Chapter Six:
Disclaimer: IF I OWNED YU-GI-OH, SETO AND TEA WOULD BE TOGETHER!

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Tea opened her eyes to greet the new day...and had her eyeballs melted off
by the blistering rays of the sun. She winced and turned her head, but then
sighed. It was too late, the sun had done its damage.
Grumbling at all of the extra lost sleep, she reluctantly got out of bed.
She had a lot of work to do, cleaning up, helping Mokuba get ready for
school, making breakfast and why was she in someone else's room!
Her room was pink, not blue. This room was much larger and fancier than
hers. She didn't have pictures of Mokuba and Seto on HER dresser. And she
certainly didn't have Seto Kaiba sleeping in HER bed.
She nearly gave a battlecry (and nearly broke a few of his bones too), but
then recollections of the previous evening came flooding back.

Flashback
clickity-click, clickity-click, clickity-click...
Tea's muffled her scream of anguish into her fluffy pillow. She was
exhausted, she wanted to drift off to sleep on the wonderfully soft bed and
the flower-scented sheets...but that sound...argggh...too
loud...too...too..OBNOXIOUS.
She couldn't take it anymore. She flopped off the bed, got up in a flash,
wrenched open her door and stepped out into the hallway. The sound grew
louder, and was coming from a certain room...she stormed over to the door
and pushed it open.
"KAIBA!"
Seto stared at her from his bed. A laptop was resting on his legs, and he
was wearing a pair of reading glasses that gave him an even more intelligent
look than he already had. Tea was too angry to care about that right now.
She stomped over to his side of the bed.
"Hello, Gardner," he said in an amused voice. "Do you storm into your
boss's room in the middle of the night often?"
She ignored that comment. "What the hell do you think you're doing?"
"Working," he said smoothly.
"I KNOW THAT!"
Seto gave Tea a calm stare. "Do you mind lowering your voice a bit? You
might wake Mokuba."
"One to talk! I can hear your typing from my room!
"You can hear my typing?" he rose an eyebrow questioningly. "How can you
possibly hear that all the way over there? Your ears are big enough, but
you would have to have a very sensitive eardrum..."
"Shut up," she hissed between her teeth. Her fingers flexed, waiting to be able to wrap themselves around the boy's neck. "Why are you even up at this
hour? It's two in the morning, for god's sake!"
He shrugged. "A mild case of insomnia."
"I can help you with that..." she said.
"With what, sleeping pills? They don't work."
"No. If you're willing to listen, I'll could try singing for you."
He stared at her for a long time.
"Singing? What would that do? I can't stand your voice as it is, why
would I want to listen to you sing?"
"Because, if I hear another keystroke from your room, I might kill you to
get some sleep."
Although Kaiba pretended to look doubtful, he secretly wondered if she
would really do that. He sighed.
"Fine, sing away. Though I doubt that you would make me fall asleep.

End Flashback

"I must have fallen asleep," she said to herself. She looked at his
sleeping form and suddenly smiled deviously. This was an opportunity that
she couldn't resist. She gave the still fast asleep Seto a little pat on the
head and went to the kitchen.
Kaiba is going to get a rude awakening...hehehe...stupid Kaiba...
After filling a pitcher with icy-cold water, she walked over to his bedside
and held it high over his head. Finally, she would have sweet, sweet
payback.
He looked so different with his eyes closed, she thought, remembering the
last time she saw him asleep. Without those freezing, formidable eyes, he
was...well, she didn't want to think along those lines. His chocolate hair
was tousled and his mouth was softer and less cruel. If someone showed her
a picture of him while sleeping, she would've been staring at it for quite a
while until she knew who it was. Hey...does he even have a shirt on?
She shook the nasty toughts out of her hed. This was Seto Kaiba. You know,
SETO KAIBA. The guy that ripped up Solomon's Blue Eyes, the person that
poked fun at Joey every time they met, the one that caused a whole lot of
trouble for them. But still, as hesitant as she was to admit it, he was
pretty fine.
She almost couldn't pour the water on him. But that would show that she was
weak, and that was definitely not a trait that she wanted to possess.
1...2... she counted in her head.
"THREE!"
SPLASH!
"WHAT THE HELL!" Seto roared like a lion. He was doused from head to toe
in freezing cold water, jolted awake from his very nice dream of yelling at
his employee by a tsunami of ice. His eyes locked with Tea's.
"GARDNER!"She looked as though she was about to suffocate on held back laughter. And
Seto would not have that. Oh no...that death would be too merciful for
her...too merciful indeed.
He tossed his blankets aside, stood up, walked up to her ever so slowly.
He may have looked calm to any random passerby, but his eyes looked like
blue tornados, and his teeth were bared in a snarl that would make even the
most frightening grizzly bear piss their pants. He was angry, no, that's an
understatement...infuriated at her for getting him at the time that he was
the most vulnerable and defenseless.
If she thinks that I'll let her off easy, she has another thing coming...
"And..what exactly do you find so funny, Gardner?" he said in a low, evil
whisper that sent shudders up Tea's spine.
"Other that the fact that you are covered head to toe in cold water?" she
asked in mock innocence.
"Do you think that I like to be caught off guard?" Seto said, the volume of
his voice increasing by the second.
The smile was suddenly wiped off of her face and her eyes had an unreadable
expression in them. Fear, perhaps? "No...I just thought that you deserved
some payback after what you've done to me and my frien-"
Sure...what great friend you have, that nasty voice at the back of her head
said. That's in the past, you silly girl.
"But what have I ever done to you personally?" he said, walking closer to
her until they were inches apart.
"You...you..." Tea stammered.
"What?" Seto whispered in her ear. His hot breath left a tingling feeling
on her skin...
"You saved my damn life, that's what you did wrong!" she screamed. She
stumbled backwards. Her eyes were glittering with tears.
"What the hell are you talking about? I saved your life? That's the only
thing that you can think of? How did I do something wrong by saving your
life?"
"How do you know that I wanted to be saved? I've wished I was dead for as
long as I can remember, Kaiba!" she spat.
Seto wouldn't admit it to her, or to anyone else, but her was rather taken
aback at how she said his name like it was some type of deadly poison.
He took a step closer to her again, almost closing the gap between. They
were even closer than before.
"You may have been mistreated as a child, but you still have your brother.
I've had to live alone for as long as I can remember. How my father, my OWN
father, almost killed me. He might have as well, for he did break my
spirit...and no matter how many people call me a happy little cheerleader or
optimistic, that part of me won't come back. You don't know how it feels to
not be loved. For someone to not say that they love you and truly mean it.
There was only one person that ever loved me. Not my friends, my father, or
my foster parents. My mom loved me. But then she died. No matter how hard I try I will never find anything to live for."
"So what's the point, you ask? I don't know myself. I've tried so many
times to kill myself. I've tried, but something tells me that I have to
keep on living and can't just run away from everything by taking the easy
way out. But if that crate had fallen...I would have died without trying to
kill myself."
Seto looked at her for a painfully long time, then finally opened his mouth
to speak.
"You are pathetic, Gardner."
"Excuse me?"
"I said you're pathetic. You always use your past as an excuse. Wa wa wa,
MY needs," he mimicked in an unnecessarily high, angsty voice, then cleared
his throat and continued. "You have to move on or all you'll be seen as is a
weakling, a coward." He moved closer and Tea backed away, but then she found
out that she backed herself into a wall. She was trapped. She looked up at
his blue eyes, those wonderfully ultramarine gems. Her face turned away to
hide her tears.
Seto put his hands on her cheeks and turned her face to him. He stared at
her.
"Don't you ever stop crying?"
He put his hand on her cheek as if to wipe a tear away, but made no attempt
to take his hand off of her soft cheek.
Tea felt her heart pound at lightning-fast speed. His cool hand felt so
nice against her burning face.
Neither of them were prepared for what happened next.
Seto tilted her chin up and leaned in, capturing her lips in a soft kiss,
wrapping his other arm around her waist and pulling her close. Their bodies
fit together perfectly. His tongue pried her teeth apart...
Tea was in a daze. Her legs were wobbly, like someone had replaced her
bones with gelatin. Out of nowhere, her mind screamed "NO!"
SLAP!
Tea ran out of the room and into hers, the tears still going down her
cheeks. No matter how good that kiss felt, he couldn't treat her this way.
She licked her bruised lips. His sweet taste still lingered in her mouth.
She had so many thoughts swirling around in her head, mixing together like
an artist's template of colors, and she needed to sort them out.
Meanwhile...Seto stood in the exact spot that she left him in. There was a
bright red handprint on his left cheek. The incident ago wasn't accidental
at all. He had meant to kiss her. Did this mean that he liked her? His
feelings were growing. But she was his employee, his very attractive
employee. He wasn't sure if he kissed her because she was attractive, or if
he kissed her because he like her. But if, for some unexplainable reason he
did like her, she obviously didn't feel the same way if she slapped him.
He sighed and went to go take a shower.
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Tea arrived in the park. There was a bench with a beautiful porcelain
fountain near it. Tea walked over to the bench and sat down. It was a
beautiful, albeit a bit chilly morning. Her watch told her that it was a
little after seven. She didn't have to worry about Mokuba because today was
a Saturday, and like many children, he did not enjoy waking up early.
So she sat and pieced her thoughts together one by one. The fact that Seto
had kissed her was a big surprise. He was cruel and cold to everyone, with
the exception of Mokuba. But that could all be a front, he could be really
kind at heart...
She snorted at the thougt. Heh. Se-I mean Kaiba. Kind at heart. What a
joke-
"Long time no see, Anzu," a familiar husky voice reached her ears. She
turned around to see the man that had broken her heart. He was the only one
who would ever call her that. The only one who knew her real name, besides
Seto. The only one who had helped her deal with her pain, besides Seto.
The amethyst eyes that she missed so much. His thin, lanky form, the way he
made himself seem twice as tall as he really was, and instead of the usual
confident smirk, it was replaced with a soft smile that melted her heart.
"Yami...?"

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Don't kill me guys! I just wanted to add a little more zing to the story. .
. Don't worry, this story will be worth while. Once again, sorry that it
took so long to update! P.S: If you want a little more Tea/Yami I will add
more, but this story will definitely come to a point when it is
Tea/Yami/Seto. The kissing scene was rather difficult to write, because this
IS my first story and I AM only thirteen years old, but don't let the age
fool you...Well until the next chapter... Ciao!