Chapter 4: Kaiba and Serenity's tricks
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Splash
Joey dived down the lagoon, swam over to Yugi and Serenity's boat, and kicked it over.
"Sis, WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING????!!!!!" He exploded screaming at Serenity who is all soaked now from head to toe.
Yugi laughed. "I guess we were too caught up in the lovy dovy air."
"We're not serious Joey, can't you just mind your own business?" Serenity added.
Yugi's pure innocent expression saddened. He knew Serenity was just having a little fun, but he wished they could do that more often.
Joey blinked. "Well, for a minute there I thought you were serious. Damn this lame carnival! What kind of ride is this? Lagoon of Love? It's just nasty 3 feet water flowing in a fake tunnel."
Mai agreed. "Yeah, this place sucks, let's leave."
"How did he know the water was 3 feet deep?" Stared Yugi and Serenity dumbfounded.
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Kaiba finally couldn't take not talking to Tea anymore. Since in own cold little heart, he thinks Tea already hates him, so what's the harm if he annoys her more with pranks and tricks? 'That'll cause some attention. At least it's better than being ignored.'
Early in the morning when no one else is in the classroom, he laid a neatly wrapped present on her desk.
When the students came in, they all crowded near Tea's desk to see what was in the present. Tea, being the curious little girl she is, opened the present in front of everyone. It was a beautiful miniature statue of the Blue Eyes White Dragon, with the mouth wide open, looking as if about to eat you.
Tea glanced at Seto's direction. He was smiling at her. Seeing Seto smiling his all-so-handsome-yet-rare-smiles was the best gift a girl could ever receive. He mouthed the words "Press the button."
She looked back at the statue. Sure enough, on its stomach was a button labeled. "Press Me." Tea would've never guessed that this is all just a prank, so she did, and...
SSSSSSPPPPPPPLLLLLLLLAAAAAASSSSSSSHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
Blue paint shot out of the dragon's mouth hitting Tea directly in the face. On cue, everybody in the classroom roared with laughter. Seto laughed the loudest of them all.
Tea was about to cry. Never ever in her entire life has she been this embarrassed and ridiculed. And just when she had some hope of seeing herself with Seto, he ruined the perfect image with his NATURAL IMPOSSIBLE attitude!
"I don't know why you all of a sudden decided to pull a stupid prank on me, but THIS MEANS WAR!!!"
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The following weeks was a nightmare:
Tea held a protest saying Kaiba Corp must be taken down making everyone think Kaiba is up to no good again, and all those reporters crowded around him day and night giving him no privacy.
Seto went out with every girl in the school to make Tea jealous. (A/N: He thought it was a failure, but it worked pretty well.)
Tea kissed Yugi.
Seto swore he loved Allison with all his heart. (A/N: Tea doesn't know she's his sister yet.)
Tea bombed his science project.
Seto accidentally fed her twenty-paged essay to the class pet.
She killed the class pet.
He bought more.
She spread rumors that he was gay.
He French kissed her in front of the entire class, proving her wrong.
(A/N: This list could go on forever, but I'll just end it here.)
Tea ran up to Seto that afternoon, and slapped him. "How disgusting could a person get? I liked you before, but now you are just the most stuck-up, conceited, irritating, inconsiderate, idiotic buffoon I've ever met."
Seto couldn't believe his ears. Did Tea just admit she liked him? He mentally slapped himself. Why did he start the war when she used to like him? Now she REALLY hates him. That pissed him off. Badly.
"Well, I liked you too, but now you're just a nasty, prissy, illiterate, foolish, giddy, BUTT-UGLY SLUT! Go to hell!"
Tea tried to hold the tears back. "Since when am I a slut??!!!
"You kissed Yugi."
"You slept with every girl in the school!"
"Did not!!"
"Did too!!"
"Damn you, woman!"
"Shut up!"
"Why should I?"
Deep down inside, they're both doing cartwheels, laughing like a maniac. What else would a human being do when their loved ones just told them they liked them?
Kaiba suddenly grinned. "So you liked me? Go Seto! It's your birthday! Guess like Yugi's place in your heart isn't that hard to replace."
Tea rolled her eyes and walked away.
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"Hey Yugi, wait up!" Shouted Serenity.
Yugi slapped his forehead, moaning, "What is it this time?"
"I've thought of a new way to get Mai and my brother together." She chirped excitedly.
Just as she expected, Yugi started to run, but Serenity held his collar. "I need you to help me again."
"No"
"Please please please with a cherry on top!"
"I don't like cherries."
Serenity frowned. "I'll ask Tristan."
Unlike that last time, Yugi replied. "Go ahead, he'll surely help you, his major weakness is beautiful girls."
"I was just joking. The person I need now can be only you."
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"Joey HELP!" Serenity came running crying to her brother.
"What's the matter Serenity?"
"Yugi, he's been hit by a car! He's at the hospital right now, you got to see him!" Serenity faked some tears.
"Then lets go."
At the hospital:
"Doctor, is he going to be alright?"
"I'm afraid not. He has only 50% of recovering. The bus hit his head pretty hard, and if his brain stops functioning, he's dead." Said the doctor in a dead serious tone. (The 'doctor' is really just Pegasus in disguise. Serenity talked him into helping them.)
"Alright, what happened sis?"
Serenity covered her face really to say her dramatic line. "WAHHHHHH! It's entirely my fault!....... Yugi....(hiccup)......asked me on that date again, and I ...I told him to get a life......it's never going to happen, and then he.....(sob sob)...... ran onto the streets.....(sniff sniff)....... and a city bus hit him!!!!!!!"
Joey took a look at Yugi, lying lifelessly on the bed, wrapped in enough bandages to make him look no different than a mummy.
He gave Serenity a half ashamed, half I-don't-believe-you-look. He finally said something. "Sis, you owe Yuge too much. You better pray to god that he lives. If he does survive this time, I'm going to marry you off to him. You said it was your fault, so you should take responsibility for all this."
"I will! I will! I promise! But Joey, please just get together with Mai! She's been crying for you the last couple of days, not able to eat or sleep! She loves you deeply, and if you keep on ignoring her like this, she'll think you hate her, and she'll probably end up just like Yugi!" Serenity exaggerated.
'Mai. She loves me?' Joey wants to believe Serenity's words so badly. ' Maybe sis is right. So that's why she followed me to Egypt. But will she do the same as Yugi if I keep ignoring her?'
(A/N: This part sounds stupid even as I brainstormed it in my head.)
"I'll go talk with Mai." Joey walked out of the room, not knowing what he should believe or do.
After he left, Yugi quickly unwrapped the bandages off his face and inhaled a big breath of air. "That. Was just the most dumbest stupidest thing I've ever done. You could've lied about all those things to Joey of Mai loving him without having me pretending to die!"
"He needs to have a vision of a real live example in his head to haunt him, and make him confess sooner. Besides, you look kind of cute when you're mummified and angry."
Yugi blushed. "Uhh, gee thanks?"
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Joey went to the beach, getting away from the noisy city. He lied down on the smooth soft sand, with his feet buried in the seawater. He needs some time alone to think.
He never realized this before, but the more he thought about what Mai said and did to him during the past, the more it makes sense to prove she does love him.
Although it seems so self-centered and disloyal to be thinking about Mai while Yugi is dying, but he couldn't stop himself to think about her. And maybe, just maybe, she does feel the same way towards him as he feels towards her.
'What's wrong with me? When I thought Mai hated me, I was frustrated and annoyed. Now that I think she loves me, I'm still frustrated and annoyed. Can't my frustration please evaporate into thin air? Can't my annoyance go bother someone else?'
While Joey was having a mind battle with himself, he slowly drifted to sleep.
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Lanturn: Thank you for reading!
Allison: Hey you! When am I coming back to the story? Being stuck in Antarctica with a eight year old isn't the best vacation you know.
Lanturn: Be patient. Nobody misses you.
Allison: I missed myself! I want to get back into the story and fight Tea for Seto's love and affection!
Lanturn: Don't you even think of laying a finger on Seto, he's MINE!
Allison: No MINE!!!!!
Kaiba (pops in while the two are arguing): Read & Review!
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Splash
Joey dived down the lagoon, swam over to Yugi and Serenity's boat, and kicked it over.
"Sis, WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING????!!!!!" He exploded screaming at Serenity who is all soaked now from head to toe.
Yugi laughed. "I guess we were too caught up in the lovy dovy air."
"We're not serious Joey, can't you just mind your own business?" Serenity added.
Yugi's pure innocent expression saddened. He knew Serenity was just having a little fun, but he wished they could do that more often.
Joey blinked. "Well, for a minute there I thought you were serious. Damn this lame carnival! What kind of ride is this? Lagoon of Love? It's just nasty 3 feet water flowing in a fake tunnel."
Mai agreed. "Yeah, this place sucks, let's leave."
"How did he know the water was 3 feet deep?" Stared Yugi and Serenity dumbfounded.
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Kaiba finally couldn't take not talking to Tea anymore. Since in own cold little heart, he thinks Tea already hates him, so what's the harm if he annoys her more with pranks and tricks? 'That'll cause some attention. At least it's better than being ignored.'
Early in the morning when no one else is in the classroom, he laid a neatly wrapped present on her desk.
When the students came in, they all crowded near Tea's desk to see what was in the present. Tea, being the curious little girl she is, opened the present in front of everyone. It was a beautiful miniature statue of the Blue Eyes White Dragon, with the mouth wide open, looking as if about to eat you.
Tea glanced at Seto's direction. He was smiling at her. Seeing Seto smiling his all-so-handsome-yet-rare-smiles was the best gift a girl could ever receive. He mouthed the words "Press the button."
She looked back at the statue. Sure enough, on its stomach was a button labeled. "Press Me." Tea would've never guessed that this is all just a prank, so she did, and...
SSSSSSPPPPPPPLLLLLLLLAAAAAASSSSSSSHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
Blue paint shot out of the dragon's mouth hitting Tea directly in the face. On cue, everybody in the classroom roared with laughter. Seto laughed the loudest of them all.
Tea was about to cry. Never ever in her entire life has she been this embarrassed and ridiculed. And just when she had some hope of seeing herself with Seto, he ruined the perfect image with his NATURAL IMPOSSIBLE attitude!
"I don't know why you all of a sudden decided to pull a stupid prank on me, but THIS MEANS WAR!!!"
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The following weeks was a nightmare:
Tea held a protest saying Kaiba Corp must be taken down making everyone think Kaiba is up to no good again, and all those reporters crowded around him day and night giving him no privacy.
Seto went out with every girl in the school to make Tea jealous. (A/N: He thought it was a failure, but it worked pretty well.)
Tea kissed Yugi.
Seto swore he loved Allison with all his heart. (A/N: Tea doesn't know she's his sister yet.)
Tea bombed his science project.
Seto accidentally fed her twenty-paged essay to the class pet.
She killed the class pet.
He bought more.
She spread rumors that he was gay.
He French kissed her in front of the entire class, proving her wrong.
(A/N: This list could go on forever, but I'll just end it here.)
Tea ran up to Seto that afternoon, and slapped him. "How disgusting could a person get? I liked you before, but now you are just the most stuck-up, conceited, irritating, inconsiderate, idiotic buffoon I've ever met."
Seto couldn't believe his ears. Did Tea just admit she liked him? He mentally slapped himself. Why did he start the war when she used to like him? Now she REALLY hates him. That pissed him off. Badly.
"Well, I liked you too, but now you're just a nasty, prissy, illiterate, foolish, giddy, BUTT-UGLY SLUT! Go to hell!"
Tea tried to hold the tears back. "Since when am I a slut??!!!
"You kissed Yugi."
"You slept with every girl in the school!"
"Did not!!"
"Did too!!"
"Damn you, woman!"
"Shut up!"
"Why should I?"
Deep down inside, they're both doing cartwheels, laughing like a maniac. What else would a human being do when their loved ones just told them they liked them?
Kaiba suddenly grinned. "So you liked me? Go Seto! It's your birthday! Guess like Yugi's place in your heart isn't that hard to replace."
Tea rolled her eyes and walked away.
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"Hey Yugi, wait up!" Shouted Serenity.
Yugi slapped his forehead, moaning, "What is it this time?"
"I've thought of a new way to get Mai and my brother together." She chirped excitedly.
Just as she expected, Yugi started to run, but Serenity held his collar. "I need you to help me again."
"No"
"Please please please with a cherry on top!"
"I don't like cherries."
Serenity frowned. "I'll ask Tristan."
Unlike that last time, Yugi replied. "Go ahead, he'll surely help you, his major weakness is beautiful girls."
"I was just joking. The person I need now can be only you."
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"Joey HELP!" Serenity came running crying to her brother.
"What's the matter Serenity?"
"Yugi, he's been hit by a car! He's at the hospital right now, you got to see him!" Serenity faked some tears.
"Then lets go."
At the hospital:
"Doctor, is he going to be alright?"
"I'm afraid not. He has only 50% of recovering. The bus hit his head pretty hard, and if his brain stops functioning, he's dead." Said the doctor in a dead serious tone. (The 'doctor' is really just Pegasus in disguise. Serenity talked him into helping them.)
"Alright, what happened sis?"
Serenity covered her face really to say her dramatic line. "WAHHHHHH! It's entirely my fault!....... Yugi....(hiccup)......asked me on that date again, and I ...I told him to get a life......it's never going to happen, and then he.....(sob sob)...... ran onto the streets.....(sniff sniff)....... and a city bus hit him!!!!!!!"
Joey took a look at Yugi, lying lifelessly on the bed, wrapped in enough bandages to make him look no different than a mummy.
He gave Serenity a half ashamed, half I-don't-believe-you-look. He finally said something. "Sis, you owe Yuge too much. You better pray to god that he lives. If he does survive this time, I'm going to marry you off to him. You said it was your fault, so you should take responsibility for all this."
"I will! I will! I promise! But Joey, please just get together with Mai! She's been crying for you the last couple of days, not able to eat or sleep! She loves you deeply, and if you keep on ignoring her like this, she'll think you hate her, and she'll probably end up just like Yugi!" Serenity exaggerated.
'Mai. She loves me?' Joey wants to believe Serenity's words so badly. ' Maybe sis is right. So that's why she followed me to Egypt. But will she do the same as Yugi if I keep ignoring her?'
(A/N: This part sounds stupid even as I brainstormed it in my head.)
"I'll go talk with Mai." Joey walked out of the room, not knowing what he should believe or do.
After he left, Yugi quickly unwrapped the bandages off his face and inhaled a big breath of air. "That. Was just the most dumbest stupidest thing I've ever done. You could've lied about all those things to Joey of Mai loving him without having me pretending to die!"
"He needs to have a vision of a real live example in his head to haunt him, and make him confess sooner. Besides, you look kind of cute when you're mummified and angry."
Yugi blushed. "Uhh, gee thanks?"
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Joey went to the beach, getting away from the noisy city. He lied down on the smooth soft sand, with his feet buried in the seawater. He needs some time alone to think.
He never realized this before, but the more he thought about what Mai said and did to him during the past, the more it makes sense to prove she does love him.
Although it seems so self-centered and disloyal to be thinking about Mai while Yugi is dying, but he couldn't stop himself to think about her. And maybe, just maybe, she does feel the same way towards him as he feels towards her.
'What's wrong with me? When I thought Mai hated me, I was frustrated and annoyed. Now that I think she loves me, I'm still frustrated and annoyed. Can't my frustration please evaporate into thin air? Can't my annoyance go bother someone else?'
While Joey was having a mind battle with himself, he slowly drifted to sleep.
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Lanturn: Thank you for reading!
Allison: Hey you! When am I coming back to the story? Being stuck in Antarctica with a eight year old isn't the best vacation you know.
Lanturn: Be patient. Nobody misses you.
Allison: I missed myself! I want to get back into the story and fight Tea for Seto's love and affection!
Lanturn: Don't you even think of laying a finger on Seto, he's MINE!
Allison: No MINE!!!!!
Kaiba (pops in while the two are arguing): Read & Review!