Kaiba was not pleased with himself; he was not pleased with his thinking, his dreams end especially not with the betrayal of his body.

*Lusting after the mutt? This is not healthy, why did I have to get myself into this? I was perfectly fine until now but something had to go wrong. Why do I have to suffer like this! If I wouldn't have run away if I had made my presence known, I could now taunt Joey. The embarrassment I could have caused him, but no I had to run and now I carry the consequences, I'm the one suffering I could have made him suffer or batter bag for mercy and then I would use that to make…. Stop it Seto don't go down that road again…I will not go anywhere near that dog until I get myself back to normal*

What Kaiba didn't know is that the person who hunted him was having similar thoughts like him. Joey just couldn't control his own mined anymore. He tried to duel but that brought pictures of Kaiba defeating him in a duel standing over him with his evil smirk on his lips telling him what punishment awaits him that he will make him wear dog ears and a tail and nothing else that he will….and there are those thoughts again. Joey tried everything to distract himself even cleaning his room and learning but everything ended up with thinking about Kaiba.

One moment Joey remembered how they fought in school or anywhere else for that matter they always fought when they see each other and that really scared him. If that would happen now Joey really didn't know if he could handle the nearness and he sure wouldn't be able to conceal his emotions. Because even when he is with his friends, if they mention Kaiba he twitches or jumps, his thoughts get clouded and one time he got so carried away with his daydream he actually started drooling.*Thank God everyone thought it was because lunch break was nearing. There is no chance I could control myself if Kaiba was standing in front of me*

Joey couldn't imagine what his friend would think of him if they found out he was starting to fall for his enemy. Oh how the words falling in love fit. Because he was falling, falling badly and is only waiting for the painful stop that is just bound to happen.

A week had past and Kaiba hasn't shown for any of the classes. Joey was relived at first. It fitted perfectly with his plan to avoid Seto at any cost and yes he called Kaiba by his given name. It dose that to you after thinking so much about one person automatically puts you on first name basis. But Joey soon realized even if he avoided Seto he had seen him in class or maybe a glimpse here and there, but now was different. Joey didn't see him at all and that made him depressed. Like there was a hand having a hold of his heart and squeezing it every time Joey noticed that again this class Kaiba wouldn't show. Every day his heart was crushed because of the multiple squeezing.

Joey was never good at hiding his feelings and when the second week went by with no dose of Kaiba, his friend were getting seriously worried about him. Joey almost never smiled he seemed to be in deep thoughts all the time, looked at the door more often than usual and that at the start of the class instead at the end like he did when he wanted to be already out of there.

Tristan made the situation unintentionally worse when he in a joke asked if someone died. That didn't settle well with Joey. He was dying of missing Seto too much and now there were thoughts like *what if Setos hurt, what if he has an incurable disease or…what...if he's…dead.*

Joey almost started crying in front of everyone because of those dark shadows in his head, the only thing comforting him was that if Seto died it sure would've been all over the media by now. But those thoughts didn't work too much there were still too many other bad things that could have been the cause of Setos absence.

Joey was once again swimming in his thoughts alone in his room. He would give up every memory in his head just to see a glimpse of the real Seto. Joey was staring into space when a thought hit him. He had to blink a few times, he couldn't believe he had the answer in front of his nose all this time, why didn't he remember it sooner. He jumped to his feet and made few long steps to his drawers. Opening them he saw the object he was looking for. All the drawers were a mess everything stuffed into them except one, it was almost empty only one object in it. Setos watch.

Joey grabbed the watch and ran out of his house. He pushed himself to run like he never did he just couldn't get to the house fast enough, he finally hade an excuse to look for Seto. Reaching his destination he rang the bell, his heart pounding in his chest and clenching his throat. His heart soon sank and disappointment showed clearly on his face. Joey completely forgot that there would be a possibility that Seto wasn't home. At the door was Mokoba asking Joey what's wrong but Joey was so out of it he didn't give any response what so ever. Mokoba followed Joeys sad look and noticed he was looking at the watch in his hands. Mokoba was a clever fellow and noticed what was happening.

Joey snapped out of his trance when he heard Setos name being mentioned, he looked at Mokoba "what were you saying?"

Mokoba "I sad you could wait for Seto to give him his watch back and talk about what is so important that made you come here in the middle of the night"

Joey only then noticed it was dark outside and even thou he was looking at the watch the whole time he only now noticed it was 9:30 pm.

Joey and Mokoba were watching a film when Mokoba jumped up "oh I just remembered I still have a bag of chips, I'll go get them"

Joey was left alone and it was then that the wheals in his head started turning *I'm in Setos house, maybe he sat at the same place as I am now and that's all thanks to you (looks down at the watch that never left his hand since he picked it up at home) now that I think about it Mokoba could have just taken the watch and send me off, so why am I still here… Oh yeah I have something important to tell Seto….but what…actually I never meant to speak to him I just wanted to give him his watch back so I could see him…Why did I think I needed to talk to him..* Joey was brought out of his thoughts by the voice he so longed to hear and if he turned he will see him.

While Joey was deep in thought Mokoba ran to the door to great his big brother.

Kaiba had just came home when his brother came running. That wasn't so unusual, the weird thing was he was telling him that Joey was there to bring back his watch and that Seto has to be nice and watch what he says because Joey seems to be out of himself.

Seto stepped into the living room and saw him, the one that turned his world upside down in only a couple of days. The one that made Seto suffer with just being in the same room as him, but Seto knew he was in much more pain when he couldn't see the puppy. He saw Joey on the couch staring unblinking at his lap. Joey had only a T-shirt and blue jeans on *did he really run here in only that it's freezing outside?*

Kaiba "Mokoba tells me you have my watch and something important to talk about?"

Seto could see Joeys head shoot up and then slowly turn around. They were only staring at each other for a few seconds. Out of nowhere Joey jumped up from the couch and before either knew it, Joey was tightly hugging Seto. Head buried in the taller ones chest Joey tried to make himself flat as possible so he could get the more contact with the brunette. Seto could hear a sob before Joey removed his head but not breaking the hug.

Joey "I'm so sorry, I ruined your shirt, I didn't meant to" he looked up.

Seto now could see Joeys face, lines of tears evident on his cheeks and bid drops in his eyes threatening to spill anytime. Joey was afraid that Seto was angry with him for getting his tears on his shirt and Joey wasn't ready to let go just jet. He only got his Seto back and he couldn't bear if Seto got angry, yelled at him and push him away. Joey looked at Setos eyes to see how angry he is with him, but the only thing he could see was surprise. When he saw the shock on Setos face Joey realized that he just hugged and cried on his years long enemy.

Joey "I I..I uh I mean I sorry I don't know what got over me, but you didn't come to school and Tristan sad someone died and I couldn't stand if you would and you weren't in school and I had to see your still here and I missed you and and and why did you leave me I can't stand it and and I I you I.. you will just laugh in my face but I love you"

Joey couldn't believe he just blurted that out. His stomach was doing flips and he just wanted that earth would split open and swallow him. So he did the next best thing, he tried to run for it, what he didn't accomplish is to notice that during his speech Seto put his arms around him to hug him plus he had a feeling Joey would try to run.

Seto "I thought you were a carefree cheerful puppy, while I was in pain because of this weird fallings and dreams, but now I can see you suffer from the same symptoms"

Joey "What?...am I dreaming again.. Don't tell me you're going t start taking off your clothes"

Seto "interesting dream but let's start slow"

With that Seto captured Joeys lips in a sweet tender kiss.

The End