Business as Usual

                             I'd spent a week in the Kaiba Corp building and learned my way around quickly. I was even given a room on the fifth floor, which was strictly living quarters. I was only given the room to avoid talk of a strange woman entering the building every day. The living space was simple enough; blue walls, a bedroom, a living room, a bathroom and a kitchen. Of course, I had no use for most of the rooms. As I lay on my bed, I allowed my mind to wander to exactly how Kaiba would affect my life in such a way that his death would change my existence. I couldn't really say my life could be altered, considering I was technically dead.

 

"What could possibly happen," I mumbled.

I then heard someone nearing the front door to my apartment. I stood up and was at the door the second they started knocking. I opened the door and saw Mokuba standing there, his fist still raised in the air.

 

"Can I help you," I asked with a small smile.

 

"Seto has a meeting in ten minutes and I thought you might want to be there," he answered.

 

"Of course. Which room is it in?"

 

"Just follow me."

 

I locked my door behind me and walked behind Mokuba. We went up to the second to last floor and walked into a room with a very long table surrounded by multiple chairs. Kaiba was already seated at the head of the table and there were two seats behind him. That was where Mokuba and I would be sitting.

"What is this meeting for," I asked, taking my seat.

 

"Other companies know that Kaiba Corp is the most successful and they all want a piece of it. This is just a way for them to try to negotiate," Mokuba explained.

 

"I take it they rarely succeed."

 

"Seto's not giving up this company for anything."

 

I nodded in understanding. I imagined he had worked hard to get to where he was now. It was only natural that he would be so unwilling to lose the company.

 

"Just remember that you aren't giving any input," Kaiba said as he finished setting up the papers in front of him.

 

He didn't bother to glance at me as he spoke.

 

"I wasn't intending to," I answered and crossed one leg over the other.

 

The sun shone in through the large windows and our shadows stretched across the room. I began watching as random flecks of dust floated through the air. Ten minutes later, all the business men entered the room and took their seats. There were twenty of them.

 

"Who, may I ask, is that lovely lady behind you," one of the men asked, trying to make small talk.

 

He looked to be in his fifties, as his hair was graying.

 

"She's just an observer," Kaiba answered.

 

I nodded politely and pulled out a notepad and pen.

 

"Taking notes, are we," another man asked with an amused chuckle.

 

"She's studying Business in college," Kaiba answered.

 

They all accepted that explanation and the meeting began. For the most part, it was very dull and I found it hard to concentrate. I spent a great deal of time writing down lyrics to songs that came to mind. I had to make it look like I was taking notes on the meeting. After the two hour meeting was over, all the businessmen left, clearly unappy with the results. Kaiba wouldn't budge on their offers.

 

"How do you stay focused? All of their talking is a load of bullshit," I asked.

 

Kaiba didn't answer as he put everything in his suitcase. I frowned and started to take a step forward. Mokuba grabbed my wrist, stopping me. I glanced back at him and he was shaking his head. I picked up my pen and notepad again and wrote my question, asking what was wrong with Kaiba. Mokuba wrote his answer before handing the paper back to me

 

'Seto is always like this after a meeting. It's not a good idea to bother him when he's like this,' the note read.

 

I shrugged my shoulders and left the meeting room. I hurried upstairs to Kaiba's office and let myself in. The room was as spotless as it was every time I saw it. However, there was something there that wasn't before. It was a deck of cards, stacked perfectly on Kaiba's desk. I lifted the top card and I saw a Blue-Eyes White Dragon.

 

"Wow... I heard there are only four of these in the world," I mumbled.

 

"Three, actually," Kaiba said from behind me.

 

I calmly set the card down and turned to face him.

 

"Where'd the fourth go?"

 

"What makes you think I know?"

 

"You have one, so you probably have more. You seem like the kind of person who would go after four of the most powerful cards in the game."

 

Kaiba simply walked past me and picked up his deck. He also put on one of those weird duel disks he invented. I had never gotten into the game, but I had a collected a few cards myself.

 

"Going somewhere," I asked.

 

"I've been challenged to a duel."

 

"Then I'm coming with you."

 

"Says who?"

 

"Says me. You agreed to let me do what I came for. That means tagging along when you go somewhere," I answered.

 

"What happened to staying out of my way," Kaiba asked.

 

"I will be out of your way. I'm just an observer, remember?"

 

Kaiba glared at me for using his own words against him. I smirked, knowing I'd won.

 

"Fine, but hurry up," he muttered and walked towards the door.

 

I followed after him, just a few paces behind.