Sorry for the long lapse in updates! ^^;;; just as I put up the 'updated weekly' thing, I miss my deadline! ^^;; the worst part is that this is such a lame chapter too! AND short.

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FYI I wont be updating in the next two weeks (finals -___-;;;) I may, but don't be too expecting. Sorry bout that. *grumbles about a stupid class she has*

Sorry again about the lameness this week, I don't know what happened… *sighs* maybe I do, but hey! I'm not gonna tell you! ^^

Enjoy I guess. ^^;;

Unexpected Surprises

Author: Aera-chan

Date: 01-20-04 (way late)

Series: Yugioh!

Rating: R

Chapter XIII: Puppy dog eyes

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"Both hands, yes?"

"Yes…"

"With what?"

Pause.

"A pair scissors."

Silence.

"You sharpened them I see, very finely cut, deep too, you'll need stitches."

"…I see…" Deep sigh.

"Did you intend to do this?"

"…no…I don't know…maybe.."

More silence, there was only the quiet jabbing strokes of pen over paper.

Joey pushed himself up again, he slid down. He leaned his back against the wall and listened.

"Your head too… have you been taking your medication?"

Guilty silence.

"No."

"Why?"

"No reason… Just don't."

"You need to take it."

"I know…"

 "You'll need stitches for your head, its quite deep, it could get infected. It's a good thing you didn't cut any farther down, you may have lost your sight in that eye."

Joey sighed and slid down to the floor and hugged his knees.

'What is wrong with Kaiba? What did he do? What are they talking about? Medication? But he said he didn't need medication… I wish I knew what was the matter with him, now I'm really worried… what if he did lose his eyesight… cause of…'

Joey looked down the dark empty hall. He sighed.

'…with scissors…did he slice his face up with a pair of scissors? And his hands? I didn't even know there was anything wrong with his- typing! He couldn't type because his hands were all cut up!'

Joey sighed and laid his head down on this knees.

'What am I getting myself into? Can-can I handle Kaiba? Can I understand him? Love him? Take care of him? …protect him…from himself…?'

Joey heard their voices again.

"Please step over here, I'll get a nurse to come in and stitch up your cuts, but that bandage should keep 'til she gets in here. I'll just continue with a normal check up now."

Joey peeked around the corner. He watched Kaiba slowly get up and follow the doctor over to a scale. He stepped on and the other man checked his weight.

Kaiba looked over to the side as the other man sighed.

"You…you lost more weight…"

Kaiba didn't meet his eyes. "Yes…how much..?"

"6lbs… you're losing weight too quickly. You were always a skinny child, but I thought that maybe you could get over that, since you're…"

"Yes…I'm just…"

Silence.

"When was your last meal?"

"I… don't remember…"

"When did you eat last?"

"..this afternoon, I had half of a sandwich… coffee this morning."

"Well that's something." More jabbing. "You know… I wouldn't want to do this, but… if you don't start taking me seriously, I could have you taken in."

"No you cant… I'm too rich.."

"It doesn't matter."

"Yes it does, I have money, power, you cant trap me… believe me."

"I know that, I wish I could though…"

"Thank you."

Joey stared hard at the two, trying to decipher their relationship.

"This is a private hall sir, were you allowed in here by Mr. Kaiba?"

Joey jumped and turned around quickly. A short dark haired girl stared at him intensely with her pale blue eyes.

"Y-Yes. Actually, Kaiba is my… boyfriend." He coughed.

She blinked. "Oh is that so? Interesting.." she said as she walked into the room. "Excuse me gentlemen, but I'm here to stitch up Mr. Kaiba now."

Joey breathed out slowly. Truth be told he wasn't really supposed to be up here, Kaiba had told him to stay in the waiting room, but Joey, being as curious as he was, couldn't help but follow.

Joey decided once the girl was almost done that he had better return as fast as he could to the waiting room.

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"So, what did the doc have to say?" Joey asked smoothly as Kaiba entered the white waiting room.

"Nothing, lets go." Kaiba said curtly as he walked up to the front desk to check out.

"Don't you pay?" Joey asked as they got into the limo.

"They know me, it my hospital in a sense, its all taken care of."

"Oh."

They sat in silence all the way to the Kaiba mansion.

"Do you… want dinner or something, it's a little late…"

"I guess we're not going to my house then…" Joey said looking out the window at the large house surrounded by various gardens.

"We could still…if you want you know."

Joey looked at Kaiba. "Its okay, maybe this weekend."

Kaiba blushed. "As in stay over? Why?"

"I don't know- hey! Are you blushing?" Joey teased. "I didn't mean anything like that but…"

Kaiba blushed a deeper red. "Oh be quiet."

"I guess we could… 'experiment' while we're there…"

"You are so gross."

"What? What's wrong with my kind of entertainment?"

"You are- just.."

"I'm only teasing! Come on Kaiba! Lighten up some!"

Kaiba growled and pushed Joey over.

"Wha?" Joey yelped.

Kaiba laid his head down on his stomach and breathed out a long sigh.

"Kaiba what are you-"

"I don't want to get up, just…lets stay in here."

"Um… but-"

"Just don't talk."

"Alright." Joey smiled. He slowly ran his hands over the brown haired boy's head. "Alright."

Ryou opened the door to their apartment slowly. Looking around he quietly slipped in.

Bakura was lying out on the couch watching cartoons in the dark. Ryou quietly took off his shoes and crept passed.

"Where were you?" Bakura's rough voice asked from the recesses of the living room.

"Nowhere."

"Nowhere? And where would that be exactly?" Ryou didn't say anything. "Do you know what time it is?"

Ryou looked at the digital clock on the entertainment center. 20 past 10.

"Its late…" Ryou mused to himself quietly.

"Really? I hadn't noticed, that's why I was so worried, waiting here all by myself, I was so afraid I'd miss my shows."  Bakura said in a toneless voice. "Maybe you should teach me to tell time."

Ryou frowned before turning around to go upstairs to his bedroom.

"Where are you going?"

Ryou paused on the steps. "To my room."

"No, come here." Bakura said waving him over. Ryou walked over meekly, stopping a few feet away. "Sit." Bakura said patting the cushion next to him.

Ryou sat down cautiously.

"Now.." Bakura twisted his body around and positioned a pillow behind his back. He pulled Ryou to sit in his lap. "Tell me what you did today after school."

Ryou blinked up at him innocently with his long black eyelashes. "Hmm?"

Bakura flipped off the TV and used his free leg to wrap it around his light's small body. "Tell me where you went today. What you did, who you saw. And stop with the innocent act kiddo, I know something's up, and you know I have a short temper."

"I-I just hung out with Yugi and the guys." Ryou said, trying as hard as he could to look and sound convincing.

Bakura's eyebrows went up in mock surprise. "Really now? That's strange. I specifically remember talking to that damned Pharaoh on the cordless talk, wondering whether or not you were there." Ryou's face paled. "I believe he said that neither him nor Yugi had seen you since lunch… odd, wouldn't you agree?"

 Ryou looked down at his yami's chest, his eyes having nowhere to really look at the moment. He was so ashamed being caught lying.

Bakura felt the uneasiness growing in his hikari. "Ryou.." He gently lifted up the smaller boy's chin. "Where did you go today?"

Ryou blinked quite rapidly. "N-nowhere, like I've been saying!"

Bakura growled low in his throat. "Ryou, where did you go? Tell me!"

Ryou tried to pull out of Bakura's grip, but the other's leg pushed against his back tightly. "Bakura! Stop it! Let me go okay!"

Bakura wrapped his hands around Ryou's small wrists. His dark eyes bore into the large terrified brown ones.

"Ryou?"

"Just let me go okay?! I'm tired, and I have homework to finish!"

Bakura reluctantly let the smaller boy go. Ryou left quickly and ran up the stairs, shutting the door to his room quite loudly.

Bakura sat in the dark. The TV had been the only source of light earlier. Ryou was his other one.

But now he was just alone, alone in the dark.

Ryou was always his light, but recently it seemed he liked to keep him in the dark about things, especially about what he did during his after school hours.

Bakura sighed as he got up to make Ryou some dinner.

'He hasn't been eating right lately, just whatever's in the fridge. He's been so busy too, all that homework, and whatever he does after school, I wonder what it is…'

He sighed as he started to chop up vegetables to put in the makeshift soup he was cooking.

'I'm sure he's bored of Mac and cheese, I guess he really doesn't like it, I was only joking most of the time…' Bakura stopped and thought for a moment. 'He…wouldn't, no, Ryou's not like that… no..' sighing with relief at his own attempt at reassuring thoughts, he continued to cut up the veggies.

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"Ryou, made dinner!" Bakura called as he walked down the hall to Ryou's room. "Ryou, soup." he said knocking on his door. No answer. He opened the door slowly.

Ryou was sleeping quietly on his bed wearing only a loose white t-shirt and some boxers.

Bakura smiled. He set the soup down on the desk and went over to sit by Ryou's side. He rubbed his hand up and down his back gently.

"Ryou? Are you awake enough to eat?" Bakura asked. "Ryou?"

Ryou blinked up at him slowly. "'Kura?"

Bakura smiled. "Hello sleeping beauty, are you awake enough for some food?"

Ryou smiled and rolled over snuggling his face into Bakura's thigh. He yawned. "Yep." He paused for a moment. "There's no… mac and cheese in it is there?"

Bakura laughed. "No! Just normal vegetables and other…stuff…"

"Like what kind of other stuff?" Ryou asked skeptically.

"Meat, noodles… not bad stuff! Good stuff!" Bakura said in defense of his cooking. Ryou laughed. Bakura slowly got up and retrieved the bowl. "Here you go." he said handing Ryou the bowl once he was sitting up.

"Mmm, this is good! This is very good, thank you." Ryou said happily slurping his soup.

Bakura smiled and ran his hand through Ryou's light colored hair, he pushed some of it behind his ear. After a long silence, Bakura spoke.

 "You're really beautiful you know that?"

Bakura chuckled lightly when Ryou's face tinged with a bright pink. "Extremely cute too." This didn't help Ryou's blushing.

Bakura wrapped his arm around the smaller boy's shoulders.

"Do you want to sleep in my room tonight?"

Ryou coughed. "Perv. Why?"

"I'm not being perverted! Just cause we never get to do anything anymore." The look. "I'm not being perverted! You're the one thinking those thoughts! You're perverted!"

Ryou laughed. "I'm just kidding 'Kura. Ya, I'll sleep in your room tonight, didn't know you were so lonely."

Bakura grumbled. "I'm not lonely, its just the… heaters broken and you're quite warm I've noticed."

"Oh, of course!" Ryou said mocking him. Bakura squeezed his head in his elbow and started giving him a noogie.

"How dare you make fun of me! Now you will experience the eternal noogie of doom!! BAHA!"

Ryou giggled wildly as the hands left his head and found their way around his middle, tickling him madly.

"'K-K-Kura, the soup! Its gonna spill!" Ryou cried between laughs.

Bakura stopped long enough to put the soup on the nightstand before he pushed Ryou down onto the bed for another attack.

Ryou yelped loudly as Bakura pounced him. "No! No! Bakura stop!" Ryou shrieked with laughter.

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Ryou pulled the covers over his nose allowing only his eyes to peek out as he watched Bakura change into his night clothes.

Bakura had told him to turn around and close his eyes, but Ryou, being the curious one, wanted to watch.

He blushed and pulled the covers over his head when Bakura turned around.

He felt the bed sag on both sides of him. He pulled the covers back slowly revealing an amused looking Bakura.

"I said don't watch." Bakura said smirking. "Curious eh?"

Ryou blushed. "Um…"

"You're so cute sometimes." Bakura whispered leaning down and kissing him on the cheek. Ryou blushed and hid his head under the covers. Bakura laughed and threw them back as he crawled in beside the blushing boy.

Ryou rolled onto his stomach and hid his face in his arms, only his eyes peeked up over the top of them. Bakura could tell he was smiling by the way his eyes shone.

"You're acting weird." Bakura observed wrapping his muscular arms around Ryou's small waist.

Ryou wriggled around happily like an excited little puppy.

"What is wrong with you?" Bakura asked, smirking at his hikari's weird behavior.

Ryou snuggled his head into his chest and peeked up at him with his warm brown eyes. He purred softly kneading his fingers into the taller man's chest and stomach.

"What the hell is up with you?"

Bakura, laughing now, pulled Ryou upwards and kissed the underside of his chin softly. He gently gave Ryou soft little kisses along his neck.

All of this failed to calm the smaller boy.

Ryou wiggled around more, rubbing his face against Bakura's neck and chest. He continued to purr and mewl.

Bakura continued to laugh at his weirdness. "Was it the soup?"

Ryou blinked up at him with his long girlish eyelashes. He mewled before he closed his teeth down on Bakura's bottom lip biting it.

Ryou tugged wantingly.

"Tell me what you want kitty." Bakura slurred slightly, his lip still captured.

"Nyaa!"

"What's that?"

"Nyaa!"

Bakura kissed him around the mouth, teasing him as he dodged the other's lips cruelly.

Ryou whined like a little puppy.

"Ah, you're a puppy now then?"

Ryou bit at Bakura's neck playfully.

"I guess so."

Bakura ran his hands up along Ryou's sensitive sides. Ryou stopped his actions and fell back limply. Bakura gazed down at his lover.

"What happened to all your energy pet? You were fine a minut-No! No Ryou! Don't even give me that look- R-Ryou! Stop it!"

Ryou stared up with him with lust filled brown orbs, his lashes lazily blinking and flashing over them. His mouth hung open slightly as he breathed in and out, small locks of white hair blowing across his chin.

Bakura sat up. "Ryou! I said not until your 18! You're only a kid!"

"Kuraaaaaaa…" Ryou moaned, his voice coarse with want. Need. Desire.

Ryou slowly ran his hand along the inside of Bakura's thigh.

"R-Ryou!" Bakura yelped. He pushed the hand away, there was no way he would back down on a promise he made. "Do you want me to put you back in your own room? I'll lock it too! I swear I will!" Bakura threatened as Ryou's persistence continued. Bakura batted the curious and exploring little fingers away from the lower half of his body. "Ryou!"

"Kuraaaaa… please…. Kurrraaaaaa…" Ryou continued to moan.

"What the hell is wrong with you?? Are you in heat or something?? What the hell?"

Bakura backed himself up against the headboard as Ryou crawled over and on top of him.

"Its okay Kurrrrrra…" Ryou purred. "I'm ready, look how much I've grown." Ryou mewled and ran a finger along the rim of Bakura's shorts. "Take me Kura, you know you want to.."

Bakura's face flushed a bright red. "That's it mister, I've had it!"

Bakura stood up abruptly causing Ryou to lose balance and fall backwards.

Bakura grabbed the sheets off the bed and wrapped them around Ryou's body snuggly, tossing him over his shoulder, he carried him back into his room and plopped him down onto the bed. "Stay in here or I swear I'll come back and lock it."

He turned around and walked to the door, pausing he turned his head. "I made a promise to you, you know… I said I wouldn't take you till I knew you were ready… you're so young, you're not ready to deal with those kind of feelings… that connection. Just be patient… good things come to those who wait…" Bakura turned around and left, shutting the door behind him.

Ryou laid there in silence. Now what? Bakura had rejected him. There was little chance that he would be allowed to step foot inside of Bakura's bedroom again until his 18th birthday.

Ryou sighed and wriggled around trying to maneuver out of his cocoon.

'Bakura sure wrapped me in tight, jeepers, what'd he think I was gonna do?'

He wriggled again.

'I cant get out!'

He struggled some more.

'I seriously cant get out!!'

Finally giving up, he fell asleep.

To be continued…

Not much going on in this chapter, Bakura acts pretty weird, way out of character, but it will be explained eventually in a conversation he has with that damned pharaoh Yami! ^^ hehehe, just kidding Yami! (he gets his spot light, maybe even some issues! ^^ *dances*)

Mokuba will EVENTUALLY get in there! I have a super fun thing I want to do with him! ^^

Ryou is getting issues… I still haven't resolved the bathroom issue, but I will! (everything must be so long -___-;;;;)

Seto is a big puppy. Kawaii puppy thou! Joey's puppy! ^^

Something to keep in mind: Where is Tristan? Its night now… where is he? Is he okay? (knowing me something's wrong ^^;;;) Is he still alive?? (we should hope since I still need him - -;;;)

-Ya, I said I wasn't gonna talk anymore… ah hell, screw that! Or at least for now, I'm still venting from a previous event today, feel in a slightly better mood ^^ (always feel happier after I've cried… am I really that pathetic?? …- -;;;;)

Well anyways!

Hey, here's a question, what do you guys think Ryou does after school? ^^ I want to know what you guys think it is! ^^

Here, might as well take a guess at what's up with Mokuba, I'm not sure if you guys will be able to tell this early, since he only really appeared (physically) 3 times. Once when he was a baby, once when Kaiba flipped and one other time… ^^;; maybe I'm just ruining it. But try to guess about Mokuba, its kinda weird so let your imagination run wild! ^^ not too wild thou, its not way way way weird, okay it is kinda… I'm done..

Okay, so please review! Sorry I cut the review response thingy short! It got to be so much of a hassle (or I would like you to think) and caused me to slack off and procrastinate (I'm just a procrastinator in general ^^;;;)

Well, later!