A/N:
-Back, didn't take meh long, ne?!:3 Happy?
-Well moving right along…
Disclaimer:
Seto: Ch 20...
Fluffy: -sighs- an I still own nothing -sad-
Jou: Yea, well on wit da story…
Fluffy: Hmph, he's excited wonder y…-smirks-
Seto: right…
Last Time:
I shoved him off of me, roughly, and pulled open the vehicle's door. The limo had stopped for awhile now, though I hadn't taken notice for obvious reasons. Trees surrounded us, green, I didn't note anything further, it was likely the location I'd directed the driver to bring us to, anyway. My head spun as stumbled from the limo, nearly crawling from the vehicle.
Not a moment too soon, as the next second I emptied the contents of my stomach into the bushes.
A hesitant hand found Kaiba's shoulder, "K-Kaiba?" Jounouchi's voice was extremely soft.
The brunet in question gasped quietly(as one only could in the situation) as another wave of nausea over took him. That was closely followed by another round of retching into the bushes.
Jou responded by staring a moment at him, too shocked, confused, and dazed to react much further then finally pulled himself together and stumbled over to the stopped limo. Glancing over his shoulder at the still-vomiting-teen behind him he crawled into the open door and searched for a towel, water, and anything else that would be useful to a near-criminal-rapist and his puking-his-guts-out-victim. Though he hated that term.
With a bottle of water, travel sack of napkins, and the bundle of the disregarded clothes in hand the blond teen sauntered over to crouched brunet who had now managed to somewhat console himself. Or so Jou thought, upon closer inspection he found the condition of the other's mental and emotional state much worst while the retching had slacked off a bit.
Pausing the-criminal-to-be(as he was sure he was heading for like this) settled on his knees next to the-mess-of-a-man-victim and dropped the contents of his arms. He didn't speak as he draped a shirt over Seto's shoulders and picked up the bottled water off the ground.
The-now-thoroughly-broken-CEO whimpered and collapsed huddled on the ground, his hands clenched his stomach as he gasped and tried to regain his breath. The tears beading in his closed eyes finally spilled down his flushed cheeks and he gave out final strangled cry.
Jounouchi merely stared, eyes wide with a mix of horror and shock. Kaiba, he was puking, he was crying, screaming, Kaiba was reacting, broken.
Like Jou had wanted?
This pain, torment, sorrow, misery, reaction?
How could Jou have wanted that?
He didn't.
"Kaiba?" remorse coated his words.
Seto didn't respond, his muscles simply clenched as he attempted to curl himself into an even tighter ball, hiding from the world. Loud-un-Kaiba-like-cries ripped from his throat and powerful sobs wracked his frail frame. His body shook as he cried like he had probably never done before, even when he was a child. He choked on his sobs causing coughs to mix with the cries which seemed to make the cries grow more heavy as he'd now fully lost all control of his body and dropped all protective walls and now just reacted to what he felt. No thoughts.
"Kaiba! Damn it!" Katsuya growled.
Said brunet jumped at the loud voice and turned sharply, swinging his arm out and smacking the younger teen across his face. He flailed backward with the sudden blow and ended up flat out on his ass. Staring up at the offending teen., Jounouchi took another second to register the actions and positions played before growling nosily at the older teen.
"What's da ma-" he cut himself off as he lunged at the other. Jou's hands grabbed his shoulders and shoved him to the ground, as he then used his body to pin him down.
Kaiba whimpered quietly and stared up at the man dominating him. His eyes were wide, wild, and dark with scorching hot emotion. Two swirling deep-ocean-like vortexes of pain, confusion, and fear. His fair skinned face had reddened with crying and screaming. Tears had caught in his lashes while others threatened to shove them aside and take their place.
Suddenly, quite so as Jounouchi had no time to react, Seto shoved him off and punched him across his face. Hard.
Causing him to once more flail backwards and on his ass.
Hissing loudly Katsuya spit blood from his mouth and did the only thing he could, punched Seto across his face. That lead to both boys attacking one another.
Kaiba punched Jounouchi.
Jounouchi punched Kaiba.
In a matter of seconds they were both beating each other at full force, slamming their fists into skulls, grabbing handfuls of hair, shoving their bodies against the ground, and anything they could manage in the violence-drunken state.
"Man, where the hell did Jounouchi run off to?" Honda groaned as he worked with getting his locker open.
"He does seem to skip class, a lot, but c'mon! He's gonna really end up in some trouble if he don't cut it out. He's already flunking!" he more over muttered to the others exhaustedly .
Said others, Yuugi, Anzu, and Ryou(-yay- enter Ryou!!hehex3), decided against commenting on that. They knew, if only half as well, where Jounouchi had likely ran off to this time. With the noted absence of another classmate of theirs, though not as close a friend. Kaiba.
Yuugi knew, for the most part, the basics of the situation.
Anzu knew nearly just as much.
Honda was left with unconfirmed suspicions, but had mostly pieced the rest together considering how close his friendship with the blond was.
Ryou had been non the wiser till recently, and so now had been brought into everything, though he still knew much less than the others. He had had his suspicions and so had asked, which then was rewarded with vague answers.
The spiky haired brunet glanced back at the trio that were now waiting on him to head on to their next class. He was sure Yuugi knew more about the 'Jounouchi thing' than he let on, same for Anzu, Ryou was clueless. That he was sure of. He really needed to know more, preferably before something happened. Something bad?
"Honda-kun…" Yuugi finally spoke up, though he wasn't sure what he was going to say after that.
"Jounouchi needs help, we can't leave him alone with this!" Anzu supplied, much to the shorter teens relief.
"I know!" it was hissed from the tallest of the four.
"So, it is with Kaiba, the reasons for all this?" Ryou interjected, worry clear in his features.
"Yes, Jounouchi and Kaiba, about them…" Anzu started up, she was growing tired too. "They, I believe, have a sexual relationship…of sorts."
The reaction was quick, Yuugi remained quiet and thoughtful - he had been made aware of the situation, Honda's eyes widened almost inhumanly mouth hanging agape, Ryou was as shocked(or more so) as the brunet. All eyes remained on Anzu as they waited for the information to sink in.
"Their…?" The millennium ring owner started confused. He had known that they had been spending more time with one another than he had previously thought they would have liked. Jounouchi had followed Kaiba out of the classroom during lunch. He had also known their had been something with the two teens, something between them for a while now.
"Oh, so…" the brunet started. Sure he had know their was something between them, akin to attraction or adoration or whatever…But this had come as news to him, almost as much as to Ryou. Yeah, so his best friend was gay? Okay, so he was into the guy who called him a 'Mutt' and all? That was kind of strange, even for Honda. So yeah, he was shocked but it was okay with him. Jou could sleep with who ever he wanted to.
"Well I'm happy for them!" Ryou spoke up first, "Oh, should we congratulate them or leave it be till they tell us themselves?" he was practically bouncing of the walls with excitement, though he managed to remain meek and calm in outside appearances.
"Yeah, good for them!" Honda agreed cheerfully.
"Whoa-whoa, hang on you guys…" the brunette tried to calm them down quickly before continuing her tale. "Their not 'together'-"she was cut off before she could explain any further.
"A one night stand?! Kaiba- that bastard!" Honda nearly shouted, thoroughly enraged by the thought.
"Oh dear, do we need to be discussing this without Jou-" it was Anzu's turn to interrupt.
"No! It's also not like that, well from what I know…" and for the first time that day she wished that the bell signaling the end of lunch wouldn't have rung before she had had the chance to fully explain everything to Honda, who had patiently waited. Then again, this could be for the best.
Earlier, when Jounouchi had ran out during lunch, she had given Honda a very vague explanation due to the aforementioned bell. It had consisted of "He's having guy trouble with Kaiba." not in so many words but that had been the basics of it. She hadn't exactly told him "Jounouchi is gay and he's into Kaiba…but now their going through some - what I believe to be 'dominance issues' with the whole 'fucking issue'. But close enough.
Ryou had gotten an even more vague answer, "Kaiba problems." Though Anzu had been kind enough to fill him in on how Jou had ran out during lunch and her assumption of who with.
All in all they needed to have a nice heart to heart preferably with the younger Kaiba brother who would have a different side of the story as well as in put Who could also grace them with another opinion. It was his older brother involved after all.
"So what exactly is going on?" Hiroto demanded his last ounce of patience on the issue gone, he wanted to know just what the hell was wrong with his best friend and what his best friends ex-rival had to do with it all. Weren't they now lovers or not?
"I'm not fully sure myself, I know their having problems, um…sexual ones." Anzu more over muttered, cheeks tinting crimson.
"So-" the brunet started but was quickly cut off by the brunette, "Not now, Honda, after school we're going over to see Mokuba. We can talk there." she glanced around as if to say 'the walls have ears'.
Honda gave a sigh and nod, understanding but not being any happier about it.
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Jounouchi panted heavily, he lay with his arms out stretched at his sides with his legs similar in a way that one would prepare to make 'snow angel' only he was without the snow. Sweat beaded and dripped down his brow in long streams. He had somehow managed to pull his cotton boxers back on during the fight, leaving him no longer fully exposed.
His lightened honey gaze swept over the sky, light blue with small wisps of white clouds. Tree arms stretched into view framing the blue skies with dark brown bark and forest green leaves. The high past noon sun sent it's beams through the leaves that surrounded them at all directions, causing a beautiful light shimmering effect that would inspire most any artist to paint the most breath taking of pictures. He didn't know where they were but he was sure he had never been here before, some old unpopulated area of some sort. Most probably a park.
Merely a foot from the blond lay Seto, in the same style as the other, arms spread to his sides and legs like wise. His breathing was also heavy, though his nausea had gone he did look thoroughly worn out. Sweat streamed down his cheeks and brow. The school uniform jacket was his only form of cover, he was thankful for it.
The sky matched his cloudless sapphire orbs as they washed over it lost in his thoughts and once more, mildly surprised by this, calmed by their surroundings. This had been a place he often visited when he was upset or simply needed a moment to himself, away from the stressful life of a CEO. It was an old abandoned park, it had been for years, no one ever seemed to visit the location. Not in today's busy economy worried world. So he was glad for the secret little place to himself.
It was beautiful, with trees and plants, animals and other living things that weren't plagued by the busy world outside. The place just left you feeling calm, at peace with the world.
"Hmn, Kaiba…" Katsuya practically moaned and rolled onto his side, looking at the teen beside him. He leaned his head against his arm lazily, a half smile on his lips.
The brunet tensed instantly at the voice, his head slowly rolling to the side to see the one speaking. His sapphire like eyes wide as he spoke up quietly "What..?" all sense of calmness and serenity left him.
"Ah this place, Kaiba, we need to talk…"he answered his voice drifting off in what Kaiba could only place as hesitation.
"We've already tried that, remember?" was the half sarcastic response.
He ignored the irritation that welled up, "I mean, fer real, really talk!" the blond rolled back onto his back his honey gaze drifting back to the sky.
"Yes, I suppose we do…"
"So," Jou started.
"Why?"
"Why?"
"Yes, why?" Seto confirmed.
"No, why?"
"Yes, why?"
"Damn it! Why did, are…Why?!" Jou sat up glaring at the other.
The brunet sat up as well quickly, fear leaping into his sapphire orbs before he could stifle the emotion. His body rigid with the thoughts that there would end up being round three, or a continuing of round two.
"Why are you, why? Just why? You make things so difficult!"
"Why am I, me?" the brunet responded "Why, is that why you..?"
"Yes, fuck yes! That's the whole reason behind all this shit! You, and your heartlessness!" Jou growled heatedly.
"I see, this was all to…get my attention?" Seto question, brow knitting together in some attempt to understand.
"Damn it!" the younger cried and fell backward onto the ground behind him.
"What? So you raped me for the sake of proving to me you weren't a worthless Mutt? All of this and for what? To simply prove yourself? Do you give a damn? Will there be tomorrow or simply just…Why? All this and it makes no sense what so ever!"
"No! Yes! Fuck! It's, I mean…" honey eyes narrowed in concentration. "Kaiba, ya don't get it…"
"Get what?" he snapped back.
"Anything!" was cried back, loudly. "Any-fucking-thing! I did this 'cuz…'cuz I had no other choice! I mean c'mon! You, me, it's so stupid! All da fightin 'n shit. I jus' wanted ta, ta, I'm not worthless!" the blond sat back up, his honey-gold eyes wide with emotions.
"You wanted to prove that." it was a statement. "All this? All this?!" Seto rasped out, his voice cracked, pain clear in his blue crystal like eyes. "Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!" he muttered more to himself as he covered half his face with his hand and turned away.
"Nn, y-yeah…" Jounouchi muttered, wanting to add 'I'm sorry, Kaiba, really! I got upset and did many things I shouldn't have!' Or something close, an apology at least. Instead he simply stated "I had to, it was the only way…" though it was spoken quietly.
Raging hot blue hurricane-like eyes glared viciously at the blond, silently growling 'you had to rape me?! The only way was to rape me?'
"Kaiba," Katsuya sighed, it wasn't like what he did was wrong. Well it was, but, it was necessary if they wanted to get anywhere. Kaiba had finally reacted, and that was because what Jounouchi had done. Now Kaiba was forced to look at Jou differently, more of an equal instead of an 'worthless Mutt'. Their relationship had changed.
For better or worst though?
With what Jou did, Kaiba would…
"Where does that leave us now?" he asked half to himself.
After what he had done Kaiba would hate him, he'd never forgive him, not that Jou would ask for forgiveness.
"Us?" Kaiba hissed back, he sat up eyes looking down. No there wasn't an 'us' or 'we'. He didn't really expect him to forget what had happened between them like that.
Jou sighed, "I mean what now, do you wanna go back, how things were?" his brow knitted itself together. "Ya know, jus' ignore each other's presence? Forget everything? Like before, ya want dat?" he paused, thinking, they would go back to their lives. Back before all this, back to ignoring each other, back to what it was like before Jounouchi's move to force a reaction from him, back in time.
He didn't want that, but…
Kaiba hated him more than ever now.
"Dat'd be best, ne?" No, his mind screamed, I don't wanna go back! I wanna…
TBC…
A/N:
-phew-
-Wo-oo-ow, diz came to me easy enough(lucky) nxt 1 will be HARD! I jus' kno…
-heheh, diz ch was a lot longer than I had panned, u don't mind tho, ne??
-More importantly, there wnt b dat many more chs to diz, dats right -nods- 'Understanding you' iz nearing itz end! T-T another few(about 5) chs…tho originally it was 10 bt, yup, inspiration on jus how it would flow! -yay- so make sure to lemme kno if theres anything u think I need to add between here an there! Kay?
-nxt ch will b up soon, so cya thn!
-Fluffy-