A birthday Puppyshipping for hollie the hedgehog! Happy Birthday Hollie, you're my best friend and you will always be my BFFFE and Bathroom Buddy. Some Yu-Gi-Oh abridged references may be used...


Okay here we go. Today's the day. My friends- Yugi and Téa (Tristan just stands there shoving things up his nose) keep telling me that nothing's ever going to happen if I don't admit my feelings. Well now is the perfect time: I'm filled up with emotion and I'm ready to go.

I walk up to the front desk to see a smart-looking receptionist with medium-length brown hair and colour-changing glasses.

"Tell moneybags his 4 o' clock is here." I smile as I rest my elbow on the front desk.

"Your name sir?" The receptionist says without looking up.

"Don't you recognise me?" I ask as I take my elbow off the desk and put my fingers into a thumbs-up stance. "I'm Jumpin' Joey Wheeler! ... Also do your glasses change colour?

She scowls before looking up at me and then she looks me up and down. Then she presses her glasses further up her nose and smiles at me.

"Ah I see Mr. Wheeler. Seto Kaiba is ready now. Would you like to go in?"

She takes me up to Kaiba's office, Winged Kuribohs are flying around in my stomach. I can't believe that I'm actually going to do this. We finally reach Kaiba's office and the receptionist bows to me and leaves. I take a deep breath and walk in.

I see the snobby rich kid at his desk, typing away on his computer. I feel like time and space has stopped as I stare at his cool brown hair and his intense eyes. But suddenly time begins to move again as Kaiba begins to speak.

"What do you want Wheeler? I've got too much stuff to be dealing with right now. Not to mention Zigfried von Schroeder has just sent me another dinner invite. It's like he's gay or something and he seems to think that I swing the same way. But what he doesn't realise is that I'm Seto Kaiba and I'll always be as straight as a sword of revealing light. I'd never turn gay in a million years."

I feel like a time roulette has stopped on a skull.

"You mean you're straight and you won't change your mind?" I ask.

"Who do you think you're talking to? Marik Ishtar? Ryou Bakura? I'm not like those stupid lovesick idiots, going off with their own psychotic half. I'm Seto Kaiba and the only thing I care about and ever will care about is money and trading cards."

"And me... Right Seto?" Mokuba pipes up.

"Shut up Mokuba." Then he turns back to me. "Now what do you want Wheeler?"

"I... I... I wanted to challenge you to a duel." I say.

"You, Joey Wheeler, want to challenge me, Seto Kaiba, to a duel? You'd have no chance against me, a first-rate duellist. I'd beat you in just a few turns-"

He goes on about some other stuff but I quickly get out of there. My feelings crushed and my heart torn. What was I thinking? Kaiba would never fall in love with me. Not in a million years, not even if we were the last two people on Earth.

Later...

"So that's what happened." I finish explaining.

"I see..." Téa nods.

We sit quietly for a while then Téa speaks again.

"Get ready. We're going out. Meet me outside in 10 minutes."

"Err okay why?"

She doesn't respond so I decide to stop asking questions and get ready.

10 minutes later...

I stand with my hands in my pockets, wearing the outfit I wore back in Duelist Kingdom.

Téa runs up wearing a sunny yellow tube-top, some pink shorts, a lighter pink jacket, a pair of cool red platform sandals and black thigh-high socks.

She takes my hand and pulls me along, neither of us worry about us looking like a couple or this being awkward because Téa knows I'm in love with Kaiba.

Then we reach our destination: it looks like a trendy nightclub.

"Here we are! This place is the trendiest nightclub in Domino City!"

I kind of figured... Anyway, she carries on with her cutesy tour guide routine.

"Welcome to Club Domino!" She cheers.

She pulls me inside and I gasp at the flashy lights and the tightly packed spaces. In fact scratch that last word- there is no space. This club seems to be really popular: it gives a whole new meaning to the word trendy.

A security guard walks up to me wearing a black T-shirt and black trousers. His bulging muscles are showing but I don't care. I stick out my chest slightly to show him I'm not scared. Then Téa gets in between us and says:

"It's okay Steve: he's with me."

'Steve' unfolds his arms and calls to the bouncer.

"It's cool Kemo! Poofy hair is with the Friend Freak!"

Téa doesn't seem to have heard the insulting comment so she pulls me through the crowd and onto the dance floor. There's a little more room here, at least enough that I can see a few familiar faces.

At the bar I see Yugi blushing and Yami smiling, I guess Yami just told him something mushy like 'I love you Aibou' or something. Two seats up from them I can see Bandit Keith passed out on the counter.

Then I look around a little more and see that there are some semi-private booths and in one of them I see Marik, Malik, Ryou and Bakura all sat around one small table with tons of empty glasses on, no doubt that Marik and Bakura are the ones responsible for these empty glasses.

Bakura has his one arm around Ryou and his in his other hand is a beer bottle. I can see Marik doing something with his tongue and Malik blushing slightly.

But I pull my eyes away from the two psychotic Egyptians to look at Téa. She smiles at me and begins to dance. I stand there, not knowing what to do.

"Come on Joey dance!" She commands.

"But... I..." I mutter.

"Just listen to the beat and go with the flow!" She smiles.

"Okay okay! God you're pushier than Mai..." I say.

I stand there and try to listen to the beat. The song is Remedy, so I close my eyes to see if it helps.

I can see you stalking like a predator,
I've been here before.

Then time seems to slow down, like it did in Kaiba's office, then the beat starts thumping beneath my feet. I start to tap my feet to the rhythm.

Temptation calls like Adam to the apple,
But I will not be caught.

Then I nod my head in unison with my feet.

Cause I can read those velvet eyes,
And all I see is lies

Then I open my eyes and before I know it I'm dancing.

No more poison killing my emotion,
I will not be frozen
Dancing is my remedy remedy oh.

The dance floor clears, even Téa joins the watching crowd to cheer me on as I dance my worries away.

Stop stop praying cause im not not playing,
I'm not frozen.
Dancing is my remedy remedy oh.

I feel so light...

Move while you're watching me...

So carefree...

Dance with the enemy

And I feel so happy that everyone likes my dancing.

I've got a remedy oh uh oh uh oh


"Is that Joey Wheeler?" Ryou asks Bakura.

"Sure looks like it..." Bakura mutters.

"I wonder what that amateur duellist is doing here?" Marik growls.

"Don't be that way Yami..." Malik says to his Yami.

Then Malik placed a kiss on his Yami's lips, therefore keeping him quiet.

"Word on the street is that the mutt has feelings for Seto Kaiba." Bakura smirks.

"Word on the street? Since when were you the 'cool' type fluffy?" Malik asks.

"I told you not to call me that!" Bakura growls.

"But Koe-kun... Does he know?" Ryou asks Bakura.

"No... I don't think he does..." Bakura says grimly.

"So we're just going to stand back and let his feelings be crushed?" Ryou asks, clearly wanting to take action. But then another person joined the conversation.

"I'm afraid he will be hurt severely but perhaps not in the ways that you think." Says Ishizu as she takes a seat in the booth. "But my Millennium Necklace tells me that we should not interfere."

Ryou gulps and looks at Joey with a sad expression.

"I just hope everything will turn out alright..."


Just like the song...

Move while you're watching me...

I have a Remedy...

Dance with the enemy...

And that Remedy is...

Here is my remedy oh uh oh uh oh

Dancing


When the ruler comes in it usually means that it's going to switch scenes. I forgot to edit this fic sorry!