Summary: When Jou and Kaiba are caught once again fighting in school, their teacher decides to punish them by making them write an essay. Now they have to spend the weekend together to find out what they like about each other. Oh, how will they ever survive?
Warnings: This story will contain YAOI! If you're not a fan, I suggest you hit that little X on the top right of the page immediately! Main pairing will of course be Kaiba/Jounochi.
Other Warnings: Hmm… This story is rated M for language and possibly a future lemon… Oh, and this chapter is kind of short… I don't like writing short chapters but it seemed like a good place to end it so I did. Besides, this is pretty much the introduction, yanno?
Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh! If I did… you'd have some pretty odd pairings in the show. Haha, and it wouldn't be meant for kids!
Sooo… after much debate, I decided to write something I'm more comfortable with writing: light and fun humor. My last Yugioh story I was writing was angst… I'm good at writing it but I think people prefer humor to angst. At any rate, I've got plenty ideas for this story so I'm gonna keep the updates coming, just as long as you keep the reviews coming… So… enjoy!
Chapter 1: Stupid RainIt was definitely not the best of days for a certain Jounochi Katsuya, who burst through the school doors gasping and bent over, his hands on his knees for support. His soft golden hair fell around his face like an old dirty mop. His clothes were heavy and the seventeen-year-old was cold and shivering. The other students in the hall stopped with looks of distaste. Leave it to Jounochi to cause a disturbance.
Out of the crowd of bustling students, a certain wide-eyed boy approached the blonde with a look of concern. His soft pale child-like hand reached up and grasped Jou's shoulder lightly. "Hey, are you alright?" His voice was boyish and full of sympathy, his brows knitted together with worry.
Jou's breathing was haggard and his eyes were closed tightly. He didn't speak for a moment as he tried to regain his breath. And then, straightening his back he opened his dark brown eyes and with a glare, he threw up his hands in exasperation. He let out a strangled yell. "Gah, I hate the rain! What the hell does a guy gotta do around here to stay dry, eh?!" He stomped his water-filled shoes angrily. They made a "squish squish" sound as if defying their enraged master.
His friend, Yugi let out a sigh of relief. "Dang Jou, you really had me worried for a minute, bent over like that!"
Jou stopped shaking his fist at the door, (which was meant to be a threat to the rain outside) to pat his friend on the head. "Sorry, Yug'. I was just exhausted from running all the way from home to school."
At that moment a brunette about the same height as Jou walked up, pounding the blonde's back in greeting. "C'mon man, you're not serious. You ran all the way from your house? That's like… two miles or something!"
Jou glared at his friend. "It's definitely more than two miles, Honda."
At this moment Anzu, who had been behind Honda the whole time decided to put in her two cents. "Ever heard of an umbrella, Jou?"
The blonde took a moment to glare at her too. "I had an umbrella but the wind blew it inside out and I couldn't get it to work after that, so I threw it!" He made a motion imitating the event. "Stupid umbrella. Stupid school, stupid rain!"
"Hey, look on the bright side Jou… at least you made it to school on time, right?" Yugi exclaimed cheerfully.
"Yeah, you're almost always late. I'm surprised you didn't skip all together." Honda replied with a snort.
Jounochi shrugged. "Well, I would've skipped if I could but I'm already a couple assignments behind in some of my classes. Speaking of which…" He turned to Anzu. "Do you think I could copy your Language Arts-"
"No." The girl crossed her arms across her pink uniform.
"Aw, c'mon Anzu! I'm soaking wet here! Help me out!" He reached his hands out to her.
"Don't you touch me, Jou! You're dripping!" She skipped backwards out of the blonde's reach and screamed when he started chasing her.
"Come on, Anzu! Just a few sentences!"
Yugi glanced up at Honda and shook his head with amusement before following after the two. Some things would never change.
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It was still another ten minutes before the start of class. Jounochi never did convince Anzu to help him out, but he took pride in knowing that she was slightly damp as well after the blonde had tackled her. He had just come out of the bathroom, where he had tried unsuccessfully to wring out his blue school jacket and dump out the water from his shoes. He had told his friends to go on to class without him. He stopped by his locker briefly to see if there was a gym towel or something he might've left in there to dry him off a little.
As he was shuffling through the miscellaneous school papers and dirty magazines that he had piled at the bottom of his locker he heard the warning bell ring. Five minutes until class. The blonde cursed silently under his breath.
"I find the smell of wet dog to be very unappealing first thing in the morning." A haughty silky voice exclaimed with the utmost distaste. Jounochi didn't even have to turn around to know who it was.
"Shove it, Kaiba. I'm not in the mood right now." Jou growled, not even looking at his enemy. He continued shuffling through his papers with the sinking realization that he was going to be wet and shivering all day.
The stoic brunette tilted his head slightly as he observed the blonde, a cruel smirk on his face. "You are the very epitome of a sulking wet dog right now crouched down like that with your tail between your legs. You look pathetic."
The blonde growled angrily before standing up and whirling around. He balled up the brunette's shirt in his fist as he attempted to pull the man down to his level… but he didn't get very far. With the velocity of a falling brick, Seto Kaiba had the blonde slammed up against the locker. The boy winced, feeling the knob from the lock digging into his back. The brunette's face was mere inches from his own, his cobalt eyes boring dangerously into the blonde's apprehensive ones. Kaiba was unpredictable guy… Jou could only hope that the CEO wouldn't beat the snot out of him now. And yet, instead of keeping his big mouth shut, he egged the brunette on. "Come on, moneybags! Give me your best shot! Let's see the big bad businessman kick a lowly dog like me." He spit at the floor, (he wasn't so disrespectful that he'd spit in the man's face… and he was afraid what Kaiba would do if he did).
"Careful what you wish for, mutt." Kaiba reinforced his grip on the blonde by slamming his back against the locker again. The blonde winced. Whose idea was it for lockers to have blunt knobs like that anyway? Kaiba loosened his hold on the boy before turning to walk away… but not before one of teachers had spotted them.
The teacher in question was both Jou's and Kaiba's Relations teacher… it was an extra-curriculum class that neither of the boys had wanted to take in the first place but had opted the choice better than Music or Drama. Once they had found out at the beginning of the school year that they had the same class together, they despised it even more.
"Jounochi! Kaiba! What in heaven's name are you two doing?!" Her high-heeled shoes clicked defiantly across the floor as she walked up to the boys. She took in the boys appearances before she added in a softer tone, "Jounochi, you're soaked."
"Uh yeah… it's raining outside." The blonde responded frankly.
"Obviously." Kaiba said with a roll of his eyes.
"You know we have a zero tolerance policy for violence in this school, don't you? This isn't the first offense." She pushed her glasses up higher on her nose as she held her gaze sternly with the two boys. "With as many detentions as you've already been given," at this she nodded at Jounochi, "I'll have to give you in-school suspension."
"What! Me?! I wasn't even the one who started it this time! If Mr. High and Mighty over here wasn't so-"
"That's enough! I don't want to hear another word!" She crossed her arms. "Jounochi, you'll receive three days of in-school suspension, Kaiba-"
"I'm not doing detention." The brunette glared at the teacher who was several inches shorter than him. "I have a business and a brother I have to look after." He added before the teacher could make any further argument.
"Very well." She responded. The blonde gaped at her.
"You can't be serious? You're just gonna let him go? Just like that?!" He threw his hands up in the air for the second time that day. This certainly wasn't turning out to be a good day.
The teacher regarded him for a minute. "In that case…" She put a finger to her lips in thought. "I have a much better idea. You two will have an extra project to do for class."
"On top of the business relationships one that we're already doing?!" Jou exclaimed. "Are you trying to kill me? I can't handle another project like that!"
"Would you rather serve three days of ISS?" The teacher raised an eyebrow in question. Jounochi resignedly glanced down at his feet waiting for the teacher to carry on. "I want you two to write an essay… twenty things you like about each other-"
Jounochi once again interrupted her. "Twenty?!"
She sighed with irritation. "If you interrupt me one more time I'll double it. I want this list to be in actual complete sentences with proper grammar and correct spelling. You two will have to spend at least seventy-two hours total together," She gave the blonde a warning glare as his jaw dropped. "And don't try to fake your way through the essay, I'll know it if you do." The blonde took this to heart. The woman was not only a teacher at Domino High but a psychology professor… she knew when a student was lying to her or what was going on between some of her students and their friends and family… she was freaky like that. "Are we clear? Any questions?"
Jounochi timidly spoke up. "We really have to do twenty? Doesn't that seem a bit… much?"
The teacher stopped for a moment to think about it. "You'll each do ten. One of you will start by writing the first thing then the other will write something. Go back and forth until you have twenty. This way not only will you be interacting and learning about each other, but you'll be writing the paper together too. This will take teamwork and effort. Your grade will depend on how well you two can collaborate." She waited to see if the two boys would say anything else. "The assignment is due this Tuesday. That gives you the weekend to work on it. Now I suggest you both go to class." And without another word, she turned and walked back down the hall towards her classroom.
For a minute neither boy said or did a thing but stare after her retreating back until she was gone. And then, through clenched teeth a deeply irritated voice said, "Does she not realize I have real work to do?!"
Jounochi snorted. "Way to go, Kaiba. I think you would've been better off with detention."
The brunette didn't even spare him a glance. The sad thing was, the blonde was probably right. There seemed to be no way out of this mess though. It was irritating because now he'd have to head to the office and skip school so that he wouldn't fall too far behind at work. He cursed silently in his head. He'd have to cancel his trip with Mokuba to the Osaka Orphanage on Sunday, too. His brother had really been looking forward to volunteering and playing with the children. They had planned on leaving a generous donation to the place as well. "I want you back at school at six o'clock sharp after school so I can pick you up."
The blonde stared incredulously at the CEO. "Pick me up?"
Kaiba rolled his eyes. "You're spending the weekend with me so we can get this project done, mutt."
Jou's face fell suddenly at the idea. He had planned on spending the weekend at Yugi's and Honda's… Now he had no choice but to spend his weekend with Kaiba of all people? The blonde groaned. "I think I would've been better off with ISS…"
Kaiba ignored him. "Make sure you bring everything you need. I'm not going anywhere near your place… it's probably a filthy shack anyway." Jou glared at the brunette's head wishing it would explode. If only he had telekinesis… or some super-power like that.
Feeling everything had been said, Kaiba turned swiftly and walked down the hall. It was too bad he'd have to miss another day of school but that couldn't be helped. Jounochi groaned and kicked his locker after Kaiba had left. Now not only was he wet, late for class, had an extra writing assignment to do, and had a crappy weekend to look forward to… on top of all that, he had to spend time with Kaiba! He kicked the locker again.
"Stupid rain…" Bad things always happened on gloomy days. Jounochi sighed and awkwardly strode towards his first class, which he'd missed a good portion of by now. His shoes squished noisily across the hard floors. He tried to have the mentality of his best friend… what would Yugi say? Look on the bright side, Jou! At least it's Friday!
He couldn't wait until Monday.
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Yay! How's that for a first chapter? I wanted it to be longer but I also wanted to post this before heading into work… plus, like I mentioned earlier, it felt like a good place to stop. Buahaha! Oh, wait til you see what I have in store for those two this weekend… -evil cackle-
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