I Never Knew That

Aerith101: Hi, minna! Welcome back to my yaoi! Jou-chan, please do the disclaimer!

Jou: Ok, Aerith101 DOES NOT OWN Yu-Gi-Oh! Otherwise the storyline would be pretty damn screwed up. And do not sue her. Where's Kaiba... I wanna talk to him ~_~ !

Aerith101: As long as you two don't do anything naughty... save that for chapter 6 or 7!

Jou: Mou! Ok . Since you're the author here, we'll wait.

Aerith: You are so kind unlike Seto-kun!

Seto: AM NOT!

Aerith: ARE TOO!

Jou: Ok let's get to the story and I will also include the Author's Notes, so here they are!

Author's Notes:

Thought Jou is thinking

:Thought: Seto is thinking

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*Chapter 2*

Jou woke up to blood stains, vomit on the carpet, and a numbing feeling in his back.

Damn.... it hurts more than ever.... what did he do this time?

Jou gets up and checks to see if anything is broken and to see how bad he was beaten. He found out that he had numerous welts all over and the cut from the vodka bottle was starting to heal. As usual his father had passed out from being drunk and Jou decided to run away from home.

I'll run away from home forever.That's it, I'll run away from home forever. I'll tell every one about my plan...soon.

He heard his dad mutter, " Damn you... You're not leaving the house..."

Jou stopped dead in his tracks and looked at his father, worried that his father was going to beat him for running away but much to Jou's relief his father was passed out.

Whew, that was close...

Jou quietly sneaked to his bedroom to get his belongings so he could run away from his father and his hell.

How the hell am I going to find a place to stay for a while? And who? Jou was panicking mentally picturing what would happen if he couldn't stay some where.

Jou packed everything he had owned: his clothes, his memoirs of his sister, and of course his dueling deck.

Once, his father had found it while looking for a working lighter for smoking, he beat Jou for another stupid reason.

*Flashback*

Yukito was looking for a working lighter angrily because he wanted to smoke. He was searching throughout entire house for his cigarette and lighter. So far, he found his cigarettes and was looking for his lighter. He was looking in Jou's room and went through almost every nook and cranny. Yukito felt around in Jou's school bag, and he felt something... what was it? He pulled it out and saw a card, it read; " Swamp Battle Guard"

He said, " What is this garbage?... Jou, get yer goddamned ass in here!"

Jou took as long as he could to get to his room so he could think about what his dad was getting mad about. He walked to the entrance to his room. Jou saw his his dueling deck and at that instant he was in for beating. Jou tried look as small as possible -a habit- he had done this in his younger days. Yukito yelled, "You.Stupid.Boy. These. Are. Stupidest. Things. In. The. World "

He thrust the cards at his son.As much Jou would have liked it his father -almost- dropped the subject of him haivng Duel Monsters card but.... it happened any way. Jou tried his hardest not fight back becuase he knew what would happened if did fight back. He tried a week ago, and beating was worse than ever. There where times when the beatings weren't so bad and some that were worse. Whenever his father got drunk it was *always* worse.

*End of the Flashback*

Jou sneaked out of the house, for sure he wouldn't come back. He wandered down the streets of where he lived and saw a young boy was completely innocent get beat up. The boy was crying," Stop it! I didn't do anything! Let Me go! Someone help me! OW!"

The gangleader didn't seem to hear the boy's pleas to stop being hit. He laughed and he certainly sounded as if was fun to see him get beat up, " HA, HA,HAHA! Do ya hear that boys he wants us to stop! Boohoo kid, too bad there's no one to save ya."

The reat of the gang laughed along with their boss and just continued not noticing Jou was walking up to them slowly. He was geting pissed off by the moment, because he couldn't take seeing the kid getting beat up -it reminded him of himself- so he mustered up his courage and spoke, " You jerks, don't you know it's not nice to pick on people that are half *your* size? Or did yer mother's forget to teach you all?"

The gang turned on Jou and one shouted, "Hey don't go around telling *us* what to do! C'mon boys, let's get 'im!"

Jou fought against every member -it was a small gang- Shit. Got cut.

Jou walked up to the poor boy who was too terrified to run away and comforted him and said, "Hey, you alright?"

A small scared nut somewhat familiar voice replied shakily, " Yeah, thanks for stopping them for me!"

Jou looks at the boy more closely and raises his voice, " Mokuba! What are you doing here?!?"

Mokuba had tears welling up in his eyes, "I...I wandered off the Kaiba estate... I got lost and... I called Seto... he got the staff in the Kaiba estate looking for me... I want to go home! I miss Seto, Jou... Will... I...I see him ... again?"

Jou comforted the crying kid, "Don't worry, Mokuba, I'll get you home. Don't worry."

Mokuba stops crying and giggles, "Ok Jou! But...Seto will get mad and then he'll think that you beat me up and he'll try to stop us from hanging out..."

Jou tells him matter-of-factly, " Look Mokuba, Kaiba can't live your life and choose who you hang out with ok? Got that?"

Mokuba thinks about it quickly and says, "Well... yeah. I see your point."

Jou wanted to get Mokuba back home so he doesn't get hurt more so he announces, "Mokuba, let's go find the Kaiba estate!"

They walk to the Kaiba mansion and they arrive at the gate and the computer asks them for I.D. or a code to enter the Kaiba Mansion.

The computer with the mono-tone voice asks for the code, "Code or I.D. please."

Mokuba quickly and softly says, "416-Mokuba Kaiba"

The computer registering the voice command tells them what it's doing, "Searchong database for Mokuba Kaiba. Search confirmed. Found search item. Unlocking doors."

As they walked towards, they saw Kaiba looking very worried. He then sees Jou walking w/ Mokuba towards him.Seto who looked very pale cries, " Mokuba! You're safe! Why do you have these bruises?"

Seto looks at Jou very confused and changes his the look on his face and scowls :I sware to Amun-Ra... If Jou hurt MY baby brother, he will pay!:

Jou looking very uneasy starts to back away slowly but Seto stops him, "Jou what are

*you* doing here?"

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What will Seto-chan do? What will Jou say? How will Mokuba defend Jou?

Until next chapter... Hee Hee

Seto: MY BABY BROTHER HAD TO GET HURT?!? WHY?

Aerith101: Look, it was the only way I could get you two to spend some time together.

Jou: Great... you just said the magical words!

Seto: YOU COULD HAVE DEVISED SOME *OTHER* WAY!

Aerith101: Oh well...