Chapter 8: Someday, We'll Shine

This chapter was suppose to be posted a week ago. But I got caught with football season and video games (shakes fist at them). Anyways, enjoy.... or don't. It's your choice.

Seto and Katsuya were sitting quietly. Unlike the phone call conversation last night, this silence was amicable. They were enjoying each other's company. Nothing needed to be said.

"So what now?" Katsuya asked, brushing away a stray hair from his face.

"I guess we go out now." Seto exclaimed, saying it as if he were talking about something mundane.

Katsuya smirked. "What? No romance and shit?"

"I'm not like the guys from harlequin romance novels. You should know that, puppy." Kaiba retorted.

"Yeah, the day I hear something sappy and lovey-dovey...." Then the blond frowned. "Wait a minute. That would make the chick. Bastard."

Seto smirked in the way only he knew. "Glad you caught on quickly."

The blond lowered his head and smiled without allowing the other to see. "You never change, don't you?"

Seto looked away, not knowing what to say now.

He didn't realize that the blond was looking at him intensely. "Why me?" Katsuya asked

"What do you mean?"

"Why do you like me? You're fuckin' Kaiba Seto. You could have your pick of anyone in the world. So why me?"

The person in question just shrugged his shoulders. "I don't know. I guess it was because you were different. You challenged me. You never backed down from me. Anyone who has ever had a crush on me was always some simpering fool who couldn't tell their head from their ass. But you were so fiery. To someone as like me, it was a complete change of pace."

The blond looked down. "Yeah, but when did this start?"

"Well, I suppose I've always felt this way but it started up again more recently."

Katsuya scoffed. "I guess that's the same way with me. You may not believe this but it hadn't been more than a week before I started dreaming about you."

Seto's eyes widened but his face betrayed nothing. "Him too?" He thought. "Is that so?" he asked

"Yeah. Some of the dreams were very ..." Katsuya paused, a blush creeping on his face. "intense."

Seto turned around and studied the blond's face. He had a feeling what was on the tip of his tongue, judging by the look on his face. And to tell the truth, Seto was happy. It seems as though Jounouchi was thinking the same way that he was. That's when the thoughts started to ferment in him. He thought about that body in the throes of passion, intertwined with his. He thought of that mouth, which he always thought was loud and unending, and wondered if that mouth was good at other things.

"Kaiba." Jounouchi shouted.

Seto shook his head. "What was that?"

"You were somewhere in lala-land." The blond smirked. "What were you thinking about?"

Seto smirked. "You."

Katsuya was taken aback for a moment. Then he smirked right back.

"Really?" The blond wondered aloud. "What about me were you thinking about?"

Seto crept closer to Katsuya. The blond stood his ground and smiled, waiting for him to come closer. Their breaths started to mingle.

Both boys tried to move closer to each other. However, as one of the boys got closer, the other one moved back. Neither was unsure of the role that he was going to play now. Would he be the aggressor or the submitter? Neither boy had had a relationship prior to this and so, neither was ready for a kiss that wasn't spontaneous.

As Seto tried one more time, Katsuya just laughed, ruining the moment. "S-sorry, Kaiba." He burst into a fit of giggles. "It's just too funny."

Seto just sat down, a mock huff escaping his lips. "I'll never understand you, puppy."

"Admit it. You like that about me." Katsuya smirked victoriously.

"Sure, whatever." The brunet spat but he was smiling as well.

Katsuya grabbed one of the pencils that he left on the desk once Seto entered the conference room and threw it up in the air, caught it and then repeated the action. "So now what?"

Seto responded by grabbing Katsuya's hand, which greatly surprised the blond. "Come with me."

Katsuya couldn't refuse and he didn't want to either. Wherever the taller teen took him was fine with the blond.

Seto took Katsuya out of the building and, after calling his brother to tell him that they would be stepping out for a moment, he took the blond for a walk.

Mokuba put his phone away after the call was finished. The two were standing in Mokuba's "office", watching movies on a giant computer screen. Shizuka looked at her boyfriend with an apparent interest.

"Who was that?" Shizuka asked, although she had an idea.

"My brother. He and your brother are going to hang out for a while. He said to order dinner and to behave."

A wicked smile crept across his face. Shizuka smirked.

"So what's the plan?" She asked, already seeing the machinations in her boyfriend's head.

"Whatever do you mean, darling?" Mokuba responded in a facetious tone. "I know not the plan of which you speak?"

Shizuka was understanding her boyfriend more and more each day. He was a mischievous one to be sure. Already, she deduced that he was thinking about his and her brother's date. To be honest, she wanted to see how that was going as well.

"It has something to do with Kaiba-san and Katsu-chan?" She inquired, already knowing the response.

"Maybe."

"How do we find them?" The redhead asked.

Mokuba pulled out a wireless keyboard and began clacking the keys rapidly.

"See, every phone can be tracked by cell phone towers. All you have to do is calibrate the number and then call it. From there, the called phone will connect to cell phone towers around the area. Basically, three cell phone towers can connect you to the system. From there, all that is needed to do is to triangulate the signal and then it gives you an approximate location."

The redhead was impressed. "When did you learn how to do this?"

"My brother taught me. He said that this was probably a skill that I would need in the future."

The computer screen showed the appropriate data. Mokuba worked it and, in a couple of minutes, he got a location.

"It seems as though they are in the Domino Park." Mokuba snorted. "How cliche. Let's go, Shizuka-san."

"Nah, maybe we shouldn't." Shizuka told the black-haired boy.

Mokuba was confused by this change in attitude. "Really?" He was about to drop the subject when the girl smirked.

"Those two are trying to be alone, you know privately?" She cooed.

Mokuba caught on quickly. "It would really be rude to invade their personal space."

"Most importantly, it would be wrong." Shizuka smiled.

The two left the office to go and spy on their brothers.

Seto and Jounouchi wandered aimlessly through the busy streets of Domino. They chatted about everything and anything that was on their mind. Anyone who would have seen them would have thought that they were the best of friends and would not have guessed that not even a week ago, they were at each others throats. Seto treated Katsuya to an early dinner at a burger joint.

Seto watched in horror as Katsuya devoured a ton of greasy, artery-clogging foods in what couldn't now be called his mouth. It was like a garbage disposal. Seto looked at his own food, a chicken wrap, the healthiest thing that could be called food on his plate and couldn't eat it. Watching the blond eat was a horrifying sight.

"How do you eat without breathing?" Seto asked in amazement and disgust.

"mpphmprhrpmpphhr" The blond responded with his mouth full.

Kaiba grimaced. He was in love with this guy WHY?

"Please do not talk with your mouth full, mutt." The brunet muttered as he pressed his hand against his forehead.

Katsuya thought for a moment and then decided that the appropriate response would be to stick out his tongue and show the guy across from him his chew-up food. Seto was quite disturbed by this.

"Why me?" He asked no one in particular.

"Because you love me." Was the response given to him.

Seto made an annoyed noise but did not disagree. "When you are done engorging your mouth, come with me. There is somewhere that I want to go."

Mokuba and Shizuka were looking for their brothers by tracking Seto's phone. They were following the signal via Mokuba's Blackberry. It lead them through Domino Park. Then it did something strange.

"This is strange." Mokuba told his girlfriend.

"What is it?" Shizuka asked.

"Well, the signal is saying that we are on top of Seto." He responded.

"That doesn't make sense."

Mokuba looked down at his feet in frustration. Then he noticed something. There was a KaibaCorp emblem on the earthen ground. Mokuba found it as strange.

"Why is there a KaibaCorp emblem on this ground?" Mokuba mused.

"Perhaps it might be a good idea to dig on that spot." Shizuka told him.

The two decided to dig with their bare hands. After a couple of feet, they found an iron box with Mokuba's name on it.

"Now that's strange. Why is there a box with my name on it?" The black-haired boy asked.

"Why don't you open it?" The girl suggested.

Mokuba did so. Inside the box was a blinking light and a note. Mokuba read the note aloud.

Mokuba,

I knew that one day that you would use the phone tracking skill that I taught you against me one day. And so I created this as a test of your skill and as a deterrent. If you were good at this, you would find this box. However, if you were REALLY good at it, you would actually find me. If you have found this box, you have fallen for my trick. As such, I have two things to say to you. One: Don't use the things I've taught you against me. You won't win. Two: Failing that, do a better job.

Seto

After finishing the letter, Mokuba blushed. Then his phone rang.

The young boy answered it. "Hello."

"Mokuba." The voice on the other end responded.

"Nii-sama!" Mokuba squeaked.

"It seems as though you found the box." Seto told him in a even tone.

Mokuba laughed nervously. "I don't know what you're talking about, Nii-sama."

"Do you see the blinking light on the box?" Seto told his younger brother. "That light is a transponder. When the box is open, it activates and sends an alert to my phone."

Mokuba scratched his head as his brother continued to chastise him. "Also, have you forgotten who taught you how to trace people through their cell phones? I have already traced you at the site where I buried the box."

The younger boy tried to wiggle out of this. "Um... It's not what you think?"

"So it isn't you and your girlfriend trying to spy on Jounouchi and myelf? I am quite curious as to what else this could be."

Mokuba, for the life of him, couldn't think of a proper response.

"Well, I will say is that if this happens again, I might have to explore alternative modes of rehabilitating this need of spying on me." Seto chastised.

Mokuba gulped. Whenever his big brother said that he was "exploring alternative modes of rehabilitation", it meant that he was going to punish him. The black-haired boy knew when he was beat. Time to quit while he was behind.

"Fine. I'll go back to the office." Mokuba relented.

"See that you do." With that, the line went dead.

Mokuba related everything back to his girlfriend. Knowing that they were outsmarted, the two went back to the office to spend some time together.

From a distance, Seto and Katsuya watched as their two siblings walk away from the site where the teenage CEO buried the box. Katsuya had a wide smirk on your face.

"So you planted that there just in case your brother got the urge to follow you?" The blond asked.

"Something like that. I buried a box with a GPS locater under the box to confuse the media just in case they tried to trace me. Sometime after this, I taught Mokuba how to track someone by their phone. I figured that he would one day try to track me. In fact, I planned on it today since we were going out today. So I left the note and the emblem inside the box early this morning."

"How did you know that he would try it today?" Katsuya mused.

"I'm a big brother." He responded.

Katsuya could only laugh.

They spent the rest of the day together in the park. There were several activities to do there. There was a handball wall. Seto purchased a ball and the two played head-to-head. Katsuya handily defeated him in all of the games that they played. The blond, as Seto already knew, made sure that he didn't forget it either.

"What happened Mr. Champ?" Katsuya asked. "Would you like me to go easy on you next time?"

Seto's eyes narrowed. He took a mock swing at him. Katsuya only laughed

"Oooh, scary scary." He mocked

There happened to be a dueling arena in the park. Katsuya, still on a winner's high, decided to challenge Seto to a duel. The taller teen accepted.

After the duel, Seto had an aura of superiority around him. Katsuya sulked.

"You got lucky." Katsuya spat in mock anger.

"Would you like me to go easy on you next time?" Seto asked, repeating the words said to him after their handball contest.

The blond made an annoyed noise. "Fine. I won't gloat next time I win."

Seto smirked. "So it is true. The puppy can be trained."

Katsuya was indignant. "Why you..." and he began to chase Seto around the park.

The two ended their day on a park bench. Night had fallen. The two looked up at the sky and saw the wonders of creation before them. They felt extremely insignificant compared to the stars in the sky.

"You know, every time I look at the night sky, I feel so small." Katsuya whispered to the teen that he had been falling in love with all this week. "The stars in the sky are high and bright. It always gets me thinking."

"About what?" Seto asked, intrigued by this line of thought.

"How does man shine?" The blond responded. "What is it about us that makes us shine like the stars in the sky?"

Seto thought for a moment, unsure how to answer that question. "Who is to say? Perhaps significance only comes through others. When we connect, then we shine."

Katsuya moved closer to Seto, satisfied with this answer. Seto, in response, grabbed the blond's hand. It was a welcomed gesture.

"So what happens after this?" Seto asked.

Katsuya smiled softly. "Don't worry about it."

"I was ...."

"DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT." Katsuya reiterated. "Let's just enjoy the now." Seto relented. Why was he worrying? The blond was right.

Jounouchi Katsuya and Kaiba Seto shared a strange bond with each other. While it is true that their relationship had changed, it is also true that the dynamics haven't. They were still mocking each other, trying to one-up the other. And yet, compared to a week ago, this was all in civility, all in jest. And it all started with a dream. Something so innocuous turned into something that neither expected. And yet, they didn't refuse it. They embraced it.

The two boys decided that the now was more important than the future. Whatever happens beyond this moment could be dealt with when it comes. Seto thought back to the question about how does man shine. He came up with an answer. As long as he had Katsuya by his side, perhaps someday, together, they'll shine.

And that's the end of chapter 8. No this story is not done yet. I just wanted to set up a time shift properly. If you have noticed, I have been focused on five days. And so I want some time to pass. I want the next chapter to be set six weeks from now.

So, tell me what you think. Like this chapter, hate it. I want to know what my readers think. Leave me a review. Tell me what you liked or what you hated. Please don't leave me a "omg luv it, update" review or a "omg u sux" one either. It doesn't tell me anything. I want to know. It makes me happy to engage my readers.

Finally, for those who have been following me. Here are the list of updates coming

Dearly Beloved, Chapter 9 - Passion.... including hot threesome action

Once More, With Feeling, Act V .... The final act of the Seto/Katsuya musical

Young Hearts, Run Free, Chapter 9 - Stagnancy ... Katsuya takes more of the potion to eradicate his feelings for Seto

Only in My Dreams, Chapter 9 - Ockam's Razor ... Seto and Katsuya learn that the simpliest answer is the correct one

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