Okay well, I completely forgot about the little author thing over 24 hours later, I'm sooooooo sorry, and this is why you don't post when you are in a hurry.
I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh! or its charaters, but |I own the story and my OCs.
Chapter 3
CEO's Special Day
Tuesday October 11th, 2011
Yugi walked across the road with his friends Téa and Atem with concern. Regan didn't show up for school the day before and with that strange group Dragon Slayers out and about; he didn't want to over think anything. He would have checked up on her the night before, but his mother dragged him out of school during lunch for a shopping spree with Atem. But the shopping trip really consisted of them carrying the bags as they judged the clothing. They didn't get back until two in the morning with enough money spent to feed two horses for a month.
They came up to the house door and as he went to knock on it, it opened to reveal Regan in her uniform. In the last three days she seemed to have healed quite well from the attack. He didn't really know how he knew, but she just seemed to radiate with recovery and apparently so did his partner as a faint disbelief came across their connection.
'The Item is something else, if it uses aura to heal the wearer so quickly.'
'Yeah,' Yugi replied back with a tiny nod as he cut the connection hiding his inner thoughts. 'There is still something slightly off about her today, perhaps it's my imagination.'
"Um… is everything okay? You guys looked like you were about to declare war." Regan asked them with a look of confusion making her bandage peak out under her bangs.
"Where were you yesterday?" Téa asked in anger. "We were worried that Steve came back for revenge or something."
"Sorry, I was dragged off to some sort of super sale in Tokyo. The shopping was supposed to be for the both of us; though in the end it was mostly her shopping spending a lot of money and me leave periodically for Seto's gift."
"So you went to?" Yugi asked shaking his head. "I know how you feel; I swear it was like the last sale in the world. Atem and I were taken by erm…" Yugi turned to his friend. "Should I say 'my mom' or 'our mom'?"
"I think 'our' would be more appropriate. She definitely called me her son yesterday. She even said were brothers…"Atem answered.
"I figured, okay our mother kidnapped us at lunch."
"That must have been tons of fun." Regan replied closing the door behind her.
The four friends laughed as they talked about their shopping adventures. Once at school they caught up with Joey and Tristan in the classroom to catch up on what they missed the day before. According to them most of the kids were gone including some of the teachers leaving substitutes and no lessons set.
"What about the first half of the day?" Regan asked.
"The first half, well there were donuts and-"
"In other words, Joey was asleep on the desk drooling and Tristan," Téa paused. "What were you doing?"
"That stupid assignment for science class," Tristan grumbled. "And to think it was done for the teacher and she wasn't even there."
"Joey did you do anything on the experiment?"
"Of course I did, I was the one who did the experiment. Tristan was the one who wrote the lab." Joey told them in surprise. "Tristan wasn't allowed to have such an experiment in the house so I did it at my house. I can't believe you thought that I didn't take any part in it at all."
"She was just making sure, and there were subs that morning also." Yugi reassured him and then turned to Regan. "So I guess you didn't miss too much."
She didn't respond staring at the floor.
"Regan?"
She snapped into attention. "Yeah, ok so that means I don't have anything to catch up, great."
"Are you okay?" Téa asked.
"Of course, just a late night last night considering."
Yugi gave her an unbeliever look. "Yeah it was, but that would mean falling asleep on the desk, not spacing out."
"That's right." Tristan said nodding.
"You did a Yugi thing." Joey added.
"It seems like you're surrounded. You better tell them before they don't let you leave for class." Someone else added.
Yugi looked in the direction of the voice and saw Mr. Croc standing beside them in between the desks.
"Sensei," Regan questioned.
"Just trying to help the situation move a little faster; homeroom is almost up." The teacher stated and left them to their conversation.
Yugi turned back to Regan who was sighing in defeat. "It was me just remembering something when I was smaller. It isn't very important and has been happening for the last couple of days so it there is nothing for you to be worried about."
"Does that happen often?" He asked.
"Well if something related comes along then I remember something else." She shook her head. "It's probably from me hitting my head during the incident on Friday, it will pass."
"If you say so…"
"Why, why must we go? Let him work all day and all night, it's his fault that he can't tell time." Joey complained with a sluggish step to his already slow pace.
"It's his birthday," Regan argued. "No one needs to have a terrible day on their birthday, they might not get another."
Joey stopped walking and turned to her. "I never really thought about that, sorry."
"Joey you're so dense sometimes. If you are truly sorry start jogging if your walk is so slow." Téa told the boy shoving him forward.
"Fine, I'll stop holding up the line." He started to run. "The last one there has to pay for burgers next time."
"Joey you prick!" Tristan yelled and took off after him.
Not wanting to be left behind the three friends that were left started running after them.
"That's not fair two of us have short legs." Yugi shouted.
Regan grabbed his hand. "Come on then, there is no way we're paying for their never filled stomachs."
With that, she yanked him making him run faster than before. Soon Téa, Yugi, and Regan were neck and neck with Tristan and Joey. A wall came up on their left as it outlined the property of they were closing in on. Regan could hear the tripping step Joey created every third step. Being pulled by her, Yugi was close behind her with Téa keeping up with Regan's speed.
"This is our break!" Regan yelled at her two running buddies.
They took the hint and ran faster leaving Joey and Tristan in the dust. They stopped in front of a gate that was just as tall as the ten foot wall they had ran beside, breathless.
"And Joey's buying burgers next time." Yugi announced as the three victors caught their breath.
"No way, Tristan totally was the last one here." Joey objected.
"What?!" Tristan asked in shock and anger.
"Both Joey and Tristan were here at the same time, the last one was me." Someone said behind Regan.
She turned around to see Atem. She was about to reply, but the sound of a motor made her lose her thought. The gate opened and nobody moved wondering what to do. Taking a daring step, Regan walked onto the Kaiba home property. Slowly her friends followed behind as their tension rose between themselves and whatever was hiding in the shadows of their memories. The grass around them was an incredible color of green especially for that time of year. The trees that speckled the large front yard had beautiful colors of red, yellow, oranges showing that autumn was in session and winter was on its way. Late flowers were in patches in the gardens that were placed around the trees and large empty spaces. They walked up to the door in silence and she could feel her friends being extremely cautious and looking around for anything suspicious. The door was within a few feet in front of them and Regan noticed that the rest of her group stopped walking. She turned to them and wondered why they were so nervous.
'What's wrong?' She asked mentally to anyone willing to listen within their group.
'Just some bad memories, but I'm sure they won't do too much damage at this party.' Yugi replied back then looked away from the house. He turned and grinned towards Joey and Tristan. "I wonder if Kaiba knows about this party."
Joey and Tristan grinned back.
"Oh the look on his face will be priceless." Téa exclaimed with something dark hiding under her smile.
Regan shivered. 'This party can only go so well.'
"Yes, I think it will be very interesting, especially your gift." Nile responded showing up beside her.
Regan noticed Atem notice his sister and gave both of them a glint of mischief like the rest of her companions, except for Yugi, as they plotted. She sighed in almost embarrassment though she found it highly amusing in their strangeness that she cherished. Turning back towards the door, she knocked on it given the sound an echo in the quiet yard with the faint noise of traffic in the distance behind the gate. The house itself oozed feelings that varied from rage and loneliness to happiness and that warm fuzzy one. The door opened to reveal a Seto Kaiba with a face that went from relaxation to shock then to confusion under two seconds.
He looked down at the girl who knocked. "…"
"Uh… hello Seto-" she paused for a second as a sudden memory flashed by, again.
Her mother opened the door showing a man holding a baby carrier in one hand and in the other held the hand of a young boy looking around. The man seemed to have black hair; his face was being blocked by her mother. She tried to move to get a better look by her lack in height that she possessed didn't give her that look. The boy had brown hair and navy blue eyes that looked so ever familiar. Tension started to rise without a reason she could understand, though they seemed like they were speaking, she couldn't comprehend any of it.
The tension snapped as suddenly as it came as the man grunted in disagreement. "Son go play with Regan, Jade and I have to talk."
The boy nodded. "Yes Daddy."
He turned towards her smiling. He let go of his father's hand, and Regan caught a distaste look from her mom as he pulled her into another room. Still smiling and from her emotions they played happily with the dinosaurs that littered the room. The playing ended dramatically with a sudden shout from a different room.
"The Debt is up, their mother is dead and now you pull this stunt!"
"But I'm just getting warmed up and plus what harm is it anyway, well besides an old friend coming to play?" The glee in the woman's laugh struck a chord in her cheerfulness.
Regan's toddler form went to stand up, but the boy shook his head. Staying where she was the two of them continued to listen.
"One day they will meet up. And when that day comes, you will also face a change. One day when you become selfless like their mother; you will meet your end as well." The man said engraving the words in Regan's brain.
She gulped not knowing what any of it meant, but could feel it was extremely important. She turned to see the boy taking out a black stone from his pocket.
"Here take this and if we meet again make sure to show it, okay?"
Regan nodded taking the stone.
"Hello, what are you doing here?" Seto asked breaking her out of the flash.
"Ah, sorry had a memory flash for the fifth time today." She shook her head. "Anyway we came to celebrate your birthday."
There was a moment of silence before it had registered what she said. Blinking in confusion, Seto seemed to be caught off guard, but for a brief second long enough for her and perhaps Yugi and Atem to catch. "Wait, what? Why?"
"Because I told them to come," Someone said inside the mansion. "I told you I had a surprise and it seems like they arrived right on schedule."
Speechless Seto looked back inside.
"Come on Kaiba, be a gentleman for your birthday to prove you are a man." Joey taunted.
Mokuba came into the opening and opened the door wide leaving Seto still speechless beside him. The boy walked up to Joey and kicked him.
"If I wanted you to come and insult him on his birthday I would have asked."
Hopping up and down holding his shin, the blond nodded in agreement to behave. Smiling back to the rest of the group, Mokuba lead them into the mansion. The place was huge and more beautiful than anything Regan had ever seen.
"Make yourself comfortable in the living room there is some food set on the coffee table." Mokuba said pointing to the opening on the left and proceeded to lead the way.
Joey and Tristan jumped onto the couch and immediately started to devour the food. Keeping away from the food monsters, Téa, Atem and Yugi sat on the opposite sofa while Regan stood just behind their couch eyeing the environment. Seto stood in the doorway with a mixture of disapproval and blank emotion while Mokuba had vanished and could be heard from the right side of the house.
"So…" Téa interrupted the munching silence. "Shall we give Kaiba his gifts?"
They all nodded minus Joey and Tristan who were asked to help by one of the workers of the house to grab something and they followed taking note it was Alex.
"That's not a bad idea Téa." Tristan yelled from the same direction Mokuba's voice was in.
Slowly the steps of the two boys and Alex came closer as they entered the room with three chairs, one chair each. They set the chairs down one at the head of the group in front of a fireplace, facing the entrance and the other two beside each other on the other side facing the head. The boys sat back down just as Mokuba entered with a smile dragging Seto from the door way to the single seat. Regan sat down next to Yugi in the placed chair and Mokuba sat in the seat beside her.
One by one the gifts were given with humor attached. Though the CEO didn't show it they all knew that he was enjoying the experience with a hint, barely almost, of a smile or maybe it was a grin that Regan noticed at the corner of his mouth.
Near the end there was a break from the giving to observe the items giving to Seto Kaiba.
Joey had given him a yellow rubber ducky, a can of Coca-Cola, a rounded top hat, and a box of cigarettes. This made Seto very amused as it hinted in his eyes like he knew about the photo of himself that someone had created on the internet.
Tristan gave him Dead Space game pack and Slender. Tristan told him that they were better played at night, in the dark and that they were supposed to scare the crap of out him.
Téa was a bit nicer with her gift and gave it to him. She gave him a bottle of wine, which he seemed extremely impressed in the vintage Merlot. The only thing that was up for questioning was how she got her hands on it.
Yugi and apparently his grandfather and his mother, came with an odd sight. He handed Seto a black and white hoodie, a regular black t-shirt, a baggy pair of jeans with some black and white skate shoes and a message from Grandpa on paper, saying that he should go casual for a day. Seto's face was absolutely priceless long enough that Mokuba actually managed to snap a photo and mumbled in Regan's ear something about Facebook.
Atem smirked and grinned the entire time Seto opened his gift with uncertainty. When it was opened he found an entire outfit from the days when he was a priest. Regan didn't understand the significance of why his face was a bit paler then the usual until after a short mental tale from Yugi and Nile. After the little pale moment he looked like he wanted to strangle the pharaoh.
"Where did you find this?"
"Oh just a couple of friends in Egypt and I know for a fact that you know them." The reanimated one grinned. "Oh right they told me to say happy birthday for them. Happy Birthday."
Shaking his head, Seto put the outfit back in the box and then set it next to the table on the ground.
"Okay Regan, your turn." Mokuba invited.
Reaching into her bag she pulled out a small box, no bigger than what her iPhone came in. she rose from her seat and walked it to the CEO. "This is Part One, which is from Nile. Part Two requires an office which is from me."
Seto raised an eyebrow at the mystery and took the gift from her hands. Regan sat back down in her seat and watched him open it with a regal manner like he had done with the other gifts. After taking the white gift wrapping paper off, he opened the black box in which he became wide-eyed in surprise. The group tried to get a closer look, but were disappointed when he held the item out of their sight with a mono expression again.
"Is Jade okay with what was spent on this?" He asked Regan looking in her direction.
"What do you mean?" She asked in confusion.
"You left the price tag on it."
Feeling her face go red with embarrassment; she could tell some of the feeling came from Nile who was the one who wrapped the gift. "Well that is a little awkward, but no she doesn't have a clue about it."
"Well I think she might when she realizes how much is gone. Let's see this is a custom order and custom made at a metal shop that works on orders over weekends and weekdays for a grand total of -"
"Alright I get it. Don't leave any evidence of were anything comes from when you are giving it to Seto Kaiba." Regan interrupted crossing her arms.
Grinning Seto took out the price card in which Joey snatched it away with curiosity.
He looked at it and choked on the food in his mouth. "Holy Cream Puffs, if you have five grand just sitting around for a gift; can I move into your house?!"
"Just yell it a little louder Wise Guy; I don't think the city heard you." Tristan scolded taking the paper away from him and handed it to Regan. She placed it into her bag.
"So, what is it?" Mokuba asked getting anxious with excitement.
Seto pulled out a multicolored chain of silver, gold, and copper colored and at the end of the chain was a Blue-Eyes White Dragon in front of a full moon. It was made out of Platinum and titanium alloyed with the moon and dragon having streams of blue, shiny stone lines running through them.
"Oh wow, it's beautiful." Téa stated star-eyed.
"How did you come up with the idea?" Yugi asked Regan.
"Well I did some research and Nile thought of the idea and we ordered it on Friday night." Regan looked at the CEO and felt Nile watching behind her chair.
To both of their surprise and probably everyone else too; he put it on instead of setting it in the box and on the table with the rest of the items. His face wasn't cold in fact it seemed like he was showing almost kindness that he may have only showed to very few people and only in a very specific environment. Then another thing happened that knocked Joey off the couch.
"Thank you… everyone."
"What changed his attitude?" Tristan whispered in Regan's ear. "Was it something you did?"
"Just because I sense this sort of thing doesn't mean I can manipulate them." Regan replied with annoyance. "Heaven forbid that he speaks his mind of having a good time."
Tristan sat back down in his seat as she took a deep breath, breathing out all of her annoyance. "Sorry, this puzzle seems to pick up everything that I miss. I need to get a hold of the extra sensory."
"It's fine, you should have seen when Yami and Yugi first started to recognize each other, talk about bipolar." Seto grinned.
Just then a man in a suit walked into the room with blue-grey streak in his black hair.
"Hey Roland, is the food ready?" Mokuba asked the man.
"Almost, but the staff have told me to inform you that the game has been set up and ready."
"A Game?" Téa asked.
"Yeah; I just thought it wouldn't be a party without a game." Mokuba answered and turned to his brother with an innocent smile. "I suppose Seto and Regan can be excused for some business."
He got up from his chair and led everyone except for Roland, Seto and Regan to the other side of the house.
She stood up as Seto did leaving Roland to notice her. Not knowing what else to do, she introduced herself to the man named Roland. "Hi my name is Regan Heartin, nice to meet you." She held out her hand in which he took it and shook it like a business person.
"Nice to meet you Miss. Heartin, I believe you were the one we transported to the hospital a little over a week ago?"
"Yes, this would be the same person." Seto answered plainly and Roland nodded.
"I will bring you to the room."
They walked in silence following the trail of where her friends went off to until they turned and headed up the stairs on their left.
"You know, I think everyone excluding Kaiba thinks that business is something other than what you are thinking of." Nile said beside her. "And personally I don't blame them."
'From that little tale in the living room in his past; you and him are cousins.' Regan answered after a moment.
"That doesn't make him any less hot, and besides this is different life meaning he is nowhere being related to me."
'If you get a body of your own, then be my guest, you hormonal weirdo.' Regan replied. 'But him and I being a "couple" or whatever you have your thoughts on is not happening.'
"Why is that?" Nile asked in confusion.
'Well for some reason, I have a feeling that that would be… wrong.'
"It might be because of me living in your body, or it could have something to do with your memory flashes that you have been having since the attack at the arcade."
'Could have something to do with that, but for now there will be no such relationship.' There was silence from her partner. 'Got that?'
"Yeah, yeah it would be funny though if you two did start something and then realize that you were related."
'That's not possible; his parents are dead while my mother is still alive. If we were related then I would have had to be adopted, which I'm not.'
Nile looked down the hallway. "It looks like we arrived at our destination."
Regan followed her gaze and noticed that Roland had stopped in front of a room on the right. He opened it to reveal a bedroom that seemed to be in plain and simple.
"I don't mean to sound rude, but I actually need an office."
"I would love to give you one, but Master Mokuba told me to secure all the rooms except for his bedroom." Roland replied.
"Why?"
"Mokuba thought that I needed a break from working, so he locked all possible ways for me to work and bounded me to the house so I couldn't go to Kaiba corp." Seto explained with a sigh.
He walked into the room leaving her no choice, but to follow with suspicions on Mokuba maybe planned on getting him and her in a bedroom.
"I will return to announce when their game has ended." Roland announced and closed the door as he walked out.
Seto made the king size bed with the baby blue sheets wrinkle as he sat down heavily, but with his regal form. Regan looked around the light white-blue walls with the oak flooring matching the rest of the upstairs flooring and saw a shadow of what looked like a desk that use to sit there.
"Mokuba also took out all forms of any kind of work from my room." He told her as he noticed her gaze around the room.
Moving his hand, he invited her to sit on the bed beside him. Hesitantly, she moved across the room and sat lightly on the stiff bed. She sat down her bag and a flash of the boy streaked across her mind as she opened it. She pulled out two brown folders that were over filled with papers and sat them on the bed. Carefully taking off her shoes, she crossed her legs on the bed to face Seto in a more comfortable manner.
"So what are these files?" The CEO asked with a hint of confusion.
"Say hello to Part Two of your gift." She answered with glee. "I was doing research as I said before looking for something to get you and I checked out your website after looking at your… um fan pages from other people… anyway I looked and saw that on the front page of your site, an orphanage was over filling and parents were needed to adopted-"
"What are you trying to say?" Seto asked seemly eager to find out what she had.
"Well Seto Kaiba, fifteen families were needed and I found double the amount." She stated opening both file folders to show a piece of paper with fifteen surnames with another fifteen subfolders inside under their table of contents. "Each of these files contains the families willing to adopt with background check, community check and economy check. I went to each of these places and personally checked them out along with the school the children would be attending. The files contain pictures, complete records of each individual and even how many children they would like to adopt."
There was silence from the man in front of her as he looked through several of the sub files. When it seemed like eternity had passed by he managed to get through all the files in a realistic time of five minutes.
"From the times that the appointments were made and when you actually went to the places are all in a seriously tight schedule. How the hell are you still standing with the lack of sleep?" The man shook his head looking at her. "You managed to get approximately six hours of sleep with in five days and yet, you look like you have slept beautifully, why?"
Regan smirked knowing full well that if she told him that she had slept decently, it wasn't going to work. "Well, there is a little thing females often use called makeup."
"I thought there was something off and now I know why." Seto grinned. "And you managed to fool everyone downstairs with that trick."
"So," She replied changing the subject. "Are you satisfied with your gift?"
"Trust me, I am more than satisfied with the gift and so is every kid that will be adopted." He answered completely out of his usual nature that Regan had seen thus far. A small smile formed on his lips matching the relief in his eyes. "Thank you."
"Anytime and if you need anything else just ask." She smiled happily for the kids and for the fact that Seto was smiling. She sighed going over the room again knowing his pride from her friends downstairs; he probably wouldn't really ask her for anything unless it was extremely important. Then a thought that she wanted to ask on the Friday before came to mind. "Can-"
"Actually there is something I would like to propose to this discussion, if you don't mind." Seto said completely throwing her thought off.
"Yea?" She replied looking back towards him.
Seto grinned in his regular features noticing he did cut her off. "Speak,"
"Ok, I was wondering if you could tutor me for the semester I missed, the classes I take in the mornings three times a week are slow and-"
"I wouldn't mind tutoring you." He interrupted much too quickly for her to comprehend at that moment in time. "That was what I was about to bring up. The teachers at Domino High or whoever was on the other end called my office the other day."
"Why would they do that?" She asked in confusion.
"I don't know; the school record I suppose."
It wasn't much of an answer, but there also wasn't really much to go with either. There was a knock on the door.
"Mr. Kaiba, they are finished the game." Roland's voice came from the other side of the door.
"Roland you can come inside." Seto replied with his annoyance tone again.
Roland opened the door and walked just inside. "Sorry sir, Master Mokuba told me not to come in without permission. I think all of them downstairs were thinking of something different to what actually happened in here."
"Roland, I need you to place these in the main office on the desk, there are important so don't lose them." Seto stated ignoring Roland's comment. He stood up and gathered the files and handed them to the worker. Roland nodded and walked out. The CEO turned to Regan. "Come, before your friends think of anymore nonsense."
Slipping on her shoes back on quickly, she ran to him before he could get out the door. "Wait a second." She said touching his arm to make sure she had his full attention.
He turned to her as she fished out something from her pocket. She pulled out what she wanted, but didn't show the black stone from her past to him.
"Probably from the lack of sleep, but little pieces from my past have been flashing by in my head for no apparent reason. And because of this I need to satisfy my curiosity." She opened her hand to show the stone to Seto as he immediately looked interested.
"It's a Smoky Quartz." He replied obviously and took it from her hand.
"When I was about three, a man came to my house holding a baby carrier and the hand of a small boy. The boy gave me that stone and told me to keep it and the next time we meet I should show it to him." She explained looking at the stone and then turned her eyes to Seto's. "Seto Kaiba, were you the one who gave me that stone?"
He didn't look away from her question making her wonder what he was thinking. Finally he sighed in defeat closing his eyes leaning against the door frame with the rock still in hand. He opened them again as they stared out into oblivion. "How did you come up with that assumption?"
"Same hair color and features as the little boy." She replied. "And the eyes, not too many people have that eye color, let alone your aura. It has slightly changed, but it's still the same signature."
He chuckled slightly, though she had no idea what was playing in his mind. "I didn't actually think the girl would actually keep it, a six year old thing I guess. When I saw you outside of the school almost two weeks ago, poking buttons at the pharaoh, you still had that curiosity that you had thirteen years ago when that door opened. When you greeted me, I immediately knew that you were the girl my father wanted to see that day."
"Do you know why you father was there that day?"
He shook his head. "No, but I still wonder what that conversation meant. Over the years, I simple left it behind, but as you bring it up; it is completely intact. As soon as we walked through that door a conversation started was completely alien."
"So they did have a conversation? I can't remember it." She said in disappointment.
"You were also three years old." Seto stated plainly. "But what disturbs me is the shouting before I gave you the stone."
She closed her eyes reciting what Seto's father had prophesied. "'One day they will meet up. And when that day comes, you will also face a change. One day when you become selfless like their mother; you will meet your end as well.' But what does that even mean?"
He tossed back the stone. "Who knows, but when the time comes I guess it will be answered. The question is though will you be alright with ending result?"
Leading the way, he led her down the hall in silence. An unease sense washed over her as she tried to answer his question. What was the final result? What was the conversation so long ago about when they stood in the door way? What words were exchanged? Regan shook her head shoving the thoughts away to be discussed at a later time under the same file as the talking duel monsters. The ones that showed up during her duel with Joey in front of the school. Before she knew the walking distance that had passed by; they walked into the dining room with everyone else. Everyone was sitting at the table and casually chatting between each other. They didn't take noticed that they had arrived or at least Joey didn't for sure. Regan was about to say that they were present, but Joey opened his mouth first.
"Roland still hasn't returned from going to get Kaiba and Regan. I wonder what mischief those two could be doing right now." Joey turned to Mokuba. "If you said that there was only one room upstairs Kaiba was allowed to enter is true, being his bedroom then there is only one thing."
"Joey," Yugi warned.
"What is that one thing?" Tristan asked.
She could tell Joey started to grin as he turned to Tristan then back to Yugi. "Yug, one room plus a rich boy and a regular girl plus a gift equals-"
"Equals what Joseph Wheeler?" Regan demanded before he could scar Mokuba's ears. Everyone turned to her except Joey who seemed to freeze. Slowly unthawing, he turned with fear written all over his face, but didn't answer.
"Mm, not so big with your mouth now are you?" She said continuing to her chair at the far end of the table next to Yugi and across from Téa with Atem next to her. "I didn't give his gift down here, because it was files that had people's personal information."
"What kind of files?" Joey asked slyly returning to his evil thoughts.
"The kind of files where people fill out for adoption at a local orphanage," She answered crossing her arms.
"How many parents did you find?" Mokuba asked at one end of the table looking between the head of the table being Seto and the seat next to him being Regan.
"Thirty," Seto replied blankly.
"That's awesome!" He responded with amazement.
The food came in without warning leaving the disagreement between Joey's schemes and her at an end.
Yugi glanced back to his food after giving a look between his two friends. Sighing inwardly at the situation, he started to eat the fancy pasta in front of him. This wasn't the first time Joey had suggested something like this and probably wouldn't be the last. The last time he done so was with Téa when she started working. There wasn't any chatting as they ate not allowing the food to go to waste. It wasn't long though before Joey and Tristan had finished in a mirror pair as they sat in front of each other breaking the silence.
"Kaiba for someone that hardly leaves the office, you have excellent cooks." Tristan announced looking stuffed.
"Yeah," Regan swallowed. "Even Mom's cooking isn't as good."
Joey coughed in the silence that followed.
"What?" The girl asked sounding confused.
"Well if you think that is good," Mokuba answered breaking the sudden tension. "You should see my brother's cooking; it puts this food to shame."
"He can cook?!" Joey, Tristan Téa and Yugi asked in surprised.
"Well that's a surprising fact." Atem stated. "But then again, he is categorized under genius, so it isn't too much of a surprise."
"That's a luxury I look forward to." Regan said.
Yugi nodded with a smile, but it quickly disappeared as a different, but familiar voice intruded.
"Well that luxury, sad to say, won't be happening."
He turned immediately towards it standing. Steve with a not so friendly grin and about seven others were behind him were behind Mokuba's chair.
"Who are you and what are you doing in my house?" Kaiba asked coldly.
"Seto Kaiba, I believe we haven't met." Steve answered. "We are from the group Dragon Slayers."
"Great, now get out." Kaiba said sarcastically.
"Sorry we can't do that," The man replied with amusement as his goons separated lining up behind each of them at the table.
Yugi felt something circular shaped pressed against his back. 'Just want to clarify something, what is he holding against my back?' Yugi asked mentally not wanting to draw any attention.
'It's a gun, Yugi." Yugi heard Regan state what he thought it was.
'Now this is probably one of those times when I wish I wasn't a part of the material world.' Atem commented in their connection.
It seemed no one else had moved from their seated positions except for Kaiba and himself as they both glared at the person behind Mokuba's chair holding a gun with the barrel pointed down resting on the boy's head.
"Now that I have your full attention; I would like to propose a deal with you. You come with us and give us full access to your company or we'll kill everyone at this table and take you by force."
There wasn't much Yugi could do in this situation. His life was in Kaiba's hands along with the rest of his friends. But even if Kaiba chose to go, something dreaded the back of his mind that they would still kill everyone, including Kaiba.
"Well that's not very promising or at any rate true coming from your mouth." Regan said breaking his thoughts.
He watched as she stood up only to be pushed back into her seat. "Sit down, you skanky cunt."
There was a sharp noise of flesh hitting flesh that hushed the crowd. The man was on one knee with a tomato red mark on his face with his arms up. A single sound of a metal object being caught and a gun placing a bullet in the barrel as it pointed at the man's face was the only thing that broke the silence.
"Calling someone a cunt isn't very nice. Calling me a 'skanky cunt' was a very large mistake."
"Regan Heartin," Steve said slyly. "What are you doing here?"
"I was celebrating my friend's birthday, now I'm holding a gun to your concubine."
Yugi was dumbfounded by her language, minus the part where it was in English, and it wasn't even directed towards him. 'Nile, that has to be Nile without a doubt.' He told himself.
"I'm not his-" The gun fired and another bullet went into the barrel as the man went silent.
"Now that your attention is off you Steve, how about I propose a much simpler and fairer arrangement?" Nile told asked still looking at the man with a bullet hole in the floor beside him.
"Well I have been meaning to get back at what embarrassment you caused me, so I will gladly take up the idea." Steve answered with a grin.
Nile made the man stand on his feet and pushed him towards Steve taking the other two that were behind Yugi and Joey with him. The gun pointed at the one behind Kaiba making him move with the other three on the opposite side of the table to go back to their leader. "A tag team of duel monsters should do the trick."
"Perhaps," Steve contemplated. "But I think that it should be a double tag team; meaning two tag teams each different battles, but at the same time with each player with their own life points."
"Why two teams with each of them has their own life points?" Yugi questioned. "Well there are eight of us and eight of you, if we have four playing you have four being protected by the players. For each player that loses their life points, they lose their life, but on top of that the person they were protecting dies with them." Steve replied still grinning.
"He's trying to kill two birds with one stone." Atem stated in raged. "But what happens to your team?"
"They are to leave the scene and head back to headquarters for discipline."
"He probably wants the females though left alive." Regan commented beside him in spirit form. "For playing purposes, if you get what I mean."
'How do you know this?'
"I played him on Friday remember."
"Who is to duel in this scenario?" Kaiba asked with the sound of his temper leaving to a more battle type.
"You of course and I have a score to settle with mouthy beside you. So it will be me, Wayne, you and her." Steve said pointing at the man who was back handed by Nile/Regan.
"It is, Wayne, her, you and I" Nile corrected his grammar. Steve growled in response.
"Who will be the other two?" Kaiba asked ignoring the little debate.
"Well we can't leave here without a little reputation, so we'll call forth Yugi Muto, but not Joey Wheeler. That would be suicide." Wayne the concubine said looking around the table and stopped at Atem. "Perfect candidate, we will use the kid that has familiar features to the king; he seems pretty desperate to not allow his female companion in danger."
Atem growled in anger, but he sent a gleeful wave to Yugi. This would be their first time to duel as a tag team. The duel they had against DM's minions was a battle royale. Yugi sent the thought to him and started to grin inwardly at their choices. His laughter didn't reach his face though; he still worried about the other team, Kaiba and Regan. Kaiba was a very independent duelist and wasn't big on tag duels; while from Regan's strategies and her own personality, she was similar to Kaiba.
"Fine, but are you positive that you don't want to back down?" Yugi questioned one last time.
"Please you children are going to be dead before the sun sets." Steve threatened with teeth showing grin.
Steve is back with a vengeance and he has brought company ...
Let the Double Tag Team Duel Begin.
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