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Note: Okay please don't kill me for both torturing Kaiba and Jou, as well as for the late update. I don't have any good excuse whatsoever for you. I have been lazy, I had a writers block for this story and I needed to watch the downloaded anime and manga, before starting on this story again. Yes, I admit it. Gomen nasai. I'm truly sorry. Oh, and Kaiba and Jou will get together at the end for the desperate ones. Just endure a longer while.

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JOUNOUCHI'S POV:

"Mazaki, Flames of Passion is three blocks away."

Okay, that does it. No one insults my friends. I didn't want to resort to this but…

"Fuck, Kaiba! Fuck you! Don't you dare insult my girlfriend!"

I really don't feel like dragging Anzu into my fight with Kaiba, but this is just…

I know Kaiba is somehow jealous of Anzu. I don't know how or why, I just know he does. I noticed after that time when we sat together in his limousine.

Besides, how dare he make fun of me and my friends? Especially my friends! I ought to kill him, right here on the streets! I glare at Kaiba, but he just closes his eyes and turns on his heels. His trench coat billowing on the wind behind him as he walks away from us.

My friends and sister all stare at me. Especially Anzu. I can't say I'm surprised, since I did say in front of Kaiba that she's my girlfriend.

I try to smile, but for the first time in a long while, I fail. Not even a fake smile could be summoned this time.

"I'm sorry, for dragging you into my fight with Kaiba, Anzu. It's just that-"

"You want to make my brother jealous," Mokuba finishes for me.

"WHAT!" Please, not that Mokuba… Spare me.

"You know Big Brother likes you, and you want to make him payback for that whole thing with Mai."

Damn, Mokuba knows me better than I know myself.

"You know, Jou," he whispers softly. "That's so low. I could have imagined my brother doing something like that, but… this isn't something you would do Jou."

Oh god. Now he's making me feel guilty. Way to go, Mokuba. And that was sarcasm.

"Jou, you like my brother don't you?"

"No, I don't."

I don't. I really don't. I'm being honest here you know. Okay, I'm not being honest, I'm being stubborn. But I don't care. I don't like that damn cheating bastard.

"Then all the effort I put into it, was in vain," Mokuba mutters and he turned on his heels. I follow him. I am his babysitter after all.

I wonder what he's talking about. What does he mean? What was in vain? What effort? Somehow I have the feeling that I'll never find out.

NORMAL POV:

Kaiba stomped into his office and slammed the door shut. No one would dare to come in now, but to be save, Kaiba locked the room anyway. He leaned his back against the door and slumped down the to floor.

That…

That hurt. It really hurt.

Kaiba pulled his knees up and hugged them, burying his head in his arms. He took several deep breathes to make sure he would not cry. Crying was weak.

This was Kaiba's way to let out his emotions when they become too much. Sort of, if you could call it letting out ones emotions. Lock himself inside his office, where no one would see him. Seto Kaiba does not posses emotions, not in front of public. But here in his office was no public, no camera's. He was alone here.

Silently Seto cursed Anzu to hell. Damn that Mazaki. What was so good about her anyway?

But then… Seto always knew what was so good about Anzu.

She looked like him. She was like a female version of him. She was pretty just like him. She had chestnut brown hair that would flow in the wind. She had deep blue eyes, like sapphires. Pretty, just like him. And she was smart like him. She was the smartest of their class after him. She was on the top ten list of model-students like him. She was tough like him. She could pull through in the most difficult circumstances like him. Of course Seto had noticed, he wasn't blind. The girl was like him.

But she was not him. In fact, sometimes she was better than him. That's why Jou must like her. She was friendly and funny where he, Seto Kaiba, was icy and silent. Jou could laugh with her, while he and Jou were always fighting. Lately more than they used to. How did that happen again? But most important, she was Jou's friend, where he was Jou's rival. She cheered him on, while he trampled him down. Besides, he was the one who pushed Jou away, with the whole Kujaku-thing. Of course Jou liked Anzu over him, it couldn't have been any other way.

But that didn't meanit doesn't hurt. It hurt like hell! He hated that girl!

"Jou…" Seto mumbled softly to himself.

He wanted him. He wanted to stare deep intothose honey brown eyes. He wanted to touch those soft blond locks. He wanted him. He wanted that boy that looked so cuddly and adorable like a puppy. But he would never say that. In fact, he wouldn't even admit it to himself.

He was confused.

"Mokuba, help me out…"

JOUNOUCHI'S POV:

I feel guilty. Every second that ticks by makes me more guilty. I don't understand why, it just does.

Anzu agreed to pose as my girlfriend in front of Kaiba, because I was her friend. But she didn't really agree with what I was doing.

That thing with Kaiba, I continuously denied it. They believed me in the end. And those who didn't… they shut up anyway. Good. I don't need more trouble.

Sitting in the restaurant, we were all silent. A dark atmosphere loomed over us. Everyone brooding over his or her own thoughts.

"Wow, who died?"

We all whip our heads around to see Otogi and Honda standing before our nose.

"Not now," Anzu mutters and she rubbed her head.

Yugi smiles. "Come sit with us guys! I saw you two together today, but Jou said that I should leave you two for a while alone. I don't know why,but I did it anyway."

Yugi, you couldn't have said something worse.

I smirk as I see their faces turn slightly pink. I glanced at the rest of the group and see both Anzu and Mokuba smirk as well. They know what's going on, alright. Yugi and my sister however… that's another story.

"Sit down," I say and they did as they were told.

Not long later they were fighting over my sister again, who still has no clue what's going on. Hell, she doesn't even realise if someone wrote it down for her. Though sometimes… That time when Malik was still evil, she suddenly didn't seem so dense. Not when it involved me being in trouble.

The atmosphere seemed to lighten up a bit after Honda and Otogi joined us. And soon we were all laughing again, until it was time for diner.

"I guess it's time that we brought you back, Mokuba," I say.

He nods and the whole group gets up to join us.

NORMAL POV:

Seto had only arrived home for a minute when the doorbell rang. He sighed, but decided to open the door by himself. He knew it was probably Mokuba. And he was right. Mokuba stood in front of him with a big smile on his face. Seto smiled back at the boy, before he noticed the gang standing behind his little brother.

He gave Anzu a glare and then let his eyes glide over the rest of the friends. He stared Jou in the eyes, but the blond quickly turned to look anywhere but at Seto. He let his gaze glide over the rest of the gang when his eyes settle upon the last of the gang. A girl with long brown hair. He knew who she was, Jou's sister Shizuka. She didn't look like his brother at all. She wasn't the type to pull through like Jou. And she seemed dense where as…

Wait. Jou seemed like an stupid idiot the first time Seto met the blond. But during the time that he got to know Jou, he learned the hard way that Jou was anything but stupid.

Seto's gaze lingered a few moments longer on Shizuka. She was dense alright. Not like her brother. She probably wasn't always dense, she was related to Jou after all, but she didn't seem too smart.

Seto offered Shizuka a small smile before he let Mokuba into their mansion and closed the door.

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