Konichiwa! I'm being so good… I've started the next chappie right after I finished the first one! Im usually too lazy to do that…
Well, I won't bore you with my prattle. On to the next part, enjoy!
Warnings: Shonen-ai later, language, mild violence
Disclaimer: I don't own Yugioh!
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Chapter 2: The Possession
"What the fuck did you do! Undo it, dammit, undo it!" Seto Kaiba was flopped in a very undignified manner across the tiny bed in Jonouchi's room at the present, yelling his head off. Which was a very un-Kaiba-like thing to do. However, desperate times, as they say…
Meanwhile, Jou was attempting to disentangle himself from Kaiba, finally managing to heave himself up off the bed before losing his balance and crashing to the floor in a heap.
"Mutt! Is your puny brain processing a single word I am saying to you? I want to know what happened! Do you understand me. I will sue the fucking life out of you if I don't get explanations! This is impossible, it's absurd! We just teleported!" Kaiba struggled into a sitting position before he began raving anew. Jonouchi was stupefied by the nature of their strange transportation, and so he just sat on the floor in a daze until Kaiba ran out of steam. He seemed to sag wearily as he rested his head on his hands, fingers elegantly steepled in deep concentration.
"This is ridiculous," Kaiba informed Jonouchi, although he seemed almost as if he was trying to convince himself instead, "there must be a rational explanation. There is a rational explanation. Just have to think of it…" he trailed off, muttering to himself occasionally as he sat.
Jou finally shook himself out of a daze long enough to think about what had happened. Well, it has happened before… I jes thought I was imaginin' it that time. So… we really teleported, huh? But that's not even possible! It's almost like magic. But what…
Jou was shaken out of his thoughts by Kaiba's abrupt and desperate response.
"You're saying this has happened to you before, Mutt? Well why the hell didn't you say anything about it! What caused it last time? And we most certainly did not teleport, because magic doesn't exist! That's exactly the kind of fantasy-bound non-logic I'd expect from you. Why don't you start being rational and realistic so I can find out what happened!" Kaiba's voice had a desperate edge to it, as though he thought Jonouchi would have some sort of explanation. But wait a minute… he could have sworn he didn't say that out loud…
"What're ya talkin' about, Kaiba? I didn't say anything about magic, an' I don' remember tellin' you that it's happened before, either. How didja know that, anyway?"
"What do you mean how did I know that, you lunatic? You just told me!" Kaiba stormed.
"I didn' tell ya nothing!"
"Yes you—oh this is ridiculous! I am not having this conversation! You had better figure out exactly what happened, and I expect an explanation devoid of any of your magical fantasies, or by the time I'm done suing you, you won't have a room to magically teleport yourself back to!" Kaiba raged, before storming from Jou's room.
Jonouchi could hear him clattering all the way down the stairs to the front entrance, where he assumed Kaiba would call his driver to come pick him up. Well, whatever had happened, he better figure it out fast. Jou didn't doubt for a second that Kaiba had meant every word he said.
Well, lessee. Gotta think… s'like I teleported twice. So why did it happen? T' first time I was late an' I wanted ta get ta school and then… I appeared at school… and this time was when Kaiba was fightin' me, an' I wanted to go home! An' presto, here we were! So does this mean I can go whereva I want? What kinda freaky magic would make that happen? What's so different alluva sudden? And then it hit him. The anklet. But was that even possible? The millennium items had magic, so it stood to reason that other objects could enable the wearer to have powers too…
Well, nothing else for it. He would have to test it out.
I wanna go ta th' livin' room. Jou concentrated, focusing every part of his mind on this simple request. And it seemed he had discovered the secret of the mysterious anklet, for once again he was engulfed in spinning color, before the whirlwind deposited him unceremoniously onto the floor of his living room. Jou looked around himself in shock. This… this was incredible. But… if one item was magic, it stood to reason that the other would be too. So… what did Kaiba's earring do?
What do you mean, how did I know, you lunatic? You just told me!
I didn' tell ya nothing!"
Yes you—oh this is ridiculous!
Jou's eyes widened as the scene replayed in his mind. Kaiba… Kaiba could hear his thoughts. So! That was why he attacked him at lunch! Jou chuckled to himself slightly, remembering all the harsh thoughts he had been directing at the brunet. Well, serves him right, anyway. But now that he had figured out the secret, he'd better find Kaiba before a lawyer did. I wonder if I can use t' anklet ta find people… guess I'll just hafta give it a shot.
Jou closed his eyes. I want ta go wherever Seto Kaiba is. Take me ta Seto Kaiba. He concentrated absolutely, until the item began to work its magic. Jou was carried upwards through the whirlwind, faster and faster, until it slowed, and then he was falling… before he landed with a thump directly on top of a flabbergasted CEO.
"What the--" Kaiba turned his head from where he had been knocked onto the floor, Jou sitting on top of him, "Mutt! What do you think you're doing? Get the hell off of me!" He heaved himself upwards, knocking Jou sprawling onto the floor beside him, before he stood gracefully and brushed himself off. Seto's glare returned to Jonouchi.
I came 'cause I figured out what happened. Jou thought, trying to confirm his suspicions about the earring. If Kaiba responded…
"Well, good. Let's hear it so you can beat the hell out of here. And next time, don't get anywhere near me." Kaiba snapped irritably. Jou smiled to himself. He had been right, after all. Well, so much for Kaiba not believing in magic.
"Of course I don't believe in it. What kind of foolish comment was that?" Kaiba muttered to himself irritably.
Oh shit… I better'd not think anythin' too horrible about him or there's no tellin' what he'll do…
Kaiba shot a very strange look at Jonouchi.
"God dammit!" Jou finally yelled aloud in frustration, "I dunno how yer hearin' it, but shut it off! My thoughts are my own, thanks!"
"Just what the hell are you blabbering on about now? I don't have time for your stupid games, Mutt. Just tell me the cause of our apparent teleportation and you can go. Or," he added cheerily to himself as an afterthought, "I can have my bodyguards escort you out. I can't make any promises that they won't throw you bodily out the door..." Jou grimaced. Kaiba wasn't exactly going out of his way to make things any easier…
Well before I tell ya, n' don't freak out, look at my mouth.
"What the hell are you going on about now? What does that have to do with anything?"
Jus' do it, Kaiba. My mouth's not movin', is it? But you can hear me, cantcha?
"Oh yes, very nice," his expression turned dangerous, "I have no time for your idiotic displays of ventriloquism. This is not what I'm waiting around to hear."
It ain't ventriloquism, ya fool. 'Cause I ain't talkin'. You can hear what I'm thinkin' on account o' that nifty little ear cuff ya got on. Jou smirked, which irritated Kaiba to no end.
Seto Kaiba turned away in disgust. Here he had asked, and quite earnestly, I might add, for an explanation, and that idiotic dog was just fucking around. He was playing with him, that ignorant simpleton… Kaiba huffed in irritation.
"Look, you foul fleabag, maybe the geek squad is ignorant and stupid enough to believe bullshit like that, but I, on the other hand, am not. I would advise you for your own safety, although I don't give a damn about that either way, to start talking. Or things could get… dangerous." He threw an equally dangerous glare Jonouchi's way.
"Oh, s'at so? Well then, come on. I can take ya," Jou drawled, frustrated that Kaiba wouldn't here him out. Then again, I hate to admit it but I dunno if I can actually beat 'im…
"Oh, so you admit it now? Of course you can't beat me. Then again, you've picked so many ridiculous fights with me in the past and gotten your ass handed to you that I'm surprised you didn't figure that out sooner," Kaiba paused in mock thoughtfulness, "Actually, knowing your puny mind, I'm not really too surprised."
"That's it rich boy!" Jou roared, lunging at Kaiba, fist raised to deliver a blow right to the stomach. But one moment Kaiba was there, and then he wasn't. Jou felt a crushing blow to the back of his head before he crumpled to the ground. But no, it hadn't been magic, that much he could tell… Kaiba really was just that fast. He'd sidestepped him so easily…
"Done with your unfounded big talk now, mutt?" Jou looked up to see Kaiba looming over him. He positively glared.
"Ah, shuddup, why doncha? I slipped on the shiny rich-boy floor, thas'all. Ya won't be so lucky next time…" Jou trailed off.
"Well if you shape up and decide to act your age for once, perhaps there won't be another instance in which it's necessary for me to beat you so easily."
Jou grimaced. This wasn't exactly helping matters… he'd better just tell it to Kaiba straight.
"Okay, moneybags, shaddup an' listen. I know ya don' believe in all that hocus pocus crap, but it's da truth. You can hear what I'm thinkin'. N' I got somethin' kinda like it. See this?" he pointed to his anklet, "it can take me whereva I wanna go. Howdya think we ended up in my house? An' how do ya think I found ya so easy jus' now?"
Seto Kaiba remained expressionless, as he always was. But inside, he was wondering. It wasn't magic, of course. There was no such thing. But perhaps with the right technology… but who would have equipment advanced enough to design and manufacture such a thing? He didn't like the direction this was heading… whoever it was was a step, no, several steps above the rest, including even himself. This person would prove a dangerous enemy to Kaiba Corporation… a danger that would have to be eliminated.
"Jounouchi," he said evenly, "where did you get that anklet?"
Jou became suspicious rather quickly. "At Yugi's shop. Why d'ya ask?"
Seto smiled, and then he got an idea. An awful idea. He got a wonderful, awful idea!
"Lead the way, Jonouchi. We're going to pay a little visit to the Kame Game Shop."
To be continued…