"Seto, Seto look what I got!" Kaiba lifted his head to watch Joey run into the room waving a cream colored envelope, his was grinning like he had won the lottery and there was a noticeable spring in his step.

"Looks like you just got laid and I'm hoping that's not it." Joey stuck his tongue out already used to Kaiba's new sense of humor.

"Ha ha, no! I told Serenity that I had nothing to do with my father any longer, she told my mother and now I'm invited to the wedding. And guess what . . ." If possible Joey's grin got wider, Kaiba blinked processing his quickly spoken words.

"I don't know, what?"

"It says I'm allowed to bring a date!" Joey grinned evilly while snickering.

"That's great Joey," Kaiba said with a small smile. "Have fun with Yugi." Joey's smile disappeared as his mouth dropped open.

"B-but I wanted to go with you." Kaiba laughed and stood up moving around his desk to stand in front of his boyfriend.

"I thought you might pup," Kaiba smirked. "That's why I have the plane tickets ready. We will be flying to America two days before the wedding."

"W-what? That means you already know that I was invited to the wedding!"

"Of course." Kaiba rolled his eyes as if Joey should have already known. "I have all your families accounts tagged, your mother has an online wedding registry, that she put your name into the guest list for. Your name caused a red flag in my system so I checked it out and made adequate plans." Joey blinked.

"I think I've been living with you to long, this information doesn't even begin to surprise me. And I don't even want to know why you're watching their accounts."

"Because I want to keep track of their activity, I didn't want anyone to try and take you away from me. I promised you I wouldn't let that happen, so I took measures to prevent against it." Joey smiled and hugged Kaiba tightly kissing his lips with passion. "I take it you aren't mad."

"Not at all . . . god I love you so much!" Kaiba smirked and ruffled Joey's unruly hair.

"Seto or master is fine with me, but if you want to call me god go right ahead." Joey only rolled his eyes as Kaiba continued to smirk down at him. "You might want to start packing; we leave in a couple days."

"Okay Set," Joey grinned happily. "See you at dinner!" Kaiba watched as Joey bounced happily out of the room before shaking his head and returning to his work.

Seto and Joey sitting in a tree, k-i-s-s-i-n-g,

"Aw, Set your jet goes faster," Whined Joey bouncing in his first class seat. "Why did you want to fly in public?"

"Because I wanted to spend time with you," Seto said matter of factly. "If I was piloting I couldn't pay attention to you." Joey paused to let the words sink in, sitting down properly in his seat he put the arm rest up and leaned against Seto.

"Have I ever told you how much I love flying commercial?" Kaiba rolled his eyes and kissed the top of Joey's head as he pulled him closer.

First comes love,

"I forgot how much I missed this place." Joey said with a happy grin spinning in the middle of a New York City street before running over to Seto's side and grabbing his arm and leaning against him. "It's a lot cleaner than then when I used to live here, that one governor or mayor; Rudy did a good job with this City."

Seto continued to walk down the street while the blonde attached to his arm never kept his eyes on one thing for more than a few seconds.

"I'm glad you like it here pup, but we should head back to the hotel, it's getting late and no doubt that you're hungry." Joey grinned patting his stomach.

"The weddings tomorrow."

"That's correct."

"I want to tell my mother and Serenity about us." Seto paused for a second covering it up seamlessly, he tried to hide the smile that wanted to over take and halfway succeeded.

"If you wish, I . . . I'd like that."

"Me to."

"Come on pup, dinner will be waiting." Seto led Joey inside the hotel, he confused Joey by not heading to the dining hall, instead he made his way to the elevators, Seto pressed a button and turned so that Joey could not see which floor he had picked.

Joey in the patience he had learned from living with Seto, kept him from trying to find out. If Seto didn't want him to know he wouldn't find out until it was time, that didn't mean that it did not annoy him.

Seto smirked knowing full well that Joey was just bursting to know what he was up to and that knowledge was making him very smug indeed.

The elevator stopped smoothly and gave a loud ding before opening, Joey looked quickly and grinned.

"Yay, were outside again!" He stopped short and looked at Seto. "Why are we on the roof?"

"For dinner of course." Seto said laying a hand on the small of Joey's back and leading him to the middle of the roof where a table was set up. A pure white cloth covered it with a splash of color on the blood red square in the middle. The plates and silverware were set perfectly on top of pristine white cloth napkins, a candelabra held a handful of white and red candles lit not long ago on the near windless evening. "Shall we?"

"We shall!" Joey said a large grin creeping onto his face; only Seto could plan something extravagant like this with him not finding out about it . . . when he was with him most of the time.

They took their seats and their dinner of steaks was brought to them. Joey had been in a place where he hadn't been wanting for food with Seto so he had earned to slow him eating down to an acceptable pace that almost matched Seto's.

After they were both finished Seto opened his mouth to say something when he was cut off by his cell phone ringing. He gave Joey an apologetic smile and reached into his pocket.

"Kaiba." He listened for a moment absently nodding. "Yes . . . yes . . . no, perfect timing . . . I will." Seto closed the phone and put it back in his pocket his hand lingering for a second. "Joey . . ." Joey looked up at the serious tone of his voice.

"Yes?" He asked almost hesitantly.

"You know I'll always love you right?" Joey swallowed on a suddenly dry throat as his face went pale.

"Y-yes . . ." Joey swallowed again. 'Oh, god please, this sounds exactly like a break up!' Joey thought 'I couldn't handle Seto breaking up with me.' "And I love you to." Seto smiled and stood up.

"Joey there's something that's been bugging me for a while now . . . and I though now was the right time to do it." Joey sat stunned his stomach clenching uncomfortable. "Joseph Wheeler . . ." Seto knelt down and Joey's eyes went from terrified to confused. "Will you marry me?" Joey's mouth dropped open then closed again in the best imitation of a fish.

"Oh, my god, no!" Joey said staring disbelievingly at Seto who froze his face an expressionless cold mask.

"No?" He managed to choke out. Joey looked up to Seto's face and realized his mistake, reaching a hand out he gently touched the brunette's cheek a tear falling down his own face.

"No, no! I though you were breaking up with me, but a . . . proposal? God Seto, yes, yes and again yes!" Seto's mask instantly melted as Joey launched himself off the chair and into his arms causing both of them to fall back against the roof. Joey blinked down into crystal sapphire eyes and smiled softly before leaning down to capture the older boys' lips in a soft kiss.

"Joey you are so insecure." Joey bit his lip and looked down; Seto smiled softly and lifted his chin making him meet his eyes. "You should know by now that I'd never give you up . . . and why would I do all this to break up with you? You confuse me sometimes." Seto moved up so that Joey was now sitting in his lap, Seto wrapped his arms tighter around Joey not letting him attempt to get up.

"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have thought that . . . it's just the way you started out kinda shook me a bit is all." Joey smiled and closed his eyes tilting his head innocently. Even if Seto had still been upset that look would have made him melt . . . it's possibly what made him fall in love with him in the first place.

"So you accept my proposal . . . even though we are still young . . . I don't mean to get married right away. I want you to go to college and I have a business to run and just jumping into things like that isn't smart and-" Seto was silenced when Joey laid a finger gently against his lips.

"Trust you to have it all planed out." Joey smiled again and kissed the tip of Seto's nose. "Yes, I don't care how long you want to wait, I want to marry you . . . I want to spend the rest of my life with you and only you . . . well maybe Mokuba, but not in that way." Joey stopped when Seto laughed softly and let go of him for a moment to pull something off his finger. Joey looked at the sliver glint and frowned, Seto had not been wearing that ring a little while ago, in fact he wasn't wearing it when he got the call, or when he put it back in his pocket. Joey remembered that Seto's hand had lingered in the pocket and blinked in surprise.

Seto took Joey's hand gently and slipped it onto his ring finger. Joey looked down at his finger and saw sapphires and rubies sparkling from their place twisted between two bands of intertwining black and silver.

"It's beautiful Seto . . . the significance, how long have you had it?" Seto only smiled secretly and laced his hand with Joey's tearing his gaze away from the shining ring. Ruby eyes locked onto sapphire before he was forced to close his eyes as petal soft lips enveloped his own.

Kaiba pulled away awhile later suggesting that they should go back to their room, Joey agreed and that is where they headed.

Joey sat in one of the many chairs around the large comfortable hotel room waiting for Seto to finish washing his face and brushing his teeth. He loved the way even the fake lighting glittered off the precious gems making them sparkle. He jumped slightly when Seto's cell phone started ringing from the table across from him.

"Joey would you please get that?" Seto's muffled voice came from the open bathroom door suggesting that he was still in the process of washing his face.

Joey reached over, picked up Seto's phone and flicked it open with a practiced ease that came from working with Seto for more than three months. His gaze flicked over the caller ID quickly and smirked.

"Yo, talk dirty to me!"

'Hiya Joey!' Mokuba said happily from the other end.

"Joey, that better not have been important!" Seto called loudly, Joey would have been nervous if he didn't sense the underlying humor in the reproach.

"Depends on who you consider important!" Joey yelled back to Seto. "Hey Mo' what's up?"

'Noting, I just wanted to call to say congratulations on getting engaged.' Joey blinked in surprise, wondering how Mokuba knew; Seto hadn't made nor taken any calls after they came down from the roof, which means . . .

"You already knew about this."

'Yep, for a while now . . . I know Seto really went through with it because he usually calls me if he chickened out.' Mokuba sounded serious and Joey felt like he had been tossed into the twilight zone.

"What do you mean Mo'?" Joey asked carefully.

'Big brother has been wanting to 'pop the question' for a while . . . he just . . . I guess never found the right timing. I know you guys have only been together for like what over three months? But he really loves you and didn't want anything to be doubted between you two.'

"Mo' sometimes you scare me with that brain of yours!" Joey said softly shaking his head.

'Dude I'm a Kaiba, I'm supposed to be smart!' Mokuba said voice laced with humor. 'Well, I have to go, I'm meeting some friends at the arcade in a little while, have fun, tell Seto I love him."

"Will do Mo', talk to you later."

'Okay, love you Joey.'

"Love ya to Mokuba." Joey flipped the phone closed and looked up to see Seto leaning against the door frame. He was clothed only in boxers and his chest glistened where the water had fallen and not been mopped up. Joey swallowed as his took every inch of Seto's flesh and finally stopped at his face and the smirk seated there.

"How was Mokuba?" Seto asked jarring Joey back into the present.

"Good, he wanted me to tell you that he loves you. Oh yes, and he said congratulations." Seto's brow rose, and then he smirked.

"You're surprised he knew? Who do you think made the distraction phone call? I know you notice things, and I never stick my hand in a pocket for no good reason . . . especially at a dinner table."

"Unless you want to save it for later." Joey said with a grin making Seto shake his head.

"That is gross," Seto yawned and rubbed the back of his head. "I'm tired; do you want to go to sleep now?"

"Sure thing." Joey said standing up and stretching as he walked lazily into the bedroom behind his lover . . . fiancé.

Then comes marriage,

"Joey . . . are you coming?" Seto looked into the open door of the limo to find Joey sitting as far away as he could. At his question Joey looked up, for a moment Seto thought he was going to change his mind about the whole thing, but then he nodded.

Joey scooted over in the seat and Seto held out a hand, Joey took it and allowed Seto to help him out of the limo. Together they walked up the steps and into the large church; Joey looked around at the white and pastel decorations and surprised the urge to curl his lip.

"What's wrong Joey? You look like I feel." Joey snorted and grinned up at Seto.

"Nothing, it's just this is all so sweet it's going to give me a cavity." Seto's mouth turned up a hair in a smile, Joey knew he found it more humorous than he let on, but the Big Bad CEO was in public and had to keep up appearances.

"So . . ." Seto paused slightly as Joey refocused his attention on him. "It's time to reveal it to the world?"

"Eh, reveal what?" Joey asked cocking his head in confusion. Seto smirked and tapped Joey's ring finger conspicuously, understanding came to Joey's face, but he looked unfazed. "Find one of those planes and write it in the sky for all I care, I don't care if everyone here doesn't accept it. I would gladly give them all up for you . . . well my extended family I'd give up for a piece of cake, but Serenity and my mom . . ." Joey trailed off and Seto felt an odd swelling in his chest at just how much Joey was willing to sacrifice, he could honestly say he felt undeserving of it, but in the usually nature of Seto Kaiba he only took Joey's hand into his own and led him to where the bride would be getting ready.

They came to the door and knocked lightly.

"Who's there?" A high feminine voice called out.

"Serenity it's me Joey." The door was flung open and a pink streak ran out to attach itself to Joey. He grinned laughing softly and hugged his sister back tightly. "Nice to see you to sis, did you miss me."

"Of Course I did!" Serenity laughed and pulled aback and for the first time noticed Seto. "Kaiba, what are you doing here?" Her voice held no malice only a curious question.

"That'll be explained in a moment, I want to tell you and mom at the same time." Serenity nodded and moved back into the room letting the two boys follow her before she closed the door.

"Joey!" Joey grinned and walked forward to the woman who had said his name.

"Hi mom," Joey smiled and looked at her; it was obvious this was where he got his looks. She was tall, with blonde hair that reached the middle or her back, though most of it was piled on top of her head in a style that looked like it had taken hours. Her large ruby yes glistened with unshed tears as her eyes raked down Joey's Armani suit and Italian leather shoes.

Joey moved forward and enveloped the woman in a tight embrace careful to do no damage to the dress she was wearing.

"Joey, I am so glad you came." Her eyes flicked to Seto and she smiled. "And you brought a friend." Joey stepped back a ways and Seto came up next to him.

"Mom, this is Seto Kaiba . . . my fiancé." His mother was silent for a moment her face blank as she processed the information and the name that she was familiar with.

"Joseph . . . are you marrying him for his money to get away from your father?" Joey snarled and stepped forward slicing his hand angrily through the air.

"No, that's not it at all!" Seto laid his hand on Joey's shoulder and he visibly relaxed. "Mom . . . I love him." He said softly. His mother smiled widely and clasped her hands happily.

"That's all I needed to hear!" She turned her eyes to Seto and her face went emotionless again. "And you Kaiba, do you love my son?" Seto nodded gravely and wrapped his arm tightly around Joey's shoulder.

"With all my heart!" Seto stated with conviction, Joey's mother smiled brightly again.

"Such a happy day!" She sang joyfully. "Oh Joey, I'm so happy for you!" Joey's grin almost split his face before he remembered his sister.

"Ren . . . what about you?" He turned around to see his sister sitting casually in the chair fixing the flowers in the bouquet; she looked up and grinned at him.

"You want me to tell you what I think?" At Joey's nod she grinned again. "I say finally, I just can't believe it took you two so long to realize that you belonged together!" Joey was speechless and Seto was smirking when a knock came at the door a voice telling the bride she only had five minutes. Serenity jumped up and pointed to the door. "You two out, we'll catch up later!"

Seto and Joey were pushed out the door into the arms of the ushers and then seated near the front of the church. Right next to a woman with a sleeping infant, Seto discretely leaned away and Joey suppressed a laugh noticing his actions and switched seats smiling kindly at the woman.

Then comes a baby in a baby carriage,

(Heh, never said the baby would belong to the two hotties did I?)

Joey sat next to Seto watching Serenity dancing with a boy two years older then she was, he could tell they really liked each other and if he wasn't mistaken the boy was James Stivers and went to the same high school as she did. Joey really wanted to go up there and threaten the boy, but for the sake of his sister left well enough alone.

They had gone to the wedding and sat through the ceremony and vows, they were at the reception and after a couple of hours of catching up they had split up to do their own thing.

Joey was very happy with the man his mother had chosen, he had recently, with the last two months, come into an amazing promotion and his new salary would cover all their bills and much more. It was also enough to provide for the large wedding and reception.

Seto looked little surprised by any of this and Joey had figured the promotion was something of Seto's doing, but chose to say nothing. Seto didn't tell him so he must have had his reasons, unless of course it was all luck and Seto was just being the unreadable person he usually was. Although Joey could read him almost as well as an open book, sometimes he had his moment of foreign text.

"Would you like to dance?" Joey blinked himself away from his thoughts and looked to Seto with a raised eyebrow. "I'm serious." Joey smiled and nodded.

"I'd be honored!" They stood up and made their way to the dance floor where a slow song was playing 'If Your Not the One by Daniel Bedingfield' was familiar to Joey and he followed Seto as they swayed to the music. The song ended and Seto led Joey onto the balcony that was open to the fresh night air.

Joey was surprised to see a small maze like hedge and pulled Seto along to check it out, it was a foot taller than Seto and Joey smirked. Seto only raised his eyebrow, with a barely there shrug he took Joey's hand and led him through the maze quickly, they ended up in the center where a white gazebo stood surrounded by blood red roses.

"Wow, how did you do that so quickly?" Joey asked looking around before turning to Seto.

"While we were still above it I memorized the path through." At Joey's raised brow Seto shrugged. "I know how you think, and I didn't want to get lost."

Joey grinned and stood on his tip-toes, wrapping his arms around Seto's neck he leaned into him tilting his head slightly before gently touching their lips together, Joey slowly licked Seto's bottom lip an was granted access.

"God get a room fags, or maybe you'd be interesting in anyone joining? I'd give the brunette a good ride!" Joey pulled away from Seto and spun on two older teenaged boys and one of their female friends. Snarling Joey moved forward making their laughter abruptly stop.

"Oh, so you think that's funny?" Joey grabbed the one boy's suit and pulled him closer so that their noses were tip to tip. "You and your friends got outta here before I take your short and curlies and yank . . . hard." Joey released the boy with a small shove making him stumble before he turned and ran his friends following suit.

Seto watched Joey with a small amount of amusement and astonishment, Seto knew that Joey knew he could more than handle himself and yet he never failed to come and defend him when something like that arose. Joey usually didn't even feel slightly embarrassed about being caught.

"Fucking bastard!" Joey snarled still watching where the group had been. "I'd give the brunette a good ride!" He mocked before clenching his fist tightly; he closed his eyes and focused on his breathing to keep his temper under control.

Seto smiled loving the feeling of protective jealousy that was rolling of Joey in waves. He made sure to make noise when coming up behind Joey and wrapped his arms around his stomach resting his head on Joey's shoulder, Joey sighed and let his head rest against Seto's

"I hate people like that." Seto made a noncommittal noise and kissed Joey neck.

"The only way he would ever give me a ride is in a race, because with his brains capacity all he will be able to do is drive in circles." Joey smiled and let out a humored snort. "You know its cute how you stand up for me like that."

"It's because you're too good to do it yourself." Seto frowned.

"What do you mean by that?"

"Come on Seto, I'm me and you're you! You're suave and sophisticated it would be beneath you to get physical and threaten somebody, me I'm good at those kinda things. I know you're good enough to handle yourself with just words, but words don't always leave a lasting impression, sometimes you have to kick ass."

"So . . . we make a good team, I talk and you, uh, ass kick?"

"Damn right!" Joey said proudly. "Mmm, I'm tired, I say we find mom and Serenity and say our good-byes; we can always see them tomorrow." Seto straightened from his position and let Joey go.

"Alright Pup, whatever you want." Joey smiled and reached out for Seto's hand he started to walk away but remembered where they were.

"Okay Seto, can you get us back outta here?" Seto smirked and gave Joey's hand a small tug indicating that he should follow him.

When it's dark enough you can see the stars.

Joey stretched out leaning against Seto; they had spent a week in New York. Joey shook out his sore hand and looked at his pile of completed homework. A small yawn broke his face and he rubbed his eyes wistfully glad for the coming graduation, glad that the college exams would be over soon, glad that a very warm comforting presence was against him and pulling him even closer.

Seto kissed Joey's neck softly as his hands wrapped them selves around his stomach. Leaning up and back Joey was able to touch his check to the others' receiving a kiss in return.

Pulling away Seto took Joey's hand and led him out to the small balcony attached to his room.

"It's really dark out." Joey said looking at the pure blackness that surrounded them; Seto smiled and tilted Joey's head back so he saw the sky. With a small gasp he grinned and leaned back into Seto to watch the stars.

Love your enemy, for he will tell you your faults.

Joey was lying in bed above the covers arm thrown haphazardly over his eyes, one leg cocked up the other lying flat on the bed. He sighed tapping the hand that wasn't across his eyes on the bed.

Seto had woken up to a call where someone had screwed something up in the company, it was easily fixable, it just required firing a few people and coming in to work for a few hours to fix things . . . on one of his days off . . . when he hadn't slept well the night before.

Joey heard the bathroom door open and Seto shuffling around the room for a few minutes, before the foot falls stopped at the end of the bed.

"If you want breakfast in bed, sleep in the kitchen!" Seto snarled, Joey lifted his arm and cracked one open to glance at the angry brunette.

"Seto, the proctologist called while you were in the bathroom . . . he found your head." Joey replaced his hand and closed his eye again; he heard no movement at the end of the bed and was curious to see what Seto would do.

After a moment he heard measured footsteps come across the bed and stop at his side, Seto took him by the wrist and moved his arm off his face. Joey opened his eyes and grinned at the annoyed look plastered on Seto's face, the annoyance flicked into anger.

Seto opened his mouth to say something when he was pulled down onto the bed and Joey twisted him onto his back and straddled his hips holding his arms above his head, he made sure Seto wasn't going to use his legs by wrapping his own around Seto's.

Seto growled and tried to get loose, but even though Joey was smaller he was stronger than he was. Stopping for a second Seto looked up calmly into Joey's eyes and found humor shining in them.

"So you do get angry sometimes, good to know." Seto continued to stay still as he frowned up at Joey. Joey did nothing but lean down and kiss Seto lightly. "Don't be angry babe, shit happens. We can fix this and come home and take a nap, then I'm sure later other things can be planned . . . things that have to do with chocolate body paint." Joey licked his lips suggestively and leaned closer to Seto. "And then maybe Mokuba could spend a night at a friends house . . ." Licking a trail from Seto's neck to his ear Joey grinned when he felt Seto shudder under him.

Seto sighed and Joey felt the tension drain out of his body, grinning Joey jumped off Seto and landed neatly on the floor. Seto stood up with a faint frown and Joey enveloped him in a hug.

"Better now?"

"Yes . . . thank you." Seto sighed burying his face in Joey's hair for a second before straightening and going back to his business of getting ready.

Love is being stupid together.

"You're going down dragon boy; I'm going to kick that hot ass of yours!" Seto rolled his eyes at Joey's boasting and hit a combination of keys on his controller causing Joey's character's life to fall down to zero.

"Yes . . . I see that." Joey let his controller drop and frowned at Seto.

"No fair, you cheated!"

"I did not!" Seto said honestly.

"You did to; you distracted me with your hotness!"

"WHAT?! That's not even a valid excuse, it's your fault you couldn't keep your eyes to yourself!" Joey frowned deeply and stalked closer to Seto.

"Will it be my fault if I can't keep my hand off you?" Seto narrowed his eyes at Joey's advance.

"Not so fast, you have to do homework. It's your last year of college, you can't allow for distractions!" Joey smirked.

"I finished my homework this afternoon." Seto was going to tell Joey he did a good job, but had not time as the blonde pounced on him.

Gravity - It's not just a good idea, it's the law.

"Seto, I'm bored." Joey whined Seto didn't even look up from his book.

"Then do something about it." Seto was glad after a few minutes when he got no further distractions, shifting in his chair to get more comfortable he glanced past his book to see Joey's seat empty. Seto frowned at not having heard Joey leave.

Joey snickered and plucked Seto's book from his hand throwing whatever he grabbed from the table to make his page before tossing the book away. In seconds Joey had Seto out of the chair and facing him from the floor.

"Hey look Seto . . . I found someone to do."

"I said something." Seto said unimpressed, Joey grinned and leaned down.

"To late, you're mine now!"

Wherever there is laughter, there is heaven.

"Happy twentieth anniversary!" Mokuba shouted, tall and handsome he had defiantly taken after his older brother in looks.

Mokuba's sentiments were echoed by small groups of Seto and Joey's friends, mostly Joey's.

Large tables of food and refreshments were set up neatly in the Kaiba mansions living room that had been rearranged to accommodate a gathering. Colorful banners had been placed along the ceiling and walls, random balloons were placed in out of the way places, a cake with both the Blue Eyes White Dragon and the Black Eyes Dragon sat in the middle of the room.

"Eh . . ." Joey backed up into Seto who looked almost as comfortable as Joey. "S-Seto was this your idea?"

"No."

"Mokuba." They men said at the same time, both knowing that it was hopeless to try now to get out of it.

"Seto, not that I don't feel bad, but I didn't even remember that our anniversary was soon." Seto smirked along side him.

"You must be working to hard, pup."

"Well did you remember?" Joey questioned.

"I wouldn't have forgotten."

"And that means what?" Seto smirked nodding to someone they passed.

"It means that I have it in my online calendar, when I turned on my personal computer it would have told me."

"And since you haven't gone to the study to finish work . . ."

". . . I would have remembered in time to do something." Joey laughed and rolled his eyes joining his best friend Yugi for a moment to catch up.

In the hand that made the rose, shall I with trembling fall.

Depending on how you look at death a funeral can either be a very heartbreaking thing or only a sad place because you know that the person has moved on into a better place.

For Tsume Kaiba and his little brother Ginji it was a mixture of both. They had loved and been devoted to their two fathers, Seto and Joey. Who had both died on the same day within hours of each other, just like they always said they would. They had always promised that they would leave this world together, no one ever gave careful consideration to the love and devotion that they showed each other to realize that what they said was probably true. And yet it had been proven.

Their deaths were not expected, but it was not a socking surprise. They both led full rich lives, raised two brilliant sons and owned more than half the worlds population of technology.

Seto at ninety-five years of age and Joey just a few months behind no one could really say they were young when they died.

Ginji smiled looking most like his older father with sky blue eyes and dark brown hair that was kept neatly trimmed at all times, his clothes were heavily influenced by the older also, leather pants hugged his legs tightly, a dark shirt was tucked lightly into them with a lighter trench coat flapping stiffly around his ankles.

Tsume looked down at him as the taller of the pair he inherited his looks -through technological advances- from the younger male. Caught between dark brown and red his eyes were almost always unreadable, honey colored hair fell neatly around his face and the rest was pulled back into a ponytail that reached the bottom of his shoulder blades. Tsume's clothes were an exact match for his bothers except for the reversed colors.

Tsume let drop his handful of black roses and with a few whispered words left the two freshly dug holes.

Ginji split his handful of white roses and bowed as he dropped them, also leaving a few words before he slowly followed his brother to the waiting limo.

Pausing for a moment Ginji looked over his shoulder, they had been the last ones to leave, and not even the priest had been there. The only ones left were the few men who were going to cover the newly planted coffins.

With one last wistful smile he turned and climbed into the waiting limo.