I DO NOT OWN YU-GI-OH!

Chapter 5 – The Storm

Tea didn't awake until the next day, feeling disoriented. She saw the sun bright above her, signifying it was noon time. she had really slept a long time; but the sleep was restless. She was having crazy dreams about waking up and she wouldn't have any clothes on or anything. She looked up into a dark, cloudy sky. Her arm hurt, but it didn't throb like it did before. She reached over and touched it, and felt a firm bandage over the wound. Her dream!

She shot up from her laying position, and touched her torso frantically. Thank god! Her shirt was still on, tattered up like it had been when she passed out. Then what was the bandage made out of? She looked down at it, and noticed a familiar pattern mixed with black fabric. Wait a minute..... her eyes flew towards her legs.

He had done it again!

He had torn about two inches off her skirt, and now it was shorter than ever! Her eye ticked. But then again, that couldn't have been enough.

She looked up to see Kaiba staring at her from the other side of the fire. The bottom part of his sleeves were torn off as well. That was the black fabric with her skirt fabric.

Even though she was angry with him for making her apparel even more revealing and low cut, she was also grateful he had used his own clothing this time. She looked at his steadfast gaze, and suddenly he cleared his throat.

She rolled her eyes and looked out into the ocean, not able to stand his penetrating blue gaze.

He cleared his throat again, louder this time.

She gritted her teeth. "I suppose you want a thankyou." She stole a glance over at him to see him still staring at her, his eyes suddenly squinted.

"I help you, and all I get is sarcasm. Did I really expect anything else other than that from you?" He sneered, and saw he open her mouth to further their little squabble. He saw her hesitate. Then hesitate again. She finally turned back around and stared back into the ocean.

"Thanks." She said, so low, it almost sounded like the surf against the rocks.

He bit back another sly comment, and just huffed quietly to himself. He made a grunt of acknowledgement, and then looked out into the ocean too. A gust of wind blew at them and made the dying fire crackle.

Kaiba frowned. The wind was really picking up now. He stared out across the ocean to see the horizon become slowly darker in the morning light. There were a lot of clouds in the distance. There were several flashes in the distance, and he frowned harder.

Lightning. He counted. A deep rumbling reached both their ears, and he heard Tea make a strange noise.

He glanced over to see her already standing to her feet. "That doesn't look good." She said, and he silently agreed. It was within a few miles, and the wind was bringing it towards them. This wasn't good at all.

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Mokuba looked out the window. The horizon was ridden with clouds. He was still in the office of the Kaiba Corp building on the beachfront. He frowned. The weather reports all said something of a tropical storm building up in the ocean. A lot of the search parties were returning. He didn't like this, but he also didn't want to endanger them.

"Sir." Came a voice from behind him, and he turned to see that it was the search party leader, whom he had let come up when his secretary buzzed him. "Sir, almost all the parties are back in, and are settling up at the docks." He replied, but there was something in his voice that made Mokuba's insides squirm.

"Tell me, what are the chances..... that....." He left it hanging, but the other man knew what he was talking about.

"Even if they had survived a crash and were on the water's surface, this storm would definitely capsize whatever they were waiting on." He said with an air of uncertainty.

"Are there any islands out there, that maybe they could have washed up on?"

"There are islands out there, but most are small, and uncharted. You guys were out in the middle of the ocean anyway, far away from the mainland, and even with the direction you said they went, that's still a lot of ocean to search." He reported, a little scared at the reaction of the small child. Would he burst into tears? Would he fire him?

Mokuba saw the fear in the man's eyes, and sighed –more to himself than anyone else. "Make sure all the people get in alright, and we'll continue the search when the storm has past. Report back to me everyday....." the man was confused at this statement. "I'll be heading back to Domino as soon as the storm passes as well."

"I see." Was all he said before he left the dark room.

Mokuba heard the door shut, as he continued to look out the windows. "Oh, Seto.... I really wish you are okay."

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The wind was now getting harsher, and the hut didn't look like it was going to stand up to the wind's large gusts. And plus the surf was getting larger, the waves reaching close to the camp site. Tea was getting worried as it began to rain and thunder harder. Kaiba grabbed his deck from the dueling disc and put them into his pants pocket before turning to her.

Why did he look so calm? She felt like shaking him and exclaiming that he needed to show some kind of emotion other than the normal scowl. He grabbed her by her good arm, and began to drag her away.

"Where are we going?!"

"Just come on." He replied and they half-ran in the direction Kaiba was taking them.

When they reached the waterhole, Tea was confused. It was raining, and he wanted a drink? What was he thinking? Then he got into the water, and began to walk towards the waterfall. She frowned.

When he was at the front, he stopped and looked into the waterfall for a minute, then he plunged right through! She gasped. Where'd he go?

He slowly climbed into the water too and waded over to where he had disappeared. She went up to the waterfall and tried to see him. "Kaiba! Kaiba, where'd you go?!" She screamed, but heard nothing. "Kai-" she was cut off as two hands thrust out of the waterfall and grabbed her by the shoulders and dragged her through.

She was flung heavily against something warm and soft. She looked up, her eyes stinging from the water, and saw Kaiba staring down at her, drenched in water himself. He was staring down at her silently, that blank expression on his face. But even as he stared at her like a tall, warm statue, his arms still held shoulders.

Some water from his bangs dripped down on her face and tore her from her unwanted daydream of being so close to him, his arms tightly gripping hers.

She pushed away from him, and then saw that they were in a small cave under the waterfall. She saw ahead, and the cave raised up so there was a small patch of slate that was above the water level. She saw Kaiba wading his way over there, and then hop up on the slate and then sit.

He stared over at her like she was an idiot for just standing there.

She waded over as well and crawled up on the platform and sat a few feet from him. The roar of the waterfall was loud in her ears, and the impact of the waterfall hitting the pool was splashing small sprays of water over the entire cave. She heard more thunder and saw bright flashes of lightning from behind the waterfall.

Kaiba was pissed. He hated this island; and he disliked his company on this island. He looked over at her to she was shivering, rubbing her legs, which were folded against her chest. He wouldn't admit it, but he was cold too.

She rubbed harder against her legs. He remembered using his metal throwing cards to cut the fabric for her bandage. He was a gentleman, so he didn't sneek a peak, but his knuckles had brushed across her thighs, and they were soft and warm. He looked away from her.

He had never been so close to a girl before in that manner. And ever since then, all his mind could recently think about was how soft they were; and for once he wasn't thinking about duel monsters or his company..... and Kaiba didn't like that. His mind should only think about duel monsters, his company, and also beating that damn Yugi! But no..... his mind was being an adolescent idiot and thinking about..... girls.

He hated that! He didn't want distractions! That was the main reason he had stayed away from them in the first place, or any other thought of romantic relations. He knew he could have just about any woman in the city, heck in a hundred mile radius, but he never wanted to deal with that.

He suddenly thought about how she had bit his ear yesterday; and the strange things it made him feel. Why was he thinking of that?! She was being a total psychopath yesterday.... biting him. How childish.

"What are you sulking about now?" She asked, and he frowned and shot her an annoyed look.

"I'm not sulking. What in your tiny brain made you think I was sulking?" He threw back, and she swiped some wet hair from her face angrily.

"I don't know. You always seem like you're sulking, or like you're mad at the world or something."

He scoffed, and shook his head in agrivation. "You're delirious. That wound made you lose so much blood, your brain isn't working right, not that there was much brain to work anyway."

"Is that all you can ever do? Insult people?"

"Most every needs to be insulted." He retorted, and then he heard her scuffling towards him. He spun his head to see she was getting really close to him. "What in the hell are you doing? You aren't going to bite me again are you?"

"Shut up, I'm just cold is all." She growled and then went behind him, and leaned her back against his. They were now sitting back to back in the cave. She felt him tense up, and he leaned back to look at what she was doing. She finally felt him turn back around while exhaling a large, annoyed huff.

He had to admit he was cold too, and the body warmth felt good, and it almost felt like he was sitting in a chair. He took in a deep breath, then released it. Great. Were they just supposed to sit here all afternoon and evening, together? He was not looking forward to that. Already they were arguing, but he couldn't help that –she was the one starting it all. He almost smacked himself. He felt childish right then too.

They sat in silence the rest of the afternoon, lost in their own thoughts. As the evening dragged on, and the storm still raging around them, they began to drift into sleep, their backs resting against one another.

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A/N: sorry this is so short, but that's only because the next chapter is really long (b/c we'll finally be at the day we first saw in chapter 1! Yay!) and that day is full of very fun stuff! Very fun! Just wait a little while longer for it though, because I need to update my fruba fic now….. and that's a long and complicated thing…… x.x….. okay, review please!