Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ I've wanted you forever and tonight ❯ The art of self-control, unexcerised ( Chapter 2 )

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One immortal meets another. Chapter Two of 'I've wanted you forever and tonight'.

~ By Sweetdeily.

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The rules of the Fairy Courtwere very simple: live the life of the age you look in human years and move on before it is discovered that you are not aging. It had been three hundred years since someone had last broken that rule; the Fairy Queen had taken the offender into the dungeons herself and no one had ever done it again. Among the Fairies, fear is the best motivator.

Jounouchi Katsuya had lived for 1,532 years. He'd been through the school systems around the world so many times under so many names that he never bothered to try and pass exams anymore. He could have successfully gotten every university degree if he'd wanted too. But, being a cousin to the Heir Prince of the Fairy Court, it was frowned upon if he brought notice to himself. Child geniuses were often Fairies who'd gotten bored. It wasn't that they didn't age at all; it was just that they aged one year to every 100 years of life. Jounouchi knew every language spoken, and even some that weren't spoken any more. He was capable of flying jet planes and commanding submarines. He could decode millions of codes. He was well versed in just about every rhyme, limerick and poem of the last 500 years. He could almost out-win his cousin at chess. He'd earned 8 medals of bravery during the Fae Wars (which had lasted the better part of a six centuries). He was a powerful spy.

He looked like a 15 year old.

In all his travels, the Fairy had never met one of the 'darker' immortal creatures. He'd fought Elves and other Fae, but the evil immortals had never gone out of their way to say 'hi'. He'd never met a vampire, and, as he slowly, groggily regained consciousness, he reasoned that he'd been happier that way.

"What a millennia…" He groaned. Rolling over and opening his russet eyes, the Fairy looked around the room. The shades were drawn, and the covers under his hands looked black in the darkened light. The bed was a four poster canopy piece. Gauze curtains fell around the bed, giving the almost realistic feel of privacy. Jou was still wearing his black clothing, but his shoes had been taken off. He was alone in the room, but Jounouchi was used to immortals, simply because he was alone didn't mean the whole place wasn't filled with magic spells, camcorders or microscopic microphones. He could bet on the magic, most immortals were techno-phobic.

The Fairy touched his neck gingerly and felt the two rather large puncture marks. Touching the tender flesh made him wince and he gently laid a healing spell against the wound, closing the holes as much as possible. Sliding off the bed Jou felt a bit faint, but the feeling passed and he pushed the gauze aside to walk around the room. His knees almost buckled a few times but he kept the blood pumping and managed to stay upright.

There was a full length mirror right across from a wardrobe and which was made of mahogany. An odd wood for Japan. Gazing upward, Jounouchi saw white dragons with demonic green eyes and overly large claws painted on the ceiling

Frowning, the Fairy tried to recall where he'd seen these paintings before. Ahh! That was right; it had been about 20 years ago, the big card game that had almost killed him a few dozen times. What had it been called…?

"Jounouchi…"

The soft, cold voice drew him from his examination of the ceiling. The moment he set eyes on the person before him, his breath caught in his throat.

There was more than one reason for Jounouchi's startled response; the first was the fact that he was staring at a teenaged Seto Kaiba (or as young as Kaiba had ever looked); the second was that he was looking at someone who remembered his identity, and the third reason was that he was thinking how hot Kaiba still was.

"Gee, if there were a million things I'da pegged ya' at being, the vampire cliché was the only one I'd joked about." Actually, he'd thought Seto Kaiba would have just been one of those mortals you remembered, because they just *pissed* you off. The many times he'd thought about assassinating the procrastinating ass… at the same time, he'd been greatly attracted to the power and wealth Seto Kaiba had been allowed to amass. Jounouchi knew that if it weren't for the rules against him having that kind of attention then he'd of made a very awesome empire of toys and other stuff. Games that he could play. The works. Just like Seto Kaiba had.

It irked him that vampires weren't restricted by the same laws that Fairies were.

"… Jounouchi Katsuya…" Seto spoke his whole name now and Jounouchi blinked, he stepped closer to the pale skinned vampire and cocked his head, exposing the neat little fang marks unconsciously.

"What, cat got your tongue? Fine. Where's the bundle? It's of great importance to us and I'd dearly love to have it back." That was about as nice as he'd ever gotten with Kaiba. Jounouchi was renowned in Court for being harsh when it came to language.

Great importance… yeah… right.

The bundle had the Elven Queen's mannequin. It was an enchanted doll that changed shape to enter the Fairy's noble houses and kill off whole families. It was a cursed thing among the Fairy because as children , they seemed to all have an insatiable urge to gather dolls. Of course, their 'childhood' lasted thirteen years before a jump start to their growth got them out of the baby body and into that of a five year old during which they aged normally. It had taken Jounouchi the better part of the last 100 years to track down the mannequin; in that time, countless Fairies had been killed. Even though the fighting had stopped among the Fae folk, the Elves still sent their little trinkets out for petty revenges.

"Who… what… are you?" Kaiba asked, his cobalt eyes flickering.

Jounouchi frowned. "How long have you been a vampire?"

"What importance is it?"

"It's important if ya' want me ta' figure out why ya' don't know what I am."

"20 years now."

The Fairy pondered this. 20 years and his makers hadn't explained to him about other immortals? "Geez, yer' makers were slack. In case it ain't painfully obvious, money bags, I'm a Fairy."

One eyebrow rose and Jounouchi groaned. Fairy, right. "Not that kind of Fairy you discriminatory shit. I'm a Fairy, like immortal, same as you… except with the aging part…"

Seto raised his other eyebrow. "A Fairy… like Tinker Bell?"

Jounouchi's shoulders started shaking, and before he knew it, he was laughing his ass off, doubling over to keep his balance. "Tinker Bell? Do I look like a fuckin' butter-Fairy to ya'?"

"A what-Fairy?"

Jounouchi chuckled some more and wiped the tears from his eyes. "A butter-Fairy. Those little things that live five years and hang out with butterflies. They're pets in the Court."

"Court like the Unseelie Fae Court?"

"Ah, ya' know yer' legends. But no, it's just da' Fairy Court."

Kaiba nodded slowly.

Jounouchi yawned. "Anyway, I gotta go, millions dead, horrible painful death, you know how Aunts are. Umm… you did put that bundle somewhere?"

"You mean the bundle you dropped yesterday?"

"Yep. That's the one… can I have it back?"

"…"

Silence reigned for the longest time.

"I left it where you dropped it."

Those words seemed to hang in the air between them ominously.

"…"

"…"

Jounouchi was going to kill Seto Kaiba. He was going to quite happily kill him with a stake and knives and garlic and holy crosses. And then he was going to resurrect the son of a bitch and do it all again. He was going to rip the vampire limb to limb. He was going to hurt him and make him bleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeedddd…

"So… what was in the bundle, puppy?"

"Fuckin' son of a bitch!" And that was where Jounouchi's Japanese ended and every other language that he spoke began to curse, slander and all round berate the vampire. While his voice did that, Jounouchi jumped the CEO… and not in the sexual way.

~ To Be Continued…

Sweet notes: Whee! Lol, reviews?

Seto: Er… down Joey… down!

Joey: *gnawing off Kaiba's head on one of those cardboard cutouts*

Marik: hehehe! He's got rabies,

Bakura: I'm surprised.

Ryou: What, that Jou has rabies?

Bakura: No. I thought he'd be an incu-

Sweets: Of course not!

Bakura: Damnit woman! I want to say the I or S word and I want to say them now!!!! INCUB-

Sweets: *kicks him in the nuts, pulls duct tape over his mouth and shoves him into her coffin which is then systematically thrown into the ocean* Not if I have anything to say about it.

Yugi:… you can be scary sometimes…

Yami: She knows… believe me… she knows…

Seto: So! He's a Fairy!

Sweets: Yes.

Seto: So he wasn't an incu-

Sweets: Do you want to pay Bakura a visit? *Demonic gleam in her eyes*

Seto: er… no?*backing away*

Jounouchi: What's so bad about those two words/creatures?

Sweets: *whining* because, I wanna keep Kourui a secret!

Bakura: *magically back again, although looking a little worse for wear * you wanna keep that piece of crap a secret?

Sweets: Yeah.

Ryou: Well… I understand why… it hasn't been finished…

Sweets: Yeah.

Seto: Meh… I think you're making too much of a big deal out of it.

Sweets: aww, shuttup!

Anyway, review ahoy! Sorry about the short chapter. ^^