First, I have this to say to my reviewers: I LOVE YOU PEOPLE!!!! I didn't even know there was such a thing as an insert key!!!!!…. Why do they have such a thing anyway? Seems kind of pointless to me.

Life is good-ish right now, turned twenty-one a few months ago.

Looking for a job, hope I get one soon. I applied at a Warehouse stationery and got an interview, but I didn't make it. I really want a job. I miss money and working.

Sorry that this chapter took so long, and yet is so short. I'll try to get the next chapters of sunlit city of dark and Book of Joseph Wheeler up soon. Maybe I'll rewrite Tales of Cliffside coz I'm not sure where I was going with it.

Well, lets get to business shall we?

DISCLAIMER: I have about as much of a chance owning Yu-gi-oh as… did I use the one about Sesshomaru singing Barney songs?… Well, yes I did, but it was for another fic. Hmmm… I have about as much of a chance of owning Yu-gi-oh… as there is of seeing a yaoi Yu-gi-oh fic where Tea is NOT 1) a slut 2) a friendship speech fanatic or 3) SOMEHOW both of the above. That is to say: not much of a chance at all.

Love and Pain: Slowly rewritten: Chapter nine.

Kaiba P.O.V

Huh.

Guess it wasn't Mokuba after all.

Of course, I could have worked that out BEFORE I busted into the room where the screams were coming from, but when you receive weekly threats to the safety of your only family you tend to run towards any source of yelling with three armed guards on instinct.

Damn you instinct. If it wasn't for you, I might not have been in Gardner's room trying to wake her up. I also might not have been nearly killed via burst eardrums and a fist.

(scene change)

Tea's P.O.V

In case you didn't understand what was just said above, let me translate: I don't respond well to being grabbed while having a nightmare/delusion. Considering who I normally share a house with, is it really a surprise that I would scream my head off and wave my arm around like a maniac? I'm not even sure it was a dream.

Apparently yes to the above question, if you are Seto Kaiba. It would have been absolutely hilarious seeing him flail and fall off the bed if I wasn't so terrified. As it was, I kept right on screaming until Joey and a few dozen armed bodyguards came busting in, guns cocked.

So maybe there were only five of them, plus the three that were with Kaiba, there was one guy with a Uzi! That scared me enough to dive out of the bed away from them. Then a couple more things happened:

1) Joey caught sight of Kaiba on the floor and actually went to go give him a hand up, stifling his laughter over seeing him sprawled on the floor.

2) Guy with Uzi perceived this as a threat to his boss and was GOING to FIRE at one of my dearest friends, but thought better of it, because his boss was in the WAY! He went to go tackle Joey, but was stopped by A.B. no 1, who had come in with him.

3) Kaiba started yelling. At me who apparently started this whole mess and Uzi guy for even THINKING about pointing a gun in his direction. He was all set to fire Uzi guy and me before an offhand remark by Joey complaining about how his bodyguards all seem to be trained to shoot him on sight caused him to change his mind and tell Uzi guy that he was getting a raise.

"What the hell!" Joey had blown up at him and let go of his arm, sending Kaiba back to the floor. "You ungrateful ass! And here I was thinking about being nice to you!"

"And yet you left me, your good friend stuck behind the bed." I grumbled, trying to get up but problem was, there was a couple of issues. They were called sheets. I was so tangled up that any attempt to extricate myself from them ended up with pain.

This actually went on for a few minutes until, to my surprise, both of them stopped yelling at each other and came over to me.

"You hurt, T?" Joey pulled the sheet out from under me, leaving me feeling pretty cold on the wooden floor. He quickly tossed it to the floor behind him, then went to pick me up.

Kaiba got there first.

Lord, I went as red as a fire truck and I don't know why.

(scene change)

Joey P.O.V

Well.

That was the surprising moment of the day.

Looking at the spot where she used to be, I couldn't believe that she had disappeared like that.

When I looked up, I found that sight even more unbelievable.

Kaiba was holding onto her like she was breakable. I suppose she was, considering the state she was in, but even so, you'd expect him to get Brawn to pick her up. And Tea was going all red like she had swallowed a whole bottle of Tabasco.

Well.

I know I'm not jealous, but why do I feel so suspicious? I'm all like: those hands better stay where they are or else, even though half the rumours circulating through the media are all about him being in Paris with some floozy (And the other half are about it being with his old driver!) He put her on the bed. Then he gives me this look and tells me to give her the sheets and blanket before she freezes and I get blamed. Again.

What an asshole. Still, he's right.

Now both of them are looking at me like I'm weird. If following Kaiba's orders is enough to get that look of surprise on his face then- He'll probably try to get me to do more absurd things for him. I glared at them.

"What?"

Tea smiles slightly. "Nothing, I just think that hell may have frozen over just now."

"Hmph." Thank you for the aforementioned comment, Moneybags. At least it didn't have the M word in it. But the next one did.

"I suppose it's about time that a mutt like you recognized his master." The only reason he didn't get a fist in his face is that Uzi was still skulking outside Tea's bedroom. Uzi is scary. Not as scary as Kaiba himself (don't tell him I said that) but more of a life-threatening way. Kaiba can only make you wish you were dead before he actually sets hit-people on you. So, in order to avoid being shot for assaulting Rich Boy, I ignored him, instead focusing on my main gal.

"So what was that all about?" I asked, after tucking her in. She kinda squirmed for a moment before answering.

"Just a bad dream. Memories you know." I wasn't surprised. She was lying again. But considering what a day we all had, I was willing to let it slide. So was Kaiba.

So we wished her goodnight (Well, I did. Kaiba just said "I expect you up at six for breakfast and it's like midnight!) and we walked out.

Least I managed to get to my own room before I started howling at the would-be shiner on Kaiba's face.

End of chapter 9

Told you it was short didn't I?