Flame Swordswoman: Yes, I finally updated. And I'm continuing this right now.
Lil Nezumi: I'm not giving up on it and would it be Jou/Mokuba if they didn't hook up? Nice to see you're so interested in it.
Kurama's Oni: He is, isn't he. No clue what the heck it is but I've seen that quite a few times so I'm going with it. Mokie's coming back, right now.
BarbedWire23: Thank you! And here's the next chapter.
New chapter! Actually I finished this a few days back but lost the disk it was on. Just found it again so here we go! Hope everyone continues to enjoy it!
Mokuba yawned as he headed into the hospital with an armful of flowers. He knocked on his boyfriend's door only to have it open where he met face to face with his brother.
"What are you doing here?" Mokuba asked suddenly angry. He of all people knew Seto's attraction to Jonouchi and he of all people shouldn't need to be happy about it.
"I'm making friends with your student, is that okay with you?" Mokuba glowered at Seto as his older brother waved to Jonouchi and left.
"Jou, why did you let him in?" Mokuba asked as he slammed the door shut.
Jonouchi laid down again from his sitting position. "He's the one that called the ambulance Mokie. I don't get it. Before you would've rejoiced if we ever started talking now he comes to visit and it's like world war three."
"Jou, don't trust him." Jonouchi swallowed hard as he heard these words from Mokuba. He idolized his older brother and now this. Kaiba had apologized for his previous actions and sworn never to do it again.
Mokuba left the flowers and stormed out.
"Seto!" Mokuba yelled as he stormed into his brother's office. His brother still hadn't noticed so Mokuba shook his shoulder. Kaiba looked up at his younger brother's furious face.
"What?"
"Seto!" He yelled again and saw his brother's smirk. Kaiba went back to ignoring Mokuba. The younger Kaiba knew he could yell and scream and make any noise he wanted to and Kaiba still wouldn't notice him. Seto Kaiba had been born with a defect of the inner ear. Born into a poor family the saving surgery was out of range. Past the age of five his ears had been unrepairable. Deaf for life he had needed to learn to function on his own.
'Seto' Mokuba angrily signed his brother's name. The shock of seeing sign again caused Kaiba to look up at Mokuba.
'Don't try it Seto. I know you can see me.'
'So what if I can.' Kaiba signed back with the skill of only some one who had signed for so long could have.
'Stay away from Jou. He's mine. Besides, how would you two even communicate?'
Seto suddenly stood up. 'I'm the only one who can understand what he's going through!'
Mokuba turned around so he couldn't see his brother's frustrated signing. Once Seto realized this he reverted back to speech. "Mokuba! How dare you talk to me this way!"
Mokuba turned back around so he was sure Seto knew what he was saying. "I wasn't talking, I was signing and stay away from Jou. He doesn't need your kind of help." Mokuba walked out of the office leaving an infuriated Seto Kaiba behind.
Miss Usamu was standing in front as she knocked on the door of the huge town house. "These are the Irlands. They're a young couple and very much into stocks. She's a scientist in physics and he owns a computer company. They were married in the last year and have offered to take you in."
"Whatever," Jonouchi muttered as he shrugged his bag further onto his shoulder as he stood there, a bit nervous. Miss Usamu knocked on the door and a young woman answered it.
"Hello, I'm Miss Usamu from the Association for Blind Children and this is Katsuya."
"Oh! Come on in," Mrs. Irland said as she grabbed Jonouchi and led him in. Her voice was a bit too perky for Jonouchi's liking.
He was led inside the house and sat down on the couch. "George! Katsuya is here!" Jonouchi heard footsteps and felt Miss Usamu sit down beside him. He held his bag tightly as he leaned his cane against the couch.
"Katsuya, this is George and Ingrid Irland. I just have a few things to cover. Katsuya will be attending the Domino Specialty School for the Blind which starting during the second semester will be combining with Domino High School."
Jonouchi felt his stomach sink. Combining with Domino High? Ever since his argument with Honda he hadn't spoken to anyone, anyone but Kaiba that was. Seto Kaiba had visited him every day he was in the hospital. He never even was visited by Honda, Yugi, or Anzu. Mokuba maybe visited him about two or three times. Maybe he had chosen the wrong Kaiba brother.
"That's fine," Ingrid said. "We'll be able to drive him there with no problem."
"That's good, I'll just leave you alone to get used to each other." Miss Usamu got up off the couch and shook hands with both George and Ingrid before leaving.
"Well, Katsuya, we'll show you your room," George said as he led Jonouchi up the steps.
"Jou," Jonouchi said.
"What?"
"Call me Jou, not Katsuya. I don't want to be called Katsuya."
"Okay Jou," Ingrid said as they led him up the steps and opened the door. "Here's your room," she said as she led him in. "Dinners at six, the alarm will go off at then. Your Braille clock and phone are on the left of your bed."
"Thanks," Jonouchi muttered. "I think I can find everything else."
The door closed as Jonouchi let himself fall onto the bed. He wondered silently if this house was as big as Anzu's. He had been there once before.
"I can't believe he did that to me!" Anzu sighed as Honda continued yelling.
Boy, this is going to be a fun date. Anzu thought to herself. She glanced down at the sheet of paper she had gotten from Mokuba. It was Jonouchi's new address. "Well, you can't really blame him," Anzu said quietly. "We could never imagine what he's going through."
"He had no right!" Honda yelled and Anzu stood up.
"Take me home Honda."
Honda glared at his girl friend as he left with her following. He threw her the extra helmet and didn't talk the rest of the way. Anzu waited till Honda was out of sight to open the garage door and scramble into her car. She turned the key in the ignition and backed out of the driveway, taking out her city map to find the street. It took fifteen minutes to get there but she finally did. It was a selection of old town houses. Each house was about three times the size of an average house with at least three stories not counting basements.
"Let's see, I got the street, the house number is eight seventy six. Now the problem is finding it." Anzu drove down the street for a few miles before finding it. She pulled into the big driveway a parked before running up to the door.
Anzu knocked on the door and a young woman answered it. "Hello?"
"Hey! I'm Anzu Mazaki, a friend of Jou."
The woman blinked, confused for a second.
"Katsuya Jonouchi does live here, doesn't he?"
"Oh yes! Sorry, I still don't think of him as 'Jou'." Ingrid smiled at Anzu as she let the teenager in. "We're just finishing supper so he's available."
"Thanks," Anzu said as she entered the large dinning room and was amazed by the nice looking wooden floor. "Hey Jou! Mokuba gave me the address."
Jonouchi was putting his plates on the open bar in front of the sink.
"Anzu! I've missed everybody." Jonouchi grinned as he grabbed his white cane from where it was leaning against the table.
Anzu placed a hand on Jonouchi's back and smiled. "Hey, why don't we go to your room? We can talk there." Jonouchi nodded and led her up two flights of steps to the single room on the top floor.
Anzu gave a low whistle as she stepped in behind her friend. "Hey Jou, have you ever thought how you're going to tell your clothes apart?" Anzu asked as Jonouchi frowned.
"No idea."
"Well, I've been talking to Mokuba and he said that some of the other people he's helped have marked their clothes with Braille tags pinned to them."
"Sounds great Anzu! I'll see if I can do something about it." He grinned as he sat down and heard the rustling of a plastic bag.
"Great, I got the stuff right here." Anzu threw the bag onto the bed and dumped it out onto the bed.
"Hey Anzu, not that I got a problem but didn't you have a date."
Anzu just shrugged her shoulders and laughed. "Honda was being a brat so I went home early. Mokuba's been teaching me to read Braille."
She was obviously trying to avoid the subject of Honda. Jonouchi just shrugged and decided to talk about something else. "Guess what, I'll be back at school next semester. The blind school is combining with Domino High." Jonouchi's grin was huge as Anzu began going through his bag and pulled out all his clothes.
"Nice boxers," she said referring to a pair of boxers with puppies on them.
"Hey! Who said you could go through my clothes!" Jonouchi tried to jump but she had just stepped out of the way and he ended up with his face in the carpet.
"Hey!" Anzu said as she went through a few more boxers. "Silk! You really are gay aren't you?"
"I bet you've got silk too," Jonouchi pulled himself back up onto the bed, crossing his arms and sticking his lower lip out.
"Yeah well I am female!" Anzu yelled at him. "Quit giving me that look Jou!" Anzu began giggling as she started pinning the tags she had just made to the boxers. She put them in the top drawer and went to the rest of the clothes. Tagging them wasn't so hard since there were so few.
"Jou, I've got to take you shopping."
"You aren't taking me shopping," he stuck his tongue out at her and she tackled him and began tickling him until Jonouchi finally gave up. "Uncle!" He yelled through his laughs.
"Jou!" Jonouchi got up from where he was sitting next to Anzu.
"Yeah George!" He yelled down the steps.
George sighed as he climbed up the steps. "First of all, Jou could you please call me dad? And secondly it's two in the morning; your friend needs to go home. School starts tomorrow."
Anzu ran out to meet George. "Well, if you are busy I could drive Jou to school." Anzu offered. "It's just down the street from Domino High."
"That'll be fine. Just make sure he's to school on time."
"Don't worry! He will be!" For once, Anzu thought to herself. But he'll probably be later coming home cause we always hang out with friends.
"Perfectly fine," George smiled as he led Anzu downstairs. "It's time for bed Jou."
Jonouchi nodded his head. "See you tomorrow Anzu!"
