NOTE: Here we are, yet again. So, Tea's just run off in fear that Seto will press on about her life. Where does she go? What does she do? Read!

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Chapter 4: Uncanny Emotions

Tea ran down the dark and cold hallway, and turned back into the classroom where she and Seto had been. She sat down at a desk, and laid her head on it. This was going to be one heck of a weekend….

Seto watched her run, thoroughly confused. What happened? He thought that, for once, they had been getting along quite nicely. And then….

"…I'd probably be just like them if I wasn't pushed!"

"Well…this is something new…something I haven't heard in a while…pushed."

What was she hiding? It really wasn't his business to peer, however, if this hiding was hurting her in anyway, someone had to know.

But why me? I'm not her friend, his mind protested. But you very well could be, another side to his mind, answered. Didn't you see how close you two were before? That was a total mistake! Are you sure? Yes! But didn't you have even the slightest urge to just k-

"SHUT UP!" Seto yelled verbally, though not meaning to. He covered his mouth quickly.

Tea heard a shout run down the hallway. She shivered. Kaiba. Even when he wasn't around, he haunted her. She narrowed her eyes. This was going to be a living heck.

She decided that, while waiting for some miracle to happen, she could do her homework. Problem was, that, she hadn't brought the flashlight along.

"Drat!" she cursed, pounding her fists onto the desk.

"Easy with the school products," a voice said from the doorway.

Tea looked up and sighed, "You again? How is it that ever time I ask to be alone…I'm never alone? You always seem to barge in at the most inappropriate times!"

"Lighten up, will you?" Seto limped over to his detention desk. Tea's eyes widened in shock. Usually it was the opposite way around: she would tell him to lighten up!

Seto shined the flashlight near her face, but not directly in it, "How does it feel to have one of your comments used on you?"

Tea huffed, and turned away, "Fine, thank you." Seto rolled his eyes, and reached over, setting the flashlight on her desk.

Tea turned to look at him, "What?"

"Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought you would want to finish your homework, correct?"

"What are you, a psychic too?"

"I'm just full of surprises," Seto smirked, back.

"Well…thanks," Tea answered, smiling slightly, "But what are you going to do?"

"My homework," Seto rolled his eyes as if it were the most obvious statement in the world.

"Um…how exactly? Because, if I have the light…."

"I'll just sit near you, that's all, Seto replied. Why he was even saying this way beyond him. Maybe he wanted to annoy her. Maybe he wanted her to think that he was being kind, and take him as a friend, so that she would reveal all that she had been hiding. Maybe…maybe he was…just crazy.

"Sit…near me?" Tea squeaked.

"Is that a problem?" Seto looked over at her.

"No…just don't bother me," Tea turned to dig through her backpack. Seto stood up, "walked" over, and set his books on the desk in front of her. He then took that desk's chair, and turned it around, so that they shared the same desktop.

Tea was getting worried now. Why was he acting like this? Half and hour ago, he wanted nothing more than to get out of here, and be rid of her. Now…he was sitting near her? On purpose?

Tea was well into her Calculus homework. She put the eraser of the pencil up to her lip, in deep thought. She hadn't been concentrating very well on her homework, for the past fifteen minutes, due to the close proximity of her and Seto's bodies…and heads. His was bent over his work, almost finished. She was about halfway through.

However, this one problem, for some reason, was stumping her. She swore that she could work it out: she swore she had seen it before, and worked it before. But the mathematics just weren't in the front of her brain right now.

"Stumped on something?" Seto's voice suddenly said, making Tea jump out of her skin.

"Don't do that!" Tea playfully hit him on the shoulder. Seto shivered at the contact, and looked up, slightly bewildered. Tea noticed this, "Sorry."

"That's…okay," Seto replied, slowly. He had never had that kind of playful contact before. He looked at her for a few more seconds, "So, you stumped or something?"

"N-No! Why would you think that?" Tea replied.

"Your pencil hasn't touched the paper for a good ten minutes," Seto smirked, making his face look very evil in the small light that bounced off his unhidden features. Tea practically shivered.

"You actually paid attention to that small detail?" Tea questioned, looking at him awed.

"With that as almost the only noise in hear, it's pretty hard not to miss."

"I see."

"So…you stumped?"

"Why do you keep asking that question? Are you a psychic or something?" Tea hung her head in frustration. Then, she realized that she had pretty much said, "Yes, I am stumped."

"That's all I wanted to know," Seto replied, shaking his head, and turning back to his work.

"Why do you even care?" Tea inquired, suddenly.

"Curiosity…it's a curse," Seto replied.

"Oh." Tea looked at his bent form for a few more minutes. Seto felt her eyes on him. He stopped writing and sighed,

"What now?"

"Nothing!" Tea let out too quickly. Seto raised an eyebrow. "Well…I feel really stupid asking this…" she mumbled, referring to her intellect, "but…could you…help me? With this one problem? I mean…I-swear-I'd-be-able-to-get-it-but-for-some-reason-I-just-can't-and-" she as rambling, trying to get all of her thoughts out, so that Seto wouldn't think her to be more of an idiot than he already supposedly thought her as.

"Just shut up and give me the book," Seto rolled his eyes, cutting her off. She stopped, spontaneously, and blinked a couple times, surprised at the fact that he had agreed to help.

"Oh…yeah," she turned the book around and pointed to the number.

Seto smirked, "That's what's bothering you? That simple prob-"

"I know it seems stupid, but I just can't seem to get it right now, or concentrate, or-" she stopped. She had said that she couldn't concentrate. Would he catch on?

Obviously, not, "Look, just do this," Seto said, explaining the process he had used on his homework. Tea watched his pencil moving from spot to spot, but the information wasn't filtering through to her head. She looked up, at his face.

He stopped, and looked up at her, with a confused expression on his face. Tea smiled slightly, seeing the look, and was about to erupt into a fit of giggles. But the touch of his hand on the side of her face stopped her. She calmed, and stared into his deep, ocean-like eyes. Why did she have this sense of longing? What was happening? She noticed their faces coming closer together…so close that they were going to….

"Gardner are you even listening to me?" Seto interrupted Tea's thoughts, as she shook her head of the illusion.

"Huh? Oh! Yeah, sure! You were just saying…" she looked at the paper to get a clue where he was explaining things. Seeing this, he removed the pencil from his directing spot. She looked up, not having caught what he had been talking about, and blushed, guiltily.

"Sorry…guess I wasn't paying…much attention," Tea sided. Dang, right! Her head had been WAY in the clouds? And where in he clouds? She was siding with herself why in all of heck she had been imagining Seto Kaiba kissing her? That was TWICE IN ONE DAY! The previous closeness must have mutated her brain in some way. Now, she couldn't stop thinking about it! It was affecting her academics.

"Am I boring you, Gardner?" Seto replied, frowning slightly.

"Boring me? Are you kid-" she stopped. She wasn't going THAT far. Why was she even going to say that? "No, no…I just…daze off, sometimes. Homework is the boring part…. I absolutely hate math," Tea blabbed on.

"Yes, well, we all have to face boredom sometime in our lives," Seto replied, "And for me, it's eight to three, Monday through Friday." Tea laughed. She absolutely, downright, burst out laughing. She couldn't explain that the comment had just become so funny to her! She was VERY easily amused.

As for Seto, he was downright confused. Never had he made someone laugh in the past twelve years, that hadn't been a remark that was foreign sounding to them. And here was Tea Gardner, laughing at something completely true from him!

"I-I'm s-so s-s-sorry, K-K-Kaiba! B-But I t-totally a-agree!" Tea doubled over, falling off the side of the chair, and landing painfully on the tile floor, with a mutated "oomph" (mutated, being that it had a mixture of laughter in it).

Seto peered over the side of his desk, "You…alright?" he inquired, wondering why on Earth he was caring. Usually, he too would have been laughing by now.

"Y-Yeah," Tea sighed, and calmed down, grabbing onto the desk for support. Slowly, due to her injuries, she stood up, and dusted herself off, flattening her skirt and un-wrinkling her blouse.

She awkwardly sat back down in the chair opposite him, and sighed, calming herself down for the last time, "Okay, start over, please?"

"You going to listen this time?" Seto inquired, hating to waste his time.

"Yes. No more roaming thoughts," Tea blurted out. Her eyes widened. She could have starting ripping her hair out at that second. Did she have some sort of "Blurting out my personal thoughts and secrets" disease? How was it that she was speaking her mind on everything near him? IT WAS INSANE!

Seto desperately wanted to ask her about these "roaming thoughts," however, he found it best to just try to ignore them, and continue on with the task ahead. Maybe later, he could poke into them….

So, he continued to tutor her. After a good seven minutes, she finally remembered, and understood the problem. She cried out gleefully.

"Thanks, Kaiba!" she took back her book, smiling. For some reason, she had the strongest urge to hug him, for being so nice.

Seto was thoroughly confused at her sudden gleefulness. Actually, she had confused him plenty of times in the last half hour. He didn't understand it…. He could solve the most complex puzzles in the world…except for one: Tea Gardner.

He reasoned with himself: Tea Gardner was not like other girls. Other girls were swoony; preppy; obsessed with make-up; skimpy clothes wearers; and did anything to make themselves look supposedly look prettier (though half the time this objective failed). Of course, he rationalized, he was making strong stereotypes of girls, but who was he to say anything besides what he had seen of girls in his life? After all, being Seto Kaiba, you really didn't see much of another side to girls.

Except in Tea Gardner. The girl had quite the mouth…for talking back of course, yet always kept her calm, and not mouthing out irrational words. She was levelheaded; never swooned, as to what he had seen of her; and, if it weren't for the fact that she would be considered a total geek by the other girls in the school (like she really cared, though), she probably would have worn pants everyday instead of a skirt.

All in all, she was a better type of female, in Seto's opinion. The other women were just too…girly. Oh sure, that makes sense, Seto spat back at himself. Great, now he was becoming irrational

And all the while, he was ignoring the work set in front of him. His thoughts were…roaming. He shook his head, and now noticed that Tea was finished with her work. And, being, by some form of miracle from the God above, that was the only scrap of homework they had received over the weekend. Stupid math teachers, Seto thought, with their belief that everyday needs to be filled with a sufficient amount of math homework. No other teacher believed that…fully, at least. They had given them the weekend off.

He noticed that now, she had out a pencil, with the eraser brought up to her lip, almost wanting to chew it, seeing as she was deep in thought. Her knee rested on the rim of the desk, while her ankle rested on her other leg. A folder lay against her raised leg, and with that, a sheet of notebook paper lay.

Drawing was a fun pastime for Tea. She enjoyed it, thoroughly. Besides dancing, it was one of her other strong points. It helped get her mind off things…and stress…and in this case, Seto Kaiba.

The problem was, she didn't know what to draw. She looked at her watch. It was two fifty three. They had been stuck in school for almost three hours, surprisingly. Yet, it had seemed like a lifetime. So much had happened, seemingly, in these past few hours. What would the next three days bring? Tea didn't want to imagine it?

Especially with her whacked up mind now. What if she tried…laying the moves on Kaiba? She shuddered at the thought. Why in the Lord's name would she even THINK of doing such a despicable…wanting…horrible…somewhat desirable…treacherous…pleasing…WHAT THE CRAP WAS RUNNING THROUGH HER MIND? WHAT WAS THIS CRAP THAT WAS EVEN IN HER MIND? WHY WAS SHE THINKING ABOUT KAIBA LIKE THIS? WHY WAS SHE THINKING OF THAT SELFISH, STUPID, DANG, FLIPPEN, CRAPPIN', RUDE, ARROGANT, STUCK-UP, FREAK OF A JERK! THERE! SHE HAD SAID IT! SHE HAD LISTED A FEW, AND ONLY A FEW OF HIS BAD POINTS! NOTHING GOOD WAS SAID ABOUT HIS. THERE! SHE HAD PROVED IT TO HERSELF THAT NOTHING WAS WRONG WITH HER MIND NOW!

Tea let out a seemingly, spontaneous sigh. Finally, she had gotten that out of her system. Seto looked up from his paper to see what all the fuss was about. She glared back at him, and turned back to her drawing paper. She gasped. She couldn't believe it.

She wanted to trash it…and yet, she wanted to keep the treasure. In a way, it seemed like…"Her Precious…." Whoa. She shook her head: WAY too many showings of the Lord of the Rings movies. Why the crap did she even want the flippen paper? She should just crumple it up and trash it!

What was the paper? It was…a drawing…a drawing of her…almost mouth to mouth…with Seto Kaiba.

And she had done a pretty dang good job of blindly getting his features just right. Hers too. Only an idiot couldn't tell who they were.

"And…who's that supposed to be?" a finger pointed to the drawing of Seto. Tea whipped around at the sudden voice, and came face to face with Seto Kaiba himself. He had quite the amused look on his face, and looked as if he was trying to refrain from…laughing. She crumpled up the paper immediately (not without an unmistaken wrench in her heart, as if it were the paper), and blushed.

"No one! Just a doodle! Saw a movie recently…those characters!" she lied, and tossed the wad of paper towards the trashcan, as if it were a basketball. It landed smoothly into the wastebasket. "Score!" Tea replied, overexcited, while also trying to get off the subject of the drawing.

"That was quite the drawing. You're a very good artist," Seto complimented. Tea's eyes narrowed. He was complimenting her? What was he getting at? "Actually…the figures looked mighty…familiar. You know?" Seto smirked, toying with her mind. Tea's face was turned away from his, but he could still see a bit of her cheek…and it was growing redder and redder.

"So…you saw…the movie…too?" Tea replied.

"Suck it up, Gardner, we both know who I'm referring to," Seto smirked dangerously, just whispering it in her ear…oh so close to her.

"I…I have no idea what you mean," Tea replied, trying to move away from Seto's whispering voice.

"Sure…. You're very good at masking your emotions, Gardner. I would have never known…. And what of those "roaming thoughts" of yours….were they on the same thing?"

"Kaiba, you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. Just shut up now for both our sakes," Tea replied, sounding very nervous.

"I know what I'm talking about…and you do too," Seto was laying down the pressure. He was waiting for her to crack.

"Kaiba, if you don't stop, you're seriously going to regret it," Tea's fists clenched, until they turned red.

"Am I?"

"Yes. This is your last warning…."

"What are you going to do, kiss me or something?" Seto threw out the thought as if it were nothing.

And crack she did: "Exactly." Before Seto had time to take in her words, she had whipped around, and locked lips with him.

Okay. There is NO doubt in my mind that you HAD TO LIKE THAT chapter. That seriously rocked, to me, on my part. I seriously thought up that last part on the spot. NO notion of the idea had come to me until the very time I typed it. Pure genius, was it not? Well, maybe not genius, but it's the same thing. Sorry, tat it was a little short, but heck…I did get in that kiss you wanted…. smirks evilly Now, for your part: REVIEW PLEASE!