Joey woke early in the morning. He looked around the room groggily. Yugi and Ryou were still asleep. Joey had a mind to crawl into his sleeping bag when he realized it wasn't there. Joey frowned and made his way downstairs. "The fridge is callin' to my stomach," he muttered to himself.

Once in the kitchen, Joey started to make himself something to eat. In the middle of pouring a Mickey Mouse pancake, he heard a buzzing noise behind him. Turning around, he noticed Kaiba's cell phone on the tabletop. It was lying there next to his wallet, buzzing madly.

Joey looked around, curious as to where Kaiba could have gone without his personal items, and picked up the phone. "Uhhh…hello? Kaiba's phone."

"Who's this? Where is Seto?" came a familiar voice over the line.

"Mokuba?" Joey asked. "I dunno where your bro went, he's probably still in the house somewhere."

Mokuba paused. "Is this Joey? Is he at your house?"

Joey laughed. "Not a chance, Mokuba. We're both at Yugi's house. You're brother is a little obsessive over some duel he wants to have with Yugi-"

"What do you think you're doing, Wheeler?" Kaiba's voice came from the doorway.

Joey looked up and dropped his spatula. Kaiba walked into the kitchen dripping wet and wearing a towel.

"Give me that. Who said you could answer my phone, mutt." Kaiba snatched the phone from Joey, who didn't protest in the least bit.

"Mokuba! What is it?" Kaiba barked into the phone.

"Big brother! You didn't come home last night! I was worried." Mokuba said.

Kaiba frowned. "There was no reason for you to worry. I slept over at Yugi's house."

"Why did you sleep with Joey at Yugi's house?" Mokuba prodded further.

Kaiba gritted his teeth. Thank God Joey couldn't hear Mokuba's choice of words. "Yugi isn't feeling so well. Wheeler is only here to get in the way while I wait for Yugi to get better so I can crush him," Kaiba explained. "Now go to school before you're late," Kaiba instructed. "And make sure you take your vitamins," he added before hanging up.

Kaiba glared at Joey. He was standing awkwardly in front of the stove, holding a spatula. His mouth was gaping slightly. "What are you staring at, Wheeler?" Kaiba smirked.

Joey mad an angry face at him. He pointed with his spatula to Kaiba's stomach. "Where'd you get those?" he asked.

Kaiba looked down at himself. "The CEO of a successful company is expected to take care of his body. I'm a busy man, I can't afford to be a skinny weakling like you."

"Take that back! I'm plenty strong!" Joey felt the urge to grab Kaiba's collar, until he realized that he wasn't wearing one.

"Isn't something burning?" Kaiba said, lifting an eyebrow.

Joey flailed and turned back to the stove, flipping his pancake.

"You're incompetent," Kaiba commented, stalking back to the bathroom.

Joey frowned at his dark pancake. "Stupid Kaiba and his stupid…." he lifted up his shirt and looked at his own stomach. Completely flat. "See if I make you a pancake," Joey growled.