"Something to Talk About"
By: Dai-Onna & Enkidu
Rating: NC-17 (eventually) Pairings: Otogi/Jou, Jou/Otogi, mentions of Seto/Yami. Summary: Inspired by the song "Let's Give Them Something to Talk About" By: Bonnie Raitt Warnings: Yaoi, some OOC, some bad language, naughty situations.
Enkidu: I hope you enjoy the fic! Much thanks to Dai for agreeing to co- write the fic with me! She's an awesome writer, especially at lemons ^_~!
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-CHAPTER 1-
Otogi wrapped a towel around his waist as he dried himself from the shower he'd taken after gym class and used another separate towel to work on drying his hair. He hated taking gym showers; they never gave him enough time to properly dry, brush, and style his hair into its always perfect state-something that usually took a good three hours if he was in a hurry-, but he had little choice. If he went around without taking showers durning the day, he'd be just as bad as that mutt, Jounouchi.
He huffed a little at the thought of that. He would never reduce himself to such standards. Just the idea of it was completely unheard of. What would his adoring public think? He would never disappoint his adoring fans.
With a sigh he put the towel down and began to brush his hair out, reaching for his ponytail holder and deftly pulling it up on top of his head to secure it, looking in the mirror to make certain that he looked utterly irrisitable. He spared a wink at his reflection as he pulled on his pants. Oh yeah, he was gorgeous he thought with a grin.
Jounouchi was halfway down the halway when he realized he'd left his backpack in the locker room and cursed, turning back and reentering the room in a hurry. The last thing he wanted was detention... again. He shook his head at the thought, grimacing lightly, and rushed into the room, heading back to his locker. He did not looking where he was going as he rounded a wall of lockers and grunted when he collided with another body, equally in a hurry, falling to the ground with the other crashing on top of him.
"What the hell--watch where you're going!" He yelped before he blinked his eyes open, falling short when he saw the raven-haired dice master laying on top of him.
Blinking rapidly to try and clear his dizziness, Otogi looked down at the sputtering blonde beneath him in shock, neither of them noticing the flashbulb going off on the other side of the room.
Otogi growled with unseen fury, pushing himself off the blonde canine and throwing him a glare, obviously blaming him for his clumsiness. "Watch where you're going," he spat out vehemently, getting onto his feet and fixing his pants, mildly noticing that he had left his zipper and button open.
Jounouchi was furious. How dare that pony tail-wearing, dice-throwing, Pegasus-worshipping idiot blame him!! Okay, so it was partially his fault, considering he was the one running and all, but that gave the other no excuse to be an ass and take it out on him. "Why don't you... look who's coming at you!?" He retorted rather lamely as he climbed back on his feet, gathering his things. So it wasn't the best defense, but it was all he could come up with at the moment.
Otogi simply rolled his eyes at the response, choosing not to make a comment on it. Okay, he had to make a comment on it. The blonde seemed to constantly leave himself open for insult. "What's wrong, Puppy? Couldn't think of anything better to say? Then again, that should be common to such a feeble-minded person as yourself."
That elicited a growl from Jounouchi, and he was just about to make a come back when the raven-haired boy pressed a finger to his lips. "Careful, Puppy. Wouldn't want to waste your time barking at me. You're already late for class."
Jou's eyebrows shot up to his hairline, and he realized with a groan that the other boy was indeed right. Throwing a quick glare to the other boy, he took off running towards his next class, eager to bitch to someone, most likely Yugi, about how annoying a certain dice-wielding boy is. Oh, yes, one must pity poor Yugi for having to sit through everyone's nonsensical complaining.
Otogi shook his head lightly as the puppy ran off, then blinked, when it occured to him that he too was late for class, and cursed, rushing to his locker to put on his shirt, jacket, shoes, and quite unnecessary feminine accessories. He ran out into the hall, backpack slung from one arm while he tried to fasten his earing, glad that no one was in the hallways to see his undignified actions as he rushed towards his next class, tripping over himself.
Jou grumbled, moaned, complained, and made a general nuisance of himself as he recalled his tale to Yugi during lunch about how much of an ass Otogi was, possibly exaggerating here and there, since Yugi was fairly certain that Otogi hadn't handcuffed Jou to a locker or ocked him in the locker room, but chose not to mention it.
"Man, I don't why we have to put up with that jerk." He complained, his mouth full of food so that it came out sounding more like, "Mn mmerrnd aieeve tbut aterk."
Yugi winced a little, giving his friend a humoring look and moving father away, trying to avoid flying bits of food that came flying in his direction.
"Anou, Jou, don't you think you're overreacting just a little?" He asked lightly, trying not to look directly at the blonde who was currently making a statue out of his mashed potatoes.
Jou shook his head vehemently, making what he believed was a masterpiece, shaped like Kaiba bowing down to him, though more resembled..... well, a big pile of mashed potatoes, though no one was going to point that out to him. (1)
"No way, Yuug, that guy is nothin' but a pain. Look at `em sittin' over there," he said, gesturing wildly in the direction where Otogi was currently taking up a quarter of the lunch room, handing out autographed pictures of himself to swooning girls.
Otogi was quite suddenly aware of a pair of eyes on him and turned to wink at whatever new girl decided to fawn over him but instead, locked his gaze with a familiar pair of brown eyes, belonging to an irritating puppy. He narrowed his eyes and took out a pair of dice, flicking both of them at the blonde's head, chuckling once they hit their mark, then returned his attention to the swarm of pretty girls that were practically kissing his feet.
"Damn him!!" Jounouchi cursed, pounding his fists into the table, inadvertantly smacking them into the mash potatoes and managing to get some on Yugi's hair, Anzu's eye lid, and Honda's cheek.
"Jounouchi!!" Anzu and Honda whined in unison, glaring at the boy.
"How dare he-HE!! I hate that stupid trick, and one of these days, I'm just going to take all his dice and shove it up his-"
"Jounouchi!" Yugi warned before the blonde's description of what exactly he was going to do to Otogi got too detailed. He was used to the boy's restless complaining and knew that if he didn't stop it soon, Jounouchi would probably end up challenging Otogi to a duel, thus humiliating himself even more, possibly even ending up back in a dog suit again. Not that Yugi would have minded. He had to admit, it was quite funny.
"I don't see what girls see in him, anyways. 'Ooh, look at me! I have a fruity earring, I dress like a girl, and there's a bizarre tattoo under my eye. I'm SO hot'," Jou said with a snort."He looks more like a hair dresser than anything or maybe one of those losers that belong in a boy band."
"Teenage girls love boy bands," Anzu pointed out, absently pushing around her food on the plate.
"Not helping," Jou muttered, unable to take his eyes off the self- proclaimed Dice King. There was just something about the raven-haired boy that got on his every nerve. Sometimes he just wished there was some way he could humiliate him. His mind veered off into random fantasies of having Otogi end up in a humourous animal costume...or perhaps naked somewhere. Okay, the naked one disturbed him just a tad, so he quickly shuffled that one off to the back of his mind where he hoped it would shrivel up and die along with his random memory of actually having a crush on Anzu when he was 12. Gods, what was he thinking!?!
With a shudder at that brief flashback, he discarded the thought from his mind and went back to fuming, rubbing at the die imprint on his forehead and glaring at the raven haired boy.
Yugi grimaced as he tried to get the mashed potatoes out of his hair, but was unable to since his arms were too short to reach that high. Thus, he was subjected to Anzu wiping a napkin over his hair, which only succeded in spreading the potatoes around. He sweatdropped at the snickers coming from nearby students. Oh well, his hair still looked better than Honda's, in any case, who seemed to have forgotten about the mashed potatoes on his cheek.
Otogi smirked to himself as he let girls take turns sitting in his lap for about a minute each, ordering them by the prettiest ones first and preening while remembering the look on the blonde's face. He glanced over at said blonde and had to bite the inside of his cheek when he saw his hand and a good portion of his clothes splattered with mashed potatoes. He could just imagine the puppy licking himself clean then perhaps rolling around on the floor. The second image had him snickering lightly, and he pretended he hadn't pictured the first since the image of Jou licking himself in various ways was quite disturbing.
One of these days he was going to have to buy the mutt a collar and a leash or something, at least, a bottle of pet shampoo and a dog brush. Sure, no one could have hair as silky and perfect as his own, but the mutt looked like he didn't even try. It was really quite sad. Otogi almost felt the need to advise him, somewhat like a pity project, or social charity. After all, it was good kharma to help the less fortunate, right? He nodded to himself, trying to decide which obedience class to have Jounouchi enrolled in.
Jou frowned at his hand, shaking most of the potatoes off, noticing in satisfaction that a good bit hit an oblivious Kaiba in the back of the head, and wiped the rest off with a napkin. Normally, he would have licked it off, but this was cafeteria food, and one never knew what could be lurking inside it. It was like a horror movie waiting to happen. Having finished that, he resumed ranting to his friends who were either completely oblivious, ignoring him intently, or being taken over by a dark spirit who was resisting the urge to go lick of the clump of mashed potatoes that had just dripped from Kaiba's hair to his neck.
Kaiba gave a sudden shudder, feeling something slide down his neck and the top of his spine, and with an annoyed expression, reached behind to wipe it off. {Mashed potatoes?} He stared at the white substance for a while, looking at it as if it were some foreign, archaic object whose earthly presence has been missing for a good two thousand years. He couldn't suppress the scowl that flitted onto his face and quickly whipped around to glare daggers at a blonde, immediately accusing him.
"What's wrong, mutt? Can't seem to eat without getting food all over the place? Figures. Why don't you just have Yugi spoon feed you?"
Jou seethed angrily in his chair. What is this? Was today 'make Jounouchi's life a living hell' day? Why is it that two guys who irritated him the most seemed to be out to get him? And what was with their obsession of making him out to be a dog? Why the dog metaphor? He didn't even look like a dog!! And why DID the cafeteria food taste bad? Why DOES Otogi hang around in leather pants? Why IS Malik so creepy? How COME strawberry cheesecake tastes so good?!
When Jou finally snapped out of his mental rambling, he noticed that the cafeteria was quite empty, and all of its previous inhabitants have long since fled. "Aw, crap," he muttered under his breath, grabbing his things and taking off towards his next class.
Sliding into his seat, panting wildly, he was immediately blessed, or rather, cursed with a comment from dice boy himself, who just happened to have a seat behind him in that class. "Aw, did the poor puppy wear himself out trying to remember his alphabet?"
Jou spun in his seat, giving the other an annoyed glare. "Cut it out, Otogi. I'm in no mood to deal with your stupidness."
Otogi blinked a few times before breaking out into hysterical laughter. "Stupidness?! ...That's not even a word, Puppy....You're thinking of stupidity. Something I'm sure you're well acquainted with."
The blonde's mood didn't lighten up, and his eyes narrowed dangerously. "Just you wait, Dice Boy. I'm going to get you back when you least expect it."
Otogi blinked mildly at that, looking at the other with an almost bored expression. "Would that be when you grow a brain, or maybe when you develop a fashion sense. Or is it when you learn your right from your left because I won't be expecting any of those," he quipped, looking quite pleased with himself. Gods, but he loved baiting the mutt, and it was so easy, too.
Jou growled a little, clenching his fists. "It'll be when.... uh.... when.... " he floundered for a comeback, cursing himself for not making a list of these things ahead of time. How did Kaiba and Otogi always come up with them? He just bet there was some comeback guide for rich pricks that they studied in their spare time since creeps like them obviously couldn't have any sort of a social life.
"It'll be when you actually manage to beat Yugi in a duel," he said finally, that having been the best thing he could come up with.
Otogi clutched his hand to his chest, pretending to look wounded. "Ouch. That stung," he said sarcastically, his eyes glimmering with obvious amusement. "I'm no match for your sharp wit."
Jou was about to smirk, then he realized that Otogi was probably being sarcastic and scowled, grating his teeth instead while the raven haired boy broke out into a fresh bout of laughter.
Jou wanted to make some sort of insult when the teacher called both their attentions' back to the lesson. He was left to simply slouch in his seat with a pout on his face, arms crossed over his chest. {Stupid Otogi. Such a jerk. I hope his hair falls out. Hm...maybe that's it. Maybe I should replace his shampoo with green hair dye. It'll match his eyes. Not that I noticed his eyes or anything...No..that would be kind of-}
"Jounouchi! Pay attention," the teacher snapped.
The blonde could almost see the other's smirk, and it made him all the more desperate to wipe it off his face.
Otogi was indeed smirking, having tilted his head to one side while absently twirling a piece of hair around his finger. He just loved to tease the blonde. He looked so amusing when angry. It might even be considered cute. That quickly caused the raven-haired boy to blink and turn a bit pale. {Cute? I did not just think that about Jounouchi. No way. There's nothing remotely adorable about him. He's an imbecile with bad taste in clothes and smells like cookies. Hm..I want cookies. Maybe I can get one of those brainless twits who follow me around to bake me some cookies.}
After several minutes of pointless banter about dolphins, whales, sardines, tuna, minute, unagi, eels, flounder, baracudas, blow fish, porcupine fish, shrimp, catfish, clownfish, sharks, goldfish, angelfish, sword fish, krill, crabs, lobsters, and child pornography, the bell finally rang, dismissing the students who were all too eager to head anywhere but school.
Jou was about to bolt for the door when a certain mocking pony tail called out to him, begging to be pulled. He couldn't resist its seductive allure and before he could get a hold of himself, he grabbed the damnable ponytail and gave it the harshest tug he could muster.
Otogi wasn't even expecting the sudden pull, and with a loud cry, he ungracefully fell backwards, feeling gravity take its toll as he was literally swept off his feet. Within seconds, he was sprawled out on his back, a painful throbbing in the back of his scalp, and his beloved hair was now in disarray. He immediately saw red, giving the blonde an irritated look that dripped with murder and other rather unpleasant forms of revenge. {Oh, you're going to die, Jounouchi.} His only consolation was the fact that hundreds of girls flocked around him in concern, making emphatic noises and fawning over him, making sure he was okay.
Jou watched with a pleasant feeling of satisfaction as the dice freak codded his 'poor widdle hair' and grinned to himself, dashing off to catch up with Yugi in what is more commonly known as strategic retreat, or 'Save me, Yugi, before he replaces my eyeballs with dice.'
Yugi, who had seen the spectacle, was trying not to chuckle at the fuss his friend had made and grabbing his things out of his locker to head back to the game shop.
Jou grinned triumphantly and slung an arm around his friend's shoulder. "Heh, that felt pretty good," he chirped, causing Yugi to shake his head in exasperated amusement. "So, Yuug, do you think you could give me the homework assignment? I kinda tuned out while the teacher was telling us," he asked with a wide, sheepish grin.
Yugi rolled his eyes at that, knowing that Jou's words meant he had either been too busy drawing in his note book or had fallen asleep, maybe both. He then blinked when he realized that he didn't have the assignment, either, since he had been too distracted by his Yami's fantasies of Kaiba wearing nothing but mashed potatoes, which was a little too disturbing for him.
"Well?" Jou prodded the shorter boy, recognizing that bizarre spaced out expression he got sometimes.
"Uh...why don't you get it from Anzu," Yugi muttered.
Jou blinked at that. Yugi always had the homework assignment. Something must have been wrong with the boy, but before he could question it, something stung the back of his neck, making him wince. "What the-?" He turned around quickly, spotting a fuming, yet humourous-looking Otogi. The boy was shaking with anger, his hair sticking out in various places, and the top buttons of his shirt undone, displaying a small amount of his chest.
{Huh? Why did I notice something like that?} Jou didn't have enough time to contemplate the minor homo-erotic thought before a shorter, slimmer body launched itself at him, clawing and growling like an angered cat whose tail has just been stepped on.
"Damn you, Jounouchi!! You touched my hair!! Nobody touches my hair!!!" The raven-haired boy continued to hiss evilly, shoving the other to the floor and attempting to get a few punches in. His attempts were slightly unsuccesful since Jou proved physically stronger than him. That, and the fact that the blonde used to be quite the thug, finding himself constantly engaged in fist fights. It wasn't long before Otogi was sprawled out on his back, the other boy sending a punch to his jaw, which was certain to bruise his pretty face.
"Aw, look at the lovers quarrel," Kiki said as she hugged the freshly printed school newspaper in her arms. All week long, she had been driving herself insane trying to look for a picture to put on the cover page. Well, she also needed a cover story with that, which was left up to her friend, Sora, who simply embellished on the little story the picture told for itself. The picture in question happened to be an interesting little snap shot of two boys in a very sexy position, Otogi on top, shirtless and his pants open, with Jounouchi on bottom, fully clothed-much to her disappointment. This obviously gave away their secret affair and clearly showed exactly who was in charge in their relationship. {I knew they were only pretending to hate each other. Oh, but they make such an adorable couple}
Both boys suddenly froze and turned shocked faces to Kiki, confused as to what exactly she meant by that. "What do you mean 'lovers'?" Otogi asked-or rather growled. The thought was not only disturbing, but incredibly preposterous.
Jounouchi simply gaped at the genki girl, his mouth flapping open and closed, making him look like a fish. He wasn't quite sure what to make of it. He never thought the word 'lovers' would be used to refer to him in Otogi. It just didn't click. No matter how hard he tried to make sense of it, the thought was just TOO weird.
Said girl just grinned and held up a freshly printed copy of the school paper proudly. "Oh, come on Otogi-kun. No need to hide it anymore. By this time tomorrow the whole school will know about the real relationship between you and Jounouchi, "she said with obvious relish. This would be her best selling issue yet!
"Give me that!" Otogi growled, snagging the paper. He raked his eyes over the front, only to gape in shock. There, right on the front page, was a picture of him sprawled out on top of a specific blonde puppy in a very compromising manner. His expression was horrifie, and he looked like he might be ill as he stared at the image. Hell, he had been there, but looking at the photo, he'd swear that he was trying to screw Jounouchi right there on the locker room floor. It was ridiculous. However, not as ridiculous as the accompanying article that speculated about the hot and heavy affair they were supposedly having.
He swallowed hard, all the color draining from his skin as the paper fell from his limp fingers. Jou blinked a little at that and picked up the paper, running his eyes over it curiously. He blinked even more, his mind refusing to make any sense of it before it finally clicked, and he did the only thing he could.
He fainted dead away.
Grabbing the fallen paper, Otogi turned to Kiki with a sneer. "You can't print this! This is-this is not true!! This is false advertising or something!"
The girl cocked her head to the side and giggled in a way that made Otogi cringe. "No need to hide the fact that you're into bisexuality, and there's no shame in admitting it!" She leaned forward, dropping her voice to a whisper. "Even I've had my fair share of bi-curiosity."
"Bisexuality!?! This picture suggests bestiality!! There is no way I would ever screw that canine!! Never!!"
The boy's protest went unheard by the girl, and she simply gave him a light pat on the shoulder. "Don't worry, Otogi-kun. I know the girls will be disappointed, but you have such a sweet lover. They'll understand. Besides, Jounouchi is kind of cute."
"He is NOT my lover!!" The raven-haired boy snapped, a vein showing prominently in his forehead, while one eye started twitching. He quickly took the contemptible newspaper and ripped it to shreds right before the girls' eyes. "Hah! Now you can't print it out!"
At that moment, Sora made an appearance, carrying an entire stack of newspapers, all of them displaying the provacative photo. "I made the copies you wanted, Kiki!" She said happily, immediately flocked by several girls and an occasional boy or two, eager to find out whether the story was really true or not.
Otogi did the only he could do. He went pallid and let out a rather girly shriek, which luckily was ignored do to the over exhuberant squealing of excited high school girls.
Yugi, who was resisting the urge to buy a paper for himself, was fanning his friend lightly, trying to rouse him. Said blonde was twitching unconsciously, looking as if he might go into seizures at any moment; the shock was so great.
At the sound of the ear-splitting, girly shriek, the blonde blinked his eyes open, about to protest the cruelty to the cat that was apparently being killed. Then he realized it was just Otogi and contemplated passing out again. This just couldn't be happening. It couldn't. It was too utterly absurd to believe. Surely no one bought into it, right?
He glanced over at the stack of newspapers that were selling like raffle tickets at a bishounen auction, his eyes widening as everyone started talking animatedly. Several girls broke out into fits of sobs and some were attempting to chain themselves to a livid Otogi while declaring their undying love.
Otogi whiled on Kiki, his eyes blazing with indignation."This is slander! And more importantly, it's disgusting. I wouldn't touch that mutt with a ten foot pole!" he spat, shuddering for effect.
Jou blinked, pulling himself to his feet, and growled, getting in Otogi's face."Feh, you're one to talk! Just looking at you makes me want to hurl." He growled, feeling quite insulted.
Otogi snorted. "Oh, go eat some grass. Can't you see the adults are talking now," he snarled, the two somewhat oblivious to the scene that they were putting on.
Yugi tried to separate the two, not wanting them to fight right there in front of the whole school, but went unnoticed by the two enraged boys. He up squished between them as they got in each other's faces. {When I fantasized about being between two guys, this was not what I had in mind....}
"Well, you look like a girl!!" Jou accused, giving the pony tail a good tug for effect.
"Stop touching my hair!!!" the raven haired boy whined, forming claws from his hands and trying to scratch the other.
"You fight like a girl, too." Yugi couldn't help chuckle at the comment, earning a glare from the dice king.
"This is all your fault, Puppy!!" Otogi snatched a paper off one of the girls desperately clinging to him and shoved it in Jou's face.
Jou grabbed the paper from his hands and pointed to Otogi's form on the picture. "How is it my fault!? Look who's on top! Clearly, you were coming onto me."
This caused the other boy to sputter and turn disbelieving eyes to the blonde, giving him a look like he had just seen two heads on the boy's body. "What the fuck are you talking about!? I am NOT coming onto you!! I'm not even gay!! I hit on your sister all the time!!"
"Yeah, and I'm not Jewish," Jou muttered.
"Um," Yugi interjected quietly, tugging on Jou's jacket. "...but you're not Jewish."
"Stay out of this Yuug. I know what I'm doing." All of the sudden Jounouchi blinked, remembering something the raven-haired boy said. "Wait a sec! You were hitting on my sister!?!? Why you-" With that, the blonde launched himself at the other boy, intent on wringing the slim, kissable neck out.{Kissable!?...This whole stupid situation is making me think weird things. Otogi is NOT kissable. He's anything but kissible. You couldn't pay me enough to kiss him! That would be like kissing the street...or a horse's ass.}
So involved in his own thoughts, he failed to notice that Otogi was wringing his neck out instead, making him turn a bit blue. "Gah! Get him off me!" the blonde choked out.
Yugi heaved out a sigh, deciding to call on his yami to separate the two quarreling boys. Though, he did take note that the boys really did look good together, and they did end up in a lot of interesting positions when they fought. Yami slowly took over as Yugi went off into happy hentai heaven with happy hentai thoughts.
Yami shook his head at his hikari's mental images, beginning to wonder just who was the more perverted between them, but decided this wasn't the time to dwell on it. He pried Otogi's hands from his friend's neck, though not coming out unscathed
Jou panted heavily, clutching his throat which now sported two prominant hand prints that were beginning to bruise, and tried to lunge at Otogi only to find himself being held back by Anzu and Honda, obviously trying to prevent more bodily contac--harm! Bodily harm! Yeah.
Otogi seethed at Yami, glaring at him fiercely, but even he wasn't reckless enough to attack the dark spirit and settled for baiting Jounouchi who was currently being restrained.
"Yeah, tie the mutt down," he growled, trying to ward off images of a bound and gagged Jounouchi. "Don't you know there are laws about dogs running around without leashes." He huffed a little, straightening himself and trying to recover his dignity, fixing his clothes and hair, though could feel a migraine beginning to form.
This day was just getting weirder by the moment.
"WHAT?" Somehow Jou managed to worm his way out of his friend's hold, probably since Honda's grip had slackened in shock when he saw the picture in the paper, and Jou lunged at the dice freak, tackling him to the ground.
Boys and girls gathered around in a display of morbid fascination as the two boy's wrestled on the ground, trying to punch, kick, choke, and anything else they could do to the other as they rolled on the floor, unaware of the image they made.
"Oh, dear. Those two never stop," one of the girls said.
"Yeah, they're always going at it. Who knew those two were so horny all the time," another girl said, giggling uncontrollably.
Otogi scowled as Yami once again managed to pry the boy away from Jounouchi. The dark spirit could have sworn that the dice lover actually enjoyed being pressed up against Jou or having the blonde on the floor, comfortably fitted between his legs.
"You two have to calm down. You're overreacting," Yami stated, trying to be the voice of reason in all this chaos.
"Tell your dog to back down. He's the one who keeps attacking. Perhaps he needs a muzzle."
Yami narrowed his eyes, quickly covering Otogi's mouth with his hand in an effort to get him to stop. These two were simply impossible. Yep, they definitely enjoyed the physical part of their eerie relationship.
Honda and Anzu had once again taken to restraining Jou, contemplating on actually keeping him on a leash. Everyone was quickly getting tired of the incessant bickering of the two boys.
"Guys, this will probably all blow over by tomorrow. Nobody will even remember," Honda tried to assure the two boys. "Just go home and cool off for a while."
The pointy-haired boy's words actually seemed to assuage the boys' distress, getting them to relax enough that they could be release. Otogi threw Jou one last warning look, speaking volumes of irritation and accusation before spinning on the heel of his shoe and taking off down the hall, hoping to get home without any more confrontation.
Jou was just about to head home as well when a familiar brunette was seen walking down the hallway, heading towards the commotion. It was odd to see Seto anywhere near crowds since the boy avoided public gatherings as much as possible, but curiosity had gotten the better of him, making him go seek what interesting event could have possibly aroused this much attention. He was approaching Kiki when Jou's eyes widened in horror. {Oh, no!! I can't let Kaiba see that paper!! I will never hear the end of it. He'll never stop teasing me!!}
He took off like a flash, dashing through the hallways and pushing past annoying girls in some vain effort to stop the brunette's progress. {Pleasedon'tlethimseeitPleasedon'tlethimseeitPleasedon'tlethimseeitPleasedon 'tlethimseeit}
Kaiba raised an eyebrow as he saw the large display of papers, and lifted one, glancing at it for merely a split second before it was wrenched away by a frantic looking blond who seemed to be trying desperately to cover every single paper, though not really succeeding.
Jou was frantically trying to hide what had to be several hundered papers and failing miserably, wishing he could just set fire to the whole lot. {Dammit, where's Bakura when you need him??!!}
Kaiba boredly picked up one of the papers, causing Jou to freeze as he looked at the cover of it for several long minutes before finally doing a very un-kaiba like thing and snickering under his breath, his shoulders shaking from the force it took to hold the laughter back.
Jou wanted nothing more than to go and hide under a rock, or under Anzu's skirt, somewhere someone would never look, in anycase. This was it. he was never going to hear the end of it.
Kaiba quickly sobered, not one to display any sort of emotion for more than a few seconds, and sneered at Jou, feeling like a kid who'd just gotten a new toy on christmas.
"Who knew? It seems you've been promoted from puppy to bitch," he said with a chuckle. "And here I thought Otogi had better taste than that."
Oh, that was it. He had enough of all the teasing and definitely had enough of Kaiba in general. He glared darkly at the rich CEO, his hair spiking out slightly and looking very Yami-Malik like before he balled his hand into a fist and punched Kaiba in the eye.
The tall brunette stumbled backwards and smacked into the locker looking puzzled. He stared dazedly at Jou, holding a hand to his bruising cheek. He was too stunned to hit back or do anything.
Jou allowed him a few seconds of triumphant glory before bolting away frantically, afraid of whatever the taller boy would do to him once he recovered. He sped off as fast as possible, pushing through crowds and shoving people aside, dashing all the way home.
Meanwhile, Seto stayed back, snarling and cursing out the mutt, determined to make the boy's life hell the next day. The only thing that made it worth was the fact that Yami was touching his face tenderly and giving him that look that made him want to melt. He allowed himself to lean into the touch, a content smile flitting over his features before turning away, throwing a look over his shoulder that clearly told the dark spirit to come to his house that night for many interesting activities. Yami caught the look and promptly melted into a puddle of the floor.
Otogi trudged home, fuming the entire way and gingerly rubbing the cheek that the blonde mutt had dared to strike. He would have to make him pay for that. After all, no one got away with damaging his gorgeous looks, especially not a mongrel like that, who he was already more than a little furious at since he blamed him for the whole newspaper fiasco. It certainly couldn't be his fault. He headed into his house and for the kitchen, wanting to make an ice pack for his jaw. It was bad enough it was going to bruise, but he refused to be seen by anyone with a swollen, puffy cheek. It was absolutely out of the question. He plucked some ice cubes from the freezer and put them in a ziplock bag, watching the yellow and blue make green type of seal with odd fascination before pressing it to his cheek, hissing from the cold. {Damn that Jounouchi!} he thought for what had to be the hundredth time that hour.
Jou panted as he finally made it home, not having stopped once the entire way, lest that creep Kaiba pop out from under a rock or something like in the cartoons he always watched. He was still looking around warily, making sure that the irate billionaire wasn't lurking around one of the corners, before finally settling on the couch, panting softly and sighing in relief as the manic events of the day began to crash down on him. He was seriously considering transfering to another school, in another country, on the other side of the world, where they hopefully had no idea who Kaiba or Otogi were, and could live a quiet life...
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Enkidu: Erm...sorry if I left any mistakes. I beta-ed this myself, and I suck at editting so... anywho, review and respond, please! It encourages us to do more naughty things to your favourite bishies!!
(1) Enkidu: Tee hee. Dai inadvertantly put some Jou x Seto hint... (That's just funny 'cause I know she's not too keen on the couple) Will shut up now.
By: Dai-Onna & Enkidu
Rating: NC-17 (eventually) Pairings: Otogi/Jou, Jou/Otogi, mentions of Seto/Yami. Summary: Inspired by the song "Let's Give Them Something to Talk About" By: Bonnie Raitt Warnings: Yaoi, some OOC, some bad language, naughty situations.
Enkidu: I hope you enjoy the fic! Much thanks to Dai for agreeing to co- write the fic with me! She's an awesome writer, especially at lemons ^_~!
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-CHAPTER 1-
Otogi wrapped a towel around his waist as he dried himself from the shower he'd taken after gym class and used another separate towel to work on drying his hair. He hated taking gym showers; they never gave him enough time to properly dry, brush, and style his hair into its always perfect state-something that usually took a good three hours if he was in a hurry-, but he had little choice. If he went around without taking showers durning the day, he'd be just as bad as that mutt, Jounouchi.
He huffed a little at the thought of that. He would never reduce himself to such standards. Just the idea of it was completely unheard of. What would his adoring public think? He would never disappoint his adoring fans.
With a sigh he put the towel down and began to brush his hair out, reaching for his ponytail holder and deftly pulling it up on top of his head to secure it, looking in the mirror to make certain that he looked utterly irrisitable. He spared a wink at his reflection as he pulled on his pants. Oh yeah, he was gorgeous he thought with a grin.
Jounouchi was halfway down the halway when he realized he'd left his backpack in the locker room and cursed, turning back and reentering the room in a hurry. The last thing he wanted was detention... again. He shook his head at the thought, grimacing lightly, and rushed into the room, heading back to his locker. He did not looking where he was going as he rounded a wall of lockers and grunted when he collided with another body, equally in a hurry, falling to the ground with the other crashing on top of him.
"What the hell--watch where you're going!" He yelped before he blinked his eyes open, falling short when he saw the raven-haired dice master laying on top of him.
Blinking rapidly to try and clear his dizziness, Otogi looked down at the sputtering blonde beneath him in shock, neither of them noticing the flashbulb going off on the other side of the room.
Otogi growled with unseen fury, pushing himself off the blonde canine and throwing him a glare, obviously blaming him for his clumsiness. "Watch where you're going," he spat out vehemently, getting onto his feet and fixing his pants, mildly noticing that he had left his zipper and button open.
Jounouchi was furious. How dare that pony tail-wearing, dice-throwing, Pegasus-worshipping idiot blame him!! Okay, so it was partially his fault, considering he was the one running and all, but that gave the other no excuse to be an ass and take it out on him. "Why don't you... look who's coming at you!?" He retorted rather lamely as he climbed back on his feet, gathering his things. So it wasn't the best defense, but it was all he could come up with at the moment.
Otogi simply rolled his eyes at the response, choosing not to make a comment on it. Okay, he had to make a comment on it. The blonde seemed to constantly leave himself open for insult. "What's wrong, Puppy? Couldn't think of anything better to say? Then again, that should be common to such a feeble-minded person as yourself."
That elicited a growl from Jounouchi, and he was just about to make a come back when the raven-haired boy pressed a finger to his lips. "Careful, Puppy. Wouldn't want to waste your time barking at me. You're already late for class."
Jou's eyebrows shot up to his hairline, and he realized with a groan that the other boy was indeed right. Throwing a quick glare to the other boy, he took off running towards his next class, eager to bitch to someone, most likely Yugi, about how annoying a certain dice-wielding boy is. Oh, yes, one must pity poor Yugi for having to sit through everyone's nonsensical complaining.
Otogi shook his head lightly as the puppy ran off, then blinked, when it occured to him that he too was late for class, and cursed, rushing to his locker to put on his shirt, jacket, shoes, and quite unnecessary feminine accessories. He ran out into the hall, backpack slung from one arm while he tried to fasten his earing, glad that no one was in the hallways to see his undignified actions as he rushed towards his next class, tripping over himself.
Jou grumbled, moaned, complained, and made a general nuisance of himself as he recalled his tale to Yugi during lunch about how much of an ass Otogi was, possibly exaggerating here and there, since Yugi was fairly certain that Otogi hadn't handcuffed Jou to a locker or ocked him in the locker room, but chose not to mention it.
"Man, I don't why we have to put up with that jerk." He complained, his mouth full of food so that it came out sounding more like, "Mn mmerrnd aieeve tbut aterk."
Yugi winced a little, giving his friend a humoring look and moving father away, trying to avoid flying bits of food that came flying in his direction.
"Anou, Jou, don't you think you're overreacting just a little?" He asked lightly, trying not to look directly at the blonde who was currently making a statue out of his mashed potatoes.
Jou shook his head vehemently, making what he believed was a masterpiece, shaped like Kaiba bowing down to him, though more resembled..... well, a big pile of mashed potatoes, though no one was going to point that out to him. (1)
"No way, Yuug, that guy is nothin' but a pain. Look at `em sittin' over there," he said, gesturing wildly in the direction where Otogi was currently taking up a quarter of the lunch room, handing out autographed pictures of himself to swooning girls.
Otogi was quite suddenly aware of a pair of eyes on him and turned to wink at whatever new girl decided to fawn over him but instead, locked his gaze with a familiar pair of brown eyes, belonging to an irritating puppy. He narrowed his eyes and took out a pair of dice, flicking both of them at the blonde's head, chuckling once they hit their mark, then returned his attention to the swarm of pretty girls that were practically kissing his feet.
"Damn him!!" Jounouchi cursed, pounding his fists into the table, inadvertantly smacking them into the mash potatoes and managing to get some on Yugi's hair, Anzu's eye lid, and Honda's cheek.
"Jounouchi!!" Anzu and Honda whined in unison, glaring at the boy.
"How dare he-HE!! I hate that stupid trick, and one of these days, I'm just going to take all his dice and shove it up his-"
"Jounouchi!" Yugi warned before the blonde's description of what exactly he was going to do to Otogi got too detailed. He was used to the boy's restless complaining and knew that if he didn't stop it soon, Jounouchi would probably end up challenging Otogi to a duel, thus humiliating himself even more, possibly even ending up back in a dog suit again. Not that Yugi would have minded. He had to admit, it was quite funny.
"I don't see what girls see in him, anyways. 'Ooh, look at me! I have a fruity earring, I dress like a girl, and there's a bizarre tattoo under my eye. I'm SO hot'," Jou said with a snort."He looks more like a hair dresser than anything or maybe one of those losers that belong in a boy band."
"Teenage girls love boy bands," Anzu pointed out, absently pushing around her food on the plate.
"Not helping," Jou muttered, unable to take his eyes off the self- proclaimed Dice King. There was just something about the raven-haired boy that got on his every nerve. Sometimes he just wished there was some way he could humiliate him. His mind veered off into random fantasies of having Otogi end up in a humourous animal costume...or perhaps naked somewhere. Okay, the naked one disturbed him just a tad, so he quickly shuffled that one off to the back of his mind where he hoped it would shrivel up and die along with his random memory of actually having a crush on Anzu when he was 12. Gods, what was he thinking!?!
With a shudder at that brief flashback, he discarded the thought from his mind and went back to fuming, rubbing at the die imprint on his forehead and glaring at the raven haired boy.
Yugi grimaced as he tried to get the mashed potatoes out of his hair, but was unable to since his arms were too short to reach that high. Thus, he was subjected to Anzu wiping a napkin over his hair, which only succeded in spreading the potatoes around. He sweatdropped at the snickers coming from nearby students. Oh well, his hair still looked better than Honda's, in any case, who seemed to have forgotten about the mashed potatoes on his cheek.
Otogi smirked to himself as he let girls take turns sitting in his lap for about a minute each, ordering them by the prettiest ones first and preening while remembering the look on the blonde's face. He glanced over at said blonde and had to bite the inside of his cheek when he saw his hand and a good portion of his clothes splattered with mashed potatoes. He could just imagine the puppy licking himself clean then perhaps rolling around on the floor. The second image had him snickering lightly, and he pretended he hadn't pictured the first since the image of Jou licking himself in various ways was quite disturbing.
One of these days he was going to have to buy the mutt a collar and a leash or something, at least, a bottle of pet shampoo and a dog brush. Sure, no one could have hair as silky and perfect as his own, but the mutt looked like he didn't even try. It was really quite sad. Otogi almost felt the need to advise him, somewhat like a pity project, or social charity. After all, it was good kharma to help the less fortunate, right? He nodded to himself, trying to decide which obedience class to have Jounouchi enrolled in.
Jou frowned at his hand, shaking most of the potatoes off, noticing in satisfaction that a good bit hit an oblivious Kaiba in the back of the head, and wiped the rest off with a napkin. Normally, he would have licked it off, but this was cafeteria food, and one never knew what could be lurking inside it. It was like a horror movie waiting to happen. Having finished that, he resumed ranting to his friends who were either completely oblivious, ignoring him intently, or being taken over by a dark spirit who was resisting the urge to go lick of the clump of mashed potatoes that had just dripped from Kaiba's hair to his neck.
Kaiba gave a sudden shudder, feeling something slide down his neck and the top of his spine, and with an annoyed expression, reached behind to wipe it off. {Mashed potatoes?} He stared at the white substance for a while, looking at it as if it were some foreign, archaic object whose earthly presence has been missing for a good two thousand years. He couldn't suppress the scowl that flitted onto his face and quickly whipped around to glare daggers at a blonde, immediately accusing him.
"What's wrong, mutt? Can't seem to eat without getting food all over the place? Figures. Why don't you just have Yugi spoon feed you?"
Jou seethed angrily in his chair. What is this? Was today 'make Jounouchi's life a living hell' day? Why is it that two guys who irritated him the most seemed to be out to get him? And what was with their obsession of making him out to be a dog? Why the dog metaphor? He didn't even look like a dog!! And why DID the cafeteria food taste bad? Why DOES Otogi hang around in leather pants? Why IS Malik so creepy? How COME strawberry cheesecake tastes so good?!
When Jou finally snapped out of his mental rambling, he noticed that the cafeteria was quite empty, and all of its previous inhabitants have long since fled. "Aw, crap," he muttered under his breath, grabbing his things and taking off towards his next class.
Sliding into his seat, panting wildly, he was immediately blessed, or rather, cursed with a comment from dice boy himself, who just happened to have a seat behind him in that class. "Aw, did the poor puppy wear himself out trying to remember his alphabet?"
Jou spun in his seat, giving the other an annoyed glare. "Cut it out, Otogi. I'm in no mood to deal with your stupidness."
Otogi blinked a few times before breaking out into hysterical laughter. "Stupidness?! ...That's not even a word, Puppy....You're thinking of stupidity. Something I'm sure you're well acquainted with."
The blonde's mood didn't lighten up, and his eyes narrowed dangerously. "Just you wait, Dice Boy. I'm going to get you back when you least expect it."
Otogi blinked mildly at that, looking at the other with an almost bored expression. "Would that be when you grow a brain, or maybe when you develop a fashion sense. Or is it when you learn your right from your left because I won't be expecting any of those," he quipped, looking quite pleased with himself. Gods, but he loved baiting the mutt, and it was so easy, too.
Jou growled a little, clenching his fists. "It'll be when.... uh.... when.... " he floundered for a comeback, cursing himself for not making a list of these things ahead of time. How did Kaiba and Otogi always come up with them? He just bet there was some comeback guide for rich pricks that they studied in their spare time since creeps like them obviously couldn't have any sort of a social life.
"It'll be when you actually manage to beat Yugi in a duel," he said finally, that having been the best thing he could come up with.
Otogi clutched his hand to his chest, pretending to look wounded. "Ouch. That stung," he said sarcastically, his eyes glimmering with obvious amusement. "I'm no match for your sharp wit."
Jou was about to smirk, then he realized that Otogi was probably being sarcastic and scowled, grating his teeth instead while the raven haired boy broke out into a fresh bout of laughter.
Jou wanted to make some sort of insult when the teacher called both their attentions' back to the lesson. He was left to simply slouch in his seat with a pout on his face, arms crossed over his chest. {Stupid Otogi. Such a jerk. I hope his hair falls out. Hm...maybe that's it. Maybe I should replace his shampoo with green hair dye. It'll match his eyes. Not that I noticed his eyes or anything...No..that would be kind of-}
"Jounouchi! Pay attention," the teacher snapped.
The blonde could almost see the other's smirk, and it made him all the more desperate to wipe it off his face.
Otogi was indeed smirking, having tilted his head to one side while absently twirling a piece of hair around his finger. He just loved to tease the blonde. He looked so amusing when angry. It might even be considered cute. That quickly caused the raven-haired boy to blink and turn a bit pale. {Cute? I did not just think that about Jounouchi. No way. There's nothing remotely adorable about him. He's an imbecile with bad taste in clothes and smells like cookies. Hm..I want cookies. Maybe I can get one of those brainless twits who follow me around to bake me some cookies.}
After several minutes of pointless banter about dolphins, whales, sardines, tuna, minute, unagi, eels, flounder, baracudas, blow fish, porcupine fish, shrimp, catfish, clownfish, sharks, goldfish, angelfish, sword fish, krill, crabs, lobsters, and child pornography, the bell finally rang, dismissing the students who were all too eager to head anywhere but school.
Jou was about to bolt for the door when a certain mocking pony tail called out to him, begging to be pulled. He couldn't resist its seductive allure and before he could get a hold of himself, he grabbed the damnable ponytail and gave it the harshest tug he could muster.
Otogi wasn't even expecting the sudden pull, and with a loud cry, he ungracefully fell backwards, feeling gravity take its toll as he was literally swept off his feet. Within seconds, he was sprawled out on his back, a painful throbbing in the back of his scalp, and his beloved hair was now in disarray. He immediately saw red, giving the blonde an irritated look that dripped with murder and other rather unpleasant forms of revenge. {Oh, you're going to die, Jounouchi.} His only consolation was the fact that hundreds of girls flocked around him in concern, making emphatic noises and fawning over him, making sure he was okay.
Jou watched with a pleasant feeling of satisfaction as the dice freak codded his 'poor widdle hair' and grinned to himself, dashing off to catch up with Yugi in what is more commonly known as strategic retreat, or 'Save me, Yugi, before he replaces my eyeballs with dice.'
Yugi, who had seen the spectacle, was trying not to chuckle at the fuss his friend had made and grabbing his things out of his locker to head back to the game shop.
Jou grinned triumphantly and slung an arm around his friend's shoulder. "Heh, that felt pretty good," he chirped, causing Yugi to shake his head in exasperated amusement. "So, Yuug, do you think you could give me the homework assignment? I kinda tuned out while the teacher was telling us," he asked with a wide, sheepish grin.
Yugi rolled his eyes at that, knowing that Jou's words meant he had either been too busy drawing in his note book or had fallen asleep, maybe both. He then blinked when he realized that he didn't have the assignment, either, since he had been too distracted by his Yami's fantasies of Kaiba wearing nothing but mashed potatoes, which was a little too disturbing for him.
"Well?" Jou prodded the shorter boy, recognizing that bizarre spaced out expression he got sometimes.
"Uh...why don't you get it from Anzu," Yugi muttered.
Jou blinked at that. Yugi always had the homework assignment. Something must have been wrong with the boy, but before he could question it, something stung the back of his neck, making him wince. "What the-?" He turned around quickly, spotting a fuming, yet humourous-looking Otogi. The boy was shaking with anger, his hair sticking out in various places, and the top buttons of his shirt undone, displaying a small amount of his chest.
{Huh? Why did I notice something like that?} Jou didn't have enough time to contemplate the minor homo-erotic thought before a shorter, slimmer body launched itself at him, clawing and growling like an angered cat whose tail has just been stepped on.
"Damn you, Jounouchi!! You touched my hair!! Nobody touches my hair!!!" The raven-haired boy continued to hiss evilly, shoving the other to the floor and attempting to get a few punches in. His attempts were slightly unsuccesful since Jou proved physically stronger than him. That, and the fact that the blonde used to be quite the thug, finding himself constantly engaged in fist fights. It wasn't long before Otogi was sprawled out on his back, the other boy sending a punch to his jaw, which was certain to bruise his pretty face.
"Aw, look at the lovers quarrel," Kiki said as she hugged the freshly printed school newspaper in her arms. All week long, she had been driving herself insane trying to look for a picture to put on the cover page. Well, she also needed a cover story with that, which was left up to her friend, Sora, who simply embellished on the little story the picture told for itself. The picture in question happened to be an interesting little snap shot of two boys in a very sexy position, Otogi on top, shirtless and his pants open, with Jounouchi on bottom, fully clothed-much to her disappointment. This obviously gave away their secret affair and clearly showed exactly who was in charge in their relationship. {I knew they were only pretending to hate each other. Oh, but they make such an adorable couple}
Both boys suddenly froze and turned shocked faces to Kiki, confused as to what exactly she meant by that. "What do you mean 'lovers'?" Otogi asked-or rather growled. The thought was not only disturbing, but incredibly preposterous.
Jounouchi simply gaped at the genki girl, his mouth flapping open and closed, making him look like a fish. He wasn't quite sure what to make of it. He never thought the word 'lovers' would be used to refer to him in Otogi. It just didn't click. No matter how hard he tried to make sense of it, the thought was just TOO weird.
Said girl just grinned and held up a freshly printed copy of the school paper proudly. "Oh, come on Otogi-kun. No need to hide it anymore. By this time tomorrow the whole school will know about the real relationship between you and Jounouchi, "she said with obvious relish. This would be her best selling issue yet!
"Give me that!" Otogi growled, snagging the paper. He raked his eyes over the front, only to gape in shock. There, right on the front page, was a picture of him sprawled out on top of a specific blonde puppy in a very compromising manner. His expression was horrifie, and he looked like he might be ill as he stared at the image. Hell, he had been there, but looking at the photo, he'd swear that he was trying to screw Jounouchi right there on the locker room floor. It was ridiculous. However, not as ridiculous as the accompanying article that speculated about the hot and heavy affair they were supposedly having.
He swallowed hard, all the color draining from his skin as the paper fell from his limp fingers. Jou blinked a little at that and picked up the paper, running his eyes over it curiously. He blinked even more, his mind refusing to make any sense of it before it finally clicked, and he did the only thing he could.
He fainted dead away.
Grabbing the fallen paper, Otogi turned to Kiki with a sneer. "You can't print this! This is-this is not true!! This is false advertising or something!"
The girl cocked her head to the side and giggled in a way that made Otogi cringe. "No need to hide the fact that you're into bisexuality, and there's no shame in admitting it!" She leaned forward, dropping her voice to a whisper. "Even I've had my fair share of bi-curiosity."
"Bisexuality!?! This picture suggests bestiality!! There is no way I would ever screw that canine!! Never!!"
The boy's protest went unheard by the girl, and she simply gave him a light pat on the shoulder. "Don't worry, Otogi-kun. I know the girls will be disappointed, but you have such a sweet lover. They'll understand. Besides, Jounouchi is kind of cute."
"He is NOT my lover!!" The raven-haired boy snapped, a vein showing prominently in his forehead, while one eye started twitching. He quickly took the contemptible newspaper and ripped it to shreds right before the girls' eyes. "Hah! Now you can't print it out!"
At that moment, Sora made an appearance, carrying an entire stack of newspapers, all of them displaying the provacative photo. "I made the copies you wanted, Kiki!" She said happily, immediately flocked by several girls and an occasional boy or two, eager to find out whether the story was really true or not.
Otogi did the only he could do. He went pallid and let out a rather girly shriek, which luckily was ignored do to the over exhuberant squealing of excited high school girls.
Yugi, who was resisting the urge to buy a paper for himself, was fanning his friend lightly, trying to rouse him. Said blonde was twitching unconsciously, looking as if he might go into seizures at any moment; the shock was so great.
At the sound of the ear-splitting, girly shriek, the blonde blinked his eyes open, about to protest the cruelty to the cat that was apparently being killed. Then he realized it was just Otogi and contemplated passing out again. This just couldn't be happening. It couldn't. It was too utterly absurd to believe. Surely no one bought into it, right?
He glanced over at the stack of newspapers that were selling like raffle tickets at a bishounen auction, his eyes widening as everyone started talking animatedly. Several girls broke out into fits of sobs and some were attempting to chain themselves to a livid Otogi while declaring their undying love.
Otogi whiled on Kiki, his eyes blazing with indignation."This is slander! And more importantly, it's disgusting. I wouldn't touch that mutt with a ten foot pole!" he spat, shuddering for effect.
Jou blinked, pulling himself to his feet, and growled, getting in Otogi's face."Feh, you're one to talk! Just looking at you makes me want to hurl." He growled, feeling quite insulted.
Otogi snorted. "Oh, go eat some grass. Can't you see the adults are talking now," he snarled, the two somewhat oblivious to the scene that they were putting on.
Yugi tried to separate the two, not wanting them to fight right there in front of the whole school, but went unnoticed by the two enraged boys. He up squished between them as they got in each other's faces. {When I fantasized about being between two guys, this was not what I had in mind....}
"Well, you look like a girl!!" Jou accused, giving the pony tail a good tug for effect.
"Stop touching my hair!!!" the raven haired boy whined, forming claws from his hands and trying to scratch the other.
"You fight like a girl, too." Yugi couldn't help chuckle at the comment, earning a glare from the dice king.
"This is all your fault, Puppy!!" Otogi snatched a paper off one of the girls desperately clinging to him and shoved it in Jou's face.
Jou grabbed the paper from his hands and pointed to Otogi's form on the picture. "How is it my fault!? Look who's on top! Clearly, you were coming onto me."
This caused the other boy to sputter and turn disbelieving eyes to the blonde, giving him a look like he had just seen two heads on the boy's body. "What the fuck are you talking about!? I am NOT coming onto you!! I'm not even gay!! I hit on your sister all the time!!"
"Yeah, and I'm not Jewish," Jou muttered.
"Um," Yugi interjected quietly, tugging on Jou's jacket. "...but you're not Jewish."
"Stay out of this Yuug. I know what I'm doing." All of the sudden Jounouchi blinked, remembering something the raven-haired boy said. "Wait a sec! You were hitting on my sister!?!? Why you-" With that, the blonde launched himself at the other boy, intent on wringing the slim, kissable neck out.{Kissable!?...This whole stupid situation is making me think weird things. Otogi is NOT kissable. He's anything but kissible. You couldn't pay me enough to kiss him! That would be like kissing the street...or a horse's ass.}
So involved in his own thoughts, he failed to notice that Otogi was wringing his neck out instead, making him turn a bit blue. "Gah! Get him off me!" the blonde choked out.
Yugi heaved out a sigh, deciding to call on his yami to separate the two quarreling boys. Though, he did take note that the boys really did look good together, and they did end up in a lot of interesting positions when they fought. Yami slowly took over as Yugi went off into happy hentai heaven with happy hentai thoughts.
Yami shook his head at his hikari's mental images, beginning to wonder just who was the more perverted between them, but decided this wasn't the time to dwell on it. He pried Otogi's hands from his friend's neck, though not coming out unscathed
Jou panted heavily, clutching his throat which now sported two prominant hand prints that were beginning to bruise, and tried to lunge at Otogi only to find himself being held back by Anzu and Honda, obviously trying to prevent more bodily contac--harm! Bodily harm! Yeah.
Otogi seethed at Yami, glaring at him fiercely, but even he wasn't reckless enough to attack the dark spirit and settled for baiting Jounouchi who was currently being restrained.
"Yeah, tie the mutt down," he growled, trying to ward off images of a bound and gagged Jounouchi. "Don't you know there are laws about dogs running around without leashes." He huffed a little, straightening himself and trying to recover his dignity, fixing his clothes and hair, though could feel a migraine beginning to form.
This day was just getting weirder by the moment.
"WHAT?" Somehow Jou managed to worm his way out of his friend's hold, probably since Honda's grip had slackened in shock when he saw the picture in the paper, and Jou lunged at the dice freak, tackling him to the ground.
Boys and girls gathered around in a display of morbid fascination as the two boy's wrestled on the ground, trying to punch, kick, choke, and anything else they could do to the other as they rolled on the floor, unaware of the image they made.
"Oh, dear. Those two never stop," one of the girls said.
"Yeah, they're always going at it. Who knew those two were so horny all the time," another girl said, giggling uncontrollably.
Otogi scowled as Yami once again managed to pry the boy away from Jounouchi. The dark spirit could have sworn that the dice lover actually enjoyed being pressed up against Jou or having the blonde on the floor, comfortably fitted between his legs.
"You two have to calm down. You're overreacting," Yami stated, trying to be the voice of reason in all this chaos.
"Tell your dog to back down. He's the one who keeps attacking. Perhaps he needs a muzzle."
Yami narrowed his eyes, quickly covering Otogi's mouth with his hand in an effort to get him to stop. These two were simply impossible. Yep, they definitely enjoyed the physical part of their eerie relationship.
Honda and Anzu had once again taken to restraining Jou, contemplating on actually keeping him on a leash. Everyone was quickly getting tired of the incessant bickering of the two boys.
"Guys, this will probably all blow over by tomorrow. Nobody will even remember," Honda tried to assure the two boys. "Just go home and cool off for a while."
The pointy-haired boy's words actually seemed to assuage the boys' distress, getting them to relax enough that they could be release. Otogi threw Jou one last warning look, speaking volumes of irritation and accusation before spinning on the heel of his shoe and taking off down the hall, hoping to get home without any more confrontation.
Jou was just about to head home as well when a familiar brunette was seen walking down the hallway, heading towards the commotion. It was odd to see Seto anywhere near crowds since the boy avoided public gatherings as much as possible, but curiosity had gotten the better of him, making him go seek what interesting event could have possibly aroused this much attention. He was approaching Kiki when Jou's eyes widened in horror. {Oh, no!! I can't let Kaiba see that paper!! I will never hear the end of it. He'll never stop teasing me!!}
He took off like a flash, dashing through the hallways and pushing past annoying girls in some vain effort to stop the brunette's progress. {Pleasedon'tlethimseeitPleasedon'tlethimseeitPleasedon'tlethimseeitPleasedon 'tlethimseeit}
Kaiba raised an eyebrow as he saw the large display of papers, and lifted one, glancing at it for merely a split second before it was wrenched away by a frantic looking blond who seemed to be trying desperately to cover every single paper, though not really succeeding.
Jou was frantically trying to hide what had to be several hundered papers and failing miserably, wishing he could just set fire to the whole lot. {Dammit, where's Bakura when you need him??!!}
Kaiba boredly picked up one of the papers, causing Jou to freeze as he looked at the cover of it for several long minutes before finally doing a very un-kaiba like thing and snickering under his breath, his shoulders shaking from the force it took to hold the laughter back.
Jou wanted nothing more than to go and hide under a rock, or under Anzu's skirt, somewhere someone would never look, in anycase. This was it. he was never going to hear the end of it.
Kaiba quickly sobered, not one to display any sort of emotion for more than a few seconds, and sneered at Jou, feeling like a kid who'd just gotten a new toy on christmas.
"Who knew? It seems you've been promoted from puppy to bitch," he said with a chuckle. "And here I thought Otogi had better taste than that."
Oh, that was it. He had enough of all the teasing and definitely had enough of Kaiba in general. He glared darkly at the rich CEO, his hair spiking out slightly and looking very Yami-Malik like before he balled his hand into a fist and punched Kaiba in the eye.
The tall brunette stumbled backwards and smacked into the locker looking puzzled. He stared dazedly at Jou, holding a hand to his bruising cheek. He was too stunned to hit back or do anything.
Jou allowed him a few seconds of triumphant glory before bolting away frantically, afraid of whatever the taller boy would do to him once he recovered. He sped off as fast as possible, pushing through crowds and shoving people aside, dashing all the way home.
Meanwhile, Seto stayed back, snarling and cursing out the mutt, determined to make the boy's life hell the next day. The only thing that made it worth was the fact that Yami was touching his face tenderly and giving him that look that made him want to melt. He allowed himself to lean into the touch, a content smile flitting over his features before turning away, throwing a look over his shoulder that clearly told the dark spirit to come to his house that night for many interesting activities. Yami caught the look and promptly melted into a puddle of the floor.
Otogi trudged home, fuming the entire way and gingerly rubbing the cheek that the blonde mutt had dared to strike. He would have to make him pay for that. After all, no one got away with damaging his gorgeous looks, especially not a mongrel like that, who he was already more than a little furious at since he blamed him for the whole newspaper fiasco. It certainly couldn't be his fault. He headed into his house and for the kitchen, wanting to make an ice pack for his jaw. It was bad enough it was going to bruise, but he refused to be seen by anyone with a swollen, puffy cheek. It was absolutely out of the question. He plucked some ice cubes from the freezer and put them in a ziplock bag, watching the yellow and blue make green type of seal with odd fascination before pressing it to his cheek, hissing from the cold. {Damn that Jounouchi!} he thought for what had to be the hundredth time that hour.
Jou panted as he finally made it home, not having stopped once the entire way, lest that creep Kaiba pop out from under a rock or something like in the cartoons he always watched. He was still looking around warily, making sure that the irate billionaire wasn't lurking around one of the corners, before finally settling on the couch, panting softly and sighing in relief as the manic events of the day began to crash down on him. He was seriously considering transfering to another school, in another country, on the other side of the world, where they hopefully had no idea who Kaiba or Otogi were, and could live a quiet life...
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Enkidu: Erm...sorry if I left any mistakes. I beta-ed this myself, and I suck at editting so... anywho, review and respond, please! It encourages us to do more naughty things to your favourite bishies!!
(1) Enkidu: Tee hee. Dai inadvertantly put some Jou x Seto hint... (That's just funny 'cause I know she's not too keen on the couple) Will shut up now.