A/N: Aha! L.V.'s debut was a success! Haha! But please don't hate him… he's actually the sweetest of men and very overprotective about the ones he cares for. Plus he has mechanical wings…! XD!

… Which leads me to this question… should he be in a Shounen Ai pairing – uke, Shounen Ai pairing – seme or in a Heterosexual pairing? What do you think? The future of my original story is in your hands.

Warning: Shounen Ai, OOC, Mild Cursing and OC.
Disclaimer: You'd think the two would've been making out in Kaiba's jet by now.

Pairing(s): Mokuba/Shizuka, L.V./Jou

Story Notes:
1) -.-.-Page Break-.-.-

Courting the Dog
He Runs Away

The auburn haired girl sat onto the park bench with a serious look on here face. Her eyes shifted to look onto gray orbs. A frown, slightly forming.

"Did something happen?" Shizuka asked.

"What do you mean?" The other asked as he stood before the girl.

"With 'Tsuya and your brother." Her words were no longer gentle, rather they were cold and angry.

Mokuba could not reply; he didn't have the heart to.

Of course he had known about Seto and Jou's break up… he expected that Zuki had known as well.

But she didn't. And now she expected the answer—that wasn't supposed to come from him.

"Seto…" The raven one started off as he sighed. Boy, he was gonna get it. "Used Jou to block the media our and since your brother found out…"

"HE WHAT?!" Shizuka yelled, rapidly standing up. "That stupid jerk!"

"Hey! Seto is not stupid and not a jerk!" Mokuba yelled back.

"Well he has to be one if he could pull of that kind of joke!"

"He is still not a jerk and never will be!" He glared in his brother's defense. "Besides, it wasn't only his fault! I had a say in this—"

The raven pre-teen soon stopped, noticing that he had almost leaked out his secret. Yet Shizuka had not been off of her own guard.

"Kaiba Mokuba, I never wanna see you ever again!" The auburn haired girl grimly said as turned to for her exit.

-.-.-

"Jounouchi," Anzu called towards the deadpanned blond who sat across her. "Jou!"

There was no response.

"What's wrong with him?" Ryou asked as the others chose to shrug and look at the young Jounouchi with worried eyes.

It had been this way for the past days and now even if they were in Burger World, the one place Jou would've been hyped in being surrounded by his friends and glorious food… he was… un-Jou like.

It frightened them. They had never seen him this upset.

"I'm betting it has something to do with Kaiba." Bakura snickered. "It's always about Kaiba!"

Unbeknownst to them, though it seemed that Jounouchi was caught in a trance, he could still hear. And he could feel the pain of knowing they were right.

Yes, he had yet to inform his friends the truth. He just couldn't tell them.

"You know what's weird," Honda started as he ate. "I saw L.V. following Jou the other day."

"Yeah," Yugi continued. "Both of them looked a very preoccupied then."

"Well then, maybe he has something to say." Otogi had pointed towards the newly entered costumer.

"Yami, where are you—" Yet the smaller tri-colored never finished, having known that there was no holding back a very angry Pharaoh.

That was followed by Anzu.

"Oh, please don't cause any trouble…!" Ryou pleaded as he watched his scene, holding onto his yami's pants in hopes of holding the thief back.

"You won't expect it from me." The taller albino exclaimed as he watched.

There they were, both Yami and Anzu, standing before a very confused L.V.. The teen did not know why, but he felt the urge to back away from the two.

"W—what's up?" Cross sweatdropped as he slowly brought up his hands.

Crimson eyes glared. "What did you do?"

"I… came in the store?" Was L.V.'s very clever reply.

"We saw that." Anzu's eyes hardened as if trying to burn holes into the other's skull. "Tell us, what did you do to Jou?"

L.V. stood still, with his eyes overlooking the two people in front of him only to view Jounouchi's back. A frown that traced over his face, in seconds, turned into a warm smile.

"He hasn't told you yet?" Brown eyes blinked as the other two eyes did as well. "It's not my matter to discuss."

"Please," Anzu's voice wavered. "We really don't want any trouble—"

"I'm going to hand you over to Anubis this instant!" Yami glared harder.

The teen gulped. He didn't know who the hell was Anubis, but by the way Yami said it… he must've been a scary guy.

"Bakura's right," Jou suddenly spoke as he slowly stood up. "It is about Kaiba. L.V. did nothing wrong but tell the truth…" Katsuya's voice was firm. There was no sign of sadness at all.

"I was right?! Cool!" Bakura, who was ignored, randomly cheered.

"What truth?" Otogi asked as he leaned forward.

The blond's lips soon formed a curve that went downwards.

"I don't think we should force—" Sadly, Yugi couldn't finish.

"—He used me."

Seven pairs of eyes widened as Honda got up on his feet.

"I'm gonna kill him!"

"He's going to the Shadow Realm!"

The pointy haired brunet and the former pharaoh simultaneously yelled, earning unwanted attention.

The thief, on the other hand, rubbed his palms together as he licked his lips. A devious glint was visible from his eyes.

"Don't!" Katsuya said back. As much as he wanted to kill off Kaiba or at least beat him to a bloody pulp… a part of him still didn't want the bastard of a CEO hurt.

Well love was supposed to be for martyrs.

"Just please… don't hurt him…" His voice was pleading as his honey brown orbs shined with anxiety. "I'm begging."

"But, Jounouchi—"

"I'll be alright." Smile. "I knew this was going to happen."

"Does that mean we can't send anyone to the Shadow Realm?" Bakura pouted.

With that, Jou walked over and held onto L.V.'s sleeve as he dragged him out of the restaurant.

"Whoa there," The taller of the two halted. "I didn't eat lunch yet!"

"Thank you." Katsuya grinned to a now blushing L.V. Cross. "You saved me, twice already."

"Twice?"

Jou merely nodded, beaming a very grateful expression towards the other male.

L.V. only smiled back as he reached out to hold on the blond's chin. Slowly, he pulled the oblivious teen towards him.

"It's no problem, really." His voice rang sinister.

"E—eh?" Jounouchi blushed at the contact but decided to forget it. "Come… come on! Let's get out of here!" Failing to notice his own stuttering, he grabbed onto black-brown teen's wrist and started dragging him away… again.

"I—wait… fine, I'll walk ya' home." Cross sighed.

And as the blond pulled the other away, both teens couldn't help but feel a bubbly sort of atmosphere.

"Say, Kat'…" L.V. called. "Whatsa 'Shadow Realm'?"

"Looong story." Jou replied.

-.-.-

Mokuba stomped into the halls of the Kaiba manor. He was mad. He was annoyed. He wanted to be spoiled. But knowing his older brother, he had more chance being kidnapped again.

"Guess what," The raven one said as he came into his brother's view.

"What?" Seto replied as he walked from bookshelf to bookshelf of their personal library.

"Shizuka hates me now!"

"Well," A voice that came from the CEO replied in a somewhat sing-song tone. "At least we have more things in common."

Gray eyes widened. What happened and who did it? Kaiba Seto, the Kaiba Seto was not… Kaiba-ish!

"Are you okay?"

"Yes, why wouldn't I be?" The older smiled, walking towards the exit of which Mokuba was standing by. "It's such a great day… I'm going to take a walk outside…" With that, he was gone.

And the younger Kaiba was left in awe.

Yet a part of Mokie knew that his brother was lying. The spark in those cerulean orbs wasn't the 'I own the world' spark; rather it was the 'I hate myself' spark. Mokuba knew he was suffering from romantic heartbreak… Seto just didn't know how to handle it.

-.-.-

"Zuka?" Brown eyes tiredly blinked as he entered his home only to find his sister, who was staying for the night, angrily sitting on the couch and eating ice cream from a mug. "I thought you were out with Mokuba."

"I don't even wanna hear that name!" She shoved ice cream in her mouth.

Jou blinked again in seeing a certain Kaiba Mokuba keychain lying limply on the floor.

"Something happen?" He asked as he sat beside his sister.

"I found out why you were upset…" The auburn replied. "Mokuba was a part of it too…"

Katsuya, for some reason, was not surprised.

Oh well… Like brother, like brother…

His hand rummaged through his pocket, finally finding what he aimed to find. He frowned. Jou, then, took the small Seto keychain out and stared at it. Jounouchi's frown deepened as he decided to throw the toy on the floor… unconsciously landing it right on top of the Mokie keychain.

… Soon enough a mug was shoved into his view.

Taking it, the blond grabbed the spoon and prepared to shove the ice cream into his mouth.

"Kaibas." The two sighed.

To Be Continued

A/N: Please review!