A/N : Aaaaaah hi ^^ It was long ago since I wrote another story. This one stars my latest addition of favorite couple. Oh yes Tea Gardner and Seto Kaiba !Do note that this is completely AU, I had a daydream about this and I really wanted Seto to star in it ^^. Tea may seem like a bit OOC but that's because she's actually based on the Tea of season 0.

So here I present Chapter 1 of You Can't Buy Me

BOLD = flashback

"…" = speaking

'…' = thinking

PS : Desclaimer : I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh, or the characters of Yu-Gi-Oh. I do own the plot however since it was my daydream ^^

And last but not least I want to thank my beta 'Chaos Terror Destruction' for making some time free to correct my awful mistakes ^^.

21 Oktober 2010,21.54 pm

Their Appartement

"I'm leaving you. Here is all the money you ever gave me, thousand pound a month for the last ten month and my tutoring money." She shoved the check in his hands.

"So that's why you were investing the money in stocks and doing summer job. To earn the money you used back. "He merely stated.

"Don't sound so off-guard, I'm sure a genius like you would have figured it out already" She snorted.

"I did but I didn't think you would really go through with it." He replied coldly.

"I wasn't until you meddled with my family!" She poked him in the chest.

"How dare you go to my parents and try to buy me away from them." Poke… No reaction.

"I can't believe you would even think that my parents would stoop so low." She was getting more frustrated by the second because he still kept his poker face.

"What kind of people do you think we are?" Poke. "Who do you think you are?" Poke poke!

"I was only trying to help." His face was still devoid of emotions.

"Trying to help? Are you mad? How is trying to get rid of my parents trying to help?" She was clenching her fist trying not to let her anger get the best of her.

"You were mopping around because of them, they were the reason of your distress. They were your problem and as the good husband I am I wanted to get rid of your problem. And I always solve problems with money." He looked her in the eye.

"What is wrong with you? They're my parents! I don't want to get rid of them. I admit they were the reason I was feeling a bit down lately but I love them. I need them. I-"

"You don't need them, you have me." He interrupted her

"Yes I do, I need them, and I want them because I love them. But you wouldn't know what that's like now would you? You wouldn't know what love is even if it was staring you in the face." She spat bitterly knowing she meant it literally.

"I know you never really had a good parent figure, I know you think your parents betrayed you by disappearing on you, I know your stepfather wasn't much better and that all that are the reasons why you believe that in this world, one can only rely on oneself. But I'm different and my parents mean everything to me. So I'm doing the one thing I should have done a long time ago with their help. You see, they give me the money to pay back my tutoring fee so I could leave you without any debt. I still have my pride, I don't want your money."

"Wasn't that the reason you agreed to marry me in the first place?" He asked her mockingly making her pale and flinch.

"It was and it was foolish of me, I quickly regretted it. So now I'm giving it all back." She retorted quickly.

He looked at the check but tore it up immediately, making her gasp.

"It isn't even close to the sum I spent on you."

She felt her blood beginning to boil. How much longer is he going to keep infuriating her?

"Fine! Then I'll give you everything back gradually but mark my word, I'll certainly give every penny back." She exclaimed angry.

"I don't want the money back" He snorted. "It's of no importance to me but that's not the point. The point is, you can't leave me. You're my wife, you belong to me.

"I belong to nobody!" She fumed "Give me one good reason why I shouldn't leave you right here right now and I mean GOOD."

"Because I want you to be the mother of my child." He blurted out making her foolish heart flutter a second.

He berated himself. What was he thinking blurting that out. He couldn't believe she had made him feel a rush of panic for a moment. A moment of fear that she would actually leave him. But that's ridiculous right? She should be happy he would even want her. She should be the one begging him for a child, not leaving him, that's just preposterous.

It did made her hold tongue for a few seconds though. He could see she was having an internal dialogue.

"Why?" She finally asked slowly trying not to get her hopes up.

"Isn't that obvious? Because you're a genius and I'm a genius, so with our DNA mixed our child is going to be brilliant too."

"What?" She should have known he was an idiot.

"NO!" She hissed at him

"What do you mean no! You should feel honored that you're the person I chose to have my heir with."

"Feel honored? Are you stupid? I've never been so insulted in my whole life. First you try to BUY me from my parents. What am I an object? Then you tried to CLAIM me as your possession. That just proves how less you really respect me as a human being. And now you're just treating me like a VESSEL for your child? You basically just insulted me by telling me you only want me for my egg. Not for me, but just basically for my DNA. If you're such a genius then you should have known that if I was a genius I would have never been dumb enough to let you degrade me like that. Reduce me to an object you would use to get what you want. I would never want a father for my child who thinks love is a weakness, who thinks friendship and trust are luxuries he cannot afford. I would never want the father of my child to be such a loner, a selfish arrogant egomaniac, a rude ice-cold heartless jerk who would even go so far as to use other people to get what he want. You have nothing that I would want my child to have. You may have an IQ of 180, you may be a genius in terms of inventing, programming, leading a company but I know no one so thickheaded in terms of human emotions. You know nothing about other people's feeling, I bet you even think it's a weakness. God, I can't believe I was even thinking of forgiving you. I'm sure you don't even know what you did wrong!" She felt tears leaking from her eyes but quickly whipped them away. She couldn't believe she was actually crying for that numbskull. It's out of anger, she kept telling herself.

She rummaged in her bag, pulled out a stack of papers and handed it to him.

"They're the divorce papers. Just sign them. I don't want anything from you, you're not getting anything from me. If you don't trust me just let one of your lawyers look it over and then sign it. I don't really care as long as you sign it." She explained to him after seeing his confused face.

Then she turned to walk to the front door but was stopped by a hand on her arm.

"Let go of me!" She hissed.

"You can't do this to me!" His voice was clearly alarmed. "What will everyone think? I can't be divorced! What will everyone say? The tabloids are going to have a-"

SMACK! Her hand left a red hand print on his cheek.

"How dare you even make this go about you! See how egocentric you are! I'm glad I'm leaving you! Goodbye Seto!" And she stormed out through the front door out of his life.

He stood there shocked with one hand still on his slapped cheek. Tea had really left him…

4 November 2010, 02.17 am

The Garner's house, her old bedroom

She was lying on her bed and thinking about that night again. How her heart got crushed and how she should have seen it coming. That stupid idiot! She wanted to rip his testicles out with a fork. Ok maybe not. But still she was pissed off at him but she was actually mostly at herself. She was so stupid. She knew what she did was the right think, her head told her she did a wonderful job dumping the jerk. Her heart on the other hand even though with no real reason at all, since he had been awful to her, still foolishly longed for him. The traitor! It was trying to find excuses to justify his words again just like that night.

"Because I want you to be the mother of my child." He blurted out making her foolish heart flutter a second.

'Really? Could it be he loves me too? If he says he loves me I'll forgive him.

What? Are you mad? Did you forget what he did to your parents?

He did say he just wanted to help me.

He tried to buy you from them with a blank check. He thought your parents were gold-diggers and expected them to sink so low to even sell out their own daughter.

But he just wanted to solve my problem. And like he said, he always solves things with money.

You're not thinking clearly, obvious since I'm the brain, he's going to break you. Do you really want to get broken? Where is your pride? Your self-respect? Tough up! He's cold and heartless.

Sigh, maybe you're right but I still want to know.

Don't whine if I have to say "I told you so"!'

"Why?" She finally asked slowly trying not to get her hopes up.

"Isn't that obvious? Because you're a genius and I'm a genius, so with our DNA mixed our child is going to be brilliant too."

'See I told you so

But he did complemented me by saying I was a genius

I'm the genius one not you. And I say he's insulting us. Now shut up and let me do the talking again!'

It was voicing itself again.

'Maybe we let anger get the best of us, we were really kind of harsh.

What are you saying! I thought we both agreed it was a good thing to leave him!

I did … at that moment. But I've been thinking about it and …

Obviously you're not the one that's supposed to think.

But think about it. He is just ignorant, it's not his fault. How can he know love if he never received it. His parents did abandon him and in the orphanage he had to toughen up to take care and protect his little brother. It's really sad to have your childhood taken away from you. And his tyrant Stepfather didn't help either. I would have grown bitter and cold too if my loved ones left me at such a young age. I would also have closed myself up afraid that if I let other people they would leave me too someday. So instead of dumping him we should have taught him love.

…

Come on, I know you're thinking about it…

Somehow you do have a point.

Yay, so are we going to teach him love now?

Don't push it! He still insulted me greatly, me and my intelligence. That isn't something I'll forget easy whether his fault or not. I unlike you have my pride and I'm not going to forgive his cold heart that easily. And then there is still the fact that he doesn't LOVE you, not even CARE about you. He doesn't even really want me. What he wants is just our DNA and body for his child. We're mere tools to get what he really wants.

He does care about us, he give us a home and supported us financially without wanting even a penny back. Do you know how much he spent on us without even necessary? Suppose we were a vessel like you said, why would he have paid our tutoring money, bought us a large penthouse AND gave us THOUSAND pounds a month, if we were mere his vessel, if he didn't care about us, he would never have spent so much on us. We were his wife, he chose us.

There you said it. He paid us to be his wife. We had a sexual relationship with him and got paid for it. It's like we got bought as a live-in prostitute or some kind of object, like some kind of device with benefits for in his apartment. So I ask again. Where the hell is your pride and self-respect? By the way he chose ME and not YOU, he chose MY intelligence and not YOUR love so let it rest will you? We're not going back to him. At least not until he apologizes.'

But her heart had a mind on its own and it had still chosen him over her and now there was a hole in her chest left behind when heart had ripped itself from her mere seconds ago. She should have never agreed to him in the first place, it was such a stupid thing to do. Most definitely the worst mistake of her life.

The Kaiba Mansion, his old bedroom

Unknown to her, somewhere else, someone else at the exact the same moment was also thinking about that night…

N/A : I don't know if this was a good enough idea to explore further. I wrote this because I had something like that happening to me a few years ago. At first I was just angry and let my anger lead me but then my heart and mind began to battle with each other. I knew it was a good thing to have dumped him but my heart was still finding excuse to justify him and guilting me. My heart kept thinking that maybe I was too harsh on him yada yada, you know… maybe I should make up. And so the battle began. I just wondered if anyone else has faced something like that too.

If it's really bad please tell me then I'm not going to begin writing chapter 2. If no flames then I'm just going to keep writing about how they met, got together, period of being together and of course how they will end up ^^ Of course positive reviews are always welcome and a super motivation ^^

PS : This was not MY situation, believe me in this situation I would have wanted to kick him real hard in the groin. I'm kind of hating my own character at the moment ^^ not good!