"Seto?" Mokuba knocked on the door softly, he'd heard soft mumbles coming from his brother's room for most of the night, and he didn't know what it was. It had been a while since Seto had taken any jobs late at night, and he couldn't think of anybody that his brother would be talking to... Tea had pretty much become a non-existent character in the young Kaiba's life, and he knocked on the door again. "Big brother? Are you in there?"

Seto, he sighed. Whispering quietly into the phone. "I have to go now. Can I call you tomorrow?" He smiled at the response and nodded. "Sleep well." And he hung up. How many hours had that been now? To say the least it had to have been three or so. With a contented air hanging around his person he got up off of the bed and open the door. "What is it, Mokuba?"

"Were you talking to someone?" The gray eyes stared up at his brother curiously, trusting.

"Yeah..." The elder Kaiba patted the black hair. "Now go back to bed, kid. Sorry if I kept you up."

Mokuba was about to object when he saw the expression on his brother's face. He wasn't looking for argument. And the younger one nodded, figuring that Seto would tell him eventually who he had been talking to for so long, and he went back into his room and shut the door, quietly whispering behind it. "Goodnight, big brother."

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Tea laughed as she came downstairs that morning, brushing her hair as she hummed quietly to herself. It was a curious thing how just one conversation could put her in such high spirits, and she'd dressed herself to look utterly fabulous. A pastel rose tube top and a short black mini-skirt was all she needed to have her body appeal itself to the opposite sex at its finest, and today she was going to gloat. She'd put on a necklace of a small silver angel that rested just above where the tube top began, and her boots were taller than normal, black leather.

"Lovely morning isn't it?" She spoke to her mirror image as she looked at one of the hanging glass frames on the wall. Turning away from it she skipped the last couple of steps in a leap and landed with a twirl, exuberance oozing from every pore on her body.

"Hm... I wonder what I should do today?" Stopping a finger rested on her cheek thoughtfully and then the pondering expression lighted up. "I know! I'll go surprise Seto."

All too happy with the idea she checked herself in the downstairs bathroom one last time to make sure that she looked absolutely stunning, and of course she did, and then she left from the house. It took all of her possible restraint to keep from skipping down the sidewalk; it was that wonderful to be alive.

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Deciding to go to work today instead of staying home, Kaiba was sitting at his desk, having arrived earlier in the morning at the usual ungodly hour of the morning that he got up. His fingers were already buzzing over the keys when he heard the first buzz on his intercom for the day.

"Mr. Kaiba, there's a woman here to see you. Should I let her in?"

He sighed in annoyance and kept typing, only taking one hand off of the keyboard so he could push the button in order to respond. "Name please?"

There was a pause and then a somewhat off reply. "She won't give me a name, sir."

"Then what are you bothering me with this for?" It seemed absurd to be interrupted with some girl that wouldn't even have the manners to give a name before she was let into his office.

Another pause awaited his response and then the answer was just as unsure as the first. "I'm afraid that she won't leave, sir."

"Call security then." He didn't want to put up with this incompetence. "And if for some reason they don't come then come up with something yourself. It's not my job to-"

"Hi Seto!"

Kaiba froze and looked over at the black intercom on his phone. "Tea?"

He heard a soft giggle. "Depends, can I come in now?"

"Sure."

In almost an instant the door was open and Tea came over to sit on the edge of his desk with a beaming smile. "So how are you?"

His expression was confused, she looked overly happy, not to say it was a bad thing, it was just slightly unnerving. "Fine."

"Just fine?" She leaned over further on the desk, practically begging for his eyes to look at the necklace that was dangling, but he stubbornly held his gaze away from the spot. Not entirely sure she hadn't had some sort of stimulant this morning, though that didn't seem like something that Tea would do... but still. She did seem to be so extremely enthusiastic that it led to suspicion.

"Yes... just fine. How are you?" His fingers had stopped moving but he saved what he was working on, keeping in note that he had a meeting to go to at nine o'clock and he didn't want to miss that.

"Wonderful actually. It's a pity to hear that you aren't doing any better than just fine. Anything that I can do to help?" Tea had hopped off of the desk and came over to be standing next to him, smiling sweetly with her arms folded behind her back.

He folded the screen down of his laptop and turned his chair to face her. "I think I'm okay with being just fine, Tea, thank you though." Seto got up put the chair between himself and her without really thinking about it. "What made you decide to come down here?"

Tea laughed sweetly. "I just wanted to stop by and see how you were doing. And since you obviously don't seem to be doing any better than 'fine' I thought I might kidnap you for the day."

Kaiba sighed, and shook his head. That nervous tinge had allowed itself to dissolve and he met his eyes back at her. "I'm afraid I can't, Tea. I have meetings today and I have to go to them. If you wanted we could possibly do something later tonight. Would that be fine with you? I'll take you to dinner."

"But Seto..." Her voice trailed off and she pouted, she'd gone to the bother to make herself look fabulous, she wanted him to spend more than an hour or two with her today.

"I'm sorry, Tea, but I can't just drop my work to go wander around with you for the day. Believe me, if it was possible I would. But I have a company to run."

"You're not going to get all business oriented on me again are you?" She still hadn't let up her pleading expression and she leaned one knee down on his chair so that he could stop fretting with it in his hands.

He shook his head. "Of course not, Tea. If I was going to do that then you wouldn't see me until at least a week from now. I have plenty of work that I could make for myself but I won't."

"But you can't just take off this one day to be around with me?"

"No, Tea. I can't." She didn't seem to be getting the idea into her head, but he had to make it clear to her. He was glad that she was here and that she wanted to spend time with him, but she had to understand that he couldn't just abandon KaibaCorp because she wanted to come rescue him from the world of hard drives and motherboards for a day. "But I promise that I'll come pick you up at your house as soon as I can, alright?" He hugged her over the back over the chair, inhaling the sweet scent of her as she hugged him back and then he pushed her back lightly. "Okay then?"

Tea finally conceded and nodded in response. Hopping out of his chair she kissed his cheek and winked. "Just make sure that you don't leave me there all night."

"I won't." With that reassuring knowledge in mind he watched Tea leave the office with a wave to him and as soon as she disappeared behind the wooden frame and shut it he sat down with a sigh and put a hand on his head as he pulled up the screen of his computer again. Clicking open the windows he smiled gently. 'Well that was interesting... I just hope that she doesn't try to come take me away from here everyday. If she does then I won't manage to get anything done...'

"Mr. Kaiba, it's time for your meeting, sir."

His eyes looked over at the clock and he got up, straightening his clothing just for the pure sake of trying to get himself back into a working mode entirely. "Thank you. I'll be there shortly."

((YAY! It's not dead yet ^^ Okay. I'm sorry people again for not updating in so long. And sorry also if I made the characters warp a little, it's hard when I haven't written in so long, and I was being lazy and didn't want to go back and read 12 chapters to get back in the mode so I just read the last one... I figured you people would be happier with a new chapter that was slightly funked than none at all but my head straight, hehe. Anyway. Summer's coming soon!))