Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Yu-Gi-Oh characters…just some trading cards.

Bad Boy

Chapter 5: Just a Walk in the Park

When Seto steered the bike Téa could feel his muscles tense from steering and probably from how tight she was holding onto him. When they came to a stop light, it felt like forever. Seto wasn't distracted by anything on the road though, you get in his way he just got around you somehow. Téa still couldn't believe she was spending the afternoon with Seto Kaiba, correction the good Kaiba. It made her think it was kind of like a date, she quickly pushed the thought from her mind. No no no, she scolded herself, this is not a date! One he never said it was. Two he would never approve of a date. She sighed.

After they arrived at the park, Seto parked the bike and they got off. Téa took off her helmet and swished her hair in the air, which gave it a fluffy effect. She watched as Seto took his helmet off. The sun hit his face at just the right angle that it looked like he had a halo. He had a little bit of sweat at his hair line so he did a few hair flips to fix it. It mesmerized Téa, she watched as he flipped his hair. She couldn't help but think, He is cute and maybe even a bit sexy…

Seto looked up and saw Téa giving him that dreamy look, he knew that look it was the way she looked at him just the night before. He stared back at her, then cleared his throat.

"So what do you want to do?"

"Oh! Well I don't know, walk around, talk." She looked up at him sheepishly, she couldn't help but feel small compared to his tall straight structure. The way his eyes bore into hers made her feel warm but slightly uncomfortable.

"Ok, Mokubah told me there was a 'special' pond somewhere here," He waved his arm around the area to make his point. "I can't remember where it was though, do you want to go look for it?"

Téa shrugged, "I don't care, it really doesn't matter as long as I have some company…" A pretty good-looking guy for company at that. She added in her thoughts. Seto blushed a little.

He thought it was weird for Téa to want to be near him, or be so open with him, but it didn't matter he was too happy to care.

After walking for ten minutes just taking in the sights, Seto noticed nobody was talking and started a conversation.

"So how often do you come here? Téa? Never mind…" Seto hushed himself.

Téa was in deep thoughts, maybe she could get Seto to take them to the mall so she could see the boy again. She liked the idea but for some reason she thought it was a bit mean to Seto. She would be using him, to see a stranger whom her friends found suspicious. Téa realized that Seto had just asked a question, and felt embarrassed for not listening.

"Um, what did you say Seto?" she looked down from embarrassment.

Seto sighed and asked his question again, "How often do you come here?"

Téa thought about it, "Not much anymore, I used to come here a lot with Yugi. Since him and Joey started to go to the dueling competitions, your competitions, we have been busy with their duels. We don't get much time to come here, instead we usually go to the mall, or Yugi's house."

Seto felt bad, he caused them to stop coming here, "I'm sorry…" he looked at the ground.

Téa looked at him curiously, "Why? What for?"

Seto looked at her, "It's my fault, I really wanted to be the best duelist so I set up the competitions. I ruined your R&R times."

Téa looked into his blue eyes, the ones that were usually cold and unreadable, they were warm and sad. She steered him to a nearby bench.

"Its ok Seto, it doesn't matter. I don't think any of them actually enjoyed the park, they just went to make me happy. Besides having you with me now compensates…"

She gave him a small encouraging smile, she started to lean in. Then her thoughts stopped her, WHAT ARE YOU DOING? Stop, STOP, STOP! Stop it!

She listened to her thoughts, Seto saw her leaning in towards him. He stared at her quizzically, he was already blushing from the comment she gave him.

Seto looked in front of them, again there was a "halo" from the sun from what Téa could see. He was surprised to see the pond Mokubah told him was a secret.

Then he remembered what else his brother told him, that nobody could find it, only "couples" could. Seto got uncomfortable, from this thought of him and Téa, it did look like they were on a date. Téa noticed Seto's uncomfortable expression, at first she thought it was from her leaning in. Then she looked at what he was looking at. It was the pond they went searching for.

She recognized it, it was the "Love" pond. Yugi constantly tried to find it when they came here. It was annoying, but Téa felt sorry for her companion, he was obviously clueless about the true purpose of the pond. It appeared that Mokubah thought his brother as a chump with this kind of stuff. She saw Seto's face redden, so she tried to change his attention.

"Seto? Come on lets get out of here. Maybe we should just go to the mall, or something."

Seto nodded in agreement relieved they were leaving, Seto scowled at the thought of his brother telling him about it. He planned that, he thought, he wanted me to take a girl there, and for what? So I could look like an idiot! Mokubah is going to get when I get back home…

Téa saw Seto brooding, she knew he was probably planning on lecturing his brother. She chuckled at this, Seto noticed it and asked her, "What's so funny?"

"Nothing, I just never thought I would find the "Love" pond, with you."

Seto's face turned to an even brighter shade of red. "Now now Seto, don't tell me you didn't plan this." Seto's face got sweaty and a little more red.

"WHAT! NO! NO No no! Why would I plan this? How could I plan this? You were the one who told me where to go on the motorcycle! I mean, I didn't even know what the pond was until we were sitting right in front of it! Mokubah played me!"

Seto was breathing heavily when he finished.

Téa looked at him and thought, Doesn't he look cute when he's flustered? It's weird for him to be like that, he's always one step ahead of like EVERYTHING!

"Calm down, I know he played you, everyone knows what the "Love" pond is, even your brother knew! Everyone but you! The only reason why I know about it is because Yugi always tried to find it when we came here…" Seto couldn't help but chuckle, "Oh don't look at me like that! I didn't agree to it!"

"Sure you didn't anyway, what was that leaning thing about?"

Téa froze, Darn it, she thought, I thought he forgot…well it is Kaiba he remembers everything…

"I don't know what you are talking about." She walked past him towards where the bike was.

Seto quickly caught up with her pace with his long legs, he continued, "Oh you know, don't play dumb. When we were sitting on the bench you were leaning in. What for? Did you expect us to…kiss?"

When he said that she blushed a deep red. Noticing her expression he took it as a 'Yes.'

"Ahh…I see you wanted me to kiss you that's why you leaned to me. Now wouldn't that be fulfilling the pond's task?" He couldn't help but smile, it was a great day. He got to eat breakfast with his brother and the servants, he gave the servants the day off, and he ate ice cream, with people I never dreamed to eat with, he added in his thoughts. Then he got to spend this afternoon with a girl he usually found very irritating, he even got to tease her without a huge argument.

I guess she likes this side of me, and my "alter ego", haha alter ego…more like Friday night me…

Téa was also in her thoughts, Well, maybe if we go to the mall and find that guy he can set Seto straight in DDR…hmm I wonder if Seto will still be happy after that…he'll probably be all mean and grumpy again…

When they reached the bike they picked up their helmets and put them on. They got on the bike and Seto steered the bike on the road and cruised to the mall. When they got to the parking lot they parked and took their helmets off, Seto casually took out a pair of normal sunglasses.

Téa looked at him curiously and asked, "What are those for?"

Seto smiled, she didn't know what it was like to be a huge celebrity that attracted a lot of fan girls. "It's my protection."

"From what? The harmful UV rays?"

Seto chuckled, "No, actually from fan girls…I don't get what's with them. I just want to walk around like everyone else but no, they got to come up and maul me."

Téa laughed at the thought of Seto getting mauled by fan girls. She knew he did, after all every time his face popped up on a TV screen girls would group together and squeal. Or if she was at school and she tried to bad mouth him, there were always girls that stood up for him. She never understood why, if they knew his personality they would be siding with her.

Téa and (protected) Seto walked into the mall. They looked around, and sighed in relief when no fan girls recognized Seto. They stood there listening to the music that fill the lobby, it was more on the techno side, Téa saw Seto nodding his head with the beat. I guess this is his kind of music.

Next there was a love song which made the two uncomfortable, thanks to the events that occurred at the "Pond". To get them away from that area Seto asked,

"So um where do you want to go?"

Téa instantly blurted out, "The arcade!"

Seto was a bit surprised at her enthusiasm, "Ok! Just don't hurt me…"

They laughed and walked to the arcade, where Johnny Steps was once again boasting. Téa thought, Does this guy even have a life?

"Who's next? I'm ready for any challenge!" Johnny looked so scary, he looked like he hadn't slept in days! Seto thought, It's probably because of his sad defeat yesterday…

Johnny spotted Téa in the crowd and taunted her on the stage, knowing she had defeated him before he wanted to test her skills again.

"AH! Ms. Gardener! On another date I see? This one's tall! When will it be my turn?"

Seto and Téa blushed, "No this isn't a date! We are just…"

"Friends? HAH! I highly doubt that!" Johnny laughed.

"As to your question, NEVER! I would never date a creep like you!"

Seto whispered in her ear, "You know this guy?" she nodded. "Well maybe I could verse him…"

While Johnny Steps was still laughing, Seto walked onto the stage.

"Hello there! Do you want to be the next loser? Alright, its your choice!"

Seto merely grunted and before Johnny could pick the song, he did. He chose one of the most difficult songs.

Johnny barely had time to recover and get dancing.

Seto easily hit he arrows, nothing special he just hit them at the right time, the only amazing thing was how he seemed to going at a slow pace but the arrows came up really fast.

Johnny Steps was huffing, he was out of breath and he missed some arrows. When the song ended he was furious.

"You sir, need to step down!" Johnny spoke with rage, "You started the song before your opponent was ready! Lets go again! This time I will win!"

Seto just shrugged as Johnny chose a song. Same ordeal, he defeated Johnny by just simply hitting the arrows at the right time, nothing fancy, no not at all he saved fancy for his Friday nights. Johnny feeling defeated commanded Seto to get off of his stage, Seto did but with a warning.

"If you harass Téa again, I won't be beating you through dancing…"

Everyone looked at him, as he walked off the stage and joined Téa.

"Do you want to get something to eat now?" he asked.

She nodded, she didn't want to ask questions until they were alone.

They walked into Burger World, it was half full. They sat in a booth on the far side of the restaurant. As they sat down Téa blurted our her question, "Why? Why did you do that?"

Seto casually said, "I did it for you."

Téa blushed, "Well obviously, but why did you give him that warning?"

Seto looked at her with curious eyes, "Well, he seemed to presume a lot of things, like my defeat. Us on a date. No I have a usually short temper, you know that all too well. Today has been different, I have been nice to people I would usually start fights with. I have been spending the afternoon with you. When he was harassing you I decided to take action, I have a feeling he won't be doing that again anytime soon."

"Since when do you stand up for me? You are usually the one who knocks me down!"

Seto raised a hand to silence her, "Like I told you today is different. It's like I am my complete opposite. I'm doing things today I would probably have never done. Like standing up for you…"

Téa looked past his sunglasses and saw his blue eyes, like Joey told her before piercing, he definitely had piercing eyes. This time they weren't ice, they had more of a soft glow like from a candle. When he spoke about Johnny Steps his eyes looked like a fire, a deep fiery pit. She sensed anger from him towards Johnny.

"Why do you hate Johnny?"

"…I don't know…I just don't…maybe its because the way he treated you."

Téa grabbed his hand from across the table and sincerely told him, "Thank you."

Before Seto could say anything a waitress came. Since this was the Burger World Téa worked at, she recognized her.

"Téa? Hey! How's it going? Oooh who's your "friend"?"

Téa and Seto looked up at her, Téa was blushing since they were holding hands.

"Oh hey Sammy…this is…"

Téa was flustered so Seto saved her from embarrassment.

"Jake, I'm Jake. Nice to meet you Sammy. I'd like to have…"

Téa looked at him with wonder, Well isn't he Mr. Perfectly- nice- and- perfect- in -every- way…he even covered up for me…

Seto ordered three burgers with mustard, ketchup, pickles, mayo, lettuce, and cheese on them, turns out all three were for him. Téa ordered two burgers for herself with just ketchup, mayo, cheese, and lettuce. They both ordered medium fries and some Coca-Cola.

As Sammy was walking away she turned and gave Téa a little thumbs up about "Jake".

Téa looked at Seto, he looked right back. They were still holding hands, neither one of them wanted to retreat. Seto finally did though, and told her, "You're welcome, anyway I'll be paying for the food."

Suddenly one of Téa's favorite songs was being played through the speakers of the restaurant. It was the same song in her dream, Bad Boy by Cascada. Seto watched as Téa tried to contain herself from dancing. He raised an eyebrow with amusement.

"So you know this song?"

"Oh yeah! It happens to be one of my favorites!"

"Isn't this Bad Boy?"

"Yeah…why?"

He shrugged, "I don't know but sometimes when I walk past a group of girls in the hallways at school, at least one of them starts singing this song at me. Fan girls get so annoying."

She looked at him, there was much more to this young CEO than she ever really thought.

I like putting that song everywhere, one of my fav's, hence the title name...review