Wow! A lot of reviews! I first need to reply to Fluffy'sbabe's question. Well, yes I am familiar with Inuyasha, but I don't know that much about it. Please tell me about it at my email. Sailormoon_is@hotmail.com okay? Well, on with the story.

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"Bakura?! That's all you can say to us?!" Joey blurted out suddenly. Tea was frightened.

"I…I…" Tea stammered.

"Is that all you care about Tea?! Hmm?" Tristan asked angrily. Tea shook her head, shaking from head to toe.

"Please…I just-"

"Do you think we care?! We waited so long for you Tea! So long! You never called! You never sent a letter! Nothing! What kind of friend is that??!" Joey yelled at her.

"You don't understand!" Tea cried, tears streaming down her face.

"Oh, we understand well, Tea!" Duke shouted. "You left us for three years, and you didn't care. You are just a selfish person Tea. Didn't think about any of us did you?" Duke asked coldly.

"No! It's not true! It's not true!" Tea said, crying.

"What is true then Tea?" Yami asked. Tea looked at him. She saw no forgiveness in his eyes…only…sadness…

"I…I…forgot…" she whispered.

"You forgot?!" Yami yelled. "How could you forget? We never forgot about you Tea! But no, you didn't even want to remember us!"

Tea cried. "I thought we were friends! I thought-"

"What do you mean?! You just said that you forgot about us!" Mokuba argued. Tea was speechless. They were all turning against her. She looked over at Malik, Isis, Rishid, Serenity and Mai. They hadn't said anything through this whole argument. Then Malik opened his mouth.

"Where did you get the Millennium Ring from, Tea?" he asked calmly.

"Who cares where she got it from!" Mai cried out suddenly. "It's obvious that she got it from Bakura. She obviously loves that idiot." This made Tea angry.

"Don't you ever say that about Bakura again!" she yelled. All her fear was gone. She was standing up for what she believed in. "You—you have no right to call him that!"

"Mai has as much right as all of us Tea! Don't you forget that!" Joey said, protecting Mai.

"She had no right to call Bakura an idiot." Tea said coldly, staring Joey down.

"What has gotten into you Tea?" Yami asked. Tea turned to face him.

"Why are you all turning against me?" Tea asked back. Yami looked shocked and angry at the same time.

"Turning against you? Why didn't you ever reply to our letters we sent you?" Yami asked. Tea froze in shock.

"Letters?" she repeated.

"Yes! Our letters!" Tristan pitched in. Tea turned and looked at Kaiba curiously. Kaiba cleared his throat but didn't say a thing. Tea turned back to look at them.

"I didn't receive any letters." Tea replied.

"What?! Don't lie Tea!" Joey shouted.

"I didn't! I'm telling the truth!" Tea said. "Don't tell me that I'm lying, you wouldn't understand all the hard things I had to face! You wouldn't want to remember your past either!" Tea shouted back at him. "You don't have anything to regret! You don't have guilt! If you did you would be normal! But you're not are you? You're blaming everything on me when it isn't my fault! You have no heart Joey Wheeler!"

*SLAP!*

Tea's face was now turned to the ground. Her cheek was red, and tears stung her eyes. She looked up and saw Mai's angry face.

"Don't you ever say that about Joey! You—you bitch!" Mai stammered. Everyone in the room was shocked by Mai's reaction. Tea put a hand on her sore cheek and looked Mai straight into her face.

"Mai…I'm sorry…I just didn't know what I was saying…" Tea whispered more tears streaming down her face. "I…just…wish…that…I could do the same for Bakura…" she whispered. Mai stared at her. "I wish that, I could protect Bakura, like you protect Joey, Mai…I wish I had someone…special like you…like everyone else…" Tea whispered to her. "But…I could never ever have a love like that ever again…and I know that…but I keep hanging on to him…on to Bakura…but I know, I have to let him go…but I just can't Mai, I just can't…" Tea closed her eyes as tears slid down her face. Mai was in shock.

"Tea I'm…I didn't know…I just…"

"It's alright…you're all right…after 3 whole years…all I said was Bakura…I'll…just…" Tea cried as she turned away and pushed past Kaiba, running out the door, running away from the voices that were calling out her name behind her. She ran out onto the street. It was raining but she didn't care where the rain came from. It was just like how she was feeling right now.

"Tea!" Yami called as he came out of the game shop. Tea glanced back at him but continued running. "Tea!" he yelled. He began chasing after her. But because of all the rain he couldn't see her, she was getting further and further away from him, and disappearing into the mist. He stopped when he couldn't see her anymore. He lost her…

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Tea stopped, falling to the ground and crying. You couldn't face her past again, she just couldn't. The rain poured down hard on her as she cried. What could she do? She was back again and her friends had turned against her…

"Tea?" said an unfamiliar voice. Tea looked up shocked to find that Yami had found her. But when she looked up she found that it wasn't Yami.

"Who are you?" she asked.

"Don't you know who I am?" the man asked grabbing Tea around the waist. Tea looked down at where he had placed his hands. She pulled at his arms, trying to pry them off.

"I don't know who you are! Let me go!" Tea cried. Tea remembered that she was holding the Millennium Ring. Surely he would take Bakura's Millennium Ring. Or else he would…"NO! Let me go!!!" Tea yelled as the man flipped her onto her back.

"Aaawww…I was hoping you'd know who I was…" he smirked. Tea screamed and then, something came to her.

"Step-Father…" she whispered. He smirked  and held her down.

"Well Tea, I guess I have no choice but to-"

"NO!! You just let me go! Let me go!" Tea screamed.

"Not until, I get what I want…"

"Oh God! Bakura! Where are you?" she whispered.

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