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When All Else Fails, Chapter 13
Just a dream, just an ordinary dream.
As I wake in bed
And the boy, that boy, that ordinary boy.
Or was it all in my head?
Did he ask if I would come along
It all seemed so real.
But as I looked to the door,
I saw that boy standing there with a deal.
-Ordinary Day by Vanessa Carlton
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Daylight was fast approaching, and Katsuya Jounouchi had not gotten a wink of sleep.
At least he got all his homework finished, right? The teachers wouldn't yell at him for not getting his Math or English right, because he had checked and double-checked and triple-checked, because there hadn't been anything else to do.
He had even cleaned, for God's sake, and the place was almost spotless. Except, of course, for the stains that decorated the couch, floor, and any other available space.
And it was only 4:30, since he had arrived from school to home at 4:15, a lot earlier then usual.
So the blond duelist had sat down and drifted into the existing space between sleep and consciousness. And since he had gotten a little bit too much of Kaiba yesterday, mixed with the fact that he was ignoring the urge to picture the make-up wearing pretty boy, he had gotten up pretty fast with an erection that was only the size of Mount Rushmore.
He groaned as he went to the bathroom to fix his little problems, shutting the door in fear of anyone coming in and seeing him (though that was unlikely as Kaiba serenading him while he wore a dress).
A sigh as he slowly started to stroke himself, picturing a busty brunette with icy blue eyes and a permanent frown etched into hi-eeeerrrr face, between his legs as h… shit, he gave up.
Picturing Kaiba, he could feel himself getting harder and the shock of pleasure already racing down his spine, swallowing him like Kaiba's mouth would…
A soft sigh and he came, not able to gather the energy it took to moan like he normally would have. He stuck his sticky hands under the faucet, then pulled them back on a thought and started taking his clothes off.
As soon as he jumped into the shower to be greeted by a cold burst of water, he sneered at his smeared reflection.
If all of his problems could be solved like that, he was damn well ready to go for it.
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"Jou."
Never mind Thursdays being fucked up. This was fucked up.
Like… Seto Kaiba talking to him? Was he dreaming? Were they about to put on a show of hot and fantastic kinky sex for the whole school to ogle at?
…Not appropriate when said man-of-his-dreams was staring at him, face impassive as always.
He must have looked confused as hell because the icy brunet sighed, one hand freeing itself from it's position crossed against his chest to wave at the cafeteria door. "May I talk to you, Jounouchi?"
Ooohhh, he could feel his friends staring holes into his back from a table down. He could also feel Honda glaring a Death glare at Kaiba from the spot closest to him.
"Uuuuhhhh…"
Well… Shit, he couldn't very well say no, right? Not after Kaiba had been so…. Nice to him. He didn't have any money to buy food, anyway. All he had was half a bag of crackers, and he could chuck those, because… Well, shit, they were gross. He didn't even know how long they had been in the damn cupboard. He didn't even remember buying them.
"Ok. Sure."
Kaiba turned his back, and he fluidly got out of his seat and followed the icy CEO's lead. Today, he noticed, Kaiba was wearing the normal school uniform. Blue, tight enough, and…
Well, the blond thought, snickering to himself, I wouldn't mind following if I got to stare at his ass without knowing.
… And Kaiba was looking at him looking down at his ass.
Fuck.
His eyes shot up to Kaiba's and he gave a little, nervous grin, waving his hands theatrically to give off a little energy. "Hurry up, Kaiba, we don't got all day! Open the damned door already, will you?"
When Kaiba didn't move and continue to stare at him oddly, the blond sighed, exasperated, and moved forward.
The unfortunate thing was that the other teen had his hand on the door handle and his body sideways, and since he was going for the same door…
Well, their chests ended up close enough to brush and he froze for a split second, looking up through his eyelashes to look at Kaiba, who was staring intently at him.
Wow. This was close. Even closer than the time on the roof, or the library, or… Geez, Kaiba was so close he could just move forward just a bit and…
The moment was broken as the door was opened from the other side and, as Jou let go, Kaiba stumbled slightly forward and glared at the culprit fiercely, enough to send the guy a message that if they were in a less public place, he'd be going to the hospital.
The guy looked away nervously and scurried to the next door, opening it so that he wouldn't be going between the blue-eyed psycho and the very pissed-off looking blond.
A second with Jou turning enough to glare holes into the guy's back before he looked back at Kaiba, whose face had turned from scowl to relaxed in the split second he glimpsed any actual emotion.
The young CEO motioned for them to continue, going through the doors and down the hall in quick, hurried steps .
Jou followed suit and let his eyes wander down again, face blank.
By the time they had gotten outside, the blond was frustrated and getting a little annoyed at the brunet whose ass he was looking at.
"Kaiba! Hey, you ass! Stop! Christ!"
He would've swore Kaiba was ignoring him if it wasn't for the telltale sign of him slowing down from a fucking Olympic speed walker's pace to a normal, human pace.
The young duelist caught up effortlessly after that and ran slightly ahead so that he was walking backwards, able to see his face instead of his ass. And, of course, to speak to him properly. "Hey, what did ya want of me, anyway, pre-iiick!"
Gawd, his speech was screwing him over. He was never, ever gonna call Kaiba a pretty boy to his face. For one, Kaiba would kill him. For two, He'd kill himself because that would be like admitting he like-
No. He wasn't even going to think the rest of the second reason.
His thoughts were interrupted by a snort, and a small 'watch out', before he stumbled slightly backwards, arms automatically flailing out to catch anything but air.
Well, not air, exactly. More like Kaiba's coat sleeve.
And with an unexpected 'riiiiiiiiip!' and a small cry of indignation, Jou landed on his back with Kaiba's sleeve in his hand and said person's shadow covering him.
The only thing he could see at the moment was the brunet's glaring, white fore arm, revealed only because of the sleeve in his hand.
Silence rang in the street, not a sound trying to cover the blonde's embarrassment. At least it seemed like that. For all he knew, a tornado could have been in the next block and he wouldn't have heard it, to busy trying to not kill himself.
Shit. He had just ruined Kaiba's jacket.
Ruined.
That same word kept on repeating in his mind as he finally opened his eyes to stare up at the blue-eyed CEO, who towered over him and was…
Well, oddly, his face was stony and emotionless, as if he was trying to block the killing urge he had going for Jou.
Shit. He was pretty close to being dead. He was preeeeetttttyyyy sure Kaiba was about to kill him in the most inhumane way possible.
He stared up at Kaiba, who stared back. The only other sound he heard in the street was a loud horn, and that was a brief second.
Then Kaiba actually… well, his shoulders shook. And he was trying to hide something from coming over his face. And it wasn't a smirk, because Kaiba wouldn't be turning away from him of he was.
Something in his mind clicked as he watched the CEO turn away, trying to keep his frown on as his face turned red from the effort of…
"Holy shit, you're trying not to laugh!"
Kaiba glanced at him out of the corner of his eye and then turned fully around, so he wasn't facing the blond boy. Jou took this as a sign to shut up and stop talking, but he grinned.
He was going to bug him till he got his ass kicked. He didn't care if it'd kill him. He'd just… do anything at the moment to see Kaiba laugh. Or make an idiot of himself.
Quickly, he got up and brushed off his behind, taking the piece of cloth that had previously been part of the brunet's jacket sleeve and stuffing it into his pocket. That was when he heard the light coughing from where Kaiba was standing.
His grinned only widened as he realized what the brunet was trying to do. Trying to mask his laughing with a coughing fit.
Clearly, he hadn't had to hide things like this before. So it would be his personal goal to make him fail at something he tried for the first time.
Quick steps lead him to in front of Kaiba, who was refusing to look at him as his hand covered his mouth, curled into a fist as if he was actually coughing.
As if.
"You! You, trying not to laugh! Kaiba! Seto Kaiba, trying not to laugh!"
The taller teen turned away from him, face still struggling to set into it's usual stony frown as his own face beamed at him.
He sidestepped so that he was in front of Kaiba and made a face, sticking out his tongue and crossing his eyes in an imitation of a clown he had seen when he was little. The first and last circus he had been too..
Kaiba stared at him, and then turned away from him for the second time, so that his back was again facing the teen duelist.
Jou's steps again took him to in front of Kaiba, who just turned away again.
"Look!" Ok, this was hard. And he was getting frustrated. Laughing wasn't going to kill anyone, and it never had! "If you laugh, I'll stop buggin' ya!"
The first verbal word he had received since falling finally came out, and he grinned at the breathlessness of it. "No."
"Fine, you jerk!"
Since making faces at him didn't work, and trying to see hi laugh didn't work…
His next plan might kill him. But he was sure it would be worth it if Kaiba just smiled, for God's sake. If he didn't, he'd count his life worthless and unmeaning and beat the shit out of the brunet.
Throwing the rest of little caution to the wind, Jou took a split second to behind his knees before full-fledged jumping onto Kaiba's back.
The teenage boy let out a whoosh of air at the added weight that was now on top of him, and the blond let out a wild grin at step one in his plan of 'Get-Kaiba-To-Laugh!'.
… He was never really good at naming things.
He pushed those thoughts to the side as he strained his neck to see Kaiba's face, trying to see any sign of a grin or a… Any sign would do, really. Just as long as it was a happy sign.
Now to take step two!
"I'm not getting off until you admit that you were laughing or trying not to smile or somethin'!"
He wasn't that great of a planner, either, apparently.
Well Kaiba was giving him a bewildered look, the brown-eyed boy just grinned wildly at him and wrapped his arms around Kaiba's neck as tight as he could without choking the other teen.
… The brunet was staring at him with something akin to amusement. With a very small, barely-there, smile etched into his features.
His voice, when he spoke, was also amused and slightly breathless.
"I admit to nothing, Katsuya Jounouchi."
Plan three was to get off, s-
…Shit. Never mind.
Plan three was apparently terminated as Kaiba's arms grabbed his legs and hoisted him up, squeezing out a shocked squeak as the brunet started walking.
With him still on his back.
"What the hell, Kaiba!"
"More comfy this way."
"What!"
"Shut up. I want to get something to eat before lunch is over."
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"Get off, Wheeler."
"You're right, though. It is more comfy this way."
Not to mention he liked having his legs around Kaiba, but he wasn't really going to admit to that, was he?
"Get off. We've already attracted enough attention for me to be publicly shamed for my foolish behavior for a month or so."
"What, you haven't let loose once in yer life?"
"I could do that perfectly fine at home. Now get off."
"But it's so comfy!"
Before another word was said, Jou was dropped from his position of being carried - quite comfortably - from Kaiba's back onto the dirty ground, with Kaiba glaring at him lightly from his standing position.
Jou took the brunet's glaring down at him for a chance to glare up at him, making another face. "Jerk. You didn't have to dump me on the ground!"
"You wouldn't get off."
"I would've eventually!"
"Hurry up else I'm not buying you lunch."
"What? I can bu-"
"Why didn't you buy your own lunch at school?"
Silence.
"… Jerk."
"Do you want a hot dog or not?"
The blond stared at the cool CEO, pointing at the cart near the park's entrance. Kaiba was offering to buy him food, but…?
"You offer to buy me lunch, and then you decide that you'd buy me something I've eaten half of my life and could get for all the coins under my couch cushions!"
"You're trying my patience, mutt. Do you want a hot dog, or not?"
He weighed his options in his mind, the pros and cons ringing clearly in his head.
Pro: He got to eat a hot dog. Lunch.
Con: He'd be indebted to Kaiba.
Evidence that he should turn to Pro and take the hot dog: Shit, he was already indebted to the insomniac-tic, money-grubbing pretty boy. For multiple reasons, big and small.
And he was fucking hungry.
"I want the biggest hot dog they got! With everything on it! And I mean everything!"
Kaiba almost looked like he was going to sigh, but quickly covered up the human emotion of disappointment by nodding and starting to walk over to the hot dog stand.
Jou followed and the brunet snorted, eyeing the dirty white cart in distaste.
"If I'd known any better, puppy, I'd swear you were a human trash can, not a dog."
Kaiba was pissing him off with the two-in-one-sentence insult. He swore that if the brunet CEO wasn't buying him lunch, he'd be beating the shit outta him!
"Since yer buying me lunch and all, and you gave me a free ride, I'll let the comment slide, moneybags."
"How generous of you."
"I know, right? Now pay the guy, the hotdogs are getting cold!"
Kaiba also looked like he was getting pissed at his behavior and attitude. Served him right, for pissing him off first.
Paying the man, who thanked them for choosing 'Ed's Hotdogs', Kaiba handed him his hotdog, identical to his own, and they went to sit down at a bench not far from where they were standing, near the water fountain.
When they sat down, Jou was finished half of his hot dog and Kaiba was staring at him with something akin to disgust, his expression practically conveying the message 'How can you do that?'.
A few more seconds and Jou was finished, popping his fingers in and out of his mouth with a self satisfied sigh.
Catching Kaiba staring at him, he popped his last finger into his mouth, licked whatever was on it off, sucked hard, and popped it out again, all in 5 seconds and with a wild grin.
"Practice makes perfect!"
…Kaiba's face had just colored, it looked like. Or it was the heat, or-
Shit.
Realizing what he just said, he sat there in shocked horror and berated himself mentally.
Sucking on your fingers and then saying 'practice makes perfect!', with a wild,-eat-shit grin?
If that wasn't full of innuendo, he seriously didn't know what was.
Not to mention 'sucking' and 'Kaiba' weren't really words he liked putting together in his mind, out in public, especially with said person there.
A few moments of awkward silence, both of them sitting uncomfortably together, Jou's hands in his lap and Kaiba's one hand, still poised with the hot dog, in mid air. It was only broken by a yelp of a dog and a long line of condiments falling off of Kaiba's hot dog to dribble down his finger.
They both stared at it in astonishment, as if it was the most amazing thing to ever happen to either of them, before Jou spoke.
"Wow. Never knew billionaires could be so messy with hot dogs."
Dryly, Kaiba answered back, cool attitude and façade sliding back on effortlessly. "There's a l-"
The only reason he didn't get to finish his sentence was because the blond had reached over, not thinking of consequences or the reason screaming in his ear, grabbed the pale hand with the mustard, relish, and ketchup sliding down it, and licked the long line up from near his elbow to the middle of his pointer finger.
Realizing that he had done a very stupid thing, his mind produced a very stupid answer to his daring actions.
"Uuuuhhhhh…."
The young CEO was staring at him.
Staring hard.
Really hard. As if he was about to jump the blond and either kill him or ravish him from an inch of his life.
Jou's face colored instantly and he snapped his face away. Bringing a hand up to drag through his fair hair.
He had just licked Kaiba.
"Uuuuuhhh… I don't like wasting food?"
… That was an even stupider excuse then what Honda could come up with.
And… Well, shit, it wasn't supposed to be sexy or anything! It wasn't even supposed to be funny! It wasn't even supposed to happen, never mind be anything!
As Jou panicked inside, five-warning fire alarms going off left and right, Kaiba just stared at him for another second before calmly started to eat his hot dog.
Calmly, as if it hadn't even happened and Jou had just made some stupid remark about the weather, or how the water fountain was pretty, or ho-
Well, fuck, Kaiba was acting like nothing even happened.
The silence, again, seemed awkward, but only for the blond this time, so he looked at the brunet CEO from out of the corner of his eye.
Kaiba silently ate his hot dog, the tasty junk food disappearing every few seconds until there was nothing left.
He couldn't stop staring, entranced with Kaiba's mouth, until it was all finished and only the napkin remained, soaking wet with green, red, yellow, and translucent fluid. All in all, it looked pretty disgusting, but Kaiba wasn't letting go of it fro the garbage right beside them.
He turned his eyes away quickly so the young duelist didn't catch him staring at him, or think… anything. Or something. Or… whatever.
When he felt something wet and cold touch his cheek, he almost let out a loud yelp until he felt something warm and wet touch his cheek, trailing up for a split second before it was gone.
The blond blinked away his confusion and turned to gape at Kaiba, who was coolly disposing of the wet napkin and sucking on one single finger, popping it out when he saw the blond ogling him.
Had Kaiba… Had he…
"Did you just lick me?"
"Pay back for ruining my uniform and for licking me first. You really are a dog, aren't you?"
He was speechless enough that he couldn't even snap a clever comeback to the dog comment, only sat gaping at Kaiba, who just got up and stood, cool as ever as if nothing, again, hadn't happen.
This guy was to… calm for his own good.
You don't just stand there and act normal after you've licked a guy's face! Not like licking someone's arm was normal, per se, but licking someone's face was even weirder.
Also incredibly kinky, but he wasn't going to get into that at the moment. He didn't want to get hard-on in front of Kaiba, of all people! That was going past… anything that could be counted as a bad thing to happen in front of your enemy!
…Not that Kaiba was really his enemy, anymore, since they had kissed and just licked each other. What the hell were they supposed to be now! Friends with… really fucked benefits? 'I lick you, kiss you, but don't like you' kinda thing?
Apparently, his imitation of a fish was starting to agitate Kaiba , whose face was set in another, infamous frown.
"Mutt, you have 5 minutes left to get back to school to be in time for your next class."
This snapped him out of his trance enough for him to send a confused look in the blue-eyed teens' direction, all previous thoughts forgotten. Thank God for one-track minds. "What? Aren't you comin'?"
"If you haven't noticed yet, idiot, I have a shirt that is ripped and I'm not very decent for school right now."
"So yer not going?"
"Yes, Mutt, for the last time, I'm not going."
His speechlessness rang true in his ears as Kaiba stared at him.
OK. Too many events leaded to not thinking. No thinking led to a pissed-off Kaiba. A pissed off Kaiba equaled a-
"Idiot. See you Monday."
With that, the young CEO left as quietly as he'd ate, boots making small clicking sounds as Jou stared after him, amazed at all of the events that had happened in less than one hour.
Holy fuck.
Fridays were very, very fucked up days.
But in a good way.
Glancing at the clock that was on one of the highest building in Domino, Jou cursed as he realized what time it was.
He was going to be fucking late, too!
A second and he was standing up and running for his life and his grades, a silly grin painted on his face.
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The first thing he noticed, when he got home, was how messy his apartment was again.
Taking it as a sign that Tohmy or one of his other friends that knew how to pick his difficult lock had come in and messed around with his things to bug him, he sat down and flung his school bag to the ground. Taking a second look around, he noticed that the watch Tohmy had left, picked up from the ground and placed on the table on his way out, was gone.
Someone had broken in then. Oh well. If it had been a break in, it wasn't something to be worried about; it was a common occurrence, and it wasn't like he had anything to worry about, anyway.
A ringing answered his scowling thoughts of being late for his fourth period class, and without hesitation, he picked it up. A second and he cursed himself for being so easy with the phone before he actually said something.
"Hello, Jounouchi residence."
"Jounouchi-kun, this is Benachi Sakura, calling from the police station."
…Oh fuck. Whenever he heard from this woman, it was always bad news!
And the police station?
Her voice, when she spoke again, was slightly panicked and a little higher then usual. "Jounouchi-kun, your father has escaped. I advise you go to a safe place immediately and stay there for the time being."
…Wait, what!
"What?"
"He broke out a night ago, and they only just reached me now. They have no idea how he could've gotten out, or where he is. All we know is that he's very angry, especially at you." Her voice was hurried, and… what?
"Why at me!"
"Because, apparently, you didn't bail him out fast enough. It would be a very large risk, Jounouchi-kun, if you chose to stay at home an-"
"Yeah, yeah, I know."
Ok. He couldn't let his voice convey his panic. Or any other emotion besides complete peace, or whatever.
"Jounouchi-kun, we'll send a car to co-"
He interrupted her again, almost thankful that his voice only sounded a little rough. As it was, he should be screaming at her for not making sure they kept his father locked upgoodenough. This was only going to make everything worse! "No, it's alright, I'll find a place. Seeya."
"But, Jou-"
The blond slammed the phone down before he could hear another word and got up immediately, grabbing his backpack and heading into the kitchen for a bite.
That's why this place looked ransacked. Daddy was back!
That was probably why Tohmy's watch was stolen, too. For pawning or something close to it. He was going to sell it, he knew that. That watch could easily bring in $30, even if it was broken
Grabbing a half-bag of stale crackers, he took a second to think before opening the knife drawer, rummaging around, and pulling out the only good switchblade in the house, which had been taped to the underside of the counter for protection. So it wouldn't be pawned or anything.
It would be the only thing keeping him alive on the streets tonight. He wasn't stupid enough to wander around and get stabbed again, at least without some form of protection this time. Plus, he had a backpack. He was a prime target for anything with a sleazy thought in it's head.
With that, and the though that he was going to be very fucking tired tomorrow, Jou stuffed the blade into his pocket, walking out and not even bothering to close and lock the door behind him.
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