Disclaimer-Kazuki Takahashi owns Yugioh
Key
/ someone singing/
"quotes are speech"
'is dreaming'
/is flashback/
- is thoughts -
"What, how?" Mokuba asked in shock.
"I don't know exactly how, I just know it has something to do with the dance coming up." Serenity replied.
"Dats enough Seren, stay outta dis." Joey warned.
"You don't just get to go around ruining people's lives, it's not right!" She shouted. Mokuba slumped against the wall dazed, there had been many a plot to ruin his brother's life in the past, but Mokuba hadn't invited any of those plots into his house personally. Heck he had pushed for Kaiba to be friends with them, even when Kaiba had stated quite clearly that he hated those qoute unrealistic, annoying, friendship freaks. -Well friendship freak only really applied to Tea, wait...-
"Where does Tea fit into all this?" Mokuba said suddenly breaking up Serenity and Joey's argument.
"She's what this whole thing is about, they don't want your brother going out with her." Serenity said to Mokuba. Mokuba's eyes widened and he shook his head. This couldn't be happening, not after...
/Several Months ago. Kaiba paced down the hallway near his room, back and forth endlessly, muttering to himself.
"Big Brother what's wrong?" Mokuba asked.
"Hmm?" Kaiba grunted, then he shook his head and began pacing again.
"If you don't tell me what's wrong, then your never going to feel better." Mokuba stated, folding his arms across his chest. Kaiba gave a series of intelligble grunts, then began pacing back and forth. Mokuba stuck out his leg, and Kaiba hit the floor. Glaring at his brother, he sat up, then closed his eyes and hit his head several times against the wall.
"Big brother, stop that, you could give yourself a concussion."
"Don't worry about it."
"I am worried, that's what brother's do, they worry about each other and then whisper about how the boy ain't right behind each other's backs. Oh, and they annoy each other. And they love each other, and take care of each other. And they talk ceaselessly until the other one tells them what's wrong." Mokuba rambled. Kaiba's eyes widened.
"You wouldn't dare."
"Guess what I had for dinner last night, fish, fish and rice, and soda. Just like you isn't that amazing. First I didn't want to eat it, but then I took one bite, and then another, and then another, and then another, and another and an..." Kaiba clamped a hand over Mokuba's mouth to get him to shutup. Mokuba bit him.
"other, and another, and another, and..."
"ALL RIGHT, I'LL TELL YOU, JUST SHUTUP!" Kaiba shouted. Mokuba smirked triumphantly.
"Well, see there's this...person of the opposite sex." Kaiba began.
"OOOO, Seto's got a girlfriend, Seto's got a girlfriend, Seto's got a girlfriend..." Mokuba began in a singsong voice.
"That's just the problem, I don't...yet, and this one, I don't know if I can persuade her to become my better half. I drafted up this proposal, but I don't know how to liven it up..." Kaiba said.
"You did what." Mokuba said sweatdropping. Kaiba rolled his eyes and dragged Mokuba to his room. Kaiba locked the door, then pulled out a portable slideshow presenter and two pieces of posterboard, one black, and one with a caption that read pros and cons, with two pieces of colorful paper, and a huge list of pros and a small list of cons. Mokuba shook his head as Kaiba dimmed the lights.
"Ahem, how are you doing today. Good, good. Now then let me tell you why I think you should go out with me, first off I'm rich. Kaiba said pressing a button a picture of money came onto the black posterboard. Second off, with both of our extreme personalities, we'll balance each other out. Third off, we're already well aquaintted with each other, so their shouldn't be any awkard first date lies, not that I would need to lie, because, as you know I'm already pretty dxxx great already, which is a bonus for you, because you get to be seen on the arm of Seto Kaiba. Not only that, but as someone with lots of wealth, I can make your dreams come true. Plus let's face it, we're both incredibly good looking, intelligent, teenagers, who have already been through a lot with each other. Plus you're always telling me to make friends, lighten up, and have fun, well you like fun, and I need fun, it works."
"Whoa, whoa whoa, make friends...are you talking about Tea?"
"How'd you know?"
"She always talks about friendship, always."
"Anyway, before you say no, let me show you this informative slideshow..." Kaiba said hitting a button, music started playing, and the slideshow progressed showing various slides of docotored photos of them, charts and graphs, and various things like mink coats, ballet lessons, and so on and so forth. "Well what do you think?" Kaiba asked Mokuba. Mokuba started scratching his head hard.
"I think, I think...I don't know what to think. What the hxxx.Seto, you don't win a girl's heart with a slideshow presenatation! You win corporate contracts, business deals, and good grades, but not a girls heart! Are you on drugs or something!" Mokuba shouted. Kaiba flopped down on the bed and buried his face in a pillow, and groaned.
"I...don't...know...what...else...to...do!" Kaiba said through gritted teeth, no bothering to pull his face up from the mattress. "I've never been good at these things."
"I know why don't you give her a present or something, I know one those girly girl protype locket things you've been working on." Mokuba suggested. "You know test the waters."
"Hmm, good idea." Kaiba said.
"So Seto, why do you like Tea?" Mokuba asked.
"Well, you know the Yokuzas don't like people who aren't at least seeing someone, they're really old fashioned and feel that if you can't keep your own life grounded, then why should you be able to handle a simple project. Anyway they is a rumor going around that in a few months they're going to be selling 40 of their company, and they only own 40 themselves. If I could get that then that would make me partner to one of the biggest competitors we have, and after I become partner, I plan on buying up some of the other 20 that's publicly traded, until I have 51, then I can fire them, and make Yokuza Industries just another subsidiary company of Kaibacorp." Kaiba replied.
"Then can't you just pay one of our maids to do that, they're plenty of them that would literally jump at the chance to go out with you."
"Well, ahem, time for bed." Kaiba said pushing him out of them room.
"But it's only 6:30." Mokuba replied.
"Well you know what they said early to bed, and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise."
"Ok, A, I'm already wealthy, and B, I'm not a man, so that doesn't apply to me, and C, you've never made me...oooohhh, you like like her don't you? You love her, you want to kiss her, you want to hug her, you want to..." Mokuba sang. Kaiba slammed the door in his face. Mokuba smirked and went up to his room, however the next day Kaiba came in the house, screaming something about a stylist, so Mokuba naturally had to find out what happened, running down the stairs he found Kaiba tearing up the room for his palm pilot. Mokuba whistled and pointed to his desk. Kaiba sweatdropped and walked over to the pilot, engrossed in it.
"What happened?" Mokuba asked.
"Gardner, first she ignores me in the hallway, then, then when I gave her the locket, she broke it, and accused me of blushing. Can you believe that, me, blushing impossible. Anyway as so innocently reminded her that she wouldn't know what a real crush looked like seeing as she supposedly dated a make believe ghost that inhabited the tacky, and obviously fake jewelry of her best friend, and then she had the nerve to slap, and she tried to slap me again. Naturally I ended up blocking her, but we fell, and accidently kissed, and she started to pretend to throwup." Kaiba huffed.
"Yeah Seto, remember when I said that necklace was a way to test the water, well you tested the water, and the water, the water doesn't love you." Mokuba said. (1)
"Am I so disgusting?" Kaiba asked
"Apparently to her." Mokuba answered. (2) Kaiba glared at the ground. Mokuba shifted in his seat, he had never in his entire life seen his brother have so much self doubt, or act that way before. "Look Seto, all you have to do is keep at it, I'm sure she'll come around."
"Your right, this ust means I have to step up my game, ah, here we go, finally somebody in this stupid thing with some talent. Besides, you know I love a challenge." Kaiba smirked getting up. "I refuse to back down from everything, and I'm going to keep going after until she either admits she has feelings for me."
"Or has you arrested..."
"Trust me, that's not going to happen." Kaiba said ruffling Mokuba's hair. "Now if you excuse me." He said getting up from his bed and heading towards the door. "I'm about to go to no man's land, and get a...makeover, and maybe buy some Dark Magician Girl on Ice tickets, I think she'll like that, oh and kiddo, thanks."/
Mokuba shook his head free of the memory, he had encouraged Kaiba. -Once again, I've messed up everything.- He thought grimly.
Meanwhile outside, Kaiba had covered Tea's eyes and started walking her away from the rest of the crowd. "Seto what are you doing?" Tea giggled. She had been extremely ticked off with him, but he promised her had driven her friends away for a good reason, and that he promised to try to things work, but first he wanted to give her something.
She gasped at what she saw, she had never seen this part of the gardens before, their were roses everywhere, and a small pond with some kind of gorgeous bird that she had never seen before in it. Their were cherry blossom trees enclosing the area, and a small picket fence running around the whole thing, laced with beautiful white lights. There was also a small stone bench for her to sit at.
"Do you like it." He asked.
"Seto this, this..is...this..is beautiful." Tea gasped. Kaiba led her by the hand onto the bench then kneeled before her.
"Tea, when I first met you, I have to be honest, I couldn't stand you. But that's because I didn't know you, I didn't know me. I had lost me in a shroud of anger and hatred that was only leading into a path of more anger and hatred. Then I dueled Yugi, and I couldn't make heads or tails of anything, and then Mokuba was kidnapped. And you yelled at me, and I couldn't believe it, Noone, but no one talked to me like that. Especially a female. And I became intrigued by you, and the more I got to know you, the more I fell in love with you. At first I tried to deny it, tried to push you all away, with cruel, harsh, empty words and threats. I won't pretend that I like your friends, and I won't pretend that this is going to be easy, but I, I can't picture anyone else for me. Tea, will you marry me?" Kaiba said, taking a ring box from his pocket, and opening it up. Tea's eyes rolled in the back of her head, and she fainted.
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(1), (2), Lines adapted from another one of my favorite shows, That 70s Show. Until next month, Ja Mata, and Happy Thanksgiving!