Okay! My reviewers of Squirrel Stole My Checkbook wanted it so now they get it. Welcome to my most favorite fanfiction idea. Seriously, I don't know how many stories I made up involving Seto getting turned into a kid but somehow the idea never got old.
Now this isn't exactly like the other chibi fanfictions you see in the Yu-Gi-Oh section. Seto actually keeps his mind, so he's the one who's going to be royally tormented. You know this kind of stuff. Being treated like a kid, being too short to reach anything, being too cute for people to take you seriously, being crushed by Serenity's hug of death. Oh yeah… That's the good stuff. –the creator is messed up-
Just to let you know. There will be no shonen-ai or yaoi in this story. Nor will there be yaoi in any other of the fanfictions I plan to write. I'm not saying there won't be pairings though, because there might be some. Also, even if they are in the story, they won't be anything too serious. Maybe just some Tristen X Serenity, Duke x Serenity to add to the humor.
I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh... And if you didn't know that… Seriously, where have you been?
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Chapter 1 - Seven Day Report
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After a week of endless research and typing, it was complete. The ten-page report was finally done and at last, Tea had no more worries. It did irk her however, that her teacher could easily assign such a long and boring assignment. It was rare she did of course, but it still was rather frustrating. A week of sweat and blood over a computer for researching is nothing to sneeze at. Tea was just fortunate enough she got it done in time. It was a close call because her work was interrupted several times by computer crashes and other little annoyances. Although she did enjoy the little breaks she still knew she had to get it done as soon as possible.
Tea needed a break, a vacation, something to get her mind off the daily stress of teenage life. Her friends did a good job at easing her in many of those little situations but it wouldn't hurt to take a nice long vacation by herself. Lucky for her, a holiday was coming up and she'd have that vacation. Tea puzzled where she would go and what she would do. Perhaps she could take one of those nice island vacations where she could lie on the beach all day and listen to the ocean's waves. Or maybe, a city vacation would be better. She could eat out at a fancy restaurant, go on shopping sprees, and other fun stuff. Then again, that was kind of an expensive treat.
Right now however, her concern should be on the here and now which wasn't too bad. She would most likely run into her friends at school and the teachers probably weren't planning to assign anything too difficult. This day would be a walk in the park. Tea walked with a slight skip in her step down the sidewalk. She only had to endure this day and tomorrow and she'd have a lovely seven-day break to do anything she wanted.
Tea continued down the concrete path, thoroughly enjoying glistening dew drops and the crisp morning air. Yes, life was good.She could just barely see the roof of her school building coming up on the horizon when she heard a high pitched cry.
"GIVE HIM BACK!" sobbed a small little girl of about seven years old. She had extremely long and shiny black hair and was wearing a cute little blue skirt. Tea also noticed the child had large eyes of a color Tea had never seen before. She guessed one could call them gray but they looked more like silver to her….and those mesmerizing silver eyes were now filled with a sheen of tears.
"Please, oh please give him back to me! He's mine, not yours!" The little girl's tears were starting to trickle onto her pale cheeks.
"Oh, oh, you want him?" asked a boy who looked about twelve. He swaggered around the girl in circles as he held the toy always barely out of her reach. His eyes were hard and cruel as he laughed at the little girl's anguish. Tea noted his Mohawk spiked, reddish-brown hair. Definitely a punk and one with a major attitude. He jiggled the girl's white kitty-cat plush right over her small head and watched in delight as she hopelessly jumped up and down, trying repeatedly to snag it out of his hand. "Too slow!" he mocked pulling the cat plush just a fraction higher than she could reach each time she tried to grab it. When she came a bit to close to grabbing it, he even stuck out his other arm and knocked her away. This bully seemed to have learned how to dish out psychological torment as well as physical pain on his hapless victim
"Please… Give him back. He only wanted to go to school with me," she cried piteously while clawing at his shirt and continuing to hop up and down in her determination to retrieve her treasured toy.
Tea's expression turned into a disapproving scowl. What did that poor innocent little girl do to him? She truly hated kids that acted cruely to the helpless and even more so when it was simply for entertainment when they were bored. Without a second thought for her own welfare, Tea marched over to stop it.
"Oh, you say he only wanted to go to school with you?" the boy asked, pretending to be intrigued, "Well, I guess he'll just have to go to school with you… HEADLESS!"
"NO! NO! DON'T DO THAT! STOP!" screamed the little girl at the top of her voice. She went into a frenzy of trying to snatch her beloved toy but it was in vain. The preteen still held it high above her tiny hands. He squeezed the poor plush's body with his other hand and was about to rip its little head off when he soon realized it wasn't in his hands anymore.
"Huh? What the?" the surprised boy gasped. He turned around to see a very angry teenager who was, to his dismay, even bigger than he was. The little girl sniffled a bit, her eyes were still watery but hope slowly began to dry her tears
"Leave that little child alone," Tea hissed menacingly, holding the plush away from the bully. The punk wasn't sure how to respond to this. Sure, this person was just a girl, too… but she was also pretty tall compared to him. On the other hand, she wasn't exactly an adult… But then again, how would he ever live it down if his buddies found out he had run away from any girl? Slowly and with great difficulty, he gathered the courage to fight back at this new intruder on his turf.
He braced himself and sneered as he replied, "And if I don't?" Tea simply smirked and answered his question by walking quickly towards him. This caused her to look even more intimidating plus it took him totally by surprise. He had never had a girl attack HIM before. He began backing away from her advance. He wondered suddenly, "surely she couldn't beat ME up.. .could she? He looked up into her furious eyes and swallowed. Whether she was bluffing or not, it was not a good idea to take chances. She WAS bigger and she was very, very angry. At the least, he would probably get some nasty scratches that would have to be explained to buddies and family….the whole situation was definitely taking on a nasty turn for him…. "Oooh….W-Whatever," he said, "I was getting tired of the little brat anyway." With that he ran past Tea and disappeared around a corner.
"Here you go," Tea said smiling kindly as she gently placed the kitty-cat into the little girl's arms. Her face was still wet from her tears but at least she wasn't crying anymore. A smile had sprung up on her face to boot. Tea watched as the girl was more that eager to cuddle her recovered plush.
"Th-thank you, lady," she said shyly and wiping the remainder of her tears.
"No problem," Tea replied. With a proud sensation she left to continue her walk to school. To her surprise however, the little girl wasn't done with her yet.
"Hey, where are you going?" she asked, running to catch up to the brunette's side.
"Um… I have to go to school," Tea said.
"Oh, I see, but don't go just yet!" the little girl exclaimed.
"Huh?" Tea stopped to see what this was about. The little raven-haired girl reached into her pocket and dug out a beautiful necklace with a strange gem tied to the end. "Mr. Snuggles and I want you to have this."
"Oh no, I couldn't."
"But you saved him and it will bring you good luck," the little girl whined, "Snuggles wants to thank you for saving him."
"But I already have enough good luck, right now," Tea laughed. She couldn't accept it. Scaring the bully off and helping her was a reward enough. Besides, the necklace looked too precious to simply give away.
"Pleeeaassee! I want you to have it," the little girl pleaded holding the necklace out even more.
"I'm sorry but I can't accept it. Helping you was a fine enough reward for me."
"Please! If you don't take it you'll make Mr. Snuggles sad," the girl said with her smile turning into a frown. Tea took a second to look at the cute white kitty plush resting on the girl's shoulder. Tea figured she must have been delirious or something because she saw that the plush's little button eyes did look a bit sad. Tea sighed giving in.
"Okay…" she said lifting the necklace from the little girl's hands. The gem sparkled magnificently in the sunlight and Tea was stunned at its beauty. She shook her head and asked, "Are you sure you want to give me something so pretty?" There was no response and Tea looked around to find the little girl was nowhere to be seen. "That was weird," she said. Just then, she heard a bell ring. She whipped around to notice the loud ring came from her school. "OH NO! I'M GOING TO BE LATE!" she yelled in exasperation. With no time to waste, she burst into a panicked sprint.
Tea flew through the high school's doors and zoomed past the students already heading for their classes. That was one thing she didn't want to lose, her perfect attendance record. Tea was running so fast that all the students and teachers around looked like windy blurs of color. At that speed she didn't think to watch where she was going. In the end, it cost her when she collided with a tall student who suddenly appeared around a corner.
Papers went flying everywhere, this way and that, all of them being Tea's. She immediately dropped to the floor to gather them.
"Watch where you're going," cursed the dark voice of the person she ran into. Tea however, just grabbed her papers and took off running again. She was in too much of a hurry to even bother finding out who she ran into.
If Tea had stuck around she would have noticed the person she ran into wasn't too unfamiliar. His icy blue eyes watched in annoyance as Tea disappeared down the hallway. "Stupid Gardner," he mumbled, shaking it off. He should've suspected it would be a member of the 'geek squad.'
The collision victim started to head off himself. After taking a few steps though, he felt something slide under his foot. He looked down to see what it was and noticed a stapled packet of papers. "Hm?"
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Tea sat with her friends at their usual spot in the cafeteria. Earlier she had managed to successfully reach class in time. Even if it was only about 2 seconds before the bell rung, at least she made it. Now it was lunch and she listened to the usual random voices of conversations, the clicking of trays, and the clinking of silverware.
"Man, I can't wait until that vacation comes," Joey said happily, "I don't think I told you yet, but Serenity is having the same week off and she's going to be coming here again."
"That's great, Joey. I can't wait to see her again," Yugi replied with his usual cheerful tone.
"WHAT? Serenity is coming over?" Tristen asked excitedly. A grin appeared on his face. Oh, think of all the things he would show Serenity this time and the places he could go with her. Finally, he could see her again and this time there will hopefully be no Duke to steal her from him.
"Hey, don't you dare think about it!" Joey snapped noticing Tristen's expression. His expression didn't change though. Tea sighed, those two were so obvious. She pulled out the necklace she got earlier and examined it with nothing better to do. It was beautiful but there was something about it that made her feel uneasy. She got a strange vibe from the multi-colored gem. It was like there was some sort of spell on it.
"Hm?… What are you looking at Tea?" Yugi asked, noticing the necklace.
"Oh!" Tea broke out of the gem's hypnotic features, "Well, on the way to school this morning I saved a little girl from a bully. She gave me this necklace as a thank you."
"Huh? Hey, let me see that," Joey said snatching the necklace out of Tea's hands. He held it up by its string and focused his attention on the strange rock hanging from it. The gem glittered in the light, leaving him with a slightly dreamy expression on his face.
"What kind of gem do you suppose it is?" asked Tristen leaning forward for a closer look.
"I'm not sure," Tea replied.
"Well, it certainly doesn't look like any kind of gem I know of," Joey said.
He reluctantly handed the necklace back to Tea who was about to put it back in her pocket before Yugi asked, "Hey Tea, if you had that necklace the entire time why didn't you try it on?"
"Oh… Well… Uh…"
"I think it would look really nice on you," Yugi continued, adding a smile.
"Well, I guess it wouldn't hurt to try it on," Tea said.
Meanwhile, sitting at an empty table in the corner of the cafeteria Seto stared out a large window. He thought of his plans for what he would do when he finally got a break out of the educational system. Truly, he didn't care much for school. He pretty much knew everything that was being taught and it was nothing but a complete waste of his time. Not to mention, it was an annoyance to be in the same class the only one who has ever defeated him at duel monsters.
That preppy cheerleader, Gardner, was now also on his list due to that hallway collision course. Sure, the collision itself didn't bother him too much, but the distraction she had caused made him late for class. He was never late! So much for his perfect attendance record. It didn't matter however, as he knew he would be getting his revenge shortly.
Seto looked over to where she and her annoying friends were. He noticed the girl was trying on a strange necklace with a gem on it. Even at his distance, he could see it shimmer a beautiful but strange, almost glowing, green. The CEO smirked to himself. Give the 'geek squad' a moment and they'll probably believe it was possessed, cursed, or some other supernatural taboo. Just then, he got a peculiar feeling. It was an odd one, like he should be worried or something. It was brief though, and Seto easily shook it off. What a bunch of idiotic nonsense.
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The day progressed normally as Tea imagined. None of the teachers assigned anything too difficult, too boring, or too long. Before Tea knew, it was already the last period of the day and time to hand in her 10-page report.
"Oh, and let me remind you that you will be presenting the first pages of your reports today and handing them in," the teacher spoke out, "I trust that you all finished your reports and have them present. Remember, if you don't I'm not taking any late work." Tea smiled, this was the time she had been waiting for when she could finally get the burden off her shoulders.
Tea looked around the room. Some of the students had content looks on their faces while others seemed extremely worried. She found Yugi and Tristen to be prepared as they pulled out the reports they worked on. Joey seemed a bit unnerved, though. It was apparent that he decided to blow it off until the last second… then forgot to do it. Her eyes then came across a certain heartless somebody. Seto had came prepared, no surprise. He slipped his report out and laid it on his desk with a knowing smirk directed straight at her. His cold eyes had an expression of evil anticipation. Tea immediately became suspicious. There was something bad about to happen. She could feel it but she just couldn't tell what it was.
Tea reached into her own trapper keeper to drag out her report. She soon found out something was very wrong. Her report wasn't in the spot she had put it. Tea became worried. She checked everywhere in the trapper keeper. She searched her folders. Tea even looked between pages of her books. However, nothing remotely close to her 10-page report showed up. She couldn't believe it. What the heck happened to her work? She thought back on what happened earlier that day. Tea remembered collecting it before she left, then she helped the little girl, then she ran and… Tea froze. She must've accidentally left it when she bumped into that person in the hall. She felt herself choke. How could she have so easily lost something so important? Something that she worked on for days?
"Miss Gardner, you're up next," stated the teacher. Tea felt sick. How could this be happening to her? "Miss Gardner," her teacher repeated.
"Oh, uhh…" Tea responded.
"Miss Gardner, where is your report?"
"Well… It's… I… can't seem to find it…."
"Oh… I see…" the teacher replied as he wrote something down, "Mr. Greenfield, would you please come up an present your report to the class?"
Tea felt sicker than ever before. She worked an entire week on that report and where did it get her? Nowhere. How could she let herself lose something so important? Now she had a big fat zero to sink her grades and it didn't help any that the report was a test grade. She laid her head down on the desk. Out of all the bad things that could've happened today, why did this have to happen?
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"Please, let make me it up," Tea pleaded with the teacher after the last school bell rang. Her friends stayed behind with her to help.
"I'm sorry Tea, but I clearly stated the report was due by the end of the period today," the teacher explained.
"But it was an accident! I had it done! I just lost it when I collided with somebody at the beginning of school."
"And why were you running in the halls?"
"Er… Well, I was running a little late and… Just please… give me an extra chance."
The teacher rubbed his temples tiredly. He had a long day and this little issue was surely not helping.
"Look, Tea worked her butt off on this project," Joey said stepping in, "The least you could do is give her another shot at it."
"Yeah, come on. Take it easy on her," Tristen continued, stepping in as well.
The teacher sighed. They were probably going to keep bothering him until he went nuts. He has had that happened before and this time was most likely no different. When his students did this he always replied…
"Fine… I'll let you make it up. Just don't let me down. You will do another report but this one will be fifteen pages." Tea mentally groaned. She could barely handle 10 pages. "I will give you the subject tomorrow and you will work on it over the break."
"What? I will work on it over the break?"
"Yes."
Tea fought the urge to scream. It was better than nothing, of course, but she knew it would ruin her vacation. Instead of that relaxing vacation on the beach or that crazy super shopping spree, she would be at home, researching whatever subject her teacher gave her. She just finished doing that on the report she lost!
Hiding her disappointment Tea whispered, "Thank you."
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The next morning felt much emptier than before. There was nothing that made Tea happy, cheerful, or proud today. She had lost a report that took her a week to do and now she was to pay for it with own vacation time.
As she walked to school that day she couldn't help but look at the cloudy sky above her. What a coincidence, the windy weather matched her mood. Nobody knew how much she was looking forward to this break and now it was seemed so far away. She was going to collapse, typing and researching on a computer, before that vacation even came.
Tea's friends promised her that they would help but she felt bad as she was technically taking away their vacation too. She didn't want the three to sink with her because of her own mistake. Tea sighed. She wondered where her report was now. All of her hard work probably had been swept away during passing period by a hundred student's feet. It was most likely resting in some corner of the building crushed, crumpled, dirtied, and torn. The janitor then probably found it and threw it away forever. It tore Tea to even imagine it.
Tea hung her head and continued walking as she reached the outskirts of the high school. Better just get this day done as soon as possible and then get to work on the report.
"Is something troubling you, Gardner?" teased a dark voice causing her to stop. Tea looked up to spot Seto. He was leaning on the wall right next to the school door's entrance with a sly expression pasted upon his face. 'Out of all the rotten luck,' thought Tea.
"Why do you want to know, Kaiba?" she hissed. With the events of yesterday happening as they did, Tea definitely was not in the mood to deal with insults and wisecracks from the local jerk.
"I was wondering," he calmly replied still using a mocking tone. Tea whipped around and continued to walk away. She didn't need to put up with this.
"I don't suppose you dropped this yesterday," Seto went on.
"Wha?" Tea looked over her shoulder. The CEO was holding up a very familiar stapled packet. She narrowed her eyes. It was her name printed on it and it was the report she thought she had completely lost.
"Kaiba! How did you get your hands on my report?" Tea snapped.
"You dropped it when you charged into me last morning," he stated showing a bit of annoyance in his tone. Tea stopped for a minute. So Kaiba was the one she ran into in the hall? Oh great, out of all the people in the school she had collided with him. It was typical Seto wouldn't let her see her report until after it was due.
"Give me back my report, Kaiba," Tea demanded. She closed in on him to snag her work.
"Oops…" Seto lightly said, letting go of the report. Tea watched in horror as the report she had finally recovered fell into a dirty puddle that covered the ground beside him. It landed with a sickening splash. Tea's heart stopped. Would somebody please tell her that Kaiba did not just do that? She ran over and pulled out the now brown and soggy report. The ink in the letters started to run as muddy brown water dripped from the assignment. It was hardly readable now.
"My report…" Tea choked.
"Hmph, you should keep better track of your stuff, Gardner," said Seto. He then started to walk off. His job here was done.
Tea felt the anger begin to bubble up inside of her. Who gave him the right to destroy all her precious work? Did he even think about how long it took her to finish that assignment? Just when she thought her day couldn't get any more horrid she was slapped in the face.
She stood up and glared at Seto as he walked into the building. That big, rude, heartless, jerk….what she wouldn't give to see HIM suffer just a little bit…well…maybe a LOT!
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That's it for the first chapter. Thank you for taking the time to read it. I hope it was enjoyable. I know, it's a slow start, but the more detail you get in the beginning about the characters, the richer the story line. Plus, I don't like to rush into things. A story turns into a mess if you rush things.
Oh, and I don't mean to beg or anything but please review if you liked it. Favorite it. Watch it. Just plain tell me you what you think of it. Anything! I hate it when people leave me wondering if my story was worth it or not. I mean it's not like I'm blackmailing you to review my story, but it leaves me hanging. Plus, if I don't get many reviews I feel like crap and probably won't add the next chapter until kingdom come. On the other hand, if many people review my story, I might get excited enough to right the next chapter right away and post it the next day. Trust me, it's happened before.
Anyway, thank you for reading again.
Next Chapter…Tea does make Seto suffer, but in a way she'd never suspect.