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Chapter 4 – Is Anyone Home?

Disclaimer-
I don't own YuGiOh. :pouts:

Authors Notes-
Who was behind Tea? Here's your chance to find out.. Hehe.

Sorry it took so long, I am SUPER involved with school, I will defiantly finish this, though the posts may be some odd days apart, again, sorry. )

Reader Reviews Ch. 3-
Some more reviews, yay!

White Ninja Spy 2004-12-02
Cool You gotta keep writinf. Ciao!

Nightfall2525 2004-11-30
so is that Yugi or Yami talking to her or is it Seto?

norestar-angel 2004-11-30
Wow...thats all I can say great chappie, you really kpet the suspence going:D. I'll take a guess at who it is.

Either Yami or Yugi. I can't pick lol. Can't wait for the next update:D. Angel...

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Outside with… ?

Tea was having a hard time depicting the deep voice by the way the shadows lay on his face.

"Look, I'm sorry," Yami began to explain. "Yea, you know, Yugi warned me about you, but I didn't expect to see you at Mai's house, that's utterly disgusting. What happened to you?" Yami looked down as he began to tell her the story.

Back at Tristan's house

"HEY! YOU, come here and help me!" Tristan summoned his guards to get his personal assistant without luck, "hey where is that clown?" "Uh, sir, he ran away and left a goodbye note and all his things, he couldn't take it here."

"FABULOUS!" Tristan tried his hardest to not scream at the top of his lungs, "well, find me a new one!" he said as he shoo'ed off the guard with his hand motions. Run along now." "Sir, the only other person in this castle besides you and us is that brat in the basement." Tristan looked annoyed, "I don't care! He knows too much anyways, I'll make him an offer he can't refuse."

Tristan went in to his 'bubble' bath and sat around playing with his rubber ducky for an hour. As soon as he was out, the guard went downstairs and brought up Mokuba in to Tristan office where he waited for him.

"Well well, well, look-ie here. Bottom line kid, I'll make you an offer, you have 2 choices, no more, no less, and I'm being as fair as possible." "Somehow I doubt that," Mokuba replied. Tristan simply chuckled, holding his temper in deep inside.

"I need a new personal assistant, there's your first choice, be it, or… death. Which do you prefer?" It took Mokuba a while, and as much as he wanted to say death, he couldn't, he didn't have it in him to die, especially after seeing what he was going to do to Tea. "How can I help you, sir?" 'At least this way I have a shot at helping out Tea..' Mokuba compensated the thought through his mind.

Back to Domino City, 10:00 pm.

Tea began to walk off, not wanting to hear him, or so she tried to tell herself. "Tea! I said sorry, can I please talk to you?" Tea walked off faster, as Yami walked casually after her, "NO!" her voice began to crack, "there's nothing I have to say to you anymore, I don't even know you, leave me alone!!"

Tea noticed she was near Joey's house and went to open the gate to his front yard pathway as Yami grabbed her arm. "Stop it, you're acting 16 again. Were not 16, we can talk." Tea turned around to him with her head down, "well maybe I don't want to, now let me go before I yell," she threatened.

Yami persisted, and didn't let go. He attempted to kiss her, and apologize for what he'd done, "YAMI!! STOP IT! What are you trying to do!?" Yami looked down, wondering why she was still mad, "Yami, you know what? You're right, it didn't work then, and it won't work now, hugs and kisses won't make everything okay." Tea turned around and proceeded to the front door and rang the doorbell.

:DING-DONG:

No answer, she read a note taped to the door, oddly enough left for her incase of her arrival:

Dear Tea,

We apologize if you stopped by tonight, but we are not home. I went to see Seto and Joseph went to the card shop, please, I miss you, especially since Joey said he saw you recently, come by and visit tomorrow? Stay strong Tea Gardner!

Lots of Love,
Serenity Wheeler.

Tea grabbed the note and crumbled it up in the palm of her hands. As she turned around to walk out the gate back to the sidewalk, and noticed Yami still there, leaning on the bars with his arms and legs crossed. "Well, looks like you have no where to stay, hmm?"

She walked right past him and continued her quest on towards a night's shelter, "forget it Yami."

"Whaaaaat?" Yami asked as if he didn't know exactly what he was inferring, "I was merely pointing out a fact." Tea turned abruptly, "no, you were inferring a fact, and no." She kept on walking, as she began to turn a corner Yami grabbed her arm gently, "then where are you going to stay? The Wheelers aren't home-" "Well, I-" Yami continually interrupted her as she began to suggest things hopefully. "-and Yugi and you had a quarrel.. and I know you wouldn't sink to asking Mai."

"I can stay in a motel." Yami refrained from laughing, "and how do you plan on paying? I'm assuming you were going to ask Mai to stay with you, because you don't have the money, am I right?"

Tea let out a loud sigh, and succumbed to Yami's offer to stay at his apartment for the evening. "But Yami, this means nothing more than someone helping someone out, right?"

Yami looked slightly disappointed, in more ways than one though, "I was thinking more like… a friend helping a friend, is it not?" Tea looked at Yami uneasily, "I suppose." The 2 set off to Yami's apartment complex and he set up pillows and blankets on his bed for Tea.

38 Veranda Place, Domino

"You can have the bed, you need more rest than I do." Tea tried hard to not make a comment on his 'busy night' with Mai as she nodded and smiled for his generosity, "thank you."

As she reached the doorway, she turned around curiously, "where will you sleep though?" Yami turned as he hustled about, "oh, don't worry about it, I'm not real tired."

"You will be getting sleep this evening though, right?"

"Maybe."

"Yami, it's unhealthy, pleas be sure to get some rest this evening, okay?" By saying that, she realized she cared too much for him to mosey around the house all night on the count of her needing sleep, especially when it was not his fault.

"Okay," was the reply, as he sat down to drink some coffee he had brewed while she preparing her sleeping quarters for the night. After about an hour of Tea watching Yami from his bed, sit at the table without movement, she couldn't help see him like that, it was breaking her heart. She rose out of bed, and slowly walked in to the kitchen to find him half dozed off. Tea took his arm and slowly walked him to his bed, have asleep Yami inquired, "where will you sleep then?"

Tea let out a heavy sigh; she knew she gave in to him, in a way, "on this side, if that doesn't make you uncomfortable." At this point, Yami was so tired, yet wired on milk, in a way it made him pass out nearly instantly, but not too soon to the point where he missed what he's wanted to see since he was 12 years old.

Tea was fast asleep peacefully right beside him.

Yami smiled as he put his arm around her waistand fell asleep within minutes.

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Was it…
A)
weird
B) awesome
C) scary
D) emotional tear tear
E) all of the above

Thank you for reading!

Yours until next time,
YamiAnzu1