Title: Title: "I'll Be By Your Side"

By: Shari Cooper

Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh.

Main Pairing: Seto Kaiba (18) and Serenity Wheeler (16)

Other Pairings: Joey Wheeler (18) and Mai Valentine (18), Zane Truesdale (17) and Alexis Rhodes (15), Tea Gardner (18) and Yugi and Yami Moto (19)

Summary: Sequel to "Falling In Love With You All Over Again". Seto Kaiba, Mokuba Kaiba and Serenity Wheeler-Kaiba have just moved to Duelist Academy. Mokuba isn't getting along to well with Atticus Rhodes because he keeps hitting on Serenity. But Serenity thinks he's just a sweet boy willing to help her. And to make it worse for Mokuba, he falls for Alexis's good looks… sadly he's a little too late, since Zane Truesdale got there first.

Authors Note: Kaiba will be out of character

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Kaiba looked around the room to see who called him moneybags. He knew that Joey only called him that… but he could believe that he had listen to him!

"Money bags…" Joey muttered hoarsely.

"Mutt." Kaiba said wiping away his tears quickly as possible.

"Hey." Joey murmured, he didn't want to fight with Kaiba… he had heard every word of what he had said and it almost brought him to tears.

"Well I'll go get your sister…" Kaiba whispered about to get up, but Joey put a hand on his.

"Wait."

"What?"

"I want to talk to you…" Joey said patting the chair for him to sit down again.

"Fine." Kaiba said sitting down.

"How's Serenity?" Joey asked his head still on his pillow he turned to face Kaiba.

"Fine."

"Look Kaiba I'm trying to have a nice conversation, could you please try?"

"No."

"Why?"

"Because I'm supposed to by the one dying…"

"Oh don't worry about it. I'm sure I have a little time to kill." Joey said he was trying to sound light hearted about it, but it wasn't going to well. His voiced cracked and he could feel tears running down his eyes. "I'm dying…"

"No… no I'll make you better! I'll get the doctors… they can…they have to do something!" Kaiba squeaked feeling very helpless, and he had never wanted to feel that way again. He had felt that way when he got the call that his parents were dead.

"…Wow moneybags has a heart after all." Joey said closing his eyes.

"Tell Serenity I'll speak with her later…" Joey said drifting off into a deep sleep.

"Don't die on us…" Kaiba muttered.

"I won't…" Joey murmured groggily.

Kaiba left the room a small grin on his face, it wasn't a sneer, but it wasn't a smile, a grin.

Serenity was passing in the hall. "Oh what's going on?" Serenity whimpered rushing up to Kaiba she threw her arms around him.

"He woke up… but only for a little bit… he'll be okay. He'll speak with you later…" Kaiba murmured rubbing her back.

"Oh I'm glad…" Serenity whispered into his chest.

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It had been a week since Kaiba had spoken with Joey, and he was doing just fine. Joey was out of bed, but most of the time he stayed in bed, to rest up. He still was getting over everything that had happened and it would be a long while until the gang had their normal Joey back. To everyone's surprise Kaiba and Joey were being civil! Kaiba even offered to bring Joey's breakfast up to him… but that was only once… maybe it was a fluke. But Joey and Kaiba new better, they knew that they weren't friends but they were…able to understand each other a little better then before. Joey knew that Kaiba really loved his sister, and Kaiba knew that Joey wasn't a total mutt. It evened out in the end.

Kaiba was back to work, of course. The doctors said to wait a least a month, but he had a corporation to run and of course he never listened to the doctors. Kaiba once and a while would mutter "If I wasn't the CEO of Kaiba Corporation, I'd be a doctor, and a hell a lot of a better one then them…"

No one listened to his little rants, although Serenity would sometimes listen in on them, they could be rather funny. Kaiba looked up from his paper work, it was 12:52 in the morning and Kaiba was about to fall asleep. Mokuba and Serenity were cuddled up on the couch snoring lightly. Joey was on the lave seat with Mai, almost lying on top of Mai, but Mai was still awake. Mai looked at him and grinned just a little.

"So done yet? I think we're all ready to hit the sack."

"Yeah we can go." Kaiba said tossing a few things into the trash he switched off his computer and got up. Mai shook tried shaking Joey awake.

"Damn…she's sexy… no…I won't leave…let go of me you bastard…damn what an ass!" Joey purred in his sleep. Mai crossed her arms glaring at him.

"He'd better be dreaming about me or else…"

Kaiba chuckled, "I suppose we could camp out here for the night."

"What do you mean?"

"I've got some blanks, you and Joey can sleep on the couch, Serenity and I can take the other one and Mokuba can have the loveseat.

"That works for me." Mai said shoving Joey off the loveseat, not so nicely.

She pulled the loveseat out into a bed while Kaiba took care of the couches. He placed Mokuba on the couch with a pillow and blanket. Serenity, who was nicely placed on the floor, was curled into a little ball snoring happily.

Kaiba gave Mai two quilts and two pillows then went off to make his own bed. Mai tried picking up Joey… it wasn't going to well. He wasn't fat by any means…but muscular, yes. And Mai being only 114 pounds compared to Joey's 136.5…well it wasn't going to well. Plus Joey was putting his dead weight on poor Mai, and it was killing her back.

"Damn it Joey! You dream about strange women and then won't even get in bed!" Mai grumbled.

Kaiba chuckled lightly. "Want some help?"

"Yeah that'd be great, you've got to by able to pick him up, you being Mr. Muscles."

Kaiba shook with laughter, "Really? Who told you that?"

"Serenity."

"Thought so." Kaiba went over to his desk and filled a glass of water.

"I thought you were going to help me!" Mai grumbled.

"I am." Kaiba said he tossed the cup of water over the sleeping Joseph Wheeler making him squeal like a pig. "WHAT THE HELL MONEYBAGS!" Joey hollered.

"Mutt shut up! People are trying to sleep!" Kaiba hissed smacking him over the head lightly.

"Yeah well. I'm going back to bed!" Joey began to curl up into a ball when Mai grabbed him by the collar. "No more dreaming about naked women, and get into the bed before I ask Kaiba to pick you up and put you in it!" Mai hissed.

Joey hopped into bed faster then he had ever done. "Kaiba pick me up? SICK!" Joey hollered again making Serenity wake.

"What's wrong?" Serenity asked looking around surprised.

"Nothing." Kaiba grumbled pointing to the wet Wheeler.

"Oh…" Serenity began to chuckle.

"It's not funny…" Joey muttered, but didn't finish since Mai was stripping…literally. She had taken off her top, and was folding it.

"What the hell do you think you're doing in my office… you can't do shit like that!"

Mai gave Kaiba a little that told him to shut up and she'd explain. "I'm not sleeping in a tube top and a mini skirt it's just not done. I'll sleep in my underwear and bra." Mai said shrugging.

"Not a bad idea…" Serenity muttered following Mai's example.

"Damn… to women stripping in my office… not bad…" Kaiba muttered, Mai threw her skirt at him.

"Cram it Kaiba."

"WHOA! Hold your horses! Serenity if not sleeping half naked in bed… with moneybags… ew…no…"

"She won't be the only one half naked." Mai said winking at Kaiba.

"WHAT?"

"Look I'm not sleeping with some wet mutt in my bed okay?" Mai said kissing Joey, slipping off his shirt for him.

"I'm not a mutt…" Joey muttered, but he didn't complain it wasn't everyday he got to see her half naked in Kaiba's personal office.

Kaiba took off his trench coat, shirt, and pants, crawling in bed with Serenity, who was in a blue lace bra and underwear.

Mai had on the same only hers was red. Joey had on boxers with dogs on them while Kaiba had on black boxers with—guess—THE KAIBA LOGO!

"Night guys." Serenity murmured sleepily, she curled up to Kaiba falling asleep.

"Night Ren…" Kaiba and Joey said together, they glared at each other but let it pass. Mai was snoring softly her arm draped around Joey's torso. Joey really couldn't complain so decided to go to bed and dream about his gorgeous fiancée.

Kaiba stayed awake for another hour looking around the room. "So this is what a family is like…" Kaiba murmured to himself. He looked at Joey and Mai curled up together happily and then Mokuba had squished himself into the corner of the loveseat and then his fiancée…she was beautiful when she slept. She looked so calm, like nothing was ever wrong… life was almost perfect Kaiba decided.

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Kaiba woke up to the phone ringing. He looked at his watch and groaned it was 3:00 in the morning and he sure as hell didn't want to get up. He slipped carefully out of bed as to not wake anyone and walked over to his desk. Sitting down in his swivel chair he picked up the phone.

"Kaiba"

"Ah Mr. Kaiba!"

"Crowler."

"That's not a very nice way to talk to someone who has done so much for you!" Crowler said.

"You really think you're pretty cool huh? Well that stops tomorrow. I'm taking the day off to hang out with the family. But tomorrow I'm getting rid of Duelist Academy. And there's nothing you can do. Today someone should be over… oh in say about two minutes to pick you up." Kaiba pressed his security button. "Make that three minutes." Kaiba said.

"You'll never get me. I'll always be around."

"That might be true… but you'll be locked away so I could careless." Kaiba said hanging up the phone, he called security.

"Hello Mr. Kaiba." Roland said not sleepy in the least.

"Roland arrest Crowler, you know the charges and get his ass in jail. If he's not there in ten minutes, you and your posy are fired. Get to work." Kaiba hung up yawning he walked over to his bed and kissed Serenity. He slipped into the covers and laid Serenity's head on his chest, he lay awake for a few minutes. He heard Roland and his people leave and then fell asleep again. Roland would make sure no one entered the room, until they were gone.

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Well that was a long chapter. What do you think? I wonder when I'll put in the wedding… hm… find out what happens next in the next chapter! Bye!

XOXOXOXOX

Shari