Disclaimer: I do not own anything...

Author's note: Sorry that I haven't been updating in a while, but this isn't a done fanfic so I'm just making up as I go, and I ran out of inspiration plus that my computer got a virus. And yeah, no offense to the characters I am killing, this fic was just an idea form my psychotic mind.

Chapter 3: No way back

She was walking down a street. The weather was not at its best, as pearls of rain hit her in the face and the wind tried to push her back. The sky was an almost evil shade of black, and the oak trees' branches stretched up to it as ghostly arms.

She felt a chill down her spine and instinctively pulled the thin jacket tighter around her shoulders. A sign read "Domino City Pub", but the neon lamps decorating it were broken and the sign was hanging on the wall, holding on with only one corner. She looked around and noticed quickly that no light sipped out from the closed windows. They looked like grotesque, open mouths that were more than ready to suck her down into the deep darkness behind them.

She glanced casually at her wristwatch, and with much difficulty, managed to read that the clock was only 9:30pm. Something was wrong. It was way too early that everyone would already had gone to bed. Suddenly, it seemed like a ghost town to her.

"Tea."

The sound was barely a whisper, but she heard it perfectly. Frightened, she turned around, just to see that no one was here.

"Who…who is it?" she whispered back.

"Well, you should know it perfectly."

"I don't know who you are. And I have to tell you that I am not very fond of psychos that stalk people in the night."

"Do you want to see who I am?"

"Yes. Wait…" suddenly she had a deep feeling deep inside that she did not want to see who it was. "Just leave me alone!"

She turned and ran, but her legs didn't move. It felt as she was nailed to the ground.

Something appeared in front of her, blocking her path of escape. First she saw only mist, but then it started to form to a figure. A boy, maybe in her own age. But there was something familiar.

"Joey?"

"Wow, you sure catch on fast." The boy smiled a twisted grin.

"But I thought that I…"

"Yeah, you killed me. I know, life sure goes fast, huh? One moment I'm in school, hanging out with Yuge and the guys, and then suddenly I'm dead. But I'm back now, back for revenge. You won't get rid of me, Tea."

He advanced on her, and she backed. She gasped as she tripped and fell, and he loomed over her.

Suddenly he began to bleed. Blood came dripping out of his eyes and onto the ground and stained her shirt as he laughed at her frightened look.

She rolled to the side, trying to stand up, but she fell on something hard.

She opened her eyes slowly and found that she was lying on the floor of her room. The purple blanket twisted around her legs as she crawled up and onto her bed.

I killed you, Joey. You aren't coming back. Now get out of my head!

She closed her eyes, hoping to get some sleep. But the nightmare kept coming back, so she finally gave up and got dressed for school.

Yugi was the first one to notice her.

"Hi, Tea! You look really tired. Did you get any sleep lately?"

Shut the hell up, I'm getting a migraine of your chirping.

"No," she forced herself to smile. "I was up studying to the test."

"Oh yeah!" he continued in the same cheery tone. "I studied to it too! Did you understand anything about the Pythagorean Theorem? That was quite a hard chapter…"

How can you keep being so happy? Can't any of you see that I feel like crap? Don't any of you guys notice that there's more to this friendship-loving girl? You all think that I like helping people, and you all come to me for help. But has none of you thought about helping me? No.

"Tea? Tea?" Yugi was waving his hand in front of her face to bring her back to reality. "You weren't listening, huh? Well, anyway, as I said, the square root…"

She interrupted him. "The class starts in 2 minutes."

"Oh no! I haven't got to my locker yet! Tell the teacher that I am going to be a few minutes late!" he yelled over his shoulder as he ran as fast as his legs could carry him and disappeared soon as the corridor swung at left.

The math class was stretched out and boring, so she gave up on trying learning anything for the future and instead she read a magazine hidden inside her math book. She had actually told the teacher that Yugi was coming late, because she still had to pretend that she was the good old Tea, willing to help everyone.

It's way too risky to try and show what I've become. Of course that they'll get suspicious as time goes, but why try to inform them now? And if they all are stupid enough to not think anything it's not like I'm going to stand in front of them with a T-shirt saying "Hi, I've killed 4 people and counting".

After school she didn't bother to wait for her friends. The little voice in her head had told her the next task. And all the pieces fell into place as she felt the small package in her pocket and saw him waiting for her just around the corner.

"Hi!" she smiled and greeted the boy. "Here are the spices that you couldn't find in the grocery store. It actually comes from the herb garden that my Mom has."

"Really? Wow, thanks. And say to your Mom that she didn't really have to go through all that trouble with picking the spices and grounding them and all."

"You're welcome." She smiled again, but it felt as if her lips were glued to the same position. "So why do you need those, anyway?"

It was the boy's turn to smile. "I wanted to make something special today, it's for my brother."

"You sure that you can pull it off alone?"

"Yeah, at least I'll think so. Well, I have to go now, thanks again!"

Mokuba took the little package and left.

Too bad that he has to eat that stuff too; I almost grew attached to the kid during battle city. But I know that I can't leave any witnesses and that I have to clean my path. It's really no fun doing all this killing when no one gives a damn about it, except for the victim's family and the newspapers. But what am I complaining for? That's another two out of my way.

Sure, there are actually my Mom's herbs, but it doesn't mean that I can't put some "special ingredients" inside them. That's why I grounded them; all the other stuff get less obvious if everything is powdered.

Her eyes followed the boy until he disappeared in a crowd of kids coming out of school, and when he was out of sight, she began to hum a song and walked home.

The night was calm and she slept without a problem, and woke up earlier than she should have just to catch the morning news on television. Her parents were already at work, they went to work extra early every Wednesday morning. She turned on the TV in and sat on the couch in her pajamas with a sandwich in front of her.

"Well, the top story today is that the CEO of Kaiba Corp, Seto Kaiba, passed away yesterday evening. His younger brother called an ambulance before collapsing himself and passed away at the local hospital. The main reason is food poisoning. The local police informed us that traces of poison, which kind is not revealed yet, has been found in the dinner, apparently cooked by the younger brother, Mokuba Kaiba."

"It's not possible that Mokuba put the poison in the dinner to kill both his brother and himself, but this homicide/suicide theory can't be overlooked. But the suspect can also be the killer, who has killed a cop and 3 other people. It's also unknown who that suspect is and it's also a myth why most of the victims seem to be in Domino High. We highly recommend people to be on their guard and an investigation will be focused on the school as soon as tomorrow."

"It's not yet sure what will happen to Kaiba Corp since no will was left and there are no alive relatives to the Kaiba brothers."

The news reporter put on a very grim face. "Now back to the sport column."

She shut off the television and went to the bathroom for a shower. As she turned around she saw her face in the mirror. She seemed pale in the fluorescent light and for a moment she almost felt like that she would break down, that she was too tired on this. That she wanted to turn back time so that everything would be alright.

But the feeling only resided inside her for a brief moment, less than a second, actually. She turned on the hot water and the thought that came to her before was soon out of mind.

I've come to far now…there's no way back.