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Today was a slow day at the shop, thankfully, because I didn't think that I had the energy to deal with any customers today. Bakura has run off last night with Kaiba's note, claiming that he would 'take care of things' and 'no need to worry'. Which I was fine with of course, I just hope his method didn't evolve sending anyone to the shadow realm.
I'm snapped out of my fascinating study of the pencil sharpener as the door swings open. Inside walks the usual crew, Yugi, Honda, Anzu, and Jou bringing up the rear.
"What's up man? Why so grim?" Honda asked as he comes up to the counter.
"What? Oh...nothing, just thinking."
"Thinking?" Honda's didn't elaborate on his comment, but he sounded slightly surprised. Most people only really thought of me as a brain dead playboy. It sort of bothered me that even someone who I called my friend got the same impression, but I didn't really feel like arguing. Especially considering that Honda was about as perceptive as a rock. He couldn't even tell that his best friend was a raging homosexual after all.
"So, what are you guys doing here so early?" I ask, straightening up in my seat and regarding them in a friendly manner. I hadn't really noticed when they had started including me in their group activities, but I wasn't about to fight it. Not when it got me so much closer to the object of my desire.
Yes, I have to admit, the only real reason I ever got involved with yugi-tachi was in fact to get closer to Jou. It was a fleeting crush. I quickly gave up all hope of ever being with the blonde when I figured out he was screwing around with Kaiba.
I'm guessing I also went the wrong way about the whole thing when I humiliated him on national television and made him wear a dog suit. Ah well, you live, you learn.
"We're heading down town for the annual duel monsters parade. You wanna come?" Yugi piped up, cheerful as ever.
As much as watching idiots dressed up as holograms trounce around town all day was appealing. I really wasn't up for it, especially considering the fact that I had to be ready for Bakura whenever he decided to show back up today. It wouldn't do to keep a psychotic tomb robber waiting, especially when he was supposed to be bringing with him some kind of help, who I'm assuming is equally just as mentally unstable.
"I'd love to, but I have lots of work to be done today." I reply, looking down at my empty desktop and giving them one of my trademark smiles.
"Well, suit yourself buddy." Honda replies, giving me at pat on the shoulder before turning to leave.
"We better get going or we're gunna be late." Anzu said as she checked her annoyingly pink hello kitty watch. The rest of the group nodded in approval and said their goodbyes.
"Jou?" Honda replied as he opened the door to leave. "What's wrong?"
"Um..." The blonde, who had been unnaturally quiet through this whole ordeal shifted on his feet and then looked back up to regard his friends. "I'm just not feeling well."
"Now that you mention it, you have been acting strange today. Maybe we shouldn't have gotten breakfast at Mcdonalds this morning?" Honda asked, to which Jou shook his head and wrapped his arms around himself.
"No it's not that...I think I'm coming down with something." Jou spoke softly.
"Well if that's the case, maybe you should go home instead? I don't want you getting sick Jou." Yugi suggested and Jou smiled and shook his head at his friend.
"Yeah, I think that sounds like a plan. I'll catch you guys tomorrow?"
"Alright, feel better Jou!" Yugi called out and the group left just as quickly as they came.
Jou sighed and turned to me, that's when I noticed the dark circles under his eyes. The poor thing looked like he was exhausted. "Do you mind if I use your bathroom Otogi?"
"Go right ahead. Down that hall and to the left." I directed him and he followed. I sat for a good five minutes humming to myself before the blonde reemerged, looking worse than he did before.
"Jou...is something on your mind?" I ask has he crosses his arms and sighs.
"No...I, I don't want to talk about it." Was the simple reply.
"Oh ok, then what do you want to do?"
"I dunno."
I watch as the blonde shrugged his shoulders and took a seat next to me behind the counter. Looking at his nails and everywhere else in the room but me.
"I thought you weren't feeling well." I ask, watching as Jou began to spin in the chair he was sitting in a few times before stopping to answer me.
"I'm not, but I don't really feel like being alone either."
"Ah." I nodded my head, giving him a curious glance as he begins to play with a paper weight. There were several minutes of silence after that and I tried to turn my attention back to my work. It was quite difficult though, I kept getting the feeling that I was being watched. I turned my head towards the source only to be met with warm amber, before the gaze was snapped away abruptly, looking like he had just got his hand caught in the cookie jar.
And so the awkward silence continued.
"Otogi..." He spoke my name softly, with a hint of strange shyness that I've never heard before. I turn slowly to look at him, peeking up at me from underneath those soft blond locks. "Do you...like me?"
If I weren't already sitting, I would have fell. How could Jou have noticed? Unless he wasn't really just the dumb blonde everyone always saw him as. Scratch that, I knew he wasn't. I always knew that. I wonder if Kaiba realized too, maybe it could change things, maybe he would began to take him more seriously.
"Um...what?" I sputter over my next words, not having enough balls to look at Jou, but I do feel him rest his hand on my knee. He began making slow little circles over that sensitive area of the kneecap, effectively making me shiver despite myself.
"Well...It' s just I see you looking at me sometimes." He explained, tilting his head to try and look at my face as I remain silent. "It's ok you know. You can look at me if you want."
"Jou..." I turn to him, seeing some sort of yearning in those amber depths and something else I can't place. I take a hold of his hand, ready to push him off, but apparently he takes that as an encouragement because the next thing I know he's right on top of me, groping and clinging to me like a lifeline.
"Jou..." I moaned out as the blonde pulled away from kissing me senseless, he seems quite disappointed as I take a hold of his waist, trying to cease his movement. "Jou, stop."
"Why? I know you like this." Jou purred out looking up at me from underneath his wild bangs, a hunger in his eyes. I moan again like helpless prey as he grinds his hips into mine. The sweet submissive puppy was gone, and now replaced with a wolf. I briefly wonder if any of these violent sexual tendencies we're picked up from Seto before he once again makes me lose all thought, pressing our bodies together tight as he tongues my ear.
"Mmm...but..."
"Shhh..." He hushed me placing a soft kiss on my lips before trailing down my neck, nipping at my collar bone. "Just relax."
Oh how I wanted to. How happy it would make me just to sit back and let a horny Jounouchi Katsuya have his way with me. But something just didn't seem right. The lust was to strong, nothing else could be found in his eyes, it was blinding him. He held the look of despiration and yearning, like someone who had just had his heart ripped out and stomped to a bloody pulp.
Somewhere around the time a feel Jou began to pop open the buttons on my shirt, I grab the blonde by the hair, pulling away from that delicious mouth.
"Stop Jou, I mean it this time." I pant out, but he complies. "Why are you doing this?"
He groans at this. "Do you have to ask so much questions?" He once again groans, a seemly animalistic sound and throws his head back, reaching down to stroke the growing hardness in my pants. "I want you to fuck me. NOW." He stresses this last word by one harsh tug, sending all the blood from my head elsewhere.
Well If I could say one good thing about Jou, it would be that he's direct.
"Jou, please I can't do this." I whisper to the blond mess on my lap, who is practically humping my leg. If there's one good thing I could say about myself, it's that I have amazing self-restraint.
The restraint of a holy monk. I better be getting good points up there for this.
"Why? I don't understand..." Jou trails off, a look of horrible rejection washing over his pretty eyes.
"Jou...do you have a boyfriend?" I ask.
He seems surprised by this question at first, but decides to answer it anyway. "No...not anymore." He sighs, looking quite pathetic. So I was right, he had gotten his heart broken and was now willing to crawl into bed with almost anyone to forget his sorrow. No doubt Seto Kaiba had finally decided to brush off the blonde and find another plaything.
"Ryuuji." My head snaps to the farside of the shop where I hear my name being hissed out as if it was the most vile thing on the planet. What meets me is a cold hard glare.
Speak of the goddamn devil.
"Kaiba." Jou gasps out, crawling out of my lap and getting to his feet. For a moment they just seem the stare at eachother, eyes full of hate, longing, passion, admiration, so many emotions I can hardly count. I realize then that nothing me and Jou had just done could even compare to what he and Seto had. The heat there was just too strong. Surprising? No. Disappointing? Yes.
"Well Otogi...I always knew you we're desperate, but I never thought you would sink this low." Kaiba spoke, taking a few steps in our vicinity and crossing his arms, a cold unreadable expression on his face.
"Go to hell Kaiba!" Jou snapped and I have to grip him by the elbow to keep him from launching himself at the arrogant brunette.
Kaiba merely smirks as he watches a snarling and frustrated Jou, he then turns his gaze towards me, which is so chilling I can fell myself freezing up, practically glued to the spot. His gaze held that much power.
"I want you to come to a meeting tonight, I'd like to discuss business that I think you might be interested in. My office, 7pm sharp, any questions?" I nod my head rapidly, not being able to muster up my voice at the moment. I knew damn well what he wanted to discuss, and it had nothing to do with business.
I breathe a sigh of relief as Seto leaves the shop without causing me any bodily harm. Of course, attacking me would mean showing Jou that Seto actually had feelings for him, and god forbid that ever happened.
Jou watches as the brunette leaves the shop, seeming almost as relived as I am when he is no longer visible. "Otogi...I'm sorry, I think I'll go home now." He whispers out, sounding more depressed than ever.
"Jou, wait." He turns back to me, a look of hope in his eyes. "If you ever want to talk about it...you know...I'm here." I say, giving him my best reassuring smile and buttoning up my shirt at the same time.
"Ok...thanks." He gives me one of his fake smiles, the kind that are plastered wide on his mouth, but they never reach his eyes.
With both teens now absent from my shop, I'm am finally allowed the space to breath and thank whatever god is up there that I'm still in one gorgeous piece. There's also the matter of the straining erection that should be taken care of, but I try and block that out for now.
It was obvious to me now that Seto had dumped Jou, but why? Was it simply because he had gotten sick of him? Or was it something deeper? I thought maybe that's what was on the letter we found, some sort of break up letter, but that didn't really make any sense. Why would Seto write it in a language that Jou couldn't understand?
Sighing, I decided to give my mind a rest and let the body take over for now, as I turn on the shower. Stripping quickly and stepping under the hot inviting spray. My hand slides slickly down my stomach and I close my eyes and throw my head back as it finds it's goal.
"Well, well, glad to see you're keeping yourself busy without me." A voice from the door speaks up, snapping me out of my, er...work. I turn to glare at the intruder, seeing them grinning at me with sharp white teeth.
"Bakura."
"You need some help with that?"
"Shut up."
Satanic Mechanic: Look! I'm not dead! Don't hate me for forgetting about this fic...I promise there will be more frequent updates now.
