"Hello. This is Domino News reporter, Shelly Carey, reporting live in front of Kaiba Corp."
"And I am Carl Cartel, co-reporting. We have just gotten news that Seto Kaiba was attacked today."
"Yes, I heard it from the many people that were here when the shooting occurred. Lets see some of them…."
"I was walking by when I heard some shots ring out and then I saw some glass falling from the top floor of the building. That was all I saw because we were being pushed backwards by the police." a tall man said.
"I was supposed to be bringing coffee around to the workers when I heard some banging around in Mr. Kaiba's office. I was about to open the door when I felt a knife being pressed on my neck. I heard the shots being fired and the man who was holding me and the man that had been in the office came running out. Then the police got there." a shaking lady who had a towel wrapped around her shoulders. She was wearing a Kaiba Corp. uniform.
"I was going there with my mom because she was interviewing for a job. We heard the shots and mom threw her body over mine. I was so scared." a young boy with teary eyes said. "Mom was hurt in the shoulder. I want my mom." the boy said as he started to cry.
"We always knew that this might happen but we thought that Kaiba Corp. was pretty well protected. I never would have thought that this would happen." a delivery man said. His companions agreed.
"I saw them come running. We had all frozen when we heard the shot. They pushed past us and ran out the door. I don't know what happened after that. I hope that those crazy men are behind bars." a worker lady said. Everyone behind her agreed.
"…..and there you have it. Carl, do you know what happened to the shooters?"
"No, I am afraid not. They escaped and are still on the loose." Carl looked down at the reports.
"Mr. Kaiba was not hurt thankfully but his whereabouts are unknown." Shelly nodded.
"After the shooting, Mr. Kaiba and his brother went into hiding. The whereabouts are unknown. In other news…."
Click
"I can't believe that I agreed to do this." Tea Gardner said from her spot on the couch.
"I'm not happy about this either, Gardner." Kaiba spat out from the chair across the room. They were both sitting in Tea's living room, glaring at each other.
"I only agreed to this because Mokuba asked me." she spat out. She thought back to her conversation with Mokuba earlier.
"Hey, Tea?" a voice said from over her phone.
Tea was wondering who it could be. "Yeah, this is Tea. Who is this?" she asked.
"Mokuba, of course." Mokuba said from the private jet he was on.
"Mokuba! Are you alright? We all heard about the shooting." she hurriedly said.
Mokuba sighed over the phone.
"Mokuba? Is something wrong?" Tea asked, concerned.
"Tea. I have a favor to ask." he said.
Tea smirked a bit when she remembered her reaction when Mokuba told her want he wanted her help with.
"MOKUBA!" she loudly said. "Your brother hates me. He would never agree to this."
"He doesn't have a choice. He needs to go into hiding and where is a better place then with his enemies?" Mokuba had a point.
"Alright. He can stay at my house. We have a guest room." Tea said, thinking about what her parents might have said if they had found out about this.
"Are your parents okay with it?" Mokuba asked.
Tea winced a bit. It had been five years but it still hurt. "Its fine. They are away on a long trip. I've been here along for two weeks and they aren't due back for two months." she said.
"At least you have parents."
Tea's hand flew to her mouth. "Mokuba, I'm sorry." she said.
"Its alright. I'll call Seto and tell the police to take him to your house. Thanks again Tea. This means a lot to me."
Tea sadly smiled. "No problem. See ya." she said.
"Later." Mokuba said as he hung up the phone.
Tea just stared at the phone.
Tea hit her head. They hadn't been in the same house for more than twenty minutes and they already wanted to tear each others heads off. "Do want me to show you around?" she asked without even looking away from where she was staring.
"Why not?" he said.
They both stood up and Tea started with the downstairs. The living room, the small dining room that they didn't ever use, the kitchen, and a door. Tea stopped and pointed at that door.
"Never open this door." she said.
Seto coldly looked at her. "Why?" he asked as he reached for the door knob.
Tea smacked his hand. Hard. "Never. Open. This. Door." she harshly said.
He left it at that. "Anything else you want to show me?" he boredly said.
She pointed to the stairs.
They both went upstairs. Tea went half way up before remembering that they should take his stuff to the guest room. She had stopped suddenly and Kaiba ran into her.
He glared at her. "Why did you stop?" he asked.
She turned towards him. "Go back down. I might as well show you the guest room now." she said.
They both went down and grabbed the four bags that he had brought. Two were some clothes and the other two were work.
Tea dragged the ones she was carrying up the stairs. She walked down the hall with him following. There were three door. One on each side of the hall and one at the back. There was also another door behind them. Tea walked to the door on the left. "This is the room that you will be staying in." she stated the obvious.
He walked past her and quickly glanced around. It was a nice room. It was painted a light blue. Everything was blue. The bed was blue and the curtains were blue. There was a dresser and a small closet. The bed was a good size for a normal bed also. Of course, the bed wasn't as big as Kaiba's real bed but it was about half the side of it. "Not too bad, Gardner." he said as he put the bags that he was carrying down by the side of the bed.
"Was that a compliment?" she asked in amazement.
He glared at her. "Don't read into it. What's with the blue?" he asked.
She laughed a sort of sad laugh. "My mom decorated this room. She loved light blue. If she had had her way, the whole house would have been blue. That was before…" she trailed off.
Kaiba decided to change the subject. "Anything else you want to show me?" he boredly said.
She nodded and walked across the hall. She pointed to the other two rooms near the door. "Stay out of that room." she pointed to the one at the end of the hall. "That one is mine." she said as she pointed to the door directly across the hall. "That's all." she said.
"Okay." he said to her. He went to close the door to his room when she stopped him.
"I JUST REMEBERED!" she said. She pulled him down the hall. "If you like to read or need something to do, then just come in here." she said as she opened the door.
That room was a library. They fit as many books in there as possible and they didn't even have room for all of them. There was an assortment of books, ranging from books like 'War and Peace' to fantasy.
"Okay. Now that's all. If your hungry, just grabbed something out of the fridge, alright?" she said as she walked back into her room and closed the door. But she quickly opened it again. "See that almost hidden door over there?" she said while pointing.
He nodded. He had noticed it earlier.
"That's the bathroom." she said before shutting the door to her room.
Kaiba rolled his eyes a bit before walking into the room that she had given him and also shut the door. He grabbed his laptop out of the one bag and started typing on it.
Tea sighed as she sat up on her bed. She had meant to write in her journal but she had accidentally fallen asleep. She glanced over at the clock and saw that it was around eight o' clock. Her stomach growled.
"Man, I don't feel like moving." she groaned out but she still got up. She walked out of the room and looked at the guest room. The light was still on but she didn't hear any sound. She just shook her head and walked down the stairs. She quickly made a sandwich and headed to the door that she had forbidden Kaiba from opening. She grabbed the key from of the top of the door frame, which she almost could reach and unlocked the door.
"Why did he put this down here?" she absently asked herself as she walked down, knowing that she wouldn't get an answer. She walked down to the four rooms down there. One room she never went in and the other was a closet/washroom. She open the third door and glanced in.
It was a dance room. It was partially soundproof and there were mirrors all around it. There was a stereo built into the wall. When they found out about her love to dance, her parents had built this room for her.
She sighed and closed the door. She went to the other room and opened it. It was her dad's office.
Her dad had been called a genius. And he had been. He had designed programs and sold them to many different companies. But that was behind her know. The office was still in use by her uncle, who had taken over her father's company. She would get it when she turned 18. Just one more year. She let a tear snake down her face and she quickly closed the door and ran back upstairs to her room.
Kaiba's body jerked as he woke up. He had dozed off while typing. It had been a pretty busy day for him. He was attacked, shot at, guarded by the police, and on top of that, he had to stay with Yugi's little cheerleader.
SLAM!
Tea's door was slammed from across the hall. He stared at his door for a bit. He wouldn't even be here if Mokuba hadn't made him. He would be in the uncomfortable room in the safe house if Mokuba hadn't thought of this.
"Might as well get back to work." he muttered as he reached for his laptop. He typed for about ten minutes but he couldn't concentrate on work at the moment. He sighed and turned his computer off. He sat there for a minute, trying to decide what to do. He wasn't hungry and he didn't bring anything else to do but work, which he couldn't concentrate on.
Then it hit him. Gardner said that he could use her families library.
He stood up and walked out the door. He didn't even glance at her door. He went straight into the library. He looked over some of the books that they had. The one he chose was 'Eragon'. it was a story about a dragon, fantasy of course. He took it back to his room and laid it on the bed. He walked back out, used the bathroom, brushed his teeth, and walked back into the room. He changed into a pair of loose blue pants and a white tee shirt with extra long sleeves. He turned off the main light and laid down on the bed. He switched the light on before starting to read.
(A bit later on)
Seto yawned for the fifth time since he had started reading an hour ago. He decided that it was time to put the book away and get some sleep. He laid the book on a night table that was next to the bed and turned the main light off. He crawled under the covers and stared at the ceiling.
"Good night, Mokuba. Where ever you are." he muttered before turning on his side and falling asleep.
Tea tossed and turned in her bed. She had been laying there for almost an hour but sleep wouldn't come to her. She couldn't stop thinking about her parents.
When she did manage to drift off, she had dreams about the last time she saw her parents…….
"Now Tea, you know the rules." her mother said as she put clothes in a suitcase. She and Tea's father were going on a business trip.
"Yeah." a younger Tea said. "Rule number one: No one is allowed over. Not that I have any friends. Rule number two: Listen to Uncle John, even though I don't want to. Rule number three: NO going anywhere, at all. Do I need to go on?" she asked.
"That's fine." her father laughed as he came into the room. "Hun, stop pestering her. She knows the rules backwards and forwards."
"Just a mother's worry." her mother said while shoeing Tea out of the room. "Go downstairs, alright?"
"Okay, mommy." Tea said as she skipped down the stairs. Soon, her parents came down.
"Tea, we have something for you." her father said while her mother pulled out a box. "This is not a toy, alright?"
"Alright." Tea said.
"Here you go, Tea." her mother laughed as she handed the box to Tea.
She excitedly torn into it. She gasped when she saw it. It was a beautiful choker with a large sapphire hanging down from it. There were beautiful metal designs all over it. "WOW!" Tea said.
"I think she likes it." her father said. Her mother agreed. Soon, they had to say there goodbyes.
"Please don't go!" Tea cried as she hugged her parents. She didn't want to let them go.
"Don't worry dear, we will be back soon." her mother said.
"Stay good for me , alright?" her father said as they walked out the door.
"I LOVE YOU!" she shouted after them.
"We love you too." her parents called.
"We'll be home soon!" her father called just before they got in the cab and drove off.
Tea moaned and tossed and turned but she couldn't wake up from her dream.
Tea boredly sat in front of the TV. Her parents had been gone for two weeks and she wanted them home. There was a knock on the door.
"ANSWER IT!" her uncle roughly yelled from his room in the basement.
She jumped up and walked to the door. She pulled it open to reveal two police men.
"Are you Tea Gardner?" the one man kindly asked.
"Yeah." she answered, not wanting to now where this was going.
"Is you guardian here?" the other man asked.
"You can tell me. Daddy says that I am smart for my age." she happily said.
"I'm sorry to have to tell you this, but your parents aren't coming home." the second man said.
Tea cocked her head to the left a bit. "Did the trip go on longer than they thought?" she said.
The first man grimaced a bit. "I'm sorry dear, but there was an accident." he knelt down and put his hand on her shoulder. "They were caught in it and I'm afraid that they didn't make it."
Tea could feel her legs loosing strength but she wouldn't fall. "NO!" she shouted as she fell to her knees, collapsing into tears.
"NO!" Tea shouted as she sat up in bed, gasping for air. That dream again. No matter how much she wanted to get rid of that memory, she couldn't.
"Why does that dream keep coming?" she asked herself. She glanced over at her clock and saw that it was about six.
It was a Friday but they didn't have school. They had three weeks off because of some convention or something.
She groaned and swung her legs over the side of her bed and stood up. She grabbed a robe and wrapped it around her body. She walked out of her room and she glanced over at Kaiba's door. She silently walked over to it and pushed it open. She didn't think that he would be awake and she was right.
He laid on the bed with his arms hugging the pillow. His breathing was steady and heavy with sleep. He yawned a bit in his sleep and moved a bit. His one hand was now behind his head and the other hung off the bed. The blanket was at the end of the bed.
Tea stifled a laugh and silently walked into the room. She grabbed the blanket and carefully pulled it up over his body. When she did, he sighed a bit. She had to stifle a laugh again. He just looked so vulnerable like that, unlike the mean version that they always saw. She slipped out of the room, closed the door, and walked downstairs to make some breakfast.
Kaiba jerked awake when he heard a pounding on the door. He shook his head, trying to clear it of sleep.
"What?" he called.
Tea's voice came through the door. "I made some breakfast and it will cold if you don't get up soon." she laughed a bit. "Its already ten."
He blinked at glanced over at the clock in the room. She was right.
"I'll be downstairs. If you want to take a shower, there are towels in the closet in the bathroom. Just take your clothes with you, please." she said before walking back down the hall.
He sighed and got out of bed. He wouldn't be able to go back to sleep now. He grabbed some clothes and the personal items that he had brought along. He quickly walked into the bathroom and put his clothes down. He pulled the clothes that he slept in off and climbed into the shower. He relaxed a bit as the warm water fell on his body. He quickly washed his hair and soon, he was done. He dried himself off and pulled on the black jeans and black shirt that he had brought in. He grabbed another towel and dried his hair quickly. He hung the towels over the edge of the tub and walked out of the room.
"Are you coming down?" Tea yelled up. "If not, I'll eat your food." she said.
"I'll be right down." he harshly called. He put the clothes and shampoo stuff in the room and quickly walked down. Tea was sitting in the living room in front of the TV.
"Food's in the kitchen." she absently said.
He nodded and went in search of food. He found it and soon he came back into the other room where Tea was. He sat down in a chair that was a far away as possible from her.
"Your not just going to be sitting here all day like a lump. We got stuff to do and you are going to help." she said, not giving him a chance to respond. She ran upstairs and yelled for him to follow.
He shrugged and followed, even though he knew this was going to be trouble.