As I promised, Chapter four is done. Chapter five will be so very interesting to write I may get to some hands on action between these two, who knows. I make this up as I go along. If you want to be a huge help, leave a review after every chapter you read. It will motivate to write more, and tell me what I am doing right/wrong. Here it is, enjoy!
Chapter 4
Jou frantically raced around Kaiba Corp. Headquarters for a good half-hour. Ever door was locked. It was expected, since Kaiba's security must be high tech. In the end, Jou found himself right back to where he started, which was Kaiba's office. Wonderful, now he was stuck with the biggest jerk in the world's history for a whole night. Just what he always wanted.
He was not going into Kaiba's office again, he would just sit in the Foyer, wait until the doors were unlocked, and trudge his way back to school. He threw his back down at sat against a wall. He looked over, and saw something white fall out of his bag. Of course, Kaiba's letter. He had totally forgot. He grabbed it and opened it.
Be here after school again. You will be required to be here
After school until the tournament starts.
'Merry fucking Christmas' Jou mumbled. Kaiba was just to use to controlling people wherever he went. Jou almost felt sorry for him, the kid had no friends. Almost. If Kaiba were just a bit nicer, he WOULD have friends. It's his own fault, he thought he shouldn't treat people like they are all lower than he is.
Jou wondered if Kaiba had some sort of key or remote thing to use to open the door. He was not sleeping in the same room as Kaiba, even though his basket was there. He hadn't eaten tonight either. Kaiba would probably drug his food, and he was not even sure it WAS food. Probably some cruel form of dog food he put in his dish to satisfy his hunger for other people's mishaps. What a sadist.
Jou decided he would wake Kaiba up. The CEO couldn't be that tired, if he fell asleep sometime when Jou did.
Jou opened Kaiba's door slowly. The moon cast a light around the dark room, and he could still see Kaiba sleeping on his desk. The only time he had seen Kaiba, was when he had a scowl on his face, which was always. The brunette looked almost peaceful.
I wonder what he is dreaming about? Jou walked up to his desk, and crouched down, so he was face level with Seto. He giggled. Kaiba did not look at all, like the tall CEO of a billion-dollar company. If Jou had to guess, he thought Kaiba looked more like a sleeping dog then he did.
He poked Kaiba on the shoulder. He still refused to wake up. Jou thought about yelling something, but he did not want to be responsible for a heart attack.
"Psst, Kaiba. Kaiba. Are you awake?"
Kaiba tilted his head just a bit, and gave a yawn.
"Seto, you awake?" Said Jou a bit louder.
"No," Kaiba moaned.
"For fuck's sake Kaiba. Will you wake up?"
Kaiba turned his head towards Jou. All he saw was large brown eyes and a ruff of blonde hair infront of his face. He gave a yelp and fell off his chair.
Jou jumped back a bit, and landed on his butt, across from Kaiba.
"Are you fucking insane? What do you think you are doing?"
"You were sleeping. I woke you up."
"Which is something you shouldn't do, Mutt."
"It's past midnight Kaiba. I want to go home."
Kaiba looked out the window. It was pitch black, except for the glow of the moon. He rubbed the back of his head, and slowly got up. "Are the doors locked?"
"Every single one of them, I have already checked."
"Well, we can't go until morning then. I can't open the security, because it is on a time frame. If I wanted to disable it, I would need Mokuba's card as well as my own."
Jou stared blankly at him; "I have school tomorrow. I would rather not sleep in a basket for the night."
"It is not like you are going to get smarter Katsuya, so shut it and stop complaining."
Jou knew this would end up with him on the floor, under Kaiba, or him getting another smack in the head, so he dropped it there.
"Now what?"
"I am going to sleep, I don't care what you do, just don't touch anything."
Jou got up in a hurry, "But where am I supposed to sleep? I don't want to be found here in the morning!"
"We have spare rooms, so stop being so worried. You sound like an Idiot…wait…you always sound like that."
"Would you just stop with the insults? It is not like you are perfect Kaiba."
"Call me Master, Mutt."
"Ugh, whatever, I want to go to sleep."
"Your basket is not good enough?"
Jou stood in the middle of Kaiba's office, with the most morbid look on his face. If he has a knife, he would cut Kaiba into tiny pieces, that is how much he hated him.
"Just do not talk, and you can sleep in a bed."
"Fine."
"You're talking Pup."
Jou followed Kaiba out of the office, and down the stairs.
"Why aren't we talking the elevator?"
"Shut it."
Jou rolled his eyes, and continued after the CEO. They walked down two floors, and down a hallway. Everything was dark, but he supposed Kaiba knew where he was going. He went down another flight if stairs Jou would have never guessed existed, unless he was looking for them, and came to a hallway, which was, panted a bluish colour.
Kaiba took out a jumble of keys from his pocket, and spent a moment going through them. Once he had chosen one, he put it through the keyhole, and pushed open the door.
"You can sleep in here."
Jou was roughly shoved in, and he heard Kaiba lock the door after him. Even better. Jou was imprisoned in Kaiba Corp. for the night. How he wish he would have stayed in his basket.
For the life of him, Jou could not get to sleep that night. Oh, his room was all right. It was furnished with a small twin bed, a dresser with a mirror, a closet and a bookshelf. But the harder Jou tried to go to sleep, the more he stayed awake. His collar was itching him more than ever, and finally, he decided he would have to escape somehow from this prison cell.
He looked around the room for something that could be used for plucking a lock. He finally settled on one of the wire coat hangers in the small closet. He spent a good ten minutes trying to pry it from its shape, and finally, he had it the way he wanted, so he headed towards the door. He turned the handle. It was locked all right. He vigorously tried to pry the lock apart, by sticking the wire in the keyhole. After a time, he heard a small 'click' and the door opened with a creak.
Jou peered from in his room, down the hallway. It was empty. He crawled on his hands and knees out of the room, and to the corner down the left side of the hallway. It was empty also. He stood up, and figured he would have a look around. He wasn't going to sleep that night, and he had a billion-dollar company to himself. What fun could be had here?
Kaiba closed his eyes for just a second. This had been one of the worst days in a very long time. He sat up in his king size, silk laden bed. Thoughts were swirling in his head, so much; he could not fall asleep. Maybe Jou was right? Maybe Kaiba was just lonely, and envied what Jou had. Friends.
He quickly shook that thought out of his mind. Friends just got in the way. They always had something to complain about, some problem that needed to be solved. The way he saw it, they were just a hassle, not worth his time.
He grabbed his blazer and put his shoes on. A long walk would help him clear his head. He approached his door and opened it with ease. The hallway was dark and empty of any movement. He closed the door behind him and strutted down the dark corridor. Jou deserved everything he got. The torment and the humiliation. But Seto could not shake the tiny voice in his head that echoed 'why?' Because, he thought. It was the only thing he could come up with. Just a because.
He walked up a few flights of stairs and entered a large room with a glass ceiling. Floral designs covered the wall, and small stars could be seen if you looked up closely. A fountain adorned the middle of the vast space, and several benches sat against the outer walls. Kaiba sat down on one of these and put his head in his hands. Maybe he should just let Jou go. There was no use in keeping him here. He knew he would not win the tournament, and it wasn't like the pup was of any real use to him anyways. All these thought tumbling through Kaiba's head began to give him a sharp headache. He leaned his back against the wall, and closed his eyes.
"Wow, it is like a different world in here," Said Jou, walking around one of the lower levels of Kaiba Corp. He had started at the bottom, and searched the entirety of all the floors. So what is he was snooping. How would Kaiba know? The moron was probably snug in his bed, with not a care in the world. After all, he fell asleep with the notion that Jou was locked inside a spare room. Boy, was he wrong.
Jou advanced towards an elevator, and upon getting in, pushed every button. As it chortled up, Jou gave a little jump as it began to stop at the floors. He grinned. This was WAY more fun than sleeping in a musty bed behind a locked door. Up and up the elevator went, Jou continuing to play his games. When he came to the foyer of Kaiba's office, he noticed one of the buttons of the elevator was still lit up. This meant that there was a floor above Kaiba's office. One Jou had not discovered yet.
"Onward I go! To explore!" yelled Jou, in a sarcastic tone,
When the elevator reached the top floor, Jou stepped out, and watched the doors close behind him. He found himself in a hallway, much like the other ones in Kaiba Corp. Blank white walls, low ceiling. The only difference between this one, is a red carpet that led to large oak doors.
Jou was filled with excitement. This could be some huge project Kaiba was keeping secret from him.
He skipped down the hall, and came face to face with the door. Slowly he pushed it open.
Kaiba could hear a small creak from outside the room. He wondered what could be going on, after all, he was the only one in the office building, aside from Jou, but he was locked in a spare room. He looked over towards the entryway and saw the door open slightly. He looked around for a moment, and jumped behind a large palm plant beside his bench.
"Wow, this place is a palace!"
He could Hear Jou's voice from where he was. Jounouchi made no effort to not shout. Kaiba guessed he was too dumb to realize that a loud echo could be heard. It would be fun to scare Jou to death, even if he was just joking.
Jou approached the fountain in the middle of the room, looking up at the stars and the large moon shining through the ceiling. He sat down on the ledge of the fountain, and stuck his hand in the water.
Kaiba rolled his eyes. Jou probably thought he own the place by now. He stood up, and very loudly said, "What do you think you're doing!"
Jou was so startled, he fell back, and was soon soaking wet in the middle of Kaiba's fountain.
That was not even the worst of it. Jou was so frightened at seeing Kaiba, seeing him out of his room, and walking around HIS office building at the late hours of the night, that he lost any amount of courage he had.
Kaiba walked slowly up to the fountain and looked down at Jou, wet to the bone, a look of terror on his face. He crossed his arms and said, "Well? Are you going to answer me?"
Jou stood up. Droplets of water were falling from his clothes, and he was freezing. "I couldn't sleep he mumbled."
Kaiba shrugged, "You could have stayed in your basket if you wanted to."
"I suppose you think that me standing here, wet and freezing, is seemingly funny to you?"
Kaiba grinned, "Just a little."
Jou looked at him, "What now? If you are going to hit me, do it now. It will probably make me forget how unbelievably cold I am."
Kaiba shook his head, "Naw, I am to tired to deal with you at the moment. I will wait until morning."
"Well, where am I supposed to go to dry off?"
"There are showers and towels on the sixth floor. You can go there."
"You have everything in this building, don't you?"
"Possibly," said Kaiba, brushing small amount of water off of him.
Jou gave a look around the room again, "What is this place anyways? What purpose does it serve?"
"It is a rest area. If you worked here you would know that. People come here to think and such. That is it."
"Oh," Jou gave a little nod.
"You know," said Kaiba, "Standing in that fountain is not going to make you feel any better. I would get out if I were you and make your way down to the showers. I think you are going to be ill tomorrow."
Jou glared at him, "You really think?"
"Don't get fresh," replied Kaiba, "Just get out of my sight in a hurry. I'll grab you clothes from my office, and you can put them on after you are done. But take your wet ones off now and don't get my floor all wet."
"You want be to walk around naked?"
Kaiba rolled his eyes, "No, I want you to take you wet clothes off. Keep whatever is not seeping with water on if you want, I don't care, but don't make puddles in the hallways."
Kaiba turned around, and left through the oak doors.
Jou removed everything but his boxers. He put his clothes beside the fountain, and made his way to the sixth floor. Then it hit him. That was the first decent conversation he had ever had with Kaiba. No yelling, name-calling, and Kaiba was even getting him extra clothes to wear. Maybe what Jou said earlier actually helped? Then again, he would not be surprised if Kaiba showed up with that dog costume again. Jou shrugged, and walked out the door.
Kaiba walked down a flight of stairs, and opened the door to his office. He felt odd. God, I was just nice to Katsuya…that is not supposed to happen, he thought. There had never been, in history, a conversation, in which one of them did not end up with minor fractures, or a hurt ego.
Kaiba opened his closet, and brushed through the clothes. Most of these, he guessed, would not fit Katsuya. They were too big. He stared at the dog costume. Jou looked like nothing else in it. Kaiba assumed that Jou would go off the wall if he had to wear it again. In the end, he chose a pair of pants and T-shirt that he never wore. He grabbed them roughly from the closet, and headed downstairs.
When Jou came to the sixth floor, he did not know where he was going. Kaiba was vague in his descriptions of where the showers exactly were. After opening a few doors that weren't locked, he found them. There were two showers in the room. Both were a caramel colour and large enough for about eight people to stand in.
"This place is better then my own home," said Jou.
He came to the nearest shower, and turned on the water. He got out of his wet boxers and stepped in. The water felt refreshing, since Jou was cold to the bone. He pulled the shower curtain across the shower, and grabbed a bar of soap.
He heard the door open, and then Kaiba's voice, "You clothes are outside the shower."
"Seto! I am not wearing anything!"
Kaiba rolled his eyes, "It is not like I came in here to look at you naked pup. What is it with you and thinking I like seeing you without clothes? Get over yourself."
"What is it with you and always wanting me to take them off?"
"Whatever, I'll wait for you outside, and the name…is Master."
Kaiba shut the door, leaving Jou alone to finish his shower.
Jou walked out of the shower, as Kaiba turned around to look at him. A grin crossed his face.
"Yea, these clothes are just a bit big." The pants he had on were rolled, because they were too long, and even then, the legs were dragging behind him. The T-shirt was all right, not as big as the pants were. All in all, Jou felt very much like an idiot, wearing skin that was too big for him.
"You should go back to your room for some sleep you know."
"I can't sleep on that bed, it is way to uncomfortable."
"Then sleep on the floor Mutt, I really do not care." Said Kaiba, with a sharp edge of annoyance.
Jou rolled his eyes. Just when he was thinking Kaiba was not that bad, he ended up being wrong. "And I thought you were almost at the point of being decent to me."
Kaiba grinned and shook his head, "That would just take too much effort."
"And I bet you have some high class room, adorned with expensive sheets, while I have some musty back bed in a cramped closet."
"It could be worse Pup."
"Yea," Jou mumbled, "I could be sleeping with you."
Kaiba looked at him sharply, "What did you say?"
"Nothing," said Jou quickly, and bolted infront of Kaiba, "I'll go to my room."
Kaiba turned and looked at Jou, until he was out of sight. He had to admit, the Pup was entertaining.
Jou had a hard time finding the hallway to his room, but when he did find it, the door was again, locked. He kicked it in frustration. Now he would have to find Kaiba to get the stupid key, as his wire hanger he used to open it in the first place, was also inside the room. He sighed and trudged down the same hallway, in search or wherever Kaiba's room might be.
Kaiba took off his clothes, and hopped into bed. He looked at the clock on the small table beside him. It was three in the morning. He had to work tomorrow. He rubbed his temples. That mutt had kept him awake all night. He gave a small giggle, as he remembered Jou sitting in a puddle of water in the fountain.
Seto looked up. He could hear footsteps outside his door. It opened suddenly.
"Kaiba, my door is locked again, I was wondering if you could-"
"GET OUT YOU FREAK! I AM NOT WEARING ANYTHING!"
Jou closed the door in quite a hurry, and Kaiba grabbed some of his bed covers to wrap around him.
Jou sat outside Kaiba's door. His heart was beating very fast. He did not know if he was terrified, or embarrassed to see Kaiba sitting up in bed with no clothes on, though he did not see anything worth Kaiba covering up.
Kaiba on the other hand was embarrassed beyond words. He did not need Jou to see him sitting in bed with nothing but his boxers on. He was angry aswell. Jou didn't even have the decency to knock, but instead, came barging in.
He threw on a housecoat and opened his door.
"What the fuck Jou; You don't just come walking into someone's room."
Jou stared blankly at Kaiba.
"What are you staring at Mutt?"
"You…you called me Jou."
Kaiba looked back at him. "Did not."
"Yes you did I heard you!" said Jou, pointing a finger at Kaiba.
"Don't point your finger at me Mutt. You are going to be punished for this. Now, what do you want?"
"My room is locked, I can't get in."
Kaiba put his head in his hands. "I am not walking across the building, so you can fall asleep. I am tired and I want to go to bed." He started to close the door.
Jou put his hand in-between it, "But I am tired too. And I wouldn't mind going to sleep."
"I told you, sleep on the floor."
"In the middle of the hallway?"
Kaiba closed his eyes for a moment. "I have some blankets in here, you can sleep in a corner."
Jou rolled his eyes. It was better than nothing. When he entered the room, he could see how much better it was, than his small one. Kaiba's bed was made from silk. The covers, and the hangings that were around it, looked very expensive. Kaiba threw some golden sheets at Jou, and pointed to a corner. Jou signed, and lay down at the hard floor. He watched Kaiba climb out of his robe, and into the covers, catching a small flash of his skin. He immediately closed his eyes, as not to have Kaiba think he was looking at him in some rueful way. The CEO turned his back on Jou, and lay down.
Kaiba woke up in a misty haze. He did not know if he was dreaming, but he had a sharp pain in his head. He sat up. Jou could be seen sitting on the end of his bed.
"Why are you on my bed?" He said, rubbing his aching head.
Jou looked up at him, "You shouldn't be so mean Kaiba."
"What are you talking about?"
Jou got up slowly, and stood infront of Kaiba. He roughly grabbed his shoulders, and forced him to lie down on the bed. In an instant, their lips were touching, and Kaiba could do nothing about it.
