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Chapter 3 – The golden years are gone
I don't own YuGiOh,
or "A Christmas Carol"...
or.. Yami. - runs off and cries Authors Notes-
Here we will find out what happens to Tea & Joey, and if that really is Yugi behind the counter. Why would he be there anyhow?
And what the hell is Tristan thinking!? THAT may have to wait a chappie. XD Sorry!
Reader Reviews Ch. 2-
I like getting reviews from my readers, and love when they're honest, good or bad. So every new review I get, will go in the chapter after I receive them. Thank you all, again, for reading!
mariks1andonly 2004-11-29
hey there I love the story! I hope to see more chapters soon! Keep up the good work! BYES!
norestar-angel 2004-11-29
I only just started reading this story and so far so good:D. I am looking forward to when Yami comes in the picture and Tea becoming independent:). Update soon! Angel...
P.S If you like Yami & Tea fics would you like to read mine?
A/N I'd love to, norestar-angel! ((to all you out there, I recommend her song fic: "I Think it's Love." Very nice!
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A week later…At 'Grandpa' Moto's card shop
"Yugi?" Tea leaned in inquisitively, "is that you?" Yugi turned around to face them. He had aged well, ((A/N- not quite as hot as Yami, but hey ahem)) and was nearly the height of Joey. "Yea! I own this place now, pretty cool, huh?"
Joey looked around at the dust filled shelves and empty spaces, "uh, yea Yug' it's, great."
"I thought you were at Battle City Yugi, becoming famous and learning the tricks and getting the Egyptian God cards, did you ever get them all? Wasn't that your dream?" Yugi turned around looking slightly bothered. "Tea, this is the family business, and as family I think it's my responsibility to tend to Grandfather's shop, don't you?"
"No, it's your grandpap's, I would think Yugs'." "Joey, he died 2 years ago. I came back here to manage the place and help the cash flow, besides Bakura occasionally stopping in to work a weekend or weeknight shift, I'm the only one here."
Bothered by his inactivity, Tea stood up. "If you're always here, when do you have time to do things for you?" Even more bothered, Yugi stood up clenching his fists, "I just don't, okay? What is with the third degree?"
"Gosh Yug, nothing like a little PMS in the afternoon, huh?" Tea hit Joey immediately and whispered as Yugi went to sort some things out on the bare display shelf near the door. "Joey, he looks really bothered, and pretty alone, not to mention depressed, can't you be a little more compassionate?" Joey scratched the back of his head and shrugged his shoulders and nodded his head in agreement.
As Yugi went towards the back room Tea proceeded to follow him, "Joe, wait here, okay? I'll only be a minute, I wanna talk to him about something." "Sure, yea, I'll go look at the, uh.. dust bunnies err on sale.." Joey wandered to another corner of the room, keeping watch for customers as Tea followed Yugi to the stock room.
"Hey, Yugi, what's wrong?" He slammed a box of trap cards on the back table and turned around, "what's… wrong? Jee Tea, I don't know you quite know me anymore. What ISN'T wrong?" She sat down to listen intently, "I don't know, I haven't been to Domino in over 10 years, you tell me."
"Well now, Grandpa died 2 years ago! And where's Yami? HMMM? You see him helping around here? No. You know why? He's probably out wasting his life away at a local bar, that's all he does with the little pay he earns, he drinks, and after that, he takes a girl home. No, not his girl, or the girl, A girl, he doesn't care, he's already a father of 2, paying child support to kids he doesn't ever see. God knows where the mother or kids actually are, her lawyer hid them and claimed it was rape! I have no one anymore! Ever since we separated, I we've seen next to nothing of each other, he thinks he's the ladies man of Domino City! More like the only townie of Domino City."
"Wow, I didn't realize how things have changed so much." Yugi stood up. "No, you really couldn't imagine. People around here aren't looking for pep or cheeriness, they're looking to make a living, and make it in life without having too much trouble. You're uplifting attempts won't do it anymore, and-"
"YUGI! I GET IT ALL READY, STOP THE FUCKING LECTURE!"
"Look Yug', my past ½ a year has been nothing special, and Tristan, all he did was keep me for show, I broke off the engagement, and left him to try to make it on my own, but I had to leave that city. I'd been living in a motel for 2 months, and couldn't take it longer. I thought I could come back to something in Domino, but apparently not, sorry for your time!" Tea left out the door and Yugi sat back down looking at the box of cards he needed to stock, then Tea came back in briefly, "and another thing, I didn't come here to 'cheer' anyone up, I came here for help. Thanks, you've given me a great deal of guidance, now I know who my real friends are." She slammed the door as she left, but thought to herself, 'do I even have any?'
"Joey, I'm leaving, I'll talk to you later, good luck with your friend there." Joey was preoccupied with "Dark Magician Girl Monthly" and absent-mindedly waved to Tea as she slammed the door.
Later that evening, as the sun began to set((A/N – for all those who may not know, italicized is here thinking to herself.))
'I can't believe the jerk he's come to be, almost anyone in this town used to be able to express their love to him. Look at him now, no wonder his store is so dead, I wouldn't want to give Scrooge business either.
Without a real idea as to where she was going, she headed towards the house of an old friend due to increasing darkness. She noticed a very sweet, yet defined odor coming from underneath the door, and loud, yet calm music playing. Uneasily, she rang the doorbell anyway.
:DING-DONG:
As the door opened, Tea anticipated the usual purple-attired Mai Valentine she had come to know years ago, but that is far from what she saw.
"TEA?!" Mai had exclaimed sort-of over the loudness, "what on Earth are you doing here?" Tea just stood there, almost embarrassed. "I..I'm sorry, did I catch you at a bad time?"
Mai stood in the door way in a black lace robe obviously not well covered up, Tea blushed from her inconvenience, but not nearly as red as Mai. "I'm sorry, I'll come back later, and I'll give you a call okay? Ok-"
Just as Tea was about to turn around and leave she heard the music stop and a voice came to the door, far more masculine than Mai. "Babe, who's there?"
Even more shocked than before, stood Tea witnessing A boxer-covered Yami, otherwise bare to the world outside Mai's front door. He stood there, never saying a word. Tea stood as well, speechlessly for a moment, Mai then broke the silence. "Well, I'll give you a call Tea, I have your cell, I'll talk to you later tonight? We can do dessert? … Oh, wait.." a short pause set in, and Mai smirked with a smug look upon her face, "Yami here, and myself will probably have had seconds. Maybe next time dear? Buh-bye.."
As Mai shut the door abruptly, Tea's heart began to finally break from everything Yugi had told her, and everything and everyone she had just seen in the past hour. She walked away almost in a running pace from Mai's front door and headed over to the bar, she needed a drink herself.
On her way there, she began to reminisce about her days with Yami and mere teenagers..
(( flAShbACk )) 10 years ago:
Laughter was everywhere as Tea and Yami flew above the fields nearby each on their duel monster dragons.
"Stop that, you! Why can't Hyuzanryu ever win! Sometimes I think you like being mean to me Yami Moto."
"Ha, what ever gave you that idea, hmm?"
"You're such a preteen, you'll never change."
The 2 dismounted from their monsters and sat down in the tall grass. "Where do you think we'll be a year from now?" Tea was always thinking ahead, she wanted to spend her life with Yami, but never gave it more than a thought. "Probably still dueling, traveling, and hopefully in Battle City by then, if Yugi ever gets his keister moving!"
Tea just giggled as she always does after Yami talks, and laid back. "Do you think we'll still have this much fun as adults, or are we going to be boring and wear suits to our jobs?"
Yami looked over to Tea, "do you really honestly think that'd ever happen? Were gonna duel our lives to the fullest, and no matter what, be BEST friends, sound good Tea?" All she could do around him was smile, "of course, forever."
(( ENd flAShbACk ))
'Wow, do times ever change…' Tea shed a small tear as she thought about how Yugi was right, and just exactly how many women Yami has been. "ugh, such pigs. Why do men have to be like that?"
"Because it's our nature." Tea turned around to see just whom she knew that voice belonged.
"I'm sorry, Tea."
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As if at least 4 people don't owe her an apology, who the hell could that be? Tune in next time to find out who, and how she reacts. ;-)
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