I DO NOT OWN YU-GI-OH!

Chapter 11 – Walking the Plank

Mokuba had tackled Serenity to the ground, shielding her from flying debris. He heard their own laserfire answering the fighters who were attacking them. There was another explosion, and Mokuba listened.

It was silent.

He sighed. It was over, for now. He sat up and looked down at Serenity, who was sitting back up as well. She coughed and brushed dust from her clothes.

Mokuba sighed yet again to see she was uninjured. "Sorry about that, are you okay?"

"Yeah. I'm just shocked is all." She said, noticing her hands were trembling.

Mokuba was about to reach for her shaking hands. She was scared, but so was he. Maybe he could comfort her. As his hand found the courage to reach out, the door burst open and security officers ran in, along with Roland.

"Master Kaiba! Miss. Are you both alright?" Roland asked, helping both of the up.

Mokuba nodded and brushed some more dirt from his shirt. "That was a close one. How'd it get so close?" He asked.

"We didn't see this one until it was too late, sir. He got through our perimeter defenses with some kind of holographic shielding technology." Roland reported.

Mokuba frowned. "That's new."

"We're running scans on the wreckage now, sir." Roland replied, and he nodded. He looked over at Serenity. "Want me to show the lady out, sir?"

Mokuba looked over at her, and saw a look in her eyes. "No, let her stay a moment. I'll show her out." He replied, and the others nodded and then left the office. Mokuba turned to Serenity. "Now, what were you here for?" He asked kindly, trying to sound like himself; it was getting hard these last few weeks.

"Mokuba... I-I just wanted..." She stuttered, and then paused.

"What?"

"I wanted to uh... just say that..." She bit her lip and looked into his slate-colored eyes. She could be brave. "I wanted you to understand that I know what you're going through. I was separated from Joey for so long, and I missed him everyday. I even started to say that I didn't need him, but then I knew I was wrong. He was my older brother; I will always need him. And all these people being... mean to you. I can't stand that. You miss your brother, and a lot of responsibility has been given to you, and you didn't even ask for it," She began to tear up, "and I just want you to know we think –I think- you're doing a wonderful job! And, and..."

Mokuba was touched by her words, but he didn't expect what she did next. She reached out and pulled him into a tight hug. She was crying on his shoulder as she bent down to hug him. He didn't have anything to say; but he felt a blush on his cheeks.

"I'll cry for the both of us. I'll cry for you, Mokuba." She hugged him tighter and sobbed into his shoulder, and felt as his hands came around her and hugged her back.

"Thankyou." He said softly, and she felt his own tears against her neck.

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Tea and Kaiba ate in the small kitchen with Kiyo. He was eating too, but he was reading something. Tea was nervous. She didn't like this situation at all. She was hungry, so she was scarfing the food. Kaiba was being a little more refined, eating quickly, but with manners.

She tapped her fingers on the table top. She was nervous. She wanted to get back home. Why wouldn't this guy just take them there already? Why was he stalling? Why did she get such a bad vibe from him?

Her tapping become louder, but then it was silenced.

Kiyo peeked up from his book.

She nearly choked on a mouthful of rice. She looked over to see Kaiba had placed a hand on hers to silence her. But he wasn't moving it away. He kept it there and she peeked from under her bangs to look at him.

He was giving her an annoyed glare. She stared back down at their hands. He finally pulled away and then continued to eat. She was certainly acting nervous, he noticed.

Kaiba was indeed very hungry, but something didn't taste right. The food had a weird aftertaste, almost like he had used alcohol in the cooking and didn't boil it down enough. Even though his stomach was still hungry, he began to slow down his eating.

Something just wasn't right. Kaiba put down his chopsticks and glared over at Kiyo, whom he found was already staring at him. That was creepy. Kiyo looked fidgety all of a sudden. He looked at his watch.

Kaiba suddenly felt dizzy yet again. He had been feeling better ever since he woke up, but now he felt like his vision was getting blurry again. He blinked a few times. His eyes felt so heavy.

Wait a minute! The funny aftertaste... Kiyo looking at his watch... could it be... could it be...?

Kiyo saw Kaiba struggled to keep his eyes open. He was surprised to suddenly see Kaiba upruptly rise to his feet, his hands supporting himself on the table. But his arms were trembling.

"Run Tea!" Kaiba exclaimed, as his strength began to give way.

"I..." She began, but she sounded a little out of it.

Kiyo rose to his feet and looked over at Tea.

"Run now Tea!" Kaiba yelled again, but turned and saw she was swaying.

"I can't..." She said helplessly and she passed out on top of the table.

Kiyo then turned to Kaiba. He was surprised to see he hadn't passed out yet. He had put the most into his to be sure he'd be knocked out the quickest. But here the man was, still standing; just barely though. Kiyo just had to wait for the drug to kick in.

Kaiba pushed back from the table to straighten up, but the world was spinning around him. He could barely keep his balance as he saw Kiyo walk around the opposite side of the table towards Tea. Kaiba grunted as he staggered and fought to keep his eyes open.

Kiyo began to laugh menacingly as he saw Kaiba finally waver.

Before Kaiba could react to anything else and try to escape, Kiyo was by his side and had landed a punch across his jaw. Kaiba heard glass breaking and there was a white light as his head hit something else and he was finally out cold.

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Duke was on the outskirts of the city when he saw the jet fly overhead. It was the same as the ones that had attacked Kaiba's dueling yacht. As it neared the city, it shimmered, and he swore it went invisible. Maybe he was just seeing things, because it was raining and obscuring his vision a bit.

He saw distant flashes of lights against the afternoon clouds. There was another bright flash, and then the sky was silent again.

He frowned and then looked up to follow the trail of the jet. He saw the the direction it had come from, and he pulled out his compass and matched it up. It was coming directly from the south-east.

He hopped back onto his bike and began to head in that direction.

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Tea felt a cold brush of air on her cheek. She tried to open her eyes. It was a fight to get them finally open, and when she did everything was blurry. She was outside, probably on the deck of Kiyo's boat. Kiyo! He had drugged their food!

She tried to push herself up, but found her arms were bound behind her back. She struggled until she saw movement, and her eyes began to focus; but as soon as they did she was watching Kiyo dragging something to the railing.

Her eyes went wide when she saw Kiyo dump Kaiba's lifeless form over the edge.

"N-no!" She screamed and tried to struggle some more, try to somehow get to her feet. But her legs were tied together too. "No!"

Kiyo gave a particularly evil laugh and walked over to her, noticing she was awake. He bent down next to her and saw her flinch and tears roll down her cheeks. He reached out and took her head in his hands so her face angled up to his.

"Now that I got your boyfriend out of the way, heh, I can have you all to myself." Kiyo replied and forcefully pressed his lips to hers.

He jerked back suddenly and stood away from her, wiping blood from his lips. She had bit him!

She spit out his blood at his feet, and his eyes narrowed. "You're gonna regret that, little lady." He replied and reached down and grabbed her by her hair.

She screamed out in pain as he began to drag her into the boat's cabin. "Let me go, you bastard!" She struggled, but her hair pulled tighter against his fist and she closed her eyes from the sharp sting.

"The drug is obviously wearing out." He mumbled to himself and then gripped her around the waist and threw her onto his bed at the back of the cabin. She kicked with her bound legs and managed to land a blow to his arm.

He frowned. Then he backhanded her.

"Stupid bitch; shouldna done that." He said and reached into his pocket and pulled out another unlabled bottle. He pushed it towards her mouth, but she kept it closed. He held her nose and waited for her to lose her breath. When she finally opened her mouth to breath, he poured the liquid down. She spit most of it up in his face.

"What did you do to him!" She exclaimed suddenly.

"I threw him overboard, what did it look like? He's long gone by now, sweetie. Drowned. Dead." He saw her face get angry, but tears also fell from her eyes. "Now, shut up and be still. I'll show you a really good time."

"Get the hell-" She began, but was immediately gagged.

Her tied hands were trapped above her head by a set of strong arms. She still managed to struggle, even though a small amount of the drug had gotten down her throat and was making her dizzy again.

Kiyo pushed her legs up, and she feared that the worst was about to happen.

Suddenly Kiyo was no longer ontop of her. She opened her eyes to see that he had been yanked back. She stared, wide eyed, as he was spun around in a circle just as an arm pulled back and landed a hard punch across his face.

Kiyo fell to the floor at the end of the bed.

And there, dripping from head to toe, looking very menacing -and yet, strangely beautiful- was Seto Kaiba himself. He was panting heavily and he blinked a few times. He staggered and had to place a hand against the wall for support.

"I told you I could take him." Kaiba said in a low, gravelly voice. She couldn't help but smile.

She sat up to get off the bed, but then a leg flew up and knocked Kaiba back and into the lounge area again. She gasped against her gag as Kiyo stood and marched towards the fallen Kaiba.

Kiyo pulled out a very large knife and jabbed at Kaiba as he tried to stand. Kaiba dodged, to an extent, but held himself steady against a nearby table. His strength wasn't back fully; but if it had been, this guy would have been history in ten seconds.

Kiyo went into a fighting stance, and jabbed again, but he missed because someone had knocked into him from behind, knocking him to the floor. Kaiba looked down to see Tea had Kiyo temporarily pinned.

Kaiba went for the knife, but Kiyo was too quick, and rolled and gripped his knife tightly, and then brought it against Tea's throat. They were kneeling on the ground in front of Kaiba, who was partially still leaning on the table.

Kaiba began to see spots in his vision. He had to keep his focus.

It had been a rough time ever since he regained consciousness in the water, about to run out of breath. He had managed to make it to the surface, and swam back to the boat, knowing Tea was still there.

Tea groaned as Kiyo pressed the knife closer. He pulled her up to stand with him.

Kaiba blinked and held up his hands in defeat.

The moment Tea felt Kiyo's grip loosen, she pushed her head back to headbutt him. He stumbled back and she spun on her bound heels and thrust her tied hands up to hit him in the face, but she couldn't keep her balance.

She fell backwards, but was caught by a set of strong, wet arms. Then she was swung around as Kiyo jabbed at them. Kaiba held her tightly, partly using her as a balancing support. It was a whirl of colors as he spun her and dipped her as Kiyo attacked them. The close quarters of the small boat's cabin was swirling in her vision.

Kiyo obviously got fed up, and looked over at a cabinet. He quickly opened it and pulled out a fire axe.

Kaiba and Tea both gulped; there was no way they were gonna dodge that in their condition.

Kaiba –with the rest of his strength- scooped Tea up and made a run for it.

Kiyo cried out a battle cry behind them and Kaiba didn't turn once as he left the cabin and then leapt into the ocean once again from the railing.

They hit the water hard, and Tea thought for sure she was going to die, because she was still tied up and gagged, and Kaiba was obviously still drugged/sick. Her lungs burned as the dark waters filled her vision.

Kiyo saw them fly into the dark waters. He sighed and threw down the axe in frustration. He thought he was going to have some fun at this stopoff! These two were too much of a hassle! He walked back to the cabin to drive back home.

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Just when Tea thought she was going to pass out, Kaiba found her again, and brought her to the surface. She gasped for breath against the gag. He took her still bound arms and stuck his head through them.

He began to swim back to the island, which was still close by. They heard the sound of the boat's engine roaring away. They reached shore quickly, and collapsed on the sandy beach like they had when they first arrived.

They were both exhausted and panting. Tea still had her arms bound and around his neck. They were laying on their sides, facing eachother. She cleared her throat irritably. His eyes opened and looked at her.

"K-afffsh." She said against the gag. He reached up and took it away from her mouth. She sighed. "Finally."

"And here I was enjoying the silence." He said softly, his voice still deep and hoarse.

They had just been drugged, captured, and pushed overboard -all by some creepy psychopath with an axe, escaped and swam from his boat, and were now entertwined in eachother's arms on the beach of their solitary little island they had washed ashore on before... and he had made a joke. This was definitely not the Kaiba she knew.

"Uh, Kaiba, do you think you can undo my hands and legs now?" She asked, a little impatiently.

His eyes narrowed, and his face was serious. "No." He said simply.

She frowned. Okay, maybe the drugs were still in effect: they were still messing with his brain. "But this is getting a little..." she paused when he rolled slightly and was leaning over her, "...uncomfortable," she finished the last word almost in a whisper.

"Not until you actually let me finish what I was going to say before." He leaned in closer, his blue eyes clear and dark in the moonlight. "I wasn't going to say it was a mistake..." He said and her eyes went wide in shock. "I was going to say..." he leaned in close and whispered against her lips, "...you didn't need to worry, because I would protect you."

She sucked in a breath of surprise at the sincerity and content of his words. More than ever did she want him to kiss her. But before she could even fully sort out her own thoughts, Kaiba ducked out from her arms and began to undo her arms and legs from their bindings.

She watched him do it in silence, and then he stood up and walked away from her without saying anything more. She watched him go. He went back to their camp site and began to make a new fire. She placed her fingers against her lips.

She wanted to protect him too.

A/N: Holy crap! Another update! My fruba people are REALLY gonna kill me now. I expect a very nasty review from missy (my friend/fruba fanfic fan person)... this story is just flowing out better than the other one. But for those of you who read both my stories (yugioh and fruba) know that I'm almost done with the fruba update, so just wait please. Please? Well, anyway, phew! This chapter is over –some fun stuff. Now back to some more fluff with their little adventures on the island. This incident with Kiyo was actually supposed to happen towards the end of the story, but I felt it needed to be upped a bit to add some drama and romance. Yay! More fluffiness next chapter! Please, please, leave a REVIEW! It makes me so happy, and I get inspired! Okay, see ya soon!