FLIPPEDDEPPILF
Yuugioh does not belong to me.
Story that Seto/Katsuya is reading is Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Personally, I like it, but I don't think Katsuya would. It's too Russian Just kidding. I don't see Katsuya as a big reader.
Damn you, This is two days late. Not that I think it makes that big a difference but . . . I like actually being able to update so quickly xD
"What the hell was that thing with the bear this morning, Jou?" Honda asks incredulously as his peers surround Seto. Stupid, irritating Honda. Katsuya is lucky Seto likes him or else he would have already told Honda to piss off.
"I really did nearly get eaten by a bear."
"Unless that bear was Kaiba-sama, I highly doubt that," Ryou responds mischievously, looking away casually as if what he'd said was a careless comment.
"Eaten by . . . " Honda murmurs softly for a second, and is immediately interrupted by Anzu.
"Ryou-kun! Hentai!" Then she glances back at Seto. "You guys weren't having sex, were you? I know you two came in together but . . . " She looks slightly uncertain now, as if she believe it is fair possible they had. Kaiba is a little miffed that Katsuya's friends think he has such a powerful sex drive.
"I fail to see how that is any of your business M-Anzu-chan. I do not ask what you and Atemu-san do Saturday nights, and I expect the same courtesy in return." That makes Anzu's mouth clank shut, and she blushes furiously. Yuugi stifles a giggle. Seto raises a slim eyebrow (though it isn't very slim anymore. It's rather hairy. Ewww . . . ) in Yuugi's direction. He isn't quite as innocent as he pretends to be is he?
"What's with the way you're talking, Jou?" Honda asks, leaning forward across Jou's desk as if by looking into his eyes he'll be able to read what's wrong with Seto on his face or something. Seto stifles a growl and shoves Honda back violently.
"Would you rather me grunt at you like a primate? Is that a language you can translate, you—?"
Anzu suddenly jumps up and points at Seto accusingly. "I knew it! It's been hanging over my head all day since you two came barging in here late as hell!" She pauses for dramatic effort until Ryou kicks her, and her face distorts. "That hurt!"
"Go on . . . " Seto says, coldly appreciating Ryou's action.
"Fine. Bastards. You are . . . an alien that has taken over Jounouchi-kun's body!"
Everyone just seems to blink at her. Blink . . . blink . . . blink . . . until Seto decides he's tired of blinking at her. So he says in a purposely slow voice, "Are you stupid?"
"Hey!" she cries, sounding hurt. "You never used to argue with my alien theories before . . . when did this sudden change of heart happen? Unless you are an alien, and then you are proving me right!" She sounds idiotically triumphant, as if she had actually just said something that made any sense at all. Which she had not.
"I never argued because I was of the firm belief that incredibly naïve people should be pitied, until this morning when a bear tried to eat me and—"
"Shut up about the damn bear!" Honda's leaning over the desk again. Seto narrows his eyes dangerously. Honda's definitely pushing his luck this time . . . You see, this is why Seto never hangs out with Katsuya's friends!
"That bear was obviously an alien in disguise . . . " Anzu murmurs, and rests her head on her hand as she leans over her desk thoughtfully. Seto hadn't been sure whether or not Anzu was serious about the whole 'alien invasion' thing. Now he's sure. And with this knowledge he now knows that she is a complete idiot.
Seto gets up in flurry of hair and flailing limps and nearly falls over. "You're all incredible stupid!" And then he runs off into the hallway, muttering inanely.
"Watatatatatata yes?"
Anzu hits Ryou upside the head in response. "Shut up, Ryou-kun. You're obviously only making things worse."
"Me! You're the alien freak!"
"You're the masochistic one who likes SM with Bakura-san!"
"I so don't! Give it up, won't you! You're just jealous because Bakura's—"
"You're not making fun of Atemu-chan's stamina again, are you?"
"Ma-a-a-aybe!"
Seto growls as he holds his head in the hallway. He desperately wants nothing more than to be in his own body and in his own house. He hates the stupidity that those friends of Katsuya display all the time. The only one of them worth anything at all is Yuugi, and even he can get irritating with his let's-all-be-the-best-of-friends crap that spouts out of his mouth like water out of a faucet.
And Anzu's idiotic belief in aliens? And Ryou is obviously an SM freak, no matter how many times he may defend himself. If he's planning on staying with Bakura he'd better get used to those assumptions. Or had he forgotten Bakura likes causing people pain? Why the never-ending argument about it then?
This day is going to last forever.
And it does seem that way for Katsuya as well. He has to sit there and watch his friends beat up on Ryou for his 'habits' (he is definitely an SM freak) and on Anzu for her alien ideas—which are rather amusing when one gets used to them. And he hates sitting on the side like this, pretending to read this book that Seto told him to read (he said his fangirls would notice if he changed books midway). It's about a man who's poor and blah, it's so boring. The back cover says that he kills someone, but it doesn't seem to be going anywhere.
How does Seto read these things, Katsuya wonders despairingly as he throws down the book in exasperation. He catches a few fangirls copying his actions, and this annoys him further yet. Do they have to copy every little thing he does! It's so bothersome! He yawns. Yet again, two fangirls yawn as well. He scratches his crotch. He hears several muffled gasps of outrage, and feels accomplished.
And the day passes in the same manner, with him doing random scandalous things to keep the boredom at bay. He also sneaks peeks at Seto across the room, who seems to be very close to strangling either Anzu or Honda. They keep throwing little notes at him, and he's been throwing them back unread.
No doubt Honda's been asking for sexual advice (as per usual, he's been trying to nail Otogi for ages), and Anzu could be asking anything from which lollipop he might want to whether or not he thinks bunnies look better gray or white. That's just Anzu for you. You can't help but find her endearing. Unless you're Kaiba Seto, who doesn't even find ponies cute.
Not even rainbow ponies. A little part of Katsuya dies remembering Seto's disdain towards 'Jeremy'.
And so the day passes and as Katsuya's getting ready to rid himself of this horrible, horrible day by going home—or to Seto's house, more specifically—Yuugi approaches him. Not too odd, Yuugi approaches Seto every so often. Usually to preach friendship and love and rainbows, which Seto find infuriating.
"Hi, Seto-kun!"
"Hello, Yuugi-sama," Katsuya replies in the coldest voice he can manage (which isn't very cold at all, at least not by Seto standards).
"Do you know why Jounouchi-kun has been acting so strangely lately?" Katsuya and the smaller boy walk, side by side, out the door and down the hall towards the exit.
"Not particularly. I think that bear scared him this morning." Katsuya can't help but roll his eyes. He had never known exactly how little imagination Seto really had. Really, a bear nearly ate him? No one would believe that. Especially from Katsuya's mouth. Well, he thinks—very amused at the thought—that Seto probably hasn't ever had to make up an excuse. He just says his name and everyone forgives him. Either way, it was sure was lucky he'd fallen down a huge flight of stairs while leaving his house that morning. That was mostly the reason they'd been late to begin with.
"Was there really a bear?" Yuugi's eyes go wide and Katsuya swallows a giggle. He's just so cute. It's like he's asking for someone to trick him.
"Of course. It was huge and brown and it wanted to nibble on S—Katsuya. Chan. Katsuya-chan." Katsuya is having troubles saying honorifics after his own name. Especially when he's talking about Seto. Katsuya would have liked nothing better at that moment than to leave have some ice cream to unconfuse his brain.
"So, Yuugi, is there a reason you came over here?" No, Katsuya thinks, that's too nice for Seto. "To bother me? Because it's working." He's scared for a second that Yuugi will break into tears, but he only smiles gently.
"It's okay, Katsuya-kun. I know it's you."
"What!"
Yuugi raises a thin eyebrow, as if Katsuya's the odd one. That's Motou Yuugi for you. Armed with only his cuteness, he can defeat any army, no matter how incredulous they may be. "I know its really Katsuya-kun in there. Kaiba-sama isn't doing very well trying to act like you. It sounds just like him."
Katsuya lets out a breath he hadn't even known he had been holding. "Thank god! I thought was I was going to die pretending to be Seto-chan!" He gives Yuugi a huge hug, and Yuugi squeaks—reminding Katsuya of a giant squeaky toy. He swallows a giggle.
"You can let go now, if you want, Kaiba-sama."
This should have tipped Katsuya off, but he was too enveloped in relief to realize anything. That is until a voice is suddenly yelling into his ear and he lets go of the smaller boy to sock that particular person in the stomach.
"You cheating bastard!" Someone's pushed him against the wall and all the air he'd been letting back in the last few seconds flew right back out again. "And you try to seduce cute, little Yuugi-kun, of all people! You are such a louse!"
"He wasn't trying to seduce me!" Yuugi says to Honda and Anzu—who are the two responsible Katsuya not being able to even ask what the fuck they are talking about.
"It's okay," Anzu says in a soothing voice, and pats Yuugi's super-spiky hair. "You don't need to defend this asshole. It'll be better for Jounouchi-kun if we denounce this scum before he does something he regrets."
Katsuya coughs and in a raspy voice, answers, "Well, if you're talking about sex, don't worry. He's quite good in bed." Yes, I am, Katsuya remembers, and a large smirk comes onto his face to rival any of Seto's.
Unfortunately, no one sees this accomplishment because the smirk turns into an 'O' of surprise as Anzu launches herself on him, all nails and slaps. "Stop! I wasn't seducing Yuugi-kun, damn it! Get off me, Anzu-san! Stop being a bitch!"
"What the hell do you think you're doing, Anzu-san?" a cold voice drawls above the two of them, and Anzu stops attacking Katsuya—thank goodness—to look up at the speaker.
"Jounouchi-kun," she begins in a relieved tone, and slides off Katsuya. "This asshole was hitting on Yuugi-kun just now! Can you believe it?"
"No, I don't, actually." He raises an eyebrow in the direction of Katsuya, who's getting up. He doesn't know how to explain this to Seto, so he shrugs his shoulders nonchalantly.
"We saw it, me and Honda—"
"There we go, even less reason to believe it. Let's go, Seto-chan." Seto takes Katsuya's hand and begins dragging his sexy—if he does say so himself—and bewildered lover towards the exit.
"Say goodbye, Seto-chan!" Katsuya whispers desperately. What the hell does he think he's doing, being so obviously Seto-like? No wonder Yuugi figured it out! The only reason Anzu and Honda hadn't was probably because they were thick as hell.
"Au revoir," he yells back at Yuugi-tachi, and smirks at the glare Katsuya gives him.
"You are an asshole, Seto!"
"Well, it is my fault that your friends irritate me to no end? In the short time I was forced to put up with them—which I did for you, mind you—I have realized my opinions of them were too high." They're outside of the school now and Seto's hurrying pace has slowed. Katsuya finds it nice, Seto's hand in his, that is. Even if his hand is larger than usual, and their respective relationship with the other seems completely out of wack.
And then Seto throws the good feeling out the window and shoves Katsuya against the wall, kissing him soundly on the lips. Katsuya—who truthfully would much rather be doing fluffier things—kisses back without simulation. Seto breaks it off, and looks at his sharply. "Try to get into it, won't you? You owe me, you know."
"I don't owe you! I had to put up with annoying fangirls all day! And I was lonely! I think I'm the real victim here." Katsuya manages to cross his arms across his chest, pushing Seto away a little bit.
Seto growls and pulls away completely, putting several feet between the two of them. "I had been looking forward to that all day, too," he mutters dejectedly and seems decidedly angry. Katsuya almost—nearly, but not quite—regrets having rejected Seto's kiss, but he's not in a kissing mood. He's in a cuddle mood, which is depressing because Seto never cuddles. Unless he's sleeping, and that doesn't count.
After another couple of seconds of silence, the two begin walking once again, towards Seto's mansion. Katsuya wonders if he would get away with taking Seto's hand again. He decides not to risk it.
What a shorty chapter. Blegh, sorry.