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Hopeless

Marik and Malik had been kicked out after Joe-Joe and Seth were brought up to bed, both of them still playing pirates and shocked to hear that their princess was gone. They were now staying at Yugi's and Yami's place for a while, deciding that it was safer not to stay with Bakura after they had chosen to side with the girl.

As Seto woke up on Sunday morning he once more had his whole family in his bed, with Joe-Joe being spread over Joey's face this time. But unlike Seto the day before, Joey had turned his head a little and was breathing through a gap in between her and the bed. Seth was asleep again as well holding an older book of Joey's that Seto owned. He must already have finished the manuscript.

Seto sneaked out of bed again and over to Joey's laptop. He knew Joe-Joe might get angry but he didn't care. He wanted to know what story Joey worked on and more importantly right now, he wanted to know the password that Joey thought would be so hard for him to find out. If it hadn't been for that he would have hacked past the password the day before but he wanted to know now. He had tried multiple things but then he heard a quiet, "Try I love Seto Kaiba." come from the bed.

Seth slowly sat up and started to read again, "Thanks for the hint but I doubt it will work, it doesn't even have enough characters if I spell it together."

Seth rolled his eyes and walked over to Seto. He climbed on his lap and typed in I-Love-Seto-Kaiba and pressed Enter before walking back to the bed and sitting down to read the book he started again. Seto stared at the screen the password had been accepted. "How did you know?" Seto asked the young boy.

"I saw him type it in yesterday." Seth said with a smug smile.

Seto simply thanked him for the help with the password and looked for the document of his new book. He had seen the name of it the day before and so it didn't take long with finding it. He started to read and was surprised that after only reading it for half an hour he could have told who inspired the two main characters. It was Joey and himself bickering over little things during high school. Some of it nearly read like it was a diary of Joey's. But there were a few big differences that made clear that it wasn't. The most obvious being the different names the characters had as well as that the one that was similar to Joey had more straight friends than not. As well as a girl as a best friend that was very similar to Yugi. Duke seemed to be turned into a girl as well and so was Ryou only Marik and Malik were both still guys and of course together. Of course all names were changed. And the whole thing was in a different world where dragons existed as well as monsters.

It was interesting to read since it was still a lot like their high school time from Joey's perspective and one of the few fights that already had happened in the story, Seto could actually recall to have happened in nearly the exact same way. The thing that worried Seto was how hurt the main character that was probably Joey himself was at some of the insults he had made. But then again, in this story he was in love and didn't believe to have the slightest hope and in reality, he most certainly wasn't in love.

Suddenly the laptop was closed and as Seto looked up he saw a slightly angry and slightly embarrassed looking Joey stare down at him. "How did ya get past my password?"

Seto looked past him for a moment to Seth who had either fallen back asleep at some point or was pretending to be asleep to give them a feeling of privacy. "I found out the password." Seto said, unwilling to tell on the boy and get him in trouble too. Seto saw Joey get tense a bit and his face turned a bright red as his eyes looked away. "Quite smart of you to choose a password that was so ridiculous that no one would ever guess it." He could see Joey relax a little as well as Seth looking up at him with a death glare at Seto that Joey couldn't see since he was with his back to the bed. Seto was confused about the death glare, he hadn't told Joey about Seth's involvement in the password so why was he so angry?

"Please don't read that story." Joey said distracting Seto from the boy in the bed and he looked up at Joey again. Seto once again had the feeling that his heart had stopped as he saw him use his puppy eyes on him. The vulnerable and begging look not only on his face but in his whole posture. Like two nights before, he pulled Joey closer and Joey ended up sitting on his lap one leg on each side of Seto.

Seth nearly held his breath as he saw his paps pull his dad so close and his dad sit down on his lap. Their faces were so close that their noses nearly touched and his paps looked like he was seconds away from finally kissing his dad. They were so close to kissing that surely even they couldn't mess it up anymore.

"Don't read it again until I'm done, I promise I'll give you the manuscript first before I give it to anyone else and I promise to have it done before I leave for Sydney." Seth couldn't believe what he heard his dad say. With that one word 'Sydney' he had just messed it up. Seth could see his pap's face go tense and his grip tighten but his eyes got a bit more cold. Come on Paps, just tell him not to go and that you want him to stay, tell him that you love him, or even better KISS HIM YOU IDIOT! Seth mentally screamed at his paps.

But all Seth heard his paps say was, "I didn't hear you sleep eat so if you have any strange requests for breakfast you might want to get to the kitchen and tell the chef yourself."

"You're no use at all, are you?" Joey asked with amusement in his voice as he stood up and walked towards the door, "But paws off of my laptop while I'm gone."

Seth pretended to be asleep until he heard his dad leave the room and then looked up at his paps with the same death glare as before.

"What did I do wrong?" Seto asked, still wondering why Seth was glaring at him.

"You are hopeless." Seth just said and looked back at his book. "By the way do you think I could get some manga? The two monkey unkas had left me some and I finished reading them last night but I still need the newer volumes of them."

"Write a list of what manga you want and I'll get you a few." Seto said, still puzzled by the boy's behavior. Seto went back to bed again as well but as far away from the constant mumbling and always moving Joe-Joe as he could, just to be safe.

After a while someone knocked on the door, and Seto wondered why Joey was still knocking, it was nearly as much Joey's room at the moment as it was his own but he simply said, "Come in."

As it turned out it wasn't Joey, it was Mokuba who walked in. "Hey big bro, can you do me a favor?"

"That depends on the favor." Seto said.

"Can you lend the kids to me?" Mokuba asked.

"You want me to lend you the kids?" Seto asked, sounding confused and Seth too was looking questioningly at his uncle.

"Rebecca and I are meeting today but you know she is staying with this friend and now we decided" that I'd bring a friend along so her friend has someone and we make it sort of like a double date but to loosen the atmosphere we said it might be better to just go to the park and have the kids around to play with. Rebecca will bring some balls and I will bring the kids." Mokuba explained.

"What friend of yours?" Seto asked, slightly suspicious as to why Mokuba hadn't said a name.

"Rowan..." Mokuba said quietly, he knew Seto disliked this particular friend.

"Isn't that the kid that put...some random baby pictures up all over Domino and claimed them to be my old baby pictures?" Seto said, looking very angry.

"No, Rowan is the friend of mine that got upset after you broke the promise to take us to Kaiba Land and then stole your baby pictures and put them up all over Domino, only claiming the truth." Mokuba corrected.

Seth was looking back to his book certain that this Rowan would be fun and either way that person might be helpful in his war against Rebecca. He still had to get back at her for interfering with his personal space.

"No way." Seto said. "I'm not letting my kids anywhere near that delinquent."

"Why not? Rowan is cool." Mokuba said. "And not a delinquent, you just got a little payback there."

"A little payback? That brat gave my mobile number to that annoying girl from my fan club. And my business number on top of that! I needed to get a new number and let all my partners know about the new number, and that was a lot of work." Seto complained.

"Oh cry me a river, honestly it wasn't that bad. Come on Seto, it would give you some time to be alone with Joey." Mokuba tried to encourage Seto to say yes.

"Negative. No chance." Seto said again.

"No chance for what?" Joey asked after walking back into the room.

"I want to take the kids out to the park with some friends and Seto doesn't like one of them, and just because..." Mokuba started to explain.

"If I say yes will you shut up right now?" Seto asked with a tiny blush. He didn't want Joey to know any of the other embarrassing situations that Mokuba and especially Rowan had gotten him into. The Lego in his shoes was one of the more harmless ones. But Seto really didn't want Joey to know about how he had reacted like a scared little girl after finding a curled up snake in his bed one night. He hated snakes. But the worst of all had been that the little brat had let his entire fan club into his mansion. The place had been a mess and Seto was still missing all of his underwear that he had owned before. That had happened as well as a few other things.

"Sure thing big bro. Come on kids let's get you dressed. Joe-Joe, time to wake up." Mokuba said, trying to get the girl awake while Seto just grinned. He could help him but refused to do so.

Joey rolled his eyes and walked over, pulling the covers of the bed over Joe-Joe's face causing the girl to scream once and sit up. "Morning sleepyhead, how about going to the park with Unka Mokuba and some friends of his?" Joey asked the girl that immediately smiled and agreed.

Seto and Joey helped get the kids ready and they all had some breakfast before Mokuba took the two kids out. Seth of course bringing his book as well as the black dragon while his sister only had the white dragon, or rather what used to be white dragon since by now it had grass stains, berry stains, as well as multicolored thumbprints on it.

On the way to the park Seth got out the mobile phone Seto had once given to him and never taken back. "Mokuba, do you have the number of Malik or Marik? I need to talk to them."

"Sure kid, what about?" Mokuba asked and handed him his own phone to look the number up.

"They need to get over to the mansion and help Paps and Dad get together." Seth said dryly.

"Don't you think some private time might do the trick?" Mokuba asked. That was actually what he had been aiming for as he asked to take the kids, along with his own plans.

"If you would have seen them this morning you wouldn't say that, those two will never get together unless someone helps them." Seth said while dialing the number he had found on Mokuba's phone.

Please Review

Who has an idea as to what Malik and Marik could be up to? One person already knows.

Also someone wants me to kill off the Pegasus bunny...and someone agreed. Who else wants to kill the bunny and who wants to safe the bunny? Let me know, so I can see what the majority wants. I personally don't really care if Joey gets to eat Pegasus.