Disclaimer: Yeah, if I owned Yu-Gi-Oh, I wouldn't be writing fanfiction, would I?

Author's Note: I wrote this story so I could pretend I get to date Seto Kaiba. I mean, come one, how awesome would that be?

-Prologue-

-Kaiba's POV-

"Seeeeetooooo." Kaiba's eye twitched. He loved his boyfriend to oblivion, but right now wasn't the moment.

"SETO!"

"WHAT THE HELL DO YOU WANT, MUTT!?" It took him only a short moment to realize his mistake. Joey didn't like being called a mutt. It reminded him of his drunken father and the beatings that came along with the dreadful package.

Kaiba looked up at Joey from his laptop to be met with furious, tear-filled eyes. He felt something hit his chest. "Happy fucking Birthday, moneybags."

He looked to see a golden puppy plushie with a ribbon tied around its neck. The note on the puppy's neck said 'When you go on trips, you can always bring your puppy with you.'

Kaiba glanced up in time to see Joey running out the door. He tried to run after him, to say sorry and beg him for forgiveness.

He spun around to face Kaiba before he left. Joey said in an angry, growly voice, "I hate you Seto Kaiba, and I hope that someone teaches you a lesson you will never forget."

The door slammed and Kaiba was left to stand there, wondering what to do and how to make it up to his puppy. A deep voice rang out, "Now I don't feel so alone."

The CEO spun around to find someone leaning against the wall. The man looked exactly like him, but somehow different. His memory flashed back to that moment in the museum with Ishizu Ishtar when she showed Kaiba the distant past. He stare in recognition, then growl, "What do you mean you don't feel so alone?"

"Well," The spirit stepped forward, "I always thought I was the most heartless person on earth, but this moment has proved otherwise."

Kaiba narrowed his eyes, "I am not like you. No way in Hell."

"Do you think you give little Joey the most love in the whole wide world? Do you think that he would never forget your love? No matter the circumstances?"

Kaiba was shocked by this question, "Yes."

"Good," the spirit smirked, "'Cuz I have some interesting circumstances."

The brunette ((Well, the one that wasn't a spirit)) looked warily at the spirit, "What do you mean."

"Weeeell," the spirit drawled out, "I'm here to teach you a lesson you won't soon forget. Here's the deal. Your precious Joey? He's going to be turned into a sixteen-year-old girl. All of his memories will be erased and replaced with new ones. New Joey will be living in Domino, I'm not so heartless as to make this that hard on you. You'll have to get Joey's memories back. You'll have to convince him- excuse me- her that you are her lover. Oh, don't worry. Only you will remember him."

Kaiba stared at the spirit. He knew this was true and it could happen, since he started hanging around Yami. Kaiba narrowed his eyes even more, "You wouldn't"

The spirit shrugged, "But I already did."

-Across Town-

-No POV-

A family was getting settled into their new apartment. The daughter looked out of her new bedroom window. She prayed that she would get some new friends in this strange city. She looked across the street at a shop called Kame Game Shop. She considered going there, maybe look at the cards they have there.

Toying with the latest Kaiba Corp duel disk, the young girl, Katy Jounaki Wheston- Joey, she preferred- stared at her favorite card, the Red Eyes Black Dragon. It always gave her strength and she would be taking it to school the next day to keep her strong.

Joey's golden hair that always got in her eyes decided to live up to its rep. She closed her honey-colored eyes and prayed that she would have a better life with her new foster parents in their new house.

She couldn't have that cold, loveless life she had back in Tokyo…