Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh!

Summary: Five years have passed since Atem and Tea got married and had their twins Yuki and Kimika, but there is a woman who infatuated with Atem and is doing everything in her power to take Tea's place in his life and his heart. Will she succeed?

Chapter 2

It was about six in the morning when Atem woke up to the brightness of the room and the morning breeze coming in through the window. After blinking a few times, he shifted his gaze down to his still sleeping wife. Realizing that he didn't have to get up for work, he just laid beside Tea and closed his eyes to get a few more hours of sleep. For the past four weeks, he has been working so many hours because the company has been so busy. Meetings would be scheduled almost everyday that dealt with business propositions and ideas. The media wanting to know about certain things dealing with the company, but the one thing he hated about...was when they asked about his family.

Atem was already under enough pressure. So, when an idiotic reporter started a rumor three years ago that he and Tea were getting a divorce, he grabbed the guy and punched him, leaving him with some serious damage done. The reporter was so terrified from that incident, he quit his job as a news reporter.

As Atem was about to drift back to sleep, he felt a slight jump on the bed and opened his eyes to see Yuki and Kimika jumping up and down. He smiled and tried to drift off to sleep again, but with them jumping it was kind of hard for him to. Tea was awaken by them also, but she kept her eyes closed.

"Good morning, good morning!" said Kimika.

"Hey, hey, Mommy Daddy, come on wake up!" said Yuki. While those two were busy jumping, Atem and Tea had their own conversation.

"Your children are awake my handsome husband." she said in a tired, groggy voice.

"Before eight o'clock, their your children my lovely wife." he replied back while chuckling. Opening their eyes, Atem and Tea were met with the jumping, happy little faces of their kids trying to get them up out of bed. Atem, with his quick reflexes, grabbed both of them and tickled their stomachs bringing cheerful laughs out of them. Tea sat up and smiled at the her family thinking just how happy and lucky she was to have them. He stopped his tickling and both Yuki and Kimika sat up to face him.

"Now, can you tell me why the two of you are up so early?" he asked playfully.

"Dad, it's not my fault. Kimika came over to my bed, woke me up and pulled me in here." said Yuki. Kimika gasped while hugging her stuffed panda to her.

"I did not, Yuki was the one that said to come in and wake you up. I told him that you and Mommy were still sleeping, but he didn't listen. He never listens to me." she said while sticking out her tongue to her brother. Yuki stuck out his tongue to her also while their parents laughed.

"Okay you two, let's put those tongues away. Well since we're all up, how about I make breakfast now?"

The both of them cheered loudly knowing they were about to eat. Yuki turned to Atem with a question.

"Hey Daddy, do you have to go to work today?"

"Actually, I was going to surprise you and your sister. I'm taking a few days off of work and we're all going to the beach house for a little vacation. What do you say to that, kids?" They were so excited, that they pounced on Atem causing him to fall back on the pillow. Tea was laughing at how he was struggling to get back up since they pinned him.

"Yay, Daddy gets to stay home!" Kimika said.

"We get to go to the beach house, this is so cool!" said Yuki.

"I'm glad you're happy kids, but Daddy needs to get up now." he said, but it seems like his words weren't getting to their little ears on account of they were still excited from the news. Tea stood up from the bed and was about to walk out the room to go downstairs when Atem stopped her.

"Honey, need some assistance here." he said.

"I think you can handle this, number one dad. I have to go and cook breakfast, see you downstairs." she giggled as she winked at him, leaving the room.

Atem eyes widened from what just happened, but a smirk quickly appeared on his face when he thought of the payback he would be giving to his lovely wife. So, getting up with with Yuki on his back and carrying Kimika in his arms, he managed to get downstairs. Placing the twins on the sofa, he wandered into the kitchen to find Tea already cooking. Standing by the door, he crossed his arms watching her. When she turned around, she was startled from his gaze and she started to laughing nervously knowing what she did.

"Hi honey, are you hungry?" she asked sweetly trying to see if she'll make him forget by sweet talking him. Atem smirked and slowly walked closer to her.

"Don't 'hi honey' me. I know what your game was and I accept the challenge. Be prepared for a surprise from me very, very soon." he whispered in her ear. Tea quickly kissed his lips and turned back to her cooking.

"You won't get me so easily, I'll be having my guard up." she said. He stood next to her while leaning closer to her face.

"We'll see, won't we?" he whispered. Tea leaned even closer to him until they were an inch apart from their lips being touched.

"We will see." she whispered back. That's when he took it upon himself and planted a fiery, passionate kiss on Tea's lips which she gladly gave back. They stopped before things got too heated since Tea had to keep cooking. Atem went in the living room to sit with the children. Yuki was busy with the next level of his video game while Kimika was playing with her doll. Yuki turned to Atem when he pressed pause on the game to ask him another question.

"Dad, when are we leaving to go to the beach house, huh?"

"Well after we eat, we all have to pack some things for the weekend. Once that's done, we'll be heading on out. Before we go out there, we have to buy some stuff to take out to the house."

"So we're going to the mall?" he asked.

"Yes we are." Kimika and Yuki cheered loudly. Tea came into the living room telling all of them that breakfast was ready. Sitting down, they started to eat and Yuki told Tea what they were doing today.

"Mom, guess what. Dad said we're going to the mall today, can we get a toy?" he asked with the cutest puppy dog eyes. Kimika gasped in excitement when she heard her brother say the word toy.

"Oooo, yeah can we Mommy and Daddy, please?" she asked giving them her puppy dog eyes too. Tea turned to Atem with a curious look.

"Why do we need to go to the mall?" she asked.

"Well I wanted to pick up some supplies to take with us. And I thought we could spend the day out in the stores today." he said while sipping his juice.

"That's a great idea." she said. Tea turned back to her children who still had their puppy dog eyes and laughed at how cute they looked.

"I'll tell you what guys, when you finish with your breakfast we'll go on up so I can give you a bath. Then once you're dressed and all of our bags are packed, then we'll see what happens from there, okay?" Tea said while smiling at them.

Knowing their mother, they knew that that was Tea's way of saying 'yes' to them. So they went back to enjoying their breakfast keeping smiles on their faces. As soon as they were done eating, Yuki and Kimika rushed upstairs so that they could get ready for their baths. Tea gathered the dishes and placed them in the sink to wash.

What she didn't notice though, was that Atem sneaking up behind her and wrapped his arms around her waist. She squeaked in surprise and smiled as he planted light kisses her neck. Silently without her knowing though, he grabbed the water sprinkler connected to the sink and pulled it so that it was pointed to Tea getting ready to spray her.

"If you spray me with that water, my darling husband, it will be the last thing you ever do." Tea said threatening him. Atem smirked as he was about to squeeze the handle.

"Now where's the fun in getting back at you if I don't have my share in the game, too?" he asked.

"I'm warning you, if you squeeze that handle you'll -" she was cut of when he sprayed the water on her and getting her shirt wet. Atem stood behind her laughing at the look she was giving him.

"I'm sorry, I didn't catch that last part. What was it that you were going to do to me?" Tea glared at him, but quickly smirked and filled a cup of water so she could splash him back. Atem slowly as he could backed away from her when he placed the sprinkler back on the sink.

"Okay honey, look I only did that because of what you did this morning and now we're even." She shook her head and walked closer to him.

"Oh no, see what I did was funny. What you did was just plain mean." Taking the cup, she splashed water back on Atem causing his hair, face and shirt to get wet.

Giving a glare of his own while Tea laughed at him, he smirked again as he quickly went to get the sprinkler and turned to spray her with water. She blocked his shot when she held up a clean plate in front of her face which made some of the water repel back to Atem. Taking some of the soap suds, he threw them at her and she screamed while laughing again as she started to take another cup full of water to splash back.

It was about five minutes later after their splash fight that they realized they were soaking wet and so was the kitchen. Catching their breath, Atem walked over to Tea who had that happy sparkle in her eyes that he loved so much kissed her lips deeply, not caring if they were wet or not. Pulling back, both were in a daze and looked at each other with half-lidded looks.

"I guess we're even now?" said Atem.

"Guess so, look at the mess we made." Tea said while giggling. He laughed along with her as he looked around the kitchen and the wet floor.

"Well, we better start cleaning." he said. Tea nodded while getting the mop from the closet. While she was mopping the floor, Atem placed the finished washing the dishes and placed them all in the cabinet. When he turned around, Tea was also finished with mopping and both of them went upstairs to give the twins a bath. Walking to the twins' room, they saw them playing. Yuki looked up from his trucks and found his parents not only coming in, but saw that they were both drenched.

"Mommy, Daddy you're all wet." he said. Kimika looked up from her dolls when she heard what her brother said and giggled.

"What happened?" she asked. Atem and Tea laughed at the curious looks their children was giving them.

"It's a long story my precious ones, now come on you two. It's time for your bath." Tea said. Getting up from their beds, Yuki and Kimika followed Tea into the bathroom while Atem smiled at his family.

Looking at the clock on the wall, he saw that it was after seven. He went to his bedroom to take a shower and change out of his wet clothes. Stepping inside the shower, he sighed as the water hit his still aching muscles from work. Once he was finished, he stepped out and went over to his side of the walk-in closet and chose a black pair of pants and a long sleeved dark blue shirt.

Tea came inside the room after she finished with Yuki and Kimika's bath and dressing them. She went into the bathroom to have a shower of her own. Coming out after, she went to pick out a dark brown cargo skirt, black top with sleeves that fanned out down her hands. Once they were dressed, Atem and Tea started packing their bags and stepped out the room so they could help the twins pack up too. When that was done, all four of them walked downstairs placing the bags by the door and making sure they had everything.

"Okay, are we missing anything?" Kimika then remembered that she forgot something.

"Daddy, I forgot Patches. He's going to be sad if I leave him all alone." she said. He chuckled and stooped down to pat her head.

"Well we don't want that. Go on and get him angel, hurry up now." he said gently. Kimika giggled and rush upstairs to get her panda. Tea turned to Yuki who was still thinking if he forgot something as well.

"What about you honey, did you forget something too?" she asked.

"Uh-huh, two things. I forgot my beach ball." he said.

"And what's the other thing son?" asked Atem. Yuki then started to do his 'gotta go' dance.

Atem and Tea laughed while he quickly ran upstairs to get his ball and go to the bathroom. Waiting for about two more minutes, the twins both came back downstairs with their stuff.

"Alright, do we have everything?" Tea asked.

"Yes Mommy!" they said.

"Okay, then let's get this stuff out to the car." Atem replied. Picking up their bags after opening the door and walking out to the car, Atem popped open the trunk and placed them all inside. Tea opened the car door and placed the children inside. Buckling them up, Tea opened the passenger side and got inside with Atem following behind her on the driver's side. Starting the engine, he drove out to ride of the driveway.

"Wow, it's that game I saw on TV yesterday!" shouted Yuki as he was looking in the window of a game store. The family were walking around inside the mall shopping. They already had a few bags of merchandise they bought to take out to the beach house. Now they were walking around just browsing through the stores for things that they want to buy. Yuki and Kimika were a few steps away and would stop when they heard their parents tell them not to run too far. Atem had his arm around Tea's shoulder as they were walking.

"Can we go inside, pleeeaaassse?" Yuki begged while clasping his hands together and giving his parents the puppy dog pout. Kimika had a pout too, but it wasn't like her brother's.

"I want to go inside that one." she said pointing to the store across from the game store. It was a toy store made for little girls that had all kinds of dolls, stuffed animals and all other girl toys. Atem and Tea turned to each other smiling.

"Well looks like we predicament here." Tea said.

"Yes, I think we do. I'll take Yuki inside here and you take Kimika with you. We'll meet back here when we're done." Atem said while kissing her cheek.

"Okay, come on sweetie, let's see what we can find inside that you'll like." Tea said while taking Kimika's hand keeping her close to her. Atem turned to Yuki who was now bearing a big smile.

"So, what is this game that you're so excited about?" he asked playfully. Yuki grabbed his hand and pulled him inside the store.

"It's super cool Dad. Once you see it you'll want to play it too!" he said excitingly. Atem laughed at his son's eagerness to get inside the store.

Walking down the mall, Vivian Wong was scouting around while carrying bags full of clothes from different clothing stores. She was wearing a short red skirt with a whites shirt that showed her cleavage and white high heel shoes. She also had black sunglasses over her eyes and a red hat on her head.

Other people in the mall would stare at her as she walked passed saying that she was the famous actress from Broadway theaters. She had a smirk on her face, knowing that she was being recognized of her status.

She was about to walk inside the shoe store, when she turned her head hearing a laugh that she recognized. It was Atem with a little boy that looked exactly like him. When she looked around, she couldn't find the one named Tea around anywhere. She figured that this was her chance to get close to him without his wife around.

"Oh, this must be my lucky day. Ready or not Atem, because here I come." Making sure that her make-up was perfect she started walking into the noisy game store.

'Ugh, why a game store with loud, whiny little brats?' she thought as she went inside.

"See Dad, told you it's fun. You get to fight your way through different worlds and fight different monsters while gaining experience points and magic spells along the way!" Yuki said. Atem was playing the demo of the game his son wanted to get and had to admit that it was exciting. When he was finished with the level, it took him back to the main menu.

"You're right, it is fun. So do you want to get it?" he asked.

"Can I?!" he asked with a happy smile. Atem chuckled and nodded.

"Of course you can, let's find a copy for us, okay?" Yuki nodded and ran out down the aisles to find the game. Atem was placing the controller back on the case so another customer can play too and went off after his son, but something made him stop.

"Atem? Atem Mutou?" Or should I say a certain someone that he never wanted to see in his lifetime again. Turning around slowly, he saw what made him glare in anger the person he was hoping to never, ever lay eyes on.

"I knew it was you! Atem, darling what are you doing here?" she asked in a fake surprised voice knowing she just seen him outside. Keeping his glare, he answered back.

"I should be asking you the same thing. Never considered you to be the video game playing type." he said in a cold voice. Vivian wasn't fazed by it because she was still keeping her smile, but her acting started to kick in and she gave him a pout thinking he would fall fo it.

"I just wanted to say hello to you, is there a crime in that?" He saw right through her little game.

"No, but I'm thinking of making it one. After what you did to me, I never want to see you again. What happened, things didn't go the way you planned it to be?" he said with so much hatred in his voice.

"My life is perfect. As you know, I followed my dreams to be the talented actress that I am today." she said proudly.

"Yeah, but it wouldn't have happened if you hadn't had the "help" you got from me, right?" Atem said. He looked down when he felt a tug on his pants and smiled when he saw his son.

"I found the game Dad, can we go now?" he asked. He chuckled and picked him up while Yuki gave him the game case.

"Yes we can, let me just pay for this first." Walking to the register, he gave the game to the clerk to ring up not noticing that Vivian was still behind him. She took this chance to talk to him again.

"Oh Atem, he looks just like you. Ooo, yes you do, you are so handsome little man." Yuki was staring at the crazy lady like she was the most insane person in the world. He then turned to Atem keeping his look.

"Hey Dad, you know this lady? She's like a crazy psychopath that escaped from the nut house." Vivian kept her smile, but she was really thinking that Yuki was a small brat.

"Now, now it's not nice to talk to gwown-ups like that." she said in a baby voice.

"Well then stop talking to me like I'm a baby and we won't have any problems," he said. Vivian eyes widened.

"Atem, discipline your child. Are you going to let him talk to me like that?" she asked.

"Yes, as a matter of fact I am. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to leave to find my wife and daughter." Still carrying Yuki, he thanked the clerk and took the bag to step outside. Tea was already out waiting for them to come out and she smiled as she gave a wave. She noticed that there was a woman walking behind him and wondered who she was. Somehow, she had a bad feeling coming from her.

"Hey, so what did you ladies get?" he asked. Kimika held up her bag to show her father.

"I got a new dolly Daddy, see?" she pulled out her doll to show Atem.

"Yes she very pretty honey, just like you." he said while tapping her nose. She giggled and put her doll back in the bag.

"Well aren't you just the sweetest wittle girl." Vivian said. Atem turned back around noticing that she was still behind her and glared again.

"Oh Atem, she looks just like you, too. Your children are just adorable." she said not even bothering to notice Tea was standing in front of her.

"Uh, honey who is this?" Tea asked. Atem kept his glare on Vivian while answering Tea back.

"She's not important." he said. Vivian let out a gasp.

"How can you say that Atem, we have history together."

"History that I want to forget, now I have to leave with my family. I don't expect to see you in my sights again." he said. Turning around with Tea, Atem was about to walk towards the entrance, but was stopped by Vivian placing her hand on his arm.

"Come on Atem you don't mean that, I was hoping that we could get together for dinner. You can tell me more about your family, I'm very interested in knowing your wife." she said while casting a cold glance in Tea's direction.

"Are you attention deficient or are you just really stupid? I just said that I don't want to see you again, that's means I don't want to have any contact with you or I don't want you having any contact with my family. Now is that clear enough for you?" Atem said. Wrapping his arm around Tea's shoulder, they all walked to the entrance to leave the mall. Vivian watched them leave with a glare, but then it quickly changed into a smirk.

"You were always the stubborn type. I'll just have to keep breaking you down until I have you right where I want you." she said. Placing her sunglasses back over eyes, she went to buy those shoes she saw in the window.

After driving around all day getting lunch, going to the movies and shopping some more, the Mutou family were now pulling up to the beach house to start the long weekend away from the big, noisy city and annoying people. Stepping out the car, they each carried their bag up to the door. Pulling out her keys, Tea unlocked the door and walked inside. Yuki and Kimika ran upstairs to place their things down in the rooms.

Tea put her bag down for a minute and walked over to the back door. Sliding it open, she walked out on the balcony to breathe in the ocean air. She felt Atem's arms around her and sighed comfortably, but she was still bothered and he could tell she was.

"What's wrong?" he whispered.

"It's nothing, I guess that woman is still bothering me." she whispered back. Atem kissed her cheek soothing her worries.

"Don't let her bother you...Vivian's not important to me. I just want to forget she ever existed in my life." he said. Tea looked up to him seeing him looking out at the ocean and turned in his arms placing her hand on his face calming him down.

"So that's her name, she must have really hurt you. Was she someone that you dated before?" she asked. He sighed and placed his hand on top of hers enjoying her comfort. He led them over to the lounge chair to lay on. Bringing her to his chest, he sighed again as he began to tell her the story.

"Yeah, this was three years before I met you. I was just starting out with the company. I went to a flower shop to buy some flowers to for Katie after she gave birth to Alicia and that's when I met her. She was working part-time sorting the flowers and watering them. She was showing me the right type to give to Katie and while I was paying for the flowers, we started talking. It was about two months later that we started dating. We did everything together, Vivian was the first woman, besides Katie that I ever trusted. That was the biggest mistake I had ever made in my life. It was about a year later when I came home from work one night. I remember that night like it was only yesterday. It was raining, one of the most horrible thunderstorms we had."

"Mm, yeah I remember that storm too. Caused a whole lot of damage." Tea said while drawing little circles on his chest.

"Yeah, that's why I'll never forget it. It was like the weather matched the shock that I went through. When I came home, I noticed that her coat was hanging up and I knew she was there. She wasn't downstairs so I took my briefcase and things upstairs. When I went into my office, I dropped my briefcase on the floor, seeing what was witnessed in front of me." Atem clenched his fist and Tea slowly placed her hand on top of his to calm him down.

"What did you see?" she asked gently.

"She was stealing money out of my safe, bundles of money. While I was away at work, she was at work herself by finding out the combination to my safe and broke inside taking all she could. I was angry and Vivian didn't expect me to be home at that time. She thought I was staying at the office. It wasn't until I found out, she was doing this behind my back. Vivian took an estimate of 100,000 dollars from me. The money that she was trying to take, I took it back and placed back into my safe and threw her out of my house. I was hurt, betrayed and angry. I let a con-artist into my home and I was too blind to see through who she really was." Atem finished his story while keeping his gaze out at the ocean. He felt Tea move closer to him feeling her place a kiss on his cheek.

"I'm sorry you went through that. I can't believe she would do something like that."

"Yeah, she used the money that she stole from me to start her 'acting career'. Now she's back and I have no idea what she wants." Tea turned her gaze out to the ocean too.

"Maybe she thinks she can get back with you." Atem snapped his head and looked at her. Turning her head to look at him, he kissed her gently, softly.

"I am NOT going to let her come between us. That's something you never have to worry about, there is nothing that will tear our family apart. You and the kids are my life. You're the reason I wake up every morning and work hard for everyday. I love you and I love our children, I'll be damned if ever let someone ruin our lives." Atem said with so much emotion. Tea started crying which he quickly wiped her tears away.

"I know, it just makes me so scared that someone tries to ruin everything we worked so hard to build up on. It's like once we're happy, there always something ruining it." she said.

"That's not going to happen because we're connected remember?" Atem placed his hand on Tea's heart and she placed her hand on his. Their hearts were beating at the same time, the same rhythm.

"I can feel your pain, I can feel your sadness and your smile. We share a strong bond, that's something that no one will ever break." he whispered. Tea nodded and both moved at the same time to connect their lips together in another kiss while listening to the ocean, the birds and the laughter of their children from inside.

Vivian came back from her trip to the mall and was in her room with the lights off and candles burning as she stared at the affection of her dreams. Picking up Atem's picture, she kissed the frame pretending that it was the real thing. Hugging the frame close to her chest, she fell back onto her bed and let out a sigh. Vivian then laughed while tracing the picture with her hand.

"Oh Atem, you may hate me now, but soon you'll forget all about what I did and think more about what we had together before. It's only a matter of time before I have you in my arms again." she said while laughing again.