Blue's notes: I smell chili...

Bakura: Or maybe your clothes that you've been sitting in for the last three days! You wore them all weekend, slept in them then rolled out of bed and wore them to school!

Blue: -.- That could also be it.

Malik: is painting toenails I think it's just her socks.

Carrie: is typing this Just dump body spray over yourself and you'll be fine.

Blue: All right, what is it? Why are you suddenly interested in my body odor?

Ryou: I'm not sure, but Blue Crescent Moon and Carrie Fernandez do not own Yu-Gi-Oh.

Carrie: That was random.

Ryou: You wrote it!

Carrie: Damn right I did! And I'm also writing this, look! (") ( ") (") ( ") It's Kirby Bust-a-Move!

Malik: Blue, load the catapult. We've got another one.

Carrie: My Kirby's didn't come out right! The arms are missing! Damn... Oh well.

Bakura: This story still doesn't have any plot...

Malik: Scratch that; make that order two to go.

Reviewer time! You know I love you all!

Miru Amai: Yes, I know, I always pictured Kaiba with a loving tender side.

Crazyrabidfangurl01: Yeah Carrie, listen to your friends stay away from her rock! ??? I actually have no clue what so ever as to what they're talking about.

Kumori Sakusha formerly Saelbu: I'm updating and I will continue to do so!

Velvetina: I know, I know, I know! That was maybe my favorite part of that chapter!

i-love-bakura1489: I'm writing woman, keep yer pants on! Lol, rotflmaorolling on the floor, laughing my ass off, right?

Lady Fiore – Ami Metallium: It's coming... slowly, but it is.

Celestial Psyche: I'm working on my grammar and spelling and all the other junk you mentioned, and don't worry! You're not being mean, you're being helpful and critiquing my errors. With the kiss, it's supposed to be like it happened and now they're either too embarrassed to talk about it, discuss it, or be mature about it. The first two chapters? Yeah that sounds right, is before I had Carrie retyping this for me, that's why the formatting is crap. Kaiba's... a bit ooc in this, if I want I'll just say he's schizophrenic and has personality lapses, it's supposed to be that he doesn't feel he can trust Jou's friend, thus the icy mask. About the 'Spork Suicide' thing, Carrie or me must of put that 'cause it's 'Spork Seppuku'. It was 1) a feature in my humor magazine and 2) dates back to Carrie's history when her and her friends put on a murder play. It's kind of an inside joke.

Felidae: I'm glad you enjoyed it!

Making Room For New Pairings; subtitle: We've Been like This Before

After school Tuesday.

"Get over here dog," Kaiba ordered. They were sitting in the library again and it's after school. Kaiba was typing away at a school computer.

"Go take a long walk off a short dock," Jou told him sitting down next to him.

"Then you'll drown to because I'll have taken you out on the leash."

Eye twitch. Jou makes a move to take the keyboard and gets his hand smacked away by Kaiba's. "Bad. No. Down."

Again, his hand gets slapped away as he goes to relieve Kaiba of the keyboard. Jou jumps on him in an attempt to gain control of the computer that was logged in.

"Down dumb dog." He said and threw Jou back into his seat; he cast Jou a regretful glance and continued what he was doing at the computer station. "We need to work."

"On what?" He whined.

"Well, you can write up the summary of the book, and when your down with that I'll type it up and we'll have our oral done."

Jou let his mind wander, 'Mmm, oral. He doesn't know how many good thoughts that brings to surface.' A smile spread across Jou's face as he spaced out.

"Wake up Katsuya!" Kaiba snapped his fingers in front of his face.

"But why do you have to type it?" He asked, "Typing is easier."

"Well, typing is easier, but you have to do some of the mental think work involved in this project. That and I type twice as fast as you do." A smug grin worked its way onto his features.

Jou sat next to Kaiba writing out what happened in which act on note cards. Jou was feeling miffed about Kaiba being a cold nasty jerk to him when his friends showed up. And Katsuya Jounouchi never liked being ignored. "Kaiba."

Kaiba continues typing.

"Kaiba."

Still be ignored.

"Kaiba, Pegasus is here in a bright blue Speedo and wants to marry you. He's got the rock and everything."

Kaiba: O.o

Jou snickered at his comment. Kaiba went to swivel the chair around but put too much force into and fell backwards. He lay on the floor in a very undignified sprawl and glared at Jou. "That's not funny."

"Sure it is. If you were me you'd think it's hilarious, but seeing as you aren't I can understand why you wouldn't find it funny," Jou sat with his feet on the keyboard counter drinking a soda.

"You don't know how many rules you're breaking by simply being in the lab with me," Kaiba said getting back into his chair. "You've got my attention, now what is it you want?"

"I'm done with the summary," he offered.

Kaiba's face brightened. "That's great, let me see it." Jou handed Kaiba the note cards. "Pup, no offense, but there are nothing but drawings on these."

"They're on the other side."

"Oh," Kaiba flipped them over and started reading them. Then he started typing them up, hands blazing across the keyboard. "I'm done with this."

Jou perked up and looked at Kaiba, "That was fast."

"I know, most things I do are fast."

'Mmm, fast and furious I hope... Katsuya! Mind out of the gutter, focus!' "Yeah, what's the other part of the project we're supposed to do?"

Kaiba pulls a palm pilot out of his pocket and starts poking it with his pencil. "We're also supposed to do a comparison of the book to another one of the author's books, so pick which one of Shakespeare's plays to compare it too."

"Uh, A Midsummer Nights whatever it is, how bout that?" Jou questioned.

"That would be dream, A Midsummer Nights Dream."

"That's the one!" Jou said excitedly. "I haven't read it though."

Kaiba starred at him. "Do you have any idea what it's about?"

Spotlight's on Jou, what will his answer be? "A dream, on a midsummer night?" Oh, and he blows it big time.

Kaiba rolls his eyes, "You will know shortly then, we're going to my place so get your stuff."

"Okay," Jou runs around the computer lab getting of his belongings. He heads towards the door and waits for Kaiba.

Kaiba picks up Jou's note cards and turns them over. He walks to the door, "Jou what is this supposed to be?"

"Well that's the Flame Swordsman," he points to one figure. "And that's the Blue Eyes White Dragon," he pointed to the other.

"And what exactly are they doing?"

Jou points to the Flame Swordsman, "He's hacking up the Blue Eyes."

Eye twitch. "Okay we're going."

At Kaiba Mansion

"Seto, you brought Jou home with you!"

Jou and Kaiba had both tactfully side stepped The Amazing Flying Mokuba as they entered this time. "I did. We'll be in the library if you need us."

Mokuba sulked, "Oh, I thought you were here to do something fun..."

"Well you thought wrong." He grabbed Jou by the elbow, "Lets go, unless that is you want more 'hand banging' good memories to remember my house by."

"I'm coming, keep yer shirt on."

Jou followed Kaiba down a different hallway then the one he remembered coming down before. He was so lost in thought that he didn't realize Kaiba had stopped resulting in him running into the brunet. Kaiba grunted as the blonde bumped into him but opened the door to his private library. His library was easily the size of the school's but with books of much higher intelligence.

"I have to say Kaiba, the more I see of your pad, the more I never want to leave," Jou said gawking at the books jammed floor to ceiling..

Cue Kaiba blush. "Thanks, I like my house too. Would you like me to get you a copy of A Midsummer Night's Dream?"

"Yes! Fetch me a book faithful, wife of mine!" Jou chirped.

Biting the inside of his cheek, Kaiba replied, "Don't push it."

He gave Jou a copy of the book and they went to sit at Kaiba's desk.

Jou looked at the first page.

'Thesus. Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour

Draws on apace; four happy days bring in

Another moon: but, O, methinks...'

"This is going to be a long read," Jou mumbled to himself.

An hour and a half later.

'Puck. If we shadows have offended,

Think but this, and all is mended-

That you have slum'red here

While these visions did appear.

And this weak and idle theme,

No more yielding but a dream,

Gentles, do not reprehend.

If you pardon we will mend.

And, as I am an honest Puck,

If we have unearned luck

Now tp scape the serpent's tongue,

We will make amends ere long;

Else the Puck a liar call.

So, good night unto you all.

Give me your hands, if we be friends,

And Robin shall restore amends.'

'Oh god do my eyes hurt!' Jou set the book down and looked at a conveniently placed clock. "Wow, it's only 6:30," Jou said to nothing at all as Kaiba was engrossed in another book. "Something is different about you," Jou said when Kaiba put his book down.

He rolled his eyes. "What could I have possibly done while you were reading?"

Jou snapped his fingers in understanding, "You're wearing glasses!"

"Yes puppy, I'm wearing my reading glasses." 'He's doing that annoying pout again! Jou always does that around me!'

Jou was sitting back in his chair tipping it back on two legs, "Den how come you don't wear them at school? I know you read all the time, if the lesson is boring at school you sit there just reading a book all class."

"Uh, well, I'm supposed to but... I don't," he blankly replied.

Jou plopped his chair down on the ground and looked at Kaiba, "You don't like your glasses?"

"No."

"I could be wrong, but I think somebody needs a hug."

"Jou, what are you thinking?" Jou was coming around the desk to Kaiba.

"Well hugs make you happy, and having glasses make you not happy, therefore I'm going to hug you." Jou hugged Kaiba around his shoulders. Kaiba instinctively burrowed against the top of Jou's head. "I'm going to make you an appointment at my family's optometrist and we'll go and get you contacts. We can go together. Sound like a plan?"

Seto stiffened at the sound of the word 'optometrist' but relaxed again when he said 'we'. "I'd like that a lot."

Jou looked up to smile at Kaiba, "You know I think we've been like this before."

"Not exactly," Kaiba said, a certain spark flaming in his eyes.

"What's that suppos-"Jou was cut off as Kaiba snaked his arms around Jou's waist pulled him closer. "Mmm, a change for the better I'd say."

One of Kaiba's hands left its position at Jou's waist to play with some of the golden blonde hair. "Do you need a ride home?"

"I guess, are you offering?" Jou asked, not wanting to shatter the moment of intimacy that was slipping away.

"Yes, but I don't want to go yet."

"Why not?" Jou breathed over Kaiba's long neck.

He stroked Jou's hair again, "Because it feels just gorgeous to have you in my arms," he sighed.

"How good?"

"This good." Kaiba puts his hand under Jou's chin so he was looking at him. His arms wrapped around Jou's waist and pulled him up close to his face and kissed Jou. Jou was already in such a relaxed state of mind that he leaned into the kiss and languidly kissed back. The need for air over same the two and they broke apart for air.

"That good?"

"That good," Kaiba replied.

In front of Jou's apartment building

Jou and Seto stood in front of the doors to Jou's apartment building looking at each other playfully bantering.

"Can I give you a pet name?"

"No."

"How 'bout tori?"

"No."

"Or neko?"

"No!"

"Can I call you Seto then?"

"Yes, whenever you want."

The two kissed briefly before Kaiba pulled back to allow Jou to go inside. "I'll see you tomorrow Jou."

"Yes, and soon you'll have contacts for your big, beautiful, blue eyes," Jou added.

"Yeah."

Jou shut the door as Kaiba walked away. 'That was not enough for me to thrive on for the rest of the night,' Jou thought as he touched his lips with his finger tips.

Oh! Me so evil! Teasing you like this, but Carrie loves you!

Bakura: And you don't?

Blue: No, I only like them a lot. And if you have a problem with that we can remove you by force.

Malik: whispersDude, shut up. She's started aiming for billboards with that thing now.