The Science of Attraction
IceAngelDarkMoon
****I still do not own Yu-Gi-Oh if I did I would be a millionaire and my work would be part of the series. Thank all of you that did write a review. I really do appreciate your responses and listen to them. Like I said before they can change the outcome of a story. If there is something you think should be added to the story doesn't be shy, it doesn't mean I'll put it in but I will think about it. The rest of "The Witness and the Guardian" is coming, but not for a little bit still. Thank you to all the people who offered ideas for the rest of that story. Please enjoy the rest of this story!! IADM****
TO ALL YOU PEOPLE WHO MIGHT HAVE MISSED IT THE FIRST TIME ROUND THIS WILL BE SHONEN-AI. IF YOU DO NOT LIKE THAT TYPE OF STORY, LEAVE NOW. There will also start to be signs of child abuse. There will be nothing to explicit so far, but there may be some so be warned.
At exactly 4:30 in the afternoon Joey was standing outside Kaiba's door. Joey was awestruck at the size of the mansion up close it was incredible. He had with him a pencil, some paper, and the requirements of the project. When he rung the doorbell he could hear it echoing in the great hall just beyond the door. He knew that no matter how much he hated Kaiba, he had to get a good grade on this project or repeat it again in the summer. Probably just to spit them the teacher would make the two of them partners again. Joey only wanted to go through this heck once. Joey was mildly surprised when a smiling Mokuba opened the door, he had expected some armed bodyguard to jump out and flatten him as a precaution. He looked down stupidly at the younger Kaiba brother.
"Seto is waiting in the library for you," he said and turned into the mansion. Joey took this as a queue to follow him. As he stepped in Mokuba continued talking to him. "I really hope you and Seto become friends. He doesn't realize it but he really needs friends. People his own age, and someone to trust. But he refuses defiantly to let any one close to him."
"You can say that again," Joey muttered under his breath.
Ignoring Joey Mokuba continued, "Besides he likes you!"
"What? If you count me as a personal punching bag and his pet." Joey scoffed, but Mokuba just smiled at Joey. It kind of unnerved him, that smile. Why did everyone think they should be friends or kill each other? There was no happy medium.
The library had two huge double paneled oak doors. They opened inward to reveal a two-story room, with books lining every wall but one. That one wall was one huge bay window that stretched the entire length of the wall. It was a beautiful view of the private backyard. By the window was a large wood desk with a computer on it. There was also a rolly chair and occupying it and typing on the computer was Kaiba. Kaiba looked way to comfortable to Joey's liking so he decided to play ignore Kaiba; usually it ticked him off royally.
"Mokuba, why do you think anyone would want to be Kaiba's friend. He so cold and standoffish." Joey looked intently at the younger boy. Mokuba got the hint and started playing along with Joey.
"He only acts that way to try and not let himself get hurt again." Mokuba answered. The answer mad Joey think, who had hurt Kaiba before?
"I'm not so sure his acting, I think it comes pretty naturally" Joey went on.
"I swear it's just a protective casing, I think t will fall away if he gets some friends." Mokuba had an almost pleading look in his eyes when he finished. Then as an after thought he added quietly," Or if he fell in love." his about blew Joey over, a beast like Kaiba capable of feeling love? He had never imagined something like that, but there was Mokuba and Kaiba obviously loved him. But to have someone else think Kaiba was cute or sweet was unthinkable for Joey. Joey was so astounded by what Mokuba said he decided to give up his game. Kaiba was just rolling his eyes at what his brother was saying, and glaring at Joey.
"Careful Kaiba, if you keep rolling your eyes like that they may fall out. And I know everyone would be so worried for you safety." Joey mocked an overly motherly voice.
"And if you keep wasting time, we'll have to do this project again this summer." Kaiba said and looked pointedly at Joey. Joey sighed and went farther into the room. Mokuba decided he had better things to do that to listen to the to of them ague so he turned on his heels and left.
"I have a proposal to make." Kaiba stated in a business like fashion.
"No I will not marry you and that is final!" Joey said with a smile on. He loved making Kaiba mad, it was the most fun anyone could have.
"I would never marry a guy, especially one self centered, lowlife, stupid, mutt like yourself." Kaiba snapped at him.
"Watch who you call a mutt, someday I'll bite your leg or other appendage off for that." Joey growled showing his teeth, very much like a dog.
"Now back to what I was saying, I was going to say that bickering will get us nowhere in this project. I only plan on doing it once, and to do that we'll have to work together. So I propose that we make a temporary truce. We only act like two friends doing this project would act. Keeping slandering and fighting to a low." Kaiba looked genuine. Joey thought it over for a minute then replied.
"Only if you keep up your end of the bargain, and nothing changes between us." Joey said while he extended his hand to Kaiba.
"Nothing changes!" Kaiba agreed and shook Joey's hand. Joey felt an electrical shock at the contact. Not the painful type but more internalized and seductive. Needless to say Joey was a little shaken by that brief contact with Kaiba, but tried not to show what he felt on his face. Luckily for him Kaiba turned away and headed back to his computer. Before he even sat down he was already typing on the computer.
"I have an idea for our project. I've got some sites with information on the subject brought up, but I need you to find some more conclusive research from some of these books. The background information should give us an idea for the project part." Kaiba said in a very business like fashion. Joey went to stand behind Kaiba and check out his ideas. But inside he was starting to relax and think 'Maybe this won't be so painful after all'.
An hour later when Mokuba checked in on his brother and Joey he found a surprising site: Kaiba and Joey where in the same room working together relatively peacefully. Even though he had been hoping this would be what he would find, he almost fell over from shock. His older brother was typing on the computer and while Joey was reading facts out a very large book from his spot on the floor. Joey looked very relaxed lying on his stomach in the middle of the room on the plush carpet. But after every fact he read he added an insult to Kaiba or joked about the scientist he had just reported about. Kaiba looked the calmest Mokuba had seen him in years. Mokuba decided not to spoil the moment and left as quietly as he had come.
From his spot on the floor Joey was feeling strangely relaxed and uncomfortable at the same time. He like to read stretched out on his stomach, even if it was just a boring old book filled with the names of a bunch of dead guys. Besides the library had a very calming atmosphere. But he was uncomfortable because it was his first time ever he had been anywhere alone with Kaiba, and no friends within miles. Before his friends had always been there with him and every time before he and Kaiba had been trying to rip the others head off. Maybe they really could be friends. But as he thought that he squelched it. He and Seto had agreed that nothing would change between them. Joey suddenly realized how quite the room was, he could hear every breath Seto took. It took Joey a moment to realize that in his own thoughts he had referred to Kaiba as Seto. He was appalled with himself at how easy that name had just rolled of his tongue. He really needed music now to drown out his thoughts.
When Joey turned around to ask Kaiba about getting some music to listen to, he was surprised to find Kaiba studying him. Joey then realized that he hadn't heard Kaiba typing for quit some time. Had Kaiba been studying him the whole time? It made him very uncomfortable to even think that, he hated feeling like he was under a microscope. What was Kaiba looking for, and what if he saw something Joey didn't want him to see? Joey could feel a slight blush coloring his checks, but it faded fast.
"Do you have any music to listen to in this mansion? It's so quit I can hear you thinking!" Joey teased Kaiba while picking himself off the floor. Kaiba smiled, something Joey had never seen before. Kaiba always either smirked, or smiled maliciously, never happily.
"Sure I have music, but you can't listen to it" He said in a high and mighty voice. "We can listen to my Linkin Park CD though." Joey laughed, he loved Linkin Park but sometimes it couldn't be referred to as music.
"We'll have to get the CD and my boom box out of my room to listen to it." Kaiba got up and headed for the door with Joey at his heels. Joey really wanted to see how a millionaire decorated his room. Joey couldn't see what Kaiba was looking at anymore because Kaiba was walking in front of Joey.
"So what was it that I was thinking about so loudly?" Kaiba asked, his voice light but he really wanted to hear Joey's answer. The question took Joey completely by surprise; he had never expected Kaiba to asked something like that. HE decided since he didn't know to instead play 'Make Kaiba Mad'. It was his all time favorite game!
"Well from the look you were giving me, you obviously had forgotten about the project. You were think how completely how my body is and what a great person I am. And that you should start worshiping me and kissing the ground were I tread!" Joey was almost on the floor laughing by the time he had finished speaking. While he had been speaking he pretended to be a model and swinging his hips. Seto turned around laughing but his checks were a little pinker than Joey remembered them being.
"Was I that obvious, mutt?" He said while trying not to chock on his laughter that was building up in him again. Joey was rolling around on the ground laughing be then. Joey had never realized that Kaiba could crack a joke. Kaiba couldn't resist the urge to tease Joey even more.
"You know I've always dreamed of falling in love with another guy. And his body. Especially a puppy dog!" Kaiba accidentally caught Joey's eyes after he had finished speaking. Joey was assaulted by how beautiful a shade of blue Kaiba's eyes were. Wait did he just use beautiful and Kaiba in the same sentence? How could he even imagine Kaiba's eyes as being beautiful? Joey couldn't believe what he was thinking. The unreadable and unrecognizable feeling in Kaiba's eyes unnerved him, and gave him the strangest urge to cry for something lost. But that all disappeared when they reached Kaiba's room. Joey had expected the ultimate teenage boy's room, with all the electronics imaginable. But he was greatly surprised at what he saw.
Seto, no Kaiba Joey corrected himself. Kaiba's room was fair sized, but not the huge thing he had imagined. It had a simple bed with different shades of blue for the pillows and comforter. There was a desk with a computer by it by the window in the room. The boom box was also on the desk with a stack of CDs by it. There was a regular sized dresser with a few photos on the top and then there was a door next to it that Joey assumed led to a private bathroom. The only thing that caught Joey's eye about the room was the large mural painted on the wall. It was a large blue eyes white dragon that stretched around the entire room. Then on the ceiling was a Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon obliterating something in a jet of blue white light. It was a real masterpiece. It was the only hint at the person who lived in the room. Kaiba seemed a little nervous at having someone in his room. While Joey was admiring the murals Kaiba pushed down one of the pictures on the dresser and headed towards his boom box and CDs but Joey's words stop him dead in his tracks.
"You don't spend a lot of time in your room do you?"
"I don't have very much spare time. So no I don't spend a lot of time here. How did you know?" Kaiba was curious as to what Joey was getting at.
"You can tell a lot about a person from their room, and how they decorate and keep it organized."
"An example?" Kaiba was curious now.
"Tea's room is bright pink with teddy bears hugging each other on every wall and books everywhere. Yugi's is bright and child like with the most games you have ever seen in one place. Tristan's is messy and disorganized with wrestling and kung fu posters on every available surface." Joey was even surprised at how in depth he was thinking.
"So what does that mean about me? What can you figure out about my room?" Kaiba was really interested in what Joey would tell him. He was intrigued at this way to study and learn about people.
"Well," Joey started and looked around the room again to get a more accurate description. "You have a lot of money to have a maid come clean your room, I can tell from how the sheets are folded back. You defiantly love the Blue Eyes White Dragon, and that would lead me to believe you are competitive in Duel Monsters. But I already knew that. You like the color blue, like your eyes, and I know by your bed and the carpet. You don't ever relax that much or this room would look more lived in. But when you are in here you listen to music. Even though you have a hard shell, whether it is a mask or really your personality, you care deeply for a few people. You have their pictures displayed so that you can fall asleep watching over them." Joey was again surprised at himself. He hadn't meant to go anywhere near that detailed, but he found that it was kind of fun analyzing other peoples lives and seeing their flaws. He felt more connected with Kaiba by doing the analysis. Kaiba nodded his approval at how Joey had done. He had been shocked when Joey had pointed out that he could see the pictures form his bed.
"What does your room say about you, then?" Kaiba questioned. Joey knew he should have expected the question, but he still didn't want to answer it. His smile visible fell from his face.
"My room doesn't say much about me. There's almost nothing in it to claim it as mine. I sleep there as little as I can." His voice was barely above a whisper. He sat on the edge of Kaiba's bed and held one of the pillows protectively against himself. It was obvious he was no longer seeing Kaiba's room but his own. Seto was getting uneasy by the signs Joey was showing but he hoped desperately that he was seeing things that weren't there, it was something he wouldn't even wish on Joey.
Kaiba got up and hit a few buttons on his CD player and Linkin Park came blaring out of the speakers (My personal fav. group!! The only way to listen to it is loud.) With Papercut.
"Hey Kaiba!" Joey yelled to him. Kaiba turned around only to catch one of his own pillows with his face. He quickly picked it up and whomped Joey upside the head with it. But his blow was closely followed by another form Joey who now had two pillows and was battering Kaiba with them. In just a few seconds a full-scale pillow fight had broken out. It was a blur of different shades of blue flying everywhere and feathers started snowing down. The bed was groaning form having two teenaged boys bouncing and fighting on it. Over the din they were making you could here the Linkin Park CD playing on. Two voices could be heard there were a lot of "You mutt!" from Kaiba's voice and "You rich pig!" from Joey's voice. But most of all you could hear the two laughing like they hadn't in years. Downstairs Mokuba smiled to hear so much laughter. It had been so long since he had head Seto even chuckle and now Joey had him bursting with gales of laughter. He hoped that after the project Seto would invite Joey back over a lot, and if he didn't Mokuba would invite Joey over and then lock the two in the same room together (and everyone thought he was a sweet little younger brother!).
Back in the room the feather continued to fly! But after a particular hit Joey grabbed his arm and sat down. Kaiba just as quickly sat on the edge of the bed next to him looking genuinely concerned. Both of their faces were stilled flushed from a long and hard pillow fight.
"Are you all right Joey?" Kaiba asked the concern evident in his voice. It was the first time he had ever called Joey something other than mutt.
"Yeah, its just an old bruise nothing too bad." Joey said trying to put on a brave front. But he would not look Kaiba in the eye as he spoke. Kaiba reached over carefully and started to tentatively roll up Joey's sleeve. When Joey didn't outright tell him not to he grew more confident and continued to roll the sleeve up. Joey's jaw tightened but besides that nothing changed. He would not show Kaiba any more weakness. Kaiba involuntarily hissed when he saw the bruise. It was a large bruise right on the muscle. It was very dark purple and blue with hints of green. He stroked it lightly with one of his fingers. His cool gentle caress sent shivers of pain and pleasure down Joey's spine. He had never though of Seto as being gentle. But how was he feeling pleasure from having Seto touch him?
I know it is still not very funny, but it's the best I can do. Funny is hard for me. The next chapter will pick up the rest of this scene, not that much else happens but this is the most convenient break. Please review and let me know what you think. Is there something you want to see in this story? I seriously out things reviewers say into my work. Thank you again for all of you that reviewed the first chapter, and a few of you even put me on your favorite lists. I feel so loved!! IADM