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Katsuya Jonouchi was bored. -Hella- bored to be exact, and also getting ticked off; never a good combination. He tapped his foot restlessly and totally zoned out Honda, who was ranting to him about Otogi. Again. Ever since moneybags had gone and whisked Yugi off somewhere, his friends had had nothing to talk about that was worthwhile listening to.

Now that the uniquely-haired hikari was absent, Honda could gush about what he and Otogi had done last Friday without being worried about traumatizing the short boy for life, Anzu could go on and on about how cute her friend- since-elementary-school was without protests from him to stop, and Bakura could appear out of the Ring and attempt to suck Ryou's mouth off his face without being attacked by the Pharaoh.

All in all, this event benefited everyone but Jou. Which sucked. Henceforth boredom ensued, and action to take so as to get rid of the feeling was pending.

"Hey guys, I'm gonna go see where the prickhead took Yugi off to," he told his brunette friends, who were too wrapped up in their own tirades and didn't hear a word. Rolling his eyes irritatedly, he got up without sparking anyone's attention and left in the direction his best friend and rival had gone.

After wandering fruitlessly around the lawn for ten minutes or so, he sighed and halted, kicking up a random patch of grass.

"That bastard better not be pulling anything weird on Yug," Jou muttered to the school building, knowing full well that his chief dueling coach was more than protected with the Spirit of the Puzzle around. The giant brick structure, dubbed 'Hell' by many, only stared passively back at him in silence.

Sighing to himself again and absently wondering how much time left there was before the lunch period ended, he cast another glance around the mediocre green yard, listening as the chatter going on while people ate on a different side of the high school/penitentiary drifted in the wind. While straining his ears for his short buddy's voice, he suddenly heard his name yelled out--in a very different tone than that of Yugi's.

Blinking and turning his attention to the grove of trees that he thought the outburst had come from, Jonouchi quickly ducked behind a trash can to avoid being seen.

After a minute, he cautiously crept closer to the sounds he could now just barely make out, and could eventually distinguish Kaiba's hushed protests to something, which meant that his pal was also over there.

More than interested in what was being said about himself, he decided to go find out, and slowly advanced toward the voices.

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"Come -on-, Kaiba! It's nothing to be embarrassed about or deny!" Yugi insisted, trying to soothe the livid prodigy in front of him. "Jou's an awesome, completely decent person!"

"That is utter bull!" Seto growled, fully shutting out the part of his mind that told him it was a perfect explanation to why he kept waking up hard after days where his fights with the blonde had gotten a little more. . . . physical.

"Stop being so stuck up about every little emotion that you feel!"

"The only emotion I've ever felt for him is hate! There will -never- be anything between the mutt and I!" he spat through clenched teeth. The smaller boy in front of him barely resisted the urge to pull his hair out in frustration. This argument had been going on for what seemed like ages (which in reality was only a few minutes, but even that short amount of time could be very tiring when faced with someone like Seto Kaiba), and the CEO was just too stubborn for him to make any headway!

"Look, don't you hate -me- as well?!" Yugi asked, trying a slightly different tactic than the "Yes!", "No!" battle that had just previously been waged.

"Damn right I do, you're getting on my nerves!" the brunette snarled.

"Well, are you weak in the knees and all bubbly feeling around -me-?!" the midget snapped, and Yami's temper sparked a little in the back of his mind.

"Hell no!" It was a good thing Kaiba had contradicted the tri-color haired teen's insinuation quickly, because had he answered with a yes the ex- Pharaoh was prepared to rip out his throat.

"That's because you don't feel that way for me! Admit it, my friend makes you happy!"

"That -idiot- does not make me happy!" The enraged billionaire's volume was constantly increasing.

"Stop being afraid of having a crush!"

"Stop -telling- me that I have a crush!"

Kaiba was now royally pissed off. What in Pegasus's name had possessed him to actually talk to someone about his disease, anyway?! Not only was the answer he had gotten complete and total crap, it actually had the possible merit of ringing -true-, which made him even madder!

"I am not in love with the mutt!" he bellowed yet again, positively furious that it felt like he was trying to convince himself more than Yugi. The violet-eyed boy, of course, filed the cry along with all the other ones: in his mental garbage bin.

"You are too!"

"I am -not-!"

"Ra, just deal with it will you?!"

"I have nothing to deal with because it's not true!"

'No, no, no!' Kaiba thought, filling his body with every spiteful feeling he could muster towards the other boy, but those wonderful images of the blonde kept coming back, again and again and again. . . . .

"It is so! Say it, Kaiba!"

"I refuse! I am NOT in love with Jou!"

The memories of dreams now flitted through his conscious, trickling lust, romance, passion, and most of all -heat- into his bloodstream.

"Just admit it to yourself and everyone will be better off, especially you! -Trust- me! Say it!" The hikari was so caught up in his efforts to help the Blue Eyes' master that he didn't notice the golden-haired, dead frozen figure in the bushes.

"I am -NOT- in love with him!" the CEO shouted desperately, unable to stop himself from suddenly recalling how the soft touches and kisses had felt against his lips.

"Yes you are!" Yugi shrieked, losing all shreds of patience he owned. "SAY IT!"

The friction caused by skin against skin, scars upon scars, Kaiba was losing himself in the ecstasy and taste of his puppy; so hot, so wet, so tight, so--!

"FINE!" he roared, caving in as the remembrance of the most pleasurable climax he had ever dreamt of hit him. "I'M IN LOVE WITH KATSUYA JONOUCHI!"

'There!' Yugi thought triumphantly as his fellow duelist screamed his statement to the heavens. He was about to say something when the blazing azure eyes snapped back to Earth, but a cry that suddenly erupted from the bushes interrupted him.

"HOLY FUCKIN' SHIT!!!"

The brunette immobilized dead in his tracks, formerly beet-red visage draining to deathly white in a mere second. Eyes slightly popping with dread and disbelief, he about-faced to find a blonde, mortified teenager ogling him, jaws moving like a fish. He gulped.

Yugi's mouth went dry. -This- was not how Jonouchi was supposed to find out. Giggling nervously, he took a step toward his friend, preparing to dash away from the awkward moment.

"Hi Jou me and Kaiba were just talking but I have to go now see you later!" And with that he was off, leaving the two horrified enemies to work things out on their own.

"You--I--You said--!" Jou was so in shock that he was completely unable to form any coherent string of words, while the other boy was frantically groping to regain his composure and lie his way out of the situation somehow.

"I--You--I didn't mean--," Seto was just as equally without a vocabulary for the moment, something that was unheard of. After a few more moments of babbling randomly and trying to force explanations out of each other, the more sadistic-natured of the two finally managed to yank a somewhat collected aura into place. The mutt was breathing heavily, trying his best to calm down.

"Did--," Jou's voice came out hoarse, "Did you mean that, moneybags?"

"Why do you think I broadcasted it to the world?!" Kaiba grit unstably, mentally kicking himself afterwards for not denying the answer. Katsuya was silent for a minute, processing the reply before asking something another time.

"And," The blonde licked his lips, for they had suddenly aired out, and inhaled deeply again. "Y-you're not lying?"

Seto gave him the iciest glare he could conjure, not trusting himself to respond.

"Oh Kami. . . . you're. . . . -gay-?!" Jou whispered, looking completely appalled.

The billionaire winced angrily as his heart seemed to sink down and deflate, and he bared his teeth slightly at the foreign pain it caused. . . . rejection.

As his companion continued to gape at him motionlessly for a full minute he spat irritatedly, "Well? Aren't you going to say anything? You might as well laugh while you can, because I'm leaving," the CEO said curtly. But as much as he intended that bitter comment to be obeyed, his legs were refusing to shift themselves.

"Kaiba. . . ." The blonde had a nasty glint in his eyes as Seto's blue orbs reluctantly locked onto them. Jonouchi warily stepped a little closer to the taller teen. "I've just been thinkin' something. You've never been in a romantic relationship before, have you?"

He snorted sourly and gave his head a miniscule shake no, wondering what this was now. The puppy edged toward him again, the glitter of suspicious disgust in his amber spheres growing larger.

"But you know how to do -it-, right?"

Kaiba didn't need to be told what the "it" was referring to, but nodded yes resentfully. He -had- seen reality TV after all, and he screwed practically every night in his dreams, nowadays. Jou's eyes narrowed in even greater contempt.

"So you're low enough to pay hookers, then?"

With no idea as to where this was leading, the brunette was coming to the end of his line. The mutt hated him. End of story. Heck, the distaste behind the brown orbs was more than enough evidence.

"I am thoroughly insulted that you would reduce me to the level of hiring prostitutes, mutt," he said sharply, wanting very much to get to the point so that he could leave.

"Well, how else do you know?" The mutt was deeply enjoying building up the frustration inside the other, now that he was so vulnerable.

"I just -do-, okay?!" Kaiba snapped, almost ready to punch something.

"Are you -sure-?" Jonouchi asked, smirking infuriatingly, and the CEO saw red.

"I AM TOP FORM IN -EVERYTHING- I DO, MUTT, IN BED OR OUT!" he exploded, and the other took an alarmed step back. Another prolonged silence ensued, and he fidgeted uneasily in the blonde's gaze for another agonizing minute. The brunette, completely fed up, was about to try moving his legs for the last time when Jou's face broke out into a huge grin.

"So, your place or mine?"

Cerulean eyes sprung open instantly as the usually so fluent billionaire looked up in astonishment at the beaming blonde--who's eyes were completely devoid of any loathing at all, and instead were twinkling with a teasing and joyful light--and was speechless yet again.

"You--I--You--BASTARD!" he yelled wrathfully, leaping at his classmate and tackling him to the ground while thrusting his tongue down the other's throat. Katsuya had no objections whatsoever.

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Yugi chuckled as he watched the final exchange from behind some pricker bushes a little ways away, and averted his eyes blushingly as Kaiba started to claw Jonouchi's uniform off his body. As he got up and quietly walked away to inform the teacher that they had gotten emergency calls from home, the last distinguishable words between the two were panted loudly by Seto.

"We're going to -my- place, puppy. . . ." After that, any other speech was impeded by moans.

/I'd say they're well on their way to being a couple, wouldn't you, aibou?/ Yami commented dryly through their mindlink as his hikari headed back up the steps into school, because class would start soon.

'Yeah,' Yugi thought relievedly, pleased that his friends had worked through their differences for once.

Jou and Seto would be so happy together. . . .

He sighed wistfully, pausing before he opened the door to think of his beloved Pharaoh, and the relationship he had always dreamed of and wished for. . . .

/Aibou? Are you okay?/ the leather-obsessed dark half asked, sensing the strange feelings inside his light. The violet-eyed boy paused for a moment, then sighed.

"To be completely honest with you, Yami. . . . no. I'm not okay."

/What's wrong?/ the Spirit of the Puzzle asked worriedly, immediately probing his hikari for any kind of pain. Slowly, Yugi smiled to himself.

"I'm. . . . sick."

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-.-;; Eh, bad ending, but I didn't know where to cut it off. . . . Anyway, to close this cleverly disguised waste of your time, review! (3 Thanks for reading!