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They had decided to have Tea and Mai's funerals at the same time, so that they would only have to go to ONE funeral, instead of two.

"I don't believe it. . ." Serenity said, as tears fell down her face. "Why did they take Mai, too?"

"It's all right, Serenity," Joey said, giving her a hug. "We're gonna find out who did this. And they're gonna pay."

"I hope you're right."

Mr. and Mrs. Gardner walked up to Yugi, Joey, and Serenity.

"We're really glad you could come," Mrs. Gardner said, her eyes red from crying.

"We know it would have meant a lot to Tea," Mr. Gardner said, his eyes red, also.

Yugi's eyes filled with tears, which he held in. 'I miss you Tea. . . '

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The funeral was, like all funerals are, sad. Everyone talked about Tea and Mai, and how they were such wonderful people. The whole time, Yugi just wanted to get out of there. He was sick of hearing how 'unfortunate' it was that they died, and how they 'wished that they could do something.'

'THEN DO IT ALREADY!' Yugi was yelling inside. 'I don't see you doing anything about it.'

Finally, the ceremony which had seemed to take days, ended.

"It's about time," Yugi muttered to himself.

"What Yug?" Joey asked, glancing at his friend.

"Nothing."

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About two hours after the funeral, at around 7:00, Yugi got a phone call from Tea's mother, who begged him to help her go through Tea's things. Yugi reluctantly accepted, after thinking about how hard it would be on Mrs. Gardner to go through everything herself.

As Yugi walked to Tea's house, he started thinking about everything that had been happening lately. . Tea dying. . Mai dying. . it was almost too much to bear. But Yugi had to stay strong. He couldn't give up. . but sometimes it was so hard. . He took a deep breath as he arrived at Tea's house.

Right when he went in, Mrs. Gardner gave him a huge hug. "Thank you so much Yugi."

"No problem."

Yugi had never really been in Tea's room, since he and Tea were usually at the game shop with Joey and Tristan.

"All right. . this is her room. . " Mrs. Gardner said, tearing up.

"Do you. . want me to look through everything?" Yugi asked, wondering why the hell he was volounteering to do it.

"Oh, would you Yugi?" She asked, hopefully. "It's just so hard for me. . to . . to look into Tea's room, and think. . She's never coming back. My baby is . . " She started sobbing.

Enter Mr. Gardner

"She'll be all right," Mr.Gardner said to Yugi. "You don't have to stay here if you don't want to. Otherwise, you can just . . throw everything away I guess. . ." He sighed, and Yugi could see tears in his eyes too.

"Take. . take anything you want," Mrs. Gardner said, as her husband led her into the living room.

'Great. . now I'm stuck here. . .this is just going to remind me more of Tea. . '

Yugi quickly started throwing things into a black garbage bag, which he assumed was for that purpose.

As Yugi cleared off Tea's dresser, he noticed a photo album. He opened it, and saw in it a bunch of pictures of himelf, Joey, Tristan, and the other friends that Tea had aqquired over the years. Yugi's eyes filled with tears, as he saw a picture of Tea and himself, engaged in a food fight. That had been fun. It had all started when Joey 'accidently' spilled some soda on Tristan. Then Tristan threw a glob of jello at him, but Joey ducked, and it hit Tea. By then, Yugi had thrown an apple at Joey's head, which had hit him, of course. Afterwards, they did have to clean up the mess, but the food fight had been so much fun that no one really minded.

"Tea. . ."

Wanting to at least try to get his mind off of Tea, which was going to be hard, since he was in her bedroom, Yugi turned on the radio. The song playing was White Flag by Dido.

/I will go down with this ship. I won't put my hands up, and surrender. There will be no white flag above my door. I'm in love. And always will be./

Yugi thought about those words. .was HE in love with Tea? As he continued to empty her room, his thoughts kept drifting back to the lyrics of that song. .

"Well, I know one thing. I'm NOT going to surrender. I'm gonna find out who did this," Yugi said, determined. He failed to notice, however, that there was a dark figure outside Tea's window, that was watching him, and had been since he got there.

"He's going to be my biggest threat," The 'dark figure' said to himself. "I have to get rid of him. Soon."

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K, so maybe this wasn't a HUGE chapter. . but it's good enough, right? ^^; Sorry that all of these chapters are so short. . .but I always seem to run out of ideas ^^;

And the reason Yugi didn't really wanna go through all of Tea's stuff was because he didn't want to think about Tea, because thinking about her made him sad. Not cuz he has better things to do or anything.

I'll update again, when I get the chance. Actually, I stayed home 2day from school, so I might update again later today. Anyways, PLEASE review!

Thank ya

~Kasa-chan~