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Wow, thanx for all the reviews! They were all really nice! And now the dilemma....marik, bakura, or seto kaiba. Earlier I had said it was probably marik, and then i got some people really wanting kaiba or really wanting seto. So I've a proposition to make so that everyone, hopefully, will be happy. Say if I choose Marik, then I'll write a brand new story (diff. plot and everything) with Tea being with Seto. Same goes with Bakura. So they'll be three stories......happy? Actually I started on the Kaiba fic.......sorry Seto fans......plz don't kill me! (running away).....I've only put one chapter but it seems okay....I think. So check it out! It's a little different. But in the beginning I had set it up as a marik and bakura fic so it kinda would be hard to put seto in.....but i'll try to add him in, even though tea probably won't be with him. Anywayz back to this chapter...enjoy!

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Tea stared at the back of Bakura as he walked away. She gently touched her fingers to her lips, she could still feel the imprint of that swift kiss. In a bemused daze she slowly walked back to her room.

"Feeling alright Mazaki?" said an all too familiar voice.

"Seto Kaiba," Tea sighed, "what are you doing here?" Suddenly she realized that Kaiba might've seen her.....

"Kaiba!" she snapped, "how long have you been standing here?!"

He raised an eyebrow. "Just now.......you're blushing," he said incredulously.

"What do you want," Tea said, stalking past him, opening her door. "For a fighter you seem to act pretty weird," he muttered.

Tea walked to the middle of her room and then turned to push Kaiba back. "I said what do you want?" she said in a dangerous tone. "Stop following me!"

He held his hands up mockingly. "Okay warrior-girl!" He had originally planned to take a closer look at Pegasus' castle. But when he saw Tea, he changed his mind. She seemed so confused, the opposite of what recently she had been acting. And that flush......something was intriguing about her and he didn't know what.

"You're in a bad mood," he murmured, sitting down on her bed.

"No?" said Tea sarcastically. "I just saw a good friend get killed saving my life. And then I just spill my heart out to marik and get rejected. And then Bakura comes up to me and ---------holy shit......I mean, I mean" stuttered Tea, realizing her mistake.

Kaiba looked like he had just eaten something nasty. Then he started laughing like crazy. "You like Marik?" he said incredulously. He regained his composure. "And pray tell me," he said in a straight tone, "what did Bakura do?"

"Out!" yelled Tea. Kaiba slowly stood up. He caught her by the chin and tilted her head up. "You can do much better than that, warrior princess." Her eyes were caught off guard. The anger was replaced by confusion. A faint blush rose to her cheeks. Kaiba smirked.

Suddenly Tea grabbed him by the collar and threw him out the door. "And stay out!" she yelled at his groaning figure, slamming the door.

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They had been at Pegasus' castle for a few days. It was like a calm before the storm. Nothing serious had happened so far. Everyone, including Mai, was training harder than ever. "Don't worry about me," Mai had said to Tea, "I think if S could fight then so can I."

'But no one's telling me anything,' she thought frustratingly. The spirits had left her in the dark. And both Gelan and Kaith were at a meeting, a meeting that had something to do with her.

Marik was avoiding her, and Bakura.....well maybe she did feel something for him. 'After all,' she thought was a huff, 'he didn't turn me down.'

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At the meeting.

Everyone was talking at the same time. "Quiet!" roared a heavyset man. "Do we or do we not agree that the girl needs to fight S'nauh?"

They all spoke up at once.

"Yes, but--"

"Yes, however--"

"We all agree?" the man cut in pointedly. "Then we go to plan A."

"Attack when the bastard is not ready. And if we can get to him before he assembles his army then Tea can fight him."

"Uh...it's not as simple as it seems," a woman next to him said. "And what is wrong with the plan?" the man huffed, swelling his chest. "I believe I was next in charge."

"Yeah," murmured another, "but Shalanelle knew you were a pompous ass, that's why she never let you make any decision."

Chuckles swept through the room.
"I believe I was in charge," the man repeated, slamming his hand down.

"My the Dragon of Light help us," another piped in.

As the meeting adjourned, many of the spirits were shaking their heads. "I'm okay attacking, but this plan has so many gaps, and that idiot won't listen to anyone," one said emphatically. "Gah, Shalanelle was so stupid to let herself get killed. We're a mess without her."

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Tea was eating dinner with her group of friends. The table was filled with all sorts of dishes that Joey and Tristan were trying out. Pegasus was eating at the far end of the table. Everyone was giving nasty looks toward him, and Kaiba was giving him death glares.

"Kaiba-boy," Pegasus said in his drawling voice, "believe me, I wouldn't want any of this riffraff eating at my table. However we were asked to meet with one of these spirits that you came with, for some information that he deems important."

"What if the Dragon guy can't bring back Cecilia," Joey spoke up.

"Don't insult her by calling her by her name," Pegasus said, not looking up from his plate. "You are guests in my place, don't try to overstay your welcome by insulting the host."

The double doors opened and Gelan and Kaith strode in.

"Thank you for waiting." Gelan spoke directly at Tea. "Tea, as of right now we have an ignorant fool leading us." He took a deep breath and said, "He wants us to attack S'nauh as soon as possible, trying to catch him off guard. Unfortunately, it's hard to attack S'nauh without losing a lot of your own. He thinks that if we can get to him, you will be able to fight him and thus kill him."

Everyone: o__O

"I know, I know," Gelan said, shaking his head. "There are way too many if's in this plan but....he's the next strongest after S. Although he's an arrogant fool, no one wants to challenge him if they want to keep their health."

"When will this happen?" Tea said quietly.

Gelan and Kaith shifted nervously on their feet. "Why don't you tell her," Gelan suggested to Kaith in a nervous tone.

"What?!...." Kaith said. "No!" Then seeing Tea's expression. "Uh....it's........ in two days," ending in a higher tone.

"What!" everyone exclaimed.

"Two days?" said Ryou in disbelief. "How are we gonna get everything ready in time?"

"Who said you guys were going with Tea?" said Gelan.

Tea said quietly, "They come with me or I won't go at all."

Yugi looked at her in astonishment. "Wow Tea, I thought you would argue against us going."

She smiled at her shorter friend. "I was, but then I realized that if I made you stay here, you'd probably find a way to follow us anyway."

"However," she said icily to Gelan, "I would like a word with this.....person who ordered the attack."

"Now," she said to the unmoving Gelan and Kaith. They both looked at each other helplessly.

Then wordlessly, Kaith opened a portal. "I'll be right back," she told her friends. And she walked in, with Kaith and Gelan behind.

She entered into a elegant room with a canopied bed set on a dias. On the bed was a man with a heavy jowl and bushy eyebrows. He was wearing a toga-looking robe with stripes that made him look like a fat elephant. A bejeweled woman was fanning him while feeding him fruit with her fingers.

"Who-What," he spluttered, seeing three figures in his room. "Didn't I ask not to be disturbed?"

Gelan spoke first. "You overstep your boundaries, Mizram," he said with a grim face.

"No one ever said the leader couldn't be fed by a lovely lady," he countered back, smiling at the scantily-clad woman who smiled back.

"Enough of this," Tea said sharply, tearing back the canopies with a jerk.

"T-Tea?" he said, scrambling up to a more dignified position.

"You ordered a full out attack on S'nauh?" demanded Tea.

"Yes," he sniffed, "I am after all, the leader now."

Tea grabbed him by the front of his gaudily striped robe. "Listen to me," she snarled, putting her face two inches from his. "If anything happens to my friends because this plan of yours fails, I'll come back and beat your ass so bad that no one will recognize you anymore.....Got it?"

"I just did," she smiled sweetly. "And it wasn't a threat. It was a statement. Have sweet dreams," she said releasing him with a shove.

Behind her Kaith and Gelan were struggingly to hold in their laughs. As she turned to re-enter the portal, she said over her shoulder, "Oh and you need some breath mints or something. You stink." She spoke to the scared lady who was feeding him. "And if you're going to continue serving him, I suggest you give him a bath with a lot of soap." She entered the portal, head high. Kaith and Gelan bowed mockingly to Mizram.

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K! that's the end of this one! remember to review, my friends! Pleaseeeeee!