Title: Hey Yeah-eh yeah

Summary: "I'm so sorry Seto." Jou confessed as he stood in front of the older teen. Smiling in a small heartbreaking fashion his eyes wandered over the blonde, "I need to be on my own," He declared softly.

J/S YAOI

Warning: Swearing, sexual references

Hi everyone, this story is holding my interest and hopefully yours. I'd like to thank my beta reader Rroselavy because she is doing an excellent job and to everyone who reviewed and gave me their thoughts- I love reading them.

Kaiba couldn't help but stare; it was something he was very good at. It was intimidating, flattering and down right threatening, but he could also hide it easily so no one knew he was looking. So he knew it was one of his better traits.

Staring at the blonde out of the corner of his eye he knew his little operation was working, but it wasn't like he wasn't interested in Marcus, this had nothing to do with Marcus. It had to do with making the blonde think he had moved on and was done with these games Jou liked to play.

Kaiba felt aroused when Marcus lightly rubbed his foot up and down his leg and then inside his thigh. Nothing felt better then knowing you were going to get laid after a period of months that you hadn't.

Smirking, Kaiba took another glance in Jou's direction and noticed that two faces were staring at them, one being Jou's mother Jane.

"Excuse me Marcus, I have to go to the men's room."

Marcus smiled and nodded and continued to eat his salad.

Kaiba moved swiftly to the large and blue marbled washroom, inside he went into on of the stalls and sat on the seat. Something about seeing Jou's mother made him uneasy and he didn't know why.

"Kaiba so you own your own business?" Jane asked, passing him the potatoes.

Kaiba nodded, "Yes it's a corporation now based on Internet programs, Ren– my new business partner from Microtech,--he and I are developing a program that can detect viruses before they multiply over the Internet."

Jane nodded and smiled big, "That… is… excellent."

Jou leaned over and whispered in his ear, "She doesn't know what you are talking about."

Laughing he ate some of his roast beef, "Not many people do."

Jane smiled. "Jou darling are you planning on marrying this man?"

"Mom!"

The door on Kaiba's stall swung open and two men bustled inside, kissing furiously while undoing each other's ties.

"What the fuck?" Kaiba yelled and the two men stopped, looking thoroughly embarrassed.

After a long silence one of the men asked Kaiba to leave saying it was rude to watch them have PDA. Kaiba felt like wringing both of their necks but knew Marcus was probably wondering where the hell he was, so he got up and left the washroom.

"Hey- what took you so long? Was it the salad… because I think I'm feeling a tad queasy myself!" Marcus said, resting his hand on his stomach.

Kaiba shook his head, "I was just talking to some gentlemen in there."

Marcus nodded his head and sipped his dirty martini. "So how about we get together this Friday sometime?" He asked.

"Actually I'm having a dinner that night- but you can come if you'd like," he added noticing Marcus's face fall, "it's just with business partners, etc, etc."

"Alright, that sounds great." Marcus beamed, "Is Jou going?" He cocked his head in the blonde's direction.

"No," Kaiba said with a surprising force, "We're not really friends anymore- just acquaintances," He said correcting himself.

"Ok," Marcus breathed.

Later that night when he finally got Mokuba to bed, Kaiba sat in his study reading an old journal he'd been writing in a few months before he went out with Jou.

"That play is amazing."

Kaiba looked up and surprised to see brown eyes peering down at him, "You've seen this?" He asked holding up the pamphlet.

Jou nodded, "I love Oscar Wilde- his plays are incredible."

"They are." Kaiba nodded, staring at the blonde for a moment and wondering if he should invite him since Mokuba had baseball practice that night. 'What am I saying?' He thought incredulously, 'that idiot probably doesn't he know what he is talking about.'

"But anyway- have fun at the play," Jou smiled.

"Why are you acting like this?" Kaiba asked angrily, "I thought you despised me."

"Oh I do- I just thought you'd give up the tickets or something' so I could invite Yugi to go with me." Jou smirked.

Kaiba growled, "Well what in gods name made you think I would give the tickets to you?" He said through clenched teeth.

"Because you like me," he said bending down and whispering that in Kaiba's ear.

Flipping through the coffee-stained pages Kaiba felt like he was going back in years rather than months. Every little note, paragraph or line had some significance that he missed dearly. But it also tied in with the blonde and that just made everything sour.

As much as he tried, he couldn't forgive the blonde, it was just too hard. Kaiba thought it would be easy since he no longer cared at all for him, but every time he saw or heard Jou's voice, anger would fill up his veins and he would need a smoke desperately to calm his nerves.

"Give me some of that," Jou said, reaching over and taking the cigarette from Kaiba's fingers. "Oh that feels great! But totally fucks up my plan of quitting," He grinned at him.

"I know- but these are the best," Kaiba said, lighting up another and taking a drag from it.

"Seto- you waste so much money on these - what're they 20 dollars a pack?"

"Plus tax!" He said smirking.

"Seto you're bad," He smiled kissing Kaiba on the lips, "So bad."

"You're bad! You slept in again Seto."

Opening one eye he gazed up at his younger brother, "Go away."

Ignoring his older brother, Mokuba continued to nag Kaiba,. "And in your study- how late were you up last night working? Huh- how late?" He snipped.

"Jenny, where is my coffee?" He moaned towards his maid.

"Its coming Mr. Kaiba- and your school clothes are laundered and pressed- now you're going to be late," she said, helping him off his chair and hurrying him to the study's bathroom. "Make it quick."

Kaiba glared at her; day-by-day she was making herself a mother more than hired help. Although it was a weird feeling, he enjoyed her bitching rather than him bitching at everyone else.

The water was nice and warm as he turned the nozzle; happy to not have to deal with temperature range today, he stood lifeless in the stall. It washed every crevasse of him making his skin tingle with satisfaction, but the moment was gone when Jenny rapped on the glass door.

"Hurry up!"

Kaiba stared at her mussed figure, it was enough she thought she had the right to walk in on him while he was in the bathroom but it was another when she could see him naked- sort of.

"Go away you old bag!" He yelled squeezing some shampoo/conditioner in the palm of his hand.

He heard her huff and slam the door like only a nosey mother would do.

"You are such an ass you know that." Jou said picking his books off the table.

Kaiba just glared at him.

"Honestly can't you once just be a little fucking nice in front of my friends- we don't hate each other that much." He yelled, "Really you can't just for once be nice- we've been dating for a while now and you still treat me as if we'll never be even the slightest bit civil!"

"You just don't shut up do you?" Kaiba muttered.

And with that Jou packed up the rest of his belongings huffed and slammed the door.

It seemed the little interaction from the other night had taken a toll on the blonde; Jou had been avoiding him at all costs during the week. It didn't make sense, nor had anything he'd apparently been saying.

In the math classroom, Yugi was sitting with Burkura one seat up and although the room was abundant with laughing and talking he could still hear their hushed voices and his own name.

"So he told me last night that he was no longer interacting with Kaiba," Yugi said in a sarcastic tone, "But I know that won't last- I mean come on."

Burkura nodded his head, "I agree with you it's always off and on again with him… it won't last very long."

"Yeah… I just wish Jou knew what he was doing…" Yugi said his voice trailing off.

He glowered at the two or more at the images of the blonde in his head, which was another insane idea Jou seemed to think would work. Avoiding him for the rest of his life would be difficult especially if he continued to date his business partner Ren.

Leaving the classroom abruptly, Kaiba strode to where Jou remained on his spare time: the cafeteria. Opening the blue doors, his eyes shot to where the blonde was sitting, laughing with Anzu and another girl. His long legs gave powerful strides and coincidently the two girls moved away and talked with some of their other peers at that exact moment.

"You're not doing a good job."

Jou whipped his head around his blonde hair gently flying across his face; his eyes stared widely at him full of something he couldn't quite pin point.

"What a site for sore eyes." Kaiba muttered.

"I don't get it?" Jou said looking at the tickets.

He shook his head, "You never will."

"But…"

"I still hate you."

He kissed the blonde gently on the lips; pulling apart they looked questionably at each other.

Jou shook his head, "What's wrong with you?" He asked laughing uncontrollably.

Kaiba glared agitatedly at the blonde, "Fuck you- you little shit."

But he kept laughing slapping the brunette on the arm playfully.

"Jou don't fucking run away from me." Kaiba yelled after him once they were outside the school.

Turning around he stood in front of the fountain, his posture held nothing but defiance and he had a small smile on his face. Standing there with his hands upon his hips he looked beautiful with his sun-kissed hair and Kaiba felt sad because he missed that about the blonde.

"Sorry," He said shaking his head.

"What are you doing?"

Jou laughed, "I dunno."

After school Kaiba walked around through the halls before he went home to start getting ready for his dinner party the next evening. Wandering down the corridors, younger students covered their faces intimidated by the young CEO, but instead of getting satisfaction from that he couldn't seem to stop picturing the blonde.

Something about this bothered him; well something bothered him about the blonde all the time. More so lately than before, was it because he was still angry at the blonde, or had he moved on as well and this was some last parting feelings.

Then he thought of Marcus. Marcus was someone he was trying out- like a suit. There was no attachment, it was just dating. He could date other people; fuck other people without hiding it. Hell he could fuck Jou and wouldn't be considered cheating- well not on his part.

The idea plagued him, he could easily get Jou in the sack, but he could do better he thought, maybe.

"So what are we?" Jou said twiddling his thumbs.

Kaiba leaned back in the chair fixing his tie from the earlier activities, "What do you think we are?"

Cocking his head to the side he mumbled, "Friends with benefits?"

"Ha- we were never friends." Kaiba corrected.

"Then what?"

"What do you want to be?" Kaiba said, cupping the blonde's cheek, "we could do this occasionally, maybe go out occasionally… see other people regularly… what do you want to be?"

"I want to be with you."

Marcus smiled, his red hair flipping out from his wool cap; he took off his tweed knee length fall coat and gave it to the maid to take. "It's so cold out there- this is crazy."

"Yeah," Kaiba mused, closing the front door, the wind whistling as it shut.

Marcus smiled, "I had the worst date this afternoon--he kept trying to go down my pants every time I went to the washroom."

Kaiba's head shot up and he felt a pang of jealousy in his stomach, "Oh." He muttered, angry at the thought of anyone touching Marcus but him.

"Is something the matter?" Marcus asked, giving the brunette a confused look.

Shaking his head, Kaiba knew he didn't want to get into anything he couldn't handle and a relationship being at the top of that list. "Nothing," he said, attempting at a smile.

"Ok."

"Are you jealous?" Jou said his face turning red with laughter.

Kaiba scowled.

"I thought this was casually dating, not casually dating with a goodnight punch in the face from a jealous boy"-

"Don't you fucking say it!" Kaiba said grabbing the blonde's mouth with his hand.

Jou shook off the brunette, "I thought you said you'd never lie to yourself."

"What?" Kaiba said glaring.

But all Jou did was kiss him.

After a quick fuck Kaiba slipped into the shower ready to make some final arrangements for tomorrow. The cool water made goose bumps appear on his pale skin and when his arms brushed his chest it felt weird and tingly. It reminded him of when he and Jou used to take showers together and it was soft fair skin against his rough skin.

The lump in his throat returned, so turning to the shower nozzle, he gulped in some cold fresh water, trying to drown that horrid lump to hell.

And it worked -- a temporary relief that he found wasn't going away.

Grabbing the blue towel that hung off a golden hanger, Jenny knocked on the door saying he had an urgent call about flowers. Grumbling, he took the portable phone from her, the towel hanging loosely on his hips and his hand hanging on for dear life.

After a million calls similar to that he finally pulled himself together, realizing the best way to make better progress in his work was to get a good night's sleep. And to calm his nerves for having to pretend to enjoy working with Ren.

The next morning Kaiba took the day off from school to monitor how things were going with the banquet hall, he observed where every arrangement went and made sure there was not a speck of dust on anything. He tested the food and examined how well-cooked was and how the frozen the desserts had been made. By the end of the day the staff was glaring daggers at how anal he was about everything and if looks could kill would have been six feet under times one thousand.

Buttoning up his tailored suit, he felt like finally something had gone right in these past few months, stepping down the grand staircase he smile to see two guests had already arrived.

The blonde looked up and Kaiba's face fell.

Is this more than you bargained for yet?

Taking long strides down the grand staircase Kaiba pulled Ren to the side, "I told you specifically not to bring him!" He whispered with venom, motioning to the blonde.

"I know but he had nothing to do tonight and--"

Kaiba cut him off, "I don't care-- you know I hate him."

"You hate me?" Jou murmured.


Oh don't mind me I'm watching you two from the closet
Wishing to be the friction in your jeans

Jou stormed off down the hall followed by Ren who gave Kaiba a dirty look.

Kaiba grabbed at his hair, he knew he shouldn't have said that, but Ren knew he wasn't supposed to bring the blonde here, that was an unspoken rule since day one and the only one who seemed to follow it was him. Watching the two drift off down the hall, he knew he wished he was the one going after Jou.

"All I have to say is waiting for the one is so overrated!" Jou laughed snuggling into the brunette.

Kaiba nodded, taking a long drag off of the cigarette, "I agree- waiting period is overrated."

"Agreed," he said sipping on his beer, "This is definitely the highlight of my week."

Kaiba nodded, "I just want you to know…" He murmured, "Never try to top me again." He said laughing, as the blonde's face turned a hardy shade of red.

"Oh you're definitely an asshole."

"Mr. Kaiba there are two more guests-" Jenny began to say.

But instead of greeting them, he ran off down the hall listening in the background as that old bag called out after him several times. His legs carried him to every room on the main hall and to avoid any confrontation with Ren. Soon he found himself in front of the secret room that only he, Jou and Mokuba knew about and he had a feeling that Jou was in there.

Isn't it messed up how I'm just dying to be him
I'm just a notch in your bedpost

"Jou…" He said, opening the bookcase.

"How can we be anything if you hate me?" The blonde said, slumped against a large red loveseat.

Kaiba shrugged his shoulders, "You know how fucking awkward it is when the three of us are together."

"Yeah…"

"Then why did you come?" Kaiba asked drumming his fingers on the wooden desk.

"Do you still want me?"

Kaiba didn't know what he was doing, he just started kissing the blonde, over and over again, he felt of control but it was good until he heard that sweet voice he promised he would never try to hurt ever.

"Kaiba?"

They pulled apart, and Kaiba mentally cursed himself for not closing the bookcase, he knew just how easy it'd be for anyone to see. Seeing Marcus blush and excuse himself, Kaiba knew he had to go after to him and explain what had happened before he told anyone or assumed anything that wasn't true.

Kaiba felt relieved and angry that Jou hadn't tried to stop him from chasing after the redhead; it must have been something in that kiss that made him feel like trying to get to Marcus was a bad idea. But his legs seemed to disagree because he felt them burning to catch up with the older teen.

"I think you should leave," Kaiba said lowering his head so he spoke into the blonde's ear.

Jou looked up obvious hurt in his eyes "Are you serious," He said just above a whisper.

Giving the blonde a stern look he nodded his head as some of the other patrons of the dinner party stared at them uneasily.

Looking down, the younger teen slowly made his way to the main hallway, Kaiba followed at a short distance behind him in case he made any sudden moves. His heart trembled a little at how harsh he'd been, and a little at how humiliated he must feel. A few minutes passed and Jou had shut the front door as Jenny shook her head and sighed.

Something snapped inside Kaiba as he felt himself walking slowly to the front door, throwing it open he stared into the empty lawn. The blonde no where in sight and his heart fell.

Kaiba stopped in front of an empty room, his heart pounding at all the chasing he had been doing and it wasn't even 8:00 yet. Watching the redhead as his fingers traced lightly over frames of Mokuba and himself and then of Jou and himself. He forgot just how long ago he had visited this room and its things.

He couldn't help it; there were too many rooms in his home to count or to visit on a regular basis.

"Marcus…" He said softly.

The teen turned around and smiled at him. "You don't have to explain anything- we aren't together."

Kaiba gave a mutual grin, it was true- they weren't exclusive.

"Plus I know how hard it is to get over an ex." Marcus added, setting down a picture of the blonde.

"I'm over him," Kaiba replied defensively, "He just keeps playing these horrible mind games--"

Marcus held a finger over his mouth, "I thought you were smarter then that."

Kaiba frowned, 'I thought so to,' He thought bitterly.

"I'll see you later at the party." Marcus said, walking slowly past him, and before Kaiba could stop himself he pulled the redhead back so he was facing towards him.

Am I more then you bargained for yet?
I've been dying to tell you anything you want to hear

"Ok… I thought I could do this." Kaiba said. He heard Marcus sigh indignantly but he continued on, "This isn't what you think nor is it what you'd expect after everything I have been saying these past few days." He stopped and looked into Marcus's eyes, "I don't know in the long run if I end up in love with you or any of that bullshit but I know now that I do want to be with you."

Marcus said nothing, he just sat there with a huge smile on his face. "I've only known you a few days." He whispered, stroking Kaiba's hair.

"Yes," he agreed, "But," he countered, feeling vulnerable and stupid. "I know what I want."

"Then ok."

Kaiba gave a faint smile feeling oddly dissatisfied … had he made a huge mistake? Or was this moving on for real? Kaiba really couldn't put his finger on it but it felt ok, with Marcus in his arms.

And instead of seeing stars he saw fire, and that was a little warmer.

Cause that's just who I am this week

And instead of seeing the redhead leave, Jou saw him stay.

It is a sad ending… don't hurt me.

Suddenwonder

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