THIS IS A LONG CHAPTER! LONGER THAN THE LONG ONES I'VE POSTED BEFORE!
I'm sorry, I just couldn't stop writing it. ^__^
And I apologize ahead of time for what so many reviewers have been angry at me for in the past. You'll understand when you read my notes at the end of this chapter.
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*happy sigh* I love my reviewers. I wanna shout out to my reviewers, but I know better than to make a whole chapter doing that, so check out the end of this chapter to see if I said anything to you! Anyway, here's chapter 13 of MOKUBA'S TUTOR. I'm so glad you guys like it, enjoy this chapter!
(By the way, I wrote a little something about finals being over and grades going in for Domino High. I don't know how the school system works in Japan, but at my high school, once grades are in, it's not a REQUIREMENT to go, so that's what Domino is like in this story. ^^; )
I know this is a long thing to be typing before I get to the chapter, but hopefully you guys will read it, lol. I got a request for more action, but I also want to get into some romance. So I've decided to incorporate them both into the story TOGETHER, only in a non-cliched way. Or at least I'll try, lol. Let me know what you guys think, okay? Thank ya!
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Disclaimer: I would say that this disclaimer is for the rest of the story, but it's a tradition with all my chapters. ^_^ I DON'T OWN YU-GI-OH! IF I DID, I WOULD BE ON THE SHOW! *innocent smile*
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Time passed and Kea's condition improved in the hospital. She was eventually let out to be left in the care of a personal nurse, whom Kaiba had ordered to stay in Kea's house for a while, much to the young Italian's disapproval.
There was also no sign of Vinny since the motel incident. He hadn't tried to get in contact with Kea, and no one seemed to know where Max had gotten to, either. Happy with the way things were, Kea hadn't tried to phone anyone about what happened.
Finals had ended in school, so not many of the kids bothered to attend classes once grades had gone in. Yugi and his friends usually hung around at Kea's house, where Kaiba and Mokuba were frequent guests. Tea was the only exception; she had flown over to America to attend a dance school in New York. On this particular day, everyone was gathered in Kea's TV room, watching a group of wild teenagers play the latest version of Twisted Metal.
"Dude, ya smashed my hummer!" Joey wailed, observing the damages Tristan had just done to his car.
"You shouldn't have picked such a crappy car then, Joey!" Mokuba put in.
"WHAT?! Crappy! I'll show you crappy!" Joey began frantically pressing buttons on the controller and trying to ram Mokuba's spotless car into a wall.
"Hey, hey, hey, Wheeler you just rammed me!" Kea yelled. "And watch it, you're gonna break my MultiTab, I just got this thing!" [1]
Kaiba rubbed his temples, his eyes closed tightly. "Why am I still here?" he asked himself out loud.
"Because you looooooooooooooooooooooooooooove us," Kea sang, taking her eyes off of the TV screen to tease Kaiba.
"HA! I KILLED YOU! YOU'RE DEAD! EAT MY DUST, PUNY WOMAN!"
Kea whipped her head to the screen and groaned, "Aw man Joey!"
Yugi laughed at the scene in front of him. He moved over on the couch when Kea got up off of the floor to sit next to him.
"So now that you're done with high school, do you plan on doing anything with your life?" Yugi asked Kea as she turned down the TV's volume with a small, silver remote control. Shrugging, Kea said, "I dunno. I don't have to worry about money at all for a good while, so I gotta give it some thought."
"Why don't you have to worry about money?" Kaiba asked Kea.
Kea looked at Kaiba and laughed. "I been working with the highest paid men in the Italian mafia since I was thirteen! They don't pay half-bad, y'know."
"Hey, speaking of that, Kea, have you heard from Vinny yet?" Mokuba asked, pausing the game and turning around to face Kea.
"HEY! I was about to kill you, Mokuba!" Tristan screamed. "Come on!"
Mokuba simply rolled his eyes at Tristan and said, "I mean ... they have to talk to you SOMEtime, right?"
"Yeah, and I'm expecting it," Kea said. "I got a letter in the mail from Venice, Italy the other day. Apparently, Mr. Salvador wants to say congratulations on making it out alive."
By now, Joey and Tristan had stopped staring at the screen and had their full attention on Kea, who continued, saying, "What really freaked me out was that on the bottom on the postcard-it was all in Italian-Mr. Salvador had wrote, 'see you soon'."
An awkward silence fell over the room and eyes darted nervously over the furniture. "Yeah, I got that yesterday," Kea continued. "And knowing them, that means I'm gonna get the call today. I just hope he's not up to anything, y'know?"
"If he is ..." Mokuba trailed warningly.
"He's not." Kaiba's voice came strongly into the conversation and he seemed sure of himself.
"Well, I hope you're right, hun," Kea said, standing up and walking out of the TV room to the kitchen. She looked around as she walked into the room, remembering the night when Vinny stepped out of the shadows and hit Kaiba with a bat. She remembered how scared she had been when she saw him hit the floor, unconscious. Thinking of this bothered her, because she had never had any sort of emotions towards her work. But seeing Kaiba on the floor like that really shook her up.
*Why?* she thought to herself.
Kea heard footsteps behind her as she opened her refrigerator door, and turned slightly to see who it was. Seeing Kaiba, she turned back around and grabbed a Sprite can from the refrigerator door. "You want one?" she asked Kaiba.
"No," Kaiba said. Then he forced the word, "Thanks."
Kea smiled a bit and said, "Y'know, you've really loosened up since I met you. I mean, I heard every word you said in the hospital when I was knocked out that one time, and you seemed kinda ... I dunno, kinda like you weren't the same person."
"And ... is that a bad thing?"
"Hm? No," Kea replied as she opened her can and took a small sip from it. "It's just different. I like you this way. I mean, not being all mean and 'I'm-gonna-kill-you-if-you-try-to-take-over-my-company' and stuff."
Kaiba chuckled. "I see your point," he said.
"Good, let me make some more," Kea said, moving to sit down at the small counter in the middle of the kitchen. She motioned for Kaiba to come sit across from her; the distance between them very tight.
"What am I in for this time?" Kaiba asked, smirking a bit.
Kea gasped and slapped her hand against her chest in mock offense. "Why Mr. Kaiba, I'm appalled you would think such a thing of me," she said playfully.
"Yes, well you DID try to have me killed, didn't you?"
Kea's smile fell and she sighed, setting her gaze to the floor. Instantly feeling a sharp tang of regret, Kaiba placed his hand softly over Kea's and said, "I shouldn't have said anything. You saved my life and kept Mokuba safe the entire time. As much as I hate to admit it, I owe you. For Mokuba."
Kea looked up at Kaiba and smiled. "Really?" she beamed, rotating her wrist to that she and Kaiba were holding hands across the short counter.
"Of course," Kaiba replied.
"Good! Then can you get this nurse out of the house? She's going into my room and going through my stuff and asking all these questions and it's bothering me."
Smirking, Kaiba squeezed Kea's hand a bit and said, "She'll be out by tomorrow morning."
"Thank you," Kea sighed, letting her head fall to the counter. When she looked up, she saw Kaiba truly smiling for the first time. Excited to see a true emotion from him, Kea smiled a bit.
"I never see you-"
"Shh," said Kaiba, cutting Kea's words short. He placed a finger on her lips and watched as her smile spread. Then, moving his finger directly under her chin, Kaiba leaned forward and kissed Kea slowly, as if he was scared he would hurt her.
Kea was rejoicing silently in her mind and smiled slightly through the kiss. Sitting up in her seat and pushing herself forward, she leaned into the kiss, much to Kaiba's delight.
Finally, Kea pulled back slowly and looked at Kaiba, smiling widely. "First- timer," she said softly.
Kaiba's eyes went wide. "What?" he said.
"First-timer," Kea repeated. "That was your first kiss, wasn't it?" When she was met with a confused stare from Kaiba, she laughed and said, "Come on, don't lie to me, I can tell."
Kaiba stuttered a bit. "Well ... I guess ..."
Kea fell back laughing. She grabbed her Sprite can and walked around the kitchen counter, stopping by Kaiba and saying, "It's okay, hun, there's a first time for everything." Then Kea leaned down and kissed Kaiba softly, drawing back and saying, "And a second time."
And with that, Kea walked out of the room and back into the TV room to join the others.
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"Seriously? Duelist Kingdom really only took place in a weekend?" Kea asked, sitting comfortably in the TV room with Kaiba's arm slung around her shoulder.
"Yep, three days," Yugi said, nodding.
"Wow, sounds like fun," Kea said. "I mean, with the exception of everybody's souls getting stolen and people nearly getting killed thing."
Everyone in the room laughed, only to be interrupted by the phone ringing. "I yi yi," Kea said, shaking her head. She reached across Kaiba and picked up the cordless phone, pressing a button and saying, "Moshi moshi."
"Ciao. Ti vorre parlare." [2]
"I expected this call. I have to talk to you, too," Kea said, standing up and beginning to walk out of the room.
"Who is that?" Mokuba asked before Kea could get out of the doorway. Kea stopped and mouthed the word 'Vinny' before walking out of the room to the kitchen. Immediately, both Kaibas followed her.
"What do you want now, Vinny?" Kea asked as she took a seat at the kitchen counter. Kaiba sat across from her and Mokuba on the empty stool next to her. Kea added, "And don't speak in Italian, Vin, my head's too busy for that and I've got two fluent speakers in the room with me."
"Ah, so the Kaiba brothers ARE with you after all," Vinny said.
Realizing she had given them away, Kea threateningly said, "If you even THINK about touching them ..."
"Don't worry, Kea, we're not concerned with them anymore," Vinny assured Kea. "At least not for now. Right now Mr. Salvador's more concerned with your well-being."
"My well-being? He sent two guys with guns after me to blow my brains out and he's asking about my well-being? Is Salvador feelin' okay?"
"Just fine, Kea," Vinny said in an abnormally cheerful manner. "I just want to let you know that we're not coming after you to kill you, we simply want to talk."
Kea half-laughed. "Yeah, well do it later. I have company."
"Not for long you don't ..."
The line clicked on the other end and left Kea staring into the emptiness of the kitchen counter. In a sudden instant, she realized what Vinny meant and said, "Kaiba, you guys have gotta get out of here. NOW. Get everybody else and go, we've got trouble."
"Trouble? What kind of trouble?"
"I'll explain later."
Kea hopped up off of her stool and ran into the TV room. "Guys, sorry, but I gotta break up the party. Trouble with Vinny, I don't want you guys getting into it, okay? I need you out of here pronto. I think Vinny's close by."
It took the room a moment to let Kea's words sink it, then they all scrambled for the front door. Joey got there first and opened it, but stopped dead in his tracks.
"Um ... Kea? What's with all the freaky-lookin' black minivans outside?"
Kea sprinted to the door and looked out, seeing at least five black minivans in front of her house, and she saw some trailing down the side of the street corner that she lived on, as well. She slammed the door shut and turned around, saying, "Okay. Mafia's got the house surrounded."
"WHAT!" Tristan exclaimed. "How are we supposed to get out!"
"Basement," Kea said quickly. She pushed through the group of people and made her way to the basement door, everyone following obediently. She grabbed a black bag from the table by the basement door, throwing it over her shoulder and taking the steps hastily.
"Me and Vinny have had to make quick escapes out of here before so we had some of Salvador's people put this is," Kea said as she lifted up a part of the wall in the basement, revealing a fair-sized stone tunnel with a staircase at the end.
Mokuba stared at the tunnel, wide-eyed. "Where's this gonna go?"
"Domino Park," Kea said. "Follow me, we'll get into the middle of the woods. There's a stable there where Vinny keeps his truck."
They took the tunnel quickly, falling in step behind Kea's quick paces. When they reached the end, Kea rolled away a heavy boulder with the help of Joey and Kaiba, leading to a ladder which led to the ground above. Taking the ladder first, she pushed up the secret doorway which was covered by a large, phony rock, and helped the others out.
"Man, this is really freaky," Joey said as they all followed Kea to the stable where Vinny's truck was being kept. Once they were all in safely, Kea began feeling for the light switch. Before she could find it, the group heard a loud banging noise from behind them.
"What was that!" Mokuba exclaimed.
"Shh!" Kea shushed him. She looked to where the noise was and saw that the heavy wooden latch had been knocked down against the stable doors, blocking their only exit. Knowing what happened, Kea cursed loudly and punched a nearby pile of hay. That was when the lights flicked on.
"Well well well, looky what we have here," Vinny's heavily accented voice rang out along the stable. "I knew you'd try to get out this way. Thinking you escape in my truck, were you?"
"Vinny, don't get everybody into this, just let them go, come on," Kea said, used to pleading with Vinny by now. "You're done with Kaiba, you don't even KNOW these guys, and I'm the only one you got any beef with, so come on."
"There's one person you forgot to mention," Vinny said evilly. Seeing the confused look on Kea's face, he said, "How can I put you AND Kaiba in misery without ever laying a finger on either one of you? Simple." He smiled widely and said, "Little Mokuba."
"You even breathe on him the wrong way and I'll kill you myself!" Kea yelled, shocking everyone with her sudden anger. The bag she had on her shoulder slid down her arm when she stepped forward, and she made no attempt to put it back where it belonged.
"Ah-ah-ah, a little touchy on the little one, are we?"
Kaiba heard a growl form in the back of Kea's throat and was surprised at how angry she was getting at Vinny. Kaiba also noticed Kea paying attention to the bag that was now on her hand. Her fingers were prying inside of it, and he secretly wondered what she was going for.
Vinny's pointing his gun at Mokuba made Kaiba stand in front of his little brother, causing protest from the young raven-haired boy.
"Hm. Killing both of you will be even better. It was nice knowing you Kaiba."
"STOP RIGHT THERE!" Kea yelled suddenly, whipping a gun out of the black bag she had been fingering and pointing it directly at Vinny. "Just because I got out of the mafia doesn't mean I went soft, Vinny Nocella."
"Yeah right, Kea," Vinny said, not phased by Kea's gun. "You've never killed anyone before in your life."
Kea thought of the words she had said to Kaiba in her kitchen earlier that day, then smirked, saying, "It's okay, hun, there's a first time for everything."
BANG!
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*falls over* I'm so sorry!! I know you guys always get pissed at me for having cliffhangers, and this is the third chapter that I've ended with 'BANG!'. lol, I'm so sorry, I just couldn't resist. I swear, I'll make it up to you next chapter, and if there is a cliffhanger, it won't be a big one.
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[1] - If you don't know what a MutiTab is, it's an extension to a Playstation or PS2 or whatever other system (I don't know about the other systems), so you can hook up more than 2 controllers. That's how four people were playing the same game.
[2] - I don't speak Italian. I only wish I could speak Italian. I asked my friend's dad, who's fluent in Italian, and he translated the sentence 'I need to talk to you', and he gave me the polite version, which translates to 'I wish to talk to you'.
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And now, the time to say a lil somethin-somethin to my lovely reviewers, whom I love so dearly. ^__^
Freckels J: HI JOEL! *waves to Joel* You reviewed my story like a million times, but it's okay! lol, I might put you in it ... dun dun duuuuun!
Xanda: Kea and Mokuba getting together, you think? Hmmm could get interesting, but I'm gonna keep this fic Kea/Kaiba. Though a Kea/Mokuba fic wouldn't be a bad idea ... *lightbulb*
Kaisa and her yami Kanou: *blush* Thank you! And yeah, I figured I better not leave a cliffhanger because I didn't know when the next time I was gonna post again was since my brother's got baseball games again! *doing patented happy dance* But getting reviews makes me want to write, so update I will do!
Koriku: *glomps* My bestest reviewer! (No offense, other reviewers, I LOVE YOU TOO!!) You've been with me forever! Even when my other story got kicked off of FF.net! *mumbles incoherently* Thank you for reading my story and all liking it and whatnot and THANK YOU FOR THE GIANT 20-FOOT CHOCOLATE BAR!! *grubbin on giant 20-foot chocolate bar* And thank you for the idea of more action!! I think it worked out pretty well, what do you think?
I'm sorry, I just couldn't stop writing it. ^__^
And I apologize ahead of time for what so many reviewers have been angry at me for in the past. You'll understand when you read my notes at the end of this chapter.
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*happy sigh* I love my reviewers. I wanna shout out to my reviewers, but I know better than to make a whole chapter doing that, so check out the end of this chapter to see if I said anything to you! Anyway, here's chapter 13 of MOKUBA'S TUTOR. I'm so glad you guys like it, enjoy this chapter!
(By the way, I wrote a little something about finals being over and grades going in for Domino High. I don't know how the school system works in Japan, but at my high school, once grades are in, it's not a REQUIREMENT to go, so that's what Domino is like in this story. ^^; )
I know this is a long thing to be typing before I get to the chapter, but hopefully you guys will read it, lol. I got a request for more action, but I also want to get into some romance. So I've decided to incorporate them both into the story TOGETHER, only in a non-cliched way. Or at least I'll try, lol. Let me know what you guys think, okay? Thank ya!
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Disclaimer: I would say that this disclaimer is for the rest of the story, but it's a tradition with all my chapters. ^_^ I DON'T OWN YU-GI-OH! IF I DID, I WOULD BE ON THE SHOW! *innocent smile*
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Time passed and Kea's condition improved in the hospital. She was eventually let out to be left in the care of a personal nurse, whom Kaiba had ordered to stay in Kea's house for a while, much to the young Italian's disapproval.
There was also no sign of Vinny since the motel incident. He hadn't tried to get in contact with Kea, and no one seemed to know where Max had gotten to, either. Happy with the way things were, Kea hadn't tried to phone anyone about what happened.
Finals had ended in school, so not many of the kids bothered to attend classes once grades had gone in. Yugi and his friends usually hung around at Kea's house, where Kaiba and Mokuba were frequent guests. Tea was the only exception; she had flown over to America to attend a dance school in New York. On this particular day, everyone was gathered in Kea's TV room, watching a group of wild teenagers play the latest version of Twisted Metal.
"Dude, ya smashed my hummer!" Joey wailed, observing the damages Tristan had just done to his car.
"You shouldn't have picked such a crappy car then, Joey!" Mokuba put in.
"WHAT?! Crappy! I'll show you crappy!" Joey began frantically pressing buttons on the controller and trying to ram Mokuba's spotless car into a wall.
"Hey, hey, hey, Wheeler you just rammed me!" Kea yelled. "And watch it, you're gonna break my MultiTab, I just got this thing!" [1]
Kaiba rubbed his temples, his eyes closed tightly. "Why am I still here?" he asked himself out loud.
"Because you looooooooooooooooooooooooooooove us," Kea sang, taking her eyes off of the TV screen to tease Kaiba.
"HA! I KILLED YOU! YOU'RE DEAD! EAT MY DUST, PUNY WOMAN!"
Kea whipped her head to the screen and groaned, "Aw man Joey!"
Yugi laughed at the scene in front of him. He moved over on the couch when Kea got up off of the floor to sit next to him.
"So now that you're done with high school, do you plan on doing anything with your life?" Yugi asked Kea as she turned down the TV's volume with a small, silver remote control. Shrugging, Kea said, "I dunno. I don't have to worry about money at all for a good while, so I gotta give it some thought."
"Why don't you have to worry about money?" Kaiba asked Kea.
Kea looked at Kaiba and laughed. "I been working with the highest paid men in the Italian mafia since I was thirteen! They don't pay half-bad, y'know."
"Hey, speaking of that, Kea, have you heard from Vinny yet?" Mokuba asked, pausing the game and turning around to face Kea.
"HEY! I was about to kill you, Mokuba!" Tristan screamed. "Come on!"
Mokuba simply rolled his eyes at Tristan and said, "I mean ... they have to talk to you SOMEtime, right?"
"Yeah, and I'm expecting it," Kea said. "I got a letter in the mail from Venice, Italy the other day. Apparently, Mr. Salvador wants to say congratulations on making it out alive."
By now, Joey and Tristan had stopped staring at the screen and had their full attention on Kea, who continued, saying, "What really freaked me out was that on the bottom on the postcard-it was all in Italian-Mr. Salvador had wrote, 'see you soon'."
An awkward silence fell over the room and eyes darted nervously over the furniture. "Yeah, I got that yesterday," Kea continued. "And knowing them, that means I'm gonna get the call today. I just hope he's not up to anything, y'know?"
"If he is ..." Mokuba trailed warningly.
"He's not." Kaiba's voice came strongly into the conversation and he seemed sure of himself.
"Well, I hope you're right, hun," Kea said, standing up and walking out of the TV room to the kitchen. She looked around as she walked into the room, remembering the night when Vinny stepped out of the shadows and hit Kaiba with a bat. She remembered how scared she had been when she saw him hit the floor, unconscious. Thinking of this bothered her, because she had never had any sort of emotions towards her work. But seeing Kaiba on the floor like that really shook her up.
*Why?* she thought to herself.
Kea heard footsteps behind her as she opened her refrigerator door, and turned slightly to see who it was. Seeing Kaiba, she turned back around and grabbed a Sprite can from the refrigerator door. "You want one?" she asked Kaiba.
"No," Kaiba said. Then he forced the word, "Thanks."
Kea smiled a bit and said, "Y'know, you've really loosened up since I met you. I mean, I heard every word you said in the hospital when I was knocked out that one time, and you seemed kinda ... I dunno, kinda like you weren't the same person."
"And ... is that a bad thing?"
"Hm? No," Kea replied as she opened her can and took a small sip from it. "It's just different. I like you this way. I mean, not being all mean and 'I'm-gonna-kill-you-if-you-try-to-take-over-my-company' and stuff."
Kaiba chuckled. "I see your point," he said.
"Good, let me make some more," Kea said, moving to sit down at the small counter in the middle of the kitchen. She motioned for Kaiba to come sit across from her; the distance between them very tight.
"What am I in for this time?" Kaiba asked, smirking a bit.
Kea gasped and slapped her hand against her chest in mock offense. "Why Mr. Kaiba, I'm appalled you would think such a thing of me," she said playfully.
"Yes, well you DID try to have me killed, didn't you?"
Kea's smile fell and she sighed, setting her gaze to the floor. Instantly feeling a sharp tang of regret, Kaiba placed his hand softly over Kea's and said, "I shouldn't have said anything. You saved my life and kept Mokuba safe the entire time. As much as I hate to admit it, I owe you. For Mokuba."
Kea looked up at Kaiba and smiled. "Really?" she beamed, rotating her wrist to that she and Kaiba were holding hands across the short counter.
"Of course," Kaiba replied.
"Good! Then can you get this nurse out of the house? She's going into my room and going through my stuff and asking all these questions and it's bothering me."
Smirking, Kaiba squeezed Kea's hand a bit and said, "She'll be out by tomorrow morning."
"Thank you," Kea sighed, letting her head fall to the counter. When she looked up, she saw Kaiba truly smiling for the first time. Excited to see a true emotion from him, Kea smiled a bit.
"I never see you-"
"Shh," said Kaiba, cutting Kea's words short. He placed a finger on her lips and watched as her smile spread. Then, moving his finger directly under her chin, Kaiba leaned forward and kissed Kea slowly, as if he was scared he would hurt her.
Kea was rejoicing silently in her mind and smiled slightly through the kiss. Sitting up in her seat and pushing herself forward, she leaned into the kiss, much to Kaiba's delight.
Finally, Kea pulled back slowly and looked at Kaiba, smiling widely. "First- timer," she said softly.
Kaiba's eyes went wide. "What?" he said.
"First-timer," Kea repeated. "That was your first kiss, wasn't it?" When she was met with a confused stare from Kaiba, she laughed and said, "Come on, don't lie to me, I can tell."
Kaiba stuttered a bit. "Well ... I guess ..."
Kea fell back laughing. She grabbed her Sprite can and walked around the kitchen counter, stopping by Kaiba and saying, "It's okay, hun, there's a first time for everything." Then Kea leaned down and kissed Kaiba softly, drawing back and saying, "And a second time."
And with that, Kea walked out of the room and back into the TV room to join the others.
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"Seriously? Duelist Kingdom really only took place in a weekend?" Kea asked, sitting comfortably in the TV room with Kaiba's arm slung around her shoulder.
"Yep, three days," Yugi said, nodding.
"Wow, sounds like fun," Kea said. "I mean, with the exception of everybody's souls getting stolen and people nearly getting killed thing."
Everyone in the room laughed, only to be interrupted by the phone ringing. "I yi yi," Kea said, shaking her head. She reached across Kaiba and picked up the cordless phone, pressing a button and saying, "Moshi moshi."
"Ciao. Ti vorre parlare." [2]
"I expected this call. I have to talk to you, too," Kea said, standing up and beginning to walk out of the room.
"Who is that?" Mokuba asked before Kea could get out of the doorway. Kea stopped and mouthed the word 'Vinny' before walking out of the room to the kitchen. Immediately, both Kaibas followed her.
"What do you want now, Vinny?" Kea asked as she took a seat at the kitchen counter. Kaiba sat across from her and Mokuba on the empty stool next to her. Kea added, "And don't speak in Italian, Vin, my head's too busy for that and I've got two fluent speakers in the room with me."
"Ah, so the Kaiba brothers ARE with you after all," Vinny said.
Realizing she had given them away, Kea threateningly said, "If you even THINK about touching them ..."
"Don't worry, Kea, we're not concerned with them anymore," Vinny assured Kea. "At least not for now. Right now Mr. Salvador's more concerned with your well-being."
"My well-being? He sent two guys with guns after me to blow my brains out and he's asking about my well-being? Is Salvador feelin' okay?"
"Just fine, Kea," Vinny said in an abnormally cheerful manner. "I just want to let you know that we're not coming after you to kill you, we simply want to talk."
Kea half-laughed. "Yeah, well do it later. I have company."
"Not for long you don't ..."
The line clicked on the other end and left Kea staring into the emptiness of the kitchen counter. In a sudden instant, she realized what Vinny meant and said, "Kaiba, you guys have gotta get out of here. NOW. Get everybody else and go, we've got trouble."
"Trouble? What kind of trouble?"
"I'll explain later."
Kea hopped up off of her stool and ran into the TV room. "Guys, sorry, but I gotta break up the party. Trouble with Vinny, I don't want you guys getting into it, okay? I need you out of here pronto. I think Vinny's close by."
It took the room a moment to let Kea's words sink it, then they all scrambled for the front door. Joey got there first and opened it, but stopped dead in his tracks.
"Um ... Kea? What's with all the freaky-lookin' black minivans outside?"
Kea sprinted to the door and looked out, seeing at least five black minivans in front of her house, and she saw some trailing down the side of the street corner that she lived on, as well. She slammed the door shut and turned around, saying, "Okay. Mafia's got the house surrounded."
"WHAT!" Tristan exclaimed. "How are we supposed to get out!"
"Basement," Kea said quickly. She pushed through the group of people and made her way to the basement door, everyone following obediently. She grabbed a black bag from the table by the basement door, throwing it over her shoulder and taking the steps hastily.
"Me and Vinny have had to make quick escapes out of here before so we had some of Salvador's people put this is," Kea said as she lifted up a part of the wall in the basement, revealing a fair-sized stone tunnel with a staircase at the end.
Mokuba stared at the tunnel, wide-eyed. "Where's this gonna go?"
"Domino Park," Kea said. "Follow me, we'll get into the middle of the woods. There's a stable there where Vinny keeps his truck."
They took the tunnel quickly, falling in step behind Kea's quick paces. When they reached the end, Kea rolled away a heavy boulder with the help of Joey and Kaiba, leading to a ladder which led to the ground above. Taking the ladder first, she pushed up the secret doorway which was covered by a large, phony rock, and helped the others out.
"Man, this is really freaky," Joey said as they all followed Kea to the stable where Vinny's truck was being kept. Once they were all in safely, Kea began feeling for the light switch. Before she could find it, the group heard a loud banging noise from behind them.
"What was that!" Mokuba exclaimed.
"Shh!" Kea shushed him. She looked to where the noise was and saw that the heavy wooden latch had been knocked down against the stable doors, blocking their only exit. Knowing what happened, Kea cursed loudly and punched a nearby pile of hay. That was when the lights flicked on.
"Well well well, looky what we have here," Vinny's heavily accented voice rang out along the stable. "I knew you'd try to get out this way. Thinking you escape in my truck, were you?"
"Vinny, don't get everybody into this, just let them go, come on," Kea said, used to pleading with Vinny by now. "You're done with Kaiba, you don't even KNOW these guys, and I'm the only one you got any beef with, so come on."
"There's one person you forgot to mention," Vinny said evilly. Seeing the confused look on Kea's face, he said, "How can I put you AND Kaiba in misery without ever laying a finger on either one of you? Simple." He smiled widely and said, "Little Mokuba."
"You even breathe on him the wrong way and I'll kill you myself!" Kea yelled, shocking everyone with her sudden anger. The bag she had on her shoulder slid down her arm when she stepped forward, and she made no attempt to put it back where it belonged.
"Ah-ah-ah, a little touchy on the little one, are we?"
Kaiba heard a growl form in the back of Kea's throat and was surprised at how angry she was getting at Vinny. Kaiba also noticed Kea paying attention to the bag that was now on her hand. Her fingers were prying inside of it, and he secretly wondered what she was going for.
Vinny's pointing his gun at Mokuba made Kaiba stand in front of his little brother, causing protest from the young raven-haired boy.
"Hm. Killing both of you will be even better. It was nice knowing you Kaiba."
"STOP RIGHT THERE!" Kea yelled suddenly, whipping a gun out of the black bag she had been fingering and pointing it directly at Vinny. "Just because I got out of the mafia doesn't mean I went soft, Vinny Nocella."
"Yeah right, Kea," Vinny said, not phased by Kea's gun. "You've never killed anyone before in your life."
Kea thought of the words she had said to Kaiba in her kitchen earlier that day, then smirked, saying, "It's okay, hun, there's a first time for everything."
BANG!
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*falls over* I'm so sorry!! I know you guys always get pissed at me for having cliffhangers, and this is the third chapter that I've ended with 'BANG!'. lol, I'm so sorry, I just couldn't resist. I swear, I'll make it up to you next chapter, and if there is a cliffhanger, it won't be a big one.
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[1] - If you don't know what a MutiTab is, it's an extension to a Playstation or PS2 or whatever other system (I don't know about the other systems), so you can hook up more than 2 controllers. That's how four people were playing the same game.
[2] - I don't speak Italian. I only wish I could speak Italian. I asked my friend's dad, who's fluent in Italian, and he translated the sentence 'I need to talk to you', and he gave me the polite version, which translates to 'I wish to talk to you'.
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And now, the time to say a lil somethin-somethin to my lovely reviewers, whom I love so dearly. ^__^
Freckels J: HI JOEL! *waves to Joel* You reviewed my story like a million times, but it's okay! lol, I might put you in it ... dun dun duuuuun!
Xanda: Kea and Mokuba getting together, you think? Hmmm could get interesting, but I'm gonna keep this fic Kea/Kaiba. Though a Kea/Mokuba fic wouldn't be a bad idea ... *lightbulb*
Kaisa and her yami Kanou: *blush* Thank you! And yeah, I figured I better not leave a cliffhanger because I didn't know when the next time I was gonna post again was since my brother's got baseball games again! *doing patented happy dance* But getting reviews makes me want to write, so update I will do!
Koriku: *glomps* My bestest reviewer! (No offense, other reviewers, I LOVE YOU TOO!!) You've been with me forever! Even when my other story got kicked off of FF.net! *mumbles incoherently* Thank you for reading my story and all liking it and whatnot and THANK YOU FOR THE GIANT 20-FOOT CHOCOLATE BAR!! *grubbin on giant 20-foot chocolate bar* And thank you for the idea of more action!! I think it worked out pretty well, what do you think?