Love is Worth a Gunshot
Blue Kitsune: Ok so this is my second crossover with yugioh and something else. Well guess what it's with Trigun and even though I had promised to have Tea paired with Kakashi in 'Naruto', I decided to do this one. I think Legato is H-O-T!!!!!!!!!!
Summary: Tea feels depressed as all her friends are leaving her and her boyfriend just died (Sorry Seto- Téa fans I'm really really really Really sorry!!!!!!!) Tea thinking she can't handle anymore pain, runs away and then finds a dimension where she is dropped in a deserted town and walking through a desert and finding a wounded blue-hair man? Will she helped him or will it be the other way around? (Legato/Tea) Hope you guys might like it!
Chapter One: Depression Sucks Big Time
It was raining she remembered clearly as if it were yesterday on that day. The day that everything came shattering down and she in the next few hours would be making the biggest decision in her life.
A storm coming as the weather forecast and judging from the dark clouds that should have foretold something would change, whether she knew it or have any idea that it would have to revolve around her. But right now she was in this dark room, not turning on the lights but really didn't give a damn about it. Just sitting by the window and watching the rain pelt against the glass and run down like the tears on her cheeks, making her believe god was crying for this day as well.
If there's one thing she learned in her meaningless existence it was life was cruel. Life was not fair, no it sucks and had to sometimes be a big joke on other people's suffering for everyone to laugh about. Hers was a fucking sick twisted joke that she didn't find at all amusing for the account of how much misery was bought upon her! At least that's what she thought.
Téa Gardener Kaiba, the tragic heroine of her story, age nineteen, almost twenty, barely past her teens and yet her life was already going down the drain even before everything had gone to Hell, before all the people she had come to love were taking away from her in a flash.
Only one question kept constantly running through her mind and awake each minute.
Why…?
"Why, why did you have to go, to leave me like this? Will somebody tell me why this has to happen to me? At least answer me that dammit!" She asked but no one was there to hear her vain cry. No one but the rain that console her as she put her face in her hands and wept bitterly as the truth went in, echoing loud and clear around her.
Everyone was gone and she was the only one left to endure this sad miserable by herself. To recollect all the pain she felt growing with each day for the last three years.
Memories going in chronological order as one by one, hard and unforgiving as reality could be sunk in slowly like a knife inside her chest and instead of taking the blade out, it went deeper and kept going in, twisting its way, the steel cutting every muscle into her heart and leaving it raw and bleeding inside and felt the gapping wound until she thought she might die of that alone unlike the others who had pass on to the other realm.
Alone…she probably would because all of them were…her family and friends were…
Dead.
Mr. Moto, Yugi's kind grandpa passed away two year ago after they had graduated and Yugi decided to leave for Egypt with Yami and the Ishtar as they wanted to return to their beloved homeland and Yugi to console for the time being before they would probably return later and things could get back to normal before getting started on his career as a game owner-duelist.
Unfortunately, the plane had crash-landed and everyone was killed on the impact, no survivors, the gas burst and flames erupt, consuming all the passengers in there. It had been all over the news saying how Yugi Moto, youngest duelist and former king of games had died during the crash landing with all others and the world mourn for him, mostly his friends
Joey, Serenity, along with Mai and Tristan had decided on taking a road trip, to try and clear everyone's mind of the tragedy that struck and couldn't think of a better way than an escape reality for a short while going with some friends some place far from everything. Téa couldn't because she was sick, catching the flu at the worst time but send her love and hopes for the four to have fun and enjoy themselves in her absence.
That was to be the last she would ever see them, riding in Joey's beat up jeep, Serenity giving a sad smile as she was still thinking of Yugi, never telling him how she felt and Tristan and Mai being there for them as they drove away until the jeep was nothing but a speck in her vision.
Then as Tea was sitting in her living room, flipping through the channels before stopping to see the Nine O'clock News came on and told of an accident happening on the highway which had a major crash and the names of the victims who died on the side of the screen beside the newswoman's head. Tea thought her heart almost stopped dead as she saw her friends' names listed and thinking back when she saw them then breaking down in the room.
She mourned for all her friends and came to their funerals with their families and friends but sadly couldn't do the same for Yugi, Yami and the Ishtar as theirs were a fire pyre that had crisped them with no way to find their bodies and give a proper burial.
The few remaining friends she had that were left: Duke, Bakura, Ryou, Mokuba and Kaiba himself. Tea could see in their eyes the pain and sadness of losing them and thought that if they tried to stick together, then maybe nothing else could go wrong for them. But unfortunately, that bond had not been strong to stop what happened next.
Ryou had mixed himself a cup of tea with some toxic household poison and died the next few minutes in his sleep. Bakura who couldn't take the pain of living without having his half spirit by his side, joined him as he made his own concoction and lay in his half ling's arms, fading into nothingness as only a spirit could and join in the next world.
Duke committed suicide, cutting his wrists and doing it over and again each day never letting her know and always blamed herself that she should have instead of wallow in her own misery to not see what was happening until it was too late.
She had gone over to see Duke when he hadn't return her phone calls and worried for him, went to his apartment, checking all the rooms and found him in the bathtub with his whole body, mostly his wrists entirely cut up till she could see the very white of his bones, blood all over the ground and the water a pinkish tint and glassy green eyes staring at the ceiling, a crumpled note gripped tightly in his cold hands.
'I can't take this any longer, the world is far too cruel, it's so empty without the people in my life. I have to go, there's no room for me. Farewell and hope to see you in the next life…'
She remember the whole thing as it was the last memoir of Duke before the paramedics came and took his body away in a black body bag that seem to erase him from existence.
The only ones left now beside her were the Kaiba brothers and realized how alone they were with almost all their friend, the people in their lives disappearing before their very eyes.
Kaiba, seeing her like this, living with the kind of pain they had to deal in the past and understanding her feelings and realized that she was like them without anyone to love or care for in this lifetime.
He offer her a place to stay and she accepted because she saw that only they had to stick together, to stay longer, to keep living. But that had been a lie in the end.
Mokuba was next on death's list. He had gotten sick one day, and though they though it was the flu going around that time, it only got worse until Kaiba decided to take him taken to the hospital for an examination. The news was unpleasant and the worse of all things to have found out till now: leukemia. Mokuba had leukemia and there was no way to stop it.
At first the doctors thought there was nothing more they could do but Kaiba did everything in his power and money for them to find a cure or else there would be hell to pay. Never underestimate a Kaiba for the sake of his only brother.
Weeks had gone by, months then a year as Mokuba had been prescribed many medications and going for treatments to keep the disease at bay at least a few more months, a couple years not likely. Mokuba, the once happy cheerful go-lucky little boy who always gave Tea, his 'big sister' a smile, was pale and thin and weak as a lifeless being.
A ghost was now living inside a boy's shell.
Mokuba had asked Tea to come into his room one day while Seto, Tea too called him that after spending time with him and he didn't seem to mind, in fact he insisted after much pursuing from his brother, was away at work, giving them a moment of privacy together.
She came into his room and saw Mokuba, sitting up in bed, his eyelids heavy and drooping but yet trying to keep awake before saying what he had to say before the medication took over.
'Tea, I'm glad to see you.' He started coughing and Tea went over to the stand and pour a glass of water and handed it to him.
"Mokuba you should be resting right now. You don't want to be too tired when—" But he interrupted her, "But I'm already tired. I'm tired enough as it is. I can't take anymore. It's too much for me and I don't want to fight it anymore…"
"Mokuba!" She was shocked at what she was hearing. She couldn't believe it.
"Mokuba don't you dare say such things like that. Seriously you're going to get better and Seto is doing all he can with getting the best meds in the world to help and—"
"But for how long? How long will I have to go through this! How much longer do I have to endure, to go through with this endless waiting of getting better? There's no way I will. I can tell you that it's going to be over soon anyways." Tears ran down his cheek as he started to cry. Tea went and wrapped her arms around him, smoothing back his very short hair that barely began to grow.
"It's ok Mokuba, it's ok…we're still here for you, we'll always will be." Soon after he finished she laid his head on the pillow and tuck the blanket around him and pecking him on the forehead, saying goodnight. "Wait!"
He reached out and gently squeezed Tea's hand to let her listen to what he had to say, "Tea promise you'll take care of my big brother. He cares for you, he really does…even when he doesn't admit it."
"I also care for him and you too…" She whispered, tears brimming from her eyes as she held onto his fragile little hand. "But he cares about you a whole lot."
Mokuba's grip on her hand became tight. "Promise me. Promise me you'll take care of him and be there for him always."
She stared into his gray emotional eyes and saw the first time spark of life deeply hidden and smiled a small smile. "All right I promise. Only if you promise you won't give up yet."
Mokuba smiled back wearily. "Thank you Tea. I know you'll keep your promise and I'll try to stay longer, just so that I can, see you and Seto together at least."
"You will." She said before leaving the room and turning the lights off to let him sleep and took one last glance to see him looking like an angel with his eyes close and radiant innocent.
"I'll keep my promise as long as you keep yours…"
And he had come as promised before three months after their small conversation when in the end Mokuba Kaiba laid six feet under newly soil earth and she and Seto stood by the grave reading the date etch in the granite stone.
Mokuba had been barely fourteen, so young, she thought, grabbing Seto's hand and held it as he looked to the marker with nothing readable on his face yet his eyes spoke more in volume in words than any other emotion she ever seen of him. No tears were needed to be shed as they already have for everyone and Mokuba would not wanted him to cry on the funeral but the sadness and lost were glazed in his icy stare.
"It isn't fair…" He whispered almost forgetting Tea was there but she silently agreed with him as she stood there beside him before laying the flowers she brought and pulling herself away to give him a moment of privacy and console his brother in peace, walking down the grassy path in the cemetery to the limo that waited below.
She could feel the cold wind touch her almost like a empty caress, chilling her to the bone as she thought of all the people she had known and those around her, surrounding every inch of this place, family, friends even strangers now ghost inside this massive boneyard and in her mind.
Nothing to keep the dead from haunting as she only knew with how easily she had handle from previous experience in the past.
Mokuba you kept your end of the bargain now it's my turn to keep mine. After Seto came down and join her, they went home and felt the hollowness inside, everything seem so empty now as it only was the two left living here in one another's shadows.
Tea did her best with caring for the remaining Kaiba, knowing she would keep her promise to Mokuba to watch over his brother and stay with him. As hard as she try she could only see him falling inside himself even more, falling in his own sorrow and depression through his work and loneliness.
She would've done anything to help when he wasn't feeling too good or giving reassure like she once did with her friends even when they hadn't been close in the past but they knew and needed each other. She did everything in her power, caring for the one person she had left and finding something to live with someone who understood her pain.
As each day gone by, Kaiba had been nothing more than a hollow being whose only reaction was to go to work and work. Like some kind of drone or a robot incapable of anything else but following a strict program.
She almost given up hope until Kaiba had one day recently decided to do something she would never expect, he had come home early then usual and ask to take her out on a date. They did, going to a movie and dinner and each day, he came and they gone somewhere whether the park or some places they could be alone and enjoy the solitude in one another's company and soon went even further where in one night of heat passion and Tea didn't regret it as she laid in his arms and saw the first smile he had in almost a long time while he slept. It wasn't long before after six months of what they did and at dinner they were having together alone in the mansion he asked her to marry him.
Out of the blue and she had nearly choked on her chicken and looked across at him. Was he really serious, she hadn't really thought he would go that far but she saw in his eyes that he wasn't kidding and the warm passion and love she had seen before when they had spend that night together was there to see the truth.
He loved her and she had grown to love him as they bonded and now it was maybe possible that they could finally break the gravely curse that was haunting the both of them and start a new beginning, a new chapter in their lives together.
She said yes and saw the faint smile touch his lips and had to smile back before going over to embrace and kiss him.
Maybe there was a way to break it. She thought happily, tear falling down her cheeks while he put the ring on her finger but somehow she was wrong. They were married within less than a year and in that end she lost him from the car accident that took his life.
That time I felt certain we had won, that we had broken death's list, but I had been wrong...
Tea had been preparing a well-cooked meal for her husband, thinking of what her husband would say when she would tell him some interesting news.
Any minute, Seto was going to be coming home and she would have the dinner out along with having a special surprise in store for him. Everything was going perfect for them.
She felt that the endless chain was now being broken and things could be start fresh, with a new life and maybe a family to think about.
I'm certain Seto will be more than happy when I tell him the good news… she thought patting her slim stomach and putting the chicken in the stove for half an hourSeto will most definitely enjoy what she would tell him when he got home.
The phone ranged and Tea was broken from her chain of happy thoughts as she went over to the counter and about to pick it up. Strangely she had been having this weird feeling for some weeks, like something bad was about to come to either her or Seto. The constant ringing seem endless and a bad omen spoke from it before it was said through the line.
Don't pick it up! Don't! Just pretend you're not home and let it ring. Whatever you do don't pick it—
But she did and on the other line was indeed the bad news that had calling. "Is this Mrs. Kaiba?" She nodded but the other person didn't know and answered in an almost shaky voice, "Y-yes this is she?"
"This is Domino hospital, I'm afraid I have bad news…" And she listen to what was said before she dropped the phone and fell on her knees and cried. Cried because she had lost her only love.
Now here she was as she saw this was a year that she had lost another and she was the only one left in this cold and miserable world.
The only person left stranded in this empty existence in which to call her life.
Her childhood had been a hell and with her friends all gone and her husband along, taken whatever she had left to hold on.
Tea had barely managed to sleep this year as the nightmare of her dead friends came and haunted her, blaming her for their death just like everything else. She saw there was no more to do, there was nothing left. But…
Still felt that she needed to live somehow even though all she had living was gone. But what's there for me when everything around me, remains me of all who were once here.
She stared through the window and out beyond the street to whatever else lies beyond that.
Somewhere, there was some place she could go, find someone maybe…
No that was wrong, she couldn't, not after her friends, her family, her love and… She closed her eyes and clenched her fist. What she was thinking was highly impossible and not very smart as she was thinking like a little kid instead of the grown adult she was.
She needed to get away from this. Away from this place and try to find a new start for herself probably, to hope for a better beginning.
New York? Her old dream of going to America, to Julliard and becoming a dancer had faded but could go anywhere she wants as she had tons of cash and didn't need to worry about finding a job or anything. But money wasn't her big problem, it was her fear of letting go and moving on.
She grabbed the chain around her neck, holding her engagement and wedding ring and fiddle with the two. They each were circled with diamond and around her engagement ring was a sapphire, the color of Seto's eyes.
Seto, I wish you were here with me, I wish there was another way to go but I needed to clear these thoughts and find some inner peace and get away before it consumes me, you'd understand wouldn't you?
She rose from her seat, making up her mind and went to the closet and pulled down a suitcase and a small backpack and started packing. Packing all the clothes she could take along with checks, credit cards and other accessories she wanted to take but could always buy other things later. Carrying her things down her room and setting the alarm and security system and locking the place, not knowing how long she would be gone as she would call the staff to inform her recent decision for a 'vacation' and not sure how long she would be gone and made her way out to the garage to her black Mercedes and drove out, not caring where she was going.
The rain was turning to hail as she drove through the icy droplets, letting it pound against the windshield as she zoomed down the road. No sign of any other cars in sight, the Mercedes went at fast speed and she didn't know where she was exactly going.
Wherever is fineas long as I am nowhere here in Domino.
All through the night her thoughts remained unclear of her intention, whether to head to Domino airport and take a flight anywhere or hit the road all the way, the windshield becoming blurry and hard to see through the haze and the drizzling downpour. Lack of sleep was finally catching up to her, but she needed to stay awake and focus on the road. Last thing would be to drive off the road and revved into a ditch or off a cliff.
She couldn't fall asleep behind the wheel. Maybe when she reach some motel the outside limit of the city or otherwise could she rest up and start over. If she was able to find one in all this rain…
As she was going beyond 40 mph, she could have swore something seemed off, something that was shouting inside her head, a warning bell ringing loudly in her ear that something wasn't right.
But what wasn't, it all looked the same to her, she thought. Just as she continued driving she then saw something coming. Coming really fast up the curb.
Another car? Well it was a empty tonight and she was on her side so he would probably bypass her and…
But the other car didn't seem to be on its side at all or to be slowing down at all. It looked like it was coming straight at her, the engine revering loudly to hear the sound roar with increasing speed.
What the Hell? Maybe the guy's drunk or forgot to turn his lights on or something.
She thought to steer clear but when she tried to head for the other side she saw a white light shining directly through the rearview mirror, from that car, or it wasn't any car there at all. She could barely make out anything as the light shine into her eyes making her blind and unable to see the road ahead and couldn't see anything else.
What's happening? Oh my god!!!! I can't see anything!! I'm going to crash!! Her mind was screaming as the light seem to have trapped her, causing her body to remain still and driving ahead and all she could hear was that roaring engine coming closer and couldn't get away as it got closer.
Oh god this is it! And Tea thought no more, accepting this would be her final moment as the light dragged her in and took her to wherever it plan to take her.