Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Pools of Glass ❯ Ride or Die ( Chapter 10 )

JG-chan: Yay, I really like where this story is going! And a thousand apologies for the delay in updating… *submits to all dominant and aggressive viewers*

DugFinn: Yes! Shounen-ai! W00t!! I know… it's great, isn't it? I hope you like Honda x Otogi ^^ I haven't written a lemon between those two before O.o and just for you… I may make Ryou and Malik an item, because it DOES seem perfect, does it not?? ^_^

Avvy: Yes, funny isn't it? All my fics turn out kinda cliché … but isn't it wonderful???

The Almighty Elena: GROOVY… wow, that's a word I haven't heard in a while! XD thanks anyway, I'll try to make Jou as put-to-character as possible ^^

Ride or Die
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"What the HELL were you THINKING MAN?!" Honda bellowed.

"Jounouchi! You got us so worried!" Anzu squealed meekly.

"How could you do this Katsuya?" Shizuka asked.

Jou raised his hands out in front of him in defeat. "I'm sorry… you knew I was going to come back…"

"Yeah we knew that… but WHEN was what we wanted to know, Jounou!" Honda shrieked.

Kaiba smirked to himself, listening in on the conversation nearby.

"You could have been gone for years for all we know!" Yuugi cried.

"But I wasn't." Jou replied pathetically.

"And Kaiba of all people found you? How did he know where you were?" Otogi questioned.

The blonde youth sighed. "Long story. I gotta get to class."

"Damn right you do!" Anzu cried. "You are SO far behind it's not funny!"

Jounouchi shrugged and stalked off down the corridor with his folders under his arm. Along the way, Kaiba joined his side.

"Well, that went well." Kaiba mocked.

"Shut up Kaiba." Jounouchi snapped.

They walked alongside each other silently until they came to Jounouchi's English room. They looked at each other for a moment, and Jou knew that Kaiba would not be the first to break the silence.

"Hey uh, Kaiba… thanks."

Seto frowned. "For…?"

"Bringing me back to Domino. I know I'm going to pay for what I did, but if you didn't come along then it could have been a lot worse." Jou said quietly.

Kaiba fidgeted slightly. "It's fine."

A tense silence followed.

Damn… what's up with him? He didn't even insult me! Jounouchi thought.

"Yeah well… see ya round then I guess."

"Hmm." Kaiba nodded slightly and walked off with his briefcase. He looked over his shoulder once at Jounouchi, only to find the blonde staring back at him. All the blood suddenly rushed to his groin.

~*~

"Oh come on man; you haven't played football with us for ages!" Honda cried in disbelief. "You usually don't give two hoots about schoolwork."

Jounouchi frowned upon his friend's protesting, and the glares that were shot his way by the other students on the football team that usually played on the sports field at lunch time. "I can't… I'm too far behind in my school work. If I don't catch up now I'm gonna flunk out in my exams at the end of the year!"

"Cut him some slack, guys." Otogi spoke up. "Can you imagine failing the end-of-year exams?" Everyone gulped. "Exactly. So let the boy do his thing."

"Thanks man." Jou thanked Otogi before running off into the direction of the library. He hadn't been into the library since the day after he met Bell. It was rather daunting to step foot in there once more, but there was no place quieter for him to study in the school.

On second thought, Jou thought, this place is crammed! I never knew Domino High had so many dorks… Making a decision, Jou swiveled around on his heel in search of a quiet, less-stuffy place to study. He went out to the back field of the school where there were more trees than anything else, plus an old deserted basketball court. Jou walked down to a large Japanese maple tree and sat down by it.

Just as he started to settle into his work, Jou looked up into the distance to see a tall, lean figure coming his way that looked frighteningly similar to Seto Kaiba. Jounouchi cringed as he neared him, approaching like a freight train in top gear, crushing everything in his path.

Eh, what does HE of all people want?

"You're in my spot." Kaiba muttered, vaguely acknowledging the blond's existence.

Kaiba towered over Jou like a crane. "I'm… doing my schoolwork." Jou squeaked.

A twisted grin spread onto Kaiba's face like a bacterial infection. "You? Doing… work? If you're doing work then I'm the Queen of England." He plonked down onto the grass next to Jounou.

"I doubt that." Jounouchi replied with a wily grin. "You'd have to be a woman to be the Queen of England, and it's pretty obvious you're not."

Woah hold the phone! WHAT did I just say?! I'm losin' me marbles!

Kaiba blushed at the comment, and possibly the fact that Jounouchi was flirting with him. Instead of looking at the grinning blond, he turned his head to get his laptop from his briefcase.

The hot weather must be making him delirious…

"So… what math questions do you need doing?" Kaiba asked.

Jou craned his neck to look sideways into his math textbook. "Trigonometry. If I don't get these three pages done, I'm going to the dogs."

Kaiba snickered at the inside joke that suddenly popped into his head at the blond's oblivious remark about himself. "Here." He threw an old math textbook to Jounouchi that had been in his briefcase for some time; every question completed. It just happened that it was the same textbook as Jou's, besides the fact that it was filled out somewhere around 2001.

That'll shut him up for a while.

"Thanks." Jou said, and flicked to the page that his trigonometry homework was on. "Man Kaiba, I can hardly read this." Jou said squinting at the fancy writing in the book.

"What do you mean?" Nitwit.

"Uh - - err - - um, well, it's your writing, it's - - "

"Yes?"

Jou swallowed hard. "It's so curly and fancy… it's pretty. Almost… girlie." Uh oh. Damn it Jou!

That fool. "My writing is most certainly not girlie!"

"Ah that's not what I meant! What I meant is ah… I'm, I'm dyslexic! Yeah… I'm dyslexic." Oh my God… Jou, that was a REALLY lame comeback.

Sadistically, Kaiba laughed. "No you're not. You just can't read my writing."

Jou blushed. D'oh!

"So what then? You have trouble with maths?" Kaiba asked.

"What other reason would I be in the lowest math class for?" Jou retorted.

Kaiba smirked. "No need to be snarky. Nobody can be good at everything."

"Except you."

"Don't be ridiculous."

Jou snorted. "Then what do you suppose I do about this huh? I suck at maths! I simply cannot get to grips with this… this shit that I'm never going to find any use for!"

"Have you tried talking to your maths teacher about private tutoring?"

"No!" Jou almost laughed, like it was a joke. "Have you gone around the twist?! I can not ask for private lessons. Gods, if anybody found out… I'd be dead meat walkin'!"

Kaiba was taken aback to some degree. "So, in a nutshell, you're rat-shit at math, but you're too embarrassed to do anything about it because of what other people would think?"

Jou sighed. "I'm going to fail no matter how much help I get." He pushed his hair back and leaned against the smooth bark of the maple tree. "I'm screwed."

"There is one solution left. Whether you would want to take it up is another thing all entirely, however." Kaiba said whilst typing away on his laptop.

"And that would be…?"

Kaiba rolled his eyes at Jou's obliviousness and took off his glasses. "Do you want me to tutor you or not?"

~*~

Floods of teens and kids alike poured out of the main entrance gate and out the streets at the first strike of five o'clock. It had been a long, rough day for Jounouchi Katsuya, and it was about to become a lot worse. He only agreed to Kaiba's deal because he didn't want to be put back a year. Repeating his final year of high-school* didn't sound at all pleasant.

The deal was this: if Kaiba tutored Jounouchi with his maths, nobody, not a single soul, would find out. He would make sure of that. Kaiba knew how much pride Jounouchi took in himself, and respected that. If nobody knew you had a weakness, it would stay that way. On the other hand, all Jou had to do was, well, wait on Kaiba hand-and-foot until the deed was done. He'd rather that than fail his final year of school, or have everyone find out that he was even thicker than they first thought he was.

"Hey Jou-kun! Wait up man!"

Jou groaned to hear Honda's voice drone him to a halt. "What is it Honda?"

"Did you hear about the fight at lunch time? Otogi-kun got fucked up man!" The brunet bellowed. "That's how I got this big mother on my chest here." He rolled up his school-shirt to reveal a couple of bleeding indentations in his skin of what looked like the print of a football shoe.

Jou winced. "That's gotta hurt… is Otogi okay?"

"Yeah, I'm picking him up from the hospital on my motorbike shortly. He's got a bit of a concussion I think." Honda replied.

"True, well I hope he's alright. Take care alright?"

Honda nodded. "Yeah, you too bud. See you later!"

Jounouchi let out a nervous breath which he had held in for quite some time. Phew… that was a close one. I wonder where the hell Kaiba's at… As if to magically prove answer Jounouchi's unsaid curiosity, a rather nice 2003 edition Bentley Hunaudieres* rolled up next to him. It was a sexy, smooth dark green… so dark it was almost black. Jounouchi nearly got an erection just looking at the car. That was until he saw who was driving it. You can only guess what came next.

The passenger's side window rolled down to reveal, "K-Kaiba?!"

"Get in."

"Bah… wha… huh…?"

"Stop babbling like an idiot and get the fuck in. Unless you're scared of course…"

If Jounouchi had hackles, they would have raised by now. "I'm not scared!"

"Prove it."

The blond growled and threw his bag into the back seat and jumped in. "Show us what you got, Kaiba."

"It's my pleasure."

If only Jounouchi knew; Kaiba didn't take any prisoners.

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*= Final year of high school: I dunno, I portray Jou as being 17… I don't really give a crap how old he really is.

*=Bentley Hunaudieres: A really Really REALLY nice car!! Omg *drools* it's so sexy! Go to this link if you wanna have a look: http://www.coupsdecoeur.net/indexwallpaper/voitures/bentley%20hunaudieres.j pg

JG-chan: Okay I have come to the conclusion that this will be a Seto x Jou fic, as you know, and there will also be a little bit of Honda x Otogi on the side so as not to bore you ^_^

Jou: I get to ride in nice cars ^^

Kaiba: Those are MY nice cars, I'll have you know

JG-chan: Yeah, yeah, right, right.

Kaiba: *icy glare*

JG-chan: Ok Ok… I'll end it here for all of you lovely reviewer's sakes ^_^ hope you had fun reading!