Disclaimer: This is Ms. Lee's editor-come-lawyer speaking. On behalf of Ms.
Lee, I would like to say that she owns nothing but the plot and her
imaginary friend Max. If Ms. Lee did own Yu-Gi-Oh, however, it would not be
suitable for the eyes of children and there would be a lot more of Tomb
Raider Bakura, Malik and a lot less of Anzu. Please do not sue. Thank you
for your time.
Pairings: Seto/Jou, Yami/Yugi, Marik/Malik, Bakura/Ryou,
A.N./ Warnings:
Osiris: Do we have a chapter two in the house? We do?!? WOULD YOU LOOK AT THAT! It's chapter two!
Max: Hooray.
Osiris: -.- Don't sound so excited about it.
Max: I try. Warning. This story contains shounen-ai. That means two
guys getting it on.
Osiris: ^^; Not -quite- getting it on. But close! .
Max: Whatever.
Ladyschumon: Well -he's- a barrel of laughs.
Osiris: Tell me about it. Oh! Ladyschu! *glomps* Everyone, this is my
wonderful editor!
Ladyschumon: And lawyer! ^^
Osiris: That too. *de-glomps* Anyway, I'd like to thank my wonderful,
kind, terrific reviewers: Meloncrisp, Jane Silver, Angel-soul03 and
hyakuhei. I love you all!
Ladyschumon: Thank you for proving me right! *hands out cookies and Yu-
Gi-Oh plushies to all the reviewers*
Osiris: Proving you right? *confused*
Ladyschumon: I -told- you they'd like it but you didn't believe me! :P
Osiris: *sniffs* But it's ba~ad! *cries*
Max: Yes, it's terribal.
Ladyschumon: Shut up! *thwacks Osiris*
Osiris: @.@
Ladyschumon: And that's 'terrible', Max.
Max: Whatever.
Ladyschumon: Now you see why they need me! ^^ Now, go read! Go! Before
Osiris wakes up and begins bad-mouthing herself again. Ja!
P.A.N: In case anyone was wondering, these are the guy's ages.
Seto-22, Jou- 21, Yami-22, Yugi-20, Ryou-20, Malik and Marik-21,
Bakura- 22, Mokoba- 14
Okay, now let's really get onto the story.
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The one thing I hate about people. Well, there isn't just one thing. It differs from person to person, naturally. Actually, that's probably the thing I dislike the most about the human race. You can't expect the same thing from two different people. That's why I like machines. You know what to expect. No surprises. Except this one program. Even I did not anticipate what it could do. I must keep it separate from the rest of my system as it spreads like a virus. How it does that, I don't know. I certainly did not program it to. So on my laptop it must stay, until I can finally get rid of it. I'm beginning to regret all the protection passwords and traps I put in. How could I have been so careless?
'Master Kaiba? The new guards have arrived Sir.'
'Thank you, I'll see them in a moment.'
Now it seems, I must deal with people again. If only to get rid of this one abnormality in my life.
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'Well from what I've read I knew Kaiba was rich, but this is far beyond what I expected.' Jou clenched his eyes shut, trying in vain to block out Ryou's excited chatter. The boy had never been to France; neither had the others mind you, and was incredibly excited. Any excitement Jou had harboured about his first trip overseas, however, had been squashed upon entering the Kaiba mansion. The ear-splitting vibrations, that had been annoying him all through the plane trip over, had increased tenfold and were giving Jou one massive migraine. Ryou's constant babblings weren't helping either.
'Why is he keeping us waiting?' he muttered angrily, rubbing his temples in a fruitless attempt to relieve the dull ache there. 'We've almost been here for a bloody hour.'
'Oh I'm sure he has his reasons, He has a company to run along with this new problem and-' Ryou was cut off abruptly by the door on the far side of opened and the aforementioned man strode into the room, inspecting the quartet with a critical eye.
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Seto was irritated with himself. Not only had he let himself loose track of time again, he'd also fallen asleep at his desk. It was bad enough that he'd let himself be bullied into extra security by the government. Personally, he thought they were overreacting. Sure, he'd created something terrible, possibly lethal, but letting four new guards, which he hadn't been able to background scan, into his home? A foolish mistake in his opinion. He surveyed the three (A.N: Yes, three) seated around the room in distaste. The two on the settee closest to him, Yami and Yugi Motou if his memory served, were snuggled together as if they were sitting in the winter's snow that had carpeted the land outside instead of in his nice warm living room. Their similar hairstyles were the only thing alike about them aside from their last name. The smaller of the two, Yugi, Seto guessed, was about half a head shorter then any of the others. He had a cheerful smile to match his equally cheerful amethyst eyes. Yami's eyes, on the other hand, were a deep crimson and currently were soft as he gazed down at Yugi who was snuggling into his lap.
'Oh great.' thought Seto. 'Lovebirds, just what I need.'
The other boy in the room was also on the small side. Silver-white spiky bangs hanging to his shoulders and soft brown eyes announced him as being Ryou Bakura.
'He.looks familiar.' Seto squinted slightly, tilting his head so the light caught Ryou at a different angle. His ice blue eyes widened slightly in shock. 'Bakura!'
'If you're quite done staring,' a tired voice behind Seto made him jump. 'Would you care to introduce yourself?'
Turning around with full intent to give the poor person a verbal pounding, Seto felt the angry words die on his lips at the sight of fourth member of the team. Standing a head shorter then Seto himself, Jou Katsuya had his arms crossed, giving Seto a 'Well? Get on with it!' look through his honey coloured bangs. Seto stared into golden brown eyes until Jou broke eye contact, giving Seto the chance to look at the rest of the blond. He trailed down from the eyes over Jou's lips, 'Kissable lips' thought Seto with an internal chuckle, and down the rest of his body. 'On second thoughts,' Seto mused, allowing himself to raise a questioning eyebrow at his new object of interest, 'This might not be so bad after all.'
'I would have thought it was obvious who I am.' The blond shrugged, apathetic to Seto's cool tone.
'Bit difficult to say, with all the people you have running around here.'
'Jou.' Yami had left his Yugi gazing for a moment to reprimand the younger blond. 'Good afternoon Mr. Kaiba, we were sent-'
'By the government, I know.' Seto shook Yami's hand, still eyeing Jou out of the corner of his eye. 'I take it you know what your task is?'
'We've been given a general briefing.' Put in Bakura, 'No, Ryou.' Seto corrected himself. He nodded.
'I see.' He moved to take a seat facing the door. 'Two of you will be required to stand guard around the mansion at all times and assist my personal guards should a break in occur. One of you will guard my younger brother-'
'Your brother?' Yugi spoke up for the first time. 'Why would he need protection?'
'It didn't occur to you that he could be held in exchange to the program?' Seto said coolly before continuing. 'They will accompany him twenty-four hours a day. The last member of the team,' He let his eyes flick over to Jou. 'will be accompanying me through my daily routine.' He stood suddenly, stretching slightly. 'You have the rest of the day to settle in as you start tomorrow. I suggest you decide your roles first off.' With that he stalked out of the room, heading up to his bathroom to relieve himself of an annoying lump in his pants which had come about from thinking too long about just how Jou would look squirming beneath him in pleasure.
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'Prick.' Was the first thing to come out of Jou's mouth as soon as the door closed behind Seto.
'Now now Jou.' Ryou scolded. 'You've only known him fifteen minutes!'
'He was looking at us as if the were some parasite he had to put up with!' Jou complained, resting his head in his hands.
'We should take his advice though.' Said Yami, taking charge. 'Make the most of what's left of today so we'll be fresh for the morning.'
'Be fresh for the morning my foot.' scoffed Jou, getting to his feet. 'I'm going out.'
'Don't get lost Jou!' Yugi called to the retreating blond, before settling back down into Yami's arms.
'He could have stayed to help.' muttered Yami, nuzzling into Yugi's hair.
'Ah leave him be Yami.' smiled Ryou, pulling his chair over. 'He'll be fine. Now who's doing what?'
'Yugi and I will stay in the mansion.'
Ryou nodded, he hadn't been expecting anything else. 'I will look after the young Kaiba. It will be interesting to see how the French schooling system operates.' Ryou chuckled, and then became serious. 'But that would leave Jou stuck with Seto.'
'Good.' Yami grinned wickedly. 'I think it will be good for him, he needs to learn to work with people he doesn't get along with.'
'Is it just that Yami?' Yugi looked up at him knowingly. 'Or are you trying to play matchmaker again?'
'You're too smart Koi.' Yami pecked Yugi on the forehead. 'Don't tell me you didn't see how Kaiba was looking at Jou.'
'I saw.' Ryou giggled, sounding rather feminine. 'He was basically undressing him with his eyes!' He stopped giggling for a moment, blinking quizzically at both Yami and Yugi's stunned faces. 'Oh come on, you don't think I'm that innocent do you?'
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Seto roughly towelled his hair dry, flinging the towel angrily back into the bathroom before slamming the door. Why in Ra's name had he let the blond affect him so? He hadn't had to deal with that sort of problem for years and he didn't particularly wish for it to happen again. Letting himself get attached to anyone was dangerous, it only meant getting hurt.
'Big brother?'
Of course, that didn't include Mokoba.
'Welcome home Mokoba, how was school?'
'Alright I suppose.' Mokoba sat himself down on the bed, watching his brother painstakingly comb his brown mop of hair. 'The other guys are all such pricks though, why can't I go to a public school?'
'I told you Mokoba, it's too dangerous.' Seto replaced the comb, taking a seat next to his brother. 'Who knows what you'd pick up there?' He lay back on the bed, closing his eyes. Mokoba shook his head, knowing his brother hadn't slept last night.
'The new guards arrived?'
'Mmm.' Was all Seto mumbled, his breathing evening out slowly. Mokoba waited until he was sure his brother was sleeping, before slipping to personally greet the newcomers.
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Jou walked slowly down the streets of France, ignoring the bustle of shoppers around him and the snow that was settling lightly in with hair. His headache had dimmed now, with the price of his nose feeling as if it was going to drop off at any given moment. Still, it was better then the constant buzzing. He sighed softly, tilting his head up to looking into the grizzly grey sky above. He'd have to go back there eventually. The thought of having to sleep in that house made him pale. He glanced around the frosty square where he stood, spying a café on the northern side. Settling down at a table he ordered a café latte, thanking Ra for all those tedious French lessons he'd endured back at school. He tipped his aspirin bottle onto the table, cursing under his breath when only two pills fell out. Why hadn't they taught him the word for something as important as aspirin in class anyway?
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'Ah, Pegasus-san?' Jade eyes blinked in the darkness, focusing slowly on the silver haired man sitting near the other end of the room.
'What is it?'
He swallowed, still nervous around the older man.
'Sorry to bother you, but the team from Japan has arrived. You said you-'
'Very good.' Pegasus sipped on his pink champagne, letting the fruity smell linger in his nose for a moment. 'You may go.'
Smirking slightly, he watched the other man leave. 'A good boy.' He chuckled softly, before pulling a pad and pen over and scribbling something down. 'Time to see if Kaiba-boy's new friends are really all they're claimed to be.'
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A.N: Well, there end's another 'enthralling' episode of 'Warning-This program will now terminate' Yes, it now has a name! Go me! Anyway, I believe there is a nice blue button somewhere down there marked review. Now, move your mouse down there and click it! Yes! CLICK THE BLUE BUTTON MARKED REVIEW! Okay, you don't have to. But it would be appreciated. Ja now!
~Osiris-Lee
Pairings: Seto/Jou, Yami/Yugi, Marik/Malik, Bakura/Ryou,
A.N./ Warnings:
Osiris: Do we have a chapter two in the house? We do?!? WOULD YOU LOOK AT THAT! It's chapter two!
Max: Hooray.
Osiris: -.- Don't sound so excited about it.
Max: I try. Warning. This story contains shounen-ai. That means two
guys getting it on.
Osiris: ^^; Not -quite- getting it on. But close! .
Max: Whatever.
Ladyschumon: Well -he's- a barrel of laughs.
Osiris: Tell me about it. Oh! Ladyschu! *glomps* Everyone, this is my
wonderful editor!
Ladyschumon: And lawyer! ^^
Osiris: That too. *de-glomps* Anyway, I'd like to thank my wonderful,
kind, terrific reviewers: Meloncrisp, Jane Silver, Angel-soul03 and
hyakuhei. I love you all!
Ladyschumon: Thank you for proving me right! *hands out cookies and Yu-
Gi-Oh plushies to all the reviewers*
Osiris: Proving you right? *confused*
Ladyschumon: I -told- you they'd like it but you didn't believe me! :P
Osiris: *sniffs* But it's ba~ad! *cries*
Max: Yes, it's terribal.
Ladyschumon: Shut up! *thwacks Osiris*
Osiris: @.@
Ladyschumon: And that's 'terrible', Max.
Max: Whatever.
Ladyschumon: Now you see why they need me! ^^ Now, go read! Go! Before
Osiris wakes up and begins bad-mouthing herself again. Ja!
P.A.N: In case anyone was wondering, these are the guy's ages.
Seto-22, Jou- 21, Yami-22, Yugi-20, Ryou-20, Malik and Marik-21,
Bakura- 22, Mokoba- 14
Okay, now let's really get onto the story.
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The one thing I hate about people. Well, there isn't just one thing. It differs from person to person, naturally. Actually, that's probably the thing I dislike the most about the human race. You can't expect the same thing from two different people. That's why I like machines. You know what to expect. No surprises. Except this one program. Even I did not anticipate what it could do. I must keep it separate from the rest of my system as it spreads like a virus. How it does that, I don't know. I certainly did not program it to. So on my laptop it must stay, until I can finally get rid of it. I'm beginning to regret all the protection passwords and traps I put in. How could I have been so careless?
'Master Kaiba? The new guards have arrived Sir.'
'Thank you, I'll see them in a moment.'
Now it seems, I must deal with people again. If only to get rid of this one abnormality in my life.
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'Well from what I've read I knew Kaiba was rich, but this is far beyond what I expected.' Jou clenched his eyes shut, trying in vain to block out Ryou's excited chatter. The boy had never been to France; neither had the others mind you, and was incredibly excited. Any excitement Jou had harboured about his first trip overseas, however, had been squashed upon entering the Kaiba mansion. The ear-splitting vibrations, that had been annoying him all through the plane trip over, had increased tenfold and were giving Jou one massive migraine. Ryou's constant babblings weren't helping either.
'Why is he keeping us waiting?' he muttered angrily, rubbing his temples in a fruitless attempt to relieve the dull ache there. 'We've almost been here for a bloody hour.'
'Oh I'm sure he has his reasons, He has a company to run along with this new problem and-' Ryou was cut off abruptly by the door on the far side of opened and the aforementioned man strode into the room, inspecting the quartet with a critical eye.
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Seto was irritated with himself. Not only had he let himself loose track of time again, he'd also fallen asleep at his desk. It was bad enough that he'd let himself be bullied into extra security by the government. Personally, he thought they were overreacting. Sure, he'd created something terrible, possibly lethal, but letting four new guards, which he hadn't been able to background scan, into his home? A foolish mistake in his opinion. He surveyed the three (A.N: Yes, three) seated around the room in distaste. The two on the settee closest to him, Yami and Yugi Motou if his memory served, were snuggled together as if they were sitting in the winter's snow that had carpeted the land outside instead of in his nice warm living room. Their similar hairstyles were the only thing alike about them aside from their last name. The smaller of the two, Yugi, Seto guessed, was about half a head shorter then any of the others. He had a cheerful smile to match his equally cheerful amethyst eyes. Yami's eyes, on the other hand, were a deep crimson and currently were soft as he gazed down at Yugi who was snuggling into his lap.
'Oh great.' thought Seto. 'Lovebirds, just what I need.'
The other boy in the room was also on the small side. Silver-white spiky bangs hanging to his shoulders and soft brown eyes announced him as being Ryou Bakura.
'He.looks familiar.' Seto squinted slightly, tilting his head so the light caught Ryou at a different angle. His ice blue eyes widened slightly in shock. 'Bakura!'
'If you're quite done staring,' a tired voice behind Seto made him jump. 'Would you care to introduce yourself?'
Turning around with full intent to give the poor person a verbal pounding, Seto felt the angry words die on his lips at the sight of fourth member of the team. Standing a head shorter then Seto himself, Jou Katsuya had his arms crossed, giving Seto a 'Well? Get on with it!' look through his honey coloured bangs. Seto stared into golden brown eyes until Jou broke eye contact, giving Seto the chance to look at the rest of the blond. He trailed down from the eyes over Jou's lips, 'Kissable lips' thought Seto with an internal chuckle, and down the rest of his body. 'On second thoughts,' Seto mused, allowing himself to raise a questioning eyebrow at his new object of interest, 'This might not be so bad after all.'
'I would have thought it was obvious who I am.' The blond shrugged, apathetic to Seto's cool tone.
'Bit difficult to say, with all the people you have running around here.'
'Jou.' Yami had left his Yugi gazing for a moment to reprimand the younger blond. 'Good afternoon Mr. Kaiba, we were sent-'
'By the government, I know.' Seto shook Yami's hand, still eyeing Jou out of the corner of his eye. 'I take it you know what your task is?'
'We've been given a general briefing.' Put in Bakura, 'No, Ryou.' Seto corrected himself. He nodded.
'I see.' He moved to take a seat facing the door. 'Two of you will be required to stand guard around the mansion at all times and assist my personal guards should a break in occur. One of you will guard my younger brother-'
'Your brother?' Yugi spoke up for the first time. 'Why would he need protection?'
'It didn't occur to you that he could be held in exchange to the program?' Seto said coolly before continuing. 'They will accompany him twenty-four hours a day. The last member of the team,' He let his eyes flick over to Jou. 'will be accompanying me through my daily routine.' He stood suddenly, stretching slightly. 'You have the rest of the day to settle in as you start tomorrow. I suggest you decide your roles first off.' With that he stalked out of the room, heading up to his bathroom to relieve himself of an annoying lump in his pants which had come about from thinking too long about just how Jou would look squirming beneath him in pleasure.
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'Prick.' Was the first thing to come out of Jou's mouth as soon as the door closed behind Seto.
'Now now Jou.' Ryou scolded. 'You've only known him fifteen minutes!'
'He was looking at us as if the were some parasite he had to put up with!' Jou complained, resting his head in his hands.
'We should take his advice though.' Said Yami, taking charge. 'Make the most of what's left of today so we'll be fresh for the morning.'
'Be fresh for the morning my foot.' scoffed Jou, getting to his feet. 'I'm going out.'
'Don't get lost Jou!' Yugi called to the retreating blond, before settling back down into Yami's arms.
'He could have stayed to help.' muttered Yami, nuzzling into Yugi's hair.
'Ah leave him be Yami.' smiled Ryou, pulling his chair over. 'He'll be fine. Now who's doing what?'
'Yugi and I will stay in the mansion.'
Ryou nodded, he hadn't been expecting anything else. 'I will look after the young Kaiba. It will be interesting to see how the French schooling system operates.' Ryou chuckled, and then became serious. 'But that would leave Jou stuck with Seto.'
'Good.' Yami grinned wickedly. 'I think it will be good for him, he needs to learn to work with people he doesn't get along with.'
'Is it just that Yami?' Yugi looked up at him knowingly. 'Or are you trying to play matchmaker again?'
'You're too smart Koi.' Yami pecked Yugi on the forehead. 'Don't tell me you didn't see how Kaiba was looking at Jou.'
'I saw.' Ryou giggled, sounding rather feminine. 'He was basically undressing him with his eyes!' He stopped giggling for a moment, blinking quizzically at both Yami and Yugi's stunned faces. 'Oh come on, you don't think I'm that innocent do you?'
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Seto roughly towelled his hair dry, flinging the towel angrily back into the bathroom before slamming the door. Why in Ra's name had he let the blond affect him so? He hadn't had to deal with that sort of problem for years and he didn't particularly wish for it to happen again. Letting himself get attached to anyone was dangerous, it only meant getting hurt.
'Big brother?'
Of course, that didn't include Mokoba.
'Welcome home Mokoba, how was school?'
'Alright I suppose.' Mokoba sat himself down on the bed, watching his brother painstakingly comb his brown mop of hair. 'The other guys are all such pricks though, why can't I go to a public school?'
'I told you Mokoba, it's too dangerous.' Seto replaced the comb, taking a seat next to his brother. 'Who knows what you'd pick up there?' He lay back on the bed, closing his eyes. Mokoba shook his head, knowing his brother hadn't slept last night.
'The new guards arrived?'
'Mmm.' Was all Seto mumbled, his breathing evening out slowly. Mokoba waited until he was sure his brother was sleeping, before slipping to personally greet the newcomers.
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Jou walked slowly down the streets of France, ignoring the bustle of shoppers around him and the snow that was settling lightly in with hair. His headache had dimmed now, with the price of his nose feeling as if it was going to drop off at any given moment. Still, it was better then the constant buzzing. He sighed softly, tilting his head up to looking into the grizzly grey sky above. He'd have to go back there eventually. The thought of having to sleep in that house made him pale. He glanced around the frosty square where he stood, spying a café on the northern side. Settling down at a table he ordered a café latte, thanking Ra for all those tedious French lessons he'd endured back at school. He tipped his aspirin bottle onto the table, cursing under his breath when only two pills fell out. Why hadn't they taught him the word for something as important as aspirin in class anyway?
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'Ah, Pegasus-san?' Jade eyes blinked in the darkness, focusing slowly on the silver haired man sitting near the other end of the room.
'What is it?'
He swallowed, still nervous around the older man.
'Sorry to bother you, but the team from Japan has arrived. You said you-'
'Very good.' Pegasus sipped on his pink champagne, letting the fruity smell linger in his nose for a moment. 'You may go.'
Smirking slightly, he watched the other man leave. 'A good boy.' He chuckled softly, before pulling a pad and pen over and scribbling something down. 'Time to see if Kaiba-boy's new friends are really all they're claimed to be.'
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A.N: Well, there end's another 'enthralling' episode of 'Warning-This program will now terminate' Yes, it now has a name! Go me! Anyway, I believe there is a nice blue button somewhere down there marked review. Now, move your mouse down there and click it! Yes! CLICK THE BLUE BUTTON MARKED REVIEW! Okay, you don't have to. But it would be appreciated. Ja now!
~Osiris-Lee