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Takashi Kusinagi

Tea- The Chosen One

Lady-Wicca 666

dancers of the night

Luckygirl777

Egyptianprincess101

AkioftheAkatsuki

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Summary: He had all of the fame and fortune in the world, but all he wanted was someone that would treat him like he was normal as anyone else. He might get his wish when he meets a cafe waitress who is having problems of her own. Will they be able to help each other?

Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh! I just own the story.

Chapter 4

Sunlight was streaming through the window shining down on Tea who was still asleep. She stirred awake when the light was in her face and she buried her face into her pillow to try and block it out. Her pillow was unusually warm and it felt really nice that she didn't want to get out of bed. She nuzzled more and gave out a contented sigh.

'I never realized how warm my bed is, I feel like I want to stay in it all day. Wait, my bed is never this comfortable and when does my pillow move up and down. This is really strange.' she thought. She opened her eyes and found that she wasn't in her bed, she wasn't even in her house. She was in an unfamiliar living room and her pillow happened to be Atem's chest. She blushed when she realized that she actually wanted to stay on him. Tea tried to remember everything that happened. She remembered sitting with Atem talking and then an hour later, they sat back to watch a movie. Around the middle part, she must have fallen asleep. Once everything was clear to her, she looked up to see Atem still sleeping and noticed how innocent and carefree he looked. She tried to move off of him, but noticed that his arm was wrapped around her waist and whenever she moved, he would tighten his grip. She looked up to him and noticed his eyes were opening.

Atem was still sleeping when he felt something tug his arm. He stirred awake when he felt movement so he tighten his arm to keep the warmth from escaping and tried to go back to sleep. Suddenly, he felt the movement again and this time he opened his eyes to be met with the color blue. Sleep was still clouding his mind so he didn't know what was going on, but then realized that the something or rather someone that was moving on him was Tea. Somehow through the night, he ended up on his back laying on the arm of the sofa with Tea laying against his chest. Once everything was clear, he smiled sleepily at her.

"Good morning." he said groggily. Tea still had a blush.

"Good morning. Is there a reason why I'm sleeping on you and not in my bed?" she asked. Atem had a blush of his own and they both sat up to sit on the sofa. He turned to her to explain.

"Well, as we were watching the movie last night, I guess we both fell asleep. It was around midnight when I woke up to hear some noise coming from outside and saw that there was a thunderstorm. I didn't want to wake you because you looked so peaceful and plus it was coming down very hard. I hope it was okay with you." he said. Tea smiled and nodded her head.

"Of course it was. I wouldn't have wanted you to go out into that weather just to take me home. Then I would have to worry about you and wonder if you made it back to your house alright. That was really sweet of you and thank-you for letting me stay." she said.

"No problem. So, it's Saturday, do you have anything to do today?" he asked.

"Well not really. When I'm off on the weekends, I usually just stay at home and curl up to one of my books. You know, nothing too big." she said. Atem looked at her in disbelief.

"That's what you do every weekend?" Tea shrugged her shoulders.

"Well, yeah. I really don't like to be around places with alot of people." she said. Atem reached over and took one of her hands. It was like he couldn't get enough of her soft hands and wondered what they would feel like against him. He quickly shook that thought out of his head kicking himself for even thinking that.

"I was going to visit my brother out at the ranch and I was hoping you were still interested in coming with me. I have to give you some riding lessons anyway, right?" he said smiling. Tea smiled back at him.

"Really? You still want me to go?" she asked.

"Yeah, I do. So what do you say?"

"Sure, I just have to go home and change first. When were you planning on leaving?"

"Well, I was going to leave in about four hours so I could take care of some things before I pack. Do you need a ride back?" he asked.

"Yeah, if you don't mind?" Atem shook his head.

"Of course not. Let me just get my keys and we can head out." he said. He stood up to get his keys and they both went out to his car to drop off Tea at her apartment. Once they arrived, Atem walked her to her door and Tea turned to him.

"Thanks for bringing me home." she said.

"You're welcome. Here's my number, call me when you're ready and I'll come by and pick you up." He wrote it down and gave it to Tea. Then he bid her farewell until later and went back to his house to get ready for the trip to the ranch. Before he could start packing, he looked in his briefcase and pulled out any papers that needed to be filled out. As he was busy doing this, he heard a knock at his front door and got up to go answer it. When he opened the door, he was greeted by his secretary Katie along with her husband Koji and their two yr. old daughter Alicia. Koji had raven colored hair and violet eyes. Alicia was a spinning image of her father who also had raven colored hair, but she had her mother's light blue eyes. He greeted them all in and they went into the living room to sit.

"What brings you guys over?" he asked. Katie smiled and dug through her bag.

"Well boss, I just wanted to bring these papers for you to sign. Apparently, when we had that day off, I kinda forgot to get your signature on a couple of documents." she said. Atem chuckled and looked them over.

"Don't worry, I was going over some papers myself." He signed them all and gave them back to Katie. Alicia walked over and hugged him on his leg and Atem looked down and picked her up.

"Well hello little princess. How are you?" he asked. Alicia giggled.

"I fine Uncle Atem. I wen' poo poo on da poddy." she said. Atem eyes widened and he turned to Koji and Katie who were laughing.

"You did? Well that means you are getting to be a big girl." he said. Koji came over after he finished laughing.

"That was another reason we came over. We're having a birthday party for Alicia next week and we figured you would want to come." he said. Atem nodded.

"Sure, I wouldn't miss it." Alicia squealed in excitement.

"Yay!!" she yelled. Katie walked over and Atem gave Alicia back to her.

"So Atem, what have you been doing?" she asked. Atem had a tint of red on his face and cleared his throat.

"Remember that advice you told me before I left the office the other night?" he asked. Katie nodded her head.

"Well I was driving around to clear my head that night and I wound up somewhere on the other part of town. Then I spotted a little cafe and I decided to go inside to get something to take home with me. What I didn't expect was to find this beautiful waitress. We talked for a while and I found out that she broke up with her ex-boyfriend a week ago. She was the first girl that didn't go all crazy when she saw me. Heck, she didn't even know who I was." he said. Katie squealed excitingly.

"You met someone? So, what's her name? Do you like her? I know you like her it's written all over your face." she said in one breath. Koji shook his head at his wife's behavior.

"Now I know where Alicia gets her excitement from." he said. Katie punched his shoulder and Koji laughed. She turned back to Atem.

"So, what's she like?" she asked. Atem smiled.

"She's really special. I feel like I can talk to her all day about anything and never get bored. Just hearing her voice makes my day and when she's sad, I try to do everything I can just to see her smile." he said with a dreamy look.

"Dude, sounds like you're falling for her." said Koji.

"To tell you the truth, I think I am. Whenever I'm near her, I feel this magnetic force drawing me to her." Katie and Koji turned to each other and then turned back to Atem.

"Have you tried to tell her?" asked Katie. Atem shook his head.

"I don't want to rush things, I mean she just got out of a relationship. Besides, I don't even know if she'll feel the same way. I'm going to take her with me this weekend to the ranch and give her a riding lesson." he said.

"Oh that's nice. This will be a great opportunity to see if she has any feelings for you." said Katie. Atem sighed.

"Like I said, I'm just going to be a friend to her. I'm going to be leaving in about two hours." Katie gasped excitingly.

"I have an idea. Why don't you bring her along with you when you come to Alicia's birthday party. I would really like to meet her." she said.

"Yeah that is a great idea honey. What do you think Atem? You think that she would like to come?" asked Koji.

"I'll have to ask her, but I think she'll agree. I better get packed before I have to go pick up Tea." he said.

"Is that her name?" asked Katie. Atem nodded.

"Okay, we better leave then. We'll send you an invitation in the mail and you should get as soon as you get back from the ranch." she said. With that, Katie, Koji and Alicia got up to leave and as soon as they left, Atem went upstairs to go and pack his bag and checked to see if there was anything else he had to do before he set out to get Tea. Tea was in her room packing a small bag for her weekend trip with Atem to the ranch. She couldn't wait to see what it looked like. Two hours later, she finally got everything that needed to be done and her called up Atem at his house. About ten minutes later, she heard Atem at the door and they set her bag in the trunk of his car and set out on their journey.

"So you ready?" asked Atem. Tea smiled and nodded.

"Yeah, I can't wait to see this ranch. I can already just picture it." Atem chuckled.

"Don't worry, it'll be a two hour drive, but I know of a short-cut that'll get us there in about an hour." he said. The car started up and they drove out of the apartment parking lot. Tea turned to look at Atem.

"So you said your brother owns this ranch?" she asked.

"Well, we kind of own it together, but since he's lives out here, I guess you can say that he somewhat owns it. You see, our father owned the ranch and the company that I'm running now. After he died, he left them both to us so I run the company while my brother runs the ranch. I offer my help to him whenever I get some free time, but when I'm not there, my friends Joey and Tristan help out too. You'll see them also when we arrive." he said. The rest of the car ride consisted of them learning more about each others lives in the past and finding out that they had so much in common in likes and dislikes. Two hours went by in a flash and they now arrived at the ranch. Once they got out of the car, Tea was speechless at to what she saw. It was just as she imagined it would be. There were horses galloping, eating and being groomed. She felt Atem take her hand.

"Let's go to the stables. I'm sure that's where my brother is now." he said. He led her through the field to the stable where some of the horses were being kept. Tea was in awe as she saw all of the beautiful horses that were there.

"Yugi, are you here?" said Atem. Suddenly, someone stepped out of one of the horses stalls and walked over to them with a smile.

"Hey Atem, it's about time you got here." he said. Tea eyes widened as Yugi walked over to stand next to Atem. He looked exactly like Atem, except he was a little shorter and his eyes had more of a childlike glance to them. She turned back to look at Atem.

"You didn't tell me you had a twin." she said in disbelief. Atem and Yugi looked at each other and then started laughing. Tea was still confused.

"No, were not twins, all though we could pass as being twins. Yugi, this is my friend Tea. I brought her along to see the horses this weekend if that was okay." he said. Yugi nodded.

"Of course. It's nice to meet you Tea, welcome to the Mutou Ranch. I hope you enjoy your stay here."

"Thanks, this place looks amazing. Atem has told me so much about the ranch and I couldn't wait to see it for myself."

"You like horses?" asked Yugi.

"I love them. Is it alright if I see some of them?" she asked

"Sure follow me." They went over to the stalls look at the horses. Atem turned around when he heard he heard his name being called and saw his two friends running up to greet him.

"Hey Atem, why didn't you tell us you were here?" asked Joey.

"Yeah, you trying to get out of cleaning the stables?" asked Tristan. Atem chuckled.

"Now you know I wouldn't do that to you guys. Actually, Yugi and I were showing my friend Tea around the stables. Tea, these are my friends Joey and Tristan." he said. Tea shook both of their hands.

"It's nice to meet you both." she said.

"Likewise. So how long have you two known each other?" asked Joey.

"We just met a couple of days ago." she said.

"Cool, well let's go and see those horses." They all walked over and saw eight different horses. Four of them belonged to Atem, Joey, Yugi and Tristan. Atem's horse was all black with a white stripe down his back. His name was Bronco. Yugi's horse was brown and white mixed and his name was Stallion. Joey's horse was a tan color and his mane and tail were brown. His name was Shiloh. Tristan's horse was all brown with a black spot on covering his left eye. His name was Tidus. Tea saw just how beautiful they were and how loyal they were to their significant owner. As she turned to look at the other horses, she stopped when she saw one horse in particular that caught her attention. She was a pure all white horse and she looked so majestic that Tea had to walk over and see her close up. The horse turned to look at Tea which gave her a chance to see that the horse had a beautiful shade of gold eyes. Tea slowly raised her hand to pet her and the horse was watching her intentionally waiting for her hand to meet her face. Once Tea started to pet her, the horse grunted in approval and leaned into her touch.

"Hi there, you look so beautiful." she said in a soothing voice as she petted her. Atem looked behind him to see Tea interacting with one of the horses and walked over to stand next to her.

"This is Angel. We recently got her a couple of weeks ago and she can be somewhat shy around strangers. I'm really surprised that she's taking a liking to you." he said. Tea turned to him when he spoke and then turned back to look at the horse with a smile.

"That's a pretty name and it suits her perfectly. Is it alright if I feed her?" she asked. Atem nodded and went over to one of the food bags to take out some grain and gave it to Tea to feed it to the horse. Once Tea raised her hand to Angel's mouth, she sniffed it at first and then ate the grain offered to her. Atem watched in amazement at how Tea was handling Angel and how gentle the horse was completely trusting Tea without a second thought.

"That is amazing. No one is ever able to get Angel to eat so quickly." he said.

"Really? I don't understand how that could be." said Tea.

"Maybe it's just something about you that she likes. So are you ready to saddle up for your riding lesson?" asked Atem. Tea nodded.

"Definitely, so which horse am I taking?"

"Which ever one that suits you best." They both turned when they heard Angel grunting and neighing. Tea looked at her and wondered what she was trying to say and from the looks of it, she was trying to get out of the stable.

"What is it girl? Are you trying to tell us something?" asked Atem. Angel turned her head to Tea and neighed again.

"Do you want me to ride you? Is that what you're saying?" Angel calmed down when she understood. Tea turned back to Atem.

"It looks like I found my riding partner. Could I take Angel?" she asked. Atem nodded and smiled.

"Sure, it'll give her a chance to get some exercise anyway." he said. He went over in the back and got out two saddles for Tea and himself. He took out his horse Bronco and Angel out of their stables and went outside and reached the open field. Once both of the horses were saddled up, he went to walk over to Tea. He showed her how to get on the horse. Once she was up, he got upon his horse and they rode along side of her. They were going at an easy pace for a while when Tea asked if they could speed up a little. Atem nodded and told her to kick the side of Angel gently and once she did, Angel responded by going a little faster. Atem looked over to see Tea laughing and enjoying herself. He never saw anything more beautiful in his life. After a few hours of more lessons and a few races, they noticed that the sun was setting and decided to turn in for the day. They brought the horses back into the stables. After that was done, they took their bags out of the car and went inside of Yugi's house. They found Yugi, Joey and Tristan inside in the living room with four boxes of pizza on the table.

"Hey guys, c'mon in and join the party. We got pizza!" said Joey.

"Yeah, come on in before Joey eats all four boxes before anyone else." said Tristan said. Joey growled at him and almost tackled him when Yugi held him back. Atem shook his head.

"We'll be down soon. C'mon Tea, I'll show you where you'll be sleeping." he said. Atem led Tea up the stairs to the bedroom that was available. Tea couldn't get over how big the house was. Atem opened the door and he walked inside with Tea following him. The room was the perfect size for her that included and queen size bed with a nightstand on the left side of the bed, a wooden polished desk in the corner and when she looked outside her window, she could see the stables. Tea turned to Atem.

"Thanks for letting me come out here with you Atem. I had a great time today." she said.

"I did too. Let's go and eat something before it's all gone." he said. Tea laughed and followed him downstairs to the living room. After they ate and Joey and Tristan left to go home, Atem stood up from the sofa and pulled Tea up with him.

"I'm going to go and feed the horses. Would you like to come and help me?" he asked. Tea nodded.

"Sure, I love to help you." They went out to the stables and gave all of the horses their dinner. When Tea went over to Angel, Angel started to move her head around in excitement. Tea offered her some grains and Angel happily accepted it. While she was eating, Tea found a brush and she moved closer to Angel to lightly brush her mane. Angel then grunted in approval as Tea was gently brushing her.

"You are a very special horse, you know that Angel? I feel like you and I have created a special bond together already, don't you?" she said. Angel grunted in agreement like she could understand what Tea was talking about. Atem finished up Bronco and all of the other horses and looked over to Tea brushing and talking to Angel. As he was watching her, he could feel himself falling for her more than ever. He walked over to her just as she was finishing up.

"Angel looks great, you did a fantastic job." he said.

"Thanks, she's a really great horse. Whoever decides to be the permanent rider for her will be so lucky." she said. Atem turned to her and smiled. He could tell that she really loves Angel so he offered a suggestion.

"Well I don't think Angel will find someone to ride her that easily. No one was ever able to get even this close at to what you're doing now. She is very particular at who comes near her so I was thinking that maybe you would be her rider. I mean, if you're interested that is." he said. Tea turned to look at him with wide eyes and gaped at what he said.

"Y-you want me to be her rider? Are you sure about this?" she asked.

"Yeah, it's perfect. You two are already bonded and I'm sure Angel would love to, right girl?" Angel neighed again.

"Besides, she the only one who isn't out in the field that much because of her shyness. But seeing her out there today, I think she enjoyed herself and mostly enjoyed you being with her. So what do you say?" he asked. Tea stood still for a minute before slowly breaking into a smile.

"I always dreamed of having my own horse when I was little. I would love to be her rider. I guess that means you and I are partners now, right Angel." Angel grunted and leaned her face over to Tea to nuzzle her which made Tea laugh at her antics. She looked over to Atem again.

"Thank-you Atem." she said.

"You're welcome." he replied. When Angel was now calm from her excitement, they left the stables for them to sleep and they both went inside the house. Atem walked Tea to her room and before she went inside, Atem stopped her.

"Tea, I was meaning to ask you this earlier, but we got caught up with everything today. My secretary's daughter is having her third birthday party next week and I was wondering if you would like to come along with me. I told her about you and she would really like to meet you." he said.

"I would love to come, it's sounds like fun." she said.

"Great, oh before I forget, I have something for you so I'll be right back." Before she could say anything, he went down the hall and into his room. She went inside her room and sat on the bed to wait for him. After a minute went by, Atem cam back into her room with a gift bag in his hand. He gave her the bag without saying anything.

"What is it?" she asked. Atem smiled and shrugged his shoulders.

"Open it and find out." Tea gave him a suspicious look and opened her bag. She gasped at what was inside and pulled it out to see that it was the book that she had wanted to buy from the bookstore yesterday.

"How did you know this is what I wanted?" she asked. Atem walked over and sat next to her on the bed.

"When I was walking back to you, I noticed you putting this book back on the shelf with a sad and I figured you really wanted this. So while you were in the back of the store, I picked the book up and bought it for you." he said. When he turned to look at her, he didn't expect her to have tears in her eyes. He moved closer to her and wiped them away with his thumb.

"What's wrong? Don't you like it?" he asked. Tea shook her head.

"No, it's not about that. It's just, why are you doing all of this for me? You didn't have to." she asked.

"I guess I just wanted to. When I first saw you smile at me, I wanted to be able to see that everytime we see each other." he said.

"Well, thank-you for the book, but I don't want anymore unexpected surprises from you." she said jokingly. Atem laughed.

"Well then where's the fun in that? How about tomorrow we take the horses and I'll take you to a special place I like to go to?"

"Okay, sounds great." Atem stood up from the bed and Tea walked him to the door. He turned back before he left out the room and took her hand in his. He leaned over and lightly kissed her in the cheek with Tea having a blush on her face. Atem pulled back and smiled at her reaction.

"Goodnight Tea." he said

"Goodnight Atem." she said. Atem left her room and she closed the door thinking about what happened. She walked over to get ready for bed, but she wasn't tired so she took out her new book to read a few chapters smiling at what was to come tomorrow with Atem.

It was now midnight and Rachel and Renku were at her mansion thinking of a scheme to separate Atem and Tea. Rachel was pacing back and forth trying to come up with something while Renku was sitting on the sofa drinking a beer. He was getting annoyed watching his cousin just walking back and forth in front of him.

"You think of a plan yet?" he asked gruffly. Rachel turned back and glared.

"No, I haven't. Now shut up so I can think."

"You must have a small brain if you haven't come up with anything." Rachel marched over and stood in front of him.

"You lazy bastard, I don't see you thinking. All you're doing is sitting on your ass getting yourself drunk!" she yelled. Renku scoffed.

"That's not my department to come up with plans so don't yell at me." he said as he took another sip of his beer. Rachel turned around and started pacing again.As she was pacing, she glanced over at the calendar for a second and then turned back when she thought of something. She flipped the calendar to October and saw the date that was circled. Just then, a sly smirk appeared on her face. Renku was watching her wondering what she was thinking.

"Yo, what's your deal? First you're all yelling and now you got a smirk on your face." he said. She turned around and chuckled.

"Because my dear cousin, I just thought of a perfect plan." she said.

"Well let's hear it. I need to get Tea away from that guy she's with." he said. Rachel eyes widened.

"Wait a minute, did you just say Tea?" she asked.

"Yeah, what of it?" he said. Rachel laughed evilly.

"The guy that you want away from her is the guy that I want to be with." she said. Renku choked on his beer and started coughing. Once he was better, he glanced at his cousin.

"What the hell? Are you serious?" he asked.

"Yes, and my plan just got much better. You know those company parties I always go to with my dad?" she said.

"Yeah, what about it?" he asked.

"Well, there's one coming up in about four weeks and I know that Atem will be there and he'll probably bring that floozy along too. So, this is what were going to do." She sat next to him and explained her plan to him. He started smirking along with her.

"Hey, that's not a bad idea cous, but four weeks is a long time so why don't we just have a little fun with them until we make our move." he suggested.

"Wow, you're not as dumb as I thought you were." she said. Renku shrugged his shoulders and sat back to drink the rest of his beer. Rachel got up and walked over to the window with an evil smirk.

'Enjoy my Atem while you can little Tea, because once I'm finished with you, you'll wish you never met him.'

Okay, another chapter done. Tell me what yo think of this one and I'll update more as soon as I can. Til next time. :D