Chapter Title: Finding
Chapter Genre: Drama
Chapter Summary: Kazuya finally finds out who his prey is.
Disclaimer: I do not own
Dedication: Miyo Yukimora- thanks for the awesome review, and wishing me a belated birthday.
Warnings: I have no BETA for this chapter, therefore if there are any mistakes please inform me, in a form of a review, thank you.
Notes: This chapter was finished in a day, which is 24 December, just so it could be a present for you reviewers.
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Kazuya gently laid him down on the bed, careful as not to wake-up the sleeping angel. He looked down on Jou's face, noticing that he was having nightmares. Jou's face contorted in pain, and he almost kneed Kazuya in the groin.
Kazuya put the red comforter on top of Jou and held his head in his arms, cradling him softly, lulling him out of his nightmares, and into a world of fantasies.
'Now to find out what this guy wants with Jounouchi' Kazuya went to take a shower and some research was in order.
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He took a big bite out of his sandwich and put it on the table, adjusting his glasses, slowly he scrolled down, on the webpage. Swallowing and taking a big gulp of his orange juice, he relaxed a bit on his chair smirking.
Oh, Seto Kaiba eh? The famous 18 years old with a billion dollar Company, where have I been these past few years... he thought amusedly.
However, what does he have to do with Jou not being himself; I know he did something--but what?
Kazuya marveled at this for a few moments, trying to put pieces of puzzles in his head, he flicked out his tongue and licked the corners of his suddenly dry mouth, when the puzzle became one.
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He strolled into Katsuya's room gently, his footsteps very soft. Thankfully, Jounouchi was still sleeping.
Kazuya thought for a second 'where could it be?'
He searched the safest and secluded places in Jou's bedroom. After a few frustrated minutes, he found Jou's most treasured secrets, bound in a black and red streaked Journal.
Kazuya flipped to the recent entries, but the last entry was about the incident in the movie theater. He sighed, but got a few clues by going back a few pages.
Kazuya smiled ruefully and set aside the Journal to its rightful place, padding softly out of Jounouchi's room, unknowing of the hazel eyes that popped open right after his leave.
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Kazuya checked on Jou before he left, he wore his jacket but left a note, just incase his other half awoke.
kazuya arrived at his destination; he looked up at Kaiba Corporation, and marveled at its gigantic size.
'Wow...'
There was no security at the moment, guarding the double metal doors 'they must on break or something...'
There was nobody in the front desk either, so he took the elevator upstairs, it seemed by the map, Kaiba's office, was the last floor before the roof.
He was about to strode into Kaiba's office, when his secretary tried to hold him back, the word being: tried.
Kazuya just ignored her please of "come back" or "you're not allowed in there without an appointment"
Kazuya did not bother knocking; in his haste to hunt down his prey, at no cost.
The door was knocked down with the swift force of Kazuya's heels. The occupants in the room were shocked; it seemed that an unknown stranger disrupted their meeting.
Kaiba glowered at the intruder and growled low in his throat, but everyone surrounding him heard the warning growl, and back out of the room slowly, closing the door gently.
Kaiba entered another room that connected with the conference room, Kazuya sat in the visitor's chair, awaiting Kaiba's response to his intrusion.
Kaiba finally settled after a quick trip to the restroom, inside his massive and spacious office.
"Why are you still here mutt?"
Kazuya turned a serious gaze toward Kaiba, looking him down. Kaiba tried to glare back just as hard, but ended up feeling naked under soulful hazel eyes.
"I'm obviously here for business, but let's get one thing straight, never refer me as Jounouchi, ever!" kaiba nodded affirmative, crossing his fingers together, gazing at "Jounouchi"
"So what should I refer you as?.."
"Kazuya, and keep it that way" Kaiba nodded once more and looked closely at his companion, noticing some changes. Usually the real Jounouchi always slouched, while this total stranger was completely sitting straight, and his hair was more maintained, how could not have noticed, before!
"If you're done looking inform me," Kazuya drawled out slowly
Kaiba smirked "oh, don't flatter yourself, I was just merely taking notes"
Kazuya smirked, looking about the simple office.
"Now that were done with the formalities, can you get down with this "business" of yours?"
Kazuya said nothing, still drinking in the sight of his office.
"--I'm sure it was not as important as my earlier meeting, that you clearly demolished in front of my partners--"
That caught Kazuya's attention
"Oh, trust me it's very important, it's more of a matter of life and death..."
Katsuya opened his copper eyes, when the door bang closed. He kicked the sheets away from his body, and stretched out the kinks in his body, yawning.
He looked at his bedside clock, tiredly and noticed it was right when the school day was over; he flopped on his bed and turned on his left, and sifted out his journal.
He fingered the bindings, and looked over to the entries, which Kazuya folded as a reminder; he supposedly did not know he folded the pages when looking at it.
The question was---why was he looking at it, to katsuya the question was baffling.
Jou looked at the pages; Kazuya folded and re-read them a few moments. The subjects consisted of the movie theater drama, the flashback of his sister's death and of past entries when he was living with father.
He shuddered and flipped to other pages, Kazuya marked. He tried to derive to a conclusion, but the pieces were blurry and fading as quickly as they appear, in Jou's mind.
Katsuya set down the Journal, back in its hiding place and thought for a while longer 'something is going on here, and I want to know'.
He opted to call Kazuya but thought otherwise, he called Mai, she was supposedly back in town for a few days, before heading out again.
He flipped through his phone book, and pressed the green call button, now awaiting her answer.
"Hello Hon"
"Hey-Mai I need your help, how fast can you get here?"
"Um...fast"
"Ok, I need you now!"
"Ok, I'll be more than happy to oblige" she purred, her twisted mind taking over
Jou now realizing what he said blushed "Mai, you dirty naughty girl, can't you ever stop thinking dirty?"
Jou could almost see her tapping her manicured, blood red fingernails on her lip, actually thinking about her reply
"Um...no..." they both chuckled
"So, how's Kazuya?"
"Yeah, that's why I need to talk to you"
"Ok, is something wrong hon?"
"I don't know yet, that's why I need you here, where going somewhere"
"Ok...I'll be there in five minutes"
"'Kay see ya when you get here..." he hung up and tossed his cell phone on the bed, and went to go take a shower.
He put on a dark pair of Jeans, a white undershirt, and a red sweatshirt, with his black jacket, bringing out the hoodie at the back.
Katsuya put on a pair of comfortable Birkenstock black clogs, and headed out the door with a waiting Mai, in her violet sports car. He opened the door, pecked Mai on both cheeks, and then they drove away in the wind.
Seto stared at Kazuya, eyes big as saucers, mouth open, but he managed to close it and maintain his composure.
"Is that a threat Mr. Kazuya?"
"Oh stop with the formalities, Mr. Kaiba" he knew his companion loathed mock formalities.
Kaiba's eyes hardened more, if possible, eyes turned into very narrow eye chips, almost cat-like.
"Get out of my office, right at this moment!" Kaiba said, his whole face dipping in form of a sneer.
"If you keep that up, your face will stay like that, by 20!" Kazuya cheered absolutely loving the idea, that he was the second person who could push Seto Kaiba's buttons as much as Jounouchi.
Kaiba jabbed a red button and four heavily well-built muscular guys, came in, ready to take Kazuya out of Kaiba Corp.
"Oh you shouldn't have..." Kazuya said, displaying a winning grin to his companions.
"If you don't mind, the tension in here is getting to me, I'll be leaving, now Mr. Kaiba if you'll be kind enough to call off your body guards..."
Kaiba smirked
"No, throw him out, and make sure he never comes into this building again!"
Kazuya frowned, Mr. Kaiba was not following his orders, he will just have to teach him whom he's dealing with.
He wagged his fingers back and forth, tsking and shaking his head back and forth.
The security guards were well on their way to plummeting Kazuya into the ground when he sidestepped their advances at every chance, angering them further.
He quietly slipped out of the office high tailing out of there, quickly as possible with a few parting words "Mr. Kaiba think about what I said!"
Kaiba grunted and turned his back to the double metal doors, in which
Kazuya escaped from and glared at his workers, giving them a silent message to get back to work!
The elevator doors slided shut, with a ding, hiding the fear behind cold cerulean eyes.
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"So, what did you want to talk about Jou?"
"Let's go to that Café Suku again, you know the one right outside of town, we'll talk then"
"Ok" Mai swerved at an intersection, on her way to the said Café.
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When they reached their destination, a waitress came up to ask for their orders, she winked at Jou and Mai almost bit her head off!
Silent banter with eyes, on the subject of Jou: if I can't have him, no other girl can! Got that missy?
The female server got the message and quietly took their orders, not even giving Jou eye contact.
Jou just looked adorably confused. He sipped on his soda "I wonder what that was all about...I thought I just saw her giving you the eye.."
Mai chuckled "Just drink your Fanta Blondie"
Jou chuckled, "It's good to have you back Mai"
Mai chuckled once more "it's good to be back"
While they waited for their orders, they bantered and discussed about things, Jou mainly skirting on the issue he has with Kazuya.
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When they were about to finish eating, Mai started on a conversation about kazuya
"What about him?" Jou asked slurping a fork of noodles.
"You know, how he doing? How's life treating you and him?...that sort of thing..." Mai said
"Oh sorry, I was being a tad defensive, life has been bad without you Mai" Jou looked sheepish
"So I'm your Knight on shining armor eh?"
Katsuya chuckled "No; more like my queen in shining armor" and she chuckled at his joke.
"So, what was this thing that was so important that I avoided taking a shower before coming here?"
"Well after the whole movie incident, Kazuya had a brawl with Kaiba in the classroom, the day after you went off again, and Kaiba being Kaiba blamed it on me, and I stupidly cried home"
Mai took Jou's hand in his, and squeezed softly, giving him the courage to go on "stop beating yourself up Hon, it's not your fault"
"Yeah but I take everything to heart, it's very difficult not to blame everything that happened in my life, my fault"
Mai could not say anything, to tell Jou otherwise, so she just squeezed his hands again and Jou squeezed back smiling at her before continuing his story.
"Anyway, the next day--which is today reporters bombard my door, and Kaiba takes me to school, to savor his image, and then he said something about my living condition which hurt me so bad, because that "shitty" apartment, was the first real thing I bought with my own money"
"So I didn't go to school today and ended up crying in kazuya's arms in the park---though he came out of nowhere which was kind of freaky---" Jou took a deep breath
"From there, I supposedly slept off and he took me home, then that's where the weird stuff starts happening"
Mai squeezed his hands to know she was still listening
"So, I woke-up but Kazuya thought I was still sleeping, he started searching my room for something, and then he found my Journal, read it I guess, then marked a few pages, but what I don't know is why he read it in the first place?"
"He left after that, he left me a note which didn't imply he was going anywhere important"
Jou shrugged and took a sip of his fanta.
Mai thought this over and mulled it over in her brain, she shrugged, "I don't know, but do you trust him?"
"I don't know, I mean it's not everyday someone finds your journal just to read it, he wanted something out of it, but I don't know what"
"Hmm...Yes very suspicious indeed, He seems like a nice guy; he wouldn't do anything particularly dangerous now would he?"
Jou shrugged looking into orange liquid, swirling it, his mind preoccupied with thoughts
"I don't know Mai, there are a lot of people with Masks out there..."
Kazuya went into his hotel room, and settled down. He looked at his cell phone for any new messages, and found but one.
He called back and put it on speaker
A honey voice calling out to him
"Did you do it?"
"Yes; he was very terrified you should have been there..."
"Yes; I should have, now unto plan b, you know what to do...don't make me have a reason to punish you...I don't think you would like that, now would you?
Kazuya's voice dried up immediately "No"
"Good" with a final cackle the caller hung up, leaving Kazuya to his restless sleep, filled with nightmares.
A/N: this chapter was excessively long, I felt like a robot when typing this chapter, it actually has two parts, but I will make another chapter for it.
Happy Holidays!