A/N: This is second chapter. Please read this chapter to the end.
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Chapter 2: Crystals
It was beautiful sunny morning. Birds were chirping and there was no wind. At Kaiba household, one blonde figure was sleeping contently in the arms of his lover. Brunette figure groaned and groggily opened his eyes. He looked at angel in his arms, who sleeping silently. Brunette smirked:
'He wasn't quiet last night…'thought brunette remembering events from the last night. He smiled and hugged blonde boy tighter, who just let content sigh, but he didn't wake up.
Seto then started his morning musings- it passed three years since they had their first date and since they had been together. Today was their two-year anniversary. He planned to do lots and lots of things on this day.
He then looked again at his blonde angel. He just can't resist the urge to kiss his forehead. On touch, blonde shifted and opened his eyes:
-Hey there…-muttered blonde, yawning.
-Hey angel. Feel good? - asked Seto. Joey grinned:
-Yeah! I feel like I'm in heaven.
Seto smiled:
-I'm glad to hear that.
Joey giggled and then smirked:
-And as time pass, I feel better and better.
At this, brunette laughed:
-Are you flirting with me? - asked Seto playfully. Joey got his innocent look all over his face:
-Maybe… maybe not…- he teased as he traveled with his fingers up and down on Setos' chest. Seto chuckled. Joey sighed and looked straight in Setos' eyes:
-Seeetooo…- he whined. Seto knew exactly what that meant. He knew what that voice meant. His assumption was confirmed when he felt kisses on his neck. He chuckled. Joey looked up at Seto, mischievousness glowing in his eyes as his hand traveled down Setos' stomach and stopped just little below his navel. Seto groaned impatiently and he snuck his hand around Joeys' waist, flipping him on his back, straddling him.
-You want to play puppy? Let's play then…-whispered huskily brunette leaning towards Joey. Joey growled playfully, grinned and locked his hands around CEOs' neck.
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At nine o'clock, happy couple finally decided to get up and grab some breakfast. While they were eating, Seto said:
-I have something arranged today.
Joey looked at him:
-Job?
Seto shrugged:
-Kinda.
Joeys' eyes fell on the plate before him. He was little disappointed that Seto forgot their two-year anniversary.
Seto looked at him and smirked. He's acting like he forgot, but the truth is that he planned a little surprise for his puppy.
-Be prepared around 6 o'clock. We have dinner with some business partners of mine.
Joey nodded. He was used to follow Seto on dinners like this and he wasn't surprised about that. He was just disappointed that he couldn't spend some time with Seto on their special day. Seto got up from the table, round it and approached Joey:
-You don't have to wear jacket. Just shirt.-he said and kissed him. Joey kissed him back and when Seto pulled back, he just nodded. Seto took his briefcase and stalked out the manor in business-like manner.
Joey sighed. He cleaned up plates and put them in the washing machine and leaved the kitchen.
When he was in the main hall of the mansion he saw Mokuba fiddling with some papers scattered all around the floor.
-Need any help Mokuba?
Mokuba looked up and smiled:
-Thanks Joey. I will appreciate that.
Joey nodded and crouched beside Mokuba and started picking up papers with Mokuba. Mokuba looked at Joey and saw that something was wrong.
-Joey, is everything all right?
Joey sighed:
-It's just that Seto forgot about our anniversary. Today is two years how we are together.
Mokuba sighed and shocked his head:
-That's Seto for you all right. But, don't worry. He will remember and when he does, he will do anything to make it up for you- said Mokuba, smile playing on his lips.
Joey smiled weakly, but in that moment he lost his breath. His eyes widened and he brought one hand to his chest. Mokuba looked at him worriedly.
-Joey, are you all right?
Joey didn't answer. All he was thinking about how to grab more air. He started to breathe faster and more often.
-Joey, can you hear me? Man, you are pale. Roland! Roland come quick!
The called man run in the hall and up to them. Joey looked blue-pale. He was breathing hard and the only thing he could say was:
-Need… air…
Roland picked up Joey and run out of the mansion with Mokuba closely following them. He said:
-Roland we are taking him to the hospital! I'll call my brother.
They all entered limo, with Mokuba dialing his brothers cell.
With Seto:
Seto just hanged up. This was last call for this day that he needed to take care off. He smiled when he remembered what he planned for tonight for him and his puppy. First they will have dinner at their usual place and then he planned to take him to the beach to watch sun setting. Joey likes sun setting. Seto snickered at the thought and started the car. After that… well everyone knows what's after that, right?
As he was smirking very pleased with himself his cell phone rang. She grabbed it with one hand and glanced at the screen. His eyes widened when he read 'Mokuba's emergency number'
-Oh no…- he whispered. Mokuba calls him with this number only when there is something VERY important. He flipped his cell open:
-Mokuba what happened?
From the other side came terrified and scared voice of Mokuba that made Seto petrified.
-S-Seto! It's Joey! He is all pale and no good-looking! He almost fainted due to lack of air… we are taking him to hospital…
Seto's eyes widened and he yelled:
-I'm coming Mokuba! Just hang in there!
He flipped shut his cell end pressed on gas. He was particularly flying through the town. Everything can wait but Joey's health can't…
With Mokuba:
Mokuba gently stroked Joey's hair. Joey still had problems with breathing and he was awfully pale. Mokuba didn't know what to do and yelled at Roland:
-For God's sake speed up!
Roland was already driving insanely fast he couldn't do more.
Mokuba looked at the blond who was sweating and muttering 'Seto…' every now and then. After few more minutes they arrived at the hospital. Roland took Joey and carried him out, while Mokuba run in to hospital yelling:
-It's an emergency!
Several doctors and nurses run up to Roland and Mokuba and took Joey. They placed him on one of the moving beds and drove him in emergency hall. Roland said:
-Go out and wait for Master Seto to come.
Mokuba nodded and run outside. He whispered:
-Hurry Seto…
Meanwhile, Seto was driving through the town like there were bunch of monsters on his heels. He gripped for wheel and sped up again. He just wanted to be beside Joey as soon as possible. He managed to reach hospital in matter of 10 minutes. When he parked his car and got out, he saw Mokuba standing outside, rubbing his hands.
-Mokuba!
Mokuba looked up and yelled:
-You're here! Thank goodness!
Seto hugged his little brother:
-Where is he? Where is Joey?
Mokuba sniffed:
-Doctors took him in emergency room. I stayed here to wait for you.
Seto nodded and grabbed Mokuba's hand and entered the hospital. They found emergency room in mater of few minutes and they saw Roland in front of the room. Seto walked up to him:
-Roland! Any news?
Roland just shocked his head.
Seto sighed and started pacing around. Mokuba sat on some leather armchair and started tapping with his foot nervously.
The tension was growing with every passing minute without new about Joey. Seto was glancing at his watch every few seconds and he was muttering under his breath but neither Mokuba nor Roland understood what he was saying. Mokuba guessed that those were curses. Seto felt that his will for breaking down the door of the emergency room was growing by every passing second. No one dared to speak.
After half an hour, doctor exited the emergency room and looked around. Seto approached him instantly:
-Doctor, how is he?
Doctor looked at Seto:
-Are you part of his family?
Seto fidgeted: -Kind of. I'm his boyfriend. We are supposed to be engaged from today- he said quietly.
Doctor sighed and nodded: -All right, but without presence of children please.
Seto looked at Roland and nodded. Roland nodded back and took Mokuba out, who was glaring at his brother.
Seto turned to doctor:
-Spill. Everything in details.
Doctor nodded and coughed in his hand lightly and said:
-Joey has very weak heart. It is just matter of time when it will stop beating.
Seto's eyes widened and he leaned on the wall behind him. He pressed his hand on mouth and tears welled up in his eyes. He looked at doctor: -Is there anything that can be done to save him?
Doctor sighed:
-There is always possibility of transplantation but there is one problem here- Joey's blood type is O negative and we don't have donators of that type of heart, with that blood type. If we risk and go with another blood type, there is only forty percent possibility that surgery will be successful. There are big chances that his body will refuse new heart. Even with same blood-type there is a risk.
Seto was biting his lower lip. He closed his eyes and shocked his head:
-I will take care to find the donator. Where can is suitable for operation to be performed?
Doctor looked at Seto like he had lost his mind and then coughed in his hand: -We don't have equipment here in Domino. The only possibility is Tokyo but that costs and-
-I don't care for money- Seto cut off doctor and turned his back to him: -I will take care of everything. You just prepare and heal Joey's body so he can endure the operation.
Doctor felt chills go down his spine as Seto stalked down the corridor and sighed.
Two weeks later:
Joey and Seto were on the airport, waiting for plain towards Tokyo. Blonde was squeezing brunettes hand tightly. Seto looked at blonde angel beside him and then looked around, his eyes empty.
Joey looked up at Seto and frowned:
-Hunny, what's the matter? Are you still worried about me?
Seto looked down at Joey and gave him small smiled:
-I will be always worried about you.
Joey sighed and hugged Seto around his waist:
-I told you not to worry. If you arranged this transplantation there is no need for you to be worried about. I trust you. Completely.
Seto smiled and kissed him. Then he leaned his forehead on Joey's and whispered:
-I'm very happy that you do. I love you.
Joey smiled and whispered back:
-I love you too- and he propped himself on tiptoes and kissed him.
Few moments later it was heard female voice from the speaker:
-Flight for Tokyo is on terminal 7. Plane goes in 5 minutes. Passengers, please aboard.
Seto looked at Joey and sighed: -It's time for you to go.
Joey nodded and let his lover and picked up his bags and headed to the terminal seven. As he was about to pass through it, he looked over his shoulder and yelled out:
-You will wait for me, won't you?
But when he looked around, Seto was nowhere in sight. Joeys' eyes saddened a bit and he sighed and headed towards the plane.
Few days later:
Sound of clicking rang through the corridor. Nurse all dressed in white entered one room and looked at one person who was sitting on the bed, looking through the window. She sighed and asked:
-Are you ready?
Person nodded and followed the nurse out of the room.
One week later:
Brown eyes opened groggily and person groaned. There was slight humming of the machines that were attached to his chest. He looked around and saw white roses beside his bed and on the other side of the room there was his bag and girl sleeping in the chair. It was Serenity, his little sister.
He returned in his previous position and closed his eyes- he needed to rest if he plans to keep up with activities that he planned to do with Seto. He smiled and fell asleep.
One month later:
Joey exited the airport and looked around. It was good to be back in Domino again. He wondered how his friends were but more importantly how his love was doing. As he was passing by, he felt stares and disbelieving looks on his back and there were hushed whispers in all corners. He frowned and entered the cab and drove off to his apartment.
When he arrived there, there was bunch of people standing in front of the building. Everyone was here to greet him but not the person he wanted to see the most. He looked through the crowd again and chattered with his friends. But there was something that was bothering him- he hadn't heard from Seto in weeks. He looked at Yuugi, his childhood friend, and asked:
-Yuug', do you know where Seto is?
Yuugi looked at the rest of their friends and then back at Joey:
-Let's take this inside shall we? - he smiled dismissively and led the group up in Joey's apartment. Now, more than ever, Joey felt that something was wrong and he headed up with them, not planning to leave Yuugi alone until he told him where Seto is.
As they entered the apartment and everyone sat down, Joey grabbed Yuugi's hand and dragged him in other room:
-Yuugi, where is Seto? - Joey repeated his question. Yuugi looked at the floor and sighed. Small sob escaped his little body. Joey's eyes widened and he grabbed Yuugi for his shoulders:
-Yuugi, tell me now, where is Seto!?
Yuugi looked up at Joey with tears in his eyes and then looked at the floor again and whispered:
-He… h-he is dead.
Joey let go of Yuugi and backed up to the wall of the room, his eyes wide in disbelief, as he stared at Yuugi.
-H-Ho-ow?- Joey chocked out and pressed hand on his mouth, tears already gliding down his cheeks.
Yuugi chocked on his own sobs and said:
-He… he was… he was the one who gave heart for you… he was the donator … he said that he couldn't stand to see you dead and he would rather accept to die himself than to allow you to die… - he sniffed.
Joey was staring at his childhood friend, his mouth hanging open in disbelief, tears gliding down his cheeks. He slid down the wall and brought up his legs up to his chest and hugged them tightly. At first he was shaking and then, soul-wreaking sobs escaped from blond. Pain and feeling of being left from one who he loved the most, pierced through his soul like knifes, leaving the wounds that will not heal as long as he lived…
Few days later:
Lone man stood by the grave in the sunset. He crouched and whipped of the dust from neat, solid black stone. His eyes watered as he read:
- Seto Kaiba-
-25th October 1982- 22nd May 2008- [1]
*Love does not die easily. It is a living thing. It thrives in the face of all life's hazards and over the grave.*
Small sob escaped blondes trembling body and he sighed shakily. He smiled as he whiped off imaginary dust from brunettes picture on the stone:
-Seto... I will cherish you forever... wait for me my love...- he smiled again and closed his eyes in silent prayer.
He stood up and looked at dark sky. Wind blew and carried along petals of sakura trees. He smiled sadly and turned to leave. He glanced over his shoulder, deep throb in his heart making him wince. He smiled: "I know… I love you too…" and he exited the graveyard silently.
OWARI
[1] I know only when Seto was born end only date not year. I only put up some random year.
A/N: I'm gonna kill myself. This is the first and LAST time I write something like this.
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