Love and Rivalry

Chapter 1

What a waste of time...

Seto Kaiba walked into a school classroom and sat down at his usual desk in the far back left corner. He found teachers usually left him to his own devices when he was sequestered away. Thankfully they rarely called on him for an answer. Being the CEO of Kaiba Corp definitely had its perks.

Once I've obtained the sorry excuse of a diploma from this school, I can finally focus on furthering my company, he thought bitterly. And he definitely had big plans for Kaiba Corp.

Laughter from across the room caught his attention as he noticed Yugi Motto and his friends sitting down in their seats. Kaiba couldn't stop a sneer from escaping his lips. Yugi may have defeated him once again in the Battle City tournament, but he had bigger fish to fry then having to worry about defeating the 'King of Games'.

Kaiba returned his attention to a book he had pulled out. The teachers here had hardly anything new to teach him. His stepfather, Gozaboru, had given him the toughest and strictest tutors. But with him now gone, Kaiba needed to complete at least some education, even if it was only for the piece of paper. He can't give any of his peers in the corporate world any reason to look down on him. Most of them carried business degrees from prestigious colleges when Seto didn't even carry his high school diploma. It was bad enough that he didn't plan on attending college, he simply didn't have the time or patience.

After an abysmal hour of history, the bell finally rang to signal the end of the day. Kaiba quickly got up to escape out of the room as fast as he could. In his haste, he didn't see a fellow student a few chairs ahead of him also get up and ended up running right into the back of them.

Or her he should say.

"Why don't you watch where you're going!" Kaiba snarled. He couldn't rush past as she was now blocking the aisle, with her books scattered on the floor.

She turned around to look at him, her eyes flashing as she met his gaze.

"Figures, you run into me and then blame me for it. Sorry if I don't bow out of the way for the great Seto Kaiba!"

Kaiba was momentarily stunned. He wasn't used to people talking to him this way. Employees who had worked for him for years still couldn't look him in the eye when they spoke to him. Kaiba appraised the girl who had the nerve to speak so blatantly to him by letting his eyes trail her up and down.

Raven black hair that hung just below her shoulders. It wasn't straight but not quite curly either. It fell in thick waves all around her face which had pronounced cheek bones and a straight but dainty nose. For a girl she was tall, the top of her head looked like it just reached under his chin.

Her blouse was buttoned all the way up and the skirt sat just at her knee. Most girls tried to show as much skin as possible with the school uniform to appear more attractive, but with her, she didn't have to. Any man would agree that she was gorgeous.

When he met back up at her eyes, he saw that they were a brilliant green. And they were glaring at him.

Kaiba glared back. "Hmph, well maybe you should take a page out of somebody else's book and learn to step out of my way, less you see my bad said."

"You mean this isn't your bad side?" she retorted. "It's no wonder then that people run the other direction when they see you approaching."

Kaiba's eyes narrowed a fraction. "Unfortunately, the same can't be said of you. Now move out of my way, you've wasted enough of my time."

As he shoved past her to get to the door, he heard her yell at his retreating back "Send me a bill for using up your, oh-so-precious time. Not that you need it!"