Chapter VII: Making the Perfect Match

Finally, the week had come to its end. Someone in the sky must have loved her, because Yugi had to stay home in bed due to being sick. Now she had the whole weekend to herself; no school, no Yugi, no screwy visions, just her and two days of freedom.

She didn't have to deal with Kaiba again for the rest of the week, which was another thankful occurrence. So was that it? Was the Millenium Puzzle making fun of her? It had to be just that, after all, Kaiba and her are two entirely different people. What could possibly put them together?

She laughed, " Yeah, me and Kaiba! What a joke!"

Now it was time to relax, sit, no, lie on the couch, and watch her favorite television shows. She would forget everything that had happened, and stay glued to the set until the malls opened. Then she would indulge herself with her weekly allowance. But fate had different plans for her; she would not relax today, if by relaxing she meant having the most annoying yet delightful day of her life.

The phone rang, causing Tea to get up off of her comfortable spot on the couch. She sauntered over from the living room to the kitchen, her bare feet got cold as they moved from the carpet to the tiles. The phone rang again and again before she finally picked it up.

" Hello, Gardner residence." Tea spoke into it.

The voice she heard on the other end was nothing that she could have prepared herself for, " Tea, its me, Ishizu."

" Ishizu! Find out that the vision wasn't real? I already figured that out." Tea said, happy to speak to Ishizu for some reason.

" Tea, how would you like to go to the mall today?"

" I was just thinking of going there actually Ishizu. I still need to get ready though, how about at noon?"

" Alright, I'll see you there." Ishizu replied, and hung up the phone.

Tea quickly walked back to the couch with the will to stuff her feet between two pillows to warm them up, and get back to her television programs. She wondered why Ishizu would want to go to the mall with her, but she took it as a blessing. She always hated going to the mall alone, and she couldn't go with Yugi, Joey, or Tristian because they were male.

" But still…" Tea started talking out loud, " Why would Ishizu suddenly ask me out to the mall?"

Tea now figured there must have been something she discovered about the vision, and wanted to talk to her in person. Could it be bad news? No, then she would have told her on the phone. What was it that Ishizu was planning? Surely not a casual meeting at the mall.

Whatever it was, she would have to find out what it was at the mall. Something inside her told Tea that this was not something to be missed.

" But not before my cartoons!" She says cheerfully as her programs started again after the commercial ended.

The show she was watching was a hysterical martial arts romantic comedy where most of the main characters were cursed to transform into different animals. The romantic interest between the two main characters lured her into it, and its sheer craziness is what keeps her watching every week.

She got ready after another hour of her favorite programs, and exited her house. She couldn't keep herself from wondering just why Ishizu wanted to meet her. She couldn't just dismiss it as a friendly gesture, because every time Ishizu wanted to talk to you, you found yourself fulfilling some sort of destiny, and the destiny she was fated to have didn't quite interest her in the least.

She started the walk on her way to the mall; it wasn't a very long walk. She would arrive at the mall in time for the meeting, and hopefully Ishizu would tell her that, that fortuneteller was wrong, and that she wasn't destined to be with Kaiba. She was sure that was it, it had to be it. If she was wrong, then all she had to go off of was that picture of the unhappy wife, her ancestor.

She was determined to not let that happen again. She would not allow it. Becoming the trophy wife of a cold-hearted man like Seto Kaiba, it all put a very bad taste in her mouth. Five thousand years ago she might have been foolish enough to marry based on what that fortuneteller said, but things are different now. She wouldn't make any decisions that she knew would make her unhappy.

She arrived at the mall, but she didn't see Ishizu anywhere. Maybe she was lost; after all she was probably new to the mall. Tea figured that if they were going to shop, she would advise a whole new wardrobe. Those Egyptian clothes were too odd to be walking anywhere outside of the museum.

But what Tea couldn't see was Ishizu already inside the mall, dressed in regular clothes to camouflage her body in the crowd. She was watching and waiting for Kaiba to arrive; it was very hard to get him to come to the mall. It took a half-hour of getting Kaiba the least bit interested in getting away from his work and another half-hour to convince him that he really wanted to go to the mall.

Now was the time for destiny to be fulfilled, when Tea and Kaiba meet, Fate's plan will be fulfilled. But even unbeknownst to Fate, Yugi is also in that mall, looking at the Duel Monsters cards. Who would win in this game of destiny? Who would be hurt?

Author's Note: Ooh, a cliffhanger! Who will win? Is destiny truly ironbound, or can little Yugi find a way to overcome it? Find out in the next chapter of The Most Unlikely Love Tale of all Time!