Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction / Trigun Fan Fiction ❯ Love is Worth a Gunshot ❯ Chapter One: Depression Sucks Big Time and Running Away ( Chapter 1 )

Love is Worth a Gunshot

 

 

Chapter One: Depression Sucks Big Time and Running Away

 

It was raining the day Tea thought her world came shattering down on her. Sitting alone in the room, cold and dark but not caring, just sitting and watching the rain pelt against the glass and run down just like her tears.

 

Life wasn't fair, life had to sometimes be a big twist of a joke. A fucking sick joke! At least that's what she thought.

 

She, Tea Gardener Kaiba, age nineteen, almost twenty and yet her life was already going down the drain even before everything had gone to Hell, before all the people she had come to love were taking away from her life. Only one question kept constantly running through her mind. Why…why did it have to happen?

 

“Why dammit, why?” She asked but no one but the rain was there to be her company and console her on the reason.

 

But the answer was simple and clear: Everyone was gone, they died and she was left alone.

 

First it had been Yugi's grandpa who passed away recently two year ago after they had graduated and then Yugi decided to leave with Yami to head to Egypt with the Ishtar as they were homesick as well. Unfortunenly, the plane had crash-landed and everyone was killed on the impact.

 

Joey and Serenity with Mai and Tristan had been going on a road trip to try and clear everyone's mind of the tragedy and Tea couldn't go because she was sick at the time but send her hope and love for them.

 

That was to be the last she would ever see them, riding in Joey's red jeep, Serenity giving a sad smile as she was still thinking of Yugi before he died and Tristan trying to help and Mai being there for Joey as they drove on. Then as Tea was sitting in her living room and watching the Nine O'clock News, a traffic report came on and told of an accident which had a major crash and the names of the victims who died on the side of the screen beside the newswoman's head. Tea thought her heart almost stopped dead as she saw her friends' names listed.

 

For weeks and months, she had mourned for all her friends' deaths and came to their funerals along with their other families and friends but sadly couldn't do the same for Yugi, Yami and the Ishtar as their graves were a fire pyre that had crisped them with no way to find their bodies and give a proper burial.

 

The few remaining friends that were left had come to the funeral with her: Duke, Bakura, Ryou, Mokuba and Kaiba. Tea could see the sadness and misery in their eyes that day and thought that nothing worse could go wrong for them if they tried to stick together. But unfortunately, that bond had not been strong to stop what happened next.

 

Bakura and Ryou were next, Ryou had mixed himself a cup of tea with some toxic household poison and died the next few minutes in his sleep. Bakura, who couldn't take the pain of having his half spirit died, joined him in death as he made his own concoction and lay in his half ling's arms, fading in death.

 

Duke committed suicide by slicing his wrist, slowly and doing again and again each day never letting her know and always blamed herself that she should have as she was the last of the gang. She had went to go see Duke when he hadn't return her phone calls and went to his apartment and found him with his whole body, mostly his wrists entirely cut up, blood all over the ground and a note gripped tightly in his hands.

 

`I can't live anymore, the world is too cold. I have to go, there's no room for me.' She held that note still as it was the last memoir of Duke before the paramedics came and took his body away.

 

The only ones left living in this world were she, and the Kaiba brothers.

 

Kaiba, seeing her wallow in her own misery, decided to give her respect in understanding lost and accept her like them, orphaned and without anyone left in this world to care for.

She did because she saw that only they had to stick together, to stay longer, to keep living. But that had been a lie in the end.

 

Mokuba was next on death's cruel list. He had gotten sick one day, and though they though it was the flu going around, it only got worse until Kaiba decided to take him to the hospital. The news was unpleasant and the worse of all things to have: leukemia. Mokuba had leukemia and there was no way to stop it.

 

At first the doctors thought there was nothing they could do but Kaiba did everything in his power and money for them to find a cure.

 

Weeks had gone by, months then a year as Mokuba had been prescribed many medications and treatments to keep the disease at bay. But Mokuba, the once happy cheerful little boy who always gave Tea, `big sister' a smile, was now as pale and thin and weak as a lifeless being.

 

A ghost was now living inside a boy's shell.

 

Mokuba had asked Tea to come into his room one day while Seto, Tea too called him that after spending time with him, was away at work, giving them a moment of privacy together.

 

She came into his room and saw Mokuba, sitting up in bed, his eyelids heavy and drooping but yet trying to keep awake before saying what he had to say before the medication took over.

 

Tea remembered clearly what he said.

 

~*~*~*~*~*~

 

`Tea, I'm glad to see you.' He started coughing and Tea went over to the stand by his bed and pour a glass of water and handed it to him.

 

“Mokuba you should be resting right now. You don't want to be too tired when—“ But he interrupted her with saying his own. “But I'm already tired. I'm tired enough as it is. I can't take anymore. It's too much for me and I don't want to fight it anymore…”

 

“Mokuba!” She said shocked at what she was hearing. She couldn't believe it.

 

“Mokuba don't you dare say such things like that. Seriously you're going to get better and Seto is doing all he can with getting the best meds in the world to help and—“

 

“But how long? How long will I have to go through this Tea! How long do I have to go through with this endless waiting and waiting of getting myself better? There's no way I will. I can tell you that it's going to be over soon anyways.” Tears ran down his cheek and started to cry.

 

Tea went to his side and wrapped her arms around him, running her hand over his very short hair.

“It's ok Mokuba, it's ok…we're still here for you, we'll always will be.” Soon after he finished crying she laid his head on the pillow and tuck the blanket around him. “Wait!”

 

He reached out for Tea's hand and gently squeezed it to let her listen. “Tea promise you'll take care of my big brother. He cares for you, he really does…even when he doesn't admit it.”

 

“I also care for him and you too…” She whispered, tears brimming from her eyes as she held onto his fragile little hand. “But he cares about you a whole lot.”

 

Mokuba's grip on her hand became tight. “Promise me. Promise me you'll take care of him and be there for him always.”

 

She stared into his gray emotional eyes and saw the first time spark of life deeply hidden and smiled a small smile. “All right I promise. Only if you promise you won't give up yet.”

 

Mokuba smiled back wearily. “Thank you Tea. I know you'll keep your promise and I'll try to stay longer, just so that I can, see you and Seto together at least.”

 

“You will.” She said and placed a small kiss on his forehead before leaving the room.

 

“I'll keep my promise as long as you keep your in the end…”

 

~*~*~*~*~*~

 

And he had come to keep his end of the bargain as promised before, in the end Mokuba Kaiba laid six feet under newly soil earth and she and Seto stood before the tombstone, reading the date etch in the granite stone.

 

Mokuba had been barely fourteen, so young, she thought as she grabbed Seto's hand and held it as he looked to the marker with nothing readable on his face yet his eyes spoke more in words than any other emotion she ever seen of him. No tears were needed but the sadness and lost were glazed in his icy stare.

 

“It isn't fair…” He whispered to himself almost forgetting Tea but she silently agreed with him as she pulled herself away and leaving him to console his brother in peace in the cemetery to the limo that waited down below. She walked down the isolate path and could feel the cold chill run down her spine as she thought of all the people she had known, family, friends, once living; now ghost inside this cold graveyard and in her mind.

 

Mokuba you kept your promise, now it's my turn to keep mine. After Seto came and join her, they went home to the mansion and felt the hollowness inside, as it only was the two left living in one another's shadows.

 

Tea did her best with caring for the remaining Kaiba. As hard as she try she could only see him falling inside himself even more, falling in his own sorrow and depression through his work and loneliness.

 

She would've done anything to help, to help when he wasn't feeling too good sometimes or giving reassure like she once did with her friends. She did everything in her power; caring for the one person she had left in this world and finding something to live with a person who understood her pain.

 

As each day gone by, Kaiba had been nothing more than a hollow being, not a person whose only reaction was to go to work and work.

 

She at first thought she failed until Kaiba had one day recently decided to do something she would never expect, he had come home early then usual and ask to take her out for one night. They did and each day, he came and they gone somewhere whether the park or some places they could be alone and enjoy the solitude in one another's company and soon went even further in one night where in one night of heat passion, went beyond and open themselves and Tea didn't regret it as she laid in his arms and saw the first smile he had in almost a long time. It wasn't long before after six months of what they did together and at dinner they were having together alone in the mansion: he asked her to marry him.

 

So sudden out of the blue and she had nearly choked on her roasted chicken and looked across at him. Was he really insisting it, she hadn't really thought he would go that far but she saw the seriousness in his eyes along with the warm passion and love she had seen before when they had spend that night together.

 

His eyes were looking at her for the first time with hope and she couldn't have that taken away. Not for him and not for herself.

 

She loved him, she had grown to love him as they bonded close and now it was maybe possible that they could finally break the gravely curse that was haunting the both of them.

 

She said yes and saw the faint smile touch his lips and had to smile back before going to embrace and kiss him.

 

Maybe there was a way to break it. She thought happily, but somehow she was wrong. They were married within less than a year and in that end she lost him from the car accident that took his life.

 

That time, I felt certain we had won, that we had broken death's list, but I had been wrong.

 

Tea had been preparing a well-cooked meal for her husband, thinking of what her husband would say when she would tell him some interesting news.

 

Any minute, Seto was going to be coming home and she would have the dinner out along with having a special surprise in store for him. Everything was going perfect for them.

 

She felt that the endless chain was now being broken and things could be start fresh, with a new life and maybe a family to think about.

 

A family could work, I'm certain Seto will be more than happy when I tell him the good news… she thought before patting her still slim stomach and putting the chicken in the stove for half an hour. Seto will most definitely enjoy what she would tell him when he got home.

 

Kids to be running happy around in this empty place, happy and giving us new ways to—

 

The phone ranged and Tea was broken from her chain of happy thoughts as she went over to the counter and about to pick it up. Strangely she had been having this weird feeling for some weeks, like something bad was about to come to either her or Seto. The constant ringing seem endless and a bad omen spoke from it before it was said through the line.

 

Don't pick it up! Don't! Just pretend you're not home and let it ring. Whatever you do don't pick it—

 

But she did and on the other line was indeed the bad news that had calling. “Is this Mrs. Kaiba?” She nodded but the other person didn't know and answered in an almost shaky voice, “Y-yes this is she?”

 

“This is Domino hospital, I'm afraid I have bad news…” And she listen to what was said before she dropped the phone to the floor and fell on her knees and cried. Cried because she had lost her only love.

 

~*~*~*~*~*~

 

Now here she was, Tea sitting by the windowsill, alone and unhappy as she saw this was another year that she had lost another and she was the only one left in this miserable world.

 

The only person left stranded in this empty existence in which to call her life.

 

Her childhood had been a nightmare and wishes never to remember, her friends all dead and gone, and her husband along with, taken whatever she had left to hold on.

 

Tea had barely managed to sleep this year as the nightmare of her dead friends came and haunted her. She saw there was no more to do, there was nothing left. But…

 

Still felt that she needed to live somehow even though all she had living was gone. But what's there for me when everything around me, remains me of all who were once here.

 

She stared through the window and out beyond the street to whatever else lie beyond that.

 

Somewhere, there was some place she could go, find someone maybe…

 

No that was wrong, she couldn't, not after her friends, her family, her love and… She closed her eyes and clenched her fist. What she was thinking was highly impossible and not very smart as she was thinking like a little kid instead of the grown adult she was.

 

She would run away. Run away from this place and find a new one.

 

New York? Her old dream of going to America, to Julliard and becoming a dancer had faded but maybe somewhere there would be nice? She could go anywhere she wants as she had tons of cash as being widowed to Kaiba and their grand fortune.

 

She grabbed the wedding band hanging on the chain around her neck and fiddle with the ring.

 

Seto, I wish you were here with me, I wish there was another way to go but I needed to clear my mind of these things, to get away before it consumes me, you'd understand wouldn't you?

 

She went to the closet and pulled down a suitcase from the top shelf and a small backpack and started packing. Packing all the clothes she could take along with checks, credit cards and other accessories that she would want but had could buy other things later and made her way out to the garage to her black Mercedes and drove out, not caring where she was going.

 

~*~*~*~*~*~

 

The rain was turning to hail as she drove through the icy droplets, letting it pound against the windshield as she zoomed down the road. No sign of other cars were in sight, the Mercedes went at fast speed and she didn't know where she was exactly going.

 

Wherever is fine, as long as I am nowhere here in Domino.

 

All through the night her thoughts remained foggy and unclear and her visions seem to go blurry. Lack of sleep was finally catching up to her, but she needed to stay awake and focus on the road.

 

She couldn't fall asleep on the wheel yet, just not yet. Maybe at some motel when she reach the outside limit of the city or otherwise.

 

As she was going beyond 40 mph, she could of swore something seemed off, something that was shouting inside her head, warning her something wasn't right.

 

But what wasn't, it all looked the same to her, she thought. Just as she continued driving she then saw something coming. Coming fast.

 

Another car? Well it was a empty road tonight and she was on her side of the way…

But the other car didn't seem to be on its side at all. It looked like it was coming straight at her.

 

What? But the driver, I have my lights on and he should? Maybe the person's drunk or forgot to turn his lights on or something.

 

But when she tried to head for the other side she saw a white blinding light shining directly at her, from that car, or it wasn't any car there at all.

 

The light seem to have trapped her, causing her body to remain still and driving ahead, her mind however was screaming.

 

What the Hell? What's happening? Oh my god! I'm being pulled in. Oh this is it!!!!!!!! And Tea thought no more as the light dragged her into whatever it was it took her to.