In the Name of Love

Disclaimer: I don't own Yugioh

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"CANNONBALL!!!" cried Mokuba as he dived into the pool.

In his brother's absence, the younger Kaiba had managed to convince Serenity into letting him have a pool party for all his friends. Serenity agreed if the Joey and the others could come and help watch over the mass number of kids.

Yugi/Yami and Serenity tried to keep the kids from running amok and destroying the Kaiba mansion, Bakura was helping with the food and in charge of keeping Joey from hanging around the grill stealing food.

Bakura sighed, "Joey you are eating faster then the cook can cook it"

Suddenly Yami looked up from the group of kids he was trying to calm down. "Has anyone seen Serenity?"

Joey finally stopped eating for a while. "Yeah I haven't seen her in a bit myself."

Bakura let out a sigh of relief seeing that Joey could finally stop eating for two seconds. "Well why don't we all go look for her?"

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Over the days, living in the Kaiba mansion had given her the advantage of travelling around at night without being stopped by anyone. In the few days she had been here she had already searched a dozen rooms with no success of finding Seto's god card. She had found a way into a bathroom connecting to Seto's bedroom and decided she could check it out with the mayhem in Mokuba's party and the others taking care of it for her.

Serenity sneaked in through the window of the bathroom, it was a very luxerious one as well, and the size was even bigger then Serenity's room. 'I must not get distracted,' she thought as she went into Kaiba's room

The room was very blue. Apparently it seemed to be one of Kaiba's favorite colors. The bed had blue velvet curtains and the sheets were of of white and blue silk. The walls were white with a navy colored pattern and wooden sidings. Serenity searched everywhere looking for her target. Her eyes finally rested upon a large mahogany closet. 'Maybe...just maybe.'

She opened the closet door to find only one outfit inside. There was the beige coat, and the black turtleneck. Memories flooded back of that fortunate winter day. A small smile touched her lips as she rememberd Seto coming out of the change room in the outfit that now hung in his closet. 'I can't believe he kept this' Her hands felt the jacket; it had been worn recently, because she could smell Seto's cologne on it. Suddenly Serenity backed away from the jacket, 'what am I doing? I can't do this.' She left quickly through the bedroom door. Nor far she ran into Joey.

"Hey sis, what are you doing inside? You should be outside with the rest of us, having fun." Serenity smiled

"I needed to use the washroom and freashen up that's all." She said in her sweet voice.

"Oh I see," he said "Well let's go back to the party."

Serenity simply nodded, 'Guess I will have to go back there again some other time.'

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Seto had a feeling of uneasiness, as if he felt this feeling that something was wrong at home. 'I'm worrying too much, I'm sure they're fine. I'm sounding like a mother for goodness sakes' he thought as he sat through another boring meeting about the construction of his latest production.

Seto loved to create the newest things in technology, but when it came to listening to boring meetings he was glad there was his secrataries to summarize it for him while he slept through it. Seto could sleep with his eyes open, he had trained this technique for a long time, in class and in meetings such as these. He still looked like he was paying attention as long as he didn't snore, no one could tell the difference.

Tea whom had been typing like mad trying to keep up on taking notes about the meeting so that Kaiba could read later suddenly stopped when someone had asked Kaiba a question but failed to get an answer out of the sleeping man. Tea looked over to him as she noticed that although his eyes were open, if you took a closer look you could tell that he was indeed in deep slumber. She would have laughed had there not been so many people around at the moment, so she did the only thing she could do, kick him under the table.

Seto was jolted out of his dream of being at home working on his computer at the intense pain in his leg. "Pardon me, I was... thinking, what did you say?" he said figuring that he was probably being called.

The man cleared his throat and continued with his boring stuff, Seto looked at Tea and figured she was probably the one who woke him up, he smiled a little at her in a way of thanks and went back to his icy and bored to death look as he continued to listen to the speech.

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The party at the Kaiba mansion finally came to an end. Serenity waved as her friends left thanking them again for coming. Serenity put Mokuba to bed; the poor guy was tuckered out. Serenity went back to her own room and changed into some black clothing. 'I need to finish searching Kaiba's room for clues.'

Serenity went through the room for about an hour without any hints on where Kaiba's god card could be. 'Now if I were Kaiba where would I put it?' she thought. Serenity was so lost in thought she almost failed to sense the person behind her.

She swung her leg at the mysterious person. She judged by his body that he was a guy but she could not tell who it was on account that his face was covered. Serenity attacked him in case that he was not friend but foe. However her opponent was not exactly defenseless. He managed to either block or dodge all of her attacks. So she changed her mind, she went after his mask. Not expecting this kind of change, the man could not protect his face when the mask was removed.

"What are you doing here Ryou? I thought you left?"

"I should be asking you the same thing Serenity, but then again I'm not Ryou."

"I should have known, you are the spirit of the Millenium Ring who is currently working with Master Marik."

"Yes I'm the one replacing you on the infiltrating of the Pharaoh's little group. You're preety smart for a girl, no wonder Marik confides in you." Bakura chuckled.

"Why Thank you." She said, "Now if you'll excuse me I have work to do, if you'll be so kind to go away for now." She said with a smile

"As you wish" with that he was gone.

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Serenity returned to her room with no luck, still no card. "What am I going to do?"

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"I'm sorry I have to put you through this Tea" Seto said

Tea blushed a little; lately Kaiba had started calling her Tea instead of Mazaki. "It's ok Kaiba, it's just a formal affair. But I didn't bring any formal outfits." She told him

"That's ok, I guess we could go shopping." As the limo stopped in front of a posh boutique.

From the moment that Seto stepped inside the place, a salesperson popped out of thin air next to them. "Hello Mr. Kaiba!! It's a pleasure to have you in our humble little store. Your presence in here brings us much honor. Is there something I can interest you in? Or perhaps your girlfriend."

"First of all, she's not my girlfriend, she's my secretary whom I will be taking to a formal affair. Second of all she needs an outfit, now if you wouldn't mind doing your job could you please show us to the formal section." The salesman took a hint and calmly showed them to the mass selection of formal clothing. "Thank you, we can go through it ourselves." Said Seto as he dismissed the man

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Tea lost count of the number of outfits she had changed into. The selection was indeed vast; there were your silks, your velvets, your satins and many many numerous other types. Finally a dress that suited Seto's taste was found. The dress was made of a very top-class silk of a buttery yellow color. Along the sides of the dress were sun colored flower designs.

"It's nice, let's take It." Said Seto

"But but...Mr. Kaiba," she said as she pointed at the low cut of the dress, no sleeves and the high slit up the side. It was quite the revealing dress.

"And the problem is?" said Kaiba, he almost burst out laughing when Tea's eyes grew large. "Look Tea, when you go to these formal affairs, especially business ones, if you don't look your best you get looked down upon, so it doesn't matter if it's like that, it just has to be the best." And with that he paid the man as Tea reluctlently went back in the change room.

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Seto waited patiently as he waited for Tea to come out of the bathroom. Although it was still a bit early, he disliked being late for anything, even if it was for a boring old ball. His ears perked at the sound of the bathroom door open. Tea looked like a completely different person. Her hair was put up into a loose bushy bun tied back with a hair tie made of pearls; her bangs cupped her face making her look absolutely gorgeous, her sparkling diamond earings hung from her ears and the diamond necklace made her look like a princess. Seto's jaw dropped, he had seen her wear the dress before but with the full works and all she looked completely different.

"Is something wrong Kaiba?" Tea said as she waved her hand in front of his face.

Seto woke from his reverie, "Huh? Oh yeah! I got you this," he said as he handed her two parcels, he watched her open them, "It took a while to find a pairmatching, I hope you like it."

Inside the parcel Tea found a pair of silken gloves made of the same quality and color as the dress. She put them on to find that they almost reached her shoulder, making the dress look less revealing. She smiled, "Thank you Kaiba, I love them." She said as she gave him a peck on the cheek as thanks.

Seto fought the heat rising to his cheek but he knew there was no way to prevent the blush. "You're welcome"

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Seto got out of the black limo when the driver came around to open the door for him. He then helped Tea got out of the car. When the two made their entrance, many young ladies gave Tea the evil eye, believing her to be the world's number one heartthrob to be taken by her.

One of Seto's business friends came over, "Hello Seto ol'boy. It's been ages."

Seto's left eye twitched, it was obvious that he didn't like this young man, "Hello Dylan, I didn't expect you to be here, if I did I wouldn't have shown up." He said coldly.

"Oh I'm hurt!" the man named Dylan acted dramatically. "Now now Seto we've been chums since we've been kids, don't I at least get a hug?" he acted.

"No, and I don't have time for your pleasentries today Dylan."

Tea giggled

"Well the lady seems to be entertained. Now who is this beautiful creature? And why is she hanging on your arm and not mine?" he smiled

Seto let out a sigh, "Dylan this is my secretary Tea Mazaki, Tea this is Dylan Manchester a boy I went to Grammar school with...unfortunately."

"It's a pleasure Mr. Manchester"

"The pleasure's all mine Miss Mazaki."

"Well there's the introductions now Tea and I will be off chatting with the buyers, this was fun let's do it in say ten years from now eh?" Seto said as he pushed Tea away from Dylan as quickly as possible.

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Tea stood next to Seto the whole evening sipping at the Champagne that was handed to her. She found it really dull since all the men did were chat about their latest plans. 'Do these people even have a life? Wow I didn't notice how cute Seto looked tonight. Did I just call him Seto?'

Seto had just finshed discussing the deal with a few interested buyers, he looked at TeaThis time it was Seto's turn to wave his hand in front of Tea's face, "Are you ok Tea? You seem a little pale. Do you want to leave?" He asked,

Tea was a little tipsy from all the champagne and could only nod. Seto said Goodbye to the others as he helped the poor unstable Tea back to the limo.

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Sigh short chapter today, I'm really tired. Sorry if it's a lil dull too. I shall try to update ASAP and make it more interesting, the sequel...well I'll try as well, it's just easier going one by one. So much work, so lil time. Review review review, I shall do my best to write the next chapter quickly.

You know I never knew that Kaiba had a jet modelled after the BEWD. I envy Mokuba, he gets to fly a jet ^^ Who was the pilot? Seto hopefully? Wish I had the Jap version of Yugioh, thanks for the info Batter bowl ^_-

Don't worry no matter what the final pairing is, you'll see plenty of both before I end this one.