Chapter 7: The Departure of Serenity
Seto woke up with a shuddering Tea hugging him tightly. He immediately spotted that old candle too, but he's not going to take any chances and wake up Tea, so he went right back to sleep.
When the next morning came, surprisingly the two lovebirds didn't freeze to death yet. The blizzard stopped. Tea climbed on Seto's back once again, and they walked down the rest of the mountain with him carrying her.
"Kaiba." Tea suddenly said as they rode his fancy limousine home, "Let's not be enemies anymore. I mean, at first I've always thought you were just a cold jerk, but after knowing you would risk your own life to save me after Allison pushed me down the cliff, I think I can trust you now."
Kaiba didn't reply. Tea got bored and rolled the limousine's window down to feel the wind blowing on her face. That's when Kaiba finally said something. "I saved you because I love you." There. He finally said it. He finally said what he wanted to say since the first day he met her.
"Huh?" Obviously, Tea didn't hear him because of the loud wind blowing, passing by. "Can you repeat that?"
Seto frowned. "Don't you have ears? Did you know how hard it was for me to admit that?"
"Admit what? I honestly didn't hear you."
Seto rolled his eyes, and instead of repeating his awkward words, he simply grabbed Tea's thin wrist, pulled her to him, and kissed her roughly. "Understand now?" He finally broke the kiss.
Instead of being happy, Tea did the exact opposite of what Seto wants her to. A single tear fell down her cheeks. "Why Kaiba? Why? Why do you make me so confused? I've already chosen Yugi, but you....... I'm not so sure now anymore. Why did you pick the worst of all times to admit you love me? Couldn't you do what you just did and saved me from the blizzard a couple of months ago? Why did you have to wait and keep all your feelings to yourself until it was too late?" She burst into tears.
"It is 'because' I know now that you like Yugi too, so I have to win you back before 'you're' the one Joey betroths to Yugi."
Tea gave out a cold laugh. "And are you just going to smash my heart into one thousand pieces after you've won me back? Maybe you only want me right now because you're Yugi's rival, and you only want to beat him in love, because you'll never beat him in duel monsters............."
Tea was cut off once again with Seto's demanding lips. She got him so angry saying Yugi is better than him that he doesn't even care now if he hurt Tea while kissing her like an animal. Tea was lost into his deep kisses that she was finally able to forgive his coldness, able to admit to herself that Seto Kaiba likes her more than Allison, she finally can trust Kaiba, and realized he is the only one for her.
'Poor Yugi.'
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Serenity felt like hell. How is she ever only to get out of this stupid marriage with Yugi?
"Knock Knock." Allison came into her house.
"Next time say that 'before' you barge in." Serenity smiled sweetly at her dear friend.
"You out of all people should've gotten used to it by now." Allison threw herself down at Serenity's couch. "Soooooo, I've heard that you are getting married to the all so famous Yugi Moto, congratulations!"
"Oh Allie, it's horrible. I know I'm a terrible person, but I just don't love him. I don't want to marry him!" Serenity wailed.
Allison frowned. "I don't want you to marry him either. That kid is such a goodie good, he's too short, and his head is practically filled with only duel monsters!"
"Hey! Don't act so mean!"
"Hmp, and you say you don't love him. See how fast you came up and defended him after I criticized him?" Allison grinned.
"Allie, I'm really not in the mood for your mind tricks. I need you to help me." Serenity sighed.
"Okay okay, I'll help you escape this wedding if you really want to, but I know you'll regret it." Allison said.
"Can you really help me get out of all this mess?"
"Of course, all I have to do is make my brother's slaves get you a train ticket out of Domino City, and you'll never see Yugi again." Allison said in a tone like it was no big deal.
"That won't work. My brother is in Domino City. I can't just leave him here all alone."
"Joey is NOT alone. He has Mai. Plus, you'll just have to leave this city for a short period of time. During the months you are away, I'll make Yugi fall in love with someone else, and he'll call the wedding off. Then, you can come back."
"Do you think this will really work?" Serenity asked with hope.
"Have you not learned anything after all these years of being friends with me? Anything is possible once you have me on your side." Allison grinned. "But, before I arrange all this for you, you have to do something for me."
"What do you want me to do?"
"Go out with Yugi just one time before you leave this city."
"Why?"
Allison pretended to think. "If I remember correctly, in the past, you have broken his heart, made him flee to Egypt in depression, kissed him in that carnival but said it was no big deal, made him feel as big as an ant, ran him over a truck, pretended to feel sorry for him, used Yugi as a tool to get Joey and Mai together, and .........."
"I get it. I get it. I know I owe Yugi big. I'll go on that date that he wanted ever since I came here as an apology."
"Fine. You spend the entire day today with Yugi, and I'll get you on the first train that leaves Domino City tonight." Allison turned on the television.
"Deal." Serenity grabbed her coat to meet Yugi, leaving a childish Allison to watch a show where Pegasus is boxing with the overgrown Toon Rabbit all by herself.
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"WHAT? You want to go out with ME?" 'Am I dreaming?'
"Don't you want to?" Serenity chuckled.
"Not unless you tell me who was the one who blackmailed you to do this."
"It was more like a bribe." Serenity winked at Yugi. "Come on, I want to go to Kaiba Land."
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"Look Yugi! What a cool statue of the Legendary Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon! Did it look like this when you battled with Kaiba?"
"Yup, this is exactly what Kaiba's Blue Eyes looked like."
"Yugi, who do you think is the better duelist, you or Kaiba?" Serenity grabbed his hand to go to the battle arena.
"Well, it's hard to say. Kaiba could've been a much better duelist if he believed more in the heart of the cards. I mean, with a powerful beast like the Blue Eyes White Dragon in his deck, and trust towards his monsters, how could he lose?"
Yugi stopped talking when he saw Weevil and Rex Raptor dueling, tied each with a thousand life points left.
"Eww." Serenity cried while squeezing Yugi. Weevil just drew out another nasty bug.
"Let's not watch this. I'll get you something to eat." Yugi was pretty aware that Serenity was afraid of bugs.
They walked to a hot dog stand, and each ordered a nice hot dog.
Yugi chuckled as he watched Serenity gobbling down her hot dog.
"What?" Serenity wasn't used to people laughing at her eating style. (The same style as Allison's)
For the fun of it, Yugi swirled his finger inside the ketchup can. "You got something on your face." He ran his finger down her nose leaving all the ketchup there.
Serenity glared as people walking by laughed at her red nose. "Oh yeah? Well you got something on your face too." She seized the mustard container and squirted the yellow substance all over Yugi.
Yugi sensed trouble. He ran as fast as he can with Serenity following him with the huge mustard and ketchup cans, squirting him whenever possible making Kaiba Land looking like a zoo with yellow and red marks all over the place.
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"Today is one of the best days of my life. I haven't had so much fun since Joey and I separated." Serenity and Yugi walked back home, both covered with ketchup and mustard.
"Yeah. Today was so much more fun than any other day will ever be."
"Yugi, I have something I must tell you." Serenity began.
Yugi hushed her. "I know already. You are going away tonight to escape from our wedding."
Serenity was shocked. "Did Allison tell you everything?"
Yugi shook his head. "No, I figured it out myself. If you weren't planning on running away, you wouldn't have asked me on a date as an apology."
"Well, I just felt that I owed you big, so I want to try to make it up to you as much as I can before I leave."
Yugi sighed. "Joey really shouldn't have arranged that marriage. But I guess if you leave now, it'll be the best for everyone. Joey will soon realize that you don't love me and give up on the wedding."
"Can you at least walk me to the train station?" Serenity asked.
"Sure thing Serenity."
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"Say good-bye to the gang for me!" Serenity waved from the window of her train.
Yugi waved back on the sidewalk right next to the railroad as the train started to move. Serenity's face started to move further and further away from him.
Without thinking, Yugi began to chase the train hoping to never lose that sight of Serenity smiling at him. Of course, he could never catch up to the train's moving speed. The gap between Yugi and Serenity began to grow and grow. Finally, Yugi stopped following the train resting to catch his breath.
"Don't worry, Serenity will come back." Allison's shadow loomed on the concrete floor.
"It was your plan to send Serenity away, right?" Yugi said without turning around.
"Such a smart boy." Allison patted Yugi's head.
Unexpectedly, a smirk crawled up Yugi's lips. "Good going. It was very clever of you to do that."
Allison was surprised that Yugi would act like this. "Aren't you angry at me? Don't you just feel like killing me right now for separating you two?"
"Tsk. Don't insult my intelligence. I'm not as dense as your brother. I know this is just a plan to get Serenity and me together."
"I do admit, you are much smarter than Seto. Do you know how much energy I've spent to get him and Tea together? He still didn't figure out I'm doing all this for his good. He makes me look like the villain in this story." Allison rolled her eyes.
"Hmm, maybe your ways of setting people together is too......... I don't know.......wicked?" Yugi laughed out loud.
"I know, but I have to do things this way. Other ways of hooking people up doesn't ever work. It's been proven over and over in history."
"You really are an interesting person, Allison."
"Of course, that too has been proven over and over in history."
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Seto woke up with a shuddering Tea hugging him tightly. He immediately spotted that old candle too, but he's not going to take any chances and wake up Tea, so he went right back to sleep.
When the next morning came, surprisingly the two lovebirds didn't freeze to death yet. The blizzard stopped. Tea climbed on Seto's back once again, and they walked down the rest of the mountain with him carrying her.
"Kaiba." Tea suddenly said as they rode his fancy limousine home, "Let's not be enemies anymore. I mean, at first I've always thought you were just a cold jerk, but after knowing you would risk your own life to save me after Allison pushed me down the cliff, I think I can trust you now."
Kaiba didn't reply. Tea got bored and rolled the limousine's window down to feel the wind blowing on her face. That's when Kaiba finally said something. "I saved you because I love you." There. He finally said it. He finally said what he wanted to say since the first day he met her.
"Huh?" Obviously, Tea didn't hear him because of the loud wind blowing, passing by. "Can you repeat that?"
Seto frowned. "Don't you have ears? Did you know how hard it was for me to admit that?"
"Admit what? I honestly didn't hear you."
Seto rolled his eyes, and instead of repeating his awkward words, he simply grabbed Tea's thin wrist, pulled her to him, and kissed her roughly. "Understand now?" He finally broke the kiss.
Instead of being happy, Tea did the exact opposite of what Seto wants her to. A single tear fell down her cheeks. "Why Kaiba? Why? Why do you make me so confused? I've already chosen Yugi, but you....... I'm not so sure now anymore. Why did you pick the worst of all times to admit you love me? Couldn't you do what you just did and saved me from the blizzard a couple of months ago? Why did you have to wait and keep all your feelings to yourself until it was too late?" She burst into tears.
"It is 'because' I know now that you like Yugi too, so I have to win you back before 'you're' the one Joey betroths to Yugi."
Tea gave out a cold laugh. "And are you just going to smash my heart into one thousand pieces after you've won me back? Maybe you only want me right now because you're Yugi's rival, and you only want to beat him in love, because you'll never beat him in duel monsters............."
Tea was cut off once again with Seto's demanding lips. She got him so angry saying Yugi is better than him that he doesn't even care now if he hurt Tea while kissing her like an animal. Tea was lost into his deep kisses that she was finally able to forgive his coldness, able to admit to herself that Seto Kaiba likes her more than Allison, she finally can trust Kaiba, and realized he is the only one for her.
'Poor Yugi.'
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Serenity felt like hell. How is she ever only to get out of this stupid marriage with Yugi?
"Knock Knock." Allison came into her house.
"Next time say that 'before' you barge in." Serenity smiled sweetly at her dear friend.
"You out of all people should've gotten used to it by now." Allison threw herself down at Serenity's couch. "Soooooo, I've heard that you are getting married to the all so famous Yugi Moto, congratulations!"
"Oh Allie, it's horrible. I know I'm a terrible person, but I just don't love him. I don't want to marry him!" Serenity wailed.
Allison frowned. "I don't want you to marry him either. That kid is such a goodie good, he's too short, and his head is practically filled with only duel monsters!"
"Hey! Don't act so mean!"
"Hmp, and you say you don't love him. See how fast you came up and defended him after I criticized him?" Allison grinned.
"Allie, I'm really not in the mood for your mind tricks. I need you to help me." Serenity sighed.
"Okay okay, I'll help you escape this wedding if you really want to, but I know you'll regret it." Allison said.
"Can you really help me get out of all this mess?"
"Of course, all I have to do is make my brother's slaves get you a train ticket out of Domino City, and you'll never see Yugi again." Allison said in a tone like it was no big deal.
"That won't work. My brother is in Domino City. I can't just leave him here all alone."
"Joey is NOT alone. He has Mai. Plus, you'll just have to leave this city for a short period of time. During the months you are away, I'll make Yugi fall in love with someone else, and he'll call the wedding off. Then, you can come back."
"Do you think this will really work?" Serenity asked with hope.
"Have you not learned anything after all these years of being friends with me? Anything is possible once you have me on your side." Allison grinned. "But, before I arrange all this for you, you have to do something for me."
"What do you want me to do?"
"Go out with Yugi just one time before you leave this city."
"Why?"
Allison pretended to think. "If I remember correctly, in the past, you have broken his heart, made him flee to Egypt in depression, kissed him in that carnival but said it was no big deal, made him feel as big as an ant, ran him over a truck, pretended to feel sorry for him, used Yugi as a tool to get Joey and Mai together, and .........."
"I get it. I get it. I know I owe Yugi big. I'll go on that date that he wanted ever since I came here as an apology."
"Fine. You spend the entire day today with Yugi, and I'll get you on the first train that leaves Domino City tonight." Allison turned on the television.
"Deal." Serenity grabbed her coat to meet Yugi, leaving a childish Allison to watch a show where Pegasus is boxing with the overgrown Toon Rabbit all by herself.
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"WHAT? You want to go out with ME?" 'Am I dreaming?'
"Don't you want to?" Serenity chuckled.
"Not unless you tell me who was the one who blackmailed you to do this."
"It was more like a bribe." Serenity winked at Yugi. "Come on, I want to go to Kaiba Land."
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"Look Yugi! What a cool statue of the Legendary Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon! Did it look like this when you battled with Kaiba?"
"Yup, this is exactly what Kaiba's Blue Eyes looked like."
"Yugi, who do you think is the better duelist, you or Kaiba?" Serenity grabbed his hand to go to the battle arena.
"Well, it's hard to say. Kaiba could've been a much better duelist if he believed more in the heart of the cards. I mean, with a powerful beast like the Blue Eyes White Dragon in his deck, and trust towards his monsters, how could he lose?"
Yugi stopped talking when he saw Weevil and Rex Raptor dueling, tied each with a thousand life points left.
"Eww." Serenity cried while squeezing Yugi. Weevil just drew out another nasty bug.
"Let's not watch this. I'll get you something to eat." Yugi was pretty aware that Serenity was afraid of bugs.
They walked to a hot dog stand, and each ordered a nice hot dog.
Yugi chuckled as he watched Serenity gobbling down her hot dog.
"What?" Serenity wasn't used to people laughing at her eating style. (The same style as Allison's)
For the fun of it, Yugi swirled his finger inside the ketchup can. "You got something on your face." He ran his finger down her nose leaving all the ketchup there.
Serenity glared as people walking by laughed at her red nose. "Oh yeah? Well you got something on your face too." She seized the mustard container and squirted the yellow substance all over Yugi.
Yugi sensed trouble. He ran as fast as he can with Serenity following him with the huge mustard and ketchup cans, squirting him whenever possible making Kaiba Land looking like a zoo with yellow and red marks all over the place.
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"Today is one of the best days of my life. I haven't had so much fun since Joey and I separated." Serenity and Yugi walked back home, both covered with ketchup and mustard.
"Yeah. Today was so much more fun than any other day will ever be."
"Yugi, I have something I must tell you." Serenity began.
Yugi hushed her. "I know already. You are going away tonight to escape from our wedding."
Serenity was shocked. "Did Allison tell you everything?"
Yugi shook his head. "No, I figured it out myself. If you weren't planning on running away, you wouldn't have asked me on a date as an apology."
"Well, I just felt that I owed you big, so I want to try to make it up to you as much as I can before I leave."
Yugi sighed. "Joey really shouldn't have arranged that marriage. But I guess if you leave now, it'll be the best for everyone. Joey will soon realize that you don't love me and give up on the wedding."
"Can you at least walk me to the train station?" Serenity asked.
"Sure thing Serenity."
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"Say good-bye to the gang for me!" Serenity waved from the window of her train.
Yugi waved back on the sidewalk right next to the railroad as the train started to move. Serenity's face started to move further and further away from him.
Without thinking, Yugi began to chase the train hoping to never lose that sight of Serenity smiling at him. Of course, he could never catch up to the train's moving speed. The gap between Yugi and Serenity began to grow and grow. Finally, Yugi stopped following the train resting to catch his breath.
"Don't worry, Serenity will come back." Allison's shadow loomed on the concrete floor.
"It was your plan to send Serenity away, right?" Yugi said without turning around.
"Such a smart boy." Allison patted Yugi's head.
Unexpectedly, a smirk crawled up Yugi's lips. "Good going. It was very clever of you to do that."
Allison was surprised that Yugi would act like this. "Aren't you angry at me? Don't you just feel like killing me right now for separating you two?"
"Tsk. Don't insult my intelligence. I'm not as dense as your brother. I know this is just a plan to get Serenity and me together."
"I do admit, you are much smarter than Seto. Do you know how much energy I've spent to get him and Tea together? He still didn't figure out I'm doing all this for his good. He makes me look like the villain in this story." Allison rolled her eyes.
"Hmm, maybe your ways of setting people together is too......... I don't know.......wicked?" Yugi laughed out loud.
"I know, but I have to do things this way. Other ways of hooking people up doesn't ever work. It's been proven over and over in history."
"You really are an interesting person, Allison."
"Of course, that too has been proven over and over in history."
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Lanturn: ARG!! I can't take this story any longer! I keep on getting writer's block every time I try to update it! If someone gets a good idea on what I should do next, PLEASE TELL me! I need HELP! Thank you!
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