DISCLAMER: I DO NOT OWE YU-GI-OH
Chapter 3
Afternoon
Bakura was already in the kitchen getting Matthew a drink of milk, for he had heard Matthew ask for a drink from the living room, and his mother saying something I will get it for you or Bakura can. He was given a glass; Matthew saw that the cup held nothing other than milk, and putting on a sour face to show that he did not like what he was getting to drink. "I don't want milk, I want Coke, that is right there momma!" Matthew screwed his face up in wanting something that in the end he would not get it no matter how hard he begged for it. Tea, just gave him on of the looks I don't care you get this and no back talk from you young man and given in with a sigh Matthew took his milk and walked back to the living room to watch TV, and drink his milk.
However, you could see the look in his eyes that he was worried about his momma, and them being there in this house. The only two people to really see this was Ryou and Yugi as they watch the young man walk out of the kitchen back in to the living room to watch TV. On the other side of the table sat, Yami watching the two and how they where together and in so many words saying that they loved each other very much and that how they acted was a big part of their relationship that they had for each other.
Looking around the table and see everyone was here, and that in time he would need to get ready for work, but in the mean time, he had something more important to work on, right now that important person was sitting hold a cup of coffee and slowly drinking the contains as if the coffee was a life line. With a small worried look on his face Yami voiced his opinion on what was going on with, "Tea, what has brought you home and to my door steps?" looking at the head of the brown head woman staring in to her cup as he started to talk. At first Tea, said nothing at all, it looked like she was battling with her own mind on what to say.
Tea looked up in to Yami's cinnamon eyes seeing concern and worry for his old friend 'what do I say, how do I say it with out sounding …weak as I am now' "Yami, I just came by for a bit to stop in and then I will head to my parents old home. You just happened to be the first stop on the way there, but I was not expecting Matthew being as tired as he was, after long flight." Slowly licking her lips to wet them so she could give him a small smile on what she was say to him and hoping he would believe her at the same time.
Yami was not convened at all, on what Tea had said, but there was one more question to be asked. Bakura that was sitting to the right of Yami, voiced that one question to Tea, "And, your wound that you got? Who gave it to you and why?" looking closely at Tea which made her look in to chocolate eyes with her dark blue ones and not letting her eyes go at all.
Tea, looked back at the white haired man that sat there next to Yami 'they are lovers,' slowly lowering her eyes and saying one word in a quite whisper but sure everyone could hear her at the same time, "Ex-husband." At the same time, she was lowering her head at that statement that she had to say on who gave her this cut on her side. In the mean time, Marik looked closer at the woman sitting across from them 'Something has happened to her' said Marik to him self, Yami made his voice heard when asked "ex-husband, when did this happen?" with a surprise look on his face. Tea did not look up but started to tell them her story well part of it any ways "Charles and I divorced about 3 years ago. He could not handle both of Matthew's powers and mine. I had to use mine to control Matthew's, and he hated it at first. I thought he got used to it when I used my powers. Than some where he started to fear us and hate us both."
Looking up at Yami with her dark blue eyes hiding something, else in them that she did not want him to see in her dark blue eyes at that time or even the pain that was still there even after all this time for her to make her hide it some how even to her self too. Yami just looked at her but did not say anything but his mind was a different story. 'What else is she hiding and not saying' Tea licked her lips again and started to talk again that stopped all of Yami's thought for the time being, the way she was acting like it was something she did not want to talk about yet, but had to but not all the story. "He, has it in his mind that if he gets rids of Matthew, we can start over and have another child again with out these kinds of problems." Shacking her head at Yami's look at what she was saying, "Last, I saw him he was in jail in California for this cut and attacking both of us." Tea, finished her tail, got up, walked out of the kitchen to check on Matthew and let her little story sink in at the same time.
Everyone was pretty quite around the table each in their own thoughts on what Tea has said and not said at the same time. The first person to say anything was Yugi on what Tea had said to everyone at the table. "She is not telling the entire story Yami." Looking at his cousin as he nodded his head at that statement "You, are right, something is not making scenes of what she is saying." Bakura getting up from the table and started to walk around the kitchen and thinking aloud at the same time to see if maybe he was on the right track as everyone else was too. "Tea, is hiding something and don't want us involved in what ever it is, and than she, I don't know what it is?" growling in frustration at something that was out in front of him but out of reach at the same time.
Than to everyone's surprise Marik who had been quite the whole time spoke up, "She has been used." He looked at Bakura walking around the kitchen. Everyone looked at Marik, and then Yami's eyes went wide at what Marik had just said. Then he started to think about it, in how there was pain her eyes and she was hiding the true meaning on what that pain was but than it hit him 'He is right, she has been used, and used as a toy. Why did I not see it? Am, I so blind that I could not see what my own lover could see in my own friend.' Yami started to look down for he felt so ashamed of not seeing what Marik had seen in Tea's eyes, and he could not see it.
Ryou, watched all this with open eyes, and seeing how everyone was acting to Tea's story, when realization of what Marik was saying and seeing that Yami feeling where like he was kept in the dark. 'He is acting like Tea should of told him, or he should have know or seen it before Marik said anything at all.' Shacking, his head, and making his voice heard also in this matter. "Yami, how could you see it? I mean, for her to just show up like that, and when her real worries are centered on her son." Ryou took a little time to gather his thoughts and looked up to the ceiling to see if it would help him put his words in the right order. "Tea has her son that will come first in her mind no matter what, happens to her, and she will always come second in her mind. I think that is why she did not say anything about her wound. Her mind is on her son to protect him first and than worry about herself after wards."
Yami nodded his head at what Ryou was saying, but still did not make him feel any better at the same time. Than he got a look on his face as he was thinking of something, "Tea will be here a couple of days for I know her parents home will needed to be clean. That will give her time maybe to talk to me, or even one of you to see if you can find out what is really going on with her."
Bakura, who finally stopped walking around the kitchen, came around once again regained his chair, but there was a funny look on his face, and his voice a little out of it at the same time. "You, mean to tell me, that Rugrat and that woman will be staying here in this house for a couple of day? Are you crazy?!" Yugi looked at Bakura and smiled at him. "O' come on Bakura, you not scared of one little kid now are you?" Yugi smirked at him trying not to laugh at the same time. Then at that point, everyone started to chuckle at Bakura's pained look on his face at what Yugi had said to him.
Trying to make a point on this subject "There's a pain alright, underfoot, and that is just a pain as it is". He huffed at them for laughing at him over this. 'I don't think they know what it is to have a woman in the house hold or even a child, and who this is going to change in how they live around here, and I know that, from growing up with a younger sister.' Looking for pity around the table he could tell he was not going to get any at all for even Yami put his two cents in to "My poor Bakura, is afraid of one small child, who calls him Buck." Yami started to laugh at that thought, and everyone else started to laugh too at that thought too.
Bakura looked a little more than frustrated at then around the table. "Do you guys not see it, that with a woman in the house, you can't run buck naked, or swear and than with the little one here, not as much fun as before?" Looking at them for what he was saying slowly sank in at that point, and everyone's eyes went wide at that thought "NO SEX" said Yugi. Bakura nodded his head, "And that means we can't do it while the child is up and moving around we have to do it, when he is asleep". Ryou's eyes went wide at that thought and what Yugi had said there was no fun with a youngest in the house. Than no surprise, at all they all groaned at that thought.
Out of know where a phone started to ring, Yami looked at the phone that sat on the wall in the kitchen, and it was not the house phone that was ringing. Everyone started to look around to see whose phone was ring, each one looking at each other and everyone nodding their heads no it was not their phone that was ringing at all. Out in the living room, came Tea's voice answering her cell phone. "Hello?" a small pause came from the living room and Tea's voice was heard again. "O' hey Tim" then it got quite for Tea was listing to the other person talk than with a question in her voice "No, Tim I have not seen the news here today. Why?"
Out of the blue Tea came waking back in to the kitchen looking around with her eyes for something. As if, a light went off in her head she saw the back door and walked out and closed the door, but before the door completely closed they heard. "Tim, what do you mean it is totally gone?" then the door was closed from hearing anything more from Tea and her phone call. Yugi watched Tea as she walked out the back door leading to the back yard, and then turning back the guys. "What was that about?" Asking as Yami started to get up and move out of the kitchen. Looking at Yugi at that question "I am not sure, but we will find out soon enough Yugi. Don't worry she won't blow up the house yet, anyhow." Meeting Marik's eyes, "We need to get ready for work now." Than holding out his hand to Marik to take so they both to get ready for that night at the Gravitation.
Just then, small footsteps came walking in to the kitchen that followed. "Momma I hungry!" Matthew stopped dead in his tracks when he saw no momma, but Yugi, Ryou, and Bakura in the kitchen. Looking around with his eyes getting scared and tears start to fill up in his eyes, for momma was nowhere to be seen. Ryou looked at this little boy who was looking for his momma and saw the tears in his eyes, so Ryou did the next best thing to help calm the child's fears real quick so he would not start to cry right there.
"Your momma is out back on her phone. I am sure she will be back in soon enough. How about I fix you something to eat?" Looking at the green eyes, which looked so sweet and innocent, but at the same time held a little fear in them at the same time? 'What could have caused this child to fear losing his mother so much, that he would get so scared just for her walking out of the room?' Still looking at this little boy, and trying to smile to show that he was not that bad at all. Walking to the fridge and opening the door, turning and looking back at Matthew with a smile, "What would you like to eat for lunch?"
Matthew looked at this young man standing at the fridge with the door open and trying to figure if he was ok or not, but then out of protest his stomach growled real loud. Matthew got a funny look on his face, and making up his mind at that point "Mac and cheese?" looking hopeful at Ryou that was standing there ready to fix him what he wanted. This caused Yugi to laugh at that one statement. "Well Ryou it looks like he wants your famous Mac & Cheese." Getting up and walking over to Ryou and giving him a hug. Started to help as Yugi went looking for a box of Mac & Cheese and Ryou went for a pan to boil water in.
Matthew looked around the kitchen seeing that Bakura was sitting at the table so could he sit there too. Pulling out a chair and climbing in to the chair looking at Bakura and than looking at Ryou and than back to Bakura, with questions in his green eyes. "Buck, you him brother's?" pointing to Ryou with his child finger, and than looking at Bakura for an answer. A course Bakura winching at the use of Buck as his name, and Yugi started to chuckle and Ryou blushed and smiled at Matthew, for such a simple question coming from a small child.
However Bakura just growled at the question Matthew asked, it was however it was Ryou to answer the question for him "No, Matthew we are not brothers, but we are friends." Then turning around and looking for a pan to boil that water for the noodles, to hide the pink that still lined across his face. Matthew smiled at that statement, and started to look around the people that were in the kitchen with him and thinking real hard at the same time.
Bakura sat there and watched Matthew as he looked around the room at the people in there. 'What is he thinking, I know from the little talk that Tea gave us, he has power, but what kind of powers does he have anyhow?' Thinking real hard was something that Matthew did not do much for it made his head hurt. Sometime his powers would start to act up, and he did not want them to act up now at all, he did like his powers, but there were times, he wished that he did not have them, but right now, he had to thinking. 'For what momma was saying they would be here for a couple of days while the house was getting ready so they could go there. Well I guess, since momma trust I can trust too, hope I can I guess.'
Matthew then turned his attention back to Bakura again and with a twinkle in his green eyes, he got up and walked over to Bakura just stood there looking at him. Bakura gave him self credit he was doing a pretty good job and acting like Matthew was not there, but after a couple of minutes, he could not stand it having someone so small look at him. Out, of Yugi's and Ryou's eyes they could see all that was happening and they were holding their breaths to see what would happen between the two.
Bakura could not stand it any more and turn and looked down at Matthew growling at the same time. "What are you looking at Rugrat?" Matthew just than pointed to Bakura's hair on his head "It soft?" Trying to reach up and touch his hair. A small shock went across Bakura face seeing that what Matthew was trying to touch. 'Well, I will be damn, the Rugrat wants to see if my hair is soft or not.' Shrugging his shoulders, and to Yugi's and Ryou's surprise they watched all this with eyes wide at what Bakura was doing. Bakura reached down and lifted the little boy who was tiptoeing to touch what he wanted, and Bakura set him on his lap so he could touch Bakura's hair.
While this was happening Tea, came back in from out side and did not say much but just looked at her son and Bakura together. Looking right at Bakura and with not a very happy face at all. "A…..A Bakura, I need a ride? That is if you don't mind at all?" looking down at her feet for a second and looking back in to his face to see what he would say. Bakura looked at the woman that stood there waiting for his answer and then seeing that she hated asking for help, but this time she had no choice at all on this. "And where do you need a ride to?" asking as he watched her face for the answer. Tea looked him right in the eyes, which in part was not easy 'I hate having to sound so weak, mostly in front of these people I don't even know yet, but here I stand looking at one of them asking for a ride and sure can't lie at all about it.' Taking a small breath to as if get, her courage up "I need a ride to the police station".