Chapter 3- Being Spied on

Joey rubbed his eyes as he arose from his bed. He slung his feet over the edge and jumped out of bed. The second his feet hit ground, he fell to his knees, in pain.

Crap… I forgot about that… the blond though, grabbing his foot. He rubbed it, trying to ease away the pain but there wasn't much luck with that. Joey didn't move for a minute, since he was trying not to increase the pain even more but, when he glanced at the clock he knew that he just had to get up. Maybe I could just skip today…? He didn't even need to think about that for another second. He knew Kaiba would get mad at him, and he had that project to turn into today… even though he didn't do it. Apparently Kaiba did though.

Joey quickly changed into his clothes for school and ran out the door, completely forgetting about breakfast. I gotta get there before Kaiba leaves… Joey ran faster when he thought about that. He got there in about five minutes.

"Kaiba? Moneybags!" the blond yelled. No reply. "Hm, maybe his not out here yet…"

"What were you saying mutt?" someone breathed on the back of Joey's neck, causing color to spread across his face. He turned around to see Kaiba carrying to boxes, smirking.

"What's in the box…?" Joey asked, poking the box.

"You science project, and mine." Kaiba answered.

"Really? I didn't think you were going to do that…" Joey said, as he stared at Kaiba. He was expecting it to just be some kind of joke.

"I'm not one to go back on my word, Wheeler." he answered.

"Tch, whatever. Can I have it now?" Joey begged, as he started to take the box away. Kaiba turned around so the box was out of reach.

"You can have it on one condition." Kaiba smirked.

Joey's eyes narrowed. "I knew there'd be a catch. What is it, Kaiba?"

"Don't worry, it's simple. You just have to sit by me at lunch." Joey didn't exactly think it over before answering.

"Okay! Now let me have dat box!" he grabbed the box that was on top and walked ahead of Kaiba. The brunette sighed and shook his head.

The two chatted a bit more than usual on the way to school, until Joey got a pained look on his face. Maybe I shouldn't have ran to Kaiba's house…

"What's wrong mutt?" the brunette asked.

"It's… nothin'." Joey muttered, trying to resist the urge to sit down. "It'll just fade…" he whispered.

"Are you okay?" Kaiba paced his palm on Joey's forehead. "You don't have a fever or anything…" he noticed a slight bruise on Joey's face. "Where'd you get that…?" he reached out to touch it.

Joey slapped his hand away. "It's not anything important." he muttered. He walked ahead of Kaiba again, resisting the urge to stop. It started to hurt worse but, Joey knew he couldn't break down in front of his rival, that would be unforgivable.

What's wrong with him? Kaiba wondered. He knew that any other time he probably wouldn't have cared, but why this time? Was it because… Kaiba rolled his eyes when he though of that. How could he like that mutt? But, what other reason would he have to care so much about him…

"C'mon Kaiba, we'll be late if you just keep on standing there." Joey called back to the brunette.

"Right…" Kaiba muttered under his breath, jogging to catch up to the blond.

The two arrived in the classroom a few minutes earlier than expected. Joey's friends came up to him with curious faces.

"Where were you yesterday? I didn't see you after school?" Yugi asked.

"I was, ah… I had to rush home. Sorry bout that Yug." Joey scratched his head.

"Uh-huh, sure you did Joey." Malik said, appearing with his Hikari in front of him.

"Yup, I-" he stared wide-eyed at the two. "When did you all get back!" he cried. Ryo, and his Yami stepped out in front of him too.

"You would've seen us if you walked home with Yugi." Bakura answered.

"Well, sorry for missing ya guys. Did you have fun… where ever you went?" Joey asked, trying desperately to change the subject. He didn't want to get caught up in his own lie.

"Huh, it would've been a lot of fun if two of us would've behaved ourselves." Ryo answered, glaring at the Bakura and Marik.

"Ryo, it was a bit of harmless fun…" Bakura answered.

"Harmless?" Malik cut in. "Yeah right. You could've blinded that poor old man!"

"Okay, maybe id's better if I don't ask…" Joey sweat dropped. Joey walked over to his desk and sat down, trying to ignore the pain in his leg and the glare that Tristan was sending him. He'll get over the fact that he walked in with Kaiba again. Like it really matters who he walks to school with…

Lunch time rolled around at a seemly faster pace than normal. Joey was about to join his friends when he remembered that he had to sit with Kaiba for the Science project. He knew his friends were going to get suspicious after this… But, Kaiba kept his part of the bargain, he has to keep his.

"Hey, Kaiba." Joey called out, walked over to his desk, trying to evade his friends stares. "Where're we sittin'." he asked.

"Where ever your friends aren't." he answered.

"Wow, could you have been more precise?" Joey frowned. "That could be every table but one!"

"You can choose from any one of them." Kaiba smirked.

The gang, all but Joey, sat down at a table. Tea was the first one to speak up.

"Where's Joey?" she asked.

"Wasn't he with you, Yugi?" Yami asked. Yugi shook his head, Yugi hadn't had a decent conversation with his friend in a while. It was just 'hellos' and 'goodbyes'. "Hm… Where has he been lately?"

"Maybe he's with Kaiba, again." Tristan pouted lightly.

"Or maybe you should stop obsessing over them." Marik said. "If he wants to sit with some else for once, we shouldn't stop him. I was beginning to be afraid that he didn't have any other friends besides us."

"Yeah but-"

"Wow… That was about the first smart thing you've said all day." Bakura laughed. Marik lightly hit him.

"I can be smart, fluffy." Marik smirked. Bakura frowned at the nickname.

"How about we get someone to see what they're up to though." Tristan pleaded.

"Fine. Bakura and I will go see what they're up to today after school." Yami said. Bakura was about to say something but, Yami cut him off. "If Bakura doesn't want to go, I'll just have to use that… adorably creepy nickname that Marik came up with."

"…Gr, whatever, I'll go." Bakura muttered.

"Okay, then that's settled, how about we eat?" Ryo asked.

"I agree, I'm hungry." Malik said, unpacking the lunch his Yami made for him.

"What did you bring to eat?" Joey asked. This was the one day of the week that you couldn't buy lunch from the cafeteria, you had to bring your own. It was to give the lunch ladies a break or something like that.

"Food." Kaiba replied.

"Your just as smart as ever Kaiba… I wanted to know what kind of food that you brought. I kind of guess that you brought food."

Kaiba pulled out two sandwiches, small bags of chips, and drinks. "This. What about you?"

Joey frowned. "Nothing. I forgot that it was the lunch ladies day off today." Kaiba sighed and pushed some of the food to him.

"It's a good thing I brought all of this for you. Or else you would've starved." Joey smiled, stuffing the sandwich in his mouth.

"Danks Kaiba!" Joey smiled. He began to wonder why Kaiba was doing all of this today. First the Science project, then this? Hm… Oh well, Joey was to hungry to care about little matters like that.

"Pharaoh… If you don't kindly get off my foot, I'm going to shove you off." Bakura sneered.

"If you don't shut up, I'll kindly slap you." Yami frowned. The two were almost standing on each others feet so that they didn't get caught spying on the two ahead of them. "It's not my fault we're in this position." he whispered.

"Well, maybe you should do us both a favor and change it!" the thief called out, pushing the smaller one out into the street in plain sight. The tri-colored hair boy caught himself before gaining the attention of the two and slid back into the alley.

"Bakura!" he whispered harshly. "Your going to get us caught! Do you know how awkward it will be if we have to explain that we were following them!"

"It won't be that awkward…" Bakura murmured.

Now… Joey was apparently clueless about the duo behind them but Kaiba… well, he was well aware that he was being followed. He guessed it was them but, he could get very few glances at them. Kaiba sighed as he made the turn to enter the gates of the mansion. He wondered if they were going to follow him inside his own house.

"Now wouldn't that be interesting…" Kaiba muttered smiling lightly.

"Moneybags? Are you talking to yourself again?" Joey poked the CEO in his chest.

"It's nothing. Just go inside Joey."

Now for the other duo it was a challenge to get into Kaiba's mansion. Yami was seated on the concert while Bakura was trying to guess how high the walls got.

"I thought you were supposed to be a master thief. You can't even break into this!" Yami pestered. The white haired boy sighed, how much longer was he going to have to put up with this person? It was already getting to the point where he was going to smack him.

"It takes time to plan a thievery. I don't just randomly decide to break into peoples mansions." Bakura countered.

"Sure, but I just don't see why we can't walk in the front door." Yami swatted a fly that came close to his face out of boredom.

"Just be quiet for a minute while I think, pharaoh!" Bakura yelled out of pure annoyance.

"I can't believe that Master Kaiba has made a friend!" Bakura's ears twitched at the sudden sound. He glanced over the bush to see two of Kaiba's workers walking into the house. Bakura smirked evilly as he glanced over at Yami.

"Bakura… I don't think that it would be a-"

"Pshh, pharaoh, it's just a little bit of fun." the white haired thief called over his shoulder carelessly.

The tri-colored haired boy sighed. He should have picked Marik to go along with him instead.

Kaiba sighed as he looked at Joey. Joey had out all of Mokuba's games and was going through each one. The maids would have a fun time cleaning up the mess that Joey was making… He began to wonder how messy the puppy's house was.

"Hey, Kaiba?" Joey called out.

"What…?" Kaiba answered, not really caring.

"Where's Mokuba at? I haven't seen him at all…" the blond boy wondered aloud.

"He's at some friends house."

"What? You let your little brother have a friend! Woah, nice job, Kaiba!" Joey patted him on the back.

"You think my brother made a friend? I paid the kid." the brunette joked in a serious tone. Joey looked at him with wide eyes.

"Wait… are you serious! You stumped that low!" Joey slapped him on the back, hard. Kaiba choked on the air that he had stored in his lungs.

"God… What did you do that for! I only kidding!" Kaiba swatted Joey's hand away.

Joey looked embarrassed. "O-Oh…"

"Ahem… Dinner is ready mister Kaiba." a sickly, sugar coated voice said. It was also husky at the same time… Kaiba looked at the door, hoping it wasn't what he thought it was, oh, but it was. There stood the two Yami's dressed up like maids. Joey and Kaiba erupted in laughter. The other duo frowned, and marched into the room, Yami grabbed Joey's collar and Bakura did the same to Kaiba.

"Okay, save us anymore embarrassment and just tell us what we came here to hear, okay?" Yami growled lightly. "We need to know what's up with you two? Didn't just two days ago you wanted to be the one to send Kaiba to his grave? And the same for you with Joey!"

The two thought about that. It had been only two days… and from hating each other they ended up spending a lot of time with each other, what does that mean? Kaiba knew the answer… Joey… didn't.

"Um… I dunno wat happened." Joey answered shakily, afraid that his friend may kill him.

Yami released him and he fell to the ground. I don't expect to get an answer out of him… I'll just have to see if Bakura can get it out of Kaiba…

"Well, what have you got to say?" Bakura asked the brunette. Kaiba thought… and thought… but, whatever he thought of, he didn't like the answer to it. It was all about him liking Joey… How could he like Joey! That was impossible. I mean, maybe he liked him a little bit… He looked over at Joey for a second… Or he liked him a lot.

"I have no idea what your talking about." Kaiba smirked as he lied though his teeth. Bakura sighed as the teenager go.

"Sure, you guys don't know." Bakura knew what Kaiba was thinking… call it his instincts, but he knew that Kaiba liked Joey, or he just had a hunch. "Let's go Yami." Bakura called out to the other boy.

"What! But we didn't-"

"Yeah, we did, Yami. Now hurry up before they start looking for their uniforms!" Bakura cut off the Pharaoh. The tri-colored haired boy ran after him angrily, annoyed that he had been interrupted for the second time in the past couple of days.

Joey sat up and started bewildered at the door. He had some pretty weird friends…

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XD Wow, what a silly chapter to write. Even though it took forever. The point of view thing was flipped around a lot too. ^^ So, I hope you all liked it~ Pwease make my day and review!

Oh, and a small note... I'm not really sure how other people do this but, Marik= Yami

Malik= Hikari

:3 Okay, I've explained that.