Joey walked up to the front door of Kaiba Manor and went to open it. The door was locked, that wasn't normal. Usually it was open because Joey still didn't have a set of keys yet. He rang the door bell, maybe Mokuba had locked the door just in case. He looked up as the door opened and he came face to face with Seto.

"Seto, you're back," said Joey shocked, "Where've you been, Mokuba and I were worried."

"Shut it Dog," snarled Seto, "Get away from my house. You're not welcome here."

Joey stood there stunned. What the hell! This isn't the Seto I know.

"Seto, what's gotten into you?" asked Joey confused.

"I said leave Dog, go back home where you belong," said Seto coldly.

"Seto," started Joey, until the brunette pushed him down the steps.

"Leave before I call security," said Seto and with that he slammed the door shut.

"Seto..." whispered Joey, tears streaming down his face, "What did I do?"

Joey picked himself up off the ground and walked away from the Manor. He didn't have a home to go to. And he didn't want to go to his friends' houses, they'd get all worried and he didn't want to deal with that.

"I guess I'm staying at Hell tonight," he said to himself as he walked down the street to his house.

Seto sat down at his desk. How dare he show up here! That fucking traitorous bastard! But...why was he all bloody?

You know why Kaiba. One of those people got a hold of him. The ones he's been trying to hide from. The ones you've been protecting him from. He hates you now, and so does Mokuba. They're never going to forgive you. There's nothing you can do. You're mine.

Kaiba looked around the room. No one was there. But then who was talking to him? Who was telling him these things?

"Who's there?" he asked.

"I am," said Bakura as he waltzed into Seto's room.

"What are you doing here?"

"I thought you could use some cheering up," said Bakura.

"Get out," said Seto.

A whip appeared in Bakura's hand, before he lashed out with it, smacking it across Kaiba's face. Seto yelped with pain as realization dawned on him.

"YOU!" yelled Seto, "You lied to me. Those pictures were fake."

"Actually those pictures were real. But I changed the date on them. They're from two years ago," said Bakura as he smacked the whip across Kaiba's chest.

Seto moved out of Bakura's range and growled. This was all a set up. But he knew there was more to it.

"Were you the one who hurt Joey?" growled Seto.

"Actually, as much as I'd like to take credit for it, no. I didn't touch you're lover. A man by the name of Trent McGarthy did," said Bakura.

"McGarthy...but he works for Garth Industries, he's one of the people I do business with," said Seto horrified.

"He's also Joey's uncle's boss," said Bakura, "You know it's amazing how stupid you are sometimes."

"Fuck you!" snarled Seto, "Now tell me what you want with me."

"That's exactly it Kaiba, I want you," said Bakura, whip growing longer as he lashed it around Seto's neck and pulled it tight.

Seto could fight Bakura, but he knew Ryou's dark side was a force to avoid most of the time. He wasn't sure he could hold Bakura off for long if he fought him.

Bakura started walking towards Seto, evil glint in his eyes.

Joey fell back onto his bed. No one lived in his old house anymore. But all his stuff was still there. He'd stay here tonight, then find an apartment tomorrow. He stared at the ceiling, tears still flowing down his face. He couldn't believe Seto had acted like that. Something had to have happened to cause the brunette to hate him. Right now he didn't care though, he hated Seto at the moment. Seto hadn't cared about him tonight, so he wasn't going to care about Seto. He rolled onto his side to go to sleep before crying out in pain.

He sat up and clutched his side. His ribs hurt horribly. I won't be sleeping much tonight he thought as he lay back down. He closed his eyes, hoping he'd fall asleep.

Majeh saw Joey walking down the street and enter his old house. Now why in the world would he be going there? I thought he was staying with Kaiba? Majeh followed Joey into the house and quietly sat on the couch. He didn't want the blond to know he was here. He heard Joey enter one of the bedrooms and lay on the bed. He almost rushed in to check on the blond when Joey cried out in pain, but he restrained himself. He'd wait till morning to talk to Joey. The blond probably needed sometime alone.

Joey sat up slowly later that morning, he looked at his watch, it was almost eleven. He put his head in his hands and sat there quietly.

"Want to talk?" someone asked, Joey jumped about twenty feet at the voice.

Joey looked up to see Majeh standing in the doorway.

"Why? Why are you here?" asked Joey.

"Saw you last night entering this place, thought it was odd, so I followed," said Majeh, "So did something happen between you and Kaiba? Or is it something else?"

Joey felt more tears well up in his eyes. What am I supposed to tell him? I don't even really know what's going on.

"Strange things have been happening lately," said Joey, "First Seto disappeared on Sunday, then Tuesday my old gang captured me and took me to my uncle's boss, who abused me, and so I go back to Kaiba's to find out that he's there, but he hates me. I have no clue as to what's going on. Maybe you can make some sense of it all."

"Well all think over what you said, but how about you hit the showers, and we can discuss it more over some breakfast, deal?" said Majeh.

"Okay," said Joey as he headed for the bathroom.

Mokuba sat at the table eating a bowl of cereal while Yami called Seto. I hope Yami can convince Seto that he's wrong.

Yami leaned against the counter top twirling the phone cord around his finger. The phone continued to ring before the answering machine kicked in: This is the Kaiba brothers and Wheeler leave a clear message, your number, and I'll think about calling you back. There was a beep and Yami started talking.

"Kaiba. I know you're there. So pick up the phone." Yami paused momentarily. "Fine, I wanted to talk to you, since your brother is extremely distraught. I don't know what's gotten into you, but just to let you know, those pictures of Joey and Mai. They're fake, Joey loves you more than anything in the world. I just hope you haven't made the mistake of pushing him away already. If you need to talk you can call me."

Yami hung up the phone and looked at Mokuba shrugging her shoulders. Mokuba hung his head and sighed.

"He'll call back," said Yami as he placed a comforting hand on Mokuba's shoulder.

"I won't forgive him," said Mokuba, "Not this time."

This time? wondered Yami Obviously something like this has happened before. But what?

Joey sat down in the booth at the restaurant Majeh had driven them too. He skimmed the menu. He wasn't really that hungry, but he knew he had to eat something.

"Continuing our conversation," said Majeh, "I think whatever happened to Seto and you is connected Joey. Why else would all this be happening at once?"

"Coincidence," said Joey.

"Meaning?"

"Tuesday at school, Bakura talked to me and the gang about Seto's disappearance, but he didn't seem bothered by it. It was like he knew something. But I know he doesn't know McGarthy."

"You sure about that?"

"Not really."

"Bakura, Seto and McGarthy all do business. If Bakura is working alongside of McGarthy, there could be a lot of problems ahead of us."

"Can't you get some of your buddies to help us?"

"I'm sure I could pull a few strings, but it won't be easy. The agency wants me to stay away from anything dealing with Kaiba, but they said nothing about you."

"That would be really helpful, thanks," said Joey as he turned to the waitress to order some food.

Seto was curled into a ball under the covers of his bed. Bakura had left about and hour ago. And now the phone was ringing, but he was in so much pain that he wasn't going to even try to answer.

He listened to the voice as it left a message. Yami? Yami! He moved as fast as possible to get to the phone, but when he picked it up Yami had already hung up. What's happening to me! I just want Joey and Mokuba, but I've ruined everything now! They'll never forgive me!

That's right Kaiba, they won't. Just keep telling yourself that. And besides why should you love someone who doesn't love you?

"GET OUT OF MY HEAD!" yelled Seto as he slammed his fists into his desk, papers flying everywhere, wood cracking.

Everything was silent afterwards. Seto felt hot tears stream down his face, he was crying, for the first time in a long time, he was crying. And he welcomed the tears, took joy in them.

"Joey...Mokuba...I'm so sorry," he said as he headed for the shower, "I'll find you guys, and I'll do whatever it takes to gain your forgiveness."

Seto walked into the Game Shop where Yami lived and rang the bell on the front desk. He didn't know if anyone was home, but at the moment he was willing to wait.

Mokuba heard the bell from downstairs and went to see who it was. He stopped on the last step as his eyes locked with Seto's.

"Seto..." said Mokuba coldly, "What do you want?"

"Mokuba...I'm sorry...I'm so sorry. I should have listened to you and I never should of hit you. What I did is more than likely unforgivable, but I'm truly sorry," said Seto as he saw how badly he had hurt Mokuba, the entire left side of his little brother's face was a darkly shaded bruise.

"I'm not forgiving you Seto, not right now," said Mokuba, "Only because I believe you need to apologize to Joey first. I'm assuming he came home last night and you pushed him away."

"I was going to find him as soon as I apologized to you," said Seto.

"When you find him, and apologize, then you can come back and apologize again to both of us," said Mokuba.

"I will," said Seto, "I'll see you later."

With that Seto left to go find Joey.

Joey walked around town with Majeh, he figured he was safe with the undercover CIA agent. Joey looked at his watch, it was about one. He had two hours till he had to go back and "visit" Trent. And he was dreading it every second that it got closer to three.

"Something wrong?"

"I just have to be somewhere at three that's all," said Joey.

"McGarthy?"

"Yes," sighed Joey, "And don't tell me not to go, because if I don't he'll hurt Mokuba and I won't allow that."

"I won't stop you Joey. That's not my decision. But if anything happens, use this," said Majeh as he handed Joey a disc.

"What's this do?"

"If you can, break it if things get to bad, it will send out a distress signal to the CIA. They'll head to you immediately. Of course I'll get in trouble because only I'm supposed to use it, but I think I can handle the punishment."

"Thanks," said Joey.

"No problem."