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Chapter Two – The Secret Door

Tea was up until 1:45 in the morning cleaning up Ryou's injuries. When she finished she had used up the entire tube of polysporn, as well as all of her bandages. She covered Ryou with one of the softest blankets from her bed and put the comfiest pillow under his head also from her bed.

Having the second best blanket and pillow Tea made herself as comfortable as possible on the green couch. It only took her a minute to fall into an easy, deep sleep.

Ryou was startled to find himself in someone's house, on someone's couch, with nothing but his pants on. He was even more startled to see a sleeping Tea on a couch. Slowly standing up he looked at his new surroundings while whispering," This must be Tea's house. I've always wondered where she lived."

Ryou curiously tip toed towards the nearest rooms, ' if I'm going to be friends with Tea, I should at least get to know her better. And what better way than to 'investigate' around her house.'

The first room Ryou 'investigated' was her parents'. The room was spick and span, they had a large four poster bed. On each side were little night tables with different styled reading lamps. Opening the little drawer in the night table on the right hand side Ryou was intrigued to find a box with four military medals inside. Taped to the top half of the box was a picture of a man in a military uniform and a little brunette girl standing beside him saluting. Ryou took the man to be Tea's father and the little girl was obviously Tea. Shutting the box, then the drawer Ryou went to the other night table and opened it's drawer. Inside were a couple of sophisticated and difficult looking books. Underneath the books were pieces of paper with complicated math equations. Again he found a picture, this time there was an intellectual looking woman sitting in an office working on a computer with little Tea on the floor reading a book that would be way out of her age range. In both pictures Tea looked to be about five or six years old.

'No wonder Tea is such a goody two shoes and a genius in school. Her parents must have taught her to be just like them.' Ryou thought this as he put the picture back and shut the drawer.

Leaving her parents room Ryou ventured on to the door on the right, opening the door he realized it was Tea's. The walls were painted a leafy green colour, but you could barely see the walls due to all the posters and pictures of Tea and the rest of the gang. The backgrounds were usually at school or at the beach and other such places. There were even pictures with him included. Tea's bed was a size smaller than her parents. The blankets and pillows were missing he also noticed. Tea had a miniature library with some supremely confusing books against her wall. Against the left wall was a beautifully carved mahogany dresser with pictures of her parents and herself on vacation in a frame on top. All of this was something you would expect to find in a teenage girl's room, but the one thing that looked out of place was the old fashioned key hanging on a string over her bed. Shrugging it off to be the key to her diary or what-not; he left her room and continued down the hall.

The only other doors in the hallway lead to the bathroom and a closet of blankets and towels.

He was going to head back into the living room to wake up Tea for something to eat when something caught his attention from the corner of his eye. Turning to the left, Ryou found another door that was completely covered by darkness and shadow. The reason being, there weren't any lights at this end of the hall. Curiosity getting the better of him Ryou walked closer to the door. At 10 steps from the door Ryou started to feel intense negative waves. These waves aroused Bakura, who took control and muttered to himself," Whatever is behind this door has incredible control of the shadows. But what would goody-two-shoes Tea be doing with something this strong? I'll find out later, right now I need to see what's in there." As he said all this he took those ten steps towards the door, getting close to the door he saw an old fashioned lock.

Furrowing his eyebrows he held up the lock and grumbled," I think I know what that key is for now."

"Ryou, what are you… Get away from that door right now!!" Turning around and switching souls, he saw a furious Tea with clenched fists. This caught Ryou off guard, he'd never seen Tea so angry or with fists outside of Joey hittings.

Getting right up in his face Tea demanded," I don't know what you were thinking coming over here, but what I do know is that you'll keep your distance from this door or else I'll put you right back on the street. Do I make myself clear?"

Feeling rather intimidated Ryou just nodded.

Tea couldn't bare to be near the door much longer, grabbing Ryou's hand she towed him behind her as she went back into the living room.

Letting go of his hand and sitting back down on her couch Tea put a hand to her head to hide her pained expression, in a very calm voice she apologized," I'm sorry I snapped at you like that Ryou. It's just that the contents in the room behind the door are very private. No one but me goes in that room, not even my parents can get in there. Heck, I've only ever invited Yugi over once before because I trusted him not to ask about the door. As for Joey and Tristen, they would practically tackle me to go in there if they knew about the door. So please do me a favour Ryou and pretend you never saw that door."

Ryou was not sitting on the couch across from Tea as he gave another nod while saying," Well I am in debt to you for helping me out of that alleyway, as well as taking care of my wounds. So I promise not to talk about it, or even mention it."

Tea smiled a little in appreciation. As she smiled Ryou thought he saw her deep azure eyes glitter with something deep inside her that would never be revealed.