Aoi: YEAH, this is another chapter. Aren't you people amazed? Amazed that I can make Tea act so insane? That she's not dead? That she hasn't been shot point blank yet? It's like how on earth could a fifteen year old write all of this? That's my little secret. Anyways, the basic question from the readers, what did Joey and Seto do in that limo? Seto?
Seto: T.T No comment.
Aoi: And there you have it folks, from the CEO himself. And on with Chapter three.
Disclaimer: I do NOT own "Yu-Gi-Oh!" or the nickname "Bunny boo" I heard that name off of a show called "Bratz" which I also don't own. But even though I don't own that, I do indeed OWN THIS STORY! So please don't steal it from me, and don't try to say I stole it from you because I made up this storyline a while back in my kitchen...and I don't even read a lot of fanfic in the area that I write in. Enjoy. .
Insanely in love
Chapter Three: This love...is normal, I swear
After drinking many milkshakes at the Ice Cream parlor with her friends...well except for Joey since he had jumped in Kaiba's limo, but strangely never returned. He must've been gone for a whole hour now...it was odd. But back to the star of the story, Tea Gardner. The brunette glanced up from her vanilla milkshake, that had been filled with hot fudge chocolate, when she heard Duke say, "Tea...you know if you keep drinking milkshakes you're going to be fat."
"So...I don't care," she hesitantly answered, thinking, 'I know if I keep drinking these then my dear friends will stay concerned...and won't ever leave me. Meaning their lives would belong to me...and me alone. It's perfect, a perfect plan indeed. But what if I do get fat! That'll definitely make Seto turn his nose...unless. Unless what he has for me is true love. Ohmigosh, and true love is something that you don't need to get physical to enjoy it. That must've been what he was trying to tell me. I mean. When he said...I'd never make love to you...he was basically saying that he would never do that without us being married. He wants us to wait!' A squeal suddenly sounding from her, as she knocked over her three unfinished desserts. This caused the others to stare at her, blinking slightly.
"Uh...Tea?" Yugi began.
"Yugi, it's great! she interrupted.
"Huh?" both Yugi and Ryou asked in unison.
"Seto and I are still together," the female cheered.
Tristan stared at the milkshake that was on the table, he backing slightly out of the booth. Not wanting to get wet, but Tea was blocking his exit. Curse him being by the wall. His eyes scanned the area. There had to be a way to escape Tea's oncoming speech and the approaching milkshake. A panicking expression appeared, there was only one thing left to do.
"How exactly are the two are you still together?" the ivory haired teen asked, still not sure of what his friend was talking about.
"Yeah, I mean...Are you sure that's what he meant?" Yugi began, "After all, he did look pretty disgu...are you sure Tea?"
"Stop it guys," Duke sighed, "This is just some kind of stage obviously...she'll get over it."
"LISTEN BUSTER!" she suddenly shouted while pointing an accusing finger at Duke, Yugi and Ryou. The finger moving to point at each of them individually. "You guys don't get it. Do you? What me and Seto have is true. Our bond is stronger than anything that I've ever felt before. For once can you guys be happy for me? I'm always caring about you guys! Never putting myself before you guys, and you three can't even believe in me and my dreams!"
"I exist," Tristan commented as he started going under the table.
"No one cares," the female laughed, "ANY-WAYS...I didn't think I'd have to give you guys one of these in a while...but it looks like I have no choice. It's like you guys forgot what friends are. Friends are people who drop what they're doing and listen to the one with the drama in their life. And who has the drama right now? Ryou...you don't have any conflicts that force you to do things you don't want to...Yugi you don't have conflicts that you want to embrace for all eternity and Duke...you just don't have anything! I'm the one with the problems...you guys are my friends. We're supposed to stick together through thick and thin...you're supposed to be there for me like I've been there for YOU. Or is that too much to ask?" Her arms crossed, huffing as she looked away from them.
Both Ryou and Yugi felt bad, they didn't want Tea thinking that they were bad friends. Well the truth was that Yugi knew that his friend was insane...but he didn't want to say anything. Moments like these he wished that Atemu was there with him. But he was off buying new cards or something like that. All he told Yugi was that he was going off to do something but that he was going to tell him something when he got to the game shop. A burst of excitement hit the tri-color haired teen as his violet eyes lit up. Ryou still looked sad however, he thought that he was the worst friend in the world. The raven haired teen really didn't care for the fact that she dissed them to the extreme, he thought that he had done a good job as being a friend...but maybe there were just some people you couldn't please.
That's when it happened, an evil grin appeared on Duke's face. It was time for payback. Revenge would never taste sweeter. "Tea?"
"Are you ready to apologize?"
"For what!"
"For being an awful friend and not believing in me," she answered as she peered down at her seated friends.
"Yeah, whatever," the teen began, "Anyways...if you and Kaiba are still together like you said...then why don't you just go and see him?"
"Psh, that's the stupidest idea I've ever heard," she laughed, "No wait...what if I just go over to Seto's house and see him. I mean, we're together...so it's the best excuse." Laughter sounding from the female, "Why didn't I think of it earlier...oh Tea, you're such a genius."
The raven haired teen never looked more annoyed, he had a look in his eyes as if he could just murder her right then and there. But then he felt something touch him, his eyes widening as a light blush appeared on his face from embarrassment.
"Sorry 'bout that," Tristan sounded from underneath the table before he finally got out from underneath it. The reason it took him so long to escape was because he was, number one, trying his hardest not to touch anyone and number two, wanted to hear if Tea said anything about him. Which she didn't. This made him feel so insulted, and it showed once he stood up.
"You listen to me TEA," he suddenly said, "You better start giving the respect that I deserve!"
"But Tristan," she began as she started to walk out, "I'm giving you all the respect you deserve...NONE." Evil laughter sounding from her as she finally left the restaurant, leaving the four boys at the messy table.
"The bitch," Ryou suddenly said, causing them to all look at him in disbelief that he would say such a thing. "What? Isn't that what she is?"
"Yeah, I didn't know that you cussed," Yugi began.
"I cussed?" he asked, "AH, my lips have been soiled, DAMN HER A THOUSAND TIMES...GAH, I did it again...I need to become pure again." His eyes scanning all of his companions. "Where am I going to find something to make me pure!"
They all shrugged.
"Yugi, you and I must sleep together!" he declared.
Tristan burst out into laughter, this was funnier than funny. Too bad Joey wasn't here...he would've loved to see Yugi's face such a bright shade of red. Yugi had never been embarrassed. "Uh...Ryou? Are you sure that would make you pure...sounds like you'd just be dirtier."
"Right," the ivory haired teen quickly said, he also blushing, "Yes...I mean, I didn't mean to say that...I said it strictly because...I said it because-"
"It was a joke?" the other embarrassed teen asked.
"Yes, that's it...a joke," he innocently smiled.
The brunette male couldn't stop laughing, this seriously made his day. He was going to have a ball bragging to Joey later.
Tea stepped out of the taxi cab that stopped in front of the Kaiba manor. A squealing like expression upon her face as she stared at her future. 'It'll be great. I can see it now...after the wedding night and I've completely moved in and had a kid or two. He'll happily kiss me when he wakes up beside me. Every morning and night will be paradise for the both of us. Our love will be expressed verbally and physically all the time. And I'll never die...since I won't be neglect. Gosh, I can't believe you can die from that. But those guys wouldn't make up such a thing...they're true and blue. I'm one of the luckiest girls ever...to have friends like the ones I have. Joey, he's like the big brother I've never had...the type who promises to beat up the guy who breaks my heart. Duke is my friend I can get advice from and who never doubts a word I say. Ryou is so gullible...while Yugi is just sweet. Atemu is strictly eye candy, along with those other yamis. Buttercup, Blossom and Bubbles are awesome. I mean, Buttercup is a clown who likes to joke around...while Blossom is trying to be funny in another way...that I don't get yet. But I will. And Bubbles...sweet, adorable, pretty, prissy, blonde- I have to kill her! Oh, I know...Tristan he's...erm...well...Tristan's...is Tristan I guess.
Eeep, I got side tracked in my own mind. Anyways, Mokuba...what will I do with him. I don't want him living with me and Seto...wouldn't he be one of those things that would have to go? I don't see the point of him, besides, Seto won't have time for him anyways. I'll be his center of attention. I GOT IT! He'll be our servant. We'll even dress him up in a maid's uniform...I don't think Seto would oppose...waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaait. If Seto doesn't mind his little brother in a maid's uniform wouldn't that mean that he would be attracted to him? NAH, it'd probably just mean that he thinks of Mokuba as a little sister instead of a little brother...yeah, strictly that. There's no way my future husband would find his brother attractive dressed as a servant. That's...INSANE!'
She suddenly blinked to see Joey waving his hand in her face. "Tea...you in dere?" he asked.
"What are you doing, Joey?" she flatly asked.
"Tryin' ta stop ya from goin' ta talk to Kaiba."
"I cannot let you do that, Joey."
"Eh, Tea...you don't get it...Kaiba doesn't like you," Joey began as he placed his hands on her shoulders, shaking her lightly to get the information through her head. "TEA, he's not what you think he is...erm...he's...A BASTARD. Yeah, a snobby, rich bastard who would never love ya. Now...how 'bout we just get out of here an' talk 'bout this later."
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO," she shouted, "Joey...it's cute that you're trying to protect me. But no thanks. I've got to do what my heart tells me to, and it's telling me to march into the house and go up to my baby's door and tell him that I understand how he feels."
"Wait...you do! Are ya sure you unduhstand how he feels?" the blonde male blinked, his complexion growing paler by the moment.
"Joey?" she flatly asked once more.
"Yeah?"
"Why are you looking paler, your breath is drawing shorter...and your palms are looking sweaty?"
"Uh...uh-"
"Oh...my...gosh," she gasped.
"Nah Tea, it's not what you think," he quickly spat out.
"Aw, you have a crush on me," the brunette squealed as she hugged him tightly.
"I do?"
"And all this time I thought you were just playing dumb...you were only acting this way around me. You must really like me! But I'm sorry, my heart belongs to Seto and there's no more love for you. Besides it wouldn't have worked out anyways...the two of us...You're like my big brother! Not a real one but you know how people say that to their friend because deep down inside they would gag at the chance of sleeping with them like people would do for their own brother...yeah, that's how I see you. I could never, ever, ever, sleep with you Joey. Well...that's not entirely true...maybe if I was drunk or depressed...or extremely horny...but other than that Joey...No." And with that she walked past him. Towards the mansion that lied before her.
Joey blinked slightly at this...did Tea basically turn him down for something he didn't even ask for? It was...odd. He leaving the Kaiba property. Whistling to himself.
Up at the door, she took a deep breath. This was it...her moment of truth. She just had to prove to Seto that she wasn't just another name in his little black book...she was TEA GARDNER. The most important woman that he'd ever meet. And this was her time to show that to him. Before knocking she took the time to make sure that her school uniform was all together, nothing hanging out...and nothing tucked in. A deep breath was taken as she smoothed out her dark brown hair before pressing the door bell. Quietly she rocked her head to the catchy jingle, tempted to ring it once more. However the butler suddenly answered the door.
He being an elderly man, stout in shape. Height wise he couldn't have been more than 5'8, but that was still pretty tall to the female. All he did was peer down at her over his nose. The expression upon his face remaining the same; emotionless. "And what do you want, miss?" he asked in a faulty British accent. "I'm Tea Gardner...Seto's fiancee."
"Fiancee, Miss?"
"Why, yes...that's what I said didn't I?"
The butler then peered down at his list, never bowing his head to the female. His gray eyes shifting back towards her. "I'm sorry Miss...but I have special orders from Mr. Kaiba himself not to let you, or any Teas of the matter inside of the manor."
"Well listen you," she snapped as she poked him firmly with her index finger into his chest, "I'm going to go in here...whether you like it or not, and nothing you can say or do can make me think otherwise. Butler guy, I don't know who you think you are...but when love is the fuel of two lovers, no one can step in the way of it. And the fact that you're trying to interfere means that you obviously have problems. AND I CAN'T STAND IT WHEN PEOPLE DON'T CONFRONT THEIR PROBLEMS!"
The butler blinked slightly at this, he was so shocked...never before had someone stood up to him like that. Made him cower without being a Kaiba. It was...amazing.
"Miss Gardner," he began.
"Yes?"
"We're meant for each other."
"Say what again?"
"We're meant for each other...you're the only one other the Kaibas or that odd Egyptian woman that appears out of no where," he continued, "You're the only one meant for me."
"Uh, gross...gag me with a spoon," she answered as she pushed past him, walking into the house. The elderly man shrugging slightly as he closed the door.
Tea was determined to find her love's room. But how? Moments like these she wished she asked Ishizu for a floor plan of the mansion. Whether she liked it or not...she knew that woman had been stalking her man. And surely would know every inch of the house by heart. Was Ishizu around though? NO, so the brunette would have to find it on her own...all she had to do was listen to the voice of her heart and it would lead him to the room.
After searching every room in the house she came up to the last door, 'This has to be it,' she thought as she suddenly attempted to kick open the door. Bad mistake, and she figured that out the moment her foot came in contact with it. Winces sounded as she managed to open it, staggering in to see Seto sitting at his desk. 'The guy has a desk in his bed room? Wait...but where's the bed...oh, this has to be one of those office thingies,' rang through her mind as she made her way over to her true love. He however ignoring her presence, wishing that if he didn't say anything she would just go away.
The senior just continued to stare at the work he had been typing up, he was no longer in his school uniform. The brunette dressed in one of his black shirts and leather pants. When Tea was close enough to him, she suddenly commented, "Wow...you smell clean. Just take a shower?"
"Yeah, let's say that," he stated as he continued to type upon the keyboard of his computer.
"Seto...you work too much," she yawned as she pressed the switch of the surge protector, that the computer's cord had been plugged into, resulting in all of his work disappear before his very eyes. For a moment he felt as if he were going to lose his mind, as if he were going to go off on the female. But then he remembered something, which caused a few smirks to sound from her. "Luckily I didn't forget to save as you were talking to me."
"That's because you're smart Seto...anyways, I need to talk to you."
The male locked his eyes on her, trying to hide all emotions. To show no weaknesses. In one movement she sat upon his desk so that she was directly in front of him, the keyboard being slid off to the side, and the monitor being pushed back slightly.
"Seto...I realize that you didn't want anything to get physical between us. You wanted to wait until after we were married to go to the final base of the baseball game of love. And I just wanted you to know that I respect that, and I'm willing to try all of this. Only because our love is so strong and powerful, and if you're able to resist temptation the so can I."
"Tea?" he began.
"Yes bunny boo?"
"Get the hell out of my house," he flatly said as he pushed his chair away from the desk with a swift movement of his foot.
"Huh? Wait, Seto...but our love, the speech...the white picket fence!"
The CEO only walked about the private office as Tea continued to sit on his desk, she looking as if she could turn hysterical at any given moment. Then his eyes locked once again on hers. "Tea, in my life I have only five loves," he holding up his hand to pull down fingers as he listed them off. "My company, my dragons, my brother, my reputation and my mu- company...yes, company."
"But you said company twice," she whined.
"That's because I love it twice as much," he figured, "But what the point is Gardner, there is no more love left over for you. And there never will be. For the last time I.DONT.LIKE.YOU! I DON'T LOVE YOU. WE'RE NOT FRIENDS...AND THAT'S HOW THINGS ARE GOING TO STAY. I DON'T EVEN SEE YOU AS A SISTER...I SEE YOU AS A PESKY LITTLE NUISANCE THAT SHOULD BE WIPED OFF OF THE FACE OF THE EARTH! SO WHY DON'T YOU JUST CRAWL BACK TO THOSE LOSERS YOU CALL FRIENDS! "
Tea couldn't believe it...these words, there was so much emotion. He wasn't joking...he was telling the truth. Maybe she was wrong. Maybe he wasn't her love after all...and if he is, he sure does have a weird way of showing it. But Tea couldn't just sit around and do nothing, the dance was still coming up and she still needed a boyfriend to propose to her. She deserved love, she craved love, she needed it. The female only got down on her hands and knees and did as she was told...she crawled. There was nothing left between them, he had shattered her heart along with her dreams. It was obvious that she'd never be over him.
Once she was outside the room, and the door had been slammed behind her. She spotted a familiar face. Mokuba Kaiba. The all too adorable little brother to the CEO that she had been madly in love with. A friendly smile was given from her to the child with the long raven colored hair. It was so adorable how he was only twelve years old. Quickly she stood up.
"Uh...Mokuba, do you think that there's anyway that you could talk some sense into your brother," she began, "I know he loves me...he just needs a tiny push from his little brother."
"Bite me, bitch," he spat at her.
"What? Mokie, you're not supposed to say words like that...they're too old for you."
"GAH, don't call me MOKIE!" he growled.
"Anyways...Mokuba, so can you."
"Tea...listen," the youngest Kaiba said as he crossed his arms, "My brother would never love you, because he has I think either four or five loves in his life...he keeps changing it after erm...well he keeps changing it."
Tea lightly swayed back and forth as the younger talked, she thought it was so strange how she liked his very innocent voice and how it hadn't matured yet. Mokuba was so pure...so very pure it was odd to her.
"His only loves in his life are his company, his dragons, me, his reputation and I think that's it," he laughed, "There is NO room for you. So give up, and just leave Seto alone!"
While Mokuba had been talking to her, Tea drifted off into her little world once more, 'Wow...maybe I was going about this the wrong way...What if Seto isn't my true love. What if my true love was right underneath my nose, and I didn't even realize it. Hm, as I think about it...in a few years Mokuba's going to be hotter than hot and he was only how many years younger than me? Four years? That's barely any time at all...All I have to think of it is when I'm 25 he'll be 21. I'm not sick for thinking this...I'm normal.'
"HEY, HAVE YOU EVEN BEEN LISTENING TO ME!" Mokuba suddenly shouted at her while waving his arms about. "DON'T SAY I'VE BEEN TALKING TO MYSELF ALL THIS TIME!"
The brunette female suddenly kissed him full on the mouth, knocking him to the floor. Mokuba struggled trying to get away from her...he was terrified and had no idea how he was going to get out of this mess. Finally he moved his mouth from her's to yell at the top of his lungs, "SETO!"
Moments later Tea was shoved out of the house, falling into the dirt onto her knees. Tears rolled down her cheeks at this, there was no way that she had fallen so low...low enough to be on the levels of Tristan. This couldn't be. She couldn't live on like this, she needed love. But who. Slowly she crawled out of his yard , sniffling.
At home in her room she opened up her year book, looking over the glossy pages. She just had to find herself a boyfriend but who? As she flipped through the pages, the first picture that jumped out at her were Atemu and Yugi's. Either one would work...even though she'd prefer the pharaoh. Then she glanced over Ryou and Bakura's picture, either one of them could also work...even though she'd prefer the tomb raider. Her cerulean colored eyes then fell on Duke a smile appearing over her face, it even broadening as she glanced over Joey's photo. "I never realized how hot my friends are," she laughed, "I guess I'll have a boyfriend in no time...and who knows, maybe I'll end up making Seto a very jealous Kaiba indeed."
Aoi: Whoa, looks like I'm going to wind up with another chapter. Originally this story was just going to have two or three chapters. I'm so proud of myself. If I finish this story, chances are I'll be able to finish my other ones. .
Mokuba: really now. T.T
Aoi: Yes .
Seto: Is Tea going to leave me alone?
Aoi: I dunno...anyways, I loved the reviews. And thank you to my readers who've been reading my updates...it makes me happy inside that people actually read my work.