Disclaimer - I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh or the characters included, nor do I claim to. The right solely belongs to Kazuki Takahashi.

Rated - T for suggestive situations and maybe some swearing.

Hidden Love

Chapter 03 - Judgement

"I can't believe them" Jounouchi complained angrily as he dropped into the chair located in the sitting room and placed his head in his hands.

Kaiba walked into the room and seated himself on the sofa, he had a pounding headache and the sort of day both he and Jounouchi had experienced had been without a doubt the worst.

"Just try not let their words bother you" Kaiba stated attempting to calm his blond lover down as he watched him get up from the armchair and begin to pace the room, back and forth.

"I wish I could but I can't, they're meant to be my friends. They're meant to have my back" Jounouchi snapped before he added "they aren't meant to say all those horrible words about us, it hurt, a lot. Especially since I thought they were my friends, I never knew they were so homophobic"

"Yugi accepted us" Kaiba pointed out, he wasn't happy either about the way Jounouchi's friends had reacted when they had finally decided to tell them about their relationship but he was more concerned for his puppy. Jounouchi had already been nervous enough about their reactions but some coaxing from Kaiba had brought him round until he'd actually told them that is.

"Yeah but Yug's like that, I thought everyone else would have been all right with it, but I guess I thought wrong" Jounouchi sighed before he popped himself onto the sofa beside Kaiba.

Kaiba pulled Jounouchi into him as he wrapped his arms around his waist running his fingers through the blond's unruly hair trying in any way to comfort him, whilst Jounouchi laid his head on Kaiba's shoulder. "If they don't accept you the way you are puppy, then they are not fit to be your friends, are they"

Jounouchi growled quietly but made no attempt to answer.

Thinking that Jounouchi had finally calmed down, Kaiba sighed and switched on the TV, they could do with a distraction and TV seemed just like the right distraction they needed.

Kaiba flicked through the various channels not really bothered what was on but just trying to move their minds onto anything but the horrible day they had had. After a while of flicking channels Kaiba stopped on a news channel just as a news reporter began speaking.

"News in that the teenager Seto Kaiba, CEO of Kaiba Corporation is off the market, he was seen with an unknown blond male earlier this afternoon. Here is a photo of the two of them kissing when they thought nobody was looking. Who even knew Seto Kaiba was gay? All I can say is that there is going to be a lot of heartbroken girls and maybe some boys out there."

With that said the news reporter burst out crying before running off leaving a gentleman to take over and inform people of the upcoming weather that week.

"Shit" Kaiba shouted as he turned the TV off and flung the remote across to the other side of the room, he was angry, no he was furious. How dare they invade his privacy like that? He'd be having words with some people. A lot of people were going to find themselves sacked.

Jounouchi sat up straight, his shoulders tense. What was going to happen now? Everyone was going to know by now all because of the nosey paparazzi people.

"Seto, what will happen now?" Jounouchi asked in a quiet and unsure tone of voice, feeling quite lost.

"I don't know" Kaiba replied growling deep in his throat.

"Oh"

Kaiba turned around to face Jounouchi swiftly and stated in a confident voice "no matter what happens from here on out, we will get through it. Things are going to get much harder now since everyone knows but we can and will get through this"

Jounouchi smiled in response as he questioned "how can you be so positive?"

"Because I am not going to allow anything to come between us, you are far too important to me"

Jounouchi grinned as he relaxed back into the sofa closely followed by Kaiba; Jounouchi laid his head on Kaiba's lap as the brunet threaded his fingers through Jounouchi's hair causing the blond to sigh in content. He smiled as he felt Kaiba peck at his lips.

As Jounouchi kissed Kaiba back, he hoped that they could last forever, he was finally happy with his life and he'd be damned if anything was going to cause him to lose the one person who had made him feel so happy and complete.

Author's Note:

Telling their friends hadn't been the best of ideas after all, so much judgement in the world over things that really shouldn't matter. It's not fair.

Next part - 'Happiness' coming soon.

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x- Casondrah Kiku -x