Chapter 11.

Krysonna had been making love to Joey 2 weeks ago, and just laid in bed that morning, with the sun beating through. She couldn't think of anything else but him, after making love to him that day. As she thought of him, her fingers reached between her legs and began to play with herself. But suddenly, her feminine part disappeared, being replaced with a male member. She looked down and screamed, sitting up.

Kaiba yelled out loud, as he jumped up in a sitting position on his bed....it was just a nightmare. Four days....it was for only four short days that he was in that form, and still he had nightmares of being a woman. But on the bright side, Joey gave him a month to try and reverse the effect it was still giving him. Plus, he agreed Yugi's store was the best place to call for him, if he needed to. That way, if anyone tried to check his phone records for any reason, it would look more like he called about Duel Monster cards, and not for any particular individual. And if he called, Kaiba expected it would probably be to delay it another month.

He got himself ready, and went back to work, focusing his attention on business. He had gotten an update from Mokuba on how the work on the water park was going, and Kaiba had also been yelling at the workers who now ended up killing a dog with the device he was trying to perfect. He had to be careful now to make sure the animal lovers didn't get wind of this, and start going down his throat next. This device was top secret, and only a select few of his workers were allowed access to this project.

Finally noon came, when his secretary alerted him, "Sir....your girlfriend is on line 1."

He forgot all about Mai. He was tempted to simply blow her off, since his plan with Joey was obviously a complete failure, but he decided perhaps it would be better to keep her. It could help keep the media off of him, if they saw him hanging around an attractive woman, such as Mai. So Kaiba picked up, saying, "Mai....it's good to hear from you."

"Hi Seto....listen, it's almost noon, and I wanna know what you and Joey worked out?" She asked.

He never even thought to ask him. If they started dating more and Joey heard, he'd undoubtedly show up again. He was going to have to call him later to deal with the matter. "I talked with him....he told me he'd back off."

"Really? How'd you manage that? Joey's not the type to be bought, after all." Mai said.

Did Kaiba detect a compliment from Mai about Joey? Did she still have an interest in him? Suddenly Kaiba was the one that was hit with a twinge of jealousy. He shook it off, saying, "I explained that you don't remember him anymore, which he already knew about. I convinced him he was simply being a burden to you, and he told me he wouldn't do it again." He was tempted to say to her that he had no interest in her, to keep her away from him. But then how would he explain the outburst last night, that Joey wasn't jealous of Mai, because the Mutt wanted a piece of him? That would certainly not sound good.

"Okay....well, as long as it's settled. So, you wanna meet for lunch again?" Mai asked.

Not again. "I can't. I'm in the middle of constructing a water park, and a complication just came up. But maybe we can try for dinner again, like maybe tomorrow?"

"All right....that sounds good. Gimmee a call on it. By the way, I've been wearing your necklace today. I totally love it....I can't believe you bought that for me." She smiled, hoping to get some more gifts from him soon. "Infact, I've been wanting to get this fur coat at McArther's that's absolutely gorgeous. Maybe I can show it to you, sometime...."

"Sure." He said, practically hearing the sucking sound from his bank account, that Mai was going to start creating on him. "I'll call you later." He didn't want to see her tomorrow either, but he could arrange a press shot that way, and start to finally make proper use her, like he felt he should. After all, if he was paying her with jewelry and gifts, he might as well get his money's worth.

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It was a couple days later, when Joey came over to Yugi's house, to talk to him. "Hey Yugi." He said to his friend.

"Joey, I haven't seen you around. How are you doing?" Yugi asked.

Joey nodded, "I'm doing okay." Coming into Yugi's bedroom from the game store.

"So, what happened that night, when you went to see Kaiba? What did he have planned?" Yugi asked. Even though Joey said he wouldn't go, Yugi knew he would.

Joey didn't even argue, as he explained, "The guy thought I'd get jealous that Mai was hanging with him, and try to get Mai back fer myself."

"Gee....I didn't even think of that. How did it affect you seeing Mai again?" Yugi asked.

Joey smiled, "Well, you know....I had a thing for her before, but it's in the past now. She moved on, I moved on. It's not the same I feel for him." Joey then laughed, "You know....Kaiba does have a point, there. Just saying that sounds weird. I mean, hey....I never took myself for wanting some dude, you know?"

"So, I guess once he realized you weren't taking the bait, he was disappointed....huh?" Yugi asked.

Joey smiled, "Well, I kind of made of a scene at the restaurant, and I made sure not to say who I was fighting over, cuz....well, I didn't want Kaiba getting all embarrassed in public and all. So he didn't realize it didn't work, until he drove me back home, and we started talking. Then, you know....he gave me the same bullshit about being afraid of people seeing him and such. But I calmed him down."

"You calmed him down? Well, how did you...." Yugi suddenly blushed, realizing. "Oh. So then you two are....??" Yugi asked, seeming actually confused about something.

"Not exactly." Joey said. "While I finally got him warmed up to me and stop worrying over everything, a cop noticed the fancy rich car in my neighborhood. Well, thinking it's stolen, he came over checking us out. It was actually kind of a funny sight....I got Kaiba here practically trembling next to me, while I give the cop some story about it being my Dad's car, so he don't get in trouble none. But after the police left, I realized maybe he got something there. I didn't want me being around him hurting him none, so I told him we can just lay low for a month, wait for this whole gossip thing to blow over, and he can give me a call then."

"Oh. So until then, he'll still be dating Mai?" Yugi said.

Joey said, "No....why would he still be dating Mai? He only did it to get me jealous...."

"Well....it was in the paper today, showing him with Mai at the opening of some new restaurant." Yugi said.

"What? Lemme see dat!" Joey spat out. Sure enough, Kaiba was in the news paper with Mai, showing him putting some very expensive coat on her, which was way too much for her to afford, herself.

"That double-crossing jerk! I'm nice enough to push things aside from him, and he's cheating on me!!" Joey spat out. "Well, I'm gonna talk to him, right now!"

"Joey, wait!" Yugi said, jumping in front of him. "Remember, you two agreed about not seeing each other. I don't think that would make him feel too well, if you made a scene at his house....with Mokuba there!"

"Do you think I care right about now? I graciously step aside, and he pulls this crap with me! I'm gonna give him a piece of my mind!" Joey spat.

Yugi urged, "Well, why don't we atleast try and call him....I have his home number."

"You do? Well, when I tried to get a hold of him before, why didn't you give it to me?" Joey asked.

Yugi said, "Because if you left a message on his business phone, he'd know you were trying to get a hold of him, and call back. If he didn't call you back from there, he wasn't going to call you back after calling home, either. And I didn't think Mokuba would feel too good about you calling over there, especially after last time when he thought you tried to attack him at the hospital."

"Oh yeah, I forgot about that." Joey said. "All right, I'll try and call him at home."