Did you know I own Yu-Gi-Oh? Yeah! I just won the lottery and I had a million dollars and—wait, that was in a dream. Never mind, I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh.

Jou and Mai was a couple, but Mai leaves with Varon, leaving Jou heartbroken and alone. He moves on and realizes that he had feelings for a certain blue eyed CEO. Little by little, Seto and Jou fall in love with each other, but do not admit it out loud. However, Mai comes back, expecting Jou and her to be together. She breaks up whatever Jou and Seto had and persuades Jou to give her a second chance. Jou was confused. He thought he would be thrilled to had Mai back in his life, yet he cannot stop thinking about a person he left hanging. When Seto decides that it hurts him too much, he makes a decision to leave Domino City forever to get over Jou, and to never return. Will Jou realize his feelings for Seto before it's too late?

Slight Yugi and Yami, Bakura and Ryou, Otogi and Honda, and Mai (possibly Anzu) bashing.

Main couple: Seto and Jou

The Last to Know

Running and Leaving

The bell rung loudly, relieving Jou of his boredom. After the pop quiz, all they had to do was go over the answers and check. (Yes, it took thirty minutes because some people were stupid and kept asking the same questions over and over). Jou easily made an A. History was easy; it was nothing but memorization.

Besides soccer and hanging out with his best buddies, Jou didn't anything else really except study. He was pretty smart. Not Seto smart where no studying was required to make A's, but he was smart. He just needed to work at it harder than others. He was in all the honor classes except for history (history was pretty much the same regardless). He only had the first period with Honda and Otogi, three classes with Bakura and Ryou, and all classes with Yugi and Yami. Oh, and of course, Seto.

Jou packed his bag hastily while watching the door where Yami and Yugi were waiting. Yami was busy whispering in Yugi's ear, making him laugh and smile. Jou felt his heart ache with jealousy. It was obvious what Yami's and Yugi's feelings were for each other, even if they did not admit it. They were not dating (yet), but they were acting like two people in love. It was easy to mistaken them for a couple if you didn't know them.

No one who didn't know them would ever think Mai and Jou were together.

Jou quickly brushed off his negative thoughts and slowly walked over to them, giving them both a chance to flirt and talk some more without any interruptions. Whatever Yami was telling Yugi must be good because Yugi was grinning like a child with lots of candy.

The class was pretty empty now. Only the teacher and a handful of students were still inside. Normally, Jou, Yugi, and Yami waited in the room for the crowd outside to slow down before exiting to get to their next class: chemistry.

Jou finally got to them, interrupting whatever they were talking about. Yami gave Jou a small smile while Yugi flashed him his normally big ones and said, "Hey Jou!" They didn't get a chance to talk earlier, due to the fact that Jou was late.

He opened his mouth to respond, but then Yami found something else to whisper about in his ear, distracting Yugi away from Jou. (Jou knew that Yami did not do this intentionally.) Behind them, there was a group of giggling girls, laughing and pointing at Seto typing on his portable computer. (Another fan club. Jou suspected that they called themselves the KKK—Seto's Kissing Klick. Jou wondered if they knew how to spell "click" correctly) Yes, as soon as the pop quiz was over, Seto had automatically resumed typing on his laptop, sometimes pausing to get something from his briefcase.

Jou looked over at Seto, admiring the way his caramel hair was shining in the sunlight because he sat next to the window. His hair looked so darn hot. Actually, he looked hot. Period.

"Jou? Jou?"

Jou snapped out of his thoughts and looked at Yugi and Yami, who were obviously done talking. They were staring back at him with curious eyes, glancing back at forth between Jou and Seto. "Oh sorry, I keep zoning out for some reason," Jou apologized, smiling sheepishly. "It's one of those days."

Yugi nodded understandably. Yami's lips curve into a smirk and commented, "It's okay. Seto does look good."

"What!"

"Come on, we had to go to class," Yami old them both before Jou could really react, beckoning his head to the door.

That was true. The crowd was dying down and the bell was going to ring in about five minutes to signal the start of class. Even Seto, workaholic and all, was packing up to head onto the next class, which meant they should really start moving.

"Yeah let's go," Jou agreed as Seto walked past them. Jou decided to let Yami off the hook for insinuating that Jou had a crush on Seto. He chose to ignore Yugi's knowing grin that mirrored and resembled Yami's as well.

Everyone at school knew about his so called "relationship" with Mai. But very few people knew—only his friends knew—that Jou was, indeed, bisexual.

Jou was clearly interested in girls (hence, Mai) but there had been a few times when Jou had looked at guys and just thought, "Whoa". Seto Kaiba was one of them, the hottest one so far.

Like he had mentioned before, none of his friends like Mai, which was why they would rather had him like Seto. To them, Seto was the much better choice and better dating material, despite the fact that he was cold and silent. They seemed to prefer that over a person who… well, Mai. But even though Jou had the smallest, slightest crush on Seto, it was Mai that he was interested in the most.

…even though Mai cared so much.

They continued to walk, Jou in his head thinking and Yugi and Yami chatting—okay, Yami was flirting—quietly. Jou knew he could join them and their conversation, but chose not to. Yami had told him secretly that he will tell Yugi any day now how he feels. Then again, Yami also said that two months ago.

Jou accidentally let them walk too ahead of him, not really aware or paying attention. He was trying to fight against the evil, horrible powers of sleep. Man, he shouldn't had stayed up reading his comic book.

BAM!

…Jou flied backward and landed on his bottom…

"Sorry mate, are you all right?" asked an Australian accented voice. The person who bumped into him stretched his hand out to pull Jou up from the floor. "I wasn't paying attention to where I was going."

Jou took his hand and got up. He recognized this guy. He was the new transfer student, the one who was talking to Mai earlier at history. Up close, Jou could see that he was a very handsome guy too. "It's all right," he mumbled, dusting himself off. He flashed him a weak grin and started to walk away to catch up with Yugi and Yami, who were waiting for them. They had just noticed Jou had fallen behind.

"Will you hold up for a second? You're Jou, right?" the foreigner spoke, putting his hand on Jou's arm, stopping him from moving. Jou waved to Yami and Yugi to go ahead without him. He had time; the teacher was always late anyway.

"Yeah, how did you know?"

The guy cocked his head to the side. "I'm Varon. I just got moved to this school recently. I noticed you around, you're in my history class." He retracted his hand back.

Dang, that accent was really thick. "Okay…" What did he want with him? "Err… not to be impolite, but class is going to start soon and I don't want to get detention so…"

"Oh, sorry. I just want to talk to you. Mai is your girlfriend right?"

"Yes."

Varon's eyebrow shot up. His baby blue eyes look questionable. "Mai kissed me last night."

Jou eyes widened. He was very aware of Mai's tendency to a bit flirt, but this was the first time the guy actually came up to tell him, instead of letting Jou find out through rumors and gossips. "…oh really?" he replied intelligently, thoughts of class and being late flying out of his mind.

"We've been friends for a while now, me and Mai. I was going to ask her out, but then I heard a few people say she was already taken."

Jou remained silent as he felt his heart drop. The more this guy told him about Mai, the more miserable he got. He didn't like where this was going. He could only stare back at Varon, stunned and speechless.

"Listen mate," Varon continued on, not knowing what Jou was thinking, "I'm not the type of person to get in the way of relationships. I just thought you would want to know, from me, I mean. You know how bloody talkative people get in high school."

"Thanks… I think…" Jou let him know glumly.

"But…" he paused and looked straight into Jou's eyes with lots of intensity. "I really like her. I talked to her about it, about my feelings for her. And she's made it pretty clear she feels the same way I do, mate." He stopped when he saw Jou look just a tad bit upset. He continued on. "I was also worried that she had feelings for you so I asked her about it. She assured me that she didn't like you and then she told me she's going to break up with you soon too, you know, to be with me. Just a little…" he laughed nervously and embarrassedly, "heads up I suppose… I really hope you don't hate me, I would really like to be friends. That's why I'm telling you this first, so you don't hear it from someone else. I didn't mean to get in the way, honestly. It just happened."

Jou somehow managed to force himself to smile and nod his head as if to show Varon he understood.

"Look, like I said before," his accent sounded so much accented now for some reason in Jou's opinion, "I'm not the type to get into people's relationships and mess with them. I would never had even gotten involved if Mai hadn't kissed me or if I knew that you and her were together. But you know… things happen and she's just… amazing."

Jou's smile felt pasted on, ready to come off at any minute now, and it was true. Any second now, his smile just might go away and he might punch this guy if he didn't stop talking about how amazing his girlfriend was and how amazing she was. Did Varon think that he was some sort of idiot? That he didn't already know all of those things?

"But… I'm sorry. I truly am. Is there something I can do to make it up to you, perhaps?"

"Heh… no, it's okay, you've done enough already. Now, I really have to get to class. Nice to meet you Varon." Varon nodded, and hurried towards his class. Jou waved goodbye and started to run down the hall, as if to show he really needed to be in class.

The bell rung and he was now officially late. Jou knew he should probably get to class, even it meant getting detention. His running came to a stop and he leaned against the lockers that were nearby. In rage, he punched it, with all his strength, frustrated and feeling embarrassed, humiliated, angry.

Maybe he should get to class soon, but he didn't want to. The words kept playing in his mind. Break up soon… break up soon… like a horrible broken record playing over and over.

Instead of turning left as he should of, he turned right and pushed the door wide open to exit the school, running away.

"This test will be worth twenty percent of your final average and will…"

Ring. Ring.

The teacher stopped to glare at the class, trying to figure out whose cell phone would dare ring in class.

Seto, still typing his report, put one hand inside his pocket and took out a cell phone. With one flick of motion, he flipped open the phone and answered it. (He had mastered this, having been doing this for about four years.) "Kaiba here."

The teacher saw Seto on the phone. She frowned, clearly upset that a student—even if it's Seto Kaiba—would talk and interrupt the class. She resumed talking, trying to get the class's attention again by speaking louder. Seto did not speak, only he only listened. After a few moments or so, he packed up his laptop and stood up.

If it was anyone else other than Seto Kaiba, the student would have had the cell phone taken away and would have been given a detention session. But, Seto Kaiba was different. He funded more than half the facilities at school and to have him get into trouble would mean cutting off the support from Kaiba Corp and that would leave the school with barely any equipment.

"I need to leave the class."

The teacher gave him an annoyed look, really annoyed now that this was the second time she got interrupted by him in five minutes, but nodded regardless, just as Seto thought she would. He hurried out of the classroom with his briefcase, aware of the stares cast his way.

The call had been from Kaiba Corp. Apparently his so called professional employees had messed up again and Seto needed to fix it.

He scowled as he pushed the door and exited out of the school. He got into his forty thousand dollar car, placed his case on the passenger's seat, started the ignition, and he started to drive.

By the time he had finally reached Kaiba Corp and was getting out of the car, his phone rang again. In a bad mood, he picked it up and growled as a greeting, "This better be good."

He listened, his eyes narrowing. Then he shouted, "You mean to tell me I drove all this way for nothing!" in such a voice that scared the passing people who was walking by so much, they start to walk faster to get away from the enraged Seto.

In a calm, gentle, almost scary voice, he told the poor guy who had unluckily lost to a paper-scissors-rock game and was forced to call, "I'll be there to fire all of you soon enough." He hung up without a further word to say.

He could walk inside and fire all of them right now, but he decided to prolong their misery until the end of the day and THEN fire them. Let them sit around worrying and sweating in their clothes, they should had known better than to call him unless he was really needed. Served them right.

He checked his clock. It was halfway through third period already. No point in trying to drive back with the lunch traffic and everything. If he was lucky, he would get back in time for sixth period.

"Stupid idiots, get me out here for no reason," he muttered under his breath.

He looked around his surroundings. He might as well try to get some work down. He could go to his office but… nah… another option was to stay in his car and work. That wasn't that enticing either, considering how cramped the car was.

Seto's blue eyes were soon lured to the playground across the street. It was a beautiful, gorgeous day. Blue sky, shining sun, barely any clouds in sight… the playground seemed to be calling him, trying to get him over there.

A wave of jealous shot through Seto's veins. How he hated Gozaburo. He died nearly six years ago, yet the burning hatred was still there, growing and growing rapidly everyday. His childhood taken from him, leaving him not able to experience what regular kids got to do and feel. Locked away, never knowing how the world really was as a kid.

It faded as quickly as it had come. Seto relaxed and unclenched his fist he didn't realize he had clenched. It didn't matter, not anymore at least. As long as Mokuba was okay and as long as he still had his childhood…

Seto reached inside his car and grabbed his laptop. He may never be able to change the past and would never be able to get his childhood back, but he could try to make up for it. The day was beautiful. And just the sight of the playground was magnificent. It wasn't often that he had the chance to actually be out here in the sun. The last time he had been at a park had been about ten years ago.

He was going to enjoy this day.

-TBC-

Finally, Varon enters the scene! -starts dancing- I absolutely love Varon, he is a very awesome character :) I only wish he wasn't just in ONE season, but oh well...

Thank you to whoever pointed out that Varon was from Australia instead of Britain.

Anyways, comments are always wanted, appreciated, etc.

-lilrubydevil-