A/N: ...College starts on the 13th...I am going to be writing furiously and then updating weekly. Ie, I'm writing all these chapters in the past.
LOOK OUT FOR THE WALRUS! (I love/hate you ISA XD)
~Ava
~XxX~
"Oh hey! Look, there're the guys!" Yugi was right as the four of us clambered up a steep hill in the desert that we had found the door led to. Three of us started to run at the sight of the rest of our friends, Kaiba choosing to deliberately continue at a steady, slow, pace towards the upturned pick-up truck. Yugi reached the truck first, throwing himself at Joey and hugging him while laughing Teá and I soon after, helping Serenity out of the cab.
"Never a dull moment huh?" Teá asked jokingly as Serenity flung both her legs over the side of the cab and we each took her hands, helping her jump and steady herself.
"No! There really isn't!" She laughed, the sound infectious and I found myself smiling before I looked at what was also clambering out of the cab.
"Wh-Is that that robot monkey?" I asked, smile faltering slightly as it looked at me and then spoke.
"HEY! I'm no monkey Soph! I'm just...stuck here." I gawped at the brown monkey, it had Tristan's voice. His voice.
"You're kidding me right?" I asked, watching as the monkey jumped into Serenity's arms and she hugged it close. "That thing is Tristan?" Serenity nodded furiously. I shook my head in disbelief and massaged the bridge of my nose before running after my friends once more, noticing that they had started walking in a random direction. Towards what seemed to be a very large building in the distance. I walked alongside each of my friends in turn, listening to their amiable chatter and smiling inwardly at the fact that I had gained such friends who accepted me in the way that they didn't try to push me away while they were talking. Well, all except one. I sped up a little, to walk beside Kaiba and ignored him ignoring me.
"..."
"..."
"..."
"...Us..."
"Be quiet Callaghan, he is my brother and I will get him back. I've gotten him back before and I will get him back again. Regardless of your little friendship delusion."
"No. Not on your own and certainly not against the freak with the Daddy/Company complex."
"No Callaghan."
"Yes Kaiba. He's my friend too you know, and I've already told you, you get no choice in the matter of our friendship."
"Shouldn't you be more worried by that?" Kaiba concluded our brief banter by looking up at one of the massive cliffs that bordered the valley we were walking through, Tristan, or at least his body, grinned manically down at us before he leapt of the cliff, landing neatly on the ground in a manner that probably would have broken a normal person. I looked round to Kaiba, only to see him continuing walking down the valley again, I looked back to my friends, torn. I didn't want to leave them again, especially not for a person who had shown me barely anything other than distain, but I was hooked onto trying to gain his trust. Teá glanced across at me momentarily, not smirking this time due to worry as to who the person in Tristan's body was, and hissed at me.
"Oh just go, if he goes on his own he's bound to do something stupid." She snickered a tad towards the end of her sentence as I silently mouthed a 'thank you' to her. I bolted.
~XxX~
"...If you weren't legally a minor, this would be about the time I took out a restraining order on you Callaghan." I laughed a little at my 'greeting' from Kaiba as I caught up with him until I was once again, walking next to him.
"You're such a lovely person, I hope you know that." I said back, just as quickly before stopping when he did, at the edge of another cliff, overlooking another stretch of dusty wasteland. He balled his hands into fists and I could tell what he was thinking. I dropped my sarcasm in favour of my, (rather rusty), empathy and placed a hand on his forearm. "We will get him back." Kaiba opened his mouth to say something back but I tightened my grip on his wrist, "I. Don't. Care. What. You. Have. To. Say."
"Let go of me Callaghan." He said, as I tried to place what his tone meant. I shook my head.
"No. You can refuse the help of my friends, but you are not refusing mine." I narrowed my eyes, empathy getting worn down slightly by my attitude towards his stubborness. His right eyebrow attempted to abandon his face.
"And what makes you say that Callaghan?" He asked, sounding partially annoyed and amused at the same time. I felt myself want to hit him, instead I tightened my grip further and took a step forwards.
"Because, I like the both of you. And..." I paused, losing my mettle before steeling myself, "and I want for the two for you-well, he already kind of does-I want you to trust me." Kaiba frowned at me, seemingly suspicious. I shook my head, letting go of his wrist and clearing my throat uneasily. "I'm sorry if you think I'm after something, but I'm not sorry if you are still going to shut me out. I know you aren't the most personable person and I don't expect you to instantly open up. But I feel that you might as well know why I've been refusing to leave the two of you alone." There was an apprehensive silence that followed, during which I endevoured to not blush and not break eye-contact. After several seconds Kaiba turned and began walking again, down a side-slope towards the building in the , not-so-far-distance now.
"Giving up already Callaghan?" I heard him ask as he walked past me, I frowned then my eyes bugged when I realised what it was he was saying. I caught up with him instantly.
"...So, are you admitting I'm a friend now?" I asked, smiling slightly as I gauged his reaction: a slight smirk.
"...I prefer to think of it more as an...alliance Callaghan." Was his answer as we passed the third large boulder in as many minutes, I nodded a tad before smirking at a thouht that I had to voice aloud.
"...Us..."
"I'm regretting this already..."
~XxX~
A/N: WHY DO I COME UP WITH ALL THE GOOD CHAPTERS AT ONE IN THE MORNING? WHUT? X_X
You know, the other day, I read through all of these chapters. I realised that it reads like I actually planned this shiz. You lot do know that I have NO idea what I'm going to write for each chapter right? I don't even know how this thing is going to end...
~Ava