Disclaimer: I do not own YuGiOH! that belongs to Kazuki Takahashi. Okay? Enjoy.
I apologize greatly for how long this chapter took to get out. School just got a bit too much and I can't deal with stress well...so I just haven't had time to write. But I had a couple of days free, and I felt like relaxing by writing.
Apologises if it's not as good as expected :)
~*~*~*~* = Flashback
In the shadowy corner of his room, Seto watched Katsuya asleep in his bed. He sighed and leant back into the leather chair he resided in, one leg crossing over the other in a relaxed state. His fingers entwined themselves as Seto brought his hands to his mouth, resting his nose on his hands while his elbows rested on the sides of the chair. Cerulean eyes slipped close as he sighed once again, the corners of his lips flicking up as he smiled while his mind thought back to the few hours before Katsuya fell asleep and he sat in the chair he was in.
Katsuya stumbled into Seto's room, the door slamming into the adjacent wall. He beamed, a wide smile gracing his face, as his head snapped towards Seto, who was in the process of slowly sitting up, a deep frown on his features. His eyes narrowly opened towards the blonde, a growl emitting from his chest at his displeasure of being woken up. Seto snapped his head towards the clock residing on his bedside table, instantly seeing the bright red '7:00am' almost shouting at his brain to focus. The previously narrowed eyes widened suddenly, shout evident in them as Seto jumped out of his bed quickly, blankets slipped off, piling up on the floor as a small plush white dragon became visible. Seto's eyes snapped towards the dragon. 'Crap!' He peered up towards Katsuya, noticing the tilted head and curious look down as his-
"Katsuya!" He grabbed a blanket near him on the floor covering up his modest, an unwanted blush tinting his cheeks, a twitching half-hearted glare sent at the blond who blinked innocently. The robot's eyes met Seto's own, a shine to the brown orbs made him look childlike, Katsuya smiled brightly again, before jumping from one leg to the other, excitedly.
"Kaiba! Kaiba!" He exclaimed, waiting for a response, when he got a tired nod he continued, despite the look of shock and exhaustion from Seto. "Your brother said that I should wake you up, because you'd slept in longer than usual." Katsuya's eyes flickered with gold as he went through his memory bank, attempting to remember exactly what Mokuba had said. An image of Mokuba sitting at a 'breakfast bar', as Mokuba has called it, popped into his vision, he heard the distinct words the ebony haired boy had said, the rest of the memory blurred, before it went back into the bank of memories. Katsuya's eyes lost the gold flickers, as he blinked twice before looking at Seto, focusing solely on Seto. "He said that you 'must have been busy last night working, otherwise he would have been up by now, and knowing my brother he was up until the early hours of the morning finishing whatever project he's doing now..." Katsuya trailed off, twitching slightly, he noticing a mistake in his speaking, his whole body paused all movement as he tried to find the mistake.
Seto frowned in confusion, 'instead of paraphrasing what Mokie had said, he said the EXACT same thing Mokie did, I should probably teach him some more speaking skills,' Seto smiled faintly, remembering Katsuya's attempt at idioms and the process of Katsuya biting his own tongue,(1) even though he was a robot, he'd still managed to hurt himself. Seto's smile caught Katsuya's eyes, he leant forward towards Seto, head tilting and coming within 10 centimeters of Seto's nose. He blinked twice, sniffing abruptly.
"I said something it wrong, didn't I?" He nudged Seto's nose, giggling to himself while Seto shook his head from the sudden touch. Katsuya raised his hand, patting Seto's shoulder gently, beaming up at him. "Can you teach me some more about how to speak correctly please?" Seto stood, pushing Katsuya back onto the bed, and rushed towards the bathroom, leaving a confused blond remaining on the bed.
Seto panted against the shut door, sliding down it, the door handle caught the thin fabric he loosely held against his waist removing it clean from his body. His hand ran through his now sweat beaded hair. Tensing his body, he scrunched his eyes together. 'HE'S A ROBOT!' Images flashed through his head, of the blond cuddling up to him and leaning against him, panting. Seto shook his head, cringing internally at the thought.
"What the hell is wrong with me?" Seto moaned, picking himself up off the floor, grabbing the blanket and draping it over the sink, running a shaky hand through his hair. He leant forward towards the shower, turning the knobs and watching as the water began to flow from the shower head, instantly steaming up the room. Seto grabbed a towel from one of the cupboard and draped it next to the blanket, before stepping into the shower, relishing in the hot water as it hit his back. Blue eyes slid close as he relaxed.
Katsuya sat across from Seto, head placed on his hands, tilting to the left. His elbows resting on the table. His eyes glowed with curiosity, focusing solely on Seto, wondering what he was thinking. When Seto came back from the bathroom earlier, he shuffled straight into his walk in closet and didn't come out for 15 minutes, and when he did, he walked straight passed Katsuya. Straight out of the door, once again leaving a confused Katsuya on the bed.
Brown eyes blinked as Seto abruptly got up, he became worried as Seto went to walk off again.
"K-Kaiba? Have I done something wrong? Have a done something you told me not too?" Katsuya's voice shook slightly, as he panicked, believe he was the reason behind Seto's weird mood, he had been the reason behind Seto's bad moods before. His hand caught Seto's shirt, entwining with one of the bands on it, his other hand rose up to his face, rubbing his temples. "I believe I should say sorry...I think?"
Seto's head turned towards the blond, eyes wide. 'Have I been giving him that impression? Damn it...' He placed his hand on top of Katsuya's shaking one, loosening the grip he had.
"Puppy...you don't have to apologize..." He trailed off at the smile that appeared on Katsuya's face when he realised he's said the right thing, his eyes speckling with gold as he stored the information. Seto stood there silent, waiting for Katsuya to finish, wanting to tell the robot what was wrong, but the need to tell the blonde faded when he saw the content look on his face, not wanting to confuse the boy anymore. Seto grabbed Katsuya's hand and dragged him to the living room.
The brunet plopped Katsuya down onto a sofa, before promptly being hugged by him. Seto suprised himself by relaxing into the robot's tight embrace, allowing the hug. As Katsuya pulled away, Seto straightened his features, trying to not show any sign of the happy emotion that coursed through his veins when Katsuya touched him. He spent the rest of the day explaining to Katsuya how he should speak when talking about the past...
Seto shook his head, uncrossing his legs and leaning his elbows on his knees, head resting in his hands. 'It's a robot! I shouldn't be feeling like this towards it!' His left eye twitched at the memory, a warm feeling encased his chest as Katsuya turned on his side towards Seto, a warm smile gracing his face in the robot boy's sleep. Seto smiled back, aware the blonde couldn't see him, happy he'd managed to install a sleeping pattern into Katsuya, he knew that if he hadn't, then he wouldn't be able to see the cute blonde sleeping.
He shook his head, attempting to rid himself of those thoughts. His eyes widened as they began to water slightly, Seto caught himself, quickly pressing the bottom of his thumbs to the corners of his eyes, preventing the tears from falling. He shrugged off the feeling, noticing Katsuya moving around a lot more. He rose, stumbling forward slightly as his hands pushed from the sides of the chair, his brunet bangs bounced down into his eyes, blocking his view of the sleeping blond for a second. As he stablised, a hand ran though his hair, catching all the knots in the usually perfect hair. Seto began to walk towards the restless boy who was tossing around. He leant forward, his hand slid through Katsuya's blonde strands, smiling at the softness of it, he shook his head once more, pulling his hand away quickly, hearing a whimper escape from Katsuya's now partly opened mouth.
"Kaiba..." Katsuya whispered, his eyes scrunching together as he began to breath harder. Seto's eyes widened at the sound before abruptly shaking Katsuya awake, tensing his arm around his shoulder. Brown orbs suddenly blinked open, gold fleckling in them for a second before returning to their normal colour, the orbs slowly peered up towards Seto, brightly catching his own blue ones. Katsuya's hair flicked down, falling from his forehead into his eyes, breaking the gaze the two boys held. Seto blinked himself, before sniffing abruptly and standing up stifly.
"Katsuya." He spoke slowly, as to avoid the tremor he found his voice wanted to expose. "Are you alright?" He noticed the smile creeping onto Katsuya's face, calm and content. Katsuya nodded softly, his mouth snapping shut as drool began to dribble out of it.
"I am now, my chest felt really tight from a dream I was having." He paused, a hand lifted to run through his hair. "I think it's was what a dream is." Katsuya's eyes flickered up to Seto's, glittering with gold speckles as his mind went to his knowledge bank. He flicked though images of humans sleeping, seeping into their minds watching what were labeled as dreams. His eyes became pure gold as he looked into the dreams, watching as images of fantasy and nature flew past, until a dulled image of a couple came into view, the were hold one another, crying into each others shoulders.
Katsuya slipped off the bed, falling forward as his eyes went back to brown. Seto fell to his knees, grabbing the blond before his hit the hardwood floor, slipping his forearms underneath Katsuya's arms he lifted the robot back onto the bed, unaware of how fast Katsuya's chest was panting. He laid Katsuya down, his hand once again slipping into the soft blonde locks the robot had. Katsuya blinked, his eyes gleaming in confusion, his head tilted to the side.
"Kaiba? What happened?" Katsuya whispered his words, his chest felt like it was hammering. Seto straightened himself off, wiping a look of worry of his face, replacing it with an indifferent look.
"You slipped of the bed. Being the silly puppy you are, you were day dreaming and fell." Seto smirked as Katsuya's features frowned in confusion, he muffled a laugh behind his fist. Katsuya frown turned to annoyance, he knew that he had followed that the image of a puppy did a couple of times to cheer Kaiba up, but he was sure he wasn't really a puppy. He thought Kaiba made him a human. 'So why does he call me puppy?'
"Kaiba? Why do you call me puppy?" His hands raised to pat his head, strands of blond hair slipping between his fingers as the hair bounced. "I don't have ears, and I don't have a tail..." Seto watched in amusement as Katsuya turned up onto his hands and knees, bending slightly to twist in search for a tail, the robot boy twisted from side to side, as if the tail was moving to the other side. Katsuya stiffened as a loud laugh erupted from Seto, who couldn't contain it any longer, his hand clamped to his stomach as he double over, tears welling up in the corners of his eyes from laughing. Brown eyes watched in awe as Seto laughed, he hadn't laughed before, Katsuya's eyes turned gold as he captured the moment, relishing in the fact he hadn't seen this before, believing it to be amazing. As Seto stopped laughing and brought a finger to his eye to wipe away the fallen liquid, Katsuya blinked, stopping the recording of the event, storing it away for later. The brunet smile gently at the blond, stepping forward and sitting down next to him, patting his lower back to make Katsuya sit. His breathing slowed down as he prepared to explain himself.
"I call you 'puppy' because you do things like that! You make me laugh sometimes, I forget you're not human, I think you're real...Puppies are affectionate, loyal and cute. You remind me of one." Seto watched as Katsuya's expression turned happy and relived.
The smile remained of Seto's face.
(1) - Stole that from Smosh's video 'Rejected Twilight Zone Episodes', because firstly, I love Smosh and secondly, I couldn't think of anything else ^^
Oh my, longest chapter so far! GO ME!
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