title: Gardening
pairing: Joey x Kaiba
summary: Joey and Kaiba walked casually beside each other. Nothing different and nothing the same as it always was
rating: K
notes: Written for Computerfreak101's Yu-Gi-Oh! Crack Pairing Competition. I tried for something bitter sweet.
standard disclaimer applies.

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Joey and Kaiba walked casually beside each other. Nothing different and nothing the same as it always was. Sure they had been going 'out' in the sense of a relationship of love for at least two months now, before that they just started walking together, as the KaibaCorp building was a block away from Joey's work. Then they had gone out for a drink one afternoon and from there…

But they never stopped walking, despite that Joey now had a car (the point that he had started walking was the absence of vehicle) and Kaiba could probably just of gotten his limo. And it was not as if it were the only time they saw each other.

The path of the walk was simple. Two blocks, then a right, another block and then a left, past an inner city park and then Joey's work, Kaiba would walk the remainder of the next block alone.

It was going into spring now, bright clear spring that had just a little childish hand of winter clinging to it that was slowly loosing its grip. Most of the trees were coming to fruit, but as Kaiba had observed, at the end of the park, one fruit tree stood bare and empty, though for no absence of flowers… just no fruit.

"I wonder why that is?" he remarked.

"Simple, its obviously a female tree and there is no male fruit tree around."

"Eh? What are you talking about?" Kaiba looked at Joey who had his hands in his pockets.

"Well, for in most cases for a fruit tree to get fruit, there needs to me a male tree and a female tree near each other, so they can pollinate."

Kaiba blinked, the made a facial expression that might have been a smile. "Why do you know that? Don't tell me you listened in classed or something."

"Well – er – How come you don't?"

"The habits of fruit trees have little to do with computers. Just as I am sure they also have little to do with mail delivery."

Joey hmphed and shrugged his shoulders. "My mother told me, she liked gardening."

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after..day