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Mokuba sat in his cell for the past several months, while Marik took pleasure in watching Seto's life fall to pieces. The rare hunters made sure that Mokuba saw everything that happened to his older brother. So he knew Seto used all of his money in hopes of finding him. This lead the youngest Kaiba to feel immense guilt. But today, he saw some glimmer of hope for his eldest brother. When he saw Tea helping his older brother today, he thought 'Even if I don't make it, there will still be someone there to spend time with him. If something does happen to me, Tea's presence might help him move on with his life.'

However, Mokuba wasn't the only one who saw this. Marik said to one of his rare hunters, "Keep an eye on her. We wouldn't want Mr. Kaiba to get too comfortable with her?" The rare hunter nodded and motioned to other rare hunters to leave the room.

Mokuba spoke up and asked, "Why are you doing this? What did Seto ever do to you?"

Marik was angry, "What did he do to me? He gave Yugi the one card that could defeat me in Battle City, Fiend Sanctuary. If it weren't for him, Yugi's puzzle would have been mine!" With that Marik stormed out of the cell. Mokuba let out a defeated sigh, would he ever get out of here?

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Kaiba sat underneath a tree at lunch that day. Not having business reports to type up, he didn't know what to do with himself. He looked around and saw Yugi, Tea, Joey and Tristan gathered around a picnic table. He watched them play duel monsters and goof off with each other. He smiled slightly, thinking about the few times he tried to teach Mokuba how to play Duel Monsters. Mokuba never seemed to show an interest in the game, but he was always supportive when Kaiba played.

Although the memory was good, it pained Kaiba to think about Mokuba. He picked up his books and walked to the library.

Tea noticed Kaiba heading towards the library and became concerned. "I gotta run to the ladies room, guys," she said as she walked towards the direction Kaiba just went.

Yugi ran after her and yelled out, "But Tea, the bathroom is…" he noticed Kaiba walking several yards ahead and whispered, "That way…" He then shrugged his shoulders and walked back to the table with Joey and Tristan.

"What was that about?" Tristan asked.

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Tea found Kaiba sitting in the back of the library. He was on a red couch, reading by the fire. Tea looked over his shoulder to see what he was reading. Sensing someone's presence he turned his head and saw her looking at him. He shut his book and irritably asked, "What do you want?"

"It's nice to see you too Kaiba. What are you reading?" she asked as she flipped the book over to see its cover. She smiled and said, "I didn't know you were into mystery novels." He looked at her blankly and she frowned. Giving up on talking to him about the book she asked, "Is there anything in particular you want to learn how to cook this afternoon." She saw his mouth twitch and knew there was an answer somewhere in there. "Come on, spit it out!" she said as she sat next to him on the couch.

He scratched the back of his head feeling mildly embarrassed, "Pancakes."

She started to laugh and asked, "For dinner?" He nodded and she shrugged her shoulders, "Well I have been known to eat tacos for breakfast so who am I to judge."

The bell rang signaling the end of lunch and they headed for class.

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Tea had to stay after school for basketball practice so when Kaiba got home, he headed towards the garage of the house. There was an old, busted up, light brown truck sitting in the garage in desperate need of repairs. If he could save up enough money from selling his farm products at the farmers market, he might just be able to bring the truck back to working condition. He searched through an old tool box and used a jack to crawl underneath the truck.

After about an hour of toying with the truck he discovered more problems than he had overall, it still looked fixable.

A voice called out, "Kaiba? Where are you?"

"I'm in the garage," he called back as he started to slide from underneath the car. Tea walked in and he was wiping the motor oil off his hands, "Go clean up while I gather the ingredients," she said.

She dug through his cabinets to find the pancake mix and was mildly surprised on how very little food was in the house. There was boxes of easy mac (which he couldn't cook anyway because he didn't have a microwave), protein bars, tv dinners, fish sticks, coffee, and a single box of pancake batter. 'What the hell does this boy eat,' she thought to herself.

He walked into the kitchen and she handed him the pancake batter and talked him through the process. His first pancake didn't look too good because he had the fire on too high. However, after his third he was a pro!

They sat down together and to her surprise he started to talk to her, "What is your family like?"

She smiled, maybe he was starting to feel comfortable around her. She started, "Well it is just my mom, dad, and me. My mother is a librarian and my father is a preacher. I have always been close to my mother, Selena Gardener. However, my father and I never seemed to see eye to eye."

"Why is that?" he asked. As crazy as it felt, Kaiba was curious about her life. It was ALMOST as if he started to enjoy her company…Almost.

"Well, there are 2 types of preachers in this world, the type that says you should love god, and they type that says you should fear him. My father, Ralph Gardener, has always said that me being friends with Yugi and the guys sinful. He swears up and down that I am going to become a whore. He also acts as if everyone who makes even the tiniest of mistake is going to burn in hell. I just never felt like I could ever live up to his expectations, so I stopped trying," she explained.

Kaiba nodded in understanding. No matter how hard he tried to meet Gozaburo's expectations, he always ended up overworked and disappointed.

Tea looked at her watch and saw that it would be getting dark soon. She stood up and said, "I need to get going. I have work tomorrow, so I won't be able to make it over. I am off Saturday though, so I want to take you grocery shopping," she started to giggle and continued, "I looked through your cabinets, and it is obvious that you don't have a clue."

Despite her mild insult, he smirked. He tried to go grocery shopping for the first time last week and he had no idea how to pick out a week's worth of groceries. He ended up just buying things that looked easy to deal with.

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"Mom, Dad, I am home," she called out as she tossed her keys in the bowl onside of the coffee table.

"Where were you?" her father asked with a sour expression on his face.

She rolled her eyes and said, "I just took a trip to Sodom and Gomorrah to get my nipples pierced, wanna see?"

He smacked her across the face and asked, "You visited those boys again, didn't you?"

She rubbed her now sore cheek and said, "Just one, he needs help getting settled in his new home."

"You will need help getting settled in a new home if you keep gallivanting with these boys. Remember that Tea, I refused to have you disgrace this family," He said in a serious tone.

Annoyed she asked, "Can I go do my homework now or are you going to continue to harass me?" Without waiting for an answer she picked up her book bag and went up the staircase to her bedroom.