'Ok now that everyone is in a group, please write down times that you can meet and hand them to me so I can keep track of how far along you should be.' She stopped and turned towards Joey and Kaiba.

'Can you boys sit down please.' Joey looking defeated made his way towards the back of the class.

'Your project can be presented however you like, I would like you to use some creativity in how it is presented.' She stopped again.

'Mr Kaiba, if you refuse to sit down I will be forced to give you detention.' Kaiba remained stationary glaring at the teacher as if trying to kill her with his stare, but Miss Horn carried on.

This is unreal he thought. I can barely look at the guy without thinking of my dreams lately, last nights was tame compared to some of them I have had. Joey felt his face begin to redden as he thought back to them, The one with Kaiba naked and sweaty on top of him holding him down, the one where in the middle of a fight in school, Kaiba had pushed him hard knocking him into the boys bathroom door causing Joey to knock it open and fall to the floor, Kaiba had then followed him in and slammed the door shut behind him, he then picked Joey up from the floor by his uniform jacket as if to continue the fight, but instead Kaiba had turned him around, pulled down his pants and then...

'Mr Kaiba that is enough, you may think your stare can scare anyone, and maybe in a boardroom it can, but in my class room I expect to be listened to. You will serve detention during your lunch breaks in this classroom, for the rest of the week!' She turned to look at Joey who was blushing slightly. 'I would recommend you, Joey to join him as I know Mr Kaiba can be busy after school.' She turned back to Kaiba 'Now sit down before I change my mind and make it 1 hour after school detention for a month.'

She had done it, she had beaten Kaiba, who had turned to face Joey and started to walk to the back of the class. Joey was suddenly conscious of the fact he had made himself quiet hot, by thinking of his dreams. He hoped that his red face could be shrugged off as anger due to Miss Horn, but he decided to say something before any attention could be brought to how red he was looking.

'Look Kaiba' He said as the brunette sat down. 'I don't like this, same as you, but I do need to pass this class to get into college, so how about we try to keep the fighting to a minimum and get this over with?'

Kaiba was glaring at the front of the class towards Miss Horn, those deep blue eyes filled with fire, making them a mesmerising sight. Joey almost had to physically shake himself to get back on track.

'I don't have job after school so I can just work around you if that makes things easier.'

Kaiba's attention swapped to Joey, the fire in his eyes had dimmed a little now he has looking at Joey. The young CEO was stunning in every way, he was taller than Joey, slim, but obviously physically fit, and deceivingly powerful. His chocolate brown hair was always styled in a sharp business type of way, making the man look even more powerful. Then there were his eyes, you could get lost in those pools of pure blue, which Joey did frequently, resulting in Kaiba questioning him about his staring, which always ended up in them fighting. Joey had been lost in thought, captivated by the man sitting next to him that he had not noticed Kaiba pull out his laptop.

Joey snapped out of his daze when Kaiba's typing grew louder. He clenched his had, trying to regain his focus and felt something scrunch up inside of it. He opened his hand and in it was the piece of paper Miss Horn had given him as he went to sit down. He flattened the piece of paper out on the desk to see what it said. 'Are video games art?' at this thoughts of Kaiba faded away and his head filled with ideas on how to present it, he lent down to take his notepad out of his bag and when he had straightened himself back up he noticed a piece of paper in front of him.

'I can finish at the office at 5pm most days, I hold daily meetings with the senior members of my company to compensate for my being at school during the working week, so I can't do anything before then. Saturday I will be free in the evenings as I still need to do some work, for both my company and school and Sundays are completely out of the question.'

Joey was shocked, Kaiba had not only spoken to him without starting an argument, but he was also talking to him like he was a person.

'Like I said when ever you can.' Joey wanted to keep the conversation going, it was nice hearing Kaiba talk without anger in his voice, even if he did still sound business like. 'I say give us two nights a week to work on it, with class and the extra week of lunches we should get it done pretty quick and we will be out of each other hair in no time.' he paused wondering if he should push his luck. 'Why are Sundays off limits?'

Joey looked at Kaiba expecting him to be mad for some reason, and was happy to see that he still calm, those gorgeous blue eyes staring right into his.

'It is the day I spend with Mokuba, and when Mokuba goes to bed my time to spend as I please.'

Joey smiled, it was nice to think that even though Kaiba was obviously a busy man, he still made sure he spent time with his little brother.

'What's that look for Mutt?' Kaiba started to look annoyed now, Joey felt himself go red and berated himself for starting what was going to be fight after having his first normal conversation with Kaiba

'No. I ju...'

'Progress already.' Miss Horn was standing next to them a triumphant smile on her face. 'I haven't heard either of you raise your voices the whole time you have been sitting here. So do you have any days you can work together yet?'

'Yes Tuesday and Wednesday after 5pm.' Kaiba said not looking at Miss Horn.

'Great and during lunch all this week as well.' Miss Horn replied

Kaiba just nodded and Miss Horn walked away and handed a note to Tristan who had been doodling this whole time, Joey watched as his mouth dropped open as Miss horn spoke to him quietly.

'What has that wench got us doing then?' Joey jumped at Kaiba's voice.

'What?'

'The project mutt what are we doing, I swear I have met mongrels smarter than you.' Kaiba reached over and grabbed the piece of paper next to Joey's hand brushing it as he did so. Joey felt a tingle run up his arm at Kaiba's touch. He turned and faced Kaiba, who seemed not have noticed he had touched him. Why would he notice, he had just called him a mutt, and basically and idiot in the same sentence, even if he did he would have only felt skin touching skin, not a soft kind of

electricity run up his arm like Joey.

'Why the hell are you staring at me Wheeler?'

'Huh?'

'Can your brain not focus on the easy job of looking at someone and listening to what they are saying at the same time, Wheeler?'

Crap thought Joey, there is only one way out of this, an argument, Kaiba seemed determined.

'Just because you talk doesn't mean the whole world has to listen, no matter what your stupid ego tells you ass-hole.'

'Oh look he answers when he hears his name, just like a dog.' Kaiba said with a smirk

'Would you stop with the dog names Kaiba, they ain't funny.' Joey had lost that one the smirk had thrown him off, damn it looked good on the brunette.

'Neither are your dueling skills but you aren't stopping that any time soon.'

'At least I can actually play and don't have to pay people off to say I won.' at this Kaiba laughed, damn Joey loved that laugh.

'I can beat you any day Mutt, even if I used your pathetic excuse for a deck.'

'I wouldn't let you touch my deck with a ten foot barge pole, I wouldn't want you infecting it with lonely loser disease.'

'That's enough!' Miss Horn yelled from the front of the class. Everyone was staring at them, Joey realised that they must have raised there voices a little too much towards the end.

'It looks like it was a little too much to hope for a while lesson without you two arguing, I suppose we will try again at lunch shall we.' and as she finished her sentence, the bell rang.

Joey sat in his usual spot on the roof, waiting till the rest of his friends got there, he had walked out of the classroom as soon as the bell went. He needed to clear is head, he had phased out too many times thinking about Kaiba today, and it was only 11 in the morning. God I have a problem, he thought putting his face in his hands.

'Hey Joey, you ok?' Joey looked up and smiled at Ryou who had just sat down beside him.

'Yer.' Joey lied with a smile. ' Just can't believe I've been made to work with such an egotistical jack ass.'

Ryou laughed 'It will be ok, just..'

'JOEY!'

He looked up at Tristan who was waving the piece of paper Miss Horn had given to him in class, the rest of the gang were following him.

'Whats up man?'

'Guess who my partner is!' Tristan carried on without waiting for a reply. 'It's Duke bloody Devlin, Miss Horn said he moved back here last week and thought it best to put him with someone he knows.'

'Dukes coming back? that's great, he must have finished development on his game with Pegasus then.' Yugi piped up.

'Yer and I bet the only reason he's back is because of Joey's sister.' Marik added

Joey glared at him.

'Let him, I need someone to help me let off some steam after having to work with Kaiba'

The group laughed and Joey joined in, they spent the rest of the break discussing what they got for their presentations that lesson, Marik and Atem were deciding on the best way to 'greet' Duke the next day. When the bell rang again Joey was in a much better mood.

Lunch time came after a couple of uneventful lessons and Joey made his way to Miss Horns class room. When he entered to his surprise Kaiba was already there typing away on his laptop.

'Hi rich boy.'

'Hi mutt, I'm surprised you can keep track of the time.'

'Already boys?' Miss Horn said from the door way. 'Why can't you just say hi to each other and leave it at that, without the names?'

Joey shrugged and went to set near Kaiba

'Ok you two, this is how this is going to work, you are going to work on your project, I am going to mark papers and eat my lunch and if either of you argue I will add another day of detention for the both of you.' she emphasised the both of you part as Joey was only here through choice.

Joey nodded, Kaiba just stared as Miss Horn sat down at her desk and pulled out a sandwich box. It was quiet for a bit after this then Joey decided to break the ice.

'So Kaiba, are video games art?'

'I think they are, if TV shows and movies can be art then why can't games?'

'Great so we both think the same.' Joey smiled ' So do we want to present it as a one-sided argument or bring in other opinions too?'

'I think if we try to present both side our bias will show anyway, so I think we should stick to the answer yes.'

Wow they were actually talking, again two times in one day anyone would think this was the first sign of the apocalypse.

'Good point, so I was thinking of presenting it like a video game, seeing as you have the resources to do that, and its something I am aiming to go into when I leave school it would really fit.'

Kaiba's eyebrow raised. 'That is a really good idea Joey.'

Joey's heart skipped, Kaiba called him Joey! Not mutt, or dog or even Wheeler, he said Joey! He was smiling he hoped that Kaiba would assume it was due to them agreeing and not because he had said Joey's name.

'That went quicker than I thought, you know with our history of not agreeing with each other.'

'That's true.' Kaiba's mouth twitched as if he wanted to smile. 'The only problem is this will take more effort than I originally thought.' Kaiba turned to face Miss Horn. 'Miss Horn, we will need to add Monday and Thursday to the days we will be working together, at least for now.'

Miss Horn nodded and made a note on her laptop, whilst Joey and Kaiba carried on planning, Joey tied hard to keep his focus on the project, whilst a little Joey in the back of his mind was dancing about all the alone time he would be spending with Kaiba

Joey had gone straight home from school telling his friends that due to Kaiba's work schedule he might not have much time to hang out with them for a while. This was a lie, he needed to be at Kaiba's by 5 he had a couple of hours yet, but he wanted to get home and get ready and talk to Ice.

'Dad you home?' Joey called as he walked through the front door.

'In the kitchen, you want fish or chicken tonight?'

'Anything quick, we've been given a group project for school, so I'm going to need to go round my partners house a couple of nights this week after he's finished work to do it.'

'Who's your partner Tristan?' Joey's dad said coming out of the kitchen.

'Seto Kaiba'

Silence, Joey's dad stared at him.

'Wow bad luck there son, that man runs a tight schedule, he took over my company a few weeks ago and everything runs like clock work now, I'm not complaining though, I get out on time every day.' His dad smiled and Joey smiled back.

'I know, so I'm going to cram in some more homework for a bit, I'll be in my room.' and he walked past his dad through the apartment to is room, he sat down in front of his computer, loaded up a page to do with some history homework he had and then loaded up a chat window with Ice.

Ambereyes: Ok so, I have so much more to tell but you left me on a cliffhanger

Ice: Hello to you too lol

Ice: So I'll do the cliffhanger, you tell me your dream, then you tell me your news?

Ambereyes: Deal

Ice went on and described a candle lit dinner with his crush that led to drinks at home and then to being lead to his bed, gently laying down and then his alarm going off.

Ambereyes: I hate it when dreams do that!

Ice: I know right

Ambereyes: Mine did the same

Joey explained his dream to Ice, being delicate in places, he might tell Ice a lot of things, but not everything.

Ice: Wow, that seems intense

Ambereyes: I know I haven't got it out of my head all day. Anyway big news?

Ice: Yes?

Ambereyes: I am going round to Mr crush's place in less than an hour, we have been grouped together for a project in school, and after that dream last night, I just haven't been holding it together.

Ice: Oh wow!

Ambereyes: No 'oh wow' I'm going crazy! I don't know what I'm gonna do

Ice: Not like you can ask to borrow his computer to jump on here and ask me questions :P

Ambereyes: That would be helpful, but he cant come here we need stuff at his place.

Ice: even then you couldn't hide in your room every 2 seconds to talk to me lol

Ambereyes: It wouldn't be every 2 seconds!

Ice: Sure...tell you what I can give you my number.

Ambereyes: Isn't that against the rules?

Ice: I swear not to call you, just text, and only if we really need to text...if you swear too.

Ambereyes: Ok

Ice messaged his number over and Joey put it into his phone and said goodbye as he wanted to be on time, as his nerves were getting the best of him.

He had no idea what to wear, so he sent Ice a text, who replied back saying just be normal, being too over dressed when working on school work is a bit weird, followed by 'I see what your idea of really needing to text me is'. Joey chuckled and calmed down a little, he grabbed a nice pair of jeans and one of his favourite t-shirts, tried to flatten down his hair, without success, picked up the chicken sandwiches his dad had made, called out bye and left.

Kaiba's place was 5 blocks away in the nice part of town, Joey was looking forward to the walk, he hoped it would help him calm down and he liked to walk through the streets and watch the kids playing outside. After he had been walking for a couple of minuets a car pulled up beside him,The back door opened and a voice called from inside.

'Get in Wheeler.'

'Kaiba?' Joey bent down to look inside

'No I'm the tooth fairy, now get in will you?' Kaiba growled back

Joey climbed in the back of the car, even though there was still a seat in-between himself and Kaiba, he felt very close to him, he felt himself become rather hot, but maybe that was due to being in a car in a confined space. He sent a message to Ice.

OMG he just picked me up in his car, I am sitting in a car next him HELP

Have you said thanks yet?

Good idea

'Thanks Kaiba' Joey said turning to face him

'I was driving home and thought I might catch you on the way.'

Joey couldn't find anything else to say so turned his head back to look at his phone.

Lol

so hows it going

He said he was driving by so picked me up

Thats nice

Yer I'm worried

I'm more worried that you are texting me and not talking to him

Joey Laughed

'What's so funny Mutt?' This made Joey jump

'Oh I.. I was just texting a friend.' Joey said sheepishly. 'And I thought we dropped the names?'

'I only dropped the names so I can get my lunch breaks back.' Kiaba's answer sounded bored

'Good to know your still an ass.'

'So which on of the geek squad is trying to annoy me with that awful message tone?'

'Don't call them that!' Joey retorted 'And I have other friends, unlike some people in this car that have none!'

'Those dogs that follow you around aren't your friends mutt they only do it as they know you are one of them.'

'You're an ass you know that rich boy.' Joey was almost shouting now.

'We're here.'