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Chapter 1

Flashback (Cont.) (Joey's POV)

After a short while, Seto calmed down some, his breathing was back to normal and his tears stopped a little, but they were still coming.

"Why do you want to help me?" Seto asked in a voice I had to strain to hear, even though his lips were so close to my ear.

"Because…" I said as I unwrapped my arms from around his waist; I unbuttoned the cuffs at my wrists and showed my wrists to him as he lifted his head from my shoulder. "I used to cut myself also…" I had stopped cutting myself a long time ago before the events on that roof, so the only thing I showed Seto were these brown marks that scarred my wrists, but there were a lot of brown marks.

Seto stared at me with wide eyes, then lied his head back down on my shoulder.

I sighed and wrapped my arms back around him and lied back down; his body slipped off mine, but his head moved to my chest. Slowly, I moved my hand and started to run my fingers through his hair, I'm not surprised to feel like I'm running my fingers through silk.

"Feels good…" Seto mumbled.

I smiled and began to gently massage his head with my fingers; a couple of minutes later, I'm shocked to hear purring.

"Seto, you purr?" I asked as I stopped massaging his head.

"Do you bark?" He snapped back.

That got me a little peeved.

"Hey, I wasn't trying to make fun of you." I said. "I was just surprised to hear you purr."

It was probably another minute before he responded.

"Sorry for that bark remark…" Seto said. "I just thought that you were going to try and make fun of me for my purring."

I sighed and started massaging his head again; smirking when the purring resumed.

Before we knew it, we both drifted off to sleep; what woke us up was the last bell of the day. For some reason that school year, the only bells that would sound outside was the first bell and the last bell, every other bell remained inside school. Which at that time was great for me and Seto, because we really needed that nap.

Seto slowly sat up, yawned and stretched while he was still sitting. I on the other hand, got up onto my feet, took a step and tripped.

"Joey, are you okay!" Seto asked, his voice holding concern and surprise.

I blushed at what I was about to say.

"My foot fell asleep…" I said.

Slowly and quietly, a chuckle came from Seto, it wasn't long before it was a full blown laugh, and I couldn't believe how wonderful his laugh sounded. His laugh was deep, but not too deep, and sort of high at the same time; other than that, it was the perfect laugh that suited him well. I rolled onto my back and sat up to see what he looked like when he laughed, I couldn't believe what I saw, he was beautiful. He had a smile that just lightened up his face and made him even more beautiful than he already was. At that time, I had just recently come to accept the fact that I was a bi, so I wasn't ashamed to think that about Seto; but I was worried, after all, I was with Mai.

It didn't take long for Seto to collect himself and for him to stand up; he took a step over to me and offered me his hand. I gladly took it and he hoisted me up to my feet; I almost fell again, but he caught me that time.

"Try stomping you foot…" Seto said.

I looked at him like he was crazy.

"What are you, nuts?" I asked. "That's going to hurt like hell!"

"Well, that's better than waiting forever and a day for your foot to wake up." Seto said.

"I have a way to wake up my foot quickly." I said as I hopped on one foot away from Seto.

I could feel Seto looking at me as I hopped; I turned around when I got to a wall and put my back to it. I raised my sleeping foot and shook it hard; it hurt like hell, but not as much as stomping it.

Seto looked at me in amusement as I shook my foot; after about five minutes, the numbing pain stopped. I placed my foot on the ground and lightly stomped it, making sure it was fully awake. I looked up at Seto just about to say something, when the door opened and someone unexpected came through the door, my girlfriend, Mai.

"I thought I saw you two up here." Mai said.

Seto remained quiet as he stared at her; I on the other hand, walked over to her and kissed her. I could feel her smile and she kissed back. When I pulled away, I looked to Seto; I smirked when I saw that he had a look of what I thought at the time was mock disgust, I looked to his eyes and I could have sworn I saw a slight flash of sadness.

"Hello Seto…" Mai said.

Seto nodded towards her, then started to walk towards the door, he opened the door and stepped into the doorway and stopped again; he turned to me and smiled.

"Thank you Joey…" Seto said, then he turned and walked out on us.

When Seto was gone, I turned to Mai who had a shocked look on her face.

"Care to explain exactly what happened between you two?" Mai asked.

I smiled and proceeded to tell her everything that happened between me and Seto that day on the roof; Mai, thought proud of me, held a bit of suspicion for me and Seto, I at the time, pretended not to notice.

Over the course of three weeks, Seto began ignoring me and Mai again; we were both pissed off at him. There on that roof all those days ago, I thought that me and Seto were finally friends; then as early as the next morning, he went right back to calling me by my last name and those annoying dog names and remarks. He even became more hostile towards the rest of the gang; which annoyed Tristan to no end and he almost decked Seto at one point, but Yugi somehow held him back.

But, it was one day on a Friday that I'd never forget when I found a note in my locker, asking me to meet someone on the roof when the first bell sounded. Of course I knew it was Kaiba and was thankful for the first time that me and the gang didn't have the same homeroom.

I placed myself next to the door leading to the roof about five minutes before the bell; I had a strange urge to go up there and check on Seto before the bell rang, just this nagging feeling, but somehow kept myself from storming up there. As soon as the bell sounded, I dashed up the stairs as fast as I could to get to Seto; when I opened the door, I was in for a surprise.

Seto was there, but what he was doing was what shocked me. He had a dagger to his wrist and he was just slashing away at it. I just stood there in shock as I watched as he stabbed at his wrist, the hand that he was stabbing with was in bad shape also, obviously he had been at it for awhile. I snapped out of my shock and ran over to Seto.

"Seto, what the fuck are you doing!" I yelled.

He looked up at me with wide eyes and turned the blade to his chest; I was close enough to kick it away before he did anything else. I bent down to my knees in front of him and grabbed his wrist, then started to shake him.

"Seto, what are you doing!" I yelled. "Are you crazy! Why are you doing this? What's wrong? Why aren't you telling me? Do you realize that you have a little brother to raise!" All the while I yelling at Seto, I was shaking him harshly by his shoulders; he was sobbing harshly, he was gulping in harsh breaths of air as he sobbed.

The door suddenly blasted open and Mai came rushing up to us; she stopped just before me and Seto when she saw all the blood.

"How are we going to get him out of here?" She asked.

I looked back to Seto and noticed that his sobbing stopped, but he saw swaying, then finally just when limp; he fell against me.

Mai took off her jean jacket and began ripping it to shreds; then she came over to me and Seto and took a hold of Seto's wrists, and began wrapping up his cut wrists with the scraps. When she was done, her eyes were flashing in determination.

"Come on, we don't have long." Mai said.

"Where are we going?" I asked.

"The hospital of course!" Mai yelled.

"NO…" Seto grumbled.

"Seto, why?" Mai asked.

"Use my cell phone, speed dial 5, ask for Dr. L…" Seto rasped. "Tell him to meet us back at my mansion…"

"But-" Mai was cut off.

"He's the only doctor I trust." Seto said, then he fully passed out against me.

I dug into his coat pocket and took out his cell, then tossed it to Mai. Knowing what to do, she followed Seto's instructions and dialed for the doctor. I picked up Seto and was even more startled to find how unbelievably light he was; I carried Mai before and he was lighter than her! His lightness easily explained his boney frame.

Me and Mai rushed as quickly as we could out of school; I found it amazing that we weren't caught by anyone. Later on, I wondered about the school's surveillance cameras; but no one said anything.

We rushed over to Mai's car and I rushed into the back seat with Seto still in my arms; Mai was still talking on Seto's phone when she jumped into the driver's seat. She placed the hood on top of her convertible and started the engine before driving off from school.

All I could do was hold onto Seto's wrists and watch as his blood seeped through Mai's ripped jacket. Mai stopped talking and threw the phone off to the passenger seat, then looked up at the rear view mirror.

"How is he doing?" Mai asked.

"I don't know…" I said; I watched as Mai's eyes stared at Seto from the mirror.

"The doctor said that he would be there in a few moments." Mai said.

I nodded, thankful for whoever the doctor was for being prompt.

In about ten more minutes, Mai pulled up to the Kaiba mansion's gates; amazingly, they opened for us. Mai sped onto the grounds and headed straight for the garage, where we found a young man in a white coat.

I could easily tell that he was in his early twenties; he had long black hair that when down to his waist that was held in a tight ponytail. His eyes were an eerie shade of ruby red and his left eye held speckles of green. He wore a pair of baggy black jeans and a white long sleeved shirt, his coat was long and drifted about two feet above the ground, like Seto's, and was off white.

When I got out of the car, the man ran over and took Seto out of my arms.

"Follow me." He said sharply as he turned and ran to a door that led to the inside of the mansion.

We followed him up about five flights of stairs to a mini hospital wing of the mansion. He rushed into a room that held a steel table and a lot of strange utensils.

"I'm going to need your help." He said as he laid Seto down onto the table.

Three Hours Later…

About two hours before, me, Mai, and Leo Leon a.k.a. Dr. Leon or Dr. L, as we came to know him, had finished with Seto. The only thing that me and Mai did was hand Leo the things he needed to help stabilize Seto's bleeding and the things he needed to stitch up and bandage Seto's wound with; it was a long and hectic hour, but everything turned out okay, at least, that's what Leo said.

Mai went home to change clothing, I on the other hand took one of Seto's robes and put it on, and Mai said that she'd swing by my place and get me a new change of clothing, my father was at work at that time. The only place I hung out in was Seto's room keeping an eye on him; I didn't want to leave his side. But, what bothered me was that Leo didn't leave, he sat on the other side of Seto's bed; so, I struck up a conversation with him to pass the time.

"Uh…so, how long have you been Seto's doctor?" I asked.

When I asked that question, a pang of jealousy went through me because of the way that Leo was staring at Seto; my question snapped him out of his gaze.

"Oh, uh…a couple of years now…" Leo said. "Before me, my father was his doctor, but when I graduated from college I became his doctor."

"How old are you exactly?" I asked. "You don't have to answer if you don't want to."

"I'm twenty-one…" Leo said. "I'll be twenty-two in a couple of months."

I nodded at this.

"How long have you known Seto?" I asked.

"I've known him ever since he was first adopted by Gozaburo." Leo said. "My father was Gozaburo's doctor for many years; so it wasn't surprising when Seto and Mokuba were adopted, that my father was their doctor."

I was about to ask another question when a small whimpering sound came from Seto, I looked down just as his eyes flickered open. Leo smiled and stood up, looking at Seto's face.

"Hey Seto…" Leo said softly. "How are you feeling?"

Seto coughed slightly and a little blood went to the side of his mouth. Leo reached over the nightstand and grabbed a sheet of tissue, then wiped the blood away.

I looked at Seto's skin, it was whiter than the whitest sheet of paper, and he looked awful, not too surprising after loosing so much blood then suddenly having just as much blood forced back into your system; but still, it was still very eerie.

"I need to use the bathroom." Seto said, he turned his head to look at a wall and blushed, not meeting anyone gaze.

"Alright…" Leo said. "Let me help you up and you can go."

After another hour, Mai finally came back; by that time, I already came to a conclusion, Seto had done this before.

To be continued…

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