Ok, here's the new chappie. It's longer, are you happy?
Disclaimer: Nope, I haven't acquired control over the Yu-gi-oh company since yesterday.
This contains a YY/Seth scene, but don't worry, I'll get to the J/Seto soon.
Chapter 5
Invitation
The two teens had managed to pick up Mokuba and grab a few things from Joey's house without any trouble. Like Joey had said, his father was gone, leaving only three or four bottles littering the floor from before he'd left to the bar.
As the black limo pulled to a halt before the Kaiba Mansion Mokuba hopped out, announcing that he was going to watch some tv before doing his slim amount of weekend homework. Then he paused, and turned to face the two older boys.
"Big Brother, why is Joey staying over here tonight?" Joey cringed internally as Kaiba opened his mouth to respond.
"Mokuba . . . we're going to be working on an important school assignment that's due on Monday. It will take a long time, so he'll have to stay the night and perhaps tomorrow too." The brunette lied easily after only a moment's pause. Joey could barely contain his shock. Seto Kaiba covering for Joey Wheeler . . . to his little brother? It was unheard of.
"What subject is it for?" Mokuba asked as Seto and Joey climbed out of the limo as well.
"English." Joey said just as Kaiba said firmly,
"History."
They glanced at each other.
"It's an English assignment about colonial history." The brunette amended. His brother nodded.
"Oh, ok. Good luck on it!" Then Mokuba ran into the mansion, intent on making it to whatever television show he wished to see on time.
"Thanks." Joey said after he had gone.
"You've been saying that a lot lately." Kaiba said stiffly, clearly unused to thanks. "It's nothing. I knew you probably wouldn't want a lot of people knowing that . . . knowing what your father's like."
"Still," Joey insisted, not about to let these rare kind deeds from Kaiba go without a show of appreciation. "you didn't have to do any of this, but you did anyway. So thanks."
Kaiba shrugged, a gesture Joey decided to take as a 'you're welcome', as his cell phone rang.
"Kaiba." The teen said as he picked up the call. "Oh, good. I'll be right there." Then he hung up.
"What was that?" Joey asked as Kaiba called for the limo to wait (as it had been about to pull away into the garage.
"KaibaCorp." He said, opening the door. "They need me to test an update on the duel disk system."
He got in, and then paused.
"You know . . ." he said hesitantly. "It can't properly be tested without a duel, and I can beat anyone working at KaibaCorp in half a second . . ."
Joey grinned.
"Kaiba, are you challenging me to a duel?"
Kaiba shrugged.
"Only if you're prepared to lose." he replied, but the threat didn't contain all of the malice it usually would.
"We'll see." Joey said brightly, and climbed into the car as well.
'Kaiba's really not 'all' that bad.' Joey realized as the driver began to head for KaibaCorp. 'He's just been through a lot. If he wants to, he can actually be pretty cool.'
'Why did I invite him along?' Kaiba thought, glancing at the smiling blonde. 'Giving him a room is one thing, but inviting him to a duel is . . . it's almost like we're friends.' To Kaiba's surprise the thought didn't bother him nearly as much as it should've. 'Friends . . ." he tested out the word in his mind, and realized that he rather liked it. He hadn't had friends since he'd lived with his parents . . . his real parents.
Colleagues, servants . . . those he was used to, but Mokuba was the only person he'd cared for at all in years.
But Kaiba realized that he enjoyed seeing Joey, liked the look on his face when Kaiba had done something nice for him.
Joey noticed Kaiba looking at him and gave him a real smile.
'Yeah, he's cool when he's nice. An' I actually enjoy spending time with him. He's become a friend.' Joey realized this in shock. 'He's helped me out a lot in the past two days. He is becoming a good friend. I might've even shared more with him then I have with even Yuge about my home problems.
'Seto Kaiba an' I are friends. Have weirder things happened?
'Nah.'
*~*~*~*~*~*
Yami lay on his bed, happy for the quiet of the house around him. Grandpa had invited Yami to come along to visit his friend, but the Pharaoh had declined, saying that it would be too difficult to explain a new member of the family that no one knew about.
So now Yami lay alone on his bed, and began to slip into memories of himself and Seth, centuries before in Egypt.
*~*~*~*~*~*
The two lay, entwined on the bed, still breathing hard. Seth glanced up at his lover, gaze full of passion.
"Imagine if one of the guards came in here right now." His lips twisted into a familiar smirk. Yami pulled him closer.
"Don't worry, I've sent them all away on a fool's errand. I have you all to myself for another hour at least."
Seth placed a gentle kiss on the Pharaoh's neck.
"Good."
Yami moaned in pleasure as his High Mage began to assault his neck, kissing and nipping at it expertly. He moved down slowly, taking his time until he reached the soft hollow at the base of his throat, and bit into it softly, careful not to draw any blood from is Pharaoh.
"Seth . . ." Yami moaned softly, holding back his neck to give his love a wider range to caress.
*~*~*~*~*~*
Seto Kaiba shot out of whatever daydream he had just been having, eyes wide and breathing ragged.
"He said 'Seth' . . ." the brunette murmured in shock. Joey looked over at him, worried.
"Kaiba, are you ok?" After a moment Kaiba's demeanor changed completely as he put up his emotional wall once more.
"Fine." He snapped, sounding exactly as he had when they'd first met. But this time Joey realized that it was just a facade and gently put his hand on Kaiba's stiff shoulder.
"No, you're not. Something scared ya. You can tell me. Ya' know that."
Seto sighed, and his wall came shattering down. He grabbed Joey's hand, and the blonde could tell that it was shaking faintly.
"Alright, I'm not fine." His cerulean eyes pierced Joey's own with their gaze. "But I'm not sure what's going on." The teen looked so scared that Joey couldn't help himself. He wrapped the pale brunette into a tight hug. KaibaCorp's CEO froze, not knowing how to react to the show of comfort, but after a moment accepted the embrace.
"Thanks." He said softly against Joey's ear.
Joey grinned.
"It's nothin'."
Seto gave an almost unnoticable smile at this, and pulled back.
"But Joey, I have to know right now. Who is-" Suddenly the limo door swung open by three of KaibaCorp's employees. Joey hadn't even noticed them arrive. They immediately began speaking at once about several different things, and Seto stepped out of the limo, all business.
Joey climbed out as well, standing awkwardly off to the side as Kaiba kept up with three conversations at once.
"The duel disk system is ready for testing."
"I'm on my way there. Get the floor on level one ready for a duel."
"Sales are going down for the old system."
"By how much?"
"Steadily .01% per day."
"The attendant on floor three is being insubordinate . . ."
"But sir, floor one is being repaired from that incident last week."
" . . .so no one can work there."
"Then get the one on floor three ready."
"But sir . . ."
"Right, make it floor two."
Joey was totally lost after about twenty seconds. He watched Kaiba handle the older men with ease, and smiled.
'He's really amazing, ta' be able ta' handle this every day . . . wait, did I just call Kaiba 'amazing'?' Joey watched the man in his element for another moment. 'Well,' he decided, 'he is.' Then he sighed. 'No . . . oh man, don't tell me I might be fallen' for Kaiba . . .'
Finally the brunette turned back to Joey and beckoned for him to follow. As they strode to KaibaCorp's main elevator Joey shook his head.
"That's impressive."
"What?" They reached the elevator and got in.
"What ya did back there. I'd be lost after five seconds tryin' ta run this business."
Kaiba smirked.
"Comes from years of practice. I'm sure you'd get it after a while."
Joey's eyes widened as he realized that he'd left himself open to verbal attacks at least twice in that conversation, and yet Kaiba had let the instances slide.
They reached the whole dueling arena on the second floor and the attendant handed each teen a duel disk system that was smaller and more portable than the first armbands.
"Nice." Joey said, attaching it to his wrist and taking his place on the field. Seto smirked again and took his as well. He shuffled his deck for a moment and placed it into a slot on the system. Then he mock bowed to Joey.
"Whenever you're ready."
Joey's face lit up and he placed his deck in as well. The he shot his left arm into the air and cried,
"Let the duel begin!"
*~*~*~*~*~*~*
TBC
*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Ok, that's all for now, g2g Yugioh's 11:00 episode is coming on in . . . like . . . 2 minutes!!!! Hope you liked this. Just so you know, I suck at any kind of scenes with real romance or kissing in it. Fluff I can do, not actual . . . well, you read up there. So that's as explicit as anythig is going to be in this story. Sorry, but this is only PG-13.
Review!
Disclaimer: Nope, I haven't acquired control over the Yu-gi-oh company since yesterday.
This contains a YY/Seth scene, but don't worry, I'll get to the J/Seto soon.
Chapter 5
Invitation
The two teens had managed to pick up Mokuba and grab a few things from Joey's house without any trouble. Like Joey had said, his father was gone, leaving only three or four bottles littering the floor from before he'd left to the bar.
As the black limo pulled to a halt before the Kaiba Mansion Mokuba hopped out, announcing that he was going to watch some tv before doing his slim amount of weekend homework. Then he paused, and turned to face the two older boys.
"Big Brother, why is Joey staying over here tonight?" Joey cringed internally as Kaiba opened his mouth to respond.
"Mokuba . . . we're going to be working on an important school assignment that's due on Monday. It will take a long time, so he'll have to stay the night and perhaps tomorrow too." The brunette lied easily after only a moment's pause. Joey could barely contain his shock. Seto Kaiba covering for Joey Wheeler . . . to his little brother? It was unheard of.
"What subject is it for?" Mokuba asked as Seto and Joey climbed out of the limo as well.
"English." Joey said just as Kaiba said firmly,
"History."
They glanced at each other.
"It's an English assignment about colonial history." The brunette amended. His brother nodded.
"Oh, ok. Good luck on it!" Then Mokuba ran into the mansion, intent on making it to whatever television show he wished to see on time.
"Thanks." Joey said after he had gone.
"You've been saying that a lot lately." Kaiba said stiffly, clearly unused to thanks. "It's nothing. I knew you probably wouldn't want a lot of people knowing that . . . knowing what your father's like."
"Still," Joey insisted, not about to let these rare kind deeds from Kaiba go without a show of appreciation. "you didn't have to do any of this, but you did anyway. So thanks."
Kaiba shrugged, a gesture Joey decided to take as a 'you're welcome', as his cell phone rang.
"Kaiba." The teen said as he picked up the call. "Oh, good. I'll be right there." Then he hung up.
"What was that?" Joey asked as Kaiba called for the limo to wait (as it had been about to pull away into the garage.
"KaibaCorp." He said, opening the door. "They need me to test an update on the duel disk system."
He got in, and then paused.
"You know . . ." he said hesitantly. "It can't properly be tested without a duel, and I can beat anyone working at KaibaCorp in half a second . . ."
Joey grinned.
"Kaiba, are you challenging me to a duel?"
Kaiba shrugged.
"Only if you're prepared to lose." he replied, but the threat didn't contain all of the malice it usually would.
"We'll see." Joey said brightly, and climbed into the car as well.
'Kaiba's really not 'all' that bad.' Joey realized as the driver began to head for KaibaCorp. 'He's just been through a lot. If he wants to, he can actually be pretty cool.'
'Why did I invite him along?' Kaiba thought, glancing at the smiling blonde. 'Giving him a room is one thing, but inviting him to a duel is . . . it's almost like we're friends.' To Kaiba's surprise the thought didn't bother him nearly as much as it should've. 'Friends . . ." he tested out the word in his mind, and realized that he rather liked it. He hadn't had friends since he'd lived with his parents . . . his real parents.
Colleagues, servants . . . those he was used to, but Mokuba was the only person he'd cared for at all in years.
But Kaiba realized that he enjoyed seeing Joey, liked the look on his face when Kaiba had done something nice for him.
Joey noticed Kaiba looking at him and gave him a real smile.
'Yeah, he's cool when he's nice. An' I actually enjoy spending time with him. He's become a friend.' Joey realized this in shock. 'He's helped me out a lot in the past two days. He is becoming a good friend. I might've even shared more with him then I have with even Yuge about my home problems.
'Seto Kaiba an' I are friends. Have weirder things happened?
'Nah.'
*~*~*~*~*~*
Yami lay on his bed, happy for the quiet of the house around him. Grandpa had invited Yami to come along to visit his friend, but the Pharaoh had declined, saying that it would be too difficult to explain a new member of the family that no one knew about.
So now Yami lay alone on his bed, and began to slip into memories of himself and Seth, centuries before in Egypt.
*~*~*~*~*~*
The two lay, entwined on the bed, still breathing hard. Seth glanced up at his lover, gaze full of passion.
"Imagine if one of the guards came in here right now." His lips twisted into a familiar smirk. Yami pulled him closer.
"Don't worry, I've sent them all away on a fool's errand. I have you all to myself for another hour at least."
Seth placed a gentle kiss on the Pharaoh's neck.
"Good."
Yami moaned in pleasure as his High Mage began to assault his neck, kissing and nipping at it expertly. He moved down slowly, taking his time until he reached the soft hollow at the base of his throat, and bit into it softly, careful not to draw any blood from is Pharaoh.
"Seth . . ." Yami moaned softly, holding back his neck to give his love a wider range to caress.
*~*~*~*~*~*
Seto Kaiba shot out of whatever daydream he had just been having, eyes wide and breathing ragged.
"He said 'Seth' . . ." the brunette murmured in shock. Joey looked over at him, worried.
"Kaiba, are you ok?" After a moment Kaiba's demeanor changed completely as he put up his emotional wall once more.
"Fine." He snapped, sounding exactly as he had when they'd first met. But this time Joey realized that it was just a facade and gently put his hand on Kaiba's stiff shoulder.
"No, you're not. Something scared ya. You can tell me. Ya' know that."
Seto sighed, and his wall came shattering down. He grabbed Joey's hand, and the blonde could tell that it was shaking faintly.
"Alright, I'm not fine." His cerulean eyes pierced Joey's own with their gaze. "But I'm not sure what's going on." The teen looked so scared that Joey couldn't help himself. He wrapped the pale brunette into a tight hug. KaibaCorp's CEO froze, not knowing how to react to the show of comfort, but after a moment accepted the embrace.
"Thanks." He said softly against Joey's ear.
Joey grinned.
"It's nothin'."
Seto gave an almost unnoticable smile at this, and pulled back.
"But Joey, I have to know right now. Who is-" Suddenly the limo door swung open by three of KaibaCorp's employees. Joey hadn't even noticed them arrive. They immediately began speaking at once about several different things, and Seto stepped out of the limo, all business.
Joey climbed out as well, standing awkwardly off to the side as Kaiba kept up with three conversations at once.
"The duel disk system is ready for testing."
"I'm on my way there. Get the floor on level one ready for a duel."
"Sales are going down for the old system."
"By how much?"
"Steadily .01% per day."
"The attendant on floor three is being insubordinate . . ."
"But sir, floor one is being repaired from that incident last week."
" . . .so no one can work there."
"Then get the one on floor three ready."
"But sir . . ."
"Right, make it floor two."
Joey was totally lost after about twenty seconds. He watched Kaiba handle the older men with ease, and smiled.
'He's really amazing, ta' be able ta' handle this every day . . . wait, did I just call Kaiba 'amazing'?' Joey watched the man in his element for another moment. 'Well,' he decided, 'he is.' Then he sighed. 'No . . . oh man, don't tell me I might be fallen' for Kaiba . . .'
Finally the brunette turned back to Joey and beckoned for him to follow. As they strode to KaibaCorp's main elevator Joey shook his head.
"That's impressive."
"What?" They reached the elevator and got in.
"What ya did back there. I'd be lost after five seconds tryin' ta run this business."
Kaiba smirked.
"Comes from years of practice. I'm sure you'd get it after a while."
Joey's eyes widened as he realized that he'd left himself open to verbal attacks at least twice in that conversation, and yet Kaiba had let the instances slide.
They reached the whole dueling arena on the second floor and the attendant handed each teen a duel disk system that was smaller and more portable than the first armbands.
"Nice." Joey said, attaching it to his wrist and taking his place on the field. Seto smirked again and took his as well. He shuffled his deck for a moment and placed it into a slot on the system. Then he mock bowed to Joey.
"Whenever you're ready."
Joey's face lit up and he placed his deck in as well. The he shot his left arm into the air and cried,
"Let the duel begin!"
*~*~*~*~*~*~*
TBC
*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Ok, that's all for now, g2g Yugioh's 11:00 episode is coming on in . . . like . . . 2 minutes!!!! Hope you liked this. Just so you know, I suck at any kind of scenes with real romance or kissing in it. Fluff I can do, not actual . . . well, you read up there. So that's as explicit as anythig is going to be in this story. Sorry, but this is only PG-13.
Review!
