Hello all! This is the third chapter to Joey on My Mind, and I apologize if anyone was severely traumatized by a certain someone… coughKellycough. Oh well.. Joey?

Joey: peaks head out of closet he's "sharing" with Kaiba Medoriko doesn't own yugioh or me or the sexy Seto Kaiba…

Seto: pulls him back inside.

moaning

Medoriko: Isn't love grand? Now on with the fic!

Chapter Three: Survival of the Tallest.

After about three hours of searching (yugi had a waterproof watch), the three could clearly see that they were alone on this island. So, they decided to see if there was any edible food out there. Besides, all of that walking can make you hungry. Well, that's what Joey says anyway. " Joey can you help me a bit here.." Yugi said in a slightly embarrassed tone. He was trying to grab a coconut from a tree, but sadly was too short to reach. (Poor Yugi XD). Joey but his lip to contain his laughter but almost couldn't since Yugi was practically jumping up and down to grab it but kept on missing. Joey came over and simply reached over and grabbed the round fruit. ( Coconuts are fruits right ?Oo). " See yugi that's why you should drink milk.." He said with a snicker to which yugi silently glared. Yami shook his head amusingly at the two. " Come on let's be serious guys." He said. Joey nodded in agreement. " Yeah, it'll be dark soon and we don't know what animals could be out here." So the teens continued to search for food. Meanwhile, at a certain mansion Mokuba was flipping through the channels of their flat screen TV, when he came across the news. His eyes widened when he heard that the cruise Joey and Yugi were on had been in an accident and some people were missing and some injured. " I hope they're ok.. " He said to himself as he went off to find his older brother. Speaking of his brother, he was typing away at his laptop when Mokuba ran in. " Big brother, you won't believe what happened." He exclaimed out of breather but still full of energy. Seto raised an eyebrow. " Mokuba, didn't I tell you I was very busy?" Mokuba frowned. " But setoooo…." He whined stretching out his brother's name emphasizing that it was more important than Kaiba Corp. Seto sighed seeing that he won't be able to work until he listened to what the younger kaiba had to say. Mokuba grinned victoriously. " Ok, remember the cruise yugi and Joey was going on?" " Not really." Kaiba deadpanned. Mokuba rolled his eyes. " Well, that cruise was almost sucked into the Bermuda Triangle and some people are hurt and missing.." Kaiba raised an eyebrow. " And why would I care what happened to the mutt and yugi." He said as he returned to his work. " I don't know.. Maybe because you like Joey.." Mokuba said slyly as he left the room. Kaiba glared at the door that Mokuba exited from.

I do not like the dumb mutt… that's absolute ludicrous. And with that Seto Kaiba continued his daily working routine. But then why couldn't he get Joey out of his head? Kaiba decided that he might need a cold shower.

Joey, Yami, and Yugi had found fish and coconuts. Yami cooked the fish, while Joey and Yugi tried to crack the coconuts on a large stone. But Yugi had to go over to Yami because Joey started to scare him. Probably because of the way Joey said that this reminded him of the time his lover (not Tristan) had cheated on him. Of course, he HAD to talk about this as he furiously pounded the coconut into the rock, muttering to himself. Yugi just watched Joey nervously and closely to make sure he doesn't snap. After a nice meal (riiiight), the three decided to call it a night. Well, at least Joey did. He was dead asleep while Yugi and Yami had a little chat. " Tomorrow I'll try to contact one of the Millennium holders to get them to possibly help us.." Yugi snuggled against Yami but frowned at the former pharaoh's expression. " Yami what's the matter?" Yami sighed sadly. " As much as I love this time and being with you and the others.. I can't help but miss my own time.." He trailed off but Yugi urged him on. " I miss my home, and Seth and Jouno." Yugi blinked confused. " Seth is the Yami of Kaiba and Jouno is Joey's Yami.. They just haven't been awakened like me, Malik and Bakura." Yugi's mouth formed a perfect 'o'. " Seth was my cousin and Jouno was his lover." Yugi's eyes shot open when he heard the other teen's words. Yami chuckled. " Yes lovers. I remember how it happened too." Yugi snuggled back next to his lover and listened to his talk. " In my time there were slaves who did manual labor and those who did um.. sexual labor.." Yugi blushed. " That would be sex slaves." "Was Jouno a sex slave?" Yami nodded. " Yes and no. He was also a belly dancer. He was on the the best dancers." Yami smiled to himself. " To anyone else, a slave is a slave. But Jouno was not your ordinary slave." Yugi laughed. " I bet he wasn't." Yami smiled fondly at the memories of his life.

" Jouno was considered the fairest in Egypt. And I admit he caught my eye when I saw him at the slave trade." Yugi looked up at his lover. " Slave trade? Is that where slaves are bought and sold?" Yami nodded. " Yes but because of his beauty, talent in dancing and 'other' things he was a high priced slave." Yugi 'hmm'ed. " So he was umm.. expensive." He said trying to find the right words. " Yes. Very valuable and expensive. My palace had many high priced slaves." Yugi didn't understand. " If you had so many slaves, than why did you buy Jouno then?" He questioned. Yami smirked.

" Well, actually He wasn't for sale anymore. His father had been selling him off to foreigners outside of Egypt. Which is against Egyptian Policy. So he was arrested. Jouno was to be living under my custody." Yami's smirked widened. " But I decided that with his many assets, he could please my cousin Seth. " Yugi sat up and looked Yami in the eyes, becoming very interested. " Did he? Did he impress Seth?" Yami chuckled amused at Yugi's innocent demeanor

" Oh he did alright. We dressed Jouno in a gold silk top that showed his belly. It had a diamond chain hanging from it that attached to his long gold paints that had a shimmery skirt over it. He was covered in gold glitter to go with his tan." Yugi looked at the sky trying to picture everything the pharaoh was saying. " It was quite a site. He was stunning and perfect for Seth. So we put a gold veil over his face to surprise Seth. He came into Seth's chambers with me and started to dance for Seth." Yami started to laugh. " He had no clue what was going on. But he didn't care much longer when he saw what I had got for him. He was stunned and I have never seen him look so awed." Yugi laughed with his lover when he pictured a shocked Seto Kaiba with his mouth hanging open at Joey who is barely clothed. After a good five minutes of laughing at silly images Yami cleared his throat to continued his story. " I could tell Seth had really loved and cared for Jouno. He never hit slaves but he was always cold to them. But he never yelled or got cold towards Jouno. He never went anywhere without Jouno and if Jouno couldn't some with him, he made sure someone watched over him." Yugi giggled. Someone was protective. " They were together for who knows how long. Seth was open with their relationship. He eventually asked for Jouno's hand in marriage. But many were not happy. It was uncommon for the Master to be married to the slave. But Seth was strong in his ways, plus he loved Jouno with everything he was." Yugi's eyes started to water a bit from the thought of true love. " But it was hard. Jouno was harassed in public to the point he didn't go out to much at all. They did get married and it was a grand wedding. Seth looked very regal and proud. But most importantly happy for the first time in his life. And Jouno looked beautiful. They stayed married and then jouno was pregnant. " Yami chuckled at Yugi's puckering expression. " In those time's males who were with males got pregnant… they were so excited." Yami trailed off and his smile turned sour. " But it was short lived.. Around Jouno's 6th month, he became ill. We thought it to be from the pregnany. But it got worse. And we saw that it wasn't because of his pregnancy. He had something worse. It would be what you people today would call Leukemia.. was it?" Yugi gasped. " Cancer?" Yami's violet eyes darkened solemnly. " We didn't have the means of healing like you have. Besides, this was the first time we had ever come across this. We tried everything. Seth got the best doctor's of out time from all over. He would not let Jouno go. But Jouno was getting worse. And it was showing. He lost that light tan, he was so pale. He lost a lot of weight. Plus he never had any energy." Yami paused to recollect his thoughts before continuing. " We thought that we had all the time we needed to find a cure. The concept of him dying never crossed our mind. Until, he started to. He was in constant fever. He would go into coma's for days on end. But he always came back. But it was a sign. His skin was so cold, I remember…" Yami stopped not wanting to continue. " Well?" Yugi pressed. " Everyone tried to keep up high spirits. Everyone was fond of Jouno and liked seeing Seth happy. But it was hard to tell someone everything would be ok when that someone knew he woudn't. Jouno was smart, he knew he was dying. He tried to tell us to let him go. But Seth would not. Neither would I. But Jouno didn't make it, he did indeed pass away." Yami put his head in his hands and Yugi rubbed his back for comfort. " It was horrible, Seth blamed himself. He said he should have gave Jouno something so that he wouldn't have had to die in pain. Seth went into depression and he got angry with me because he said I didn't try hard enough. That started the shadow duel between us. Seth was killed later on in life, and his spirit was put in the Millenium Rod and Jouno's in the Necklace. " Yugi held back his tears at the sad story. " But it is my mission to reunite Jouno and Seth through Kaiba and Joey. If those two get together, then Jouno and Seth will be together again." Yugi now realized why Yami was so determined to make the two rivals get along. " Don't worry you will." Yami smiled at his lover and the two eventually fell asleep. The next day was very busy. Yami and Joey had went off food hunting again while Yugi started a smoke signal. He had been sitting there for twenty minutes and was about to give up when he heard something. A helicopter! He thought with a breathe of relief. After telling Yami though their link, he started to wave his arms to get the pilots attention. He cheered to himself when the helicopter came toward him. He ran over to the man who had climbed down the rope they had. The man grabbed yugi and started to ascend. " Hey wait my friends are here too." He said in alarm. The man shook his head. " You must me delusional from the heat. There was a report of only one person being missing." Yami hurry up!! Yami gave yugi a signal though the link that he was inside the puzzle and thatv Joey was coming. But Joey had to run into the ocean to get to the ladder that was ascending. Yugi sighed in relief. But as Joey was about to grab hold of the ladder, something pulled him under. "JOEY!" Yugi shouted when he realized what it was, a shark. Joey flailed in the water until he eventually went under and the only thing left was blood. The rescuer dived in to get the drowning boy. Yami held yugi inside the helicopter as Yugi cried for his friend but was relieved when the man pulled joey inside. " What happened to his leg.!!" Yugi said in horror. Joey was unconscious and his leg was badly bitten to the point that it was barely hanging there. " Don't worry sir. We'll take you all to a hospital right away. He'll be fine."

Joey opened his eyes and put his hand over them at the bright light and voices. " Joey are you okay?" Joey groaned. "Yugi?" Shuffling could be heard. Joey finally opened his eyes to see is best friends staring at him in worry but relief.

" What happened. Where are we?" Yugi hugged the blond male. " Home. We were saved and taken to Domino Memorial Hospital." Joey groaned again in pain. " Yami will get the nurse to get you more pain relievers." Joey's eyebrows furrowed in confusion " You don't remember do you ? On the way to the ladder, you were….. attacked by a shark. Oh Joey I am s sorry." Yugi said practically in tears as Joey looked down at his left leg. Well, what was left of it. " They couldn't save it so they had to amputate it." He trailed off. " I'll leave you alone for awhile. Ok? Call me if you need anything." Yugi walked out leaving Joey to ponder. Joey looked down at the stub/ So he only had a thigh instead of a whole leg… great. Joey silently cried when the doctor came in and told him of his new living conditions. For now he would be on crutches and he would probably need to find someone to help him get used to this. Joey was once again left alone to think.

School is a week away. What now?

End chapter 3.

And there you are folks. I am proud to say that this was the longest I have done so far. So I'm getting better. So review and tell me what ya think. And now I think I'll go soak in the tub…. My back hurts.. owwie.. .

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