Two
The world was oblivious to what was going on. They could care less. They were probably in their own world despite Jounouchi's earlier appearance…
"How did you know?" he asked stunned.
"You're quite clumsy and talentless," Kaiba mused.
Jounouchi rolled his ruby eyes, "Like you're one to talk money bags… Psh, like you can even dance!"
Kaiba arrogantly chuckled before pulling him closer and whispering into his ear, "I don't think you want to test that puppy. You'll get your feelings hurt."
"Why you-!" hissed Jounouchi.
"How fitting too-a puppy collar to match your mutt-like attitude," Kaiba edged on as he fingered the buckled choker around Jounouchi's slender neck.
"Fuck you," spat Jounouchi before whirling around.
"You're not worthy of doing so," Kaiba teased.
'Ignore him…he's trying to piss you off.' Jounouchi told himself before going out onto the dance floor. The music was heavy and not his style but he moved away throwing his hands up and moving his hips. He needed to get lost. His mind needed to be free.
A stronger arm wrapped its self around Jounouchi's waist and the other pale manicured hand moved to lightly trace his wrist and move down his arm. His eyes widened in shock.
"Kaiba yo-!" he hissed but he was moved backward into Kaiba's chest and his leg was forced to slide downward and back up. He was being guided…
Jounouchi blushed furiously. Who the hell did Kaiba think he was?!
He was suddenly twirled around; now facing Kaiba whose sapphire eyes looked strangely intense… That or it was just the damn strobe lights playing tricks on Jounouchi. They moved in sync strangely enough and Jounouchi embarrassedly was being lead as he was forced to turn around again.
'No, I'm the leader of this! I'm better than him!'
Jounouchi suddenly grabbed Kaiba's wrist forcefully and made him move backwards before letting go and grinding against him. He heard the taller brunette behind him growl and yank Jounouchi's wrists above him before making his leg and his partners move downwards again in a graceful slide.
Everyone had formed and circle, watching stunned, as one of the greatest dancers here was dancing with the rich CEO of Kaiba Corp who surprisingly had some moves of his own. To everyone from the outside this wasn't a battle of dominance but a wonderful collaboration between the best…
"Katsuya," Kaiba breathed into his neck.
Jounouchi looked upward before finding himself being pushed and he tumbled onto the sleek dance floor.
"WHAT THE FUC-"Jounouchi howled. He looked up to see Kaiba smirking as he waved. The crowd immediately was, "Ooh-ing!" at the sudden change in the flow. Suddenly they saw it as a huge comeback-a fight-a way to humiliate 'Kat'.
"It doesn't take too much to get you to bend and kneel like a dog hm?" Kaiba called out.
More 'ooh-ing'…
"You gonna take that Kat?!" someone called out with a laugh.
Jounouchi rolled his eyes, "And obviously it doesn't take too much for you to be a rich, spoiled, asshole."
Kaiba smirked, "Says the person who danced with the asshole."
"You know what? I didn't come here for this, you're not worth my time," said Jounouchi before making his exit. He made his way down the stairs hearing the music once again begin again meaning everything was being left behind.
Jounouchi sighed; he was really attempting to be mature about things like that…
"Oi, mutt …I warned you that you're feelings would get hurt if you challenged me," called out the same drawling pitch from above. There was Seto Kaiba staring down at him from above…
Jounouchi rolled his red contacted eyes before giving him the finger and pushing the door open and making his exit. So much for going to Roppongi…
-_-_-_-
Kaiba was restless. What the hell was he thinking dancing with that talentless mutt? He had to admit though, he did clean up well…
He shook his head. No, what was he thinking? Again!
The look that Jounouchi had given him in that stairwell… One of pure intensity. Just like the Red Eyes Black Dragon… Ugh! That shouldn't have said anything!
Kaiba closed his eyes and felt a headache coming on… He threw his trench coat on the abandoned lounge chair before crashing into his bed. This was going to be an interesting game-not only between Kaiba and Jounouchi but Kaiba and himself…
-_-_-_-
Jounouchi smiled as he entered a dark silent house. His dad at this rate wouldn't be arriving home until tomorrow morning. It was a huge weight lifted off of his shoulders considering that his father might be possibly sane by tomorrow morning or asleep if Jounouchi left for school early enough.
The blonde strode into the small apartment bathroom and removed his red contacts before placing them into the solution filled container before washing his face free from make-up… Jounouchi gazed at his reflected within the dusty mirror and gritted his teeth…
"Fucken Kaiba…" he growled before removing his extensions before ripping off his clothes to take a shower.
His thoughts traveled toward the millionaire automatically. How could they not? He had been humiliated. Not only humiliated by dominated on his territory! Why the hell would Seto Kaiba go to fucking Tragic anyway?! Didn't he have some fancy clubs like damn Lexington Queen* where the celebrities went?
Or some shit in Ginza? Why couldn't Seto Kaiba just stay out of his hair?!
Jounouchi thought about this furiously as he scrubbed his hair vigorously suddenly feeling dirty.
'Ugh..why did he have to touch me?!' he thought shuddering. And he blushed remembering the way he was touched.
The CEO had almost touched him as if he was dancing with someone romantically in a sexy seductive way… A way completely unlike Seto Kaiba… He was supposed to be cold and ruthless. Childish things like commoner clubs weren't supposed to be his cup of tea. Wouldn't high end but to speak business be his thing?
Jounouchi sighed sinking down to the shower's floor… What a way to ruin his fun…
_-_-_-_
Kaiba exited the limo and the school gates were unlocked for him. He was important enough to be late. He was a CEO. His future was already set. He didn't need to be lectured about lateness when he was making ten times or more of a teacher's salary…
He heard the side gate rattle as a blonde haired figure leapt from the top and landed in a shrub.
"Aw man…landed wrong…shit!" cursed Katsuya Jounouchi as he kicked the dirt. He picked up his school bag off of the ground.
"Well, well, if it isn't the lost pup," called out Kaiba.
Jounouchi looked up his honey colored glare fierce.
"Speak for yourself," he hissed before straightening himself.
"I have valid reasons to be tardy," Kaiba explained with a wave of his hand.
Jounouchi followed him as he walked away.
"Kaiba, just who the hell do you think you are?!" he screamed.
Kaiba rolled his blue eyes and smirked, "More important than the likes of you."
"Why were you there?!" Jounouchi hissed as they entered the school building.
"I can't enjoy myself?"
"Oh come on moneybags, I KNOW your type of place. I know Roppongi just fine. I KNOW that there are millions of other places for the likes of you."
"I got bored, it's the same scene everywhere else-don't worry I don't hit the same places more than once," Kaiba assured.
"I have another ques-"began Jounouchi wanting to ask another question. Kaiba quickly placed a hand over his mouth as they entered "their" hallway near their classroom and pushed him back down the stairwell.
"Can't you just shut up for a moment?!" snarled Kaiba. Jounouchi glared instantly biting one of his fingers.
"Bitch!" Kaiba yanked his hand away wiping Jounouchi's slobber on his gakuran.
"I don't care how rich or fucking important you are Kaiba, you back the hell away from me. I swear, I'll get revenge if you ever dare show up again," Jounouchi murmured with a smirk on his face.
"Didn't I already warn you once that you'll get your feelings hurt?" Kaiba hissed.
Jounouchi rolled his eyes before heading into the classroom with Kaiba following right behind him.
"Jounouchi-san, late as usual? You're going to have cleaning duty for a week!" Otsuka-Sensei announced.
"Sumimasen…" Jounouchi said with a bow. Kaiba smirked, "He was with me."
"Oh?" Otsuka-Sensei questioned looking up from her roll sheet.
"I needed help unloading some stuff and he was willing to assist. I apologize," Kaiba explained.
"Seems like you're saved Jounouchi-san," said Otsuka. Everyone in the classroom was gaping at that moment including Jounouchi. They did not get along. To Jounouchi, he was wondering why they hell Kaiba was saving his ass. Everyone else was wondering why Jounouchi was helping someone he hated and why Kaiba suddenly looked smug.
Class began but everyone was already hyped about last night's events and wondered if it somewhat connected to this morning's oddity.
Jounouchi was somewhat thankful that nobody knew who he was when he went to Roppongi or the situation would have been made even more awkward for him. Kaiba gazed at him from across the room and smirked.
'Fuck you…I know what you're up to. You're not throwing me off.' Jounouchi thought before his brown orbs darted away. The girl in front of him was pretending to write as Otsuka wrote on the board. Her flashy keitai* glowed and she flipped it open.
Jounouchi couldn't help but look at the message that she received.
'What's going on between them?'
The blonde rolled his eyes. Great, the damn bastard had started up a ruckus with the girls in the class. It was quite apparent that the majority of the girls were somewhat attracted to Seto Kaiba. Why wouldn't they be? Jounouchi did have to admit that despite the guy being an asshole, he did have looks, and not to mention, most girls and grown women would give to share his type of wealth.
'Not sure. Seto-kun's been acting weird lately. He was in Roppongi last night dancing with Kat. Either way, I might have a chance if he starts going around Roppongi more often!! Maybe we should try to save up money to go to the Lexington Queen! 3'
Ugh. Jounouchi liked how girls looked but when it came to some of them they had pretty dense personalities. Nobody would ever stand a chance with that cold ruthless guy.
Why they fuck were they not using honorifics anyway? Ugh, they wouldn't even be able to afford the Lexington even if they tried. That was exclusive. Not even Jounouchi could get in with his reputation. He had once had hopes of getting noticed by some celebrity and possibly have a chance at being a back-up dancer so he could get away from his problematic father and actually make a living on something he loved doing.
He had never been able to properly practice in a studio and would give to have the privilege of actually getting some professional training in within those mirrored walls. It was impossible though. Jounouchi didn't have that type of time or investments placed into it.
Jounouchi's thoughts drifted back to Kaiba suddenly. Maybe that's why he was so good. He probably had a private studio or something with an exclusive dancer that taught BoA* or Namie Amuro*… That would figure. What a cheater. He couldn't help but feel slightly jealous of the cooperate executive officer seeing that he had a lot of money to support anything that he found interest in. Katsuya didn't have any support and had to learn from scratch.
However, the brown eyed male grinned, thinking to his self to boost his confidence, 'I'm probably as good. I look at music videos. Shit I could probably do the 'Jumon*' routine by heart by now.'
The bell finally announced lunch and Jounouchi hit his head upon the desk realizing that once again he forgot to pack lunch.
"Again?" Yugi questioned in shock.
"I ran into a problem last night," Jounouchi smiled wryly glaring over at Kaiba who had his laptop out and was typing away steadily as if it wasn't against school rules.
"Your dad?" Honda asked blinking.
"You know you could always stay over at my place if your dad is giving you trouble," pointed out Yugi rather concerned for his friends now.
"Actually I ran into something much worse than that," explained Jounouchi before snapping his gaze away and gazing at the window next time.
"So how was yesterday?" Anzu asked grinning trying to change the subject.
"I think I got some practice in," said Jounouchi.
"Yami and I have been practicing a little; we're not as good as you though. You're a soloist; we're more of a duet group-when I can get him not to be distracted," Yugi said excited his violet eyes showing such emotion.
Jounouchi groaned over dramatically, "Great! The King of Games will become the King of Dance and beat me at that too?!" He laughed when he said it knowing it wouldn't be true. Knowing Yami he had too left feet and was more distracted by Yugi….then again. Maybe it was the other way around. He might be surprised.
"We might come soon if we get good enough," said Yugi.
"Hey Jounouchi, I could hook you up, you know I dance too," said Anzu.
"Hook me up?"
"Ever practiced with mirrors?" she asked.
"Nope," Jounouchi replied.
"Uwa! No mirror? Not even one?!" Yugi asked.
Honda rolled his eyes, "His dad would accidentally break it. It's better not to have one. TRUST me."
Jounouchi nodded remembering the time Honda was over and his father threw a damn glass and broke the mirror in the hallway. That had been the last mirror that Jounouchi remembered having and that was a little bit more than a year ago.
Anzu suddenly slid him a key.
"I happened to have cleaning duty last night and since I'm the vice president for the ballet organization here and Tanaka-sensei is in sick, she doesn't have the keys. There happens to not be any practice today-help yourself after school. Just please be out in an hour and don't leave a mess. You can give me the keys tomorrow morning," she said.
"Uwa! Anzu I love you! Thanks!" Jounouchi grinned accepting the key.
It happened to be that the gym had an extra section that used to be a weight room-since a gym was down the street and happened to be the coach's brother's-the athletes would usually just head down the street to use the less cramped weight room. Since it was unused and there were mirrors already on one side of the wall and windows outside on the other, it was the perfect place to do dance classes. It was slightly smaller if you had a huge team of forty people from each grade level like the sports teams did but the dancers only consisted of twenty leaving plenty of room.
Jounouchi smiled quite happy that he had brought Yugi's Christmas gift, which happened to be an Mp3 player, with him everywhere. He was totally looking forward to afterschool.
-_-_-_
Seto Kaiba was exhausted. The one day that he finally decided to go to school he realized that his late night escapades to clubs in districts were wearing him down slightly. He stayed a little after class to catch up on some work that he was behind in since he had been wired up in other affairs. He walked down the hallway. It was eerily empty. Then again it was Friday. Everyone was ready to be out for the weekend. Their school system just recently had added Saturday as an off day so most people were excited and went out even when students were encouraged to attend juku* or stay inside.
He walked outside from the back entrance to hear music blaring from somewhere… Who would still be here? It definitely wasn't the ballet group or anything else. Nobody would play something like 'Rising Sun'* unless it was a student…
"It shouldn't concern me," he muttered before walking past. A flash of blonde hair caught his attention making him stop in his tracks. There was Jounouchi Katsuya mimicking the routine as if were nothing. It was definitely from the original too. He was proud and his movements were sharp. Jounouchi looked completely different when he wasn't in the club setting. His appearance looked young and fresh-completely opposite of last nights appearance.
Changmin's voice blared along with the orchestra loudly as Jounouchi finally did his own movements throwing one arm downward, his hand in a slant, and moving his hips in a circle slowly before stopping at the pause. Before moving his shoulders downward and moving side to side.
Kaiba was absolutely stunned. It had to be some dream or cheap fluke that the dog was this good. Was this the same person he made a fool out of last night? Kaiba knew he could counter that even though he really didn't pay attention to the group he was imitating and adding his own flare onto the routine.
Jounouchi made the final movements as the song ended before slumping down. It seemed like the idiot didn't have any water or anything to hydrate himself with. Kaiba rolled his eyes and walked past digging something out of his bag, sitting outside of the door, before walking away.
_-_-_-_-_
"Aw man…" Jounouchi smiled looking at himself in the mirror. His hair was plastered from all his work. He had picked some of the most intense songs he could find on his playlist to see finally if he was moving correctly. He himself thought he needed work lot of it.
Right now Jounouchi just regretted not having any water… If he would have known beforehand that he was going to have access to the studio he would have bought one in advanced but he didn't. His mouth was so parched… He needed something to drink!
And then it hit him like a stone…
"FUCK DAD'S HOME!" he yelped. He was gonna die. He wasn't home on time. He was going to deal with some serious shit.
Jounouchi yanked out the mp3 player from the speakers and grabbed his stuff, making sure he had the key, and swung open the door….and then moved forward and then noticed something that would have tripped him if he would have continued any futher.
A water bottle. Jounouchi knelt down and examined it. It was unopened. The plastic seal was unbroken.
He smiled.
"Aw, thanks Anzu..," he said feeling a little better as he ran off toward home.
(A/N: RWAR! If you didn't get the hint of WHO the water bottle was FROM then you guys are slow! XD I didn't get to do an author's note previous chapter because I was so excited about getting it up and ready for you guys. But I apologize for not properly introducing myself. As you see there's a lot of *'s in this. I happen to be studying Japanese as a major and since this IS an anime it's only appropriate to stay as accurate within the Japanese culture as I possibly can and I'm going to make notes at the end to explain what those Japanese words/culture phrases are to make things less confusing for you guys! If you find something wrong please correct me! Thanks you guys for reading this, I've been on a three year break so it's nice to be writing again! XP I'd LOVE feedback.
Notes:
*Lexington Queen-THIS ACTUALLY exists… It's a very high class club in the Roppongi district in Tokyo and usually serves to a lot of celebrities. A lot from Japan and many, many, many celebrities from here in the US so I totally thought it would be fitting for this to be mentioned since Kaiba would definitely be rich enough to go there!
*Keitai- Also known to older folks as 'Keitai Denwa' or cell phone. I like referring to Japanese cellular phones as keitai because their phones are so much more complex than our phones in the US. We do stream TV but I think they already have a 4G network existing, video games, high resolution pictures, internet…. I hear that keitai are considered computers out there. Some really infamous companies are DoCoMo and VodaFone Japan which you might have seen mentioned in the beginnings of Japanese anime as sponsors!
*BoA-Some of you MIGHT be familiar with her if you followed Serial Experiments Lain (Duvet) and InuYasha (Every Heart) but she's a Korean and Japanese pop singer. She's basically considered the Britney Spears of Asia if you don't already count Ayumi Hamasaki as that. Recently she's made a HUGE debut in the US with an album and also preformed in San Francisco a couple days on Sunday (grah ;_; I live near there and couldn't gooooo! Damn sickness) so she's REALLY big and she's an AMAZING dancer.
*Namie Amuro- You probably know her from either InuYasha (Come) or from the Yuu Watase manga Ayashi no Ceres where she's mentioned various times. She's REALLY famous and dances amazing, look at some of her videos, her music now a days is really hip-hop oriented but she's known as Japan's Queen of Hip-Hop and has also been believed to start up the Ganguro (if you don't know what Ganguro is GOOGLE it) trend in Japan.
*Juku-Cram school. School after school. School during the weekend. School used to get Japanese youth prepared for their entrance exams. Some children are admitted into these cram schools as early as four as I've heard.
*Rising Sun/Changmin: If you don't know who TVXQ/DBSK is, where the HECK have you been? XD Look 'em up-they're an amazing Japanese and Korean boy band who have insane vocals and dancing skills. If Jounouchi can dance to the song 'Rising Sun' he's GOOD! Go look at the PV for yourself!
*Japanese weekends: If I didn't put this here someone would TOTALLY correct me on it but from what I've heard from various sources is-Japanese school children did not get Saturday off. They had a six day week. HOWEVER recently a lot of schools are changing that policy and giving their students the five day week, which is understandable, they start at a MUCH earlier time, they commute by train, bike, or they walk meaning they get up pretty early, they stay longer IN regular school, get involved with either club activities, sports groups, or student council, AND THEN have Juku (cram school) and I hear some kids depending if they're taking the high school entrance exam don't arrive home until…let's say 10/11 pm? The suicide rate is high too so I think Japan finally decided to give them Saturday! :-D As you see though, some kids in this fic are PRETTY rebellious going to Roppongi. XP That stuff is only for good kids and strict parents.
Whoa…this took over a page! I hope you learnt something though! There will be less after I get these basic Japanese culture stuff out of the way!