His feet crunched the leaves gently making a soft rythmic sound as he walked. He lifted his face up towards the sky and pulled his jacket tighter around him. It was getting a little colder....or maybe it was just his imagination.

A shiver raced up and down his spine as an odd feeling eveloped Joey. It was a feeling that something was missing...something important. He had this....this pit of sorts centered on his stomache. And he probably hadn't doe a very good job at hiding it either.

It was like something was eating his soul....Something that he should see, but couldn't. He felt like a blind person who had something important right in front of him....but he couldn't see it.

And whenever he thought of Kaiba....laying in his bed....so limply....so dead like....the pit in his stomache deepened.

Joey shook his head. Kaiba? No way. He could not be worried for Kaiba....could he? No of course not....

Sighing, the blonde boy collapsed on the nearest park bench and leaned his head back closing his chocolate brown eyes and sighing. He felt suddenly at peace, as if something good was about to happen....

Soon the Heavens opened and the soft pitter-patter of rain could be heard. The rain dropped onto the boy, rapidly now, soon soaking him.

And still he lay, unmoving.

***

The tall boy moved almost gracefully through the trees and down the park path. He'd always thought that the park had been beautiful.....he and Mokuba had had so much fun here before....not thta anyone else knew about it.

Seto almost smiled as a drop of rain touched his cheek. Rain....he remembered playing in the rain when he was little, just him and Mokuba. They would run around the hard in the rain and fall on each other laughing and then they'd just lay there, slone and let the rain fall on them. Loving the way it smelled and the way it tasted....

A voice suddenly reached the boy's ears and he automatically straightened his back and wiped away the smile that had been growing on his face. The voice was humming an unfamiliar song while the voice itself was familiar.

Carefully Seto stepped around the corner to see who the person was. A soaking wet boy sprawled across a park bench was the sight that met his eyes. The former Champion of the World took an involuntary step back.

Joey Wheeler!

The person who had been haunting his thoughts for days, the one person tha he really wanted to unconsciuosly get away from. And here....here he was laying in the rain humming. Something, he, Seto Kaiba had done so many years ago....

Suddenly the tune stopped and Joey cracked an eye open to see his arch enemy standing in front of him. "Oh Kaiba. It's you." He didn't sound vengeful, scared or even surprised.

Inside the blonde boy was creeped out. One minute he had been humming Serenity's favorite song and the next, a wave of familiarity had washed opene and he had opened his eyes to find Seto Kaiba standing in front of him. And yet....a feeling of peacefulness and calmness kept him from making any snide remarks.

Something kept Seto from saying anything as well. "Hello." No witty comment came to mind so he closed his mouth. Quickly.

Joey chuckled. He closed his eyes again and let his mind wander....the way Kaiba had reacted when Mokuba had lept into his arms at Duelist Kingdom...."Ya know Kaiba, you're not as cold hearted as you think you are."

Kaiba just stared. "What?"

"I've seen the way that you look at Mokuba. It's the same way that I look at my sister and the way that Tristan looks at Téa. You love him."

The famous CEO opened his mouth, closed it and then opened it again. "Of course. He's my little brother."

Joey opened his eyes and gazed up at Seto. "Then that means that there is a human being underneath it all. Just the opposite of what you seem to want the world to believe."

Seto gave the younger boy a strange look before flicking brown hair from his eyes. Where was Joey getting this?

Frankly, the blonde was thinking the exact same thing. Where was he getting this stuff? And why was he saying it? This was Kaiba. Seto Kaiba. The very same who humiliated Joey over and over in front of his friends. This was the boy that he hated....and yet right now...he didn't.

Joey raised his eyes and met Kaiba's. Seto stared coldly back. Something flickered in a pair of chocolate brown eyes. Suddenly the blonde boy lept up and looked around nervously.

"Um....um..." Joey's eyes darted around desperately as Kaiba looked on, confused by the sudden change. "I-I got to go because-" Why was he explaining himself to Kaiba?

Seto stared at the boy's back as he hurried quickly away. Confusion clouded his mind. He felt as if he had missed something when he had been watching Joey's eyes. Something that had looked an aweful lot like-

***

No. Way. No way! It couldn't be. It just couldn't.

Joey collapsed, still soaking wet into the ratty couch just inside the door of his apartment.

He refused to believe it. It just wasn't possible.

He placed his wet hands over his eyes and lay back.

For a moment, a single moment when he had gazed up into Kaiba's sapphire eyes he had seen him in a different way. He had seen him as a...a handsome older boy. Someone who just needed....

No. He'd promised himself that after Mai he would never do it again. He would never fall in love.

Yet that is just what he had done. Fallen in love.

And with Seto Kaiba....of all people....

Author's Note: Once again sorry for taking so long. It's been a long couple of weeks....

Artists, if you feel like drawing and are good could you please email me? There's a picture I've been dying to see drawn but I have no drawing talent what so ever. My email address is childofthestars11@yahoo.com.

Also does anyone know how the Priest Seto of Ancient Egypt died?