Curiosity Killed the Cat
I do not own Yugioh, and just pretend I said this in all the other chapters, K?
OMG! Chappie seven already! YES! What wonderful news! Well, I'm gonna start picking up the pace with this story! Get some BIGGER action if you know what I mean. (winkwink nudgenudge)
I wanna cookie! But we don't have any, so I have to eat vanilla minnie wheat's! (I do not own vanilla Minnie wheat's or any other Minnie wheat's). I want more food!
Food is my favorite thing in the whole world! Manga is my second! But I get really pissed when my fav. Show is only on once a week! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! How could they do this to me? It is soooo not fair! All the shows I actually like are only on once a week!
Oh my! I'm so bored; I don't even think I'll continue writing for the next ten minutes!
Ten minutes later:
OK, so I cheated! I took fifteen minutes off instead! Oh well, back to the story!
Chapter seven:
Tea awoke to a constant pain in her side.
"Owww…" she mumbled miserably to the patterned throb.
"Get up!"
It only took her a minute to realize someone was kicking her softly with the side of his foot.
"Man, you look worse than yesterday night. Bet that's gonna leave a bruise."
Tea propped up an elbow and staggered to a half standing half sitting position. She was too week and hurt to do anything more.
The man smirked evilly down at her. "Sorry, but I forgot about you. Hope your night wasn't too uncomfortable. I know it can get lonely."
"You have no idea." She mumbled under her breath.
"Stand up."
Before Tea could comply, the man had yanked her to her feet by the scruff of her neck. He seemed to size her up and down. "Hmmm… I didn't hurt you too bad. I dare say you'll be able to continue your chores properly today."
Tea mentally groaned. She was in no shape whatsoever to do any chores, but she knew that wouldn't matter.
"I hope you learned you lesson, now hurry or you'll be late for breakfast."
Tea didn't know why, but…did he seem… cheerful? It was nothing outstanding, but Kaiba didn't seem to be on the verge of turning into fire anymore. More like, a small camp fire. Don't get her wrong, he still was a cruel bastard, but maybe him getting out all his rage on her relaxed him a bit.
"Breakfast?"
"Don't tell me you lost your brain cells last night. God, you're such an idiot. Breakfast! The meal you eat when you wake up."
"W-What time is it?"
"Four thirty am. Why?"
Tea groaned. That bastard woke her up early on purpose.
"Now hurry or I'll cancel that too! You have important chores to do today. Believe me, I do not support your breakfast at all, but Mr. Moutu would have none of it. You best thank him later. Now get your ass moving!"
Kaiba practically shoved Tea out the door. Tea landed on the opposite wall, and leaned desperately on it.
Seto watched this and laughed easily. "I told you not to disobey me. But you were too thick head. Tsk tsk. Next time, I'll have to use a club."
The colour drained from Te's face. She now knew that no matter how mischievous the threat may seem, he was no where near lying! His slightly brighter attitude came from her pain. He was a monster that fed off of her suffering.
"Now move it!" He ordered.
Tea had to obey. Slowly, she moved one foot, and gently pushed her self off the wall. So far, so good. She moved her other foot but than lost control.
She fell to the ground. A wave of pain exploded in her ribs, and her knees gave way. He really had hurt her good last night.
Kaiba made a noise of impatience.
"I said to go." He nudged her side with his foot, but she didn't move.
"Are you dead?" He asked sarcastically.
Still Tea didn't move.
"Te?"
Kaiba bent down and rolled Tea over.
"What the? Why you little!"-
Tea had fallen asleep on the ground. She was sleeping silently without a care in the world.
"Lazy bastard!" Kaiba cried. He took Tea's shoulders and started to shake them. "Wake up you lazy oaf!"
"W-What is it…." Tea said groggily, not pronouncing her T's.
"You fell asleep! In mid-air! In MY presence!"
"Oh… I'm sorry I didn't (yawn) mean to…"
"I'm sure you didn't mean a lot of things!" He sneered back. "Hey wait a moment. Te, what's that on your face?"
"Huh? My face?" Tea raised a hand to her cheek. It was slick with water.
"Are those…tears? Were you crying?"
"Wha? No!"
"Don't lie to me! You were crying! You really are a weak aren't you? Hmph! Figures, you look week enough to be a girl! You don't deserve to work here."
"I'm not the one that wanted to."
Kaiba glared at her. Tea quickly shut her mouth. She would have to learn to hold her tongue.
Damn me and my big mouth! But I have got to toughen up! If not, Kaiba may REALLY find out I'm a girl! Stupid week female bodies! For all I know, he might already be on to me!
"Whatever. Now get going! I'm already sick of you."
Tea stood up hastily. She had never been happier than to obey a command from Kaiba.
"Oh, wait a moment."
Tea froze, what did he want now?
"That room you were just in"-
"It's an unspeakable. I know." Tea shivered.
"How did you?"-
"OH! I, uhhh… lucky guess?"
"Yeah right. Who told you?" He asked giving her an icy glare that demanded truth.
"No one. Honest! I swear it was a lucky guess."
Seto stared at her with eyes that seemed to burn her insides. But he didn't push it. He must have known she wouldn't tell him, even if it would get her into much farther trouble later. Or… he must have known there were other ways to find out.
Without another word, Kaiba turned on the spot and started walking the other direction. Tea would have gone straight to breakfast, but she wanted to clean herself up a bit first. She headed to her room instead.
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"Ouch!"
Tea was applying some simple ointment to her bruises. He hadn't touched her face, but her body was pretty bruised up.
"Oww… OK, so that's five bruises. One on the arm, three on the sides, and one on the stomach. Stupid bastard! Just in the places no one would ever see them."
Tea took a quick shower, brushed her teeth, blow dried her hair, and brushed it stylishly over her eyes. Now she was ready for breakfast.
"I hope they're still serving."
Tea dashed out her room and to the servant's kitchen.
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"Mmmm… Smells good!" Tea walked into a room filled with aroma's. All of them mouth watering. She looked around at the tables, and picked one unoccupied. The servant's kitchen was basically a regular kitchen. One you would find in a home or lounge, but slightly bigger.
It was a lot homier than any other place so far.
"Easy over eggs, toast, sausage and cereal. Sounds good to me!"
Tea grabbed all the food she could and started gobbling. That apple had only enlarged her hunger and she was feistier than ever. No one dared come within a meter of her for fear of being eaten. Some would say she even ate the table.
Washing everything down with a glass of chocolate milk, Tea got up and went to the bulletin board for today's chores. It turned out they kept a giant list in the kitchen of all the days' duties.
"OK, so I have laundry duty first, than pool. Better than yesterday…"
Tea cleaned her setting and headed for the laundry room.
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"So, what do you do?"
"Just put in a load, and press the buttons to whites, lights, or darks. Than fill in the soap and off you go to the folding table. Do this every time a washing machine is empty. Got it?"
"Yep."
So, just a simple task today. Piece- o- cake.
The hour wore on, and soon Tea was getting bored.
"God! Could this be any worse?"
"Well you're the one keeping to yourself! Come over here and join us."
The laundry team was made up of a bunch of rowdy boys (never girls) today, and all morning they had been laughing and goofing off around the folding table. Tea hadn't approached them because she was shy and not used to people.
Tea took that as a welcome, and headed over.
"So what's your name?"
"Te."
"Short name. Mines Toby. This is Brandon, and that's Joshy."
"Pleased to meet you."
"Oh, you don't have to be formal with us! Save that for upstairs! Down here, you can great someone like this." Toby pushed Brandon roughly off his chair and yelled "You dropped ya pants mate!"
The boys roared with laughter. Tea joined in too, but only chuckled softly.
The rest of the morning wore on with the five boys joking and laughing around while folding all sorts of underwear.
"So, anyone got a new girlfriend yet?"
"Nah. I'm too good for them."
"Yeah right! They probably pepper sprayed you before you got a chance to say hi. The way you great people, they probably thought you were going to rape them or something. Honestly, find me one girl that would go out with a guy who told her she dropped her pants"
"You watch your mouth or I'll have to properly great you."
"Nah. You wouldn't rape me. You'd probably end up getting raped in the end."
"How do you figure?"
"I never thought you were one for details."
"No, but seriously, you see any good looking girls lately?"
"Sure, but none in your league."
"I thought girls weren't allowed on the property."
"They aren't Te, but we're talking about the towns. You sure are new here aren't you?"
"But I wish girls were aloud on the property. It would be loads of fun! Think about it. This is a private club for young men. No one to tell us what to do and you know what that means." Put in Toby.
"Is all you care about sex?"
"Yup."
"Animal!"
"Hey Te. What do you think abut girls on the property?"
"Well I… I don't really. Ummm… I guess it would be OK."
"OK? OK? You mean, you don't really are? Come on, tell us what you would do with a girl."
Tea's face was staring to go red. "I'm really not"-
DING DONG DING DONG
"Hey listen! It's the bell! Yes! The end of the laundry shift. Let's get out of here! I'm sick of this place."
All four boys leapt from the table and ran out of the room, Tea stayed behind.
Man… I never thought pretending to be a boy would be that big a deal, but it's becoming more serious than I thought. If I get caught now… it will be the end of me.
Tea stood from the table and left the basement.
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"Pool duty. Hmmm… I'll finally get to spend some time outside in the sun. Stables don't count."
Tea wrapped a towel around her shoulder and headed outside for pool duty.
The pool was amazing! Truly exotic. It was soooooooo big. Probably the size of a school yard. Tropical flowers decorated the edges, and small islands in the pool held chairs, and more vegetation. It was like being in the Caribbean.
Her task was to basically be a pool boy and serve drinks and give out towels. Simple enough. Tea noticed the pool was filled with a lot of members she had never seen before. These must be the day time ones. She thought.
"Excuse me; can I have a towel over here?"
"Oh sure." Tea ran over to the boy calling out to her. He was still in the water when she handed him the towel.
"Why thankyou Te."
"OH! Ryou!"
"Did you have a good morning?"
"Yeah, defiantly better than last night. Ooops!" Tea slapped a hand over her mouth. She wasn't supposed to speak of that.
Ryou frowned. "What do you mean?"
"Oh nothing important! Just couldn't get to sleep is all!"
Ryou looked unconvinced, but left it at that.
"Hey! There's Yugi." Indeed, several red and black spikes were sticking out of the water, and headed right for them. Tea laughed, it looked really silly.
"Good morning Te."
"Morning Yugi. How was the board meeting?"
"Not bad. How was your second night at the mansion? I hope you didn't sleep in again."
"No not me. I woke up this time." Tea lied. "Towel Yugi?"
"Yeah, thanks." Yugi grabbed the towel and he and Ryou started hoisting themselves out of the pool.
Tea caught herself staring. She quickly turned away embarrassed and blushing.
"What? You aren't afraid of a little skin are you? Come on Te, we're all guys here."
Not really. "Sorry, no, I just thought… maybe it was impolite."-
"Nah. Relax a bit. Yugi doesn't mind if you stare at his muscles."
"Hey!"
Ryou and Tea started laughing. Of course, Yugi had no muscles whatsoever.
Tea was still nervous about being around these two guys in their bathing suites only though, and she was trying to look everywhere but straight at them.
"Hey, looks like Mr. Motu is about to do a dive."
Ryou and Yugi looked to where Tea was pointing. There on the diving board, was Yami, bouncing on the balls of his feet, ready to do a dive.
"Show off." Yugi stuck out his tongue.
"Isn't he your brother?"
"Yep. And as long as I can remember, he's always showing off and strutting his stuff. He thinks he's so good in everything." Yugi said as if he was more proud than upset.
"Yeah, everything BUT drawing."
"Oh go on."
"Drawing?"
"Yeah! Yugi is AMAZING at drawing, he can draw anything! Animation, sketch, paint! You name it."
"How about sculpting?"
"Yep."
"Water colors?"
"Uh huh."
"Nude body coloring?"
"Absolute- HEY!"
Tea and Ryou started laughing. "Oh come on. We all know your secret Yugi."
"I've never done any such thing!"
"Suuuuuure."
"There he goes!" Tea pointed up to Yami just as he made his dive. "WOW! He's good!" Tea watched in awe as Mr. Moutu made a superb and slick dive into the water, barely making a splash.
"He's not that good."
"BAKURA! Where did you come from? He scared the bageebers out of me!"
"Bageebers? I swear, you better be on drugs if you think you can get away talking like that. Or else…" Bakura let the threat hang. He had appeared out of no where, taking all three friends by surprise.
"You don't think he's good Bakura?" Asked Tea.
"Hmmm… I think he would be better with a little 'back support'".
"Back support?"
"Why yes. In fact, I think I'll go give him some of that right now."
"Oh, Bakura! Don't!"
"Too late!"
Tea, Ryou and Yugi watched helplessly as Bakura snuck around the outer edge of the pool, towards a Mr. Moutu who was preparing for another dive.
Just when Yami jumped high in the air, Bakura leaped onto the diving board, flinging himself right after Yami. He latched onto Yami's back and cried "I got your back Yami!". The two fell with a giant splash into the pool, but of course, Mr. Moutu was on the bottom and hit the water face first, causing an enormous belly flop. Bakura, of course, was shielded by Yami.
"Ouch! That's gotta hurt!" Flinched Tea. "Is he gonna be alright?"
"I hope so. That belly flop must've doubled in pain because of Bakura's added weight."
"But, you gotta admit, it was kinda funny."
Ryou and Tea looked at Yugi who was smiling. The three watched an angry and painfully red Yami yell at a laughing Bakura. "BAKURA! How many times do I have to tell you not to do that? You could have killed me!" "Me? Never! I was trying to protect you!" "How in hell was that protecting me?" "I was shielding your back!" Snickered Bakura. "You never know when a crazy gunman is hiding in the bushes." "That's got to be the worst excuse I've ever heard!"
"Well, its bean great talking to you guys, but I have to get back to my duties."
"That's a shame. Oh well, talk to ya later!"
"Yeah, bye!" Tea walked off to get another towel. "What a day…" She sighed. This place seems like so much fun from the outside view, but inside, barely any know of the dark secrets surrounding this place. It's kinda…sad.
Tea walked past a large slab of pavement put a bit off from the pool. Right away, she recognized it as a basketball court.
BASKETBALL! She mentally screamed. She watched in envy as the teenagers on the court were passing the ball back n forth, than shooting. It seemed the game they were playing was taking on an intense battle.
Tea noticed some stranded tables with empty glasses. Perfect! I can use that as an excuse to stay here and watch a bit of the game.
Tea started picking up the empty glasses slowly, giving peeks out the corner of her eye.
They all look so determined! I wish I could-
"Hey moron! Duck!"
"Wha? OUCH!"
SHATTER!
Someone let the ball out of play, and waited till the last second to warn Tea. Of course, with her arms filled with empty glasses, she couldn't possibly dodge in time.
"Which dirty bastard threw that b"-…
Tea gulped. Kaiba was standing at the front of the line of boys, smirking at Tea.
'"Excuse me?" He asked. "What was that about dirty bastards?"
"N-Nothing."
"Nothing what?"
"Nothing… Mr. Kaiba." Tea hated showing any sign of respect for that man, yet here she was, saying MR.KAIBA!
"Hmf! Just because you have the motor skills of a dead cow, doesn't mean you bad mouth the ones that don't. Besides, it isn't our fault you don't know how to play basketball"
"I'll have you know that I do know how to play basketball!"
"Oh really? You could barely walk this morning!"
Tea glared at him. He knew why she was having trouble walking this morning. It was because of him.
I hate him so much! "It just so happens that I'm VERY good at basketball, and I could kick your but any day of the week!" God damnit! Why the hell did I have to say that?
Kaiba's eyes slanted, as the boys behind him made disbelieving faces. How could a servant say something like that?
"Well than, prove it!"
"Huh?"
"One on one! Right here! Right now!"
Is he serious? I can't do that! I haven't practiced since March!
"Ummm…well…I don't really"-
"HA! As I expected! All mouth and no muscle! You really are a loser! Frankly, I'd be surprised if you could even tell the difference between the net and the ball."
Oh that's it! "Fine! I'll take you up on your stupid offer!"
"You'll regret that! But there is no talking sense into a halfwit like you."
"Rrrrrrrrr…."
"Tell you what,. I'll even sweeten the deal. If you win, which you won't, I'll let you dine at the head table tonight. But if you lose, which you will, you can't eat for three days!"
Three days! That's unthinkable! I can't live without food! But I have to beat him at something or I'll end up killing hi! "Deal."
"To ten?"
"Ten."
"Lady's first." Kaiba tossed a ball, while smirking at Tea. Obviously laughing at his own joke. Tea caught it. "Why thankyou."
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AC: OK! Now you just know something goods gonna happen! I am soooo excited! I can't wait to find out! hurray! I love writing like that! It's soooo fun!
OH OH OH! Go Canada Go Canada! Canadian women's hockey team won gold in the Olympics! Is that fricken awesome or what? We totally rock! The best team in the world! Literally too!
I play hockey myself so I know what it feels like to win! And… to lose… Oh well! Just because my team lost 9-0 and 8-1 in the tournament, doesn't mean we are bad! We are a very good team! YEAH! Besides, we got to go to Pennsylvania and that was fun! Hooray! I bought anime shirts there in a store not in Canada! That rocked!
Anyways… I CAN'T WAIT!
