A/N: Here is the next chapter, like promised, its way long.

Oh by the way, I don't drink underage, no worries. In Quebec the legal age is 18. Quite the difference from the legal age being 21 I suppose. Anyway, Jounouchi is clearly drinking underage in this, but that's the least of his problems. So I'd just like to reiterate: I don't agree with it.

Disc: Yu-gi-oh! And all that is related to it is not mine.

Chapter 2

"Katsuya! Wake up!" Jounouchi sat up alarmed. He didn't even realize he had fallen asleep, but he had managed to fall asleep in the middle of his floor. "Katsuya!" His dad was now in his room. Jounouchi looked at him puzzled.

"What?"

"What the crap is this?!" He pointed out to the hall, and grabbed his son by the scruff of his shirt, dragging him out. Jounouchi was shocked. The apartment was an absolute chaotic mess! Worse then when his dad has a violent temper tantrum. There was ketchup on the walls, as well as other unidentifiable condiments and…butter? A chair was in the sink and another one sticking out of the oven and there was unrolled paper towel tangled up around the room. The table was knocked over, pictures, figurines, beer; everything was all over the place.

"How did this happen?!" Jounouchi gasped.

"Well YOU did it!" His father snapped, dropping him on the floor and grumpily giving him a swift boot in the ass.

"How do you know?!" Jounouchi rubbed his behind as he got up.

"I just got home. I was out all night." The older man frowned. Jounouchi looked at the clock. It was 1 pm. What the hell happened last night? He then suddenly remembered.

"Oh shit."

"What?" His dad glared at him.

"I'll clean this up…"the blonde started by taking the shampoo bottles out of the fridge. His dad left and Jounouchi wasn't sure where he went and he didn't care. How could this have happened? What had he taken yesterday? He could barely remember. He remembered drinking…

As he took the chair out of the sink he remembered.

There was something coming out of the sink drain! He had to stop the fiend from escaping!

"Back you crazy bastard! I'll kill you!" Jounouchi muttered barely understandable to anyone who was watching the boy threaten invisible enemies. He took the chair and stuck it the sink, making sure the drain was covered. The beast's tentacles wriggled underneath it, reaching for him, and he took the ketchup from the fridge, and squirted it at the monster. "Take this! How about THIS you skunk brained scoundrel!?!"

He shook his head as he put the table back in its proper position. He had forgotten about the acid that Hirutani had offered him. It must have kicked in sometime after he had gotten home. Why did he take that stupid shit anyway?

He took the paper from his former leader. He shrugged and put it in his mouth. It'd be rude not to take it. He didn't really have much choice anyway. Everyone was watching him, as if his life depended on whether or not he ate the damn thing. Besides, these stupid drugs hardly ever had a large effect on him. He'd go home and sleep before it even hit him…

Obviously, he was more ignorant then he thought, but it didn't matter anymore. He just had to promise himself he'd never take drugs again. He hadn't even smoked a joint in three years, let alone taken any hard narcotics.

Once finished his cleaning, he decided to go out for a walk; or rather, he wanted to go find Hirutani before they all got together that night. He needed to discuss his return. He knew where Hirutani lived and it would look very nervy if he went to his house- which was perfect, because that's the type of person Jounouchi was. He wouldn't be Jounouchi if he didn't get into Hirutani's face. Never mind that was part of the reason Hirutani felt the need to reprogram the blonde into conforming along with the rest of the group. Jounouchi wasn't big on being a sheep- maybe Kaiba was slightly right about the dog thing. When it came to a herd of sheep, Jounouchi tended to be the sheep dog. He had no qualms about getting right in there and mixing it up, using little threats to get the herd to get moving. If he was the sheep dog, and the gang were sheep…did that make Hirutani the Sheppard, thus was Jounouchi still being controlled by him? Damn…

Hirutani didn't live in a much better part of town then Jounouchi did, but at least Hirutani had a house. Not only that, he also had both his parents. They seemed decent, just not exactly well off. They probably didn't approve of their son's behavior, but it wasn't like they could do a lot about it. He'd have to give up the gang eventually. Jounouchi couldn't imagine Hirutani quitting though…maybe he'd move on to bigger things like a mafia or something. That would be kind of cool…

Jounouchi didn't go to the door. Instead he went to the back of the house, to where Hirutani's room was (if he remembered correctly) and opened the window. He entered, without warning and scanned the room. His eyes fell onto the bed where Hirutani seemed to be sleeping- that or there was a shit load of junk under the blankets.

"Hirutani, you chimp, wake up." Jounuchi pulled the blankets off. The older boy woke up slowly, and glared.

"Who the fuck do you think you are?" He sat up and after a moment he seemed to wake up completely. He rubbed his hazel eyes and frowned at the younger boy. "Jounouchi, you fucker, what are you doing in my house?"

"I came to talk to you without the rest'a them punks." The shorter blonde shrugged, and took a seat on the chair in front of Hirutani's desk. "See, if I'm coming back I wanna make sure we have an understanding."

"You come crawling back to us, and NOW you have conditions? Forget it."

"I didn't crawl back, I just felt like it. I don't NEED to join; I can just walk away right now."

"So what conditions are we talking about?" Hirutani tried to sound like he didn't care. He put his hair into his usual pony tail, showing the light blue buzzed hair underneath. Hirutani had somewhat long hair on the top of his head that was a brilliant shade of blue. He was a tall, well-built boy, with a serious, "no bullshit" expression always on his face. He had his left ear pierced with several rings- mostly red ones.

"I just wanna make sure that you understand that I have another life that I want separate from this- in other words I can't miss a lot of school when it starts up again, cuz people'll come lookin for me, and I dun want them to find out about this. Right? Also, those people, my friends- you remember them right? I dun want them hurt- FOR REAL this time. They got nothing to do with this."

"So what you're saying is this is only a part time commitment."

"Yeah- cuz I work too."

"Why are you coming back? Nothing seems to have changed." Hirutani frowned going to his beverage fridge in the corner and tossing Jounouchi a beer and getting one for himself.

"I…know; I just felt like coming back. Maybe I miss kicking ass…or maybe I just missed your beautiful mug." Jounouchi smirked.

"Heh, well I won't lie to ya, I sure missed having you around. You were the only one worth having around."

"So, do you think this can work?" Jounouchi asked, referring to his conditions.

"Yea, but don't let the others know I cut you a deal. At this point they don't see you as a loyal member- and you know how it is. You can't start at the top."

"But I basically am."

"Well yea, but there aren't many original members around anymore that know you from before. I'm already getting flack about you being my right hand." Hirutani took a joint out of a baggie and lit it.

"Well that's there problem. I'll beat their faces in if they're gonna start bitchin' at me."

"You should. Some of those retards are so obnoxious, I just wanna kill them- but right now I can't be killing off valuable members…you see, I DO have enemies, and since you left it's been hard times." He took a drag from his joint then offered it to Jounouchi, who without thinking took a long drag himself. "Let's be honest, you were a valuable member, and I truly consider you a friend."

"Oh you sure showed it when you almost killed me those last few encounters."

"Oh right, you dyke, like throwing me off a building didn't almost kill me." Hirutani smacked Jounouchi across his face.

"You put glass in my eye! You were going to STAB me in the NECK! You were playing serious!" Hirutani offered Jounouchi his own joint, and lit it for him. "Not only that, but the time before when I came back because you threatened to hurt all the kids in my class, you tortured me by electrocuting me!"

"THAT was COOL."

"Cool?! You know how much that killed?"

"I do, your friend did it to us too remember?" Hirutani started another joint.

"Nope. My brain was in shock or something at that point." Jounouchi took the first drag of his.

"I liked that…it was cool. I've been meaning to try that form of torture again some day…but no one's really pissed me off that much."

"Not to me dude…I was messed up for a bit…like...maybe a day." Jounouchi felt a bit relaxed. Three or four joints later they both felt perfectly lazy.

"Yeah…we need some music…"

"Why don't we go to the….place…that we go? Whatever the shit it's called."

"Our abandoned warehouse?" Hirutani offered.

"Sure…" Jounouchi stood up lazily.

"Yea, that's where I got all the hard shit." Hirutani grabbed his backpack.

"No dude, I fucked my house last night…I had a chair in the sink…" Jounouchi crawled out the window. Hirutani laughed hysterically.

"You retard, I told you not to go home last night! You didn't listen. But tonight…well we have a little something special planned…"

"FUCK! I just remembered, man. I need to go. Go to see Honda!" Jounouchi did a quick 180 and was walking in the opposite direction.

"Honda? That bitch, forget him."

"No man! God dammit you!" Jounouchi paused, wondering why he had suddenly become so hostile and so stupid sounding…god dammit you? "I'll meet you there tonight at um...8:00."

"Ok whatever. I'm going to go get some shit for tonight." Hirutani always managed to stay so cool, where as Jounouchi was beginning to realize that the weed had been laced, and he was showing signs.

"Crap damn!" he cursed, as he walked in circles trying to figure out where Honda was. By some amazing stroke of luck it had only taken him half an hour to find Honda's home, and by then he'd become somewhat normal. He rung the doorbell, and Honda's father answered. Jounouchi mentally told himself to be normal.

"HELLO!" He said a little too loudly. He was very nervous about Honda's dad figuring him out. "I'm looking for Honda! Maybe you've seen him?" The senior Honda blinked and didn't respond right away. After a long awkward silence he replied.

"He's in his room Jounouchi-san…are you feeling ok?"

"FINE, fine! Your fine, I'm fine! Oh look at this rug!" Jounouchi took off his shoes, and struggled to put them away properly, then quickly made his way to Honda's room. "HONDA!" Jounouchi slammed the door behind him. "I have arrived!"

"Jounouchi? Why are you yelling?" Honda muttered from his bed.

"I'm yelling?"

"You're not yourself…what happened?" Honda smelled the pot and prayed his dad's cold didn't permit that he smelled it, and thanked God that his mom was at work.

"You wanted me to come…today?"

"No…did I?" Honda sat up and stretched.

"WHAAAAAT?!" Jounouchi's arms fell to his side. "I thought you did."

"We planned to go to a party tomorrow but… that's not today." The taller boy stood up and put pants on over his boxers that had Gundam Mechas on them.

"You pecker…why didn't you tell me." Jounouchi flopped on the bed.

"You forgot cuz YOU were smoking up, weren't you." The brunette accused.

"I don't do that shit, I'm a responsible citizen…can I sleep here for a minute?"

"Yea sure dude, I'm going to have lunch."

"BRING ME SOME LUNCH!" Jounouchi demanded, erecting his arm as the rest of his body lay lazily on Honda's bed.

"Yea yea, then you and me gotta talk."

"Yes sir!" Jounouchi rolled onto his side. What was in that weed? What was he doing to himself? Honda would beat the shit out of him when he came back. He watched Honda's fish swim around in awe, until he fell asleep.

He was awoken by someone poking him.

"Lunch dude."

"Who eats lunch this late?" Jounouchi muttered.

"I do, when I sleep in till 3 pm." Honda handed Jounouchi a bowl of ramen, which was eaten in about 30 seconds.

"You wanna tell me where you got the weed?" Honda asked slurping up some of his ramen.

"What weed?"

"Don't be like that man, you can tell me stuff. I'm not Yugi, I'm well aware of the other lifestyle you have." Honda sighed. It was true that he knew a great deal more about Jounouchi's lifestyle then Yugi or Anzu, but he didn't know as much as he thought. Jounouchi shrugged.

"It would have been rude to say no."

"Oh man…whose was it?"

"Well if you're going to judge me, I ain't talking bout it." Jounouchi turned away, and concentrated on a piece of thread coming out of Honda's blanket.

"I'm not judging you! I just worry."

"Why do you worry? Have I not proven time and time again that I don't NEED you or ANYBODY to worry about me?"

"You've proven time and time again that you DO need someone to worry. You do some retarded shit sometimes. You're reckless, impulsive and honestly…not that you're stupid, but you're not that smart."

"Oh you piss me off." Jounouchi stood up and decided it was time to leave. He had been insulted enough. "I'm going."

"Aw, come on, I don't mean to rag on ya dude, why don't you stay for dinner?" Honda offered, hoping the quick-tempered blonde would accept so they would make peace.

"Naw, I can't I gotta meet some friends…" Jounouchi hoped Honda wouldn't question it. Hopefully he assumed Yu-gi or something.

"Oh yea? Who? You going out with Yugi, Anzu and I to see that movie? I thought you didn't want to." Honda sounded hopeful. The shorter boy mentally slapped his forehead. Dammit, he forgot that tonight was the night they were all supposed to see a movie- except him who absolutely did NOT want to go see it. If it won't make him laugh and it doesn't have violence, he wouldn't spend any of his hard earned dollars on it.

"No…" He sighed. Honda thought for a moment. Then he looked at Jounouchi seriously.

"You're not back in with them are you?" If Jounouchi weren't a gambling guy, he might have given a very shocked and nervous look. But he had trained himself over his time of duel monsters to keep a straight face- plus also he was big into gambling, much like his old man. Needed a good poker face you know. He tried to play it cool and play it dumb.

"Who?" He made the most puzzled expression he could muster that looked sincere.

"That old gang of yours."

"Nope. Even if I wanted to, those guys hate me now. They want me dead. Naw, these are a few people I met during battle city. I told them we'd have a few games once in a while, and they called me up to do that tonight. You know? Maybe even trade a few cards…"

"Sounds cool. Well have fun with that. But who DID give you that weed? This has got me confused." Honda crossed his arms behind his head, looking relaxed. Jounouchi had to think of someone quick. Who would do pot that Jounouchi may talk to on occasion?

"I bumped into Dinosaur Ryuuzaki and he was with a few friends. He asked me to join them- he gets really social and forgiving when he's high I guess- that and that shit was laced with something for sure. I don't typically act so retarded when I smoke normal pot." Jounouchi was certain that his story sounded sincere and believable, and Ryuuzaki DID seem like the type…

"That kid is SUCH a loser."

"Amen to that, brother. But seriously, I must get a move on." Jounouchi casually saluted as a goodbye and left via the window. A habit he'd gotten into and rather enjoyed. It could be his new thing- make all entries and exits through windows if it were possible.

Honda frowned once his friend was gone. What was going on with that kid? His story didn't seem…right. Jounouchi would have mentioned any new friends- wouldn't he? He typically always introduces them to their little group and tries to intermingle them… and it didn't seem right that Jounouchi would smoke up with Ryuuzaki- it would please Jounouchi to offend the little jerk. Something was up…