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Lady-Wicca666
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dancers of the night
AtemusloverSapphire
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Tea-The Chosen One
Takashi Kusinagi
yamiviva
Summary: He had all of the fame and fortune in the world, but all he wanted was someone that would treat him like he was normal as anyone else. He might get his wish when he meets a cafe waitress who is having problems of her own. Will they be able to help each other?
Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh! I just own the story.
Chapter 12
A month has past since the disappearance of Rachel and Renku and during that long month it has been nothing but reports about them on the news. Their pictures have been posted all over town for anyone who has seen them, but there wasn't any new leads on them. The police were still working on finding them, but they were just working on other cases while keeping this one open until more news came in. Atem was awaken by the bright light coming inside the window and turned over to block it from his eyes. As he turned, he reached his arm over to wrap Tea around her waist, but all he felt was emptiness. He opened his eyes and found that she wasn't in bed and sat up to figure out where she was. He stepped over to the bathroom and noticed she wasn't inside so he went out the room to check somewhere else. As he was walking down the hall, he heard a few sniffles and knew they were form Tea so he ran until he found her in the reading room he made for her sitting on the sofa crying. Atem went over to sit next to her and gently rubbed her back to calm her down.
"Tea, what's wrong? Why are you crying?" he asked. Tea shook her head while wiping her tears away and looked up at him to give him a little smile.
"It's nothing to worry about, I just finished my book this morning and it was kinda emotional." she said. Atem smiled and wrapped his arm around her shoulders.
"I'm guessing that it was a happy ending I hope." Tea giggled and sniffled as she wiped the last remaining tears away.
"It was actually, it almost seemed like there was going to be tragedy, but at the last minute, a miracle happened and everything turned out wonderful in the end. You probably think I'm silly crying over something as fictional as this." Atem chuckled and shook his head.
"Of course not, maybe one of these days when I'm not at the office I'll sit down and read it, plus have you sitting beside me and reading it again with me if that's alright with you." he said. Tea nodded and laid her head on his shoulder.
"Sure, I would really love that."
"Now I have to ask you this. What are you doing up so early?"
"Well I was up for a while, I kept tossing and turning. I didn't want to wake you so I just decided to sit up for a while until I was feeling tired again, but for some reason, I wasn't able to get back to sleep." she said. Atem looked down at her with a look of concern.
"How long have you been up?" he asked. It took a minute for Tea to answer him and when she did, she mumbled out what she said which didn't make it to Atem's ears very clearly.
"What was that?" Tea sighed and answered him again much more louder this time.
"I said I was up since twelve this morning." she said. Atem blinked his eyes in disbelief and looked over to the clock hanging on the wall.
"Tea, it's six in the morning. You mean to tell me that you've been up for five hours?" he asked. Tea nodded her head and just as she was getting comfortable on Atem's shoulder, he stood up from the sofa and lifted her up in his arms to carry her into the bedroom. When he walked inside with her, he placed down in the bed while sitting down next to her.
"Why did you bring me in here?" she asked him. Atem smiled and held up his finger to her.
"Well, you're going to get some sleep so wait here while I get something to help you." He rose up from the bed and walked out the room. As he walked downstairs, Tea took the chance to have some time to think to herself. She didn't want to worry Atem, but she has been having nightmares for the past couple of nights, so in order to keep her from having them, she occupied herself by keeping busy by reading, watching TV, or just playing games on the computer. There were times where she almost fell asleep while doing these things, but she always managed to catch herself before it happened. Tea was brought out of her thoughts when Atem came back into the room carrying a coffee mug in his hand. He sat down to give her the mug and when she looked inside, she turned to him with confusion.
"Milk?" she asked. Atem nodded.
"Warm milk to be exact, drink this and it will help you get to sleep." he said. Tea then shook her head.
"Thanks, but I'm really not all that tired and besides, I'm not a really big fan of milk unless it's in cereal." she said as she gave him the mug to take away, but he just pushed it right back into her hand.
"Trust me, you'll like this. My mother used to make it for me and Yugi when we were little and we would have trouble sleeping. I was the same way with milk too so I didn't drink it at first when my mother offered it to me, but when she told me that it was a special ingredient that she put inside that would make it taste sweet, I decided to give it a small sip and when I did, it was the most delicious thing I ever tasted. I swear, once you take a sip of this, your whole perspective to milk will change immediately, trust me." he said while giving her a reassuring smile. Tea was hesitant to drink it, but seeing Atem's face made her curious as to what ingredient he put into the milk. So she nodded and brought the cup up to her lips to take a sip. When the milk traveled inside her mouth and onto her taste buds, she made a small noise indicating that she was amazed at the sweet flavor and brought her cup back down to rest in her lap while having a smile.
"You're right, this is good. I'll never look at milk the same way again." she said. Atem chuckled.
"See, I told you it tasted great."
"What did you put in it?" Atem smiled and gave her a wink.
"Family secret, but if you want to know I just added a little vanilla and creme to it. A cup of that should make you fall asleep instantly." Tea brought the cup back up to drink more of the milk. The mug was more than halfway empty when the effects of the milk was starting to work on her. She placed it on the night table and covered her mouth as she was starting to yawn. Atem smiled and gently laid her down on the pillow while Tea smiled back trying to keep her eyes open a little longer.
"I'm going to take your cup downstairs and then come back up to lay beside you." he said as he moved some her hair behind her ear. Tea nodded as she slowly closed her eyes and let sleep take over. About two minutes later after he came back into the bedroom, he saw that she was completely asleep. He slowly laid down beside her and brought her over to rest her head on his chest before he closed his eyes and drifted off back to sleep with her.
As the couple were sleeping peacefully, they were unaware of a limo sitting outside hiding in the shadows facing the house. As the window rolled down, it revealed to be Rachel who had an evil smirk on her face. She turned to Renku who was sharing the same evil smirk as he was watching the house also.
"So, you know the plan, right?" she asked him.
"Definitely, they won't be expecting us since we've been gone for weeks now. All I know is that the cops better not get involved in this, we're already on the run from them as it is." he said.
"Would you stop being such a wimp? Once we get what we want, there will be no way the police will catch us."
"You better be right, or so help me if I go down, I'm taking you with me cousin or not." he said giving her a warning.
"Everything will be fine as long as we follow through on the plan right and don't screw up this time." she said while glancing back out the window again.
About five hours went by and Atem was awaken again, but this time, he woke up to movement beside him. When he opened his eyes, he noticed that Tea was tossing her head from side to side and she was breaking out in a cold sweat while muttering words in her sleep. He caught the sound of his name and she was saying things like 'no' and 'don't hurt him' so as gently as he could, he shook her awake.
"Tea...Tea sweetie, wake up." he softly said. It took a minute, but after a few shakes later, Tea gasped and opened her eyes. She rose up while taking a few deep breaths to calm herself down, but she couldn't hold it in and broke down crying. Atem wrapped his arms around her and rocked her slowly while whispering words to her saying it was okay to soothe her down. Once Tea was calmed and she wiped her tears away, Atem took the opportunity to ask her what was wrong.
"Are you alright now?"
"Yeah, I'm fine. I just had a bad dream, that's all." she said still having her head on Atem's shoulder.
"It must have been really bad if it made you upset like that. Do you want to talk about it?" Tea shook her head.
"No, not really."
"Okay, let me just ask you this. Now you said you couldn't sleep earlier and you were up most of the night, did you have the same dream before?" he asked trying to see if his hunch was right. Judging by Tea's silence, his guess was right. They were both quiet for a while, Tea still leaning on his shoulder sniffling and Atem rubbing her arm slowly. Finally, after what seemed like years, Tea broke the silence.
"I started having this dream a week ago and ever since then, it hasn't stopped. It's always the same, I would always be surrounded by darkness and I was never able to move no matter how much I tried. As I looked up, I would find you chained against the wall and I tried calling out to you, but you were unconscious. Then all of a sudden, there would be figures dressed in cloaks standing in front of you carrying whips in their hands. Everything was happening so fast, one minute I looked down to try to move and the next thing I knew, I was hearing them hurting you. I was yelling at them, begging them to let you go, but it was like talking to a wall. What happened next was just so horrible. One of them pulled out a gun and pointed it at you. I desperately tried and tried to get some sort of my body to move and reach to you in time, but when the gun went off and I looked up, you were...you were motionless and you weren't answering my calls. I always seem to wake up after that and I'm worried that something is going to happen soon with you being in the middle of it." Atem held Tea more tightly as she cried her eyes out again.
"It's okay, everything's going to be alright. It was just a dream." he said calmly to her. Tea pulled away from Atem while wiping her eyes.
"A dream that I have been having for too long now and it scares me to think that it's going to come true." Atem leaned over to kiss her lips softly and he pulled away slowly to gaze at her.
"Listen to me, you don't have to worry about losing me. There is nothing or no one that will take me away from you because I wouldn't want you taken away from me. That was only a dream and it will pass I promise you, besides I'm too stubborn to be taken out so easily." he said. Tea giggled when he was giving her that playful smile that she had grown to love.
"Yeah, maybe you're right. Maybe it was just a dream and I just needed to talk about it, I feel silly getting worked up over something that might not even happen." she said while playing with a loose thread on the bed sheet. Atem occupied himself by playing with a few strands of her hair. He turned her face towards his and gave her another kiss, but this time with much more passion. Tea gave out a moan when his tongue touched hers and he slowly eased her head down on to the pillow. As soon as they were running out of air, they broke the kiss and Atem turned his attention to her soft neck placing loving kisses on her while she ran her hands through his hair enjoying the feeling he was giving to her. There was nothing that could ruin their moment together.
RING! RING! RING!
Except for the fact that Atem's phone was ringing which meant they had to stop what they were doing for him to answer it. Atem groaned when he had to stop thanks to his phone and reached over his night table to pick it up and answer it.
"Yes, what is it?" he said.
"Sir, there someone here who requests to see you immediately." answered his assistant. Atem sighed.
"Who is it exactly that wants to see me?" he asked.
"He actually didn't want me to mention his name over the phone and wants you to wait until you arrived."
"Well how am I suppose to know what this is about if I don't know who it is? If this is about another merger, then tell him that I am not interested."
"No, it's not about another merger fortunately, he wants to talk to you about another matter. It deals with the events that happened a month ago." she said. Atem scrunched his face in confusion when the thoughts from last night came popping into his head.
"I think I know who it is, tell him that I'm on my way and I should be there in about twenty minutes." he said as he hung up the phone. Atem turned to Tea beside him who was looking back at him with concern.
"Is everything okay?" she asked. Atem smiled and leaned over to kiss her cheek.
"Yes, everything's fine, I just have to head over to the company. I'm sorry to leave you like this." Tea shook her head and returned the smile.
"It's fine go, I know you have important things to take care of. I'll just wait here until you get back." she said.
"I won't be long, it'll probably take me a couple of hours depending on how long the meeting will be, but once I'm done, I'll be home as soon as I can. I want to spend a special evening with you." he said and went back to kissing her neck.
"Mmm, then you better go and get ready if you want to hurry back." she laughed when he jumped out of bed and went into the bathroom to shower. After he was dressed, he grabbed his briefcase and stopped at the door checking to make sure he had everything. He turned around when Tea was behind him and wrapped his arms around her waist.
"You going to be alright while I'm gone?" he asked. Tea giggled and nodded.
"Yes, I'll be fine. I'll have dinner ready for us when you get back."
"Okay, and uh, make sure you're wearing something very comfortable." he said as he slowly glided his hands under her shirt and caress her back to make her gasp and shiver in pleasure. She laughed and brought his hands out in front of her.
"You pervert, you better go before you're late." she said. Atem gave her one more kiss before he had to leave.
"I love you." he said as he kissed her cheek again.
"I love you too." He left out for his car and got inside to start it up. Before he left the driveway, he waved at Tea and drove off to the company. After about twenty minutes later, he arrived at the entrance and went inside to take the elevator to the top floor. His assistant pointed over to his office saying that the person was inside waiting for him. When Atem opened the door, his assumption to who he was meeting was right.
"Hello Akiyoshi." he said as he closed the door and greeted him with a handshake.
"Hello Atem, how are you?" he asked as he returned his handshake.
"I'm good, I'm just curious on what you wanted to talk about. Why don't we have a seat?" he asked as he gestured for him to take the seat in front of his desk. He then walked over to his chair.
"So what did you want to talk about?" he asked as he took his seat behind his desk.
"Well, first of all, I wanted to see how that young lady was doing. I know it must have been a horrific experience to her that no one should ever have to go through." he said. Atem nodded while giving out a sigh.
"She's doing fine physically if that's what you're asking, emotionally, it still bothers her from time to time."
"Well, I wanted to let you know that for the past month, I've hired investigators to track down my daughter and my nephew. There were so many leads and dead ends that I could count, but then finally something came around. I just wanted to warn you about Rachel and Renku, they're back." he said. While he was talking, Atem was writing something down and when he heard the last thing that Akiyoshi said, his hand stopped on the paper. He placed the pen back down on the desk and looked up to him with a mixture of anger, worry and a little fear for Tea written on his face.
"Are you certain about this?" Akiyoshi nodded.
"Yes I am, my investigators spotted Rachel's limo out near a secluded area. I wanted you to be aware of them should they try anything else that would cause harm to you and Tea, is it?" he asked making sure.
"Yes, that's her name. I have to make sure though, where exactly did they see them?"
"Well, they were last spotted in a secluded parking lot just out of town and I'm afraid that they might be nearby." Atem jumped out of his seat and grabbed his things while making his way for the door.
"Where are you going?" Akiyoshi asked.
"I left Tea alone at home and I have to make sure that they haven't gone near the house."
"That's another matter I wanted to discuss with you, you'll need some sort of protection while dealing with them so let's walk to my car and we'll get them out." They both walked out of the office to take the elevator down to the entrance and outside the parking lot. When they stopped in front of Akiyoshi's limo, he opened the door for the both of them to get inside. Once they were situated, Akiyoshi pressed a hidden button on the seat that opened a hidden compartment inside the limo to reveal many different types of guns. Atem was amazed at the different varieties and looked to Akiyoshi for answers.
"We'll need weapons, I know those two are armed so their going to be dangerous to take down. I don't to have to take this road, but if it comes to it, then we have no choice." he said picking out a gun and handing it to Atem.
Several hours went by and Tea was in the kitchen getting ready to prepare dinner for herself and Atem. She had everything she needed to start, but before she could, she had to go upstairs for a minute. Unfortunately, she failed to notice someone trying to break in the house. The door opened revealing a masked figure and followed her up the steps. He slowly crept in the hall and found her in the bedroom. Tea was straightening up the bed and fixing the sheets to make it more decent. Just as she finished, a hand was placed over her mouth that carried a cloth full of chloroform. She tried to struggle to get away, but the chemicals were so strong that she couldn't keep her eyes open and passed out with one name in her mind.
'Atem.'
Atem bid Akiyoshi goodbye and told him to have him give him a call if anything came up about Rachel and Renku. He walked over to his car and started it up to make his journey on home. When he stopped a red light, he clutched his chest feeling the same pain he felt when he knew that Tea was in danger and right now, the pain was intense. As soon as he was okay for the moment, he drove as fast as he could to his house. Five minutes later, he parked the car and he hurried inside to find the house dark.
"Tea! Tea, where are you?!" he yelled searching the rooms in the house. When he went into the living room, he flicked the light switch and he was met with an unexpected guest.
"Hello honey, I'm home." It was Rachel sitting on the sofa with her legs crossed in a feminine way. Atem's anger was slowly rising to a dangerous level that was impossible to control.
"What the hell are you doing in my house?" he asked in a low, vicious voice. All Rachel did was smile and flash a wink to him.
"Oh c'mon now, aren't you glad to see me. I mean I was away from you for a whole month and I have to say I missed you. Oh, it's so good to be home." she said making herself comfortable. Atem growled and clenched his fists so tightly.
"What have you done with Tea?" Rachel let out a evil laugh and walked herself over to stand in front of Atem.
"You don't have to worry about her anymore, she's back where she belongs. Her and my cousin are really a cute couple, don't you think? Just like you and I are." she said wrapping her arms around Atem's neck and leaning her head up to kiss him. Atem never let her reached them because he pushed her off to reach into his pocket to pull out his gun he received from Akiyoshi and pointed it at her. Rachel was surprised by the gun, but then she just started laughing.
"You have such a sense of humor, you're not going to actually use that gun on me so quit playing around and let's have some time to ourselves." she said as she began to walk over to him, but all Atem did was stare her down and click the gun to get ready to fire it which caused Rachel to stop walking.
"Don't test me, you have no idea what I'm capable of doing. If you as so much as take one step towards me, I will fire at you and yes, this gun is loaded. Now, you're going to tell me where Renku took Tea and you don't have much time to tell me. You made a huge mistake coming into my house and taking Tea out of here. You and your cousin are already going to jail for attempted murder. I guess we can make it perfect when we add breaking/entering and kidnapping in the list. Talk now, I'm running out of patience with you." he said getting more and more vicious with her. Rachel saw the murderous look in Atem's eyes and it was much more different then the looks that he would usually give to her when he was angry. She was actually afraid of this look so without provoking him anymore than she already did, she went on and told him where Renku had taken Tea to.
"Alright, they're at the abandon warehouse just on the other side of town, you know the one where all the construction is taking place. Even if you were to go now, you would be too late anyway, Renku's probably already taken care of her as we speak so you should just forget about her." Atem put the gun back on safety and grabbed her arm tightly causing her to cry out in pain.
"You better hope that's not the case because if he has done anything to harm her in any way, I'm going to make sure you suffer the same way but twice as worst. Now you're going to come with me and you're going to show me just where they are. If you even think about double-crossing me, just remember I have my gun on me and I have no problem using it on you for target practice." Atem roughly pulled her out the house and he made sure to lock up before he opened his car door and pushed Rachel into the back seat. He got inside the car and started it up. When Rachel gave him the exact directions, he drove out to his destination with worry in his mind.
'Don't worry Tea, I'm on my way to you. Just stay safe until I get there.'
Tea groaned as she opened her eyes and she blinked a couple of times to clear her vision. She was having a splitting headache and looked around to see she was in a dark cold place. As she got a good look of her surroundings, she noticed that she was in an old rundown warehouse. Not only that, when she tried to move, she noticed that her hands were tied behind her back and so were her feet. Tea tried as hard as she could to loosen her bindings, but they were tied so tightly that she couldn't break free. Suddenly, footsteps were heard and she turned her head to see who was coming. A gasp escaped her mouth when she found out who it was.
"Hey baby, long time no see." It was Renku coming closer to stand in the light shining from the crack on the roof.
"Renku, it was you that did this. Why did you bring me here?" she firmly asked.
"You know, it's amazing what you can do with just a simple cloth and a little chloroform." he said while pulling out the bottle and showing it to her. Tea's eyes widened.
"Why? Why can't you just leave me alone? You've already hurt me enough as it is." she desperately wanted to know.
"Just get back together with me, dump that jerk you're with and come back to me. He won't be able to give you what I can." he said. Tea was shaking with so much anger and hate for the man standing in front of her.
"That's where you're wrong Renku, since I've been with Atem, I've never been happier. It's way better than when I was with you and he's given me so much compared to you. When we were together, all I ever did was show you and gave you unconditional love and turned around and cheated on me behind my back. That's not even the worst part though, you did it throughout our entire relationship. You never cared about and you never loved me. Do you honestly think that I'm going to go back to a cheater? Thanks to Atem, I was able to know what true love is like and I'm not going to let you ruin us because of your obsession over me." she hissly said to him. Renku slowly glared at him and pulled out a gun to her.
"Fine, if that's how you want it to be, then that's fine with me. If I can't have you, then I'm going to make sure that asshole can't have you either." he said as he clicked the gun and aiming at her getting ready to shoot. Tea closed her eyes hoping there was something anything that would stop him when she heard the gun fire and expected pain, but when she didn't feel anything, she opened her eyes and turned to where the gun was fired from. What she saw brought a smile to her face for her eyes landed on Atem who had a gun of his own and he shot the gun that Renku was holding from his hand.
"I suggest you step away from her or the next bullet will go straight through your skull." he said viciously. Renku growled and pulled out another gun hidden in his jacket pocket and shot it at Atem who quickly ducked behind a large crate.
"Why are you running like a coward? Come on out and face me." he said getting Atem to come out so he could shoot again. Atem thought of a strategy while at the same time getting him to move away from Tea. His plan was working when Renku started looking behind every crate to find him. Since he thought he had the upper hand, he let his guard down and had his back turned to him. This gave Atem the chance to peek out from behind the crate and shoot his gun at Renku's left leg. As Renku clutched his leg in pain, Atem came out for behind the crate and punched him in his face, his stomach and helicopter kicked him until he crashed into a bunch of old dusty wood lying around. When he hit the wall, he was knocked out cold. Atem took a minute to catch his breath and ran over to Tea and untied her ropes to free her. When she was free, she wrapped her arms around him feeling relieved that he was alright and wasn't hurt from his fight with Renku.
"Are you alright? Did he hurt you?" he asked her in a concerned voice and checked to see if she had any injuries. Tea shook her head.
"No, I'm fine. I just feel a little dizzy from the chloroform." she said. Atem's eyes widened.
"He drugged you? Oh he is going to pay." He was about to get up when he was stopped by Tea's hand on his arm.
"You already took care of him, you've done enough. How did you find me anyway?"
"Rachel, I had threatened her to bring me here to find you. Let's get out of here, I need to call the authorities." As the stood up to leave, they were stopped by a clicking sound and turned to Rachel pointing her gun to them.
"You two aren't going anywhere." she said. Atem growled.
"Stand aside Rachel, it's over. You and your cousin are going to be in jail for a long time." he said.
"Why can't you just leave that wench? Ever since she came into the picture, all you done was turned your attention to her. Well if I get rid of her, then you won't have any other choice but to be with me." She then did the unthinkable and aimed her gun to Tea. She fired to make the bullet hit her target. It hit the mark, but it wasn't the mark she was aiming for.
"NOOOOOOO!!" screamed Tea. The bullet went straight into Atem's chest. He stepped in front of her in the last minute and took the bullet for her. Atem fell back when the bullet hit him. Rachel eyes widened and she put the gun into her purse and tried to escape, but she was stopped by the blue and red flashing lights and the police coming inside to arrest her and Renku who was getting up from the floor. Tea held Atem to her and tried to wake him.
"Atem, can you hear me? Please wake up. Don't leave me, please don't leave me. You promised me that we would be together. Don't break your promise to me, please." she said with tears running down her face. Suddenly, she felt a hand on her arm and lifted her head to see Atem opening her eyes. She gasped when he started to move but he was groaning in pain.
"Ow, I didn't think that it would hurt." he said. He unbuttoned his shirt to show her that he was wearing a bullet proof vest. Tea couldn't believe her eyes and turned to Atem.
"You were wearing protection?" she asked.
"Yeah, I told you that you didn't have to worry about anything, didn't I? I would never just leave you like that." he said smiling to her. Tea still had tears running down her face, but she was smiling back to him. She leaned over to give him a wild, passionate kiss that made his eyes widened in surprise, but he gladly kissed her back with just as much passion knowing that they all of the disasters were finally over.
Another chapter done, let me know what you think. There will be two more chapters left for this story so I'll will update very soon.
