It was a beautiful day in Domino City when Tea walked out the door to check her mail. She had forgotten to check yesterday after school and knew that there would be something left inside. She opened the box and flipped through the many envelopes. Bill…Bill…Junk mail…magazine… Suddenly she came across a letter from her father.

She smiled and immediately ripped open the envelope to see what new stories he had about his new family.

Dearest Tea,

How are you doing? According to your report cards, you seem to be doing well in school. I am happy to report that your Stepmother, Angelica, and your two stepsisters, Amy and Molly are doing quite well. We miss you very dearly especially your grandmother. Unfortunately, your grandmother has grown ill in her old age and I am not home most of the time to care for her. I was hoping you would consider coming home for a while to care for her. You're Stepmother and stepsisters are too inexperienced to be able to care for her. I won't force you to, but if you decide not to come she will have to be placed in a home. I have included a plane ticket in the envelope in case you decide to come.

With Love,

Papa

Tea stood there in shock. She couldn't let her grandmother be put in a home. They are never treated with the kindness and respect they deserve in those cold places. She knew what she had to do and slowly made her way to school to inform her friends.

Tea walked into an almost empty classroom appearing white as a ghost. She sat down at her desk wondering, 'How am I going to tell my friends?'

A mildly amused voice came from a desk in the back of the class, "You look like shit, Gardener."

Normally, she would instantly retort his nasty comment; but, today she just didn't have the energy. Instead, she just laid her head on the desk and waited for class to begin.

When she didn't answer back, he got up and stood in front of her desk. "What do you want Kaiba?" she asked miserably.

Instead of answering her, he asked, "Are you sick?" She shook her head no and Joey walked in the class room with the rest of the guys.

With a Brooklyn accent he asked, "Yo, Moneybags what did ya do to Tea?"

Before Kaiba could answer she handed Joey the letter from her father and said "read."

Joey looks down at the paper and skims through it, suddenly his eyes grew wide and he said, "WHAT, YOUR MOVING TO THE UNITED STATES! BUT, WHY?!"

"My grandmother is sick Joey. My father is simply too busy to care for her." She answered.

"But I thought you told us your father was getting married. Why can't she or her two daughters take care of her? They live in the same house." Yugi asked.

Tea scoffed and replied, "I wouldn't trust her with taking care of my goldfish. I only met her once, but something just doesn't feel right about her. And her daughters are the two most pretentious women I have ever met."

At this point Kaiba returned to his desk. His presence was no longer noticed, and he was getting the answers he wanted anyway.

Tristan nervously asked, "When do you leave?"

"Next Monday." She answered.

"Well, we will just have to have a going away party then!" Joey exclaimed. "How about the beach?"

Tea smiled and said, "That sounds like a lot of fun."

Joey then started prattling off a guest list, "Serenity, Mai, Duke, Mokuba, Noah…."

Tea sat there the rest of the day in silence.

After school, Kaiba got home and found Mokuba and doing their homework. Although finding Noah working on his homework normal; he knew Mokuba well enough to know that he wouldn't voluntarily do his homework unless he wanted something. "What do you want?" Kaiba asked knowingly.

"HOW DID YOU KNOW?!" Mokuba and Noah asked.

"Mokuba, it normally takes an act of congress to get you to do your homework, now spill." He answered his youngest brother.

Noah stood up and nervously shifted back and forth as he asked, "Can we go to Tea's going away party? Joey invited us and I know you won't let us go by ourselves."

Kaiba thought for a moment and knew his brothers would be devastated if he said no. With that he let go of all his pride and answered, "Fine."

His younger brothers tackled him into a hug and squealed, "Oh thank you Seto! You are the best brother a person could ask for!"

He looked down at his little brothers and replied, "Don't let that get around. Now get back to your homework."

Mokuba and Noah smiled and immediately went back to their homework.

That Saturday there was not a cloud in the sky, there was a lot of wind, but in the summer heat a breeze would come as a relief. The majority of the party was out swimming in the ocean. Mai, Serenity, Tristan, and Joey were playing Vollyball. It was a boys vs. girls game and as expected, the girls were wiping the floor with the boys. The stakes were high, the losing team had to buy the winning team ice-cream. Mokuba ran up to those not playing volleyball and screamed, "Seto, Tea, come on in the water is great!"

Seto completely ignored his brother and continued to read.

Tea sat up on her towel where she was sunbathing and asked Mokuba, "Can you keep a secret?"

Mokuba nodded and she leaned in and whispered, "I can't swim…and I rather not have Joey and Tristan poking fun at the fact before I leave."

Mokuba frowned and asked, "Really?"

She nodded and he said, "Okay, but would you two at least build a sandcastle or something. Watching you two is making me bored."

Tea stood up and dusted herself off. She moved closer to the water where the sand was slightly damp. She sat next to Noah who was holding a bucket and a plastic shovel. He looked grateful for the company, but slightly saddened that his older brother refused to join. Suddenly, she had a devious plan, she smashed together a ball of sand and threw it at Kaiba.

He looked up from his book with a look malice in his eyes, "What do you think you're doing Gardener?" he asked irritably.

His glare was terribly intimidating but she refused to allow him to know that. "Noah wants you to come build a castle with him. Knowing your severe paranoia of being dirty, I simply dipped your toe in the water so to speak. Now come over and help or I swear…." She was silenced by a sand ball to her face. "MY EYES!" she shrieked as she stumbled to the water. She tripped and made a splash. She sat at the water's edge and tried to splash the ocean water in her eyes but that only seemed to make it worse.

Kaiba watched dumbstruck until she started to frantically splash her face. He then realized what he had done and grabbed a water bottle from the cooler. He walked over to her side and grabbed her by her ponytail to get her to look up and keep still. He then poured the ice cold water into her eyes. She shivered as the ice water ran down her body; but, finally she could see again.

She was about to yell at him but he beat her to the punch and explained, "I wasn't aiming for your face."

Although she was still quite irritated, she realized this was his peculiar version of an apology. In a huff she said, "You're forgiven, just come play with your brother." With that they both walked back to Noah and started to build a castle.

About 30 minutes later, the rest of Tea's friends came up to the three building the castle and Joey asked, "Hey do yall want to go cliff diving with us?"

"Oooooh Nooooo." Tea answered "Thanks Joey, but I think I will pass" she answered confidently.

"You're not going Mokuba so you might want to sit with Noah and me." Kaiba stated afterwards.

Mokuba sat next to Seto and pouted, he knew that not even his infamous puppy eyes could get Seto's decision to sway if his safety was involved.

Yugi then suggested, "Yall don't have to dive if you don't want to, the sun is about to set and there is a gorgeous view from there."

Tea smiled and answered, "That does sound nice."

Mokuba looked back up to his brother and asked, "Can we at least go see that?"

Kaiba looked at Joey skeptically and sensed something was up, "No Mokuba, stay here."

…..

Once they made it up to the top of the cliff the sight was spectacular. You could not only see the beach, but all of Tokyo city. Tea could see the Kaiba Corporation building towering over the rest of the city. While she was awestruck Joey sneaked up behind her and swooped her up bridal style, he then ran to the very edge of the cliff and quoted from one of her favorite movie, "Fly little duckling, Fly!" he then dropped her from the cliff and gave Tristan a high-five. "It is about time she went swimming with us." he stated.

Mokuba watched them climb the cliff. Once they reached the top, he saw Yugi pointing out things in the distance to the rest of the group. He looked back down to the sand castle when he heard a scream. The group looked up in surprise and saw Tea plummeting into the water. Mokuba jumped up in fear and shrieked, "SETO, SHE CAN'T SWIM!"

Seto sat there for a moment dazed. A splash was heard signaling Tea had hit the water. That splash was enough to clear Seto from his confused stated and allowed him to jump into action. He ran and dove into the water, swimming with all of his might. The waves were strong even for an experienced swimmer like himself. He caught sight of Tea flailing in the distance trying with all of her might to keep afloat. He reached his arm out almost had her hand in his grasp, when a huge wave crashed down over them sending them both under.

Tea hit her head against a rock when she was pushed under and slowly started to descend underwater.

Seto came back up for air and saw that Tea was nowhere to be found. He ducked under the water and saw her sinking a reddish tinted liquid was coming from her head. He quickly grabbed her by her arm and pulled her up for air.

He then wrapped both of her arms around his neck and kicked his legs to propel himself back to the shore. Thankfully, the tide was on his side this time and he was able to get back without much trouble.

By this time, everyone that was at the cliff had made it back to the beach. He carried her lifeless body back to the shore. He placed her down and placed his ear next to her nose, "She's not breathing!" He said unnerved. He then checked her pulse, it was faint, but it was still there.

He bit his lip and thought 'oh god, I am going to have to do CPR…' He tilted her head back and pinched her nose about to start the procedure when suddenly she stated to cough up water. He let out a breath of relief and stood up. He then turned to Joey and screamed, "What the hell were you thinking? You could have killed her!"

Joey who would normally argue, shirked back and replied, "I didn't know she couldn't swim."

Enraged Kaiba replied, "Oh, I am sure that defense would go well in your trial for Involuntary Manslaughter!"

Their argument was interrupted when Tea mumbled, "My head hurts." She placed her hand to her head and saw blood. Kaiba grabbed his Jacket by his beach bag and held it to her head wound. He then helped her to her feet and started to walk her to the limo.

"Where do you think you're going with Tea? MONEY BAGS!" Joey shouted.

Kaiba simply ignored him and Mokuba and Noah hopped into the car. Before the driver took off, Mokuba yelled, "Were going to the hospital!"

Kaiba looked over at Tea in the car and noticed her eyes were drooping. "You might not want to fall asleep until the doctors find out if you have a concussion." Kaiba stated nonchalantly.

Tea at that point was slightly dazed and just nodded. He removed his jacket being pressed up against her head at the moment. There was still too much blood to actually see the cut; however, the bleeding had started to slowdown. He pressed the jacket back to her head and waited until they pulled up to the hospital.

Inside the Emergency Room he approached the desk and everyone in the room looked up immediately. "Hello Mr. Kaiba," the office assistant greeted, "How can I help you?"

He simply grunted and pointed to Tea.

"Oh, I see." She responded looking slightly amused, "just fill out this paperwork."

She handed him the paper work and they went over to an empty looking portion of the waiting area.

He started to call out:

Name

"Tea Marie Gardener" she answered

Birthday

Like a robot she instantly replied "August 18th"

He pursed his lips together in an annoyed fashion.

"What?" she asked.

"You don't have a birth year?" He replied with a smirk. One of his favorite pastimes was pissing her off…and he was good at it.

She rolled her eyes and replied, "You're the genius, I am 16 figure it out."

He then continued, "Give a description of illness or injury. Busted Head. How did the illness/injury occur? Having morons for friends." He looked at her from the corner of his eye and saw her face heat up. With a smirk he moved on to medical history, "Are you pregnant?"

Her face turning redder by the second, "NO!" she answered through gritted teeth.

"When was your last cycle?" he asked as if he had no idea he was getting on her nerves.

That was when she snapped and asked, "Mokuba, would you take over this before I strangle your brother because god knows we wouldn't be able to get through the paperwork fast enough to resuscitate him."

Kaiba then said, "I will just put presently."

She snatched the board from him and handed it to Mokuba.

Mokuba looked down to the question Kaiba had yet to fill out and asked, "When was your last…" he looked at the word and sounded it out, "Pre-meh-stroo-al cycle, Premonsterool cycle."

Tea lowered her head in defeat and answered, "last week."

Kaiba started to snicker. Normally he would correct his brother's mistake, but a pre- monster- al cycle seemed to describe it perfectly.

When they finally got through the paperwork, they sat in the waiting room and waited…and waited… and waited.

Kaiba finally had enough of it and approached the desk to ask, "When is Mazaki going to be admitted, or are yall just planning on letting her bleed to death on my jacket?"

The receptionist typed a few things on her keyboard and looked up. She pointed to a man playing on his cellphone and says, "She is right after this stroke patient."

He gave her a glare that could have melted Alaska and went back to his seat.

He took another look at Tea's injury and stated, "We will be after the man who claims to be having a stroke but appears to be healthy enough to play angry birds (I don't own this) on his cell phone."

She rolled her eyes and let out a sigh. She was in a lot of pain and exhausted. When Kaiba sat next to her on the sofa, he was on the opposite side of her injury. She was tired so she curled her feet up behind her and rested her head on Kaiba's lap. She was almost certain Kaiba would pitch a hissy fit. But, much to her surprise he didn't seem to care.

Despite Kaiba's cool demeanor, he was incredibly uncomfortable with her position. He wasn't worried about blood getting on him nor was she wasn't hurting him. He simply wasn't used to anyone being this close to him, other than his little brothers of course. Unconsciously, he started to run his fingers through her hair. She didn't seem bothered by it until he accidentally came a little too close to the cut. She flinched as his fingers brushed it.

When he felt her cringe he stopped abruptly. Part of her wished he would have continued more carefully. But, she knew he would probably rather eat a live bird than to do anything actually comforting.

Finally, a nursing assistant called their name and they made it into a room to be evaluated.

The doctor sanitized and looked at her cut. The doctor asked, "Before the accident, did you have any issues with concentration?" She nodded and he continued, "The cut is not very bad in fact you will not even need stitches. The reason you are bleeding so much is likely that you are severely anemic, which means there is not enough iron in your blood. We will need a blood test to be certain. You do have mild concussion, so I want someone to watch over you tonight. However, I am confident enough that I am writing you 2 prescriptions and sending you home. One prescription is a pain killer, which we will give you one before you leave, and the other is a prescription for iron tablets. If after this heals you ever begin to feel weak or struggle concentrating you can purchase over the counter iron tablets to help."

He handed her the pain pill and a glass of water. He then started to bandage the cut on her head and she started giggling. Kaiba looked over to the doctor and the doctor said, "It is a reaction to the medicine, she will be fine."

When they arrived at her home she was giggling nonstop. Although Kaiba found it annoying, Mokuba and Noah acted like it was the funniest thing on earth. Tea opened the door and the minute she tried to stand her legs went out on her. Kaiba let out a sigh and wondered, 'How much pain killers did this doctor give her.'

He went around the limo and picked her up off the ground. Mokuba too the keys and unlocked the door. Tea's giggles were getting worse by the second. Irritated beyond belief at this point, I asked, "What the hell is so funny?"

"THE Seto Kaiba has to get me into bed," she answered. She giggled some more and continued, "I bet you didn't see that coming."

Thank god it was dark, otherwise she would have seen him turn red. Mokuba and Noah were enjoying her medication induced dialogue immensely.

Kaiba carried her into her bedroom slightly disgusted by the amount of pink he saw and placed her in the bed. She looked up at Kaiba and said, "Ooooh I have a joke! What do you call an alligator in a vest?!"

He rolled his eyes and decided to indulge her, "What?"

"An in-vest-i-gator" she said gleefully.

He covered her with the blanket and smiled, "Good Night, Mazaki."

"Good Night, Kaiba" she replied as she snuggled into the blanket. He would have to stay the night with her so he made his way to the living room and found Mokuba and Noah already asleep on the couches. 'Where the hell am I supposed to sleep?' he thought as he investigated all the other rooms of the house. The only spot he could find was a recliner in Tea's room facing the TV. Without much of a choice, he sat in it and put his feet up. This was certainly going to be a long night.