Disclaimer: I do not own Yugioh.

Title: Endearment and Enmity

Rating: T-M depending on chapter, M overall

Summary: When you're literally married to the person you despise.

Warnings: Homosexual relationships, vulgar words and adult situations.

Author's Note: I don't know why I wrote this.


Chapter 10: Analysis

If you asked Kaiba how he viewed his marriage and he answered you honestly, he would tell you it was like most other relationships in his life save for his relationship with Mokuba (familial) and the Pharaoh (lifelong rival); it was all business.

It was supposed to be a simple business deal; Katsuya legally marry him and appear with him publicly just enough to get the public and more importantly his peers in business that he was not interested in marrying anyone's daughter; and he in return would pay off the crippling student loan debt of the No.3 duelist.

Marriage was a legal process and status, and he treated it as such. He gave his spouse the courtesy of treating him with professional respect and not calling him a deadbeat anymore like he did when they were teens.

He knew that Katsuya would accept, very begrudgingly and with enmity; not to mention he would need negotiations and terms and conditions to this marriage. He wanted to continue working as a nurse, which Kaiba put the stipulation he'd have to work for a Kaiba Corp owned medical facility; he was not going to have sex with him either but that was fine, but he had to live at the mansion.

Once everything was signed off and done everything else was just going to be about public appearances. At least, that's what it was supposed to be like.

Kaiba hadn't expected Jounouchi to take the arrangement so seriously.

Perhaps seriously wasn't the right word, because took the marriage seriously, but only in the legal and professional sense. Katsuya on the other hand seemed be taking the marriage, even though it was a sham, very personally.

He didn't know everything about Katsuya's past, but it wasn't hard to see that he didn't have the most stable upbringing. His father was notoriously a drunk and gambling addict, his mother had divorced and moved far away with his sister. Katsuya had been working multiple jobs since middle school, which was saying something since even high school students couldn't work jobs without school permission. He had this almost emotional aversion to alcohol that seemed to bring him a deep-seated type of panic.

He figured, if anything, Katsuya should have not taken marriage seriously at all. If anything, he should have been the type who'd see no point in it, but no, he was a sentimental fool and didn't look at their sham marriage as if it were nothing more than a signed government document.

This was very much to Kaiba's ire, because he was not the relationship type person. Yes, he was gay, he was attracted to men. Did he want romantic relationships with them, though? No, no he did not, such things were such a frivolous use of energy when he could be using that energy for more productive reasons. So there was no logical reason to humor his spouses delusions of sentimentality.

Just as he was unprepared to Katsuya's declaration that they had to treat each other within certain limits just because they were married, he was especially not prepared for the blond duelist to lost control of his mental state and just start crying.

He was at a loss, because he wasn't expecting this type of thing nor did he have the most experience in knowing how to deal with it. Katsuya had always been a zealous, tumultuous person in both demeaner and actions, but in his never ending open display of his emotions, normally these were anger and excitement; but never distress like this. Hell, even during his duel with Marik when he literally stopped breathing, he hadn't shown this type of anguish, so even an apathetic person like Kaiba could see that he was deeply upset.

He'd seen upset employees, but their despair was always shallow and superficial, the type of grievances literally any overworked adult in Japan had. He'd also dealt with Mokuba's many episodes and tantrums growing, things such as nightmares, things such melancholy after being kidnapped again, but Mokuba was such an upbeat person he grew out of dependency on his brother rather quickly.

So seeing Katsuya upset to the point of literal tears, which he knew were there regardless of the blond hiding his face behind his hand, he was unsure of what to do from there. Again, the only time he'd come face to face with this type of situation was either with employees or Mokuba, and Mokuba was the only one he'd ever actually done anything about.

When Mokuba was upset usually something like consoling words or gestures were enough to calm him down - but consoling words were off the table because Katsuya was too upset to pay attention to words.

He wasn't consciously thinking about it when he put his arms around his spouse; perhaps somewhere in the back of his mind he though physical gestures of comfort was what was required of this type of situation. It was awkward, because they'd never had any sort of legitimate positive physical interaction, the closest being either hooking each others arms during business meetings, or even when they had been holding hands in the Kaiba Corp gardens, but those gestures weren't supposed to mean anything, they were supposed to be for show.

At least… they were to him. What had Katsuya considered them? Did he take those personally too?

His sudden and awkward attempt at comfort seemed to work, he observed as the blond, although slow and hesitant, drew his arms back around him in return and rested his face into his chest. He noted through the contact they now had that the other duelists heart was beating fast and hard, maybe it was surprise or maybe it was always like that, he didn't know, he wasn't the medical expert between the two of them.

"No more violence." Katsuya muttered quietly, and sorrowfully. His voice was surprisingly hollow. He frowned in spite of himself; maybe he had over reacted a little bit at the duel between Katsuya and Yugi.

That was a hard maybe though.

"Alright, Katsuya," Kaiba finally agreed, tightening his arms a little around him, he surprised himself because although this whole thing they were doing right now was extremely awkward, it wasn't wholly unpleasant "no more physical violence."


"What is this, some kind of sitcom?" Kaiba muttered to himself as he was seated on the couch; Katsuya, once he collected himself, retreated back to the bedroom presumably out of embarrassment, leaving Kaiba to himself. Normally he'd head back to Kaiba Corp or the mansion to continue working, but he had to ensure that his spouse would actually return to the mansion and not continue to hold up in this safe house, so he was going to sit and wait.

He placed his laptop on his lap as he sat, and started typing, doing just minor work for now. He let his mind wander as he did so, in this case the place it went to was the safe house. This was the house he would often go to in high school, either during lunch, or after the school day to quickly do his homework and change for work. It was also used by Mokuba for similar reasons when he attended Domino High School. Although judging by the messes the maids complained about during that period of time, Kaiba had a sneaking suspicion he also invited friends and maybe girls over, maybe threw a couple parties. Not Kaiba's style, but Mokuba didn't get into trouble with the law or get anyone pregnant, so he wasn't going to condemn his brother for enjoying his youth.

He hadn't stepped foot in the house since high school, he knew he left a few school uniforms and notebooks in the bedroom and study room, but he hadn't been completely sure what Mokuba had left here. It definitely hadn't been changed up too much, having the same household goods and appliances he remembered. He guessed the blond must have cleaned up the place a little bit, because there wasn't a thick layer of dust on everything like he expected.

His phone started to ring; he quickly pulled it out of its pocket and swept his gaze quickly over the name that flashed on the screen; 海かい馬ば モクバ (1). He quickly pressed the talk button and brought it up to his ear.

"Hey big brother!" He heard a cheerful voice from the other end.

"Mokuba." Kaiba greeted in return "How are your studies in Yonsei?"

"They're going great actually, I gotta say the culture here isn't too different from ours but I was getting a haircut the other day and the hairdresser just started to massage my shoulders and I nearly jumped out of my seat!" His younger brother explained and asked "Anyways, how are you and that bastard Jounouchi doing?"

Kaiba rolled his eyes at his brothers old nickname for his spouse back when he too was slightly more cruel and arrogant "You know he's not Jounouchi anymore - Like I would ever take anyone else's last name." He said, he heard his younger brother chuckle on the other end.

"I know I know - say, I'm coming for a visit soon, you mind taking a day or two off? We can have a family weekend."

"Sure thing." Kaiba answered.

"No, family as in all of us."

"All of us?" Kaiba inquired.

"Well - me, you, and your husband of course. I mean… you two dated for so long and you didn't tell anyone, so I figured it was time we actually were all together at once to, you know, maybe make things a little more casual? Because, I know he's my brother-in-law now, but I really can't see him as anything other than Yugi's friend."

Kaiba's mouth was in a line - family days were meant to be a day where he and Mokuba could just spend together. "I don't know..." He said vaguely, it's not like he was going to admit to his brother that the marriage was a facade for business reasons. "It could be awkward, it would make you somewhat of a third wheel."

"Oh don't worry about me big brother," Kaiba knew his brother well enough that he could hear his brothers mischievous grin over the phone "I won't be a third or fourth wheel."

"Fourth?"

"Oh, I'm bringing my fiancée with me."


(1) 海かい馬ば モクバ - Mokuba Kaiba in kanji kanji according to Wikipedia, I don't actually know the Japanese language but Kaiba's phone screen wasn't going to be in English.

Authors note: This chapter opens with Kaiba's POV on the last chapter. The thing about Kaiba's feelings towards Jou is that… well, he doesn't have those types of feelings for Jou yet. Because, he didn't consider that this had the potential of being anything other than a business deal. So Jou throwing in just how personally he took their marriage, well it's prompted Kaiba to re-evaluate what their relationship can be. Kaiba's gay but he's probably more demisexual than anything in this fanfic tbh.

If you're wondering why Kaiba refers to Jou exclusively by his first name, it's actually because of his ego, it's basically him rubbing into Jou's face "Haha I took your preferred name (Jou/Jounouchi) from you, now you have to go by Kaiba" but he isn't going to call him Kaiba obviously because that's what he goes by.

So apparently in the manga Mokuba's honorifics had him refer to Jounouchi as 'that bastard'. Also, he has a fiancee.

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