Summary: Katsuya Jounochi has been forced to sit back and watch as Kaiba rose to glory while he lived a normal life, somewhat jealous of the billionaire. But everything goes wrong went Mai leaves him for Seto. What will happen when Jou takes his jealousy one step too far?
Prologue
Six years after Battle City found Jounochi Katsuya living in a small home in the suburbs of Domino. He was happily married to Mai and his sister Shizuka, now eighteen, was staying with the couple until Otogi returned from his business trip to America. Jou was currently sitting in the living room surfing through channels on a 20" TV. It was fairly small and about six years old, but it was his. He looked around the living room. Mai had decorated it, telling him that if his fashion sense were any hint of his color coordination skills, the house was going to look like crap.
The walls were light blue with white carpeting and a navy blue couch and chair. Jou had to admit, she had done a fine job, though her tendency to shift from one project to another often left the first project unfinished. As of now, the bedroom was half painted, as were the guest room and the kitchen. But he didn't really care, since the only guests they had were family and very close friends, who actually found the half-painted rooms to look rather cool.
"Katsuya! Stop watching TV and come help me make dinner!" his wife called from the kitchen.
"All right. All right. I'm coming." Jou shut off the TV and shuffled into the kitchen where the blonde woman was sitting at the kitchen table.
"Hello, darling," she greeted, giving Jou on the lips. "Now if you'd be so kind, go put the chicken in the oven. Then I'll need you to take out the trash, since they're collecting it tomorrow."
Jounochi grumbled. "And what exactly will you be doing?"
"Watching my soaps of course," she replied, already in the living room watching TV.
"Thanks for all your help," he mumbled sarcastically before getting to work on dinner. "I'll take care of dinner, big brother. And you can take out the trash." Shizuka quipped from the doorway to the kitchen.
"Aw. Thanks sis," the blond replied, scratching the back of his neck.
"It's no problem. You let me stay here, and it's the least I can do," the redhead replied. Jounochi walked out of the kitchen to go take out the garbage while Shizuka put the chicken in the oven. She started making a salad as well when Mai called out to her from the living room.
"Come on hun! You're missing it!" Mai yelled to her sister-in-law. Shizuka walked into the room, drying her hands on a dish towel.
"I'm sorry Mai, but I promised Jou- hey! Is this the one where Brock breaks up with Mandy to go out with Caroline, but Mandy is pregnant and hasn't told him yet?" Mai nodded and the eighteen-year-old threw the dish towel on the floor and soon, both women staring at the TV, drooling as Brock broke up with Mandy only to find out that she was having his child.
"He's so dreamy," Shizuka mumbled, gazing at the handsome actor.
"What happened to Otogi?" Mai teased. Shizuka blushed and was saved from answering when the back door slammed. Jounochi walked in to find his wife and sister both in the living room watching soaps.
"Uh… Shiz? What happened to you saying you were gonna make dinner?" he asked.
"Do it yourself," the two women snapped in unison.
"Women," the blond grumbled, sniffing the air. He smelled burning chicken and sighed before going to the phone and ordering a pizza.
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I know, I know. It's not angsty. But before you bite my head off and demand I remove my "angst" fic, note that everything has to start off good before going horribly horribly wrong. In some cases anyway. So review and perhaps more of this fic shall be seen in the not-so-distant future.
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