Precious Thief

Disclaimer: Uh… it's in the first chapter.

A/N: I know this is in ancient Egypt and it's supposed to be Seth here not Seto. If you want to think of Seto as Seth you're more than welcome to but I just like this pairing better and I always type Seto instead so yah. Also thanks for the reviews!

To the anonymous Isis Ishtar: Haha… it does work as a one-shot but I already got a plan to end it with a certain thing that Seto will say to Jou. xD

Chapter 2: More than Just an Acquaintance

Poking his head through the door, he glanced around to see if the coast was clear. Looking once more to the left, he ran into his room and barricaded the door. "Yeah!" the blonde said to himself and began rubbing his hands together. "Jou, you sly dog! Heheh… I can't believe I got through to my room without my dad coming in drunk." Then he shuddered as an image of his father walking towards him swinging his arms like a banshee around a busty woman who had put on way to many layers of make-up to cover her hideous face while he groped her occasionally as he made an attempt to yell at him came into his mind.

He flopped himself down on his straw mattress and began scratching at the wall's indentation. It didn't use to be there but due to the fact that he had a habit of scratching that part of the wall when he was bored it gradually deepened. And this was the only time he was bored. All the other times he was with his friends or raiding the market. But since he wasn't stealing today he had time left over. He groaned silently and thought, 'Why do I do the exact same thing everyday. Now I know why I shouldn't steal valuable stuff. Takes away my stealing time…'

He only stole in the mornings when the bazaar was at its second busiest hour which was after he wakes up. Right now he was supposed to be sleeping but he came in at the crack of dawn because he was over at Yugi's playing games and making bets with Honda and dice-boy but he fell asleep after getting bored of watching the two argue over something so trivial. Jounouchi guessed that he had enough time to over sleep and still wake up to make breakfast.

It had been a few days since he'd broken into the palace walls and stole a couple of rubies and sadly, lots of food. Needless to say, his father was a bit happier that they had more food, but was extremely suspicious of him. "Ya didn't take any my money did ya?" The older Jounouchi slurred looking at him, eyes in slits as he searched through the bag of food. Luckily, he had taken out the valuables before dad got to them.

Either way, Jounouchi was extremely happy because he could sell the rubies and the profit from it would last him for 2 months rent and a couple weeks of food with a little bit left over to buy whatever he wanted. He had stashed the money in various places to hide it from his father.

Sighing he rolled over onto his belly and reached over to the little table next to his bed. He grabbed the coin off the table and looked at it. He fingered it lightly as it glistened gold in the light. The image of the chocolate haired blue eyed man filled his mind and he looked backed to when he met him a few days ago.

Then he sighed thinking, 'I wonder if he was the one who give it to me… I remember taking the rubies, but not this coin… maybe I should ask him.' He lifted his fingers to his lips and blushed when he remembered the two kisses he'd stolen. He then rolled over on his back and let the coin roll out of his hands and onto the dirt floor forgotten. 'I wonder why he kissed me. He tasted good. Almost like he just ate chocolate before he did.' He groaned happily. (A/N: Ok maybe they don't have chocolate or maybe they do. Just substitute it for something that tastes similar to it.)

'Damn I love chocolate. I want another kiss…' Then he jumped up. 'I know! I still need to ask about the coin and I wanna know why he kissed me! So it's like killing two birds with a stone!' He thought pumping his fist twice. "Yeah!"

On the other side of the mud hut his father who had passed out a couple hours ago stirred and then bellowed, "Shut up you good-for-nothing bastard of a son! I'm trying to get some sleep over here! And if you really want to help your pops out, you can start making food!" Jounouchi glared at him through the walls and began pulling some clothes. He made his way over to the "ancient" kitchen and began grumbling about how old men are just too grumpy for their own good.

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Once again under the moonlight, the blonde stood under the palace windows but this time under what he thought was the same window as last time. He swung his rope-and-claw onto the window, tugged it a bit, and began to start climbing. He effortlessly pulled himself up and onto the balcony and began to pick the door/window's lock. (I added a balcony because well… it just seems much more logical. HAHA, it's going to be like Romeo and Juliet except in this case Romeo (Jou) is using a rope and uh… Juliet is the manlier of the two. Laughs.)

He almost picked the lock when Seto opened the door. "…" Jounouchi looked up and started sweat dropping. "Uh… hi?" He smiled sheepishly with his hands still on the deformed bobby pin that was currently hanging off the lock of the door. Seto looked at him like he was stupid. "What are you doing?"

Seto had been taking a bath when he heard something rattling outside. So he quickly finished his bath, grabbed a towel, and wrapped it around himself. He walked out to find his stupid little puppy trying to pick his lock, thus the awkward position Jounouchi found himself in.

"I'll just be going now heheh…" The blonde laughed nervously and gave a weak smile as he eased himself up and tried to walk past Seto. Blue eyes followed the blonde as he tried to push through observing the clothes Jounouchi was wearing. It was the same as the other night and he began wondering if he had any other clothes, although it did give him quite a nice view.

Normally he would have taken the intruder by the arm and just thrown him off the balcony like he did with all the others and let the guards on the palace grounds deal with them, but he found himself gripping Jounouchi's arm and instead of throwing him out he pulled him into his room but blocked his way to the door.

"Hey!" Jounouchi glared at him still trying to reach the door. This wasn't his plan. He originally was suppose to go get food, get chased by the guards, THEN talk to him, then shimmy way out of the palace grounds without being noticed, and finally run scared like a little girl into his bed with his stash of goods. Talk about stupid plan right? Yeah well… it worked and he only included the chased by guards part because it usually happened anyway.

"What are you doing here mutt? I can have you thrown in the dungeons and executed just for sneaking in through my window." He growled at him even though he didn't really want that to happen. Wow… talk about hot and sexy even when mad was the only thing going through Jou's one-track mind. He was about ready to drool and kiss him. The only thing stopping him was that he was suppose to be down there right now not here with the man of his dreams… literally.

Jounouchi in rage at the dog name spoke before thinking and mistakenly told him his plan. "… and that's why I'm here." Seto just raised an eyebrow. "Mutt, you know you just proved me right when I said last time that you can't qualify as a thief. You just told me your whole plan of trying to raid the palace. A good thief never reveals his plan. I don't understand why you do this; you've already stolen enough food to feed 3 huge starving families for 2 days. Either way I now have proof against you that you were trying to steal again."

"Argh! Why am I arguing with you when I'm supposed to be on step two?" He said throwing his usable arm in the air in frustration and shoving a number two sign in Seto's face to show his point. "We haven't begun arguing, it's only been 3 minutes." A smug look crossed Seto's face as he observed Jounouchi getting angrier by the minute. His grip had loosened through the heated conversation as he visibly relaxed laughing silently at the puppy's antics. Seto's hand had slid down from Jounouchi's arm and now rested on the blonde's wrist.

Jou looked at him incredulously, "And how long does it take for it to be an actual argument for you? Over 15 minutes?"

The same triumphant smirk as last time slid onto his face as he replied. "Yeah. About." He knew this comment would drive Jounouchi crazy. He didn't know why but being around him and getting a reaction from his puppy made him feel happy and all warm and tingly inside. He hadn't felt like this in a long time.

Seto couldn't help but smile around him and the urge to kiss him again began to get stronger. The past few days all he thought about was him. It made him go crazy for a while and he was still in denial when Mokuba teased him that he had a crush on someone. He wouldn't accept the fact that he was supposedly in love, but he won't say that he didn't feel anything for him.

Jounouchi on the other hand was becoming hostile and angry at the fact that Seto wasn't listening to him. He growled angrily. He didn't know what he ever saw in him. All he did since the time he met him to now was teasing and making him confused. Jounouchi's voice broke into Seto's thoughts when he heard, "You're such a prick! I don't know why I even came here in the first place!"

He wrenched his wrist away from Seto's hand. He slightly wondered when Seto's hand had dropped from his biceps to his wrist. Dropping the thought, he pushed away from him and stalked towards the door only to find himself being pulled back into the arms of the man he was angry with. "Hey! Let go of…oomph!" His eyes widened as Seto's mouth covered his opened ones. He groaned slightly as a tongue slid into his mouth and caressed his.

Then someone began pounding on the door. "Big brother! You ok? I heard you yelling when I came up!" Damn that kid had really bad timing. Seto unlatched his mouth from Jou's shoulder and Jounouchi's mouth opened and closed as he looked at Seto like he was crazy for stealing another kiss. Sure he felt happy about getting another but this was not consensual damnit! But Seto just lightly rested his head on Jou's shoulder and answered to Mokuba, "Yeah! Got back to your room and sleep!"

"Aww… but the monkey ruined my bed sheets and I was wondering if you have any new ones. Also the monkey was trying to kill me again!" Seto groaned. "I'll be right there." That Arabian monkey caused more trouble than Mokuba did when he was on a sugar rush. It ruined over 50 bed sheets in one month and the head servant told him that she wasn't going to give him anymore. So now he came to Seto for them now. In truth, the monkey and Mokuba were now sworn enemies and Mokuba couldn't kick it out because it would sneak back on its own.

While Seto was distracted, Jounouchi carefully eased off one of Seto's golden arm bracelets and slipped it into his pocket. Then he carefully slid his arm back into his shoulder. He figured that Seto wouldn't be missing it since he had a few others. Plus he was mad and confused and he wanted revenge. And a Jounouchi that was mad and confused and wanted revenge all at the same time equals him doing something utterly stupid. He let out a breath he didn't know he was holding when he slipped the golden thing unnoticed into his pocket.

Then he remembered that this wasn't what he came for. He came to get some answers so that he can finally get him off his mind. "Why'd you kiss me like all those other times?" Jounouchi whispered, his arms fell from Seto's shoulders and went limp. He rested his head against Seto's as Seto pulled him closer. "Spur of the moment?" Seto said weakly.

"So it didn't mean anything?" Jou whispered devastated feeling a pain and his heart break into two. It felt like someone had taken a stake and drove it right into his heart. "I don't really know…" Seto said. Then it shattered. Tears welled up in his eyes. Seto had just implied that he didn't like him and didn't know why he'd kiss him in the first place. Jounouchi didn't understand why it hurt so much or why he even cared anymore. A tear rolled down his left eye as he stared lifelessly at the moonlight shining through the balcony door as the curtains moved in the night wind. "Bro, are you coming?" Mokuba shouted.

"I need to go check on Mokuba." Seto said. He hadn't seen the tears Jounouchi shed. He let go of Jou and walked over to his discarded clothes. Jounouchi quickly wiped his tears away and watched with a pained expression as Seto walked back to him looking anywhere but at him. "Here." He said holding out some gold coins. Jounouchi looked a bit shocked. "I can't…"

"It'd last you a few days." Seto whispered. He didn't know if his puppy was in pain but he was. After he told him that he didn't know what he was doing, he felt like he made the biggest mistake of his life just telling him that. He also didn't know why he felt like this. He sure as hell didn't think it was love and was sure that Jounouchi didn't feel anything for him. But it hurt… a lot. Jounouchi reached out took the coins, gathered his stuff and whispered, "Bye." Then he began climbing down.

Seto stared out the balcony once again and watched him until he was a little speck of yellow in the distance. When Jounouchi was sure Seto couldn't see him anymore, he silently watched Seto as he whispered a word that went unheard to any man's ears, "Bye…" and turned away to go help his brother. Seto sighed as he touched what would have been where Jounouchi would be standing had he stayed and if Mokuba didn't interrupt them. Then he looked back to the spot on the palace grounds where he last saw Jounouchi. "Yeah Mokuba, I'm coming!" Then both turned away each in pain.