Jan 26, 2007

Drabble Meme for Riles

by Pearl of the Dark Age

Seto Kaiba was holding a meeting in one of the neglected boardrooms in the Kaiba Cooperation building. The newer, fancier boardrooms were being renovated, and he was forced to use the room that strongly reminded him of an old-fashioned schoolroom, complete with a black chalkboard. One of his employees had drawn a koala on the board prior to the meeting, with an immature pun underneath about the CEO. If Kaiba had known which one had done that, he would have fired him or her on the spot.

As it was, he did not know, and he was forced to just ignore it. Ignoring problems was his second favorite solution. He raised the eraser to remove the offending marsupial, when in walked Marik. If it was not random enough that the Egyptian had ambled into the start of his board meeting, it was what Marik was wearing. He had on Kaiba’s personal bathrobe, a pair of fluffy white dragon slippers, while sucking a purple lollipop and wearing matching lipgloss. He smirked at the brunette, winking with a heavily lined lavender eye.

One of the employees, who had been in the process of dipping a French fry into some fancy ketchup, stopped mid-dip to stare at the platinum blonde. The guy next to him whispered in his ear, “Who is this fairy?”

“He must be a boyfriend,” someone whispered back.

Kaiba struggled to keep his face from turning red. “Get out, Marik! I am in the middle of a meeting!”

“It looks to me like it just started,” Marik replied coolly. “Let us go outside and play football!”

“Get lost, Marik!” Kaiba snarled. “I do not have time to shovel this shit of yours! I will talk to you later.”

Much to the CEO’s surprise, Marik did not put up a further resistance. He sauntered around the room, stopping by each employee and testing to see if they were wearing a toupee before meandering back out like a passing butterfly. Everyone stared in disbelief. Kaiba felt as if his mouth had gone drier than the Sahara, and he shaked with rage. Unfortunately for him, he had to swallow it and finish the meeting before he could deal with his unpredictable boyfriend.

More whispers about koalas were circulating the boardroom while Kaiba droned on about falling stock prices. He glared at the culprit - the one who loved his French fries so much he brought some to every meeting regardless of the time of day. He gulped at his boss and smiled weakly, shutting up.

When the meeting was finally over, when all the bored employees stood up, aching and groaning like old men, breathing a sigh of relief, Marik returned. “Hello everyone!” he greeted with a dark, ominous tone. “I hope you enjoyed your meeting! But I think it’s time to find out who drew the koala on the chalkboard. Do you not agree, Seto-chan?” He winked again at his reluctant boyfriend.

“Don’t call me that!” Kaiba hissed menacingly. “I swear…”

“Don’t you want to know how I know?” Marik teased.

“I am guessing now that it was you,” Kaiba returned nastily.

“Not at all!” Marik informed. “I would not call you a koala; I would call you something much… much… better than that! Koalas are cute and cuddly!”

“I do not share that opinion,” Kaiba snarled. “I do not care for anything cute and cuddly.”

All the employees gaped at the Egyptian intruder. They began to whisper amongst themselves in even more hushed voices than they had previously used in the board meeting. Nervous glances were also exchanged, and some of them began to sweat. Anxiety and tension mounted. It seemed that Seto Kaiba had a mysterious power to control the minds of his employees lately, and many of them were now speculating it had something to do with this stranger.

“Come on, Seto-chan!” Marik said in a mock, sing song voice. “I know you want to know who did it.”

Kaiba sighed, “Who?”

Marik grinned evily, “Mokuba!”

end drabble.