Chapter 10

Thank you to everyone who read my story, and especially to everyone who reviewed, they are greatly appreciated. Oh and people please, I am most definitely open for any suggestions you might have on any of my stories. I am running so many at once it is giving me some writers block from hell, so please, do not hesitate. And three people I would really like to thank for sticking with me for so long happen to be Mikhail, Dee, and Melissa, for always being there, even when I wasn't. Now on with the story.

"Come on Jou, tell me what is wrong." Kaiba said, slightly irritated that the boy still hadn't answered him, and also his body temperature was increasing steadily, giving him the idea that either Jou was getting another fever, or he was embarrassed. (SP? I have no spell check, anyone willing to be my beta?)

"I said nothing, please stop asking." Jou said, shifting his weight to lay down on the bed.

"I don't believe you pup. Give up and tell me!" Kaiba ground out, throughly irritated and losing his patience, what was left of it anyway.

"Just please, go away." Jou said, looking about ready to break down into tears again. He folded his wings up against his back and turned them towards the vampire. "Please." He choked out.

Kaiba didn't know what to do. He was asked to leave, but he didn't want to, if not to find out what was wrong, then just because he didn't want to, and a Kaiba alway's gets his way, one way or another. He stood and walked around to the otehr side of the bed, looking at the pup's face. He was quite surprised to see Jou crying, very quietly, and trying his hardest to hold the tears back. "Oh shit, Jou."

Kaiba slowly made his way onto the bed, as to not startle the boy, and gathered the blonde up in his arms. Jou went rigid, scared for his life, not knowing what else to do, he tried to relax as best he could, what else could the angel do, he was in an iron grasp, he wasn't going anywhere for some time, and he knew it. He sat for a little while longer before letting whatever tears he had left out onto the other boy's shirt.

Kaiba had no clue what to do now. Sure, he had comforted Mokuba in times of need, but that was different, that was his brother, someone who depended on him, and knew him all to well. Jou probably had no idea he was a vampire right now. And if he could get away from the house tonight, then he would never have to know. If he kept the bloodlust down to a minimum, if that, nothing could ever go wrong. At least, he hoped.

Jou was quietly hoping that Kaiba would push him away in anger and disgust, but at the same time, wished that he would just hold him back and let him cry out his pain, if just for a moment. He was somewhat pleased when he wasn't pushed away nor shunned. After a while Jou finally pushed himself away from the other and wiped his face. " I apologize, I shouldn't have done that, it only makes me weak."

"Jou?" Kaiba asked, really having no clue what to do or say. "Why were you crying, please tell me?"

"Because I am all alone now, that's why." Jou said, staring at the comforter on the bed. "I am losing everybody, and the fact that I have suddenly become a winged freak doesn't help much either." He spat out bitterly.

"I don't think of you as a freak, considering..."

"I know, I know, I am just a lowsy, good for nothing mutt, right?"

"No, because I am a freak as well." Kaiba sighed, he knew he couldn't hide forever, even from the blonde, so it was now or never.

"Oh yes, the billionaire teenager with everything at his fingertips is such a freak." Jou said, waving his hands in the air.

"I am." Kaiba said quietly, catching Jou easily.

Jou was about ot say something before Kaiba started to twitch, right away he knew something was wrong, but what, he didn't know. "Kaiba, what's the matter?" He screamed out as the brunette doubled over.

"I- I need food, something to drink...." He looked up, eyes a piercing blue, no feeling what so ever. "I need blood, now!"

TBC!

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