The city became the sky.

The street lights shown like stars against the cars and windows of street cafes. The cool greeted my face through the open window as I was being driven to where I was to meet Jounochi. Funny how the sky no longer held it's own stars anymore. I looked at the reflections in the glass of windows of the shops we passed.

"Kaiba, we have arrived." My driver's voice came to break me from my meaningless pondering.

I arrived a few moments later at the restaurant than I had wanted. I was actually late.

The little freak show had an episode in the bathroom with one of my maids. He thought she was going to take him and threw a mirror at her. She ended up getting worker's compensation. It was an annoying event. She promised she would return to work as soon as she could but I really didn't care. She was just another nameless employee of mine amongst thousands.

Jounochi was sitting outside. His lips were slightly parted with the end of a cigarette between them. His hand was hovering around the cigarette as he seemed to be deep in thought. I stared for a moment at his face. His eyes were narrowed and his brows were knit, until suddenly his face released from it's scrunched position as though his head broke himself out of his own thoughts. He tapped the ash from the cigarette to the ground and brought it back up to his lips.

Before I said a word he looked up at me.

"What took so long Kaiba?" He asked flicking the cigarette into the street and standing up from his squatting position on the ground. I had to keep from glaring.

"Yugi." I replied shortly and Jounochi looked at me with temporarily widened eyes before they returned to normal and he nodded his head.

"That's actually why I asked Ryou to book a meeting with you. It sucks because I thought it was going to be earlier but I got caught up in something." Jounochi said sounding genuinely frustrated. "Shall we go in?" Jounochi questioned. I followed him into the restaurant.

"Yesterday Yugi spoke a strange language to me. Did you send someone who'd be better off in an asylum to come live with me?" I questioned.

"It was Egyptian." Jounochi replied as we sat down at our table in the V.I.P. section behind a heavy maroon curtain with gold tassels. What kind of idiot did he take me for?

"No one knows what the Egyptian language sounds like, just raw assumptions. Are you trying to take me for a fool?" I said in a more stuck-up tone than I had planned.

"Nah, it aint like that. I'm being serious. I called you out here because I think I should inform you about some things. They already started doing what they're going to do and you still aint know anything." Jounochi said nodding once to the waitress and she bowed and left. I assumed he somehow already ordered for me.

"Start what? Who are you talking about?" I asked raising a brow.

"Well lets start with Yugi. He's kind of a mess right now. His boyfriend died in a car crash a couple days ago and now is residing at times in his head. Well…nah it aint like it sounds…his boyfriend was actually dead all along but the body we made…" He looked up at me and sighed, most likely because the extreme look of 'what-shit-are-you-trying-to-feed-me' I had on my face.

"Ok. Most likely you aint going to believe me….but I'm being real. Do you think I have time to waste telling lies without benefit?" He said looking up at me. I could feel the look of disbelief on my face, it was like a heavy clay mask. Why would he bother to tell me this? I highly doubt anything he's saying could be true.

"…that's when his grandpa gave him that Egyptian necklace thing and that's how they met. At the time I was just starting to get into some crazy stuff so I managed to make him a body, I had to kill someone but you know, it wasn't easy, I was going crazy for like, weeks." Jounochi continued. I didn't hear the first part of what he said so it was hard for me to follow. I narrowed my eyes in attempt to understand but I kept getting distracted by his face and hand movements.

"Then after that we found out that the buddies we were hanging with had secrets like that, and then we all just fell into this weird sorta world. Like a mix of Egypt and Japan. The Egyptians around the house was a little weird and one of them wouldn't stop stealing crap and got my ass in trouble so many freakin times. You know, that one aint even got a body…but we all started learning Egyptian because of that…" Jounochi kept going on and it sounded legitimate.

Except for the fact Egyptians died out long ago and I don't believe in spirits and afterlife and all that bullshit.

"Then Malik got in a fight with that one Egyptian and banned his spirit from coming close to him…it was really sad and he's been a little weird ever since…but anyways…so Yugi and Atemu, that's the Egyptians name, got in a car crash the night I sent him to you. Unfortunately we had to cover that up like crazy because the body without the spirit in it, from the way we did that, was rotted and frightening….so I don't even know how'd we explain that….we had guys cleaning that up and getting it to be like it didn't happen.." Jounochi sounded like he was finishing up finally. This was a very hard thing to sit through.

"Why'd you bother coming into this world?" Jounochi asked scoffing slightly. I narrowed my eyes more at him.

"I mean, our world, this underworld shit, not the general world. This obviously isn't anything you care to know about or work in." Jounochi asked blatantly. I watched him for a moment.

"Tell the truth now Kaiba." Jounochi said sternly.

"I like you." I said figuring I couldn't lose anything. We still had a contract. If he didn't like me I could eventually get over it. Also, if he could try to feed me Egyptian bullshit, he could take this. I could see him visibly tense.

"Like in what way?" Jounochi said eyeing me curiously.

"Probably the way you don't want it to be." I said accepting the hot tea from the waitress who had conveniently came back in the middle of my awkward confession. I was being completely bold in this instance, I wondered how retarded I could be becoming.

"Well…I aint that way…but…let me think about it." He said seriously, his face was entirely unreadable.

My heart was coming out through my throat beating a thousand miles a minute.

sorry for the lateness my work schedule has sucked pretty bad recently.