YUGIOH
Kaiba: Missing Persons
Chapter 37. They all left, as Kaiba turned off the TV, and began reading the basic 'get- well' speech on the card, with them all signing it. It looked like they even got some of the people that weren't here to sign it, like Serenity, Devlin, and even Mai. "So, how ya feeling?"
Kaiba suddenly looked up, assuming that everyone left, to see Joey standing there. "I thought you were going?", he strongly hinted.
"Yeah, I know......but I wanted to talk to you for a minute......", Joey said.
Kaiba sighed, "Make it quick", pretending to be more interested in the card, than he was in Joey being there.
"I wanted to talk about what happened.......with us.......during the tournament......", Joey said.
"There's nothing to talk about", Kaiba stated flatly. "Nothing happened, and I suggest for atleast your own sake, you forget about it, as well."
"But that's just it! I can't forget about it! Maybe someone like you can just turn your heart on a off like a light-switch when you feel like it, but I can't! I ain't like that........I aint like you, Kaiba", Joey said, turning away. "Yugi suggested that if I talk to you, it could give me closure to this. So I'm just taking his advice. Listen, the last thing I wanna do is have your stupid face in my head the rest of my life, okay?"
"So.......talking to Yugi again, are we? You people just can't stop gossipping about me, can you?", Kaiba said more as a statement than a question, with a very distasteful look in his eyes. At the same time, he had actually been thinking what Joey had said about closure. It was strange, but he had been going through the same problem, though he would never openly admit it. He couldn't get Joey out of his mind, either......and that moment they had together.
"It wasn't like that! Listen, he already told me what happened, earlier......as I'm sure you know. It's not like he had anything worst to say. I just needed his opinion, cuz I didn't know what to do about it. I figured if we could just put some closure to it, it would finally go away......you know?"
"Listen Mutt, I could care less what you're personal problems are. I have problems of my own to deal with. Live with it, and move on.......", Kaiba stated, calmly.
"And why do you keep having to insult me all the time? I'm just trying to have a conversation, here!", Joey snapped.
Kaiba smiled at that........yeah, he still had it. He could still make Joey pissed off to no end, with just a few simple words. "What's wrong, Wheeler......I thought you liked being insulted?", he smirked, remembering how well Joey took it, and even encouraged Krysonna to do it more, while Kaiba had been a woman.
Joey remembered that too, as Kaiba said that, catching Joey off-guard. "Wait a minute.......you're saying you're insulting me, cuz I like it?" For the first time, it made Joey begin to wonder about that. Why 'did' they become so attracted to each other, when Kaiba was a woman? His personality certainly didn't change. Maybe all this time, rather it was Seto Kaiba, or Krysonna Sonato, he had been picking on him like that, simply to get his attention. But why would Kaiba, even before the change, be trying to get Joey's attention so much, unless.........
"What?", Kaiba asked, not expecting a question like that. "No, I.......don't be ridiculous!", he finally snapped. Kaiba suddenly didn't like where this conversation was going, and decided to drop the subject, entirely. "Listen, just say what you need to say, and get it over with. We 'are' in a hospital, and I would like to rest so I can get out of here soon!" He didn't want to talk about this topic either, but it was the only subject change Kaiba could think of, at the moment.
Joey paused for a moment, now wondering which subject to talk to him about. After what Kaiba said to him, he now had two things he wanted to know about. "Well, wait a minute. Even before this whole mess.......you were always picking on me, and putting me down, right? I mean, obviously even when you were......changed, you picked on me. So, you probably did it to get the reaction outta me, right?"
Kaiba considered what Wheeler was saying. It didn't sound as bad as the last comment, and he assumed it was probably true. Joey was very good at making an uproar, after he spoke to him. It was quite enjoyable, actually. But he didn't want to be cornered into saying anything wrong, like he was almost caught saying a moment ago. He smiled, thinking 'the fools going to deserve this, anyways. He's asking for it', and said, "You know what they say, Mutt, 'the truth hurts'. I try to be an honest person........it's not my problem if I'm too blunt for you. If the shoe fits......."
But Joey didn't blow up this time, to Kaiba's disappointment. After all this time of knowing Kaiba, Joey was finally beginning to catch on that Kaiba was 'looking' for that reaction. 'He likes getting me riled up! It took me this long to see that? Man, I must be as dense as he keeps saying I am! How come I didn't see it before?' This time, instead of blowing up at Kaiba, Joey just smiled, and said, "You know Kaiba, if yer trying to get my attention, there are other ways......."
His smile faded. Kaiba then threw the card back at Joey, as if it was a symbol to prove just how much he didn't like any of them, and said, "Times up, Wheeler. You can go, now."
"One more thing", Joey said. "When you were like that, as a woman.......did you really have a thing for me?"
"No", Kaiba answered almost before he could even finish the question.......almost too quick.
Joey smiled wider, as he approached Kaiba, saying, "You know what........I don't believe you."
"I could care.......", Kaiba began to say, then suddenly became completely quiet at the realization that Joey's face had begun to approach his. "What are you........??", Kaiba began to say, as panick began to fill his senses, flooding him with fear. Before he knew it, Joey face was almost touching his, he could feel the heat from his breath. "Don't do this.......", Kaiba whispered, his eyes twitching from Joey's closeness, and his head pressed deep into his pillow, in a weak attempt to avoid Joey.
"Why not? You'll beat me up? Yer not that weak anymore, you know. You might fool everyone else, but you can't fool me. With those fancy Judo moves, you can easily throw me off. Hell, you could ah leaped outta yer bed too, but didn't do it. Why do you think you didn't do that? You can say all the words you want Kaiba, but you know what.......actions are what really show the truth. Didja know that?", he asked, and pressed his lips against Kaiba's.
Kaiba's face flushed in embarrassment as his pupils reduced down to mere dots, fearful that Mokuba or someone else was going to walk in any second to see this. His hands shaking, they came up to Joey's shoulders with the intent to push him off, yet somehow his arms became too weak to do it. 'Yer not that weak anymore, you know', was swirling in his head, as he knew Joey was right.......he should have the strength to push him off. But he just couldn't, as realization hit him........he didn't want to.
The pleasure became too much for Kaiba to resist, as he gave into to it.....his eyelids drooping as they finally closed completely. Joey could feel him returning the kiss. 'I knew it', Joey thought. 'Yugi was right, you do care. You cared for me as a woman, and you still care for me even as Kaiba. Hell, for all I know, you mighta cared for me even before then, but neither of us was gonna accept that fact.......until now. 'Course......we're two guys. What're we gonna do about that?'
Instead of Kaiba trying to push him away at Joey's shoulders, his hands were now gripping the material of his shirt for dear life. Their tongues touched, as their kiss deepened.......both drinking in the feeling of ecstasy they had allowed themselves to experience again, as they did a few short days ago......both their grips on each other bringing themselves all the more closer together, as this continued.
But finally, Kaiba's pride got the better of him, and he shoved Joey so hard, he went flying backwards, almost hitting the wall. Kaiba turned away, absolutely mortified over what he had just let Joey to do him, rubbing the wetness off his mouth from Joey's saliva, as well as hiding the embarassment on his face. 'How could I have allowed him to do this to me?', he was thinking, while still trying to fight off the feeling of pleasure it gave him.
"You do care for me!", Joey spat out. "You cared for me then, and you care for me now. You can't deny it, anymore. You wouldn't have let me do that, no way, if you didn't want me to. Admit it!", Joey snapped.
"You're insane", Kaiba managed to croak out, his throat becoming strangely dry after that........unable to muster the courage to look at Joey in the face.
Joey was frustrated from him, sexually and emotionally. He desperately wanted to hear it from Kaiba, he needed to hear it to let him know for a fact he wasn't the only one going through this. So, he moved back over to Kaiba, and grabbed him by the collar, making Kaiba face him, as he said, "Look at me! I wanna hear ya say it!"
Kaiba was forced to look into the passion in Joey's eyes. Joey could see the turmoil in the man he was facing off with. Kaiba, who's eyes were normally as cold as ice were not like that at all.......they were infact an emotional mess, his composure totally thrown to the wind. His own desires for Joey were also showing through, but they were conflicted with an inner turmoil of other emotions........fear, embarrassment, and confusion among them. He opened his mouth, trying to find the words to speak. "Say it", Joey almost pleaded this time, more softly.
"I.......I c-........", Kaiba began to say in a very soft, warm tone.
At that moment, Mokuba must have noticed Joey grabbing his big brother by the collar through the little window, because he came barging through, saying, "What are you doing to my brother!!"
Kaiba instantly pushed him off, though pretending it was a difficult thing for him to do, since he was soooo weak, and still recovering. "Get him away from me!", he snapped, his eyes shielding the emotions he had been allowing Joey to see a moment ago, once again totally in control of his actions.
Joey knew the moment had passed. If there was a chance of Kaiba admitting anything, it would never be infront of an audience......especially when one of the audience members was Mokuba. So, for Kaiba's own protection, he'd play the game for the time being. Right infront of all hs friends, Joey snapped at Kaiba, "Don't think I'll be so easy on you next time, Kaiba! You're just lucky you had your brother here to protect you!"
"Joey, what are you doing??", Tristan snapped back at him. Joey was supposed to be talking to him, not picking fights. Tristan couldn't figure it out in his head, why he would be trying to assault a hospital patient, Kaiba or no Kaiba. The others were also wondering the same thing.
Yugi pulled on his best friend, saying, "Come on Joey, we better go before the hospital throws you out. I'm sorry, Kaiba."
"Next time, you hear me Kaiba? Next time!", Joey said, strongly hinting his plans to see him again about this, wondering if Kaiba would catch it or not, as the others finally left.
Mokuba had to admit it was strange that Joey snapped at his brother, and his brother didn't even respond to it. Kaiba never allowed Joey to have the last word, especially after threatening him. "Big brother.......are you okay? He didn't do anything to you, did he?"
"No.......it's okay Mokuba, I'm fine. Listen......it's getting late. Why don't you get going. I need my Vice President to keep track of things, when I can't. Got it?", he asked calmly, adjusting Mokuba's shirt for him.
"Yeah, okay. But I'll be back tomorrow", Mokuba said. After a long pause, and a worried look towards his brother, Mokuba finally left.
Kaiba leaned back heavily on his pillow, with the pictures of that kiss between him and Joey just seconds ago strongly etched into his heart. Joey was right.......he let him kiss him, he let Joey touch him, be near him. Infact, he was still trying to control his breathing, after what happened. Kaiba licked his lips, feeling the conflicting emotions of pleasure and pain from the experience. It was everything he wanted, and everything he most feared that he would still want. He was back to normal, so why couldn't these feelings go away? And what was he going to do about it? 'Why did I let him? Why can't I stop feeling this way?' He realized even though the kidnapping was over, and he was finally back to normal, the real problems had just begun.........
END
Chapter 37. They all left, as Kaiba turned off the TV, and began reading the basic 'get- well' speech on the card, with them all signing it. It looked like they even got some of the people that weren't here to sign it, like Serenity, Devlin, and even Mai. "So, how ya feeling?"
Kaiba suddenly looked up, assuming that everyone left, to see Joey standing there. "I thought you were going?", he strongly hinted.
"Yeah, I know......but I wanted to talk to you for a minute......", Joey said.
Kaiba sighed, "Make it quick", pretending to be more interested in the card, than he was in Joey being there.
"I wanted to talk about what happened.......with us.......during the tournament......", Joey said.
"There's nothing to talk about", Kaiba stated flatly. "Nothing happened, and I suggest for atleast your own sake, you forget about it, as well."
"But that's just it! I can't forget about it! Maybe someone like you can just turn your heart on a off like a light-switch when you feel like it, but I can't! I ain't like that........I aint like you, Kaiba", Joey said, turning away. "Yugi suggested that if I talk to you, it could give me closure to this. So I'm just taking his advice. Listen, the last thing I wanna do is have your stupid face in my head the rest of my life, okay?"
"So.......talking to Yugi again, are we? You people just can't stop gossipping about me, can you?", Kaiba said more as a statement than a question, with a very distasteful look in his eyes. At the same time, he had actually been thinking what Joey had said about closure. It was strange, but he had been going through the same problem, though he would never openly admit it. He couldn't get Joey out of his mind, either......and that moment they had together.
"It wasn't like that! Listen, he already told me what happened, earlier......as I'm sure you know. It's not like he had anything worst to say. I just needed his opinion, cuz I didn't know what to do about it. I figured if we could just put some closure to it, it would finally go away......you know?"
"Listen Mutt, I could care less what you're personal problems are. I have problems of my own to deal with. Live with it, and move on.......", Kaiba stated, calmly.
"And why do you keep having to insult me all the time? I'm just trying to have a conversation, here!", Joey snapped.
Kaiba smiled at that........yeah, he still had it. He could still make Joey pissed off to no end, with just a few simple words. "What's wrong, Wheeler......I thought you liked being insulted?", he smirked, remembering how well Joey took it, and even encouraged Krysonna to do it more, while Kaiba had been a woman.
Joey remembered that too, as Kaiba said that, catching Joey off-guard. "Wait a minute.......you're saying you're insulting me, cuz I like it?" For the first time, it made Joey begin to wonder about that. Why 'did' they become so attracted to each other, when Kaiba was a woman? His personality certainly didn't change. Maybe all this time, rather it was Seto Kaiba, or Krysonna Sonato, he had been picking on him like that, simply to get his attention. But why would Kaiba, even before the change, be trying to get Joey's attention so much, unless.........
"What?", Kaiba asked, not expecting a question like that. "No, I.......don't be ridiculous!", he finally snapped. Kaiba suddenly didn't like where this conversation was going, and decided to drop the subject, entirely. "Listen, just say what you need to say, and get it over with. We 'are' in a hospital, and I would like to rest so I can get out of here soon!" He didn't want to talk about this topic either, but it was the only subject change Kaiba could think of, at the moment.
Joey paused for a moment, now wondering which subject to talk to him about. After what Kaiba said to him, he now had two things he wanted to know about. "Well, wait a minute. Even before this whole mess.......you were always picking on me, and putting me down, right? I mean, obviously even when you were......changed, you picked on me. So, you probably did it to get the reaction outta me, right?"
Kaiba considered what Wheeler was saying. It didn't sound as bad as the last comment, and he assumed it was probably true. Joey was very good at making an uproar, after he spoke to him. It was quite enjoyable, actually. But he didn't want to be cornered into saying anything wrong, like he was almost caught saying a moment ago. He smiled, thinking 'the fools going to deserve this, anyways. He's asking for it', and said, "You know what they say, Mutt, 'the truth hurts'. I try to be an honest person........it's not my problem if I'm too blunt for you. If the shoe fits......."
But Joey didn't blow up this time, to Kaiba's disappointment. After all this time of knowing Kaiba, Joey was finally beginning to catch on that Kaiba was 'looking' for that reaction. 'He likes getting me riled up! It took me this long to see that? Man, I must be as dense as he keeps saying I am! How come I didn't see it before?' This time, instead of blowing up at Kaiba, Joey just smiled, and said, "You know Kaiba, if yer trying to get my attention, there are other ways......."
His smile faded. Kaiba then threw the card back at Joey, as if it was a symbol to prove just how much he didn't like any of them, and said, "Times up, Wheeler. You can go, now."
"One more thing", Joey said. "When you were like that, as a woman.......did you really have a thing for me?"
"No", Kaiba answered almost before he could even finish the question.......almost too quick.
Joey smiled wider, as he approached Kaiba, saying, "You know what........I don't believe you."
"I could care.......", Kaiba began to say, then suddenly became completely quiet at the realization that Joey's face had begun to approach his. "What are you........??", Kaiba began to say, as panick began to fill his senses, flooding him with fear. Before he knew it, Joey face was almost touching his, he could feel the heat from his breath. "Don't do this.......", Kaiba whispered, his eyes twitching from Joey's closeness, and his head pressed deep into his pillow, in a weak attempt to avoid Joey.
"Why not? You'll beat me up? Yer not that weak anymore, you know. You might fool everyone else, but you can't fool me. With those fancy Judo moves, you can easily throw me off. Hell, you could ah leaped outta yer bed too, but didn't do it. Why do you think you didn't do that? You can say all the words you want Kaiba, but you know what.......actions are what really show the truth. Didja know that?", he asked, and pressed his lips against Kaiba's.
Kaiba's face flushed in embarrassment as his pupils reduced down to mere dots, fearful that Mokuba or someone else was going to walk in any second to see this. His hands shaking, they came up to Joey's shoulders with the intent to push him off, yet somehow his arms became too weak to do it. 'Yer not that weak anymore, you know', was swirling in his head, as he knew Joey was right.......he should have the strength to push him off. But he just couldn't, as realization hit him........he didn't want to.
The pleasure became too much for Kaiba to resist, as he gave into to it.....his eyelids drooping as they finally closed completely. Joey could feel him returning the kiss. 'I knew it', Joey thought. 'Yugi was right, you do care. You cared for me as a woman, and you still care for me even as Kaiba. Hell, for all I know, you mighta cared for me even before then, but neither of us was gonna accept that fact.......until now. 'Course......we're two guys. What're we gonna do about that?'
Instead of Kaiba trying to push him away at Joey's shoulders, his hands were now gripping the material of his shirt for dear life. Their tongues touched, as their kiss deepened.......both drinking in the feeling of ecstasy they had allowed themselves to experience again, as they did a few short days ago......both their grips on each other bringing themselves all the more closer together, as this continued.
But finally, Kaiba's pride got the better of him, and he shoved Joey so hard, he went flying backwards, almost hitting the wall. Kaiba turned away, absolutely mortified over what he had just let Joey to do him, rubbing the wetness off his mouth from Joey's saliva, as well as hiding the embarassment on his face. 'How could I have allowed him to do this to me?', he was thinking, while still trying to fight off the feeling of pleasure it gave him.
"You do care for me!", Joey spat out. "You cared for me then, and you care for me now. You can't deny it, anymore. You wouldn't have let me do that, no way, if you didn't want me to. Admit it!", Joey snapped.
"You're insane", Kaiba managed to croak out, his throat becoming strangely dry after that........unable to muster the courage to look at Joey in the face.
Joey was frustrated from him, sexually and emotionally. He desperately wanted to hear it from Kaiba, he needed to hear it to let him know for a fact he wasn't the only one going through this. So, he moved back over to Kaiba, and grabbed him by the collar, making Kaiba face him, as he said, "Look at me! I wanna hear ya say it!"
Kaiba was forced to look into the passion in Joey's eyes. Joey could see the turmoil in the man he was facing off with. Kaiba, who's eyes were normally as cold as ice were not like that at all.......they were infact an emotional mess, his composure totally thrown to the wind. His own desires for Joey were also showing through, but they were conflicted with an inner turmoil of other emotions........fear, embarrassment, and confusion among them. He opened his mouth, trying to find the words to speak. "Say it", Joey almost pleaded this time, more softly.
"I.......I c-........", Kaiba began to say in a very soft, warm tone.
At that moment, Mokuba must have noticed Joey grabbing his big brother by the collar through the little window, because he came barging through, saying, "What are you doing to my brother!!"
Kaiba instantly pushed him off, though pretending it was a difficult thing for him to do, since he was soooo weak, and still recovering. "Get him away from me!", he snapped, his eyes shielding the emotions he had been allowing Joey to see a moment ago, once again totally in control of his actions.
Joey knew the moment had passed. If there was a chance of Kaiba admitting anything, it would never be infront of an audience......especially when one of the audience members was Mokuba. So, for Kaiba's own protection, he'd play the game for the time being. Right infront of all hs friends, Joey snapped at Kaiba, "Don't think I'll be so easy on you next time, Kaiba! You're just lucky you had your brother here to protect you!"
"Joey, what are you doing??", Tristan snapped back at him. Joey was supposed to be talking to him, not picking fights. Tristan couldn't figure it out in his head, why he would be trying to assault a hospital patient, Kaiba or no Kaiba. The others were also wondering the same thing.
Yugi pulled on his best friend, saying, "Come on Joey, we better go before the hospital throws you out. I'm sorry, Kaiba."
"Next time, you hear me Kaiba? Next time!", Joey said, strongly hinting his plans to see him again about this, wondering if Kaiba would catch it or not, as the others finally left.
Mokuba had to admit it was strange that Joey snapped at his brother, and his brother didn't even respond to it. Kaiba never allowed Joey to have the last word, especially after threatening him. "Big brother.......are you okay? He didn't do anything to you, did he?"
"No.......it's okay Mokuba, I'm fine. Listen......it's getting late. Why don't you get going. I need my Vice President to keep track of things, when I can't. Got it?", he asked calmly, adjusting Mokuba's shirt for him.
"Yeah, okay. But I'll be back tomorrow", Mokuba said. After a long pause, and a worried look towards his brother, Mokuba finally left.
Kaiba leaned back heavily on his pillow, with the pictures of that kiss between him and Joey just seconds ago strongly etched into his heart. Joey was right.......he let him kiss him, he let Joey touch him, be near him. Infact, he was still trying to control his breathing, after what happened. Kaiba licked his lips, feeling the conflicting emotions of pleasure and pain from the experience. It was everything he wanted, and everything he most feared that he would still want. He was back to normal, so why couldn't these feelings go away? And what was he going to do about it? 'Why did I let him? Why can't I stop feeling this way?' He realized even though the kidnapping was over, and he was finally back to normal, the real problems had just begun.........
END