A/N: Thank you to all who reviewed! I'm so happy I'm almost to the 200 review mark! XD If I made it, I think I'd cry.

I was rereading some of the earlier chapters of my story and it seemed to me like they were probably the best chapters. I was so sad with the outcome of the later ones in comparison. T.T They still had an ok storyline, but the same kind of humor that made it what it is, isn't there anymore.

Unfortunately, I don't know if this will be one of those or not. This one plays more on the development of their relationship than actual humor. T.T So if you like fluff, and some sadness, this is your chapter.

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Ch. 14 Get over it

Joey, Yugi and Tristan watched there friend beat the snot out of Dylan. They cringed when she punched him and quickly looked for an exit. This did not go as planned.

"Hey Joey…that wasn't supposed to happen was it?" Tristan said biting his bottom lip as he watched Dylan scramble to get up.

Joey gulped and frowned as he thought of what Téa might do to him if she found out it was his idea. "Not exactly. Ya see, Dylan was going to going to get cozy wit Téa, den Kaiba would see and think that Téa was wit Dylan."

Yugi shook his head, "For once that sounded like a good idea coming out of Joey's mouth. But once again, we were mistaken."

"Ah, so you didn't take into accountability that Téa would beat the shit out of Dylan if he touched her." Tristan pointed out.

"Apparently not." Yugi voiced as Téa's glare fell upon their group. "We've been spotted."

As fast as Joey had gotten in the lunch room, all three raced for the exit. Of course who else to block the exit but Seto Kaiba himself.

"And what might the dog and his friends be chasing after? Or perhaps running from?" Kaiba said, his eyes cold, steel blue.

The three turned around to run in the opposite direction, and just like a horror movie, Téa was standing right behind them, ready to kill. The three gulped and stood there with there tails between their legs.

"JOEY!" Téa yelled, not caring who heard her. She grabbed Joey by the collar and lifted him up so that he was on his tiptoes. This was pretty amusing considering that he was taller than Téa "Why the FUCK did Dylan say that YOU told him that I liked him?" She asked, coking her head and trying to keep from snapping his off.

"Well, er- ya see T-Téa…" He glanced around at Tristan and Yugi for support, but instead he found them cowering from Kaiba's glare and smirk.

"Don't you EVER, and I mean EVER try anything that stupid again! Or I will hunt you down, friends or not, and make sure you never have kids!

The boys paled and nodded quickly. As soon as Téa released Joey they took off running.

Kaiba smirked and laughed as they ran. He had been enjoying every moment of this. He always wanted to see them get chewed out by one of there own.

Téa sighed and looked down at the floor, "some friends they are…" She cursed and closed her eyes as the bell, for the dismissal from lunch, rang. She stood there watching the people disappear from the cafeteria, feeling that she needed to stay. She didn't notice that Kaiba had stayed as well.

Once almost everyone was out, Kaiba moved over in front of Téa. He knew she would most likely be pissed, but it wasn't like he was going to make it worse. "So those are your sorry excuse for friends? I would have thought you'd choose better. Did you see them run? That, I could watch over and over again." He smirked. He just made it worse.

Téa looked up from the ground at him, feeling betrayed be her friends, and then he goes and rubs it in. Nice job Kaiba.

The empty expression on Téa's face was enough for Kaiba to wonder if there was any soul left. Then what came next, no one saw coming…she broke down and cried. Cried because she didn't think her friends would do this to her, and cried because they did.

Kaiba cursed himself for saying anything at all and couldn't stand to watch her cry like that. He pulled her toward him, and straightened her body that was threatening to collapse. He kept one arm around her and one rubbing her back to get her to calm down.

Téa buried her head into Kaiba's jacket as she tried to control some of the sobbing. She couldn't though and instead started hiccupping. She held onto Kaiba for dear life, as though she was afraid he would leave her.

"Shhh…Téa, it's alright. They're all retards who can't do anything for themselves. You shouldn't have trusted them in the first place." He said trying to get her to stop crying.

Téa stopped for a second and then started sobbing some more. Her body shook with each raking sob and she had a hard time controlling it.

Way to go Kaiba, make her cry some more! Kaiba knew there was no use in him trying to comfort anyone, he was horrible at it. But that didn't mean that he wasn't going to try. Maybe he just needed to have a more Kaiba-ish approach. "Téa, damn it, stop. Stop it. This isn't going to make the pain go away, trust me I know. I know it hurts right now, but I need you to look at me."

Téa had stopped sobbing but refused to look at him. His words were true, but she still didn't want to acknowledge him.

Kaiba sighed and kept rubbing her back, he needed to get through to her. "Look at me."

Téa hesitantly moved her head to look up at him. She didn't, however, remove her death grip on him. Her eyes still let out tears as she silently obeyed Kaiba's command.

Kaiba swallowed hard as he saw her empty eyes staring up at him, still producing tears like a faucet. He wiped them away, even though they kept coming and kissed her forehead. "I'm not going to tell you that all the pain will go away, because it won't. I'm not going to tell you that life will go back to normal with your friends, because it most likely won't. Yes, you'll always have this memory whenever you think about them. Yes, it will always hurt. But know that whenever you feel everything's against you, and all your friends are gone, I'm here. I'll always be here." With that, Kaiba gave Téa another kiss on her forehead.

Téa was so shocked that anything remotely sweet and sentimental like that came out of his mouth, that she momentarily forgot how to talk,

Kaiba smirked as he looked down at her shocked expression. "Oh, and don't tell anyone I said that or your dead. You, your friends, and any witnesses."

Téa was thrown out of her state of shock at his last statement. She rolled her eyes and laughed, 'yep, same old Seto, and I wouldn't have it any other way.' She let go of her grip in Kaiba but still gave him a hug. "What would I do without you?"

"Well, I know what I'd do without you. I'd probably be closing on some big deal, and I would be getting top marks in Mrs. Tanguren's class, instead of detentions." Kaiba said looking thoughtful.

She smiled and gave him a kiss, "You know you like it."

Kaiba smirked, "and your point?" He mumbled, kissing her back.

Kaiba called in for a limo to pick Téa up after school. Most likely she would kill Tristan while he was on his motorcycle, so she wasn't getting a ride from him. She would get picked up 5 minutes after the busses left and the walkers went home. That way Kaiba could leave before her. She also wanted to make a stop at her home first.

Once the limo fro Téa arrived, she hopped in and told the driver to go to the address where she lived first. She watched the scenery go by and kind of missed the different things that she'd usually see on her walk home. Her house wasn't extremely far from the school, but Kaiba's mansion was too far to walk to.

She got out at her house and immediately got the mail that was spilling out from the box. Almost all of it seemed to be junk mail, but she'd sort through it later.

She stopped once she was inside the doorway. Everything looked the same. Not that it shouldn't, but…she just wished someone else was there. She slowly moved through the house, going to the kitchen first.

She saw the pots and pans left out from the morning she had gone to school and gotten detention with Kaiba. She saw the magazine she had been looking at, with a pen she used to circle what she wanted. Everything was the same as it had been, nothing had been touched. That meant that her parents never came back to see her.

She walked through the family room and picked up a photo of herself and her parents, her family. It seemed like so long ago since she last saw them. She remembered the nights she'd spend awake waiting for them to come back, but they didn't. It would be months at a time until she finally saw one of them. She was so happy in that photo. It must have been a long time ago.

Téa slipped the photo into her shirt pocket and went up to her room. She opened the door and immediately missed it. The warm colors her walls were painted, the posters of dancers and pictures of her everywhere. She fell onto her bed and let the mail spill onto the floor, she didn't care. She was back home, inside this room was her life. Everything she loved about her house, everything she adored was in this very room now. Everywhere else reminded her of her parents. She didn't have to think about them here, it had always been her sanctuary.

She quickly remembered the limousine waiting for her outside, and gathered up her things. She locked up the house with one last sad glance then jumped into the car. She took the opportunity to finally sort through the mail.

As she thought before, most of it was junk, but there was a few things that she looked at twice. There was a red envelope addressed to her family from some major company. She frowned and ripped it up, she wouldn't be going to that party. She sifted through some more of the junk and found a letter from her parents.

She opened it with a look of pure joy on her face. She read it over and the joy dissipated with every word. She had to reread it to make sure she wasn't missing anything.

Dear Téa,

Your mother and I hope you are well. We have gotten together for a few weeks finally and are wishing you were here with us. We probably won't see you until after Christmas. I know this may seem like a long while, but you're older now, we know you'll handle it well.

We hope you are doing well in your studies at Domino High. You need something to fall back on if your dancing doesn't go as planned. You know you can always talk to your cousin in Beijing, if you need a change of scenery for a couple weeks.

We love you,

Mom & Dad

Téa put the letter aside and sighed, 'AFTER CHRISTMAS! They've got to be kidding me! The school year just started and they won't be back until AFTER CHRISTMAS!' 'You should be used to it.' 'Oh, shut it. Well at least they bothered to write.'

As they approached the mansion, Téa noticed her favorite magazine was in the mail pile. She grabbed for it and gasped at the cover. On it was a picture of Kaiba, looking stone faced and gorgeous as usual. Sure, Kaiba was on magazine covers all the time, but it was the headline next to it that had her shocked.

She read it aloud, as if it would make it disappear. "Seto Kaiba, rich, sexy and taken." 'Oh, shit.' She groaned and went to find the page the article was on. The driver grunted to say that they had arrived and she cursed as she closed the magazine.

She thanked him and scrambled to collect her things and get into the mansion. She hastily threw her backpack on the couch and the mail on the nearest coffee table. She grabbed the magazine again and stumbled back onto the couch.

'Where is it, where is it!' She flipped through the pages, finally finding a picture of Seto and…herself! 'Where in the hell did they get this!' The picture was of her, Kaiba and Mokuba in the pool. Of course it was with Kaiba grabbing her from behind.

"URGHH!" Téa let out a frustrated sighed and looked at source of the picture. In fine print there was the writing "Seto Kaiba unofficial fan club." She cursed and had to refrain herself from screaming. She started to read the article and rubbed her temples as she read her name over and over again.

"SETO!" She yelled upstairs to the CEO, but he wasn't responding. She stormed up the stairs with the magazine balled in her fists. She punded on Kaiba's door and was met with a muffled "Stop pounding on the damned door!"

Téa let herself in and threw down the magazine on Kaiba's desk. "Did you see this Seto? How did they get that picture! We're screwed now! Everyone knows no- are you even paying attention!"

Kaiba abruptly stopped his typing on his desktop and looked down at the enlarged image. He sighed and looked up at her, "I knew this would happen, eventually."

"You knew, so why did you say we should keep it a secret?" Téa asked not quite sure why he'd prolong it.

"Well I was hoping to not have the press find out until much later, hopefully not at all. But I knew that eventually it would catch up to us." He said leaning back in his chair. "Your friends will know by tomorrow at school and it won't matter if we pretend or not, everyone will believe the press over us. It's something you'll have to get over rather quickly."

Téa could not believe he just said for her to get over it. "Spoken like a true Kaiba." She said and then saluted him with the finger before she left.

A/N: Ah, another chapter finished! Téa and Kaiba are fighting, sorta. The press finally caught up with the two and I feel bad for 'em. But oh well, I write this stuff anyway! Haha! Thankies to everyone and as always…R&R! Tell me what you thought about the press finding out so soon, I love to hear your comments!

Wolfie: "(sigh) I'm so lonely…"

Kaiba: "Don't worry, I'm here for you."

Wolfie: "Awww, thank you!"

Kaiba: "Psyche!"

Wolfie: "Boy do really want to write that you died…by my keyboard."