((Okie, I'm just clearing up a little thing that people pointed out to me about the keyboard typing when his hands were tied. Let's just say that they were tied in front of him ^_^ Then he can still type even if his wrists are tied together, they didn't do anything to his fingers, hehe. Well anyway, I was just fixing that a little, and if you don't like my explanation then I sowwy =( But I can't really do that much about it at this point, hehe. Laterz!))

"Look. It's getting later. I have to go home or my mom's gonna get mad at me."

Putting his arm around her shoulder he nuzzled into her hair. "Are you sure?"

She smiled and took his arm away. "Yes, yes, I'm sure. Are you gonna be okay until tomorrow?"

"I'll try." He hung his head and glanced sideways at her with a little smile.

Rolling her eyes with a smirk she rumpled up his hair. "Oh you'll be fine." And then with a quick kiss she ran out the door. "See ya."

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Joey was grumbling over his food the next day at lunch. "I don't get it. We spend the WHOLE day trying to get him better, and then Tea comes and she fixes him in like an hour. What's up with that?"

"Well I don't think beating on him helped." Tristan gave a smug smile as he ate his sandwich.

"Hey! That was only once. or twice."

"Joey, where'd you get that?" Yugi peered down at Joey's throat.

He shrugged. "Yesterday."

"Oh, hey, yeah, I was gonna ask you about that." Tristan looked over.

The blonde shrugged again. "Kaiba sorta spazzed, that's all, no biggie."

"Was that when he ran outside and was gonna chop his head off?"

"Yeah. pinned me down and cut just a little, then he went all freaky like he kept doing."

"Wh-what?" Yugi looked back and forth between the two completely lost.

"That's when he passed out right?"

"Mm-hm. You know something weird though? It was like he was talking to someone."

"Any idea who?"

Joey shook his head. "No clue. He didn't want to turn out like them though. It's kinda weird how scared he seemed, you don't generally think of Kaiba as being the cowering type."

"Or the suicidal kind."

"Yeah, that too. I thought he'd gotten over that?"

"I dunno, maybe it was just this weird thing that made him want to do that."

"He could just have somethin' against throats."

"That's stupid, who has something against throats?"

"Maybe Kaiba. He didn't seem to mind that much about cutting his own."

"Huh?" Yugi remained lost.

"I really think he was just freaked out."

"He didn't seem freaked out enough to not notice me chasin' him."

"It's hard not to notice You chasing Anyone."

"Hey, I stopped him didn't I?"

"He SO would've wasted you if he hadn't zoned out."

"I could've gotten away."

"Sure, whatev-"

"What are you talking about?!"

Tristan and Joey finally noticed their confused friend.

The blonde gave a little smirk. "Oh yeah, you weren't there."

"I guess not." He folded his arms and stared at them a little peeved. "So what happened?"

Joey shrugged. "Kaiba was going all mental and was gonna slit his throat. I ran after him though. That's how I got this." He pointed at his neck. "S'no big deal. He pinned me down and then had his space out and then passed out. That's when I brought him back and me and Tristan tied him up upstairs after he had woken up a couple more times and tried to cut his head off again."

"Oh." He nodded. "Why did you tie him up again?"

Tristan smiled. "We couldn't keep him from bashing Joey's face in. You'd be surprised how determined that guy can get."

"Um. yeah. I'm just glad I got Tea over before you tried smacking him over the head with a frying pan."

Another smile from Tristan. "We tried that. Joey's idea. How else do you think we kept him unconscious long enough to tie him up?"

Yugi just rolled his eyes and sighed. "Now I'm really glad that I got Tea over."

Joey looked at his shorter friend and then back at his food before mumbling, "I still don't see how she can fix him so fast."

"Not that again. She's just special okay?" Tristan eyed him.

More grumbling. "She didn't even get how she died explained to her."

Yugi smirked a little. "Joey. They've got something special going. Maybe it's just a girl thing, I don't know, but it really doesn't matter that much."

"Sure Yug. I'll believe ya."

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Tea grabbed her coat and was about to head out the door when her mom came out of the kitchen and looked at her.

"Where are you going?"

"Over to Yugi's. Why is there something wrong with that?"

Her mother smiled and shook her head. "No dear, I'm glad you've started talking to them again. You have been acting so isolated since we moved."

This caused a little shrug from her daughter who then made her way out the door. "Be back before ten."

"Okay honey." She smiled and headed back into the kitchen. 'It's good she's gotten back with her friends and stopped hanging around that Kaiba character. I've been worried about her.'

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Tea walked up the stairs in Kaiba's house up to his office. Tapping on the door lightly she opened it and peeked in to see him typing.

"What is it Mokuba?"

"Hi Seto."

He lifted his eyes from the screen and looked over at her with a smile. "Hey Tea. I was wondering when you were coming." Turning his computer off he walked over and stood in front of her. "So what ever happened to your parents not wanting you to see me?"

Tea smiled a little and grabbing his hand started dragging him downstairs. "Technically I'm at Yugi's right now."

"So that's how it's going to work? Sneaking around behind your parents' backs and hiding away so that they never know."

Plopping down on the couch she gave another smile. "Yup, that's basically it."

He shook his head and chuckled. "Not exactly your style, but it has a certain flare to it."

She shrugged. "What else can I do?"

"There isn't much else really." He leaned his head down and ran his finger across her neck and then pressed his thumb lightly on her forehead. "Okay. So what should we do?"

"Well. I'd sort of like to go visit Yugi and the guys. I haven't really gotten a chance to visit with them."

He nodded and looked at her neck again. "Sure, I'd like to check on them too."

She shook her head slightly. "Seto, they're fine. We're all fine."

"I know. I just would feel better if I was able to see it."

With a little smile she got up and headed for the door. "Okay then. but you don't need to worry about them."

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Seto slowly pushed the door open to the game shop. It was his first real visit here. Sure he'd been there before. but that was when he had been looking for the fourth blue eyes. That didn't give him the best feeling on how much Yugi's Grandpa would like him. Nevertheless he walked inside with Tea and a glanced around at the walls filled with various cards and other such gaming activities.

"Hello? Is anyone home?" Tea started walking up the stairs. "Yugi?"

"Should we really go up there?" He had shoved his hands in his pockets resolutely so as to stop himself from playing with them nervously.

"Why not?" She continued climbing. "Yugi? Are you home?"

Seto watched her disappear up the stairwell and stood there feeling very out of place in the middle of the room.

"Yugi's not here Tea! She went over to." Yugi's Grandpa's voice trailed off as he stared at Kaiba standing in the middle of the shop. Folding his arms his expression went blank and he lifted his eyebrows. "May I help you?"

"I'm just here with Tea."

The harsh undertone to his voice was not hidden in the least. "And what is a nice girl like Tea doing with someone like you?"

However much Seto may have wanted to have acted nice to this old man whom he felt sort of a guilt towards for his past occurrences with him. He wasn't going to just sit there and be insulted! "She's fine, old man, now if you'd please. Tell me where Yugi is."

"And what do you want with Yugi?"

He gritted his teeth. "Tea and I were here to see him. Obviously he's not here, you started saying that he went over to someone's house. My guess is that it would be either Joey or Tristan's. Now tell me which one it is so that we can be on our way."

Kaiba was only met with a cold glare.

"Grandpa, do you know where." Tea came down the stairs and was met with the scene of Grandpa staring coldly at Kaiba and in return Kaiba glaring back at him with his body tensed. "Um."

Looking over to see Tea, Yugi's Grandfather relaxed quite noticeably and smiled at her. "Oh hello Tea. Yugi's over at Joey's right now. He won't be back until later tonight."

She nodded and started pushing Kaiba out the door as he kept glaring at the old man behind the counter. 'Stupid old fool, what does he know.'

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When they had gotten outside Tea sighed and looked over at Seto. "What was that about?"

He started walking down the street glaring at the sidewalk. "Idiotic moron."

Running up beside him she grabbed onto his arm. "Hey. What is it?"

Kaiba just continued muttering curses under his breath as he walked down the street.

Waiting for a little while Tea finally gave up and yanked his arm forcing him to stop.

"What?" He shot his eyes at her in a glare. Noticing her look of concern he shook his head and looked back down at the sidewalk. "Sorry."

"Are you okay now?"

"Yeah."

She smiled and started walking with him again. "So. Yugi's at Joey's now. Do we wanna go there?"

"Sure."

She looked at him still with a look of flittering anger on his face. "Are you sure you'll be okay?"

He nodded but remained silent.

Tea wasn't sure whether he really would be, but she walked with him anyway. Hey, if worst came to worst she could always force him out of there. Hopefully.