Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ New Host ❯ Chapter 3 ( Chapter 3 )

Well now for chapter three. Hope you enjoy it as much as the last two. Bye.

Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh! Even if I did you wouldn't believe me. And I am not a liar.

Warning: Sexual content in this chapter. Not a lemon thought. That is reserved for later. Hopefully much later. What would you expect if you where sharing a body with a person of the opposite sex? So if you do not like to read that kind of stuff then you should not read this chapter.

`Blah'-the person in the soul room talking.

"Blah"-Person on the outside talking or anyone talking.

And I must remind you this is a Bakura/Tea fic.

Chapter Three

Tea stared wide-eyed at the image in front of her. She remembered what her mother had told her what most guys thought about most of the time, and she hade hoped that there where exceptions, and there where, but Bakura wasn't one of them, the sick hentai! Now she knew why she felt like she was floating and such……

HE WAS TOUCHING HER!!! This was one of the worst time he could be doing anything of the sort. The reason why he was doing this she didn't know.

AND SHE WANTED TO KNOW!!

"BAKURA! WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING!!??" Bakura smirked as he let her hand drop.

"Why Tea, whatever do you think I was doing?" he said teasingly with a huge smirk plastered on her face, which for once didn't look that bad. Tea was out of breath and red. What he did to her body out there only affected her in the soul room, not the one outside. That would explain why she looked the way she did in there. She instinctively put her head back and moaned when he reached up and squeezed on of her breast.

"B-Bakura. STOP. People might come in and see, and I have a feeling that Kaiba has cameras in here!" she shouted blushing and breathing hard. Bakura smirked and straitened her clothing; he cleared his throat and put on one of her normal expressions.

"Whatever you say." He said imitating her voice perfectly. Tea sighed and sat on the soul room's floor. Tea lay back and sighed. She liked that feeling but not coming from him. She groaned in irritated at that moment and pulled herself up. She would get him back for that later, she smirked, oh yes, I will.

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Bakura took a deep breath before he opened the bathroom door. He needed to convince Yami that he was Tea. He let out the breath and stepped outside.

All of Tea's friends where standing out there with worried expressions on their faces.

"Are you ok Tea?" the short boy asked.

"I just felt a little off Yugi that is all, I am fine now." Bakura replied in Tea's voice. He hid a grimace and the way he had to act around all of them. His gaze looked at all her friends. It sopped on Joey. He glared openly though at him. That was the body that Yami now rested in. "Tea."

"WHAT!?" Bakura smirked. Oh yeah. He made her mad.

"Does Yami make you blush?"

"Only if he does something that embarrasses me. I got over my crush on him a long time ago." Bakura sighed. Good, he wouldn't have to blush. "Someone else does though." Bakura tensed.

"Who?" Tea didn't answer right away, but she knew that he would find out on his own eventually and that would be even more embarrassing than telling him.

"It is…" But she was interrupted by Yami.

"Tea? You sure. You seem to be zoning out a lot." Bakura inwardly groaned.

"Of course Yami. I feel great." He said walking up to them.

`How do you walk in these shoes woman?!' he told her through the link as he grabbed her foot after he slipped. Ryou looked at her and narrowed his eyes. He remembered Bakura all to well. Something about her at the moment reminded her of him. He just shrugged and called it paranoia.

"Are we going to go looking guys." He asked in his heavy British accent.

"Yea Ryou." Tristan said as they began moving throughout the large building.

"I know he is here. And close. I can since him. And he is very close." Yami said. Bakura tensed unnoticeably to everyone but Ryou.

"Guys I need to speak to Tea, well catch up later." Everyone nodded as `Tea' and Ryou stayed behind.

"So, `Tea', what are you not telling me?" Ryou asked.

Bakura tensed. Why wouldn't my old host not remember me? He thought sarcastically. "What are you talking about Ryou?"

"Come now, Bakura, you don't think I would forget you so soon now did you?" Bakura let himself be known at the moment.

"I would have guessed you would be the first to realize it is me." He said smirking. Ryou nodded.

"Why Tea?" he asked.

"She is close to Joey and she is more fun to mess with."

`Hey!'

"And she is easier to get along with than you, in ways. She hasn't had a mood swing, yet. And she is far better looking than any of the others."

`Why that sounded like a compliment, Bakura.'

"Shut up Tea." He snapped out loud.

"So she talks back?" Ryou said with a smirk. "Why don't you just knock her out like you did with me?" Ryou said a smile growing. Bakura blushed slightly but tried to make it go away with no avail. Ryou took a step back and stared at his old Yami. "What are you up to Bakura?" he questioned.

"You will find out soon enough." Bakura said before turning and walking in the direction of the others. "If I were you Ryou, I would keep my mouth shut." That was a warning not a request. Ryou snapped his mouth shut and prayed that Bakura wasn't going to do anything stupid. Ryou ran to catch up to him and walked back with him to the group.

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"I swear he is here." Yami said as they walked out of the building after searching for hours.

"Maybe it is another spirit." Bakura said. Yami turned his head in the direction of Bakura.

"Tea, I really doubt that there are any other spirits near here." Yami turned back to the others. "We should go home, we can look later." He said waving before switching back to Joey. "Hey all." He said. Everyone greeted him and said their goodbyes and went there separate ways.

Bakura walked down the street wondering what to do next.

RIIIIIINNNNNNNGGGGGGGG

Bakura jumped when he heard Tea's phone ring. He opened her purse and stared at the phone. `What am I supposed to do?'

"Give me that!" Tea said irritated still. Bakura and Tea switched, Tea pushed the green button and put the cell phone to her ear. "Hello?"

"Hello Tea." Tea gasped. The one person she didn't want to speak to when she had an evil spirit in her head.

"Hi Kaiba." She replied. Even after all these years Tea couldn't call him Seto, only if he was to tell her to. She felt herself blush and found Bakura putting two and two together. "What is it you need?"

"I was wondering if you might be able to watch Mokuba for a while tomorrow. I have to travel to Tokyo for a business meeting and I don't trust anyone else." Bakura smirked in her head. `So this is the guy?' Tea turned her head.

"Sure, I don't have anything better to do. What time should I get there?"

"I'll send the limo at nine in the morning, if that's ok. I'll pay you back somehow Tea, I promise." With that he hung up. Tea turned the phone off and put it in her purse. Bakura was about to say something but Tea beat him to it. "Shut up Bakura!" she said.

Bakura chuckled in her mind. `You fell for that man!?' He let out a howl of laughter while clutching his stomach. `What would the others say?!' He continued before bursting out laughing again. Tea blushed furiously.

"Bakura please, SHUT UP!" she yelled loudly making people around her look at her as if she was crazy, which at the moment she was. "Bakura please." She pleaded with him. Bakura continued laughing in the soul room as Tea groaned and continued walking down the street towards her home.

`Care to tell me why you like him?' Bakura asked still chuckling. Tea blushed even redder now.

"Not the place to talk about this Bakura." She mumbled under her breath. Bakura smirked.

`Another thing to add to my do later list.' He said. Tea blushed when she thought of what might also be on his `list'.

"Whatever Bakura." She said walking to her home wanting to be alone, yet knowing she never would be with him around.

`Nope. I am not going anywhere.' He said. Tea sighed and rubbed the sweat off of her head. `Aww, does someone hate the heat?' he smirked. Tea scolded as she went through the gate of her house. She got her key out and unlocked the door. She closed the door and went to the thermostat and turned the air on. It was one and it was hot.

"God, Bakura how were you able to handle the heat?" she said falling on the couch and waving a hand trying to get rid of the heat. "You know if you weren't here I could just wear my underwear around." Bakura appeared on the coffee table.

`So. Pretend I am not here." Tea blushed brightly. "Pervert!" she yelled throwing a pillow at him, but it went right through him. Tea looked surprised. He shrugged and moved around. Tea just lye back on the couch and fanned herself. Tea let out a deep sigh. "You know I hate you a lot right now!" she said getting up and throwing the ring on the couch. She took one look at him and then glared. "Stay." And with that she turned and climbed the stairs.

"What am I now, her pet dog?" he thought as he plopped down on the couch and grabbed the remote and turned the TV on. He stared at the show that was on. On the bottom of the screen the name of the show flashed. Today on Jerry Springer: Family Secrets!

"I wonder what this is about."

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Meanwhile upstairs Tea was looking at the clothing she was about to put on. A very loose yellow tank top and blue jean short shorts. She sighed and put them on her bed turning around making sure Bakery wasn't in the room. When she was sure he wasn't there she unbuttoned her shirt and pulled it off. She put it neatly on the bed and looked at her bra. Should she wear it under her tank top? She wasn't going anywhere anytime soon so she wouldn't. She reached behind her back and felt for the latches. She turned around one more time making sure that Bakura wasn't there in the shadows. She let out a sigh of relief. Lately he had proven to be a worst pervert than Joey was when he was around Mai. Tae pulled the bra off and put it on the bed. She looked down at her breast and frowned. She always thought they wear small and round. Her mother told her to be patient but she hated to look at them every time she changed. She sighed and picked up the tank top. She slipped it on over her head and pulled it down. She already felt cooler but she was still all sweaty. She slipped out of her jeans next and folded them and put them on her bed next to her other clothes. She got the other shorts and pulled them on.

Tea grabbed her clothing and hung them neatly in their place in her closet. She was always neat. Oh how she hated that habit of hers. She closed her closet and went to open her window to let in some air. She then went to turn on her fan and turned it on to her. Never would her parents let her do this. It felt much better than the air conditioning. She repositioned her fan at her bed and she fell onto it. Ahh. Now this was nice. Now on to sleep.

And sleep she did.

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Bakura's eyes were huge. THAT was the most INTERESTING show he had ever seen. What are these Americans thinking?! He turned the TV off and waited.

And waited.

"What is taking that girl so Ra damn long?!" he exclaimed as he rose and grabbed the ring. He grabbed the railing and walked up the stairs. Once he got to the room he had gotten to know as hers he put his ear to the door. He had already made her furious once this day, he didn't plan on making her hate him. She was the only person who he could talk to. And after 5000 years of being alone he did not want silence. Ryou had been decent at conversations but Tea was interesting. When he didn't hear anything but the fan going he shrugged and walked through the door. Ahh the power the ring gave him.

Tea was snoring lightly on the bed. Her arms spread out hanging over both sides. Such a small bed. Her right leg was propped up slightly and the other was hanging over the side with her hand. She had an even rise and fall of her chest. She seemed to mumble every now and then saying small things. He walked over to her and frowned. This was cute. She was drooling as well on the side of her face.

Delightful. He thought sarcastically. Her tank top reveled quiet a bit of neck and shoulder. He could see the sweat being pushed over by the fan. Surprisingly she was shivering even though she complained about how hot it was. He sighed as he let his heart go slightly soft. He walked up and turned the fan off and turned back to the sleeping girl. He sighed and put the ring on the small table crowded with stuff by her bed. He then returned to the soul room stored in her soul.

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Tea woke with a start. She felt extremely well rested yet tired. She didn't feel the fan on her anymore and turned to it. Wiping the rest of sleep out of her eyes she rose from her bed and walked over to the fan and turned it off. She turned to the clock and frowned. She had been napping for five hours. It was seven o' clock. Her stomach let out a loud and long growl. Tea blushed and put a hand on her stomach. She sighed and sat down. She looked around and not seeing Bakura around or knowing he was in the soul room and got comfortable on her bed and closed her eyes. She remembered Yugi tell her he was able to get into the soul room and talk to Yami and times so she wanted to see if she could get into Bakura's soul room, and now hers. She concentrated hard on the room and cleared her mind to only think of the room. She felt herself floating and let her eyes snap open. She was there.

Yeah

She looked at the bed in the corner. The shelf. A mirror. A closet. And a door that she had discovered to be locked. She felt another presence near but she couldn't place it. Was Bakura in here? She felt tanned hands snake around her waist and jumped when they linked in the front.

"What do you want?" said a raspy deep voice. It was most defiantly Bakura.

"I-I-I didn't know you where in here." She stammered.

"You didn't answer my question." He said tightening his grip.

"I wanted to see if I could c-come here by c-choice." She said.

"Well looks like you can. Now what do you want." Tea relaxed when he let go of her, she looked around the room before turning to him. She jumped when she found him looking slightly different than before. He was tanner and had a cross scar on the right side of his face. He looked taller and slightly more human that before. He saw her notice his change and smirked. "Like what you see?" Tea blushed and turned her head away. He chuckled and cupped her chin making her look at him. "Now that you're here, what do you want?"

"I think you should remodel this `home' or `room'. And I intend to do it for you." Bakura looked slightly bewailed for a moment.

"You do not like my designing?"

"No I do not like you `designing', as you call it, Bakura." Bakura shrugged and sat on a chair she hadn't noticed before. "Go to it than, woman." Tea looked at him.

"Do things just appear out of nowhere all the time?"

"Only if I want them or need them at the time." He replied. Tea shrugged and set to work. She turned to him one last time to ask.

"Can I do that as well?"

"I guess."

"Good." Tea closed her eyes and a lot of things started to appear all over the place. A few chairs, a table, paint, and other things as well. Tea smiled and went to the shelf. She dragged it away from the wall and into the middle of the room. "Can I change the color with thought?"

"Yes." Tea closed her eyes and the room turned to blue. All the walls did but the ceiling and floor stayed black. Tea also wanted light in the room.

"Why is it so dark in here?"

"I like the dark."

"Well I don't." And there was light. Bakura winced and got up.

"You can change whatever you want but not my darkness!" He shouted. Tea took a step back from him. He was starting to scare her again.

"I-I didn't mean to offend you Bakura, please forgive me." Bakura grunted and changed to brightness back, but this time it wasn't as dark. "Thank you." She said softly. And then she returned to work. She put chairs in the corners. Pulled a table into the middle of the room and put two chairs around it. Tea channeled all the light into a light bulb and put it in the ceiling to turn on and off. She clapped and it turned on. She smiled and pulled the shelf over next to the door. She tried to knob again but it didn't budge.

"Hey Bakura, what's in here?" she said pointing her thumb at the door.

"None of you business." He said getting up and clapping twice, turning the light off. Tea sighed and walked over to the bed with a new dark blue comforter instead of the black one.

"What is up with you and the dark?" she asked him.

"As I have told many before you: I am the dark." Tea looked at him.

"Why?"

"Why do you think?" he questioned back. Tea got up and looked at her handy work again. Her gaze landed on the mirror.

"What does that do? I never see a reflection in it."

"It lets me see into your dreams and such." He said as if it wasn't a big deal.

"You've seen my dreams?!" Bakura smirked remembering what she was dreaming about a few hours ago.

"Oh yes I have. If I do recall you just had a wonderful dream about a certain C.E.O." he said snickering. Tea blushed and tried to hide her face in her hands.

"God, you saw that?" she said through her hands.

"Yes I did." He said unable to contain his laughter. Tea sat on the bed and rubbed her bright red face.

"This is NOT happening." She mumbled.

"Oh, but it is." Bakura said sitting next to her smirking. "So tell me why do you like him?" he asked.

"This is like girl talk Bakura."

"So, tell me, or must I search your mind?" Tea turned away.

"Well you see, when I was taking care of Mokuba, I started to see him in a new light. He is a loving brother who would do anything to protect him from what he has experienced. And once I got to know him he was nice. And really cute…and why am I telling this to you?!" Bakura smirked.

"Who will I tell?"

"I don't know but once they discover you, you will tell him. I just do not want him to figure out from you. I want to tell him."

"And when do you plan to do that?"

"Eventually." She said.

"Whatever." He said.

Tea sighed and fell back on the bed. Closing her eyes and returning to her bedroom. She opened her eyes and jumped up. "What do you want for dinner Bakura, hurry up and decide I, am, starving."

`Same here. Fish, and steak.'

"Do you always eat steak?"

"When I can." Tea smiled and shrugged walking out of her room and down the stairs. She put some fish and steak in the oven and let them cook.

RIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGG

`Do you always get this many calls?'

"Yep." Tea said smiling and picking up the phone on the wall. "Hello, this is Tea Gardner."

"Hi Tea, it is Isis. I need to ask a favor of you."

"It is according to what it is."

"I need you to let Malik and Odion stay with you for the rest of the rest of the day and part of tomorrow. I swear if Malik does anything I will bury him alive. But can you?"

"Later tomorrow I have to watch Mokuba but I think I can arrange it so they can stay. Why, what are you going to be doing?" Tea could hear a pause on the other end and she didn't like what she heard next.

"Well I am a partner with Kaiba Corp. and all and am going on a trip with Seto to Tokyo and all and I don't want my brother or Odion tagging along and…" Tea felt awful. Isis liked Seto!? Tea didn't hear the rest of the things Isis said but she cut her off.

"Sure just bring them over whenever. Have fun, I need to go I left something cooking bye." Tea said quickly and hung up and put her head on the wall. Yet another thing in her life falling apart.

`Tea? The food!' Bakura yelled at her. Tea snapped up and scolded at Bakura's lack of care for her. She went to the oven and switched it off. `Get the food out woman.

"Get it yourself."

`Fine! I will.' And then he took over and pulled the oven open and pulled the food out with the nearby towel. "What is wrong with that woman now!" he scolded having not listened to the phone conversation. He grabbed a fork out of the drainer by the sink and began eating. He barely got half of it eaten before he heard the bell ring. "What is that?"

`Malik and Odion are here.' Tea said softly from the soul room. Bakura raised an eyebrow and got up and went to the door. He opened it up and came face to face with one of his only friends that he never would admit that too. Malik's eyes got large as he saw his friend in Tea's body.

"B-Bakura?"

"Y-Yes." Bakura answered mockingly.

"W-What are you doing in Tea's body?"

"Living." Malik nodded not digging in to deep and walked in with a small duffel bag slung over his shoulder. Odion fallowing not far behind.

"Thanks again Tea, I owe you a big one." Isis shouted from the Jeep she drove parked in front of the house. Bakura just turned without saying anything and let them in. "Tea, come out here and do something to these people." Bakura spoke to Tea through the link. Tea sighed and nodded. She and Bakura then switched with a bright flash. Tea saw the boys and smiled brightly at them.

"Hey guys, how are you?" Malik gave her a strange look before smiling back and dropping his bag and sitting on a chair.

"So why are you Bakura's new host?"

"He chose me and I guess because I am really close to Yami and Joey."

"Joey?"

"Yami's new host."

"Oh… so when is dinner? And what will we be eating?" Tea sighed and turned into the kitchen fallowed by Malik and Odion.

"So what do you two want?"

"Oh, no miss Tea. Let me cook as a thank you for letting us stay here." Tea smiled at the bald man and turned.

"I need to make a call, I'll be back later." Tea said as she picked up the phone in the living room, dialing Seto's number while fingering the ring around her neck. "Hello, Seto Kaiba of Kaiba Corp."

"Hi Kaiba."

"Tea?"

"Yea it's me. I have to watch Isis Brother and Odion since she is going on the meeting with you and all and they are staying the night so would you mind if you dropped Mokuba off later."

"I guess so. I don't see why Isis is coming so soon but ok. Would you mind if he spent the night there as well?" He asked.

"I don't mind. Just bring him over whenever." Tea said trying not to sound sad.

"Is something wrong Tea?"

"No nothing, I just, um… I need to go make sure those two aren't burning down the kitchen." She said. "Bye Kaiba."

"Bye Tea." And they hung up. `So Isis likes the priest?'

"Yea. I think she does." Tea responded sadly. "But she disserves someone after all she has been through." Tea said.

`Do you think he would be able to let her in his life?'

"With a lot of work. I think it will work." Tea said sniffing and walking back to the kitchen. "Wow. That smells good. What are you two cooking?" Malik turned around with an apron on and a spatula in his hand.

"Chicken, and some weird bread thingy." He said. Tea giggled a bit but sat down to make sure they didn't burn anything. She noticed her unfinished fish and steak and grabbed it and stuck it in a plastic bag and put it into the fridge for later. "Would you guys cook enough for four? Mokuba is coming over for the night as well."

"Sure Miss Tea." Odion said. Tea let out an aggravated sigh.

"Please Odion, call me Tea." He just nodded and continued doing something to the dough and sticking things in it. Tea sighed and fell back into the seat.

"He does that to me as well Tea. Just get used to it." Tea smiled and sat back in the chair. Tea was just settling in when she heard her door bell ring. With a heavy sigh she got up and went to answer the door. She opened the door to come face to face with the C.E.O. of Kaiba Corp. and his little brother.

"HI TEA!" Mokuba shouted running in the house with a small backpack on his back and ran into the kitchen smelling food. Tea smiled after the little boy before turning back to Seto.

"Thank you again for taking care of him for me Tea." He said. Tea tried to hide a blush and mumbled a thank you to him. He smirked down at her before starting his long talk about what Mokuba can have and not have before bed and all the other things he always told her about taking care of his little brother. Tea waved a hand stopping him from continuing.

"I think after all the times I have watched him that I would know how to take care of him Kaiba." She said with a smile. He nodded and yelled into her house.

"Mokuba you better behave and not cause too much trouble."

"Ok, big brother." He shouted.

"I think I'll have more trouble with Malik and Odion than with him." Tea said reassuringly. Seto nodded and turned to go. He stopped on the bottom step and turned back to her.

"I'll pay you back for this somehow Tea."

"I've told you before Kaiba that you don't……" Tea was cut off by a swift kiss on the lips. Tea blushed brightly as he slowly pulled away. "…have to pay me back." She said slowly and breathlessly. He smirked and turned away.

"Bye Tea."

"Bye." She whispered before turning back and going inside. She found Mokuba standing there trying to hold back a lot of laughter. "Mokuba!" She yelped as he latched onto her leg.

"Do you like my brother?" he asked making Tea blush.

"No, I do not Mokuba."

"Than why are you blushing?"

"If any guy where to do that to me I would blush." Tea said. Mokuba sighed and let go of her leg and smiled up at her.

"Do you think anyone will ever like my brother?" he asked.

"I think I know someone who already does."

"Who?"

"I'll tell you after you go clean up for dinner. I think it is almost done." Mokuba ran through the living room into the guest bathroom next to the guest room. Tea could hear the sink turn on and him washing up like she told him to. Mokuba was now tall enough to reach the freezer and he boasted about it a lot to. He was tall for his age. She knew he was going to get even taller if he was like his brother.

`I thought you liked that fool?' Bakura said.

"I did. But Isis disserves him more than I do. I have more chance to find someone, unlike her who doesn't stay in one place long. And they always are working together and all so…"

`Why did he kiss you?' Tea blushed at the memory of it.

"I don't know. But it didn't mean anything so…Yeah." Tea smiled as Mokuba came up to her and jumped up and down.

"So who is she?" he kept asking.

Tea smiled and bent down to his level. "Isis." She said. Mokuba's face lit up and she could tell he was planning. At least he could now be happy. `Unlike you?' Bakura asked. Tea mentally nodded. `You'll find someone.' He said before going back to do something in the soul room. Tea sent him a confused and curious look before going with Mokuba into the kitchen to see the food.

Tea's mouth watered at the food. Seems they added to what they were cooking earlier. There was pasta, shrimp, potatoes, some salad, bread, and chicken.

"Wow you guys. I hope this taste as good as it looks!" Tea exclaimed as she and Mokuba sat down and began stuffing their faces. Malik laughed as he and Odion also sat down and began to stuff their faces.

Bakura laughed at them all in his soul room.

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Tea had finally gotten Mokuba to fall asleep in the guest room by twelve o' clock. It was now Sunday. And that boy had far more energy then he could hold. She had no idea how Seto could handle the boy. Tea tucked that small but tall boy in and turned to flip of the lights. She then turned and closed the door behind her walking into the living room where Malik and Odion where still sitting playing Dual Monsters, Malik apparently winning. "Come now Odion, I know you are holding back."

"But you master Malik are a dreadful loser. I do not wish to listen to you rant again." Odion answered him smiling as he drew a card and placed down a trap. Tea smiled at the two as she sat down on the couch in front of them and watched their dual. "So Bakura, you really don't like Dual Monsters anymore?"

`Hell yea. I love the game. I only said that because I didn't wish to speak with the others that night.' He said. Tea smiled.

"Good for you. I can't really play that well. I never was good at it. I could beat Joey though so that says something with the people he beat." Tea told him boastfully.

`Than lets dual sometime.'

"You think I stand a chance against you?" she asked. Bakura smirked.

`No, but it really gives me an ego boost.' Tea sighed.

"Later."

`Adding that to my list.' Tea blushed slightly before turning back to the dual which now had Odion winning with all his traps.

"Ra, Odion, use monsters!"

"But master Malik, where is the fun in that?" Tea laughed with him as he mocked Malik. Tea yawned and then got up.

"Well I'll see you guys in the morning ok? Please don't stay up too late."

"Hey Tea." Malik began. "Where are your mom and dad?" Tea tensed remembering where they were.

"Vacation. A very long vacation." And she left out of the room and up the stairs to her room. Tea walked along the hall and stopped in front of one of the pictures. She fingered the older girl who stood next to her and her family. She hadn't been around for four years. Latest she had heard she had had a baby girl who she named Lyna. Tea let a tear fall.

`Who is that?' Bakura's image next to her asked. Tea jumped slightly before whipping the tear away.

"This is my sister, Crystal. She was married four years ago. She hasn't visited us since she left. She was only eighteen when she got married to Mark. They had a baby earlier this year, but sadly Mark died a few weeks later. She is now a single parent with low pay and bad health. She never came to my mother and father for help. She didn't ever want it. She told me she left Lyna for me to care for if she ever died early." Tea said sniffing. "Lyna is only ten months. I can't bear to know that she is growing up in that bad environment. I hope nothing happens to her. I don't think I could take care of Lyna." Bakura nodded and looked at the picture.

`I had a sister back in Egypt. Her name was Niome. She was with my mother the day the pharaoh destroyed my village.' Tea wanted to hug him but knew that was a bad idea so she hugged herself.

"What about your father?"

`He was hung. He was the one who betrayed us in the first place. But the pharaoh killed him.' Bakura said his face turning dark.

"I am so sorry Bakura…"

`Don't," he said angrily, `don't you dare pity me!' Tea began to cry as he yelled at her. She felt alone. And the only person she could turn to didn't even care. Tea hugged herself tighter and fell to the floor. She was sobbing now. She didn't want the others to hear her but she couldn't help it.

"They don't love me! If they did they wouldn't have left me!" Tea sobbed putting her head in her lap. Bakura looked down at her and felt something snap inside. The one person who cared a slight bit about him was breaking down before his eyes, and slowly drifting away from him. He put a hand in his hair in frustration, fighting in himself at what to do. His Ryou angle won as he bent down and tried to touch her, comfort her. But his hand went right through her.

`Damn!' he shouted. Tea looked up at him to see his hand going through her shoulder. `Tea, I-I am s…sorry.' He said with much difficulty. Tea felt more tears fill her eyes as he tried to hug him only to fall face first on the floor.

"Damn!" she shouted echoing his recent words. "The one time I need comfort and you're willing to give it, I can't receive it. God, are you angry with me or something!" Tea hugged herself tightly and got up leaning on the wall for support. "Why can't I touch you?"

`It can only happen at random times.' Bakura told her gravely. Tea sighed and slid along the wall down the hall to her room fallowed by Bakura. `Meet me in the soul room.' He told her before disappearing into the ring around her neck. Tea nodded at the empty air in front of her before continuing down the hall. She opened her door with one hand and went to her closet. She pulled off her tank top and got out her spaghetti strap pajama top and slipped it on. She pulled off her shorts and grabbed some blue kitty pajama bottoms and slipped them on over her legs. Tea leaned forward and hit her head on the hanging shoe rack and yelped in pain.

"Damn it all!" she hissed through her teeth. Tea pulled her head away and hissed when her hair got caught in the little loops on the rack. She fingered with it for a moment before getting too frustrated and just yanked it away. By now she didn't feel any pain. She had screaming cuts that had reopened on her arms and legs, a bruised head from the rack, a broken heart from the recent happenings, and a evil Yami taking refuge within her soul. Tea fell to the floor in a new batch of tears. Tea pulled the ring off and threw it at the wall.

It just bounced back at her and landed in her lap, the eye staring right up at her. She wanted her mom. She wanted her dad. She wanted her sister. She wanted to feel loved. Bakura appeared before her looked very distressed.

`Tea please go to sleep.' He pleaded with her. Tea turned her head and stood letting the ring fall to the floor. She grabbed her jacket and went to the door out of her room. "Since when do you care what happens to me? Huh, since when?"

Bakura rushed after her the ring in his hand. `TEA!' he shouted. Tea simply turned down the stairs and to the front door.

"Tea? Where are you going?" Malik asked, jumping up from the couch because of all the noise.

"Out." She said opening the door and letting herself out before slamming it loudly, not caring if she woke Mokuba. Bakura rushed after her going through the door, unseen by anyone but her.

Tea walked swiftly down the sidewalk in the direction of her old school. She hated her life. Nothing was worth all this pain. `But there is Tea, or else I would have left long before now.' Tea glared at him as he stepped in front of her stopping her movement.

"Tell me Bakura, what is worth it?" Bakura blushed.

`Do you know how I survived from Battle City?' Tea looked uninterested but he knew she was listening. `Shadi found me and told me that there was something out there waiting for me to find it.' He said gesturing out into the night. Tea's eyes fallowed his hand gestures. `He told me that there was a person waiting for me to find and help fulfill. That when I found them I could find happiness.' His hand went to her face but didn't touch it. `And I am starting to think that he was talking about you.' He said looked like a lost child. Tea felt tears weld up in her eyes as she stared at him.

"He really said all that?" he nodded. "And you think that the person was me?" he nodded. Tea let her head fall and cried.

`Tea, please don't cry anymore, please.' Tea looked up at him and turned her head at the moon.

"What does this mean Bakura?" He didn't look at her but let his gaze fallow hers to the moon.

`I don't know but I plan to find out.' Tea let herself go and fell onto the large wire fence next to them that went around the school.

"You know I don't feel the same way. I once loved Yami, then I had a crush on Seto and now here you are. I… it is all too soon. I-I need some time."

`I'll give you that time. Until I get my old body back. Just give me a chance.' Tea smiled at him bouncing off of the fence and up on the sidewalk. She wiped her face with her jacket sleeve and sighed.

"I over-reacted didn't I?"

`Just a little.' He said with a smirk. Tea smiled back and looked at a figure she didn't notice before coming close. Tea's eyes got large when she saw who it was. She had seen him before and heard a lot about him, but never really meet him.

He wore a large white turban on his head and wore a creamy tan robe. Up close his eyes seemed empty yet full, as if he had truly seen everything, which in truth he had. Shadi stood before them his eyes boring into Bakura's. "I have discovered an untold truth about you Bakura. As well as a past treasure you lost to the ring." Bakura's eyes got large.

`Where!?' he said.

"I know the path you must take, not the whereabouts."

`How or what way do I go.' Shadi's eyes drifted over to Tea and nodded at her.

"Tea, would you kindly excuse us for a moment." He said putting his key on her forehead and drifting into her mind. Bakura did the same by returning to the soul room. Tea stared at the empty space around her. She felt alone again. She sighed and decided to continue the way she was going somehow forgetting any of that even happened. Tea forgot about the pain and problems Bakura brought. The strange things he did to her, said to her, and the ring hanging around her neck. She was deep in thought trying to remember what she was doing. She didn't notice the moving shadows nearby. The sound of metal hitting metal. She didn't notice anything till she felt herself being pushed into an ally.

~Should I stop it here? I want to continue but maybe I can add it to next chapter… Yes, I will leave you in suspense. ~

To Be Continued

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