This should get updated fast as the whole thing is already written, I just have to type it up.

By the way, caps=english

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Chapter 1- Something unexpected

Katsuya ran as fast as he could. He could hear the man's drunken steps quite a distance away from him.

Good.

He turned the corner, loosing minimal speed, heading for his emergency hiding place. The dumpster sat innocently near the wall, concealing the ten year old sized hole in the wall. Katsuya squeezed behind the bin only to meet something unexpected.

Another boy was curled up in the hole. The boy looked up in surprise, his brown hair obscuring his eyes. Katsuya stared but turned when he heard his father approaching the corner. Without a word he reached down and yanked the strange boy from the gap. He had just managed to conceal himself when he heard heavy footsteps. He held his breath as his father interrogated the boy.

" 'Ave you sin a boy 'bout yay big wid blond 'air and bwown eysh?"

Silence.

Then the sound of heavy footsteps continuing down the road. After they had faded away Katsuya started to thank the boy. But before the first letter was even formed, he himself was yanked from the gap, just as a black limo turned the corner. A stunned Katsuya stood dumbly on the pavement as it pulled up. The window rolled down, revealing a man in a suit and sunglasses.

"Hey you, kid. Have you seen a ten year old with brown hair and blue eyes?"

Deciding one good turn deserved another, Katsuya shook his head. The man "tched" and then the limo drove on. 'Besides,' he thought as he watched it turn the corner, 'technically I wasn't lying. I wasn't able to see the boys eyes.' Smiling at his own cleverness, he turned to and pulled the dumpster away.

"It's okay, they've gone."

The boy looked up, seemed to assess Katsuya, then, obviously deciding he could be trusted, unfolded himself from the gap. Now they were face to face, Katsuya could see the boy did indeed have blue eyes. He was also slightly taller than him. They regarded each other for a while. Eventually, Katsuya introduced himself.

"I'm Jounouchi Katsuya, what's your name?" The boy opened his mouth but closed it again. He pulled a face then went to say a name that began with "Ka" but decided against. After some internal conflict he settled on a name.

"Seto."

"Just Seto." 'Just Seto' nodded.

"That your given name?" another nod.

"Well, if that's the case the you better call me Katsuya, it's only fair." Seto considered this before nodding again. Katsuya grinned.

"Come on Seto, I know a better hiding place.

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The tree house was old but sturdy. It was big enough for four children and both Katsuya and Seto could sit up straight in it. The people who had built it had moved out two years ago and there was an old couple that lived here now so there was a low chance they'd get caught, explained Katsuya.

"Dad would never look up here, he's too lazy." Joked Katsuya. Seto regarded him seriously. It was obvious he wanted to question him and Katsuya was getting nervous; he didn't like to talk about it. But Seto sensed this so changed the topic by indicating to a corner of the tree house and asking,

"What's that?" Breathing a sigh of relief, Katsuya answered.

"Those are blankets, for cold days." Seto nodded. He approved of forward planning. He continued to point and ask questions while Katsuya continued to answer. It turned out Katsuya hadn't just planned for cold days; he also had food in a 'recycled' chilly bin, manga for reading (some he had bought with pocket money, others he had been given from friends and some he borrowed from the library), as well as plastic container lids to cover up the windows when it was raining. Although the sky was grey, it "wasn't meant to rain and tomorrow should be clear skies" Seto said, so the lids weren't necessary.

Seeing as they didn't know each other quite well, they decided to pass the time by reading manga. Even though Seto wasn't much of a chatter, Katsuya burbled away eventually getting him to jabber along a little bit as well. They discovered they had quite a bit in common. They were both ten (though Seto was older), had younger siblings, liked video games and their favourite animal was a tie between a dog and a dragon. The unspoken similarity was they both had abusive fathers.

After a couple of hours, Katsuya suddenly fell silent. Seto didn't mind, he found it odd but he was enjoying the alien comic (from America, it was one of Katsuya's favourites) they were reading so he didn't mind. When he had finished, he looked up. Katsuya seemed to be deep in thought. Either that or his tongue was out because he was tasting the air and the spot on the floor really was that interesting.

"Katsuya-kun?" apparently waking from some deep, philosophical thought, Katsuya looked up.

"Seto?"

"Yes?"

"Are you an alien?"

The accused alien stared.

"What?" he said finally. Maybe he had heard him wrong…

"Are you an alien?" obviously not. "It makes sense! I mean, you didn't tell me your family name because you don't have one."

The nameless accused alien continued to stare.

"And every time I said something about me, you'd say "me too" as if you didn't know what was normal so you copied me."

The copying, nameless alien stared some more. Katsuya had obviously given this a lot of thought.

" And Seto is just your way of reading S.E.T.O which could stand for..um.. SEVEN…er.." he didn't know many words in English.

S.E.T.O spoke up.

"SEVENTH EXTRA-TERRESTIAL OUTPOST?" Katsuya's face lit up.

"Yeah, yeah like that." Pause. "Um, what does it mean?" Seto converted it to Japanese. "Oh." Pause. "What does 'extra-terrestrial' mean?" Seto explained. "Thank you."

"You're welcome. And you're right. For a human you are very smart. Those men were trying to take me back in order to do experiments on me." Katsuya was at first pleased with himself, then horrified.

"Oh no! That's terrible! We've gotta get you back to your home planet! I'll help you build a spaceship. But what about the other aliens? I know! We'll build a spaceship, bust them out, then you can drop them all home."

There was a very still silence then raucous laughter filled the small hut.

Seto fell over, clutching his sides. Katsuya's face went from confusion to realisation to embarrassment to embarrassed anger. He then attempted to fight with Seto but Seto was the obvious loser due to his debilitating laughter. In the end, Katsuya was sitting on Seto while Seto gasped for breath. Composure regained, he looked at Katsuya, who pouted.

"Katsuya-kun, you're funny."

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Hoped you liked it.

Note: Katsuya introduces himself the Japanese way-family name then given name. That's why i didn't write "That your first name?" because that would technically be his family name :)

A/N: I uploaded this then realised, after some research for chapter 3, that Seto was ten when he was adopted by Gozaburo, not eight. That screws up my timeline haha. Anyway i've changed it now