Controversial Sorority
Chapter 3
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Joey and Tristan took turns throwing Téa's bra around and making adolescent comments, as they rounded a bend leading into the Breakfast Room.
Ryou was still seated at the table, quietly and contentedly sipping his juice when Joey and Tristan not so quietly came in.
Setting down his cup, he looked towards the two. "Hey guys, what's--Ah!"
He immediately had to duck as a flash of white and pink flew over his head and hit the wall behind him.
Tristan and Joey, especially, had utter dumbfounded looks on their faces, as Joey's hands were still positioned in a "firing" position.
Cautiously and hesitantly, Ryou lifted his head, then looked behind him at the projectile, which was Téa's bra, that nearly wrapped around his face.
He gasped at it, then turned back to Joey, grasping the bra firmly in his hand. "You guys, what do you think you're doing?! This is Téa's, isn't it?"
Tristan and Joey said nothing for a moment, exchanged glances, then broke out into hilarious laughter.
Ryou blinked innocently at their behavior. Even after all these years, Ryou was still innocently cute and pretty. Even though Bakura had his own comments about our lovely protagonist, we'll leave him and his snide commentaries out of this!
"You guys!! Just what did you do!?? And why'd you throw it at me?!!"
Joey had to try his best to hold back his laughter as he answered Ryou, but it wasn't working. "I--I'm sorry, Ryou!"
Ryou simply frowned, then tossed the bra aside and sat down in his chair with his arms crossed.
"Aww..Come on, I said I was sorry!!" Joey chuckled. He and Tristan playfully made their way over to the table, with Joey being in the lead.
Just as Joey was about to take another step, Tristan clipped him up---sending Joey flying right into the table.
By doing so, everything on that end of the table fell over and got knocked off---including Ryou's cup of apple juice, which jumped up and spilled all over his body!!
With a chilling yelp, Ryou sprang up and looked down.
The material that he was wearing was so thin, that after it got wet, the cloth stuck to his body, showcasing his leanly cut muscles for all to see!!!
Cursing, Joey quickly got up from the table and tried to apologize to Ryou, who had his chest covered with his arms.
With a pleading cry, Ryou ordered Joey not to look at him.
At this moment, the door to the kitchen opened, and Seto emerged with an oven mitt on one hand and his latest creation in the other.
Seeing Bakura trying cover himself so dramatically and frantically, and the innocently GUILTY expression on Joey's face, Seto wordlessly stepped on the pedal of a nearby trash can, and dumped his newest creation in the garbage.
This looked so typical and childish of them, that he didn't even WANT to know what had been going on.
Instead, he narrowed his eyes at them, and with a dead-pan expression, he stated plainly: "That was breakfast."
With that, he started to go back into the kitchen, then paused when a thought came to him.
Reluctantly, he decided to ask them about it.
"...Where's Téa?"
Joey, Tristan and Ryou said nothing, but started guiltily at Seto.
Téa was with Yugi. She had been running around chasing Joey all over the mansion, that morning, and then accidentally tackled Yugi to the floor.
After taking pictures of them, Joey and Tristan ran off and left them there.
"Um..", Joey meekly started to speak, as he didn't bother thinking over what he was going to say first, "Well...the last time we saw Téa, she was on Yugi and..."
Seto raised a suspecting eyebrow. "On...Yugi?"
"On? Oh!! Nah Nah I mean---!!"
Joey didn't get to finish by Tristan giving him a solid jab in the gut with his elbow.
After Joey dropped to the floor in a painful heap, Tristan seamlessly took over. "What Joey means is that Téa was WITH Yugi on the floor."
Seto's eyes narrowed, as he threw his mitt aside. "On the floor with Yugi...?"
That did it!
Seto knew that Téa wanted to get closer to Yugi, but not this fast!
Mumbling a few curses, he pushed past them, telling them to order some carry out or something.
With a playful salute, Joey sprang up, instantly recovered, and Tristan did the same.
Ryou, on the other hand, didn't share their silliness. Instead he kept himself covered, as he left the room and went upstairs.
"This is gonna be fun!", Joey said to Tristan, who was already on his way to getting the phone.
"Yep!! Sally's Expensive Sushi-house, here we come!"
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Seto stormed throughout the hallways and corridors with finding Yugi and Téa on his mind.
Ever since the break up, Téa had always said that she wanted to be closer to Yugi.
Seto was free then.
He could've gone with any girl who threw themselves at his feet, but he didn't want that. Téa was the only girl that had interested him, then and--
He paused.
Just what was he doing!?
Téa had a life of her own. Whatever she wanted was her decision, not his.
But even though it wasn't his decision, it WAS still his concern.
With a sigh, he ran a hand through his mahogany colored hair and smiled.
Téa was moving on in her life, now, and he was proud of her for that.
Unfortunately that was something he just couldn't do himself --not yet.
With allowing that thought to wallow in his mind, Seto spun on his heels, and started back into the Breakfast Room.
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-riiiing riiiiing. Riiing rii-click!-
"Hello?", a Mandarin accented voice asked from the receiver.
"Um.. yes, hello, Sally?", Joey confirmed, while glancing over the menu, "Um..I'm calling from the---"
"Kaiba Residence, yes, I see! Your address on my computer!"
"Really!? All right! I'd like 5 orders of your Sushi Deluxe, and---"
-CLICK!-
Joey blinked. "What the..."
"Noo! The lines been cut off!", Tristan shrieked.
"What? But who would...."
Then, he looked up and saw Seto staring down at him with pure acidity in his eyes.
Joey gulped, but his statement came out just as pleasant and seamless as an everyday greeting.
"Yo, Seto."
Seto glared at him, and snatched the receiver from out his hands. "Just what do you think you were doing?"
Joey shrugged. "Ey! I'm just orderin' some carry-out, just like you said!"
"Out of all the restaurants in this neighborhood, you choose to order the Sushi Deluxe!?"
"Yeah, so?", Joey scoffed, like it was no big deal. "You got a lot of money, don't ya?"
Feeling his anger rising, Seto neared very close to Joey in an upset fashion as he set the receiver down, and grabbed hold of the whole phone.
"That's---besides.---THE POINT, you mutt!!"
-THWACK!!-
Seto hit Joey with the phone!
"Hey!!", Tristan bellowed, while Joey immediately whimpered and held his head, "Don't you dare hit Joey like that!"
Joey was barley able to look at Tristan with relieved puppy dog eyes. "Tristan!! My man!"
"Heh. With me being his best buddy, I'M the only guy who can hit him!!"
"WHAT!?"
-THRAKKET!-
Tristan smacked Joey upside the back of his head!!
After all these years, it appears that these three haven't really changed much at all.
As for Ryou, he was upstairs in the bathroom, getting chewed out by his Yami for acting like such a sissy from getting a little wet.
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Do you want to see more of that in the next chapter (Ryou and Bakura's little fuss), yes or no? It will deter a bit from the main story, but as until the extra guys leave, they will have a bit of a focus.
-Mel