Author: insight_to_insanity

Rating: R

Disclaimer: Yeah...I don’t own Yu Gi Oh, so *please* don’t sue me!

Warning: This fic contains YAOI i.e. Boy/boy DON’T LIKE, DON’T READ!!!!!!

"spoken"

‘thought’

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

Chapter Four

The air between Seto and Katsuya was still. Neither one had really spoken a word since Kaiba came up with the whole ‘sharing body heat’ idea. Katsuya was struggling to maintain a normal breathing rate knowing that if his breath sped up at all Kaiba would feel it. But Seto was close! Part of Jou was screaming that it was like a dream come true, the other part screaming it was pure hell. What was it that people said? The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right next to them and know you can’t have them? That fitted his situation pretty well. Of course, he wasn’t sitting next to Kaiba, he was practically sitting on top of him. Which was very good thing. Katsuya smirked. Oh yes, that was a very, very good thing.

***

Kaiba sighed and leaned his head down on Katsuya’s shoulder. The puppy was so warm in his arms. He would be lying if he said he didn’t like it. Seto closed his eyes, taking in the scent of the puppy. He smelt like... strawberries, chocolate, and other yummy things.

Kaiba rolled his eyes. ‘Yummy things? That is pathetic. True, but still pathetic.’ He buried his face a little more into Jou’s neck, the golden hair tickling him. He loved holding Katsuya.

Seto’s eyes sprang open. He loved...? Kaiba nearly snorted sarcastically. ‘It’s not like I have feeling for the mutt. I just like holding him. It’s purely physical.’ Seto paled. ‘Oh, God, that didn’t sound right...’

"What are you thinking about?" Katsuya asked softly. He didn’t really seem to mind that Seto was so close to him. That’s good. Seto had no intention on backing away.

"Mokuba." Seto lied automatically. "I wonder if he’s okay."

"Please, he’s how old now? Twelve? I dare say he can make it for one day on his own." Jou turned to look at him with a smirk.

"I know," Kaiba replied. "I just worry."

Katsuya’s eyes softened and he smiled warmly at Seto. "We’re a lot alike, did you know that?"

Seto got an indignant expression on his face. "We have nothing in common, mutt."

Jou shook his head. "Yes we do. We both care a lot about our sibling, we both have a dragon as our favorite card, we both hate to lose, and we’re both as stubborn as hell."

"Hn." Kaiba snorted. "I’m not stubborn."

"Will you hire me?"

"No."

"See? Stubborn."

Kaiba chuckled into the nape of Katsuya’s neck. It only then hit Katsuya just how intimate it really all was. Seto’s brown hair brushed against his cheeks. It was so perfect. Had Katsuya been braver it would have been the perfect time to kiss him.

***

Kaiba’s lips danced across Katsuya’s neck, licking and kissing and sucking. Jou moaned and leaned into him. Kaiba moved up to kissing Jou’s ear. He nipped at the lobe and blew gently on it, his arms were hugging Katsuya close and then he...punched him in the side.

"Mutt! Wake up!" Kaiba’s voice hissed. Katsuya’s eyelids fluttered open and he felt particularly murderous about being woke from the dream.

"I’m awake." Jou yawned.

"I told you not to sleep." He scolded. "You’ll get sick, besides I don’t want to listen to you moan because of some stupid nightmare all night."

‘...Nightmare?’ Jou nearly giggled. ‘That wasn’t a nightmare...could he really hear me?’

"I couldn’t help it," Katsuya explained. "You’re just so warm." He emphasized that by leaning even closer to Kaiba. Seto didn’t push him away, instead, he held tighter. ‘Does he even have the slightest idea what he’s doing to me?!’

"Well find some way to stay awake."

"Talk to me." Jou pleaded.

"Why should I?"

"So I stay awake. If I have someone to talk to I won’t fall asleep again."

Seto was quiet for a moment. "Fine. Talk mutt."

Katsuya bristled at the nickname, but he started talking all the same. He talked about Duel Monsters, school, the sadist math teacher, his friends. Anything to keep his mind off sleep and the dream he had had. He was still trying desperately to will away the arousal the dream had brought.

***

Katsuya had been babbling for longer than he could keep track. But he knew it must have been a while given the pink tinge in the sky. The snow seemed to stop for the most part. Kaiba’s arms held him tightly and he would occasionally give Jou a little squeeze. Katsuya thought it was odd that he did that, but didn’t dare question it in fear that Kaiba would stop. Kaiba hadn’t spoken a word to Jou, not that the blonde had expected him to be particularly talkative, but some conversation would have been nice. It was damn hard to hold up a conversation on your own.

"Hey Kaiba," Jou whispered. "Look, the snow stopped." He frowned. "Kaiba?"

He gently turned around to find himself staring into Seto’s sleeping face. He glowered at him. "Oh I get it. You can sleep, but I can’t? Jerk."

Seto murmured something in his sleep with a small smile playing on his lips. Katsuya’s eyes softened. Seto was smiling, not smirking, or sneering, he was actually smiling. It was so sweet.

Katsuya brushed the brown hair out of Seto’s face, silently musing at the silkiness of the brown tresses. It was so smooth and soft. Katsuya let his eyes wander over Seto’s sleeping body, starting at his chest and stopping at his lips. His slightly-pouted-begging-to-be-kissed lips. Jou gulped and glanced around nervously. There was no one else there, just him and pretty Seto.

Katsuya let Seto’s hair sift through his fingers again and brought his face close enough to feel Kaiba’s heat radiating off his cheeks. He dropped his right hand from the brown hair and encircled Kaiba’s waist with it. Katsuya took a deep breath, closed his eyes, and leaned forward, kissing Seto’s lips lightly.

***

Seto’s eye lids fluttered open just in time to see Katsuya descend upon his own lips. His eyes snapped open in surprise and the fact that he had woken just moments before was completely forgotten.

‘The puppy is...WHAT THE FUCK?!’ Kaiba thought frantically, staring into Jou’s closed eyes. ‘I should push him away, or something...like...’ Seto’s breath increased and he was having a hard time grasping onto his thoughts. The gentle kiss slowly willed him to close his eyes. Katsuya’s hand was playing with Kaiba’s hair. ‘That’s kinda nice...I guess it’s okay if he wants to do that, I don’t mind...’

Katsuya had begun to dance his warm fingers up and down Seto back in feather light touches. Seto couldn’t suppress a shiver at the sensation. Katsuya immediately drew back away from Kaiba.

‘Wha- why did he stop!?’ Kaiba thought angrily, then mentally chastised himself for thinking that.

"K-kaiba?" Katsuya stammered in a nervous whisper. "Are you awake?"

Seto remained silent.

Jou sighed in relief. "You’re still asleep." Seto then felt a pair of heated lips on his cheek. After he kissed him, again, Katsuya giggled and snuggled closely to Seto, rubbing his head against the CEO’s chest in an attempt to get comfortable.

Seto opened his eyes and looked down at Katsuya who had a huge grin on his face, wondering why the puppy had done that and why he wasn’t nearly as upset about it as he should be.

***

The sun was completely up by the time Seto woke, or at least the time Jou believed he woke. Snow was no longer falling from the sky and inches that had accumulated during the storm didn’t really stand in the way of travel. Seto took the coat off and stood up abruptly causing Katsuya to fall over. The blonde had practically been on top of him.

"All right, puppy." He said in a deliberate manner that Jou found a bit strange. "Let’s go."

"All ready?" Katsuya asked. "Are you sure? Maybe we should stay here for a little while long-"

"We’ll be fine." Seto answered quickly. He pulled his shirt on and began buttoning it. With a sneer he added, "You should probably put your clothes on too, mutt."

Katsuya snatched his shirt briskly off the floor while holding Seto in a cold glare. Naturally, he did not win this mini staring contest. How could he? Even if Kaiba hadn’t had years of practice Katsuya still wouldn’t win. He couldn’t look Seto in the eye very long without blushing and he could feel that fluttery sensation in the pit of his stomach in more intensity after his stolen kiss that morning.

Katsuya followed Seto out of the building and to the parking garage. Apparently Kaiba had driven himself in that day. The car ride was absolutely silent, the only sound was the occasional question from Kaiba concerning the whereabouts of Katsuya’s apartment complex.

"Is this it?" Kaiba asked as he pulled over to the side of street in front of the apartments. They weren’t the fanciest things around, but they looked clean enough to be a home.

Jou nodded. "Yeah, this is it."

Everything was quiet.

"Are you going to get out?"

Katsuya didn’t answer.

"Are you ignoring me, puppy?" Seto asked. He was beginning to get nervous, he already had enough to think about in matters in regards to Katsuya.

"It wasn’t that bad, was it?"

Seto quirked an eyebrow. "What wasn’t that bad?"

"Us...spending time together." Seto could see Jou viciously fighting down a blush.

The puppy was losing.

"I suppose it wasn’t as bad as it could have been." Seto admitted reluctantly, not really understanding why he didn’t just push Jou out. Get rid of the puppy, get rid of the confusion...right?

Katsuya tried to hide the smile that lingered just beyond his lips. "So, maybe it wouldn’t be so bad to get to know each other. You know...hang out. I mean, I’m not doing anything this weekend, and I hear there’s a new movie opening on Sat-"

"I have plans." Kaiba cut in hastily, wincing slightly at the hurt expression that flickered across Katsuya’s face. "With Mokuba...I- I promised I would spend time with him during the vacation, and I already missed an entire day..." He kept going on with this excuse. He had to make Katsuya understand. He just had to.

Not that he cared.

Because he didn’t.

"It’s okay, Kaiba," Katsuya said with a forced grin and sad eyes. "I get it. I’d probably do the same for my sister." He stepped out of the car. "Have fun with Mokuba...I guess I’ll see you in school. Bye."

Seto said his good bye and took off. He knew what the puppy had been trying to do. A movie...on Saturday...the mutt may as well had asked him out.

***

Katsuya watched as Kaiba’s car turned the corner off his street and sighed. Seto had turned him down. Sort of. But it still hurt.

Jou growled at himself. ‘What the hell did I think he would do? Say that he had been praying for me to ask him out and kiss me? I’m glad he stopped me before I actually asked him. I don’t know what I would do if he had said no then.’

"Jounouchi Katsuya!" Came an old and all but feeble voice from behind him. Mrs. Shindou stood in the doorway to the apartments, her wrinkled hands on her wide hips and she was frowning. "You didn’t come home last night."

Katsuya wasn’t even going to ask how she knew, that old woman knew everything and anything that happened to the residents of the apartments.

"When I was young we didn’t go off till all hours of the night with our boyfriends, no we did not-"

"WA-WAIT! BOYFRIEND?! WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?!"

Mrs. Shindou pointed a withered finger in the direction Kaiba’s car had taken.

"WHO SAID THAT WE-"

"I may be old, young man, but I’m not blind." She huffed, then returned to her soapbox. "As I was saying, we didn’t act that way in my day. We always obeyed our parents, never made them worry, never spent the night with someone till after we were married-"

Jou gasped in horror and embarrassment. He was red from the tips of his toes to his hair line. "W-WE...NOTHING HAPPENED!!"

She raised an eyebrow skeptically. "Oh really? Then why did he drive you home this morning? And need I point out that you’re still in the same clothes?"

"I- Well, yes, I did sleep with--We didn’t do anything, Mrs. Shindou! I swear!!"

Mrs. Shindou gave a lengthy "Mm hmm." and returned to scolding only to be interrupted by Jou again.

"And how did you know that I was-"

"Gay?" She finished for him. "Once again I’ll point out to you that I’m not blind. Of course your father doesn’t know...he’s almost as clueless as you."

Jou glared. He wasn’t clueless. His father might be, but he wasn’t.

"You should try to be a bit smarter, Katsuya." She said. "A boy well off like that...just remember, people don’t buy the cow when they can get the milk for free." She paused thoughtfully. "Or get milked for free."

Katsuya blanched at her words and nodded his head in disbelief that an old lady, even one like Mrs. Shindou, would say that. "I- I’ll keep that in mind."

"You do that." She turned to leave but hesitated. "And by the way," She smiled widely. "Good choice, he’s a very attractive boy."

Jou nodded again and followed her numbly inside.

***

"Seto! You’re home!" Mokuba dashed out of the living room and to his older brother.

"Are you all right Mokuba?" Kaiba asked looking his brother over quickly. "You did eat and go to sleep, didn’t you?"

Mokuba nodded vigorously. "Where were you? You didn’t come home."

Seto trekked across the entrance hall and into the living room. "We got snowed in at Kaiba Corp." He explained as he sat on the couch with his legs stretched out.

"We?" Mokuba echoed. "Who else was there?" The small boy got a disgusted look on his face. "Were you stuck with that awful blonde girl from the main desk...what’s her name? Kari?"

Seto shook his head. "No, it wasn’t her, and I don’t think that’s her name. Kari is too pretty of a name for someone like her."

"Then who was it?"

Seto didn’t answer right away then slowly said, "Jounouchi Katsuya."

"Jou?! What on earth was he doing there?"

Seto shrugged in shoulders in a bored fashion. "He wanted a job."

"Oh." Mokuba was quiet for a moment, then broke out into a large smile. "You look really well rested, Seto. You’ve been tired for a while now. I could tell."

Seto nodded and turned his face away to hide the barely noticeable blush. It was the best sleep he had had in months. But he wasn’t about to tell Mokuba the reason he slept so well was because he had been holding the puppy. "I still am a little tired, I’m going upstairs to rest for a while, okay?"

"Okay." Mokuba said as he returned to his video game.

Seto flopped down on his bed, his hands pressed against his eyes as if trying to blind himself from everything that had happened in the past 24 hours. He thought of Katsuya kissing him. Of how he hadn’t pushed him away when he had the chance. Of how he had been so desperate to make sure the mutt knew why he couldn’t spend time with him so he wouldn’t feel like Seto had rejected him.

He thought of how he would sometimes get the sensation of riding a very steep rollercoaster when he looked into Katsuya’s eyes for a length of time.

‘Does that mean I...feel something for him? But I always had that feeling in the pit of my stomach. Could I have,’ Seto cringed. ‘Always felt like this? Wait...who the hell said I feel anything at all? I don’t care about that damn mutt. He can rot in hell for all I care.’

Seto flipped on his stomach in an attempt to get more comfortable. ‘Rot and fester and I won’t give a damn. Not one damn.’

Seto sighed in frustration. He knew inside that he was lying.

***

"KATSUYA!!"

Jou barely had time to smile at his father before he was pulled into a bone crushing hug, then promptly pushed away.

"WHERE THE HELL WERE YOU?!" he glared. There were little circles beneath his eyes, he must have stayed awake all night.

"I was snowed in at Kaiba Corp." Jou said, then when all he got in response was a blank stare he explained, "There was an ad in the paper for a job and I thought I’d check it out."

"A job?" His father said slowly. "OH! Right, I told you to get one didn’t I?"

"Yeah, you-"

"Are you all right Katsuya?" He cut in. "I mean you’re not sick are you?"

Jou gave his father a weak smile and made his way to the kitchen. "No, dad, I’m not sick. I’m fine."

"Good." His father chuckled nervously. "I imagine you got them to hire you three times over by the time you left, just so you’d be quiet."

Jou chuckled as well, but it was a little sadder. "No, Kaiba refused to hire me at all."

"Do you want some hot chocolate, Katsuya?" His father asked as he took some water off the stove.

Katsuya grinned and nodded. "Yeah!" His father went to the cupboards and got out the mix. "Kaiba wasn’t that bad, when he wasn’t telling me that he didn’t hire dogs that is. He was almost kinda nice to me. I think the snow might have gotten to his head...What’s this?"

The item in question was the silver thermos his father had just handed to him. "It’s your hot chocolate, Katsuya."

"Why didn’t you give me it to me in a coffee mug?"

"How do you plan to carry that around for job interviews?"

"Job inter...NOW WAIT A MINUTE!"

"You did say you didn’t get a job, right? So go out and get one!"

"But...but I just got back from hell!!"

"Oh? I thought ‘Kaiba wasn’t that bad’ and ‘He was almost kinda nice’." His father said, raising his voice an octave when he quoted Katsuya.

Jou glowered. He hated having his own words thrown back at him, especially when they were done in a girly voice. "Well, yeah, but..."

"No buts, Katsuya. Get a move on. Unnecessary clothing bills don’t pay themselves, you know."

Katsuya leapt to his feet and pointed a shaking accusatory finger at his father. "YOU! YOU HAVE NO HEART!!"

His father rolled his eyes. "Get your ass back out there and find a job, Katsuya." He said evenly as he took Katsuya’s arm and escorted him out the door.

Katsuya stood silent in the hall for a few moments, looking from the door back to the thermos trying to figure out what the hell had just happened.

He sighed and turned to leave only to be confronted by Mrs. Shindou again.

"Hello Mrs. Shindou." He muttered.

"Katsuya," She picked up the paper that was at the front of her door, then pointed to the thermos. "What’s that?"

"Hot chocolate." He replied.

"Oh," She opened the door to her apartment. "Going to share it with your boyfriend? How precious." And with that she departed into the dark confines of her room leaving a sputtering and confused Katsuya in the hall.

***

"Seto? Seto? Earth paging Seto, come in Seto."

"Huh? Sorry, what is it Mokuba?"

"Who were you thinking about?"

"No one, just...hey! Who said I was thinking about someone?"

"It was kinda obvious by that dreamy, lovestruck face you had on."

‘...Lovestruck? I had been thinking about that puppy. Surely I hadn’t looked like that.’

Mokuba smirked triumphantly. "You do like someone!"

"I do not!" He answered defensively.

"Then why are you always thinking about them? You’ve had that same expression on your face a lot during the past few days."

Seto frowned. ‘Have I really been thinking about the pup that often? I have...damn mutt.’

Seto sighed and tried to explain to his brother, and himself, why he was doing that. "It’s not that I like them -because I don’t!- but they like me."

"They like you? So what? So does half the female population of Domino but you don’t care about any of them, so why this person?" Mokuba asked.

"This one’s different..."

"I’ll say they are. You like this one back."

Kaiba glared at his brother momentarily before turning away. He didn’t care about the mutt, he didn’t! But...he had been thinking about him a lot. Nearly a week had passed since he dropped him off at his home and his mind was still preoccupied by him. Mokuba was right. Plenty of people had things for him. He would constantly get fan mail from women begging him to marry them and have a child with them. He would also get the occasional letter from a guy...actually, he got a lot of them. But he never gave any of them, man or woman, a second thought. Only Katsuya. That mutt was the only one who stuck with him. And the thought of that scared the hell out of Kaiba.

"Seto..." Mokuba whined, pulling Kaiba out of his own thoughts. "Who is it?"

"Isn’t it your bed time yet?"

Mokuba’s eyes narrowed. "It’s only nine and don’t change the subject. Who do you-"

"So what should we have for dinner?" Seto asked. "I’m famished."

Mokuba frowned but answered, "Pizza."

Seto smiled, hoping the previous subject would be forgotten by his brother. "Fine. Is Pizza Planet okay with you?" Mokuba nodded.

Seto dialed the number, having Mokuba tell him what it was. It seemed his brother had memorized it. He would have to start making sure Mokuba was eating healthy.

"Hello this is Pizza Planet. We are open Monday through Friday until eight O’clock and-"

"This is Kaiba Seto." Seto interrupted.

The girl on the other end faltered. Then came up with the articulate response of, "The Kaiba Seto?"

Seto sighed. "Yes, the Kaiba Seto." He could hear the girl place her palm over the receiver and squeal loudly to her friends who it was. He rolled his eyes as she depicted to them how sweet his voice sounded.

"Um, Seto?" She giggled at using his first name. "What can I help you with?"

"I want a large plain cheese pizza. And throw in some parmesan as well."

"And do you want that to be delivered?"

"Yes-" Kaiba said and instantly he could hear fighting on the other line. They were arguing about who got to take the pizza to him. ‘That’s just pathetic.’ He thought.

"All right, Mr. Kaiba." The girl said in a breathy tone and Kaiba wondered if she had gotten hit by one of the other girls. "Your pizza will be there in twenty minutes."

"Good." Kaiba hung up and walked into the living room where Mokuba was again playing a video game. "Pizza will be here in twenty."

"Okay." Mokuba said as he killed another troll looking thing with his sword. He suddenly shut the game off and turned to Seto fiercely. "So who is it that you like?"

Seto groaned. "Won’t you just give up already?"

Mokuba shook his head. "Nope. I’m stubborn."

Seto blinked a few times. Katsuya was stubborn too...

"THERE!" Mokuba screamed as he leapt to feet and pointed at Kaiba’s face.

Seto’s eyes widened and he tried to move further from his apparently deranged little brother. "There what?"

"You have that giddy, dazed lovestruck look on your face again!"

Seto didn’t say anything. He did not have that look on his face. He couldn’t have. It was the puppy...

"Oh come on Seto! Tell me who he is!"

"Mokuba for the last time I...wait...he?!"

Mokuba lowered his finger and shrugged his shoulders. "Just a guess."

Seto opened his mouth, but closed it immediately. He didn’t know what to say. He did not intend to deny Mokuba’s claim, but he wasn’t about to tell his little brother that the person who made him look like such an idiot was Katsuya either.

‘Heh. Figures that puppy would screw up my life. Why the hell couldn’t he just keep his hormones under control?’

Mokuba was now sitting on the couch with Seto, his legs curled underneath him and he was poking his brother’s arm mercilessly. He kept saying "Tell me" and "I’m your brother, you can trust me!" over and over and over again. Seto simply crossed his arms and ignored him.

Ding, dong.

Seto jumped up at the doorbell, eager for any reason to get away from his brother’s insistent pesterings. Mokuba frowned as Kaiba happily made his way to the door.

‘Maybe the food will make him forget?’ Seto chuckled. ‘No, food only has that much power over the puppy.’

Seto let out a long breath to mentally prepare himself for an onslaught from which ever girl had managed to snag the job of delivering to his house. He opened the door.

But no attack came.

There wasn’t any girl there either.

Instead he found himself staring at a brown eyed boy with messy blond hair sticking out from beneath a baseball cap.

...Katsuya...

Seto’s stomach felt like he was on a rollercoaster.

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Chapter over! What did you all think of Mrs. Shindou? She was sort of...unexpected. She kinda came out of nowhere. But I took the name Shindou from Gravitation (One of the best mangas EVER!) The fifth chapter will be coming...eventually ^^;; At the very *latest* it will be out in two weeks. Any later feel free to bitch me out. I’ll probably need it if I’m that far behind. Er...review please, it’d make me really really happy!!