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Chapter 19

Joey reached the dragon's lair at around half past three and rang the bell. Like always a maid opened the door but instead of waiting and asking politely if one of the brothers was home he just stormed in asking, "Where is he? Where is Kaiba?"

"I'm sorry, but Master Kaiba is still at the office and the young Master just left to visit a friend for the night." The maid said.

"The night? What the hell? Fine I'll wait." Joey said and decided to wait right where he was. Seto had something going on and he would tell him before it started.

But Seto obviously had different plans. Five minutes before five he was still not home. But someone else arrived and was led into the lounge. He looked upset and angry and was wearing a black plain suit. He was rude to the maid to a point that Joey was just about to walk up to him and give him hell about it. Joey was still there but he had decided to stay in the background and he doubted that the man had even seen him in the dark corner of the huge entrance hall.

Five o'clock went by and still no Seto Kaiba, another 15 minutes, still nothing. Nearly half an hour later than planned, Seto's limousine drove into the driveway. Joey walked out of the door and waited for him to walk up the steps. "What are you planning Kaiba?" Joey asked as soon as he was close enough to hear.

"What, no 'Welcome home dragon'?" Seto asked giving the blond a short hug and a little kiss on the lips. Then he asked like nothing special was up, "How was your day with your pack my strong alpha wolf."

Joey growled as he said, "I know something is up so just spill it."

But then the maid interrupted as she said, "Mister Kaiba, Mister Bennett has arrived as planned, and as you can see Mister Wheeler is here too, having arrived slightly early."

"Have you been eager to see me wolfy?" Seto asked with a grin as he took his hand and pulled Joey closer towards the lounge.

"Just tell me what you're planning." Joey asked once again, looking really upset now. But Seto just took his face between his hands and gave him one long and passionate kiss before he said, "Nothing you can't handle my wolf, and now be good and play along a bit all right." With that he opened the door to the lounge and walked in, followed closely by a really pissed off Joey.

"Hello Mister Bennett I'm glad you could make it on such short notice. By the way this is just a friend of my younger brother, I met him on his way here and he is now early since I gave him a lift, he'll wait here for him. I hope you don't mind." Seto said to the man and sat on a recliner on the opposite side of the man. Joey sat in a space near a little table that had a book on it. It was a good point to see the man as well as out of the window. Something was up here and Joey feared that Kaiba might try to lure out the killer, or rather the man behind him, using himself as bait. But then again, even Seto Kaiba could not be so sure of his indestructibility to do that, or could he?

Joey was worried but could do nothing but keep an eye on Seto and the other man, as well as the outside just to be safe. But the thing that annoyed him the most, was this seat was a bit away from Mister Bennett and if he was up to something he might need to get to him fast. But there wasn't another good spot for him to sit closer and still look like he didn't give a damn about a thing. And with that he was stuck where he was, praying that his dragon wasn't doing something foolish.

"Why did you ask me to come here?" Mister Bennett asked, "You said it had something to do with MY company." He still looked more than just a little mad.

"MY company now." Seto corrected the man causing his face to turn a dark red but from anger rather than embarrassment. "But yes it is about said company. You're still holding onto a quarter of the shares and I want to buy you out completely."

The anger flared even more and Joey could do nothing but watch as Seto provoked this man. He prayed that the only reason that Seto had wanted him there was because of the temper of the older and bolder businessman and the fact that Seto had obviously already stolen most of his company by owning more shares of the stocks and now wanted to completely buy the man out for some reason. And the man definitely looked upset enough to throw a good swing at his dragon, and Joey had to admit that he would enjoy watching that at the moment. Seto should be strong enough to help himself if that was truly the only reason and if he got hit it would only be good for his ego.

Still Joey kept a close eye on the angered businessman. After all he still wasn't sure why Seto had wanted him there and it wasn't like the cool, proud and level-headed brunet to ask for a protector against such a weak looking opponent. And that meant that there might be more to it.

"Never. I will not let you get a hold of it all, I'll keep what little you left me." Mister Bennett was already raising his voice slightly in anger.

"Left you?" Seto asked, "It wasn't my mistake to let more than 50 % of the shares go onto the market. If you only held on to a quarter then it shouldn't come as a surprise to you that someone else might gain more percentage of the stocks."

"You tricked me." He was nearly shouting by now.

"I did no such thing, I simply outmatched you in the market and forced you into nearly being bankrupt and the fact that you could not stand up to Kaiba corp. isn't my fault either. If you would have led the company better it would have been the other way around." Seto pointed out. He had been sitting absolutely relaxed in his spot up until this point but now he stood up and poured himself a drink without bothering to offer his guest anything.

"How dare you to tell me how to run a company. I have three times the experience you do, you no good spoiled little brat." he stood, by now looking even more angered and Joey couldn't help but wonder if Seto was trying to make him angry. But one thing was for sure. Mister Bennett was right on the spoiled brat part.

Seto just smirked and said, "If you say so, but then, how pathetic must you be to have lost your company to such a spoiled little brat?"

Now Seto had done it. The man truly looked like he could kill him as he said, "I will never leave my company in your hands I will get it back!"

Seto stared him right into his eyes, sitting relaxed in the same spot that he had occupied in the beginning as he said, "Over my dead body."

"I heard someone is already working on that for me." The other man said while Joey listened carefully in case Seto was just trying to get the man to slip up on something.

"Wrong, someone got behind bars for it, or rather into the hospital for starters. It isn't that easy to get rid of me." Seto informed him to Joey's dislike. The police had kept that fact from the news for a reason. The man behind the killer should not know that his killer was out in the hope that they could get some time before he chose another, why did Seto have to tell it this man? Joey mistrusted him from the start and by the look on his face now, this did nothing to help with it. He looked surprised and was definitely displeased with this new development. And what disturbed Joey was that he looked more then just disappointed. The way he looked, he might have something to do with the whole story.

Joey looked him up and down actually thinking about where he might be able to hide a weapon, and he could think of multiple hiding places for knives and guns. And in closer proximity like inside this room he would prefer a gun, because that had the advantage that it wouldn't cut him if he tried to wrestle it out of the other's hands. But looking at his stature and considering his age either one might not be too hard to do anyway, so the problem was the distance. He was much closer to his dragon than Joey was. Joey found it increasingly hard to just sit there and look like he didn't care about the conversation at all. But at least his presence might stop the businessman from trying to harm his dragon since he would be a witness, unless he actually believed him capable of taking him down.

Joey sized the man up once more. He hadn't looked like a killer to him at the start, just nasty, but the anger right now seemed to make him blind to even his presence. And everyone knew that it was usually the silent ones that you needed to keep an eye on.

It felt like ages while the businessman stared at his dragon before he said, "I wouldn't be too sure about it Kaiba, you aren't invincible!"

"Of course not," Kaiba replied, "But the man behind the killer must be as foolish as you hiring a blind idiot with a bad aim, well the last thing might be due to his disturbed eyesight. I definitely don't fear whoever is after me, because he can't be more dangerous than a cute little puppy."

Joey felt like punching Kaiba in the face. There was definitely something going on between those two. Joey could literally feel the unspoken words. The death threats and accusations that weren't spoken out, at least not yet. This man was behind it or at least Kaiba assumed he wasand the way he looked made Joey think that he was. But there was no proof for it as far as Joey could see and considering that he was still walking free his dragon didn't have any either. But if Joey was right with his assumptions, then Kaiba really needed to learn when to shut the bloody hell up. Honestly did he have a death wish?

"You better learn how to behave brat or you might regret it someday." This Mister Bennett said once again and Joey tried frantically to remember where he had heard that name before. It might help him to figure out how much danger his dragon was getting himself into. If the man had a reputation to be as cold as Kaiba, then that would be bad, but if he had a reputation to be like Yugi, then that would be worse. In business life that meant the most danger. Since no one that nice could hold a company without doing something nasty in the secret backrooms. But Joey just couldn't remember.

"Are you threatening me? Because I can guarantee you, you aren't scaring me in the least, I got your company already and nothing you can do can change that so you might as well give me the rest of it on a silver platter and you will never see me again, otherwise, I will make you sell it." Seto looked at the man still looking completely relaxed and composed and by that, arrogant like even Joey had never seen him before. And by that means he was driving the other's anger only further.

Joey really believed Seto to either have a death wish or truly believe himself invincible. Either way, Seto had a problem. He was still sitting opposite of the businessman on the opposite side of the room where Joey sat with his book in hand as the businessman pulled a gun and moved it right up to aim at Kaiba! There was no way that Joey could jump up and run through the whole room before the man could pull the trigger!

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And oh no, Seto is getting shot twice in one story, will he survive the second time and if yes how bad will he get wounded this time around? And what will Joey do? Will he be o his bd side by his bedside in a hospital or will he cry at his funeral?

to Akki: Now you know how dangerous.

And to everyone who wants to know if Joey´s friends will find out, like ShadowPrincess96 does, they will know at the end, but I'm sort of stuck since I'm not sure if I let Joey´s dad find out first, not knowing that Joey´s friends don't know and then say something, including the nights he spent at Seto's, or if I let them bicker in school, then fight and, well you know how far that can go, or if I just let one of them see them make-out peacefully somewhere, or overhear something funny, I have too many ideas, if anyone wants one of the ideas above, let me know. It might help me decide but no promises, I have to sleep and think it over, maybe I´ll get an even better idea, you will see.

And to those that hate this cliffhanger, the next chapter is ready, thanks again to firstForward who spell and grammar checked it so fast, and I will update around the usual time, but if I get a lot of reviews, let´s say if you top the most reviews I got for one chapter which is 12, then I´ll update either in latest 12 hours (if you get that done in time which I doubt ;( but if I get 12 in after that point, I´ll update as soon as I notice). So review if you want to know if Seto is still alive.