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My, this took a long, long time! Hi hi giggles… but it's finished now! Chapter IV! I'm so happy!
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Main pairing: SetoxKatsuya
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Ancient Feelings
Chapter IV
Truths and Lies
„What do you want?" Kaiba asked coldly, eyeing the 'World's best friends'-group angrily.
"Good evening, Kaiba–kun." Yuugi began. "Jounouchi-kun told us about your items and we think we know how to help the two of you." He explained to the young CEO who grinned slightly. So he had been right. Then the said man raised a questioning eyebrow.
"But this still didn't answer my question. Could you get a little bit more detailed?" he demanded.
"Listen, rich boy, I and the pharaoh are the only ones here who can read the hieroglyphs at your items, so stop bitching around and let us in!" Bakura said in an annoyed manner.
Kaiba just snorted as a response. Ryou better taught his albino the meaning of the word 'politeness'.
"What the tomb robber wanted to say was…" Yami explained now, but not without throwing a dirty look at Bakura."…that on Jounouchi's pendant is a half of a hieroglyphic text and we guess that the other part has to be on your bracelet."
The brunette eyed him some seconds as for searching for the truth in his eyes, before he stepped aside to let them in.
As they stood in Kaiba's huge living room they were more than just impressed. The left side of the room was actually more a huge fire place than a wall. In the middle of the room was massive couch, a very comfortable looking arm chair and a glass table while several paintings decorated the walls. The young billionaire gave them two minutes to stare around the room, before he broke the silence impatiently.
"And now?" he asked.
"Well, we need the bracelet, Kaiba." Yami demanded.
The brunette arched an eyebrow slightly, but started to unbutton his shirt, exposing his right arm. The whole group was astonished as they saw the beautiful golden item on Kaiba's pale skin.
"And now, Jounouchi-kun, we need your pendant, please." Yuugi pleaded his best friend.
The blonde duellist just sighed, before he walked over to Yami and Kaiba. The blonde didn't like the whole situation at all and hoped desperately that they would find a quick solution to the problem. He gave Yami his pendant, the necklace still hanging around his neck. The ancient pharaoh took it and made it touch with Kaiba's bracelet. As they collided with each other they started to glow in a faint green magical light, the hieroglyphs becoming sharper and more readable.
So Yami began to read them out loud.
"Ancient feelings long ago
captured in walls of gold
will fade away, if they are
replaced in real and two hearts
beat in one."
Yami paused to let the words sink in and a thick silence filled the room.
"Uh..well...what does it mean?" Honda suddenly asked, breaking the silence and followed by an annoyed sigh by Anzu and the noise of Otogi, slapping his hand against his forehead.
"They are be supposed to fall in love, if they want to get rid of these items, idiot!" Bakura muttered, earning an angry glare from Ryou.
"NO WAY IN HELL!" Jounouchi shouted. "Not with this…this show-off-bastard!"
"Watch your mouth, mutt!" Kaiba hissed warningly.
"Why? It's true. The only human being you care about is Mokuba. The rest of your life belongs to Kaiba Corp., so who would want to fall in love with you anyway! You are selfish, cold, mean-…"
The blond was suddenly interrupted by a tight grip on his collar caused by the CEO himself, pulling their faces very close.
"If you should ever dare to talk to me in this way again, I will make your life a living hell personally!" he said; his voice just being a cold emotionless whisper.
"I'm sorry, Seto. I'll never do it again." The blond replied apologetically, putting his arms around the taller teen's neck, hugging him lovingly.
Kaiba's eyebrow started to twitch slightly as he realized his mistake and what just had happened.
"I hate you!" he replied, not returning Jounouchi's hug. The amber eyed boy loosened his embrace, giving the brunette a confused and hurt look.
"But S-"
"Hey Jonouchi are you insane! Why are you hugging Kaiba, man!" Honda asked his best buddy and tried to pull him away from the tall CEO.
"Hey get your hands off of me, Honda!" the blond snapped at him, letting go of the brunette. "I'm in love with Seto, that's why!"
Then the whole room fell silent again. Although everyone (but Honda) knew that the pendant made the blond speaking like that it was still strange to hear such a sentence out of Jounouchi's mouth.
"Please, would you be so kind now and leave the room? I want to talk to Seto-chan alone for a few minutes." He pleaded his friends.
"Don't you dare!" the CEO threatened.
"Of course we will leave the room, Jounouchi-kun!" Yuugi replied, giving Kaiba an apologetic smile.
"Enjoy yourself!" Otogi said, winking in a suggestive manner, before he followed the other out of the room.
Jounouchi couldn't believe it! Very nice friends he had there…
The door clicked close behind them and then they stood in silence for some minutes until the blonde broke it.
"So why do you hate me?" he asked, looking the CEO straight into the sapphire blue eyes.
"The reason is that you are a stupid and ugly mutt." Kaiba replied.
Jounochi lowered his gaze to the ground, his hands gripping Kaiba's still unbuttoned shirt.
"And what would be, if I changed that? Would you love me then?" he asked him, his question barely being a whisper. Kaiba sighed in amusement. "You really are pathetic." He said and wanted to turn around, but the blonde stopped him by throwing his arms around the tall brunette again, pressing his body desperately close against him.
"I can't understand it…" he mumbled into Kaiba's shoulder. "How do you manage to keep up with only Mokuba in your life? I mean what will you do, if he isn't there for you anymore? When he has a family on his own…"
The brunette tried to ignore the blonde's questions, but deep down inside he already knew the answer. Or better didn't know. Yes, really had no idea of what he would do without Mokuba in his life…certainly he just would drown himself so long in his work until the stress killed him some day…
Lost in his train of thoughts the CEO recognized that he hadn't even tried to get the blonde off of him. Why should he? Since everyone here knew what had brought them into this situation he just easily could….
Yeah what could he to instead? Return the blonde's embrace? Enjoy the warm feeling of being needed by someone else than his little brother?
Apropos little brother, hadn't it been Mokuba who just had addressed him with 'nii-sama'?
As he turned around slightly he could recognize the form of his little brother, standing in the doorway and looking slightly puzzled. Kaiba loosened Jounouchi's embrace and unexpectedly the blonde didn't resist. The young CEO walked over to his little brother, kneeling down in front of him.
"Mokuba, what are you doing here downstairs?" he asked, concern swinging slightly in his deep voice while he put a hand on the smaller boy's forehead. He still had a fever.
"I heard you yelling at someone and wondered what was going on…" the little one explained.
"I'm sorry for waking you up. I didn't intent to." Seto apologized. "But you should go back to bed now, before your fever increases." he added and brought Mokuba back to his room where he tugged the blankets as tight around the little form as possible as to keep him away from any harm. "Good night!" he said and placed a soft kiss on Mokuba's forehead, before he walked to the door to leave the room.
"Nii-sama?"
"Yes?" Kaiba turned around to his little brother, the doorknob in his grip.
"Are you together with Jounouchi?" Kaiba gasped in shock. How in the world had his Mokuba come to this absurd conclusion? But after the scene the little one just had witnessed this conclusion seemed a kind of logical. But what was he supposed to tell him now? That it was just a one-sided relationship by the mutt? The truth was no option, since Kaiba was a real realist and he didn't believe in magic, so why should he let his little brother being influenced in seeing the world differently. After all this was just something between him and the mutt! And in the end both of them would have feelings for the other anyway, if they ever wanted to return to normal lifestyle again, what Kaiba certainly did. So, this little half-lie would keep away a lot of explanaitions in case the mutt would be clumsy again like he had been in school earlier today.
"Uhm…yes Mokuba, I and Katsuya are having a relationship." He replied in a more business-like tone. This really sounded odd! Unbelievable!
A happy and soft smile crossed Mokuba's lips. "Congratulations, Seto!" he replied, showing his big brother a thump up. "But you could have told me earlier!" The CEO was surprised. That the little one would take this information so easily was something he hadn't expected.
"Thank you, Mokuba." He said softly, forcing a grateful smile on his lips. "But now go to sleep." He ordered, before exciting the room. After he had closed the door behind him he leaned against the doorframe slightly. He just had lied to his brother without any mercy and directly into the face. Damn this bracelet…certainly it was all its fault! He finally buttoned his shirt up and then walked down the stairs and back to his living room. There he saw that the mutt wasn't alone anymore.
He had a conversation with Yami and the others were there, too.
"I really do doubt that. Gee, it's Mr. I'm-colder-than-the-north-pole-Kaiba! He certainly wouldn't do that." He heard the mutt saying.
"What are you so sure of I wouldn't do?" he interrupted their dialogue, arms crossed in front of his chest and arching an eyebrow. Jounouchi who had had his back turned to the CEO now turned around to him.
"I bet that you wouldn't let me live in your mansion for a while." he said.
"Give me really good reason why I should let you do this." The CEO demanded challengingly. "Then I might have a heart for little abused puppies, living on the streets." he mocked, grinning.
The blonde's expression suddenly became grim.
"Take that back!" he demanded sharply, clenching his fists, shivering slightly in anger.
He had never lived on the streets nor had his father ever abused him in his life! He just had been drunk nearly every evening in the past six years, but not more. It had took a lot of time and discussions but eventually Jounouchi had managed to convince his father to stop his drinking and the blonde was damn proud of this fact and that his father had had the strength to pull himself out of his addiction. And nobody- not even Kaiba Seto- had the right to lower this success! Out of all not if this person wouldn't even want to imagine how such a situation would be in his place.
"Take it back, Kaiba!" he repeated.
But the brunette CEO kept silent. Apparently he had hit a vulnerable nerve and he wasn't such a monster that he would push the button further on, but he also wasn't a man who gave in easily, especially not if he considered the person in front of him to be on a lower level than himself.
"I HATE YOU! I REALLY DO." whispered Jounouchi in a cold and emotionless voice which the CEO wouldn't have done better, before he turned around sharply and left the mansion, slamming the door shut behind him.
Furiously the blonde kicked the door to his apartment open, surprised by being greeted with the delicious smell of curry rice. How and when had his father learned cooking?
But to his surprise it wasn't his father who was standing in the kitchen. Instead he saw his little sister standing beside the cooker, humming a soft melody absently while stirring with a spoon inside of a saucepan.
"Shizuka, what are you doing here?" he asked his sister, slightly confused.
"Good evening, O-nii-chan!" she greeted him with a cute smile.
"O-tou-san called me that he would have to go on a business trip today for a whole week. And since you don't like it all when you're the last one, getting to know important news on short notice, I decided to prepare supper for the two of us and keep you company this evening!" she explained while taking off her pink apron.
"Thank you, Shizuka." Katsuya replied, closing the door behind him and getting his shoes off. Then he helped his little sister laying dishes on the table and eventually they sat in the living room; ready to eat.
"Is something wrong, O-nii-chan?" Shizuka broke the silence between them, after watching her brother stirring absently in his food for some minutes. Absently he had been cursing Kaiba in his thoughts for the whole time. Katsuya just gave her a questioning look.
"Could it be that you are lovesick, Katsuya?" she asked him worriedly.
The blonde sweatdropped. That was the most ridiculous idea his sister could have come up with! He and lovesick…because of whom, anyway? Kaiba…? He would rather die!
"Uhm, it's nothing, Shizuka." He tried to reassure her, but failed miserably.
"Oh yes there is!" she replied. "And where have you been anyway this late?"
Katsuya shot a glance at the clock. Okay, if she called 8.30 p.m. late…after all he was 17 now and soon to be 18! But should he really tell her where he had actually been? And if he did, he would also be supposed to tell her the whole story. But since all his friends now knew about it, so why shouldn't his sister do?
"I was at Kaiba's!" he explained. His sister gave him an odd look. "A-at Ka-kaiba's? Are you two…together?" she asked unbelievingly. The blonde gave her the strangest look in his whole life. How had this idea come into her mind?
"Of course not!" he exclaimed "We are just…uhn…well…"he sighed. And then he started to tell her the whole story from the beginning on.
"So, may I have a look at it?" she asked curiously, pointing at her brother's chest, after the blonde had finished his story. Katsuya just nodded and pulled the pendant out from under is shirt. "But be careful!" he warned her, before the pendant landed in her hands. "And this small thing is causing all this trouble?" she asked, after examining it for a few seconds. "It's hard to believe…" she admitted. Her gaze remained just a few moments further on the bracelet.
"But at least the two of you will make a cute couple together!" she suddenly mumbled absently.
"EH!" was all the blonde could make, eyeing his sister as if she had really gone insane and just declared that small aliens were conquering the whole world just now, before his gaze was diverted by a very colourful magazine, laying on the floor next to his sister.
At the front cover he could see two boys, holding the other and kissing each other. Since when had Shizuka become a yaoi-fan? Apparently he must have missed something in the life of his little sister. But at least he could count on her support in this whole thing.
"Nah, damn it!" Katsuya cursed, throwing his pencil on his desk in frustration. His headmistress should burn in hell!
Right after he and Kaiba had entered the classroom this morning, their class teacher had told them to go to the headmistress' office immediately. Okay at least this wrinkled frog of a woman hadn't expelled them from school as he had feared the 10 minutes in the waiting room in front of the office, but instead she had given them a whole week of detention for their little kiss-accident or "the expressing of sexual desire for the same gender in a public" as she had put it.
So the blonde had been sitting over this math problems for two hours now, but hadn't become any smarter about it. And then there was this annoying typing in the background.
"Are you finally finished?" a deep and smooth voice asked .The blonde just answered with an angry growl, shooting a dirty look to the brunette CEO, sitting in the back of the class; blue eyes clued to the laptop on his desk.
"Apparently not…" Kaiba just smirked.
"Shut up! That's none of your business!" Jounouchi shouted madly at the brunette. "Why are you still here anyway!"
"Oh, don't you like my company?" Kaiba asked with fake disappointment. The blonde just snorted as an answer and rested his head on his desk, his eyes focusing on the blackboard in front of him.
"After all it was you who asked me whether he could live in my mansion for a while or not. And since Yuugi told me an acceptable reason for this after you left yesterday, I could agree to that." the CEO stated, slowly standing up from his seat.
"And what if I just don't want to live at your house anymore until we are over with this item-thing?" Jounouchi asked, turning around to the CEO and eyed him suspiciously. Why in the world should this guy agree to that voluntarily?
"Then…" the brunette said playfully and smirking, leaning himself with his arms on Jounouchi's desk ,draping the blonde on the chair between himself and the desk in the process. "…I might be forced to kidnap you." Kaiba's face was just a few centre meters in front of Jounouchis's as the brunette said this and the blonde could feel his warm breath tickling slightly on his skin.
Two sapphire blue eyes seemed to pierce themselves into his soul with their intensive gaze and he suddenly felt very uncomfortable with Kaiba so close.
But although this seemed to be like a small eternity for the blonde this moment just lasted for barely one second in reality and with a smooth movement the brunette CEO had pulled himself away again; the blonde's worksheet in his hands.
"God mutt, these are all wrong!" Kaiba sighed, looking over Jounouchi's math problems. He himself had needed barely an hour to solve them, but the mutt…."If there was a price for the slowest solving of math problems including the most mistakes and wrong answers, you would win it!" he said grinning, walking back to his desk slowly. "So, now come here!"
The blonde remained on his seat demonstratively. Why should he obey to Kaiba like a faithful dog! Dream on!
"Or have you planned to die, before you get these solved?" the CEO pointed at the worksheet on his desk. Jounouchi gave him an odd look. Was Mr. I'm-colder-than-the-north-pole-Kaiba actually really offering help in Mathematics! Had Mokuba put something in his morning coffee or what? But since Kaiba wasn't so nice every day the blonde decided to follow the CEO's order eventually and sat down on a chair next to him. The taller boy took a pencil into his hand and started to explain the problems to the blonde with -surprisingly- an unexpected amount of patience. But slowly Jounouchi found himself being diverted from the problems by Kaibas face. Its features were deep in concentration, his eyebrows forming a small little wrinkle between his eyes, making him look business-like and a kind of interesting.
"Hey, are you listening at all, mutt?" the CEO had recognized that the blonde had stopped paying attention to him since he had started to explain the latest problem to him.
"Huh?" was all Jounouchi could make and Kaiba found his theory to be true.
"You still haven't given me an answer to my suggestion from before!" he now said.
"Only, if you will give me a reason why you suddenly agreed to the idea!" Jounouchi countered.
"It's the same reason which made you ask me whether you could stay in my mansion in the first place." he explained.
"You mean it could make the whole thing easier?" Jounouchi inquired, wondering that the brunette actually agreed with him for once.
Kaiba nodded just as a response.
"Okay, I will." The blonde sighed.
Then the brunette got his mobile phone out, pushed a few buttons, before he put it back into his pocket.
"The limousine will be here in a few minutes! Pack your stuff together." He announced, unlocking his suitcase.
Ten minutes later they were sitting in one of Kaiba's expensive limousines, but neither of them spoke a word. Suddenly the car stopped.
"I still have some things to do at Kaiba Corp., so I will get out here. Matthew will drive you to the mansion and show you everything." The young CEO informed Jounouchi briefly, before he got out and the car rolled on. And then the blonde suddenly felt a kind of lonely in this huge vehicle and nearly wished that the CEO of an ice cube would be sitting next to him again.
Tbc…
Puh…the longest chapter I ever wrote for now.
Wow I made Shizuka turn into a yaoi-fan! I just couldn't resist to not use this idea.
Nah, I don't know when I will update the next chapter, but I really do hope that it will be quiet soon! I'm already working on it!
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