Bakura grunted, carrying the last heavy bag into Marik's apartment. Marik had already obliged to letting them store the two sentimental value bags at his apartment. After Jounochi had agreed that Champagne was sentimental, too.

"You always manage to stand up to him."

"That's the kind of relationship we had," Jounochi said softly. "We were always keeping each other in check."

"So you guys argued a lot," Bakura summed up.

"No. Well, yes, but it was usually playful arguing. It sometimes heated up but one of us always stormed out until we had cooled off."

"Then make-up sex?" Bakura asked excitedly.

"When we were younger. In the last few years, it was sort of up to him. He had--and still does have--a lot of work to do running that company. After Duel Monsters died down, he had to merge into other outlets for his technology."

"Speaking of which, did you ever beat the fucker?" Bakura smiled from where he laid on the kitchen counter, his head hanging off the ledge. His long white hair demonstrated gravity as it fell over the ledge, suspended about the ground.

"No, but after we started getting serious, I never tried. I didn't care by then."

"You just wanted the sex?"

"Yeah, kind of," Jou said, a hint of humor in his voice. He was lying on a futon couch thing that Marik had replaced his old "couch" with.

"Man who argue with lover get no piece at night."

Jou laughed lightly.

"So how'd the folks take it?"

"Mom doesn't know or care. My dad...wasn't too thrilled until Seto made a nice gesture by paying off all of his debts. I don't speak to him very often now."

"And the loser friends you hung out with?"

Jou sighed. "They weren't and aren't losers. Honda couldn't believe I was gay. Kind of flipped out. I don't speak to him anymore."

"And Yugi? What about that twerp?"

"He was...surprised. He never thought I was gay. Then there was the entire fact Seto and I didn't get along before we started dating. He was like, basically, 'Do you think it will last?' I joked that I was in it just for the sex, which made Yugi blush and Kaiba hit me. Everyone's so mean to me."

"And my little twerp?"

"He got over his minor crush on me and made me help him ask Yugi out. They dated off and on until they moved in together after Ryou graduated college-- "

"He had a crush on you?" Bakura as in disbelief, sitting up.

"Apparently."

"That's funny."

"Hey, thanks."

"Anytime."

"Hmph."

"What about you? You can't tell me you've always wanted to date Kaiba?"

"No, not especially."

"Then who?"

"Y-Yami..."

"Yami?" Bakura asked, lifting his eyebrow. "That's...that's surprising."

Jou leaned back on the couch. "He was always so dreamy..."

"No, he's just a spirit."

"And so confident."

"Yeah, was."

"And he looked so *hot* in his black leather."

"Now he just looks like a walking bondage fetish."

"And his body..."

"Looks anorexic now."

"I never said I still liked him."

"You just like...a memory," he said softly.

"Kind of. What about you, Bakura?"

"A good porn and I was fine. A nice whore in the past."

"That sounds lonely."

"It is."

"And you don't like any certain person?"

"Not really..."

"What about Marik?"

"We're best friends."

"Not more?"

"No, not anymore."

"But you used to be?"

"We used to fuck."

"That's it?"

"And help each other with our needs. Take that to mean as you like."

"Did you guys ever role-play?"

"No," Bakura said dryly.

"What's your sexual fantasy?"

"Raping some random blond," he said just a dryly.

"Blond, huh?"

"Don't look too far into it."

"You like rape?"

"I like feeling in power. I don't want the person against it, but I want them to know who's in charge."

"Mmmm..."

"What about you?"

"What about me?" Jounochi asked confused.

"Your fantasy?"

"It's stupid."

"Probably."

Jou made a face at Bakura. "Hmmm...okay...being surrounded by two men, worshipping my body."

"You're right, it is stupid."

"No it's not. I like being...pampered. Sexually, at least."

"Not domineering?" Bakura asked incredulously.

"Sometimes. But all I really want is two men who want to be with me more than anything in the world and willing to show me that."

"Not very kinky."

"I don't like kinky."

"Where's your favorite place to be kissed?" Bakura asked, changing the subject

"My neck and on my hip."

"Collarbone."

"Hickys: get `em or give `em?"

"Give `em."

"Give `em."

"Do you like your feet?"

Jou laughed. "Not really. But I give good feet massages. I give good massages in general."

"How good?"

"My neck massages made Seto want to fuck. Imagine the rest of the body..."

"That good, huh?"

"Mmmhmm... Would you ever fuck Seto?"

"When he was younger. I still would now, but not as much. Afraid I'd wear him out," Bakura joked, giving Jou a fang-y grin. "Is he good in bed?"

"I've never had anyone else."

"Really? Wow. So what's he like?"

"Down-to-business. We used to sometimes wrestle make-out until he usually pinned me and fucked me."

"Sounds kinky."

"That closest I've ever gotten."

"So just...no feelings in it?"

"Oh, we make love...we used to...just not a lot of foreplay."

"He always on top?"

"Mmhmm..."

"You've never been top?"

"No, Bakura."

"Wow."

"Yeah..."

"Did you want to be?"

"Sometimes. But I really just like being pleasured, not taking pleasure."

"So would you ever fuck me?"

"Never thought about it."

"So think about it."

Jounochi sat quietly, thinking. "I just don't see it working."

"You're a bottom, I'm mostly a top, what's the prob?"

"Um, for one, you're 'mostly' top?"

"Shut up."

"And it not that simple. There's gotta be desire."

"You don't' desire me?"

"Never came across my mind."

"Hmm..."

"You ever been in a threesome?"

"No, you want to be?"

"Um, yeah," Jou said it like it was the most obvious thing in the world.

"Your fantasy, right. The closest you thought of being with someone else besides Kaiba? Or was it him and Yami in the fantasy?"

"Just...sometimes. Sometimes other people."

"Like what kind of people?"

"Just different people."

"What would you think of Marik and me?"

"What, together?"

"With you, too. Your fantasy."

Jounochi laughed. "With you?"

Bakura sat up. "Never mind," he murmured. "I better go, tell Marik I'll be around later."

Jounochi nodded, not noticing Bakura's depressed tone.