A/N: Hi! Very important note here! Many, many, and MANY more Thanks to a few reviews telling me I've accidentally reposted chapter six instead of chapter eight, here is the real chapter eight! I'm so, so, so, so, so sorry for the mistake and for how long it took me to correct it! I lost chapter eight and had to re-write entirely from memory!
Jewels Of Love:
Jewels of the Sun
Chapter Eight:
Lesson Number Two…
Joey sighed as he punched in the number and listened to the answering machine on the other end. "Hello you've reached Lieutenant. Tristan Taylor. I'm not here at the moment but leave a message and I'll call you back!" Joey sighed again. He phoned Tristan once a month, just to let his old friend know what was happening in domino. Tristan never phoned him though.
"Hey T. just phoning you like I always do. Pub's doing fine. Haven't heard from Serenity for a while, uh…so Lieutenant huh? Nice going bud. Tea and Yami are kind of going out. About bloody time huh? Ha ha ha." Joey said in a false cheery voice. He hated phoning Tristan but he promised himself that he would try to keep contact with his best friend.
Joey hung up the phone feeling worse than he did when he picked it up. He didn't expect Tristan to phone back but he knew he would check his voice machine and pick up the phone when it rang hoping to hear Tristan's voice. Joey walked out of his apartment; there were two above the pub. The larger of the two Joey occupied. Serenity use to live in the one next door to him but he'd put that up for rent as his sister was no longer in the country.
As he walked down the stairs to the bar, Joey thought about his sister, he hadn't been happy letting her leave with Duke Devlin but Serenity was so excited to have the chance to sing. As long as he could remember Serenity had loved singing; like dancing was everything to Tea singing was everything to his little sister and Joey would do anything to make his sister happy.
When Duke took Serenity to New York, Tristan left Domino for Tokyo and the Air Force. Joey wasn't surprised, before they left Tristan and Duke had had a large row in which Tristan had punched the Dungeon Dice Monsters creator on the jaw. Serenity hadn't forgiven Tristan and had left helping a dazed Duke from Joey's pub The Black Dragon.
Joey doubted Tristan would come back or even wanted to talk to any of them again. The way he saw it Yami, Tea, Bakura, Malik and even Joey himself had done nothing to stop that terrible Duke Devlin from stealing Serenity. Maybe it was for the best that he had left when he did.
Joey shook his head as he reached for the phone again. It was time to make the second phone call this fine mourning. Dialling the number he knew off by heart, Joey heard a female voice answer politely.
"Hey there Isis how's everything?" Joey asked as a true smiled bloomed over his features. He and Yami talked to Isis, Bakura and Malik once a week each it was nice that they kept in touch with some of their friends.
"Good day Joey. Everything is fine over here. Bakura and Malik are enjoying Egypt. They both have a knack for archaeology. And in Japan, is every thing well there?" Isis's voice was calm and polite as always and Joey felt the earlier annoyance at Tristan seep out of him.
"Well, Tea and Yami are kinda dating now. Bout time I keep saying. Moneybags is off to America in a couple of days and left Yami saddled with his kid brother. Tea had a dance recital for her school yesterday. It was great…" Joey settled down to have a good long conversation with some old friends.
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Seto glared at the three teenagers in front of him. The rest of the guests had left five minuets ago and had left their hosts to deal with the rage of Seto Kaiba in the remains of his living room. There was empty bowls that had contained crisps and sweets littering the floor; some of their former occupants were on the floor with them. Rebecca was looking at the floor as if she'd never seen anything so interesting. Yugi was looking at his left knee and Mokubah looked guiltily up at his brother.
"So…when did the simple sleepover turn into 'let's-destroy-the-living-room-as-soon-as-Seto-leaves-the-house'game?" Seto asked coldly. The three youngsters looked around the remains, the bright coloured cushion were scattered around with a few feathers when one had burst during an exuberant battle between the over excited kids. The leather couch was covered in smears of dip, feathers and crumbs. Some feathers and crisp crumbs had been mixed with the dip making an undesirable looking lumpy mess.
"Junko has taken to her room with a headache. In less than two days I'm going to America and you'll be at Yami's. Yami doesn't have a very loyal and kind housekeeper so I would suggest that you three start clearing away this mess with as little noise as possible. To practise because Yami is to letting you off the hook free of charge. And Mokubah? Never go into my room again, you never know what you might find there." Seto swept out of the room and they heard the front door close.
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Tatiana sighed as she woke up in her bed. Yami had phoned to tell her that Tea had gotten drunk and couldn't come home, when she suggested that he could drop her off Yami told her what she had already heard in his voice. He was drunk too. She just hoped they hadn't gone and done something stupid.
Maybe she should go and check up on them later, she could use the excuse that she was worried about them. Tea and Yami would swallow that one without a blink. Yeah she'll go and check up on them later, she knew Yami was too much of gentleman to do something like that when he was sober and Tatiana knew her sister wasn't some loose woman. But when they were drunk who knew?
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Yami stood on the hills on Ireland for what he thought was one time too many. In fact he thought the first time was one too many. That self-proclaimed god was staring off out to the sea and seemingly ignoring Yami. Yami studied the strange clothing the Wind God wore and then looked at his own attire; he wore a deep crimson cloak and a black tunic over a shirt that was an even darker red than the cloak. Black leggings were on his legs and he had black boots on his feet.
"What's with the clothes?" he asked before he could stop himself. The silver haired man in front of him burst out laughing; it was a deep pleasant sound. Then the god turned and looked at his guest. There were tears of laughter in the god's eyes while the tri-coloured haired man stared at him baffled.
"Would you have preferred me to bring you here in what you were wearing a short while ago. I could have but you were wearing not a stitch and I believed that giving you some clothes would not have made you as awkward or embarrassed as you would have been if you came here naked." The god burst out laughing again at the deep blush that crept over Yami's face and neck.
"Pervert." He muttered but it was without any heat to the word. For some reason he didn't feel as angry with Pegasus as he did when the God first stared to appear in his dreams, in fact he always seemed to learn something in these nocturnal visits.
Pegasus laughed at the muttered comment, when he stopped however he looked seriously at Yami. "You've realised lesson number one but your still staying blind to lesson number two." The God sighed sadly and shook his head at the younger man.
"What's lesson number two then?" Yami asked. As much as the God had grown on him he still hated the cryptic messages and evasive answers he always got when talking to Pegasus.
"You'll know when the time is right." The silver-haired man was about to fade away when Yami suddenly reached out and grabbed Pegasus's arm. Pegasus looked at the hand in surprise before lifting his gaze to the furious magenta eyes. Raising a single silver eyebrow the god looked at the mortal man quizzically.
"You're not going anywhere until I have at least one straight answer from you." The tri-haired man snapped. His earlier thought about almost being friends with the Wind God had disappeared.
"What answer do you seek then?" Pegasus asked, his voice was cold and the calm breeze around them picked up speed. Yami knew that the wind changed with Pegasus's emotions, the slight gentle wind picking up momentum meant the God was annoyed or becoming angry at something. Or someone.
"What's the second lesson?" Yami demanded. He was fed up with this silver haired jerk invading his dreams and spying on him and leaving him half answered questions that should have been answered yesterday in his book!
"I can't tell you the full answer…"Pegasus flinched when Yami's hand tightened painfully around his arm. "…I can't tell you because it is different for everyone. Listen, the basic gist of it is to know your heart."
"What on earth is that meant to mean?" Yami asked angrily. He wanted a straight answer to a question was that too much to ask for. Apparently so according to the wind god.
"Know your heart and know what you really want." Pegasus repeated with another long-suffering sounding sigh. "I cannot tell you any more because I don't know any6 more." And with that the God disappeared and Yami woke up to find that he and Tea had some how managed to finally make to his bed in night.
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Yugi, Mokubah and Rebecca all made their way to the Kame Game Shop in subdued silence. It had taken them four and a half hours of non-stop clearing and cleaning to get Kaiba's living room looking remotely like it had before the sleepover had occurred.
Mokubah and Yugi had to then clean the kitchen and Rebecca got stuck polishing the woodwork as their punishment from Junko. Loyal and kind housekeeper their butt! Mokubah and Yugi had both decided earlier that they never wanted to have another sleepover while Rebecca claimed she wasn't going to have any wood in her house when she was older.
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Tatiana made her way quickly to Yami's house, humming slightly to herself. She had never had Serenity Wheeler's talent for singing but she had often played the piano to accompany Joey's little sister when their friends had talked the redhead into singing for them.
Tatiana frowned at her own thoughts about Joey Wheeler's little sister. Though the girls had been the same age, they didn't have the deep bond that Yami and Joey had or Yugi and Mokubah, Tatiana had different interests to little Serenity and she'll be brave and admit she had been green with envy of the redhead.
While Duke Devlin and Tristan Taylor had both vied for Serenity's attention and affections they seemed to have forgotten about Tea's little sister. Even stony-faced CEO Seto Kaiba hadn't been as rude or as obnoxious to her as he had to the others in their group. Tatiana doubted Kaiba even knew who she was.
Although the lack of attention from the male species often made Tatiana wonder if she was too ugly to notice (she wasn't ugly at all) she knew that Serenity Wheeler's obvious innocent look made a lot of their friends (particularly the males) want to protect her. Tatiana frowned again and stopped humming as she thought about the redhead.
Tatiana slowed her walk until she was shuffling down the pavement; she always did her best not to think too much about Joey's sister because it always made her miserable. Tatiana glared at a piece of old blackened chewing gum that had been glued to the cement for years before she shoved at it with the toes of her trainers. Serenity Wheeler had always been so oblivious to the attention Duke Devlin and Tristan Taylor gave her, it was like she didn't even know they existed!
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Yami woke up to the noise of the doorbell ringing. He got up quickly and made sure he didn't wake Tea, who was still sleeping peacefully. Her short brown hair was dishevelled around her face, her long eyelashes rested lightly on her cheeks and to Yami she never looked more beautiful.
Hitting the button for the intercom, Tatiana's voice drifted out. "Hey Yami, want to let me in?" her voice was cheerful and Yami felt the bottom of his stomach drop out. How do you tell a girl who thinks she's in love with you that you don't love her back but in fact you are head over heels in love with her sister?
"Uh…sure just give me a minuet Ana." Yami muttered. He grabbed his and Tea's clothes, ran back into his room and quickly shook the sleeping brunette awake. Tea moaned until she turned to look at Yami's panicked expression.
"What's wrong, Yami?" She asked sleepily, pushing her ruffled locks out of her sleep-filled azure eyes.
"Your sister's here!" Yami muttered as he pulled his leather pants on and throwing a black muscle shirt on. Tea didn't waste anytime either; she quickly wrapped the bed sheet around her and hurried into the living room.
Just in time to see Tatiana walk in to the room.
"Hey Yami? Yugi, Mokubah and Rebecca are here they let me in if that's…" the younger Gardener sister trailed off when she saw what Tea was wearing. Tea blushed and wrapped the sheet tighter around her.
"Tatiana please…" Tea started when she saw the pain and betrayal in her sister's eyes. Eyes so similar to hers. Tea reached out to stroke her Tatiana's shoulder but the second brunette shrugged Tea's hand off and when she looked at her sister again the pain and betrayal were still there but there was also rage and hatred.
"You bitch!" Tatiana hissed, "you knew how I felt about him so you went and crawled between the sheets with him!" Tatiana's voice shook with barely controlled anger and anguish.
"No…no, Ana that's not true…" Tea pleaded, her own eyes had sorrow but not for herself; there was also a deep apologizing look that made Tatiana feel both ashamed and mad.
"Just shut up! I hate you! I HATE YOU!" Tatiana's voice was rising with hysteria and the hurt from Tea and Yami's unfaithfulness. Tatiana took one step forward and without even realising it she slapped Tea across the cheek and turned and fled out of the apartment.
Tea stood there, her cheek was stinging from her sister's hit and was already stained red. Yami looked from the doorway that led to his bedroom, shock written all over his face.
Rebecca was the first to enter the room after Tatiana had run out. Her long dark blonde hair was loose down her back and she was breathing hard from running up the stairs when Tea's sister had pushed past them with tears in her eyes.
Yugi and Mokubah arrived a little while later, Yugi looked at the way Tea was dressed and at the shocked look on his brother's face and he knew what had probably gone on in the living room while he and his friends had been downstairs.
"You've really done it now." Mokubah murmured sadly, staring at Yami and Tea's guilty looks.
Rebecca sighed and turned to the two teenage boys behind her without talking to Yami and Tea. " I'll try and find Ana. Can you try and sort those two out?" she asked gesturing to the two adults that looked like they were still in shock.
At the nods she received from her best friends she ran back out of the apartment.
Yugi looked at his brother and then at the brunette. "Tea why don't you go has a shower. Yami you can tell me and Mokubah what the hell happened here." The younger Mouto boy demanded.
Tea nodded dumbly and turned towards the bathroom while Yami walked slowly out of the bedroom doorway and sat on the sofa with a soft thump. " Where do you want me to start?" He asked in such a quiet voice that Yugi and Mokubah nearly didn't hear him.
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A/N: well there you go! I hope it was okay and I'm sorry for the long wait.