I DO NOT OWN YU-GI-OH!
Chapter 2 – The First Day
They got to shore in the dark, illuminated only by the moon's soft blue light. Tired from the swim, Kaiba collapsed on the beach's edge, his feet still in the water. Tea crawled and laid on her back a few feet from him. She was so tired, her head began to feel dizzy, and she looked to her side and the sight of Kaiba next to her began to blur. Soon it faded, and she was knocked out.
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The next thing she knew, it was morning, and the sun was bright as it was raising from the horizon. She sat up and groaned, her body aching. She had a terrible headache to boot. She lazily looked back to where Kaiba had been last night, but she found he was not there. She spun and looked around. She saw a figure in the distance near the line of trees next to the beach. The familiar purple coat was still on his shoulders, and his back was facing her. She stood on wobbly feet and trekked across the sand to him.
He tilted his head slightly at the sound of her shuffling, but never acknowledged her. She got close enough to see what he was doing. He was laying out his duel monsters cards to dry on a large flat rock. She was amazed his dueling disc had even stayed on during all of this, let alone, still hold all the cards in place.
"Are they damaged?" She asked, leaning in.
He said nothing. He waved a leaf over them to help dry them off.
She huffed and decided to take a seat next to him, staring at the cards. He tensed up just a bit, and looked over at her annoyed. Well, at least he had finally acknowledged her. But he said nothing, and then continued to look over his cards.
He couldn't see any of them missing. They were all here, especially his three Blue Eyes. Kaiba retraced the events of last night. It all had happened so quickly. Someone was trying to kill him, and had pretty updated and efficient technology to almost pull it off. The flying blades weapon that destroyed his Blue Eyes jet was unlike anything he had seen, and he had seen a lot, with Kaiba Corp originally being a weapons designer and distributer.
He looked out into the forrest of the small island they were stranded on. What a predicament this was. He was sure that Mokuba was by now heading the search party to find him, along with those brats and Yugi. They would probably be seriously worried about Gardner too. He heard her make a noise of pain, and he couldn't help but look to the side at her. He frowned. "You're bleeding." He replied, and she nodded, looking to her arm.
"I noticed!" She growled. She put her hand to the wound, but it hurt badly, and she winced. Before she could really react, Kaiba was ripping material –from directly off her body! As he tore the bottom half of her beige shirt off, she felt her temperature rise and her heart begin to beat rapidly. His swift long fingers had traced her belly and around her sides to her back to rip off the rest of the bottom half of the shirt. She gulped as he brought his hands back up and began to dress the wound.
Then she noticed he had plenty of clothes on himself! He had a coat –a long one! And also long pants and a shirt. She raised an eyebrow. She had completely forgotten about the pain, she was more concentrated on the fact she was now wearing an extremely short shirt.
"Kaiba....." She began angrily.
He finished tying the bandage and leaned away from her. "There. No need to thank me."
A vien popped in her head and she fisted her hand. "Why didn't you ask me before you completely destroyed my shirt?!" She exclaimed, and stood trembling in anger. But by standing, Kaiba now had a pretty good view of under her shirt from below. His eyes trailed slowly from her waist to her eyes. She almost shivered if it wasn't for her anger causing her to quiver already. Dark blue eyes met bright sapphire ones and stayed there.
"I just helped you, you could be a little more greatful." He replied coldly, and looked away from her and back to his drying deck. "You should be thankful I even allowed you to ride in my jet to escape." He said, and she frowned.
"Excuse me?" She placed her hands on her hips. "I should be thankful? What about you? I saved your life back there on the dueling platform!" She exclaimed, and saw him set his shoulders and he stood up upruptly. She had to look up to look into his eyes. He was a lot more menacing now than when he was sitting down.
"I was perfectly alright, and if it wasn't for you knocking me down, I would have seen exactly who was attacking us!" He exclaimed back.
"You can be so arrogant sometimes!" She growled.
"And you can be quite unappreciative at times." He spat back. She sucked in a breath and pointed a finger at him, jabbing it at his chest.
"If you had everything under control, then why are we even stranded here in the first place? You can't blame this predicament on me, I didn't do anything but save your sorry ass from being punched full of holes!" She exclaimed.
His eyes squinted. He didn't need to hear this whining from someone like her. As much as he wanted to continue their little 'disagreement' he decided he should be a little diplomatic if he was going to be stranded here with her for who knew how long. Kaiba's sense of dimplomacy came out as, "Maybe next time this will teach you not to mess with me or any of my affairs, and that includes my life."
Tea cocked an eyebrow at this statement. What a bastard! She huffed and spun on her heels and began to walk away.
"Where are you going now?" He asked, his voice demanding.
"I'm gonna find food and water. We won't survive long without either of those." She stormed away from him, her feet uneasy in the soft sand. She never looked back once to see if he was even watching her as she left.
She trekked in the jungle for a long while, before getting to a small clearing. The tall grasses came up to her waist, and she ran her fingers along the tops of the blades of grass as she made her way across the clearing. She could hear the sound of the beach all around the island, and she thought she heard another water sound. She headed in the direction of the splashing, and soon found herself at a small cove with a waterfall falling into a pool of sparkling clear water.
She ran up to the edge, and dunked a hand in to taste the water. When the refreshing feel of fresh water ran down her throat she realized just how thirsty she really was. She must have drank a gallon of water before passing out on a flat rock near the water's edge. She placed a hand on her belly, remembering suddenly that it had been ripped in half to aid in Kaiba's idea of being helpful.
She suddenly felt hotter remember that his hands had been so close to her body. She frowned. What in the hell was she thinking? This was Seto Kaiba she was talking about! Even though he was devilishly handsome, he was still Kaiba.
Suddenly a shadow passed over her, blocking the warm sun. She opened her eyes and almost fell off the rock when she realized Kaiba was standing above her, looking down at her with an odd look on his face, one that she couldn't quite read.
"I thought you said water and food." He replied, folding his arms disapprovingly.
"Jeeze. Give me a little longer. You know, you could look for some too. Food that is. I've done enough by finding the water!" She exclaimed, sitting up, and looking up at him. He grunted a reply and walked past her to the water's edge and cupped his hand to drink some water. For a moment, he almost looked innocent, cupping water like that. She was sure he was indeed very thirsty to have actually been caught drinking water like that.
She found his eyes over on her, and they narrowed. "What in the hell are you looking at? Haven't you ever seen someone drink water before?"
"Not like that, and especially you." She replied. He rolled his eyes as he stood again. She noticed his duel disc was still on his arm, and the cards were firmly locked into the holding slot. "Oh, are they all dry now? Did any of them damage?" She asked, pointing to his deck.
"No." He said simply, and left it at that. He stared at her, as if expecting her to do something.
"What is it?" She asked. "Now who's looking at who?" She said mockingly.
"I was just wondering how you were gonna catch us any food by just sitting there, basking in the sun." He said, and she frowned.
"Catch what and with what?" She asked, and he halfsmiled, and reached in his pocket. He pulled out three blank dueling cards and held them up to the light. Tea noticed they didn't look like normal cards, and the shine they had when the light hit them told her they were not made of card material.
With a quick flick of the wrist, the cards were by her hand, actually making a dent in the stone. They must have been extremely sharp to do that. She pried one out of the rock and looked at it. "Those are very expensive, so try not to break them." He said before she could get mad about him almost slicing her fingers off.
She looked it over. How in the hell was this supposed to work? Did she just have to throw it really hard at something? She gingerly fingered the edge. It was indeed sharp. She traced it along the rock's surface, making a small indented line. She heard a sigh of impatience.
"You're supposed to throw it." He said as if she was a complete moron.
She sighed and held them up for him. "If you're the expert about these things, then why don't you go catch something?"
"You already said you were going to find it for us." He said, and she twitched.
She stood up and pointed them at his face. He wasn't phased. "And what about you, mister too-busy-playing-with-my-cards, can't you do something constructive? Why don't you make a hut or something, somewhere we can sleep. Or maybe, make a fire, or maybe make a fishing pole and catch a fish, huh? How about that?!"
A small smirk danced over his face. "You're such an over-reacting little child." He sighed and snatched the blade-cards back from her hand and placing them back in his pocket. He spun on his heel, and began to walk away. She gritted her teeth. She reluctantly followed him back to the beach.
Then she saw that by the beach, Kaiba had already started a fire going, and also built a hut between a cluster of trees, complete with a leaf door. It looked really sturdy too. How in the hell? He even had several fishing lures by the ocean to catch fish. What the? She looked over at him, a cocky look on his face.
Oh, it was satisfaction enough to see the look on her face. Kaiba could hold back the confident smirk he was giving her, his eyes cruel and lingering. She was too easy to upset –it was almost funny to him. It almost seemed like he knew her better than he really should. Hell, she was always present whenever there was a duel with Yugi involved, and that was often enough. She was always spouting cheers of encouragement and yelling at others about their heartless, cold nature.
He watched as she inspected the hut after becoming flabbergasted, and not saying another word to him. She went inside and looked around, and then came back out and stared at the fire close to the hut. She then looked back to the fishing rods. She bent down to one of the rods and pulled on it slightly.
"I hope everything is satisfactory." He said sarcastically, and walked over to her and looked down at her. She stood up quickly and turned to him. Amazingly, she was smiling. This threw him off.
"Yes, of course. It's great!" She smiled sweetly and patted him on the chest. She saw the look on his face, and it was all worth it. He was thoroughly stunned, but he was trying to hide it by scowling. She knew him all too well –hell, it seemed like he was always in some way in their lives. Maybe not hers as much as Yugi's. But still, Yugi was her friend, and she was always there to help him, but that also meant whenever Yugi was dueling, Kaiba was always involved, so she had his actions and attitude on memory.
She was trying to mess with him. Kaiba couldn't believe it. Well, two could play at that game. And he strived to be the king of games, so this little challenge was almost enticing. Well, this could give him something to do while they were stuck here.
A/N: Well, how is it? I like writing in here -so much fun. this is a fun story. i hope you all like it as much as i do. some fun starts next chapter -whee! i love it.... ahh..... don't mind me. review please!