"Seto?"

"Yes Puppy?"

"What do you want to do tomorrow?"

"For our anniversary?"

"Yeah." Jounochi laid his head on Seto's shoulder, peering at the paper he's reading. "Whatcha reading?"

"Just the business section. Kaiba Corp.'s doing well."

"That's good. That means we can have fun tomorrow, right?"

"Of course, Puppy." Seto set down the paper and took his husband's face in his hands. "I love you, you know that?"

Jou nodded like an eager puppy. "Mmmhmmm...I love you, too."

Seto smiled, running a hand down Jou's jaw. "You're so perfect," he murmured.

"No one's perfect, Seto."

Seto took off his glasses and smiled at Jou. "Silly little Puppy. MY puppy..."

"You're so possessive."

"Am I?" Seto asked, amused.

"Wanna have sex?" Jou switched subjects.

Seto laughed. "Not tonight, silly. I have work in the morning."

"You *always* have work!" he whined. He fell against Seto, laying his head against his chest. "I bet the last time we had sex was over two years ago!"

"Try two days, Puppy." Seto picked his glasses back up and began reading the paper again.

"Two days?! That's forever!" He pulled Seto's nightshirt up and began sucking on his nipples. "Come on..." he begged.

"Mmm..." Seto said distractedly.

Jou was used to being ignored, but Seto always did it in a playful manner. He stopped and turned to peer at the paper. "What are you reading?"

"Nothing," Seto said, quickly putting the paper away. He pinched at the area of his nose in between his eyes. "What were we talking about?"

Jou stared at Seto, confused. "About how I'm horny..."

"Oh...yeah..."

"Is everything alright?"

"Yeah, fine, why wouldn't it be?" Seto set his glasses down on the nightstand. "Lets just get some sleep, okay?"

"I...okay...wait, Seto?"

"Yes, Katsuya?" Seto's voice indicated he was getting irritated.

"I love you."

"Mmm..." He shut off the light.

"What are we doing tomorrow?" Jou asked nervously.

"Mmm...lets stay home, okay? We'll have the chef make us something nice...then we can have sex..."

Jou grinned, snuggling closer to the brunette. "Goody. I'm gonna pick you up after work, `kay?"

"Okay," Seto murmured.

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Jou smiled and nodded at the doorman. "Kounichi-wa."

"Seto's up in his office, I believe. Happy anniversary."

Jou grinned. "Arigoto. Have a nice afternoon," he said happily, going through the security checks. Man, Seto was really paranoid. He made his way up and noticed with passing interest that Seto's secretary wasn't at her desk. He shrugged and continued down the hall. He assumed he was in a meeting, except the door was partially open. He opened it and stepped back. "S-Seto..."

~~~

"Noooo!!!!!!!!" Jou screamed, sitting up in bed, sobbing. "Nononononononononononononoooo..."

Kaiba had been on top of his secretary, on top of his desk, fucking.

Jou began shaking in pain. "No!" he screamed.

The light in the room flashed on. "Jounochi-kun?" Ryou asked worriedly.

Bakura was right behind him, staring at him. "What in Ra's name happened?"

"I think he was dreaming..." Ryou said softly.

Bakura bolted from there, leaving Ryou. Ryou went over to Jounochi slowly. "Stop screaming, Jou-kun, please...don't scream."

Jou fell silent, then began gasping, holding his head in his hands.

Bakura came back, holding a glass in his hands. He pushed past Ryou and sat next to Jou on the bed. "Come on, drink. Take a drink." He brought the glass up to Jou's lips, making him drink.

Jou fell silent, then wrapped his arms around Bakura, sobbing into his shoulder. "Oh God..."

Bakura held Jou carefully. "It's okay...it's okay..." he muttered. "Just calm down..."

"He was fucking his secretary! I came in and saw him...he didn't stop...he didn't know I was there...! He found me sobbing in the hallway... He cheated on me! And he kept doing it! I let him! I let him because I love him! But he...I...we..."

Bakura eased himself away from Jou and passed him the drink. "Drink this. You'll feel better."

"All I ever do is drink," he mumbled darkly. "That's why he left me."

"No it isn't," Bakura rubbed his back, forcing the glass into Jou's hand. "It's because he can't handle criticism. He's a god to so many people...and it hurt his reputation."

"But he loves me," Jou insisted, throwing back the entire drink.

"Maybe...I don't know. It was one thing to have a gay fling when he was a teenager. But you're both getting older. And he wants a normal life."

"What the hell is normal?"

"Normal is something people don't question."

Ryou took Yugi's hand, who had silently joined him at the doorway. "I think Bakura can handle it," he whispered to Ryou.

Ryou nodded and turned from there, pulling Yugi back to bed.

"He loves me," Jou insisted. "You'll see."

"Then it must be killing him to be hurting you this way," Bakura murmured.

"Why are you listening to me?"

Bakura was silent. He looked out the window. "It's hard to see the stars in this 'city,'" he muttered.

"I suppose...never really cared before."

"We used to look at the stars. From his room..."

"Who?" Jou asked softly.

"The person who hurt me," he muttered, looking away from the sky. "You never understand, truly, how they could do it. Not why. That's perfectly understandable. But how. If they love you as much as they claimed, then it must be hurting them just as much--no, more--to hurt you." He threw back his head a laughed his twisted laugh. "So they get rid of you! I get it! It only hurts as long as you're there!"

"What are you talking about?"

Bakura turned to Jounochi, his expression unreadable. It wasn't bad, just...not common on Bakura's face. "You wanna go out to a bar or something?"

Jou glanced at the clock. It was only 12:03. "Um...sure...got any money?"

Bakura grumbled and nodded. "Yeah, my treat. Get dressed, I'll meet you outside."

Jou nodded. ~I'm going to ignore right now the strange fact I'm going out to get drinks with a creepy 3000-year-dead, homicidal albino Tomb Robber and Soul Stealer. I *really* don't care right now.~