Milk and White Chocolate

I don't own Yu-gi-oh

Author: Dimitri Aidan

Rating: PG-13

Summery: On Valentines Jou and Honda give gifts to their crushes but Seto and Otogi are with each other. Then they receive anonymous gifts and their admirers swear to reveal themselves on White Day… Is it who they want?

Pairings: Honda/Otogi, Seto/Jou.

Warnings: WAFF-y. It's just a few chapters of deliciously fluffy goo.

Notes: So - St. Valentine's Day, in Japan, is a "Sadie Hawkins" day, when the girls give chocolate to the men, so that on White Day, March 14, the men will give them chocolate. It's called White Day cause it used to have something to do with marshmallows or something like that, which then developed into the giving of white chocolate and other…confections. Now it's pretty much whatever you want.

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Chapter One

Chocolate Hearts

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It was St. Valentines Day once again and Katsuya was already resigned to the fact he wouldn't be receiving anything. He never did. Apparently the girls didn't find him…desirable and he was okay with that because he wasn't interested in them either.

No, there was only one person who Jou was interested in and this year he was finally going to let them know about…well, kind of. He looked around the classroom and found that no one else was there. He'd left his house super early, which had required leaving his apartment at almost the same time his father came in. Safe to say his father had been bewildered until he'd seen the red wrapped box in Jou's hands.

Then he'd been very confused since, of course, St. Valentines Day was when girls gave stuff to the boys they liked and admired. One rarely saw a boy with a gift until March.

Unless of course that boy was, as Anzu had put it while helping him shop the week before, a hopelessly in love uke trying to capture an oblivious seme. Yugi and Ryou, who'd come along, had blushed brightly Bakura had laughed loudly at his discomfort, but all Jou had been able to do was stare at the floor.

And then swear to take away all of her boy-on-boy manga and anime. He'd been glad she'd been so supportive when he'd confused to preferring males over the more fairer sex but he'd had no idea why she'd been so happy about it until it was far too late to do anything about it. Now she knew and took a kind of twisted delight in watching him squirm.

Still she had proven to be a source of near limitless information about…certain…things that he was really comfortable asking his father.

…right. Back to this morning.

His father had blinked a few times before arching an eyebrow and sitting at the small kitchen table. He'd asked, in a voice that betrayed the fact he was very wary of asking such a question, if there was anything he wanted to share.

Jou had shifted from foot to foot nervously before finally deciding to just let his father see the pink foil tag on the box.

To Seto, From Your Secret Love

His father had read it then stood up with a low sigh. He'd handed it back and, with a sort of affection Jou had been witness to since he was a child, ruffled his hair.

'Be careful Jou. People like Seto Kaiba don't usually take up with people like us.'

And then he'd walked into his bedroom to sleep in preparation for work that night. Jou's father worked as a night watchman at Kaiba Corp and usually put in for overtime whenever he could manage it. Most nights he was gone before Jou got home again, but there was always some kind of dinner in the over and on the weekends Jou made an attempt at breakfast.

It wasn't exactly picture perfect by anyone's standards but Jou would have hated to lose the easy closeness they shared.

And now that his father knew he had lusty type feelings for his boss it seemed he had nothing in the world to be concerned about.

Err…well, except for Kaiba.

He looked down at the small package one more time. It was about the size of his two fists combined and wrapped in reflective red paper. The pink tag hung from a piece of string Jou had taped under one of the flaps while wrapping the present and he'd been careful to write as neatly as possible, both because his usual scrawl was illegible and because it was very easy to identify it with him.

He walked to the desk Seto kept in the back and started to set the box down when the sound of sneakers squeaking made him stiffen up. Please let them go past please let them go past please let them go past please

"Jou?"

Fuck!

There was a long pause in which he just hung his head in something resembling shame. He wasn't going to be able to play this off; Seto was the only one who sat back here. No one else had the balls to get near him. His secret was out. He didn't mind Anzu knowing because she was a total starry eyed fan girl and Yugi was fine because he had the hots for Yami and Ryou would keep his dark in line, but damn if today was really not his day! Everyone kept finding him out.

"Are you putting a gift on Kaiba's desk?"

He sighed and turned to face his best friend. Honda was standing with his hands behind his back and a curious look in his eyes. He swallowed thickly before nodding in shame. This was the part where Honda yelled at him for being a sick pervert or, at the very least, for having a thing for Kaiba.

Honda however surprised him by letting out a small sigh. "I'll make you a deal. I keep quite about Kaiba and you keep quite about what I'm about to do?"

Jou blinked, wondering what Honda was talking about, but sensing an out nodded enthusiastically. Honda nodded and, with a light blush staining his cheeks, walked deeper into the room. Jou just watched him intently as he walked over to a desk and set a poorly wrapped blue package on it. Jou strained his mind for a moment, pushing the surprise of Honda giving a gift on this day aside, and tried to recall who sat there.

Malik and Marik in the two seats before that desk and Anzu sat to the right and a girl named Jihi sat behind it meaning…

"Otogi!" He couldn't help but be…alarmed. "You…uh…Otogi?"

"Yeah. You aren't…mad or anything? Because I could-"

"No!" He waved his hand frantically while hopping up and down to make Honda stop. His friend sweatdropped at his antics. "It's fine. I mean, we have lousy taste in men, but it's fine."

Honda laughed and scratched the back of his neck. "That we do. Though, really, at least Otogi isn't a total prick."

Jou rolled his eyes while placing the gift on Seto's desk. That done he walked over to Honda and punched him the arm, hard. The brunette winced.

"Whateva' ya say dude. At least Kaiba isn't some high maintenance freak who should probably be giving gifts today and not receiving them." Honda's lips twitched, like he was putting some serious thought into laughing. Jou shrugged some. "Which reminds me, I'm surprised. I wouldn't have figured you for a St. Valentines type."

Honda flushed and for a moment Jou was confused at to what he'd said. Then he recalled what Anzu had said about boys giving gifts on this day and jerked back in surprise. Then put up his hands as if to ward away the thoughts Honda had forced his poor virginal mind to witness.

"Ack! Eww, man, nasty. I was talking about the fact you hate all of the holidays, not…pervert! I can't believe you thought…"

"Well…Anzu…" He shrugged and trailed off helplessly while looking at the ceiling in clear embarrassment.

"What about me?" The soft voice of their friend came from the doorway. Anzu was dressed nicely, as today they'd been allowed to go casual. A white blouse and red skirt (which matched the ribbon she'd tied in her hair) showed she was into the holiday spirit. Then her eyes zeroed in on Honda's gift and she let out a small cry of dismay. "That's terrible! Why didn't you call if you needed help?"

Honda was blushing again. "I…uh…wanted to do it myself?"

"Men." She muttered huffily before picking up the bag she was carrying. It was white and had pink and red hearts splashed all over it. She walked over and from inside pulled out a square of black paper with red heart shaped dice on it. "It's a good thing I'm prepared. I wanted to give this to you when we went shopping but I was afraid. With good reason."

"…"

"You went shopping with Anzu too?" Jou glanced at the girl suspiciously but Anzu had scooped up Honda's package then walked up to the teacher's desk to re-wrap it. "She knows about you? Before me?"

"She knew about you before me." Honda said accusingly. Jou faltered for a moment, having to admit that was true. Then Honda sighed. "And I was…worried. I knew she gets off on this sort of thing and I suck at that shopping thing and-"

He was cut off as Anzu skipped back over with a perfectly wrapped package and forced it into his hands. He looked down at it then smiled at her widely.

"Thanks. This is perfect."

She winked at him. "Like I'd do any less for one of my best friends. You know how important you guys are to me. How about you Jou, do I get to work some more holiday magic?"

"'Fraid not." He gestured to his gift. "I did okay."

She beamed almost proudly. "Yes you did. This calls for chocolate." Again she went into her bag and pulled out three chocolate lollipops in the shapes of roses, which she offered to them. They took them gladly. Then she withdrew two more and quickly taped them to their gifts with a roll of tape also from her bag.

"C'mon, Yugi and Ryou should be here soon." She grabbed them by the arms and started to tug them from the classroom. Jou arched an eyebrow at Honda then looked down at the girl. He just shrugged.

"You're amazing Anzu, you know that?"

She laughed then shrugged. "I try."

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