Hey y'all, I'm back. Three words: School Is Evil. Possessed. In-severe-need-of-an-exorcist. Demonic. Okay, maybe more than three words, you get the idea. My stupid history project took ALL OF MY TIME!!!!! But, hey, I turned it in, so now I can.. update! Yays! I'm so weird. So sorry for the last short chapter, so I made this one extra-long! Well, actually it was going to be but then I split it into two chapters. Lol, check out the animal imagery in the first sentence! XD meek as a puppy!!! You can tell I love Kaiba….lol. I have about 4 puppy references… see if you can find them all. Ok, this chapter was going to be really long so I split it up into 2 separate posts. I pulled an Alley Cat and just started typing randomly… and didn't get around to what I wanted to say…
'Serenity's thoughts'
'Seto's thoughts'Disclaimer: I don't own Yugioh
Silent Attraction
Chapter 5 – Confused Thoughts, a Collision, and a Shocked Mokuba
Joey opened the door, meek as a puppy, poking his head out the door and back in like a turtle venturing out of its shell, as if expecting a stampede of wild animals to come barge the door down.. With a glance, he relaxed and opened it wide. Mai stood there, hands on her hips, staring at him as if he had gone insane.
"It's just me!" she said.
Joey turned red under her gaze and mumbled, "Well I was kinda expectin' some dementoid reporter ta come stormin up tryin to get tha scoop on my sista, everythan' she's ever done, etc.…or worse, Tristan bargin' in, demandin how I coulda let Serenity out of ma sight an' into tha clutches of that monsta'."
Mai nodded sympathetically. "But now we need to get to work."
"So. What are we going to do about this?" Joey asked. Mai's cell phone started buzzing.
"Hold on. If this is whom I think it is…Right! I have to take this."
Mai stepped outside the hallway. Soon a bright perky voice (A/N- figured it out yet? Lol., kinda obvious) could be heard through the earpiece.
"Hey Mai! Guess what? Good news!" Mai tensed, awaiting a big scoop.
" I FOUND SUGAR!!!"
Mai sweatdropped, wishing she had a better choice for an accomplice. Preferably one less hyper and with a longer attention span. But she needed someone who could monitor Kaiba 24/7. And that meant one person. Enter Mokuba. Who was now Super-Hyper-Mokuba.
"Did you know that sugar makes a lovely buzzing pleasant feeling? Especially when consumed in copious amounts!?!… WHEEE!!!!!
Joey muttered from behind her, "Looks like it upped his vo-cab-u-la-ree too." Mai sweatdropped again.
Finally, after listening to Mokuba ramble on about the positive effects of sugar in the body (using college-level terminology) for a minute or so, Mai stepped in.
"Um, Mokuba, WHAT ABOUT KAIBA?"
Fortunately, that subject got him back to a (somewhat) normal energy level as Mokuba stopped his rambling to snicker. "Um…I sorta left him and Serenity ready to tear my throat out. Hehe. I got a picture of them looking like they were going to.. KISS!! Hahahahahaha --- crackle"
The line filled with static as Mokuba, in his glee, dropped the phone into a bag of Skittles. This led to him rummaging through the bag to find the phone... and therefore eating MORE candy.
Mokuba's manic hyperactive level quickly rose to 400 mg of sugar/cubic milliliter of blood. Which is a lot. Meanwhile, behind Mai, Joey was having fits of the thought of his innocent little sister kissing that monster. Needless to say, Mai was not having a fun time.
"MOKUBA! PUT DOWN THE CANDY! JOEY! GET OVER IT!!"
Joey immediately stopped moping and looked up at Mai with sad puppy dog eyes. Rustling sounds were no longer heard over the phone. Mokuba sat quietly. Mai shook her head and thought 'Boys. Use a little force and they turn into cowering puppies .' Mai quickly issued instructions and they set off with their jobs.
Serenity soon found herself alone with Kaiba.
In an empty room.
Alone.
With him.
Him.
Oh.
Crap.
Serenity slowly started backing up as she pretended to look at her watch. All it took was Seto looking up sharply to stop her in her tracks. 'Uh-oh.'
Kaiba advanced. "Just where do you think you're going?"
"Um…home?"
There was an awkward silence as Kaiba's eyes bored into hers. Finally he spoke, disdain tingeing his features.
"Do you honestly believe that?"
"Um…yes?"
"If I have to suffer you being here at all, we will get something accomplished."
Serenity didn't like the sound of that. What did he mean?
His eyes glared into hers. "The project, moron." Serenity breathed a sigh of relief as Kaiba shook his head is exasperation. "Why you even think anything other than that… Why would I even waste my time with you?"
'Good question…Why are you wasting your time on her anyways?'
'Shut up. Duh. Project. Moronic teacher. End of story.'
'Right. That's why you hired her to babysit Mokuba.'
'That was a jab at her brother. The mutt.'
'Dear god you sound gay. That's it. You're in love with the mutt.'
'What the hell?! NO!'
'So you admit you find females attractive?'
'No.'
'Well, based on the lack of evidence to the contrary, I'll have to assume you're gay.'
'I'm about to kiss that girl right now just to get you to shut up!'
' Shalalalalala, kiss the girl…'
'NO!'
'Gay'
'NO!'
'Um, Mr. Logical, there is no evidence to the contrary.'
'….'
'Unless of course you admit you have feelings for Serenity…'
'….'
'Is that a yes?'
'NO!"'(sigh) It's hard being a conscience.'
Serenity of course was watching an inner battle of wills going on in Seto's face. Finally, he pulled himself together, scowled even more fiercely at her than before, and growled, "Come with me."
Serenity, while quite brave and adventurous, was in NO way, shape, or form, going to leave into this giant mansion with Kaiba.
Alone.
With Kaiba.
No way.
No way.
She shook her head and backed up slowly. As soon as Kaiba noticed this defiance, he quickly glared and started forward. With a little squeak, Serenity turned and fled out the door behind her, disappearing quicker than Seto could even think to stop her. With a growl, he started to run. That insolent little wench!
Serenity was running quickly, but she was tiring quickly, feeling her breath leaving her by the moment. Suddenly, out of the blue, a hand caught her right arm as it swung back. She let out a small shriek. The hand pulled sharply, and she swung around to face an enraged Seto Kaiba.
Unfortunately, when he pulled on her arm, she had slowed down, but he himself hadn't slowed at all. With that pent-up energy, he crashed into her, sending her tumbling to the floor, following closely on her heels.
Serenity was feeling some considerable pain now. Her head just slammed into the hard tile, she was out of breath, and to top it all off, Kaiba was lying on top of her! Could this situation get any worse?
With that thought in mind, Mokuba entered the hallway.
Mai logged onto the computer with a click. Accessing her email, she was gratified to see a new email from a hyperskittlesboi6103 (at) kaibacorp . com Opening it, she found an Internet link. Clicking it, she saw the words: "Welcome to the Kaiba Mansion Security Home Page" She grinned, and clicked the first thing that she saw: "Overview of Ground Floor".
Mai sighed as the page started loading. 15…….17…… 20……
Her mind wandered. After being unable to concentrate on a single thing for any decent time, her mind wandered back to one thing…. Joey. He seemed present in her every thought.
35…….36…..38…
She started plotting strategies for Duel Monsters, when his smiling face showed up, grinning cockily as he faced down Bandit Keith in Duelist Kingdom. She thought about going shopping, and found herself wondering whether he would like this shirt or those shoes. She couldn't get him out of her head.
54………58………..61…………..
Her mind started racing. Did this mean anything? Did it….no…maybe…could it…hmm…
67...........68..........73...........
Finally, she asked herself the question she feared even to ask mentally. Did she... like him?
78…..80……82…….
The natural rebuttal of "No!!" floated to the top of her conscience. But….she felt like she didn't want that to be true. She felt rocked to her very core. Why would this issue have to appear now? She shakily put the matter aside and tried desperately to think of something else. Much to her dismay, Joey chose that moment to walk in the door.
92…….94….97……
Her mind went crazy. She couldn't talk to him right now! It didn't matter if she liked him, the mere suggestion coupled with his presence was NOT GOOD! She felt Joey eyes hot on her back like lasers… Her face heated up. 'NO!'
99…..100
She sighed with relief as the page finished loading.
She took a quick glance over the monitors, stiffening slightly when Joey leaned forward to see better. She gasped with shock and alarm. 'Oh no. What have we done?'
Serenity just closed her eyes, wishing she would wake up and be home in her bed as Kaiba tried to untangle their limbs. Struggling up from the ground, he turned and saw Mokuba there, eyes wide. Mentally, he sighed. "Why me?" Mokuba stood there, stock still, not moving. Seto rolled his eyes and walked up to him.
Mokuba made eye contact then asked tentatively. "What were you doing to Serenity?"
"It's not what it looked like. Now go finish your homework."
Mokuba, eyes still wide, turned and trudged off, totally confused and in shock.
Kaiba turned to see the hallway empty.
She was gone.
XD She ran away!!! But don't worry, she's not actually going to escape…well, probably not…I mean, this guy has like, 7 foot walls around the mansion…
Hehe, I found a good Thanksgivings gift – updating!
Okay, I did it again. I started with an end in mind, started typing, and ended up with something totally different. Okay, sorry, big stuff comes next chapter (hopefully). And thank you for all being so patient!!!
Yay, lots of reviews! You guys are so nice…
Replies:
Nkitty29 – Oh great, more sugar. Just what he needs. XD
Darkhope – You'll like this chapter, I put lots of J/M in for you. Plus it's so fun to see Mai confused. (And joey is just oblivious)
Sorceress Vanessa - not much to guess this chapter! But yes, you're too good lol. Well, you can try to figure out where she's going to run… (cause I have no idea myself… --")
Cheerfulangel57 - Thanks bunches! And I love the whole camera thing… Mokuba lives for his camera and blackmail, lol. He probably has a pretty large allowance by now…
Kikoken - " well I didn't really update THAT quickly… sweatdrop hehe… okay so it took me a month.
Black Mistress – Poor Joey. He's getting hit with something every 3 minutes… But Mokuba won't be running now, he's still in shock, lol! Seeing his big brother….um.. in an unfortunate position.. XD poor kid, he's scarred for life.
Orangey91 - don't we all! I would so call in… screw supporting the characters; I want to go to Tokyo! lol
Jessica – This story won't be done for…a while at least. I'm thinking around 30 chapters, maybe more, maybe less. (so I need to update faster) Thanks!
Alley Cat - Ok, I may put you in the next intro.
Kariah – Okay, thanks for the suggestions!
Kirarafreak - --; just tell her to leave. Jk. Thanks bunches
prettyStupidGirl – Hehe, poor Joey! He gets tortured even more in this chapter….
Jade Wyvern – Um, duh! Way too much homework. You know what? My LA teacher gave us like, 5 hours of hw over break! And what is the title for the fic?? I need to know…
Starwolf, TkMacintosh, VeryShortMidget, thefutureMrs. Kaiba, pinkdreamer122 - Thanx for all your reviews!!!
I will try to update quicker this time!
- BlackLightniing