Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ A Perfect Match ❯ Mokuba's Crush ( Chapter 6 )

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~Recap

"Anyway, I've already got the results of the lottery done out," said Mokuba, `Now we just have to send them out. The results are written right here," He handed them a list. On the list was written...~

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Chapter-7

Girl Boy

1. Yugi Yami

2. Tristan Duke

3. Mai Tea

4. Mokuba Damon

5. Joey Seto

6. Yami Bakura Bakura

7. Marik Malik

They had been walking and had reached Mokuba's room. They sat on his bed and talked.

"Sorry for making you a boy, Tea," Mokuba apologized, "but I didn't think you wanted to be paired up with Tristan or Duke," The two girls sitting near him were too busy laughing to answer him; perhaps they didn't even hear him. Who can tell? "Oh God, Mokuba! Why did you put Yami Bakura and Marik as girls?" Mai exclaimed, rubbing tears from her eyes

"I personally do not blame you but…," Tea nearly broke into peals of laughter again but contained herself just in time.

Mokuba smiled mischievously, "Bakura and Malik are too nice to mention the small fact that those two are too domineering for their own good so I thought I would give them some blackmail material. And even if they don't use it," he shrugged, "I can use it for them, you know. A bit like their lawyer," he looked at the older girls with an innocently serious face which broke them up again and this time Mokuba as well was screaming with laughter.

"I couldn't put my brother as a girl because it was hard enough to convince him to come at all. As a girl…? I don't think he would say no if I asked but better not to take the risk" Mokuba said after he had finished laughing

"You like Damon a lot don't you Mokuba?" Mai asked going over the list once more.

Mokuba blushed, "Kinda, well a lot," he said when he saw the disbelieving look the other two were sending him. "How do you know him anyway?" he demanded

"Don't you remember last year's spring carnival? We all went together." Tea said

"No, I was a bit preoccupied," Mokuba replied

"About what I wonder," Mai muttered, then she smiled, "Why did make yourself the girl? I wouldn't have done that."

"Well, it has to do with something someone said. Rather personal really," Mokuba tried to explain, stumbling over his words. Actually Damon had said that he would look cute dressed up as a girl, besides, if he made Damon the girl he would have to explain why anyone had to dress up as a girl and that might spoil the surprise… and what if he refused to come after that? Mokuba shook his head and stopped thinking along these lines, he had decided then that safe was better than sorry.

"So, now that the actual so-called lottery is over. How are we going to tell them?" Tea asked taking pity on Mokuba and changing the subject.

At this point there was a knock on the door, a footman came in and delivered, "the snacks Master Mokuba had ordered,"

They continued from where they had left off. "Why tell them at all? We can just write down a formal invitation for each couple and send a date list in each for the girl. You know, like the olden times." Mai urged

"And we can have a buffet and all, I think I've saved up enough to do that," Tea said, "And we'll have a ball dance and a couple dance at the end so that whoever is dancing together must kiss,"

"And we'll make sure that brother dearest and Joey are dancing together," Mokuba finished

Mai said, "Don't worry about the cost, I'm more than capable of taking care of it, as you well know, Tea. And we'll make it a necessity that every one has to dance in the last dance and since the rest of us are paired off it'll be quite simple getting Joey and Kaiba to dance together," she had glared at Tea once in the middle, how dare she think of giving up her savings! Everyone knew that she wanted to use them to go to a dance school.

"That's settled. Now wait, I'm nearly sure that I have some glitter paper lying around. And I still haven't forgotten the King Arthur and Guinevere idea." Mokuba said

Tea looked at him, "Why would you have glitter paper lying around?" she asked ignoring the other comment.

"I don't think I want to know, Tea," Mai stated looking at Mokuba's reddening face

"You really don't," Mokuba told her.

He got some plain paper and some paper with dark-green glitters on them. He also got some envelopes. "Obviously I've been stocking up for this party," Mokuba said shrugging when Tea commented on the prompt way in which he got them.

"There is that," she conceded. He also got some sketch pens, pencils, scissors, etc.

Mokuba kept the things between the three of them in the bed. "Now what?" he asked. Tea looked thoughtful, "Why don't we cut the plain paper into the shape of the words and stick them on the glittered paper and color them over with the sketch pens?"

Mai nodded, "Sure, it'll look cool but what do we write?"

"Um…what about this?" said Mokuba scribbling something on a piece of paper and muttering under his breath. When he finished he showed the paper to the two of them. On it was written -

You (fill in name), are cordially invited to the Masked Ball taking place at the Kaiba House at eight o' clock on Saturday. You must dress up as a girl/boy. You will meet your partners inside the ballroom.

Thanking you,

The arrangers of the ball: M. Trio

"Just one mistake," said Mai grinning, she took the pencil and cutting out the House wrote in its stead- Mansion.

"Let's get to work then," Tea exclaimed and pulled one white page, one glittered one and a scissor towards her and set to work with a vengeance. The other two watched her for a few minutes before following her. They worked steadily for some time occasionally munching the sandwiches, etc. that Mokuba had asked for. In the matter of an hour or so they had finished and they had sent all of them off in merry blue envelopes.

"And that's that," Mai exclaimed making a motion with her hands as if she was dusting them off.

"Uh huh," mumbled Mokuba stretching his hands. Tea fell back on to the headboard of the bed, "I think my fingers are broken…" her voice drifted off.

"Wake up sleeping beauty," Mai said laughing and waving a hand in front of Tea's face.

"I don't want to," Tea mumbled, "It's so soft here,"

"Tea, I'm not strong enough to carry you out of this place," Mai began but Tea had already fallen asleep.

"Maybe I should ask my brother to let her stay for the night?" Mokuba suggested

"No," Mai sighed, "I promised her mother that I would make sure she got back home. I'll have to carry her. Just open the doors for me please?" Mokuba nodded and walked in front of her as she picked Tea up; bridal style. As she carried Tea to her car Mokuba waved to her from behind, she smiled and nodded and turned to the front door of the car, she fumbled around, locking Tea between her knee and the door. In the middle of this panorama Tea woke up, with difficulty she managed to get up on her feet and yawning, asked Mai, "What's going on?"

Mai explained what had happened after Tea fell asleep, "…you should have seen Seto's face when he realized that I was walking around his house at this time of the night along with his little brother whom he had thought to be in bed, he said that I nearly gave him a heart-attack," Mai laughed. Tea laughed too. "But it is late, we should really…," her words were punctured by another yawn, "…get home,"

Mai opened the door of the passenger seat on the other side and let Tea enter. She herself got into the driver's seat. Tea fell asleep in the car and soon she was cuddling up against Mai's side, "Too cold," she mumbled.

Mai turned up the heater in the car and soon she was alright. They reached Tea's home and Mai apologized for their lateness. She carried in Tea and left her on the couch and she left the house with increasing thankfulness that Tea's parents were so nice. She went home and fell straight asleep without even bothering to eat, the `snacks' she had had at the Kaiba house was enough for her.

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Joey cursed so colorfully that it would have made everybody and their grandmother blush, "Hello?" he snapped into the phone

"No," he said even more irritably after a moment, "Yes, I would thank you to let me go to sleep now!" he slammed down the phone. "Honestly, waking someone up at…" he checked the digital clock on the table beside the phone and groaned, "…four o' clock in the morning and on top of that it was a wrong number. For once I was having a sleep without Se…" he hesitated then went on, "Seto in it and now I probably won't be able to go back to sleep," he was still grumbling but a child with water on the brain could see that his heart wasn't in it.

The brief pause had cooled him down. Now he was thinking more calmly, mind you not that it was such a good thing. He went carefully up the stairs the cold night air stinging his toes, back to the warmth of his bed. In three hours time the poor boy had nearly gone back to sleep again he heard the doorbell and a gruff voice calling, "Mail!"

The poor boy gave it up and tramped downstairs thinking, `There's a conspiracy against me, a world-wide conspiracy starting with the alarm-clock then my dreams, the phone and now the mailman! All to keep me from going to sleep.'

Needless to say the mailman was not greeted with a sunshine smile. Joey grabbed the letter out of his hand and without acknowledging that he wanted Joey to sign something he closed the door softly on the mailman's face and went up to his room to sit and read the letter in peace.

You Joey Wheeler, are cordially invited to the Masked Ball taking place at the Kaiba Mansion at eight o' clock on Saturday. You will dress up as a girl. You will meet your partner inside the ballroom.

Thanking you,

The arrangers of the ball: M. Trio

The only thing he could say was, "Huh?" `Who are the M. Trio? What does M. Trio stand for anyway?' he wondered. The same thought was on the minds of ten other people, namely, Yugi, Yami, Bakura, Yami Bakura, Marik, Malik, Tristan, Duke, Rebecca. Seto too was wondering what M. Trio stood for but he had a very good idea of who they were. The rest just curbed their impatience; they would have to wait till Saturday.

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I know this chapter was short and it had little to no Joey/Seto action, but I want to set the pace for Tea/Mai too. Don't worry theirs won't be explicit. And this chapter was more of an interlude than anything else. I'll update as soon as I can but the next two weeks are test week in my school. Sorry for being so late with this but mm.org wasn't letting me upload T-T