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Baka and Bishounen:

Chapter 3: The Grocery Store

            Kaiba slipped into the limo that was to take him from the school to the office. His work schedule drove his little brother nuts, and maybe it had begun to get to him too. What other explanation was there for Joseph Wheeler? He looked out the window, but he didn't see the scenery flying by, he was lost in thought. He'd never put much thought into relationships before. He realized how focused his life had been, until everything was stirred around by Pegasus he'd never even considered anything that didn't fit into his regular schedule, waking early, breakfast with Mokuba, school, work. His life was kept interesting with taking Mokuba to the odd special occasion and attending tournaments or taking part in other events he dominated.  But now he found that there was still something missing, he'd thought he'd perfected his life, he even kept Mokuba from worrying about him, but now, there was something else that demanded to interrupt everything. It could turn out to be equally as dangerous as duelist kingdoms had been. He would have thrown the whole idea out, superhuman that he was, but, he was up to a new challenge. He found himself actually considering approaching Joey, seducing him, it was like a game. He was now determined to win it too. He doubted Joey was straight. It wasn't obvious, but Kaiba must have been more interested in Joey then he'd even admit to himself, because he'd seen how Joey acted around Yugi. Like a love sick puppy. Kaiba sharply realized that that was the spark of what caused him to think of Joseph that way. Joseph. He called Joey Joseph in his mind now. He was growing secret respect for his subject, the new game of his, historically more dangerous, more challenging then any other recorded, Love.     

            He mused the situation was like a game. There was something nagging at him from deep within that that was just what he told himself, just to understand it. Of all the people in the world, he chose a blonde boy, who could hardly tie his shoes. He couldn't have fallen for Yugi? At least that guy could duel. Guy? Why was he even thinking guy? Had he ever liked girls? Kaiba abruptly decided to stop thinking about such answerless questions and hold onto the anticipation feeling he got from taking on a new game, a puzzle a challenge. All most as abruptly, the car lurched to a stop and he was outside of his office.

            Usually he lost himself in his work, but he found that his new game was affecting his thought. When he found himself toying with the idea to make one of the figures in a duelist video game a tall blonde he realized he needed to get home. It was time to punch the clock anyways, it was Friday, and that meant shopping.
Another thing Mokuba insisted on. He'd explained to Mokuba a thousand times that he could just order what ever he wanted and it would be delivered to the house and that the Kaiba Corp wealth would insure his never actually having to bother buying groceries, but little brother insisted, and what little brother wanted, little brother got.

            He left the office and slipped into the limo again, the sun had already slipped behind the horizon and there was just a tone of pink left. He wasn't usually this thankful for his leaving early on Friday. He knew he'd be coming back anyways, but shopping always bored him out of his personal mind anyhow, even if food was all he had to buy.

            Mokuba greeted him as soon as he set one foot out of the vehicle. The regular "BIG BROTHER!" was adjoined with a flying glomp. Shopping was worth his brother's contentment.  "Don't look that way Big Brother! Sarah always goes shopping with his family, so we've got to go!" Mokuba knew he loathed shopping.

            Kaiba wasn't even sure who Sarah was, but was beginning to regret ever sending his little brother to a private school in the first place, maybe he should have had him take home schooling, but then… he would probably mold into a second Seto Kaiba, and Kaiba still had enough sympathy left not to bestow that onto his worst enemy, little lone his beloved little sibling. "Do we really have to go to this store?" questioned Kaiba, already knowing the answer well. It had to be this store, it was the one Sarah and her father shopped at.

            Mokuba ignored him and already had a shopping cart. Mokuba wandered down the shopping isles with his brother, grasping his hand was he went. "Sarah is so cool big brother maybe she's here, do you think? I like how her hair flows, and her eyes are really nice".

            Kaiba looked at his brother in wonder. At first he thought he was competing with this girl, but now it seemed otherwise. "Mokuba, do you mean to say you've been dragging me shopping for the past month so you can catch a glimpse of some girl you like from your school?"

            Mokuba looked up at his brother innocently "Girls are yucky big brother! I don't like-like her! She's just cool!"

            "Suuure" stated Kaiba with a smirk. He returned his brother's trust in him to tell him about his romance. "I think I like someone too".

            "You like someone too Big Brother?" the younger brother blurted.

            "Ah ha, Then you do like this Sarah girl?" replied Kaiba, surprised that even his brother was far more advanced in this, game, then he. 

            "I guess I kind of like her, but tell me about the girl you like, do I know her? What's her name?" Mokuba bombarded his brother with questions as he picked out his favorite sugary cereal.

            Kaiba felt sweat collecting at the back of his neck. Things like this could get complicated so fast couldn't they? He felt himself losing control of the situation at some simple questions. "Umm, well"

            Mokuba's eyes widened. Why wasn't his big brother telling him? Seto tongue tided? What was going on? "Big brotherrrr!"

            Kaiba blinked and decided that he'd never had to keep anything from Mokuba before, so he didn't have to start now. "I have a crush on Joey Wheeler" That wasn't so hard, the world didn't end, he was strong. But then the world did come crashing down.

            "Ewwwwww! BUT BIG BROTHER! JOEY WHEELER IS A BOY!!! AND IT'S JO-EY WHEELER! YOU COULD DO BETTER NOW MATTER WHAT! WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?"

            The only person who remained complacent after that was a trashy looking deft man, who was soon after informed by his wife that Kaiba preferred boys.

            Kaiba looked around horror stricken. His brother hadn't taken it how he had expected. Wasn't the stat 1 in 10? How could everyone react so cruelly? He felt like an animal trapped in a cage. He was used to having everyone's attention, but not like this! It felt like the whistle that decided to declare his failure instead of victory. 

            Kaiba was defeated again. He couldn't stand that feeling. Now he had to win. He mentally calculated all the complications. Press release, the world was never supposed to know… a cover up girlfriend, and getting to Joey wheeler before the rest of the world did. He knew it wouldn't be as simple. Now he was burnt and knew he had underestimated the game.