Those were the sounds Kaiba heard. He had been so preoccupied with his own thoughts that the fact that there were other people in other cars didn’t occur to him until it was too late. He felt a sudden jolt go through his body as the middle of his car caved in under the impact of the other vehicle which had planted itself there. Kaiba’s head screamed and the last image that flickered through his mind was the front end of a car ramming into him...

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“Kaiba? Kaiba? Kaiba, wake up.”

He opened his eyes to see Tea kneeling over him. He looked around and blinked at the surrounding scenery. He was in the dark again, he was back in that black void where there was no light, lying on the ground. Tea was leaning over him with a white line shining around her. Kaiba stared at himself, nothing, just the same blackness as the ground. He looked up at her and smiled. ‘Ok, I’ve officially gone off the deep end, might as well enjoy it.’ He sat up and looked at the glowing girl in front of him.

“Hello Tea, how nice of you to join me.”

“It’s nice to see you Kaiba, I missed you.”

“And of course I missed you too.” With this he smirked, he had absolutely no idea what he was doing or why. But hey, if you were dead, might as well die happy.

The dream Tea, or whatever she was, cocked and eyebrow at him. “I don’t think you’re being sincere.”

“Why on earth would I do that dear Tea. I haven’t seen you for ages and we have so much to catch up on. Did you know that it was raining yesterday? Quite pleasant actually, a good day for sleeping...” He laughed at himself in his brain, ‘Ya, I’m on coke, speed, acid, whatever... I might as well look around while I’m in Alice’s Wonderland...’

“Why not eat the magic mushroom when it’s given to you.” Kaiba smiled foolishly at Tea and laughed. “Oh come on Tea, we have to play crochet with the Queen, don’t want her chopping off her heads now do we...” He waggled a finger at her and started walking off into the dark expanses. He looked back and motioned for her to follow him, “Oh, come on you silly goose...” He went back and grabbed her arm before he started skipping off, dragging her behind him.

Kaiba skipped right into a white room and saw Tea standing over him just like when he had woken up in the dark room. This time he was sitting on a bed with white sheets over him. Following closely behind Tea were Yugi and Joey. Kaiba grinned his maniacal grin and jumped out of bed. He grabbed Tea’s head and gave her a long kiss. Then he ruffled Yugi’s hair, and patted Joey on the back while before walking out of the room and saying to them in a sing song way, “Make sure the roses are red, or the queen will have your head...” and with that he strode down the white hall passing other doors with white rooms. He looked into them and saw lots of beds and people and other people who looked like nurses looking over them. Suddenly, he stopped. ‘Shit...’ One horrible fact crammed itself into Kaiba’s head. This, this part with the white rooms, this wasn’t a dream. He was in the hospital. He looked down at his legs and saw them covered in blood with his pants torn into shreds and a screaming pain entered to his nervous system. His head all of a sudden felt light headed as one thoroughly confused Kaiba crashed to the floor.

Back in the first room Kaiba had left three VERY disturbed people. Tea was sitting there in shock. Kaiba had just kissed her? KAIBA? KAIBA had kissed HER? Yugi was thinking that something terrible had happened to Kaiba’s head in the car crash and Joey? Well... Joey actually felt like beating the crap outta Kaiba for acting so doped up, but that’s Joey for ya...

Tea had come running out after Kaiba once lunch was done. She noticed that his car was gone, since she had parked next to it this morning, and so she ran out to the gate to see if she could find him. And there he was... Kaiba was hanging out of his window, unconscious, while someone who was in the car that was rammed into Kaiba’s was cussing his head off. Tea had run over to the scene and looked at Kaiba, there she had a spazz attack of total screamage. Yugi had followed after he heard the scream, and of course Joey tagged along. Tristan went inside to tell the teacher where other people were going since he might get suspicious when everybody wasn’t coming back to class... Yugi tried to calm Tea down while Joey bolted to the pay phone and called an ambulance.

They all had followed the ambulance to the hospital. The accident hadn’t caused any permanent damage to Kaiba, but his legs had been torn to pieces from the crash. It really had surprised all of them when he just jumped out of the bed happy as a clam and bounced out of the room like nothing happened. Shortly after he had abandoned them they all went out in the hall and there was Kaiba again laying unconscious on the floor. They picked him up and pulled him back onto the bed waiting for him to come back into reality again.

Kaiba woke up with a very bad headache and very angry subconscious. Why had he done that? He should’ve just stayed his normal self and not assumed he was dead. STUPID Kaiba! STUPID! STUPID! STUPID! His eyes flickered opened wearily as he looked at the three people sitting next to his bed. The throbbing in his legs hit him like a hammer, why he hadn’t noticed it the first time he woke up was beyond him, how he had been able to walk was beyond him... He tried to ignore the pain and glared at the people surrounding him.

“What are you doing here?” That was his very flat menacing question.

Tea inwardly chuckled, no matter what happened Kaiba always managed to recompose himself to be the same brick wall he always was. She sat down next to him on his bed and waggled a finger at him. “You know Kaiba, it’s a bad idea to get smashed in by oncoming traffic.”

He glared at her and batted her hand aside. “Do you think I didn’t know that?” Was the flat reply.

She shrugged, “Well I didn’t know since you were the one who got into an accident while coming out of the school parking lot...”

Kaiba started to get up, but he was roughly shoved back down by Tea. “You aren’t going to be doing that to us again. You’re staying right in this bed.”

Kaiba so wanted to kill her. He wanted to grab her neck and strangle her to death. He dug his fingernails into the palms of his hand and bore holes through Tea with his eyes. “Get me out of here.”

She grinned evilly, who knew Tea had such a mischievous streak in her, “No, I don’t think so. I mean, you haven’t even said so much as a ‘thank you’ for us calling an ambulance for you. We might as well just leave you in here with the wonderful hospital food until they say you can go.”

He looked away from her and muttered something under his breath. Tea looked at him innocently, “Hm? What was that?”

He glared up at her, “Thank you, alright!”

Her finger came up again and waggled in his face, “Now no need to get all huffy about it. But since you were nice I’ll go see what I can do.” With that she hopped up and walked out of the room.