Warnings: Yaoi, Violence, language, character death

Summary: If you were to tell me this would be the day I would die I might have believed you. If you were to tell me that in order to begin again I would have to put my trust in Seto Kaiba, I would have punched you in the face.

Rewritten first chappy, yeah I was caught being lazy and wanted to put this baby out before it was ready. Anyway here is the Chapter written better. (thanks for calling me out on it, Astreich689, I won't let you down.

Prologue

Jounouchi, Katsuya

I headed out of my class, why did I even decide to go to school? I guess it had something to do with my father; I was perfectly fine skipping school for a week while my father was in rehab for what seemed to be the fiftieth time. Lucky me he decided to cut out of rehab early. School was really my only escape from the impending doom my father brought.

My escape plan was effectively ruined by a certain CEO. I could feel my nails digging into my palms just thinking about that rich bastard. I bet he never had a hard day in his life. Anyway, it started when I walked into class this morning. My friends were happy to see me after two days of being absent so I figured if nothing else I could catch up with them.

I sat down at my desk which was seated behind my best friend, Yugi's desk and we shared stories about the past two days he had spent in the game shop his grandfather owned. As we were talking that jerk, CEO, Seto Kaiba came over and began his usual rant about how I was nothing but a poor dog… and other things along those lines. As soon as I could I excused myself to go to the bathroom.

I walked through the halls leisurely with no intention of returning to class when I heard a soft whisper down the hall. I followed the sounds and paused around a corner from where a commotion was going on. I peeked around the corner and spotted a kid, Yoshi, he had always been a quiet kid and didn't have many friends, I noticed him before but I never went over to talk to him. Two other guys were cornering him as he turned to dig in his locker.

I noticed the two others before but they were in the beautification squad with Honda. Honda had said something about them before but I couldn't remember what it was. I did know that those two were after a fight. I knew this because I have been in my share of fights and I was in a gang before I met my friends.

I decided to take a step out to confront them. "Hey, didn't anyone eva tell you that two against one isn't fair?" the two guys were looking at me now.

"Jounouchi." One of the guys said. "come to join the fight?"

"Yeah." I said little did he know I was joining on the other side of the fight. I held out my fist and smirked; it had been a long time since I felt the feel of someone's face against my fist and I was still angry over my encounter with that rich bastard. This would be fun.

"I told you," came the shaky voice of Yoshi, we all turned to look at him and took steps back in unison, "if you kept picking on me you'd be sorry." In his shaking hands was a gun. The next thing I heard were three booming sounds as he fired.

Bang.

Bang.

Bang.

Seto Kaiba

I looked up from my book after hearing three booming sounds. I looked around and everyone else was just as startled as I was, of course I wasn't showing it on the outside.

"Did you hear that?" someone asked.

"It sounded like a gun."

"No way. It must have been from the chem. Lab."

That had to be it; someone must have blown something up in the chem. Lab. So I sat in my seat and watched the door as the sound of class beginning chimed in and the Sensei had yet to join us. It was unlike our Sensei to be late and I was anxious to see Jounouchi get an earful for skipping class. Okay, so it was my fault he left but in my defense he wasn't supposed to be here in the first place.

It was the third day of the week and the first week of the opening of Kaiba Land USA so naturally I was swamped with calls from the office. Uncharacteristically, I left my phone at home and decided to go to school for a break. I had thought the incessant dog wouldn't be here to ruin my day; I had overheard his friends talking about how he was going to skip school for the week.

I walked into my class room and clenched my school bag tightly in my hand at the sight of Jounouchi Katsuya. He was the last person I needed to see today. I could feel my head nursing a new migraine; I had to put an end to it. I walked over to Jounouchi and began to insult him in the usual ways. He gave in a bit too easily and left the room without one of his weak comebacks.

His friends gave me their usual looks of disappointment but I didn't care.

I was ripped from my memory of the past few moments by the sounds of sirens in the distance. The other students were out of their seats in an instant, it was unusual for that many sirens to cut through the air and I had to admit that I, too, was intrigued. Of course I refrained from looking out the window like a complete moron.

The sirens and wails of cop cars, ambulances and fire trucks was getting louder and that was when one of Jounouchi's stupid friends said, "they are coming to the school." I sat up, maybe those sounds were gunfire? I had heard it enough time to know but I just couldn't believe that a gun would find its place in this school.

"Students," Came the loud voice of the headmaster. "You are all being advised to stay in your class rooms. This is a lockdown; anyone caught outside their rooms will be expelled." Now I was sure it was gunfire. We all were, I suspect.

After a few hours of waiting our Sensei finally walked into our room. The ambulances and fire trucks had left some time ago but there was no let up in the lockdown. "Class please take your seats." She said calmly. Normally she would yell at us for being out of our seats. I looked at her closely and studied her face; her eyes were red and puffy and her hair was disheveled as if she had run a hand through it in a moment of stress. I knew those all too well.

"I have some distressing news." She said as the rest of my class sat back down.

"Earlier today there was a shooting." She said. Well that explained the lock down. "Four students were involved…" she paused. What was she waiting for? "Three of them were shot." She looked at Jounouchi's seat.

Jounouchi was involved? Well it was only a matter of time. That gangbanger was bound to do this one day. I wasn't surprised in the least. "Jounouchi was among them." She said and leaned onto her desk for support. "Two of the students are in critical condition and the last… Jounouchi… he was pronounced dead at the scene." She finally said.

What? I held back my emotions as I always did but the first thought that ran through my mind was that it was my fault. He would have stayed in the class room had I not have teased him. Then again it was the same as it always was… It was then that I noticed Yugi and his friends were panicking and crying. I wasn't listening to anything they were saying, it was all a blur. I was stuck in my own head. Trying to convince myself that I wasn't the reason Jounouchi wasn't around anymore.