Disclaimer-Kazuki Takahashi owns Yugioh
Key
/ someone singing/
"quotes are speech"
'is dreaming'
/is flashback/
- is thoughts -
"I-Ishizu, what are you doing here?" Tea asked, surprised at seeing the young Egyptian woman.
"I could ask you the same question, but I don't really care what your doing here, now where's Kaiba!" Ishizu growled.
"Upstairs, why?" Tea asked letting her in.
"He, Marik, and some chick who somehow got her hands on the zen items kidnapped him." Odion said narrowing his eyes. Tea, Mai, and Serenity gasped in disbelief.
"Renee..." Tea said backing up, so she had broken out of prison?
"So you do know her, that means he must have done it." Ishizu snapped pushing her way in. "SETO KAIBA GET DOWN HERE THIS INSTANT!"
Kaiba slowly made his way down the stairs. "Look about the magazine, I can explain..."
"WHERE"S MARIK?" Ishizu started marching towards him. Kaiba eyes widened for a second, then he smirked.
"Marik is missing, how sad." Kaiba said sarcasm dripping from his voice. Ishizu narrowed her eyes, she didn't have time for his b.s., so she grabbed him down by his collar.
"What did you do with him." She growled.
"I have no idea what your talking about." Kaiba said pulling away from her. Ishizu decked him, and Kaiba fell to floor like a ton of bricks.
"Whoa." Serenity and Mai said in shock.
Odion pulled Ishizu away from Kaiba before she did anymore damage. Kaiba got up holding his jaw, and glaring at her. Ishizu glared right back.
"Odion, what's going on?" Tea said closing the door.
"Well you see..."
/Ishizu washed the dishes from dinner, as Marik dried them. Odion was busy sweeping up the floor. Things had settled down in the Ishtar home and the family was finally getting together some semblance of normalcy.
"Sister where do I put the good dishes." Marik asked looking at a rather expensive gold serving dish.
"Over there." Ishizu said pointing to a small shelf.
Odion looked up and gasped. "No you can't be back, you were banished to the shadow realm." Odion said dropping the broom.
"Tsk tsk tsk, Odion you should know better than anyone that times change." Yami Marik said advancing on him.
"Ishizu get Marik out of here!" Odion shouted. Ishizu came in took one look at her attackers and ran back into the kitchen. She grabbed Marik's arm and ran out of the kitchen. They ran as fast as they could but Renee clicked the zen boots together and chased after them lightning fast. Renee grabbed Marik's arm.
"And just where do you think your going?" she said smirking evilly.
"What do you want with him." Ishizu demanded angrily.
"To bring him back into the darkness." She said smirking and extending the Zen staff. Ishizu recognized that immediately, that had belong to the tomb keepers, her family, centuries ago, but legend had it that was stolen by a tomb robber, why was it reappearing now? Marik tried to resist and snatched his arm away from her and ran away but once again Renee was to fast to for him. She hit him on the back of the head with the Zen staff and he fell to the ground.
"Marik!" Ishizu screamed running after him. Renee wrapped her arms around his waist then clicked the two wristbands together, disappearing into the night. "Marik!" Ishizu screamed falling to her knees and letting her tears hit the pavement/
"When I came to, they were gone." Odion said quietly. (an: if the flashback doesn't refresh your memory enough, look at the first couple of paragraphs from chap 19.)
"I would never work with Marik, nor Renee, who by the way, almost killed me!" Kaiba shouted.
"Liar." Ishizu hissed about to punch him again, when Odion caught her arm.
"Ishizu sister calm down, you were always the calm and collected one of our family if you lose that now, we may never find Marik." Odion said, Ishizu lowered her fist, trying to fight back her tears.
"Look, I'm sorry for your loss, but I, as much as I would like to take credit for taking that miserable lunatic out, had nothing to do with it." Kaiba said narrowing his eyes. "And I don't appreciate you coming into my house and attacking me, so unless you have some new rare card to hand over I suggest you leave right now."
"This isn't over, I will find Marik." Ishizu growled before straightening out her simple white dress and showing herself out the mansion.
"Hmph, lunatic." Kaiba grunted sitting down on the large sofa, he looked over at Mai and Serenity. "And why are you two not with the rest of the nerd herd." He growled. Serenity bust out into a whole new set of tears and Mai and Tea looked as if though they were going to strangle him.
"Well, I got to get going anyway, so you can miss my butt for all I care Kaiba!" Mai snapped tossing her long blond hair and sticking her nose in the air. -The nerve of that guy, after what just happened I could just, err.- Grabbing Serenity, she started marching toward the door.
"Wait." Tea said calling to them. Mai stopped.
"Hmm?"
"I just wanted to thank you for..." Tea stopped looking over at Kaiba, he couldn't know what had just happened.
"Don't mention it hun, Mata ashita." (a/n: See you tomorrow) Mai called, before heading out the door. She looked over at Serenity who was still crying. "Hey don't worry about it hun, I'm sure we can convince Joey to change his mind, and until then you can stay with me." Mai placed her hands on Serenity's shoulders. "Buck up, okay kiddo?"
Serenity wiped a tear from her face. "I'll try, It's just...oh Mai!" Serenity wailed hugging the older girl.
"Don't worry big sister Mai is going to make it all better." Mai said patting her on her back. -Joey Wheeler, I wish you could see how much your breaking your sister's heart right now.- Mai thought grabbing Serenity by the hand and leading her towards her car.
Tea put her hands on her hips and glared at Kaiba. "You know you could try to be a little nicer to my friends!" She snapped. Kaiba shrugged.
"I am, and I have, just a month ago I would had my guards throw them out, and have you forgot the little shopping spree I took you three on already." Kaiba pointed out. Tea stamped her foot.
"Buying them things does not qualify as trying to make friends, you said would, but you haven't even invited the guys over for anything even once!" Tea shouted. Kaiba studied her for a minute.
"Let me guess, they still don't approve of our relationship." Kaiba said bluntly. Tea's mouth dropped open, and her eyes widened. Kaiba snickered, "You look like a fish, which only proves my point." Kaiba said getting up.
"I, uh, if you know all this why haven't you done anything!" Tea said huffily. Kaiba shrugged simply.
"I don't need their approval."
"But I do, I really, really, do." Tea said quietly. Kaiba studied her for a minute. He had said he was give it a shot, and he really did want to, it's was just he really didn't like Tea's friends, with the exception of Mai and Serenity, who didn't seem all that bad.
"All right, all right, what if I invite Yugi, pervert, dice freak and the mutt over for a get together." Kaiba said sighing.
"Dice freak, mutt, see that's exactly what I'm talking about right there." Tea shouted again. Kaiba smirked. "What's so funny?"
"You forgot pervert." Kaiba said. Tea looked at him in utter disbelief.
"You do know your probably the only one who would notice that, besides, Tristan kind of is." Tea said trying to remain stern, but failing miserably. They both bust out laughing at Tristan's expense, hey what he didn't couldn't hurt him right?
"I got it, we could do a mixed sleep over!" Tea said snapping her fingers.
"Absolutely not." Kaiba protested.
"DID SOMEBODY JUST SAY A SLEEP OVER!" Mokuba shouted at the top of his lungs from
the top of the stair way.
"No." Kaiba said stamping his foot on the ground. "I forbid it."
"Please Seto?" Mokuba and Tea said, double teaming him with the puppy dog eyes.
"No, no and no some more." Kaiba said sternly. Their lips quivered, as the stepped up the cute factor some more. "No." Kaiba said again more quietly. They both let one teeny tiny little tear fall from their face, their eyes shining with tears, and looking that much cuter. Kaiba turned his face away, "That's not going to work on me this time, so forget it."
"Fine, then I'm not talking to you anymore." Tea and Mokuba said in unison and turning their heads away. He lasted several hours, but finally cracked in the wee hours of the night, when Tea and Mokuba made a fort to sleep in, and he wasn't invited.
The next day, after another horrendous day of school again for Kaiba, when he got back for work, they setup the slumber party. Tea and Mokuba had rented a ton of movies, and the Kaibas already had tons of games. Tea wore a pair of pink pajama pants, and a tank top. Mokuba wore a pair of dark blue pajama bottoms with the blue eyes white dragon all over it, and a dark blue sleep shirt. Kaiba wore some black pajama bottoms, and a black muscle shirt. They had the help move a bunch of furniture out the way, and had the newly hired chef, which Tea had to convince Kaiba not to loom over, lest he have to cook his own food again, cook tons and tons of snacks and pop tons of popcorn. Kaiba tried to pop some himself, but after he broke the microwave, the chef had to make some the old fashioned way, lest Kaiba ruin what the chef had already started calling his kitchen.
Joey was the first to arrive, along with Tristan. Joey was wearing a pair of gray sweat pants and a gray muscle shirt, and Tristan was wearing army fatigue pajamas. Joey glared at Kaiba as he pushed his way past. Kaiba smirked.
"What's the matter Wheeler, mad that you can't afford real night clothes?"
"Err, Kaiba." Joey growled stalking towards him, Tristan grabbed Joey's arm however and led him into the living room. The next person to arrive was Duke, dressed the same as Kaiba only his muscle shirt had a pair of dice on them, with one dice having a three, and the other of four to show the lucky number seven. Tea smiled and greeted him warmly, Tea had taken over greeting everyone since Kaiba couldn't behave himself and was currently in a time out, much to Joey and Tristan's amusement. Mai and Serenity arrived next, Mai wearing a tiny purple nightgown, which caused some wolf howls and time outs from Joey and Tristan, though Joey got more time for trying to kill Tristan, much to Kaiba's amusement. Serenity wore a pink nightgown that wasn't nearly as thin as Mai and fell past her knees, which caused Tristan and Duke to wolf howl, earning Duke a time out and a pummeling from Joey, and Tristan got more time added and a pummeling from Joey.
Yugi arrived last, wearing his cloud pajamas, and the millennium puzzle, Tea bit her lower lip. -This is going to be a long, long night- She thought closing the door.
Yugi smiled. "Hi everyone. Umm, why is Kaiba, Tristan, Duke and Joey sitting down facing the wall."
"Because their in time out." Tea shrugged. Yugi's eyes widened.
"How did you get them to cooperate?" Yugi asked.
"Well I had Joey give his red eyes, I took Tristan's dirty magazines, and I threatened to tell Serenity what a jerk Duke used to be, and how awful he was to you and Joey, if they didn't do as I said." Tea said.
"Oh," Yugi nodded, "Hey what about Kaiba?"
"He does what I tell him to, because he knows what's good for him." Tea said smiling triumphantly, "That and I, eh hem, borrowed his deck."
Yugi couldn't help but laugh. Everyone spread their sleeping bags on the floor, with Mokuba and Kaiba spreading a blanket and a pillow on the floor since they didn't own sleeping bags.
"Now what do you guys want do first, watch movies, play games, eat candy, I vote for eat candy." Mokuba said excitedly. He was already bouncing off the walls, and Kaiba dreaded what sugar might do.
"Mokuba, your not going to be eating any candy yet, so calm down." Kaiba said grabbing his leg before he dive bombed everyone from off the couch. He scooped him and plopped him down the pile of sleeping bags and blankets.
"Aww, Seto your no fun." Mokuba said crossing his arms over his chest.
"I say we play some games." Mai said. Everyone agreed so Mokuba led everyone to the game room, everyone, except Tea and Kaiba, gasped in amazement. There was TV the size of the wall, several couches and specially designed bean bag chairs, and shelf upon shelf of games. Board games, holographic games, console games, PC games, you name it and they had it. No one would of been surprised if they had told them they owned every game known to exist, and some from distant places, that weren't.
"Everythin' but a computa." Joey pointed out.
"Moron, that TV doubles as a computer, one of the largest screens in the world, as a matter of fact, though not the largest." Mokuba said smirking. Kaiba frowned. -I think I'm rubbing off on him too much, don't want him to be a mini me, I want him to be a much more innocent mini me.-
"Or we can do the obstacle course." Mokuba said pointing to a door that led outside. "We got it set up like a game show out there."
"That sounds like fun." Serenity said clasping her hands together. "I think we should that!"
"Ok, we can all be on teams, it sounds like fun." Duke agreed. "I call Serenity as my partner!"
"YOU WHAT!" Tristan growled, "IF ANYONE IS GOING TO BE HER PARTNER IT'S GOING TO BE..."
"Me." Mokuba piped up. Serenity blushed at all the attention, she looked at Joey expecting him to be her partner, but he just scoffed and glared at Duke and Tristan, though he wasn't to worried about Mokuba, he was just a little kid after all.
"How about one of us is the host, and we draw partners out of a hat." Tea suggested.
"Great idea hun, I call host, everyone else will get split into teams of two." Mai giving her thumbs up. "Hey Kaiba show me your bedroom." She said winking. Everyone but Serenity and Tea's mouth fell open, they knew better than that, she was a die hard flirt but frankly found Kaiba as attractive as a mosquito bite. He however didn't know that.
"WHAT?" Kaiba shouted, when he finally composed himself.
"So I can find a hat, geesh what's your deal?" Mai said like she had been completely innocent.
"Oh, I knew that." Kaiba said leaving and returning with a top hat. "Here this is the only one I own."
Mai arched and eyebrow but took the hat, and the sheet of paper and a pen Kaiba had been smart enough to bring and wrote everyone's name on it, then tore the slips of paper into pieces and shoved it inside the hat.
"Here Tea you go first, It was your idea." Mai said offering the hat. Tea pulled out a name.
"I got...Duke." She said. Duke frowned, he had wanted Serenity. Tristan however jumped for joy. Mokuba pulled out a name next.
"I got...Serenity." Mokuba said. Tristan slumped down, and Duke pointed and laughed at him, neither of them feared the game of a twelve year old, completely forgetting that Serenity was fourteen, and a very young fourteen, so they were the same distance in age as Mokuba was. Mai handed the hat to Yugi next. Yugi looked at who was left: Kaiba, Tristan, and Joey. He gulped. Things wouldn't end well, if he picked Tristan, because that would mean Kaiba and Joey would be partners and that was asking for trouble, and if picked Kaiba, that was asking for trouble too. -Please let me pick Tristan.- He thought reaching into the hat.
"I got...myself." He said tossing the paper to the side, he reached into the hat again. "I got...Mokuba." He said tossing the paper again. Mai made sure their was no one else, he didn't get who couldn't be his partner. She tossed the names around in the hat again and handed to Yugi. Yugi reached into the hat, read the paper.
"Well who did you get already." Kaiba snapped already well aware of the possibility he might have to be partners with Yugi, or worse Joey.
"I got..."