Taryn: WhOOt! An update
All: *applaud*
Taryn: so let's cut to the chase, I haven't been updating since things have been crazy (namely school .) and I've sort of not been as obsessed with YGO as I used to be… Blame Gravitation and FAKE (both of which you should ALL check out ^__^) So, here are the responses to reviews!
Since there are SOOOO many reviews… I'ma sayin thanks to everyone, then doin special responses to people that said something that I should respond to… or well, I just feel like sayin something to tehm. ^^;; But thanks to ColeyCarissa, dotHackSIGN, Escachick, hotaruchan27, some girl who loves your fic, alostblackcat, DM-san, Ori-chen, shadowguardian, PanDora, and nix on ff.n. And Dragondreamer Yami Dragon, Neko Jounouchi AKA Jams, Kitt, Ravenwings, leaf zelendor, sd-snow-vixen, Hiei499, Yamijou, KlebKat, Sharem, on AFF
And now for special Reviews…
Hotaruchan27: … I dun drink milk by my compy… usually only water or soda. ^^;; but poor 'Kura… he's worse than I with that bunny fear o.O
DM-san: … I have one boy following me around hopelessly… if you want him, I can send him down there. He likes anime… but he's a homophobe .
Ori-chen: Dude, S/O is an awesome pairing! ^__^ But thanks… I'll see how twisted I can make these relationships…
Shadowguardian: That was the point to have it odd… it's half the fun. ^__^
Neko Jounouchi AKA Jams: o.O I never thought I'd hear Seto say that…
Yamijou: whoops… misunderstood review a lil bit… ^^;; but here's a cookie… sorry for making you wait so long again -_-;;
Sharem: dude… everyone already things I'm a raving loon. ^__^
Taryn: and that's it… . that took forever still! GYAH!
Disclaimer: don't own YGO, plot and the totally bizarre humour are mine. No steeling of anything that's mine. And no suing for anything that's not mine.
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Chapter 3: The (not so) Nice Man
'finally! Lunch!' Jounouchi slammed his binder shut and zipped it. (managing to zip at least three assignments in the zipper). During the unbearably long class Jou had completely forgotten about Seto and Ryuji's late arrival. The thought of why they might have been late had plagued him for several minutes… that is until he had fallen asleep.
"JOU!" someone yelled, breaking him from his train of thoughts. Jou glanced around noticing Ryuji making his way towards him. "Yeesh, you're just gonna run out the door without me?" He muttered as he pushed some girl out of the way. She let out a shriek and fell back into her desk.
Seto just rolled his eyes and casually leaned against the desk in front of Jou. "Who said he had to wait for anyone?"
"Well, I was going to take him somewhere for lunch." Ryuji said calmly, giving Seto a cold look.
"You was?" Jou asked glancing at Ryuji in surprise, and Seto winced at Jou's bad grammar
"Well, I was if you wanted to go out for lunch… frankly I loathe that hell hole of a cafeteria…"
"Yah! That sounds great; I'd love to go out for lunch." Jou grinned stupidly, until his face fell. "Other than I can't."
"Hm? Why not?" Ryuji asked, looking disappointed.
"Because I promised Malik I'd help him with math at lunch today."
"You, help someone with school work?" Seto scoffed, nearly losing his balance from the shock.
"Hey, just because I may act like a dumbass on occasion doesn't mean that I am one." Seto raised an eyebrow.
Jou was about to continue but the three boys heard a cough from the corner of the room, noticing the teacher staring at them with a "why are you still here?" look. Ryuji smiled apologetically at her, and grabbed both Jou and Seto by an arm each, pulled them out of the classroom and into the crowded hallways.
"Now, you were saying something about your intelligence level?" Ryuji prodded.
"Huh?" Jou asked, scratching his head. Seto fought the urge to smack Jou but refrained… "OH!" Jou exclaimed, "Well, just because I may be a dumbass… no wait, that wasn't right…" Seto settled with massaging his temple with his right hand. "What I meant was…"
"Just because you act like a dumbass on occasion doesn't mean you are one?" Ryuji offered.
"Yah, dat's it. And I'm not bad at math either. You know dat test in math we had da second day? Da one dat nearly everyone failed?" Ryuji cringed at the mention of it. "Well, I got da second highest score. Seto's bein da highest of course…" Jou said triumphantly.
Seto's eyes widened in surprise and he stopped rubbing his temple. "You're kidding right?"
"Nope, got a 95%." Jou beamed.
"Well… that's a shock." Ryuji muttered.
They were walking through a doorway and since Ryuji wasn't paying attention to where he was going, he ran into the pole between the doors instead of going through one of them. Ryuji rubbed his nose gingerly and glared at the offending door. "Ow."
Seto smirked, "Well, that was brilliant dice boy."
"Shut." Ryuji said, glaring at Seto. "I'm sure you've done that before."
"Actually, no. See, some of us actually pay attention to what we're doing. Which you obviously don't when you're putting on your eye liner."
"What did you say?" Ryuji asked, his voice taking on an offended tone.
"Ryuji, just ignore him…" Jou said, laying a hand on Ryuji's shoulder.
Ryuji knocked the hand off of his shoulder. "Are you mocking me Kaiba?" Ryuji challenged.
"I suppose I am; you got a problem with that Ryuji? And seriously, what's with the makeup? Are you trying to be as feminine as possible without getting implants?"
Ryuji clenched a fist and stepped towards Seto. "You want to repeat what you just said?"
"You're very femi-"
Ryuji's fist connected with Seto's face with a sickening smack. Seto's eyes widened and his hand went up to his face.
"That was uncalled for." Seto said cooly.
"Yah man, you don't wanna pick a fight with him. He hits harder than ya think. Though what he said was also very uncalled for…" Jou was now trying to pull the raging Ryuji back, while glaring at Seto.
"I'll test that for myself thank you." Ryuji was trying to no avail pull free of Jou.
"Hey guys, what's shakin?" Honda asked as he walked up. Noticing that there seemed to be an argument going on he backed up. "What's up with you two?" He motioned to Ryuji and Seto.
"He is one hell of a big ass." Ryuji said trying to point at Seto but having a small problem since Jou had both his arms pinned to his body.
Seto just glared. "Well, I'm not the one throwing punches. He gingerly touched his cheek and winced. "That really hurt you know."
"Serves you right." Ryuji spat back.
"Um, Honda why dontcha take Ryuji here to da caf while I have a talk with Seto?" Jounouchi asked, offering the still struggling teen to his friend.
"No need mutt, I'm leaving anyways. See you in fourth." And with that Seto stalked off down the hallway. Jou could just imagine Seto in one of his trench coats with the fabric billowing behind him. Of course he was just wearing the horrid school uniforms so his coat couldn't really billow… but imagining never hurt anyone. Unless of course they weren't paying attention to where they were going and ran into a door.
"Run away you coward!" Ryuji yelled after him.
Jou released the black haired teen and smacked him on the back of the head. "What da hell do ya think yer doin? Are ya stupid or somethin? Seto coulda pounded ya into oblivion and back!"
"Yah, Jou knows this first hand." Honda smirked.
"Shut up ya." Jou shot back glaring at his friend.
"Why don't we go to the cafeteria, I'm starving. And don't you have to tutor that blonde psycho in math today Jou?" Honda asked,
Jou nodded "I'm with ya Honda."
Ryuji just muttered under his breath and allowed the two other teens to drag him down the hallway to the cafeteria.
"And Honda, stop trying to cop a feel." Ryuji muttered
Honda's eyes widened in shock "I wasn't err…" and he ran into a closed door.
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Seto gingerly rubbed his cheek. 'Stupid Ryuji… that fucking hurt… but I sort of asked for it ne? There's just something about him though… He arises some interesting feelings in me, so similar yet different to Jounouchi.'
He walked swiftly into the parking lot and grabbed his remote start, starting his car. He slid in and drove away. "All I need is a little time to clear my head… and get an ice pack or something. I think my jaw's going to start swelling soon…"
~*~*~*~
Jou slumped into an empty chair next to Yuugi. "Damn is that line up long." He sighed and glanced down at his lasagne. "I hope dis is good… it took me 10 minutes to get it!"
"I always say, as long as it doesn't make you ill afterwards it was worth it." Ryou smiled. He was sitting across the table from Jou and had his yami sitting beside him, and across from Yuugi, "Which is more than I can say for Bakura's cooking… never let him cook food for you, especially meat. Unless you like your steak still mooing. [1]" Ryou cringed.
"I don't see how you can't like your steak rare. It has a richer taste when there's blood dripping off it."
Everyone in the group was repulsed by this tidbit of information. And surprisingly enough, most of all was Malik.
"Ugh… I don't even see how you can eat meat." Malik muttered, staring at Bakura in disgust. "Meat is just so-"
"Oh my gawd! You all will not believe what just happened!" Anzu exclaimed as she bounded up to the group and sank into the chair next to Jou. "I was in the bathroom and I heard these girls talking and apparently Seto Kaiba and Ryuji Otogi are having a contest over some girl!"
Everyone at the table nearly fell off their chairs. Apparently Anzu hadn't yet been informed of the bet.
"Anzu… they're not having a contest over some girl, they're having it over Jou." Ryou said quietly.
"WHAT?!?!" Anzu yelled jumping up from the table and staring at Jou. "Y-y-you?!?!"
"Um.. yah…" Jou muttered, suddenly feeling very self conscious from all the people that were staring at their table.
"You mean that… that… that two of the most popular and rich guys in the school are GAY?!"
Practically the whole cafeteria was listening in on Anzu now.
"Well, you don't have to inform everyone at once." Ryuji said smugly as he sat his plate of lasagne down on the table beside Jou. Then he casually leaned against the table, watching Anzu's expressions.
"But you're… you can't… you…"
"Don't stutter Anzu, it might make you sound less intelligent than you already are." Ryuji casually flipped some of his black hair away from his face. He seemed to be quite enjoying the attention that he was being given.
Looking defeated Anzu slumped into a chair. "I'm not going to say anything else."
Ryuji leaned forward and patted the dejected girl on the head "Good girl." Anzu glared at Ryuji and he drew his hand back like he was actually facing a ravenous dog.
"Well, since I'm not yelling anymore, you might as well tell me the whole story, beginning to end." Anzu looked over at Jou. "And Ryuji, shut up."
Ryuji opened his mouth to say something but Jou put a hand over it. "Well it all started on Friday…"
And Jou explained the whole story to everyone. Anzu was looking at Ryuji and Jou dreamily and Malik couldn't stop laughing at how Bakura had walked in on Jou and someone twice.
"Wow… how amazing." Anzu smiled, and stared off into space.
Ryuji however was distractedly watching Jou. He had found the lasagne rather greasy and hadn't eaten much of it. But the pudding cup that Jou was eating looked rather appealing. He figured that if he asked Jou, he'd share, but what's the fun in that? Many people were still giving curious glances towards their table and Ryuji knew they were waiting for someone to make a move… or something like that. Jou brought a pudding laden spoon to his mouth, and ate the pudding, a second later he proceeded to talk with a mouth full of pudding. That's when Ryuji struck. He claimed Jou in a soft kiss, managing to slip his tongue into the blonde's mouth and steal some of the pudding. Jou responded at first with surprise, but shortly complied and leaned into the kiss.
In the background there was a chorus of cheering, booing, oohs, ahhs, and the occasional ewws. But quite frankly, the two boys didn't seam to care much. Until a hand gripped each of them by a shoulder and pulled them apart. They were suddenly looking into the unblinking eyes of their principal. Ryuji gulped and Jou paled immensely.
"It seems you boys have a disregard for the rules. I'd like to speak with both of you in my office as soon as you can make it." He glanced towards their unfinished lunches. "In other words, finish your lunch, and then come immediately there. And don't forget to throw out your garbage."
The two boys nodded. Both of them now too worried to even think about eating. They both grabbed what remained of their lunches and headed towards the garbage can.
During this whole ordeal their table had stayed fairly quiet, and, as the cat and the dog left, the table still remained silent, even though nearly every pair of eyes in the cafeteria were watching the pair leave the room.
"One part of me wants to murder ya… and the other wants to jump ya in a broom closet." Jou muttered once they entered the hallway.
"I get those feelings from people a lot… usually not at the same time though." They walked in silence. "Hey… there's a broom closet." Ryuji smiled and took Jou by the arm.
"Try it and get yer pretty lil face smashed into the lenolium." Jou flicked Ryuji's hand off his arm.
They both turned into the front hallway and approached the principal's office. In solemn silence they trudged into the room, like men to a firing squad
"Sit." The principal said sternly, motioning to 2 chairs set as far from each other as possible.
They both took a chair, knowing that despite the principal's calm attitude earlier he was actually a different man once you were left alone with him.
"WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU DOING?!" he yelled staring at them. "I won't accept ANY people making out in public in my school! Especially NOT GAY couples!"
The two boys both shrunk back in their seats.
"Mr. Katsuya, I knew you were a bad seed. You've been in my office numerous times for bullying and other acts of violence, but I don't believe you're gay. Mr, Otogi on the other hand, you've been in here before for inappropriate displays of behaviour."
Jou glanced over at Ryuji, his eyes widening even more (though that wasn't really possible, for surely if he widened them much more they'd pop right out of their sockets."
"Mr. Katsuya I'm going to let you off with just a warning, leave my office. I know that Mr. Otogi most likely got you into this mess against your will."
"But Mr.-"
"Katsuya, leave."
Sighing Jounouchi got up, gave a pleading look at the principal and then gave an I-wish-you-the-best-of-luck look to Ryuji and exited the room.
"Look, Mr.-" Ryuji began but was cut off.
"Do not speak a word. You are in deep trouble again Mr. Otogi. I don't care if you could buy our fine establishment or not, your behaviour since your arrival here has been unacceptable. And now you're trying to corrupt fine young men into your foul ways."
"Being gay is perfectly ace-"
"I don't care! If you're making out with a girl! You were still making out with someone! You're going to be spending an hour in detention every day for the next month! If I catch you again, I'm going to find a way to expel you. Do you understand?"
"Yes, I do." Ryuji said solemnly and stared at the garish linoleum.
"Now have a nice day." The principal quipped sternly and flopped into his chair.
Ryuji stood up, scraping his chair across the floor. "Good day to you too." And he slammed the door on his way out
The NERVE of that bastard… I've only been in ONCE and that wasn't even MY fault…
~*~firtst day of school~*~
"Oh come on cat eyes." The girl smiled coyly and wrapped a slender arm around Ryuji's neck.
"Ok, get off of me you freak!" Ryuji tried to pull her off, but didn't want to hurt the poor girl. "Seriously, if I need to I will hurt you."
She slammed a hand against the wall beside Ryuji's head "You're not going anywhere, you're gonna kiss me now. " And she leaned in, Forcing Ryuji against the wall and smashing their lips together.
~*~back to now~*~
That stupid bitch… If I find her again, I'm gonna give her a beating… because of her stupidity the principal thinks I'm a slut and is trying to expel me! Jeeze it's the fricken second week of school and I've already been dug a hole to Canada![2]
"Ryuji!"
Ryuji glanced up to see a worried looking Jou.
"Are you ok? What'd he do?"
"well, I'm in detention for the next month, the principal thinks I'm a slut and I think that lasagne's making me ill."
Jou laid a hand on Ryuji's shoulder, "C'mon man, let's go to the washroom… then I have to go tutor a psychopath in math. You could always tag along and keep me from getting stabbed."
They began walking off towads the bathroom
"Hey, Jouno, you think we could pay Malik to murder the principal?"
"Dude, I think he'd pay us to let him do it..." Jou smiled and looked over to his companion. "And if he wasn't up for it, Bakura definitely would."
"I think we should enlist their help…"
"You know, murder is illegal…"
"So? We wouldn't be the ones committing it."
"Still… why don't we just settle for a make out session in the john?"
"Heh, I could go for that too."
They steered off towards the nearby washroom and Jou wrapped an arm around Ryuji's shoulder. Ryuji pushed open the door and they came face to face with none other than Bakura.
"I beat you this time! I can't walk in on you making out this time!" Bakura said, and smirking stalked off down the hallway.
Both boys smiled slightly and then entered.
After a few moments of making out, they heard the door swing open.
"I forgot my binder…" Bakura muttered as he walked past Jou and Ryuji who were standing, noses touching.
"Face it Bakura, you're cursed."
"I may be at that, but if you don't shut up, you won't have anything to kiss that mutt with." Bakura stormed out of the bathroom and the door slammed with a bang.
Jou shrugged and pushed Ryuji back against the wall and continued where they had left off.
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Taryn: okkies. That's where I leave it. ^__^ No smacking of authoress or no more fic. Pure and simple.
Bakura: I hate public washrooms ~_~
Taryn: and I wanna talk to y'all about something. If you're gonna review just to say something like "KAIBA AND JOU BELONG TOGETHER AND RYJI SHOULD LEAVE THEM ALONE" then save it for someone else… I know where I'm going with this and you're not gonna change my mind. . so be patient and write something meaningful okkies?
Faye: so leave your pretty lil reviews, and flames will be used to burn Taryn's physic teacher's house to the ground.
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[1] For all of you that didn't catch that, 'Kura's known for liking his meat… rare.
[2] Ok, he lives in Japan… dig a hole straight through the world from there and you'd prolly wind up in Canada…