Thank god for that.
Not long after the bell rang, and the five minutes after it rang again. And so started class. The teacher walked in, her high- heel stiletto shoes clicking on the tile floor. Their teacher was unusually nice for someone who worked at the local high school. She was tall, almost as tall as Kaiba, with long red hair, brown eyes, and wore a business suit. Not a woman's business suit, but a man's business suit, with a pair of stiletto high heels. She wore her hair up in a half- ponytail, and a pair of reading glasses.
"Okay, class! Quiet down, now." She said with a smile, "Today, we have a brand- new student! So, let's make him feel welcome, okay?"
Cheery, unlike usual. She must have had less coffee than she normally did. She was usually fairly hyper.
"Let's all welcome," She looked down at a piece of paper on his desk, "Katsuya Jonouchi! He'll be part of our class starting today!"
A boy with blond hair that was almost down to his shoulders and that almost covered amber- red eyes walked into the class. He had slightly pale skin, which contrasted with his dark T-shirt, which he was wearing on top of a white long- sleeve, form- fitting shirt and cargo pants, with hiking boots. He smiled a little, looking right at... Kaiba.
Was it a fake? Probably not; Kaiba thought to himself; His skin isn't pale enough, and his eyes aren't the right color. Best just to let it go. Not everyone who transferred was a fake.
"Don't just stand there. Introduce yourself to the class!" The teacher said.
He looked a little afraid at first, but then spoke up; "I'm Katsuya Jonouchi. I'm fifteen yeas old. I'm from Hiroshima." This earned a round of quiet talking from the class.
Hiroshima?
Maybe he inherited radiation sickness.
I don't wanna get sick!
I hope he's not infected with anything...
"My family didn't move there until two years ago, you don't have to worry about radiation sickness or anything. My dad worked for the Military, until recently. So we traveled a lot. I really like to play american football, my record for the forty- yard dash is 4.5 seconds."
Another round of whispers.
American football?
Who play's that?
4.5 seconds... He has got to join the track team.
"Um... that's kinda all you need to know about me." He said, turning slightly pink.
The sentence- Heheh.. How cute... Ran through Kaiba's head, and then; Did I really just think that?
"Alright, Katsuya- kun... You can sit by Kaiba!!" The teacher said cheerily.
"Uh.. Alright." The blonde moved to take his seat smiling at the brunette as he sat down.
"Hey." He said, sticking out his hand, "Nice to meet you, Kaiba- kun."
Kaiba stared at he boy's hand for a second before shaking it much like he would with a business partner.
Katsuya smiled at him again before turning towards the front to pay attention.
"Alright, class. Today, principal Smith- sensei has told us to start with math today. I asked for english, because I know how much you all like The Mousetrap, but he stuck us with Algebra anyways. So, this morning, we'll be talking about graphs!"
The class was somewhat relieved by this statement, but they still groaned. All except Kaiba and Katsuya.
"Oh, come on. I know, it's not all that exciting. But it's nothing you guy's haven't done before."
Those were the worst fifty- five minutes of anyone's life. Even if they had done graphs in middle just made it worst, anyways. Break time rolled around soon, at eleven- thirty exactly. Like it always did. And thank god, to. No more idiotic lessons for half an hour. Time enough to finish reading The Jungle. It was really quite gruesome. It made one thankful for the FDA.
"What're you reading?" A voice asked, before a mass of blonde hair appeared beside his shoulder.
"Do you mind?" He asked bitterly, moving away from the blonde that had so rudely invaded his personal space.
"Oh... sorry..." Jou said, moving away, before ducking his head to see the title.
"The Jungle? What's it about?" He asked, moving to sit up.
"It's about how the Government lacked the intelligence to form the Food and Drug Administration, and because of their lack of intelligence on the matter, they allowed countless meat packing companies to get away with packaging unsanitary, disgusting food for people to eat. Therefore causing them to fall ill."
Kaiba explained, not looking up. "Are you done irritating me? Or has your appetite for exasperating me not been satiated?"
"Geez, you don't have to be so cold, you know." Jou frowned, "So... what kind of things did they put in the food?"
Kaiba's eye twitched. This idiot seriously did not know when to just leave people alone.
"Will you please go away and leave me in peace?"
"O- oh... sorry. I've never really gotten to know anyone real well, y'know?"
"That's not my problem, is it?"
"No, I guess not. But seriously, you could just lighten up. You're like Johnny Raincloud."
"Johnny raincloud, hm? Good. Someone on this earth has to be serious and down- to- earth."
Jonouchi scowled, sticking out his tongue.
"Well, bleh to you!"
"'Bleh?'" Kaiba asked, returning to his book.
"Yes, bleh! Bleh to you, bleh to your stupid book, and bleh ot your cold indifference!!" Jonouchi slumped down in his seat, P.O.'d.
"Man... I don't know anyone here... and the guy sitting next ot me is a total... I can't even thing of the words!!" He thought.
"Aw, man, That stadium rocks!!" A voice said. Kaiba kept on reading his book, but Jou turned to see a fairly tall girl with waist- length strawberry blonde hair (More strawberry than blonde) punching the air.
She turned around and walked over to Jonouchi, smiling brightly. She was dressed in cargo pants and a black long- sleeved T- shirt with a white T- shirt over it and hiking boots.
"Hey, you're the new guy, right?" She asked.
"Uh... yea... I was kinda introduced this morning..."
"Yea, didn't hear, sorry... kinda took a snore- fest..."
"Oh. Well, um, I'm Katsuya Jonouchi, I moved here from Hiroshima, and I like to play american football." Jonouchi said.
"I'm Batchi!" The girl said, sticking out her hand.
Jou took it, shaking her hand and feeling kinda awkward.
"Nice to meet you..." He said.
"Little shy, huh?" Batchi asked, grinning.
"Hey, miss eccentric!" A voice said, before a (somewhat) pale had grabbed Batchi's hair and tugged on it.
"OW! Hey, man, not cool!! Ow ow ooowww!!"
The person pulling her hair, who Jou would later know was Bakura, was tall, almost six feet, and had white hair that was a little over shoulder- length, brown- red eyes, and was wearing a black T-shirt and jeans, with a pair of combat boots.
"Shut up, you."
"Make me!"
"You two are friends?" Jou asked skeptically.
"In a way." Batchi answered.
"I'm more of her babysitter than her friend."
"More like my mom rather than my babysitter!"
"Yea, right!"
"Yea, Right!"
The two of them went back and forth, and Jonouchi watched in a certain amount of amusement.
"Will you two please shut up!"
Everyone looked towards Kaiba, who had slammed his book shut and was glaring at them. Batchi and Bakura seemed unfazed, Jonouchi moved bak a little.
"Dude, chill." Batchi waved him away. Jonouchi just stare dat him, slightly surprised at the shouting.
"Heh heh. Kaiba needs to get laid." Bakura grinned evilly, chuckling.
"Maybe Jou-chan can do it!" Batchi added. s
"Hey!"
"If I did get laid, it would be by someone much better than him." Kaiba pointed out coldly.
"Yes, I'd say that they like each other!"
"Very much indeed!"
"Will you two shut up please!?!?" Seto and Jou shouted in unison.
"Why should we?"
"Because you are embarrassing me and the KaibaCorp name by doing so."
"Because now I'm embarrassed!"
"Yea, whatever! We're all embarrassed here!" Batchi said.
"All right, everyone back to their seats! We have to start science!" The teacher announced.
Cue big groan from class.
[[3:25 PM]]
"Alright! So! We can't just let Jou- chan become part of the 'Go home after school' club--" Batchi announced to the five students sitting in the class before her.
Yuugi, Anzu, Tristan, Bakura, and Ryou. Seto had long since gone home.
"SO! In light of that, he is officially a part of our club! That is, if he's voted in, of course. So, all in favor?"
Five hands. Yuugi, Anzu, Tristan, Ryou, and Batchi. Bakura fall asleep and was snoring loudly.
"Okay, so, five out of six are in favor, one out of six is snoring loud as can be."
"Bakura! Wake up!" Ryou gently nudged him in the ribs.
"Wwwhhhyyyyyy.........?"The albino whined, setting his head on the desk.
"Because this is important. Now pay attention!"
"Okay, so, aside from Bakura's lack of care, we have a new club member! So let's welcome him!" Batchi smirked.
"Um... well, what're the rules? I mean like, what do you guys do?" Jou asked.
"Well, basically, we stay after school and play games."
"Games?"
"Yea, and then the loser has to play a punishment game!"
"Be careful not to loose, Jou," Yuugi smiled, "Batchi-san's punishment games are tough!"
"Thanks for the tip..."
Batchi walked over to a cabinet in the back of the class, opening the door and rummaging through it. She eventually stood up and held a deck of cards in her hand.
"We're playing Rich Man, Poor man today!" She said.
"Yay...?"
[-_-_-_-]
"Why are you home late, Katsuya?" A woman with black hair scolded the boy, who stood in front of her with his head bowed, guilty of her accusations.
"And with sharpie all over your face! Sharpie! What in the name of God am I going to do with you if you get sharpie on your face!?"
"I'm in a club at school with some new friends I made, and we played a card game. I lost, so I had to play a punishment game... so I got drawn on." Jou explained sheepishly.
"Well, it's good that you've made friends and are in a club, but seriously, don't let them color on your face. Or at least don't loose." The woman grimaced, shaking her head.
"Go wash it off and get cleaned up, you're going hunting tonight."
"Hunting...?"
"Yes, according to the professor, it's time for you to get out and hunt. You're old enough--"
"But I'm only a few days old! Compared to everyone else, that's still a little kid!"
"I know! But I can't help it at all, okay? It's not my orders, it's not for me to decide," She leaded down until she was at eye- level with the youth, "It's not my decision, okay? If it were up to me, you wouldn't be doing this until you were healthy enough. But it's not for me to decide, okay? So buck up, alright?"
"Yea, I got it. Don't worry, I'll be fine..."
"Okay, now go get cleaned up, alright?"
"Okay."
[Downtown Domino, 11:33]
He stood stationary atop the building, watching the people mill about below, enthralled in the nightlife of the red light district. Prostitutes, hookers, they were everywhere. Normal. Normal people were normal.
Am I the only abnormality...?
One final look, before turning and jumping down into a dark, secluded space behind his perch. All he had to do was wait behind some trash cans or something, until someone came along. His stomach grumbled in a rather loud, unpleasant way.
Darnit...
Waiting... waiting... wouldn't somebody walk by already!?
A couple walked past, obviously drunk, laughing and swaying into each other.
He licked his lips, grinning.
His vision had changed. It wasn't what any normal person wold see anymore. It was shapes made of all kinds of colors, with a reddish tint to them, and slightly blurred around the edges.
He didn't wait for them to pass.
Pay the toll...
End Ch.2
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