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Tinkle time Kelly: I send you an email, but you might not have got it so…Here is the chapter, but you might not be reading after this. Seeing as what you don't want to happen happens. I'm sorry if I lose you as a reader, but it is important to the plot. I hope you continue reading because you like the plot or just the story. Just ignore them if you want. I hope you continue reading.

Disclaimer: Don't own.

Warnings: Cussing,

Vengeance Is A Dish Best Served With Fire

By SetoKaiba'sShowGirl

Chapter 5: Lovers Gained and Returned.

Yami and Seto lay in bed, both wearing the suitable amounts of clothes, with the suitable amount of space between them, both were looking up at the ceiling, thinking about different things altogether. Seto was thinking about if his USB was in the car. He really needed to listen to some good music. Yami was thinking about Seto. Granted, it wasn't in the same way he was thinking about him yesterday, well not entirely…

"Seto?" Yami questioned.

"Yes?"

"Why haven't you got a partner?" Yami asked, while turning on his side, facing Seto.

"I have, you." Seto's brows coming together.

"No, not like that, I mean romantically."

Seto turned on his side facing his 'partner' "I don't know. Why are you so interested all of a sudden?"

"Well I was thinking. Why doesn't Seto Kaiba have a boyfriend? I mean you've got a great body, killer smirk, nice eyes and, when you actually show it, a great persona."

Kaiba was really grateful it was dark, no-one ever got to see him blush, "I just haven't met anyone I want to spend my free time with."

Both of Yami's eyebrows rose so that they were nearly in his hairline, "No one?"

"No one, not everyone is as lucky as you and Yugi you know."

Yami sighed, "I know. Well Seto-kun it will happen one day."

Kaiba was cynical, "Sure."

"It's true. You never know what tomorrow will bring."

Seto rolled onto his other side, facing away from the other male, "Yeah, yeah, goodnight Yami."

"Oyasuminasai Seto-kun."

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Seto awoke to the sound of his cell ringing, the ring-tone annoying the hell out of him. He detangled himself from Yami and got up to answer it. He was annoyed as fuck now, the vain in his forehead throbbing. He woke up to a phone and was wrapped up in Yami Atemu like they were lovers.

"What?!" He screamed down the phone.

"Can I speak to Agent Kaiba?" The person stuttered lamely down the phone.

"He's speaking," The venom still ominous in his voice, "Who is this?"

"I'm a doctor, we have another body, but it's completely different."

Seto was fully awake now, hopping around the room trying to get dressed, "How so?"

"Number 1, she isn't burned up. Number 2, its Dr. Gardener."

"Where?" He said as he jerked Yami awake.

"The same fields as the other bodies."

"We'll be there in 10." He flipped the cell closed.

"What's up Seto," Yami asked still in bed.

"There's another body."

Yami jumped out of bed, stumbling like Seto had, trying to get dressed, "How did it get there?"

"No idea but it was that doctor."

Yami chuckled, "Stupid bitch probably got herself killed."

"Still, we need to investigate."

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Yami and Seto hoped out of the car. Both looked professional today. Yami owned one suit, and today he was wearing it, out of respect mostly. He felt uncomfortable, but just tried to copy what Seto did and walked with purpose. They stopped at the edge of the field seeing someone standing over, what was undeniably Tea Gardener. The person got up and turned towards Seto and Yami, muttering to himself, completely oblivious to the two being there. His head snapped up and he smiled at the two, extending his hand.

"I'm Dr. Joseph Wheeler, but you can call me Joey."

Yami turned to his partner and smirked. His mouth was slightly open and his chest was rising irregularly, he had small beads of sweat on his brow and his eyes were somewhat unfocused. All very slight signs, but Yami knew, in Seto Kaiba these were the signs of attraction.

Yami smiled at the blonde, shaking his hand, "I'm Agent Yami Atemu and THIS," He said slapping Kaiba up the side of the head, "Is Agent Seto Kaiba."

Kaiba shook himself mentally and took Joey's hand, "We spoke on the phone."

Joey nodded. He was about 5"10 with a slightly muscular body. His blonde hair was swept back in to a messy ponytail, at the base of his neck, to keep it out of his honey coloured eyes. He moved with grace that didn't fit his harsh accent. He stepped back to the former doctor and zipped up the body bag.

"I've got to go to the medical centre. I can tell you later what my enquires have yielded." Joey said with a cherry smile.

Seto and Yami waved as he was getting into his car.

"I told you," Yami said as Joey got into his car.

Seto snapped out of his musing, "Told me what?"

"You never know what tomorrow brings."

"Oh, just shut up. Let's get some work done."

They started scanning the area for clues. Anything, even a slight footprint, they found none. It was exactly the same with the burnt bodies, but why kill the doctor? There was no possible logic to that. She wasn't hurting anyone and was no closer to figuring out how the people had died. Where was the logic? Maybe the attackers were tying to throw them off? Were they getting to close? Was she getting to close?

"How can you kill someone, without leaving any clues?" Yami asked as he scanned the field.

"No idea." Was his reply.

Why Dr. Gardener? She wasn't getting any closer to the reason then Seto and Yami were. Yami froze, was this really something to do with the village? Just then his stomach made its self known, telling Seto and Yami, it was hungry.

"What time is it?" Yami asked, a hand on his stomach.

"8:30,why?"

"Time for breakfast," Yami said skipping to the car.

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They reached the diner, driving in complete silence. They got out and once entering the diner, Yami placed an ungodly smirk on his face. 'This should be fun.' He walked over to the blonde haired doctor. Seto unwillingly followed.

"Hiya Joey," Yami greeted once he'd reached the male.

Joey looked up from the menu, "Hi Yami, Seto. You come for breakfast?"

"Yes we have," Yami said sitting opposite Joey, "Mind if we join you?"

"Not at all."

Yami spread out on the bench, making sure Seto had to sit next to the doctor. Seto glared at what he thought was his friend and sat next to Joey.

"So Joey, how is the case going?"

Joey looked up from the menu, "Ok, I took a better look at Dr. Gardener's body. It seems she died from cardiac arrest."

Seto looked towards the doctor, "How? She wasn't that old and seemed relativity fit."

Yami nearly face palmed, 'I didn't want them to talk about work, fuck.'

"I know. I checked through her, and her family's medical history. Nothing there that should have gave her an unexpected heart attack."

"That is so interesting," Yami said that smile still on his features, "But talking about work at breakfast makes me a bit queasy, let's get to know you Joey."

Joey looked suspicious but answered anyway, "Sure, what do you want to know?"

And so it began, "Have you got a girlfriend?" Yami asked.

"No," Joey replied before he looked towards Seto with a quizzical expression.

Seto looked at him, before smirking slightly. He looked like a dog. A very good looking dog granted. Like a puppy. Seto shrugged at the man before turning back to Yami.

"Have you got a boyfriend?" Yami asked the blonde.

"No, what makes you think I'm gay, or bi for that matter?" Joey snarled at Yami. Making Kaiba think he looked even more like a dog, this time a mutt on the defence.

Yami held up his hands in surrender, "I didn't, it's just a question."

Joey leaned back, relaxing again. Making Seto now go back to the assumption he looked like a puppy, "Oh, okay."

"But," Yami said a mischievous glint in his eye that only Seto saw, "Are you gay or bi?"

Joey looked towards Seto again, silently asking him why he was asking so many questions. Seto just shrugged again, even though he knew actually why his 'partner' was. He had realised Seto had liked the blonde. That way. It didn't really matter though, he would just kill Yami later.

"Why do you have something against gays?" Seto looked towards Joey, seeing the mutt again. Snarling and spitting.

"Not at all," Yami said leaning back in his seat, crossing his legs, "Seeing as I'm gay myself."

Joey looked confused, Seto thought he looked like a puppy that had lost his bone. Seto made a mental note, look in the thesaurus for words that mean dog.

"Then what's with all the questions?"

"Just asking, I want to get to know you Joey," Yami said, a cherubic smile on his face.

Seto looked towards Yami. He was amazed at how someone so like Yami. Could look so innocent to get his own way. He could look so much like his other half. Cute, innocent, and very easy to trust. Gods above how he hated this man.

Joey calmed down once again, leaning back just as Yami was, "I suppose that's okay. I'm gay, by the way."

Yami nodded, "And do you have a boyfriend?"

Joey, instead of snarling and spitting just leant forward, "Why, you interested?"

Kaiba had to stop himself from snorting. Even if Yami wasn't with the midget, he wouldn't go for the puppy. Yami had a type and Joey just wasn't it. He turned to the blonde, before feeling his face heat up. Never, in all of his days, had some one made him blush. In public. With people watching.

"No I don't have a boyfriend. I haven't found a man that can," He said this all while looking directly in the brunette's face, "Satisfy me."

Yami smirked, looking from the blonde to the brunette. It was extremely funny to see Seto so flustered. He was thinking of more ways to get him to blush. Seto's face was getting steadily more red. Becoming brighter and brighter. It was the most entertaining thing he had seen since he left Washington. He would remember this, if Kaiba didn't kill him.

"I…I, I need to go to the bathroom," Kaiba suddenly disappeared.

As soon as he was gone Yami burst out laughing, Joey soon following. They both silently agreed it was fun to mess with the usually stoic agent.

"So, Joey, seriously," Yami said wiping the tears from his eyes, "What do you think of my friend?"

Joey pondered on it for a second, "He is really hot, I must admit that. I would love to get to know him more. See the real Seto Kaiba, you know?"

Yami nodded and ordered some breakfast, and some for Seto. Joey also ordered his before the man of the hour came back. His usually icy demeanour thrown back up. He nodded to Joey before slipping in next to Yami. Pushing him none to gently out of the way.

"Has the waitress come yet?" He questioned, his tone back to the usual detached tone.

Yami nodded, "I ordered for you."

That sat in silence till their orders arrived. Joey seemed to have the same kind of appetite as Yami. So skinny, yet ate so much. Seto relaxed with his bagel, he wasn't a breakfast person, and his coffee, while the puppy and soon to be dead-man eat.

"So," Joey said as he finished, "If you are gay Yami, do you have a boyfriend?"

Yami nodded, "Yes I have. Yugi, we've been together for a really long time. I love him with all my heart."

Joey smiled at the sincerity in Yami's voice, "You must really love him?"

"I do," Yami said as he got his wallet from his back pocket. Producing a picture of him and his koi. He smiled at the picture. Seto was in the background an actual smile on his face as he snuck up on the two, a bucket of water in his hands. He had thrown it over their heads, drenching both of them and his little brother Mokuba. Mokuba was the one who took the picture. He gave the picture over to Joey.

Joey looked at it smiling. They looked so in love. He noticed the smiling Kaiba, 'So that's what he looks like when he's smiling. He looks beautiful.' "He's cute."

Kaiba had been staring at the blonde through this whole encounter. He liked the blonde, he could admit it. Just what should he do about it. He had two options. Act like an asshole and drive the blonde away, or embrace the opportunity with both hands. He really didn't want to do either. He decided on a middle, a compromise. It's what Kaibas did best, after all.

"Joey," Seto said leaning forward slightly, "Seeing as we are all getting along so well, would you like to join us for dinner?"

Joey and Yami blinked at the question. Yami was defiantly not expecting that, but it was a step forward. He would just have to get sick unexpectedly, and have to stay in bed. If he wasn't dead by then.

"Okay, what time?" Joey said, a cheeky grin.

"Meet here at 8, puppy." He got up and left a diner, leaving with a smirk.

Yami and Joey exchanged a confused before paying the bill and leaving.

Yami met up with Seto outside, leaning against a wall, cigarette hanging from his mouth as he spoke to someone. Kaiba laughed before hanging up the phone, turning towards Yami.

"So."

"So what Seto?" Yami questioned trying to keep out of the brunette's reach.

"You want to make a fool out of me, yeah."

Yami raised his hand, shaking them from side to side, "No Seto, I would never want to make a fool out of you. I was doing it to…help you. Yes that's it, I did it to help you."

"Is that so, okay then if you did it to help me, come closer," Kaiba said, flicking the cigarette in a random direction.

"That's okay. I'm fine here," Yami said stepping back, even though he tried to seem unfazed.

"Come on Yami, I won't hurt you."

"Yes you will."

Seto drew his gun, "You're right I will. You have to the count of 5."

"Ok come on Seto, it's not that bad is it." Taking steps backwards as he spoke.

"1."

"Would you really shoot your partner? Your best friend?"

"2."

"Come on Seto, please. I'm sorry."

"3."

"Your serious, aren't you?"

"4."

Yami was halfway to France.

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It was 8pm and Seto and Yami were walking towards the diner. Yami had come back to the hotel room two hours later, to a laughing partner. Seto had said that he wouldn't have really shot him; it was just so funny to see him running for his life. Yami had then thrown the nearest thing, the television remote, at the agents head. He had ducked then threw something back. Basically, they didn't walk down the road, they limped. Each sporting different injuries and bruises caused by all manner of different objects. Yami had tried to pull of his brilliant plan, of pretending to be sick, but Kaiba was having none of it. He had dragged him from bed, and said if Yami didn't go, he didn't go, and that just wouldn't do.

They hobbled into the diner, looking around for the blonde they knew should be there. They saw him in the booth that they sat in earlier, flipping through the menu. He had a slight smile on his face, talking to someone - someone with spiky black, blonde and purple hair. Yami blinked, then blinked again, before nearly running to the booth. Joey was laughing at something that other male was saying.

"Then he says, 'If you touch my aibou again I'll make sure you can never think, let alone touch another person again.' I try and calm him down, it's just not working," Joey was laughing his head off, "The guy is like twice the size of my koi, so he walks straight up to him and says, 'Yeah, what are you gonna do about it.' I turn towards my koi, he looks like he's about to throw a punch. In front of all those people I couldn't have that so I say. 'If you hit him, no sex for a month'." Joey's banging his fist on the table, tears coming from his eyes, "He turns to me, smirks and turns back to the man. 'You're lucky I like sex, or you would have been in a ambulance.' Then, in front of everyone he throws me over his shoulder and walks out the club."

"Yug, man. That is just to funny." Joey said wiping the tears from his eyes.

"Aibou?"

Yugi looks up and jumps up. Wrapping his arms around Yami's neck, his legs around his waist, kissing the life out of him. Yami returns the kiss swinging him around in circles. The scene made Joey smile, they looked so happy. Both break the kiss, laughing, Yami still spinning them around in circles as Seto slips into the booth next to Joey.

"Kami-sama, I've missed you," Yami said placing a chaste kiss on Yugi.

"I've missed you too," Yugi replied, adding another kiss.

Yami smiled and put Yugi down, slipping into the booth, placing Yugi on his lap, "When did you get here?"

"About 20 minutes ago. I saw Joey here, and he thought, I was you. So I knew he knew you. Plus Seto told me you two would be here at 8."

Yami looked towards Seto. Kaiba just smirked. Yes, Seto Kaiba had planned this reunion. After the little misunderstanding, with Yami having sexual thoughts for his partner, Seto had called the midget. They had, had a conversation, but they were still having…problems. So earlier Kaiba had called up his partner's lover and told him to get his ass to Arizona, which he had obliged. Getting straight in Yami's car and driving to Arizona.

"Thank you," Yami mouthed to his partner, hugging his koi just a little tighter.

"Your welcome," He mouthed back.

They spent some time just getting to know each other, and Joey and Yugi soon became friends. Laughing like they had known each other for years.

"So Joey, what line of work are you in?"

Joey took a sip of his coffee before answering, "I'm doctor slash coroner. Kinda like a reverse Quincy."

"You work with dead people?"

"Yep, and live people. What do you work as Yugi?" Joey asked as he sipped from his milkshake.

Yugi tilted his head slightly to the side, "You don't know who I am?"

Yami and Kaiba exchanged a quick glance. Eyes wide and just little bit scared, this was not going to end well. Yami picked up Yugi from his lap and placed him beside himself. The closest to the wall. So his escape route was free.

"No," Joey answered, "Should I?"

Yugi eyes narrowed slightly, "Yes, you should. I am…" He got up standing on the booth. Not even realising the other two occupants where slowly retreating from the table. "Yugi Motou, King of Games. I have been playing duel monsters for 10 years, played 2000 major duels. Won 8 major tournaments. Only lost once in my whole career." One of his hands were placed on his hip the other on his knee, where he foot rested on the table.

Everyone in the diner started to clap, as Joey looked around. He realised that these people obviously knew who Yugi was. Girls were eyeing him as if he was a piece of meat and Guys were looking at him in admiration. Joey chuckled slightly as he heard a girl ask her friend if she thought Yugi would sign her t-shirt in lipstick. "I didn't know that, I don't really follow duel monsters. You lost though, to who?"

Yami and Seto, who were halfway to the door froze. They had been dreading that very question. One that only lead to one thing. They turned slowly to see the king of games slump slightly, still in his dramatic pose. He turned his head slightly toward the two stunned agents. He pointed finger across the diner at them. "Him."

Yami's eyes went wide as the finger pointed directly at him. Not only did Yugi and Joey's head turn toward him, but everyone else's did as well. He turned to Seto to see him with the same wide eyed expression on his face. They had been so close. This only went one way, Yugi getting mad at Yami for no apparent reason. Then Yami having to sleep on the couch for at least a week. Then Kaiba would back him up saying it was part of the case, he had to enter the tournament, had to win. Then Yugi would get angry. Being such a little thing you wouldn't expect two federal agents to be scared of him, but they were, very scared. They backed up towards the door, not only was Yugi looking furious and Joey looking at Yugi liked he grew a second head, but everyone in the diner advanced on Yami and Yugi. Kaiba and Yami looked at each other one final time before nodding and high tailing it out of there. Yugi at their tails.

To Be Continued…

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