"This is really strange, Yugi." Tea sighed as she followed Yugi out of the shop, he just laughed nervously, "Red is a pretty nifty man." Grandpa chuckled and the two looked at him, "Kaiba's father-in-law, Mr. Starwind." He clarified and Yugi sighed at how quickly the two old men got along. "It was pretty funny watching them this afternoon when I was with Set." Yugi added as they reached the limo with the awaiting subjects.
On the way to the restaurant Kaiba stared out the window as Hilda was sleeping in his lap and Set slept leaning against him. Kaiba's youngest son just played on his father's cell phone and Red and Grandpa talked about planning a weekly met up with different friends; Tea almost couldn't contain how adorable she thought the children were with Kaiba. "So, Yugi and I are engaged." Tea said to Kaiba and he looked at her, "I heard. So, let me be the first to welcome you to hell." Kaiba snorted in response and Red glared at him, "What? It doesn't seem so bad." Tea defended calmly as she was surprised he even acknowledged it. Kaiba just gave her a smug face and Yugi began to sweat, "Two or three are asleep right now, Tea, but I know where he is coming from." Yugi spoke up and Kaiba looked shocked before smirking at the limo slowed.
"We're here, kids." Kaiba said plainly as Set woke up and stretched before hurriedly shooing his younger brother out and Kaiba followed with his daughter still dangling about as she slowly woke up. Red hurriedly scooped up the two boys before they darted to the entrance of the restaurant as the three guests got out and placing the two back on their feet when the group had entered the building. They were seated and Yugi sat across from Set; Kaiba sat next to Set with Hilda in his lap and his youngest son on the other side of him as his father-in-law sat across from Mr. Muto. Tea end up sitting across from Kaiba's youngest son who was just looking about boredly at the western steak house theme, the two oldest men order drinks and continued to talk as so did Yugi with Set. Kaiba leaned back and his daughter jolted forward and dropped her head onto the table with a thud that made Kaiba start to chuckle as he slipped his hand in between her forehead and table; Red rolled his eyes and started to chuckle too. Tea didn't really know what to think of the situation "You're in trouble with her. She is just like Lucy." Red laughed and Kaiba looked at him as he leaned his daughter against him, "Lucy?" Tea mumbled and Kaiba looked at her suspiciously, "My wife." he said shortly and Tea sat straight. Mr. Starwind looked at Kaiba blankly before chuckling "My daughter, Lucy, is a Humanities lecturer. She has been in India the last two weeks or so-" Mr. Starwind continues before leaning forward and blocking his face from Kaiba with a hand, "He's just anxious for her and his little brother to return home." He whispered foolishly as Kaiba glared at him. "That's very interesting! How did you two meet?" Tea asked dumbly as Yugi nervously sipped water and the two old men started joking around again.
"Wow, lady, you sure are nosey." The youngest boy said blankly and Tea squinted at him and Kaiba looked surprised. "Angel" Kaiba huffed and the boy looked up at him and simply blinked as Kaiba gave him a scolding look at a Waitress approached to take dinner orders, "I'll have the 20oz sirloin medium rare." Mr. Starwind started off charmingly and the woman giggled, "The little buck-a-roos' will have 5oz sirloin medium well, and the little sweet heart will eat a chicken salad with ranch." He finished with a wink before she moved on to take everyone else's orders. Kaiba was staring at his father-in-law, who just smirked back "I was going to get them chicken." Kaiba snapped and Red shrugged, "Don't worry about it, they'll eat just fine." the older man reassured and Kaiba rolled his eyes. However, he was distracted as his daughter started to stir long enough to scratch her head wildly before yawning and going limp again, her father sighed and took down her pig tails and re-did them.
After the waitress cooed at the children and left Mr. Starwind looked back to Kaiba "Well go on, tell your little love story." Red teased and Kaiba frowned and tried to ignore the man, but Set tugged on his sleeve, "C'mon Dad! I wanna hear it." Set started with a bright smile and Kaiba shook his head. "Tell it!" Angel started to chant and Set started to chant long, "You've heard it at least a thousand times." Kaiba sighed, but his son's persisted enough that they awoke their sister and she pouted and glared about; Kaiba noticed this and sighed.
"Fine, your uncle and I were traveling around Europe ten years ago we were originally scouting sites for another amusement park. We were out walking about a site in Greece and found a lecture from the nearby university." Kaiba started quickly and in a fashion that showed he had already forgotten that Tea asked the original question, " The 'Professor' was dressed in traditional Greek toga-" "She had red hair like me!" Hilda tuned in and Kaiba nodded, "Yes, because she is your mother." he retorted and the girl laughed.
The weather was hot and dry as the ground broke apart in large cracks; Seto Kaiba was simply looking about and admiring the distant ruins as his brother, Mokuba, was fanning himself and complaining. "Can we go now? It's so hot! I don't even know why we-" Mokuba was interrupted by Seto hushing him, "Do you hear that?" Seto asked and Mokuba looked at him like he was crazy, "No, we should leave. I think the heat is getting to you-" Mokuba continued, but his brother began to walk away quickly causing the younger male to chase after him.
The two wondered closer to the marble ruins as the lecturing got steadily louder, it was a woman's voice and as they got closer they understood her words about the Ancient Greek Mythology. They came a upon a cluster of people from mixed backgrounds, all sitting on lush grass as a woman in a long pale toga lectured as she walked about on a fallen column of marble. She had long curly red hair that almost seemed tangerine in the sunlight, it was kept in a mass over one shoulder, she was a very short being and would have been petite besides her curves that were shown by her costume. Seto watched her and listened to the lecture as Mokuba looked dumbfounded by his brother, "I thought you weren't even into this old stuff?" Mokuba asked and Seto hushed him before the woman looked over and simply smiled without interrupting her flow as she recited the story of Atlas.
After ten minutes she ended the class and allowed her students to explore, she wandered up to the Kaiba boys, "I'm sorry, but are you on my attendance sheet?" She asked and Kaiba straightened and shook his head and Mokuba sighed and fanned himself more. The woman watched him as she pulled a rubber band off her wrist and handed it to Mokuba, "There's also should be an aqueduct not to far." She added and Mokuba smirked as she motioned to lead the way. She giggled as she stumbled on her long dress before carrying the excess material as she led the two to a small duct system "You can just drink from it, the water flows to that small crop field over there." She said as she pointed, "and if I were you guys I would walk around and take this place in because its not long before government will tear it for some reason." She finished as she began to walk toward a group of her students. Mokuba choked on the water as he heard what she said before looking at Seto with worry, his brother shook his head, "Miss-" He called after, but she didn't him, "Woman." He trailed off slightly louder and she whirled around looked at him with a raised brow. "So that answers my question." She sighed, "My name is Lucy, for future reference and you could've at least called out red instead of woman." she huffed with a mellow attitude and Mokuba glared at her.
"Hey, don't you know who we are?" Mokuba snapped and She looked at him without amusement, but Seto stopped him from saying more, "No, but I would guess lost tourist." She snapped and staring them down and Mokuba waited impatiencely by for Seto to say something, but he never did. Mokuba looked up at him with defeat before tying up his messy long hair, the woman sighed and crossed her arms "However, I'll be more than happy to show you boys the conjoined temples of Artemis and Apollo." She offered nicely and Seto smirked and nodded. Mokuba seemed intrigued enough to just go along as Lucy smiled and trotted over to her satchel to pull out a notebook and pen, she scribbled her information on to it before ripping out a page and handing it to Seto and turning her back to him, "Okay, everyone wrap it up!" She called as her students lazily went toward the street mumbling to each other.
Everyone was listening to Kaiba grumbling out the story, but the food had arrived and he busied himself with getting his children under control as they were awake and hungry. Tea watched as Kaiba cut the boys' steaks and separated two smaller sections of his to place on the boys' plates, "I doubt they'll eat it." Kaiba huffed and his father-in-law smirked, "Lu and you eat it the same way, I'm sure the kids will be just fine." the man laughed as the boys' ate the drier option first, but Hilda began to squirm about before Kaiba handed her a fork which she took and started to stab at the salad and eat what was stuck to the fork. Hilda grabbed a slice of fried chicken in her free hand and munched on that while she splattered ranch about.
Set and were the first to finish their dinner and Set turned to his father who was still trying to eat with his crazed daughter in his lap, she threw her hand in the air and accidentally smeared ranch on her father's face. "Dad, keep telling the story" pleaded Set and Kaiba floundered about to block his daughter and get the ranch off his face, "I'll tell it!" Mr. Starwind laughed and Kaiba glared at him, "You weren't there." Kaiba murmured. "Well, I heard you couldn't even read what was on the paper." snorted and Kaiba rolled his eyes as the children laughed, "You couldn't read it, but on the other side was a list of phone numbers that you called until you came across the dean's number and demanded to get her cell phone number."
"I am Seto Kaiba! I need Professor Lucy's personal number for a private matter!" Seto demanded into the phone, "We have 12 different professor's with that name, sir. It would be much easier if you knew her last-" The Dean stammered. "She had red hair and was lecturing at the village ruins-" Seto huffed and the Dean stopped him, "Oh, that's Lucy Starwind, she is a guest lecturer from the United States. She'll only be in Greece for the next three days before leaving for the Netherlands." The dean notified and Seto sighed before glancing at the side that was intended for him. The time she scribbled was just simply five o'clock and he looked over at the clock on his desk, it read six, "Mokuba!" Seto called and his brother sat up from the couch, "are you coming along to that-" Seto stammered for a word, "Tour?" Mokuba answered and his brother nodded. Mokuba contemplated the idea, but seeing his brother wanting to hurry, he simply hopped up and followed after as Seto hurried out and to their car.
They were two hours late and Seto was fuming from being late and then getting lost, they arrived at a marble temple that had red dirt floors and an alter statue of Apollo "I don't think this is the right place." Seto growled and Mokuba was already wondering toward some trees where birds were chirping loudly, "Hey Big brother." Mokuba called and Seto joined him to see Lucy sitting on the ground with a knife and stabbing a round red fruit. Lucy had on a lacy bikini and was sitting across from the trees that held the squawking birds, as she finally broke into the pomegranate she tossed a hand full of juicy seeds to the birds before eating some herself.
Mokuba waited for Seto to announce their presence, but he just stood with his arms crossed "Hey! Sorry, we're late!" Mokuba called and Seto looked at him before they heard the woman choke on the seeds from fright, they walked toward her as she finished coughing "You're fashionably late" She laughed as she stayed sitting on the ground, "But, you're lucky I had nothing more important to do." Lucy teased as Mokuba looked at with confusion. Lucy giggled some more before she stood up and held out her arms "Welcome to Apollo's half of the temple!" She cheered, "Apollo is the god of the sun! He said to have a golden chariot that pulls the sun across the sky each day-" "We already know all that." Mokuba said smugly and Seto bumped him with a hand which caught Mokuba off guard.
"Good!" Lucy smirked and crossed her arms, "Then we can skip to the amazing part! Artemis's temple!" She said happily as she winked before bending over to pick up her stuff that was haphazardly scattered around where she had been sitting. They followed her as she weaved between the fallen pillars and the boys hesitated for a second as the tropical birds attacked the leftover fruit, they turned back to see Lucy hurrying toward a ledge as she wove them over to join her as they saw dilapidated stairway leading down. They followed the woman as she slipped down in a messy fashion as she laughed every time she slipped around and Mokuba began to smile and find the fun in exploring, however, Seto tried to keep his elegant composure as he walked lastly down the slanted marble.
They were standing in front of a cave wall and she simply trotted in before turning and watching the two enter; Mokuba entered and looked about the grotto in amazement. The ceiling was domed and had holes to let in sunlight and in the middle stood a massive statue of Artemis. Sunlight poured down on her and cypresses grew in the lit circles that touched the surrounding ground, but the form herself was on a pedestal in the middle of the water "Welcome to Artemis's temple." Lucy started, "Of course, there are many, but this is my favorite." She laughed as she set her stuff down and began to enter the water, she looked back at the boys again and Mokuba was quickly pulling off clothes to jump into the water as Seto continued to look around.
It wasn't long after Seto had circled around the water while finding parts of broken pots and such before he heard loud echoing laughter as Lucy and Mokuba splashed it each other and were jumping from the massive pedestal. Seto watched them frolic "C'mon big brother!" Mokuba called and Lucy looked at him with a smile, he froze in place and started to panic, but he heard them laughing and playing again so he sighed and began to take off his light button up shirt and slacks.
"They played in the pond and Kaiba fell in love with Lucy's sweet personality! He then followed her around the globe for another six months, before she would even date him." Mr. Starwind laughed as Kaiba glared at him, "That's not what happened." He grunted and his father-in-law continued to chuckle as Angel finished his food, "I thought it did." He said and Set chuckled and nodded. Kaiba sighed "But that's so romantic." Tea giggled and Kaiba gave her an annoyed look, "I'm glad you found someone." Yugi said and Kaiba simply looked at him. Yugi somehow knew that behind the icy blank stare of Seto Kaiba held some emotion, he knew one day Kaiba would really be happy and he felt gifted in being able to witness it as he believes Kaiba even knew it.
Hilda belched and it surprised Kaiba before he awkwardly smirked "Excuse me" He mumbled down to her then kissed her head after she repeated him while laughing as he just continued to smirk as his father-in-law chuckled along with the boys.