I'm in a relatively good mood readers, thanks to you lot, and my GCSE results :D anyways...
Warnings; May contain swearing and hinting of Yaoi, don't like? Don't read!
Pairings: KaixRay, SetoxJoey, YamixYugi, TrunksxGoten.
Disclaimer; I do NOT own, you do not sue, got it? Good! Oh and I do not own 'Simarik' by Turkan.
-'thoughts'
Oh sod it, RyouxNicole as well. Only cos I feel sorry for Ryou. Sorry, I can't make up my mind : P
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Chapter 6; Jingle all the way.
Last time;
"You're Joey, right?"
"Yeah, that's me, what's it to ya?"
"You better get ready, you're up in five." Gohan told him, Nicole's brain was ticking over another situation, that concerning two former beybladers.
"Cool, thanks um... Gohan, ain't it?"
"That's me." Gohan gave the famous Son grin. Joey gave him a thumb up and went back into his dressing room with Tristan.
Now...
Joey was finally getting ready; he was only delaying the unavoidable.
"Joey, you've got to be ready in two minutes." Tristan pointed out to his blond friend. Joey had pulled off everything apart from his underwear.
First he pulled on a pair a pair of baggy black trousers trimmed with emerald green, all made of crushed velvet.
Next he pulled out a black coined belt and tied it around his waist; the silver coins jingled in protest as he tested that the belt wouldn't fall down.
Thirdly he put on what looked like a green crop-top with a zip in the chest. It was covered in matching sliver coins to those of the belt. It came down to his diaphragm, showing off his lightly chiselled six-pack.
"Where did you get that gear dude?" asked Tristan.
"There was a suuk in town a while back, but I had to make my top and trousers, some of the costumes there were...unsuitable for me." Joey explained, clasping into place a headdress that consisted of a singular silver chain with silver coins on it.
"How long did that take you, that thing is covered!" the pointy haired teen pointed to his friend's top.
"'Bout... two weeks, but I started it before Yugi got the poster." Joey added; putting on a surplus amount of bangles and pulling out of his bag an emerald green veil with what looked like a black dragon embroidered on the front.
Then he pulled out a CD. "Oops." he ran out of the door, Tristan followed him, and he wanted to see his best friend's act, and he had to help with the stage.
"Mokuba, I forgot to hand in my music!"
"Ok calm down. Gohan, could you sort that out please." Mokuba asked the spectacled, dark haired adult.
"I'm on it." Gohan disappeared on the spot.
Joey took a look at the audience through a gap in the curtain, Kaiba was talking to Duke, or to be more precisely, Duke was doing the talking and Kaiba was trying his best to ignore him. Then he saw how full the rest of the auditorium was.
"I can't do this!" he panicked and ran off, exit stage right.
"Piccolo, if you would be so kind." Nicole called. Joey was then 'escorted' back to the stage by the Namekian.
"Coward." Snorted Vegeta, "Then again I don't blame him in that get-up."
"Shut up Vegeta, or there's a nice Bo-Peep costume in back that's just your size." Gohan grinned, appearing again beside Nicole.
"Joey, I didn't know you could belly dance!" called Yami as he and Yugi walked up as well.
"Belly dancing? But isn't that...you know." began Ryou.
"A woman's dance?" Bakura finished his Hikari's sentence for him, trying not to laugh.
"Isn't your hair a woman's length?" Retorted Nicole. "Look Joey, don't let anyone get to you. Just go for it. You wanted to remain anonymous until after didn't you?"
Joey nodded and Nicole waited for him to get into place and hold his veil up over his face.
"Ladies and Gentleman, please give an encouraging hand for the Billy Elliot of Bollywood... Dragon's delight!"
The audience couldn't see Joey's face when the curtain went up.
"Hit it Chief!" hissed Nicole over her headset.
Within five second's the opening tune of Tarkan's 'Simarik' filled the air (The original of Holly Valance's Kiss Kiss in Turkish,I couldn't get the lyrics.)
Joey slowly pulled the veil down, giving his famous grin, the audience gasped.
"Joey can belly dance!" cried Duke, turning to glare at Téa.
"Don't look at me; Belly dancing isn't something I've personally taken up. Is... Kaiba ok?" she asked, Duke turned around to see the teenage CEO staring at Joey.
Joey had swung the veil and was holding it over his head as he swung his left hip forward twice, then right, left…
"I'm sure he'll be fine Téa." Duke grinned.
Joey continued to do these 'hip flicks', then gave a thrust with his right hip. Counting in his head as he smiled at his audience.
'Left-two, right two, shimmy right, left, right, turn, left, right…'
At the chorus, Joey did a series of small hip circles, four each side. Then paused to kiss the air on his left, twice. Repeating it again, kissing on the right.
'Left, right, left. Turn, right, left, right turn.' Joey counted, flapping the veil as he moved.
Joey repeated all the moves again from the beginning. He grinned when he caught Kaiba's face. It was in a hypnotic trance and from what Joey could see; he was sitting like he was trying to hide something in his lap.
Instead of finishing the song like he had learnt, he span around twice, veil flying behind him, he stopped to give a final kiss to the auditorium, or more in the direction of Kaiba.
"Ladies and Gents, I give you Dragon's Delight, Joey Wheeler!"
Joey panted as he bowed to the tremendous applause, then a familiar cry reached his ears.
"LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LAAAAAAA!"
He looked up to see all the women from his belly dance class cheering him on, waving coined belts that varied in style and colour. He laughed, waved, gave a wiggle so all his coins jingled and ran off stage as the curtains fell.
"Wow!" was all Tristan and Mokuba had to say. Joey gave his famous cheesy grin, flashing the majority of his teeth and gave them the victory sign.
"Is my brother alright? He just got up and walked out, looks like he's heading to the toilet."
"He'll be ok Mokuba. Moneybags is as tough as old boots. Oh god I gotta go to the bathroom as well. And I need a drink."
"Get me something!" said Tristan, before getting a coined belt in his face.
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Seto Kaiba had locked himself in a cubicle. His usual stone face was red and dripping with sweat. He had a little...make that a big problem and it was pushing against the crotch of his trousers.
'Why the fuck have I got a hard on? Especially over the Mutt dancing!' He asked himself.
'Because dill-brain, you have feelings for the puppy.' argued a voice in the back of his head.
Kaiba was more freaked out about having feelings for Joey than the second voice in his head.
'I...I have?'
'Duh! Why do you think you've been easier on him lately, not to mention the ride here.' the voice argued back.
...Flashback...
"Are we there yet? Are we there yet!" asked Mokuba, bouncing in his seat. Bakura's fingers tightened on the box in his lap.
"You lay a single molecule of any kind on Mokuba and I'll make sure you're in a prison that you can't break out of." The teen billionaire told him.
"Joey, I'm gonna start singing Christmas Carols if you don't stop that thing jingling!" groaned Tristan.
Kaiba watched the blond next to him mumble his apologies and clutch even tighter to the bag. Before glancing at the rest of them in turn.
Yami looked calm, yet worried as he looked at his smaller counterpart that was Yugi, who kept rubbing his eyes. Ryou looked like he was going to collapse in a dead faint any moment; Bakura was glaring at anyone that moved. Tristan looked annoyed and Mokuba... well that was the last time Kaiba allowed him to help himself to anything sugary.
Joey had opened his bag and was adjusting the contents inside it when the limo took a sharp turn. Everyone held tight, except Joey, who went flying sideways and into Kaiba's lap.
"Heh heh, oops. Sorry moneybags." Joey's face was bright red as he got up.
"It's ok, just don't do it again, Mutt."
...End Flashback...
"Kaiba, you in here?" asked a voice.
"Joey?"
Backstage...
"Um...Nicole..." began Goku. Nicole was helping everyone else on the backstage crew lock the large round table top painted like a bull's-eye into place.
"Yeah Goku?" the brunette turned to the tall Saiyan.
"I was... wondering... how comes you didn't run, scream or stare when we flew in? Most people we come across usually run at the sight of Piccolo and stare at Tien's third eye."
"A person shouldn't be marked by their appearances but by their merits in life. Some people run away or stare at things they can't explain... then there's a select few who don't give a toss about what happens anymore." sighed Nicole, checking her clipboard and raising a hand to the right side of her face. "Can someone find Ryou for me?"
"What are you saying?" asked Goku. His brow coming down.
"I don't want to talk about it." Nicole shook her head. Then Gohan came jogging up.
"I can't find Ryou back here and Joey's not back yet."
"I don't 'Adam and Eve' this! Gohan, Mokuba, hold the fort until I get back."
"Adam and Eve?"
"Believe, I think. She sometimes talks in Cockney rhyming slang." said Max, as he and Tyson approached the tall, muscular man with unruly black hair.
"Huh?"
"She's from England." Tyson added.
"Oh right." Goku sweatdropped, he had saved this planet how many times? And still, he knew very little about it. He planned to see Dende about that.
In the gent's loos...
Kaiba emerged from the cubicle, looking slightly worse for wear.
But thanks to Joey- and a cupful of ice- his 'problem' was gone.
"Thanks pup... you were good up there you know."
"Uh...thanks Moneybags."
"Call me Seto will you? I hate that Moneybags thing; it makes me sound like a rich bastard. Ok maybe I am, but that's not the point."
"Not as much as I hate 'Mutt' it's degrading and doesn't do much for the confidence of a person you know." mumbled Joey, slightly puzzled at Kaiba's sudden change in attitude. Then he felt arms around his waist. He was going to protest when beige, blue and white blur barged in and ran for the nearest cubicle.
"Ryou?" asked Joey. A retch was the reply he got. Joey shrugged; Ryou had been jumpy since the day after Yugi announced the show, probably nerves. "I'll wait for you Ryou; we can go back up together."
"You...busy...Kaiba." was the reply as they heard Ryou gag again.
"I am no-" Joey's reply was cut short when Kaiba turned him around and caught the blonde's mouth with his own in a desperate kiss.
Kaiba had always taken what he needed and wanted. He'd always had the power and money to do so. He felt this could be the same thing with Joey, who had other ideas. He pushed Kaiba off and stepped back.
"Kaiba, I'm not something you can take off a shelf for a price, use when you feel like it and then put me in a cupboard for later. To love someone takes care, compromise and respect. Not to mention you have to be gentle." Joey's honey eyes scanned the icy orbs of the taller teen.
Joey was about to show him when there was a loud thud on the door.
"Joey! Ryou! You in there?" Nicole's voice came though it.
"Yeah, Ryou is still spewing his guts."
"Great. Ryou I can deal with, you get backstage or you'll be brown bread quicker than you can shimmy that arse of yours!"
"Brown bread?" frowned Joey.
"Dead!" Ryou's voice told him. Joey paled.
"I'll see you later... Seto." he winked and left. Nicole walked in; regardless that it was the men's.
"Mr Kaiba, you might want to return to your seat, the intermission is after the next act." Nicole told him.
"Hn." Kaiba nodded and left as Ryou threw up again.
"Ryou, you alright?" Nicole called through the cubicle door.
"I will be once this act's over."
"What are you doing then? Knowing Bakura's reputation around here, it will be something dangerous."
"It is. Drum and fifes." Nicole paled at the choked reply.
"Knives! Oh man, Ryou why didn't you tell me?"
"B-Bakura threatened me."
"Oh man. I'm gonna kill him!" She sighed, she couldn't help but feel something -deep down- for the kind white haired teen, was it sympathy? "Are you done spewing up your fruit and nuts?" (Guts)
"Yeah I'm done."
"Ok." she called into her headset. "Mokuba, do you read me?"
"Loud and clear, is Ryou ok?"
"He's fine. Could someone say we're having some technical difficulties or something? We'll be back in a minute."
"Kenny did it a minute ago."
"Remind me to thank him later..." Ryou shakily came out of the cubicle. "Come on Ryou."
They left the bathrooms, only to bump into what Ryou concluded as Nicole's school associates.
"Hey Phantom, enjoying the show." one said.
"Those bladebreakers are so hot! How did you get hold of them Phantom, can you give them my number?" another drooled.
"I've got to go and give it to them yourself." Nicole replied with an emotionless voice Ryou thought Kaiba would be proud of.
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the whole "LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LAAAAAAA!" it's how my bellydancing class cheer -; thats where I got the idea for Joey. : P
Thanks toYoshimi Ono, Ksarap, glad you're liking this!