Recap:

"Seto…We mustn't wake Tristan…I have to walk him to the airport in two hours…"

"Don't worry about that. I'll just do a blowjob to you…"

"Then we'll cuddle…"

"Fine, we'll cuddle." Seto rolls his eyes.

Joey just wanted to piss him off.

He missed that so badly.

--

"Make a little space, Seto!"

"This is a damn couch! How do you think I can manage that?"

"Maybe we should…Never mind. We're getting up in a half an hour, anyways."

Joey's hugging Kaiba tightly, not allowing him to fall from the couch.

Kaiba is staring through the window, at incoming sunrise.

It is still dark in the room, though.

"So, pup, did you really want to sleep with Taylor?"

Falls a question all of a sudden.

"I don't want to talk about that."

"You know what they say, honesty and good communication are the key for a good and long lasting relationship."

Kaiba can't see how much Joey is blushing.

Joey thinks it isn't time to open up and tell what he was feeling then.

Their relationship is still young.

"You bastard!" he punches lightly Kaiba's shoulder, then hugs him again, "You're really making me uncomfortable! And the only good communication is between our dicks and anuses."

Kaiba chuckles.

"I thought our relationship has another dimension…" he whines.

"You sound like an abandoned bitch, you know."

"I'm doing my best to piss you off."

Silence.

"God, you did a great blowjob! I've been missing it."

"Pervert!"

And suddenly, a change of atmosphere. Joey says nothing in reply.

"Joey?"

Joey slips from the couch, making circles across the living room.

Seto sits up.

'What is it?"

"I wonder how you can win back your corporation, so you could fuck that bitch off!" Joey looks at him, concerned.

Seto sighs.

"We're gonna hide, right? And then, when we win that bitch, we'll…"

"Look, pup…I think we should take a break…No, don't look at me like that!" Joey's eyes are full of tears.

It is sunrise and the room is lightened enough so Seto can see Joey's eyes clearly.

Joey's shaking his head in disagreement and disappointment.

"I thought there was something going on between us. But you're tricking me all the time. You use me…" Joey is stepping back as Seto's approaching him.

"Just the way I wanted to use Tris… But he believed in me… Despite those horrible lies I told him and horrible thing I almost did. Fucking him without love…" Joey's heading to the kitchen. Seto follows him.

"Joey, you need to understand…"

"Understand what? He loves me, he sacrifices. And I'm unable to love him back. Unable because of you. I called your name while trying to sleep with him. I hurt him, my best friend, because of you. And you…You ungrateful son of a bitch!"

"I'll marry her. I must, it's a pla…"

"It's all about damn money and sex."

"No, it isn't!" now Joey is standing on his feet, facing with that confusing and hot CEO.

He's unable to control his tears.

How pathetic.

"No, Joey…" Seto whips his tears, "No, because…"

"…big boys don't cry, right?" Joey interrupts, snorting.

Seto's just staring at him, amazed by his beauty.

He's so damn beautiful even when he cries.

Now he looks like an abandoned puppy.

And it would tear apart every single person in the world.

Can it tear apart Seto?

"Why do you care so much?"

Joey says nothing.

"I don't deserve you." says Seto, not believing he said that.

Joey remembers his and Tristan's recent conversation.

He's making a parallel.

It's a strange pattern, a perfect circle of cursed fate.

"No, you don't. It's about that damn circle that will never open and let people be happy."

Seto takes these words and puts them aside. He doesn't understand clearly, but he feels sorrow in the other boy's words.

"I want this really work, Joseph." they're both surprised Seto used Joey's full first name, " I really do. But I need to do that in order to find her weak points and destroy her…It may take some time."

Joey shakes his head.

"Joey, please promise you will wait for me. I won't touch her."

Kaiba mustn't let himself break down now.

Joey disagrees.

"It's a plan. I will leave her as soon as I manage to return my company."

"I don't believe you." Joey pushes him aside. "I'm gonna wake Tristan now."

"I'll drive you two to the airport."

"It won't be necessary. We'll take a cab. By the time I return, I don't want to find you in here." Joey leaves the kitchen.

Seto is honorific person, but he doesn't say: 'Fine, I don't care. I'm over you anyways.', as expected.

He just leaves, defeated for the first time.

--

"You two didn't make up, did you?" asks Tristan while eating breakfast.

"Neh." Replies Joey. "He wants to marry her."

"Oh…"

"It's not that he feels something for her...He needs to…Well, to kiss up her ass. He thinks that's the way to return his company."

"Sounds like a good plan, finding her weak points."

"He said that as well, but I disagree. "

"You're jealous."

"No, I'm not! He wants us to make a break during that. I don't trust him. I don't believe we'll manage to handle that. We'll never be together again."

Tristan nods.

But he figures something important.

"I'll cancel the flight. I need to do something before I go."

"Do you want me to go with you?"

"No. Just stay here. I think there's a chance Seto doesn't have to do that. And Joey…He cares. You see he sacrifices."

Joey smiles weakly, putting all hopes in his best friend.

"I really don't deserve friend like that."

"Maybe there is really something in Tea's speeches after all."

--

Yugi's place

"Hey, Yugs."

"I thought you took off! What a wonderful surprise! So, you're staying." Yugi is cheerful as always.

"Neh, I'm leaving, but later. " Yugi's smile died. "I just need to say goodbye to all of you and…"

"I thought you made up with Joey!"

"Yeah, I did, but Honshu is my home now and I can't abandon it just like that. I mean, you know…Anyway, I want to talk to Marik. Is he around?"

"No, not yet. But you can hang around with me. I'm so bored!"

"Sure, mate! What are we going to do?"

"Well, you suck at dueling…But…Hey, somebody's ringing. I'll be right back."

Tristan glances at watch. It's eleven. Sunday is just beautiful.

He's thinking about how this weekend was twisted.

He made up with his best friend…

Then the said best friend seduced him…

Joey hurt him badly.

And he managed to forgive.

And now he's helping him.

How noble.

"Can't believe, you arrived earlier…" Tristan hears a conversation between Yugi and somebody, "You, who late so much…Ehm…Tristan is here, wanting to talk to you about something, Marik…Bakura, don't look at me like that! He just wants to talk to him…You want to come in? Oh, sure…Sorry, guys!"

Various footsteps.

First one handsome albino shows up.

Then his lover, blond and sunburned.

They greet him.

"So, what is it you want to talk about?" asks Marik, somehow seductively.

Bakura glances at him.

If a glance could kill, Marik would be six feet underground.

"We need to talk alone." says Tristan, realizing how that sounded.

Bakura hisses a little.

"Sure." says Marik, he measures him slowly.

Tristan knows he just wants to make Bakura jealous. And he's succeeding.

They're leaving Yugi's living room and going to the kitchen.

"I'm listening." says Marik, uninterested.

They sit one opposite another.

"What would you do if Pegasus takes Bakura again?"

"What the hell?!"

"I think I was clear enough."

Tristan doesn't want to waste time.

"None of your business." he snorts.

"Do you love him?"

"I do."

"Right, you've got a second chance. You'll not screw it up."

"And your point is…?"

"I know and Kaiba and Joey know that you and Ishizu separated them. And I'm pretty sure you're making up something new."

Marik raises his delicate blond eyebrow.

"What if they wanted a second chance? Which they do, in fact. And Kaiba has to be with your sister not because he loves her or something, but to feed his brother. And in order to do so, he broke up again. The same day they made up. And they're suffering both. Would you like to lose your lover again, just like he did?"

Marik lowers his head.

"No, I don't…But!" he raises his head, "Why do you care if they're together or not? Isn't it in you interest Joey be single? Why aren't you chasing after him? I thought you're together!"

"We're not, as you see."

"So Kaiba returned to beg for another chance and Joey simply left you, isn't it? Oh, poor you! And you're trying to save his relationship with moneybags after all. Why? Aren't you angry? Don't you want them suffer?" Marik is cruel and trying to manipulate.

"You don't get it. I'm doing this because he's my friend. And no matter what happened, friends are there to forgive. That is something people like you cannot understand even if they want to."

Marik frowns.

'What do you want, Tristan?"

A short pause.

"I want you to talk to Ishizu and to adjust her leave Kaiba and give him those 51 she took him."

'You must be kidding!"

"I'm dead serious!"

"No way, man…"

"What if Pegasus decides to seduce your 'precious Kura' again? What would you do? And there's no one to help you, you're all alone and unhappy. That's how they feel. Just put yourself into their position. If you were them, it wouldn't be pleasant, right?"

Marik is thinking very long.

But Tristan is patient.

The idea of Kura being uke to somebody else…Especially when talking about Pegasus…Isn't pleasant. So damn it isn't!

"Yeah, I'll do my best. If Kura runs to that guy again, I would shoot myself."

"That's my boy!" Tristan grins.

--

Marik's place that evening

"Who would have thought I'd be the one saving Kaiba's ass!" says Marik to his partner.

"Why are you dong that, then?"

'Cuz something similar could happen to me' he thinks.

"Cuz somebody has to piss on Ishizu's head already! Damn I'd like to see that scene! She's so annoying sometimes."

"That's my boy!" Bakura sits in his lap. "After that dinner, I'm gonna wrap you in chains and scar you…Mmmmm!"

"Sure, Kura baby! Can't wait to be uke to you…"

'Only in your dreams.' he thinks, though.

"You tricked me the other night, but tonight I'll punish you!" says Bakura.

Marik's just smirking mysteriously.

"I think she arrived. I heard he car. I'll open her and, Kura…Be nice."

Bakura just nods.

--

"Stop, Marik! I don't want that, so please will you leave the idea?"

"No, I won't. He doesn't love you, sis. And no matter what you try, he still won't love you. And I think you don't love him either. You're just obsessed."

Ishizu sits demonstratively on the couch.

"But, bro…"

"Think for a sec. Odion wants you."

"He's poor."

"For fuck's sake, leave Kaiba alone already! You don't know how to run company, you know nothing! And he cares about Joey and you can't change it!"

"No, he doesn't! He was fucking him, that's all!"

"You know Kaiba well enough to know that he says very often things he doesn't mean at all."

Ishizu sighs.

"He's enough of it, and I am. Let people live, for once."

"Y-you sure? I'm suffocating him…?"

"Damn you suffocate him! Like you don't know! If there weren't for his brother, he would leave you even if that meant to lose his company."

"But…"

"No matter what, you lose. He'll never be yours. He belongs to Joey."

"N-no…" she falls to the ground, on her knees, crying hysterically.

"Leave him alone. Give him back his percents."

"I'll…I'll...Leave him alone…Just because you asked me to."

She says and runs out.

--

A month later

"I could never assume she was such a lunatic!" says Joey.

"Poor Marik! Did you see him at the funeral? He was completely destroyed." says Yugi.

"But he doesn't mind Bakura comforting him…in his own twisted sadistic way." says Seto.

"What happened, happened and we can do nothing about that. The worst thing is over."

"Yeah, pup. So, did you choose the destination?"

'What destination?" asks Yugi.

"Since he graduated with good marks and all ( not good as mine), we're going somewhere for the summer break."

"Well…I'll tell you in bedroom…later."

Kaiba blushes.

Yugi disappears in a second.

"Come, puppy…I'm gonna fuck you senseless until you pass out."

"Sounds great…" Joey grabs his cock over his pants and rubs it.

Kaiba moans.

"If you want more of it…"

"I'll fuck you right here if you don't stop."

"I like challenges, though…"

"Then I'll give you one." Seto leans in and whispers something.

"What?! I thought you were trying just to make teacher disgusted! And so not in front of her!" (1)

Kaiba smirks evilly.

--

(1)- see chapter 7

AN: Well, I'd stop here if you don't mind. I think this is good enough. They managed to survive many things and remain together. Happy end after all!