Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ I've wanted you forever and tonight ❯ Love triangles and the part about them not working. ( Chapter 22 )

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Love Triangles and the part about them not working. Chapter twenty-two of ‘I’ve wanted you forever and tonight’.

~By Sweetdeily.
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Mage fire. The dreaded flame that could not be extinguished by any natural means. A fire that ate through everything, including metal. It was deadly fast and destructive. Jounouchi had seen this flame burn civilizations to the core.

Smoke was already billowing through the forest although the Luther was fast. Faster than a vampire, faster than anything… but fire had a way of cutting off your escape routes.

It was only a few minutes before they were trapped in the center of the blaze. The walls of flame were too high for the Luther to jump over and Jounouchi was steadily choking on the thick smoke that seemed determined to clog his airways-for the second time that day- like dirty socks. He didn’t even remember falling off the Luther dragon’s back.

For the second time, unconsciousness claimed him.

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He was flying high above the forest below, directing the magical fire to encircle the forest, he knew that the Luther would outrun him, but if there was no where left to run… that was a simple task to take care of.

And then he drifted lower, watching as the Fairy swayed in the saddle and finally fell from the creature’s back. Deavous waited a few minutes before extinguishing the fire. He was exhausted, and the Japanese child had fought like a madman for every inch of his mind. It left the vampire king with a very short chain to yank.

He swooped down on the Fairy and picked him up with ease, noting the bloodstained and beaten body. Well at least he didn’t have to do too much to make the silly child realize the errors in trying to escape Deavous’ hands.

How would he punish the blonde? Make the Fairy eat cream and cherries off his body while he fucked him? Too tempting. But better yet, drain some of that thick, delicious blood in gulps and swallows.

Deavous shook his head. No. He would take blood from some of his children and remind them that while they gained no substance from undead blood- he could happily drain them dry.

He flew in through a window and limped the rest of the way back to his chambers, tying the blonde to the bed with a rope.

He stripped the Fairy down and examined his body. The damn pet was bleeding all over the covers from various cuts and bruises and those black eyes were just… Deavous cursed. He would have to have someone cast healing spells on the blonde. A glance in the mirror made him grimaced. He was just as bad. His nose was bleeding everywhere.

“I’ll make him pay for breaking this.” Despite his words, he gently caressed the Fairy’s soft skin.

He rang on the bell that would summon a servant to the room and waited for the vampire to walk in.

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Jounouchi woke to someone gently stroking his hair, he scrunched up his face, rolling over and pretending that he wasn’t awake.

“Ten more minutes, Honda.” He groaned, brushing the hand away from his hair.

“I am not a Fairy.” A voice whispered into his ear.

Jounouchi woke properly then, his memory flooding back like a broken dam. “Seto?” He asked, rolling back over and slowly opening his eyes.

“No.” Seto’s body said.

Jounouchi felt himself go cold and he glanced up at those brown orbs fearfully. He swallowed and tried to scoot away, but found out too late that he was wearing a collar again. The vampire grabbed the chain connected to the collar and forcefully pulled the Fairy back to him.

“Uh-uh. Stay.” He whispered.

Jounouchi noticed that the vampire’s face was smooth and his nose was fixed. The Fairy’s throat wasn’t hurting any more either. He must have been healed. “Please…” Jounouchi found himself whispering.

“Mm. I like it when you beg.” Evil Seto said, rolling on top of Jounouchi’s body suggestively. The vampire was wearing a blue silk bath robe that had been tied –behind- his back.

Jounouchi closed his eyes and looked away. His pride was taking some major blows this century. “Don’t…”

A wet tongue slid down Jounouchi’s cheek and the Fairy shivered. “What was it you called me? A sadistic psychopath?”

The Evil Seto had heard all that? Oh shit… Jounouchi shut his mouth.

His reply didn’t seem to be needed anyway, as Evil Seto continued. “You told him you didn’t enjoy it. That I raped you. But is this really you resisting? Are you telling me to stop?”

Jounouchi remained silent, looking away from those wrong-colored eyes.

Seto’s voice got louder. “Answer me goddamnit! It’s like you don’t care what I do or say to you because I’m not /him/!”

Jounouchi whimpered as a blade pressed against his cheek. He kept quiet. This was going to get nasty. He could tell.

“Answer!” The voice shook through Jounouchi’s mind, making him gasp in pain.

“Yes! Queens! Yes! Is that what you want to hear? I hate you! The only reason I don’t try to kill you is because Seto is-” Jounouchi’s voice faltered. Was that seriously what he was thinking? Because it was Seto’s body and Jounouchi didn’t want to kill him? But it was what he’d just blurted out.

Evil Seto backed off, throwing the dagger away. “You /hate/ me?”

Jounouchi glanced up at the shock in the vampire’s voice. “Yes…” He answered.

What did this monster expect? He’d raped and brutalized Jounouchi within an inch of sanity… Jounouchi found rape to be one of the most unforgivable things that could be done to another person.

“But… I’ve treated you like a pet.” Evil Seto said.

Jounouchi blinked. “There are laws against bestiality.” It was hard to stop being a smartass when most of your life was spent that way.

Evil Seto frowned. “You enjoyed it.”

Jounouchi gave a small bark of laughter. “I’m sorry, when someone strokes you to climax I don’t think you have much choice about coming.” His eyes flickered purple with emotion. “Fuck you! What do ya’ want of me?”

Evil Seto looked away now, his brown eyes troubled. “That’s an interesting question.”

“Fuck ya’! Ya’ don’t fuckin’ care, do ya’? Go on! Kill me! Make dis’ hell stop! I’ve been livin’ dis’ hellish life too long! I’m not a fuckin’ play-thing!” Jounouchi yelled at the vampire, habitually forgetting his formal language.

Evil Seto slapped him. Hard enough that Jounouchi had a second of blinding pain, the world went a bright white, before he found himself looking at the other side of the room.

“Why? Why does he do this? I’ve never had another one fight me like this before… they’ve never been so pissed when I played with the ones they loved. What the fuck is wrong with you?” Evil Seto demanded; he was covering one eye with his hand.

“How should I know? Seto is a stubborn dick-head! He cares about nothin’ but his own selfish needs an’ wants!”

Evil Seto growled and rolled off the Fairy. “Then why does he fight so hard against me whenever I touch you? What is so special about /you/? You’re just a loud-mouthed little Fairy!”

Jounouchi didn’t reply.

“Damnit! What do I have to do to make you want /me/ and not that stupid little Japanese child?” Evil Seto blurted out.

Jounouchi blinked in surprise but took the bait. “Do ya’ really want ta’ know?”

Evil Seto growled and nodded.

“Stop rapin’ me. Let me go back ta’ my duty. Take dis’ fuckin’ collar off an’ gimme back da’ real Seto. Den’ leave me da’ fuck alone!”

Evil Seto stared at him. “You really don’t like me?”

“No!”

A long sigh escaped his lips and he flopped back on top of Jounouchi’s stomach.

They were both quiet for a long time until finally the vampire sighed again.

“I’m one of the oldest vampires in existence. I can’t even remember the events of my own birth into darkness. They call me the vampire King; I control all the vampires that show themselves to the world. I am so tired of this charade. My children don’t need me anymore. Who does? This body was my last amusement- but I cannot bear what I am doing to you… this innocent little creature.”

Now that was very uncharacteristic of Evil Seto. Who Jounouchi thought of as a cold, uncaring asshole who just happened to like blondes. Was this because of Seto’s influence? Or was this vampire seriously… ‘into him’? Now that was a freaky thought. Like Seto Kaiba wasn’t enough of a vampire making him emotionally confused.

Evil Seto must have figured something out then, because he sighed again.

Evil Seto sat up and kissed Jounouchi again. The blonde found himself pressed against the bed and his mouth thoroughly violated. Lips, teeth and tongue forced themselves against his mouth and even when he opened for the invader, it still wasn’t enough- he was being devoured from the lips down. A gasp ran through Jounouchi’s mind when something shivered and shimmered behind his eyelids. He opened his eyes to the room only to find nothing- a shimmering pink mist obscuring all his vision.

He could still feel those lips against his. But there was some kind of magic rushing through the very walls of the room. And even with Evil Seto’s tongue in his mouth, he could feel the vibrations of that magic. It made the kiss seem surreal and faraway.

And then very suddenly Seto’s kiss softened to something… something gentle. The pink mist cleared away and Jounouchi was staring at a pair of blue eyes.

They didn’t stop kissing however. The blonde startled when he felt a hand slide down his chest gently, caressing his soft skin. Hands rolled over his nubs and then went lower.

He broke the kiss. “Seto?”

“Shh. Don’t talk… just moan.” The vampire groaned back, he kissed a messy trail down Jounouchi’s neck hands traveling lower still, caressing and touching the Fairy’s slim body.

The movement gave Jounouchi a good view of a very –hard- erection poking up between their bodies. What on earth had just happened?

“What’s going on?”

“It’s me. He left… he finally gave up and left!” Seto whispered, licking at the place where Jounouchi’s collar-bone met.

Jounouchi pushed the vampire off him, forcefully. “Then why the hell are you still touching me?”

Seto sat back. “But I thought-”

Jounouchi frowned and pulled his knees to his chest, watching the vampire with narrowed eyes. “Seto Kaiba thought. Tell me… what did Seto Kaiba think?”

Seto’s blue eyes darkened. “I love you; I wanted to make you feel better.”

A lump lodged itself in Jounouchi’s throat. This wasn’t Seto Kaiba. This was just a mind game that Evil Seto was playing in an effort to make Jounouchi –willing- for once. “Then why are you pawing at me?”

Seto’s features forcefully smiled and the vampire reached across and gently traced Jounouchi’s lips with his fingertips. Jounouchi slapped the vampire’s hand away.

“Cut the crap. Seto isn’t a sexual maniac like you.” Jounouchi spat in a daring display of bravery. It didn’t last long, Evil Seto’s eyes went brown again and the Fairy was pinned to the headboard by his neck.

“You don’t make this any easier! What am I supposed to do with you?”

“Leave… me… alone.” Jounouchi spat back. He was sick of speaking English, sick of being naked and sick of this confusing feeling in his chest.

Evil Seto’s features flickered and he pulled his hand back with a hiss. “Damnit! You do it again and again! Why! You have only ever kissed him! I have been brave enough to take you the whole way! And yet-”

Jounouchi curled against the headboard and started mentally slamming up spells of protection around himself. He didn’t want to see the vampire go psycho too close to himself. “Maybe because I don’t WANT you! I never wanted you- whoever the fuck you are! The only reason you think you want me is because you’re a psychopath! And yes, YOU. ARE. A. PSYCHOPATH.”

Evil Seto tensed like he was going to attack the blonde and prove the point, but then he paused, the cogs in his brain obviously turning an idea his way. Or Seto was desperately trying to turn homicidal thoughts into not so homicidal thoughts.

Or maybe the blue-eyed vampire was just looking for another way to violate Jounouchi again. The Fairy’s eyes flashed a hot purple as a few more magical shields went up.

“Now, now mutt. We’ve got to discuss this like rational people.” Evil Seto spoke in a calm voice.

“There’s nothing to discuss.” Jounouchi growled out, spelling the words out slowly like it would make Evil Seto understand them better.

Evil Seto’s raging hard-on had finally quieted and the vampire tied his robe around the front part of his body, as if he really were serious. “There is. I want to know what you want.”

Jounouchi had a sudden flash back to weeks ago, in his tent when he had been trying to teach Seto to see magic. The dark creature that had taken hold of Seto only briefly then but now… so completely that it was like Seto had only been a fleeting thought across the surface of this one’s mind.

What did Katsuya Jounouchi want? Freedom, love, happiness and peace were the obvious answers. He wanted to win the war with the Elves and crush the whole damn species. He wanted to grow up, grow old, have some kids and die happy. He wanted to be wearing some clothing. He wanted to… to just forget Seto Kaiba had ever existed. No… because he wanted to make the goddamn undead son of a bitch repent for raping him. He wanted Seto Kaiba to get on his knees and say ‘gee whiz, I’m sorry, how can I apologize better?’ and wait out in the rain and snow for a few years and… and… and Jounouchi wanted this dark creature to stop staring at him like he was a side of meat!

“I want some clothes for starters.” Jounouchi grumbled.

Evil Seto blinked. “But you’re sexy without your clothes on.”

“I’m also cold and naked without my clothes on.”

The vampire sighed and spoke a word in some language or another, a robe appeared mid-air and fluttered down to Jounouchi’s body. The Fairy caught it and wrapped himself up hurriedly. Truthfully, he could have probably made his own clothing, but he was channeling a lot of power into holding up the spells and barriers between himself and the vampire.

“Better?”

Jounouchi shrugged. He felt less revealed, less exposed, less…vulnerable now. What would the paramedics do next? Make him eat something? He hadn’t eaten in… a while, a very, very long while. A Fairy could go without food or water for a while- but it wore on them. It wore on them greatly. And then he’d be bundled off to see a psychiatrist, ‘don’t know how to explain it, but I think I have feelings for my rapist.’

“I want you to be willing, I want to see you fulfill all these perverted little fantasies we have about you happily. What do you want for that to happen?”

Jounouchi shivered and hugged himself. “I don’t want any part of that.”

It was a lie. It was a horrible, horrible lie. Because fantasies about Seto Kaiba just /happened/. They didn’t have any particular rhyme or reason… they just /were/ and there was nothing that he could do about that. Except forget. Forget and move on. Go away, live somewhere else in time.

“Liar.”

Jounouchi’s hot temper flared. “What do you want from me? To beg you to rape me? I don’t want any part of this sickness! Of this world of darkness and despair! Is it too much to ask for you to let me go?”

Evil Seto groaned and reached a hand out to touch Jounouchi’s shields. “I can’t stop thinking about you. Even when you’re not in the room. You… you plague me! I can’t just let you go I’d never have any rest..”

“Then you’ll never have my consent.”

The shield under Evil Seto’s fingers cracked and faded away, Jounouchi swallowed and shoved more power and energy into the remaining barriers.

Seto’s eyes flickered a little, dashes of blue racing through those swirling orbs like fire. Eyes were not supposed to do that. Why couldn’t Seto’s eyes be normal damnit?

“The child says that he would rather you kill this body than make you suffer any more. Such a romantic.”

Jounouchi shivered at the mocking tone of Evil Seto’s voice. “Why can’t you leave his body?”

Evil Seto blinked. “I could. But why would I want to?”

“Because it breaks my heart every time you touch me and I know that it’s not Seto Kaiba touching me in that body. Because if you want to win me from Kaiba, you’ll never do it inside of him. Because then I’ll have something to call you other than Evil Seto. And I won’t have to guess who’s talking to me when your eyes do that funny thing.”

There was silence for a while before Evil Seto stood and walked to the door. “Stay there.” He instructed.

Then Jounouchi was alone in the room.

Time passed slowly, and it seemed that Evil Seto had just walked off entirely- leaving Jounouchi confused and huddled on his bed. Was he seriously going to leave Seto’s body? Had the logic been too much for him?

The Fairy silently tied the robe around his waist. He wasn’t sure where the Evil Seto had gone… was he really going to-

There was a hideous scream from just outside the door that sounded like Kaiba’s voice- not Evil Seto’s voice, but Kaiba Seto’s voice- and the brunette vampire came tumbling into the room. A bubbling, fresh burn mark stained his face, his eyes were blue and showing a lot of white.

Following the vampire was a tall, dark man as the cliché went. The man had long purple hair rushing down around his shoulders in a fluffy, silky rush, and a pair of glowing red eyes that locked on the Fairy on the bed. His chin was square and set, hard and narrow like an arrow. The man smiled, revealing fangs and held up a tanned hand.

“I had forgotten what it felt like to be in my own body. So… natural.” The man whispered.

Jounouchi’s jaw dropped despite himself. Sure he’d nodded and agreed that there /must/ be a separate entity inside of Seto Kaiba. Sure he’d sat and talked to it… but… “Holy shit, he wasn’t just being a crazed, deranged psychopath…” Jounouchi ended the thought aloud.

The vampire on the ground hissed and got to his feet. “Don’t you dare touch him!” Seto Kaiba growled, positioning himself between the purple haired fiend and the bed.

“Just because I was your prisoner for all that time doesn’t mean you can order me around, child!” Evil… er… Evil Seto In Different Body said.

Jounouchi renamed Evil Seto to Psychopath mentally and felt less confused. “Seto, what are you doing?”

Psychopath smiled, and it was a very cruel smile. “He thinks that he can battle me in the real world the same way he’s tried to fight me in his mind. But out here… he is the weak one!”

A fist connected with the side of Seto’s head so quickly that to Jounouchi it was a blur of motion amidst a sea of air currents. Seto went flying across the room and ended up sprawled on the bed. The burn was already healing, and the blow would have probably knocked Jounouchi unconscious, but Seto rolled onto his side and made to get back up, showing a surprisingly good aptitude for taking the blows. It must have been the kind of vampire abilities he had or something.

Seto glanced at Jounouchi and gave a very typical smirk. It was false bravado, but Jounouchi found it touching. And then there was a tearing of sheet and Seto was already back across the room, claws extended to attack Psychopath.

Jounouchi sat forward and began chanting. Seto would die if he didn’t get some magical help.

The purple haired vampire stepped back from one of Seto’s claws and the bolt of ice caught him across the jaw. He paused for a fateful heartbeat- red eyes flickering with surprise as they caught the blonde on the bed- which was all the time Seto needed to tear out the vampire’s neck in a brutal, feral swipe.

Blood splashed against the opposite wall in a macabre shower. The self-proclaimed Vampire King fell to the ground.

Jounouchi was pretty sure he stopped breathing for a second there, as spells that he hadn’t even noticed around the room began to fall. The whole castle shook and rumbled. The collar around Jounouchi’s neck sizzled and popped off, the clasp a molten hunk of melted metal.

The shaking stopped then and Jounouchi heard himself gasp, watching in shock as Seto reached down and continued to tear the vampire’s head from his body with a bloody hand.

And then the castle started to shake again. A little more thoroughly this time. The window shattered.

“Oh god… it’s… the arrogant son of a bitch had the castle mage-tied.” Jounouchi heard himself saying. And it was this sudden revealation that got him moving. He ran to Seto and caught the vampire’s hand before it could dive into the dead vampire’s chest. “We have to get out of here!”

“Not until I know he’s dead!”

“He’s dead! Trust me! He’s very, very dead and we will be too if we don’t get out of here now.”

It must have been the desperation in Jounouchi’s voice that made Seto let the Fairy drag him out the door. Or maybe he saw the tower outside the window crumble and squash the stable below it.

They were only just out the door to the room before the whole side of the building began to crumble. Jounouchi threw up a bubble around them and started running. “Hurry!” He grabbed Seto’s blood-soaked hand and pulled the vampire along when Seto refused to run fast enough for Jounouchi’s liking.

The ceiling caved in and Jounouchi fought to pour more power into his spell, desperately keeping it erect as they half-ran, half-stumbled over the rubble into the courtyard, and then straight for the draw-bridge.

“Why the hell is the castle crumbling around us?”

“It’s a really old spell,” Jounouchi gasped out between breaths of air, “A mage-tie. It was designed so that if the caster should die, the whole place would destroy itself, burying any secrets or treasures with the mage. Really useful… but fucking arrogant. He probably thought it would be a funny last parting shot at anyone powerful enough to kill him!”

“Son of a bitch!” Seto swore.

Jounouchi spared a sweat-soaked glance at Seto and found himself grinning. “I think I know why he chose your body.”

Seto laughed, overtaking the Fairy and now dragging the blonde along. “Oh mutt, I don’t think it was that at all.”

“Nah?”

“Yes, it’s obviously my stunning good looks.”

“It must be- cus’ I can’t imagine it being yer’ brains.”

“Screw you, puppy.” Seto shot back.

They were at the center of the drawbridge now, mentally hoping that the thing would hold. It would have too, if the chunk of curtain wall hadn’t decided to break off and smash the drawbridge.

Seto made a flying leap for the other side of the crossing and caught the edge of the broken wood. His bloody hand slipped in its hold around Jounouchi’s wrist and the Fairy fell further down his body with a yelp. Seto’s arm gave a burning sharp pain and then the vampire felt it pop. He hissed in pain, nails digging into Jounouchi’s flesh desperately.

The rest of the momentum had them swinging and Jounouchi’s hand spasmed as the blonde connected with a wooden plank head-on. He would have been dropped if Seto hadn’t been holding his flesh with nails. The blonde’s blood trickled down his arm.

“Let me go!” Jounouchi yelled once he could think past the pounding of his head.

“Never!” Seto hissed between his teeth in agony.

“Seto! Don’t be an idiot!” Jounouchi hissed back. “You’re arm will tear apart and we’ll both fall!”

“Better to die together then!” Seto howled- probably more from the fact that Jounouchi was slipping and he was shredding skin with his nails.

“Stop being so pig-headed! I’m not going to fall to a grisly death if you let go! Unlike you, I can use magic!” Jounouchi spat out, wincing as blood sprayed across is face from his arm.

“Oh.” Seto said.

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Sweden was not an unknown country to Seto, he’d been there on several business trips over the long years, but he’d never realized that it was the home of the undead. Then again, that explained why everyone in Sweden was so rich. It was easy to acquire wealth when you had eternity to watch your investments grow.

The little fishing village that he and Jounouchi stumbled into didn’t seem all that worried about their sudden appearance and they were able to get a room to rest. It would be dawn soon and Seto had to hide from the sun.

“Where are you going?” The blonde asked as he magiced up some clothing and bandages. He’d payed for the room much the same way.

“To sleep.” Seto answered, checking to see if there was anything clothing for him in what the Fairy had made.

Jounouchi blinked and looked at the other bed in the room. “You’re not sleeping in here?”

“No.” Seto closed the door behind him and walked up a wall, crouched on the ceiling and stealthily made his way to the cellar.

The door to the cellar had a lock on the inside as well as the outside and the vampire locked it and hefted a barrel against it in case someone tried to open the door. He lay down to sleep and chuckled softly.

The hell planes had no day or night, so he hadn’t really had this problem and the castle seemed to simply shut out the sun when they were there. But this was the human world, the real world… where there was a day and night and the only magic was the Fairy.

Seto’s laughter died into soft sobs, red tears fell from his eyes heedlessly of the vampire’s need for more blood.

The day dawned silent and protecting of everything that still embraced the light. Jounouchi Katsuya lay quietly on his bed, unable to sleep.

~ The End.

Sweet notes: *takes a deep breath* Wowzer. Twenty-two chapters. I feel so… so… drained. The mood of this story has gone from random to random to just plain odd and I can’t say that it wasn’t meant to. I’m glad that I finished this one the way that I intended to. I’m glad that I managed to twist the boyo’s to work toward finishing the darkness and letting me get on with everything.

Jou: But is Deavous really dead?

Sweets: *grin* I said ‘the end’ didn’t I?

Seto: *peeks ahead* Ohh, but that doesn’t stop you from writing the epilogue.

Sweets: *pouts* Aww, stop ruining stuff!

Yugi: Wow… 22 chapters and I wasn’t in any of it. >.<

Yami: But you’re in the one about snakes and wolves, right?

Sweets: *incinerates him* shuddupyesheisbutshuddupshuddup!

Yugi: Erm… *pokes his Deep Fried Yami* isn’t he supposed to be a Lu-

Sweets: *points the flame thrower in Yugi’s direction* Keep talking and I might be having KFC for lunch after all.

Yugi: *shuts up*

Seto: Aww, I’m crying! I’m so crappy in this story.

Jou: You can say that again!

Seto: Aww, I’m crying! I’m so crappy in this story.

Sweets: Don’t abuse my language. And I’m sorry Seto… but… *shrugs* I like to see a capable Jounouchi. Besides, you were kickass in the battles.

Jou: Yeah! You ripped it like… a… um… vampire dude.

Seto: *nods* damn straight. I was on fire!

Jou: Literally in the last one.

Sweets: You’re abusing my language again… -_-;

Reviews? The epilogue is coming now.