Thanks to Dragna Vey, Yami Ace and Neko for their reviews. And to Yami Ace and Neko, who I couldn't send a reply to since it has been denied. Don't worry I never stop a story, I just love writing them too much.

Chapter 2

Joey was in his room, getting ready for school. He lived with his father, who was always in between jobs. It wasn't that he was lazy or anything like it, but he had a bad knee since an accident, shortly after his mother had left. And it was hard for him to find a job with it. Joey on the other hand had one. He had found an article about it online and applied for it. He had gotten to go on a training trip with 50 people in total. Only the 5 best would actually get employed afterwards. He had been the best and was now working for the strangest bodyguard agency he could imagine. He had to learn how to dress like a girl and hated it. But it was the only down side. He loved the job. He already had gotten to fancy parties and eat some food there for free and it was an easy job. All he had to do was to keep an eye on every spot were a someone with a good gun might try to shot the person he was with and if someone would show and try, he pulled them into safety.

So far he hadn't had many jobs, because he was a junior in it, like everyone that was still in school was called, but he still got payed a little on a regular basis and to go to all the cool training trips that were organized by the company. The last one was about bombs defusing. It had been so cool. They had blown up a few things and also learned how to build one, since it would help with defusing it. The building and blowing up part had been epic. Joey's bomb had completely demolished a trailer and left nothing but a few shuddered remains. It had been the most fun in a very long time. Joey was made for this job. He loved action and was already missing all the fun with the shadow games and all that creepy stuff that had been going on as Yugi and Yami had shared a body.

Just as Joey left the building and went to school, he got a text message from his boss. He was psyched as he saw who had massaged him. There wouldn't be another trip till the next school holidays and so he must have another job. He opened the message to read the details and nearly screamed. Suddenly the job was much less appealing. He had to protect none other than Seto fucking Kaiba. Unnoticed of course, that was the main thing in this company he worked for. The massage said that even Mister Kaiba himself didn't know who it was at the moment. Not until he would need to be accompanied to a party, and of course with a girl. Joey just prayed that Seto would not recognise him or he was so dead. If Kaiba would tell everyone in school about him dressing up as a girl for his job, that would just suck. But then again he probably wouldn't dare, because then Joey might just explain why he had dressed as a girl and where and why Kaiba had seen that and then all the secrecy with the bodyguard was gone and he must not want people to know that he had one. That was so typical that Seto fucking Kaiba didn't want to look like the whimp he obviously was.

Joey knew that Kaiba had been shot the day before but quickly decided to pretend he didn't. Even Yugi didn't know about his job and no one in school would expect Joey to watch the news. His boss was a different matter. If he got a call, he needed to be up to date on business talk and politics, so he could blend in on some high and mighty business party. If such things ever could be called a party. A funeral was more lively than these so called partys. Joey quickly ran to school, he was from now on expected to be there before Kaiba did arrive, so he could check the perimeter but he had gotten the text late, so he had to really hurry now.

Once there, he saw that Kaiba just arrived so he slowed down and walked behind him with a little distance, just so he could keep an eye on him and his surroundings. It was luck that they had all classes together. That is all but one, Joey would need and try to switch that one. But he could do that for tomorrow. This was short notice and he also couldn't blow his cover. He would try and switch after school, once the moneybags was gone. Or try to think of something else till then. The message had said only school and party trips, so as soon as Kaiba was off school grounds and in his limousine, he was someone else's problem.

After Joey walked into the class room, he had to pass Kaiba's desk to get to his own seat. As he passed, he couldn't help but give him a little slap on the visibly wounded and bandaged shoulder. Not too hard, he didn't want to risk reopening the fresh wound, he just wanted to cause him a bit of pain and most of all get on his nerves. As he did so, he said: "What de hell happened to ya, moneybags?" Joey still taked with a bit of his brooklyn accent to friends and classmates. But for work and fancy 'partys' he had learned how to speak properly. But in school it would have looked strange if he, all of a sudden and after one summer, had lost his accent and couldn't even give a reason why he had practised so hard to get rid of it. It had been the hardest part of that first training camp for Joey.

"AHHH, you idiot. Don't you watch any news and in case you don't, can't you even see that I have a bandage and the arm in a sling? Honestly how stupid are you mutt?" Seto said, looking a bit mad but still not as mad as Joey had hoped to get him.

"Sorry moneybags, but I'm not some fan chick dat fallows ya evry move on TV or stuff." Joey just said, hoping to annoy him even more. He knew Seto would soon repay him, even if he didn't figure out who he was, Kaiba still would get on his last nerves. He always did.

"Just don't do that again. I don't want to get your fleas." Seto just said, still not letting on what happened.

"Let me guess, ya got beaten up by a baby.. dad's why ya avoidin my question." Joey said with a wide grin.

But Seto just said: "Only if that baby learned how to shoot someone from somewhere hidden. But, considering how bad the aim was, it might have been a baby."

Joey was surprised. He didn't look scared enough to hire a bodyguard but maybe he had just a lot of trust in his, even if he didn't know who it was. Still Joey kept talking. "Can't have been dat bad an aim, if ya got a hole in ya."

"I'm still standing, aren't I? So can't have been a good aim either and now stop getting on my nerves. I've got better things to do than discuss my life with a mutt like you. You're nothing but a waist of my air." And after that, Seto got his laptop out and started typing. Even with one hand he was faster than Joey could ever dream of being with two.

After a little while his friends Yugi and Yami came together. Yami had come back a few months after the final game, between him and Yugi. He had lost and was gone but a few months later he was back, all of a sudden. Yami just said, that it was boring in the after life. No action whatsoever, and that he had missed Yugi and wished to be with him all the time and more every day. And one day he just was standing outside in the desert, close to a city. No one knew how. He had walked there and sought out Ishizu Ishtar who had helped him to get back to Yugi. It took them less than five minutes to get together. It was the cutest thing ever. Ishizu had phoned them and told them, that he was on his way in a plane and the whole gang had been at the airport to pick him up.

Once Yami had been in sight, Yugi had run towards him and Yami towards Yugi, they had hugged tightly and Yami had started to play with Yugi's hair for a moment. And then he had said: "I can't believe that I'm finally able to hold you in my arms, to touch your soft hair. I can't even believe that I can see you standing in front of me, looking into my eyes. You can't believe how happy I am." Yugi had blushed and just whispered: "Half as happy as I am, because I had wished for you to come back to me for so long. I missed you so much, to talk to you. You've been a part of me for so long and helped me with so much, but to really be able to be in your strong arms is much better than just talk." This had brought a smile to Yami's face and he had whispered something no one had understood, but Yugi had asked "What?" afterwards and then Yami had kissed him. And of course Yugi had kissed back. Ever since the two were inseperable, just like before. But this time next to each other and holding hands.

Sometimes Joey envied them. He hadn't been able to find his special someone. There were a few he found attractive but it wasn't really love. And he didn't think that anyone was truly in love with him either. Not like Yami and Yugi loved each other. The way they could get lost in the others eyes was something not many couples had. Duke and Tristan for example. They were a couple for a while now, but not like Yugi and Yami. Sometimes it seemed with Yugi and Yami, like they just needed to look the other in the eye for a second to know what the other wanted, and sometimes it looked so much like it, that Joey wondered if that mind link they used to have while sharing a body was still working. Duke and Tristan on the other hand, were fighting nearly as often as not but the make up seemed to be worth it, considering the hot make out sessions they sometimes even started in the school hallway, forgetting everything around them until a teacher would break them up. But somehow Joey even envied them for each other. Everyone of Joey's friends was in a relationship at the moment. Mai was with that Valon guy they had met during their fight with Dartz. And unbelievable as it sounds, Tea was actually dating Bandit Keith. Joey would probably never get what she saw in that jerk but somehow it worked out, at least for the moment. But Joey had his doubts that they would still be together in a year or two. Yugi and Yami and maybe even Tristan and Duke were more likely to have a longer lasting relationship.

Joey hated that he was the only single in the gang. Even his little sister already had some boyfriend from her school. He longed to have someone as well, he didn't even care if it was a guy or a girl. As long as he wasn't the only single. Everyone would probably think the same, after hanging out with this bunch of friends for one afternoon. Duke and Tristan kissing, Tea was out with her boyfriend, the jerk. And Yami and Yugi would just stare into each others eyes and probably not even notice if the world would end.

Joey kept looking out for danger for Kaiba. Even while his friends came one after the other. First because it was his job and second, even if he didn't like Kaiba, they had been trough a lot together and he didn't want him to die like that. And the danger for his life was real, his shoulder was the prove for that.

Please review. And now that you know a bit about the background of Joey's training and his friends, we can start with the fun part..