Jaded Affection

By: Johnny Sorrow

Chapter 2: Revelation

Warnings- Yaoi. Jounouchi/ Kaiba much less harsh then the previous chapter.

Rated: R for language.

Notes: I know Jounouchi doesn't live with Shizuka and his mother in the TV show, but it's easier to write assuming he does.

*****Jounouchi's POV*****

"Jounouchi wake up!" A shrill voice called through my bedroom door, " You're going to be late for school!"

She banged on the door five times before calling my name again.

"Jounouchi!" three more bangs, "Get up!"

"Fine, mom I'm up..." I mumbled, I pulled myself away from my bed and opened the door, "What time is it?"

"7:42, you need to hurry," she looked at me disapprovingly, " You look terrible, and you don't have time to take a shower. Change out of those filthy clothes and get to school." She moved to the kitchen and started on breakfast.

"yeah, yeah. Good morning to you too." I moved to my closet and grabbed a maroon long sleeved shirt and a pair of jeans, trying not to reflect on yesterday's events. I changed my clothes quickly and went to the kitchen.

"You don't have time for breakfast either," She thrust a piece of toast towards me, "Shizuka has already left, eat this on your way."

"Alright." I grabbed the toast and waved goodbye, before leaving the apartment, " Nothing like feeling welcome in your own home."

Munching on the toast I tried to fill my mind with happy thoughts. Cards and Yugi, good thoughts... Maybe this won't be so bad after all. I decided to walk, no need to rush, School doesn't start until 7:55 and its not like I live terribly far from school. Its usually only a five minute walk.

So I took my time, finished the toast, watched the cars go by. And in no time I had reached the front doors of the school. Pulling them open the first thing I noticed were that very few students were in the hall, the bell must have already rung, wonderful I was late. The second thing I noticed was my favorite school administrator.

"Jounouchi-kun, it looks like consistently being on time is yet another one of your shining accomplishments." Principal Nagare glared at me his voice filled with blatant sarcasm, "I expect you'll behave yourself today, no more hysterics?"

I didn't answer him, I just glared back. What the hell was his problem, he's got nothing better to do than harass students? I kept walking and just shrugged it off, there were worst things than being late. I looked over and saw my locker, it was still banged up. Sighing, I decided that I really didn't have time to fight with it again. And it was probably best to get to class now before I was too obscenely late. Walking further, I realized that every hall in this school looks the same except for the class numbers. All had the same tan paint with brown tiling, and brick steps. Everything felt so routine here, every moment always the same. Down another identical hallway I saw my first Mod classroom. Room A143 Mathematics, I also saw that the door was closed.

"Great class already started." I sighed and paused in front of the door before opening it.

"Well, nice of you to finally join us Jounouchi-kun" Ms. Akatski glowered at me, "Hurry up and sit down. Lucky for you we haven't started today's lesson yet."

"Sorry." I stepped in the classroom and immediately I saw him. Staring at me and smiling, that same pompous smile he always wears. I froze, I couldn't move. It's like he had some sick twisted power over me.

"Jounouchi-kun, take your seat." I could hear her speaking, but I still didn't move. All I could think about is what he did. Or rather almost did. "Jounouchi-kun! take your seat!" Her screeching sent me back to reality.

"Jounouchi..." I could hear Yugi say quietly. I averted my gaze from Kaiba. Ms. Akatski looked pissed off, Yugi looked concerned and everyone else just looked confused.

"I'm sorry," I moved forward slightly but I could still feel him staring at me, his eyes tearing into me like knives slicing and ripping through my skin, my dignity. I stopped. "I'm sorry." I bolted from the classroom, I just needed to get away from him. I couldn't take it. I saw the boy's bathroom and went in. Lucky for me no one else was there. I felt a warm flow of tears down my cheek.

"Not again." I was crying, I looked at myself in the mirror. "Stop crying you fucking wuss!" I punched the mirror.

"Ow!" I shook my hand, looking at the mirror. "It didn't even break, I can't even break a fucking mirror." I felt so pathetic so weak. I wanted to hide, just crawl up somewhere and wait to die. It was all his fault, he did this to me.

I don't know, maybe I was always like this. This feminine, this weak. Bawling over someone looking at me. I ripped a few paper towels from the dispenser and wiped my eyes. It felt like sandpaper. I crumpled it up and tossed it to the trashcan. I missed, I can't even do that right. Then I heard the door open. I darted into one of the stalls and locked the door. I covered my mouth with my sleeve, trying to conceal the noises of my sobbing.

"Jounouchi?" great, just fucking great. It was Yugi. "I know you're here, I saw you run in. And I can hear you."

"Go away, Yugi." My crying had slightly subsided to the point that my voice sounded coherent, but you could still hear some partial sobs, "I don't want you to see me like this."

"What's wrong Jou?" He was peering under the stalls, "What happened in class? How come you ran away?"

"I don't want to talk about it." I sniffed before wiping my sleeve across my nose, "It's none of your business."

"Jou, I'm your friend. If you're upset it is my business." His voice sounded so soft, so delicate.

"Well I'm not talking about it." I pulled open the stall door and looked at Yugi, he had sort of a half frown half fake smile across his face, "Why don't you just go, you'll get in trouble if you stay here and miss class."

"You're more important than class," Yugi looked closer at my eyes, "Jou, were you crying?"

"No." I looked away and wiped my eyes frantically with my sleeve, "its just allergies. So don't worry about me and just go back to class."

"I already told you I'm not going back to class until I know you're ok." He smiled at me, "Now I know something made you so upset that you cried, and whenever I'm upset you always there for me, so let me be here for you. Why don't you tell me what happened, it always helps to talk about stuff that hurts."

"No, I'm not saying anything." I crossed my arms pouting, "And I'm not upset."

"Well I'm not leaving until you tell me what's wrong." Yugi just stood there defiantly.

"Fine, don't leave you're just gonna get in trouble." I looked over expecting him to give up and leave.

"Okay, I think you could use the company anyway." He sat cross-legged across from me, "So either until you decide to talk or someone forces us to leave I'm just going to sit here."

"Fine." He'll give up eventually. Yugi never skips class.

So we just sat there, I don't know how long. Probably at least 30 minutes, surprisingly no one came in. Ms. Akatski was probably just glad to get rid of me. I was glad to get away from Kaiba, and it looked like Yugi was glad just to keep me company.

"You're to nice for you're own good Yugi." I sighed finally giving in, "Fine If I tell you why I'm upset will you at least go back to class?"

"Yup." He was still smiling at me, his big eyes sparkling.

I shouldn't tell him exactly what happened. But a brief overview minus a few details should make him satisfied enough to leave.

"It happened yesterday, after I went back to my locker." I started, thinking how I could leave out Kaiba's sexual advances but still make the story sound convincing. "I sort of got into a fight with Kaiba."

"Again? I told you to just ignore him. He always baits you with one of those dog lines, and every time you bite." He paused for a moment probably noticing the slight pun, "But that doesn't explain what happened today."

"I was getting to that." I ran my fingers through my hair and continued, "After... the fight, I was really upset, and then Ms. Akatski found me. She kept asking me what happened and I really didn't feel like telling her so I didn't. Then she left to get the principal."

"That seems harsh, getting the principal just because you wouldn't tell her something." He cocked an eyebrow at me, "Are you leaving something out?"

"If you would just let me finish, you'll understand." I paused and straightened out my train of thought, "Ok, when she left to get the principal. I tried to open my locker, when it wouldn't open I was already really frustrated. You know from the fight. So I kicked it like 20 times."

"Jou that's serious. There are severe consequences for breaking school property." He was always concerned for me, I guess it's one of things I really like about him. "So that's what happened Ms. Akatski found you kicking your locker?"

"Agh! No, well yeah but no." I pulled on a loose thread from my shirt while talking, "Ms. Akatski came back with the principal, who wasn't really happy that I was denting the locker, so he took me in to his office. He asked me why I was doing that, you know kicking the locker. So I told him it was because of Kaiba trying to... fight me. And he didn't believe me."

"Kaiba trying to fight you? I thought you said that you guys had a fight. Did he threaten you physically." Yugi looked even more concerned.

"No, well kind of. But I doubt he wants to beat me up." That seemed to calm him down slightly. "But when he didn't believe me I kind of lost my temper."

"How come he didn't believe you?" God he asked so many fucking questions.

"I don't know Yugi, I guess he thought Kaiba was more credible than me." I tapped my foot awaiting another question. When nothing came I continued, " So when I lost my temper, he kind of lost his too. He gave me detention all week. And he said I'm going to have to pay for the damages to the locker. It's only like a few yen anyway. So I kinda stormed out of the office. So today when I came into school late, he gave me a lecture. And I guess I was upset and when I saw Ms. Akatski today I guess I just kind of lost it."

"Ms. Akatski made you cry?" He looked kind of disappointed in me, " We both know it wasn't Ms. Akatski that made you cry. It was Kaiba. And I think I know why seeing Kaiba made you so upset."

"You do?" I looked up to him, that little guy was much more perceptive than I thought.

"You're afraid that Kaiba is gonna beat you up." He smiled Cheerfully, "But you shouldn't worry, I don't think Kaiba would want to beat you up. He's not like that, but I'll talk to him today and tell him to be nicer to you. I never knew you were so sensitive."

Or maybe he wasn't...

"Uh, you really don't need to do that." I gave out a forced laugh, "I think the best thing you can do is just avoid the subject of me around Kaiba. Or just avoid Kaiba completely."

"Don't worry, Kaiba will listen to me." Yugi stood up and walked to the door, "And if he doesn't I'll tell my yami to beat him in duel monsters!" And with that Yugi darted out of the bathroom-waving goodbye.

"That'll go over well..." I stood up deciding just to skip the rest of first mod. Kaiba isn't in any other of my classes. And there was only like five minutes left anyway. I guess Yugi and I had been talking longer than I thought. After A while of pacing and thinking I heard a bunch of students talking in the halls.

"Well, maybe the rest of the day will be better." I pushed open the doors and joined the mass of students making my way to my next class.

*****

The rest of the day was pretty mediocre, my 4th mod history class just ended. I almost left class until I remembered I had detention. I pulled out the slip and examined it. Detention was scheduled in this room, I shrugged it really didn't matter where it was. It was still going to be boring as hell. I sat in the room while everyone else got to leave, even our teacher left.

"No teacher..." I pulled out a magazine, "Maybe this won't be so bad."

"Jounouchi-kun, we only do productive things in detention. Put that magazine away." Ms. Akatski entered the classroom reeking of cheap perfume, "Luckily for you I am this week's detention supervisor. Now I know you have work to make up for my class after you decided to skip it today."

"Luckily for me." I sighed.

"There is no need for that tone young man." She slammed a huge stack of papers on my desk, "This is all of today's work plus some mandatory extra credit you'll need if you want to have any hope of passing my class." She looked exceptionally pleased with herself.

"Mandatory extra credit? wouldn't making it mandatory remove the entire point of it being extra credit work in the first place?" I flipped through the stack, it was completely made up of bookwork.

"Be smart all you want, you still have to complete the work. Now get started you only have four hours." She moved to the desk and sat down, cracking a book. It looked like some cheap ass romance novel.

Defeated I opened my math book and started on the work. After about ten minutes the room had a few more students in it, at least I didn't have to be the only one who suffered. I was making good progress on my work too, I might even be able to finish it today as long as nothing catastrophic happened.

"Excuse Ms. Akatski, I need to speak with one of your students." I didn't recognize the voice at first, "It'll only be for a moment."

"Oh Kaiba-kun of course." Ms. Akatski looked to him, "Which one?"

Maybe it wasn't me, please don't let it be me...

"Jounouchi." He looked to me. This time he looked different. He wasn't smiling he seemed agitated. I hesitated to get up, I really didn't want to go with him.

"Jounouchi-kun, go with Kaiba don't worry you're work will still be here when you get back." Ms. Akatski looked at Kaiba and smiled, "Now you boys don't get in too much trouble."

I decided to go with him. At the very least I could resolve this whole incident even if it did lead to him killing me or something. I got up and walked over to him wearily, he lead me down the hall and into an empty classroom, saying nothing along the way. When I stepped inside he closed the door and locked it.

"Hey wait! what are you locking the door?" I felt unusually brave, "So no one can hear you if you rape me?"

"Will you stop saying that, I didn't try to rape you." He looked serious.

"What the hell are you talking about Kaiba?" I backed away from him, "Were you there yesterday? Or do we have a different definition for attempted rape?"

"Ok two things, first of all I wasn't trying to rape you, and secondly it isn't rape unless you're a woman. It's sexual assault. Moron." He folded his arms across his chest, "So will you please stop acting like some stupid fucking rape victim."

"What the hell are you talking about? How am I acting like a rape victim?" I avoided eye contact with him, "And don't I have the too right after what you did to me?"

"I didn't do anything to you!" He sounded pissed now, "And as to acting like a rape victim this morning you ran from class and cried in a bathroom just from me smiling at you. Like I fucking traumatized you or something"

"I wasn't crying! It was just allergies..." I paused, "How did you know where I went anyway?"

"Yugi came to me and said you told him what happened. That I scared you so much that the sight of me made you cry." The anger in his voice had been replaced by slight amusement.

"That's not what happened." I shoved my hands in my pockets, "And besides just because it's sexual assault and not rape doesn't make what you did ok!"

"God damnit Jounouchi I said I didn't do anything to you!" Amusement gone, anger back. "Stop saying I did!"

"Fine, explain to me how you didn't do anything." I ripped my arm out of my pocket and pointed at him accusingly, "How is that nothing!"

"I wasn't even going to do anything. You stupid mutt. And you keep saying I sexually assaulted you, when the only thing I did was push you against a fucking locker." He sighed, and cooled down a bit, "So will you just stop saying I did anything to you."

"Oh I see how this is. Now you're denying that you were going to rape me, so I can't press charges against you!" I walked a few steps closer to him. I wasn't going to take it this time.

"How is it that you always miss the point?" He hissed at me, his teeth gritted. " I was trying to apologize. And you can't prove anything anyway."

"No you weren't trying to apologize you could care less-" He sharply interrupted me .

"Yes I was, and don't presume to know what I do and don't care about." His voice was slightly softer, "Look Jounouchi I'm sorry. I'm sorry if you misunderstood me."

The apology took me off guard, it took me a moment to respond. "Misunderstood you? what are you talking about now? I misunderstood you laughing at me when I was crying, I misunderstood you shoving your knee in my crotch?"

"Yes." His answer came quickly, his voice sounded annoyed.

"What the hell do you mean?" This was really starting to piss me off. "Why else would you do those things?"

"Ok , look. I saw you staring at me in class so I just figured you had this weird boy crush on me or something. So I thought if I played on it I could use it as another way to bother you. The dog thing was getting really old." He sounded sincere, "And the only way I could find out if you did have some kind of attraction to me was to come on to you."

"What? That doesn't make any fucking sense! You were doing it to bother me?" I stared at him in disbelief. "Because your insults got old?"

"I'm telling the truth." He moved a step closer to me.

"Wow Kaiba that's really fucking sad." I moved another step closer to him, I wasn't scared of him anymore. "You're that fucking pathetic you wasted that much effort just to find a way to make fun of me?"

"I'm not pathetic. And so what if I find mocking people amusing." He shook his head, "Why don't you just drop it."

" Mocking people? Try mocking me, why do you single me out so much?" He didn't say anything, "Well? why?"

"Look I don't know," He looked away from me, "I already said I was sorry why are you pushing so much? Why can't you just accept my apology?"

"I just want to know why you're so obsessed with mocking me." My temper had subsided, it's not like I was ever mean to you."

"I told you I don't know." He turned around, and opened the door. " And stop staring at me in class, drop your little crush."

"I never had a crush on you Kaiba." I looked at him closely, he almost looked upset.

"Whatever, just stop crying wolf." His voice sounded disappointed. " And get back to detention. We've wasted to much time." He left the room and walked up the hallway. But before he left I noticed something, I noticed he was blushing.

"Huh..." I shrugged and went back to detention.

"Jounouchi-kun it's about time you came back, now get back to work you still have a lot of left to do."

"Yeah ok." When I sat down and went to work I kept thinking about why Kaiba would have been blushing. And why he sounded so upset. And why he always picked on me. And then it was like I found the missing piece to a massive jigsaw puzzle. I smiled, "He likes me." I whispered to myself. I was going to have fun with this.

End Chapter 2

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