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Chapter 9

By the next Monday Kaiba had a list of 9 suspects that hadn't been to his party, meaning that one of them was Katsuya. He hadn't gotten any clues from the young blond, since Tristan had been hovering around all night but it didn't matter. It couldn't be that hard to find out who of the 9 people on his list was the one he was looking for. He was sure to find him out today.

As he reached the school grounds, he saw another blond standing once again at the schools entrance with a smug smile on his stupid face. Seto ignored him and walked by, pretending he didn't even exist. That was until he found out the reason for his smug face. "So ya think I'm hot?" the blond said and the brunet blushed the brightest of red. He regretted that he ever had said something like that and should have known better. Still he just said: "Don't get your hopes up mongrel, you´re still nothing but a stupid street dog that is miles beneath me."

"What a relief. And by de way, nice party I was dere for a moment to check out if I have da send ya to the hospital for hittin on my man but it seemed like Tristan kept ya in check." The blond just said and walked towards the school with a bit of distance after the cold CEO, who once again treated him like air.

Joey had to think of the party Kaiba had thrown. It had been really fun to watch Tristan interfere every single time Seto had tried to flirt with him and Kaiba´s death glares he had gotten in return. It was just to good to be true and the evening had been more than just enjoyable. But still Kaiba was a jerk and he would most likely flip, if he ever found out who the hell Katsuya was.

Like always these days, Joey kept a good eye on the CEO, as well as his surroundings. so he easily noticed that throughout the day he looked down on a cheat of paper and made notes on it. In between the first two classes he had a chance of sneaking it from his fingers and did so, just to see if it had something to do with his plan to find out Katsuyas real identity, which just happened to be him. And indeed it seemed to be all about it. 9 names were on the list, maybe because he had given his invite to a random fan girl of Kaiba's that he had met online and that didn't go to his school, his name wasn't among those 9.

He grinned as he saw that next to more than half of the names was already a too fat or too small or a too tall. And considering who else was on the list, he wouldn't find anything. He grinned and said: "Good luck, he ain´t even on ya stupid list." He grinned as he saw his confused look and this time went ahead to class, certain that he would follow right after, eager for an explanation.

And he was right, Kaiba followed and entered the class right after Joey and went towards him. He positioned himself in front of Joey's desk and slammed his hands onto it, looking down as threateningly towards his rival and said: "Okay, spill it. What did you mean? How can he not be on the list?" Joey just grinned a smug smile and said: "No reason da freak, he's around alright. And so was a fan girl af ya, with his invite at da party of ya's." Kaiba looked down, staring with his worse death glare towards the mutt and said: "Where is he and WHO? I need to know his real name, so spill it." Joey grinned even more and said: "Wow, da genius needs da help of a mutt da find dad out, forget it I aint helpin." By now the CEO was close to hit the rebellious youth in front of him and said: "Just tell me who or are you to scared of the competition?" Joey laughed out one short laughter and said: "Ya aint any competition da me. Katsuya dosn't want ya, so beat it." Kaiba stared at Joey, who just stared back for too long and he knew it but was unwilling to lose the staring contest. "I'll find out with or without your help, so just spill." Kaiba said and Joey gave a sigh and had to break his staring for a quick glance outside, he hadn't done so for too long and he knew it.

And he immediately regretted it for what he saw was not what he wanted to see. There was someone out in a tree far away, too far to even make out a gender but there was something dark there and Joey would bet his last money that it was the killer. And considering how less he or she was moving, the killer was already aiming.

Joey reacted quickly, he knew there wasn't much time to think, but he was trained for this. He slid down off his chair and kicked Kaiba's legs away, causing him to drop to the floor a split second before a shot was heard, followed by the noise of the breaking glass. Everyone screamed. Joey looked towards Yugi, who was still on his seat and screamed to him: "Get the hell out." While sliding further under his table and towards Kaiba, who was trying to get up. "Stay down, idiot." Joey said and pushed him down, while grabbing his own bag and rolled with him towards the window hiding beneath it. Seto stared at him and asked: "What the hell was that?" Most of their classmates where either outside of the room or still at the door, trying to get out.

He took his bag and ripped the bottom open at some lose stitchings of his backpack. "What the hell is going on?" Kaiba asked again, as Joey pulled out what looked like a very thick metal base for the backpack. Joey blushed, he needed to give some kind of explanation to shout him up and make sure he would stay down. But it wasn't the right moment to explain things in details, so he just used the same more female like higher pitched voice he had used for going out with the jerk and said, quoting Seto's statement from the first party: "I doubt you'd understand and I wouldn't want to strain that pretty head of yours." Joey could see his eyes widen for a moment, before he noticed that Kaiba looked towards his own bag for some reason and said: "Don't even try to move, unless you want to end like some kind of swiss cheese."

Seto looked at him and said: "But my phone is in there and how else do you think can we get help?" With this Joey opened up what had looked like a metal base. In it were a lot of metal pieces and a small electronic device with a button which Joey pushed and then said: "Now my boss knows that I need help and to send the cops to were this little thing is and can guess why, since it's only for such cases. Never needed it before. Since I'm still a junior member, I hardly ever have big deal jobs. To be honest, you're the third guy I protected at all but the others were teens of rich guys that the parents wanted to be protected at odd occasions, just to be safe." Joey had kept talking while he put the other metal things together into a gun and started to shrug out of his blue school uniform jacket. It had helped to calm his nerves. Fortunately Kaiba was in his uniform, so he hoped he could trick the killer with it and distract him.

"You're kidding, right?" Kaiba said, staring at the gun in Joey's hand.

"Nope, you might think that you're the best at everything, moneybags. But you're not, this is my thing. This is what I've trained and you haven't, so just stay the hell down and do as I say." Joey really enjoyed ordering the mighty Kaiba around. Joey gave him his jacket and said: "When I say "now", just throw it up but make sure it's not too curled up. I want him to think that you're making a run for the door." Joey sneaked to the end of the window staying down so he couldn't be seen and said "now". Joey waited till he heard another gunshot, he had hoped it wouldn't come but it came. And what was worse, it sounded louder than the first. For a second Joey considered that it was due to his fear the killer might approach them or simply that there was no one, and that for no other sounds in the room but he had a feeling that he was approaching them. And what made it worse, the direction didn't match the trees he was in. There was only one thing he could do now. He had to try and scare him into leaving or make him incapable of approaching any further. Joey decided to try and scare him, before slowly raising his head just enough to see and then quickly got the gun up, he only aimed towards the general direction of the killer and shot three bullets through the already destroyed glass, hoping none would hit but that it would scare him off long enough till the police would reach them. He kept the other bullets, in case he needed to shoot again and hit him. He watched a second what would happen and saw the killer fall to the ground . He watched and saw him trying to get away, crawling rather than walking, while Joey ducked again. He went over to Kaiba and said: "You should be fine but to be safe, you should stay down. Got it?"

Kaiba just looked at Joey for a moment and mumbled: "You're Katsuya." Which caused Joey to roll his eyes, as he said: "No genius, I'm Santa's cousin, the easter bunny." Kaiba stared a little more and said grinning: "Nope, you're still my mutt." But he smiled at Joey, who just looked to the floor, silent for the moment. Both young man sat there for a while, Kaiba watched Joey, who still was holding on to the gun and his hands were slightly shaking. Every now and then he would peck out of the window. Just to make sure that the killer wasn't coming for them again. After a long while Kaiba asked: "You're alright?" Joey looked at him for a moment and said: "Nope, I'm still alone with a jerk." Kaiba chuckled and asked: "Is that why your hands are shaking? You're scared of me?"

"Yah right. About as much as I'm scared of a cute little helpless bunny." Joey just answered.

"Then why are your hands shaking?" Seto asked, sounding a little worried.

Joey watched out of the window again and mumbled: "He hasn't moved in a while."

"Who? The killer? Because then I'm glad."

"I might have killed him." Joey said, still with shaking hands. He was worried that he might have killed someone himself, he knew he was only defending someone and that the other was a professional, most likely and killed god knows how many and still would, if he wasn't caught. But he still was worried. He had a special training and he had protected others before but he had never actually come close to a real threat for anyone, nor had he ever aimed to another human being. And it wasn't something he would want to do again.

Seto watched him for a moment and then just said: "Either way, you saved my life. Thank you." Joey stared at him speechless. Had Seto Kaiba just thanked him? Seto fucking Kaiba had actually thanked him. Unbelievable, so miracles do happen. Both boys were silent again, until they heard a police siren. Kaiba looked at Joey, who just shook his head for the moment. Less than 2 minutes later Joey's phone rang. He picked it up and heard his boss on the other end of the line. "You two are okay, I hope?" Joey took a deep breath and said: "Alive and kicking."

"Great, you two can come out from wherever you are. You know the drill." After that, the line was dead and Joey said to Kaiba, who only had heard Joey's part of the conversation: "They got him, we can come out. You go ahead, I guess you don't want everyone to know what's going on?"

Kaiba said: "I don't mind right now."

Joey looked at him in surprise but said: "You´re sure, you're not in a shock or something? You're not acting normal."

Seto smiled a bit and said: "I wouldn't be in shock about someone trying to kill me, but that you're Katsuya, well maybe I am in shock."

Joey rolled his eyes and said: "Just get the hell out, they´re waiting."

Please Review

To Leviathan of the Sea, we have so much that I'm getting sick of it.

To Amilla, I can't update as fast as usual at the moment, since it was Christmas and my niece´s birthday and New year and I only see my parents for about 5 weeks a year in total and that's a high estimate and I just want to spent some time with them as well. And on top of that, my friend who is spell checking, is also studying for some important tests that she has to go to soon and she can't spell check as fast as usual either and studying goes first, so I'm afraid you'll need to be patient but on the bright side, I'm not going to start the next story until this one is done, so all the time for writing I have goes into this one and once I'm back in Ireland and hopefully the snow isn't as bad anymore soon, so I can go back to the usual routine, I'll update much faster.

And to Akki, I wanted to also thank you for the really nice review you left on Beloved Slave for me. It's the favourite of mine and I put a lot of work into the research on it and I'm really glad to hear that it paid off. And once this story is done, I´ll do one more and then I'll do a sequel to Beloved slave and there will be a poll about a detail of the story up on my profile. I hope you'll like that, too.