B: Someone do the disclaimer.
Kaiba: There is no way I am going to announce something stupid like "Bhakti does not own Yu-Gi-Oh! Or anything associated with it"!
B: Thank you!
Df: On with the fict!
B: What the- okay, yeah.
Df: No, the last thing that anyone says has to be "On with the fict!"
B: Fine then!
Df: *sweatdrops*
Baka and Bishounen:
Chapter 5: Dis is Real.
Joey chewed on the pizza crust. It was the last remnants of the last slice.
Tristan grumbled about how he should have been left the last piece since it was his party and Tea flicked on the TV, ignoring them. Yugi was downstairs bringing up more drinks since Joey spilled his after Tristan brought up Battle City. He had to keep more control over himself, because at anything that remotely resembled conversation about Kaiba he became jumpy. Luckily, Yugi was the only one to really notice.
The TV's broadcast was what really struck him though.
"Seto Kaiba is here today; a popular CEO, especially among many duelist fan girls, but the fan girls may be dismayed, because question about his sexuality have been raised."
Tristan laughed, "I can't believe they had the word 'raised' and 'sexuality' in the same sentence on TV!"
Tea just glared at him and told him to watch, because they knew Seto Kaiba and something like him being straight or not was important.
"Yeah, for black mail." said Tristan who was still in his joking mood.
Tea laughed along with him this time, but Joey was frozen still. He dropped the pizza crust to the floor and was entirely engrossed in the television program.
"Just now Seto Kaiba's younger brother has been reported to have said the following: 'Ew, but big brother, Joey wheeler is a boy. And it's Joey Wheeler. You could do better no matter what. What is wrong with you?' These reports could ruin the young CEO's career, and we'll have him on the screen after these messages. Can he really deny this? Find out when we return."
"Oh Joey, looks like some one likes you!" this time, it was Tea's turn to make the crack.
Joey felt himself turning pale. It couldn't really be happening could it? He'd lost any remote hope of Kaiba actually having feelings for him; the guy was like a brick wall. Sure, this would be his dream come true, but he could hardly conceive of it actually being more then just that a dream.
"I umm" was all that Joey could stammer. "I have… ta go study for… erm… de math test dat's tomorrow, I nearly fergot, I'll see you guys at school den, sheesh, my dad is going to kill me if I fail math ya know.."
"But Joey! The math test was today, and you never even showed up!" stated Tristan as he shot Joey a confused look.
Joey just shook his head and raced for the door. As he was leaving he plowed into Yugi who yelped as he toppled all the drinks and snacks he'd gathered from the kitchen. Unlike his usual self, Joey didn't spare the time to help clean up. He couldn't let his friends in on his secret, and it was beginning to shine a bit. He'd take it pretty hard if his hopes were raised up like this and Kaiba managed to shrug the whole situation off, and he didn't feel like having his heart broken in front of his pals. He knew Kaiba would shrug the situation off.
Yugi also gave Joey a questioning look as Joey raced out the door. When Tea and Tristan came down the stairs to help him clean up he asked, "What got into Joey?"
Tristan could only say that it was because of a rumor that Kaiba liked him. "It doesn't really make too much sense if you ask me, I mean, that's got to be the first time Joey has forgotten it's the weekend."
Tea came to the rescue when she said, "Think about it you guys; wouldn't Seto Kaiba having a crush on you freak you out?"
Tristan burst out laughing and Yugi chuckled along, although, he knew that wasn't the case, at least it would give Joey a chance to tell them on his own, and that was a good thing.
What remained of the group watched the end of the news flash, Seto made it pretty convincing that he wasn't gay, and they all appeared to be invited to a cool party and Kaiba's mansion.
"But why is it tomorrow? We didn't even get invitations yet," Thought Tea out loud. As if on cue, the doorbell rang.
Yugi answered it and two red envelopes were personally delivered, along with two blue ones.
"What are they?" Questioned Tea, and the question was visible in Tristan's face as well.
Yugi chuckled as he opened the one for him. "They're the invites. These must be for you guys, they are just guest invitations, but of course we'll chose you"
"We?" asked Tea, giving Yugi a funny look.
Yugi nodded and showed her the other invite. "It's Joey's"
"I wonder how he knew where to find us, it's kind of creepy" said Tristan as he looked out the window.
Tea just rolled her eyes and just said, "It's Seto Kaiba."
Meanwhile Joey ran down the street. He'd never wanted to get to his house so badly. He jammed the keys into the door and shoves it open; he tripped over the trash that blocked the hallways. He nearly choked on the stuffy smell of the place. He hollered to his dad that he was home. No answer.
"Dad?!" a rush struck Joey. What if he'd had a heart attack and died? Would he be upset or freed? Were things he'd never thought were possible all happening today? 'I wanna million dollars, I wanna million dollars… if Kaiba and me got together that might just be possible too! Ah!'
"Joe! Joe is that you? Come watch TV with your dad! The world wrestling championships are on! You used to love wrestling!"
So his father hadn't passed on. He didn't feel happy or sad, numb. "I'd love to, but my friend's dad is a real ass-hole, and I gotta help him out." When lying, don't tread away from the truth.
He realized now that he missed the Seto Kaiba interview completely, and would have to catch it on the 12 o' clock news, when his dad had fallen asleep, or passed out. He left his father there, with him laughing manically at a kitty litter advertisement… he almost felt sorry for him, almost.
He wandered down the darkened streets making his way back to the Turtle Game Shop. He gazed up at the lights in the shop and was pondering what the gang thought when suddenly he was interrupted by a looming figure. Fright rippled through the blonde, and he pulled back into the shadows. "Who-who's there?" stammered Joey.
"J-Joey? Oh, it's you?" A familiar laugh echoed through the night. A laugh he loved and hated, this time warped with drunkenness.
"Kaiba?!"
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Bhakti: Next chapter? "What do you do with a drunken Seto?"