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A/N: Thanks for reading :) Here's chapter 5 :) Enjoy! –- Razzleteddy

Cry of Echoes

About two hours have past at the dueling arena and it was now eleven-fifty, the matches were over with so most of the duelists had already left to go home. However, Seto stood off in a far corner as he waited for Joey to finish his final match. As for his duels, it was as he expected when he first arrived, a waste of time, except the one with Yami. He shook his head. He was tired now and thought on how he couldn't wait to go home to rest.

During this Joey strolled into area while he shoved his handy deck in his pocket. He looked around for moment and tried to spot to where Seto had gone. Suddenly he smirked when he spotted him at the far right corner. His love just stood there alone and appeared to be sulking a little to himself. So, he huffed with amusement and moseyed over to him. He leaned against the wall with his smirk still on his face. "Hey you," he gave him a soft look, "Why are you hanging around here all your lonesome?"

"So… did you win?"

That was the first thing Joey heard Seto asked him. He sighed with a small frown. "Well… no," he looked down somewhat as he replayed his last duel in his mind. "But I almost had him though. I swear to god."

Seto smirked to himself. "Sure you did," he hinted the doubts of his skills.

Joey became a bit defensive at the sound of his tone. "It's true Seto."

"Okay, I believe you." Seto laughed a little then began to massage his forehead. He viewed up to Joey's small-disappointed frown with a deep sigh. He reached out his hand on the teen's shoulder with some comfort. "Oh Joey, I was just teasing you." He smirked a little, "You know that right?"

Joey didn't answer him right away. Instead, he avoided his eyes as he looked around the place. Sometimes it was so hard to tell when Seto's teasing him and when he's not. Nevertheless, after he thought about it he breathed a little tired as well. "I guess," he finally replied.

Seto shook his head with some amusement and leaned over to kiss him softly on the lips to show that he was only teasing him. When he felt that Joey had accepted his apology, he released his lips from the kiss. "Well brown eyes… are you ready to leave for home?"

Joey relaxed against the wall a little more with a goofy grin. Boy, how that kiss felt good. "Yeah," he blinked a bit dreamy but snapped out of it. Home, he didn't want to go home to his father and risk another bad encounter. He dropped his smile at the thought, "You mean your home… right?"

Seto viewed Joey's worried face then to the cut on his lip. He moved his hand off Joey's shoulder and up to his lip to examine his wound more. He furrowed his brow a bit serious as the loathing of his love's father captured his mind. Therefore, he cleared his throat rough, "Of course."

Joey sighed again and knew exactly what Seto's thoughts were about. He grasped for his hand gently. He wanted to ease him down since they were having a nice evening, he didn't want an argument to erupt between them. "Well let's go then…" that same old smile returned to his face.

Seto gave his cut lip one last look before he nodded his head. "Yeah before the other finds us." With that, he grasped his love's hand and his case of cards in the other then started to pull him along.

"Wait, don't you want to say goodbye?" Joey followed toward to the exit.

"No." Seto simply answered as they hurried along. They were about to leave when three small boys rushed in front of them, all with beaming smiles. He furrowed his brow with a small huff, "Move."

"Wow cool, it's Seto Kaiba!" One of the boys exclaimed with delight.

"Yeah, I watched you duel! You were so awesome!" The other cheered.

"I know." Seto huffed again. He tried to past them but to no avail and glare more irritated. Sometimes he really hated fame. It's nothing but a hassle because people always bugged him with one thing or another.

"Hey Mr. Kaiba…" The last boy stepped forward, pen and paper in his hand. He grinned up to Seto with a twinkle in his eye. Oh, how he admired him. "C-Could I have your autograph please?" he pouted his lip.

"Autograph," Seto rolled his eyes just a bit as he looked down upon the boy's silly grin. "Please, like I'll give you my autograph." He huffed with some annoyance before he replied in his usual cold tone, "The next thing I know it'll be selling on e-bay."

Joey watched as the young boy's smile fell to a frown and could tell that he was about to cry. At that he frowned himself at boy hurt feelings. Therefore, he took hold of the kid's pen and paper then shoved it to Seto's chest a bit hard. "He'll be happy to give you an autograph, kid." He viewed over to Seto and warned him with his eyes, "Right Seto?" he hissed a bit.

Seto just dismissed that as he hissed back at him, "I don't want to."

"Please." Joey pleaded then saddened his eyes a little.

Seto rolled his eyes again but he felt weary and didn't want to fight with him so he grabbed both the pen and paper from him. "Fine," he mumbled under his breath, he settled his case down upon the ground and continued to scribble his name for the boy. When he was done he held it out for him, "That'll be fifty bucks kid."

"Fifty bucks...?" The boy then frowned. "You mean I have to pay for it," he wondered if Mr. Kaiba was just joking with him.

"Well hey. I don't give my shit away for free you know."

The boy looked down with the same sad expression. "But I don't ha-"

"Oh for god sakes!" Joey snatched it away from Seto with a mad look. "He's was just playing with ya," he looked back down to the little boy. "Here ya go," he handed it back over to him with smile.

The little boy grinned from ear to ear as he gazed at the autograph in his hands. He sucked in a breath, "Gee's thanks mister. This is so cool!" he beamed and showed it off to his friends with pride.

"Don't mention it." Joey grinned and watched him show it off to his friends. He was glad to make the little boy happy. "Hey, what about me? Do you want my autograph?" he suddenly asked.

"And who are you?" The boy looked up with a curious look, which caused Seto to chuckle at his remark.

"Who am I? Are you serious?" Joey became a bit stunned because surely they must have heard of him. Therefore, he rutted his brow a little more, "I'm Joey Wheeler," he bit his lip at the boy's blank expression. "You know I've dueled at battle city… duelist kingdom… ring any bells here kid?"

"Hmm, gee… no."

"Hey, look! There's Yami Moto, the king of games!" One of the boy's friends squealed with more delight and pointed toward the far end with a huge grin. "Come on, let's get his autograph!" The three then rushed off without giving Joey anytime to respond.

Joey watched the three scampered off with a small frown. "Well that's gratitude for ya." With that, he viewed over to Seto who still chuckled to himself, which caused him to narrow his eyes. "Yeah, keep laughing," he shook his head before he walked on over to the exit.

"N-Now that was classic." Seto laughed out. He grabbed his case and followed him out. He sighed, the ride home would be a interesting one.

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Eizo, Toson and Washi waited for their boss to return all with mix emotions. Eizo felt a bit of regret, Washi had a bit of eagerness in him and Toson with a bit of dread. Washi looked at his watch as he wondered what was taking Baiko so long. However, before he could answer his own question he heard a happy whistle outside the old wooden door. They saw Baiko strolled in with beams of happiness which caused the three of them to straighten up.

"Did you get him?" Baiko asked first when he walked into the room. He looked over to Washi with a raised brow and hoped nothing have gone wrong. However, when he saw Washi gave him a confirmed nod, he smiled very pleased. "Wonderful!" he clasped his hands together, "Where's he?"

"In his room," Eizo simply replied as he sighed to himself.

"Great!" Baiko left the main room into the hallway and headed down to where they kept Mokuba, the other three followed him. When they arrived, he went in with a smile and spotted the boy on the bed. "Ah, there he is…" he strolled up to get a closer look when suddenly he creased his brow furiously. "What-happened-to-his-cheek!" he hissed through his teeth.

Eizo just sighed with tiredness then glanced over to Toson, who had this small look of fear on his face. Ge rubbed his chin a bit before he replied. "Toson," he watched the man gulp hard.

"Toson," Baiko glared up with fiery eyes. He slowly walked over to him.

Toson coward back somewhat, by look of anger in his boss eyes he knew he was in big trouble. "I-I'm sorry boss," he gulped some more, "I didn't mean to hurt the kid. But you se-" he started to say but was cut off by his hand.

Baiko on the other hand just took hold of his throat and slammed him against the wall. He flared his eyes, "Toson, you do have ears don't you. Didn't I say not to hurt him?" He tilted his head to the side and squeezed his throat harder slowly cutting off his oxygen. He sucked in a sharp breath, "Didn't I say I want him unspoiled?" he squeezed his throat more as he grinned, "How am I supposed to have any fun if you ruin the material."

Toson yelled in pain as he dropped to his knees somewhat. "B-Boss... I didn't... m-mean it," he gasped for air in desperation and struggled against his strong hold, his face had turned red by now.

Baiko grinned more wildly and watched him struggle against his hold with enjoyment. "You know Toson. The next time you disobey me, I won't be so forgiving." With that, he dropped him to the floor then watched him just lay there and sucked in big gulps of air. After a few minutes of that, he chortled loudly then turned back around with a furrowed brow. "Washi, did you follow my instructions with the TV?"

"Yes sir."

Baiko nodded with satisfaction then headed out into the hallway and back to the main room. "Come," he smirked all the way, "Seto should be arriving home shortly so let's call him shall we." Without a word, Washi followed him with a smirk as Toson regained his balance and pursued close behind. However, Eizo gave Mokuba one last look before he left last, he shut the door quietly behind him as he did so.

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