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disclaimer: "i do not own yugioh."

"talk"

'thoughts'

"Hey seto, why isn't tea here yet?" mokuba asked upon entering his big brother's office.

"She has to work today mokuba. She has a job you know." Seto replied without answering.

"I know. She told me. But I want to play the new game I bought with someone. And don't say you, because you always beat me. At least with tea, I have a chance." Mokuba said and seto smiled.

"She'll be here soon mokuba." seto said and went back to work. Mokuba stood there thinking for a moment.

"I have an idea. Why don't we go to the place where she works seto? We can surprise her." mokuba cheerfully said.

"No." came seto's reply.

"Oh come one seto. She works at burger world and they have really nice food. I am hungry, so let's eat there." And before seto could argue, mokuba quickly said, "and I know you want to see her too seto. So don't even bother saying no." seto stared at mokuba with surprise written all over his face.

"What did you just say?" he asked, still not believing his ears.

"I know what's going on seto. You never like anyone, but you like her. And she is a girl, a pretty one too." Mokuba answered smirking in a kaiba-like-manner.

"There's nothing going on between us mokuba. And there's no us. We are not dating or anything of that sort. We are just friends." seto calmly said.

"Sure." Mokuba said disbelievingly. "So can we please go? You get to say hi to your friend. Please seto." Just to make sure seto wouldn't say no, mokuba added the puppy dog look. Now seto had to agree. And he did.

"Okay fine mokuba. Go downstairs and I'll meet you in five minutes." Seto said sighing in defeat.

"Yay. You rock seto." Mokuba yelled happily and ran downstairs. Seto smiled to himself and shut the laptop. Come to think of it, he was hungry as well, and ready to eat whatever that girl had to offer him. Or maybe, devour her instead.

As soon as seto and mokuba entered "burger world", eyes were eyes them. Every single customer and worker was staring at them as if they had three eyes or horns on their heads. Their mouths were hanging open and they seemed still, frozen in time. He glared at them and sat on a table with mokuba.

"I am gonna go get tea. I want her to sit with us." Mokuba said happily and ran off. Seto watched him disappear in the large mass of customers and turned his attention back to the staring crowd. All the girls were drooling at him stars in their eyes. Some were giggling and blushing, pointing at him. Some guys were just amazed that seto kaiba had graced such a small place with his presence, but some were glaring at him with jealous and hatred, since their girl friends were trying to get seto's attention, and failing miserably. He frowned and leaned back into the chair.

"Um hi, does tea work here?" mokuba asked a girl who was busy taking orders. She looked up and glared at him, annoyed.

"What do you want kid?" she asked, irritant.

"I want to see tea. She works here. Could you please call her?" mokuba asked again, trying hard to sound polite.

"I am not here to look for people you have lost kid. Order something or leave. Where is your dad? What kind of a man is he, leaving his son like this?" She said.

"I am here with my brother. And if he knew you were treating me like this, he would get you fired in a snap." Mokuba said angrily.

"Sure. Your brother is a president of some kind." She said mockingly.

"Yeah. He is the president of kaiba corp., seto kaiba. And I'm his brother mokuba kaiba." Mokuba said, smirking.

"What? Kaiba corp.? Seto kaiba? You are not lying are you?" she asked him, shocked.

"No, he's right there." Mokuba pointed to the direction where seto was sitting, waiting patiently for his food and tea to come.

"Oh my God, it is he. I can't believe it." The girl said and mokuba smiled.

"So are you going to tell me where tea is?" mokuba asked again.

"What do you want with her?" The girl asked.

"She is a friend and I want her to serve us." Mokuba replied.

"Oh… umm… she… she is not here today. Sorry." The girl said and mokuba's face fell.

"Really? Are you sure? Because she told me she is working today." Mokuba said suspiciously.

"Yeah. I am sure. She is not here. Now go back, and I'll be with you in a second." The girl said and went inside a room. Mokuba reluctantly walked back as well.

"Oh my god, you are not gonna believe this, but seto kaiba is here." The girl said excitedly to another employee in the room. All the employees soon crowded around her, all being female.

"No, the seto kaiba?" another girl inquired.

"Yeah. His brother came to me." the girl said proudly. The room filled with excited screams and murmurs. The manager came.

"What is happening here?" he asked strictly.

"Sir, seto kaiba is here." A girl said jumping in joy. The manager's eyes went wide.

"Where, show me." he told the girl and she showed him where seto sat with mokuba.

"It is he. This could be a big positive for our business and reputation. Okay, I want one person to go and take his order." All the girls raised their hand, wanting to meet seto.

"Not all of you can go. One of you, the person with the most experience." The manager said.

"And the most prettied one as well." A girl said, fixing her hair. Just then tea decided to enter the room.

"What is happening here? Everyone is inside and I'm getting killed out there, working alone." She said.

"Seto kaiba is here, with his brother." A girl said happily.

"What? What is he doing here with mokuba?" she said out loud. "Sir, can I go take his order?" she asked the manager.

"Oh no you don't. I am going." A girl said.

"No, I am."

"Me"

"Me." every girl wanted to go. The manager sighed.

"Be quiet all of you. Linda will go to take the order and that's final. No more arguments. Gat back to work everyone." The manager said and went back to his office. All the girls glared at Linda who smirked. Linda was kind of like mai, blonde with a nice body, which she proudly showed to everyone. She was the manager's favorite because she flirted with him, and it was rumored that she had an affair with him.

"Well girls, gotta go." Linda said and stepped towards seto's table. Tea watched her go, and part of her felt jealous. She got to be with seto. How dare she? She would definitely try to flirt with him. Seto would insult her and send her away crying; at least she hoped he would. She went back to serving customers.

"Where is that stupid girl mokuba?" seto asked.

"She is coming seto, she said she was." Mokuba said. Just then, Linda appeared.

"Hello Mr. Kaiba. How are you today?" Linda said, and stood right in front of kaiba, her chest in front of his face.

"I would be much better if you stepped away from me." seto replied gruffly and she immediately stepped back.

"And how is the little kaiba today?" Linda sat down to mokuba's level and tried to pinch his cheek but he moved away from her touch. Linda withdrew her hand.

"You are the same girl from the counter." Mokuba said, frowning. She was acting like a jerk when she didn't knew he was related to seto and now, she was all smiles.

"Yeah. I am glad you remember me." Linda said smiling and turned to seto again.

"It's such an honor to have you here, at our humble restaurant Mr. Kaiba." She cooed in a sickeningly sweet manner.

"I am regretting it now." was seto's reply? He glanced around the restaurant, trying to avoid her, when he saw tea serving a table, full of guys. Some of them were probably in college. What flipped seto off was that they were trying to look up her skirt, when she bent to put the food on the table. Tea was completely oblivious to their actions, and seemed to be in deep thought.

When one guy touched tea's butt, seto stood up in anger, ready to beat up the guy. Tea turned around as well and demanded an explanation. The guys said it was an accident and he was trying to get his key chain from the floor. Tea glared at him for a while, but resumed work. Seto however had seen that it was intentional. He started walking towards those punks. As he approached, he could hear them talk.

"It was soft man. I could tell you that," the guy who touched tea's butt said.

"Cool man. If her ass is so fucking soft, I bet her breasts are even softer." Other guy said.

"Boy, would I like to touch them." The third guy said.

"Touch them? I would suck them until they went dry. She has a such a hot body that I want to fuck her right here." The fourth guy said and licked his lips. He turned to stare lustfully at tea when his face met with a punch, from seto of course. He fell off the chair. Everyone turned to stare at them tea did too.

"What the hell man?" his friends said.

"Get out of my sight, or I'll make sure you get out of the city." Seto said in a deadly voice, only loud enough for them to hear. The guys knew who seto was and didn't want to mess with him. So they ran out as fast as they could.

"Why did you do that seto?" Tea asked seto and he turned to look at her.

"Those horny bastards were talking shit about you." seto said and tea quickly understood what he meant.

"How did you know?" she asked him.

"I heard them talk. Why didn't you?"

"I was thinking about something else. That's why I didn't notice." Tea admitted.

"Hn. Come on. Mokuba wants to see you. And maybe you can get rid of that thing that is bothering us." Seto pointed to the girl and tea giggled. But followed him to their table. Mokuba beamed at her.

"Tea, you're here. This girl said you weren't. I asked her and she said you weren't working today." Mokuba said and tea glared at Linda, who smiled nervously.

"Oh tea. You're here. I didn't see you today." She said.

"You did see me. And we just talked inside as well Linda." Tea said sternly.

"Umm… I think the customers need me, so I'll leave you guys. Bye." Linda quickly ran away. Tea smiled and turned her attention to them.

"So, what do you guys want?"

"Hey." Tea said to seto as she entered his office. She had just finished her shift and directly came there.

"Hmm." He replied, to acknowledge her presence. Tea sat on the couch and let him finish his work. When he was done, he shut his laptop and got up. Tea followed him into his bedroom and sat on the bed.

"Care to tell me what was on your mind that you didn't notice a bunch of guys ogling you?" seto asked with a hint of anger in his voice.

"Oh, that. I was thinking about my conversation with yami." Seto frowned.

"When did that happen?" he inquired.

"Now you sound like my mom." She said giggling and he frowned. "Ok, ok. I'll tell you. Remember when I told you that he gave me lift one night. It was two days ago seto. Remember?" she asked him and he nodded.

"In the car, we were talking and…"

(Flashback)

"So tea, do you have any plans for the upcoming holidays?" yami asked her as he drove her to her apartment.

"Nope, not yet. You?" she asked him.

"Yeah. I know we are gonna go somewhere but where, I don't know yet."

"What do you mean?" she was confused.

"Every vacation, we all makes a plan to go somewhere together. Last time, we went to New Zealand. I don't know where we are going this time."

"Oh cool. You are so lucky."

"You can come with us. It'll be great to have you."

"Oh no. I can't. I can't afford to go someplace like that." she admitted, lowering her gaze.

"No problem. I'll pay for you." yami said causally.

"No, no. I can't have that," she quickly said.

"Why not." He said turning to look at her. "I know what you're thinking tea. But we really want you to come with us. I really want you to be with us. That's why I'm willing to do whatever I can to bring you with us." Tea smiled.

"That's really sweet of you yami but--." But he silenced her by placing a finger on her rosy lips.

"Tea. Believe it or not, but I am doing this because I want to spend time with you. You… there's something about you--. Infact, I like everything about you. We haven't spent much time together, but I want that to change. I know we can be great friends… and maybe something more, if you want. But tea, I am doing this to make you happy. I don't want anything in return. So please tea." tea removed his finger from her lips, since he never removed it.

"I am flattered yami. I'll think about it. Ok. My house is here. Got to go. Bye." She said and stepped out of the car. But then she turned around, gently pecked him on the cheek and walked inside her apartment.

(End flashback)

"And that's it. That's what I was thinking about." Tea finished and stared at seto, who seemed like he had just tasted something disgusting.

"There are better things to keep the mind occupied." He finally said and tea frowned.

"I don't know what your problem is. Why do you hate yami so much?" tea asked him.

"There is more then one reason. What have you decided about his proposal?" seto inquired with a hint of anger in his voice.

"I gave I a lot of thought, like you saw today. And I decided that if I were going to go, I'd pay for myself. Or I won't go at all." Tea said determinedly. Seto didn't answer. He seemed thoughtful.

"What are you thinking?" she asked him.

"Nothing." He replied and took his shirt off to get ready for bed. Tea couldn't help but blush. He was a magnificent specimen. He noticed her blush and walked towards her.

"Why don't we get ready for bed? I'll help you." he said with mischief in his eyes and reached for her top. Tea squirmed out of his grasp.

"Hey, I'll change myself." She said getting up, but he grabbed her waist and pulled her into his chest. He nuzzled her neck and placed wet kissed on her base.

"Umm. Seto…" she moaned as he kissed and sucked on her flesh. His hands reached for the tank top again but tea quickly moved away.

"Nah uh seto." She said, scolding him like a mother would scold a baby boy. Seto pouted like a baby boy and tea couldn't help but smile.

"I'll be back in a minute." She said and disappeared into the bathroom. She soon stepped out wearing his shirt and mokuba's old shorts. These were the clothes she usually wore when she slept at kaiba mansion.

Seto was already lying on the bed. She got in beside him and snuggled into his chest. She kissed his neck and whispered good night to him. He wrapped a possessive arm around her, bringing her close to him and rested his chin on top of her head.

'Yami… you always took what I had. But you won't be able to take her. And I'll make sure of it.' Seto thought before sleeping.

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