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Okay, without much further ado, I present:

Chapter Three: Unraveling revelations

"They're sending you to KaibaCorps?" Yuugi gave the blonde a look of utter disbelief.

Joey had been in utter shock after he had gotten his folder and after all attempts to get Mr. Orisaki to get him into another company instead, he had gone home and, stocking himself up with ice cream, the remote and his Ipod, had crawled under the covers of his bed and not gotten up until three hours later, when the telephone had rung. He had contemplated to just let it ring, but in the end decided it was best to answer and face reality. Yuugi had noticed something was off immediately, and called together the whole group (excluding Tristan, who was still not able to speak in complete sentences , and was left at his family's house to be taken care of). Right now they were sitting in Joey's living room. While the blonde, Yuugi and Yami occupied the bed, Joey still huddled into his blankets, Bakura and Ryo sat across from him on the couch. For the last thirty minutes Yuugi had tried his best to get the whole story from Joey, and when he found out, tried his best to comfort his friend.

Yami, on the other hand, just smiled at him in that 'I'd so hate to be you right now' kind of way.

Ryo reached across the couch to empathetically pat the blonde's shoulder: "It might not be that bad, you might not even have to work for Kaiba. There're lots of people that need an assistant in a company as big as KaibaCorps," he tried to cheer Joey up.

"And you're earning a load of money." Yami added. The blonde tried to smile, but didn't really succeed in doing though, his attempt looking more like a grimace than anything else. It was really nice, that his friends cared about him that much, but in the end no argument could change the fact that he had to spend the next month in the company of his former arch enemy. Seto Kaiba and he had formed a silent agreement to keep their fights at bay, and, instead of throwing sarcastic comments at each other at every opportunity, opted to plainly ignore the other most of the time.

But, now that he would be forced to see, talk and worst of all obey Kaiba's orders, Joey was not sure if he would be able to keep that agreement.

"I'm not going, " he declared to his friends. "There's no chance Kaiba's gonna judge me positively, so why should I even bother to go there?" Maybe he could switch Business with another subject? He threw the thought away nearly immediately, the semester had started three month ago, no chance of changing now.

"Come one, Joey," Yuugi responded to his decision. "At least try it. Kaiba can be arrogant and patronizing, we all know that, but he's changed a lot since our first encounter with him, you know that ever person deserves a second chance."

"I know," Joey sighted. But I still don't have to like it, he added silently.

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There were not many things that could confuse Seto Kaiba. But there was one thing that kept bugging the KaibaCorp heir, even after he had picked up Mokuba and driven him home to their mansion. The person responsible for his pondering was no other than one Joseph Wheeler. Normally, both of them tried to not pay any attention to the other when they were in the same room. But today, right after the last lesson had ended, and Seto had picked up all his things from his locker, Joey had rushed past him, an angry glare visible on his face and when he had looked in his direction, the blonde had stopped in his tracks, his expression changing from irritated to surprised to something that Seto would describe as fear, if he didn't know better, and sped off the opposite way. Apart from Wheeler's strange behavior, what Seto was really annoyed by was that he couldn't stop contemplating all of this. It was not unusual for the blonde to behave unusually, even though the pattern of behavior he had formed with him had been never broken before, he had to it. Something was wrong here, and he just couldn't wrap his finger around it. And Seto was not happy at all.

His cell phone ringing interrupted his thoughts and he was even a little thankful for something that would keep his mind from the whole incident.

"KaibaCorps, Seto Kaiba speaking. " he answered in his business voice.

"Hello Mr. Kaiba," his manager's voice sounded hesitant, uneasy.

"Is there a problem?", Kaiba had learned to read the signs and respond to them. He braced himself for some bad news.

There was silence on the other end before the voice gave his answer. "It's about the survey you asked for."

Survey? Seto needed a second to remember. Right, he had wanted to research the image his company was giving the public.

When his manager didn't speak any further, Seto asked: "Well?"

"The companies image is under the three best images when speaking with other companies, employees and the government." There was a short pause again, and Seto thought about clearing his throat, just for the effect, but his manager continued before he could make his decision. "When it comes to the public, though… we didn't do so well."

Seto contemplated this for a moment. He had expected this, what he was interested in now, was how the management planned to change this public image.

The person on the other end continued his explanation. "As a way to improve this image, it would be best if we supported some social projects and we scheduled you for the opening of a youth centre next week." Seto expressed his approval. He donated large sums to those projects anyway, he normally just didn't make a lot of fuss about it, but if his company would benefit from it, then he was more than willing to let the public know.

"…and we got you an intern."

This was not a problem, either. I'll just let the boy or girl organize some files or something, Seto thought, already feeling a little bored by the whole conversation.

"His name is Joseph Wheeler and he'll start working here on Monday."

Upstairs Mokuba, who had listened to the whole conversation through the other line, couldn't help but burst into fits of laughter. He knew he'd pay for spying later, but right now he just couldn't care less.

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Next chapter: First day of Joey's torture! Is it bad that I'm really looking forward to writing this?

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