Thanks to mandapandabug, Jane Volturi Au1, ShadowPrincess96 and TearfullPixie for the reviews.
And a special thanks again to firstForward, for fixing my spelling and grammar mistakes.

Chapter 18

The rest of the date night was rather uneventful. And after the first three weeks of the 'test month' were over Joey had fallen into a routine with his dragon. He was always there by the time the CEO got home from work. He would get a little kiss and actually say, "Welcome home dragon." They would always have a little awkward conversation about each other's day before something would trigger a little bit of teasing which both enjoyed every time. And towards the end both would start a wrestling match, which tended to end on Seto's king sized bed. And the reason that it only 'tended' to end there instead of always end there was that on some nights, they didn't make it all the way to the bed, sometimes not even off the couch or they landed on some floor in the house. By the end of the three weeks Joey wondered if there was any room left in the bloody mansion that they hadn't 'fought' in.

Of course Mokuba's bedroom had been spared, his game room was another story since Joey had been playing in it alone one night when Mokuba had been out on a sleepover before Seto had been back. And Joey hoped dearly that the boy would never find out about that.

But the 'fights' weren't all that they did. Once a week Seto had taken him out. The first time to the concert, the second to a fancy restaurant where they had classical music playing in the background that was played live by some music students to earn some money for college. There would always be four acts switching every now and then and some of them were really talented and Joey had to admit that he had enjoyed the dinner especially since they had a table a bit off, to a side and shielded from sight as well. It felt sort of private that way and yet it allowed them to enjoy the music. And in the last week so far he had taken him to something truly amazing in Joey's eyes. Seto had invested in a movie that was about Duel Monsters, and it was set in an alternate dimension where they lived and the main rolls were the Dark Magician and Dark Magician Girl who were in love with each other but fought in a war on different sides. Basically a worn out, boring love story but the fact that it was about Duel Monsters had made it interesting. Seto of course had loved that the Blue-Eyes and the Red-Eyes dragon, both had been in one dragon clan that was neutral to the war and the white dragon had of course been the leader of the dragons. And Joey had absolutely loved it too, or rather Katsuya had, who by now was still all over the magazines as Kaiba's love interest that was still dating his rival Joey Wheeler. The girls were jealous of her or admired her style while most guys wanted to get ahead of Kaiba and be the one to steal her off of Joey.

Sometimes Joey couldn't help but wonder what might be in news and magazines if they find out who Katsuya really was. Maybe "Joey Pranks the World" or "Kaiba Has Been Tricked". Either way it would probably not be too kind towards him.

It didn't matter. The man behind the killer was still free and the police were no closer. At least there hadn't been any other attempt yet but who knew if the cause for it all was just biding his or her time. Joey could not risk to let down his guard. His dragon was in danger and he needed to keep him safe. He even had once said to Tristan and Yami that they maybe all should keep an eye out during school for someone suspicious who might be outside. They had been surprised but had agreed that it was best for everyone's safety in case a shot would go wrong and hit someone else. Joey was glad about the extra eyes even if they were more or less untrained. But he had pointed out some places like the trees and bushes that would make a good hiding spot and sure enough Yami had asked how he could be so sure about what needed to be done and where they needed to keep a lookout. Joey had shrugged and said that he had seen bodyguard movies with loads of action in them and that that had been the typical hiding places in them.

Tristan and Duke had accepted the excuse, or let's say Tristan had pretended to do so. He knew the places to keep an eye on since they had been at a training camp together. But unlike Joey, Tristan had been denied a job, and since the ones out weren't supposed to know who got in, Joey had said he hadn't either. Now Tristan assumed that Joey had just repeated what he had learned back in the summer where he had learned it too and still remembered a bit. But he still believed that Joey just had suggested to keep an eye out to protect others and had no idea that Joey was Kaiba's bodyguard.

Yami and Yugi on the other side seemed to still think it strange. Joey knew that he would need to be extra careful around these two friends for a while.

On his way home from school Yugi walked up next to him even though his way was a different one than Joey's. Yami was of course right by his side. "You sure you're alright Joey? You really are acting a bit off, and it has been getting worse for three weeks now." Yugi asked sounding more worried then before.

Joey gave a sigh and said, "I know, it's just that there's a choice I need to make, I sort of have a deadline that is coming up and as it does I get more and more confused."

"You know, even if you need to make the choice for yourself like you said, anadvise might still help a little, and I wouldn't tell anyone and neither would Yami." Yugi pointed out the obvious. And once again Joey thought that wolf's pup was more wrong than Seto would ever know. He was the mother wolf of the pack if anything at all. And Duke was rather the wild and playful teen wolf pup.

"I know." Joey said and added, "But I don't know where to start and half of it is a secret that is not mine to tell. I can't tell you all and I don't know how to explain the rest. I wish I could."

"We wouldn't tell that you told us, you really can tell us the whole thing." Yugi said again wanting to help his friend with whatever troubled him.

"No, I can't. I know you wouldn't tell and I know I can trust you but I have been trusted with it and I would know that I didn't keep the secret and only would feel bad about it." Joey said. Yugi was still walking next to him but this time it was Yami who said, "Then try to explain what you can and we'll listen to that. Maybe we can help with it."

Joey thought about it for a moment before deciding to try. His feeling for his dragon grew stronger by the day, still he was worried what had brought them on and how genuine his own feelings were as well as the CEO's feelings might be. They were so different and every evening would be a moment of awkwardness when they asked each other how their day had been. They were so different. Joey was like a wolf with his 'pack' wild and untamed. Seto was like a proud and lonely dragon with a goal that he knew and worked towards.

"I think I'm in love, not with Katsuya, and the person I love keeps telling me that he loves me too but I'm not sure if I can trust his feelings, hell I'm not even sure if I can trust my own ones. He is different, very different and, I didn't always get along with him too well in the past and now this. But I promised him to think about it for a month and now the time is nearly up and I have the feeling that I love him even more but still there are moments when we see each other where we fight. What am I saying, is that we either fight or at least bicker or have some sort of awkward talk where neither one really knows what to say." Joey tried to explain to his friend.

"But you like him?" Yugi asked.

"I can't think of anything but him." Joey admitted.

"What about Katsuya, are you still seeing each other?" Yugi asked, "And how do you feel about Katsuya now?"

Joey rolled his eyes, he wished he could tell them about the Katsuya stunt but that would be too close to his bodyguard business and that couldn't be told. Not to those two.

"Trust me, don't worry about the Katsuya business, that's already taken care of. Kaiba can have him if he wants and can manage to." Joey said hoping it would distract them that it was his dragon he was talking about.

Yami looked confused, he had thought about Kaiba since the moment Joey had said that they hadn't been getting along well. But if he was willing to give his ex to the brunet it couldn't be him could it?

"Who is he?" Yugi asked.

"Secret." Joey said with a little grin adding, "You will never believe it anyway."

"As long as it isn't Pegasus." Yami said causing Joey to shiver as he said, "Ya right, and hell is where the angels live." but part of him was grateful, Yami had just given him another mental image that would help if the Keith and Téa make-out image failed to his dragon's tries on getting him hot, because he was getting better at it.

"Well no matter who it is," Yugi said, "If you love him you should give it a try at least. If you don't it would always stay a 'what if' and you would regret it at some point for sure don't you think?"

Joey looked at his friend and mumbled, "I guess since it's you who is saying it you might even stick to it if you knew who it is, but everyone else wouldn't."

"And since when do you care? It is your love life and we would all accept whoever it is. At least as long as he makes you happy." Yugi said and Yami added, "And if it turns out that he hurts you, I`ll hurt him."

Joey grinned and said, "Yami my man, in your case I even believe it possible. But there is one more problem, I can't tell you who he is, and I might not be able to do so for a while now."

Both looked at him suspicious now. "May I ask why? I mean, I don't mean to hurt you but, if he isn't willing to tell people about you then I doubt that he loves you as much as he should." Yami pointed out but Joey smiled at him as he said, "He wants to tell all right, but I can't for the other part, the one I can't tell you. He knows why but it is on my side that I can't tell you guys."

Both looked at each other worried again but Joey smiled again, and that was something. At least he did until his phone rang and he found a text message from his boss. He was to be at the dragon's lair at 5. Dressed like whatever he chose, girl or guy it didn't matter and he would just have to stay at his place for a meeting there. Why had he done that? He hadn't asked for him to show for anything without asking since they were dating and he knew that he would come during the evening at some point so why give him a time and force him to be there for work? What was going on? Was there a meeting and if yes why did Kaiba want him to be there for a meeting in his own house? What the hell was he up to?

Joey just knew that whatever it was, it couldn't be good if Seto wanted him to be there officially.

"I need to go." Joey just said turned and ran to his dragon's lair. It was just after school and he would be early but he wanted to ask Kaiba what this was about, he needed to know why he wanted him there. It just didn't make any sense other than that Kaiba was expecting danger for him or more likely Mokuba since he gave reasonable little thought to his own safety

Please Review

And to ShadowPrincess96, thanks for your review again, I was very happy to read the "I love how Seto is being quite sincere but you still manage to keep him in character, same with Joey.", because I was sometimes not sure how to get that half way done and was still not sure if he wasn't a slight bit OOC but tried to keep him in character and still in love and all and that isn't easy to me. So thanks for appreciating that.