Disclaimer: As you all can tell, I don't, will never, and even if I hope to, no longer even have fantasies about owning Yu-Gi-Oh, it's so sad, but we'll all just have to get over this little factor and move on in our nice pathetic pointless lives. Wow, that just made me sound very extremely and utterly depressed and gothic. Weird, heh heh, oh well, on to the story!

Chapter Seven

Tea sighed; work had been canceled for the week because the company's owner was taking a holiday, celebrating his twentieth anniversary. Her eyes lingered on the sidewalk as she walked down the crowded streets of Domino City.

She hadn't been out for a while, for she sometimes still feared that she would see her old friends walking down the streets, having a good time and not remembering her at all. It was sad really. If they had forgotten her she couldn't hold a grudge against them: after all, she hadn't seen them in over eleven years. In fact, next week would mean that it had been exactly twelve years…

She sat there, waiting patiently for the moment when the teacher would walk through the door and apologize for his late arrival. She heard some movement out in the hallway, and saw a young man walk through the door. He looked like he had just graduated college, about twenty-two years old.

He put a metal briefcase on the floor and looked up, his face was bright and he had a large grin on his face. His long black hair framed his face and made his eyes look even brighter. "Hello, everyone. My name's Mokuba Kaiba and I'm gonna be your substitute teacher for the rest of this week," He said.

Kida thought over what he said, something in that sentence was bugging her, his name. Where had she heard his name before? Kaiba… it sounded very familiar…

Something finally snapped and she realized it. Kaiba! Of course, how could she have not heard that name? Mokuba Kaiba was the younger brother of Seto Kaiba, CEO of Kaiba Corporation, and Mokuba was Vice President of Kaiba Corp.!

Before she realized it, he had started talking again, "My older brother told me that I had to get a job, so I decided that teaching wasn't so bad, so here I am!" His smile had not faltered, and everything he said was with enthusiasm, "And if you've got any questions about this, please refer them to a mister Rirsi Bakura."

Rirsi glared at him and mumbled under his breath, "Thanks a lot Mokuba… idiot." Though even as he said this a smile slid across his face slyly… now he finally had an excuse to humiliate Mokuba…

Knowing what he was probably thinking, Kida gave a quick glance towards her friend, she knew that he just loved to have an excuse to play a prank… or just plain humiliate someone.

Her thoughts had drifted to that painful subject. She hated when she though about them, about how much she missed them. She hadn't wanted to leave them, but she had no choice. They couldn't have understood what she was going through, and then things would have changed, and she would have eventually split apart form them anyway. Besides, it had been best for Kida.

She stopped suddenly, recognizing the building that she had stood in front of. She remembered how she had waited for Yugi and the spirit here so many times so they could walk to school together. She gazed at it sadly and sighed. She had lost the opportunity to be able to stay with her friends, not that it had existed for twelve years…

She sighed again, her chance to be with them had left her long before twelve years ago, it had started the day that she and Yami had met Ishizu…

Flashback

Tea stared at the spirit of the puzzle, he looked confused, which was very rare to see on his face. The spirit always managed to look calm and focused, and very cute… wait, cute? What the heck was she thinking? She mentally shook her head, something was wrong with her.

She closed her eyes for a moment and regained her composure. They were standing at the bottom step to the Domino Museum, her and the spirit, and for some reason it was a very nerve racking experience. "Let's go." He said, and the quickly walked up the stairs.

Upon entering the museum they saw many Egyptian artifacts, but nothing that would help them. They were at the back of the museum, walking by the doors to the basement when the spirit suddenly stopped.

Tea looked back to him with a confused expression, "What's wrong?" She asked him in a concerned tone of voice. That was just like her, always thinking of others first…

Without turning to face her he said, "I sense something down there that may help me in my search." She looked at him, confused. "In the basement?" She asked him.

Without responding he walked down the stairs to see what it was that had made him sense what he did…

End Flashback

It was ironic, that just when they had had a spark of hope that something good could happen, that Yami may have found a clue to his past, that Marik had come out of the blue and tried to steal the Millenium Puzzle. Was there some reason that nothing good could ever come out of a discovery, was there some reason that they had continuously had to face these harsh challenges? She didn't know, but it just didn't seem fare.

Kida eyed her friend warily. She could tell by the look on his face that he was plotting something, something very bad. She could see it in his eyes, that look- the look he got when someone was about to face extreme humiliation.

To her surprise, Rirsi didn't to anything throughout the entire school day, but he still had that look… Mokuba Kaiba was definitely going to get the worst of it. Or at least, that's what Kida thought that look meant…

Rirsi had a ridiculous grin on his face and an evil glint in his eye. He so couldn't wait to talk to Mokuba. He had known the younger Kaiba ever since he was born, and they had always gotten along 'partners in crime', they had been called. The pranksters of Domino, other times they had been nicknamed.

But that wasn't why Rirsi wanted to talk to him. There was another reason…

Rirsi and Mokuba had made a vow that they would talk to each other about everything, and Rirsi knew that there was something that Mokuba needed to talk about- that anxious look in his eyes told Rirsi everything. There was something that was really bugging his new teacher, and Rirsi needed to find out.

The day passed quickly for Rirsi and once the bell rang and the rest of the class had left, Rirsi walked up to the front of the class and stood in front of Mokuba with his hands on his hips. Mokuba turned around to face him and grinned, "You do know that that makes you look even more like a girl than you normally do, right?"

Rirsi normally wouldn't come up with a wonderful comeback, but he was too anxious to know what was on his older friend's mind. "What's up, Kuba, I can tell that something's bugging you, so tell me: What the heck's going on?"

Mokuba looked at him incredulously, "How did you?" Rirsi just cut him off, smirking, "I told you, I learned a few things from my brother's darker half."

Mokuba rolled his eyes and decided just to answer Rirsi's question, "Well, you know that girl sitting across from you?"

Rirsi looked surprise, "You mean Kida? She's my best friend." Mokuba put on a look of pain, "Yeah, I said: best friend, no offense meant, Kuba."

Mokuba continued, "Well, she looks like… someone my brother and I used to know." Rirsi looked confused, "Before you were born, my brother had a real bad rivalry with Yugi Motou, the King of Games. He was undefeatable. And, you know how your brother's got a darker side?" Rirsi nodded, "Well, so did Yugi, his name was Yami. And, in fact, he was Seto's real rival, since he was the one who dueled him… but I'm starting to get off the subject."

Rirsi rolled his eyes, "Just continue."

"Alright," he said, "Well, about a year before you were born, my brother held the first Battle City Tournament, specifically for the purpose to beat the Rare Hunters, and Yugi."

Rirsi looked at him in confusion, "Who the heck are these 'Rare Hunter' people you're talking about." Mokuba calmly explained them to Rirsi and Rirsi once again told him to continue.

"Well, in the final duel of Battle City, Marik face Yugi, or Yami, in the final round. Marik, like Yugi and your brother had a dark side, but he had created this dark side from his own feelings of anger, betrayal, and sadness." Rirsi winced just at the though, and Mokuba nodded in agreement. "Marik's dark side, Malik, had taken over Marik's body, and Yugi/Yami was determined to save him. In the end, Yami couldn't find a way to save him, and Yugi sacrificed his soul to save Marik. Ever since then, two members of our group have been missing: Yami, and Tea Gardner."

Rirsi's eyes widened, "Wait a second, Kida's mom?"

Mokuba looked about as shocked as Rirsi. Finally, realization spread across his face and he ran out of the room, shouting back, "I've got to talk to Seto!" After yelling that he left Rirsi behind the try and absorb the information he had just heard.

A/N: Hey, finally my chapter had gotten longer! And sorry people, I don't think that this story will last to many more chapters, just a few, and then I've written all the info that I can cram into one story. But on the bright side, I plan to write two stories based off of this! It would be a nice pre-story to this, which would most likely be based on a KidaRirsi romance. Also, I plan to write a one-shot that was about the day that Yugi sacrificed himself, which would be a YamiTea, and don't worry, I don't write descriptive lemons! I normally don't even read them.