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Mysterious Feeling's Chapter 3
"Mokuba? I'm not so sure I should have let you talk me into this…" Tea said uncertainly.
Now she was here, standing outside the gates of the mansion, she wanted to turn back. The hospital was better than facing an angry Seto Kaiba anyday…
Buzzzz
Mokuba pressed a little grey button on the wall next to the gate.
"Hey, its Mokuba let me in"
"Hi Mokuba, sure thing!" a female voice replied, and the gates swung open.
Tea and Mokuba walked up the path to the front door, Tea carrying a small bag over her shoulder. They reached the front door and went in. Tea almost dropped her bag when she saw the inside of the building. The outside was impressive enough but…
The front hall was large, with a very high ceiling. From what Tea could make out there were three blue eyes white dragons patterned around a large chandelier. The grand staircase in front of her lead up to higher floors, a bit of what she could see was a long hallway, with a hell of a lotta doors. She was surprised it wasn't decked out with a red carpet, but it was actually a deep royal blue.
Mokuba saw her face and suppressed a laugh, with difficulty.
Tea looked at him and saw him smirking.
"What?"
"Nothing, nothing…it's just you look funny when you're surprised like that!" Mokuba giggled.
"I just didn't expect it to be so…big!" Tea realised how stupid that sounded, "I mean I expected it to be big but I didn't imagine it like this" she waved a hand around at everything.
"Anyway, let's see if we can find you a room!"
Tea and Mokuba climbed the stairs and entered another large hallway with more doors. They looked through all the rooms before Tea decided on one with lilac and pink painted walls and beautiful white drawers and wardrobes with gold handles and trimmings. She went in, put her bag on the large, four poster bed, and pulled the deep purple curtains open.
Sunlight illuminated the room making it look even bigger. Tea was so overwhelmed at the mansion. It had everything you could ever want, including an indoor swimming pool and a gym. After Mokuba had finished showing her around she went upstairs to take a shower as Mokuba settled himself in front of the television, waiting for Seto to come home.
Seto got out of his limousine and sighed. It had been a hard day at KaibaCorp. and he had fired three people. He just wanted to get in and relax.
He opened the door and put down his briefcase. He was immediately greeted by Mokuba with an enthusiastic hug.
"Hey Seto, had a good day? Come sit down! Do you need anything? How about a coffee? I-"
"What have you done?"
"Huh?"
"What have you done?" Seto repeated.
"What makes you think I've done something?" Mokuba grinned.
"Spill!" he said grabbing his brother by the waste and tipping him upside down, tickling him.
"Aaaaaah, no, no, Seto, stop, please!" he begged, laughing.
"What have you done?" Seto asked, also laughing.
"Okay, okay I'll tell!" Mokuba surrendered.
Seto placed his brother back on the floor and ruffled his ebony hair affectionately.
"Promise you won't be mad?"
"Mokuba I-"
"Promise!"
"Fine, fine I promise!" Seto agreed, wondering what his brother could have done.
"Well, you know Tea was at the hospital?"
"Yeah"
"Well, her dad has had to leave town for a few days and refused to let Tea stop on her own. So I kinda thought, since we had enough room, that she could stop here." He said the last line really fast as though hoping that the quicker Seto heard it, the less mad he would be.
"You WHAT?"
"You promised you wouldn't get mad!" Mokuba said holding his hands up.
Seto took a deep breath.
I suppose I could let her stay if it means that much to Mokuba he thought, No way! She can't stay! But Mokuba…no, yes, no, YES!
"Fine, she can stay!" Seto said reluctantly, giving in to his brothers puppy dog eyes and ending the argument in his head.
"YES!" Mokuba started dancing and skipping chanting, Tea's staying wiiith us, Tea's staying wiiith us, Tea's staying wiiith us! He was making Seto dizzy just watching him.
"Mokuba? Do you have any spare towels?"
Seto's head snapped up. On the top of the stairs, leaning over the banister, stood Tea. A towel loosely wrapped around her, her hair dripping water down her skin. Her long, slender legs were clearly visible as the towel was very short. He just stood there, staring.
"Uh, sure Tea they're in Seto's bathroom, across the hall from your room!" he added as she was about to ask where that was.
"Thanks Mokie!" she turned around and bounced towards Seto's room.
That's my room!
Seto immediately came out of the trance like state he had been in. He ran up the stairs after her, but he was too late. The door to his room stood slightly ajar. He pushed it open.
"I would prefer it if you-" he cut off at the sight of Tea, the towel now lying on the floor…
She saw him standing there and grabbed the towel, blushing intensely.
Seto's face flushed red and he turned around to hide it.
No, I'm turning around to stop seeing her…naked, of course you are! The other voice sneered. Why would I want to see her? You like her! What?
"Um…" Tea didn't know what to say.
Seto knew what she meant and turned around, clearing in throat.
"As I was saying, I would prefer it if you didn't come in here without my permission." He said, attempting to put up his usual cold hearted front. He managed to get his flushed face under control as he faced her.
"I'm sorry," she said wrapping the towel tighter around her and holding the extra towel around her head. She walked passed him, brushing against him slightly, sending goosebumps up his arm. She shut the door quietly behind her, leaving him standing there, thinking.
She did have a good body…
Seto shook the thoughts from his head and returned downstairs. He opened the kitchen door, grabbed a recipe book and began making dinner.
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Mokuba decided to go and look for Seto as he hadn't seen him since he went after Tea earlier. He was about to go upstairs when a delicious smell came from the kitchen. He went to check it out. He pushed open the door and was greeted by the delicious scent of many different dishes.
"Whoa! Seto, did you cook all this?" Mokuba asked in amazement.
"Yeah, don't sound so surprised" he smirked, pulling out some more food from the cooker.
"But you hardly ever cook!"
"Just go and get Tea!" he sighed, shaking his hair out of his azure eyes.
"kay!" he skipped out the room and practically flew up the stairs he was going that fast. He skidded to a stop outside her room and knocked.
"Hang on a sec!" came Tea's muffled voice.
Mokuba heard her banging around before her flushed face appeared around the doorframe. She giggled at the confused look on his face and opened the door.
She was wearing a pair of tight jeans that showed off her long legs. Her top was sleeveless and pale yellow and she had put her hair in two very small pigtails that looked quite cute.
"Seto said to come and get you! I think he has been abducted by aliens!" he giggled.
"Why?" Tea asked as they began to walk down what felt like Mount Everest!
"Because he's cooking!" Mokuba grinned.
Tea looked at him and realised he was being somewhat serious! Not about the alien part, but the cooking part!
"You mean he never cooks?" she asked incredulously.
"Nope!" then his brow furrowed, as he remembered something, "Well actually, he does cook, but when he cooks this much it's usually to distract him."
Am I what's distracting him? She wondered.
As they got to the bottom of the stairs Tea was hit with the most enthralling aroma she had ever smelt! (I think that sentence could be improved so if anyone has any suggestions it would help!)
"Mmmm, that smells wonderful!" Tea sighed.
"Uh-huh!" Mokuba agreed.
They pushed opened the kitchen door and gasped. The table had been laid with almost every dish you could ever imagine! There was gouchen chicken, zakuska, paella, baked Alaska, roulade with whipped cream and fanned strawberries and crème broule! Tea didn't know what the other dishes were even called! Her mouth watered at the delectable food before her.
"Big brother you never cooked all this!" Mokuba gaped.
"No, the alien's were kind enough to leave a gift after their last visit!" Seto mocked.
Tea giggled when she caught sight of Kaiba.
"What?"
"You have some flour on your face!"
Seto wiped his face trying to get it off but only succeeded in making more of a mess of himself!
She laughed, walking over to him and gently wiped it off, causing Seto to blush ever so slightly. Luckily, Tea appeared not to have noticed and she turned around and sat down next to Mokuba.
His eyes…they're so…deep…
Seto cleared his throat and put spoons and ladles in all the dishes and indicated that they should help themselves.
Mokuba immediately grabbed the spoon in the nearest crème broulai but Tea stopped him.
"Desserts last!" she said strictly before Seto had a chance.
"Aaaaww!" Mokuba left the broule where it was and tried some of the paella instead.
"Mmm this is really awesome!" how he managed to talk with his mouth that full was beyond Tea. But this time it was Seto who reprimanded him.
"Thank you, but please don't talk with your mouth full, it's extremely unattractive and bad-mannered."
Tea snorted into her zakuska at Mokuba's face, earning her a look of disgust from the CEO. She blushed and continued eating while Mokuba tried his best to stifle the laughter that was fighting to escape his lips at the look on hers and Seto's faces.
After the meal Tea helped Seto clean up as Mokuba had been sent to bed after nearly falling asleep at the table.
"That was a delicious meal" Tea complimented as she loaded the dishwasher.
Seto said nothing, but he did indicate that he had heard her with a slight nod of the head.
Kaiba's a good cook she thought, We should try to get him to cook more often.
With the dishwasher loaded, Tea just stood there, as if waiting for him to tell her to do something else. Seto noticed this and smiled slightly.
"You're not one of my maids so stop standing there as if waiting for orders!"
Did he just smile?
"Oh…um…right…" Tea stood there awkwardly not knowing what to do.
"Go and sit down, take a break. You've just come out of hospital," Seto reminded her, pointing to the living room, "I'll be there in a second I've just got to finish this"
Tea nodded and put down the dishcloth she had been holding. She walked into the living room and sat down. The sofa was really comfy and plush and Tea sank right into it!
"This is unreal! Seto Kaiba letting ME stay at his mansion!" she muttered to herself.
"The way you talk, you'd think that I never did anything for anyone before!"
Tea spun in her seat to see a cocky looking Kaiba leaning against the door frame, a slight smirk playing across his lips.
"Kaiba, I, what, I-I didn't mean-"
Seto Kaiba held up a hand silencing Tea mid-sentence.
"Forget it"
It wasn't an angry 'forget it', more like an 'its ok I don't mind'.
Tea didn't know what to do so she just sat there, looking uneasy.
He pushed himself off the doorframe and walked around the sofa and sat down. They both sat there for a few moments not saying anything, when Tea thought of something.
"Um, why did you let me stay here?"
"Mokuba" he replied simply.
Tea suspected as much. If Mokuba wanted something Kaiba would give it to him. She guessed that he hadn't asked, that he'd try to persuade him when she got there. Tea smiled just thinking about Mokuba's puppy dog eyes that he probably used. She was about to say something but she was exhausted and when she opened her mouth she yawned. Seto looked at her, with an air of amusement about him.
"Tired?"
"Yeah, I think I'm going to go up to bed, if that's ok with you" she added.
"Yeah, sure"
Tea stood up and made her way to the door, stopping only to glance back at Kaiba.
"Goodnight" she whispered.
She gently closed the door behind her and slowly made her way up the stairs. She checked on Mokuba, who was fast asleep and tip-toed into her own room. There, she changed into her nightgown, which was incredibly short, and got into bed. She lay back on the pillows and thought about how crazy the last few days have been.
First I finally told my friends what was wrong, then I got attacked by someone I swear I recognise, woke up in hospital after finding out my dad lied to me and Kaiba and Mokuba found me, THEN I find myself staying at the Kaiba mansion until my dad gets back from wherever he's gone! Something tells me this isn't going to be your everyday week.
As she slowly drifted off to sleep her last thoughts were of her mom and brother.
Please look after him…
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I know I have taken an absurd amount of time for this chapter but my next one will be posted quicker! I promise! R&R