IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT!! - This is the Yu-Gi-Oh! Yaoi portion of the Shipping List in order. Be forewarned. Some "pairings" will not be fluffy and cute. But they will all, hopefully, be believable. Rating's will vary.

Disclaimer: Yu-Gi-Oh! is the intellectual property of Kazuki Takahashi

Author's Note: I think of this kind of like after-effects of being possessed... There are actually 5 more pairings with "possessed" Jounouchi! I don't know that they'll all be handled this way, specifically, but this angle seemed to work well for this pairing.

Rating: T (low)


Yu-Gi-Oh! Shipping List #27 - "Excuses and Worry"

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Biteshipping (Seto x Possessed Katsuya x Yuugi)

Jounouchi Katsuya was having trouble remembering what it felt like to be … himself. Whenever he tried to think, it would always…slip away, like grains of sand through his fingers, making him feel the futility of ever trying to grasp it in the first place. Time was distorted somehow, like he'd been walking down this hallway for the last hour even though he knew it couldn't have been more than a few short minutes - though he never remembered having set out at all. He didn't know where he was going, why he was going there, why one foot kept moving mechanically in front of the other, or why none of those things mattered to him in the slightest. Somehow, deep down, he just knew he had to reach the end of this hallway and finally, as the hallway came to its end, opening out into a larger room, a cafeteria maybe, he knew why.

There he was, Seto Kaiba, walking across the area headed in a different direction, but he stopped when he saw Jounouchi. Jounouchi smiled. Yes, Seto Kaiba was definitely the reason he had needed to come this way. Beautiful, cold, cruel Seto Kaiba. Jououchi's head inclined slightly to the side as he regarded Seto who by now was frowning back at him in irritation.

"Did you want something, Jounouchi?" he asked, voice sharp, patience thin.

Jounouchi's grin slid into a leer and widened as he approached the other and with each step, Seto Kaiba began to feel the dire need to step back rise within him, just beneath the surface. Something wasn't right here. Seto knew Katsuya Jounouchi and Katsuya Jounouchi did not look at him with those eyes; eyes that seemed to be slowly searing through every single layer of his defenses one by one with every approaching step - clothing, skin, icy wall that kept others at a distance and did not crumble so easily. Despite the slowly rising emotion that in anyone else might have manifested as panic, Seto stood his ground until Jounouchi finally reached him, standing well within his personal space and looking up at him with half-lidded eyes and slightly parted lips.

"Actually, there was something…" the blonde drawled, enjoying Seto's obvious discomfort more than was healthy.

Seto might have voiced a reply, sometime in the next four minutes, had he been granted the time, but instead, Jounouchi rocked forward, rising slightly on his feet, until he was nose to nose with Seto. His hands planted themselves firmly on Seto's shoulders, chest pressed against the form-fitting black shirt he wore, and with no further dialogue, covered Seto's lips with his mouth, forcing him to react.

It took Seto a moment to realize that it was a kiss…Jounouchi was kissing him. Katsuya Jounouchi who on more than one occasion had declared him to be, in so many words: a rat bastard with the soul of a snake; passionate, stubborn-as-an-ass Katsuya Jounouchi, who was ninety percent of the time glued to Yugi's hip, was kissing him. And what was Seto doing about it? It took him another moment to realize that he was kissing Jounouchi back. No sooner had that realization hit home than Seto planted his hands firmly on the shorter teen's upper arms and firmly shoved him back, giving the other a venomous glare.

"What's gotten into you?!" he hissed, demanding an explanation.

That leering grin returned to Jounouchi's face. His eyes, Seto noticed for the first time, were amused but empty. "Hmm. Your tongue, I think." he drawled, cocking his head to the side slightly as he regarded Seto with the amusement of a tiger regarding a trapped mouse.

Seto Kaiba released Jounouchi so fast that anyone watching might have laughed, saying they'd finally witnessed the expression of a man who'd just seen cooties. Seto finally took that step back, much to the chagrin of his pride which assaulted him immediately causing him to first plant his feet firmly on the ground, then determinedly stride forward, grabbing Jounouchi as he passed and forcing the other to stumble along with him.

"Where are we going?" Jounouchi asked behind him but Seto ignored him. He couldn't speak, because just now he wasn't quite sure what would come out of his mouth if he did.

In moments, they arrived at a door that to Jounouchi appeared just like any other random silver door in the hall. They were all the same, as if nothing at all were behind them until they had slid aside. Seto pounded on the door in a way that clearly said whoever was inside had better open it in the next two seconds or else.

Immediately, the door parted from the wall with a whoosh, as if obeying Seto's silent order in fear, revealing Yugi on the other side of it with a worried, if slightly tired, expression. "Seto?" It was all he managed to get out before Seto hurled Jounouchi in his direction with a look of disgust. Yugi's eyes widened as he caught his friend. "Jounouchi?"

"Oh, Yugi…" Jounouchi latched onto him happily. Of course it was Yugi. That made perfect sense.

"Do something about him." Seto elaborated, the disgust in his voice giving way to slight exasperation.

Yugi looked his friend over worriedly. "Did something happen?"

"Well obviously he's drunk." Seto answered, clearly avoiding the inquiry.

Yugi's eyes narrowed suspiciously but a strange sensation where Jounouchi was snuggled against his neck distracted him suddenly, pulling a strangled "Eeek!" from somewhere in his throat. It took him a moment to realize what the blonde was doing.

Seto took pity and pulled the lanky teen away by the back of his shirt. Yugi could only stare at the other with shock. Jounouchi meanwhile, completely undaunted, turned back to Seto with that lecherous grin in place that sent chills down Seto's spine. "That wasn't a very long turn." he observed and Seto knew that his face was inexcusably, violently scarlet.

Suddenly, spurned on by some apparently internal conflict, Yugi bolted for the bedside stand where he'd already deposited his Sennin Puzzle for the night and upon returning with it, pressed it between himself and Jounouchi who froze in Seto's grasp, his face going blank before slumping forward, eyes rolling back as he lost consciousness. Seto had to put an arm around his chest just to hold him up.

Seto stared down at the limp form in his arms. It was alcohol, he told himself. Because that made sense. But his stomach knotted slightly at the thought even as he etched it into his brain as the final word on the subject.

"Could you carry him to the bed, please?" Yugi's voice was small and distant and Seto didn't think much of the request as he carried it out. He lay Jounouchi on top of the blankets and moved to stand, but a hand caught the tail of his shirt and for a moment, Seto just stared at it.

It was Yugi who finally spoke up. "You can stay for a while…if you'd like." he said, giving Seto the briefest of glances before crawling over Jounouchi, carefully placing his pendant around his friend's neck before settling himself on the other side of him.

"I suppose it wouldn't be appropriate, to leave him alone with you…drunk as he is…" Seto said, almost to himself, the excuse nevertheless in the air should he need it later. Seto took a seat on the edge of the bed, sitting in just such a way that it was clear he did not mean to stay there the whole night.

Yugi's eyes narrowed but even then he was more full of worry for Jounouchi than bitterness toward Seto for his accusations. He didn't reply. It didn't do any good to tell Seto Kaiba he was wrong. Yugi had been down that road too many times but he knew, he knew that Jounouchi did not get drunk. He knew, and all he could do was worry.


Post whatevers: Next up is: Pegasus x Honda. As always, if you liked, please review! Ja!