Chapter Fourteen: The Medicine of The Dead
The gang hanged out at Yugi's and Yami's game shop as they tried to study. The funeral was to be held later that week. Exams had been rescheduling till further notices, leaving students to study a few extra days. But thanks to the unfortunate events that happened, studying was the last thing on their minds. The guys could barely look at a sentence in their notes or books without having to think of Tea sudden leaving and why and the girl's death.
"This is happening too fast. I can't seem to bear it." Serenity said. She rummaged in her bag for something and pulled out a bottle of pills. She pops in a couple and swallowed.
"Hey let me have some." Mai asked. She handed the bottle to her.
"This has been one crazy week, hasn't it you guys. At first I thought it was bad when Tea quit school, now one person is dead and oh, give me some of those pills!" Isisuke cried as she grabbed it out of Mai's hand. Soon everyone was taking it. It was the latest drug that helped calm students of their stress.
Chinese herbs, it was said to help relieve people back in the old days. "Why is this happening?" Yugi asked, feeling that there was no end to the torture of what the day brought on them. Yami placed a hand on his hikari's shoulder. "Yugi..." Suddenly Ryou remembered something. "I heard a rumor going around about Tea..." Everyone turn to look at him. "They saying she's living with Kaiba."
"What!" This was totally new to them. Joey stood up and pulled Ryou by the front of his shirt. "How can you say that? Tea living with Kaiba, that cold-hearted jerk! Doing things with the son-of-a-bitch, doing God who knows...eww I don't want to think of it!" Bakura managed to pull Joey off his hikari but he too was shocked at what Joey implied.
"Well we have seen them together most of the time." Malik put in, his yami nodded. "And they practically go together to school." Isisuke landed on a beanbag chair and looked over at Yami. "Yami, there's been something going on between them. A secret, which they don't want us to know. Do you think?" The gang stopped as they listened to what she was saying. "Oh man, do you think that's why she dropped out so sudden?"
"It's gotta be it Tristan, no other explanation." Joey got up to his feet. "Listen, I say we pay Kaiba a little visit down at Kaibacorps and demand to know what's going on between them!"
"I don't know, I mean we could get into serious trouble with accusing Kaiba of such things. Seriously, I mean we can't just poke in to other people's business." Miho stated.
"Well we'll just find a way, here is what I got..." Uh-oh, the gang thought as Joey started to tell them the plan.
Yayoi called at three o' clock and for what seemed forever before the phone was pick up. How long do two vampires sleep for? She thought impatiently, drumming her fingerson the steering wheel.
Tea was sleeping peacefully in the embrace of her lover, she snuggled under Seto's head and breathing in his chest. She thought she could stay like that forever when the ringing of the damn phone ruined the vampiress's moment.
Just let the servants answer that, she thought while cooing in her comfortable spot like a dove in love. The phone continue ringing.
Fuck! She was having enough, if it was some stupid sells person, she swore to hunt that person down and drain all their blood out.
"Hello?" Tea's voice croaked on the line,she was still groggy after last night's event. And what a night it was, it happened that they did it like one too manytimes, in many position and poses before the two fell asleep in each others arms. She felt that they may have overdone it but that didn't stop the smile that was on her face. She turned and looked over at Seto. His bangs in his face, his steady breathing as he dream. So peaceful and happy. Sleeping like an angel, she thought. "Tea, it's me Yayoi, listen I am coming over right now. I have a new case for you to look at."
"All right just be here at two forty-five."
"It's three o'clock in the afternoon Tea." She heard Yayoi yelled in the phone, "Goddamnit Tea, what the Hell is going on overthere? What have you two been doing? Staying up late and playing around, twister or something!"
You could say that Yayoi, after all it had been you're idea for it. Tea giggle to herself as she said, "Come by at five later. Ok bye. Oh and thanks you for the wonderful idea, it made things much easy and pleasurable..." And hung up before Yayoi could comment. She felt Kaiba stir and then heard a muffled yawn as he covered it with the back of his hand, trying to keep quiet. She turned back towards him and lean sideways to him and watched as he opened his eyes, blinked and saw her lying beside her.
"Morning." She said. "Or should I say 'afternoon.'" He smiled and wrapped his arms around her waist, drawing her near him. "Whichever you say is fine with me, my gorgeous temptress." He kissed her then ran his fingers down from her head to her back, tickling it as they made their way down.
Kaiba lean in close to her ear, whispering. "Tell me something then, have you come to lead me to the lair of your eternal darkness. Or am I the one to seduce the seductress?" He growled over at her. He laid another kiss onto her neck. "You tempt me to sin my lovely vampiress..." She moaned by his tender warm touch as his lips grazed her flesh.
"Seto, it's three o' clock in the afternoon...Yayoi just called. We got another case on our hands and she going to be here...in less than two hours. And I don't think that we should be-" She yelped as she felt him nipped her neck. She pushed him back and turned away. She started to stand up and rubbed the sore spot when Seto came over towards her. Her neck felt most definitely sore and she felt a large bruise forming on her neck.
A hickey of all things. In the history of all vampire, never had they been given of such. Kaiba mistook her rubbing of his mark on her neck as dislike for doing that.
You idiot, of all things she might not want that, better apologize.He sighed.
"Tea, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to, honest, please forgive me..." She turned and saw the once lustful glint in his eyes faded back to the normal nice ones that show sincere and gentleness.
Soon her anger started to faded...a bit. How can I stay mad at him for that? "I accept your apologize Seto." He smiled then nuzzled his face into her hair and started to kiss the mark on her neck tenderly. She sighed as he whispered in her ear, "Tea, I love you so much...I wouldn't dream of hurting you...ever..."
"Seto...I..." She was about to say something when the door opened and Guni came flying into the room.
"Yo Seto, are you up yet? Sheesh seriously you got to have stay up very late last night to sleep like the dead, no offense and...OH MY GOD! AAAHHHHHHHHH!" Guni shrieked as she saw them sitting up in the bed, naked and without the covers covering them.
Opps.
"OH MY KAMI! GOD! KAMI! GOMEN! SORRY! AHHHHHH! MY EYES!" She yelled as she covered her eyes with her hand. "Will you two get dressed for crying out loud! You people, show some dignity."
"Like you Guni, you're one to talk being naked and all the time." Guni glared at Kaiba and left the room. He and Tea stared at one another.
"Ok I think now is a definite good time to get dress before Guni comes back in here again or worse, Mokuba." He agreed as Tea picked up her discarded clothes off the floor and headed to her room to wash and changed. Somehow along the way to her room, she could hear Kaiba cursing about Guni's wrong timings.
Tea and Kaiba and Mokuba had finished lunch at around four, for the two vampires however they shared a bottle of pig's blood. Kaiba went to work on his laptop in the family room while Tea and Mokuba played duel monster on the table, Guni watched from the sideline, cheering for either one and sometimes wanting to help Tea by looking at Mokuba's cards.
"No Cheating" Tea's stare told her and Guni sat put watching them play. Tea was a little confused on how the game went but she was soon handling like a pro as she got Mokuba down to 0. "Wow that was a good game, I'm surprised that there was such a game like this?" Now as she recalled, the game was similar to the one back in...
"Oh my God! Seto I almost remembered where I seen this game before! I don't know when but I did remembered." He smiled at her. Her old memories are coming back, he thought, first him as high priest and her lover, now duel monster. Well not all of them are coming at once but little by little.
Suddenly the doorbell rang and the butler allowed in Yayoi. "Miss Yayoi, is here, mister Kaiba." and left them like before. Yayoi took the couch opposite them as she dug through her purse for something.
"What's up Yayoi?" Mokuba asked, he enjoyed having Yayoi as well like Tea and Guni, almost considering her like an aunt, although Yayoi wouldn't like to be called someone's aunt if disregarding her age. She pulled out a bottle with red and white pills inside.
"This is what going up. Apparently these are called 'Chinese Herbs' among students in different schools. Gives them fazing out ordeals that suppose to rid them of stress and fatigue. It carries one heck of a overdose kick." Kaiba picked up the bottle and looked at it. There was something strange about the pills all right; it felt like there were mini icepacks in them to knock out a wild elephant in seconds. When something strange came in drugs, you can tell what the source was being run by. "Are the breeds behind this?"
She nodded. "That's what we've think was going on. So far as we know, it went like this: Knocks people out like a light then having the body hollowed out for them, just right for the taking."
Guni shuttered. "Oh man, talk about a knockout! Wait a minute, there could be dozen of students taking these now, and with that happening breeds are probably possessing as we speak." Mokuba nodded and turned to his brother. "Seto we got to do something." Kaiba looked over at Tea and she nodded back to him. "Yayoi have they stop the drug business yet."
"Yes but we can't get the dealers to tell us whom they sold it to exact. They used outside sources and local kids to do their dirty work for them." With that said, they agreed to take the case. "Let's go!"