Hello everyone, just dropping by to drop off an update! This week of reviews has most definitely gone better than last week.

Thank you to:

Sunshine Pie: You can stop begging now because I've updated, but it looks like you might be reduced to begging again because of the next chapter that isn't up yet; but, don't worry, that one will be up soon.

SilverCrescentX: I'm so happy that you have reviewed me and that you like my story! I like the new name you gave me, 'Fluffy', I feel so loved. Well, I hope you like this chapter also; please keep going with your stories, I'm still watching out for you. (If all of you are wondering, most of SCX's stories are posted up on of her stories are Yu-Gi-Oh and consist of the pairing Yami/Seto. Her stories are so awesome; check them out if you're old enough.)

FuturePast: Yeah, since Joey and Seto always fight like cats and dogs, and Joey is clearly the dog, I thought I'd make Seto the cat; plus, I really love the thought of a purring Seto; I'm glad you liked it. It's updated and I hope you're still alive from holding your breath for a whole week! Please, review me so I know that I didn't kill you for making you wait so long!

ClumsyKitty: There are a few chapters consisting of flashbacks to explain what challenges Joey and Seto went through to get together; there will be more than flashbacks eventually, just you wait. And sorry to burst your lemony bubble, but I can't write lemons even if my life depended on it; besides, this site doesn't permit that and I don't want to loose my membership.

Shadowofmyself453: I updated, I'll update soon again!

paranoidcharlotte: I agree, it's so hard to find Seto uke fics; but you should check out SilverCrescentX stories, nearly all of her YGO stories consists of Seto in uke, but mainly in Yami/Seto, hopefully you won't mind that. Plus, I'm glad you like my story, hopefully you'll like the new chapter too.

Setosgirl: I'm so happy you reviewed me! I'm glad that you like my story also! You got more of the story, but I have a feeling after this, you'll need even more. (Hey everyone, Setosgirl has awesome stories on check them out if you want! They consist of many different pairings and they all rock!)

Takuya: Glad you like how it sounds and I updated.

Thank you again to all of those who reviewed, and read; I really appreciate it!

Now on with the story!

Chapter 2

As Joey thought of the time before his relationship with Seto, a long, loud yawn came to him. He looked to the kitchen clock and saw that he had been reminiscing about the past for over half an hour.

"I better get to bed…" Joey mumbled to himself. "I'll think more about that later…"

Joey got up and put the cups of pudding back into the fridge before going back to bed.

His apartment was recently finished and he was happy with the results, all of his things fit in the apartment and he still had space to spare.

Trudging back to bed, there was a sudden dinging sound coming from the front of the apartment, he growled when he realized what it was.

'Who in their right mind would be at my door at this time?' Joey thought as he turned around and headed for the front door.

It only took a moment, and when he opened the door, he was surprised to find Mai.

"Joey, have you called Seto?" Mai asked.

Joey just stood there looking at Mai and blinking.

"What in the world are you doing here?" Joey said. "I thought that you were out of town in a tournament."

Mai smirked and held up a big trophy, and Joey noticed a small bag at her side.

"I won it already." Mai said.

"Then what are you doing here?" Joey asked.

"My apartment is being renovated and it's pouring cats and dogs outside, so I can't drive to Seto's to see if he's alright." Mai said. "I know you know something is wrong."

Joey sighed and moved out of the way, opening the door wider for Mai to come in. When she came in, Joey closed the door and relocked all of the bolts and locks to the door; even though he no longer lived in the bad part of Domino, Joey still placed a variety of locks and bolts on his door, for him, old habits died hard.

"Guest bedroom is the second door to the right of mine." Joey said.

"Thanks…" Mai said as she headed to the bedroom.

Joey sighed as he followed Mai to the bedroom.

"You never answered my question." Mai said. "Did you call Seto?" She asked again.

Joey sighed again, remembering the harsh message that Seto left behind for Joey on his line.

"He blocked your calls again, didn't he?" Mai asked as she entered the room.

Joey nodded.

The guestroom wasn't much; it was just a bed, a drawer, and a small half bathroom. Mai placed her trophy on the floor and started digging in her bag; she pulled out a towel, soap, a wash towel, and a nightgown and headed for the bathroom.

"I'll help myself, you should be in bed." Mai said. "I expect to speak to you in the morning, so don't try leaving early." She walked into the bathroom and closed the door behind her.

"Not like I was planning to." Joey said once Mai closed the door; he turned around and headed back to bed, expecting either a bad dream or no dream at all.

The next morning at the Kaiba mansion…

It was nine-thirty when Mokuba woke up; he stretched and looked around expecting nothing new. He got out of bed and headed for his bathroom, he needed to take a shower and brush his teeth. But before he got there, a butler came to his room.

"Mokuba, I thought that you would like to know, that your brother is sick." The butler said.

The butler was an important member of the Kaiba's staff for many years; he was in his mid forties and stood nearly six feet tall. His hair was whitish silver and his brown eyes at the moment held general concern. Ever since the day that Seto and Mokuba came through the doors of the Kaiba mansion, that man had been not only a loyal servant to the both, but a loyal friend as well. His name was William Nelson, born and raised in England, came to Japan with his wife nearly twenty years ago. Sadly, ten years before, his wife passed away because of cancer and they never had children together. He looked at both Seto and Mokuba as not only his friends, but his sons; and the brothers looked up to William as a father at times.

"What do you mean Seto is sick?" Mokuba asked. "Seto never gets sick."

"That's what you think." William said. "Right now, he's in his bathroom throwing up everything and anything he has in his stomach."

Mokuba wanted to go to his brother and see if he was alright already, but he knew once he went there, Seto would turn him away and tell him to shower anyway.

"I'll be with him in a few minutes." Mokuba said.

William nodded and turned on his heal and out of the room.

Mokuba rushed into his bathroom, took off his pajamas, put toothpaste on his toothbrush and jumped into the shower; he planned to brush his teeth in the shower.

Meanwhile with Seto…

"Ugh…" Seto groaned.

He had been hunched over the toilet for about an hour puking his guts out.

'What in the world is wrong with me?' Seto thought as he rested his head on his arm, which was resting on the toilet seat. 'First it's those awful stomach cramps, then it's vomiting, what's next? I've never been sick, so why is it happening now?'

A light knocking at his door caught his attention; he knew who it was already.

"Come in William…" Seto said.

The door slowly opened and in came William with a steaming cup of something; he walked over to Seto and bent down next to him.

"I thought that you would like something to drink." William said. "I don't trust those pills that you take, so I made you some herbal tea, a family recipe of mine that cures nearly anything."

"It's not disgusting or anything?" Seto asked forming a sour face. "That's the last thing I need."

"No, it's sweet and minty." William said. "None of my family recipes are disgusting or sour."

"Good…" Seto said as he gently took the cup from William, careful not to spill any of the hot liquid.

William smiled when Seto started drinking the tea, that tea was his only hope for Seto to get better; the pills that Seto always took, in his opinion, made everything worse.

"It's good…" Seto said. "Can you teach me how to make it if time comes for it again and you're not around?"

"Yes, soon enough…" William said.

Seto reached over to the toilet seat and shut it, then pushed the little toilet handle and flushed the toilet, knowing that if he were to look into the toilet, he'd get sick again.

Meanwhile with Joey…

"Wake up sleepy head!" A voice yelled.

A sudden blast of harsh, but soft and also painful pressure blasted upside Joey's head and is eyes snapped open. His vision was blurry for a moment, then he saw Mai, holding one of his pillows smirking at him. Joey blinked and looked around, noticing how bright his room was.

"What time is it?" He mumbled.

"Almost eleven…" Mai said as she tossed Joey's pillow back onto his bed and walked out. "I'm going back home, I'll be back later."

"Alright, see ya…" Joey said, as soon as he was sure Mai was at the door, he flopped back down onto bed. 'What in the world am I going to do?' Joey thought. All night the only thing he was able to thing about was Seto, Seto, and Seto. 'If I go by his house, I can't get in because of the guards.

Joey lied in bed and thought of what he was thinking of last night, Seto's past before their relationship.

Flashback (Joey's POV)

It had been a couple of weeks after the whole suicide attempt thing, and things had most definitely changed between me, Mai, and Seto. Even though Seto still pretended to hate me in school; outside of school was a whole different story, or at least, in the Kaiba mansion. I was invited to come visit anytime I wanted, as was Mai; when we went over there, we tried to get Seto to open up as much as possible to tell us about his problems so we could help him, we rarely succeeded.

That friendship with Seto remained a secret from the gang and everyone else for awhile; Mokuba was already fully aware of the friendship that me and Mai shared with Seto, we were both amazed he didn't ask anything about it.

Mainly, I was the one to spend more time with Seto than Mai; she continued to go out of town to tournaments around the world and left me to keep and eye on Seto. One weekend when she left, left me with a surprise and a very tough decision on my hands.

It was a Sunday night, I came over to Seto for help on some math homework, as usual, the math confused me and I was in need of desperate help. On that night as it turned out, Seto was in need of desperate help himself. As we worked together on the subject, I noticed that he was more tensed than usual.

"Are you okay Seto?" I asked.

Seto was still looking at my math paper, when I asked the question, he seemed to be a little startled when I asked him that, with the way he suddenly snapped his attention towards me.

"Oh, I-I'm fine…" Seto sort of stuttered.

I looked at him, not believing him. I placed my pencil down and opened my arms to him. Slowly and unsurely, he turned his back to me and lied back down into my arms; we did that anytime we spoke to each other about a problem. Just about a week before, I told Seto about the relationship I had with my own father, in turn, he told me nearly everything about Gozaburo, we found that we had a lot in common in that situation, except Gozaburo being a lot more harsher, at the time, I didn't know how much more harsher.

"Come on Seto, tell me what's wrong." I said. "You don't have to hide anything from me; I swore to you that every secret you tell me, I'll keep a secret with my life."

Seto sighed and snuggled deeper into my arms, I wrapped my arms tighter around him.

"It's just…" Seto began. "What I did two weeks ago…"

I remembered that freshly in my mind, the smell of his blood sort of stayed embedded in my mind.

"Yeah, what about it?" I asked.

"I did that before…" Seto said. "Three times…"

For a moment, my mind came to a stop. How could Seto do that to his body three times and still be alive! I was forced from my thoughts when I felt Seto shaking slightly in my arms.

"Why?" I asked.

"I don't know…" Seto whispered; his shaking stopped.

'What the hell!' I thought. 'Maybe he should go to therapy or something.'

"What do you mean 'you don't know'?" I asked.

Seto sighed again.

"Before all of those major stabbings, I used to cut my wrists and arms with these small thin lines." Seto said. "Like the ones that you and Mai saw before the major stabbing; I did those after I healed from the other stabbing I did months ago."

I nodded in understanding and for him to continue.

"Well, at times, I just get this sudden urge…" Seto said. "I don't know what causes it, but all I know is that anytime I feel it, I just begin stabbing."

"How often did you have those urges?" I asked.

"Very often…" Seto said. "Almost everyday, I just wanted to end it all."

"Have you been having them lately?" I asked.

"Since I became friends with you and Mai, no…" Seto said.

That made me smile, but I still needed to know more.

"So, that's why Leo didn't seem to surprised about that stabbing, he was the one who treated the others, wasn't he?" I asked.

Seto nodded.

"Everyday, I try my best to suppress those urges, but at times, those urges win." Seto said. "Like that day on the roof, I had that major urge, and I just stabbed myself. At that time, I felt happy, almost free; but then, the friendship I had with you and Mai came to be, and I felt like another piece of me was being made."

I, of course, was touched at what Seto said.

"I'm glad I got to you…" I said.

Suddenly, Seto slowly got out of my arms and turned around to look at me; slowly, as if not to scare me away, he leaned on towards me; then, our faces were only a couple inches apart. I knew what he wanted to do, but I felt I shouldn't do it, I was with Mai, I loved Mai, Seto was only my friend, wasn't it really like that? Seto tried to lean in more, but I jolted back. Seto looked at me, an expression of hurt in his eyes. I didn't know what possessed me to do what I did at the time, but I got up and walked away.

"Joey, please don't go, I'm sorry!" I heard Seto said, hurt also evident in his voice.

But I kept walking, I didn't look back. I showed myself out of the mansion, and walked off the property, back home; fully knowing that my old man wasn't going to be there to mess with me. But as I kept walking, Seto's eyes kept flashing and Seto's voice kept echoing in my mind.

Flashback End

To Be Continued…

How much longer is it going to be before Joey finds out about Seto?

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