First of all I need to apologise to my Beta reader, Sia Bakura, as I didn't send Chapter 3 to her first. I am sorry but with how long it took to write I just thought I had better post it now before people lose interest.
However it seems you haven't! A special thanks to tear-drowned-angel who reviewed chapter 3, minutes after I had posted it!
Anyway back to the story, hope you enjoy!
Disclaimer: I don't own YuGiOh or The Da Vinci Code.
Mysterious Feeling's Chapter 4
Seto Kaiba abandoned his futile attempt to read The Da Vinci Code. He couldn't concentrate. His mind kept wandering upstairs to the now sleeping Tea who was with him a few minutes before.
Why am I thinking about her?
Seto couldn't believe she was distracting him for the second time that day. With a growl of frustration he put down the book and stood up. He was feeling restless yet he found himself walking towards the stairs and continuing up them. He then went on to walking down the corridor, stopping as he reached Tea's room. He had heard muffled sobs from within and pushed open the door slightly.
There, lying beneath the covers, was Tea. Seto could see her outline underneath the duvet and the girl was curled up like a new born child, crying quietly. He walked over to her form and saw she was fast asleep.
"Mom" she muttered, tears streaming down her face.
Seto decided that now was as good a time as ever to wake her from her nightmare. He placed a hand on her shoulder and gently shook her.
Tea felt herself being shook gently awake. She opened her eyes and saw figure looming over her. She panicked and screamed, lashing out. The figure jumped back in shock and fell over Tea's bag.
"Oomph"
Tea recognised the voice.
"Kaiba?"
"Who else" he replied, standing up.
They both stopped as they heard footsteps getting louder, closer. The door was flung open and a defiant looking Mokuba came in wielding…a plastic sword!
"Tea! Are you ok? What happened?" Mokuba looked frantically around the room trying to locate the source of what had made Tea scream, "Big brother? What are you doing here?"
Seto lifted a hand to his face touching a tender bit of skin, bringing his hand back down he saw a small amount of blood on his fingers. Tea must have caught the side of his face when she lashed out.
"I heard her scream" he lied, "I came to see what was wrong"
Tea looked at Kaiba staring at his hand. Her eyes travelled up his body, resting on his face. There, she saw it. The cut just to the side of his eye where her nails must have caught him when she had flung out her hands in panic.
"Seto…you're bleeding!" she pushed herself up and carefully got out of bed makeing sure she wasn't exposing anything under her skimpy night gown. Her hand rested on the side of his face gently wiping away the blood. To her amazement he didn't push her away. He simply stood there, staring into her cerulean eyes and noticed how unlike his own they were. His eyes, although blue, were dark and stormy, concealing all emotion within. Hers were light and clear, showing her feelings.
She looked at him with genuine concern in her eyes. The only person Seto ever saw genuine emotion that wasn't hate or dislike, was Mokuba. He was still standing in the door way, hand still on the light switch when he had turned them on as he flung open the door, staring at the scene in front of him.
Big brother…letting Tea near him, touch him…YES!
Mokuba could hardly contain his happiness. His plan was working!
Seto and Tea, Seto and Tea, Seto and Tea
Mokuba chanted this in his head and, unable to contain the smile on his face any longer, he slowly and quietly left the room.
"I'm sorry" Tea whispered, "I didn't mean to hurt you"
Seto didn't realise but his hand had travelled upwards and rested upon Tea's. His heartbeat had definitely picked up. As they both stood there the same things were running through their minds.
His…lips…
Her…lips…
Without knowing who moved first their lips both met in a soft, tentative kiss. What lasted only about three seconds felt like a lifetime to Seto Kaiba. He had lost his first kiss to someone who he was supposed to hate. Yet, something about this felt right. He wanted to pull her in, deepen the kiss, but it had already ended. She stood there, eyes closed, breathing deeply he had no idea what to say.
Her hand moved slightly and Seto removed his own and Tea's floated down to her side. They both hesitated.
Finally, it was Seto who broke the silence.
"You should get some sleep. You hadn't been asleep long when I woke you."
Tea nodded but still stood there. Seto moved away slowly and only looked back when he reached the door. Tea was still standing there in the exact same spot, not even turning her head.
"Goodnight" he whispered, closing the door behind him.
When Mokuba woke up the next morning he felt like it was Christmas, although it was two months away. Mokuba got out of bed smiling, got dressed smiling, brushed his teeth smiling, went downstairs smiling, and ate breakfast smiling.
As Mokuba was putting his bowl in the dishwasher, smiling, the kitchen door opened and in walked one of the reasons he was so happy.
Seto Kaiba.
"Good morning Seto!" Mokuba grinned.
"What are you so happy about?" he questioned as he went over to get his coffee.
"Nothing"
Of course, that was a lie. He was happy because his plan to get Seto a girlfriend was working already. He hadn't expected much to happen in the few days that Tea was staying with them, just that Seto would be ok with her so he could ask her round again. But now, they were already getting closer!
I have to tell her!
He pulled out his cell, a sleek metallic black flip phone, and dialled a number.
He waited. One ring. Two rings. Three rings. Finally on the fourth ring someone answered.
"Hello?"
"Hey, it's me"
"Oh, hi Mokuba!"
"Listen, I have great news!"
"About the plan?"
"Yep! They're already getting closer! Last night, I heard her scream and when I went in to see if she was ok Seto was already in there! She stood up and her hand was on the side of his face!"
"That's great Mokie! Make sure nothing happens to push them apart ok and we will talk more when I get (there) ok?"
"Ok I'll see you in two days then!"
"Bye!"
"Bye!"
Mokuba put down the phone with an even bigger grin on his face than before. He skipped up the stairs and knocked on Tea's door. There was no answer yet he knew she was still in there. Maybe she was still asleep? He pushed open the door and was surprised to see her on the floor leaning against the bed, tear's rolling down her face.
"Tea?"
Tea looked up and saw the younger Kaiba standing there awkwardly, not knowing what to do.
"Mokuba!"
Tea launched herself at him and pulled him into a bone breaking hug.
"Ouch Tea you're hurting me!" Mokuba gasped.
"Sorry" she loosened her death grip on him and Mokuba was thankful.
"Tea what's wrong?" he asked, concerned.
"Nothing's wrong" she said, her eyes shimmering with emotion and tears, "everything's finally going right!"
At first Mokuba thought she was talking about Seto and the possibility they had gotten together but then he realised that nothing could be expected to happen that quickly even if he wanted it to.
"I just got off the phone with the hospital" Tea began, but Mokuba cut in.
"The hospital you were in?"
"No silly" Tea laughed, tapping Mokuba's nose, "The hospital my brothers staying at!"
Zach Gardner was getting very frustrated. He was feeling better than ever and the doctors wouldn't listen! After suffering a bad reaction to a new washing powder his dad had been using, he had come out in a rash similar to what his mom had had before she…
Zach didn't want to think about it.
"Hello Zach its good to see you're looking better!" chimed a young nurse as she walked in.
"I've been feeling better for weeks but you haven't been listening to me" he growled through gritted teeth.
Zach was a lot like Seto Kaiba in many ways. He could appear cold, arrogant, moody and stuck up at the best of times, but unlike Kaiba he had a warm heart. He smiled, laughed and played regular pranks with Joey and the guys, which caused Tea to laugh hysterically. He missed his sister so much. Unfortunately, the hospital that was treating him (more like holding him hostage) was miles away from their house in Domino.
"If you'll just hold still this won't take a moment" said the nurse in her nauseatingly cheerful voice. She was holding up a needle and was getting ready to take another blood sample.
"If you stick that thing in me one more time I'm gonna ram it up your-"
He was cut off by a doctor, slightly older than the nurse, entering the room carrying a note pad and looking un-amused by Zach's language.
"Is that anyway to speak to someone who is trying to help you get better?"
Upon hearing that simple sentence Zach let out a howl like a wounded animal.
"THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH ME!" he screamed, getting out of the bed and pulling the electronical monitoring devices off him.
"Where do you think you are going Mr. Gardner?" the doctor asked with a weary sigh.
"Home" he replied, pulling on his t-shirt and shaking his dark green hair out of his amber eyes. He was already wearing his black slacks so he pulled on his trainers and left the room.
The nurse looked bewildered.
"One last blood test and he would have been free to leave anyway!"
The heaved a sigh, "I know that's what I was coming to tell him"
"If you'll just fill in this form please" the receptionist handed Zach a pen and a sheet of paper for him to fill out to say he was discharging himself.
He took the pen and paper from her and sat down to fill them out. Little did he know that the hospital had called Tea to say that was being discharged today and she was most likely coming up to meet him. If he would have waited and listened to the doctors then he would have let them take the stupid blood test and waited for his sister.
"Here you go" Zach flung the completed form across the desk where it landed in front of a startled looking receptionist.
Without listening to what the poor receptionist was trying to tell him, he walked out of the hospital without looking back.
"Roland will you hurry up!"
"Mokuba you didn't have to do this" Tea said staring at him gratefully.
"I know I didn't have to, Tea but I wanted to" he smiled.
"Master Kaiba, Sir, the limousine is ready" Roland told him.
"Finally!"
"Mokuba don't be rude!" Tea scolded, "He's just got this ready with under a minutes notice, you're supposed to be grateful!"
Mokuba rolled his eyes at her as they got in the vehicle and pulled away from the mansion.
"Where to?" asked Roland, winding down the privacy window between the driver half of the limo and the passenger half.
"Tokyo City Hospital" replied Mokuba before Tea had opened her mouth.
Mokuba grinned and sat back into the luxurious interior of the limousine while Tea looked around in amazement. She had never been in a limousine before, let alone Seto Kaiba's. Tea would have bet anything that this was the most extravagant limousine that was ever made!
She stared out of the window at the people walking past without a care in the world. She wondered if things would ever get back to normal with her and her dad since she heard her parents arguing before they found out she was ill.
He has no idea I was there…that I heard them…
With Tea lost in thought about her past, the ride to the hospital went faster than usual. The limousine pulled up in front of Tokyo City Hospital and Tea and Mokuba got out while Roland waited for them in the car park.
Tea and Mokuba located the receptionist's desk with ease and Tea could hardly contain her excitement as she asked which ward her brother was on.
"What's his name?" she asked typing away on the computer.
"Zach Gardner"
The receptionist looked up as she heard the name, "He doesn't have dark green hair by any chance does he?" she asked tentatively.
"Um, yeah, why?" Tea asked, panic rising inside her.
"Well he came down here earlier today and discharged himself" she said looking through some draws before finally withdrawing a sheet of paper. She pushed it across the table for Tea to read.
"I-I don't believe it, he wouldn't!" she stared at the paper in disbelief and didn't notice the doctor standing behind her.
She cleared his throat.
"Are you Miss Gardner?" she asked looking at Tea's eyes that greatly resembled her brothers.
"Yeah"
"I am Doctor Karee" she said, brushing a loose strand of black, curly hair from her green eyes.
"Doctor who?"
"Doctor Karee" she repeated patiently, "I am the main Doctor that was in charge of your brothers health."
"And you let him walk out of here?" she asked in disbelief.
"I'm afraid there is nothing we could do to stop him!" she replied.
Tea knew she was right but it still didn't make her feel any better about the whole situation. It just didn't seem like the sort of thing that Zach would do!
"So are you telling me that you did nothing to provoke him into leaving?" Tea asked sceptically.
"No" she replied flatly, "The nurse walked in to take one final blood sample before he was allowed to go and he said some very unpleasant things to her"
Tea's eyes narrowed as she continued to listen.
"I walked in, told him that it wasn't a very nice way to talk to a member of staff and he got up and went. I didn't even get a chance to tell him that you were coming for him and that he was allowed to go!"
"That doesn't seem like my brother. I'm sorry but I think you definitely did something to upset him. Come on Mokuba." Tea spun on her heel and headed back out of the hospital doors.
Wait till I see him…
Another looooooong week, another chapter…
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