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Queen of Darkness

Chapter 2

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Tea was walking slowly down the hall. There were a few new posters on the wall, and she definitely did not want to go back to class. The posters were nothing special, but the gave her an excuse to be wandering around after she finished her math test. She looked at her watch

'Ten more minutes! Why won't this stupid hour end?!' she complained to herself.

Tea did not want to go to the essembly during the next hour, because she did not want to make a fool out of herself in front of her whole school dancing with a probably inexperienced boy.

Fuming about student government some more, she did not hear someone coming up behind her. The next thing she know, she was being pinned against a wall by two strong, but gentle hands.

"Hey Tea!"

She looked up in time to recognize the speaker as Yami. She also blushed realizing how close they were to one another.

"Er, hey, what's new?" She said as she began to fidget by smoothing a wrinkle in her shirt.

"Well, I was wondering if you would like to go to a strip club with me tonight. We could have a few drinks and go back to my place for a little bit of fun. How does it sound?"

Tea gaped at him, but knew when that something was amiss. The speach was rehearsed!

"Joey put you up to this, didn't he?"

Yea, ok, he did. I was telling him about how I...er, he told me to ask you. I must ask though, what's a strip club? He would not tell me even after I agreed to ask you."

"Oh, nevermind. It's not important. I would love to hang out with you though, call me when you get home."

"Righty-o!" She chuckled, only audible to their ears.

RING

"Oh that stupid essembly! I should be going. Cheer for me!" Tea said as she pushed her way out of his arms and began to scramble toward the auditorium.

"Wait, Tea!"

She stopped and turned around.

"What?"

Yami looked straight into her eyes, seemingly deciding something. Having come to a conclusion in his head, he bent down and gave her a small kiss on the cheek.

"Good luck, ok? I'll be rooting for you," he whispered in her ear. Then he gave her a wink and walked off in the opposite direction.

Tea stood wide eyed at what had just happened. She mumbled an embarrassed thanks, and hurried off.

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Tea peeked at the crowd as she pulled at her floor length skirt. It was her favorite one, with a blue flowery pattern, but the best part was that it was slightly wrinkled, so it would stretch to any move she could perform. As she saw her peers pouring into the house, she saw her friends. They smiled and waved at her, making her feel better. When she caught Yami's eyes, he winked at her, making her blush and him smile. She shook her head knowing that she was not so sure she did not like him. Sighing, her thoughts went back to the dancing. She did a few steps, and a few twirls, and sat on a chair to stretch her legs and make sure her shoes were tied. Someone tapped her on the shoulder.

"Tea, I wanted to wish you luck. By the time I heard about this competition, all the male dancer positions were full, so I thought I would get you these."

Tea looked up and saw Seto Kaiba, with an arm full of light blue lillies. Her jaw dropped.

"These are for me? Thank you, but why?"

"I thought you might like them. They go wonderfully with your eyes." He smiled.

Tea was still surprised, she did not think the boy had a heart, especially not one he wanted to give away to her. She stood up, blushing. As he handed her the flowers, his eyes roamed across her small body.

"You look lovely in that skirt," he said softly as he took her hand and brought up to his lips. They caressed her hand and he looked into her eyes again.

"Break a leg!" He said as he turned and walked off.

Tea was still surprised at his sudden interest in her. She thought that all Seto cared about was his company and his little brother. Sighing from confusion, she went to the dressing room to do something with her hair. No, she was surprised at Yami and Seto's newly found interest in her.

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"Ryou!" Tea said surprisedly as the white-haired boy walked over to her to be her partner. She did not even know he could dance.

The music began as a fast-paced energetic tune. Tea was surprised the calm, silent teen could keep up. She also noted that he had a playful look in his eyes and a smirk on his lips.

"I didn't know you could dance so well, Ryou, did those British girls teach you anything else that I should know about?" she asked jokingly.

"What makes you so sure I'm Ryou?" replied a much lower voice than was expected. Tea stopped in her tracks and glared at the spirit.

"Bakura," Tea hissed. "What are you doing here? What did you do to Ryou this time!"

"Keep dancing, he's fine. The imbeciles are staring at you." Tea looked around at the crowd, saw that he was right, and reluctantly started to dance again. Bakura smirked some more.

"So... how is dancing in your evil plan to take over the world? Running out of ideas?"

"Nah. Maybe I just like dancing."

A few minutes later, Bakura said, "I'll bet you're wondering why I'm dancing with you of all people. Ra, I could be dancing with any girl, and she would happily do anything I wanted and not have the slightest clue of who I was."

Tea relaxed slightly in his arms as the tempo slowed down. She was getting used to his crazed chatter.

"Gee, why did you pick me?"

Bakura chuckled. As the couple did a dip, he gave her a quick kiss on the cheek. Tea reddened and smiled sweetly. As they came back up from the dip, she glared and slapped him.

"What, this was going so well. I thought so, at least, I mean come on, the music is good, the partner is good," he winked. "Ryou's unconcious, and everyone's happy..."

"You bastard! What did you do to Ryou?"

"Nothing he won't recover from in a few days."

Tea slapped him again and walked off the stage.

"And we were having such a fun time," Bakura whined to no one in particular.

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