Author: insight_to_insanity

Rating: R

Disclaimer: By day I am a poor teenager with no job. But by night I am the owner of various animes, racking in thousands of dollars!! Don’t buy it? I didn’t think so.

Warning: there is YAOI that means boy/boy!!! Got a problem with it, DON’T READ THIS FIC! I MEAN IT!! RUN AWAY!!!!!!!!!

"spoken"

‘thoughts’

*** character switch, time lapse, you get the picture

Chapter Two

Jou laid on his back with his feet propped on the seat of one the over sized chairs, groaning loudly. Then louder when all he got in response was the sound of more typing.

"What?" Seto snapped.

"I’m hungry." Jou replied, shifting so he was sitting on the ground so he could look at Seto. Jou liked looking at Seto; he was pretty.

"And what do you expect me to do about it?"

"Well...don’t you have food around here?"

Seto hesitated. "I think there’s a vending machine on the seventh floor."

"Great!" Katsuya dug around his pockets to see how much money he had. "What do you want?"

"Nothing." Kaiba said quickly.

"You have to eat-"

"I have work. I don’t eat till I’m finished."

"...But you’re always working. That’s why you’re so thin, isn’t it?" Katsuya frowned. "It isn’t healthy not to eat."

"I imagine it isn’t healthy to eat the way you do either."

Jou laughed. "Yeah, you’re probably right." He grabbed Seto’s hand, trying to ignore the electric shock he felt at the mere contact. "Come with me. That way you’ll be able to pick out what you want."

"I don’t want-" Seto was cut off by Jou dragging him out of his chair. "Damn it, mutt, let me go!"

"Come on! Even if you don’t want anything, I still need you to show me where the machine is."

Seto wrenched his hand away from Jou. "I already told you. It’s on the seventh floor somewhere." He seethed. "Now leave and let me work."

Katsuya pouted slightly. He had wanted Kaiba to come along, but the other boy was being so obstinate he decided it would be simpler to just go alone.

Seto watched as Katsuya walked out of his office towards the elevator. The blonde’s company wasn’t that bad...actually, it had been nice. Seto shook his head with a chuckle and began working again, not really sure if he had been laughing at the puppy or at himself.

One good thing about Jou searching the halls for food was that he could work without the discontented sighs of the puppy. It was completely silent. Even outside, where there were usually cars whizzing past and loud horns blasting had been replaced by an almost errie quiet. It was peaceful.

Kaiba nearly jumped out of his skin as a blood curdling scream floated up from a few floors below. He bolted out the door and ran to the stairs, completely bypassing the elevator. He knew whom the scream belonged to.

...Katsuya.

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Jou wandered the seventh floor aimlessly. Why the hell was there so many twists and turns in it anyway? It was sort of creepy being there. The lights were all on and computers were still running, but not a soul was in sight. It was as if they had vanished in mid office air.

Then turning another corner Katsuya saw it. His eyes widened and became sparkly at the sight of the vending machine at the end of the hall. Oh! It was so beautiful! He felt as if he could cry! Rushing over to the machine, Katusya pulled a dollar out of his pocket. After he flattened it on the side of the vending machine, he shoved it into the slot and eagerly pressed B8.

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Seto skidded across the floor just barely managing to keep his balance as he rounded another corner. He couldn’t figure out why the architecture of the seventh floor was so odd. Surely the floors weren’t all designed like this. Images of Jou continued to flutter inside his mind despite how hard he tried to will them away. Katsuya lying dead on the ground with blood pouring out the side of his head, or Katsuya clutching his stomach and withering in sheer agony.

‘Please be okay...please!!’

He turned another corner and let out his breath as relief washed over him.

Katsuya...he was all right. But-- what the hell was he doing? He ran over to the puppy.

"Mutt? What are you doing?" He asked.

Katsuya looked up at Seto sheepishly through his golden bangs. "My candy bar got stuck, so I decided to get out."

Seto laughed quietly. Katsuya was sitting with his legs stretched out before him, his right arm crammed up into the vending machine slot.

"Why didn’t you try kicking it?" Kaiba sneered.

"I did...I think it went back even farther after that." He glared accusingly at Seto. "Figures something of yours would spite me like this."

"No. I just don’t think you’re strong enough. You are just a puppy after all. Now move, I’ll get it out for you. That way I won’t have to listen to you complain all day about hunger pangs." Seto looked expectantly at Jou, then tapping his foot he snapped impatiently, "Well? Move!"

Katsuya mumbled something under his breath.

"What was that?" Kaiba asked. "I couldn’t hear you."

Katsuya’s honey eyes narrowed to slits as he growled out in embarrassment. "I’m stuck."

"Stuck?" Seto repeated. Jou nodded and the other boy began laughing loudly.

"SHUT UP! IT ISN’T FUNNY!" Jou shouted angrily. "My arm is starting to fall asleep..." Seto only laughed harder. "IT’S NOT FUNNY!"

"Yes, it is." Kaiba said once he regained control. He squatted down and looked into Jou’s eyes. "Do you want me to help you out?"

"Yes please." Katsuya said in a quiet, obedient voice.

Seto smirked. "Why should I, puppy?"

Jou stared at him incredulously. "Because it would be the decent thing to do!" Kaiba just raised an eyebrow at him. "Aw, come on! Please? It’s really uncomfortable..."

"Would you prefer it if I brought you a pillow?"

"DAMN IT, KAIBA! HELP ME!" Katsuya screeched while making an attempt to kick the mocking boy. Seto chuckled and gracefully dodged the attack. He repositioned himself to get Katsuya’s arm out.

He tugged down a few times before growling, "How the hell did you get it this stuck?"

Jou shrugged. "I was really hungry."

Seto changed his position again. This time in a way that made Katsuya’s breath hitch. Seto was straddling him, only a few inches off of sitting on top of his lap.

‘Anzu pole dancing, Anzu pole dancing, Anzu pole dancing...’ Kept running through his mind. He couldn’t have his body reacting to Seto, especially when the other boy was so close.

Seto moaned loudly as he pulled down at Jou’s arm again. Katsuya’s "Anzu pole dancing" had promptly been replaced by "Anzu and Pegasus getting it on".

Suddenly Seto succeeded in pulling Katsuya’s arm out, but the force behind the action propelled him to the side, and Jou, since his arm was still being clenched by Seto, fell over with him. Katsuya landed on top of Seto, their chests crushed together and their lips precariously close.

The position was rather...compromising.

They both realized it instantly and scrambled away from each other. Katsuya’s face was stained red and Seto was refusing to look at him while running his fingers through his dark brown hair.

Katsuya was the first to break the awkward silence between them. In a tentative whisper he asked, "Kaiba? Do you think you could shake my candy bar out of the machine now?"

***

"Katsuya’s log. Hour 8. The primitive beast known as Kaiba continues to ignore me and jab at the keyboard. He doesn’t seem to possess any social skills to speak of. So far the only responses I have gotten out of him have been grunts and snorts."

"Would you shut the hell up!?" Kaiba snapped as he chucked a pen cap at Katsuya’s head. It squarely hit it’s target, but that didn’t seem to irritate the blonde. Instead his eyes lit up happily.

"Success!" He cheered gleefully into the candy wrapper posing as his microphone. "The Kaiba thing has responded! Hmm, we must make a note of his violent tendencies..." Katsuya smiled warmly at Seto only to receive an icy glare. "Aw, come on Kaiba!" He whined. "Talk to me! I’m bored!"

‘That’s obvious.’ Kaiba thought as he snorted sardonically at Katsuya’s statement.

"And the Kaiba beast has returned to his usual response."

"Puppy! I’m going to hurt you if you don’t be quiet!"

"Talk to me! Please?" Katsuya dragged his please out as long as he could and then followed it up with puppy dog eyes.

Seto sighed in an annoyed fashion, but nonetheless put away his work and sat on the floor next to Jou.

"Why?" He asked.

"Why what?"

"Why do you want to talk to me? We don’t have anything to talk about."

"Sure we do!"

"Such as?"

"Um...tell me about your childhood."

"Rather not." Kaiba answered dismissivily.

"Okay...what’s your favorite TV show?"

"Don’t have one."

"What’s your favorite thing?"

"Why should I tell you?"

"Because that’s what you do in a conversation!" Katsuya exclaimed, throwing his hands up in frustration.

"Which is exactly why we shouldn’t have one."

"Okay Kaiba," Jou said through clenched teeth. "Maybe I was going about this all wrong. Ask me a question and I’ll answer. That way you can see how it’s done."

Seto rolled his eyes. "Fine. Why did you scream?"

"Because my candy got stuck. I was really-"

"Did you have to scream so loudly?" Kaiba cut in.

"What? Did I disturb you or something?" Katsuya asked sarcastically.

"It wasn’t that..." Seto said slowly, no longer looking Katsuya in the eye.

"Then what was it?"

"...I thought something had happened to you." Katsuya’s heart skipped a beat. Kaiba had been worried about him?

"This is stupid." Kaiba said, standing up sharply. Katsuya reached out and tried to stop him but whiffed past his hand.

"Seto," He called out.

Seto’s head spun around and he gazed at Jou with bewilderment. "What did you call me?"

"I called you Seto." Katsuya replied in a shockingly smooth voice. He really hadn’t meant to call Kaiba by his first name. It just sort of...slipped out. "I figure that since we could be stuck here for a real long time, we should call each other by our real names."

"We won’t be here any longer than a day." Kaiba told him.

"You don’t know that." Jou countered, then quickly began rambling. "Maybe the snow will get so high it’ll cover the door. And then maybe it’ll rain and the cold temperatures will freeze it so it’s like a solid ice cube blocking our way out. We could be stuck together for days!"

Kaiba sat down in his chair minus his usual grace and held his head in his palms. He looked exhausted. "Puppy, shut up, will you? And go back to surnames."

"What’s wrong with calling you your real name?" Katsuya asked looking questioningly into Seto’s blue eyes. Seto really wished he would stop gazing so intently.

"It just feels...different. Okay?" He snapped. "And before you ask, ‘Different how?’ I don’t know. It just feels different so don’t do it."

"I wasn’t going to ask that." Katsuya pouted, a little bit creeped out that Kaiba had known what he was about to say.

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That was a bit short, wasn’t it? I got a really cute idea today during English when my teacher was explaining the homework...which I haven’t done yet. Heh heh ^^; Anyway, I think it’s going to go in the third or fourth chapter. (See?! See?! I have a fourth chapter sorta kinda but not really planned out! Yay me!!) Soooooo? Whad ya think?? Hmm? What’s that? Sorry, I can’t hear you when you babble to your computer screen. Hey! I have an idea! See that box down there? Click! Review!