I DO NOT OWN YU-GI-OH!

Chapter 6 – The Beginnings

Tea awoke, resting against something warm. She rubbed her head against the warm object, and sighed and then yawned. Something else rubbed up against her head, and she frowned, trying to open her tired eyes.

When she finally opened her eyes, she saw a blank wall.

Then she turned her head a little to see that she was back to back with someone, her head against their shoulder. The shoulder moved slightly, and the owner breathed out slightly and grunted, obviously still asleep. Oh yeah, she had cozied up to Kaiba yesterday to keep warm.

The roar of the waterfall had been soothing and she had almost completely blocked it out, but now it was loud against her ears. She was still, knowing that Kaiba was still asleep, as he wasn't saying anything, and the weight against her back from his was now overpowering. He must have been a heavy sleeper, was all she could guess as he pushed back a little, involuntarily stretching.

But when he did that she was thrown forward, his weight too heavy for her. Her head was thrust to her knees, and she groaned, and tried to squirm out from under him. But he only stretched again, and this time she was able to halfway get out, but was caught by his torso against her back.

She was now laying belly down on the cold, wet slate, with Kaiba using her as a pillow. Great.

He turned in his sleep and wrapped his arms around her, and she froze. He was holding her so tight she thought her lungs would explode. He nestled his head up by her neck and exhaled softly, another small grunt escaped his throat.

She had every intention of screaming at him... in just a moment. Maybe a few more minutes...

Kaiba hadn't gotten much sleep the last few days, and even in the cold, loud shelter, he couldn't fight back his sleepy eyes. He was in a deep sleep for a long while, where he didn't dream at all. He began to stir when his pillow began to move. He grabbed it and held it tighter, huddling into the warmness. He wanted to sleep just a little more.

But wait a minute. He shouldn't have a pillow. His eyes flew open and he shot up into a sitting position, and looked down to see a panting Tea, on her stomach.

"Thank god you woke up, I thought I was gonna die from not being able to breath." She said, sitting up as well she rubbed her neck, and looked over at him.

He was scowling in his own little way, but he also seemed confused.

"Why didn't you just yell or scream like you usually do?" He demanded, obviously a bit cranky. Then his eyebrow quirked up. "Oh I get it, you just like the way my body felt against yours, admit it." He said in a smooth voice, and she squinted.

She hated it when he acted so full of himself (forget the fact that she was enjoying it)! "No, Kaiba, I simply couldn't utter a word let alone a scream under your enormous head!" She exclaimed.

She couldn't handle Kaiba and his little games this early in the morning!

She crawled and then hopped into the water, walking back to the waterfall's face. "Let's look at the damage." She replied and went through the water.

Kaiba followed, still smirking to himself. Oh, she was setting herself up; she was making this too easy. Now that their little 'crisis' was over, if you even call a storm a crisis, he was going to go back to their little 'game'. He so enjoyed making her nervous.

When they got back to the campsite, the beachfront was a total war zone. The fire pit was almost completely gone, and there was a lot of leaves and branches all over the place. The hut looked somewhat still intact though, as Tea walked in to inspect.

Kaiba was picking up a stray fishing lure when he heard a blood-curtling scream.

Before he could react, Tea was scrambling up his body, shivering and screaming in short gasps. She wrapped her arms around his neck, and his arms involuntarily held her up off the ground, bridal style.

"What in the hell is wrong with you now?" He growled, and she pointed back towards the hut, and he leaned over and looked to see several snakes, obviously startled by Tea, slither out and away. They had probably used the hut as a temporary shelter from the storm; and that idiot Tea had just walked in and must have been surrounded by them.

He gave out an almost evil cackle at the very thought of the image he had missed.

She suddenly realized she was in the arms of Seto Kaiba; practically acting as helpless as she could imagine. But no matter what her body felt like doing, her mind was stronger, and she hit him in the shoulder with her fist. "Stop laughing at me, it wasn't funny! Now put me down!"

He smirked again, "You're the one who rushed into my arms like a desperate damsel in distress." He let out another maniacal laugh.

Ooh, she hated that laugh. She struggled some more. "Let me go!"

"I think you like it, why else would you have jumped on me?"

"You're such an ego-maniacal freak, Kaiba, put me down!"

"Why should I?" He asked, and she was a bit puzzled at his teasing. "Admit it, Gardner, you just couldn't resist the feel of my body, could you?"

She squirmed in his tight hold, but his arms were locked under her knees and around her torso.

She frowned, but refusing defeat, argued on, "Oh yeah, I couldn't resist you," she replied sarcastically. "Aren't you supposed to be a big, confident man? You should be used to girls throwing themselves at you. I bet you're just in denial; I bet you like holding me."

"So you're admitting you threw yourself at me?" He asked, that cocky smile still on his face.

"Quit dodging my statement." She snapped back.

"I'm not dodging anything, if anyone's dodging, it's you." And with that he suddenly released his arms, and she fell into the sand with a dull thud.

She had screamed on the way down, but now that she was down, she was feeling more angry than hurt.

She pushed herself up, staring up at him, jabbing a finger. "Oooh... God knows I hate you! Why do you have to be such an ass-hole all the time! Can't you get it through your little brain that we're stuck on an island together! We have to get along some time or another, because for all we know, we could be stuck here forever!"

His smirk disappeared. "We're not going to be stuck here forever. If I have to swim to get away from you, I will. Besides, Mokuba will find us any day now, so if I were you, I'd start thinking of an apology to give me so that I'll allow you to be rescued with me."

"Mokuba obviously hasn't found us yet, and what gives you any indication he ever will? It's been four days, and we haven't even seen a ship or a plane or anything! They could be under attack by whoever was attacking us in the first place." She spat, slowly becoming aware that she was going a little too far this time.

"He'll find us. He would never stop looking for me." Kaiba replied, frowning so hard it was giving him a headache.

"The way you treat everyone, Kaiba, it's a wonder why Mokuba puts up with you. Maybe he'll just forget about you and for once have a normal life without you to ruine it for him -by making him into a horrible, self-centered, uncaring bastard like youself. He probably wishes you were really dead!"

As soon as she said it, she knew for certain she had gone too far. It was one thing to insult Seto Kaiba, it was another to insult his only living family left. She slapped a hand to her mouth and her eyes went wide.

It took all he had not to slap her across the face or shake some sense into her. He squinted and then growled, "don't you ever talk about Mokuba and I as if you know anything about us, because you don't!"

He opted to just walk away from her right then, cold and silent. He had to get away from her. She was pushing him to the edge; and he really couldn't bring himself to hit a woman, even if she was an ignorant, ungrateful, and annoying ditzy cheerleader called Tea Gardner.

-

Mokuba sighed as he settled back into the headquarters of Kaiba Corp in Domino, now sitting in Seto's seat in his large office. He had just finished a conference with the stockholders, and was soon going to give a speech to the television networks and tell everyone Seto's disappearance officially, even though the news had already reported it.

He didn't like being in charge, but he refused to see all that Seto built and struggled over fall to pieces. He knew most of the inner workings of the company anyway, being by Seto's side most of the time. True, he hadn't really had the experience, but he had seen and heard Seto do it over and over again, that all he had to do was search his memory and lock into those words and numbers.

He had told Yugi and the others that they were welcome to stay as long as they wished at the beachfront lodgings, but they said they would return to Domino themselves at the end of the seventh day they had gone missing, which was only three days away anyway.

Mokuba hated leaving after so short a time, but he needed to be here, for the company in Seto's absence. And besides, his research computers were here, so he could find out exactly who was trying to kill them before. So far all he had was eyewitnesses of what the planes looked like. He remembered them vividly in his mind as well, and was determined to find out who they were and what their purpose was.

For now, Kaiba Corp was on high alert and mostly on lockdown in case they tried to kill him too.

-

Tea couldn't believe she had actually said that. It was one thing to go about their usual insults and arguments, but it was another to insult him about Mokuba. She knew that Kaiba cared for his younger brother; he was probably the only person on the entire planet Kaiba actually cared for. And she had gone and said something like that. She felt bad about it.

She sulked around some more on the beach and restacked some firewood, but without Kaiba's lighter, it was hopeless. Her stomach growled, and she gripped it, feeling the pain of her intestines. Maybe if she drank a lot of water it would help dull the feeling. She began to walk towards the waterhole.

-

Kaiba sulked around for most of the day, traveling through the forrest, and walking just about the entire perimeter of the entire island. He grumbled and thought about how much he hated that woman he was stuck with. But her initial words were sticking more than the ones about Mokuba.

"Can't you get it through your little brain that we're stuck on an island together! We have to get along some time or another, because for all we know, we could be stuck here forever!" She had said to him.

He growled. He hated the thought of being stuck with her forever. He couldn't even stand her for less than a week, let alone contemplating forever -or even a month for that matter. He climbed up a steep incline to get back up the small mountain to where the grassy plain before the waterfall was.

He was too concerned with thoughts of the annoying girl he was stuck with, that he didn't even notice that he was about to trip over a fallen branch. His foot caught under it, and he fell forward, but then his feet gave way and he rolled down the muddy hill, to land in a large, nasty puddle at the base.

He sat in the puddle a moment, feeling utterly disgusting, when he felt something crawl on his arms. He bolted out of the water, instinctively batting at the feeling, and noticed he had landed in an anthill that was being drowned by the puddle. Small ants floated around, struggling to get to land, and had latched themselves all over him.

They were now biting. He had to get them off! He ran back up the hill to where the waterhole was.

-this will seem familiar...-

After drinking a lot of water, Tea sat at the edge of the waterhole. She tapped her foot in the water's edge. She was tired, she was hurt, and she was upset... and, she was still hungry. She flopped back on the rock she was sitting on, her foot dangling in the water. She was at the water hole while she thought. He was bound to come back sooner or later. This was the only fresh water source they had. She hoped he would come back soon. It would be getting dark soon.

Oh god, was she worrying about him now? She huffed loudly, blowing her bangs off her face. If it was one thing being stuck on an island with him, it was another that she was beginning to get attached and perhaps used to his very presence by now.

Why was he so upset? Oh yeah, she insulted his family and his entire ego-maniacal, self centered, crummy attitude. Well, it wasn't like he had said anything nice to her, though. They had gotten into a fight, the biggest of many they had already had for the past few days.

This was a complete nightmare.

And when were they going to be found? Surely someone as important as him would have thousands of people looking for him. Then again, maybe the people who were after him in the first place were making sure no one found where he had disappeared to. For all anyone knew, they were both dead.

The sky was getting darker by the minute. Maybe she would go back to the hut... then again, that brought back a bad memory from this morning. Ooh, she hated snakes. There was no way she was going back there without him. It wasn't like he was any help this morning, though. She growled again at herself. Where was he already? He must have gotten thirsty. She pulled her feet out of the water, and sat Indian style on the rock, watching the small waterfall in the distance.

Then she saw a figure come from behind a row of trees. It was him. Even from far away, she could hear him cursing and mumbling something, as he literally ripped off his shirt and discarded his pants, and jumped into the cool water. Tea almost felt her jaw drop ten feet. Never once during their few days here had he taken off his clothes with her in the vicinity. Maybe he didn't see her. She confirmed this as she watched him scrub his head, still cursing. She lay down on her belly to watch him with a little more stealth.

He was definitely still angry. He dunked his head in the water briefly, before pulling back out. Tea literally died; it was like slow motion suddenly. His chin and neck were stretched backwards, his shoulder blades perfectly square and set, his chest toned and flat, his hair was even dripping water down all those wonderful features. She gulped... even she had to admit that he was hot! She suddenly forgot that he was a total jerk, and realized that he was an extremely perfect specimen of the ideal male body. She bit her lip.

He seemed to sense someone, and scanned the perimeter, and his eyes fell on hers in the distance, and he stared at her for a moment with something strange in his eyes. Then his brow furrowed into the perpetual frown she was all too used to by now. She almost hit herself in the head; this looked really awkward.

"What are you staring at?" He asked defiantly, and ran a hand through his damp hair. He looked almost completely different all of a sudden, his hair dark and sticking in every direction and the way his eyes were out in the open, not hidden behind those bangs.

"N-nothing, I was just sitting here, until you came out and started stripping." She said defensively, suddenly noticing that she had stuttered. She did not want to start another argument, though, and she sighed to herself, and then slid on the rock and hopped into the water too. She dunked her head once and then waded over to him, reluctantly though, because she was about to do something she never thought she'd do: "I'm sorry Kaiba, for talking about Mokuba and you like that. I know it's not like that. You both love each other a lot, and I know he would never stop looking for you. I'm sorry."

He figured she was swimming out to maybe slap him or argue some more, maybe even tease him, but he was not expecting an apology. He couldn't help but let his jaw drop open for a second before he could fully comprehend the situation.

He let out a sigh finally, trying to think of something sarcastic to say, but to his surprise none of them seemed appropriate for the situation.

Then he saw Tea frown, and walk a little closer to him, the water gently rippling from her moving body. She reached up and placed her hand close to his cheek, and he felt her fingers dance across the side of his face.

Her hands were cool and wet from the water, and yet they were blazing fire across his skin. He was mesmerized for a brief moment at the unknown and contradictory feelings he was now experiencing.

She half smiled before pulling back to show she had plucked three stray black ants from the side of his face. He looked down at them, and suddenly remembered he had actually fallen into a destroyed ant's nest, and that there were still some on him.

He couldn't say anything as she reached out again to pluck more off his forehead, then his shoulder, then his collarbone. As before, her cold fingers felt hot against his bare skin, and he felt a strange twisting in his stomach. He was hungry, but this wasn't a hungry kind of feeling. This was almost a sick kind of feeling, but at the same time it made him tingle all over.

He watched her face distort as she tried to find all the ants and get them off. She bit her bottom lip in frustration, and he suddenly thought about what those lips would feel like. That feeling in his stomach tightened, and he felt his jaw muscle flex.

Before she could react, and before his rational sense took over, he grabbed both of her hands, yanked her closer, and bent down to swoop her mouth into a hungry kiss. He had never actually done it before, but he figured he got it right because –after a few seconds of surprise- she began to kiss him back, her soft lips gentle and hesitant against his.

His hands slid up from her wrists to rest on her shoulders and pull her closer, as he deepened the kiss. She tasted really good, like some delicacy he had never had or was too unsure to try. His rational sense was fleeting, being washed away by the newly-appreciated feelings this girl's lips were sparking within him.

A/N: Well, I wasn't really planning for them to go that far, but I felt it was perfect for the moment, so I went ahead and did it –besides a lot of you were patient enough to wait through five chapters just for something to happen, and I got a lot of people wanting to see it (even though personally I thought it was too soon). Well anyway, not all is well on this island, though, and be prepared for next chapter, cause it probably wont be a happy one... I was sad, I didn't get as many reviews as I did last time…. where'd you all go?