-Well this is my first story so please reveiw and tell me if you want this to continue

warning: puppyshipping

Chapter 1

And so.-long pause-That concludes.-double pause-Our orientation for the new school year.-excruciatingly long pause-Please go to your homerooms now to pick up your schedules for this semester.-a slightly shorter pause-All changes to your schedule must be completed within two weeks from now.-another hour long pause-Please ask your homeroom teachers about any courses you may wish to add or drop.-the final pause before…-That will be all. Good Day.

Kaiba allowed himself a final eye roll before getting up from his seat and following the rest of his fellow peers out of the auditorium.

'Whoever allowed that man to speak in front of any sort of large audience should be shot,' Kaiba thought as he rubbed his sore temples. 'Someone needs to explain to him that one period at the end of a sentence is enough to suffice.'

Two hours of the principal's agonizingly long lecture in the hot and stuffy auditorium had left Kaiba with a painful headache and an increasingly bad mood; at least the start of the school year meant he would only have to endure half a day of school that day. Just thirty minutes more of homeroom and he'd be on his way to his lovely air conditioned office and cold cup of iced latte. That wouldn't be so bad especially since the homeroom teacher, Yuki Sensei, usually just left them to their own devices while he read the morning newspaper. He could easily survive 30 minutes of relatively quiet reading.

Of course in Kaiba's world things never worked as well as he hoped. His hopes of a quiet reading time were shot down when a blond haired boy slammed into him on his way through the classroom doorway. Kaiba gritted his teeth as he stumbled forward, a sharp pain rising up his left arm as his left elbow slammed into a nearby desk.

'Of course Jounouchi would be in my homeroom this year, he has been every other year since we started high school, why should things change now? There goes my nice little r&r. There's never any peace with that klutz around!'

Kaiba spun around. His mood was even worse than it had been before and he was ready to take some of his bitterness out on the clumsy blond who now picking himself up off of the floor, wincing as he examined his raw hands. Not realizing who he had just bumped into; Jounouchi began to mumble a hasty "I'm sorry" before he noticed Kaiba standing in front of him. Jounouchi's eye's darkened and his apology quickly became a growled "Kaiba you…!" as he glared at the Ceo.

"You better finish your apology mutt; I expect a full one for bumping into me like that. A little groveling from you and I might just forgive you." Kaiba sneered as he glared down at Jounouchi. He might actually enjoy homeroom if the idiot wasn't in the same class as he was. Jounouchi had always managed to turn what should have been a quiet part of the school day into a noisy ruckus. At least homeroom was the only class he ever had with the boy.

"Like I care whether or not you forgive me Rich Boy!" Jounouchi growled stepping towards Kaiba with fists raised. "And if you call me 'mutt' one more time Rich Boy I swear I'll…"

Kaiba raised an eyebrow, still sneering, "You'll what, growl at me? Too late for that mutt."

"Kaiba!" Jounouchi took a swing at the brunette with his fist. Kaiba shifted his weight ready to block the oncoming attack. But Jounouchi's fist never made it anywhere near Kaiba's body, as his friend Honda had chosen that moment to grab Jounouchi by his shirt and pull him roughly back, away from the CEO.

"Calm down Jou," Honda sighed "He's not worth it,just ignore him and you won't have to deal with him."

"But…" Jounouchi growled, still glaring at Kaiba.

"Honda's right Jou," Yuugi piped in "Let's find our seats before sensei gets back, you don't want a detention on your first day back at school do you Jou?"

The group of friends found their seats near the window and began chatting happily to each other. Kaiba walked swiftly to the far end of the room and set his briefcase down next to the desk farthest from the window and the annoying group of friends. Pulling out his latest book, Kaiba flicked through the pages to his current page and desperately tried to read the words written under the chapter name. This only caused his headache to worsen as he squinted down at the tiny lettering. Frustrated he threw the book aside and began to scan the room for some form of entertainment. His attention settled on Yugi and his group of cheerleaders who were currently engaged in what sounded like a very noisy (at least as far a Jounouchi was concerned) discussion on current duel monster card prices.

Kaiba shrugged slightly and began to observe the chatty group more thoroughly. They might be annoying but they were at the very least more interesting than the rest of the mindless students that prowled the halls of the school. And Jounouchi's frequent antics were always surefire means to a good show.

Kaiba allowed his mind to wander for awhile as he watched Jounouchi attempt to strangle Honda (probably for making certain comments about his sister). His thoughts turned to the last time he had seen the group, in Egypt, it had been six months since then. The young CEO had been so busy that he had been unable to attend school for the rest of the semester, and summer had been even more hectic. No, he certainly hadn't had any time for chit-chat with anyone who wasn't interested in doing business with him.

'They've changed a bit haven't they? Well I suppose it's to be expected. Physical appearances can change a lot in half a year, Mokuba's grown at least 4cm since the Egyptian incident.'

The group had, indeed, changed a little since Kaiba had last seen then, Yugi, though still very short, appeared to have grown slightly over the past six months, and his boyish face was beginning to take on the sharper lines and edges of an adult. Anzu appeared to have lost some weight since Kaiba had at least seen her, probably through one of those creepy pop diets teenage girls seemed to be so in to at that time. Both Bakura and Otogi had significantly longer hair than before. Otogi still kept his in a long sweaping ponytail but Bakura seemed to have given up on the letting his hair down "free style" and had at least attempted to pull it up into a slightly sloppy ponytail like Otogi's. Honda and Jounouchi showed the most change over the past six months. As far as Kaiba could remember both of them had been similarly built lanky teenage boys when he had last left them. This was not the case for either of them now. The differences between their current body types were slightly surprising. Honda, who had originally been the same size as Jounouchi, was now significantly bigger, both in height and weight. His muscles were beginning to develop into firm body-builder like structures and he was already looking quite bulky and powerful.

'He wouldn't make a bad bodyguard someday' Kaiba mused as he examined Honda.

Jounouchi seemed to have gone down a completely different structural path than his friend. He was definitely leaner than Kaiba remembered him. All signs of remaining baby fat were gone replaced with tight flexible muscles, like those of a cat. His entire structure suggested still undiscovered graces and elegance; something that somehow seemed to fit him perfectly. Jounouchi's face was still soft however; a stern pointed look would never had suited him, though his jaw bones were definitely more pronounced than before his cheery dimples and puppy dog eye remained intact. Though they now combined to give him a slightly more handsome appearance than before.

'Well what do you know? The mutt might actually turn out to be a bit of a looker. Who would have thought?'

The blue-eyed teen's musings were cut short about 20 minutes after his observations by the ringing of the school bell signaling the end of the students' first day back at school. Kaiba, who had been staring fixedly at Jounouchi since the beginning of the period nearly hit himself with annoyance after he realized what he had been doing.

'Get a hold of yourself Seto' he though as he glided out of the classroom 'just because you may have just noticed he might by mildly attractive doesn't mean you have to gawk at him like that. And really he hasn't changed that much, he was about as good-looking as before I just noticed it now because actually took the time to compare him to that oaf Honda, it's just a symptom of insane boredom, I'm too easily distracting by petty and pointless things. I'll probably be better after my latte.'

Back at his office and small dark haired boy pounced on Kaiba as he entered through the front doors, nearly causing him to spill the French vanilla iced latte he had picked up from the coffee shop on his way to work.

"Good Afternoon nii-san! How was school? Did you have any trouble getting here after that accident that backed up traffic this morning? I know I sure did! The chauffer was able to go and pick me up some lunch from a nearby restaurant without even pulling the limo over the traffic was so slow!"

Mokuba Kaiba wrapped his brother in a tight hug as he him with childish enthusiasm. The thirteen year old had thankfully yet to surrender to the jaded aloofness of adolescents his age.

"Things seem to have cleared up now, I had no trouble getting here. Now will you please let go of me Mokuba?

Kaiba brushed his little brother off with a wave of his hand and headed towards the elevator, Mokuba tailing closely behind.

"Oh by the way Seto can I got out with Yugi and his friends Saturday night? That new action movie is coming out and I really wanted to see it."

Ding! The elevator doors opened up, Seto stepped distractedly into the cramped container, shuffling through some paper work he needed for a meeting that afternoon.

"I didn't quite catch that Mokuba. I'm busy at the moment could you talk to me about it later?"

"You're always busy Seto, just say yes and I'll be off your back."

"No way are you getting away with that, just wait a little bit and I'll get back to you."

"But Seto it's a simple yes or no answer. All I asked was if I could go to the movie with Yugi and his friends Saturday night."

"Who exactly do you mean by Yugi's friends that shrimp seems to make some everywhere he goes. You're going to have to be specific."

"Oh come on, you know who I'm talking about; Anzu, Bakura, Honda, Otogi, Jounouchi…the usual people." Mokuba had purposely whispered the last name. For some reason there was something about Jounouchi that his brother found particularly irksome, and he didn't want to jeopardize his Saturday night out with the gang.

"No. There is no way I'm letting you out unsupervised with that idiot. Who knows what could happen when Jounouchi's around. You're not going and that's final.

"But Seto…Yugi and Anzu will be there to and neither of them are going to let anything happen. Besides Jou's a nice guy, he's not going to get me into trouble."

"No means no and that's final."

"But Setoooooooo"

"NO!"

"You're one seriously manipulative little punk you know that right Mokuba."

"I guess I take after you then big brother."

Seto sighed as he watched his little brother get ready for his outing that night. He wasn't even sure how he had let Mokuba talk him into letting him go, but he really couldn't take it back now. Yugi and his friends would be arriving any minute and the news that Mokuba would not be allowed to come was sure to cause some sort of outburst from Jounouchi; something Kaiba was not exactly in the mood to handle at the moment.

"Just make sure the idiot doesn't do anything too stupid alright?"

What exactly is your problem with Jou anyway Seto. You're at least mildly polite to the rest of Yugi's friends what's wrong with him."

"He's a complete moron who doesn't even deserve to be part of the species as the rest of humanity."

"He's really not as stupid as you make him out to be Seto. Jounouchi can actually pretty intelligent when he wants to why don't you give him a chance."

Mokuba did have a point, why didn't he give Jounouchi a chance. Surely no one could be as idiotic as he believed the blond to be. There were actually times when the blond could be…almost fascinating, unpredictable yet strangely warm. Like…today. Kaiba shuddered, he couldn't believe the blond had managed to capture his attention for so long by merely existing. But he wasn't about to admit any of his thoughts about Jounouchi to Mokuba or anyone for that matter.

"I've given Jounouchi far too many chances, he'll never be anymore than a moronic fool. Now finish getting ready and fun with your friends!"

Kaiba snapped the statement out a bit more harshly than he intended too. Mokuba raised an eyebrow at him but said nothing more. An awkward silence began to fall over the two of them, but was thankfully cut short by the sound of the doorbell ringing.

"I'll get it!" Mokuba cried; pulling on his jacket and rushing towards the door as fast as he could.

"One second Mokuba! I need to lay down some ground rules with your little friends before I'm going to let you out with them."

"Fiiiine," Mokuba glared at his brother

Just as Kaiba was about to open the door a loud obnoxious knocking came from the other side of the door.

'Jounouchi's getting impatient,' Kaiba sighed.

"Hey Rich Boy! I'm getting really impatient out here. Are you going to open up sometime in the next cen-…" Jounouchi gulped as Kaiba slammed open the door.

"I hope you have some extra money stored away in that crapshoot apartment of yours Jounouchi because if you plan on breaking this door down you better also plan on paying for it!"

"Then answer your door next time Rich Boy, some of us have lives you know and we can't spend them waiting in front of your ugly ass house!"

"Jounouchi if you…"

"Hey hey, ease up you two, quit it with the profanities I'm still an easily influenced kid remember." Mokuba had thankfully chosen that moment to squeeze from behind his brother and step between the two."

"Thanks for that Mokuba," an exasperated Anzu sighed. "Let's get going before these two rip each other apart."

"Sure thing! See ya Seto!" Mokuba waved good bye to his brother but all he got was a distracted nod. Kaiba had just noticed what Jounouchi was wearing that night. He was wearing his usually drabby street clothes, only less of them. Instead of his usual tee-shirt Jounouchi was wearing a tang top that was slighty to small for him, the fact that his jeans not only were tighter than usual but also hung considerably lower on his waste than they usually did left a considerable amount of his muscled stomach showing. The unzipped jacket Jounouchi wore over the tang top did little to hide the exposed skin. Kaiba seriously doubted Jounouchi had chosen those particular clothes for any sort of attration- he'd probably just grabbed whatever outfit he had had lying around before he went out that night- but Kaiba was definitely feeling a good deal of attraction from those clothes, Jounouchi's bare navel was greatly apprecia... Shit! There was no way he could be looking at Jounouchi like that. Kaiba quickly said "Be back by 11 Mokuba," before slamming the door as quickly as he could.

'Shit!, Shit! Shit! That's the second time this week I've done that,' Kaiba dug his nails into his palm trying to calm himself down. What was it about Jounouchi lately that just caught his attention? Okay so what if he was developing a slight attraction to Jounouchi. He had found himself attracted to several members of both sexes over his life time, but he had never found such attractions as, distracting as he had before. Why was Jounouchi so distracting all of the sudden? Okay so maybe he was slightly more attractive than when Kaiba had last seen him but not significantly so, really just a little bit of growth out of the awkward teenage stage. It may have been what had made him first look at Jounouchi a little bit closer in the classroom on the first day of school, but there had to be some other reason for this continued distraction. Kaiba sighed, shrugging his shoulders. He'd have to think about this more later; right now he had work to do.