Let's just see what Tea and Kaiba are up to.
They drove back to Yugi's house in silence. Well, Tea was still crying into Yugi's shoulder, soaking his coat, but everyone else was quiet.
"Yo, Tea? Everythin' all right?" Joey asked, when they got back.
"Apart from Kaiba breaking my locket, everything's just peachy!" Tea snarled.
"Well, sorry," Joey rolled his eyes sarcastically. "Wait, did you say he BROKE it?"
Tea showed them the smashed remnants of the once beautiful gift. "He threw it against the wall," Tea said quietly, painfully.
"I'LL KILL HIM!!!!" Joey yelled.
"Why would Seto do something like that?" Mokuba asked, looking up from his older brother's unconscious body.
"Ask him and find out," Joey said dryly. He waved a hand in front of Kaiba's face, and jerked back in surprise as his eyes snapped open. Kaiba tried to sit up, but collapsed again, clutching his head and side. Realizing where he was, he snapped, "Get out of my house. Now!" When nobody moved, he tried again. "Get the hell out of my house!!" Everyone collapsed, laughing.
"Seto! We're at Yugi's!" Mokuba wheezed.
"I knew that!" he snapped, his face turning hot and red.
"Dumb ass," Joey and Tristan muttered at the same time.
"Shut up you retards!" Kaiba snarled.
"Seto....." Mokuba pulled on his sleeve, "be nice."
Kaiba smiled and ruffled his hair. "All right Mokuba, I will." The smile immediately disappeared as he turned to face the still laughing Yugi, Tristan and Joey and was replaced by a scowl. "Not to them, though......." he muttered under his breath. Little did he know that Mokuba was still in hearing range. "Seto. Be. Nice." Mokuba punctuated each word with a small tug of Kaiba's hair. Eyes watering, he forced a smile. "Okay, okay. Stop pulling my hair," he said gently. When he turned around again, the smile was once again, replaced by a scowl to end all scowls.
While everyone else was laughing at Kaiba's embarrassing mistake, and enjoying themselves, they failed to notice the solitary figure still quietly crying on a certain persons shoulder, which was now soaked.
"Tea? Are you all right?" Joey asked.
"What does it look like? I'm not okay! Leave me alone....." she trailed off on the sobs building in her throat.
Anger blazing in his eyes, Yugi turned on Kaiba. "Why did you do it Kaiba? Why was smashing a present so important? Do you know what goes on in Tea's head? Do you REALIZE what she goes through?" Yugi dragged Kaiba down so that they were face to face, his blazing violet eyes boring into Kaiba's frozen blue. Kaiba couldn't shield himself from Yugi's penetrating stare, no matter how he tried. The smaller boy's eyes held a fierce, suppressed rage; no matter how many barriers Kaiba put up, that stare unnerved him.
Yugi's lips curled into a snarl. "If you knew what pain Tea goes through outside of your selfish life, you would NEVER have hurt her," he whispered savagely. Kaiba slowly straightened when Yugi let go. It took a while for the words to sink in, but they did. Badly shaken, he did the only thing he could.
"Mokuba, we're leaving," he said shortly.
"But Seto-" Mokuba began.
"NOW!" Kaiba dragged Mokuba away from Yugi and out the door. He paused, then sent a dagger glare at Yugi. "Moto, touch me again and I'll kill you. Wheeler, write another thing like that about me, and I'll make sure that you'll never write anything EVER again." He slammed the door on his way out, as Mokuba called, "Bye Yugi! See you tomorrow! Thanks for everything!!"
On the long walk back to the Kaiba mansion, Mokuba was rambling on about how happy he was to find his big brother, how funny it was when Kaiba thought he was in his own house......... You get the idea. Kaiba was lost in his thoughts. He knew what he had to do.
Meanwhile:
"What does he mean, "write another thing like that about me," blah, blah, blah, yada, yada, yada!" Joey snarled as he furiously paced the small Moto household.
"I think that he thinks that you wrote that article about him," Tristan pointed out, blandly.
"?????" Joey stopped pacing. "How? I'm the one who laughs about it! I got a well deserved F in writing," Joey stated proudly.
Tristan stared at him, then grinned like a cat who had just cornered a mouse and was about to jump on it. "Yeah, and you learned the alphabet in grade three. What does that stay about you?" Tristan joked.
As Joey was about to jump on Tristan, he was silenced by Yugi saying softly, "Tea, it's all right. We'll buy you another one. You're getting my coat wet......"
"R- Really?" she asked, finally listening to Yugi's soft, comforting words.
Yugi nodded, finally relieved that she was listening to reason. "What are friends for?" he said with a small smile.
Tea suddenly hugged him. "H- Huh?!" Yugi gasped. He awkwardly wrapped his arms around her and patted her back. "You're making me blush....." Yugi mumbled, his cheeks glowing softly.
Tea let go quickly. Joey stared. Tristan knew it was a comforting, friendly hug. Not wanting to be excluded, he grabbed Tea too. Joey just stared. Tristan, Yugi and Tea let out simultaneous, exasperated sighs. A slow smile crept up on Joey's face. "I get it," he said slyly.
"Get what?" Yugi asked, puzzled.
Tea, finally realizing what Joey meant, blushed and said, "It was a friendly hug."
"Riiigggghhhhttt........." Joey said in the same, obnoxiously sly voice.
"Shut up Joey," Tristan said.
"Whatever. Congratulations Yug! Tristan, kinda late. Tea's taken already." Seeing Tristan start to rise, he quickly added, "And I'll just be leaving now!" He took two strides and fell as Tristan tackled him. The sun shone down on the game shop as Yugi and Tea sat laughing as Tristan and Joey fought playfully, laughing the whole time.
