Welcome to the Chapter Ten milestone :D

I like this chapter – it has an 'evil Mokuba' scene at the end :D Although it wasn't nearly as fun to write as chapter thirteen. Chapter Thirteen was a good chapter. C13 beats C10.

Tea will be coming back in this chapter – I bet you didn't guess that after my AN last chapter, because I am a master of subtlety...

Anyway, please review O.O it make me feel warm and fuzzy inside ;D and thanks again for reading this far! It means a lot to me :'D

~IA

"I was hoping to have seen the last of you all for one day," Kaiba said, regarding each of them with cold indifference.

"Seto!" Mokuba didn't run up and embrace his brother as he would have done two years ago, but that was partly because he knew that he was going to be in serious trouble.

Kaiba ignored his brother. His eyes were fixed on Yugi. "It's certainly been a while, Yugi." His voice was filled with contempt, as it always was.

Yugi held his ground against Kaiba's unwavering stare. Even after two years, he was accustomed to Kaiba's cold manner of treating...pretty much everyone.

Yugi didn't really know what to think of Kaiba. He had a great deal of respect for him as a duellist – who wouldn't? – but Yugi himself had never actually duelled Kaiba on his own. It was Atem who had been Kaiba's rival, not Yugi.

But still, whether Kaiba liked it or not, Atem had counted him as a friend, and so did Yugi. After everything that had happened to them in the four years leading up to the Ceremonial Duel, it was hard not to.

"Yes." Yugi was expecting Kaiba to make some demand of a rematch, but that would have to wait; it was the middle of the night, not to mention that he had to get to New York. And besides; Yugi hadn't brought his deck with him.

Another few seconds passed before Joey broke the ice. "What are you doing here, moneybags? Hadn't you already decided that your precious time was too important to spend with us?"

Kaiba looked like he was seriously contemplating ignoring Joey altogether, but he didn't. "I had, Wheeler, but then I realised that time spent in the company of you doesn't even count as time spent." His gaze shifted to his little brother. "Come on, Mokuba; they've found Yugi. This whole expedition has been nothing more than a waste of both our energy."

"No it hasn't!" Mokuba exclaimed. "They have to get to New York, and we have to take them there."

Seto looked at his brother as though he had spoken in Swahili. "Mokuba, we have work to do. We can't afford to be running around with these geeks again."

"We're standing right over here!" Joey exclaimed, irritated.

Seto enjoyed winding him up, but he didn't show it; he kept his attention on Mokuba, who was still standing beside Yugi and his friends.

"But, Seto!" Mokuba's voice was fringed with something similar to panic, but he kept his eyes steady as he addressed his brother. "They need our help!"

"I don't know what century you think this is, Mokuba, but flights to America from an airport have been available for a while now. They don't need a luxury trip on a private jet."

"But it's so difficult to book flights to other countries on short notice!" Mokuba exclaimed. "They need to leave now, not in a week!"

"It's not our problem."

"It will be our problem when Slater uses the Millennium items to take over the world!" Mokuba didn't actually know exactly what Slater was planning to use the items for, but it was probably something close to taking over the world.

"Mokuba." Seto was growing increasingly frustrated with Mokuba's persistent arguing. "We have to go." He didn't say anything more; he didn't need to. His message was clear enough.

"But-"

Seto had already turned away from them and grabbed the rope ladder. "Come on, Mokuba."

Mokuba didn't move for a moment. He took a few steps towards Seto, and then turned back to face Yugi and his friends. "I'm sorry...good luck, I guess."

And then he winked.

Without any further gesture, he grabbed the ladder and was lifted off the ground with his brother as the helicopter ascended.

Yugi watched them go, smiling to himself at the memory of the cheeky 'I'll be back' expression that Mokuba had been wearing just before he had left. I don't think we've seen the last of him.

As soon as the ladder had been pulled back into the helicopter, Mokuba braced himself for the ticking off of the century from Seto.

It never came. The two brothers simply stared at each other for a minute before Mokuba turned his head away. "I'm sorry."

Seto's cold demeanour didn't falter; it never did. "Mokuba, I have more important things to be doing than chasing after you all afternoon. If Wheeler hadn't had his DuelDisk with him I wouldn't have been able to find you if something bad had happened."

Despite the apparent lack of emotion in his voice, Seto's words surprised Mokuba; it had been a long time since he had said anything that even remotely resembled concern. Mokuba suddenly felt guilty for having double crossed his brother.

"I really am sorry, Seto," he began, "but I had to help them – Yugi really was in danger! There was a man – the man who has the Millennium items – and he challenged Yugi to a Shadow Game, but he cheated, and-"

"Oh, joy, the Shadow Games again."

"-And Yugi nearly lost! And the man, Slater, has six of the Millennium items now, so he can read peoples thoughts, control their minds, see the future..." he trailed off, knowing that Seto wasn't taking anything he said seriously. He reeled in his nerves and continued speaking. "And he wants Yugi to meet him in New York! We have to help them get there. We saw what the items could do, in the Battle City tournament, and at Duellist Kingdom – we even had our souls trapped inside cards!"

"Mokuba, please, just stop. Whatever is going on with Yugi's little games, it doesn't concern you or I. We have a company to run."

Mokuba was on the verge of tears. "Why do you always say that?" he asked, his voice breaking on the last word. "You never do anything except run this stupid company! You are this stupid company! Why can't you stop being president of KaibaCorp and be Seto Kaiba for just one day? We can hire someone else to assist in the running of the company! You weren't always like this – Gozaburo's stupid company made you this way!" He could feel the tears welling in the corner of his eyes, and he turned and disappeared into the cockpit, since it was the furthest he could get from Seto without leaving the helicopter.

Since there was no reason to linger around the building, Yugi, Bakura, Tristan and Joey set off back to Domino City – and civilisation – as soon as the helicopter was out of sight.

"Man, I can't believe that Kaiba!" Joey fumed as they gained speed. "He's started treating Mokuba the same as he treats everyone – like he's doing them a favour by looking at them."

"Mokuba did run away in order to help us. I'd be a little upset too," Bakura muttered, trying to prevent a bitching fest about Kaiba before one erupted between Joey and whoever he could get to listen...but even Bakura couldn't bring himself to disagree with Joey. Kaiba had been utterly arrogant, and hadn't even been listening to Mokuba.

"I don't think Mokuba can be dissuaded that easily," Yugi said. "I have a feeling we'll be seeing him very soon."

After a minute or so of silence, Tristan spoke up. "So, New York."

"You guys aren't coming." Yugi didn't know why he still bothered telling them that it was too dangerous; that had never stopped them the millions of times before.

"Nice try, Yuug." Joey laughed. "There's no way you're going after Slater on your own."

Yugi looked up. All eyes in the car were on him. He averted their gazes by looking out the window at the unchanging scenery. "I suppose it wouldn't pay for me to tell you how dangerous Slater is?"

"Nope!" They all spoke at exactly the same time.

Yugi smiled, reddening. "Then I guess it's settled."

Téa Gardener was a year into her dance course. She had been living in America for the same amount of time, sharing an apartment with another girl from the same dance school, Amber. Although, her roomy wasn't nearly as dedicated as her; Tea had a habit of spending hours and hours every weekend alone in the studio, practicing, while Amber went out with friends, or just stayed at home and chilled.

It was a Saturday afternoon when she dragged herself up the stairs to her apartment and opened the door. She had left six hours ago, and had barely spent half an hour of that time off her toes. Utterly exhausted, she made her way into her room and collapsed face down on her bed.

Amber's voice drifted into her room.

"...And so then I was, like, 'I can't believe he would do that!' and then she went, like, 'I know, right!' and was all comforting and stuff. She's really nice."

Tea felt sorry for whoever she was talking to; she was going to be talking to them for a very long time.

She must have been on a Skype call, because Tea heard someone mumbling a reply. Frustrated, she got to her feet and poked her head into Amber's room. "Could you – hey, Amber, what are you doing with my computer?" Tea asked, noticing that Amber was sprawled on the floor looking at Tea's laptop, which was in front of her. Amber looked up.

"Oh, check it out! She just walked in. Hey, Tea! I didn't mean to answer your call, but they called, like, six times until I answered them, and I didn't know when your were coming back, so we were just talking about you until you got here."

Tea blinked, confused. "What...?"

Amber turned the computer around so that Tea could see the faces on the screen. Her heart leapt with excitement as she recognised Yugi, Tristan, Joey and Bakura. "Hey, guys!" she exclaimed, delighted. "Oh, um, thanks for taking the call, Amber," she added, wondering how long they had been stuck listening to her room mate.

"No problem." Amber got to her feet and handed Tea the computer. "That Yugi guy is adorable!" she whispered. "I can't wait to meet him!"

Tea didn't know what Amber was talking about, so she just took the computer and made her way back to her room, being careful to shut the door so Amber wouldn't follow her.

She set the computer on her desk and grinned at her laptop's webcam. "It's great to see you guys – how's everything been?"

"I think I'm going to be hearing that girl's voice in my head for the next year," Joey said to nobody in particular.

Tea laughed. "She means well, but she can be a bit...well, you met her."

The four of them exchanged some uncomfortable glances. "Téa," Yugi began, "have you heard about what happened with the Millennium items?"

Tea was instantly on alert. "No, why? What's happened?"

As they filled her in on the events of the past week, Tea regretted that she hadn't already known about it herself.

As would have been expected, she had developed a keen interest in archaeology after her experiences from two years ago and the four years beforehand, but lately, she hadn't really been paying any attention to anything in the papers that wasn't the front page news.

Tea stared at the screen in silence. "This 'Slater'...he's coming to New York?"

Yugi nodded. "We'll be joining him there as soon as we can – we just thought we'd better let you know what to expect."

So Yugi and everyone else is coming here...that must have been what Amber meant about meeting Yugi. At this memory, she felt her face flush with irritation about Amber thinking Yugi was 'adorable'. He was twenty!

"Well, thanks..." Tea said, bringing her attention back to the conversation. "When are you arriving? I'll meet you at the airport." And Amber won't.

"We haven't found a flight yet – we'll let you know as soon as we find out."

"Okay. I –"

"Te-ah!" Amber called, opening the door. "Are you in here?"

Even Tea, who was usually so patient, could find Amber frustrating. Where else would I be? And it's not like you need to call out if you've opened the door. "Yes, what is it?"

"Can I say hi again?" she asked innocently, her round green eyes wide and questioning.

"Oh...I'm sorry, Amber. They just hung up," she said, hitting the 'end call' button to rescue her friends from another hour of listening to Amber.

"Aww...okay, then. By the way, can I come with you to the airport when they arrive?"

"Um...they don't know when, it might be during a dance lesson."

"It's okay – We can skip and catch up later. You already spent most of your weekend practicing, so I can just join you! Great – can't wait to meet your friends." She closed the door before Tea could protest further.

Sighing, Tea looked back at the screen. She didn't call back, in case Amber was listening. Besides; they had said everything they needed to.

Seto Kaiba was already seated at his desk, drinking his second cup of coffee that day, as six in the morning.

He was behind in his work, having spent the previous afternoon and most of the night in pursuit of his brother, and bringing him home. Because of this, he was even more irritated than usual when Roland opened the door of his office. "Mister Kaiba, sir?"

"What is it, Roland?"

"It's Mokuba; he's gone missing again."

Kaiba was not surprised that Mokuba had made another escape, although he hadn't expected it to be this soon. "I see. I'm seriously considering having him micro chipped after this." He sighed. "First, try Yugi Moto's game shop. If he's not there –"

"Sir, there's something else," Roland interjected. "He's taken the Blue-Eyes White Dragon jet."

"Honestly, Mokuba, you're what – fourteen? – and you can fly this thing by yourself? Is that normal for rich people?" Joey wanted to know.

"Hang on, stop talking; take-offs are tricky. Everyone sit down!" Mokuba yelled from the cockpit. In the back of the plane, his four passengers were getting themselves comfortable for their flight to New York, courtesy of Mokuba Kaiba, who had called each of them at four thirty that morning to demand that they met up at the KaibaCorp building in one hour with their luggage and passports. After Mokuba had fed a loop into the security cameras, the five of them had made their way to Kaiba's jet and were preparing for take-off.

"In another life, Mokuba would have made a great villain," Bakura said, thankful that he hadn't eaten breakfast as the jet sped off, in a manner that seemed unusually wobbly, in the direction of New York, America.

So much for my evil Mokuba scene...he was kind of evil :/ since he stole a plane. That kind of counts as evil...but it's Mokuba, so it actually doesn't. Oh, well :D

This paragraph contains minor spoilers...

Please don't think Amber is my interpretation of what people from NYC are like :'D I've never actually been there so I have no idea what people from New York are like...I just made her that way because it fit my needs. As it turns out, Amber gets a much bigger role in this story than I had originally planned for her. She doesn't become a main character, but she does however end up in more than the single chapter I had in mind for her, and one of those chapters is EPIC! It was even more fun to write than chapter thirteen :D

Oh, and another thing...I also thought it was weird pointing out that Yugi was twenty...but that's how it turned out :'D Can I get some help here; I'm not sure how old he was when he first solved the Puzzle; I think it might actually be fifteen in which case he would be twenty-one and I'll have to change it.

Anyway, I hope you liked this chapter :D I'm going to be in Canberra for a couple of days, so if I don't put up chapter eleven tomorrow, which I probably won't (sorry :( ) I won't be updating until at least Tuesday :(

Okay, with that out of the way, please review :D

~IA