Sorry this chapter took so long, I was at camp for a week and I couldn't get back to the story until I unpacked and stuff. You know how that goes. Anyways… there isn't much to say except that I hope you like the chapter and I hope you review me!

'Love'

Chapter12

They walked for a while longer than comfort. Kaiba was getting tense and nervous of the silence. He wanted to just say forget it and call for a ride home. The thing was he wanted to stay with Serenity and enjoy her company. Even though the last thing he was doing was enjoying himself.

"Are we going to keep walking around aimlessly in silence?" Kaiba asked very annoyed.

"No, Seto, I'm taking you to a restaurant I like. It just so happens they have it here in Tokyo," Serenity said very briskly.

Kaiba was astounded for about the third time this evening. Where on earth did she get the permission to call him by his first name! He stepped in front of her and blocked her path so she was forced to face him.

"Excuse you, but I don't think you have the authority to call me by my first name!" Kaiba snapped at her.

Serenity snorted at him. "I don't have the authority? Who do you think you are?" she asked not at all affected by his comment. She pushed her way passed him to keep walking.

"I think I'm the President of a multi-million dollar cooperation, which is a higher power than you have authority to address," Kaiba said very snottily as he stepped in front of her once again.

"I think you have serious ego problems," Serenity said to him as she almost laughed out the last words.

"I beg your pardon."

"Listen to yourself! You must think you rule the world, or at least think you're better than everybody else in the world! Shame on you! You need to learn that the world doesn't revolve around you!" Serenity finished looking at him as he stared blankly back at her. She felt her point was not getting across.

"You better not act like this at dinner," she told him. But before she started walking again she gave yet another forceful slap on the cheek. It felt sad having to hit someone with such soft skin.

"WHAT IS IT WITH YOU AND SLAPPING PEOPLE!" Kaiba ordered angrily.

"I don't slap people, just you."

"And another thing what makes you think you can just take me out to eat. I have a life! I don't have to be here and I'm not your boyfriend!"

"This really has to stop. I told you I'm hungry and I wanted to talk to you plus you could use some food. Being anorexic is not the way to go. Mai doesn't even do that. And if you have a life and you don't have to be here, then why are you? And don't worry I don't think of you as my boyfriend, apparently I don't have the authority." Serenity finished her last sentence in sarcasm.

"I am not anorexic, I'm thin there's a difference that you apparently can not tell. I really can't tell you why I decided to come because I really don't know. I want to leave very badly and I don't know why I shouldn't," Kaiba said under his breath clearly holding in extreme anger.

"You aren't going to leave, Mr. Kaiba, I guaranty it. If it takes pushing you to the restaurant, so be it. If it means pulling you there, so be it. If it means telling the Board of Directors at your company that you missed or were late for a meeting tonight because you had a date, so be it," Serenity said to him looking him straight in the eye.

"What makes you think they'll listen to you," Kaiba said forgetting to deny the fact he did indeed have a meeting tonight.

"Because I'm so pretty why else would you skip a meeting," Serenity told him confidently.

Kaiba couldn't argue with her on that. She was pretty and she was probably right about making the other employees believe that he was out on a date with her. He would have hoped they would remember that he had no interest at all of women, he never really told anyone and in the case of the best of the best showed up he would probably take the chance. Kaiba really had no choice but to comply.

"Fine. I'll stay but if I do you also must promise me that no one shall know of this."

"Believe me you and I are in the same boat on that one."

Kaiba and Serenity walked for a while longer in mostly silence the only other things that were said were complaints and occasional mumblings from Kaiba.

When they finally reached the restaurant at the end of the park it was about eight thirty and they a beaten most of the dinner crowds. A hostess who kept looking at them as if they were a couple seated them. Kaiba held his tongue, he knew if he said something like WE ARE NOT A COUPLE! Serenity would mostly likely slap him and publicly scorn him.

"What are you getting?" Serenity asked him very pleasantly after they were seated.

"I am not getting anything. I told you I wasn't hungry and I'm still not hungry."

"That's ridiculous," she said very simply without looking from her menu.

Kaiba didn't even bother to look at his. He knew he wasn't getting anything. Serenity scanned her menu until a waiter came around to take their order and he took Serenity's first.

"I'll have the Cannelloni and he'll have the Chicken entrée," she said very briskly and gave the menus the waiter.

Kaiba was in such a state of shock that he didn't say a word but he was like a shaken bottle ready to explode.

"What is the matter with you?" He said in his very best effort to keep from screaming "I told you I wasn't hungry!"

"And I disagreed. I didn't want to sit here and talk to you while only one of us ate. Besides I can tell when somebody is healthily thin. A health meal will do you nothing but good," Serenity said in a hushed voice.

It was true. Seto had not eaten a healthy full meal for a while. All the work he had to do was too important and he never really looked at not eating for a couple of days that unhealthy. But for some strange reason he really wanted the chicken.

"Your meal will take a while so we better get started."

"On what?"

"On you,"

Kaiba looked at her very confused. "Whatever you think your going to get out of me; just forget about it. I'm not telling you anything you want to know."

"But you don't even know what I'm going to asked you."

"Well then what are you going to asked me?" he asked very annoyed.

"If your satellites can track anything that Mai might be carrying with her to help us find her."

Seto knew that was not that easy at all because Mai would have to be near something or carrying something that had a signal or technological base that could be found by a computer. He thought about the situation for a moment then looked up.

"What would Mai carry on a regular… Wait. No! I told you I'm not helping you!"

"Why though? Why! Really! Because I want to know why you couldn't help me! Did Mai do something to you that you didn't like and now you're taking this out on her? Or did I do something!" Serenity said a little too loudly.

Her comment made Kaiba very nervous. She exploded all over the restaurant and some people from other tables were staring.

"For the Love of God, Wheeler, could you keep you voice down to a regular tone," Kaiba said trying to keep his own voice quiet low.

"Could you very kindly help Mai. It wouldn't get in your way and you have no reason to say no."

"Am I getting paid for this?"

"Why in God's Name would I pay you? Aren't you rich enough!"

Serenity was starting to raise her voice again so Kaiba decided to go her way.

"Fine you don't have to pay me even though this would be out of my way…"

"It would NOT be out of your way!"

"OK just shut up! Would Mai be carrying her cell phone?"

"Seto, don't you think that if she was carrying her cell phone we would CALL IT!"

Seto decided to ignore the fact that she had used his first name out of turn, but he did feel quite stupid for asking a stupid question. He would have yelled too.

"Whatever she would be carrying that I could track would have to be that I would have my own sample of." Seto said very casually as he leaned back in his chair.

Serenity thought for a moment on what Mai would be carrying that Kaiba could have a sample of. "Ooo! I have a stick of lipstick that is the exact same as the kind Mai always carries with her!"

Kaiba looked at her a while before answering with a very dumfounded look on his face.

"Are you stupid? I can't track LIPSTICK!"

Amazingly Serenity didn't take this comment to offence. "Hmmm. That was a stupid thing to say. I just love that God damn lipstick."

Before anyone said anything more, their food arrived on a large brown platter and the waiter served them their plates. Kaiba simply stared at his food. He was not going to be wrong about this. He was going to remain not hungry. Even though his mouth was beginning to water and the chicken's aroma was coming up to his face to meet his nose.

He looked at the chicken and soon he was looking at it as if he were mad at it. Disappear dammit! Kaiba thought to himself.

Joey was becoming very bored sitting in the apartment with Tea. They had finished their game of 'Go Fish' and now they were drinking wine to see which cheese went the best with Tea's red wine. However they weren't looking the cheese they were sampling. First they would pick up a random piece of cheese then put it in their mouths, then drink a sip of wine immediately after and see what it tastes like.

"OH MY GOD! EWWW!" Tea spit a half chewed piece of cheese and looked at Joey with a disguised look on her face.

"What?"

"Don't EVER eat pepper jack with red wine!"

"Tea, I think we should stop because we've already drunk a bottle of wine together. I don't want to get drunk."

"You're right, Joey, I think I'm goin' take a nap."

"A nap? Why don't you just crash for the night, it's already nine o clock."

"Because… I'm…kinda tired… goodnight!" Tea mumbled.

"Alright, you sleep I'm going to take a walk."

"…yeah…" a tired Tea said as she threw her hand up to show she heard him.

Maybe I'll run into Serenity and we can walk home. Joey thought to himself. Before he left Joey noticed that Tea's kitchen trashcan was overflowing. And I always thought Tea was neat. Joey decided to take to trash and a flashlight (Joey liked to be prepared) to the alleyway on his way out.

Joey left with the bag and flashlight and walked down the street until he found an alleyway. When he found one he went down it and turned to flashlight on. It was pitch black. There were a lot of bags there already and Joey had a hard time putting the bag some place where it wouldn't fall over and break. Finally he decided his best bet was making room for his own bag. He started kicking the other bags out of his way when his foot kicked something that didn't feel like a brick wall.

His foot got stuck in between what felt like…bars. Joey quickly shined his light on whatever the bars were and took his foot back. It was exactly what he thought it was; metal bars. It appeared to be a jail window.

I didn't know there was an old jail under one of these apartment buildings. Joey thought to himself. He became very curious with this so-called jail cell. He decided to shine the light in the window. It was very dark and the light didn't carry far, but from what he could see was it defiantly jail cell.

It had stonewalls and floor and a metal barred wall that looked an awful lot like a jail cell too. He looked around the cell and figured it was just some underground, abandoned jail. Still it was weird. It was freaky.

He looked around more.

Something golden and shiny gleamed in his flashlight's shine. It looked like golden hair. It was defiantly golden hair. And Joey only knew one person with hair like that.

He looked for a body to the golden hair. He could barely see what he thought was a body through the darkness. He knew so well that that had to be Mai. He recognized her every curve and the softness of her skin.

It can't be her. Why on her would she be asleep in an abandoned jail? No. It's me. I've missed her too long and now I'm seeing things that aren't there. I really wished I knew where she really is.

Joey was heartbroken. The situation was too odd and too lucky. Even though he was hurting, Joey had to discard this hallucination as a mere sight he wished to see but really didn't.

Joey turned his flashlight off. He didn't want to look at this painful memory any longer. He stood up and stumbled out of the dark alleyway without the light. He was deeply troubled by what he thought he saw.

He walked back to Tea's house and went to sleep. He wasn't sure what to do with what he had just done so he slept on it.

Joey decided that he wanted to see more of the weird old cell. Even though it was now going to remind him of Mai every time he thought of it. But what Joey didn't know was that thinking of and seeing that jail cell gave him a comforting feeling that he would find Mai and that was why wanted to go back.

Sorry it took so long again. I haven't been able to get at my computer lately. Anyway the fifth wasIS MY BIRTHDAY! YAY! It's present day and my birthday is kind of spread out through the weekend so… yeah…

'Love!'