Author's Note:-

Disclaimer - With the amount of stories I am writing I think you will understand by now that I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh, never have and unfortunately never will.

Rated - T Just to be on the safe side since I don't really know how this story is going to progress, I just wrote and wrote and then stopped and I had a new story.

Warnings - Boys love is what makes this story, so if you don't like such things, then leave the page, simple as that, click the back button and read something you do like. I will take no homophobic abuse, the comment will be deleted and forgotten. I like this pairing and so do a lot of other people, so leave us be to enjoy it. Any other warnings as the story progresses will be mentioned before the start of the chapters.

Summary - Coming home from school Katsuya never expected to see Seto Kaiba in his home, but what's this? A contract tying Katsuya and Seto together? And an agreement to join the companies? Katsuya has to learn to get along with Seto if he's going to survive the marriage. Seto has got to learn to accept Katsuya otherwise everything is going to go up in smoke.

Pairings - SetoxKatsuya, MokubaxShizuka? (Perhaps)

Italics - Characters thoughts and mind links.

Betrothed

Chapter 01 - Shocking Surprise

Jou couldn't help but smile as he left the school grounds, not because he'd had a good day at school which he hadn't due to the fact that Seto Kaiba had managed to get him yet another detention for fighting in class and to no surprise he had gotten off scot free just because he was the CEO of a multi-million company, but because it was his eighteenth birthday in less than a week and he got to see his little sister and mother.

The only time he ever saw them was on his birthday or his sister's birthday and his mother only came to see him reluctantly so Shizuka could celebrate with her brother, she was usually out of the house when Jou visited the house on Shizuka's birthday. After sixteen years of it though Jou had learnt to live with it the way it was.

Jogging home he was surprised to see two cars outside his apartment complex, one being an electric blue looking expensive car and the other being a jet black limousine. Frowning Jou made his way into the apartment but froze when he saw who was sat in his living room with his father, mother, little sister and a man he hadn't met before, it was no other than Kaiba.

"Nice of you to join us, son" Jou's father Kato spoke up pulling Jou's attention away from the brunet.

"Dad, what's going on?" Jou questioned as he looked at the people face by face before his frown turned into a grin as he ran over and hugged his little sister who clung to him back.

"Shizuka, darling you can let go of your brother now" Maria, Shizuka and Jou's mother stated with a scowl as she looked at her children with contempt.

"Now to get down to business" The bulky professional male spoke up for the first time "as you recall Kato the agreement that was made when Master Kaiba and Young Jounouchi were three years of age"

"Wait, what agreement?" Jou frowned, his honey coloured eyes clouding with confusion.

"The agreement for us to marry and join the companies, mutt" Kaiba gritted with a glare to kill.

"I'm not a damn dog, moneybags" Jou spat back before paling and stuttering "m-m-marry?" as his eyes widened in shock.

"Yes, as you know your father owns the company 'Toshiki Corporation' which is the main competition for 'Kaiba Corporation' both companies have been at disagreements for years so as children you and Master Kaiba were chosen to take over the companies and as this agreement took place another one also was brought forward for you to be betrothed and when you both turned eighteen to marry. Seen as Master Kaiba turned eighteen three months ago and you turn eighteen next week plans need to be made for the wedding"

"Hold on one second here, there's no way in hell I'm marrying that jerk" Jou shouted outraged pointing a finger at the surprisingly quiet brunet.

Rolling his eyes Kaiba responded "It's not like I want to marry you either mutt, but this agreement is legal and there's no way of breaking it"

"I hate him" Jou growled clenching his hands into fists.

"I assure you the feeling is mutual, dog" Kaiba glared "but this is a business deal and nothing more"

"I don't care if this is a business deal you arsewhole, I'm not marryin' ya" Jou glared back.

"Katsuya, speak properly" Maria snapped, sneering at her son.

"Stay out of this" Jou snapped, still glaring at Kaiba.

"Now now, Katsuya it isn't all bad" Shizuka walked over to her older brother "I'm sure Kaiba isn't all bad"

"Like hell it is" Jou growled before snapping "and how would you know he isn't all that bad, he's the biggest jerk on the planet"

Shizuka flinched away in shock, her brother had never yelled at her before.

Noticing that he had upset his sister Jou deflated "I'm sorry sis, I didn't mean to snap"

"Ahem" the business man cleared his throat drawing everyone's attention "now for the plans, the wedding is a little over two months away so there is a lot to be done between now and then"

"You still aren't getting it, I'm not marrying him"

"I'm afraid you have no choice on the matter, son"

"To hell I haven't, this is my life that I control and no force is making me marry that smug bastard"

"KATSUYA" Maria shouted "enough with the language"

Biting his tongue Jou swung around and glared daggers at his mother "Shut up, you have no right to tell me how to behave, as far as I'm concerned you are not my mother and you can leave right now for all I care"

"How disrespectful you insolent boy, how dare you speak to me that way. Come Shizuka we are leaving, now" Maria grabbed hold of Shizuka's wrist and started to drag her to the door.

"No mother, I am staying here with Katsuya" Shizuka wrenched her wrist away from her mother's hold and stood her ground next to her brother.

"Fine then, stay with your worthless brother but you are no longer my daughter" Maria spat.

"MARIA, don't speak to Katsuya and Shizuka that way" Kato frowned at his ex-wife.

"I'll speak to them anyway I please, they can be your brats now" Maria slammed the door.

"Hn, well I have a company to run" Kaiba stood from his seat and strided over to the front door.

"Ah ah, Mr Kaiba you can't leave just yet" the business man stated calmly under the icy glare he was receiving.

"I am leaving now I have my little brother at home, alone" Kaiba snapped before leaving the building, the door swinging shut behind him.

"Dad tell me it's not true, I don't have to marry him do I?" Jou questioned falling into a seat.

"I'm afraid you do, son. This arrangement was made when you were children and believe it or not you used to be good friends that's how the idea for you to be betrothed came about"

"I-I'm not gay though and I'm near down positive Kaiba isn't either" Jou argued.

"It's just business it doesn't matter if you are gay or not. You will not have to do anything so there really is no need to fret about it"

"Homosexuals are not thought of fondly, what will happen when this gets out which I have no doubt it won't" Jou sighed and placed his head into his hands as he gazed down at the floor "I can't marry a guy, there's just no way"

"Unfortunately there is no other option, if this marriage doesn't come about then you could end up going to jail for breaking a legal contract"

"You're kidding, right?" Jou nervously laughed before fainting against the back of the chair.

"Shizuka sweetheart, can you give me a hand getting your brother to his bedroom" Kato sighed as he looked at his son.

"Sure dad" grabbing one arm and Kato grabbing the other they dragged him down the small corridor to his bedroom where they placed him on his bed with difficulty.

"Maybe he'll accept this better when he wakes up" Kato murmured as he closed the door.

"I sincerely doubt it, dad"

I am so so so sorry, I have another new story, oh no! I know I need to finish two other ongoing stories and to be honest I haven't even looked at them so any movement with the story is yet to happen. Ugh, I'm so bad with these stories, I can't even complete one before posting again. I will complete them though even if it takes me years, I hope you will stand by me and my stories and be patient for updates and I'll do my best to grant them.

Anyhow now I've apologised for being such a slow updater I hope you enjoyed this new story, It just hit me randomly one day and then two days ago I typed and this came about.

I will update this again when I have completed the story and not before, I am sticking to this otherwise nothing will get done and I have too much to do as it is. I'm hoping this is only going to be reasonably short, so eight to ten chapters at the most, something like that, could be less depending on how it goes.

Thank you for reading, I do hope you enjoyed the first chapter of my new story.

Is this one for continuing or scrapping? I need to know before I continue, if it's no good I'll rid myself of it and work on my others.

Your thoughts would be appreciated but it's up to you :)

x- Casondrah Kiku -x