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Chapter 2

-Well what-do-you-know?

Jou sighed as he slowly walked out of the school grounds. Happy to be free he smiled and looked up to the sky. A limo zoomed past him as he was about to step into the car park, and he absently spat in that direction. Beginning the long walk home he pulled out his portable cd player and clipped it to his pocket, put on the headphones and switched on his cd. A few songs played before the song take me baby came on.

Dancing

I wanna feel your heart beating

Get up I'll show you the other side

Jumping

Oh what a beautiful night

Can't believe it's you and I

His head started to bop to the music.

Physical

When we're moving together I know

That you're the one

Chemical

When we are together

What's going on

This is the time

He looked down the road to make sure no cars were gonna hit him.

Take me baby

Light up this fire

I wanna see what you show me tonight

Take me baby

Come take this heart of mine

I wanna stay till the night is over Take me baby

Light up this fire

I wanna see what you show me tonight

Take me baby

Come take this heart of mine

No need for waiting no more come on and take me now

"Argh!" Jou jumped back in fright when he saw the limo drive past. "Stupid driver." He hissed before realising that he was home. Quickly putting his headphones in his bag with his cd player he rushed up to the door and opened it.

Seto quirked an eyebrow. Had he been right? Had that been the pup? If so he had a new thing to bug him with, dancing while trying to cross a busy road, how dumb can you get. But why was he all the way out here? Something awfully fishy was going on here. It was a 30 minute drive to here from the school, and he clearly seemed to be walking, that means it was take about double the amount of time.

'I don't care anyway.' He thought to himself before going back to thinking about his work.

Jou walked into his house with caution. When he got home his father was usually drunk and a lot of the time did nasty things. Quietly walking through the house he scanned for his father.

'Weird, he doesn't seem to be here.' He thought to himself. He opened the door to his bedroom slowly and stepped in, placing his bag down on the ground. Suddenly a blow to his stomach caught him off guard.

"You're late you little runt." Came a hiss from above the now on the floor Jou. Jou cutched his stomach in pain before getting to his feet and stepping to the side.

"Hello father." He muttered under his breath. His father –I'm gonna call him Jerry(I'm eating cherries at the moment (Authoresses sister here: She is not eating cherries because she doesn't even like them!) I do too you little bugger!)- smirked a drunk smirk. He looked down at Jou and breathed heavily, making Jou screw up his nose from the smell.

"Why were you late?" Jerry grumbled. Jou spoke in almost a whisper now.

"Traffic was pretty bad today." He said simply. Jerry frowned.

"Not good enough." He hissed before swinging his leg round to trip Jou, and it worked. Jou went plunging to the ground and let out a groan as Jerry's foot landed hard on his back. "I expect you to be on time tomorrow. Or else." He removed his foot, giving him one last good kick to the side and walked drunkenly away. Jou pushed himself off of the floor, then hearing a loud crash winced. There goes the vase that he'd gotten from Shizuka with a bunch of flowers. A yell followed and he forced himself out of the room to clean up the mess his father had made. Over time his father had convinced him it was his fault that his mother had left them. He didn't know why but it made him feel better whenever he told himself that it was his fault. Maybe it was because it gave his father a reason to abuse him, I don't know. But it did make him feel better. After putting the pieces of the vase in his room to try and stick it back together he went to the fridge and pulled out some food. He ate it quickly and hurried back to his room so he could get to bed. He'd been feeling sick that day, so a nice warm and comfortable sleep would do him some good.

Jou ran to the classroom and slammed the door open, puffing heavily as he made his way over to his desk.

"Jou, you just made it. Mr. Flamingo (Flamingo? Rightio then) called in sick so they had to find a substitute at the last minute." Anzu chirped. Jou let his head drop into his hands as the door slid open and Mrs. Bull (Eh?) who in his opinion was the worst teacher there could be entered. Groans of disapproval filled the room and in seconds it was over with the teacher glaring at everyone and threatening to call Mr. Poodle. (He the principal)

"Now class, I want you to answer the following questions when I ask you. Daniel, 17 multiplied by 8." Daniel mumbled his answer as did three more people before she asked Jou one. "Jou, 26 multiplied by 33." She snapped. Jou sweatdropped. He'd never been good at maths, and she knew that.

"Uhh…"

"Shall we ask another one then. What about 16 multiplied by 4." Jou sighed. He knew this one –only because he'd been going over his 4 times tables for a test with Anzu.-

"64." He answered quietly. Mrs. Bull grunted and looked at Seto.

"678 mutpilied by 56."

"37968" he answered instantly. Jou sweatdropped. He had known Seto to be smart, but that was ridiculous. Mrs. Bull, annoyed at his instant right answer tried another that she was sure he'd stuff up on.

"265839 multiplied by 458719."

"1219454" he said without a thought. Mrs. Bull took out her calculator and punched in the numbers. Indeed he was right. Fed up with it she went to the next person.

"Kerry, 45 multiplied by 67." The girl being questioned sat for a minute before she clicked her fingers and answered. Jou groaned when she picked up sheets of paper and started to hand them out.

'No way. She can't give us a test.' He tod himself.

"Anyone who fails this test shall stay back and keep going until you get it right." She explained. Jou sank further into his seat, hearing snicker behind him made him feel worse than before. He whipped his head round to glare at Seto when the test landed on his desk and he was yelled at for not paying attention. Once the bitch had gone Jou stared at his paper.

'Awe man. Shit.' He cursed in his mind when he saw the long sums and problems to solve. Picking up his pencil he started the work much to his dismay and got lost on the first question. 'What's 674 divided by three?' he mumbled as quietly as possible before jotting down an answer. After half an hour of answering maths questions the teacher took up the tests and told them to answer the sums on the board whilst she corrected the tests.

"Jou, you stay behind for a minute please." Mrs. Bull snapped. Jou, sure he'd failed and had to do the test again leant against the wall and threw his head back, not realising by doing so it would hit the wall.

"Ouch." He yelped before the teacher stormed over to him waving his test around dangerously.

"How did you do it?" she hissed at him. "Who did you get the answers from?"

"Uh, I did it by myself Mrs. Bull." He said shortly.

"Impossible! You aren't good at maths and you only got a few wrong!" she snapped at him angrily. Jou's mouth dropped.

"Are you kidding? I guessed most of them!" He admitted before snatching the test from her and looking at the results. "I'm a genius." He cheered before running out of the room to find Yugi and the gang. Boy did he have news for them.

Yugi winced as an over excited Jou came racing towards them waving something in his hand.

"Guys, guess what." He said hurriedly. "I passed my maths test! I only got a few wrong."

"Wow Jou, you must have practiced pretty well." Anzu said shortly. Jou shook his head.

"Nope. I guessed most of them." A huge sweatdrop formed on the back of people's heads.

"Um Jou, how many did you actually work out?" Honda inquired. Jou counted them off on his fingers.

"Five." He announced.

"And how many did you get wrong?" Anzu questioned. Jou looked at the sheet and counted.

"Five." He chirped.

"okay, so what your saying is you worked out five, got five wrong, and those five just happened to be the same?" Yugi asked. Jou sweatdropped.

"Uh, ya lost me Yug." Jou said before yelping. A hand had snatched his test out of his hand.

"Wow mutt, you got lucky. I was wondering why you were so happy." The Seto Kaiaba, in the flesh, grunted. Jou snatched his test back again.

"Get lost Kaiba!" he hissed. Seto quirked a brow.

"Is that all you say?" He frowned when Jou stuck his tongue out at him. "Stupid dog." He growled. Jou glared.

"Stop calling me a dog!" he ordered. Seto shook his head.

"Why should I, mutt?" Jou let his anger rise before he raised his hand to punch the blue-eyed boy.

"Shut up Kaiba!"