Title: Broken Wings

Author: Yugi's Tenshi

Rating: PG-13

Warning: Shonen-Ai, mild language

Pairing: Kaiba Seto / Jounochi Katsuya

Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh!

- Chapter 1: Aftermath -

Katsuya unceremoniously flopped down on his bed. He instantly burried his face in his ragged pillow, tears still streaming down his cheeks and gut-wrenching sobs now shaking his lithe form. All coherent thoughts were drained from his mind as he cried himself into oblivion.

'Jerk, jerk, jerk! He's such a jerk!!!'

Katsuya had expected anything: snorting, yelling, hell even a straight punch in his face … but not the icy indifference Seto showed towards him. That hurt even more. The emotionless, cold gaze, not wavering in the slightest bit, kept on unnerving and upsetting the poor blond as the images of those freezing eyes replayed themselves in his head.

He cried for all he was worth punshing his mattress senseless. After a while, however, Katsuya sat up in his bed, eyes wide with confusion. The fact that there was no drunk bastard all over him and beating him into a bloody heap for coming home late, for crying like a baby or for just being himself, which was the main reason for attacking him recently, struck him like lightning.

Katsuya stood, slowly walking towards his door body trembling violently with his subsiding sobs and the fear of being beaten as he reached for the knob. He instinctively ducked as he carefully opened the door, the 'normal' odour of alcohol and dried left-overs hitting his nose. He winced a the familiarity of it all, the chaos he lived in.

The teen slowly walked through the apartment, checking every room, and found nothing. At that moment he was relieved and emensely grateful that he was not lying on the ground and crying in agony.

He sighed heavily, leaning against a wall in the living room sinking to the floor. He hugged his knees to his chest, head resting upon them as his thoughts yet again drifted to indigo eyes. Katsuya would have to face Seto …, er Kaiba again, at the latest in school on Monday. He would not be able to avoid him and certainly not his insults.

A lone tear rolled down Katsuya's already tear-stained cheek and he took a deep shuddering breath.

"I can't believe my own stupidity," he whispered to an empty room. "Yelling at him I like him. Who would believe something like that in such a moment? I made the greatest fool ever out of myself and I sure as hell pissed him royally."

He shuddered, tightening his hold on his legs.

'But then again, when he already is angry, I could just confront him now. No harm done by that, things can't get any worse for me than they already are,' he thought bitterly.

Decision made, Katsuya stood on shakey legs, an arm leaning against the wall for support. He straightened himself, wiping over his face with the sleeves of his jacket he hadn't bothered to take of earlier.

"He doesn't even know me," Katsuya said to his reflection in the hall-mirror. He closed his eyes tightly, braving himself. He took one last deep breath before he opened his eyes again and made his way out of the door.

- tbc -

Sorry for the long wait and the shortness of the chapter. Life's just been a real bitch lately (I cracked my wrist) and I have this severe case of writer's block. It just doesn't want to go away, although I have this story (for once) already planned out. I think it's the shortest thing I've ever written, though I wanted to have really long chapters for this fic.

Anyway, I don't think updates will be any faster for the next while until I can write again, you know what I mean. So, please be patient with me, I'll try my best!

And thank you for all your support, I really appretiate that. You people keep me going!

Yugi's Tenshi

PS: I know you always read, Huh? Oh !!!