Disclaimer: I do not own Yugioh. All I own is the plot of the story and my oc's.
Well, as all of you can see, this is my first fanfic so please don't be too harsh on me (o.O That rhymes!) I'm just seeing here if I'm a heck of a good writer and the fact that I have this imagination in my head that I have to let out :P
An original by Miss xXAnimeGrlXx. Not like anybody cares...
Bake, if its Necessary
Chapter One: Kageki's Pasticceria
"Aye, it's so cold out here..." Tea Gardner whispered to herself, the cold, icy wind ripping through her. She was walking home from school through the landscape of snow and ice. She hugged her long fitted coat, tempting for more warmth. Her footsteps made silent trailings on the sidewalk. Her pink cell phone began ringing inside her coat. She reached in her pocket to answer it.
"H-h-hello?" Her voiced shivered through the phone.
"Tea? Ya home yet?" It was Joey.
"J-Joey? Why are you c-c-calling me now? I'm far from home! I don't even have a ride so I have to travel through this blizzard! And why did all you guys stay home today? I'm all alone!" she yelped, her glove trying to hold the receiver against her ear.
"Eh, sorry bout that Tea. We didn't know we'd be endin' up stayin' home, of course, I didn't know all except you would come to school.Why you crazy goin' to school today anyways, huh?"
Tea was about to hang up on Joey, furious in her conditions. "Because my parents gave me a ride!" Then she closed the conversation automatically. If any of the guys were here, maybe she wouldn't have to go through this dreadful weather alone. If she went down, at least she had someone to bring down with her.
Suddenly, a dark limousine drove by, known for being owned by Seto Kaiba himself. She watched it drive down the street with crude thoughts spilling into her mind.
Argh! He is so damn rude! I know he seened me walking in the snow and he didn't even bother giving me a ride!
Tea began jogging up her pace, not caring how much snow was seeping into her socks, freezing her feet numb.
--Earlier--
"Seto..." Mokuba whined, laying down on the car seat, "When are we going to get home?"
Mokuba sat up, indulging the heat that the limousine was giving. Good thing he didn't have to suffer the coldness out there. He began wiping the sheild of ice that was forming on the car window. He tried looking out through the horrendous blizzard. Everywhere you see was a snowflake falling. He tried looking out to the sidewalk. The car ride home was taking forever, due to heavy traffic. And his older brother, Seto, wasn't amusing him either.
Seto was right next to him, working on his laptop. "Soon Mokuba. When all of those other cars get out of our way," Seto replied, his eyes fixed on his laptop screen.
Mokuba sighed, watching the horizon outside. Just when the limousine stopped at a red light, he saw a person walking along the snow right past the car. He swore he recognized Tea right there, but unsure of himself, he rolled the car window down. Icy wind was trying to hurl inside the limousine.
The light turned green and the limousine started moving again. "Mokuba, what are you doing!" Seto yelled, sheilding his face from the wind that was going at him and his laptop. "Put that window up, now!"
Mokuba looked outside and knew that, that person was Tea Gardner. "Hey Tea!" he tried to contact her, but they were a little too far up ahead already. "TEA!"
Seto reached for the handle, and then rolled up the window screen. "You try to freeze us to death by calling out to Gardner? She's not even out there!" he snapped.
"But Seto, she was out there! She's all the way down there!" Mokuba explained. His eyes swear on their pupils it was her. Her face, her coat, her hair...
"Well, why is it so important to get her attention then?" Seto asked, hoping in return a reasonable answer.
Mokuba sat back down from standing on his knees and slumped there on his seat. "Well I thought we could at least let her in and give her a ride..."
He heard a 'tch' come out of his older brother's mouth. "Mokuba, you should know by now that I would never let friendship cheerleaders in my limousine, right? Especially ones from my rival.." Seto began giving his attention back to his laptop again, regarding the small distraction that happened.
Mokuba rolled his eyes, not bothering to continue with the conversation anymore. He looked out the window, traveling each snowflake with his eyes, fall, fall, and fall...
--Back to Present--
A bell rang, giving back attention to Kageki Saitou that someone had entered his bakery shop. He went to the front of the store, expecting to see another customer. Instead, it was his most common, but favorite visitor, Tea. She stomped her feet on the carpet, shedding off all the snow that were on her brown suede boots. She shook her head too, to get rid of all the snow that had fallen upon it.
"Tea, why didn't you call me? I could've had my wife handle the shop while I went to pick you up and given you a ride," Kageki annouced.
Tea took off her coat and gloves, feeling relieved to get all that heavy clothing off her back. She placed them on the coat racket. "That could've been a good thing to know at the time..." Tea breathed out. She went to a table and sat down. "Mind if I stay here for awhile to have some peace and quiet to work on my studies?" she asked.
Suki Saitou then came out from the back to check out what was going on. "Not at all honey. You can stay here as long as you want. I could even help you with your homework if you want."
"Thanks Suki.." Tea replied. She placed her backpack on the table and took out her stuff she needed. She felt comfortable to be here, they were like second parents to her. They had no children, so it was like Tea was the daughter they never had. And they were best friends with her own parents as well. Her parents wouldn't mind if she stayed here for a little while.
Kageki sat on a chair in front of the cash register, and started counting the money inside. He shuffled the green bills in his hands. "Business should be coming back around soon... When is the next holiday?"
"Valentine's day dear," Suki answered, moving her strands of strawberry blonde hair behind her ear while helping Kageki out with the money. The shop was very quiet with no customers coming at all for the last few days. The other employees that work in the bakery were all absent too.
Tea dozed off already, staring at Kageki count the money they have made so far over the past few weeks. Thier bakery, "Kageki's Pasticceria," was most famous for their pastries throughout Japan. It was a japanese/italian bakery. Kageki traveled to Italy and learned to bake their oh so sweet recipes. She was lucky to have them as her parent's closest friends. She tried going back to concentrating on her homework. Just the first few minutes of concentrating on it could get her to fall asleep.
She laid her head down for just a few minutes...
"Tea!"
She shot her head up, her heart pounding. "What? Who's there? Who's calling me?" She heard Kageki and Suki laughing behind her.
"Tea, sweetie, we didn't mean to give you a heart attack. Kageki here just has something very important to ask you," Suki inquired. She looked at Kageki for him to speak. "Kageki? Isn't this the perfect time to ask her that certain question...?" She winked her eye.
Kageki raised his eyebrows, confounded in what she was saying. "What question? ...Oh! You mean that question," he reminded himself. He cleared his throat, ready to talk. "Yes.. Come sit over here Tea.." He grabbed a stool for her to sit next to them.
Tea gradually got up and went to sit on the stool, skeptical in what all of this could be about. What if it's something about my parents? What if they're closing down the shop? What if they're moving? Ugh, just get it over with already! She waited until one of them spoke.
"Tea, we were wondering if you would like a job here at our bakery," Suki finally said. Tea's sighed in relief, thinking it was something serious that they had to tell her. Instead, it was great news! She could use the money to pay off her dance classes or even spending it on herself.
"You guys had me sit down here for that? I would love to work here! I always wanted to bake for this oh-so-fabulous-bakery shop!" Tea exclaimed. Suki gave her a bone crunching hug.
"We knew you would accept our offer..."
Kageki sat up and hurried to the back of the shop, which was mainly their entire house. "Well now Tea, we already explained it with your parents and they have agreed so now let me get your apron and we could get started."
"Whoah there, how come you decide to hire me so sudden? Whats all the rush?" Tea asked. Kageki was already gone and now she was alone with Suki. Sure Tea knew how to bake, she learned from the masters, didn't she?
"Well dear, we thought you'd maybe enjoy it for an afterschool activity. And you would love to have a job that pays a lot of money, don't you?" Suki queered at Tea. Tea shrugged her shoulders.
"I guess so..."
"But that doesn't mean you're getting special treatment here young lady!" Kageki said while coming back with a white plain apron. He tossed it on Tea's head. "You're going to be treated as my employee and no goofing off at all while working for me!"
A sweatdrop formed on Tea's head. "You know I won't do that Kageki..." She took off the apron that was on her head and put it on. It had a powerful aroma of baking dough.
He ruffled Tea's hair, messing it up. "I'm just making sure.. If you ever try to eat any of my food..."
"Kageki!" Suki and Tea cried at the same time.
--Later--
Suki and Kageki were inside the house, watching tv in the living room. Tea, already done with all of her accomplishments, sat down in front of the register, looking out the windows. The blizzard was still going at it, probably reaching up to 9 inches of snow. Tea let her face drown into her hands. "When is this snow all going to stop?" she asked herself, groaning. She dreaded the thought of walking through the snow again. Maybe there would be a snow day for school..
The bright yellow lights shining down on her, colorful decorations, delicous deserts: a pretty cheery atmosphere in here. It's a wonder why loads of people come to this bakery a lot. Well, another reason too. She was mainly bored and started to look around. No customers have came since. She didn't really have to do anything today. She observed the little pastries, cookies, strudels, tarts, pies, and cakes that were lined up in each catergory in the glass counters. The theme now in this whole bakery shop was Valentine's day, the next holiday coming up, which customers would be rushing in soon as they always do.
She tapped her fingers against the counter, making a beat of it. Tea wished someone or something could pop up and add at least a bit of excitement to her present life right now. Suddenly, the phone began ringing. Tea jumped, the ringing coming out of complete silence. Guess my wish came true...
She picked it up. "Kageki's Pasticceria," she answered. Luckily she knew how to pronouce it.
"Hello, is this Mr. Saitou?" replied the stranger. His voice was awfully familiar to her..
"No, this is his new employee, Tea. Hold on." She covered the phone with her hand. "Kageki! Phone for you!"
Kageki rushed downstairs into the room. He took the phone from her and spoke. "Kageki here," he said.
Tea sat there, eavesdropping on their conversation. Well, only the half of his voice though...
"Uh huh, yeah, sure, 400... Got it. Yes. No, 500? Ok then. Yes, yes, ok bye. Yes, one week. Ok, bye." He hung up the cordless phone and looked at Tea with a concerned face. He crinkled his gray mustache. That was a sign that something was bothering Kageki that Tea could always tell..
"Goodness, Tea... I just received a phone call to bring in 500 desserts to this shindy. But the money is good." He walked back upstairs to tell Suki, pushing his hair back.
"Oh, yeah, who was it?" Tea asked.
He continued going upstairs, not looking back. "For Seto Kaiba himself."
And after that, Tea's jaw dropped almost down to the floor, her eyes wide in shock.
WHAT! HE'S MAKING KAGEKI BAKE HIM 500 DESSERTS? THAT SELF-CENTERED BASTARD! Why does he always have to connect to me in a way?
Tea banged her fists in anger against the counter. "Watch when I go back to school.. He will get the slap of his life!" Just now, Tea heard Suki shriek out loud, which could've been a celebration call. She looked towards the stairs, worried.
"Kageki and Suki really love this a lot... I don't want to ruin it for them.. But why in the world did it have to be Seto Kaiba? The richest and most arrogant man in Japan?"
When Tea went back to school the next day, she had to act like everything was totally normal. He heard her voice and knows this bakery as well... He knows too much already that he can do anything. Blackmail perhaps? Nah, it didn't threaten her. But there was still a probability that anything could happen...
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Oh yeah, "Pasticceria," mean pastries in Italian for all of you who are wondering.
-xXAnimeGrlXx