Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ It Started With Snow ❯ Part 9 ( Chapter 9 )

It Started With Snow

Warnings: Hints of future mpreg (not there yet), fluff, and a little Jou-related violence (he doesn't get hurt yet)

Notes: I don't think I have any at this time. However, I'd like to introduce my muse, Prince Legolas of Mirkwood. Who I don't own, but think he's too hot not to be considered inspirational. As part of his "initiation", I'm going to let him do the disclaimer.

Legolas: Hello. I'm supposed to tell you that Shinigami doesn't own this…Yu-Gi-Oh! thing, and that no money is being made off of this story.

Shinigami709: And what else?

Legolas: And to read and review, because it makes her happy to read all the comments.

Shinigami709: Very good. ^Hands Legolas his bow and arrows^ Go have fun for a while. I'll call you when I'm ready for the next fic. ^Pats Legolas on the butt before running off like a maniac^

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~Previous Chapter~

"I need time to think on all this. I mean, do you really think we can give a child a decent life? We haven't exactly been raised by "proper" parents ourselves. Besides, we're both guys." Jou reasoned.

"You're smarter than I thought, Mutt." Seto said thoroughly amused. "However, I've been experimenting with something. I would be the first human experiment."

Jou moved to sit on Kaiba's lap. "If you're reasonably sure of this. Let's do it. All of it."

"No, take your time. Think on it. However, I am insisting that you stay again. Mokuba's wanted you to stay over again. Besides…my bed's awful cold with out you there with me."

Jou just stayed on Kaiba's lap. "If you want me in your bed, you'll have to take me."

~Chapter 9~

Seto had taken Jou up on the challenge of getting him in bed. It was now early the next morning when the blonde awoke in Seto's arms. Usually, Jounouchi slept in as late as possible. However, Kaiba's proposal and question of children had kept him from falling into a sound sleep. He'd been thinking it over in his mind through out the night. As Jou walked over to the window to stare at the red sky of morning, he continued to think about everything that could go wrong.

"Everyone wants to take Seto out just because he owns half of Domino. With news of him being gay, and carrying a child he'd be a sitting duck" Jou's brain kept thinking. He could risk losing Seto and everything good in his life. "If I offer to carry the baby, my dad would have a wonderful time beating me over it." Jou struck the wall by the window with his fist. "Damn it! Why does my father have to be such an ass? I'd do it without thinking. But I know he'd take way too much pleasure in beating me then."

Jou went to swing at the wall again, but his fist connected with something soft. "What did the wall do to you? You don't like blue perhaps? I could have it repainted for you. You don't have to hurt it." A comfortingly familiar voice whispered in his ear.

Spinning around to face the owner of the voice, Jou's fingers released from the tight fist and entwined around the hand he'd struck. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to wake you. I was just thinking, that's all." Jou admitted looking into still-sleepy cobalt eyes.

"About what? How to beat my poor wall into submission?" Seto smiled before giving Jou a butterfly kiss.

"I gave up on the wall. It's harder than you are." Realizing the double meaning behind those words, Jou blushed a bright shade of pink. Trying to cover up his Freudian slip, Jou quickly continued, "I was thinking about everything. I just don't want to lose you if you…" the blonde couldn't finish.

Cupping Jou's chin in his hand, Kaiba forced amber eyes to meet his own blue ones. "Nothing will happen. I said I can and will take time away from the company. It's not going to fall apart with Mokuba there to run things."

"Seto…I…I want…" Jou turned back to the window mumbling something hurriedly.

Wrapping his arms around the blonde, Seto asked, "What do you want, Love? You need to only ask."

"I want to carry it." Jou whispered so low it was barely audible.

With a look of surprise and shock on his face, Kaiba confirmed what he though he heard. "You…want to do that? Why Jou?"

"I just do. I know how much Kaiba Corp. means to you. You'd miss it, try sneaking out to do some kind of work…I just want to do it."

Pulling the smaller teen closer, Seto assured him, "If that's what you want. Just know that I would have done it in a heartbeat." Placing a kiss on tangled golden locks, Seto released his lover. "Should I start with preparations, then?"

"I thought we were going to wait till after we were married." Jou asked worried.

Chuckling, Seto answered, "We are. But this will take some time to get ready. And, I was hoping you'd want to get married as soon as we could. I want you as far away from your father, and I use the term loosely, as possible."

"How soon can we do it?" Jou asked, hopeful that he'd be away from his father within days.

"Well, I think we could arrange something for the weekend. It's only a few days away. Is that quick enough?"

"Yeah. Sooner than I expected, actually. Seto, can we…have everything ready for us by the honeymoon?"

"I think that could be arranged." Kaiba said with a genuine smile. "You seem eager to do this, Pup. Why?"

Jou shrugged. "I just do." He was going to add something, but Mokuba bounded in.

"So? Did you ask him big brother?" Mokuba asked.

Seto pretended to ignore the raven-haired boy.

"Seto!!!!" the younger Kaiba began to whine. "Tell me!"

"Jou, if our kid does that, remind me to kill him." Seto said smiling. To Mokuba, he replied, "Yes I did. And to answer the next three questions: Yes, you can be in the wedding, that was a given. Yes, you're going to be an uncle eventually, that's Jounouchi's decision to make. And no, you can't have sugar for breakfast."

Not knowing which answer to respond to, Mokuba just hugged Seto and told him thanks and that he told him so. The young Kaiba then bounced over to Jou. "Will you let me help when you guys have the baby?" He whispered as if he'd already asked Seto and got told no.

"I guess…I haven't even thought of that yet." Jou looked a little nervous.

Sensing the uneasiness, Seto turned to his little brother. "Go get ready. We're going out for breakfast."

"Oh cool!" exclaimed Mokuba. He took off running for his room to get dressed.

As the boy ran off, Kaiba told Jou, "You better get ready too. We're going to go to your place after. We're picking up the rest of your stuff. What you can do with out, leave it."

"Okay. My dad's probably going to be there, though." Jou looked positively sick.

"It's okay. We need to do this before you're not able to." Kaiba embraced Jou from behind, placing his hands against Jou's flat stomach so he'd get the point.

As his own hands covered Kaiba's, Jou responded, "Yeah, I guess he should know about everything, too. Better to find out now than from someone else later." Inside, Jounouchi was torn. He didn't want to tell his father at all. He didn't care what the man thought anymore.

"Remember, I'm going to be there with you. Your dad won't dare try anything. I'll either have him arrested or killed before he knows what happened." Leaning down to give a long slow kiss to Jou, he whispered, "I love you too much to let that bastard hurt you anymore."

Breakfast would have been enjoyable for Jou; however, the thought of having to face his father took all the joy out of it for him. Mokuba was having the best day of his life. He'd found out that his older brother was getting married, he was going to be an uncle at some point, and he managed to end up getting Seto to let him have pancakes for breakfast after repeated denials of sugar.

Back in Seto's CAR, Jou started having second thoughts about getting his stuff. "Seto, let's just forget everything. I don't want to see my dad. He's going to give me a rough time and everything…I don't want to get you or Mokuba hurt…let's just go home."

"Pup, you know I'd normally do anything you wanted. You have to face him sometime. Think of it this way. He either attempts to beat you now, with me there, or he beats you when I can't protect you."

"Fine." Jou conceded. The short distance to Jou's was in total silence.

Arriving at the apartment, Kaiba got out, and practically drug Jou to the door. As the blonde opened the door, he was relieved to see that his father wasn't home. Making a dash for his room, trying to get everything over with before his father came home, Jou grabbed several duffel bags and started throwing things in. Clothes in one bag, and his cd, Duel Monster cards, and some of his other things he'd had from his childhood.

"Love, I'm going to go arrange some of this stuff around Mokuba. I'll be back in a few minutes," Kaiba stated, just in case he was needed.

"Okay, I'll just be a few minutes more." Jou began cleaning out one of his drawers.

Hearing the door shut behind his blue-eyed lover, Jou thought he was alone. A few minutes later, the hair on the back of his neck began to stand on end. Then hearing the one voice he never wanted to again, Jou turned around.

"So…the little whore's come back. Where's your high-class toy?" Jou's father slurred, obviously drunk. "What'd he do? Fuck you then leave you for something younger?"

"Leave me alone!" Jou screamed, hoping Seto would hear him.

Sneering, Jou's father looked from his son's hand to his face and back again. "Pretty rock Jounouchi. A token from your boy-toy?"

Getting very angry, Jou tried to stand up for himself. "Yes, it's from Seto. He proposed to me. I'm leaving you, father. I'm going to live with him, where I'm treated like a human!"

"No you're not, boy. You're staying right here. There's only one person in this world who can claim you and you're looking at him." Jou's father raised his hand to strike his son as he'd done countless times before.

"Unless you want me to personally relieve you of your hand, I suggest you lower it and allow Jou to finish what he came to do." Seto intervened; his eyes an ice blue and filled with rage.

Turning to the intruder, Jou's father curled his hand into a fist. "So, the little CEO thinks he can order me around in my own house."

Jou instantly saw why his fiancée was so successful in his business dealings. This was the first time he'd ever witnessed Kaiba being this intent on destroying someone. "No, I don't think, I know. Lower your hand."

Jou's father lunged for Kaiba, but his fist found nothing but air. Instead, he was the recipient of a punch to the jaw that left him seeing stars. As he slowly recovered, Seto ran to Jou's side. "Come on, let's go. You okay to move?" asked the brunette.

"Yeah, he didn't hit me." Jou stood shakily, holding on to Seto tightly.

As the two left Jou's father, Kaiba threw a parting comment. "We'll inform you of the wedding and when your grandchild arrives. Until then, stay out of Jou's life."

"You piece of trash. You know you're just using Jounouchi to satisfy you till something better comes along. If you manage to knock him up, I'll hunt your rich ass down you bastard."

Flipping the man off, Kaiba returned with, "Go ahead. I would love to see you try."

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Okay. This is the first chapter I'm going to do tonight. I'm at work, and really bored. The next chapter will be the wedding and their honeymoon. After that, the mpreg will kick in. It won't be anything too graphic, because I am trying to keep this PG13. I just want to "abuse" Jou a little more and not seriously hurt the boy. =)

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Thank you's:

Angel Reaper: Yeah, I probably do have things going to fast, but…I don't know. I'm hoping now, it will get better and more normally paced.

Star Light Shadow: You're getting your mpreg, it's coming next chapter, slightly. After that it's open season. =) Keep sending out the applications, if you lived here in PA, and near me, I could help you with the job hunt.

Misura: If you didn't want to read chapter 7, that's fine. That's why I add the little bit of the end of the last chapter. =) And don't worry, Jou's "unkind father" will be back. I have some interesting plans for him, as well as another possible game for your "hentai" Seto.

Rowan Girl: Yes, yes, there's more Ryou to come. I also have a little surprise in the works for you and the rest of the "Ryou Bakura Fan Club" out there. =) You'll have to keep your eyes out for a new fic. =)

Mage of Black Flames: I'm glad you like this so much. I think I'm going to cut this of at like 20 chapters or so. It all depends on if I continue to get reviews, my interest in the story, and the time factor. Right now, all is good, and another chapter will be following shortly.

Again, thanks to all who've read this far with the story. I hope to continue writing things you enjoy and hope you all come back for the next chapter. Till then, Ja ne!