Wild white hair, intense eyes, a manically laugh and darkness and red violet eyes that had the same intensity and golden lightning.

"I can't breathe! I can't move! What's going on?" Seto swung his arms out feisty as he made an attempt to free himself from what once were unbreakable binds to simple bed sheets and a face full of hair. Seto sat up and pushed his hair out of his face. It was almost time to get up and ready for the day so he did. Getting a shower and making breakfast all before his Mokuba even wiped the sleep from his eyes.

"Are you feeling alright?" Mokuba asked his he entered the room dressed for school.

"Yes why won't I be?"

"You punched me in the stomach twice last night. Did you have a dream last night?"

"I'm so sorry!"

"I'm fine. It only hurt for a bit. Did you have a dream last night?"

"Maybe, I'm not really sure." Seto explained his he poured a cup of tea for his brother, "I got twisted up in the sheets so that could have been the reason why."

"Well try to avoid that from now on okay." Mokuba laughed.

Seto arrived at work before most of the other staff had arrived. He was glad to see that those that closed up the night before had down all their side work, as he opened his took the chair down.

"Morning Honda." Seto greeted as he entered the kitchen, "How did last night's special go?"

"Better than expected! I'm working on a dessert today. Not sure what it'll be yet."

"I'm sure whatever you make will be delicious." Seto said to Honda.

Honda smiled big at the words of encouragement as he watched Seto tie his apron around his waist. Honda was brought out of his trances when one of the other servers rushed to the back.

"Scattered! He's drunk!"

Before Seto could leave the kitchen area to avoid any drunken interactions he found himself in-between the management office door and Nosaka.

"Well well well good morning Seto. Did you sleep well?" he asked putting up an arm to prevent Seto's escape, "Or did you get any sleep?"

Seto laughed nervously unable to think of anything to say, drunk people made him so uneasy. "I have something for you." Nosaka said as he unlocked the office door before pushing Seto inside. He pushed the door closed as he glazed at his captured prey.

"I have to get ready for the morning rush." Seto finally managed to say as he attempted to get passed the older man.

"No, your rush is right here." He said grabbing at his crotch before laughing. He pushed Seto back against the desk, "Why don't you lay back while I remind you how a real man can fuck."

"No, I'll pass." Seto snapped as he reached for the door knob opening the open an inch. Only to have his hand smashed in it.

"I said lay down." Nosaka threw Seto back against the office desk and immediately pounced on him like an animal.

"Get off of me!" Seto shouted as he kicked and punched. Seto could hear his co-workers banging on the door trying to get in. Nosaka was pulling the front of Seto's slacks as he tried to rip through the belt. In the struggle mostly everything had been knocked onto the floor, except for a three-hole-punch. Seto grabbed the metal object and hit Nosaka as hard as he could with it. Nosaka went over on his side instantly as he fell to the floor. Seto pulled open the door and just realized his hand was bleeding. Honda and everyone was there watching waiting for Seto to say something.

"What happened are you alright?" Honda asked as he kept an eye on Nosaka while on of the sous chefs checked to see if he was alive, "Seto say something!"

"I….I have to leave." He said as he rushed pass his concerned peers.

Seto ran down the street as he came to the realization that he was now unemployed and knowing how the system worked that Nosaka having plenty of money at his disposal could ruin him. He hadn't realized he'd stopped running until someone grabbed his arm.

"Seto, why did you run away? We all saw what happened. We need to call the police and report what happened!" Honda told him.

"I can't."

"What do you mean you can't? You were just assaulted!"

"I can't have the police involved. It's not a big deal. I got away. I'll just find a new job. It's whatever." Seto tried to hide the panic in his voice but Honda wasn't fooled.

"Bullshit it's whatever. You were attacked. How could you let him get away with that?" Honda asked as he tightened his grip on Seto's arm making sure he couldn't get away before he had explained himself.

"I had a deal with him."

Honda released Seto's arm he knew what he meant but didn't want to believe it, "Why? Did he blackmail you, or something? Please tell me you didn't just do it for the money."

"I wasn't going to have enough for my brother's tuition! He offered to pay for the remaining tuition. I couldn't say no."

"Yes you could have! You've been doing just fine without shedding your dignity." Honda snapped, "Why would you put yourself in a situation like this? Does Katsuya know?"

"He doesn't know and doesn't need to know." Seto told him. He was taken aback by Honda's mention of Jonouchi; they hadn't spoken since Honda had left school the year before Seto had. Jonouchi hadn't been in favor of his decision and in-turn a falling out had occurred. He didn't handle it much better when Seto had dropped out for obvious reasons.

"Seto, I've always hated that you dropped out to work. You had so much going. I understand why you did but I don't want to see you sale yourself…short. Apply to all those places you were going to before you left school."

Honda grabbed Seto's hand and wrapped the cut the best he could and turned and left with nothing else to say. He thought and thought but couldn't come up with a way to

While Seto was walking home he kept replaying everything that happened at the café to what Honda had said to him.


Many hours later Seto was awaken by the sound of the apartment door being opened and a pair of rushing footsteps coming towards the bedroom.

"What happened!" Jonouchi asked as he grabbed Seto in near panic.

"What are you talking about?"

"Honda sent me a text while I was in class. Are you alright?"

"I'm fine. Get off me and I'll tell you."


"It's so nice to have you staying with us." Shizuka cheered as Seto and Mokuba joined her and her family at the dinner table.

"We're delighted to have you." Her mother added, "It's really unprofessional of your landlord to displace you two like this while he fixes the heating."

"We'll at least he's not a slumlord and he's fixing it." Her husband added.

"And now everyone is closer to school now." Jonouchi said nudging Seto under the table, "Well except for you Mokuba."

"Well, I'm use to the long commute." Mokuba laughed.

"How are your studies coming along Seto?" Jonouchi's mother asked him, "You use to come over to help Katsuya all the time now we never see you."

Jonouchi coughed. He and Seto never studied anything but anatomy together.

"Well with his improved grades and class ranking. I needed to focus more on my own and my brother's studies, of course." Seto answered without hesitation, "We really appreciate you allowing my brother and I to stay here for a while."

"You're very much welcome."


After dinner and Seto had put Mokuba to bed, he laid across Katsuya's bed searching for a new apartment and job online. Katsuya was less than thrilled. He was hoping with everything that happened today Seto would consider coming back to school and stay with him and his family. Not look for a new job and place to live.

"This is impossible." Seto sighed, "The rent on most of these places I can afford are in the ghetto."

"Wait...you didn't consider your last place in the ghetto?"

"The door locks worked. It was in walking distance from my last job. So no."

Katsuya laid down beside Seto, "Seto, why don't you just tell me parents what happened and stay here with us. My mom probably will make a case out of it. You'll probably own the café by the time she's through."

Seto ignored him until he felt Katsuya's fingers tracing he spine through his shirt, "What are you doing?"

"Seducing you. Is it working?"

"May need to try harder and on a different day." Seto told him, "And not in your parent's home."

"That never bothered you before." He said kissing Seto's neck as he pushed his back against the bed.

"Don't you have school in the morning?" Seto asked him as he pushed him off, "I'm not going to be the reason you're late." Seto slide off the bed only to feel a sharp pain shoot up his bare foot.

Seto plopped back down on the bed as he nursed his hurt foot, "What the hell is in your pants?"

"About eight inches."

Seto turned to look at the horny blond, "Let's not make jokes." Seto retrieved the discarded pants from the floor and pulled the offending object out of the project, "What is this?" he asked holding up an oddly shade flat golden eye. Seto looked at it closely. He felt as though he'd seen it before a long time ago or in a dream.

"Oh I forgot I had that. I was teasing Yugi. He brought a new puzzle to school, he's been working on it all semester and I took that piece so he couldn't finish it." Katsuya laughed. Upon looking at Seto he could see he wasn't pleased, "It was a joke. I'm going to give it back."

"You're such a fucking bully." Seto snapped as he hit Katsuya with a spare pillow as he got up to leave.

"You're not seriously mad are you?" Katsuya asked grabbing Seto's arm stopping from leaving, "You don't need to get so worked up. It was only a joke."

"This isn't funny Jonouchi. You torment that boy." Seto nearly shouted, "Its people like you that drive kids like him to suicide or to shoot up schools."

"I said I was giving it back. I'll do it tomorrow. You're making a huge deal out of nothing."

Seto gave Katsuya a look that could have frozen hell over. No words needed to be spoken.


Jonouchi slipped his arms around Seto's waist during the night, when he thought he was asleep. He leaned in and kissed Seto's neck softy.

"I'm awake." Seto told him as he turned to face Jonouchi, "I'm still mad at you. Why do you tease that poor boy?"

Jonouchi sat up and pulled Seto up with him, "Seto, please believe me. I was only joking when I took it. It's a piece to this weird pyramid he's been working on for the better part of the term. I really thought he was close to finishing when I swiped it. I figured he was going to finish it during lunch but he didn't and I forgot to give it back. That's all there is too it."

"You're still an asshole for doing that. I want you to leave him alone from now on."

"I will."

"Promise me, Katsuya." Seto demanded.

"I promise." He reassured as he pulled Seto over until he was straddled him, "Can we make up now?"

Seto's eyes drifted down, "When did you take your pants off?"


I'm back readers! If you're still there.

New chapter mid-December