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Chapter 10:

Crow stood at the head of the 'board table' that doubled as a game table. Seated around him were the members of the Roses.

"I've called this meeting to discuss our next hit," he used the word 'hit' although they never actually tried to kill people. If someone got stabbed in the process, so be it, but it wasn't the aim. "We're going to break into the Kaiba Mansion."

There were several gasps around the room. The Roses had never before attempted a job this big. They usually just looted houses while families were away or vandalized public areas to gain honor among the other gangs.

Crow described their plan of action and then dismissed the meeting. There were never questions, the gang knew not to doubt their leader. Only top ranking members could even talk about plans to Crow, and those included Silas and Davey. Davey approached Crow later that evening.

"Why the Kaibas?" he asked.

"Because they're the richest people in all of Japan," Crow responded, as if stating the obvious, which he was.

"I somehow doubt that's your reasoning."

Crow smiled. "You do know me well," he said, ruffling Davey's fluorescent hair.

"So tell me," Davey persisted.

"Alright. Seto Kaiba and I were at the same orphanage when I was twelve. We were pretty close friends."

Davey raised his eyebrows suggestively.

"No, not like that, Kaiba's as straight as an arrow—or at least he claims to be. But anyway, we had a promise that whoever got adopted first would come back and free the other. Of course Seto, with his charming personality and good looks got picked first," Crow sneered.

"Let me guess, he never came back."

"Of course not. Why would he want to ruin his perfect life by bringing me into it? He never even wrote a letter. So eventually when I was fifteen, I busted out. I left knowing that someday, I would be richer than Kaiba, and shove it in the assholes face."

"And burglarizing his house is going to do that?" Davey asked skeptically.

"No. That's the part I didn't say. Once we get in, and get the valuables, we're going to get every piece of dirt on Seto Kaiba that we possibly can. And then we're going to sell it to the media. His business will fall to pieces, and we'll make millions off of our information. Without Kaiba Corp., Seto Kaiba is nothing!" Crow ended vehemently.

"But what if you can't find anything?"

"Believe me, as secretive as that man is, he's got to have skeletons hidden somewhere."

A look flickered across Joey's face, but when Ryou looked again, it was gone.

"What happened?" The blond asked.

"I don't want to talk about it," Ryou said quietly.

"Of course."

Ryou hugged his knees to his chest.

"I was happy for the first time in my entire life," he whispered.

"They why would you want to end it over something like this?" Joey asked gently.

Ryou looked up at him skeptically.

"How do you know what happened?"

"I guessed," Joey shrugged. "Really, Ry, is it worth it? You've been in love with him for years. You've stayed with him even when he abused you. Now that you got what you wanted, do you really want to throw it all away?"

Ryou bit his lip thinking. "I'm not sure," he said finally. "I could probably find someone else, but would it be the same?" he signed. "I guess I'm just sick of being hurt. I don't want to have to be on guard all the time, making sure I don't end up broken hearted. I want to be able to trust him. I want to believe tat he loves me only."

"You know he does."

"Do I?" Ryou smiled sadly.

Joey felt a pang in his chest. He still had lingering feelings for Ryou. He hated to see him this upset.

"Well, I don't know if this will help, but Seto and I are taking Mokuba to Kaibaland today. There's a festival tonight. Gwen Stefani is performing."

Ryou'e eyes lit up. "Really? She's my favorite singer!"

Joey grinned, "Then it's a date."

Crow snorted.

"Perfect," he said, watching the video play out before him. He'd hacked into Kaiba's security monitor system and was watching everything that went on in the mansion from his stolen laptop.

Davey glanced up from his gameboy, also stolen.

"Tonight?" he asked.

Kaiba and some kid named Joey are going to Kaiba's lame-ass amusement park with Kaiba's kid brother Mokuba. They're taking some day white haired boy too."

"Wait, white hair? Lemme see," Dave strode over to Crow and watched the replay.

"You know him?" the older boy asked.

"Yeah," Davey said quietly.

"Did you screw him?"

"No, his boyfriend."

"Whoa, that's awkward," Crow chortled.

"Don't I know it? I didn't know he was friends with Kaiba."

Crow snorted again. "Seto Kaiba doesn't have friends. He has pawns."

Davey smirked and went to call his boss, saying he wouldn't be in that night. He held the phone away from his ear as she screamed at him that they were expecting a shitload of customers that night, and how could she be expected to run a successful business if her best girlies decided to skip work whenever they damn well pleased. He told her he'd pay her back for whatever he caused her to lose, but she just screamed back that he may as well never show up again for all the good it did.

"You know you like me too much to fire me," Davey replied sweetly.

"You know I do, sugarplum, but that's still no excuse—" her voice was getting louder again

"Buh-bye~" Davey hung up the phone. He sat down on the couch and fell asleep .

A/N: I should be studying for finals now, but, uh, typing this up seems much more entertaining. But please review. Please! It's not that hard, just click the button and say hi! That's all I ask.