"With sword and spear ye shall fight your fill. Go now your ways and start at will." Joey readied himself for a fight at the narrator's command.

"You threaten to take my girl, you threaten your way to death," he said jokingly, knowing how much it would tick off everyone who was taking these rehearsals too seriously. Kaiba just crossed his arms.

"I won't fight you," he said. Joey lowered the plastic sword and looked at him incredulous.

"What?" he asked.

"Yeah, what?" a girl repeated annoyed. Kyle, the boy who had taken charge of the whole play, stood up.

"What are you doing?" he asked just as annoyed.

"You know what I just realized?" Tristan whispered to Yugi. Yugi looked away from Joey and Kaiba to acknowledge him.

"What?"

"Kaiba hasn't said or done one mean thing all day...to anyone. I even saw him helping some kid who'd run into him pick up his books without even an aggravated look."

"Well that's not like Kaiba at all. I wonder what's going on?"

"You have to fight me. It's written in the script. Here. Right here. Do you see it?" Joey said shoving the script in Kaiba's face and pointing to a line on the page. "Fight me...and I lose. How can I lose if you forfeit?"

"I don't want to fight you," Kaiba reinforced.

"Well that's new. Especially since you win. Or maybe it's not new because you know it's just a waste of time. I know how you are about things like that. But guess what. The only thing I'm good at is wasting peoples time so humor me and let me do something that I know how to." Kaiba said something inaudible and Joey looked at him blankly.

"You're good at wasting my time and I'm tired of it. You guys can both fail if you want to but..." the boy was interrupted.

"Oh just shut up. If I hear one more stupid remark about us not doing what you want us to do then I'm gonna punch you in the face and then see if you'll wanna talk so big." Tristan grabbed Joey as he went to move closer to Kyle.

"Joey calm down. It isn't worth it," Yugi said moving next to them.

"Oh, I think it's worth it. He's been racking me since the first day we started all this and I don't want to hear it anymore."

"Look. Just because Kaiba won't fight you doesn't mean you have to find somebody to fill that spot for him," Tristan mumbled so that no one else would hear. Joey shook himself free.

"This has nothing to do with Kaiba. I hate him and he hates me so let's just get on with this fight. It shouldn't be that hard to do. I thought you enjoyed beating me, Kaiba. What's making you so scared now? It's not even a real fight and you already know you're gonna win. So let's go." Joey raised the fake sword again in challenge. Kaiba sighed and drew his own sword. But they didn't fight. Neither one would make the first move. Joey lowered the sword again. "Let's just say we did it for now. I lost okay." Joey sat down on the stage floor and put the prop to the side.

"Say the correct line," Kyle instructed. Joey glared at him.

"Go to hell," he returned. Kyle backed up a bit.

"Well I think that's enough for today. We can finish this up tomorrow." He made a beeline for the back door. A few other kids waited a minute and then followed, mumbling things to each other as they exited. Yugi went to see if Joey was okay but Tristan grabbed him and pulled him back as Kaiba approached first.

"Let's go," Tristan said pushing him away from them. Yugi looked up at him surprised but went with him toward the exit. Tea and Ryou saw what they were doing and followed. Before Kaiba could say anything, Ally walked over and seeing her approach, Kaiba walked over to his bag acting as if he were getting ready to leave.

"Come on Joey, I still have to tell you about..."

"Hey Ally! You want to go grab something to eat with us?" Tristan called to her. She looked from Joey to the guys and then back again.

"I'll meet you there," Joey said. She nodded and ran out to meet the group at the door. Once they exited Joey and Kaiba were left alone. "I won't believe anything you have to say," Joey said standing up. He turned his back to Kaiba, getting off the stage and going over to his own bag, slipping his script inside. " That letter wasn't even close to being believable. You sounded like a child."

"I never..."

"And did you really think that being nice to everyone for one day would make me think that you'd changed?"

"No. But it's what you asked for." Joey turned and looked at him confused. Kaiba smiled a little. "You told me that if I treated everyone the way that I treat my brother that you'd do anything I wanted." Joey sat down in the seat next to his bag.

"I did say that didn't I?" he laughed realizing how much trouble he could have created for himself with that statement now. It hadn't even crossed his mind that Seto would try and use it against him. " Well what do you want?" he asked not really wanting to know what kind of sick thing Seto had in mind. Kaiba sat down on the edge of the stage in front of him.

"I want you to forget everything I've said or done to you in the past." Joey met his eyes the unexpectedness of the words hitting him. Automatically he assumed that meant that Seto wanted to be forgiven but the word everything stuck out and he had to shake his head.

"That includes everything that happened last weekend. So you want me to just forget that you exist? That might be kinda hard considering..." Kaiba got down from the stage and took a few steps up the aisle.

"However you want to take that is up to you," he paused finding it hard to say what he wanted to say next. "I want..." he stopped himself, unable to finish, despite how much he knew he wanted to. The words ' what you want' just wouldn't come out. Joey came up behind him and slid his arms around his waist.

"I want you," he whispered in Seto's ear. Seto closed his eyes and told himself that he must be dreaming again because he would never let himself feel the feelings that were awakening in him now. He didn't need this to accomplish his goals. And anything he didn't absolutely need was obsolete. If that were true then why was he spending so much time trying to make one insignificant person happy, or at least that's what he thought he was doing...trying to make Joey happy. But no one does anything for anyone unless it somehow benefits them as well, and Seto certainly didn't do anything to help another person. So what exactly was he doing? He was admitting to himself that he was human. That he too had weaknesses. And that one of those weaknesses was tall, blonde, and high-strung. He laughed at the thought, which made Joey withdraw and look away embarrassed. " I guess we should forget that too," he said grabbing his bag as the bell rang. Kaiba stopped him.

"About as much as you should forget this." He pulled Joey back to him and kissed him passionately. Joey had to pull back to catch his breath.

"I don't understand you," he said. Kaiba smiled.

"Are you supposed to?" he asked. The door opened and Yugi popped his head in.

"Something happened at Ryou's house so there's been a change in plans," he called down to them.

"What is it?" Joey asked grabbing his bag again and starting toward him. Yugi watched Kaiba going to get his things before answering.

"We're not sure how it happened but...there's been an accident."