Dogs Do The Silliest Things, by Dani Wheeler-Kaiba
Dedicated to the forces that first led me to watch Yu-Gi-Oh – and this chapter to Laura, because we are the inventors of truth or thruth.
Disclaimer: Much as I wish the world of Yu-Gi-Oh was mine, that will only ever be a wish. In other words, it's not mine. Unfortunately.
Summary: SetoxJou. That should say it all. What started as a usual day of hatred between Seto Kaiba and Katsuya Jounouchi was completely turned around. Maybe it was just a spur of the moment thing, or maybe it was something more. I don't know as much about Yu-Gi-Oh as I'd like to, so please forgive any little mistakes I make.
This was originally going to be a single chapter with chapter 9, but it turned out to be way too long. Malik, Marik, Ryou and Bakura are so cool…I wish I had friends like them! And I apologise for the lack of Seto in these two chapters, but I'm not dissing him or anything, I promise!
Read, enjoy, and review!
Ch. 10: Truth or Thruth
Malik paused. "I can't ask something till I know what happened in 'I Never'. Did anything good come out?"
"Well, Yugi cheated on someone in a non-sexual way and they never found out," recapped Honda, causing Yugi to bury his head in his hands.
"No way!" Marik exclaimed giving his short, tricolour-haired friend a light punch on the arm.. "Our little Yugi? Did something sneaky?"
"Accidental…nothing happened…" Yugi murmured under his breath. Marik's reaction was exactly the same as Honda's; a grin and a knowledgeable wink.
"Accidental, yeah, of course. What else?"
"Who's slept with who?" Bakura asked eagerly. Only one thing ever on his mind.
Yugi recovered a little from his embarrassment. "No one, actually. None of us have slept with anyone."
"What?" Ryou yelled, jumping up off the couch, which meant that Bakura fell quite painfully to the floor. "You've got to be kidding me!"
Jou shook his head.
"Amateurs!" Malik said haughtily. "Well that's all I need to go on…Jou, how many people have begged you for sex but you turned them down?"
Jou hastily grabbed some alcohol. He would need it to survive the night. "Nine."
The four psychos laughed. "Made yourself untouchable, eh Jou?"
"Shut up, Marik. It's my turn now." He turned to Yugi. "Truth or thruth?"
"Truth," Yugi answered, sounding relieved that Jou had asked him, as opposed to a sex-crazed maniac.
"Who was it you cheated with?"
Yugi paled, and followed Jou's example of snatching up the nearest bottle to fortify himself. But his only answer to the question was an inaudible whisper.
"Come on, Yugi, spit it out!" Ryou said impatiently.
But Yugi seemed incapable of saying it out loud, so Jou found him paper and a pen so that he could write it instead. This he did, but before anybody else read it he sprinted clean out of the room.
"Chicken…" Malik muttered. "Least he left the paper. What's it say?"
Jou picked it up, read it, and promptly dropped it again. "No way!"
"What?" Bakura snatched it up, and gaped as well. "Yami?"
"What!" everyone else who hadn't read it shouted.
"Yugi! Get back here right now!" roared Marik. "You can't just tell us you cheated on someone with your Yami and then leave!"
Yugi didn't come out from wherever he was hiding. He always was easily embarrassed.
Bakura chuckled. "Yami and Yugi…I always wondered why the Pharaoh never married." For no credible reason at all, he turned and pashed Ryou.
"What do we do now?" asked Honda. "It's supposed to be Yugi's turn."
"I'll take his place," Marik offered, grinning sardonically. "This question goes to everyone: who here is – or thinks they are - gay?"
Ryou, with Bakura back on top of him, pretended to think. "You know, I do believe there's the slightest chance I'm gay."
"No way," Honda said sarcastically. "I think the question was more aimed at me and Jou, somehow. But it so happens that I'm not gay, and I don't think Jou is either, right Jou?"
No answer.
"…right, Jou?"
Still nothing. A grin spread onto Bakura's face.
"Is there something you haven't been telling us, Jou?"
Honda's jaw dropped.
"Maybe," said Jou, avoiding eye contact.
"No way!" Honda threw a shoe at him. "Why didn't you tell me?"
Jou rubbed his head where the shoe had hit. Marik and Malik were grinning triumphantly; Ryou and Bakura had already gone back to making out on the couch. What a reaction to finding out one of your friends was gay, although it wasn't really a big deal to these people. Except maybe Honda. Well, Honda didn't exactly mind that Jou was gay – he just minded that he was the only one not gay in the vicinity.
"Great, now who do I pick up chicks with?" he grumbled.
Unbeknownst to them all, Yugi had crept back into the room to continue the game. So when he spoke, everyone jumped, as they all thought he was still somewhere else.
"When did you find out, Jou?"
"Uh…" Jou thought for a moment. "Well…this morning, I guess."
"What happened this morning to make you realise?" Ryou said deviously. Bakura gave him a light punch.
"Get your mind out of the gutter, hikari."
"Oh yeah, because yours is never there."
"When did I say that? I just said yours shouldn't be."
"Hey guys?" said Honda. "Are we still playing this game or what?"
"I agree, Honda." Bakura's eyes flashed in amusement. "Ryou, truth or thruth?"
"Thruth." Even Ryou looked slightly nervous, taking a large gulp from his glass to prepare himself for whatever Bakura had in store for him.
"I thruth you to let me drag you to the nearest bedroom and let me have my way with you."
Ryou – along with Honda, Jou and Yugi – choked on his drink. Hikari or not, boyfriend or not, Bakura was dangerous to anyone and everyone. By accepting that thruth, Ryou had as good as signed his torture warrant. He had every right to be terrified for his wellbeing. But Bakura was already up and pulling his arm towards the hallway.
"No way!" Yugi leapt off the floor and tried to cut them off. "The nearest bedroom is mine! You two are not going in there!"
Yugi should have known that when Bakura wanted something, no one stood in his way. And Yugi was no exception. Bakura wanted that bedroom, so Bakura got that bedroom, door closed, leaving Yugi to only imagine the horrors that he and Ryou were wreaking in there.
"Um…truth or thruth?" Yugi asked weakly, to no one in particular.
"Truth," Jou answered, also trying to keep the mental images of Bakura and Ryou firmly out.
Malik took over. "So what made you realise you were gay this morning? Make out with a guy?"
Honda laughed, but then his eyes widened as he saw Jou unmistakably blushing.
"You didn't!"
"Jesus, Honda, he hasn't even said anything yet!" Malik scolded, but looking delighted all the same. "Come on, Jou! Just tell us the truth..."
Jou knew his voice would fail him, so he didn't even try to speak.
"Come on, Malik, look how red he is!" smirked Marik. "I think we all know the answer."
Yugi looked stunned, despite his evident lack of surprise upon finding out Jou was gay earlier. Well, finding out someone was gay and finding out they had been making out with another guy that very morning were very different things. Jou was surprised to find that he didn't care that they knew, but he might feel differently if they found out with whom he had made out. But he knew they would ask; he would just have to avoid giving an answer.
"Who was it, Jou? Was it Otogi?"
"Was it Dartz?"
"Was it Honda?"
"Hey!" Honda protested. "Leave me out of this! Didn't I already say I was straight?"
"Yeah, but we only have your word on that, don't we?"
"Why, you – "
"Hey!" Jou found his voice again and grabbed Honda to stop him from launching an attack on Marik. "Calm down! If I didn't know better, I'd say you guys were drunk."
A loud CRASH echoed from Yugi's room.
"Actually, it sounds like those two are the drunk ones to me," Malik grinned. Yugi shuddered.
"I'll never be able to sleep in there again," he moaned.
"If you like," said Marik in an innocent tone that fooled no one, "Malik and I could go in there and put a stop to whatever it is they're doing before Ryou gets hurt."
"Now why don't I believe that?" Malik laughed. "You wouldn't stop Bakura, you'd damn well join in!"
"But Yugi didn't know that!"
"Trust me, Marik." Jou was shaking his head. "Everyone knew that."
"Nevertheless…"
Yugi shook his head vigorously. "No. No way. No, Marik, don't even think about it…"
But Marik thought about it. And he had every intention of carrying it out. Totally disregarding Yugi's warning, he and Malik staggered – they were rather drunk by this time – in the same direction that Ryou and Bakura had gone before.
Jou, Honda and Yugi were left in an awkward silence, trying as hard as they could not to listen to any sounds that came from Yugi's room. Which was not an easy task.
Honda eventually turned to Yugi. "So, you never told us…what happened with you and Yami exactly?"
Another crash, followed by Bakura yelling, "Damnit, Ryou, since when are you so aggressive?" was heard by all. Yugi winced.
"I'll tell you some time when I'm not about to throw up," he said.
I love those four psychos…particularly Bakura, for no reason in particular. The lack of Seto will be made up for in the next chapter! In the meantime, please review!