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Felidae: No it isn't one of those Seto saves the day fic's. The killing off of Jou's father was just a minor part of the story. I do a spell check and grammer check but those stupid automated things can only do so much and my eyes are crap so I'll just try harder now About Seto his seeming stupidity will be adressed in this chapter. There is logic to my madness of making Seto stupid seeming lol I'll give you a follow up response at the end of the chappy.
Chika of the high Mts: cough I'm not sure if yo noticed from some hints in other chapters but this is not Seto's first kill. I'm too lazy to find the quotes though.
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Don't blame me

Katsuya

"Yesterday a fire on Woodstock Street took four homes and two lives of the residents. A Mr. Chuvey and Mr. Jounouchi both died in the flames. When firefighters reached the flames they had no choice but to put out the fire before entering the buildings, sadly it was too late. Mr. Jounouchi had a son but he was nowhere to be found on the grounds. The residents are refusing to talk and give any eyewitness accounts. The police are now looking for Jounouchi Katsuya for questioning. In brighter news-" The news caster says in a dry uninterested tone. I can feel my heart pounding but I barely feel alive. My mouth is probably hanging open; I just can't believe it, my father is dead. The TV clicks off.

"What's the matter with you? You look like you just got slapped with a news paper," a dark low voice says. I look toward the direction that the voice came from. There is Seto, all decked out for work looking as if all is the same with the world.

"My father was killed in a fire. All my things, all his things, my life, how it was, has completely gone to ash. My father is dead…" I say with my voice cracking. He seems unfazed and does a shrugging motion with his shoulders.

"I don't see why you should care Jounouchi. He was nothing but a space provider." He speaks so matter a factly; does death not faze him at all? "If you ask me the world is better off without him," he finishes waving his hand in the air carelessly. He turns his back to me and leaves.

There are times where I think he is kind and caring but times like this…I can't even think straight. I can't believe he is gone and this feeling inside me is nothing like I've felt before. I feel like I'm shaking but I'm still. I feel like I'm sweating but I'm dry. I feel like I'm going to cry but I already am. The tears are cold and my heart is aching, he might have not been kind to me and I might have not wanted to be near him but I still loved my father. I still loved him.

I rise from the couch and walk numbly to the stairs where I climb them to my room. I start to open the door when I hear a voice speaking on the phone. I walk over to Seto's door quietly and press my ear against the door to try and hear what he is saying.

"I told you, you fool. At all costs make sure that the investigation does not lead to Jounouchi Katsuya as the main suspect. If at all possible clear his name." There is a pause in Seto's words and I wish I could hear what the person on the other side is saying. "Yes keep paying them off…No I don't care who you pin it on just get them off our tail! Do your damn job and protect my assets." What does he mean his assets? And did he refer to him and I as 'our'? What is he up to and what does he have to do with my dad's investigation? "No, Jou is in the dark he has no idea about this and I'm not going to tell him either, so not one of you better give him any hints or there will be hell to pay. I'll have him stay home for a while so they don't go after him at school. It should be easy enough with him grieving the unexpected loss of his father." He ends the phone call and hangs it up with a click. I have to scurry away from the door and just manage to dart into my room before I hear his bedroom door open.

Standing just inside the room staring at the door I hear him stop at the doorway and I can see his shadow at the door. He says nothing, makes not a sound and then simply leaves my doorway to continue down the hall. Waiting ten minutes I fidget on the inside of my room. When I can't stand waiting anymore I leave my room and quietly go into Seto's. I look around for anything that might be out of place. I don't see anything but I walk over to his phone that is on the table and pick it up. I dial in the numbers for recall and push talk to send the number. There are a few rings and I hear someone pick up, there are noises of cars going by and typing, other than that not much else.

"Hello, Special investigator's office. Patricia Relian speaking," a very feminine voice says over the phone. I can't even speak; Seto was talking to a special investigator on my father's death? I hang up the phone without saying anything and start to go through Seto's desk. Opening a drawer I rummage through some paper and find a few bills with the Domino city hospital name at the top.

Broken ribs, fractured ankles, bruising, mild concussion, internal bleeding, dislocated arm and suspicions of child abuse. All the papers have similar descriptions on them with my name printed in each corner of them. Why does Seto have these? And how did he get his hands on them? I have so many questions and I don't know how I will be able to get the answers. It's not like I can just ask why Seto is trying to keep the cops away from me and has all my debts here.

I look through more of the papers to find a key unlike any other I have seen before. It is smaller then most house keys, like one that goes to a safe and it looks to be made of gold. I look around the room trying to think where a safe might be. I first check the closet but that's too ordinary for Kaiba he'd pick somewhere more meaningful…my eyes land on the Blue eyes above his bed and I go over and try to slide it and then pull it. It doesn't budge so I try pulling on Seto's registry paper to the ownership of Kaiba Corp. This one pops open to expose a button and I push it. I hear a sliding noise coming from the Blue eyes painting. I look to see the image has disappeared and now shows a safe with a keyhole above it. I insert the key and turn it; a panel above the safe door drops open. It looks like a retina scanner, I shake my head and growl, "He has too much time on his hands."

"And you have to much time on your hands Jounouchi," the cool icy voice of Kaiba says behind me. I turn reluctantly to see him standing behind me. He shoves me out of the way and reaches out to close the panel. But for once I actually act in a dazed state. I grab Kaiba and push him down to the level of the retina scanner and hold him as still as possible until I hear a beep sound. I mean to release his head easily but by this time he has gotten his bearings back and he jerks away from me then flips me over onto my face on the floor. I have to lie here stupidly and I turn my head to look at him out of the corner of my eye. He is smirking at me.

"What's the big idea Kaiba?" I snarl as I jerk about trying to get lose but I know it's useless since Kaiba is sitting on my back. "Get off me! I'm not one of your damn chairs!"

"I know my chairs aren't as comfortable." He says flatly with laced amusement tied in; I only snort at him. "I don't know where you get off Jounouchi. You ask me what the big idea is and here you are in my room trying to break into a safe and then you grab me. I had every right to pound you into the ground. Just be happy I didn't." Okay so he has me there but he is keeping things from me and I have a right to know what they are.

"Why don't you try explaining to me why you have my doctor's bills here and why you were talking to someone about me on the phone?" I snap. I realize now that it was a bad thing to say but at least I didn't give away that I know who the person was. "Kaiba? Hey I'm talking to you." He doesn't answer me and I turn my head to see him no longer on me but walking unsurely to the bathroom with one hand on his head. Most likely he's been bitten by another migraine. I see this as my opportunity, so I get up and go over to the safe and open it. Inside there are a few items. Some dog tags, duel monster cards and a couple pictures. I pick up the pictures and they are of my sister and my mother. A few even have us all in it before mom left. I remember this particular one because for the longest time I had it sitting on my refrigerator next to my bed. Everything in here is mine that I had at my father's house. Why does Kaiba have these? When did he get them? Could he have…I can hear Kaiba coming back and I put my things back in the safe then run out of the room.

Seto

As I come back into my room I notice that the pup is gone and that the safe is swinging open. I fumble through the items but nothing is missing. I close the safe and lock it and then put the key in a drawer near my closet door. I take a look around the room to see if the mutt has touched anything else but I don't see anything. I need to be more careful or the mutt will ruin everything. If he were to find out what I have done and am planning there is no telling what a mess he would make of it. He doesn't belong in the fast paced world of competition and if he were to get mixed up in it I would be ruined.

My plan hit me when I came home last night. I was looking over his objects and I remembered how horrible I have been to him and how I am only viewed as a cut throat cold hearted business man in the world. I've gone over it in my head and I know just what I have to do and it will all be possible because of Jounouchi Katsuya. I knew he would be useful to me.

I walk down the stairs not expecting to run into anyone but he is standing there and only glances at me, "I'm going for a walk I'll be back later." He's leaving? I can't allow that, if they see him on the streets the police might get a hold of him and he might mention me, I can't have that happen.

"You're not going anywhere Jounouchi. You are grounded to this house for the next several weeks," I state flatly while looking down at him with my cold eyes. He locks eyes with mine and he looks angry but there is no resistance in them.

"I may be living here Kaiba but you don't own me and you can't tell me what to do. If I want to go for a walk I will whether you like it or not. Okay dad?" His tone holds no emotion but seems ready to crack into a sob. I don't know how to react to this new face of him.

"I would have to say otherwise mutt. I pay for your food, room, clothes, schooling, medical bills, debts, and insurance; I'd say that entitles me to tell you what you can and can't do when you are under my roof." The ungrateful mutt has no thanks for everything I do for him.

"I never asked for you to help me Kaiba!" he yells at me while clenching his fists. He looks like he wants to hit me but he is too far away.

"If you didn't want my help you shouldn't have taken it. It's not like I really wanted to help you mutt," I snap in response. I know it's a lie and he probably knows it too but that really doesn't matter at the moment.

"If you didn't want to help me you shouldn't have talked to me! You shouldn't have comforted me! And you shouldn't have come to get me! You should have just let me jump that night! It would have saved me a lot of grief and you wouldn't have been burdened with me." He comes closer to me in his yelling and looks to the side and continued more calmly, "Come to think of it you don't gain anything by helping me. Why would you do that?" I only stare back at him for a long time, solemnly.

"What makes you think I'm not getting anything out of it?" I reply coolly with a light smirk. It was the closest thing I could say to truth. That one line always boarders' lie and truth that I always seem to base my words upon. I could never tell him my true intentions because that would ruin it. Yes I may be obsessed with the dog but he is useful to me. The catch is he is only useful to me if he trusts me and I've never been a real people person.

"What then? What do you get out of it? Control over my life? To make me feel like I owe you!" he shouts the last part at me and he does seem resentful. Before I can reply he turns and stomps out the door. I rush out and I can't see him anywhere. I pick my phone up out of my pocket and dial a quick number to my security team.

With a sigh I click the phone off after hearing they lost him on the cameras. My guess is he kicked them in since they lost a few of them. Where could he be going?

Katsuya

He always gets on my nerves, why does he always have to pick at me? Can't he mind his own business? I'm sick of secrets and I'm going to find out what it is he keeping from me. People need to stop babying me I'm fine on my own.

I stop short in front of the Police station and go in to the main desk but no one seems to be paying attention to me. So I stand at the desk just waiting for someone to notice. I feel someone tap my shoulder and I turn to see a tall bulky man with pinched facial features.

"You're Jounouchi Katsuya aren't you?" he asks raising an eyebrow. I nod my reply. "You better come with me then." He turns and walks down the hall without looking back. My guess is he already knew I was fallowing, there isn't anything else I could have done.

"So, uh, heard you people were lookin for me and I uh, have some questions…" I say timidly as he opens a door to a small box room with no natural light to speak of. The first thing that entered my mind was an interrogation room but don't those normally have a two-way mirror?

"Take a seat son," he tells me as he pulls himself up a chair and sits down loosely to rest his feet up on the table. I sit slowly and don't say anything. "I'm very sorry for the loss of your father and neighbor but I have some questions I need you to answer. Just standard procedure." I sigh inwardly; this isn't going to be a pleasant experience especially if they know anything about my past. "I know this will be hard for you but to make you feel better I'll let you ask me some questions after I'm through, alright?" he asks while twirling a pencil between his fingers.

"Yes of course sir. But could I ask for your name so I know who to refer to?" He suddenly looks embarrassed and apologetic but almost as if he just picked up on something.

"Of yes, I'm very sorry. You can just call me Yabiaro." When he said his name he seemed to look at me more intently as if I should recognize the name, obviously I didn't and half smiled at him instead. Relaxing again he pushed further back in the chair, "You know Mr. Jounouchi you're very interesting young man. When I went to go look through your report papers to see if I could think of a place you could be they were gone. Every single one, I mean there were papers there with your name on them but they were fakes. I thought it the strangest thing, don't you?" I didn't respond only wondered why anyone would change my papers. He shifted in his chair, "Mr. Jounouchi where were you the day your father died?"

"I was at a-" I wasn't sure what to call Kaiba. A friend? An ally? "I was at a baby sitting job." Okay so Mokuba is old enough to not need a babysitter but I can't think of anything better to say for where I was. Mr. Yabiaro leaned forward and grabbed a note pad and wrote something down on it.

"Mmhm, and you care to tell me who the client was?" I gulp lightly trying to not let him notice. If I say Kaiba he'll kill me if he finds out so what do I say?

"They…are a rich family and it would breech the confidentiality they made me commit to before taking the job if I told you who." Hey that lie wasn't half bad, but I'm starting to feel nervous with him making a lil note after every word I say.

"So is that where you have been?" He asks in a flat tone and I nod a reply. "I see. Mr. Jounouchi tell me what your father was like as a person to live with." I sigh.

"Well he wasn't much to live with, if he wasn't out he was smoking, drinking, or with whatever woman he managed to get drunk enough to come home."

"Would you say that your father was ill?" I nodded. There wasn't much else I could say. "When we were looking through the house after the fire we found a door with quite a few locks and the inside seemed to be much nicer then the rest of the house." I nodded to this.

"Yeah that was my room. I made sure it was always clean and neat. Dad had the run of the rest of the house and I just invested in a door since I couldn't stand the smell. I also didn't want him to get confused and think my bed was a toilet or something." I said quickly trying to tell him as much of the truth without revealing too much. He wrote something down and then flashed a thin smile at me.

"It would be much easier to ask questions if I had your files to refer to. I guess I'll just have to go by memory. Let me think now, if memory serves a while back you use to be mixed up in some heavy gangs, correct?" Reluctantly I nod again with shame on my face. "Judging by your face you are no longer apart of them?"

"No I'm not. It was a dark time and I was lost but when they started hurting people that were just innocent by standers, I got out." That was a half-truth. The real truth is I stayed in the gang when they started hurting people it was when they wanted me to kill someone when I tried revolting. It hadn't gone over so smooth and they cornered me in a warehouse when I tried to stop them from hurting some kid. Somehow though Honda showed up and we both got through it. We were much closer after that even though I had thought he was only babying me at the time. Then they had their final protest through the hall monitor, which is where Yug and I came to terms.

"Do you think one of your old buddy's might have been the one to kill your father?" he asked.

"Them? Nah, it's been too long and…did you say killed him? I thought it was an accident or something you think it was murder?" He reached down to a briefcase that I have just noticed and pulled out some pictures of our door way all blocked up.

"Someone deliberately trapped your father in that burning house and we believe your neighbor was just an unfortunate bystander. Tell me, how would you imagine it being an accident?" I can't believe it was a set up. I don't know anyone who would do anything like that, that I currently hold in my life but then Kaiba did have some of my things…

"…Well as I said dad wasn't one to clean so the ground was just soaked with beer and I guess I figured he passed out with a lit cigarette and it caught fire on the floor or something." I remember how many times I found him like that. Where I had to dose the cigarette to put the flame out which wasn't always easy because the beer everywhere and of course mixed with my blood and the blood of whores.

"Would you say that you disliked your father?" Mr. Yobiaro asks jolting me out of my thoughts.

"I uh, well yeah, I didn't like my dad at all. Many times he drove me to extreme things. We didn't have a good relationship." After I spoke I realized how bad that sounded, "Well I mean we didn't get along and I didn't like him but I still loved him, I mean he is still my dad." Mr. Yobiaro made a sound in his throat and looked down at his paper as he wrote for at least 5 minutes. It made me feel agitated to be sitting only being able to hear myself, and him breathe and the light scratching of the pencil lead on the paper.

"Would you say you are a violent, Mr. Jounouchi? From your school reports it says you get in an awful amount of fights." Is he trying to say I did it?

"I've been known for getting in fights but they were always provoked, I can't believe you people think I killed my own father…" I can feel tears rising in my eyes but I suck them down. Mr. Yobiaro reaches down and pulls out some pictures of my room.

"Do you see anything out of place or missing from these shots? It could clear you if we were to find some of your items on someone else." I study the pictures hard and the first thing I noticed was everything was out of place as if someone had been looking for something. I had my room completely memorized incase my dad ever gone in and the way it looks now someone defiantly went through my room.

"Everything is out of place." I pointed to a few of my things and then pointed to where they had been. That's when I noticed, my matches for my candles were gone and some of my photos along with my Duel Monster Cards and dog tags, the very photos, Duel Monster Cards, and dog tags that I saw in Kaiba's safe.

"Is there anything wrong Mr. Jounouchi?" I hear myself being asked and I look up.

"The matches for my candles are gone and something is missing." He crooks his eyebrow up at this. Should I tell him? Should I tell him about Kaiba? "I uh…my Duel Monster cards are missing. Maybe someone was trying to steal my rare cards and dad saw them. So they had to stop him…" I didn't know what else I could say, all of a sudden I'm an overwhelming urge to run but I can't.

"Are you sure that's all that is missing Mr. Jounouchi? The room is awfully charred. They could have easily burned up." He seems to be pressing at something more. Does he know I'm lying? Is he trying to get me to convict myself? He is leaning towards me now and his stare is making my bones quake.

"N-no sir. Nothing that I can think of at the moment but I guess they could have been burnt but my dog tags and frames wouldn't have melted so quick." I can feel my sweat starting to form at my hairline. He sits back again and seems content with what I said. Mr. Yabiaro closes is note pad in front of me and lets out a sigh.

"Well is there anything you want to ask me?" I shake my head no rapidly. I just want to get out of this room! "Well alright but if you remember something more give me a call." He stands and opens the door for me and I practically jump out of it. "Is there a place or a number I can reach you at Mr. Jounouchi?" I hear him ask behind me but I'm not bothering to turn, I really need some air.

Seto

I've been pacing in here for about an hour. I have all of Jounouchi's belongings spread out across the coffee table. I keep looking back at them. Why I first put them there I'm still not sure but I did. I hear the front door open and I look up. There are some footsteps and then I see the pup walk by the door. "Jounouchi," I say to get his attention. He returns to the door way and I see his eyes divert to the items on the table and then look back at me. "I'm sorry Jounouchi."

"For what? Robbing my room or is there something else involving matches?" So he knows. I can hear a tint of distrust, anger, and fear in his voice. I step closer and he steps back. I look at him as honestly as I can.

"Maybe someday you'll understand why Jounouchi. But know it wasn't done to hurt you." I know my words are probably going in one ear and out the other after all it is Katsuya.

"Not done to hurt me? Goddamn Kaiba he is still my father! My sister's father! And what's worse they think I did it! They think I'm the one that killed my father! I may have hated him as a person but he was still my dad! This is all because of you!" his voice is cracking with emotion and I can't do anything but stand here and listen. I knew he wouldn't take it well but he'll see one day it was for the best. "You think everyone's life is assessable to you! Well here's a tip rich boy stay out of my life! All you have ever done is hurt me! At least I have good memories of my dad but you, you I have nothing other than being treated horribly!" His face is streaming with tears and his cheeks are pink with frustration.

"Katsuya-"

"No! Don't you ever use my first name again! You don't deserve it!" He yells at me. He turns and starts to walk away but turns back to me and looks me dead in the eyes, "I hate you Seto Kaiba." A searing pain runs through my chest. All I can do is watch him walk away from me.

"I did it for you Jou. Why do you hate me for this?"

Poor Seto! all confused and stuff!

Felidae as you can see Seto has taken care of his little problema with being reconized. I made him act reckless as he tends to when he is pissed lol. "I lost in my tournament! I'm blowing this place up now!"and he did do that. He is not always logical and rational besides that with his ego I can't really seeing him caring about police or believing he has anything to worry about when he is so powerful. Some might think it's a misconception but I find it to be truth. Seto is being faced with wanting to let Jounouchi in and not wanting to need or want anyone near him so he will be floating back and forth of walls falling and being built back up. He is in a personal struggle.

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