I'M BACK!! It took me so long, but I'm finally back! Sorry, I had writer's
block, then I was lazy, then my computer broke! But now I have a new
computer I can work with, I'm not lazy anymore, and I got a very very good
suggestion from Yume E. Yui!!! Don't go and read her review, though,
because it'll ruin it. Besides, I put my own lil taste of flava in it
anyway, so you really don't know what's gonna happen even if you did read
her review. Still, though, don't read it. LoL, it'll be better this way,
trust me. PROPS UP TO YUME E. YUI!!! By the way, she's got a reeeally good
Kaiba fic up called 'The Merger', you should read it, it's great.
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Disclaimer: I've been gone so long and people want to know what happened so bad, I don't think they'll bother reading this or what I wrote above. *shrugs* Well, I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh! anywayz.
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It had been just an hour since Kea had talked to Joey, and minds were busy at work all across the city. Kea and Kaiba sat in their motel room, laying out a plan for them to escape safely, while Joey and his friends were planning in Yugi's car on the way to the motel.
"Dude, what are we doing again?" Tristan asked, rubbing his tired eyes and letting out a yawn.
"We're saving Kaiba's ass," Joey said simply.
"Joey, stop cursing!" Tea cried.
"Sor-ry," Joey said, squirming uncomfortably. "Damn."
Yugi ignored the feud in the backseat and asked, "So do you know exactly what we're supposed to do, Joey? Did Kea say anything about it?"
Joey shrugged and ran his hand over his hair. "Nah, I figure she'll tell us when we get there."
Assuming that Joey knew was he was doing, Yugi shrugged and continued driving. Occasionally, he had to readjust the Tokyo phone book that he was sitting on so he could see over the steering wheel, but other than that, he was silent for the rest of the ride.
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Kaiba sat at the dresser, quickly scribbling things down that he and Kea talked about as Kea paced behind him and ran over their strategy in her head.
"We have everything covered, am I right?" she asked Kaiba.
Kaiba silently read over their list and said, "Yes. Even how to cover for Joey, which I still think we shouldn't do."
Rolling her eyes, Kea said, "Oh come on, Kaiba, he's saving your butt here, the least you could do is not let him get killed."
"Hmph," Kaiba said, dropping the pen in his hand and folding his arms. "I see our views aren't quite the same in this field."
Kea giggled at Kaiba's response. "Whatever you say," she said.
Just then, there was a knock on the motel room door. Kaiba looked at Kea questioningly, but she simply shook her head. "There's no way they could find us, we lost them on the highway miles before we even got here," she said, then, raising her voice a bit, she called, "Who is it?"
"Front desk," said a high-pitched male voice.
"See," Kea said to Kaiba. "I highly doubt that nice front desk guy is gonna shoot us."
"Just watch yourself," Kaiba said.
"Awww, a little worried, are we?" Kea teased as she made her way over to the front door. She undid the two locks and opened the door.
"Mistake number one," came Vinny's voice as he grabbed Kea's neck roughly and pushed her back into the room, a gun pointed directly between her eyes. Max, another mafia member, followed Vinny inside and shut the door behind him, holding out a gun pointed towards Kaiba.
"Dammit Kea, you should have listened to me!" Kaiba said angrily as Vinny threw Kea onto one of the motel room beds. Upon contact, she scrambled to the headboard, never taking her eyes off of Vinny, who never ceased to move the gun which was aimed at her.
"You're not gonna kill me Vinny," Kea said softly. "I mean come on, Vin, we've been friends for years, you can't whack off your best friend."
Vinny took a deep breath and glanced over at Max, who had Kaiba backed up against the wall, still at gunpoint. Max never took his eyes off of Kaiba, in fear that if he did, Kaiba would jump at the opportunity to take the gun.
Vinny looked back at Kea and shakily said, "Salvador wants you dead. We went after you when you left with Kaiba. I threw them off when you turned on the highway, but they found you anyway. They had Kaiba's cell phone traced."
"Crap, I knew we should've used the room phone," Kea said softly. Then, looking up, she said, "Vinny, come on, I know we had our times, but we been friends otherwise, right? You can't kill us ..."
"I don't wanna kill you, I wanna kill HIM!" Vinny said angrily, jerking his gun towards Kaiba's direction. Kea jumped slightly at Vinny's sudden change in tone and began worrying.
"Come on, Vin, you can't kill him, think about it," Kea said, trying to talk her way out of the situation. "He's got a little brother ... you've got a brother, can you imagine what-"
"Don't you dare bring Ricky into this!" Vinny snapped suddenly. Then, in an attempt to calm himself down, he said, "Ricky's got nothing to do with me anymore." Then, as if the statement angered him, he cringed and gripped the gun tighter. "If I don't get this done Salvador's gonna kill me," Vinny said.
"So run!" Kea insisted. "Just like me and Kaiba ran, you can run, too. You can go back to Italy for crying out loud!"
Vinny looked down, seemingly pondering over what Kea had said. When he lowered the gun, Kea sighed.
"Thank you, Vinny," she exhaled softly.
"Don't thank me," Vinny said, nearly in a whisper. He turned to Max and, in Italian, said, "Take care of both of them for me."
"WHAT?! Vinny, you're crazy!" Kea went off screaming in Italian. Kaiba stayed quiet, taking in the conversation and silently planning a way out of it. Currently, he didn't see one.
"I'm sorry, Kea," Vinny said as he began to walk out of the room.
Kea looked over to Kaiba, who was expressionless. She had never been in a situation like this before and she had no idea what to do about it. She only hoped that she and Kaiba could make it out alive.
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"Man, Yug, do ya know where yer goin'?" Joey asked as Yugi made another right turn.
"I'm going where you told me to go, Joey," Yugi said calmly, "but I don't see a motel anywhere. Are you sure you gave me the right directions?"
Joey scratched the back of his neck, thinking about Yugi's question. "I'm pretty sure I did," he said thoughtfully.
"Aw man, Joey!" Tea whined, turning around from the front seat to look at the blond. "Come on, I'm missing my favorite primetime soaps for this!"
"Shut up about your primetime soaps!" Tristan wailed. "Come on, man, we gotta be super heros and save Kaiba from the mafia!" Tea sighed heavily and looked out the window, set on ignoring the two in the backseat for the rest of the ride.
She had just begun to drift into thought when she saw a small, western- style motel on her side of the road. "Hey Yugi, is that their motel?" she asked.
Yugi slowed his car down before he missed it and looked at the motel. "I think it might be," he said. "It can't hurt to check, right?" He began to park in front of the motel, briefly looking back at Joey and asking, "Do you know what room they're in, Joey?"
Joey thought for a moment, then said, "Eighty-six."
"Good," Yugi said. "Come on, let's go find out what their plan is.
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"Please don't do this, Max, please," Kea was begging as Max smirked at Kaiba. "Come on, you can still get out of here and keep all three of us alive!"
"No can do," Max said in a thick Italian accent. "Sorry, babe." Then with a grin on his face, he said, "Moneybags is going first."
"No!" Kea screamed just as Max went to fire the gun. She jumped off the edge of the bed and latched onto Max's arm, causing the bullet to miss Kaiba's head and instead go into his shoulder.
"Ah! Dammit!" Kaiba cried as he fell to the floor, holding his shoulder.
Kea continued to struggle for the gun that Max had in his hand, purposely avoiding the silencer at the end as to not get any gunpowder on her fingers.
"Give ... up ... Kea ..." Max said between struggling breaths.
"... Never ...!" Kea yelled. She was determined to get the gun from Max and wouldn't stop until she did so. She only made one mistake. Worrying about Kaiba.
Kea heard Kaiba's painful groans from under the window, where he was holding his shoulder in extreme pain and fighting the urge to scream. His groans worried her and she briefly checked over to make sure he was okay. That one mistake would cost her.
BANG!
As soon as Kea turned her head to look at Kaiba, Max gained control of the gun and fired it, piercing her stomach from close range.
"Gaaah!" Kea screamed when the bullet hit her. She fell over on contact, near where Kaiba was, and held her stomach, fighting to keep herself awake. If she passed out, she didn't know how much blood she could lose, and death could be the end result.
Breathing heavily and stumbling on the floor, Kea turned around to look Max in the eye. He didn't seem to be phased by any of this; he only wanted to get his job done. He held the gun up towards Kea's head and with en evil glare in his eye, prepared to fire.
"HEY!" a heavily accented voice yelled from the other side of the motel room door as numerous fists began banging loudly. "What's goin' on in dere!"
"Is everyone okay?" a younger-sounding voice called. "It doesn't sound good in there, is something wrong? Open the door!"
Temporarily, Max panicked. It would be the perfect time to get the gun from him and take control of the situation if either Kaiba or Kea could move or think correctly through their bullet wounds. Instead of taking action, Kea made an attempt to crawl to Kaiba, grabbing his hand when she neared him.
"I'm so sorry," she said hoarsely.
Kaiba did nothing but look into her eyes, his own bloodshot from the pain in his shoulder. He didn't know how to respond, so he just gently squeezed Kea's hand. Although he may have been angry at her for what she put him through, he couldn't let her live her last moments on earth believing that she was hated. Even he wasn't that cold hearted.
"Open the door, you guys!" a female voice rang.
"That's it, back up guys, we're busting this thing in!" another male voice said. Then, two people began ramming the door on the count of three, time after time, intending to break the door down.
Max cursed to himself in Italian, then took one last look at Kea and Kaiba. Knowing that he still had to take care of business, he aimed the gun to take one last shot at Kea Shatsana.
BANG!
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Wow, that's not the first chapter I ended with 'BANG!'. This time it may be a little less predictable, though. Who got shot? Where did they get shot? Did they die? Did Joey and Tristan ever bust the door down? What's gonna happen to Max? Hmmm, I guess you'll have to keep reading to find out ... Please review! The more reviews I get, the more I'll update!
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Disclaimer: I've been gone so long and people want to know what happened so bad, I don't think they'll bother reading this or what I wrote above. *shrugs* Well, I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh! anywayz.
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It had been just an hour since Kea had talked to Joey, and minds were busy at work all across the city. Kea and Kaiba sat in their motel room, laying out a plan for them to escape safely, while Joey and his friends were planning in Yugi's car on the way to the motel.
"Dude, what are we doing again?" Tristan asked, rubbing his tired eyes and letting out a yawn.
"We're saving Kaiba's ass," Joey said simply.
"Joey, stop cursing!" Tea cried.
"Sor-ry," Joey said, squirming uncomfortably. "Damn."
Yugi ignored the feud in the backseat and asked, "So do you know exactly what we're supposed to do, Joey? Did Kea say anything about it?"
Joey shrugged and ran his hand over his hair. "Nah, I figure she'll tell us when we get there."
Assuming that Joey knew was he was doing, Yugi shrugged and continued driving. Occasionally, he had to readjust the Tokyo phone book that he was sitting on so he could see over the steering wheel, but other than that, he was silent for the rest of the ride.
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Kaiba sat at the dresser, quickly scribbling things down that he and Kea talked about as Kea paced behind him and ran over their strategy in her head.
"We have everything covered, am I right?" she asked Kaiba.
Kaiba silently read over their list and said, "Yes. Even how to cover for Joey, which I still think we shouldn't do."
Rolling her eyes, Kea said, "Oh come on, Kaiba, he's saving your butt here, the least you could do is not let him get killed."
"Hmph," Kaiba said, dropping the pen in his hand and folding his arms. "I see our views aren't quite the same in this field."
Kea giggled at Kaiba's response. "Whatever you say," she said.
Just then, there was a knock on the motel room door. Kaiba looked at Kea questioningly, but she simply shook her head. "There's no way they could find us, we lost them on the highway miles before we even got here," she said, then, raising her voice a bit, she called, "Who is it?"
"Front desk," said a high-pitched male voice.
"See," Kea said to Kaiba. "I highly doubt that nice front desk guy is gonna shoot us."
"Just watch yourself," Kaiba said.
"Awww, a little worried, are we?" Kea teased as she made her way over to the front door. She undid the two locks and opened the door.
"Mistake number one," came Vinny's voice as he grabbed Kea's neck roughly and pushed her back into the room, a gun pointed directly between her eyes. Max, another mafia member, followed Vinny inside and shut the door behind him, holding out a gun pointed towards Kaiba.
"Dammit Kea, you should have listened to me!" Kaiba said angrily as Vinny threw Kea onto one of the motel room beds. Upon contact, she scrambled to the headboard, never taking her eyes off of Vinny, who never ceased to move the gun which was aimed at her.
"You're not gonna kill me Vinny," Kea said softly. "I mean come on, Vin, we've been friends for years, you can't whack off your best friend."
Vinny took a deep breath and glanced over at Max, who had Kaiba backed up against the wall, still at gunpoint. Max never took his eyes off of Kaiba, in fear that if he did, Kaiba would jump at the opportunity to take the gun.
Vinny looked back at Kea and shakily said, "Salvador wants you dead. We went after you when you left with Kaiba. I threw them off when you turned on the highway, but they found you anyway. They had Kaiba's cell phone traced."
"Crap, I knew we should've used the room phone," Kea said softly. Then, looking up, she said, "Vinny, come on, I know we had our times, but we been friends otherwise, right? You can't kill us ..."
"I don't wanna kill you, I wanna kill HIM!" Vinny said angrily, jerking his gun towards Kaiba's direction. Kea jumped slightly at Vinny's sudden change in tone and began worrying.
"Come on, Vin, you can't kill him, think about it," Kea said, trying to talk her way out of the situation. "He's got a little brother ... you've got a brother, can you imagine what-"
"Don't you dare bring Ricky into this!" Vinny snapped suddenly. Then, in an attempt to calm himself down, he said, "Ricky's got nothing to do with me anymore." Then, as if the statement angered him, he cringed and gripped the gun tighter. "If I don't get this done Salvador's gonna kill me," Vinny said.
"So run!" Kea insisted. "Just like me and Kaiba ran, you can run, too. You can go back to Italy for crying out loud!"
Vinny looked down, seemingly pondering over what Kea had said. When he lowered the gun, Kea sighed.
"Thank you, Vinny," she exhaled softly.
"Don't thank me," Vinny said, nearly in a whisper. He turned to Max and, in Italian, said, "Take care of both of them for me."
"WHAT?! Vinny, you're crazy!" Kea went off screaming in Italian. Kaiba stayed quiet, taking in the conversation and silently planning a way out of it. Currently, he didn't see one.
"I'm sorry, Kea," Vinny said as he began to walk out of the room.
Kea looked over to Kaiba, who was expressionless. She had never been in a situation like this before and she had no idea what to do about it. She only hoped that she and Kaiba could make it out alive.
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"Man, Yug, do ya know where yer goin'?" Joey asked as Yugi made another right turn.
"I'm going where you told me to go, Joey," Yugi said calmly, "but I don't see a motel anywhere. Are you sure you gave me the right directions?"
Joey scratched the back of his neck, thinking about Yugi's question. "I'm pretty sure I did," he said thoughtfully.
"Aw man, Joey!" Tea whined, turning around from the front seat to look at the blond. "Come on, I'm missing my favorite primetime soaps for this!"
"Shut up about your primetime soaps!" Tristan wailed. "Come on, man, we gotta be super heros and save Kaiba from the mafia!" Tea sighed heavily and looked out the window, set on ignoring the two in the backseat for the rest of the ride.
She had just begun to drift into thought when she saw a small, western- style motel on her side of the road. "Hey Yugi, is that their motel?" she asked.
Yugi slowed his car down before he missed it and looked at the motel. "I think it might be," he said. "It can't hurt to check, right?" He began to park in front of the motel, briefly looking back at Joey and asking, "Do you know what room they're in, Joey?"
Joey thought for a moment, then said, "Eighty-six."
"Good," Yugi said. "Come on, let's go find out what their plan is.
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"Please don't do this, Max, please," Kea was begging as Max smirked at Kaiba. "Come on, you can still get out of here and keep all three of us alive!"
"No can do," Max said in a thick Italian accent. "Sorry, babe." Then with a grin on his face, he said, "Moneybags is going first."
"No!" Kea screamed just as Max went to fire the gun. She jumped off the edge of the bed and latched onto Max's arm, causing the bullet to miss Kaiba's head and instead go into his shoulder.
"Ah! Dammit!" Kaiba cried as he fell to the floor, holding his shoulder.
Kea continued to struggle for the gun that Max had in his hand, purposely avoiding the silencer at the end as to not get any gunpowder on her fingers.
"Give ... up ... Kea ..." Max said between struggling breaths.
"... Never ...!" Kea yelled. She was determined to get the gun from Max and wouldn't stop until she did so. She only made one mistake. Worrying about Kaiba.
Kea heard Kaiba's painful groans from under the window, where he was holding his shoulder in extreme pain and fighting the urge to scream. His groans worried her and she briefly checked over to make sure he was okay. That one mistake would cost her.
BANG!
As soon as Kea turned her head to look at Kaiba, Max gained control of the gun and fired it, piercing her stomach from close range.
"Gaaah!" Kea screamed when the bullet hit her. She fell over on contact, near where Kaiba was, and held her stomach, fighting to keep herself awake. If she passed out, she didn't know how much blood she could lose, and death could be the end result.
Breathing heavily and stumbling on the floor, Kea turned around to look Max in the eye. He didn't seem to be phased by any of this; he only wanted to get his job done. He held the gun up towards Kea's head and with en evil glare in his eye, prepared to fire.
"HEY!" a heavily accented voice yelled from the other side of the motel room door as numerous fists began banging loudly. "What's goin' on in dere!"
"Is everyone okay?" a younger-sounding voice called. "It doesn't sound good in there, is something wrong? Open the door!"
Temporarily, Max panicked. It would be the perfect time to get the gun from him and take control of the situation if either Kaiba or Kea could move or think correctly through their bullet wounds. Instead of taking action, Kea made an attempt to crawl to Kaiba, grabbing his hand when she neared him.
"I'm so sorry," she said hoarsely.
Kaiba did nothing but look into her eyes, his own bloodshot from the pain in his shoulder. He didn't know how to respond, so he just gently squeezed Kea's hand. Although he may have been angry at her for what she put him through, he couldn't let her live her last moments on earth believing that she was hated. Even he wasn't that cold hearted.
"Open the door, you guys!" a female voice rang.
"That's it, back up guys, we're busting this thing in!" another male voice said. Then, two people began ramming the door on the count of three, time after time, intending to break the door down.
Max cursed to himself in Italian, then took one last look at Kea and Kaiba. Knowing that he still had to take care of business, he aimed the gun to take one last shot at Kea Shatsana.
BANG!
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Wow, that's not the first chapter I ended with 'BANG!'. This time it may be a little less predictable, though. Who got shot? Where did they get shot? Did they die? Did Joey and Tristan ever bust the door down? What's gonna happen to Max? Hmmm, I guess you'll have to keep reading to find out ... Please review! The more reviews I get, the more I'll update!