66A/N-This chapter is in Seto's POV and the beginning is his view on everything that has happened so far. This may be slow but I feel that it is important. As always please forgive any errors and please review. Please let me know what you think.
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Chapter 12
Seto's POV
From my bedroom window I watched Yuki drive away from the house quickly. I pressed my forehead against the cold glass and sighed.
Why do I constantly feel the need to provoke her?
I've been doing that ever since I met her, making her do moronic tasks, and saying things just to get a rise out of her.
My eyes widened with a sudden realization, I've been jokingly teasing her. This whole time I've been having fun. Why the hell would I tease her like that?
I don't tease anyone I rarely even joke with Mokuba like that, and even when I do he never reacts like she does.
That's it! That's why I do it, to see her reaction.
When she gets mad her face reddens slightly and her lower lip sticks out a little, almost like a pout but somehow it's not so annoying. Me insulting someone is nothing new but I never actually meant anything I had said to her.
Even when I called her a dog I didn't mean it. One of the only times I've actually been mad with her was when she hacked into the company's mainframe, and even then I was a little impressed. Even when she refused to come into work I was more amused than mad. Few people have the guts to say No to me and none of them are my employees.
And then there was this weekend she had taken care of Mokuba and she even worried about him, so much so that she took on my irritation just to tell me about how he was feeling and I admit I had been surprised to learn about his sadness. Then she took care of me, even though I had been rude to her, she stayed all night to make sure that I was okay. I had questioned myself for hours wondering why she would help me but I could think of few feasible ulterior motives.
I don't know what happened when I took her home, my intention had been to simply drop her off and somehow I ended up almost kissing her. Once I realized what was happening I kissed her forehead instead of my original target, her lips.
However, I had succeeded in capturing that target this evening. Tonight had been strange; in fact all of today had been strange, starting with this morning.
Mokuba had practically refused to go to school; he was feigning illness and saying that he was too tired to go. It took a whole hour to finally get him to go; I had to agree not to work all weekend. By the time I had arrived at work I was in a foul mood and apparently so was Yuki.
She nearly destroyed my quarterly financial reports when she gave me my coffee. Somehow we had ended up in a silent war, both sides refusing to give in. I didn't want to deal with her today so I had her do some errands, pointless ones really but oh well.
My day did not improve. The secretary that the temp agency had sent over was none other than Abigail Owens, the same girl who had applied for the assistant position against Yuki. All day she flirted with me and as the day went on her skirt got shorter. She screwed everything up and she wasn't the only one. I had fired three people by the time I left. Needless to say I was not very happy by the end of the day; all I wanted to do was get a drink and go to sleep.
When I got home I was surprised to see Yuki still there, I had forgotten that I had asked her to stay until I got back. Then she expected me to apologize HA. I was having fun teasing her, she was so caught up in our agreement that she didn't even notice that we were in my bedroom. When she finally noticed a faint blush appeared on her face, it made her look innocent, I half expected her to start stuttering and runaway. Instead she continued our argument until she was insulting me. To be honest I was amused, no one's really ever insulted me to my face before, except Wheeler but who really gives a damn about him? Then I kissed her, I'm not sure why, probably just to shut her up, but the surprising thing was, she kissed me back. She tasted like mangoes but as soon as we broke the kiss she ran off.
I turned away from the window and began undressing, as I began to unbutton my shirt my mind began to imagine Yuki's soft hands running up and down my body. I shook my head and quickly undressed making my way into my shower. Unfortunately all of my thoughts revolved around the same red haired assistant.
I remembered our agreement about my past illicit activities. Those prostitutes were nothing more than temporary physical relief, all were very unsatisfying. My thoughts stayed on Yuki for a while before I forced my thoughts onto a new prototype I was building. These thoughts kept my mind from wandering for the rest of the night.
A loud ringing noise greeted my ears when I woke up. I groaned and reached toward the alarm clock and hit the button, but the noise didn't stop, that's when I realized that it was my cell phone ringing. My hand started groping for it on my side table. Finally I felt the cold metal underneath my hand. I flipped it open and saw that the call was coming from work.
"What?" I heard the caller sigh into the phone.
"Mr. Kaiba where are you?"
"I'm at home, what do you want?"
"Your 11 o'clock conference call is ready and you're not here. What do you want me to do?"
I shot up and looked at my clock; it was already 11:15.
Crap, why the hell didn't I wake up?
"I'll be there in ten minutes just distract him until then, tell him my previous meeting is running late."
"I already did. See you soon."
I hung up my phone and quickly got ready and left.
I stepped out of the elevator and quickly walked over to Yuki who was on the phone, when she saw me she looked relieved, she said something into the phone and set it down.
"Thank God you're here, he's so strange." I nodded and headed into my office.
I did not want to deal with this now. I pressed the talk button and mentally prepared myself for the stupidity that was sure to come.
"Pegasus"
"Kaiba boy, it's been such a long time since we've talked. I've missed you."
"No you didn't." I was glaring at the phone; he always says the stupidest things. I heard an overdramatic gasp and I could practically see him holding his hand over his heart.
"But I did, I missed Mokuba too." Before I could respond I heard a soft knock at my door, when the door opened I saw Yuki holding a cup of coffee.
She handed it to me as I nodded my head in thanks; she smiled and quietly slipped out of the room.
"Was that that lovely assistant of yours Yuki?"
I glared at the phone and did not answer.
"She sounds beautiful Kaiba boy. Tell me what she looks like."
"I do not think that that is relevant to our discussion."
"But we haven't even started our business discussions yet, this is still small talk."
I glared even harder at the telephone.
"It's still of no importance. Now let's begin, I'm sure you're very busy coming up with more toon monsters." My voice dripped with sarcasm at the mention of his disgusting toons.
Pegasus chuckled, he knew how much I hated those creatures and he knew how much I hated talking to him.
"You're right I am very busy but there's one last thing I'd like to discuss before we begin Kaiba boy."
I sighed quietly in frustration.
"What?"
"I'm holding a party here in a month's time to celebrate our newest joint project. I think you should be there. It's great publicity and besides you could use some more fun."
My glare returned, he was right about it being good publicity but I absolutely despise these kinds of parties, or parties of any kind really.
"I don't think I'll be able to attend."
"If it's because of that sweet little brother of yours it's all taken care of. He's more than welcome to come. The party is adults only but he can be entertained."
I took a drink of my coffee searching for something to say.
"I still don't think that will be possible."
I heard Pegasus sigh softly and I heard the squeaking of a chair as he moved closer to the speaker.
"Let me put it to you this way Kaiba boy. If you don't come the deal is off."
Damnit
"Fine I'll go."
Pegasus clapped his hands in joy.
"Excellent. The details are on the invitation I sent. It is mandatory for everyone to come with a date. Oh this is going to be so much fun; everyone's going to be there."
I growled softly. "Can we get started now?"
"Of course Kaiba boy"
One hour later I finally emerged from my office, feeling frustrated at the owner of Industrial Illusions. Yuki looked up from her desk and gave me a confused look.
"What is wrong with that guy?" I nearly smiled; do we even have enough time to go over everything that's wrong with him?
His odd obsession with Yugi, his childlike voice, those toon monsters and the love that he has for them and he's just plain creepy.
Instead of going into detail I gave a simple reply. "A lot."
She smiled softly before standing up and walking into the kitchen like area. She reemerged a few moments later with a steaming hot cup of coffee in her hand.
"Here you go. How come you were late this morning?" I narrowed my eyes at her slightly before leaning against the wall and replying.
"I don't know. My alarm didn't go off this morning." She nodded and made her way back to her desk her dark red hair swaying in her ponytail.
"Maybe Mokuba turned it off. I mean I really doubt any of your staff would. Or maybe it's broken, I don't know." She shrugged and continued to her desk before she came to a halt and faced me with a smile tugging at her lips.
"By the way, you got a phone call while you were in your meeting."
I took a sip of coffee and waited for her to continue.
"It was from a young woman named Abigail. She said she worked here yesterday. She sure sounded interesting."
As my eyes narrowed her smile grew.
"She left a message for you, here it is." She handed me a piece of paper that said:
Seto: I had a great time yesterday I can't wait to do it again. Call me!
I quickly put the message in the shredder and turned around. When I looked at her I was surprised to see her doubled over trying to suppress her laughter until she couldn't hold it in any longer.
She burst into laughter and fell into her chair clutching her sides.
"What's so funny?" I growled at her. With her laughing subsiding she answered.
"Your face."
I narrowed my eyes again before a smirk appeared on my face.
"Yuki clear the schedule for the week of the 15th."
"Why?"
"Because I'm going to San Francisco. You and Mokuba are coming too."
My smirk grew even wider at seeing her shocked face. This is going to be interesting.