Thanks to snapekicksass, ShadowPrincess96, Angel Dove1, Sasu-Sama' Sarukiji-Sempai, mandapandabug, Jane Volturi Au1, BrowneyedShamer and TearfullPixie for the reviews.
And a special thanks again to firstForward, for fixing my spelling and grammar mistakes.

Chapter 20

Joey watched as Mister Bennett pulled the gun from a holder around his upper body like a police officer might have. He could see Seto pale slightly but he still didn't really look afraid. The man truly MUST believe himself invincible and was in urgent need of a therapist to remedy that fact. Joey was standing by now, moving nearly automatically but he knew that he could never get over there in time. The gun was already pointing towards his dragon's heart. Like hell I'lllet you hurt MY dragon! Was all Joey could think as he moved his arm to throw the book he had still in his hand towards the mans hand hitting his wrist and causing him to drop the gun and look towards Joey.

He had forgotten all about the blond man sitting there quietly but now that he noticed him again he froze in fear at the face he saw. The amber eyes ablaze with anger and his face looking like he was about to rip him into pieces with his bare not hands. He ran, no nearly jumped towards him, and punched him right in the face. Mister Bennett fell to the floor from the sheer force of the impact of the blond's fist. He turned half way to stop his fall with his hands but as soon as he was more or less on all fours he felt a knee connect to his spine and he fell all the way hitting his chin against the hard unforgiving floor. One of his arms was moved behind his back and twisted so far up that he whined out in pain.

"That's timing." Joey said with anger in his voice. "I needed to let some steam out anyway." The man whined again as Joey grabbed him by the collar of his shirt to pull his head up just to slam it down again as hard as he could. How dare Kaiba risk his life like this in front of me, that stupid arrogant, spoiled, foolish, proud, annoying, idiot! Just wait till I get to you dragon you're going to regret ever being born! Joey thought while letting some of his anger out on the man he held captive.

In the meantime Joey heard his dragon's voice, "Hello, this is Seto Kaiba." Joey tuned to see Kaiba sitting in the same spot still with his bloody drink looking like nothing had happened, apart from the fact that he might have been a slight bit more pale around the nose, as he held his phone to his ear. "You are, like always, too late for the action but can pick up another one that tried to kill me, most likely the man behind the other considering that he just had lost his temper, and has the money to pay the other one. Oh and you might want to hurry, my bodyguard seems to be in a bad mood today and the man might end up unconscious if you don't hurry up." And he ended the call without waiting for a response.

"You should phone my boss too." Joey said still sounding more than just a bit upset and the man beneath him whined after feeling the nails from one of Joey's hands bore into his shoulder and the ones from the other dig into the wrist of his arm that was still painfully twisted on his back.

"Why?" Seto just asked but started to dial anyway.

"Because once I can let go of this guy you'll need a bodyguard to protect you from me! You knew he was behind it, you planned him to flip, you made him lose his temper!" Joey accused his dragon.

Seto watched his blond's wolf face and thought, I better remember to never let myself end up alone with a cranky wolf. "Maybe," Seto admitted, "but I knew you could handle him."

"You could have gotten yourself killed." Joey pointed out, "I was on the other side of the room, I could have been too late did you ever think about that?"

"No," Seto admitted, "like I said I knew you could handle him."

Joey wanted to punch him but the only one who got to feel his anger was the still whimpering man he held, and who now got to feel the blond's nails with even more force as Joey clawed his fingers into his wrist and shoulder. The nails already starting to draw a bit of blood from the mans unprotected wrist, while the cloth was keeping his shoulder a little protected from the blond's sharp nails. "You are a stupid, arrogant, fool." Joey just said, for now unsure as to what else to throw at him first. How could he have done this, did he not know how afraid he had been for him, and what it might have done to him if he had missed the wrist as he had thrown the book? He could have watched his dragon die, and he just sat there absolutely relaxed not giving a bloody damn about it at all.

It took a while till the police arrived and by that time Joey had calmed down a little but had hardly spoken a word and considering the expression Joey still had, Seto had decided to avoid getting into his wolf's focus of attention for the moment. At least until the police were present. But he had Joey's boss informed about what had happened. Without mentioning that it had been a set up on his side. The police first took the man, that was still whining and terrified of Joey, out of the room to a car to the station. Joey and Seto were questioned at the same place and by that time Joey's boss was present as well and smiling towards Joey who still looked thoroughly pissed. His boss walked up to him and asked, "What's wrong?"

Joey looked angrily at Seto and said, "He is wrong, wrong in his head. He absolutely lost it."

"What do you mean, because he can stay so calm?" The boss asked.

"No, because he fucking planned it. He freaking used himself as bait. The whole bloody time he stayed calm while waiting for the idiot to attack him and what made matters worse, he left the only place I could be way too far away, if he had said something I could have told him to move things around, but no mister invincible thinks he knows everything and doesn't need to talk about such things with others. He just provoked the man that he KNEW wanted him dead! Hell he was so nasty that I would have shot the jerk. He was more lucky than anything else, he would have gotten shot if I hadn't thrown a book and luckily hit the guy." Joey explained angrily.

"What makes you think he would have done that?" Joey's boss asked looking worried.

"Trust me," Joey said, "I heard it in the way that he talked with him, and why else would he want me there, he didn't want a bodyguard from the start and most of all not at home or work, where he had his security walking the area and cameras recording everything. He had been planning this! And afterwards he even admitted it to me before the police came." Joey tried to imitate Seto's voice in an unfaltering way as he added, "I knew you could handle him." Joey turned back to his normal voice as he finished, "You can handle him my ass, I should have let him shot the jerk, how could he do that? It was more than foolish he hadn't even said a word to me before, hell he wasn't even there when the guy arrived!" Joey's anger was building up again as he reviewed what had happened for his boss.

The boss looked for a moment at Joey but then walked towards Seto followed by Joey who wouldn't want to miss this for the world as his boss's death glare hit Kaiba . "Is it true that you used yourself as bait and hadn't informed me or Joey beforehand? Was this planned?"

Joey glared at Seto, still mad at him and Kaiba started to fear that he might have messed up his plan a little with this stunt, but he hadn't seen a way around it. "I wasn't sure if he was behind it, I only assumed. And I also couldn't be sure if he would have had the guts to actually pull a gun on me. I had mostly just assumed him to slip up and say something wrong but yes I knew that there was a chance it might turn out like this and was trying to anger him."

After hearing it once again, and this time having his hands free, Joey actually moved his right arm to punch Seto, but his boss held onto his wrist millimeters before his fist could connect with Seto's face, who hadn't even flinched.

Joey was about to complain about it but then he saw the anger on his boss's face.

"Mister Kaiba, this is not acceptable. Joey is a junior, he is young and doing such a job in itself is a huge responsibility, especially for someone of his age and to bring yourself in such danger on purpose is inexcusable. Have you thought about how it would be for him if something would have happened to you for a second? He would probably blame it on his own failure in not protecting you efficiently and that is a hard situation to be in." He said and continued sounding even more threatening than even Kaiba ever had. "And I should warn you that if you ever intend on doing something like that again without informing me from the beginning, then it will be my fist that will hit you and trust me, no one can stop that and it will do MUCH more damage then Joey's."

Joey had never seen the man so mad but Seto still looked indifferent and ignored it completely as he said, "By the way since I assume that he is the one that paid the other I should be reasonably safe without a bodyguard so I won't need your services any longer."

Joey's boss looked at him for a moment but said, "Fine, but remember what I said in case you ever need our services again." after that he looked towards Joey and asked, "If you want I can give you a ride home kid, I go through the area anyway."

Seto answered before Joey could and said, "That won't be necessary."

Joey's boss looked sceptically at Seto, surprised not only about what his answer was, but also that it was him to give it. But Joey just glared at Seto while he said, ignoring Seto's previous answer completely, "Just a second I have some stuff here, since I didn't know what he had wanted me here for, so I'll get them and then happily get a lift home."

Seto stared at him for a moment. He was supposed to stay. The month wasn't over and he could at least let him explain couldn't he? Seto had to at least try and persuade him to stay and so he said, "Please stay for a little longer at least, I know that it wasn't right, what I did, and I would like to make it up to you."

Joey looked at him still upset and angry as he said, "Not today, trust me, you do not want to be alone with me today."

And then he left the room to come back with a backpack a moment later and said to his boss, "I'm ready, let's go."

He was just about to walk out of the room again as Seto said, "Stay," holding onto one of his wrists, "Let us at least talk about it. Let me explain why I didn't have another choice."

Joey turned to look at the brunet CEO and the way his face looked, Seto decided he better let go of his wrist immediately. "Do not dare to hold onto me when I want to go EVER again! Or I swear it will be the last thing you do." Joey said in a quiet but threatening voice.

"I just want a chance to explain in peace." Seto explained hoping to persuade the blond into staying and letting him explain.

"If you want to explain in peace then you better let me calm down first because right now I fear that if I'm left alone with you, you're going to end up a few weeks in the hospital, that is if you get lucky enough to survive, got it?" Joey warned him before leaving with his boss and Seto decided to just try and talk some sense into him the next day at school. In his opinion he was completely overreacting and makings things unnecessarily complicated again. But at least he wasn't his bodyguard anymore and now Seto could try and get him to admit to his friends what was going on between them or ensure they find out themselves, by accident of course.

Please Review

To snapekicksass and ShadowPrincess96, I only said Joey wouldn't be able to run across, he wasn't shot by the end of the last chapter...and still isn't :P Can't let poor Kaiba get hurt again.

To mandapandabug, remember I wrote at the end of the last chapter that this one was written and all and that´s the truth, so I didn't steal the THROW THE BOOK idea, but you must have invaded my mind so... GET THE HELL OUT :P hope you liked the way I wrote it with the book.

To Jane Volturi Au1, is it that short? This story alone has 10 shorter chapters... maybe it felt shorter because auf the suspense that was building up? Don't know, hope this one isn't too short for your liking, because it is a little shorter than the last one, but that for I usually update fast. And I personally like it better when a story has many short chapters than having breaks when reading it, even so I never get how some have just a few hundred words in a chapter, I usually half my chapters at some point and then have cliffys, because I don't want to get too much over 4000 words, anyway, hope you like this chapter.

To BrowneyedShamer and TearfullPixie, like I wrote he was too far away to run over, so he couldn't take the bullet for Seto, but you two got me inspired, would either one of you mind if I use the Joey takes a bullet for Kaiba idea for another story? :P