The Truth Hurts

Prologue

"Boy where are you!" An angry voice yelled but it seemed to slur. An unruly blond hair and giant brown eyes that was sitting on a bed wearing a blue high school outfit came out of the room to step in the stained floor in the hallway. The young man looked up at his father and cringed slightly as steam seemed to be coming out of his ears in anger.

"Yes sir." Joey said looking his father in the eye. His father lifted his arm and swung at him punching him in the jaw causing him to crash into the wall.

Joey cursed loudly as his father came at him kicking him repeatedly in the stomach causing him to scream out in pain and tried to curl himself into a ball to protect himself. "Where were you boy?" John yelled. Joey flinched as his father shoved his foot on his head grinding the heel of his shoe into Joey's head.

"Never mind so where is my food?" John said lifting his foot off his son and going into the living room.

"I'm sorry sir I had homework to do and I couldn't make you anything-" Joey said, coming into the living room trying to avoid broken piece of beer bottles and blood and semen stains all over the floor.

"That is no excuse I knew you should have just drop out of school it ain't doin' you no good." John yelled punching his son in the gut causing him to fall over onto the floor. John repeatedly kicked his son the stomach. When he got bored he kicked his son one last time before going to his room

"When you get back, I will be gone but if I come back and this house is not clean you're going to pay dearly, get the picture." John said to his son glaring at him before he left the room.

Joey lifted himself carefully off the floor and headed into the bathroom at the back of the apartment. Once inside Joey gently removed his shirt. Joey stared at his reflection in the mirror as his saw the bruises that marked him as a toy for his father to use the throw away when he was done. Joey the stripped himself of his pants trying to ignore the dried blood and semen that was on his leg. He turned on the water to the shower and stepped inside hissing slightly as the warm water hit his aching and bruised body.

Joey carefully washed himself trying not to irritate any of the wounds that were all over his body. Once he deemed himself clean enough he got out of the shower a dried himself quickly. He opened the medicine cabinet and pulled out some pain relievers, bandages and some Peroxide. He applied the peroxide to his chest with the towel and began wrapping the bandages tightly around his chest. Then he grabbed a clean uniform and slipped it on.

Quickly he made his way over to the kitchen. He opened the cabinet and grabbed a glass and filled it water and took out 4 pain relievers and swallowed the pills with the water. The grabbed his backpack with everything he held dear. His deck, and pictures of his friends and his younger sister and even a picture of the Kaiba brothers as well as a couple of necessities like clothes and toothbrush, soap and small towels.

Joey quickly made his way out of the apartment, making his way down the unstable and creaking stairs. He hopped down the last steps since it was broken in half and ran out of the apartment complex. He waved to the old lady who always gave him a place to hide when his father went on a rampage. He finally made his way to the gates of the school when he stopped running.

"Seto hurry up or else I will be late." Mokuba whined. Seto looked up from his laptop to look at his little brother and he sighed. "Mokuba it just Middle school it nothing special." Seto said. Sipping his cup of coffee before turning back to his laptop

"Fine if you don't drop me off right now I will tell Joey about you-know-what." Mokuba threatened. Seto looked at his young brother in surprise he frowned when he saw that smug look on his face. Seto got up and out of his chair and went to tell Roland to bring the limo to the front of the house.

Once that was done Seto and Mokuba went outside and got inside the limo where they went to go drop Mokuba off for his first day of middle school. After that the limo headed to Domino High.

"I will head to library and finish my homework." I thought as I entered the school and headed towards the library. I walked the empty hallways and entered the library where I found a table in the corner of the room where I sat down and took out my almost completed essay. None but the teachers here knew that I was a straight A+ student and had a great sense of artistic talent. I didn't noticed when Kaiba came strutting into the library until I heard his voice.

"I didn't know Mutt could homework if they had no possible thumbs" Kaiba taunted.

"I'm not a Mutt, Moneybags" I spat, looking up to glare at older Kaiba brother.

"Oh really?" Kaiba said walking towards my table and leaned towards me.

"Yes really." I growled at Kaiba.

"Bad dog." Kaiba said wiggling his finger at me.

"Just keep wiggling that finger at me and I will bite it off." I said as I continued to glare at Kaiba.

"Then I would have to call the pound to come and pick you up pup." Kaiba said then realized what he said at the end of his sentence before he turned to walk away.

"Pup?" Joey said tilting his head to the side in such a cute manner.

"Damn him for being so cute." I thought looking at him. Then I turned away and walked out of the library as if nothing just happen. "I really need to stop picking fights with him but it so much fun to tease him." I thought a small smirk creped it way onto my face.

"So this was where you have been, cousin." Yami said walking down the hallway with his twin brother Atemu as they spotted me.

"What were you doing into the library?" Atemu asked as he peeked inside and found Joey sitting at the table doing his homework

"Oh I see, so when are you going to tell him Set." Yami said looking at me

"That's none of your concern." I said as I walked off towards my homeroom class as Atemu and Yami had smirks on their faces and began walking after me.

A/N: Yes See we are getting somewhere. I hope you guys like this story. Please Leave Reviews.