A couple days later at the palace in Tea's room...
Tea was trying the best she could to adapt to her new surroundings. She wasn't particularly used to living in a huge palace, and it took her five tries just to get from the front entrance back to her bedroom. However, she wasn't sad or regretful of staying at the palace. In fact, she felt safe; secure living with Yami-Yugi. If anything, she would rather be staying with Yami-Yugi than anyone else in the country; who knows what type of people would truly take care of her, or truly break her? That morning while eating breakfast with Yami-Yugi, Sababah and Bakura in the grand dining room, she gathered the courage to speak to Yami-Yugi.
"Um, Yami-Yugi?" she quietly asked. He was rather bored, and was chewing thoughtfully on something; he didn't hear her, so Sababah lightly nudged him and his eyes pointed to Tea.
"Ah, Tea, you said something?" "Um, yes I have some things to say. I..." She felt like as if her lungs were beginning to lose air, but she gained her strength back.
"...I want you to know how I feel about staying with you."
Yami-Yugi's eye lit up with surprise, and was now making eye contact with her. She set her fork down and continued.
"I'm not angry or upset or anything about being here, I'm just trying to get used to living here and being away from my other friends, and family. So, I know that you've been busy and all, but can we, you know, spend some time with each other?"
He blinked twice, feeling as if he's been too busy to even have a normal conversation with her. After all, he has a whole country to fix in only three years.
"Why, of course. Why wouldn't we? If we didn't I'd basically be keeping you hostage." Tea then twitched as a tear drop appeared on her head. "Ah, alright-but when you put it that way..."
Yami then twitched and looked up, "Oh! I meant no discrimination-Tea!" An awkward silence was between both of them, then they both started laughing. Tea felt a bit better and now wanted to really start talking to Yami-Yugi. "Well, for starters, what do you plan on doing to restore Egypt? If there's anything I can do to help, I would be glad to help."
All positive feelings faded from his face, becoming more serious and monotone in expression. Yami-Yugi glanced at Sababah and Sababah nodded his head and walked out to the throne room. Bakura, who was quiet the whole time, was taking mental notes on how Yami-Yugi and Tea interacted with each other. Yami-Yugi stood up from his dining chair and crossed his arms.
He said in a rather flat tone to her, "There is nothing you can do. I did not keep you with me for you to work, Tea. If anything, I want you to relax and feel at home as much as possible."
This is where two guards pick him up and place him on the royal lounge chair that Sababah brought from the throne room. The guards and others were holding the royal lounge chair up, Yami-Yugi holding his head with his elbow against the slanted up pillow.
"Tea, I'm going to my throne room to do my work. Because I don't want you to be alone, Bakura will stay with you for the rest of the day until I have some leisure time to talk with you. Until then, have a good day."
Tea looked rather disappointed, but decided not to say anything; the last thing she wanted was to get on Yami-Yugi's bad side. And so once Yami-Yugi and Sababah were in the throne room, Bakura called out to Tea, "Hey Tea, would you like me to show you the grand garden? It's quite lovely."
Tea felt lightened from Bakura's kindness, so she stood up from her chair and replied, "Sure Bakura, sounds like fun."
