Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Just My Luck ❯ It's Time For A Change ( Chapter 4 )

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]

If not for Jounouchi's childish excitement the moment Seto told him he would be giving him a tour of his mansion, Seto would have thought this whole thing to be easy. But it seems it was going to be allot harder to even maintain a serious look when the blonde looked so happy. Did big houses always impress the simple people this easily, Kaiba could not help but wonder. He had even taken notice to the extra step in Jounouchi's walk as they headed down the hall. To suppress the sudden queasiness he felt, Kaiba took a deep breath. he was sure it was last night's sleepless hours that effected him so badly.

"Alright, there will be no need for me to show you any of the guest rooms." He stated, hoping to give Jou the clue he needed to notice that he was never really going to stay here again if Kaiba had something to do about it. He couldn't risk having this troublesome teen around when he already had Mokuba to take care of.

Jounouchi seemed to except Kaiba claim. "You probably have too many of those to tour in one day." He chuckled, the original meaning going right over his head. He shuffled happily ahead of the CEO and glanced down each hallway as they passed it.

And still the sickness in Kaiba's stomach had yet to settle. Though something helped alleviate the pain for awhile. He couldn't keep his aqua blue eyes off the firm ass moving along ahead of him. But suddenly realizing he was glaring so intently, Kaiba slapped himself. This boy made him lose his cool too easily for Seto's comfort.

"Here's the first room of our little trip." Kaiba announced, pushing open the hard oak door and revealing a heavily supplied mini library. The room appeared to be two stories alone, with shelves of books stacked high upon each other and a rolling latter against the side. "You can find just about any book that you find fancy in; I liked to be diverse in my reading." He explained.

A sly smile appeared on Kaiba's lips as he watched the sudden agape jaw of his blonde guest and how his eyes nearly bugged out of his head. It was too amusing watching this teen react. Jounouchi was all impulses and reflex. It was hard enough for Seto to believe anything the blonde did was carefully thought through. And if it was, may he be stroke with lightening where he stand.

seeing as how his guest was too stunned or rather baffled to respond, Kaiba had to escort him out. Somehow he got the feeling Jounouchi wasn't all that impressed by the size of the library but just the fact that he even had a library in his home.

"This is my office, which you are to never enter at any time in your life." Seto said sternly. he kept the door open for only a moment longer and finally closed it. he didn't want Jounouchi getting too use to it's appearance for he would never see it again.

"Man, Mokuba must be really bummed you bring work home with you." Jounouchi finally said, his voice sounding almost sympathetic. "He's probably lucky to see you come home at all, but to have you hang out only in your office and library is a little sad."

Seto took immediate defense to that comment and did his best to contain a growl. "I'm a businessman and if Mokuba wants to keep living here, he manages to accept my busy schedule. And don't get the idea that I never play with him or anything. I know very well how important it is for him to have a childhood before being exposed to the real world." Seto knew his words were affective when a visible shiver came down the blonde's spine. He hadn't thought his tone was that harsh, then again he always seemed to have a bigger affect on those new to him.

"Before we see the next room, I must warn you. What you are about to see is explicit and not appropriate for children under the age of eighteen." Kaiba monologue, his brows furrowing seriously. With a warning like that Jounouchi had to have thought Kaiba had his own private porn room or something.

The brunet slowly opened the door and revealed the lord of all messes. Jounouchi's expression instantly dropped to disbelief. Before him was a room filled to the brim with the newest of toys, games, and electronics. The large bed was barely visible as well as the floor. It was amazing that none of the items were broken or damaged, just carelessly left where they were probably played with. Jounouchi turned back to Kaiba, his eyes flat with sarcasm.

"Mokuba's room, I'm guessing." Kaiba solemnly nodded. "Oh, come on moneybags! This room isn't so bad!" Jounouchi suddenly broke the sound barrier with his loud out burst. Sure he more than anyone understood humor, but Kaiba's tease was a little dramatic even for him. "Shoot, if I were a kid living in this house, with this money, my room would be ten times worse."

"Sure, sure." Seto excused, waving his had while rolling his eyes. He quickly closed the door again. "I hardly believe you even you could do that much damage to a room that is cleaned by the maids everyday." And again with Jou's eyes popping out. "Of course I've had to assign them to clean it every week because they demanded more pay if they were risky their lives." And instinctively Kaiba twitched when he heard an unattractive snort from the blonde.

"Now here's a room even you may like." Kaiba smirked as he lead Jounouchi down the hall.

"Hell yeah! This is what I'm talkin 'bout!" Jou exclaimed, his arms flailing in the air. All this to be expected to Seto, Jounouchi was so predictable.

He had shown the boy their living room. Inside was a 42 inch plasma TV, courtesy of Mokuba's begging, with surround sound and a stereo system that topped all of the classic music artists. Mokuba's countless game systems were hooked up as well and waiting to be played with.

"Hey Seto, let's play!" Jou suggested excitedly. He raced over to the TV, not even getting Kaiba's permission and grabbing a brunch of games he would like to play. Jou was amazed to see Mokuba even had a driving simulator. "Want to race? Can you work a stick?" Jounouchi asked, holding up the game.

Kaiba's smirk widened. "Actually I work well with sticks." A deviant gleam in his eye proved to hide a different meaning. "As much I would love to play with you, we have to finish up this tour so I can get back to work." He chuckled when he heard Jounouchi's disappointed moaning.

Reluctantly, Jou rose to his feet. But the room went silent the moment his stomach started to growl loudly. The slightly embarrassed blonde grinded ruefully as he noticed Kaiba's irritated expression. "Sorry, but I am kinda hungry." He laughed.

"How can you be hungry? You just ate breakfast an hour or two ago." Kaiba pointed out, his calmness wavering as he thought he might just have to feed this boy every hour to shut him up.

"But that's a long time!" Jou whined. "I'm a growing teen, which means I should eat regularly." He cackled, rubbing his now anxious and aching stomach.

"I know it; feed a pup once and it will be expecting you to feed it again." Seto remarked with a sigh.

"Hey, I'm not dog!" The blonde interjected. His defense was ignored as Kaiba headed off into the kitchen.

"Fine, you can have whatever you can make." Seto smirked again, knowing this would be a hard task for the teen. He just got the feeling Jou ate nothing but fast food. But to his surprise, Jounouchi was not at all fazed by the rule and simply started to raid the cabinets looking for the best etible foods. "I hoep you can cook, because I'm not helping you what so ever." Kaiba gloated.

The CEO settled himself on the counter as he watched Jou scramble across the kitchen in search of pots and silverware. He was bemused over how easily the blonde stumbled in his rushing every now and then. And he was even more entertained by watching Jou out in unusual amounts of ingredients in the food he was making. That much salt and hot sauce couldn't be healthy, Kaiba thought. He looked forward to Jou's complaining later on how his stomach hurt. On the other hand Kaiba was not looking forward to any methods in which Jou would have to rid that toxic food. Giving thrown up on again was not on his itinerary.

Jounouchi was glowing as he prepared his own meal. He truly believed it would be a work of the gods. He set the large pot of soup like substance on the heated stove and pulled himself up to sit beside Kaiba on the counter. "Just wait, it's going to be delicious." He gloated. "I'll even let you be my official taste tester." Jou chuckled. "But don't think I'll replace your chef."

Oh, don't worry. I won't dream of it." Kaiba held back a taunting laugh. He knew better than Jou, and that food was not going to be what the blonde expected. "So don't quite your day job."

"I don't have a job. Are you crazy?! I'm not wasting a moment of my important life working behind some cash register taking orders from some snotty nosed brats." Jou laughed, throwing his head back.

Kaiba was more amused by the fact Jou admitted the only job he would be able to get was working at some minimum wage fast food restaurant. "Oh, is that so? Well then are you expecting your sister and parents to provide for you until retirement?"

"Shizuka?" Jounouchi replied in surprise. He barely recalled mentioning her to Kaiba before, but then he was reminded he was rather out of it last night. "Actually, I only live with my dad." He explained. His eyes softened in what seemed to be remorse as he recalled his small family. "My parents divorced and my mom to my younger sister with her."

There goes Kaiba's big mouth! The brunet had felt regretful over mentioning it when it brought up such a sad tale. "I'm sorry to hear that." He whispered lightly, his own eyes falling to the titled kitchen floor. He could vaguely imagine a life separated from Mokuba, after all he had to fight for him and his brother to get adopted by the same person.

"Don't be, it's not your fault." Jou cheered up a little. "At least she got to be with the better parent." He chuckled. "I know mom is being good to her and has a great job to support her. My dad's not all bad though, he just gets his priorities mixed up. And when he puts leisure or work, its hard for him to maintain a good job. He has been bugging me for quite some time to get a job myself, but I have school." Jounouchi finally sighed.

In a way, Kaiba wanted to help Jou out, but he couldn't think of a way without making it seem like total charity. And from their previous discussion, he knew Jounouchi would not accept charity of any kind. "I could find you a job where you only had second shift and the pay isn't bad." He offered, his gaze finally meeting Jou's.

"No, that's fine." Jounouchi denied. "I can find work on my own." Jou knew Kaiba had already helped him so much, so he couldn't possibly accept such an offer. He smiled warmly, hoping to ease the CEO's concern over him. But such a fake grin could not last when Jou looked into those kind sapphire eyes that looked back at him.

"Then let me know, anything I can do to help." Kaiba insisted. It wasn't till now that he realized his gaze was intense with worry and the blonde had noticed for his own expression was filled with surprise. Kaiba leaned closer as if Jou had an invisible orbit in which he was caught in. His eyes slowly closing as he neared lightly trembling pink lips.

"Seto, it's ready!" Jounouchi suddenly cheered, picking up a ladle and scooping up a decent amount and shoving it into Kaiba's pursed lips. "How does it taste?" He giggled.

Kaiba was hardly in a laughing mood, as his eyes suddenly widened. He had been cursing himself for the short while over almost giving into the urge to kiss the blonde, thank good his idiotic innocence interrupted him. Jerking the spoon from his mouth, Kaiba swallowed hard. Oh how he regretted that as well!

The gooey liquid slowly slid down his throat like Pepto-Bismol and cake batter. His face immediately turning a sickly green as he covered his mouth to keep from puking. 'Oh gods! It actually went down my throat!' Kaiba leaned over toward the sink beside him and tried his best to spit out the disgusting chemicals Jou called food. "Ah! That's is horrible!" He yelled, not able to keep his normal suave character when such a toxic substance was forced into his mouth.

Jounouchi sweat dropped and gave a soft laugh now that Kaiba was cradling his stomach as he rocked over the sink. "Maybe I put into too much peppers." He thought out loud. But Jou nearly fell back off the counter when Kaiba's head jerked back toward, an evil glare in his eyes. "Now, now Seto! Don't be mad!" Jou begged, waving his hands in defense.

"Don't be mad?!" Kaiba repeated. "You just tried to kill me!" He snarled. "I've never tasted such an appalling thing. I advise you never cook again, for the good of the people and the environment." Seto hissed. He jumped off the counter and grabbed the large pot filled with the sickly red and purple soup. He shoved the pot into the sink and poured it all out and turned on the garbage disposal.

Jounouchi fearfully slid off the counter and was about to make a mad dash to the door. He knew his life was in danger. Surprisingly, Kaiba just sighed in relief as the last of the food was washed away into the pipes.

"I probably going to have to change the pipes because of that acid concoction." He turned back to Jou, his eyes still promising death. "If you are so hungry, I'm going to get take out. You stay here." He ordered. "If so much as attempt another meal while I'm gone, I swear it will be your last. Whether it be the food or me that kills you." With that said, Kaiba rushed back to his room to get dressed.

His opinion was Jou needed charity for food if he was so desperate as to make such a meal with the intent to actually eat it. Kaiba rushed out the door and into his limo before Jou had time to object.

Seto had never been so relieved to wait in a line at the local Chinese food restaurant. Despite how greasy their food tended to be, it was a whole lot better over anything Jou could cook. As he waited, he couldn't help but over hear the worried squealing of a girl sitting at one of the tables. His eyes sneakily glanced over to the table and to his surprise he recognized the girl.

A girl with short brown hair was speaking so cautiously with a smaller boy with the most bizarre hairdo Kaiba had ever seen. With them was another male with...Otogi?! This drew in Kaiba's full attention as he slipped away to get closer and hear their conversation.

"Honda, me and Yugi looked around all day, but we couldn't find Jou." The girl nearly cried.

"He wasn't even at school today. I'm worried you guys." The smallest blonde boy whimpered, his hands fiddling with his chopsticks.

"You two were the last ones with him, right?" The girl Kaiba had food out was Anzu, questioned.

Kaiba's eyes hardened he was slowly pulling the pieces together. They all thought Jounouchi was missing when in fact he was at Kaiba's house.

"We looked too, but we lost him in the crowd at the club last night." Honda explained. Seto's eyes widened. So they were Jou's friends that ditched him at the club last night. He didn't even know Otogi had real friends, much less went out with them.

"Maybe he got sick last night and just stayed home all day." Otogi offered his opinion. "We should run by there next and see if he's still there."

Kaiba's blood was boiling at the thought. Otogi actually seemed concerned when it was in fact his fault the blonde disappeared. And by the looks of it, him and his little 'boyfriend' hadn't told the rest of their friends they were to busy getting it on in the bathroom to care about Jounouchi.

Seto found no more interest in their conversation, plus his food was now ready. He rushed back to the counter and paid for the meal before making his way back to his limousine. The entire drive back home, his driver was fearfully avoiding any speaking for he could sense the young CEO steaming in his seat.

"Jou, I'm back." He announced walking into the house. He stepped into the kitchen as was partially satisfied with seeing it was as he had left it when leaving. Of course that meant that Jounouchi neither made the effort to cook or clean. And he wasn't even in the kitchen anymore.

Kaiba sighed as he knew there was only one possible place the blonde could be. He came into the game room and did all he could to avoid smiling sincerely as he saw Jou happily playing video games with Mokuba. it looks like Mokuba got home and took the chance to play with Jounouchi as he had wanted. Te two hysterical boys were too drawn into their battling they hadn't noticed Seto's presence.

With a smirk, the brunet sat on the couch behind them and waited for the match to end before making himself known. He was amused to see Mokuba had beaten Jou, and the blonde was now demanding a rematch. "Will you two stop arguing long enough to eat." He chuckled.

Both boys nearly jumped as they heard Kaiba's voice suddenly. "Seto!" Mokuba exclaimed, racing over and hugging his brother lovingly. "I kicked Jou's butt eleven times in a row while you were gone." He bragged.

"No he didn't!" Jou quickly interrupted, stomping over to the couch and sitting on the other side of Kaiba. "My controller was malfunctioning." He lied.

Kaiba laughed whole heartedly and finally pried Mokuba's arms from around him. He turned off the video games and turned the channel. It had been so long since he had watched actual TV, so he was nearly completely clueless when they were talking about previous episodes or news. "You two eat up, okay?" He handed each boy their meals as they nodded.

“Hey Seto. Why did you get take out today?” Mokuba asked. It was rare Kaiba ever had them eat anything other than meals prepared by their chef or that he cooked himself. But to have his brother give in to all those times he said public foods will kill you, was quite a surprise.

Seto chuckled softly. It looks like desperate times called for desperate measures. If not for Jounouchi’s cooking and hunger, he would have just cooked himself. Then that would have meant he had to go back on his words to Jou about cooking himself. And he certainly didn’t want to seem like a person who’s words meant nothing. Kaiba was just about to answer when Jou beat him to it.

“It’s my fault. I nearly killed Seto with my cooking.” He laughed proudly, which surprised Kaiba. Why would be so proud knowing he screwed up his entire digestive system with that soup. Kaiba would have at least thought he would be ashamed or still sorry. But those feelings were no where visible on the teen’s face as he gave a goofy smile.

Mokuba smiled as well. “Then can you cook more often Jou?” He asked. Kaiba growled angrily over this. It seems like no one cared over the fact that he was used as the taste-testing guinea pig for all Jou’s meals.

“Sure Mokuba.” Jounouchi laughed.

Kaiba sighed. Looks like that really didn’t care. How he hated being ignored. “Please don’t.” He mumbled. “I don’t think my stomach can handle any more of your creations. I’d like to live to be at least forty.” Seto complained, earning him laughter from both boys. He managed to smile for the reason alone as the boys continued to secretly mock him. This would probably be the only time he allowed any one to tease him like this. But unlike what he was going to do to Mokuba, Kaiba was going to make Jou pay for his cooking and his stupidity. He may have forgiven the puking and eventually the fighting, but never the mockery. No one made a fool of the Seto Kaiba, CEO of Kaiba industries.

Odd as it was, the evening was actually calming for Kaiba. He had almost forgotten entirely about what he found out at the restaurant. His mind enjoyed Mokuba and Jou's little arguments during diner, it was so cute seeing Jou trying to redeem himself to a kid.

Unfortunately the two had warn themselves out with their constant bickering. Kaiba wasn't as pleased when he found both exhausted boys now leaning on each of his shoulders in a restful slumber. It rather annoyed him since he was the only one awake and caught in the middle. But a part of him found the scene to actually be cute. He almost didn't have the hear to wake up Jou and tell him he needed to get back home before his father called the police in search of him.

"Aww, do I have to go?" The blonde whined, half dazed with sleep as he switched to laying his head on the arm of the couch.

"Yes, you do." Kaiba chuckled. He stood up carefully, making sure not to wake up Mokuba. He tugged on Jou's arm and pulled the tired teen on his feet. "I won't be accused of kidnapping. I most certainly won't put up with another sleepless night because you decided to spend the night." He teased. Though Jou didn't know how hard it was for Kaiba to sleep, he still walked with Kaiba to the door.

The ride to Jounouchi's home was a quite one, neither finding the words to start up a friend conversation again. But as the car finally came to a halt, Jou urged himself to speak. "I'll see you again, right?" He asked, pushing open the door and stepping out.

Kaiba rather dreaded the question. He had realized long ago that he liked having Jounouchi around, but there was always the chance he would be caught by the media and this would damage his reputation, not to mention if Otogi found out, it wouldn't end well either. But why should he care about all of that, it was his life and who his decision.

"Sure, I think that can be arranged." He smirked. "Just make sure you eat before you ever come over." He chuckled. His heart suddenly fluttered as Jounouchi's face sparkled with a beautiful smile. Oh why had he given in so easily?! He watched he excited blonde pranced over to his front door, waving one final time and then disappeared into the safety of his home. "I'm really turning soft because of you Jou." He sighed.

To Be Continued...

A/N: Oh, please tell me you liked it! I think it was so cute! I really want to know what you think, so don't be afraid to review. Plus I'm getting disappointed over how little reviews I get for this fic, and yet its my favorite one writing. Well I shall see you all soon^_-