Chapter 12

The True Side of the HeavyMetal Amazon

As soon as Katsuya entered his apartment, he was met by Tetsuya and Naoki. Tetsuya looked a little worried while Naoki looked at the blond with attitude and disapproval. The singer blinked at them. "What?"

Tetsuya tossed his friend a bottle of water. "What did you find out?"

Katsuya remembered the scene that he accidentally looked in on between Kevin and Seth and blushed deeply. He took a drink of water before he answered. "Well…they're not lovers. Kevin was talking about another guy."

Naoki crossed his arms. "So what took you so long?"

Katsuya took off his jacket as he shrugged. "I took a nap…and woke up to find Seto there."

Tetsuya was surprised. "What did you say?"

Katsuya headed to his room. "What do you mean?"

Tetsuya scoffed. "You called Kaiba by his first name."

Katsuya looked at them as a small smile broke out on his face. "So I did…so I did." With that, he let out a small giggle and went into his room, closing the door behind him.

Naoki groaned. "Great…just great."

Tetsuya looked at the guitarist. "What's wrong, man?"

Naoki leaned against the wall. "I don't like this…what's going on with Katsuya and Kaiba."

"Why not?"

"I don't know…Kaiba just doesn't seem like good news. He seems like a jerk."

Tetsuya leaned against the opposite wall, facing his friend. "You shouldn't judge a book by his cover. I know a lot of people who think you're a jerk because of how you look."

Naoki looked up. "Really? I didn't know that."

Tetsuya nodded. "Exactly. Besides, Katsuya doesn't seem to be really hurt by Kaiba."

Naoki slightly nodded. "I guess…"

"So I say we should let Katsuya do this."

"But I will not hold back if Kaiba hurts him in anyway."

Tetsuya nodded. "I hear you there."

Naoki nodded as Katsuya walked out of his room wearing a new outfit. He had on a white tank-top that was covered with glitters. His pants was made of white leather and held in place with a black belt. On his feet, he had on his favorite pair of white dancing shoes. Tetsuya whistled. "Going out on a date?"

Katsuya blushed. "Well…his band invited me to hang with them at the HeavyMetal Amazon…and I need to get going."

Tetsuya nodded and went to his room. Katsuya was reaching for the door when Naoki spoke up. "Hey, hot shot…just be careful, okay?"

Katsuya looked back. "Be careful of what?"

Naoki shrugged. "Look, I'm going to have to get used to this…but watch your back. If Kaiba hurts you in any way…"

Katsuya used all his will power to not rub his neck, remembering his brush with Kaiba's anger. Instead, he nodded. "I'll keep that in mind. See you later." The blond quickly left before his friend could say anything else. He stayed still for a minute, thinking about his encounter with Kaiba's seemingly dangerous anger and Naoki's concern. He considered if he should even go to the HeavyMetal Amazon with Rage Inside that night. Shaking his head, he remembered his feelings for his rival and left.

A while later, Katsuya stood across the street from the nightclub. There were two lines waiting outside the door. One line was composed entirely of men while the other was a line full of women. The blond was extremely nervous about joining the men, remembering what Kevin told him about the different floors of the club. As he was debating about what he should do, he heard a familiar voice behind him. "Hey, babe. Want to hook up?"

Katsuya immediately turned around, insulted by the fact that one of his enemies thought the blond was a girl. Sure enough, all four members of Last Resort were sitting at a table of a sidewalk café. Cota and Numora, both dressed in jeans and a white shirt with Numora's outfit being much bigger and his traditional hat and bandanna, burst out laughing as Yin blushed deeply and covered his face with a newspaper and his black shirt, humiliated with his mistake. Kyoto, dressed in tight jeans, a black rocker shirt, and a black lace glove on his left hand and an open leather glove on his right, just sipped a glass of water. "Don't bother, Yin. That blond will just sully you."

Katsuya growled more viciously. "Get over here and say that to my face, you transvestite!"

Kyoto did not show anger and calmly sipped his drink again. "You shouldn't talk about yourself when you're insulting someone else."

Katsuya stormed over with the intention of punching Kyoto's lights out. He was almost over to the wild-looking singer when Brandon appeared next to the blond. "There you are! We've been looking for you."

Numora smirked and leaned forward on the table. "Well, well, well…if it isn't Brandon from Rage Inside."

Brandon gave the boy with dreadlocks a small glare while Kaiba came up. "Brandon, I told you to wait in line for…" The brunette froze when his eyes locked on with Kyoto. The taller singer growled and his hands balled up into fists. "You…"

Kyoto smirked a devious smirk. "Seto Kawasaki…long time no see."

Katsuya looked at his love interest with confusion. The name that Kyoto referred to Kaiba was unexpected. Kaiba growled. "What the hell are you doing here?"

Kyoto stood up and went to the fence that separated him from Kaiba. "I don't recall claiming territory the last time we saw each other."

Kaiba grabbed the other singer's shirt and glared into his eyes. "Leave now before I rip your head off!"

Brandon pulled Kaiba away. "Come on, man. He's not worth it."

Kaiba growled as Kyoto chuckled. "You haven't changed, have you?"

Kaiba just took a swipe at his nemesis and stormed off to the club. Brandon led Katsuya away, who was still thinking about the unusual last name that Kyoto called the brunette. He wanted to ask either him or Brandon but Kyoto called out to Kaiba first. "I have to say…you haven't changed at all!"

Growling viciously, Kaiba grabbed a rock from the ground and threw it at his enemy, who merely ducked while laughing. With a final death glare, the brunette stormed into the nightclub. Katsuya immediately went after the singer, racing in before the bouncer saw him. Once inside, however, the blond could not find a familiar face. The floor in front of him was packed tight with dancing teenagers of both genders. The place reeked of sweat and alcohol. In the corner, a DJ was having fun with various discs, playing dance music and making the discs scratch to repeat the best segments in the song. There were a few teens leaning against the wall, making out with their girlfriend of boyfriend. Katsuya started to get nervous when he heard Andrew call out to him from his left. He looked over and saw the three members of Rage Inside sitting at the bar with other teenagers. The blond rushed over to them and quickly asked, "Where's Seto?"

Andrew stuck out his lower lip in a pout. "What, you don't want to hang out with us?"

Sean smacked the drummer upside the head as Brandon pointed to the back. "Kaiba's on the second floor. Just take the elevator up."

Katsuya nodded and started to make his way over to the back of the nightclub. Andrew sniffed his drink and watched the blond singer. "Brandon, you neglected to tell him about the different elevators."

Brandon smirked. "Oh, did I?"

Andrew and Sean just rolled their eyes at the bassist's odd humor.

Over on the other side of the club, Katsuya found the two elevators. Thinking nothing of it, he went into one and leaned against the wall, sighing. His mind was racing at top speed and it was making him have a headache. The brief argument between Kaiba and Kyoto ran over and over in his mind. Besides Kyoto referring to the brunette as "Seto Kawasaki," the looks on each other's faces bothered the blond. Kaiba looked like rage incarnate while Kyoto…he looked smug and almost amused at the brunette's anger. Katsuya was now certain that the two singers had some sort of history together but he could not figure out what it could be. Before his thoughts could take him any further, however, the elevator doors opened and he stepped out.

To his surprise, he realized that he was on the wrong floor. This floor was colored a beautiful shade of purple from the carpet to the ceiling to the bar. The floor was not as crowded as the first floor but there was one major difference with this floor…all the people were women, dressed either in suits or summer dresses. They were all milling around either at the bar or against the wall. A few women was engaging in romantic activities ranging from innocent like hand holding to exotic like French kissing. The song that was currently playing was a remix of ForLo's song 'Forbidden Love.' Katsuya felt very uncomfortable and wanted to escape back to the elevator but the doors were already closed and the elevator was at the first floor. He had no where to go.

Looking around the floor, the blond realized that his presence was attracting a lot of eyes, most of which were not too friendly. Chuckling nervously, he started to feverishly push the call button for the elevator. "Sorry…for dropping in. I'll just…be going."

Still pressing the button, the singer noticed a young woman sitting at the bar. She had a slight tan and it reflected well off her short black hair. Her outfit was also different from the other women. She had on a Catholic school girl outfit that consisted of a long sleeved, buttoned up shirt with a purple plaid tie and skirt. On her feet were tight white socks and heel boots. Katsuya's eyes grew wide, for he knew instantly who she was. "Tina! Tina from ForLo!"

Katsuya had managed to grab the attention of everyone in the bar but the girl, who was in fact Tina, smiled and acknowledged him with a wave. She then got up and went over to the star-struck man. "Nice to meet a fan…from the opposite gender."

Katsuya slightly blushed but nodded. "Definitely! I've been a fan of you and Miranda since I was a kid! I have all your singles and CDs. It's an honor to finally meet you!"

Tina smiled. "Don't just tell me. Tell both of us." With that, she whistled at a girl in the left corner, wearing the same outfit as Tina was. The only difference was that this new girl has shoulder length curly hair in a rich shade of orange. She turned around and went to Tina, wrapping her arms around her partner's waist and resting her head on the other's shoulder. Tina turned to the blond. "I trust you recognize Miranda's face."

Katsuya nodded, his heart racing. "Wow…yeah. Man, I don't know what to say."

Miranda spoke up. "What's your name?"

The blond blushed. "Oh gods, I'm sorry. The name's Katsuya Jounouchi."

Tina reacted to the name. "Oh, so you're the infamous Katsuya."

Katsuya grinned. "I'm glad you know me."

Miranda giggled. "Not really. Kaiba's just told us that you were a pathetic wannabe who was always following him around."

Katsuya momentarily slumped a little at hearing the insult. But he quickly recovered and asked, "By the way, do you know a fast way to get to the second floor? That's where Brandon said Kaiba was."

The two singers of ForLo felt their eyes grow wide. Katsuya tilted his head in confusion as Tina said, "That's so weird. Why would Kaiba want to go to…that floor?"

Miranda agreed. "He only goes there if he's extremely upset and needs their strong drinks and drugs."

Katsuya realized, "He saw Kyoto outside."

Tina growled in disgust as Miranda shook her head, sighing. "That's bad. Come on, we'll show you the back way."

Tina stopped her girlfriend. "Maybe you should let me go. After all, I can handle what's over there more than you can."

Miranda nodded and snuck in a kiss on Tina's cheek. Katsuya blushed as Tina gripped his shoulder and led him towards a door in the back. Going through the door, they came to a long slanting hallway that went downwards. As they started to walk, Katsuya asked, "Hey, Tina. Can you tell me something about Seto?"

Tina shook her head. "I promised to never answer any questions about him behind his back. If you want to know more about him, ask him yourself…or at least his brother."

Katsuya clutched his head. All of the information that he was getting on this single night was getting too much for him. After walking for about a couple minutes, they saw another door. Loud techno music could be heard through the door. Tina rolled her eyes. "Beyond that door is the gay floor. Watch yourself…there are a ton of hungry guys in there just waiting for a piece of you."

Katsuya swallowed hard. "I understand. But I'll be fine. Thanks again!" With that, he headed to the door and went in quickly. Tina shook her head and headed back to the floor. "You owe me, blondie…you owe me big time."

Beyond the door, Katsuya could not believe what he was seeing. The floor was covered with guys and most of them were wearing only pants. Small stages were placed on the floor and atop the stages were go-go dancers, almost completely nude. To Katsuya's surprise, he saw Kevin on one of the stages, dressed in leather pants and body glitter on his chest. Kevin saw him and gave him a little wave in the middle of his routine. Katsuya half-heartedly waved and kept looking around. The bright fluorescent lights blinded the blond and the extremely loud bass was deafening. He had to cover his nose because it reeked of booze, sweat, and the faint scent of drugs. He then spotted the bar and recognized Kaiba and Seth there. Smiling, he tried to make his way over to them. That feat was proving to be extremely difficult with the place packed with sweaty man, who did indeed look at him with hungry eyes. The young singer tried to ignore them and kept his eyes on Kaiba, who noticed him and turned around to not look at him. All of a sudden, a dancer with green hair came up behind Katsuya and started to grind his hips into the blond's. The blond yelped and backed away. "What the hell are you doing?" He tried to talk over the music since he realized that regular speaking was impossible.

The other guy just smirked. "You look hot! You new here?"

Katsuya just turned around and kept making his way through the crowd. Insulted and hungry, the guy went and wrapped his arms around the little blond. "Don't go! You're hot!"

Katsuya freaked and started to try to wiggle his way out of the guy's grasp. However, the guy was extremely buff and the blond was unable to move. His eyes immediately watered when the stranger licked his cheek and said in his eye, "Want to go back to my place and…investigate the unknown?"

Katsuya tried to answer but then realized that he was free. Looking to his left, he saw that Kaiba and Seth were there…and that Kaiba had knocked the harasser to the ground. Katsuya immediately hid behind Kaiba as Seth picked up the green-haired dancer. "What is the matter with you, Noah? Haven't you gotten into enough trouble already?"

Noah wanted to answer but was punched in the nose once again by Kaiba. Noah held his nose and glared at the brunette. Seeing the face up close, Katsuya's eyes grew wide. Aside from the green hair, Noah was a spitting image of Kaiba, if not gentler and hornier. Kaiba growled, "You will never change, will you?"

Noah shrugged and led the group, Katsuya included, to the bar. "Come now, brother! You know how horny I get!"

Katsuya realized that Noah was the brother that Tina was talking about. However, still afraid from his harassments, the blond kept quiet. The bartender gave the four men each a round of vodka and went to tend to the other men at the bar. With Katsuya watching, Seth, Kaiba, and Noah downed their shots simultaneously. Shuddering from the strength of the drink, Kaiba turned to Katsuya. "You all right?"

Katsuya nodded. "Why did you help me out there?"

Kaiba did not answer and Noah grinned. "He wanted to protect his boyfriend!"

Seth hit Noah upside the head and Kaiba back-fisted his chest. Kaiba then growled, "Will you shut the hell up? I do not care for the dumb blond!"

Noah laughed. "You never cared when I did that routine to other people!"

Katsuya found his voice towards the green-haired man. "You had no right to just start humping and licking a stranger! I am scarred for life!"

Noah smirked. "Too bad, Seto!"

The brunette made another swing for his brother but Noah quickly flipped over the railing and went back to dancing. Seth shook his head. "Katsuya, just ignore him! Noah is nothing but a man-whore!"

Katsuya nodded. "I noticed!"

Kaiba glared at the blond. "What the hell are you doing here? This is for specific men only! You don't belong here!"

Katsuya smirked. "Neither do you, Mr. Straight!"

Kaiba did not answer and took another shot of vodka. Seth smirked. "He just comes here for the booze! Best stuff in a 50 mile radius!"

Katsuya turned and looked at the many dancers on the mini stages. He smirked as Kevin started to get naughty in his pole routine and started to laugh when he saw Seth suffering from watching. "Seto, this place is fun!"

Both Kaiba and Seth looked at Katsuya with surprised looks. Kaiba slowly stood up. "What did you call me?"

Katsuya shrugged. "What's the deal? Kevin calls you by your first name!"

Kaiba growled and left in a hurry. Seth just rolled his eyes. "I don't know why he bothers to come here! He always leaves angry!"

"Should I go after him?"

Seth shook his head. "Kevin once did that and he came back with a black eye! Wait a few hours and then look for him at his apartment!"

Katsuya sighed and slumped on the bar. This had been a very tiring, confusing evening…and he had a feeling that there was more in store for him.