Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Things Change ❯ Breaking The Icy Armor ( Chapter 13 )

The reviews have been slowed, but so as this story. I promise to update more often on this paticular story as I'm going to add another twist...that's not to say that the original one won't happen! It's comming...oh it's comming...

LadySaturnGirl - What's Tristan's fate? You'll have to wait and see!

Magicman/Smokegirl - Will Tea get Tristan? You'll have to wait and see!

meluvugi - The full name of Chapter 6 is "Dinners, Revelations, and Kaiba's First Day!" Don't you just hate it when they don't show the entire name? That's why from now on, I'm gonna try to keep the names of the chapters short and sweet.

Joey was favoring his hand which he had conveniently wrapped a wet hand towel around during a trip to the restroom. Now he was heading back to the room with everyone and needed to talk to Arisa. As much as he was upset for Tea attacking her, Arisa did taunt her into doing so. Also, he didn't want to lie to his girlfriend, but Tea was already, more or less, in a wreck, so he had to make her somewhat happy.

As Joey opened the door and stepped in, he was met with a few shocked faces, Especially from Arisa who rushed up to him.

"Joey! What happened?" She asked as she hugged him, then going to look at his hand. "Did that bitch Tea hurt you?"

Joey shook his head. "I decided to, no matter how much pain it'd cause me, to just yank my hand through the handcuffs." He lied.

"Ouch…" Arisa winced.

"I can say the same for you…" Joey said, noting Arisa's black eye. "Tea must've been more freaked out then I thought."

"Speaking of the cheerleader, what did you say to her?" Arisa asked.

"Well, I asked her what was her problem then she flipped out and told me how she felt."

"So she finally admitted it…"

"Then I told her that you and I are together and will stay together whether she liked it or not."

"I was wondering where that girl went." Jess said.

Joey looked around. "Where's Kaiba? Did he wimp out?"

"He's with Kara helping her with something."

"What? Kaiba actually helping someone?" Joey said skeptical that Kaiba would volunteer to help, at least unless there was something for him.

"Well…let's just say that Kara is very persuasive." Arisa giggled.

"I guess I don't have to worry about her being with Kaiba…remind me to never get on her bad side."

"She likes you!" Arisa playfully punched him on the shoulder. "Remember that I told you that Kara had a crush on Yugi?"

"Yeah…" Joey sighed. "A shame that he likes someone else…"

"Who does he like?" Arisa asked as Joey then whispered in her ear.

"Tea."

"Oh…" Arisa said silently, but then blinked. Was she the same Tea? The same bitch who tried to get between her and Joey? Suddenly, an idea formed into the smaller blonde's mind. If she could hook Yugi and Tea up, maybe she wouldn't try to but into her and Joey's relationship.

At the car, Kaiba was taking a small cooler from the trunk as Kara…or Kisara held the first-aid kit in her hand.

"So let me get this straight." Kaiba said as he closed the trunk of the car before they began to take their trip back to the room. "You're Kisara, the spirit of the Millennium Cross?"

Kisara nodded, "That's correct."

"So…what were you anyway? Were you a Pharoah? A Priestess?"

Kisara shook her head. "Not really. I was in the lower class of society. I can remember on one fateful day, I was being hit with rocks by the village, just because I was different. I thought that I was going to die, that is until I was saved by him."

"And who was the man that saved you?" Kaiba asked.

"It was you, Seto!" She said, which caused Kaiba's eyes to go wide.

"Okay, now I know you're lying. That couldn't have happened 5000 years ago! I wasn't even born yet!"

"I'm sorry…I meant your past self. His name was also Seto."

"What a coincidence…" Kaiba said sarcastically as the two entered the building. 'I wonder what else this lady will say to get me to believe her crap…'

Suddenly, her Millennium cross flashed again and Kisara was gone. Only Kara remained.

"Everyone's waiting for the ice cream so come on Kaiba!" She said as she opened the door to the room. Much to their surprise, Joey was back but Tea was not. Also, for some reason Joey had his hand wrapped around a wet paper towel. It didn't take a rocket scientist to guess what happened.

"Did you yank your hand through the handcuffs?" Kara asked Joey.

"Yeah…" Joey nodded.

"Idiot…" Kaiba muttered under his breath, which Joey heard and glared at him.

"Was I talking to you?" He retorted.

"No, I just decided to grace your pathetic life by getting involved with your conversation Dog." Kaiba said, but noticed that he was being ignored. "Look at me when I'm talking to you, you stupid Mongrel! I refused to be ignored, least of all by you!"

"Unless you call me by name, I won't acknowledge you." Joey simply said as Kara went to him with the first-aid kit.

"Joey, you'll have to remove the towel so I could see how bad the scratches are."

"Don't worry about it." Joey assured. "It's nothing."

"Just like you…" Kaiba added.

"Do you always get in everyone's business?"

"It's none of your business!"

"Can we just get to the ice cream already?" Arisa asked as Kara went to treat a scratch on her neck thanks to Tea. "Owie owie owie owie…"

"Oh suck it up, you baby!" Kaiba hissed. "But then again, you act what you are."

"Baby!?" Arisa glared. "Why don't you take out whatever stick you have up your ass and-"

Kara opened the cooler and gave her an ice cream pop. "Here, have a Chocolate Éclair."

"Oooh…" Arisa smiled as she quickly removed the wrapper and proceed to fulfill her nourishment.

"She's easy to please…" Kaiba commented as everyone else grabbed some ice cream.

"Let's start today's session since we've already had enough interruptions." Kara suggested. "Jess, why don't we start with you?"

"Okay…Me and my friends were, like, going to class one day and then there was this loser that was always following us. Tall, brown hair, blue eyes…"

"Heh, sounds like you Kaiba!" Joey snickered.

"Shut the hell up Wheeler!" Kaiba hissed.

Jess continued, "His hair was bowl-cut actually, and he was like…ew… Then he had the nerve to ask one of us out and what did we do? Let's just say that it at one place where he'll never have any use for…"

"That was mean Jess!" Kara said.

"Well what did you expect? Me and my friends to ruin our reputation for Mr. Plain Joe? Popularity isn't easy to come by!"

"Rain puddles are deeper than you…" Kaiba glared as Kara sighed.

"Jess, how did you feel after what you and your friends did to him?"

"Well…"

"Did you feel good? Did you feel relieved? Did you feel happiness?"

"No…"

"Then how do you feel?"

"I don't know…maybe a bit of remorse?"

"That, my friend, is called bad karma. What goes around comes around and if there were witnesses, despite being as beautiful as you are, that guy may've been attractively-challenged, but they've never seen anyone uglier than you guys."

"So she crushed a boy's feelings! Big deal! We all know the whole 'The geek's gonna grow up and own his former tormentors' speech so give it a rest!"

Kara glared. "Okay Mr. Kaiba why don't we move on to you! And find out why are you such a complete insensitive jerk!"

Joey scoffed, "Good luck at that…"

Kaiba heard this and glared. "And what's that supposed to mean?"

"Like I said before, Kaiba's like Fort Knox: You won't get anything outta him!"

"Now Joey, let Kaiba talk!" Kara scolded.

"Alright." Joey shrugged. "The floor's yers Kara."

"Anyways Kaiba, why do you have all of this tension? It's not like someone's causing you any harm"

"HE is my problem!" Kaiba pointed to Joey.

"Oh, and what did I do Kaiba?" Joey asked.

"Everything you do causes me stress! Just looking at your face gets me all riled up!"

"Is that so?"

"It is so!"

"There's only one person who's causing ya stress, and I'm lookin' at 'em!" Joey glared at Kaiba.

"Like you're a relief of fresh air!" Kaiba retorted. "All you've done is annoyed me!"

"Is this about the time I used you Blue Eyes against ya in a duel?"

"It's more than that you flea-bitten pest! You act like a big shot when you can't even back up your words 90 of the time!"

"Well you act like you have this huge chip on your shoulder and you're taking it out on everyone! So much that nobody likes you! And I emphasize on the word nobody! The only one that likes you is Mokuba!"

"You know what, I agree with Joey's statement about you Kaiba!" Kara stated.

"Wait a minute you're not supposed to be biased!" Kaiba complained.

"As a psychologist, I'm not. But as a person, let alone one who you were very rude too, I do feel resentment towards you! Or am I too much of a fake for you to take me seriously."

"Well you all would have a huge chip on my shoulder if you had a childhood like mine! A childhood that was filled with pain and agony." Kaiba snapped, not taking it anymore.

Kara blinked, "Pain?"

Kaiba nodded. "That's right! Wheeler know what I'm talking about, don't you?"

"Joey, is this true?" Kara asked.

Joey sighed, "Sorry Kaiba, I don't know what yer talking about."

"The hell you don't! You and the rest of the nerd herd were there! Remember? Noah? Gozaburo? Don't play dumb with me like you don't even know Wheeler!"

"But weren't you the one who told us all to forget about it?" Joey retorted. "I remember it quite perfectly you deliberately said 'Well that little detour was a complete waste of time! Let's pretend that it never happened.' Therefore, you told us to forget that you had a hard life and to believe that you're just a spoiled brat who thinks that the world revolves around him."

"Well now I take that back, okay?" Kaiba groaned in frustration, "Why am I even telling you people this anyway?"

"Because if you don't get your anger and stress treated, you'll be at risk of having Child Services coming over and take away Mokuba." Kara said.

"What? How did-"

"It's in the file. Remember, it was your principal that called."

"Remind me to have that bitch fired…" Kaiba muttered.

Kara overheard him. "What was that Kaiba?"

"I said that your preparedness is which made me inspired…to stay in this group!" Kaiba tried to cover up what he just said.

Kara nodded, "Okay…But at least we're making some progress…so that's why you've been the way you are all these years?"

Kaiba sighed with a nod, knowing that it was best to just go along with it, as Joey somewhat felt sorry for him, but not much. He was a bit on the same boat but at least he did make an effort to change unlike him. Kaiba meanwhile tried to keep his true feelings hidden. He was like a balloon, and once it was tremendously filled up, explosion was more than likely to happen.

…

Tea, since then changed into a pair of jean shorts and a blue tank top, was in her room, collapsed on top of her full-size bed, as she closed her eyes. As much as she tried she couldn't get the thought out from her head: Joey, her Joey kissing that Half-Pint Arisa Mallovic, and God knows what else!

'Why her?' She thought. What did she have that Tea didn't? Long Blonde Hair? That was true. The longest Tea's brown locks have ever been were almost down to her shoulders. Another thing was that Arisa was short, while Tea was, as girls go, tall. She didn't know why that would make her attractive to him, as his last love, Mai, was just as tall, if not taller than her. But then again, guys do like girls who are shorter than them. Why? Because they want to be their 'protector,' or something like that. It all seemed admirable, but foolish. Didn't they think that girls could handle themselves?

Her bare feet smoothly drag through the ivory white comforter on her bed as Tea let out a sigh. There was nothing she could do about Joey and Arisa's love for each other. Should she just move on and find someone else, someone who would return her feelings? Or should she once again wait on the rebound like she did with Mai?

So it looks like there's a clink in Kaiba's icy cold mental armor. Who would've thought! Also, what does Arisa have in store for Tea and, consequentially, Yugi? Find out next chapter! Don't worry, I'll try to work more Kaiba/Kara as well.