disclaimer: "i do not own yugioh."

"talk"

'thoughts'

Tea was horrified at what marik just said. He still loved her. He came back got her. He came back to ruin her perfect life.

"No marik." She whispered in a horrified tone.

"What do you mean no? I came here only for you. All that I did, I did it for you tea." marik desperately told her.

"Marik, I don't love you any more." Tea said and marik's heartbeat stopped.

"That… it can't be true." He said. "You're lying. Say that you're lying." He screamed in rage. Tea stepped back.

"No marik. I don't love you. I love seto."

"But… how… why?" marik couldn't believe what he had heard.

"I don't exactly know how. When I married him, I had a specific image of him in my mind, a cold, unfeeling and uncaring man. But he turned out to be completely opposite. He was so loving and caring and passionate that I couldn't help but love him." tea said with a smile on her face.

"And me? Did you completely forget about me?" marik asked in anger.

"When I am w Th seto, I forget about everything." Tea said and marik growled in rage and jealousy.

"So you just forget about me and our love?"

Tea didn't answer. She looked away. This only helped to make marik angrier.

"I can't believe you tea. You promised to always love me and be with me. And in a couple of months, you forgot that I even existed. All because of some rich bastard. Well look at me now. I am as rich as him, even more. So now would you come back to me?" he sneered. Tea had a shocked look on her face.

"It was never about money marik." She said with a hurt look in her eyes. How could he think of her like that?

"Then what's it about? Tell me. It can't be love." Marik seethed. Tears threatened to spill from her eyes at his behavior.

"Marik, you were my first love so I can never forget you. But seto is my one true love. I am not sure what we had was true love or just attraction, but I know I love seto and I can't bear to be away from him. Marik, please try to understand that and leave. I am happy with my life and your interference would only complicate matters for Me." tea said and started walking out of the room. But before leaving, she turned around to look at hi8m one last time and said.

"If you love marik and want my happiness, then don't destroy my life." With that, she walked out of the room, leaving a sad and angry marik, slumped in the chair. She said she didn't love him anymore. But he knew she was lying. There was no way she could have forgotten their love that easily. She was denying it because of that bastard kaiba. But he wouldn't give up just yet. He had worked too hard to give up now. He will get her back in his arms, where she belonged.

Tea cautiously walked down he stairs, hoping seto was still busy with the media. Lucky for her, he was busy, but with serenity. She was trying hard to talk to him, trying to get his attention, which caused Tea's blood to boil. But seto seemed angrier. Tea could tell he was having trouble to try not to strangle her. Tea walked up to them and smiled at seto.

"Where were you?" seto asked her. Tea glared at serenity, who frowned and walked away from them. She then turned to seto.

"I was in the bathroom."

"You took a long time." He said suspiciously.

"I had trouble finding it." Tea lied.

"Whatever. Let's get out of here. I am bored." He said and they walked out of the doors, with cameras flashing.

Seto sat in his office, looking through a stack of papers with annoyance and anger written all over his face. It had been a week since that contract signing and since that day, it had been nothing but trouble for seto. Marik was pressuring him to finish the order long before the due date. Due to that pressure, seto was working like a dog and so were the rest of his employees. But marik kept making changes in his orders, causing more trouble for kaiba corp. and when the orders weren't ready on time, he would blame kaiba corp. and seto. This was doing a number on kaiba corp.'s reputation as an efficient company and many companies were reluctant to give them more contracts.

Besides that, seto had just found out that someone was secretly buying kaiba corp. shares. The person already had 41 of the shares and was still buying them at whatever price available. And to top all that, someone from his company was leaking information to G. corp. so far, it had been hell ever since that fateful day. Seto always felt a bad vibe from marik, but ignored it for business' sake. Now he could say it with assurance that marik's sole purpose was to ruin kaiba corp. marik was acting as if he harbored some kind of grudge against him.

Seto growled in frustration and threw the papers back on the desk. He had done all he could, but still couldn't find the identity of the person and he had been working for hours. The door opened and in came Tea.

"Hey." She slowly whispered. He smiled at her. She had been working non-stop with him to unveil ht identity of the person.

"I told you to go home. It's late and you're tired." He told her sternly, but she smiled.

"You're tired too. And besides, I'm not going home without you." she said. He sighed and got up. He couldn't have her working all night.

"Let's go home." He said and she jumped in joy. They walked outside and stepped in the limo.

Tea stared at seto, who sat besides her. He had black lines under his eyes because of stress and lack of sleep. He had worked so hard in the past couple of days, ignoring his health. He had told her about all the problems and hardships he faced to bring kaiba corp. to its present state and had showed his concern about the reputation of the company. He was working day and night to over come these arising problems and at the same time, trying to find the cause of this mess. But tea already knew the cause. Marik. He was doing this out of spite for seto.

During the month's seto and Tea spent together, they had shared all their secrets. But tea left one out; her relationship with marik. There were numerous reasons for that. First and foremost, she had completely forgotten about marik. She was so involved in her happy life that all past thoughts of her and marik disappeared from her mind. And when he came back, she was afraid to tell seto. She had been hiding it for so long, that she thought if she told him now, he'd ask why not before. It would seem as if she was hiding it on purpose. Seto would never trust her again. She couldn't risk that.

The limo stopped and the driver opened the doors for them. Teas turned towards seto and found him sound asleep. A smile appeared on her lips. He would never admit it but he did need sleep, like every other human being. She gently brushed some bangs form his forehead. Her affectionate action caused him to open his tired eyes.

"We're home?" he asked like a child and tea giggled.

"Yes. Now come on. I want to sleep too, but in my bed." Tea said. He smiled and got out of the car.

That night, as they lay in bed, seto was the only one sound asleep. Tea was wide-awake, with worries clouding her mind. What was she going to do about marik? What if he told seto? What would seto think of her then? Would he ever trust her again? Seto. He meant everything to her. She loved him with her heart and soul and couldn't imagine a life without him.

But he was suffering because of her. His company, his reputation, everything was being destroyed because of her. Marik was taking some kind of revenge on seto for taking her away from him. She had tried to tell him that she wasn't in love with him any more, but he refused to believe her. He continued to make her life hard for her.

She had to do something about it. She couldn't watch seto work day and night without rest and exhaust himself. She wouldn't allow his health to fall, because of some lovesick man. She would go and talk to marik. She would tell him one more time to leave her alone. She would tell him that she didn't love him any more. Infact, she would prove to him that she loved seto and not him.

'Yes, that's what would do.' She thought and closed her eyes, slowly falling asleep.

"Seto, where are you going?" tea asked seto, who was about to leave the house.

"I have some work to do at kaiba corp." seto said. "Are you going somewhere too?"

"Oh yeah. I wanted to go to the church." Tea said.

"You shouldn't go alone. You haven't been feeling well for the past few days. You should rest." Seto said in a concerned tone. She had been throwing up a lot lately and wasn't eating properly either. Seto wanted her to go the doctor, but she refused, saying it was stomach flu.

"I'll be fine. I feel much better today." Tea assured him.

"Ok. I'll see you later then." He kissed her and left. Tea watched him leave, with a guilt pang in her chest. She shouldn't have lied to him, but she had to. She had no other choice.

Seto entered kaiba corp. to see a familiar face, waiting for him.

"How have you been kaiba?" duke said with a smirk on his face.

"What the hell are you doing in here devlin?" seto asked in an angry tone.

"I'm here to help you." duke calmly replied. Seto laughed.

"You can't help yourself devlin. What good can you be to me?"

"I can tell you who has been leaking information to G. corp." duke said and seto's eyes widened. How could duke know?

"How do you know?" seto demanded.

"That's not important now, is it?" duke smirked.

"Tell me." seto demanded.

"Why would I tell you if I could show you the person? Or better yet, take you to see the traitor."

"Let's go devlin. And if this is a trick, you won't live to talk about it."

"I know kaiba." Duke said as they got in duke's car. They drove in silence for a while, before seto spoke.

"How did you find out?" seto was curious. How could duke know when seto himself couldn't find out?

"You may not consider me a friend, but I still think of you as one." duke started but seto cut him.

"Can the bullshit devlin." Duke only smiled.

"I've always wanted what's best for kaiba corp. that's why even when you destroyed me and all my company, along with all kind of relations with me, is till kept an eye open for kaiba corp. I heard about your problem and instantly started working on it. I had my suspicions and soon, I found the traitor's identity."

"Quite a nice story. The name devlin." Seto demanded again.

"Do you recognize this place kaiba?" instead of answering seto, duke asked.

"Yeah. This is marik's hotel. He's staying here." Seto answered, obviously confused.

"The traitor has been visiting marik a lot lately. Look, here she comes now." duke pointed to an approaching figure. Seto quickly turned to look at her and was shocked to see the person. His mouth fell wide open when he saw her face. No words came out, except one.

"Tea."

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