B-Day fic for Icthyopook

"Worry and stress." Isono kept telling himself. His employer's odd behavior HAD to be the result of worry and stress. He didn't want to imagine the consequences if people began to suspect that the C.E.O. of Kaiba Corp. was having some kind of breakdown.

He stood guarding the entrance to the private family waiting room while Kaiba paced a furrow in the plush carpet, trying NOT to listen to the agitated bursts of conversation.

"He's going to be fine... Yes, Dr. Okuma is an excellent surgeon... He wouldn't have been Mokuba's surgeon if he wasn't. Appendicitis CAN be very serious, but fortunatly it was caught before it ruptured... Yes, I personally notified his grandfather-AND I'm sure the geek squad will be along monentarally, an event I'm looking foward to only because then I can get back to running my company...

All in all, a perfectly ordinary conversation under the circumstances- IF in fact his employer had been talking to a PERSON, not that pyramid-shaped pendant of Yugi Mouto's that Kaiba held protectivly in his arms...


Happy Birthday Icthyopook! Sorry I haven't been by your LJ in a while.