Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh! I don't own the Japanese sentences either. They are from a song from Changin' My Life, called Myself.

Note: I'm sure some of you were shocked by the last chapter. I'm very sorry, but I just needed to try it out. As a young writer I need to expand my vision and uh… Well whatever, I've rambled enough. Let's start the fic!

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JOUNOUCHI'S POV

Damn my father! What the fuck was wrong with him? Really, I stood there literallyfrozen by that sudden attack. Oh god, I can still taste the alcohol on his lips and it makes me wanna gag. Gross!

Why on earth did he kiss me anyway? Has he gone crazy? He's not like… Liking me, right? I thought dad was disgusted by me! Okay, this is official, my father has finally lost it.

Come to think of it, who hasn't lost it yet? Dad's brains have been even more messed up than normally lately, I've been flirting with Kaiba of all people and I can't believe Kaiba's actually tried being nice to me.

Kaiba… I know something was bothering him, when he was looking at the sunset, thinking. Something about his past…

Kimi no hitomi no oku ni ano hi samishisa wo mitsuketa. Naginagara sagashi tzuzuketa maigo no komodo no you ni. Futari niteru no kana?(1)

NORMAL POV:

"Wait Jou!"

Jou turned around and saw his friends running up to him. "Oh, hey guys. What's up?"

"Where were you yesterday?" asked Honda. "You weren't there for PE."

Anzu frowned. "You weren't there for our dance lessons either, Jou."

Jou mentally rolled his eyes. Not those dance lessons again! He put his hand behind his head and plastered one of his famous silly grins on his face. "Oh well, I had a headache, so I went home early."

Yugi raised an eyebrow. "It's not like youto give up so easily, Jou."

Jou frowned inwardly. It was true, he never backed out of things, because of something little like a headache. Damn his friends, how could he get out of this one!

"I uh… I-"

"Jou," someone said behind him. Jou felt a hand placed on his shoulder and turned around.

His heart skipped a beat and a pink tint lightly covered his cheeks. "K-kaiba?"

"Leave Jou alone, Kaiba," said Yugi, trying to prevent the usual problems that came when the two were together. That is, problems for Jou.

Honda frowned. "Yeah, and since when did you start calling him 'Jou', Kaiba?"

Seto's eyes widened slightly at that comment, but he choose to ignore the idiots. He focussed his attention back on Jou. "The teacher wishes to speak with you. Follow me." he turned around and started to walk away.

Jou gave his friends a reassuring smile and followed the brunet. Saved by the bell, or in this case Seto Kaiba.

When his friends were out of earshot, Jou opened his mouth to speak. "Where are you taking me, Kaiba?"

Seto turned his head and looked at the blond. "Like I said, the teacher wishes to speak with you."

"Oh…" Jou bit his bottom lip. He felt pretty stupid at the moment, standing in front of Seto and not knowing what to say. He had thought that Seto wanted to talk about yesterday. He guessed he was wrong.

They stopped before a door. Seto knocked and opened the door, letting Jou inside. He was about to leave, but the woman inside the room stopped Seto. "Mr. Kaiba, I need you here as well. Please, come in."

Seto raised an eyebrow, but did as he was told. He walked inside, closed the door behind him and sat himself down on a chair, while he crossed his arms. A bored expression made itself known on Seto's face.

Seto was a model-student. He had straight A's on every subject, except for PE, because he didn't attend PE. He was quiet all the times and he never caused any trouble. Every teacher adored Seto Kaiba. So there couldn't be any trouble now, could there?

"Very well then," the woman began," we start with Mr. Jounouchi."

Jou sighed. Yup, another week detention or some other punishment the teacher had made up.

"We know you've been skipping school quite a while now. Like yesterday at PE and-"

"Jou felt sick; he had a headache."

Jou's jaw dropped. Seto was helping him? The Seto Kaiba… HELPING him? He shook his head, he must have been dreaming.

'Yeah right,' he thought, 'Kaiba helping. Only when he starts calling me his little puppy.'

He widened his eyes at that thought. 'Wait a minute. Puppy…'

FLASHBACK

Seto rolled his eyes. "That's an empty threat, pup."

END FLASHBACK

Jou's cheeks turned an interesting shade of pink when he thought back about that. Sure, it was still a dog-comment, but pup was different. Seto had probably thought the same, becausewhy else did he drag Jou into his limo all freaked out?

The woman lifted an eyebrow. "Oh…?"

Seto rolled his eyes. How low could a teacher sink. His pup, err… Jou saying 'oh' was okay, but a teacher?

"I brought him home," he replied casually.

She nodded. "Very well then. Anyway…"

(1) Translation: That day, deep in your eyes, I saw the loneliness. Like a lost child, crying and searching. Are the two of us really alike?

STAY TUNED…

To Hellcasterkanrou: I know, his dad is supposed to be creepish.

To RaeLuvs: Heheh, I've kinda become addicted to yaoi-stories. And yeah, Jou's dad has become kinda scary, but his weird behaviour will get an explanation. I hope…

To Flame Swordswoman: Ne, Jou was too surprised to even squeak. But anyway, here's your next chap!

To Sarah1281: I know many would be disturbed by such a scene. But I couldn't come up with another way to show this, without the disturbing scene. And that's exactly Jou's biggest problem. He doesn't want to come out! Oh well, he has to one day.

To Yumi-wheeler: Whoa, you don't think it was a disturbing scene? Yays for you!

To Yami's Chan: Oy, ya like tortured Jou's? Heheheh.

To Sami Ryou's Hikari: Eh, hope I didn't make you too mad at me, because of the Jou-torture. But as explained in this chapter, Jou's father had surprised him, so that's why let it happened. Besides, I do think Jou still loves his father after everything the family has bin through, he seems to love his family a hell of a lot.

To SanurAtheBlooD: No, English is not my first language, but I do my best with it and I finally have spell check. Wash your eyeballs? You know, I'll pay the soap, after all, it was my chapter that made your eyes filthy. ;-p But yeah, it was pretty sad for Jou.

To Mandapandabug: Whahahah, that's a new one. Disturbing in a good way. I've never heard that before. But no, Jou still can go to school. I think that Jou had "won his father's trust" by letting it happen over him. His father's probably thinking that Jou want him too or something scary.

To Tsuyosa and Kouyuu: I can't believe that our little flamer has given up so easily, letting her sister handle her problems. You really suck, you know! Anyways, seems like I've won our little e-mail war, ne? After all, you were the one who gave up first. To bad, I really had fun annoying you and I would have liked to continue it for a longer while.