Disclaimer-Kazuki Takahashi owns Yugioh
Key
Italics is song lyrics that no one is singing
/ someone singing/
"quotes are speech"
'is dreaming'
/is flashback/
is thoughts -
Blacks heels clacked against the tiled hallway as Ms. Haruka Shirakawa walked along an empty corridor. In her hands was a big stack of papers which she was carefully perusing. She pushed up her glasses and read each word with all the scrutiny of a heart surgeon doing his job. She stopped upon one sentence, and then read it over with glee. Quickly she raced towards an ebony door, knocked twice then barged in the room.
"What on earth?" A squat, gray haired old man said sitting up from his chair. "Ms. Shirakawa what is the meaning of this." He said sternly, crossing his arms over his chest.
"Forgive me Iriguchi sama." Ms. Shirakawa said bowing respectfully, quickly she straightened up and ran over to his desk, shoving the papers in his face. "Read this." She said a note of glee in her voice. Mr. Iriguchi arched an eyebrow at Ms. Shirakawa questioningly before reading the paper out loud.
"I beginning to hate myself more and more, and I can't understand why." He read aloud. "Ms. Shirakawa, what is this.?" He questioned, a note of irritation in his voice. She motioned him to read on, and he did.
"It's not like I don't have everything I, no anyone, could possibly ever want, but still I feel hollow. I'm thinking about moving my office, because suddenly the large glass window behind me seems more and more inviting. But I could never go as far as actually jumping out of the window, I couldn't do that to Mokuba, great now I've lost my focus, again. Lately I haven't been focusing enough on work. Anyway, I've been trying to get the Yokuza factory in Beijing, it's one of the largest factories in China, and if I can obtain it I can begin making Kaiba Corp products there, not only will they be cheaper to make there, but I can finally expand my influences over to China, only problem is...I need a girlfriend, because Mr. Yokuza only wants mature sophisticated, attached people to run his company...figures it will enable them to work with the employees more efficiently, not like I not going to fire them anyway, besides what worthwhile, sane, non-stalker type person would ever want to go out with me, I'm worthless, a pathetic excuse for a human being, not that I'
ve told anyone this...that would be showing weakness, emotions are for the weak. I hate this I hate me, I hate me. What is wrong with me, why can't I be someone worthwhile, why does everyone hate me so much, why, why why..." He read aloud. He however couldn't continue reading because the rest of the page had been scribbled out furiously. He looked at Shirakawa.
"What is this?" Iriguchi said turning towards her.
"It's Seto Kaiba's journal, Mr. Tsuruoka, from his school gave it to me, and after I finished disinfecting it, I found this." She said smugly. Iriguchi bit his lower lip.
"Well he obviously needs therapy." He said sitting down. "I'll start up the paper work." Ms. Shirakawa slammed her hands on his desk.
"I don't think he needs therapy." She said calmly.
"Well what do you think he needs." He said crossing his arms over his chest.
"I think he needs parents." Shirakawa said. restraining herself from jumping with glee.
"I don't know..." Iriguchi began skeptically.
"If you look at the last entry in the journal he talks extensively about how much he misses his parents and how he wishes he still had them in his life, you can even see tear drop stains on the page, furthermore he talks about how his brother has disowned him or something, and how they aren't related, he goes on and on about how he must not have been a good brother to cause such feelings, and he writes he hates himself several times, and he somehow seems to think that emotions are for the weak, and even says he's going to go out in to the rain and cry because no one can tell he's crying if it's raining, obviously he's not mentally stable enough to take care of himself, nor should he be in the presence of Mokuba for that matter" She said pointedly.
"I'm still not sure, after all you didn't get this from him, you got a copy of it from Tsuruoka...and someone could of added fake entries in there." Iriguchi said pointedly. "Besides, he seems stable to me..."
"He locked his girlfriend in something called the silence room, obviously that's not stable." Shirakawa snapped.
"Hmmm, well I'll certainly read this and think about what you said, your dismissed Ms. Shirakawa." He said waving her off.
"I trust you'll make the right decision." She said standing up and taking her exit.
"Oh, and Ms. Shirakawa, try not to act so pleased with yourself, we're in this business to help teenagers and children, not to ruin their lives." He said coldly.
"I don't know what you're talking about." Shirakawa said mock innocently.
"Cut the crap, and the next time I hear about you treating a person the way you did Mr. Kaiba the last time he was here, you're fired, now good day Ms. Shirakawa." He said sternly. She opened her mouth to say something, but he raised this hand to silence her. "I said good day." He repeated irritably. She narrowed her eyes, and stomped out of the room.
Meanwhile Mai ran up to Tea and put her in a choke hold, as she was walking out of the school with Kaiba. They were moving slowly, because Kaiba was extremely sore, and though it was covered by his clothes, had bandages all over his body.
"How's ya doin hun?" Mai said ruffling Tea's hair with her fist. Tea broke free from the head lock nonchalantly, and smoothed down her hair.
"I'm doing fine." Tea said, no trace of emotion in her voice. Mai looked at Tea and frowned.
"Ok spill it what's wrong." She said placing her hands on her hips.
"None of your business, c'mon Tea." Kaiba snapped and then began walking off. Mai frowned then ran up to Kaiba and jerked him back by his arm. Kaiba winced and Mai moved her hand and tapped him lightly on the chest. Kaiba winced again, then glared at her and grabbed her hand.
"I'm not in the mood, so cut it out." Kaiba said tossing her hand towards her.
"Ok, I want answers and I want them now, what's going on here, Tea your never this quiet or mopey, and Kaiba your never this, this, flinchy so tell me right now, or I'll kick both your butts." Mai said crossing her arms over chest.
"Why don't you read about it in my journal, I'm sure you have a copy." Kaiba snapped. "Everyone else does." He added quietly under his breath.
"That still doesn't explain to me why you're acting this way, there's upset and then there's this." Mai snapped back, of course she had a copy, everyone did, but that didn't tell her why he acted like he was pain, every time he was even touched.
"I don't want to talk about it." Tea said quietly, then she walked off to Kaiba's limo. Mai looked at Kaiba.
"If you think I'll talk about it your even dumber than you look, and that's saying something." Kaiba said coldly before getting in next to Tea. Then the car peeled off down the road, without so much as a goodbye.
What was that all about?- Mai wondered to herself as she was left standing there, watching the limo fade off into the distance.
Tea and Kaiba rode home in silence and after changing their clothes and picking up Mokuba from his school, they headed towards Tea's house for dinner with her parents, as promised. When they got there Kisha threw open the door happily.
"Well look at you two She said looking them up in down. Tea was dressed in peach shirt and a black skirt that fell to her ankles, She had on black shoes, and a black purse, and around her neck she wore a snowflake her mother had given her years ago. Kaiba was dressed in a black, sleeveless trench coat, with silver studs along the sleeve, a hunter green turtle neck, and black slacks. and of course his duel monsters locket.
"Well don't just stand there come in." She said motioning for them to come in. They came in, depositing there shoes at the door, and sat down on a cream colored sofa. Iya came down stairs and frowned upon seeing the them, it's not that he minded seeing his daughter, it was the boy accompanying her he had the problem with. He sat down on the cream sofa across from them and took a seat, folding his arms across his chest. Kisha came in with a tray full of snacks and set them down next on the coffee table in front of them, then took a seat in the cream colored chair in between the two sofas, that lined the sides, and front of the table respectively.
"Can I get anybody anything to drink." Kisha asked the whole room. No one said anything. Kisha went in the kitchen and came out with a cup of coffee for herself, Kisha took a sip of her coffee, and tapped a finger on the blue and yellow striped cup. Other than that everyone was completely silent. Kaiba and Iya were locked in a glare down, neither of them backing down. Finally Tea broke the silence.
"Ummm, I think I'll just head over to my old room for a second..." Tea said getting up and cat stretching.
"Me too..." Kisha said, and with that the two girls left the room. The two males attention left each other for only a brief second as they watched the two go up the stairs. Iya narrowed his eyes upon seeing Kaiba glancing at Tea's retreating form.
"Like what you see." Iya said, venom evident in his voice. Kaiba turned his attention to Iya.
"Yes, infact I do." Kaiba said unafraid.
"Humph, why are you of all people interested in my daughter, Kaiba sama." Iya spat out, taking all honor out of the honorific attached to Kaiba's name.
"Because I am." Kaiba said glaring at Iya.
"Don't play coy with me, why are you really with my daughter." Iya repeated through gritted teeth.
"Let's just say she's talented." Kaiba said smirking. Of course nothing had ever happened between the two, but Kaiba took great pride in his ability to tick people off, and he had been having a bad day, so for him it was just another mind game, Iya however was not amused.
"What did you just say." Iya shouted getting up out of his seat.
"Temper, temper Mr. Gardner can't you just act civilized for one second, after all I did was answer your question honestly, no need to get upset." Kaiba said tsk, tsking.
"Listen you, don't act like a wise guy around me, I may be a lawyer but I come from a long line of police officers, and martial artists, and let's just say I know how to kick your butt, then sue you for causing me to hurt my fist when it connected with your face." Iya said threateningly.
"Mr. Gardner are you threatening me?" Kaiba said mock innocently.
"Listen here you loudmouth, ugly, intolerable, narrow, little jerk..." Iya began angrily, however Kaiba's attention diverted to the steps, where Tea and Kisha were coming down the step with forced smiles and tons of treats in their hands.
"But Mr. Gardner I was just going to say your daughter is a talented dancer, and a good girlfriend and that's what I like about her, if you let me finish you'd know that." Kaiba said cooly. Kisha walked up behind Iya and smacked him on the back of the head.
"Iya control yourself, like it or not Kaiba-sama is our guest, and you will treat him as such!" She shouted. Tea wrapped her arms around Kaiba's neck.
"I'm sorry sweety, daddy can be a little...overprotective at times." Tea said sweetly. Kaiba smirked at Iya behind Tea and Kisha's back. Iya glared. -Oh he's good, he's really good...I'll have to fix that.- Iya thought. Suddenly a ding was heard from the kitchen. Kisha ran into the kitchen and pulled two Cornish hens out of the oven.
"Dinner's ready." She called from the kitchen. Tea skipped into the kitchen. -I haven't had mother's cooking in so long, this is going to be great!- She thought gleefully. Kaiba crossed his arms across his chest.
"After you Mr. Gardner." He said closing his eyes and smirking.
"Don't try that perfect gentlemen stuff with me, I'm on to your little game." Iya snarled.
"Oh really, and what game is that." Kaiba said cocking his head to the side. Iya narrowed his eyes, un amused. He grumbled to himself and then headed towards the door. Kaiba opened the door for him, getting a sweet smile from both Tea and her mother, Iya shot him a look before entering the kitchen himself. Tea was setting the table and Kisha was gathering all the food together on the counter.
:"Tea, sweetie, let me do that, you should sit down." Kaiba said pulling out a chair. Tea blushed and sat down.
"Oh that's so gentlemanly of you, " Kisha cooed, smiling at him, "It would be nice to be treated that way once in a while." She snapped looking at Iya. Iya's eye twitched as he pulled out a chair.
"Honey, would you like to sit down." He said,. his voice in a low growl.
"If I have to ask, it's not worth it." Kisha snapped.
"Honey, I'll be more than happy to..." Iya began.
"Sit down Iya." Kisha growled. Iya sat, the whole time glaring at Kaiba, who set the last of the forks down in their proper place.
"There now, everything's in it's proper place." Kaiba said smirking at Iya. Iya narrowed his eyes, but held his mouth in check. -Oh he's real good.- Iya thought to himself. Kaiba sat down next to Tea. Kisha sat everything down.
"There now, bon appetite." Kisha said proudly clasping her hands together. Kaiba stood up and pulled out Kisha's chair.
"Here you go Ma'am." Kaiba said looking at Iya.
"Oh my, thank you." Kisha said sitting down and blushing. She glared at Iya. Iya glared at Kaiba.
"Itadakimasu." (a/n: pronounced E ta Da Key Mas, means I will humbly eat, the polite thing to say before eating anything in Japan)Iya, and Tea said, just before they started eating. Kaiba circled around and took his seat again.
"Itadakimasu." Kaiba said looking at Iya pointedly, before turning to his food: Cornish hen, potatoes, home made green beans, with wine for Iya and Kisha, and sparkling apple cider for Kaiba and Tea. After the meal everyone went to the living room to converse a little bit.
"Gochisousamadeshita" (a/n: Go Chi Sew Sama Deh shita, means thank you for the feast, polite thing to say after eating) Iya, Tea, and Kaiba said as they put away there food.
"Ok now everyone, let's wait before we eat desert, at least 30 minutes, until then, why don't we play some games." Kisha said putting all the dishes in the sink for later.
"Ok." Tea said stretching out. "How about...monopoly?"
"Ok sure." Kisha said.
"Now wait a minute, maybe we should play another game, that's not stacked in his favor." Iya said glaring at Kaiba.
"What's the matter Mr. Gardner, afraid of a little competition." Kaiba said crossing his arms across his chest.
"Kaiba-sama is right, quit being such a party pooper Iya." Kisha said folding her arms across her chest.
"Quit calling him that, for goodness sakes Kisha he's younger than we are!" Iya growled angrily.
"Excuse us for just one moment kids." Kisha said dragging Iya upstairs. Tea spun on her heels and glared at Kaiba.
"Ok spill, what the heck did you say to my dad." Tea said putting her hands on her hips, and assuming the pose.
"I don't know what your talking about, I'm just trying to be a gentlemen, and not embarrass you in front of your folks." Kaiba said innocently.
"Your mind games don't work on me Seto, now tell the truth."
"I am telling the truth."
"You may as well be lying if your only telling partial truths, now tell me, what is going on."
"I don't know what your talking about...I just..." Kaiba began, when Kisha and Iya came back in the room.
"Ok, this is what we're going to do." Iya said, an evil glint in his eyes. Kaiba looked around. -What just happened.- Kaiba thought to himself, as Tea looked at her dad's face, and her face went red, and Kisha glanced off to the side biting her lower lip. Kaiba was yanked into a room, and thrown into a chair, the room was completely dark. A blinding light focused on Kaiba. Kaiba raised up his arm, to shield himself up from the light and narrowed his eyes, looking around the room, at Iya's darkened face. Iya grabbed Kaiba, and hooked up some weird stuff to him. Tea and Kisha were chewing the bottom of their lips nervously. "This here is an interrogation room, and I'm going to find out exactly what your little game is, and then if I decide your telling the truth, we'll play monopoly and eat Chocoreto Aisu Kurimu." (a/n: Chocolate Ice Cream) Iya said simply. Kaiba's eye widened. He certainly hadn't planned that one.
"Ok, have you, or haven't you, been playing mind games with me, since the moment you've gotten here."
"Iya, honey, please."
"Dad!"
"Answer the question."
"N-no?"
"TRUTHFULLY"
"Ok, maybe a tiny, little, one." Kaiba said holding his index finger and thumb up to indicate a little bit.
"AHA-See I told you he was Kisha, but did you listen, no"
"Seto, why, why do you always have to do this, first my friends, and now this."
"Iya, honey, he admitted it, now can't we have a pleasant, nice, normal, meeting for once, or do you have to interrogate everybody that steps foot into this house."
"Question two, do you or do you not love my daughter."
"With every fiber of my being."
"Awww."
"Seto your making me blush."
"Humph, question three, do you promise to take good care of my daughter."
"Always."
"Ok, dad he loves me he takes care of me, blah, blah, blah, can this stop now."
"Yes it will stop."
"But, Kisha."
"NOW IYA GARDNER!"
"fine dear."
After Kaiba was interrogated the family went upstairs for monopoly and ice cream. After playing three games of monopoly, Kaiba won all three, they decided to have some ice cream.
"Oh dear, we're all out." Kisha said looking in the fridge.
"I'll get some." Kaiba volunteered, making a mad dash for the door. He blew out a sigh of relief once he was out the door. He stepped into his car, and backed up, and hit something. He looked under his car and saw what used to be a small dog, an expensive one. He blinked, what idiot would let a dog that expensive be a stray instead of selling it, both improving the animal's life, and their own. He rolled his eyes, some people were so stupid. He got into his car and sped off down the road, he'd tell them about their driveway later. When he got back with the chocolate ice cream, and some orange sherbet for himself, he opened the door, only to see everyone around the in house searching for something, a ominous feeling came to him.
"I'm back." He said carefully.
"Hey Seto, umm have Kawii (a/n: cute), I haven't seen him at all, and I miss him so much, and I haven't seen him in a while." Tea said walking up to him and taking the bag. Kaiba's eyes widened, this couldn't be happening.
"Ummm, Kawaii?" Kaiba replied questioningly, hoping against all hope, that what he think just happened, hadn't happened.
"Yeah, my dog, he's about this big." Tea said holding her hands up to indicate a small size. "And he's brown, and he's expensive, and he's just the most adorable little doggy in the whole widest world, which is why we named him Kawaii." Tea said smiling at the thought of her puppy.
"Maybe you should change his name to kawaikatta." (a/n: was cute.) Kaiba muttered under his breath.
"What was that?" Tea questioned suspiciously. Kaiba shook his head. "Well if you see him, let me know ok?" Tea said hopefully. Kaiba shook his head.
"I know dear why don't you sing." Kisha said. "I remember when Tea was growing up she used to sing all the time, and little Kawaii would come running up and used to jump around her legs, oh it was so cute, do you remember that Iya." Kisha said clasping her hands together and smiling.
"Sure do." Iya said smiling back.
/Tea: You are my puppy dog and I love you, your are the sweetest dog in the world, if wasn't for you, I'd be unhappy, oh please don't sell my dog today/
Tea blinked, it hadn't worked. Kisha looked around confused, as did Iya. "Hmm, that's weird, maybe I should again."
/Tea: You are my puppy dog and I love you, your are the sweetest dog in the world, if wasn't for you, I'd be unhappy, oh please don't sell my dog today/
Still, it hadn't worked. Everyone looked around scratching their heads, while Kaiba remained deathly quiet.
"Maybe he's outside." Kisha said heading towards the door.
"NO!" Kaiba shouted blocking the door. Everyone looked at him weird. "I mean, no." Kaiba said calmly. "I'll check." He ran outside, grabbed the dog, much to his disgust, and horror and threw it in the middle of traffic, then came back with bad news.
"Umm, I found your dog, umm, in the middle of the road, I think, I'm sorry." He said bowing his head down.
"WHAT!" Iya, Kisha and Tea shouted out at the same time, they raced outside, and saw a dog in the middle of the road.
"Oh thank goodness." Kisha said breathing a sigh of relief. "That's not our dog."
"It's not." Kaiba said eyes wide.
"Nope."
"You mean I touched that thing, and threw it in the road for no reason!" Kaiba shouted accidentally. His hand immediately flew to his mouth.
"You threw an animal in the middle of the road." Tea said incredously.
"Well he was already dead since I ran it over with my car anyway." Kaiba said matter of factually, he stopped, that hadn't come out right.
"You ran over a dog!" Kisha exclaimed horrified.
"I didn't mean to." Kaiba protested.
"Your a sick, sick man." Iya shouted.
"It was an accident!" Kaiba shouted. When all of a sudden Kaiba felt something bite his leg. He shouted in surprise and pain and looked down, a small, expensive, dog, had affixed itself to his leg.
"Get it off!" Kaiba shouted shaking his leg, trying to get the small dog off. Soon the whole family was trying to stop him from bouncing and tossing the dog. Tea grabbed his waist, and Iya and Kisha grabbed his leg, and the dog respectively.
"Ok, now pull!" Kisha shouted. They all pulled tight, and Iya lost grip of the dog, and flew it in the air, and thankfully landed safely on the ground.
"Oooo, Kawaii come here, did that big bad mean Seto hurt you?" Tea said cooing like baby talk.
"Kawaii, Kawaii, there is nothing kawaii about that, that mutt!" Kaiba yelled. Tea and Kisha gasped.
"Don't listen to him Kawaii." Kisha shouted clasping her hands over the dogs ears. The dog for its part yawned and shook it's head.
"I think we should leave." Tea said grabbing Kaiba. "I'm sorry you had to hear that mom." Tea added apologetically. Iya was trying hard to suppress his laughter. Tea dragged Kaiba to the car.
"Fine, just let me get my orange sherbet." Kaiba growled, about to go get it.
"Now Seto." Tea said folding her arms across her chest, and tapping her fingers against her arm, her foot tapping, as she gave him the look.
"But my..." Kaiba began protesting.
"NOW!" Tea screamed unfolding her arms and balling her hands into fist. Kaiba glared at her, then got in the car, muttering obscenities under his breath, by this time Iya was cracking up. Kisha waved by to the car as it backed out, and made the puppy wave buy as well. Iya laughed waved goodbye, then made the sign of the whip as Kaiba pulled off, shot Iya one last look, and peeled off down the road. Kisha turned on Iya.
"Oh you find this funny do you." She said putting one hand on her hip, while the other arm supported the dog.
"Honey I was just fooling around." Iya began.
"Get in the house Iya." Kisha growled, pointing to the house.
"Honey you shouldn't be getting this upset, think about the baby..." Iya began, starting to walk up on her.
"NOW!" Kisha yelled. Iya scrambled into the house, muttering obscenities under his breath, as Kisha calmly walked behind him. Iya was just glad Kaiba wasn't there to make the sound of the whip on him.
When Tea and Kaiba got home, Tea stormed upstairs, slamming the door to their room, well Kaiba's room really, it was his house, and it still had the old paint job from before. -That has to change.- Tea thought to herself. Then she sighed, she really didn't know if she should, he needed the place brightened up a bit in her not so humble opinion, but their was still the matter of how to go about not breaking up with him, and not ruining her friendship with Joey, Yugi, and Tristan, and Duke too. She sighed and flopped down on the bed. Then found her purse and grabbed out her cell phone, she needed to have a talk with them, all of them, and have Mai and Serenity over for backup, then maybe once they saw that Kaiba was a good boyfriend, even if he didn't always make the best decisions, and his character was sometimes...questionable.
Kaiba sighed and ran a finger through his hair, that hadn't gone like he wanted it to at all. He decided to find the first aid kit, today just wasn't his day. He set his laptop up to do some work, then headed up to Mokuba's room to get the first aid kit, there was one in his room too, but he really wasn't ready to deal with Tea. Kaiba stopped, and tapped lightly on Mokuba's door, since their was no response he twisted the knob quietly, assuming Mokuba was asleep, and opened the door. His eyes widened at what he saw and he quickly spun around, and pressed his back against the door, hyper ventilating. Mokuba lifted up his head, at the sound, then shrugged his shoulders and walked over to the door and closed again. Kaiba closed his eyes. -That wasn't real, just a hallucination brought on by stress, calm down.- Kaiba thought to himself. Opening his eyes he carefully reopened the door and peered in.
"What are you doing!" Mokuba screamed as shock, horror, and anger came through his voice.
"What are you doing!" Kaiba screamed as shock, horror, anger, disgust, nausea, pride, fear, and a plethora of other unwelcome emotions overwhelmed his senses.
A/N: Hmmm, what was he doing, guess you all will have to wait until next chapter to find out. Mwu hahahahahaha (cough, cough). (clears throat) Anyway, I've decided to break up this story into three parts, and we're coming very close to the end of part I, and I won't give away the ending, but I will say that it will be a surprising ending, or at least I hope so. Parts 1,2,3 really should all be one story, but the chapters are kind of getting up there in the numbers, and I told myself I didn't want to be one of those authors with a 50,60,70 chapter story, because while good, are little hard to get finished through, as they can be intimidating, and I really don't want that. Part 2 will take off exactly where part 1 leaves off, and part 3 will take off, a few years after the events of parts 1 and 2. Oh yeah, and no matter what it seems like in parts 2 and 3 at first this will remain a Tea/Kaiba story, but that's all I'm going to say on that. As always leave a review, ciao for now.