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Chapter 10

The classmates and others from the school were horded together and talked to each other with a noise that could awaken the dead. Kaiba could hear the happy screams of his fan girls that were happy to see their idol walk out of the school unharmed. The police also waited outside, some officers asked the students some questions, another stood with the head of the bodyguard agency Seto had hired. He walked over to the police, that stood with Joey's boss, slowly and asked: "Is that no good killer dead?" The police just looked at him. They had assumed he might be in shock or worse, since most people that got into such a situation, would be. But not the CEO of Kaiba corp., he just had his usual cold emotionless expression on his face, as the police officer informed him "No, he got a bad wound on his left side of his lower abdomen, it left him unable to move far. He tried but he didn't get far before he gave up on that. He was conscious and is on his way to the hospital with police escort, they will keep an eye on things till he is fit enough to be moved into jail and he will be questioned as soon as possible." Seto looked at him and part of him was glad that the guy had survived, not only because now he could be questioned but he also was sure that his mutt would feel much better that way.

In the very moment Seto thought about him, said mutt appeared at the front school doors and a screaming was heard form Yugi, who, closely followed by his personal shadow Yami, ran to the blond to hug him with the words "There you are, what happened to you? I was worried sick, Joey." Seto watched the rest of the geek squat following Yugi and his stupid shadow, and Seto noticed, to his own dismay, that he didn't like having to watch them hug. This is Joey for Christs sake, he is nothing but a little street dog. Why do I feel this way about my mutt? ... Hold on, did I just think MY mutt? Shit, no this means nothing. I'm just confused due to his stupid Katsuya trick, how could I fall for that? How could I ever feel attracted to my stupid mutt. Wait, did I just think MY mutt again? FUCK! Kaiba was so deep in his inner turmoil about the mutt or his mutt; that he didn't hear anything around him until Joey gave a tiny nod and said: "Ya know guys, I doubt that school will go on today. So what ya say bout getting some grub? I'm starvin."

"Mr. Kaiba?" Seto turned to Joey's boss, who had needed to address him three times to get his attention, but just said: "No need to worry, you're perfectly safe. I'm as well trained as any of my man and have definitely more experience than the junior, so you needn´t worry about anything right now." Seto stared daggers at him and asked: "And what the hell makes you think, that I give a damn about that? I'm not worried about some stupid killer, never was, never will and if my annoying little brother hadn't gotten on my last nerve, I never would have phoned you in the first place. I realise that I most likely would be dead right now, if I hadn't but I'm not some wimp that gets scared by that. I admit that I was distracted but that was only due to the fact that I was thinking about how I'm going to make up for all the time that I already wasted right now." The man, who looked like he was about 55 years at least and overweight and maybe had some experience at some point. But definetly sat more behind his desk on his fat butt than anything close to guarding someones life by now. He would never be able to protect him like Joey just had, not that Kaiba cared. He wasn't some fucking damsel in distress, waiting for her hero to show up. And more impotantly, his mutt could never be a hero.

The man looked towards the police and back to Seto, slightly surprised at the still rather cold and careless attitude towards the fact, that someone had just tried to kill him. The policeman looked a bit timid after that and said, actually looking afraid of Kaiba: "I'm afraid I have to take a little more of your time, sir. Since someone got shot, we do need to look into it, just to be absolutely certain that it was in defence and not anything else. We would need to question you and your bodyguard seperately, so if you would please follow me." Kaiba looked at the boss of Joey's, who just said: "Don't worry, he already knows when to come in. I gave him a little sign about that, as well as that the killer was wounded but nothing life-threatening." Kaiba stared at him a moment longer before going with the police. He hadn't noticed a sign but then again, Joey had given a slight nod before leaving and Seto hadn't seen what Joey's boss had done in that moment.

At the police station they had hundreds of questions and asked them all repeatedly. Seto got more and more annoyed with them and gave them his infamous death glare, more than once and most of them flinched. He couldn't believe it and considering the reaction he got, he could probably get away with murder, if he wanted to. After about two hours of questioning, his petions was more than at his limit and he said in a low, but threatening voice: "I already told you a hundred times. The bloody bastard shot at me, my bodyguard got me out of the way and under the damn window, where he forced me to wait, until he had pressed a stupid button, to call for help, of some way to slow police man, and a stupid gun put together and then he got out of his jacket and then HE ordered ME to throw it up and sneaked over and after I threw it, there was another shot and then my bodyguard shot him and after that we waited and now HE has a whole in his jacket, which means that this bloody no good killer not only has a bad aim, but also must be missing some brain cells if he thought I would wear such a worn out thing and considering that there was no head on it, he must be missing even more bloody brain cells, unless it's not his aim but rather his eyesight that is seriously disturbed and now I'm here, wasting even more of my valuable time, while I have a company to run and I'm running late for a meeting because some policemen can't do their bloody job without getting on my last nerves, by asking the same stupid questions over and over and over and for that I pay my taxes? Honestly, don't you have something better to do than wasting my time, like to catch the bloody bastard that paid a fucking blind and brainless killer, so he won't be able to go out and get a killer, that actually can see and has a brain?"

Seto stared the man in front of him down and finally got the answer he wanted to hear. "Of course, we're sure we will have this solved in no time. You may go, Mister Kaiba. I apologise for the inconvenience." Seto was about to leave but looked back as he stood in the door and said: "You wanted to know if the shot really was in defence, right? Then let me tell you one more thing. Joey was shaking after the shot. He was worried about having killed a killer, that stupid mongrel. He couldn't kill someone just for the fun of it and the fact that every single student can tell you that the first shot came from outside and that the glass from the window was more inside than out, should prove you who shot first! So stop wasting your time and get the man behind the killer, so I can quit having a bodyguard because it gets on my nerves." After that he looked to Joey's boss and added: "But for now it stays like it is. Mokuba would want it, until we can be sure that the next killer won't show up anytime soon."

After that he went home to get changed for the office. During his ride home, he wondered more about his mutt.

By now Seto had come to the conclusion, that not only Katsuya was just an act, but probably the normal behaviour of the mutt himself was more an act than not. For the young blond had been so professional when saving his live and then as soon as he was outside with his friends and had his signal, he just went off talking about no school and getting some food. Seto couldn't help but wondering who he really was. Katsuya or Joey? Or a mix of both and if a mix, then what was true and what an act? The accent was clearly an act, since he could turn it on and off as he pleased, his feisty nature was clearly not. Since he had proven to have that in both of his 'roles', also you can play dumb when you're smart but not the other way around, so he must be more intelligent than he lets on as Joey. All things considered, Joey was probably more of an act then Katsuya. But what of his mutt was in Katsuya, that Seto hadn't noticed yet?

And Seto had to think of something 'Katsuya' had said about Joey, so basically about himself "he's a hot head that sometimes acts before thinking, that can get on someone's nerves and his emotions can usually easily be read, he knows that he isn't the most intelligent or rich guy and never will be, but exactly that's what makes him a man", Kaiba thought about the so called flaws a while. To start at the end, it didn't matter to Seto if someone was rich, he was it himself. He didn't need someone else's money. And Joey might not be the most intelligent person but definetly more than he let on in public, that his emotions could easily be read was the opposite of the flaw Mokuba had said for the CEO, so it couldn't be a flaw in him and Seto had to admit that he had liked the fire in Katsuya´s eyes, that could that easily be seen. And with the hot head that could get on someone's nerves, that's the thing that had attracted him to Katsuya the most. And apart from being annoying and stupid and useless, he never had another flaw for Joey either, and since those weren't valid anymore right now, he couldn't think of another flaw. Well maybe that he was stubborn, but Kaiba had to admit that he always had liked a challenge.

Once he reached the mansion and walked through the door, Mokuba already ran towards him and hugged him before he asked: "Are you really okay? I heard that someone tried to kill you again today but that you were alright and just hat to go to the police station because your bodyguard shot the guy. Did Katsuya kill him? Is it over?" Seto hugged his brother and said "Calm down. I'm fine and no one got killed, which is good. Since now they can question the guy that tried to kill me. And by the way, Katsuya is not Joey's boyfriend or girlfriend or anything like that." Mokuba looked at him with a dazzling smile and said: "So you won and finally got someone?" Seto shook his head and said: "No I'm single, but so is Joey, aka Katsuya." Mokuba stared at him for a while and then said: "Hold on, the hot blond chick, that knew that Roland was standing in the bushes with a paint gun, was JOEY?"

Seto just nodded and understood his brother´s reaction all too well, especially considering that he hadn't told his brother that he knew by now, that Katsuya was a guy and not a girl, hell he hadn't even told him the doubt he had about that fact before. "Yes," Seto said "The hot blond chick wasn't a chick and is in reality Joey." Mokuba stared at him for a while, unsure what to make of it and wondering what Seto made of it. He clearly had a crush on Katsuya but he always had fought with Joey but then again he had with Katsuya too, Mokuba couldn't help but wonder what his brother would do now? Would he forget it ever happened or would he start hitting on Joey? And what would Joey do? He had blown off his brother during their last 'date' and yet again, they did always fight with each other. Joey seemed to hate Seto, about as much as Seto him? How would this now go on? Now that they had been on a 'date' and that Seto had fallen for an act, that Joey had been able to pull off.

Please review

Who wants to know the answer to Mokubas questions? And who would like to give a guess about it? And most of all, I HAVE A PROBLEM! PLEASE HELP ME! I need suggestions. Since Joey is such a tough guy in this one, being a bodyguard and all, I don't think "Puppy" would be a good nickname. It needs to be something cooler, rather then cute. So if you have a good idea.. I have one but I'm not sure if it's good. So please give some suggestions in reviews or PM me and maybe I´ll use one of the ideas I get.
Sorry for the tease.