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Summary: Joey and Seto always fight due to a certain nickname. Yugi hates Yami with a passion but Yami is obsessed with him due to Yugi being the only person to deny him. When Yami and Yugi get paired up on an Ancient Civilization project, how will Yugi deal with it?
"Hello Little One." Yami said smirking. Yugi dropped the laser pointer and Misaki turned around to look at his master and gave him a look of confusion. "What are you doing here?" Yugi asked after he got over his shock. "I was in the neighborhood and, as being the King of Games, I saw a game shop and decided to see if they have any cards. Who would've guessed you worked here." Yami said while walking and looking at the cards. 'Not to mention I live here also.' Yugi added in his mind.
Joey P.O.V.
"Poor Yug'. Having to deal with Yami as his partner and with that coming up, he's probably getting frustrated." Joey said as he was walking home. A few minutes later, he came upon his apartment and unlocked the door before slamming it shut. 'I made a promise to protect him since his parent's death.' Joey remembered when he found out about his best friend's parent's death.
Flashback
Joey was running to Yugi's house after school since he noticed that he wasn't there. He knocked on the door and Solomon opened the door with a grim expression. "Hello Joey-kun." Joey could feel something was wrong and asked, "Hello Solomon-san. Where's Yug'? He wasn't at school, he sick?" "No Joey-kun he's not but I think I should tell you when you sit down." He said as he led him in and up the stairs.
They walked into the kitchen and into an eerie silence. They sat down with an uncomfortable silence. "Now Joey-kun… what I'm going to tell you is very hard on Yugi and me." Solomon let out a breath before continuing, "Yugi's parents died in a car crash. He's the only survivor since the other driver died also on contact. It turned out he was drunk and decided to drive home. Yugi only got cut from the shattered glass." Solomon said before he started crying. Joey's eyes grew wide and then he felt tears running down. "Wh- where's Yug'?" "In his room. Please, go see him. He won't eat or sleep." Solomon said.
Joey ran to Yugi's bedroom and opened the door. "Joey… WAHH!" Yugi threw himself at Joey and cried. Yugi ended up crying himself asleep. 'I'll protect you Yugi. I promise.' Joey promised with determination with his arms circled around the emotionally frail boy. Ever since then, they became closer.
A week later Yugi returned to school. At recess, Yugi was cornered and started getting teased for having no parents. "Look it's the freak with no parents!" Shika shouted and his group of friends started laughing. "Yeah! Who would love him anyways!" "He's just a freak with messed up hair!" Yugi started crying and that made them start teasing him even more. "Aww! Look the baby is crying! Why don't you go to your mom and cry to her? Oh wait, you can't!" They started laughing when suddenly Shika was on the ground. "Shut up you baka!" Joey shouted as he straddled him and started punching him in the face. Of course, Joey and the bullies got detention but Yugi waited until he got out and treated him to a homemade bento.
End of flashback
Joey started laughing at the good times they'd had and then looked at the clock. 3:30. "SSHHIIITTT!" he screamed as he grabbed his work bag and stuffed his work uniform which consisted of a white button up, a black vest and black slacks with dress shoes. He zipped the bag before hauling ass to work. 'No obstacles, no obstacles.' Joey chanted in his mind as he ran. Five minutes later he ran into the restaurant's back door and clocked in at 3:45. "Just in time Joey-kun." His boss, Tora, chuckled. "Anyways, we are having a busy day so get to work!" Tora instructed as he patted him on the shoulder and went back to waiting tables.
Joey started working and before he knew it, it was seven o'clock. "One more hour before I'm off." "Stop day dreaming and get back to work! We have someone waiting for a table." Tora said. "Ah! Yes sir!" Joey said, startled. "I'm sorry for the wait, sir." Joey bowed. "Hello Mutt." Said a cold smooth voice. 'M…Mutt. Oh please Kami-sama don't let it be him.' Joey begged. He looked up and saw the one person he hated the most. Seto Kaiba.
"Would you like a refill on your tea, sir?" Joey said through gritted teeth. Kaiba smirked at seeing how much trouble Joey was going through to be polite. 'He's shaking from anger. I bet I can make him shake from other things.' Kaiba thought. "Yes." Joey bowed before leaving. A couple of minutes later, he came back and poured Kaiba some tea. "How about you sit with me? I would love to get more acquainted with you." Kaiba asked slyly. 'More like get to know me in his bed!' Joey thought. "I'm sorry, sir, I'm working." Joey said as he started to walk away before he stopped at what Kaiba said. "You know, this place could make a very good spot for a food company for Kaiba Corp. It would be such a shame for something to happen to it." Kaiba said with his eyes narrowed, smirking at Joey.
He sat down with a rigid posture. "See, not that hard to listen to your master, pup." 'I'm not a fuckin pup, ya asshole!' Joey thought. "Sir I'm not a pup." Joey said bitterly. "Hn." 'Did he just "hn" me?!' "Next weekend we are going on a date." Kaiba said as if he was talking about the weather. "Hell no. I'm a guy!" "Remember about this place, Mutt. It would be such a shame if you let your pride get ahead of your love for this place." Kaiba said as he got up, paid his bill and placed a 50 dollar bill on the table as a tip then left. Joey stared at Kaiba's leaving formbefore slamming his fist on the table. "Damnit… what do I do?" he cried. 'I hope Yugi is having a better time than me. ' Joey thought.
As Kaiba was on his way back to his mansion, he got a text. "Tea is coming back this Monday. TELL YAMI!" Mokuba. Kaiba's face paled at the message and thought, 'The next two weeks are going to be interesting.'
"What do you want Yami?" Yugi asked for the 3rdtime. "Like I said before, I was in the neighborhood and saw a game store, so I decided to stop by. Best decision of my life." He said with a sly smirk on his face. Yugi felt his eye twitch with annoyance. 'I'm gonna be gray when he leaves.' He thought. DING! The bell rang signaling someone has entered. They looked to see who it was. "Yuwi-chan!" Kai shouted with glee as he ran up to him. Yugi hoped off his chair and opened the side door to let him in. Yugi then bent down and picked him up, while Yami felt his jealously rise. 'How dare he touch him with his little dirty hands.' Yami thought. "I'm sorry Yugi-kun but he loves you so much." Yuki-Kai's mother- said as she adjusted her purse. "Oh I see we were interrupting you. I'm sorry!" she bowed to Yami. "It's fine Miss. I was about done. I just had to pick out these cards." Yami said as he grabbed three cards.
Yami turned around and froze. Yugi was smiling with delight, and his gem like eyes were shining, as Yugi was holding Kai up in the air while Kai was making airplane noises. "Here Kai, Big Brother needs to set you down and help the nice costumer." Yugi said as he forced out the last two words. Yami put the cards and 10 bucks in his hand and let his fingers brush against Yugi's. 'So soft, feminine like.' Yami mused.
Yugi glared at the extra contract and pulled his hand away quickly. He then put the money in the cash register and put the cards in a protector before he gave the nag to him bag. Yami thanked Yugi before he left and called his limo driver to pick him up. As he got home, his phone rang. "Cousin, what is it?" "Tea is coming back Monday." Kiaba said as he looked into Joey's and Yugi's past. "FUCK! Why is she coming back, I thought she left to go to school overseas? Ugh, I don't need this. She will ruin my plan of trying to seduce Yugi." "Her father called me, telling me that she was coming back and she missed you, so she quit." Kaiba said as he leaned back in his chair.
"So, how's the visit to your newest obsession's house?" Kaiba asked trying to change the subject. "Nani? He works there." Yami said confused as the driver opened the door and he got out leaving a trail of irritation and annoyance as he walked into his mansion and went up to his room. Yami then wentthrough his belongings on the floor and lay on the bed. "Hai. How dense could you be cousin? He lives with his grandfather who left for a trip to Egypt two days ago and won't be back for two weeks." 'He tricked me! Heh, just as expected from the Little One.' Yami thought. "Well whatever, I'll play that I don't know and ask to go to his house. Good night cousin." Yami said he pressedthe red button, ending the call.
Time skip~ MONDAY
"Hey Yug' did ya hear who's coming back today?" Joey asked as they waited at the sakura tree for the bell to ring. "Nope." Yugi answered as he shook his head, "Who?"
"Tea."
"NNAANNII?" Yugi screamed. "Why?! I was so happy when she left. I finally stopped getting teased about my height!" Yugi moaned. "I don't know Yug'. I always hated that bitch. Don't know why you tried being friends with her." Joey said as he went through Yugi's lunch and took out his pb& j sandwich. Suddenly a loud scream of YAMI-KUN was heard.
Yugi and Joey looked over to see Yami being tackle-hugged by Tea. "AHAHA! Serves him right!" Yugi said as he fell on his knees from laughter. "I agree!" Joey said in between gasps of air. Suddenly Yugi got a chill and looked up. He saw Yami glaring at him making him laugh even harder.
Yami's P.O.V
'I knew something bad was going to happen but I didn't think it would be this bad.' Yami thought as Tea had her arms wrapped around him as they were going to 1st period together since they had the same class. "Did you miss me Yami? I missed you sooo much! Every day at the school in America I thought about you and how sad you were that we had to break up." Tea said -rambled- as she blinked her eyes repeatedly, making her look plain creepy instead of attractive.
Yami shivered slightly at the look Tea gave him. "Are you cold Yami-kun?" she asked. "Here let me hold you tighter!" she said making Yami moan in his head at his unfortunate luck. 'To make matters worse, the Little One was laughing at me! I'll get him back in 7th.' Yami let out an evil aura making everybody leap out of his way but of course Tea was ignorant to it.
The day passed by with no sight of his Little One and Tea wouldn't stop bothering him. Yami finally away from Tea sprinted to 7th, trying to avoid her. He opened the door and noticed he was the 2ndperson in, the 1stbeing Yugi with his head in the school's laptop writing facts down about Ancient Egypt. "You're here early Yami-kun." Kodai-sensei said. Yugi stiffened slightly but went back to writing down his notes. "Yeah. I wanted to work on my project with Lil- I mean Yugi." "Ahaha! That's good! Yugi-kun, why don't you show Yami what you have completed so far?" he asked. Yugi looked up and smiled, "Of course Kodai-sensei." Yami walked over and sat down next to Yugi.
"Hello Little One. I found something very interesting the other day. Wanna hear it?" Yami asked. Yugi stiffened and asked wearily, "What did you find?" "That game store, where you said you worked, I heard from the grape vine that's where you live." Yugi paled and thought, 'Shit! How does he know? Joey wouldn't tell him, so all that leaves is… DAMN YOU KAIBA!' "I'll visit you today and we can get started on the project." Yami said as he leaned in and whispered in Yugi's ear. "I can't wait until I see your room, Little One."
The bell rang signaling class to start, and Kodai-sensei motioned Yami to move back to his spot. 'Come on Yugi, you can handle him and his flirting for two weeks.' Yami smirked at how Yugi looked at him with defiance burning in his amethyst eyes and silently thanked Kaiba for the information. 'Let the games begin' Yami and Yugi both thought.
