Hello everyone. To my faithful reviewers, YOU GUYS ROCK! Okay, now that my little hello is out of the way, this is chapter eight. And this story will be finished! I swear on a stack of Seto/Jou fanfics! I hope you all enjoy this; it took a lot of work. More than usual because I had testing this week. Ugh.
I saw this awesome idea when reading another fic! The girl took a bunch of actors and put them in place of the characters to give you an idea of what they look like. So, I'm gonna do that now: ) If you guys think of anyone else that would be better, go on and tell me! Type these in on google images and look around a little. You'll see why I chose them.
Seto Kaiba: Jake Gyllenhaal
Jounouchi Katsuya: Ryan Reynolds or Seann William Scott
Matthew: Jude Law
Mokuba: Shawn Pyfrom
Jounouchi Shizuka: Natalie Portman
Nicholas: Colin Farrell
Yugi Mouto: Ryan Cabrera
Hiroto Honda: I'm going to leave him to your imagination, because the way I have portrayed him would put any decent actor to shame.
-Show Me How It Ends-
Stage Eight: Acclimation
Matthew paced around his bedroom, all the while idly swirling a glass of deep crimson in his hand. He was contemplating the brunet down the hall.
Seto Kaiba was just a nameless soldier for his short coming war with humanity. Of course, he needed initiative. And Matthew could make sure that Seto had that. In the form of one very attractive crush. Hmm…the blonde didn't seem too important to the CEO. Maybe he could have him after Seto was disposed of.
The elder vampire set down his glass. Reaching for a cell phone placed neatly on the corner of his desk. He dialed quickly, fast enough to put our favorite blue-eyed hottie to shame.
"Nicholas, how is our corrupt little friend?"
After the hooded man closed his cell phone, he turned away. Idly tapping his nails against one of the numerous crates.
Honda lounged against a wall of wooden crates, running his fingers possessively across the side of a stained black Desert Eagle.
"Nick, I don't get it. Why do you hate Jou so much?"
Nicholas stopped tapping his fingers against the box.
"It's not so much that I hate Jou, it's more of a small detail in a larger plan kind of thing." He said, raising his hand trying to gesture his meaning. "I kind of work for someone else."
Honda looked back curiously. "I thought you were in his old gang."
Nick laughed whole-heartedly.
"I was." He said. His eyes shining with a mirth only nice memories could give.
Honda grew quiet for a moment before he asked once more,
"But still, why do you hate Jou?"
Nicholas looked at his hands ashamedly; He noted that Nick wouldn't meet his own gaze.
Barely above a whisper, Nick answered Honda's question.
"I don't."
Katsuya rested his head in his hands. Between the screaming of profanity and accusations coming from the Chief's mouth, and the screaming of 'no evidence' and 'illegal holding' from his own father/lawyer, it was all quickly giving Jou one hell of a headache. He turned, looking out the window behind him, trying as hard as he could to block out the voices before him.
'God Set, do you have any idea how much trouble you've gotten me into? I'm so friggen' sorry for everything. I hope that wherever you are now, you know that I love you. I'll always love you, no matter what.'
"MR. JOUNOUCHI I SUGGEST THAT YOU CALM YOURSELF OR I WILL HAVE YOU ESCORTED FROM THIS BUILDING!"
"FINE! AND WHILE I'M LEAVING, I'LL JUST TAKE MY SON AS WELL!"
Jou felt a strong hand firmly grip his shoulder, ripping him out of his chair. His father lead him towards the exit doors. Purposely ignoring the inhuman screeching coming from the chief's office.
"Jou, I am so sorry you had to hear all that. You know they have no evidence to convict you of anything, so you'll be fine." He said, hailing a cab as he strode quickly away from the station.
Jou stayed quiet as he entered the car. After Mr. Jounouchi told the cabbie their destination, a 'Domino Airport', Jou turned to his father. Eyes gazing questioningly as he asked fearfully,
"You think I did it, don't you?"
The lawyer turned to his son. "No, I don't think you had anything to do with it. Those imbeciles in blue are just trying to compensate for not having caught Honda." He smiled slightly, "We're going back home kid. Do you want to say goodbye to your friends?"
Jou gazed out the car window thoughtfully.
"No. No more sad memories. It's time to start over."
'Goodbye Seto.'
"I have to get out of here!"
Seto ran back and forth across the room, desperately trying to calm himself as he looked for an alternative exit. You know, rather than the room's only door. Thanks to Seto's new found abilities, he had somehow heard everything that Matthew had been thinking. This, needless to say, was just a bit unnerving.
"Like hell I'll let that filthy son of a bitch get his hands on MY puppy!" He growled as his relentless search led him to an enormous bay window. He looked skeptically at the sheer drop beyond the glass. Seto let his gaze travel to the large grandfather clock, ticking absently. 5:28 a.m.
"Well, it's not like I haven't jumped off a cliff before."
The brunet took one last look at the clock, then at the burgeoning sunrise to the East. He unlatched the window's lock and jumped up onto the sill.
"See ya Matt, it was nice knowing that I was going to be your little henchman, but I've got more important things to do."
Seto lunged forward, disappearing as he descended into the fog.
Yay! That was almost 1000 words! Go me! The next chapter is done so I'll upload it soon! Please review!