Seto walked into his chambers towards the window as Joey followed, he stopped and stood there for awhile as he stared outside. Joey felt like he should break the silence "Hey uh, Thanks for helping us out back there Seto, I mean if you hadn't have stepped in me or one of my other friends would have-"

"Why do the Gods insist on torturing me?"

Seto interuppted as he leaned over on the window ledge, his hands holding him up for support. Joey was confused by the sudden question "Eh? Am I... That much of a burden to you?"

Seto stayed in his position and said nothing as a slight breeze flew through his hair from the window. Joey stood there waiting for an answer but before long he felt a sense of guilt in his heart that maybe he did place a burden on the high priest. "Y'know... If I am... too much of a burden for you then-"

"You're not a burden to me!"

once again the high priest interuppted Joey, however his shouting ran a jolt through Joey's body as he thought he might have made Seto mad "I'm sorry! I'm sorry!"

Joey frantically waved his hands side to side as he panicked, afterall he was a slave now, he didn't want to get Seto mad at him or he might do something terrible. That strange silence again, Joey was getting worried now as he sweated nervously. Seto finally broke the silence as he turned to Joey with serious eyes "Do you remember me?"

Joey blinked a couple of times in further confusion before answering "Remember you?"

Of course Joey knew Seto Kaiba but he hardly knew much about Egyptian Seto, he tried to think over the answer but it only brought up more questions "What do you mean?"

Was all he could say, but the thoughts flying through his head didn't really help relax him at all, he wondered what will happen if he can't answer the high priests question properly.

Seto's eyes narrowed slightly at Joey's question, with that Joey was beginning to think that wasn't the best response he should have given him "Uh...um... I-I mean Uhh-"

Joey struggled to change his answer but without success as he was not knowledgeable enough on knowing how to answer an Egyptian authourity figure correctly. Seto began walking towards Joey now with his still serious expression, Joey gulped as Seto appraoched him as he was taking a few steps back. Joey began thinking to himself that he must have messed up big time, he stopped in his tracks as now he was backed up against the wall, wishing he gave Seto a better answer. Seto reached out his hand towards Joey. Joey shut his eyes to prepare for the worst, but to his surprise he didn't get punished. He opened his eyes wide and noticed that Seto was... hugging him? Joey was frozen for a moment in shock, Seto wasn't punishing him afterall? But why? A jolt ran through Joey's body when he suddenly heard Seto speak "Give it time... Jono"

With that Seto released him and walked back towards the window to stare outside once again "Go see your friends, I'm sure they're wondering about you"

Seto finished. Joey blinked a couple times but obey'd the order and walked out of the room to see his friends.

(Later)

Joey walked into the room his friends were in, as soon as he got there he leaned back against the wall and slid down with a deep sigh of relief. Yugi ran towards him with slight worry towards Joey's actions "Joey! What happaned? Are you alright?"

Joey took a deep breath before answering Yugi "This Seto sure is different than the Seto Kaiba from our time... He's kind of strange"

Yugi tilted his head in curiousity as he questioned Joey further "Strange? Did he say something weird to you?"

Joey remembered back to the question Seto asked him followed by what he did and said afterwards "He asked if I remembered him..." He continued "I was pretty confused by that question so I gave him a dumb answer... I was sure he was mad at me for it but he..."

Joey paused before he continued to say that Seto hugged him, he didn't really want to say that part, so he skipped it "He called me... Jono?"

Tristan had overheard and began to question Joey as well "Jono?" he paused before continuing "Why did he call you that?"

Joey thought it over but no answer came to mind "I don't know"

Yugi thought it over as well "He seems to be very nice to you, Joey"

he continued "He asked if you remembered him... What does that mean?"

They all paused for a long while until suddenly Joey broke the silence "Ahhh! I don't know what that guy is thinking!"

Joey clutched his head as he shouted "I thought Kaiba was hard to read but the past Seto is even harder to understand!"

Tea watched as the boys talked about Joey's situation with Seto "Well... It wouldn't hurt to ask... would it?"

Tristan looked at Tea with a questionable expression "Yeah I guess, I mean if Joey didn't get a beating for asking him a dumb question then he should be fine if he asked Seto what's up"

Joey stood up on his feet again as he agreed wih his friends "Yeah! You're right! Everything should be under control! Afterall, the Pharoah wouldn't have it if Seto hurt me!"

Joey laughed in victory before making a 'bring it' kind of expression "I got protection on me with the Atem seal of approval, baby!"

Tea frowned with a slight grin on her face "Don't get full of yourself now, Joey"

End Chapter 3