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The first hit came so fast that Seto didn't have time to block, instead he was elbowed hard in the stomach, knocking the wind out of him and causing him to take a few steps back. He looked up from his hunched over form to see a very pissed off Jou, clenching his fists and glaring at him with heated honey.
So, Jou wanted to settle this with violence. It figured. At least it was something they we're used to. Seto had been caught off guard the first time, Jou wouldn't be so lucky with his next attack.
As soon as the blonde made his move, he found himself on the floor so quick, he didn't have time to blink. Seto had him pinned down, arms immobilized, and all he could do was grunt and struggle futilely against the other man's body.
"You've gotten slower Katsuya, I'm disappointed." Seto stressed out the last word with a sharp twist to arm, causing the blonde to cry out slightly.
Now Jou was fuming, from the insult on his skill, as well as the way Seto seemed to purr out his name in the most mocking way. His cheek was pressed into the plush carpet but even so, he could practically feel the smirk growing on the brunette's face.
He cursed him and his stupid black belt in five different forms of martial arts.
Jou used all his strength to try and break Seto's hold. He only seceded in twisting his body around so that he was now face to face with his captor, his legs on either side of said captor's waist. Who was smirking at him just as he suspected. Jou merely gave him a meaningful glare before speaking.
"Get off of me you asshole." He growled out, jerking his body as Seto lifted his arms over his head, pinning his wrists to the ground with one hand.
Seto leaned down to whisper in the boy's ear. "Why should I? It's obvious you're enjoying this." He made his point by grinding down against the hardness pressed into his stomach.
Jou groaned and threw his head to the side, sending blond locks across his face, effectively hiding the flush that was spreading across it.
He cursed himself and his stupid teenage hormones.
"I can't exactly help that." He said as he fought against the steel grip against his wrists, hissing as the brunette only tightened his hold, knowing there would be bruises there in the morning. He looked up to see that familiar smoldering blue gaze fixed on him. It was so hard not to just give into his body and let that heat melt him.
"Seto..." Jou whispered, almost pleading. "Let go."
"No puppy." Came the simple reply, as Seto raised his hand up to the blonde's face, wiping the stay strands of hair way from his eyes tenderly. It only made the blond angrier.
"Just stop it!" Jou screamed, causing Seto to loosen his grip on the blond. Jou ripped his wrists away from his grasp and sat up to look Seto straight in the eye. "Don't think that you can just fuck me and make everything all better!"
Seto was so taken back by the harshness in those words, that he didn't have time to retaliate before Jou began to speak again.
"You...humiliated me on national television..." The anger in his words subsided as the tears began to form. "You said I meant nothing to you."
The words were quietly spoken as the blonde lowered his head, golden locks shielding the hurt in his eyes. But the words rang as loud as a siren to Seto.
Jou wiped his eyes and looked up as Seto, who averted his gaze accordingly, staring down at the cream colored floor, not speaking a word. "Are you that embarrassed of me?"
"Jou it's more complicated than you know. People...wouldn't understand." Seto sighed, still not making eye contact.
"So?" Jou asked. "Your going to throw me away, just because of what other people would think?"
"Jou...it's more complicated than that." Seto repeated, running a hand through his hair slowly before down at Jou's shivering form. He picked up the discarded towel and wrapped it around Jou again, meeting no resistance. "It's just easier for me this way."
Jou blinked up at him, clinging to the semi-damp material around his shoulders. "Easier for you?" He stated flatly. "What about me? Are you that cold hearted that you don't even care about my feelings?"
"What are your feelings?" Seto asked, and Jou was stunned into silence. Somehow, just as Jou felt as he had the upper hand in the argument, Seto was able to twist it around so that he was in control. He hated when he did that.
"Well...I dunno, I guess..." Jou words trailed off as he lowered his eyes from Seto's intense gaze.
"This is exactly what I mean." Jou blinked and looked up at Seto as he spoke. Seeing the look of confusion in the blonde's eyes, he decided to continue. "I don't have time to play with you."
"Play with me?!" Jou exclaimed.
"It was stupid for me to get involved with you in the first place. It's not your fault, it's mine." Jou rolled his eyes, prepared to here the classic 'it's not you it's me' break up scenario.
Seto sighed and shook his head, taking a moment to collect his thoughts. "I just have...way to much responsibility. I don't have enough time for..." Seto seemed to be searching through for the right word before he spoke again. "A teenage fling."
Jou was silent after that. Which served to creep Seto out just a little bit, seeing as how silence was such an uncommon thing associated with the blonde. He awaited the angry comeback he knew the blond had waiting for him but it never came.
"I understand." Jou whispered, and he did. It was his own fault really, not Seto's, for getting involved with someone such as the cold CEO. He should have known better. It was stupid, but then again, at least he couldn't say that he gave up without a fight, it just wasn't like him.
Seto watched as Jou collected himself and left, closing the front door softly behind him. For several moments he just sat there, finding that the couldn't really work up enough energy to get up.
This wouldn't be the first time he had to make a hard decision. It was only the first time that it had nothing to do with Kaiba Corp, or Mokuba for that matter. It had to do with him, his life.
He had his regrets, of course, he always did. But in the end, it was all for the best.
At least...that's what he kept telling himself.
X x X
The rain felt slightly refreshing this time around, as Jou found himself walking down the drenched street. He heard something coming up from behind him and turned his head, squinting as the bright headlights blinded him.
In front of him a sleek red sports car came to a stop. For a minute, Jou's heart fluttered, and his hopes soared, as he waited for Seto Kaiba to step out of that car and throw himself at his feet, begging for forgiveness.
Pfft, fat chance.
"Well well, there's nothing worse than a wet mutt." Came a smug voice.
"Gee, I never heard that one before." Jou rolled his eyes, throwing on his best sarcastic tone. "Do you write your own lines Otogi?"
Otogi chucked and leaned against the side of his brand new prized possession casually. Jou just eyed him for a moment, wondering why on earth he had to meet up with him of all people tonight.
"So...I see the business world is treating you well."
"Oh yeah..." Otogi paused to brush some dampening hair out of his face. "I owe it all to Kaiba really. If it wasn't for you and his little sorrid love affair, I would never gotten such a boost in sales. It appears that parents would rather not have their children playing a game produced by a fag." He laughed again. "If only they knew about me."
"It's really not fair..." Jou lowered his gaze to the slick pavement below his feet.
"I know Jounouchi." Otogi's tone softened, and Jou blinked up at him in surprise. "Look...there's no point in us standing out here getting soaked all night. Get in the car, will ya?" Otogi sighed and got back into the car, watching as Jou just stood in front of the running vehicle for a few moments, the bright headlights illuminating his weary looking form. Otogi sighed again and motioned for him to get inside, to which the blonde jumped out of his haze and then quickly followed his orders.
"Thanks." Jou said as he got into the car, buckling himself in and resting his head on his arm, sighing pathetically as he watched the raindrops splash against the window.
Otogi tuned to his companion as he shifted into drive and raised his eyebrow at the depressed blonde. "You look like shit." Was his blunt comment.
"You would to if you just had your heart ripped out of your chest." Jou murmured into his hand, not turning to face the cocky man.
"Damn, that bastard really did a number on you, huh Jou?" Otogi commented as he began to drive down the darkened street. "Jou?" He turned to the blonde to see that he was already fast asleep.
X x X
It was a crisp winter day, and the first snow was now blanketed over the streets of domino. Jou sat alone on a park bench, watching as a few kids threw themselves on the ground near by him to make snow angels. He smiled as one of them got up and waved to him before running off to join one of his friends.
He wrapped his scarf tightly around him as a particularly forceful wind blew against him, shivering slightly. His nose was dripping a bit from the cold and he let out a load sneeze that seemed to echo across the park. He felt so alone.
"God bless you." A voice came from above him, and he looked up to see those chilling eyes he hadn't seen what seemed like ages.
"Seto?"
"Jou...I have something for you." The tails of Seto's large coat fluttered in the wind and Jou looked up at him expectantly.
"What is it Seto?" He whispered, watching as wind rustled that perfect brunette hair, a few stray snowflakes landing there only to melt away seconds later from the other's body heat. And then he felt something cold and wet hit his forehead. "What the?"
Seto merely smiled before reaching into his pocket and pulling out another snowball, this one also hitting the blonde square in the forehead.
"Kaiba? What the hell's wrong with you? Hey, that's cold!" He yelled as he was pelted for the third time.
"Hey! Jounouchi!" It was then that Yugi came snowboarding in, knocking Kaiba down and into the snow, his legs sticking out of a rather large pile of snow as he landed face first.
"Oh hi Yugi....um, why are you naked?"
Yugi merely smiled and shrugged his shoulders. "I dunno, it's your dream. Maybe you have some kind of weird crush on me."
"Dream?"
"Hello Jounouchi boy...." Pegasus purred out as he wrapped an arm around the stunned blonde.
"Pegasus? What are you doing here?"
"What ever are you talking about? Oh, you're such a silly wifey-poo!!"
"Wifey....poo?" Jou squeaked out as he tried to wriggle his way out of the older and significantly creepier man's embrace.
"Of course, don't you remember our beautiful wedding?" Pegasus smiled and Jou looked down to find himself in a frilly, and quite reveling, white bridal gown.
Jou squeaked and jolted upright, then hissed as he realized how hard it was to stand in the stiletto's he had on. "What the hell is going on?" Jou whined and looked down to where Pegasus was sitting, getting a nice view up Jou's skirt as the wind blew it up and into his face.
"Go on, throw the bouquet!" Jou obeyed Pegasus's command, only so that he could free up his hand and use it to keep his dress down, as well as whatever was left of his pride.
"Oh Jou, so sad." Seto shook his head as he smelled the sweet flowers he had just caught. "Pathetic dog." He hissed out before throwing the bouquet into a pile of slush. Seto's words cut through Jou like ice, and the found himself being pelted with snowballs once more.
"Ah, damn that's cold!!" Jou shot up, flinging the ice-pack that was on his head across the room, and sending his head reeling as well from the sudden movement. "Oh...shit..." Jou collapsed again from the wave of dizziness.
Slowly he cracked an eye open to view his surroundings. He was in obviously in someone's living room, but it wasn't one he recognized. He also noticed he was lying in a rather comfortable couch, a warm blanket wrapped around him.
"Jou?" Otogi came rushing in the room, dressed in some loose pajamas, before slipping on the ice-pack that was now on the floor, sending him sprawling onto the couch and right on top of Jou. "Are you alright? I thought I heard screaming."
"I'm fine, just a weird dream. You're heavy though." Jou murmured as Otogi's body weight pressed into him quite uncomfortably.
"Oh...yeah, sorry." Otogi grinned and climbed off of the blonde, much to his reluctance. "You passed out in the car and you we're burning up. So I took you here, since I didn't know were your house was."
"Damn...I feel like shit." Jou groaned and shifted his position so that he was lying on his side, hugging his pillow to his chest.
"That's what you get when you run around in a storm in the middle of the night. Here." Otogi offered him the near-by phone. "Call your dad and let him know where you are."
"Thanks."
X x X
"Shit." Seto hissed and tried to start the engine again. The car inced forward a few inches before screeching and jerking to a stop. Seto glared at the hood as think smoke began to rise from it.
"Fuck." He decided on a more serious curse now. Reserved for only the times when he was severely pissed off and let his head fall onto the steering wheel, causing the car to beep quite loudly, echoing down the deserted road. If this wasn't the worst time for his quite expensive car to break down, he didn't know what was.
Sighing, Seto exited the car, closing the door behind him before letting his body weight fall on it with a light thud sound. He tilted his head back and watched as the dark clouds swirled above him, squinting his eyes as the rain poured down on him.
It didn't seem like the storm was going to let up anytime soon.
It seemed just like a movie to him, how it would always be raining and thundering out when something bad happened. Or if someone was about to get his or her brains stabbed out by a masked killer.
If this was a movie, then Seto was sure everyone in the theater hated him right now. He always did make a good villain, it was easier than trying to be one of the good guys at least.
"I'm really no good at playing the hero." Seto sighed and flung open the door to his now useless car, taking something out of it before setting off on his destination by foot.
"I hope it's not too late for a happy ending."
X x X
Satanic Mechanic: No, this is not the last chapter. I merely decided to cut what was supposed to be the last chapter in half and post them separately because I don't know when I am going to be able to finish. So at least you have this to read until I post the grand finale.
The first hit came so fast that Seto didn't have time to block, instead he was elbowed hard in the stomach, knocking the wind out of him and causing him to take a few steps back. He looked up from his hunched over form to see a very pissed off Jou, clenching his fists and glaring at him with heated honey.
So, Jou wanted to settle this with violence. It figured. At least it was something they we're used to. Seto had been caught off guard the first time, Jou wouldn't be so lucky with his next attack.
As soon as the blonde made his move, he found himself on the floor so quick, he didn't have time to blink. Seto had him pinned down, arms immobilized, and all he could do was grunt and struggle futilely against the other man's body.
"You've gotten slower Katsuya, I'm disappointed." Seto stressed out the last word with a sharp twist to arm, causing the blonde to cry out slightly.
Now Jou was fuming, from the insult on his skill, as well as the way Seto seemed to purr out his name in the most mocking way. His cheek was pressed into the plush carpet but even so, he could practically feel the smirk growing on the brunette's face.
He cursed him and his stupid black belt in five different forms of martial arts.
Jou used all his strength to try and break Seto's hold. He only seceded in twisting his body around so that he was now face to face with his captor, his legs on either side of said captor's waist. Who was smirking at him just as he suspected. Jou merely gave him a meaningful glare before speaking.
"Get off of me you asshole." He growled out, jerking his body as Seto lifted his arms over his head, pinning his wrists to the ground with one hand.
Seto leaned down to whisper in the boy's ear. "Why should I? It's obvious you're enjoying this." He made his point by grinding down against the hardness pressed into his stomach.
Jou groaned and threw his head to the side, sending blond locks across his face, effectively hiding the flush that was spreading across it.
He cursed himself and his stupid teenage hormones.
"I can't exactly help that." He said as he fought against the steel grip against his wrists, hissing as the brunette only tightened his hold, knowing there would be bruises there in the morning. He looked up to see that familiar smoldering blue gaze fixed on him. It was so hard not to just give into his body and let that heat melt him.
"Seto..." Jou whispered, almost pleading. "Let go."
"No puppy." Came the simple reply, as Seto raised his hand up to the blonde's face, wiping the stay strands of hair way from his eyes tenderly. It only made the blond angrier.
"Just stop it!" Jou screamed, causing Seto to loosen his grip on the blond. Jou ripped his wrists away from his grasp and sat up to look Seto straight in the eye. "Don't think that you can just fuck me and make everything all better!"
Seto was so taken back by the harshness in those words, that he didn't have time to retaliate before Jou began to speak again.
"You...humiliated me on national television..." The anger in his words subsided as the tears began to form. "You said I meant nothing to you."
The words were quietly spoken as the blonde lowered his head, golden locks shielding the hurt in his eyes. But the words rang as loud as a siren to Seto.
Jou wiped his eyes and looked up as Seto, who averted his gaze accordingly, staring down at the cream colored floor, not speaking a word. "Are you that embarrassed of me?"
"Jou it's more complicated than you know. People...wouldn't understand." Seto sighed, still not making eye contact.
"So?" Jou asked. "Your going to throw me away, just because of what other people would think?"
"Jou...it's more complicated than that." Seto repeated, running a hand through his hair slowly before down at Jou's shivering form. He picked up the discarded towel and wrapped it around Jou again, meeting no resistance. "It's just easier for me this way."
Jou blinked up at him, clinging to the semi-damp material around his shoulders. "Easier for you?" He stated flatly. "What about me? Are you that cold hearted that you don't even care about my feelings?"
"What are your feelings?" Seto asked, and Jou was stunned into silence. Somehow, just as Jou felt as he had the upper hand in the argument, Seto was able to twist it around so that he was in control. He hated when he did that.
"Well...I dunno, I guess..." Jou words trailed off as he lowered his eyes from Seto's intense gaze.
"This is exactly what I mean." Jou blinked and looked up at Seto as he spoke. Seeing the look of confusion in the blonde's eyes, he decided to continue. "I don't have time to play with you."
"Play with me?!" Jou exclaimed.
"It was stupid for me to get involved with you in the first place. It's not your fault, it's mine." Jou rolled his eyes, prepared to here the classic 'it's not you it's me' break up scenario.
Seto sighed and shook his head, taking a moment to collect his thoughts. "I just have...way to much responsibility. I don't have enough time for..." Seto seemed to be searching through for the right word before he spoke again. "A teenage fling."
Jou was silent after that. Which served to creep Seto out just a little bit, seeing as how silence was such an uncommon thing associated with the blonde. He awaited the angry comeback he knew the blond had waiting for him but it never came.
"I understand." Jou whispered, and he did. It was his own fault really, not Seto's, for getting involved with someone such as the cold CEO. He should have known better. It was stupid, but then again, at least he couldn't say that he gave up without a fight, it just wasn't like him.
Seto watched as Jou collected himself and left, closing the front door softly behind him. For several moments he just sat there, finding that the couldn't really work up enough energy to get up.
This wouldn't be the first time he had to make a hard decision. It was only the first time that it had nothing to do with Kaiba Corp, or Mokuba for that matter. It had to do with him, his life.
He had his regrets, of course, he always did. But in the end, it was all for the best.
At least...that's what he kept telling himself.
X x X
The rain felt slightly refreshing this time around, as Jou found himself walking down the drenched street. He heard something coming up from behind him and turned his head, squinting as the bright headlights blinded him.
In front of him a sleek red sports car came to a stop. For a minute, Jou's heart fluttered, and his hopes soared, as he waited for Seto Kaiba to step out of that car and throw himself at his feet, begging for forgiveness.
Pfft, fat chance.
"Well well, there's nothing worse than a wet mutt." Came a smug voice.
"Gee, I never heard that one before." Jou rolled his eyes, throwing on his best sarcastic tone. "Do you write your own lines Otogi?"
Otogi chucked and leaned against the side of his brand new prized possession casually. Jou just eyed him for a moment, wondering why on earth he had to meet up with him of all people tonight.
"So...I see the business world is treating you well."
"Oh yeah..." Otogi paused to brush some dampening hair out of his face. "I owe it all to Kaiba really. If it wasn't for you and his little sorrid love affair, I would never gotten such a boost in sales. It appears that parents would rather not have their children playing a game produced by a fag." He laughed again. "If only they knew about me."
"It's really not fair..." Jou lowered his gaze to the slick pavement below his feet.
"I know Jounouchi." Otogi's tone softened, and Jou blinked up at him in surprise. "Look...there's no point in us standing out here getting soaked all night. Get in the car, will ya?" Otogi sighed and got back into the car, watching as Jou just stood in front of the running vehicle for a few moments, the bright headlights illuminating his weary looking form. Otogi sighed again and motioned for him to get inside, to which the blonde jumped out of his haze and then quickly followed his orders.
"Thanks." Jou said as he got into the car, buckling himself in and resting his head on his arm, sighing pathetically as he watched the raindrops splash against the window.
Otogi tuned to his companion as he shifted into drive and raised his eyebrow at the depressed blonde. "You look like shit." Was his blunt comment.
"You would to if you just had your heart ripped out of your chest." Jou murmured into his hand, not turning to face the cocky man.
"Damn, that bastard really did a number on you, huh Jou?" Otogi commented as he began to drive down the darkened street. "Jou?" He turned to the blonde to see that he was already fast asleep.
X x X
It was a crisp winter day, and the first snow was now blanketed over the streets of domino. Jou sat alone on a park bench, watching as a few kids threw themselves on the ground near by him to make snow angels. He smiled as one of them got up and waved to him before running off to join one of his friends.
He wrapped his scarf tightly around him as a particularly forceful wind blew against him, shivering slightly. His nose was dripping a bit from the cold and he let out a load sneeze that seemed to echo across the park. He felt so alone.
"God bless you." A voice came from above him, and he looked up to see those chilling eyes he hadn't seen what seemed like ages.
"Seto?"
"Jou...I have something for you." The tails of Seto's large coat fluttered in the wind and Jou looked up at him expectantly.
"What is it Seto?" He whispered, watching as wind rustled that perfect brunette hair, a few stray snowflakes landing there only to melt away seconds later from the other's body heat. And then he felt something cold and wet hit his forehead. "What the?"
Seto merely smiled before reaching into his pocket and pulling out another snowball, this one also hitting the blonde square in the forehead.
"Kaiba? What the hell's wrong with you? Hey, that's cold!" He yelled as he was pelted for the third time.
"Hey! Jounouchi!" It was then that Yugi came snowboarding in, knocking Kaiba down and into the snow, his legs sticking out of a rather large pile of snow as he landed face first.
"Oh hi Yugi....um, why are you naked?"
Yugi merely smiled and shrugged his shoulders. "I dunno, it's your dream. Maybe you have some kind of weird crush on me."
"Dream?"
"Hello Jounouchi boy...." Pegasus purred out as he wrapped an arm around the stunned blonde.
"Pegasus? What are you doing here?"
"What ever are you talking about? Oh, you're such a silly wifey-poo!!"
"Wifey....poo?" Jou squeaked out as he tried to wriggle his way out of the older and significantly creepier man's embrace.
"Of course, don't you remember our beautiful wedding?" Pegasus smiled and Jou looked down to find himself in a frilly, and quite reveling, white bridal gown.
Jou squeaked and jolted upright, then hissed as he realized how hard it was to stand in the stiletto's he had on. "What the hell is going on?" Jou whined and looked down to where Pegasus was sitting, getting a nice view up Jou's skirt as the wind blew it up and into his face.
"Go on, throw the bouquet!" Jou obeyed Pegasus's command, only so that he could free up his hand and use it to keep his dress down, as well as whatever was left of his pride.
"Oh Jou, so sad." Seto shook his head as he smelled the sweet flowers he had just caught. "Pathetic dog." He hissed out before throwing the bouquet into a pile of slush. Seto's words cut through Jou like ice, and the found himself being pelted with snowballs once more.
"Ah, damn that's cold!!" Jou shot up, flinging the ice-pack that was on his head across the room, and sending his head reeling as well from the sudden movement. "Oh...shit..." Jou collapsed again from the wave of dizziness.
Slowly he cracked an eye open to view his surroundings. He was in obviously in someone's living room, but it wasn't one he recognized. He also noticed he was lying in a rather comfortable couch, a warm blanket wrapped around him.
"Jou?" Otogi came rushing in the room, dressed in some loose pajamas, before slipping on the ice-pack that was now on the floor, sending him sprawling onto the couch and right on top of Jou. "Are you alright? I thought I heard screaming."
"I'm fine, just a weird dream. You're heavy though." Jou murmured as Otogi's body weight pressed into him quite uncomfortably.
"Oh...yeah, sorry." Otogi grinned and climbed off of the blonde, much to his reluctance. "You passed out in the car and you we're burning up. So I took you here, since I didn't know were your house was."
"Damn...I feel like shit." Jou groaned and shifted his position so that he was lying on his side, hugging his pillow to his chest.
"That's what you get when you run around in a storm in the middle of the night. Here." Otogi offered him the near-by phone. "Call your dad and let him know where you are."
"Thanks."
X x X
"Shit." Seto hissed and tried to start the engine again. The car inced forward a few inches before screeching and jerking to a stop. Seto glared at the hood as think smoke began to rise from it.
"Fuck." He decided on a more serious curse now. Reserved for only the times when he was severely pissed off and let his head fall onto the steering wheel, causing the car to beep quite loudly, echoing down the deserted road. If this wasn't the worst time for his quite expensive car to break down, he didn't know what was.
Sighing, Seto exited the car, closing the door behind him before letting his body weight fall on it with a light thud sound. He tilted his head back and watched as the dark clouds swirled above him, squinting his eyes as the rain poured down on him.
It didn't seem like the storm was going to let up anytime soon.
It seemed just like a movie to him, how it would always be raining and thundering out when something bad happened. Or if someone was about to get his or her brains stabbed out by a masked killer.
If this was a movie, then Seto was sure everyone in the theater hated him right now. He always did make a good villain, it was easier than trying to be one of the good guys at least.
"I'm really no good at playing the hero." Seto sighed and flung open the door to his now useless car, taking something out of it before setting off on his destination by foot.
"I hope it's not too late for a happy ending."
X x X
Satanic Mechanic: No, this is not the last chapter. I merely decided to cut what was supposed to be the last chapter in half and post them separately because I don't know when I am going to be able to finish. So at least you have this to read until I post the grand finale.