He bolted from the room, running past everyone, past everything. He ran
blindly away from his hurt until he collapsed on a bench, sobbing. He
didn't bother trying to think and stop, he just cried uncontrollably as
sobs shot from his body painfully. "S-so-so stupid," he whispered.
"I'd have to agree." Jounochi's eyes shot up to the smirking brunette staring at him.
"Leave me alone, Kaiba," Jounochi warned, his tears forgotten.
Kaiba rolled his eyes. "Please..." he dismissed Jounochi with his hand, beginning to walk away.
"What's that suppose to mean?" Jounochi asked, jumping up.
"You're pathetic, Jounochi. You're a boy. Boys don't cry."
"Fuck you! Like you've never cried before!"
Kaiba rolled his eyes. "Yeah, maybe when I was SEVEN or something."
"Oh, I forget. No one LIKES you. You don't know HOW to love."
Kaiba whirled around. "What did you say?!" He pushed Jounochi, who fell back onto the bench, staring up at Kaiba's burning eyes. "Who do you think you are, Jounochi? Are you the only one in this whole world who's ever been hurt? Afraid not." He turned from Jounochi, starting to walk away.
"Kaiba!" Jounochi called. "You never excepted my challenge."
Kaiba turned back to him, studying him. "Please. You don't even have your Duel Disk on you."
"I can go back home and get it."
Kaiba smiled, amused. "Really? And would it be worth it for me? What's the rarest card you have?"
"A Time Wizard."
Kaiba began laughing uncontrollably. "Whoop-de-fucking-do! Look, Jounochi, you weren't even suppous to be in this damn competition--"
"And why the hell not?! I beat Mia and Rex Raptor in Duelist Kingdom and they're here. I'm better than them, am I not?"
"You weren't even suppose to be in that competition, am I right?"
"Does it matter? I still came in second. I'm in the same ranks as you!"
"What did you say?"
"Yugi beat us both."
Kaiba turned from him, disgusted.
"Come on, prove you're better than me. And take away my Location Cards. Get me out of the damn competition."
Kaiba clenched his fists. "Gladly." He turned around. "Go home and get your Disk and deck. Meet me in the park."
He ran from him back to Yugi's house to grab his stuff. All eyes turned to watch him search the damn house for his Duel Disk.
"Jounochi?" Honda asked.
"Help me look for my Duel Disk," he explained, moving onto Yugi's room.
Yami came in, in his spirit form. "Who are you dueling?"
"Kaiba. I got to get go-- Hey! How come I can see--"
"Because I choose to let you. Are you seriously going to let Kaiba take away your best cards?"
"Look, Spirit Of the Godamn Puzzle, maybe you don't believe I can do it, but I bet Yugi would support me no matter what."
"Even after you two broke up?" he asked, arms crossed.
Jounochi stood up, staring at Yami in disbelief. Not thinking, he smacked the spirit. They were both surprised when it actually connected.
"J-Jounochi..." Yami's hand jumped up to soothe his cheek.
"Yami, I--" He stopped as he noticed Ryou came in, holding the Duel Disk. "Thanks Ryou. You going to come watch me kick Kaiba's ass?"
Ryou shrugged. "Sure, sounds alright to me, Jounochi."
Jounochi cast a glance back to Yami, then followed Ryou out. Honda and Yugi glanced at him confused. "What's going on, Jounochi?" Yugi asked softly.
"I'm dueling Kaiba. Come on and watch if you like," he said more coldly than he meant to.
Honda narrowed his eyes at the back of Jounochi's head. "You obviously don't care if you lose, right?"
Jounochi turned around and glared at Honda. "Do any of you think I can do it?"
They all looked down except for Yugi. "I believe in you, Jounochi."
Jounochi grinned. "Great, lets go."
Honda shook his head. "Go ahead, lose. I'm not going to watch you humiliate yourself, Jounochi." He left them.
Ryou glanced down. "I'm going to have to agree with Honda, Jounochi. Besides, I'm suppose to meet someone somewhere. I'll see you two around."
Jounochi didn't know how to feel. Were they leaving because they honestly didn't believe in him? Or did they want to give him and Yugi space to talk on the way there? "Well, ready to go, Yugi?"
"Yeah, coming," he said, grabbing his Duel Disk.
They walked silently through the crowd on their way to the park. "Jounochi?" Yugi finally asked softly.
"Yeah, Yug?"
"I didn't mean to hurt you, Jounochi. You're my best friend. I think I just need some space right now."
"Hey, don't worry about," Jounochi said coolly. "Honda has been feeling a bit left out anyway. It's all cool," Jounochi lied.
Yugi took Jounochi's hand and squeezed it as if he knew he was lying. "Okay, Jounochi," he said, though.
"Hello," Kaiba greeted them coolly. "I see you have your cheerleader, Jounochi."
Yugi crossed his arms. "Don't start, Kaiba."
"Yeah, keep it nice, Seto," Mokuba said from next to his brother. "I can't believe you challenged my brother, Jounochi."
"If I can't beat Kaiba, then it's not worth being in this tournament," he explained.
"Then you better get ready to hand me your Time Wizard."
"If I win, Kaiba--"
"You can have whatever you want, mutt. If I win, I take away all your Locator Cards and you're out of the tournament. Deal?"
"Yeah, deal," Jounochi said, distractedly looking at his hand. His eyes widen, unable to believe his luck. Enchanted Javelin, Graceful Dice, Raigeki, Just Desserts, and Panther Warrior. He glanced up at Kaiba.
"Running scared already? I'll give you a bit of advantage; you can go first."
Jounochi nodded and drew his card. Pot of Greed. Sweet. "I play Pot of Greed," he declared, placing it in a Magic/Trap Zone.
Kaiba shrugged. "Go ahead, if you really think it will help."
Jounochi drew his two cards and grinned. Scapegoat and Baby Dragon. "Okay, I play these three cards face down and summon Baby Dragon. Your turn, Kaiba."
"Honestly, Jounochi. For grinning so wide, you'd think you had more to offer," he mocked as he drew his card. He nonchalantly placed a monster on the field. "I summon Lord of Dragon and equipped it with the Flute of Summoning Dragon, allowing me to play my Blue Eyes White Dragon and Hyozanryu in attack mode." He crossed his arms. "Are you prepared for their full attack on your life points?"
"Damn," Jounochi muttered. It wasn't over the attack. He could handle that. But now that he had Lord of Dragon on the field, making all dragons protected from Magic and Trap cards. He'd just have to attack. After Kaiba did.
"Correct me if I'm wrong, Jounochi, but I think you're almost out of Life Points before we've barely begun. Blue Eyes! Attack his Baby Dragon!"
"Hold on, Kaiba! I activate Enchanted Javelin! Increasing my Life Points by your Blue Eye's attack!"
[Author's note: You can't actually do that, since, I guess, the card designates the dragon card as a target, so it doesn't work. But I only found that out after I wrote this, so sorry. Doesn't that mean you can't equipped the dragon cards, either?]
Kaiba clenched his fists. "I stand corrected," he sighed as Jounochi's Life Points increased up to 5200. "I attack you directly with Hyozanryu!"
3100 Life Points wasn't so bad, Jounochi decided. "You done with your turn?"
"Yeah, go ahead."
Jounochi drew his card. Riryoku. He placed it in his hand and summoned, "Panther Warrior! Deal with that, Kaiba!"
"Please, you expect him to take down any of my cards? You don't even have any monsters to sacrifice for it to attack!"
"I will soon enough," Jounochi taunted. "But first," he said, activating one of his facedown cards. "Just Desserts takes away 500 Life Points for each monster on your side of the field. You're left with 2500 Life Points!"
Kaiba clenched his teeth. "No matter! I'll just wipe you out next turn!"
"That's what you think!" Jounochi taunted him. "I play Scapegoat and Graceful Dice!"
Jounochi and Kaiba watched in anticipation as the dice began to roll. "Come on..." Jounochi begged and was suddenly struck with the thought that a lot of his cards depended on dumb luck. Graceful Dice, Skull Dice, Time Wizard, Roulette Spider.... "YES! A five!"
Kaiba groaned, but still laughed. "So what? His attack is only 2500, my Blue Eyes will still devastate you next turn."
"That's what you think!" Jounochi grinned and turned to Yugi.
He was smiling proudly, but his eyes showed his worry. "Try not to get too sure of yourself, Jounochi. That's where you will make your mistakes!"
"Don't worry, Yugi, I got it all under control." Jounochi turned back to his opponent. "Alright, attack Lord of Dragon!" A Scapegoat was sacrifice in order to allow Panther Warrior to attack. "Ha! 1300 from your Life Points brings you down to 1200!"
"You've got to be kidding me," Kaiba mumbled. "Since when does Jounochi have strategy?"
"Don't worry, big brother, you'll take him out. You still have your Blue Eyes." Mokuba stared up at his brother with wide, proud eyes.
"You're right Mokuba." He turned back to Jounochi. "Okay, great move. My- -"
"I'm not finished! I play Raigeki!"
"Damn...smart move..."
"Wow, Jounochi! Great move! Taking out his Lord of Dragon BEFORE playing Raigeki!"
"Thank you, Yugi, we all know what a *great* move Jounochi made," he said mockingly. "Are you done yet?"
"Sure, Kaiba."
Kaiba narrowed his eyes at Jounochi. He had learned from Yugi. His cards were pretty pathetic, but when he had such a lucky draw like that, he couldn't help but get this much of an advantage. But no worries. Panther Warrior would soon be taken out. He placed a monster face down. "Your move, Jounochi," he muttered.
"Goodie," Jounochi grinned, drawing another card. Dragonic Attack. He'd save that for later. "Okay, I play Swordman of Landstar and attack your face down card with it."
Kaiba smiled as his card was revealed. "Aqua Madoor," he declared, "has a higher defense then your Swordman's attack."
Jounochi shrugged, his Life Points dwindling down to 3700. "Ah, minor set back. I end my turn."
Kaiba played a field Magic card, Mountain. "Increases all dragon, thunder and winged-beast's attacks by 200 points. I play a face down monster and end my turn."
Jounochi closed his eyes, thinking. My next card can really make or break it right now. If I'm not careful, Kaiba could really take advantage of me right now.
"Are you going to just stand there and daydream, or are you going to finish your turn?" Kaiba asked, breaking into Jounochi's thoughts.
"Yeah, I'll finish it." He drew his card and stared at it. "You have to be kidding me," he whispered. He stared up at Kaiba.
"What? Run out of lucky draws?"
Jounochi stared at the card, breathing heavily.
"You put on quite a show, Jounochi. I'd have to say, I have a lot more respect for you now, but a deals a dea--"
"I play Stop Defense on your face down card," Jounochi interrupted.
"What?!" Kaiba asked in disbelief as his Lesser Dragon was revealed.
"It's okay, Seto, you can still get him next tur--"
"And I play Dragonic Attack and equip it to my Swordman."
"What's that do?" Yugi asked.
"It turned my warrior card into a dragon and increases his attack and defense by 500 points."
"Plus the increase by the field magic card," Kaiba said, shocked.
"Still, Seto, his Swordsman is only 1200 compared to your 1800 Lesser Dragon," Mokuba pointed out.
"That's why I also play Riryoku, which lets me half one of your monsters attacks and add them to one of my monsters. I take Lesser Dragon's 900 attack points and add it to my Panther Warrior. Then I attack Lesser Dragon, making your Life Points go down to ZERO!" Jounochi said excitedly. "YEEESSSS!!!"
Kaiba stared at Jounochi. "You...you mutt..." He fell to his knees, eyes and mouth opened wide in shock.
Yugi stared at Jounochi. "You beat Kaiba in only four turns!" He ran and threw his arms around Jounochi. "Oh my God, Jounochi!"
Kaiba went over the fast paced duel in his head. "No way...no fucking way..."
Mokuba rushed to his brother. "Seto, are you alright?"
"Fine, fine..." He stood up, brushing the dust off his pants. He couldn't believe how great of a draw Jounochi had had. He would have thought he might have cheated except for the fact he had shuffled Jounochi's deck himself. Jounochi had faced a Blue Eyes and still won. Jounochi had faced HIM, Seto Kaiba and WON. What the hell? "Okay, what do you want, mutt?"
Jounochi turned to Kaiba. His eyes were to the ground and he trembled slightly. Mokuba looked on, worried. "I...I..." He wanted a damn Blue Eyes, damnit. Or something great. But he knew he couldn't ask for it. The look on Kaiba's face worried Jounochi. "Don't worry about, staying in the tournament is fine--"
"TELL ME WHAT YOU WANT, DAMNIT!" Kaiba yelled at him.
Jounochi jumped. "It's fine, Kaiba, I don't--"
Kaiba ran to him, grabbing him by his shirt collar. "What do you want?" he asked through clenched teeth.
"Nothing, if you're going to act like such a baby over someone of my *status* beating you. Sorry that I degraded you so damn badly."
"What do you WANT?!" Kaiba asked one last time.
"For you to stop calling me a mutt!" Jounochi yelled, knocked himself out of Kaiba's grasp. "For you to treat me like a fucking person and not act like I'm some disease or like I'm so much less than you! I'm fucking sick of you acting like I'm some annoying pest. Would it kill you to be nice to someone once? Or is Mokuba seriously the only point in your pathetic life?"
"Go to hell," Kaiba whispered.
"I don't want anything from a pathetic little baby. That's all you are, Kaiba. A pathetic little baby who no one cares about!" Jounochi turned to Yugi. "Don't you fucking start!" he warned. He ran from them, in disbelief over everything. In less than an hour, he had been dumped, smacked a spirit, beat Kaiba, and yelled at Kaiba. This really was shaping up to one hell of a day. But before he was out of anger, Jounochi ran to a pay phone, depositing his money.
Honda picked up and said, "Hello?"
"I won, asshole," Jounochi said, then slammed the phone down on the receiver.
"I'd have to agree." Jounochi's eyes shot up to the smirking brunette staring at him.
"Leave me alone, Kaiba," Jounochi warned, his tears forgotten.
Kaiba rolled his eyes. "Please..." he dismissed Jounochi with his hand, beginning to walk away.
"What's that suppose to mean?" Jounochi asked, jumping up.
"You're pathetic, Jounochi. You're a boy. Boys don't cry."
"Fuck you! Like you've never cried before!"
Kaiba rolled his eyes. "Yeah, maybe when I was SEVEN or something."
"Oh, I forget. No one LIKES you. You don't know HOW to love."
Kaiba whirled around. "What did you say?!" He pushed Jounochi, who fell back onto the bench, staring up at Kaiba's burning eyes. "Who do you think you are, Jounochi? Are you the only one in this whole world who's ever been hurt? Afraid not." He turned from Jounochi, starting to walk away.
"Kaiba!" Jounochi called. "You never excepted my challenge."
Kaiba turned back to him, studying him. "Please. You don't even have your Duel Disk on you."
"I can go back home and get it."
Kaiba smiled, amused. "Really? And would it be worth it for me? What's the rarest card you have?"
"A Time Wizard."
Kaiba began laughing uncontrollably. "Whoop-de-fucking-do! Look, Jounochi, you weren't even suppous to be in this damn competition--"
"And why the hell not?! I beat Mia and Rex Raptor in Duelist Kingdom and they're here. I'm better than them, am I not?"
"You weren't even suppose to be in that competition, am I right?"
"Does it matter? I still came in second. I'm in the same ranks as you!"
"What did you say?"
"Yugi beat us both."
Kaiba turned from him, disgusted.
"Come on, prove you're better than me. And take away my Location Cards. Get me out of the damn competition."
Kaiba clenched his fists. "Gladly." He turned around. "Go home and get your Disk and deck. Meet me in the park."
He ran from him back to Yugi's house to grab his stuff. All eyes turned to watch him search the damn house for his Duel Disk.
"Jounochi?" Honda asked.
"Help me look for my Duel Disk," he explained, moving onto Yugi's room.
Yami came in, in his spirit form. "Who are you dueling?"
"Kaiba. I got to get go-- Hey! How come I can see--"
"Because I choose to let you. Are you seriously going to let Kaiba take away your best cards?"
"Look, Spirit Of the Godamn Puzzle, maybe you don't believe I can do it, but I bet Yugi would support me no matter what."
"Even after you two broke up?" he asked, arms crossed.
Jounochi stood up, staring at Yami in disbelief. Not thinking, he smacked the spirit. They were both surprised when it actually connected.
"J-Jounochi..." Yami's hand jumped up to soothe his cheek.
"Yami, I--" He stopped as he noticed Ryou came in, holding the Duel Disk. "Thanks Ryou. You going to come watch me kick Kaiba's ass?"
Ryou shrugged. "Sure, sounds alright to me, Jounochi."
Jounochi cast a glance back to Yami, then followed Ryou out. Honda and Yugi glanced at him confused. "What's going on, Jounochi?" Yugi asked softly.
"I'm dueling Kaiba. Come on and watch if you like," he said more coldly than he meant to.
Honda narrowed his eyes at the back of Jounochi's head. "You obviously don't care if you lose, right?"
Jounochi turned around and glared at Honda. "Do any of you think I can do it?"
They all looked down except for Yugi. "I believe in you, Jounochi."
Jounochi grinned. "Great, lets go."
Honda shook his head. "Go ahead, lose. I'm not going to watch you humiliate yourself, Jounochi." He left them.
Ryou glanced down. "I'm going to have to agree with Honda, Jounochi. Besides, I'm suppose to meet someone somewhere. I'll see you two around."
Jounochi didn't know how to feel. Were they leaving because they honestly didn't believe in him? Or did they want to give him and Yugi space to talk on the way there? "Well, ready to go, Yugi?"
"Yeah, coming," he said, grabbing his Duel Disk.
They walked silently through the crowd on their way to the park. "Jounochi?" Yugi finally asked softly.
"Yeah, Yug?"
"I didn't mean to hurt you, Jounochi. You're my best friend. I think I just need some space right now."
"Hey, don't worry about," Jounochi said coolly. "Honda has been feeling a bit left out anyway. It's all cool," Jounochi lied.
Yugi took Jounochi's hand and squeezed it as if he knew he was lying. "Okay, Jounochi," he said, though.
"Hello," Kaiba greeted them coolly. "I see you have your cheerleader, Jounochi."
Yugi crossed his arms. "Don't start, Kaiba."
"Yeah, keep it nice, Seto," Mokuba said from next to his brother. "I can't believe you challenged my brother, Jounochi."
"If I can't beat Kaiba, then it's not worth being in this tournament," he explained.
"Then you better get ready to hand me your Time Wizard."
"If I win, Kaiba--"
"You can have whatever you want, mutt. If I win, I take away all your Locator Cards and you're out of the tournament. Deal?"
"Yeah, deal," Jounochi said, distractedly looking at his hand. His eyes widen, unable to believe his luck. Enchanted Javelin, Graceful Dice, Raigeki, Just Desserts, and Panther Warrior. He glanced up at Kaiba.
"Running scared already? I'll give you a bit of advantage; you can go first."
Jounochi nodded and drew his card. Pot of Greed. Sweet. "I play Pot of Greed," he declared, placing it in a Magic/Trap Zone.
Kaiba shrugged. "Go ahead, if you really think it will help."
Jounochi drew his two cards and grinned. Scapegoat and Baby Dragon. "Okay, I play these three cards face down and summon Baby Dragon. Your turn, Kaiba."
"Honestly, Jounochi. For grinning so wide, you'd think you had more to offer," he mocked as he drew his card. He nonchalantly placed a monster on the field. "I summon Lord of Dragon and equipped it with the Flute of Summoning Dragon, allowing me to play my Blue Eyes White Dragon and Hyozanryu in attack mode." He crossed his arms. "Are you prepared for their full attack on your life points?"
"Damn," Jounochi muttered. It wasn't over the attack. He could handle that. But now that he had Lord of Dragon on the field, making all dragons protected from Magic and Trap cards. He'd just have to attack. After Kaiba did.
"Correct me if I'm wrong, Jounochi, but I think you're almost out of Life Points before we've barely begun. Blue Eyes! Attack his Baby Dragon!"
"Hold on, Kaiba! I activate Enchanted Javelin! Increasing my Life Points by your Blue Eye's attack!"
[Author's note: You can't actually do that, since, I guess, the card designates the dragon card as a target, so it doesn't work. But I only found that out after I wrote this, so sorry. Doesn't that mean you can't equipped the dragon cards, either?]
Kaiba clenched his fists. "I stand corrected," he sighed as Jounochi's Life Points increased up to 5200. "I attack you directly with Hyozanryu!"
3100 Life Points wasn't so bad, Jounochi decided. "You done with your turn?"
"Yeah, go ahead."
Jounochi drew his card. Riryoku. He placed it in his hand and summoned, "Panther Warrior! Deal with that, Kaiba!"
"Please, you expect him to take down any of my cards? You don't even have any monsters to sacrifice for it to attack!"
"I will soon enough," Jounochi taunted. "But first," he said, activating one of his facedown cards. "Just Desserts takes away 500 Life Points for each monster on your side of the field. You're left with 2500 Life Points!"
Kaiba clenched his teeth. "No matter! I'll just wipe you out next turn!"
"That's what you think!" Jounochi taunted him. "I play Scapegoat and Graceful Dice!"
Jounochi and Kaiba watched in anticipation as the dice began to roll. "Come on..." Jounochi begged and was suddenly struck with the thought that a lot of his cards depended on dumb luck. Graceful Dice, Skull Dice, Time Wizard, Roulette Spider.... "YES! A five!"
Kaiba groaned, but still laughed. "So what? His attack is only 2500, my Blue Eyes will still devastate you next turn."
"That's what you think!" Jounochi grinned and turned to Yugi.
He was smiling proudly, but his eyes showed his worry. "Try not to get too sure of yourself, Jounochi. That's where you will make your mistakes!"
"Don't worry, Yugi, I got it all under control." Jounochi turned back to his opponent. "Alright, attack Lord of Dragon!" A Scapegoat was sacrifice in order to allow Panther Warrior to attack. "Ha! 1300 from your Life Points brings you down to 1200!"
"You've got to be kidding me," Kaiba mumbled. "Since when does Jounochi have strategy?"
"Don't worry, big brother, you'll take him out. You still have your Blue Eyes." Mokuba stared up at his brother with wide, proud eyes.
"You're right Mokuba." He turned back to Jounochi. "Okay, great move. My- -"
"I'm not finished! I play Raigeki!"
"Damn...smart move..."
"Wow, Jounochi! Great move! Taking out his Lord of Dragon BEFORE playing Raigeki!"
"Thank you, Yugi, we all know what a *great* move Jounochi made," he said mockingly. "Are you done yet?"
"Sure, Kaiba."
Kaiba narrowed his eyes at Jounochi. He had learned from Yugi. His cards were pretty pathetic, but when he had such a lucky draw like that, he couldn't help but get this much of an advantage. But no worries. Panther Warrior would soon be taken out. He placed a monster face down. "Your move, Jounochi," he muttered.
"Goodie," Jounochi grinned, drawing another card. Dragonic Attack. He'd save that for later. "Okay, I play Swordman of Landstar and attack your face down card with it."
Kaiba smiled as his card was revealed. "Aqua Madoor," he declared, "has a higher defense then your Swordman's attack."
Jounochi shrugged, his Life Points dwindling down to 3700. "Ah, minor set back. I end my turn."
Kaiba played a field Magic card, Mountain. "Increases all dragon, thunder and winged-beast's attacks by 200 points. I play a face down monster and end my turn."
Jounochi closed his eyes, thinking. My next card can really make or break it right now. If I'm not careful, Kaiba could really take advantage of me right now.
"Are you going to just stand there and daydream, or are you going to finish your turn?" Kaiba asked, breaking into Jounochi's thoughts.
"Yeah, I'll finish it." He drew his card and stared at it. "You have to be kidding me," he whispered. He stared up at Kaiba.
"What? Run out of lucky draws?"
Jounochi stared at the card, breathing heavily.
"You put on quite a show, Jounochi. I'd have to say, I have a lot more respect for you now, but a deals a dea--"
"I play Stop Defense on your face down card," Jounochi interrupted.
"What?!" Kaiba asked in disbelief as his Lesser Dragon was revealed.
"It's okay, Seto, you can still get him next tur--"
"And I play Dragonic Attack and equip it to my Swordman."
"What's that do?" Yugi asked.
"It turned my warrior card into a dragon and increases his attack and defense by 500 points."
"Plus the increase by the field magic card," Kaiba said, shocked.
"Still, Seto, his Swordsman is only 1200 compared to your 1800 Lesser Dragon," Mokuba pointed out.
"That's why I also play Riryoku, which lets me half one of your monsters attacks and add them to one of my monsters. I take Lesser Dragon's 900 attack points and add it to my Panther Warrior. Then I attack Lesser Dragon, making your Life Points go down to ZERO!" Jounochi said excitedly. "YEEESSSS!!!"
Kaiba stared at Jounochi. "You...you mutt..." He fell to his knees, eyes and mouth opened wide in shock.
Yugi stared at Jounochi. "You beat Kaiba in only four turns!" He ran and threw his arms around Jounochi. "Oh my God, Jounochi!"
Kaiba went over the fast paced duel in his head. "No way...no fucking way..."
Mokuba rushed to his brother. "Seto, are you alright?"
"Fine, fine..." He stood up, brushing the dust off his pants. He couldn't believe how great of a draw Jounochi had had. He would have thought he might have cheated except for the fact he had shuffled Jounochi's deck himself. Jounochi had faced a Blue Eyes and still won. Jounochi had faced HIM, Seto Kaiba and WON. What the hell? "Okay, what do you want, mutt?"
Jounochi turned to Kaiba. His eyes were to the ground and he trembled slightly. Mokuba looked on, worried. "I...I..." He wanted a damn Blue Eyes, damnit. Or something great. But he knew he couldn't ask for it. The look on Kaiba's face worried Jounochi. "Don't worry about, staying in the tournament is fine--"
"TELL ME WHAT YOU WANT, DAMNIT!" Kaiba yelled at him.
Jounochi jumped. "It's fine, Kaiba, I don't--"
Kaiba ran to him, grabbing him by his shirt collar. "What do you want?" he asked through clenched teeth.
"Nothing, if you're going to act like such a baby over someone of my *status* beating you. Sorry that I degraded you so damn badly."
"What do you WANT?!" Kaiba asked one last time.
"For you to stop calling me a mutt!" Jounochi yelled, knocked himself out of Kaiba's grasp. "For you to treat me like a fucking person and not act like I'm some disease or like I'm so much less than you! I'm fucking sick of you acting like I'm some annoying pest. Would it kill you to be nice to someone once? Or is Mokuba seriously the only point in your pathetic life?"
"Go to hell," Kaiba whispered.
"I don't want anything from a pathetic little baby. That's all you are, Kaiba. A pathetic little baby who no one cares about!" Jounochi turned to Yugi. "Don't you fucking start!" he warned. He ran from them, in disbelief over everything. In less than an hour, he had been dumped, smacked a spirit, beat Kaiba, and yelled at Kaiba. This really was shaping up to one hell of a day. But before he was out of anger, Jounochi ran to a pay phone, depositing his money.
Honda picked up and said, "Hello?"
"I won, asshole," Jounochi said, then slammed the phone down on the receiver.
