New York, New York!

By: Manowas Lafiel

Chapter 1: The Arrival

Thanks for the reviews! My first day and I got some! I feel so happy! n.n

Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-gi-oh. So I don't get any money……sad right?

"Mwahahah! New York City here we are!" Joey Wheeler yelled running out of the airport, a black bag in his right hand. With a huge smile on his face, he looked around. He felt the cool spring breeze. The great noises of the city. And the car passing by almost splashing him with water. "Hey man! Watch it! I'm walking here!" Joey yells, the smile slowing fading from his face.

Walking a few feet from the street, he turns back to look at the airport. It was a simple one, with automatic doors, and luggage carts parked at the side, ready to be paid for. Pushing is blond hair out of his face, he rest his bag on the concrete. "How long does it take for a few people to get out of customs? They were right behind me."

Suddenly, a girl with shoulder length brown hair, named Tea Gardner, walked out of the airport. She was wearing a no sleeve top with the words, "Bug me and you die" on it, and a mini blue skirt. Following her was a short boy with spiky hair. He was dressed in a long sleeve blue top and pants. His name was Yugi Motou.

"How did you get out so fast? They made me take out everything from my bag" Tea said. "They almost made Yugi open up his puzzle." She threw up her hands in frustration. "The idiots thought it had drugs in it!"

Joey starts laughing. "I bet you hit the poor guy in the face before he could even reach Yugi's puzzle!"

Yugi blushes greatly, "Well……that is what almost happened." He turns to look up at Tea. "Anyway, you planned this whole trip, who did you get to pick us up?"

"It's-"

Just then, Tristan Taylor and Duke ran out of the airport, fighting for Serenity Wheeler's attention. They were both walking backward facing Serenity and not seeing where they were going. Luck always seemed to be on Duke's side, so he missed tripping over Joey's bag. Unluckily for Tristan, though, because he tripped over it.

In totally embarrassment, Tristan tries to pick himself up, but slips on a wet spot on the concrete and falls headfirst back onto the ground. ((It must look like I love torturing this character, but I don't…… n.n))

"Hey Serenity, let's go to the shore sometime!" Duke said, a big smile on his face after watching Tristan's falls. "We can get away from the busy city."

"Oh no you don't!" Tristan yelled at him, slowly picking himself of the ground.

"Hey! I asked her first!" Duke said, pressing his foot on Tristan's head. Tristan struggled under the weight, his face pushed into the concrete. Quickly grabbing Duke's left foot, Tristan tripped him. "But she doesn't want to go out with you, Duke!"

"How do you know? Did you ask her?" Duke jumped up trying to get back his cool. He flicked back the strands of black hair in his face, giving his million-dollar smile to Serenity. His teeth were so white they could blind all the people in New York.

Serenity smiled, "We can all go to the shore together! It would be great feeling the sand under our feet and hear the waves splashing in the ocean!" She laughs, twirling around and looking up at the sky. You could definitely tell she was enjoying herself.

Tristan pushed himself up off the ground. "But, Serenity, you won't want to go to the shore with a party pooper like Duke!" He whines, holding his head, trying to ignore the sharp pains. All he wanted was a quiet date with Serenity. Peace, silence, and NO Duke.

Tea placed her left hand on her hip and raised the other hand into a fist. "Enough of this! We are here to have fun!"

"Did you just call me a party pooper!" Duke yells, totally ignoring Tea. "If you want a fight, Tristan, just say so."

"Come on, Duke……" Yugi said, laying a hand on Tea's fist before it went flying into Duke's face. A huge sweat drop falling. "Let's not start a fight in front of the airport."

"Let's just find our ride and go." Mai Valentine said, finally walking out of the airport annoyed at the fact that officers had stopped her just to ask for her phone number.

"Oh, yea, Tea! Who did you get to pick us up?" Joey asks picking up his black bag.

A sleek limousine flies down the highway towards the airport. The windows were tinted so that the people outside couldn't see in. Strangely, the windows were all the way up, even though it was a very nice day.

A pair of ice blue eyes looked outside the window. They belonged to Seto Kaiba. He was wearing his normal clothes with his long jacket. A locket that looked like a Duel Monsters card hanged around his neck. This locket held a picture of his little brother Mokuba.

Click, click, click! Seto types furiously on his laptop. Building a Kaiba corporation in New York made him very busy. It seemed that he had to do everything himself and deep down in his heart, all he wanted to do was just shut off his computer and look around New York City.

Muttering something about a stupid idiot whom got the shipping orders wrong, Seto turns off the laptop. He ran his hand lightly over it. This laptop was the best of the best, made by Dell, and still all Seto wanted to do was throw it out the window. Quickly deciding against it, he tries to get his mind on something else. "Mokuba, tell me why I am doing this again." He looked at his little brother who was siting in the seat opposite his.

Mokuba was sipping on a vanilla coke thinking about how it didn't taste like vanilla at all. He was wearing baggy blue jeans, and a clean, pure white, T-shirt.

"Well brother……" Mokuba said, putting down his coke in the cup holder, and think carefully about what words he should use to make sure his brother didn't tell the driver to turn around and head back to the hotel. "It would be a very nice thing to do for Tea if you picked her and her friends from the airport."

"Where are they staying?"

"Um……I'm not sure. I have never heard of the place before. It must be unpopular." Mokuba smiled to himself, a great idea was coming. "Maybe Tea and her friends could stay at the Hyatt Hotel with us."

Seto's eyebrows arch downward, "Those twerps should stay with their own kind."

"But, we have to treat Tea kindly! Remember she saved me!" Mokuba looks up at his older brother with pleading eyes.

"Yes but we already paid her back when I saved her."

"It's not the same! Fine, if Tea doesn't stay with us, I will stay with Tea!"

"……they can stay with us, but you will be making the plans. I will pay for the room though."

"Thanks, Seto!" Mokuba was smiling happily now. He was one step closer to his goal.

"Tea! I can't believe you got Seto to come pick us up and take us to the hotel!" Yugi smiled up at her. "It's……unbelievable!"

"Ha! Mokuba and I have become close friends after I saved him in the warehouse." She does a quick victory stance. "But……I have some bad news……" Tea looks down at the ground, right now she felt just like the caterpillar crawling on the concrete, trying to find his way back to the grass.

Joey suddenly jumped up. "There they are! And they're in a cool limo! Wow! "

A sleek black limousine stopped in front of the airport. One of the windows winded down and Seto's face looked out. "Get in now before I–"

Mokuba's head pops into view, "Don't mind him, he's happy to see all of you!"

Duke raised an eyebrow, "Yea, sure he is……"

Seto slowly stepped out of the limousine followed by Mokuba. Looking around, Seto's eyes landed on Tea. Seeing her face suddenly reminded him of his dream. He quickly tried to ignore her, showing no emotion in his face. But his eyes landed on her once again.

xixix Flashback xixix

There she was, standing calmly at the edge of the cliff. He walked up to her, then rested a hand on her shoulder. She quickly turned around. Her beautiful, brown eyes looked up at his blue hues. Seto wanted to kiss her to show her that he loved her.

xixix End Flashback xixix

Seto glared at Tea; he didn't love her at all.

Mokuba ran out from behind his brother, "Tea!" He ran to her and gave her a huge hug. "It's great to see you again! I was so happy to hear you and your friends were coming!"

It took a second for Tea to get this through her head. She was thinking of the look that Seto had given her. Did he have the same dream she had? Tea blushed; no he couldn't have, right? It was a dream, a very strange dream, but one none the less.

Having Mokuba suddenly hug her, she came back to reality. Not wanted anyone to think something was wrong with her, she laughed and hugged him back, "It's great to see you too!"

"You guys better get into the limo before I change my mind." Seto said, leaning against the limousine, avoiding Tea's eyes.

Everyone ran to the limo not wanting Seto to change his mind. They started putting their things in the trunk and then afterwards climbed into the limo one by one. It was a pretty big limousine so everyone had enough space to stretch out in. Everyone also enjoyed where they were siting. On one side were Seto, Tea, Yugi, Mai and Joey. On the other side were Mokuba, Tristan, Duke, and Serenity.

On the whole way to the hotel, everyone, except Seto, was engaged in a conversation. Tea was talking to Yugi about going to see the famous dance school.

Joey and Mai were talking about duel monsters, and yelling at each other about who was the best duelist until Mai smiled and said, "Joey, you are a better duelist……"

Serenity and Duke were talking about going to the shore. And Tristan and Mokuba were talking and laughing about their favorite TV shows.

Seto was once again lost in his own thoughts.

"Man," Yugi held his stomach, "I'm so hungry!"

"Me too!" Replied Joey.

"Me three!" Tea laughed.

"Hey Seto!" Mokuba turned to his brother, "Lets go to that Chinese Food restaurant we went to last week."

Sighing, Seto turned his gaze from the window and picked up the phone on the armrest. "Driver, I have a new destination."

"Wow! This place is huge!" Serenity ran out of the limousine last. She was looking up at the Chinese Food restaurant. It looked like it was taken directly from China. Grabbing Duke's hand she ran inside. "Let's check this place out!"

Tristan ran after the two, jealousy running through his body. Joey and Mai walked in slowly, side by side. "Mai, did you mean what you said earlier. About me being a great duelist?"

Mai smiled, "Maybe, maybe not."

Yugi started walking up to the restaurant, but a few minutes later he found himself on the ground. Lying on top of him was a girl with long black hair. She was wearing a purple kimono. On her wrist was the millennium bracelet. (I made that up myself, all the other real ones were taken……) This bracelet caught Yugi's attention.

"I'm so sorry for bumping into you." The girl quickly pushed herself off Yugi, "I must get going!" She ran down the street and turned the corner.

Tea helped Yugi up, "Who do you think that was?"

Flash! "I don't know……"

"Yami?"

"Yes, it is me. I am very curious about that girl……" Yami replied.

Seto pushed past the two, "Let's just eat!" He caught Tea's gaze before walking into the building.

After being seated at one of the party tables and ordering, their food finally arrives. Joey, Tristan, and Yugi (he changed back into himself……man this in confusing……) dug into their food like pigs. They all laughed and werehaving fun, until Seto said, "Okay, time to go."

Everyone whined, "Do we have to?"

The drive to the hotel was uneventful until Tea remembered about the bad news that she had to tell everyone. "Um, you guys. There is something I have to say……"

Everyone turned to look at her.

"About where we are staying……it's not perfect……"

Mokuba interrupted her, "What are you talking about Tea?" He winked, "You're staying at the Hyatt Hotel with us."

Tea smiled and mouthed to Mokuba, "Thanks so much, I was afraid to tell everyone about the run down hotel."

The limousine drove away to park, leaving the group of people standing in front of the hotel. Seto walked in first followed by Mokuba and the rest of the gang.

He walked over to the reception desk, took seven keys and handed them to Tea. "Here are your rooms. They are all on the same floor and same area. Some rooms even connect to the ones next to them. If you need me, Mokuba and I will be in room 15-6A" He turned around and walked to the elevator followed by Mokuba. They both disappear behind the closing doors.

Tea turned back to the group. "Let's go check out our rooms!"

Done! I hope you all like it. Have any ideas or characters you want in my story just tell me. Here is a summary of the next chapter.

xixix Chapter 2 Summary xixix

In the gang's second day in New York, everyone decided to stay at the hotel to rest and chat. Yami on the other hand wanted to find the girl who bumped into him. So, he asked Yugi if he could borrow his body for the day. Yugi gladly agrees, and Yami sets out on his quest. Will he find the girl or get lost on the way? These questions and more will be answered in the next chapter called Cathy, notCathleen?