Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Things Change ❯ Joey The Liar? ( Chapter 15 )

Okay boys and girls, it's that time again! No, it's not the "Wheel of Morality" (Owned by WB). It's the next chapter to A Different Beat. This chapter maybe short, but I'll make it up in the next chapter. If not, then the chapter afterwards.

Magicman/Smokegirl - Does Tea get Tristan? Well…find out!

Sanura-sama - Yeah. At least in this story he is. Hey, if Joey supposedly is dumb, how does he keep advancing to the next grade?

"So let me get this straight: You're telling me that Joey Wheeler, as in the blonde street kid who always looking for a fight Joey Wheeler is actually a straight-A student?" Kaiba asked, still in shock and disbelief.

"Has the potential, actually…" The teacher corrected. "If only he would apply himself a bit more, he could be a straight A-student."

A smirk suddenly came to Kaiba's face. "How much is Wheeler paying you to say that?" He knew that Joey couldn't possibly have enough money to bribe teachers into giving him good enough marks. But then again there was the prize money from Duelist Kingdom left over from his sister's eye surgery he could've used. "Just admit it: Everyone knows that Joey Wheeler couldn't pass a test if his life depended on it so why cover for him."

She just sighed. "You're right Mr. Kaiba, he has been bribing me. As well as the rest of his teachers save for his Foods instructor and P.E. teacher."

Kaiba's smirk grew wider. "I knew it…"

"But it's quite the opposite."

"Leave it to a low-class dog to try to bribe a teacher with his bo-What?" Kaiba blinked when the last part of the teacher's statement registered into his brain. "You mean to tell me he bribes you to fail him?"

"Yes… at first when Joey was beginning to improve dramatically, but then his grades went down again. I was taken by surprised, but then, at last month's test Joey was the first one finished with the test. So I put two and two together and then it hit me: Joey was flunking the test on purpose!"

"Do you expect me to believe that?" Kaiba roared. "What kind of idiot do you take me for? What kind of idiot would deliberately fail the test on-" Kaiba stopped, "Don't answer that…"

"May I suggest that you ask Mr. Wheeler about it if you must know?"

"Hah… Knowing him he'll just deny it."

Kaiba growled as he glared at the paper which was on his enemy's desk. "Do you have his real average for this class?"

"Of course…" The teacher took out her grade book. "Despite his requests, I've kept on file his real grades from test, quizzes. And he managed to really do the assignments as my only request."

Kaiba glared. "What is Wheeler's average?"

"Let's see…" The teacher skimmed through the book as she finally found the page she was looking for. "Oh yes…his average in this class would be 96."

"A 96!?" Kaiba exclaimed in shock. "That's almost as high as my average!"

Joey, having just dropped Arisa off at her homeroom, was heading towards his homeroom as then, from the janitor's closet, a pair of hands yanked him inside.

"The hell!?" Joey soon found himself shoved onto a wall as he looked into the glaring eyes of his best friend.

"I'm gonna kill you, and then kill you again! AND AGAIN AND AGAIN!" Tristan shouted as he shook his startled blonde.

"Tristan, Tristan, Tristan-"

"DON'T YOU TRIPLE TRISTAN ME, WHEELER!" He snapped. "Thanks to you, I have Tea going homicidal on me wanting to pull a Barry Bonds by knocking my head out of the ballpark! What part of 'promise not to tell' did you not understand!?"

"I had no choice, genius!" Joey snapped back. "Yesterday Tea went out of control and attack Arisa, then I had to take her outside from the group and-"

"You guys took Tea with you?"

"Look, I didn't have much of a choice! She was literally stuck to me!"

"How was she stuck to you?"

"Use yer imagination!"

"That doesn't matter. What matters now is that Tea's after my head and it's all your fault!"

"Look Tristan. We'll deal with this later. We're almost late for class!"

"Fine, but this isn't over, Joey! Not by a long shot!" Tristan hissed.

School ended as Kaiba walked out from his last class, but he had a sour puss look on his face. He had made it a point to go see Joey's teachers to see if he's been purposely flunking in their classes too. Much to his dismay, the results were the same as their homeroom teacher: He's been paying them off to flunk him as well.

"What else has Wheeler been hiding…?" He pondered as he then saw the person in question:

Joey was alone at his locker. Since he didn't have any homework, he decided to place all of his books in the locker save for a few that he'll need for tomorrow. Arisa managed to somehow get herself a detention so he was going to talk to the gang and see if they could wait for her detention to be over.

As Joey was about the close the door, the door apparently had closed…more like slammed itself shut which startled Joey, who wondered how could've happened. However, his question would be answered…

"WHEELER!"

Joey turned around as he then, after seeing the source of the shout, sighed. "What do you want now, Kaiba?"

"You know what this is about!" Kaiba yelled at the blonde. "I couldn't believe it until I saw the proof, and you had the audacity to pull it off as if no one would find out, liar!"

"Eh?" Joey raised an eyebrow out of curiosity, which just made Kaiba even angrier.

"Don't play dumb with me! Or should I say as long as you have already!"

"Where ya going with this?"

Kaiba opened his briefcase as he then shoved a piece of paper in his face! "Do these look familiar to you, Wheeler?" On the paper were Joey's grades. Not the grades he got on his report cards, but the grades they put on the computer. As expected they were mostly 90s and 85s. The lowest score displayed was an 82, in science.

"Umm…"

"Playing dumb all these years, when all this time you actually had a brain in there!"

"So…what's it to you?" Joey shrugged.

"Does anyone know about your secret?"

"Nope…"

"Not even your sister?"

"Nope…"

"Who does know? Let me guess, Mallovic?"

"She knew that I was flunking my tests on purpose when she saw me write down an answer that was obviously wrong." Joey explained as he looked down at his watch. "Speaking of Arisa, I have to go meet her." He said as he tried to leave, but then felt a yank on the collar of his jacket.

"The hell you are!" Kaiba held on to the jacket, not wanting Joey to leave just yet. "I want to know what else you've been faking. We already know you're smart, so you must have more sense than you've shown us. You also can say words longer than four let-"

"I've been saying words longer than-"

"And you're probably…" Kaiba began to seethe, "Oh hell no…no way…" His glare became worse. "No way…no fucking way…you are, aren't you?"

"Aren't what, Kaiba?" Joey asked innocently.

"DON'T PLAY GAMES WITH ME, YOU LYING DOG! ALL THIS TIME YOU'VE BEEN BULLSHITTING EVERYONE!" Kaiba screamed. "I'M GONNA FUCKING KILL YOU WHEELER!"

"I like to chat, but I gotta go! Laters!" Joey smiled as he began to walk away.

"DON'T YOU DARE WALK AWAY FROM ME!" Kaiba was about to walk away, but was stopped by a smaller hand.

"What's wrong, Kaiba?" Yugi asked as he, along with Tristan, Tea, and Bakura, looked at Kaiba with a mixture of shock and curiosity at his actions.

"What's wrong? WHAT'S WRONG!? I'LL TELL YOU WHAT'S WRONG!?" Kaiba screamed at the gang as he then gave the paper with Joey's grades to Yugi. "Take a look at what your so-called friend Joey the Liar has been keeping from you!"

Yugi and the gang looked at the grades as then, his eyes went wide.

"Joey has As and Bs!?" Tea exclaimed. "That's not what was on his report card."

"Yeah! Usually Joey hardly does well enough to get a C." Yugi reminded.

"The reason why Wheeler is barely able to get a C is because he pays the teachers to under rank him!"

Tristan blinked, "You're kidding, right!?"

"I don't kid…" Kaiba glared.

"Well who else know-" Tea stopped as she then narrowed her eyes. "Let me guess, starts with an A and rhymes with 'Visa,' right?" She asked, annoyed.

Kaiba walked away. "You geeks can handle it. I have better things to do."

After Kaiba was gone, Yugi sighed. "How could this pass us like that? I mean, we're always together, right?"

"Oh Yugi! Ever since Joey's being going to this so-called group, he's changed. Changed to the point where we don't even know him anymore." Tea declared. "First he starts going to these meetings without even telling us about it! Then he starts to date Miss H.R. Short 'n stuff! Even though he should've gone out with someone who knew him longer, who's been there for him since the day-"

"Umm…Tea?"

"Huh?" Tea stopped her ranting and looked at Yugi and Tristan who were giving her confused glances. "Eheheh…sorry…"

"So let's head for detention. I have a few words I like to say to him!" Tristan began to walk towards the classroom where Detention was being held, but was pulled back by Yugi.

"Let's be calm about this!" Yugi advised. "There is a logical explanation for this!"

"What? That we've been hanging around a genius who pretended to be an idiot all this time? If there is an explanation, I'll get it out of him…one way or another…" Tristan continued his march towards the room with Yugi and Tea following behind.

So Joey is going to detention to wait for Arisa, as Yugi and co go to confront Joey about his "secret." What will happen? Find out next chapter!