I Never Knew That
Aerith101: What a stunning last chapter that was!
Seto: And a pretty cruel one for my baby brother and my Jou!
Aerith101: So... it'll help the bonding process!
Disclaimer: Aerith101 *luckily* doesn't own Yu-Gi-Oh! But the person who does is *very, very* lucky she doesn't.
A/N: Thought Jou's thinking
:Thought: Seto's thinking
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*Chapter 3*
Seto was confused and a little angry. :How dare he do this to my little brother!: "Well Jou? Why are you here? I'm waiting for an answer..."
Jou tried to defend himself by saying, "Well... I ran away from home and I saw this kid. I didn't know who he was..."
Seto had cut him off from explaining himself by angrily shouting out, "So *you* decided to beat him up?"
Mokuba interrupted his big brother by defending Jou, "No big brother! He saved me!"
Seto quieted himself snapped back, "How?"
Mokuba recomposed himself and began to tell his story, "Ok... Well I wandered off our grounds and I bumped into some stranger and he started to beat me up then more people came and joined him too. I was crying and Jou heard me, he made the gang go away. And he helped me get home"
Mokuba didn't add the part where he and Jou talked about the situation because he knew Seto would lose his cool and tell Jou never to come near him again. Seto thought for a moment and said, "So... Jou saved you Mokuba. Sorry Jou for accusing you before I heard your explanation of what happened. Come inside Mokuba, oh yes and you too Jou... seeing how you ran away from home."
Jou says tiredly, "Sure Kaiba, I won't be much of a bother. I'll leave tomorrow morning."
:I don't think so Jou, with your state and all...:
Seto sat down in the living room and asked, "Jou, why did you run away from your home?"
Jou sighed, then told his story, "Seto, my dad and mom seperated when I was 10 because my dad thinks and smokes too much. And when my dad found out that my sister and mom left he started to beat me. He beat everytime he got pissed off."
Seto and Mokuba's eyes widened in shock. :I can't beleive someone would do such a thing!: Seto then remembered that he too, was abused by Gozbaru Kaiba. Seto said, "I know how you feel Jou. Gozbaru my... what should I call him... He was never really a father... I remember now..."
*Flashback*
A aging man of forty stands before a young Seto Kaiba and yells, "You stupid child! This isn't what I expected of you! This is the work of a five year-old!
Seto's eyes well up and his bottom lip begins to quiver. He cries loudly, "WAAH! I...tried...(sniff)...my best...(sniff) Gozbaru-sama!"
Gozbaru gets even more angry then yells even louder, "You.*Stupid*. Boy, Your best isn't good enough, why your best doesn't meet my expectations! Go. You have another day to do this report! Go!"
Seto runs to the door of his adoptive father's office and says, "Ok..."
He runs off to his room and cries and whimpers, "Mommy, Daddy? Why did you have to die? Why can't you take care of me and Mokuba? Why?"
Seto was just a young boy who needed love and encouragement. He never got that from his adoptive father. All he got was yelling, and when he was older, Gozbaru made snide comments about Seto. His mother died of an illness and his father... he died of heart break, it was too much for the man who loved his family dearly. Seto just needed love, that's all.
*End of Flashback*
Jou was shocked also and said, "I didn't know that Gozbaru jerk made you just like him. Not in the bad sense anyways..."
Seto smiled a little bit and said, "Not really, Jou."
Jou was confused by what Seto had said, "What do yeh mean?"
Seto sighed and told his tale, "When Gozbaru died, I decided to move away. I moved to Domino city.So when I came here, so many people from school were acting really nice. Now, since Gozbaru treated me *that* way, I couldn't really trust anyone. I have a really hard time trusting people. Anyways, I just thought they were pretending to be nice to me. Until I met you and your friends came along, they made me trust people a little bit."
Jou who was still registering this info just replied, "Oh."
Seto said to Mokuba, "Please leave the room."
Seto wasn't sure if the bruises and cuts would be still there, and if it was pretty bad. He said to Jou, "Let's see how badly you're hurt..."
Jou takes off his shirt and there are a few welts and cuts here and there. Seto sees some purple bruises that seem to be done by something unreal. Seto gasps, "What. The. Hell?!?"
Jou just answers his question as if it were perfectly normal with a hint of bitterness in his voice, "Well... the bruises are from my father and that medium-sized cuts from the gang. Oh and those minor cuts... from a belt."
Seto quietly says, "Here Jou... let me tend to your bruises and cuts..."
Jou starts to get suspicious, "Gee Kaiba... Why are you being so kind?"
Seto walks into the nearest bathroom to get a first aid kit and says, "I'll tell you when I'm ready, could you *please* stop moving?"
Jou understood that Seto didn't want to tell him now and whined like a five year old, "Fine! I'll stop moving!"
Seto washes the cuts,welts, and the excess blood. He was taking care of Jou was some fime piece of china, but, Jou whined again, "Ow! That hurts!"
Seto tries to console Jou by saying, "Sorry, but I *have* to clean those cuts. I don't want you getting an infection. I still have to apply this antibiotic cream, you know? Hold still, I'm going to bandage your arm..."
Seto bandages Jou's arm and sees that some blood seeps out through the layering and applies another layer. Jou tries to move his arm after Seto finished and pouted, "What did you do? And where'd you learn to do this stuff?"
Seto said, "One question at a time. I put an extra layer of bandages. And I took a medical course, last year."
:Poor Jou, he's hurt. Looks like he won't be able to go to school tomorrow. It's getting late, better get to bed.:
"Look, it's getting late. You should get some sleep. And it looks like you can't go to school tomorrow." annouced Seto.
Jou replied sleepily, "Yeah, and uh... Kaiba?"
"What?"
"Thanks."
"No problem."
Seto walks to his room with Jou helping him into his bed and takes a spare blanket and pillow from his drawers. He said to Jou wihle leaving his room, "If you need anything, get Mokuba and he'll tell me what you need ok?"
"Yeah. Hey Kaiba, where are you going?" Jou asks
Seto replies to the blonde, "I'm going downstairs to the living room, to sleep on the couch."
Jou thinks for a moment and says, "Well why don't you sleep in a spare bedroom?"
Seto replies again, "They're full of technonology that I need for my next project for the company."
Jou wondered aloud, "Gee... won't that be uncomfortable sleeping on the couch?"
"Yeah, I guess so." Seto said
Jou thinks some more and says, "Hey, why don't you sleep here with me?"
Seto hesistates and asks Jou uncertain whether he really wants him to sleep in the same bed, "Jou, are you sure about this?"
Jou replies, "Sure, I'm sure Kaiba!"
"Ok..."
What the hell did I just do?
:I don't know what he was thinking when he said that... Scares me a little:
Jou couldn't sleep well because he was thinking about why Seto was being so nice to him and of course limited space for sleeping although it was a king-sized bed. Jou wanted to push Seto off the bed so he could have more room to sleep; he then would lie in the morning and say that Seto rolled of the bed. But he thought that over again and concluded that wouldn't be nice because Seto was nice for a change, and he didn't want to push his luck.
Seto woke up early and went downstairs to make breakfast. He was busy preparing breakfast and Mokuba said, "Big brother! Can you drive me to school?"
He answered his little brother, "Ok, just let me bring this up for Jou."
He walked to his room and knocked on the door, and said, " Jou, I'm bringing you some breakfast."
Jou woke up and said groggily, "Hunh? Oh yeah, the door's unlocked, c'mon in."
Seto saw Jou trying to change his bandages and said, "Jou, don't worry. I'll change your bandages as soon as I drop off Mokuba at his school."
Jou said, "Thanks man."
Seto walked to the door and grabbed his car keys and said, "I have to go becuse if I stay any longer, Mokuba might be late for school."
Jou smiled, "Yeah, you don't want him to get a detention."
Place is pretty empty, all the staff has left, I guess.
Jou was sleeping unaware that Seto had entered the room and was sitting on the bed next to him.
:I want to see how soft those lips are...: Seto leaned in and gave Jou a light kiss. During mid-kiss Jou woke up with wide eyes and Seto panicked , and took his lips of Jou's.
Jou yelled, "Damn it Kaiba, that was pretty disgusting! Why the hell are you kissing me?!?"
:Damn, he caught me! What the hell am I going to do?"
Seto spoke quickly, but slow enough for Jou to hear clearly, "I was... uh.... experimenting! Yeah! Expirementing! _u"
Jou suspecting something said, "Expirementing eh? Then why do I get the feeling that you're trying to cover somethin' up Kaiba?":
Seto chibifies and says stubbornly, "NO I'M NOT!"
Jou chibifies also and yells, "ARE TOO!"
They yell at each other for a while and Seto says, "Look, why don't we settle this arguement like civilized people?"
Jou says right away, "Yeah, good idea Kaiba."
Seto takes a breath and says, " The reason I kissed you, was..."
Jou blurted out, "A guy! Out of all the people I woulda suspected the least, you go kiss a guy!"
Seto glared daggers at Jou and cleared his throat and continued as if Jou never had his sudden outburst, "Ashiteru Jou."
Jou looked at him and said, "Really?"
Seto knew how akward the moment was getting and said to break the strangeness, " Yes. By the way... I called the school and said that you weren't feeling well and that you couldn't go to school today."
Jou replied, "Um, thanks Seto."
I never expected that out of him... Oh well, I guess I won't tell anybody 'till we're ready.
:Great. I bet now that I told him, he'll probably going to tell the whole school and he'll pretend that I'm not even there!:
Seto said again, "Oh, I almost forgot... Here let me change you're bandages."
Jou said, a little shakily, "Okay. But just to warn you, it stings like hell after you put the bandages on. "
Seto says quietly, "Ok, I'll be careful."
In the night Seto got his spare blanket and pillow and went down to the couch. "Goodnight Jou and Mokuba."
Jou replied, "Get a good night's sleep."
Seto said, "Tomorrow, I think you're ready for school."
Jou, "Yeah, I bet everyone's worried about me. 'Specially Anzu."
Seto smiled and said, "I'm sure they are."
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What will Jou-chan do once he's at school? What will Yuugi & co. reaction be to... everything?
Find out next chapter!
Aerith101: Ooh. I think I'm gonna get stuck with writing the next chapter...
Seto: Make sure that I don't get embarassed really badly if I do!
Aerith101: Hey... you're trying to make me spill the next chapter! That supposed to be a surprise! Why I should whack you!
*Holds a big sign* Please review!
Aerith101: What a stunning last chapter that was!
Seto: And a pretty cruel one for my baby brother and my Jou!
Aerith101: So... it'll help the bonding process!
Disclaimer: Aerith101 *luckily* doesn't own Yu-Gi-Oh! But the person who does is *very, very* lucky she doesn't.
A/N: Thought Jou's thinking
:Thought: Seto's thinking
****************************************************
*Chapter 3*
Seto was confused and a little angry. :How dare he do this to my little brother!: "Well Jou? Why are you here? I'm waiting for an answer..."
Jou tried to defend himself by saying, "Well... I ran away from home and I saw this kid. I didn't know who he was..."
Seto had cut him off from explaining himself by angrily shouting out, "So *you* decided to beat him up?"
Mokuba interrupted his big brother by defending Jou, "No big brother! He saved me!"
Seto quieted himself snapped back, "How?"
Mokuba recomposed himself and began to tell his story, "Ok... Well I wandered off our grounds and I bumped into some stranger and he started to beat me up then more people came and joined him too. I was crying and Jou heard me, he made the gang go away. And he helped me get home"
Mokuba didn't add the part where he and Jou talked about the situation because he knew Seto would lose his cool and tell Jou never to come near him again. Seto thought for a moment and said, "So... Jou saved you Mokuba. Sorry Jou for accusing you before I heard your explanation of what happened. Come inside Mokuba, oh yes and you too Jou... seeing how you ran away from home."
Jou says tiredly, "Sure Kaiba, I won't be much of a bother. I'll leave tomorrow morning."
:I don't think so Jou, with your state and all...:
Seto sat down in the living room and asked, "Jou, why did you run away from your home?"
Jou sighed, then told his story, "Seto, my dad and mom seperated when I was 10 because my dad thinks and smokes too much. And when my dad found out that my sister and mom left he started to beat me. He beat everytime he got pissed off."
Seto and Mokuba's eyes widened in shock. :I can't beleive someone would do such a thing!: Seto then remembered that he too, was abused by Gozbaru Kaiba. Seto said, "I know how you feel Jou. Gozbaru my... what should I call him... He was never really a father... I remember now..."
*Flashback*
A aging man of forty stands before a young Seto Kaiba and yells, "You stupid child! This isn't what I expected of you! This is the work of a five year-old!
Seto's eyes well up and his bottom lip begins to quiver. He cries loudly, "WAAH! I...tried...(sniff)...my best...(sniff) Gozbaru-sama!"
Gozbaru gets even more angry then yells even louder, "You.*Stupid*. Boy, Your best isn't good enough, why your best doesn't meet my expectations! Go. You have another day to do this report! Go!"
Seto runs to the door of his adoptive father's office and says, "Ok..."
He runs off to his room and cries and whimpers, "Mommy, Daddy? Why did you have to die? Why can't you take care of me and Mokuba? Why?"
Seto was just a young boy who needed love and encouragement. He never got that from his adoptive father. All he got was yelling, and when he was older, Gozbaru made snide comments about Seto. His mother died of an illness and his father... he died of heart break, it was too much for the man who loved his family dearly. Seto just needed love, that's all.
*End of Flashback*
Jou was shocked also and said, "I didn't know that Gozbaru jerk made you just like him. Not in the bad sense anyways..."
Seto smiled a little bit and said, "Not really, Jou."
Jou was confused by what Seto had said, "What do yeh mean?"
Seto sighed and told his tale, "When Gozbaru died, I decided to move away. I moved to Domino city.So when I came here, so many people from school were acting really nice. Now, since Gozbaru treated me *that* way, I couldn't really trust anyone. I have a really hard time trusting people. Anyways, I just thought they were pretending to be nice to me. Until I met you and your friends came along, they made me trust people a little bit."
Jou who was still registering this info just replied, "Oh."
Seto said to Mokuba, "Please leave the room."
Seto wasn't sure if the bruises and cuts would be still there, and if it was pretty bad. He said to Jou, "Let's see how badly you're hurt..."
Jou takes off his shirt and there are a few welts and cuts here and there. Seto sees some purple bruises that seem to be done by something unreal. Seto gasps, "What. The. Hell?!?"
Jou just answers his question as if it were perfectly normal with a hint of bitterness in his voice, "Well... the bruises are from my father and that medium-sized cuts from the gang. Oh and those minor cuts... from a belt."
Seto quietly says, "Here Jou... let me tend to your bruises and cuts..."
Jou starts to get suspicious, "Gee Kaiba... Why are you being so kind?"
Seto walks into the nearest bathroom to get a first aid kit and says, "I'll tell you when I'm ready, could you *please* stop moving?"
Jou understood that Seto didn't want to tell him now and whined like a five year old, "Fine! I'll stop moving!"
Seto washes the cuts,welts, and the excess blood. He was taking care of Jou was some fime piece of china, but, Jou whined again, "Ow! That hurts!"
Seto tries to console Jou by saying, "Sorry, but I *have* to clean those cuts. I don't want you getting an infection. I still have to apply this antibiotic cream, you know? Hold still, I'm going to bandage your arm..."
Seto bandages Jou's arm and sees that some blood seeps out through the layering and applies another layer. Jou tries to move his arm after Seto finished and pouted, "What did you do? And where'd you learn to do this stuff?"
Seto said, "One question at a time. I put an extra layer of bandages. And I took a medical course, last year."
:Poor Jou, he's hurt. Looks like he won't be able to go to school tomorrow. It's getting late, better get to bed.:
"Look, it's getting late. You should get some sleep. And it looks like you can't go to school tomorrow." annouced Seto.
Jou replied sleepily, "Yeah, and uh... Kaiba?"
"What?"
"Thanks."
"No problem."
Seto walks to his room with Jou helping him into his bed and takes a spare blanket and pillow from his drawers. He said to Jou wihle leaving his room, "If you need anything, get Mokuba and he'll tell me what you need ok?"
"Yeah. Hey Kaiba, where are you going?" Jou asks
Seto replies to the blonde, "I'm going downstairs to the living room, to sleep on the couch."
Jou thinks for a moment and says, "Well why don't you sleep in a spare bedroom?"
Seto replies again, "They're full of technonology that I need for my next project for the company."
Jou wondered aloud, "Gee... won't that be uncomfortable sleeping on the couch?"
"Yeah, I guess so." Seto said
Jou thinks some more and says, "Hey, why don't you sleep here with me?"
Seto hesistates and asks Jou uncertain whether he really wants him to sleep in the same bed, "Jou, are you sure about this?"
Jou replies, "Sure, I'm sure Kaiba!"
"Ok..."
What the hell did I just do?
:I don't know what he was thinking when he said that... Scares me a little:
Jou couldn't sleep well because he was thinking about why Seto was being so nice to him and of course limited space for sleeping although it was a king-sized bed. Jou wanted to push Seto off the bed so he could have more room to sleep; he then would lie in the morning and say that Seto rolled of the bed. But he thought that over again and concluded that wouldn't be nice because Seto was nice for a change, and he didn't want to push his luck.
Seto woke up early and went downstairs to make breakfast. He was busy preparing breakfast and Mokuba said, "Big brother! Can you drive me to school?"
He answered his little brother, "Ok, just let me bring this up for Jou."
He walked to his room and knocked on the door, and said, " Jou, I'm bringing you some breakfast."
Jou woke up and said groggily, "Hunh? Oh yeah, the door's unlocked, c'mon in."
Seto saw Jou trying to change his bandages and said, "Jou, don't worry. I'll change your bandages as soon as I drop off Mokuba at his school."
Jou said, "Thanks man."
Seto walked to the door and grabbed his car keys and said, "I have to go becuse if I stay any longer, Mokuba might be late for school."
Jou smiled, "Yeah, you don't want him to get a detention."
Place is pretty empty, all the staff has left, I guess.
Jou was sleeping unaware that Seto had entered the room and was sitting on the bed next to him.
:I want to see how soft those lips are...: Seto leaned in and gave Jou a light kiss. During mid-kiss Jou woke up with wide eyes and Seto panicked , and took his lips of Jou's.
Jou yelled, "Damn it Kaiba, that was pretty disgusting! Why the hell are you kissing me?!?"
:Damn, he caught me! What the hell am I going to do?"
Seto spoke quickly, but slow enough for Jou to hear clearly, "I was... uh.... experimenting! Yeah! Expirementing! _u"
Jou suspecting something said, "Expirementing eh? Then why do I get the feeling that you're trying to cover somethin' up Kaiba?":
Seto chibifies and says stubbornly, "NO I'M NOT!"
Jou chibifies also and yells, "ARE TOO!"
They yell at each other for a while and Seto says, "Look, why don't we settle this arguement like civilized people?"
Jou says right away, "Yeah, good idea Kaiba."
Seto takes a breath and says, " The reason I kissed you, was..."
Jou blurted out, "A guy! Out of all the people I woulda suspected the least, you go kiss a guy!"
Seto glared daggers at Jou and cleared his throat and continued as if Jou never had his sudden outburst, "Ashiteru Jou."
Jou looked at him and said, "Really?"
Seto knew how akward the moment was getting and said to break the strangeness, " Yes. By the way... I called the school and said that you weren't feeling well and that you couldn't go to school today."
Jou replied, "Um, thanks Seto."
I never expected that out of him... Oh well, I guess I won't tell anybody 'till we're ready.
:Great. I bet now that I told him, he'll probably going to tell the whole school and he'll pretend that I'm not even there!:
Seto said again, "Oh, I almost forgot... Here let me change you're bandages."
Jou said, a little shakily, "Okay. But just to warn you, it stings like hell after you put the bandages on. "
Seto says quietly, "Ok, I'll be careful."
In the night Seto got his spare blanket and pillow and went down to the couch. "Goodnight Jou and Mokuba."
Jou replied, "Get a good night's sleep."
Seto said, "Tomorrow, I think you're ready for school."
Jou, "Yeah, I bet everyone's worried about me. 'Specially Anzu."
Seto smiled and said, "I'm sure they are."
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What will Jou-chan do once he's at school? What will Yuugi & co. reaction be to... everything?
Find out next chapter!
Aerith101: Ooh. I think I'm gonna get stuck with writing the next chapter...
Seto: Make sure that I don't get embarassed really badly if I do!
Aerith101: Hey... you're trying to make me spill the next chapter! That supposed to be a surprise! Why I should whack you!
*Holds a big sign* Please review!
