Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Seto's Wish Alternate World Conclusion ❯ C11 Joey My Love? I ( Chapter 11 )

Mokuba A/N: The following was written by Clarity2199. It Is Seto/Joey. DON'T LIKE DON'T READ NO FLAMES!

 

Clarity A/N: Warning! This chapter consists of yaoi. Anyone who may find M/M coupling offensive can still easily skip chapters 11-13, without fear of loosing too much information on the storyline. This merely involves one trip among many possibilities from various universes. This Chapter I'd also like to dedicate to Insight to Insanity. Her wonderful story `Snowed-in' is what helped inspire me to write this particular reality.

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C11 Joey My Love? I

 

Kaiba shook his head, not expecting to feel so dizzy after being thrust into a new reality. He looked around noticing he was in his limo and quickly figured out he was in the wrong reality. As the limo drove up, it suddenly slammed on the brakes, as the car in front of them suddenly stopped without warning. The sudden stop caused Kaiba to fall forward, hitting his head on the glass partition. He then sat up, rubbing his head and hearing a car honking....fortunately, it was a near miss. Kaiba tried to shake the dizziness, but the headache from the hit was killing him. He reached for an aspirin, just as the limo stopped at the school.

 

The driver came out and opened the door for Kaiba, asking if he was all right.

 

Kaiba waved him off and got up, looking out at the school....still feeling slightly dazed and confused. He didn't remember it was time for school, and assumed the hit from stopping fast must have caused him to lose track of time. So, he simply walked away, heading towards school as he normally would.

 

But as Kaiba reached the school doors, he stopped. Something was......different. For some reason, there were teenage girls outside the school, gossiping as usual. The strange part was.......they were not trying to mob and attack him for the first time.......ever. Kaiba glanced towards them, but none seemed to look up and him and start screaming in hysterics. Not looking a gift horse in the mouth, he quickly looked back at the door and opened it, heading into the school. He had to use all his strength to keep from smiling from the relief.......for once he was finally not attacked! But it also left some concern with him........what did it mean? Could the things he had worked on all his life begun to lose interest in the younger minds? Could this hurt his business any? He'd have to figure that out later.

 

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Kaiba reached homeroom, handing his work to the teacher, so she wouldn't bother him with asking for it after their names were called. He then sat down and began to set-up his laptop. As he did, the teacher looked up and smiled, saying, “Being ahead of the class again, Mr. Kaiba? We're going to need today's paper.”

 

“That is today's paper.” Kaiba stated.

 

The teacher shook her head, saying, “No, we're on page 236........this is page 238.”

 

“You gave me this assignment yesterday, which I wrote down in my book.” Kaiba said, opening the book and showing the assignment written by him that today's work was page 238.

 

“Then you must have wrote it down wrong, because everyone is on page 236 today.” the teacher said.

 

By this time, Kaiba had returned to the teacher's desk to straighten this out. As they were arguing, the geek squad was showing up, all saying, “Hey Kaiba!” to him, as they went to their seats. That only made this whole situation more confusing, trying to figure out how the teacher became two days behind, at the same time why Yugi's little `click' were acknowledging him.

 

He ignored the strange hello's and went into his folder, pulling out the work sheet from two days ago that had already been handed in and graded by the teacher. He put it down, saying, “This is page 236. You already got it, you already graded it and handed it back to me.” The frustration and impatience were beginning to be heard in the tone of his voice, but at this point he didn't care. No one dared to tell Kaiba that `he' was wrong....especially when he wasn't.

 

The teacher looked at it, now equally puzzled, saying, “Well, that's strange. That `is' my handwriting.....”

 

At that moment, Kaiba thought he felt something rub his ass as the next student went by, and Kaiba glanced over to see......Wheeler?? The Mutt smiled and winked at him, as he passed by and took a seat.

 

Kaiba was not in a position to fight and argue with any students though, as the teacher stood, asking, “Kids, what page did I assign for you to do for today?”

 

They all responded, “Page 236”, confusing Kaiba more. It didn't make sense.....and Kaiba didn't like things that didn't make sense.

 

She shrugged, saying, “Well, how about this. Let me take 236, you give me 237, and I'll keep 238 and simply assumed you pushed ahead, again. Then you wont have to worry about doing the assignments for the next two days. But don't forget there's a test on Friday.”

 

“Yes, ma'am.” he nodded politely and headed to his seat, glancing over at the strange smiling people from Yugi's group, and the Mutt giving him another wink.

 

Kaiba sat down and decided to ignore everyone and do his work.......their behavior was too confusing for the moment, and he was still trying to figure out how he got two days ahead. He pulled out his laptop and began to continue his work.

 

Joey was sitting next to him in class and inched his head over, saying, “Hey, Seto.......what's the problem?”

 

Kaiba slowly looked over and gave him his death glare. “What did you call me, Mutt?” he asked, hostility evident in the quiet tone of his voice. `How dare he call me by my first name!' he thought. `If that loser thinks for a moment I'm going to tolerate that, he's asking for a world of pain.......'

 

To make it even more confusing to Kaiba, Joey looked back at him from the question, smiled, and playfully said, “Woof.” in an almost flirting manner. Kaiba just stared at him, like Wheeler was on drugs or something. Yet, the surprised stare on Kaiba's face didn't help much. Joey seemed to like Kaiba's fixed attention on him and winked at him, asking again, “So what's the problem?”

 

“You are.” Kaiba answered coldly and abruptly turned back to his laptop to continue working, since he really wasn't sure how else to react to Wheeler's strangeness. He went through his head, trying to figure out what Joey was up to and why. `Maybe he came up with a plan, together with the geek squad, in an attempt to get back at me for all the times I got the best of him.' he thought. `That had to be it. His strange behavior was trying to throw me off.....maybe some stupid attempt to embarrass me. Well nice try, as pathetic as the attempt was......it's not going to work.' As he kept to himself, he decided to silently try and listen to their conversations today. If they had something planned, he'd be able to over-hear it and perhaps figure out what was going on. Yet, they didn't seem to be talking, or planning anything. Perhaps they already made their arrangements in the morning, so they wouldn't have to talk about it during school. If that was the case, then this group was getting smarter. But they couldn't hide what this was about from him, forever.

 

As Kaiba was thinking this, he found another thing `out of place'. His appointment book was off. It also seemed to be two days behind. His attention immediately abandoned the group and focused on why everything about him seemed to have a two days difference.

 

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There were more classes with Yugi's friends in it.....Wheeler in two of those classes. All times, they gave a strange `hello' calling to him. But this time, Kaiba changed his strategy and ignored them completely, as if they weren't even there. And by this time, he was simply too concerned about this strange time lapse in everything.....including all his other classes. He had called work by this time, to try and fix the problem and they confirmed the appointment book on the computer was accurate. Everything in his email and internet access was accurately two days early, but everything saved in his laptop was two days ahead. According to his secretary, he'd basically have the same meetings with the same people, even though his notes showed everything that already happened. He just didn't get it.......had he ended up in some kind of time lapse? Perhaps he was still asleep and didn't know it?

 

As he was trying to figure it out, he was ignoring Wheeler that was sitting right in front of him. In this particular class, that's where he sat. At that moment, Joey turned around, saying, “Psst......psst, hey Seto......”

 

“Call me that again and you'll die.” Kaiba whispered back calmly, not even looking at Joey, as he continued to type.

 

“Aww.......no Mutt, this time?” he asked quietly, sounding almost like he was pouting. Before Kaiba could say anything, he added, “You been really quiet today, is something wrong?”

 

Kaiba finally glared up at him and stopped typing. He calmly whispered back, “I don't know what you and the geek squad are up to, Mutt.......but I'm not amused. I have work to do.......leave me alone.”

 

“Oh, so you got a big pile of work today, huh? No problem, then......I'll bug you later.” he said, giving him another strange wink and turned back around.

 

He sat staring at Joey's back, still not quite sure why he was acting so........strange. He quickly glanced at the other part of the geek squad.

 

There! Yugi had glanced his and Joey's way, then whispered something to Gardner. She then did her ditzy giggle. `I knew it......they're planning something.' he thought. But what? What were they up to? This wasn't the day to be bothered by them, either. He had to concentrate on work, and didn't have time for their childish actions. He had to find out why everything in work and all the classes in school were two days behind.

 

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Lunchtime had arrived and Kaiba was in his usual spot, in the back of the lunchroom. He was sitting at a table by himself, still trying to figure out the problem. At least he had no schoolwork today, because that was all done, as well as the next two days......but work was different. His being two days ahead in fact made him two days behind, or at least his entire business. So, he was constantly on the phone, arguing with everyone and working on things he had already done.......making his filing system a mess. But something made him pause for a moment, as something else strangely occurred. People were..........staring at him. Yes, the geek squad was looking his way and one or two were pointing, but they weren't the only ones. There were others doing the same. Was this something unusual for him to be working in here? He'd done this every day of his life. Taking a quick glance at himself, he checked to see if his clothes or hair was possibly out of place. No, his clothes were fine, his fly was up, his skin color didn't suddenly change blue.......so what the hell were their problems??

 

Trying not to get frustrated, he ignored them all and began to do his work, as they eventually stopped the staring and went to their own business. Now Wheeler came in, looking very depressed for some reason. He talked to the geek squad who pointed towards Kaiba, once again getting Kaiba's attention. As Kaiba glanced up, he noticed the Mutt look over, which seemed to brighten Joey's whole mood......as if Joey's bad mood was not knowing where Kaiba was, until he found out. But then.......why wouldn't he know he's here and why should he care?

 

Kaiba ignored Joey and his strange behavior, continuing his typing. Yet, instead of the Mutt sitting with his friends, he came over and sat down next to Kaiba. Kaiba paused his work, glancing at Joey from the corner of his view, as the guy put down his grotesque lunch food and began to devour it. How he could even eat the food they offered the school kids, Kaiba had no idea. But either way, Joey didn't seem to be saying anything to him at the moment, simply sitting next to him eating.

 

Kaiba had considered threatening him, for daring to sit next to him, but he reconsidered. He was certain it was probably part of this joke they had been attempting all day, now.....and was really getting sick of it. Just to confirm he was right, he glanced up at the rest of the group, and sure enough he noticed some of them looking back for a moment and smiling, expectantly.

 

`Idiots.' Kaiba thought, focusing back on his laptop. As far as he was concerned, he simply had more important matters to take care of, then worry about Wheeler and whatever their strange prank presently was. He had a job to do, and he refused to allow Joey and the others to distract him from the problem at hand.

 

So decided to refuse to take the bait, Kaiba ignored Joey entirely and continued to type as if he wasn't even there.

 

Joey glanced over at him and smiled, while Kaiba was occupied with his corporate make-up work. He reached his hand over to Kaiba and slid his hand between Kaiba's crotch. Joey smiled, thinking how priceless the look on his lover's face was, as Kaiba instantly froze on the spot, the redness quickly forming on his face and the bulge suddenly forming as well, as he gently stroked him, whispering, “Hey Seto, how about after school, you and me. My tongue can't wait to taste you again......”

 

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Kaiba had placed all concentration on his work, actually forgetting for the moment that Wheeler was sitting right next to him. Then suddenly......something happened and he felt something warm appear in between his legs and begin to stroke him. He froze........shock wasn't even a strong enough word to describe his reaction.

 

For that instant, he was paralyzed as panic swept into his mind, not sure what to do. At the same time, no one had ever touched him like that before and he cursed his own hormones from the pleasure he felt from it, knowing full well this was Wheeler's hand daring to humiliate him like this. His choices were to beat Joey senseless right here and now, which would cause a hell of a scene........or try to ignore it, which would only allow Joey to continue to do this to him. Ignoring him wouldn't cause a scene, but the embarrassment of allowing him to do that to him would be too great. But if he caused a scene, then everyone might figure out what Wheeler was doing to him, which he really didn't want anyone to know. But the more he thought about what to do, the more time he wasted, the more time Joey had to play with him this way and the more embarrassed he got by the moment.......and the pleasure was getting more intense, causing his mind to not think clearly. Plus the whisper Joey muttered to him, only made this situation more uneasy. As it was, just getting a hard-on from what he was doing was humiliating enough, giving Joey plenty of ammo to use against him later.

 

Kaiba finally decided he couldn't allow himself to sit there and take it........it would make him and the geek squad (who probably planned all this) think he enjoyed it and allowed him to do it. No........it already went on for too long. He could actually feel the strange teenage lust in him trying to keep himself from fighting back, wanting this. He couldn't allow anyone else to think Joey could actually cause him to drop his guard like that and give-in.

 

Joey was getting a hard-on himself, seeing how Kaiba was reacting to it, or at least trying not to, as if his motions were causing some kind of internal conflict in him. If Kaiba's hard-on grew any bigger, Joey thought he'd end up busting out of his pants......his breathing was controlled and forced, to try and keep his breaths from quickening, though it was sounding more raspy and his jaw was clenched tight. Joey quietly traveled his hand down, caressing his hard balls, then coming back up, stroking his stem. Yet, finally something clicked in Kaiba and he sprang up with all the fiery dancing in those ice blue eyes, and decked Joey as hard as he could.

 

Everyone looked over, as Joey was sprawled on the floor.....his nose bleeding everywhere, barely able to move. After all.....Joey made no attempt to try and dodge or block the blow, as if he never expected it. Immediately, the rest of his friends dashed over to see what happened, equally shocked from Kaiba's reaction....even though Kaiba couldn't understand why.

 

Kaiba had no intention on sticking around, though. He was embarrassed enough, and Joey's little trick was going to make it very difficult for him to walk straight as he headed out of the cafeteria, which would not help his pride any.

 

Yugi tried to stop him, saying, “Kaiba.......why did you do that to Joey?”

 

“As if you didn't know.” Kaiba snarled at Yugi. “I'm tired of you and your friend's little games. Next time you and your group try and play anymore tricks, that loser wont be the only one on the ground, broken!” With that said, he grabbed his things and left the cafeteria in a haste.

 

As he was leaving the cafeteria, one of the girls stopped him, saying, “Mr. Kaiba........since you're having a fight with your boyfriend, does that mean you're available again? Cuz I am, if you are.......”

 

Kaiba blinked at the question. Did he hear that right? “What??”

 

She backed up nervously, saying, “Hey, I don't have a problem if a guy was with a guy. I can go both ways too, you know? Maybe we could just play around a bit first, and see how it goes......”

 

`Both ways?? I'm not into guys! What is this girl talking about??' Kaiba thought. Could this joke have gone so far to cause the whole school to think he's gay, now? `What the hell is going on, here?' He considered maybe she saw what Wheeler had done, but the whole question didn't sound right. She didn't sound like she was teasing, she sounded as if this was something that had been going on for some time. It didn't make sense, like a lot of things, today. And Kaiba didn't like it when things didn't make sense.......it made him confused, it made him look stupid and he didn't like looking stupid.

 

He snarled, “Get lost.” and stormed away.

 

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Kaiba was now forced to sit in the waiting room to see the principal, with none other than Joey next to him, also waiting. Obviously, the teacher had come in to see what the commotion was after Kaiba left, and there were many witnesses that saw Kaiba cause the damage he did to Joey Wheeler. Now he was going to have to explain this to the principal, something he also didn't feel comfortable doing. Wheeler was sitting there with an icepack on his nose, looking silently miserable at Kaiba. `At least one thing went well.' he thought, sneering coldly at Wheeler, which only seemed to make Joey strangely more depressed. `Serves him right........what did he expect me to do, make out with him?'

 

The Principal then called them both in, and they sat down in front of his desk. “Well, I see you two are back again. Mr. Kaiba, I am very shocked to hear of your behavior in this. You know that violence is not tolerated in this school.”

 

“He didn't do anything.” Joey suddenly said, surprising Kaiba as he looked over at him. Was Joey Wheeler defending him, even after he punched him?

 

“Excuse me, Mr. Wheeler?” the Principal asked.

 

“I said he didn't do anything wrong. He didn't attack me.” Joey said.

 

“We have 20 witnesses that state otherwise, Mr. Wheeler.” the Principal explained.

 

“It was an accident........I slipped.” Joey said.

 

The Principal was skeptical and looked to Kaiba, saying, “Is this true?” already in doubt.

 

“No, I hit him and it was certainly no accident.” Kaiba stated coldly. He assumed Joey was trying to weasel his way out of his own guilt, and Kaiba was not going to let him get away with it.

 

Joey snapped, “Will you shut up, already? I'm trying to help ya, here!”

 

“Help me? More like you were helping yourself. The Mutt here assaulted me.” Kaiba stated.

 

“Assaulted you, in what way?” the teacher asked.

 

Kaiba paused, feeling uncomfortable with his next response.....finally spitting out, “Sexual assault.”

 

“Oh, sexual assault my ass! How do you sexually assault someone you're going out with??” Joey asked.

 

“Going out with? You mean, dating? Is this part of you and your groupies joke, to try and convince the school that I would date you?? Why the hell would I even date a guy??” Kaiba snapped.

 

“Um.......well, Mr. Kaiba......that was mentioned during our last visit here.” The Principal stated.

 

“The Mutt said this to you, before?” he asked, getting ready to hit Joey again.....this time with the Principal as a witness.

 

“No......YOU did.” the Principal said sternly.

 

Kaiba froze, looking at the man. “That's not funny.”

 

“No......it's not. Last time I thought you two were fighting, you personally insisted to me that it wasn't fighting, you were making-out. You don't remember this? This was last week.......” the Principal said, thumbing through his past schedule, as Kaiba just stood there frozen. “It was last Tuesday, also during lunchtime.” The Principal said, then looked back up at him.

 

“Last Tuesday.........” Kaiba said, trying to remember anything about it, anything at all.......nothing came to mind. “But......Wheeler never did anything like this before.”

 

Joey finally sighed, “Do you at least remember the night of the big snow storm, a few months back? The power went out, you were snowed in at Kaiba Corp?”

 

Kaiba looked over, surprised that Joey would even know that information. “How the hell did you know about that?”

 

“Cuz I was there!” Joey snapped.

 

Kaiba blinked, “You weren't there.........I was the only one in the building.” He remembered it well....he nearly froze to death. He was forced to go down into the car garage and turn the car on so he could warm himself up and hope he didn't die of asphyxiation. He never saw Wheeler.

 

“Oh, come on! We had to use each other's body warmth to keep warm that night!” Joey blurted out, causing Kaiba to turn pale at the thought, and the Principal to look very uncomfortable.

 

“Okay, I'll let you two off with a warning. Please do not do it again.........” the principal said quickly, ushering them out of his room, so he didn't have to hear anymore of this.

 

They both left the office and he turned to Joey, saying, “You're insane. I wasn't with anyone, but myself. I had work to do and didn't plan on getting chased off by a little snow.”

 

“But it wasn't a little snow, was it? That's why all yer other workers were gone, cuz they planned on getting home in one piece. The snow piled up and even you couldn't get out of the building if you wanted to.......then the power went out, all night long.” Joey stated.

 

It was exactly what happened, except he wasn't there was Wheeler. “So, you're trying to convince me that I'm dating you??”

 

“Yeah, we are.......we've been for 6 months, now.” Joey said. Kaiba just laughed coldly and began to walk away. “You can even ask my father. You came over and ate dinner with us, to get his approval!”

 

“His approval?? You're Dad's a drunk!” Kaiba stated, looking back over at Joey.

 

“My Dad's not a drunk.......you take that back!” Joey demanded.

 

“Mutt........you're Dad's in jail almost everyday, which is shown in his police report. He has a folder that's thicker than my briefcase on the amount of times he's been in jail!” Kaiba snapped.

 

“You know......I think you're the one that's nuts. Maybe you should go and look up that police report again, cuz you got the wrong person. My Dad almost never drinks and when he does he doesn't get plastered, or cause problems. I'm outta here......” Joey said, going the opposite direction.

 

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Kaiba told the school he had to leave early due to an emergency business problem, having enough confusion for one day. He gave them the rest of his two-days worth of homework so he wouldn't need to hand it to them later, and left.

 

It wasn't long before he made it to work and looked up Joey's father's police report. He was shocked to find the Mutt was right.......there was only one thing on his file, on a very old domestic violence charge a good 10 years ago. There was absolutely nothing on drunken and disorderly.

 

Kaiba put his hand to his head, getting a terrible headache, thinking, `What the hell is going on? I know what I saw! This can't be!' This was no longer seen as some prank by the group.....no way were they capable of doing this. Even Kaiba was now beginning to question his sanity. He was going to meetings he had already gone to, people saying exactly the same thing they had said when he was at the meeting before. It was as if he had walked into some kind of re-run, which was really freaking him out. He had physical notes showing what happened at his meetings and schedules that didn't even happen yet. Yet, any information that was not physically connected to him was not there. He had punched in things on his computer to the computer mainframe at work and none of that information was there, anymore.

 

Finally having enough of this madness, he left and hastily headed home. At least home, he could find some sanity. At home........Mokuba was there, Mokuba would help him. His little brother was his strength when he needed it.......and he needed him now more than ever. Everything he ever did was for his kid brother......he knew Mokuba could help him, whatever the problem might be.

 

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Kaiba left the car, practically dragging himself to the front door and entered. He stopped at the coat hanger, took off his dark blue trench coat and headed up the stairs, only to stop in his tracks with Joey standing at the top. “It's about time you showed up.” he said.

 

His eye twitched seeing his worst nightmare now in his house. “What.......the hell are you doing here?” he asked with a controlled rage that was quickly building.

 

“I came to visit, like I always do. You were acting crazy today and I came to check and make sure you're okay. Listen.....I know for some reason you hate me now and don't remember us being together since day 1. So, if you wanna hit me and that'll make you feel better, than fine. But I still need to know that you're okay.” Joey said.

 

“Glad that you offered.” he grinned coldly and approached to Joey's surprise and fear, prepared to take Joey's offer and beat him to a pulp, until he's relaxed once again.