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The second break of the day had started and Seto Kaiba gracefully made his way to the slowly filling cafeteria. On his way he felt eyes on him like every day from annoying girls that held interest in him - though, he held no interest in any of them.

He had made that clear the first time he arrived on this school. A girl had walked up to him and asked him out. He had rudely brushed her off, telling her if she ever bothered him again he'd make a porn-game with her as the main character.

As Kaiba made his way to his table he passed blond hair…

Seto rolled his eyes. It was the dog again. He then blinked. Was Jounouchi… Yes he was. He'd never thought Jounouchi would be intelligent enough for that. Perhaps he was thinking too low of him. Oh well, just another opportunity more to humiliate the mutt.

"I didn't know dogs could read newspapers," said Seto with a smirk adorning his lips.

Jou slowly looked up from his newspaper and turned around to face Seto. "Go bother someone else with your lame jokes, Moneybags," he said calmly and turned around to read the paper again.

Seto blinked obviously surprised. Normally, Jou would have snapped at him, telling him to quit the dog-jokes. What was different now? Seto shrugged it off, concentrating on the more important things at hand. He did not like being ignored by Jounouchi.

"Are you looking for a new master who'd take you - a lost dog - in?"

Still, Jou ignored him, not bothering to even look up this time. Seto frowned and bent over Jou, his blue eyes flashing over the page, that the blond was looking at. His left eyebrow raised slightly.

"You're looking for a job?"

"Not that it matters to you, but as a matter of fact, yes I'm looking for a job." Jou finally looked up to face Kaiba again and he looked him straight in the eye. "Not all of us are rich. You should know that, Kaiba, since you know where I live…"

Seto stayed quiet for a moment. Jou turned back to the page where potential jobs were encircled with red ink and he started circling another. Seto kept staring quietly at the blond working his way through a page and beginning on another. Finally he broke the silence.

"You're desperate for the money, aren't you Jounouchi?"

Jou stayed quiet his eyes kept on the newspaper.

"I can offer you a job, though, just temporary…"

Jou's head immediately snapped up.

JOUNOUCHI'S POV:

I have a job! I have job! I can jump in the air right now and do the monkey dance. Though, I have no idea what the job is, but who gives a fuck. I don't even care if Kaiba is my boss right now, I HAVE A JOB!

I run up to the table where my friends are all sitting and sit down happily too.

"Wow Jou, you seem even more happy than usual," Anzu says and looks me up from head to toe.

"I HAVE A JOB!" I yell, not caring to keep it a mystery for just a while longer and not caring for the whole world to know either.

I look around at the whole group and to my surprise they stare at me as if I'm dressed in a dog-suit.

Oh god… I did NOT just make a Kaiba-joke about myself…

"Jou…" Yugi says slowly. "I thought you already had a job?"

I blink. What's he… Oh, I totally forgot. I've never mentioned that I got fired at Burger World. "Yeah well, I got fired at my last job and so now I have a knew one…" is my lame answer.

"Oh." I bet he doesn't know what else to say about this.

However, Anzu does. "Where do you work? And what job is it?"

I open my mouth to reply. But suddenly the answer got stuck in my throat. What can I say to this? Telling my friends that I'm working for my sworn archenemy is definitely NOT an option.

Damn Mazaki is smart, way smarter than I give her credit for.

I see her rise an eyebrow, which is not a very good sign. And then she narrows them suspiciously, which is even worse. "Jounouchi Katsuya, are you holding something back from us…?" she asks me in a deep and dangerous voice.

I feel my face heating and I put a hand behind my neck. I feel sweat forming there. "Err… I uh…"

Of course I'm holding things back; lots of things in fact.

To be short: the trouble with my father to start with; then that damn Rich Boy, who happens to be my boss right now; this same Rich Boy chasing me down my pants to keep me in line on school; and some annoying note I received just moments ago in my locker from Miss Mysterious, as the person calls herself, the note telling me to back off and never bother the King of School, also known as Seto Kaiba, again.

As if I am bothering Moneybags… it's that arrogant asshole, who keeps annoying me. He should leave me the fuck alone.

However, my biggest so called secret at the moment is none of the above. It's something that had happened just minutes ago…

Which is, me being so happy when I had heard that I got the job, that I had spontaneously hugged my sworn archenemy in front of several eyes. SPONTANEOUSLY, mind you, nothing more than that.

It had been quite a shock to all those watching eyes, since it is a well known fact on my school that me and Moneybags can't get along at all. And since I've been spotted like that with our dear Ice-King by, say, fifty students and a few teachers, it's bound to leak out over the whole school - and dare I say newspapers - the next moring. Maybe even today if me and Kaiba are lucky.

Which leads me to the conclusion, that my big secret is not so big of a secret.

"Well…" I snap out of my random thoughts and see Anzu still waiting for a decent reply. She's getting impatient alright. And damn, I still haven't made up a good lie yet. Someone up there must be hating me…

"Well, I uh…"

"Jou."

NORMAL POV:

"Jou," the blond heard his name called behind him and he swirled around.

Only to stare into icy blue orbs.

"We start tomorrow after school time." With that said, Mister I-am-the-most-powerful-being-on-earth left. Yup, someone up there hated Jou badly alright.

Jou slowly turned back to meet his friends' eyes. They were all glaring at him.

"Jou…" his best buddy Honda said to him in a low tone that send chills up Jou's spine.

Anzu glared him down with all the mighty female-powers that she possessed, which made Jou in turn shrink to the size of a mouse. "What are you and him going to do tomorrow?"

Jou backed away quickly, getting freaked out by the expression on Anzu's face. "I err…"

"DON'T TELL US YOU'RE WORKING FOR HIM!"

Jou fell backwards on his butt after the creepy outburst from Anzu. The entire school-population turned around to stare at the scene. Jou's cheeks turned an interesting shade of pink.

"Err… yes?" Jou replied timidly to Anzu.

"JOU!" Both Anzu and Honda smacked Jou on his head.

Yugi tried to calm the two a bit down. "Eh… guys, Jou's head will split, you know." Of course, the attempt was in vain, since the two had gone crazy.

"Stupid!" Smack. "Stupid!" Smack. "Stupid!" SMACK. This was Anzu's reaction.

By this time, the school-population had long since forgotten about the whole deal, finding the scene not interesting enough to gossip about, since it was not about Seto Kaiba. Well, that's what they thought…

"He just made a fool out of you, and now you're WORKING for him!" Honda bellowed.

"Ahem," Yugi coughed, trying to get their attention. "…it's because of us that Kaiba had made a fool out of Jou," he tried again, but no one listened to him.

"Have you gone absolutely insane!" Anzu shrieked and she smacked him another few times.

Jou let out a loud shriek and jumped up. He snatched his newspaper and bag and made a dive for it, quickly fleeing from his scary friends.

He would eat outside. And besides, Kaiba had said that the job was temporary, so he had to keep looking. He went out the door and made his way to a tree. He threw his stuff down on the grass and plopped down too, picking up his newspaper to check out the next page.

And he never heard the words that Yugi said after he left. "Guys, if Jou is willing to work for Kaiba, he might be desperate for the money…"

The two instantly shut up and stared at their short friend.

"Do you think, Shizuka is having trouble with her eyesight again…?" Anzu whispered.

Yugi sighed. "I don't know…"

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