Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Stitches ❯ Stitches ( Chapter 1 )

A/N: I really didn't plan on posting this chapter so soon, but when I got four reviews for the first chapter, I was inspired. Let that be a lesson to all who read this, the more review I get, the more often I'll update!

 

This chapter will introduce Kaiba to the story, as well as the rest of Jou's friends. I have a hard time writing Kaiba, so if he starts getting OOC, then let me know. How can I keep him in character if no one tells me that he's not acting like himself?

 

Important information:

 

`Thoughts'

:::Scene change:::

 

 

Chapter One:Stitches

 

“Have you been fighting again?”

 

Anzu was the first to notice Jounouchi's battered appearance. He had hardly made it off Honda's bike when the girl cornered him for questioning, the rest of the group wasn't far behind.

 

“What on earth would give you that idea?” Jou decided that the “dumb and innocent” act was the best way to handle the situation. After all, it had never let him down before.

 

“Jounouchi Katsuya, you should know better than to be picking fights with people. Especially people who are bigger and stronger than you.”

 

Some days, Jou really wanted to throw a shoe at Anzu. Don't ask why he wanted to throw a shoe at her, that was just the object he had decided on a long time ago.

 

“What makes you think I started the fight! That senior was just begging to be punched!” Jou yelled, daring daggers at the girl.

 

Honda put an arm around Jou's shoulders, “Yeah, and who says the guy was bigger and stronger and Jou. I bet my bud kicked his ass into next week!”

 

Jounouchi tried not to laugh at his friends. It was so easy to make them see only what they wanted to see…only what they had been trained to see. And people called him the dog! He had his friends so trained that he sometimes worried about them.

 

“Jounouchi-kun, you really shouldn't be fighting with people. You know it makes us worry about you.” Yugi said, interrupting the glaring battle going on between Anzu and Honda.

 

The blond sighed, trying not to imagine what the shorter teen would do if he ever found out the truth about Jounouchi's supposed “fights”.

 

“I know Yug, and I really do try. But I…He…” Jounouchi cut off here for a second, sighing dramatically, “I'll try not to fight anymore, but I ain't promising nothing.”

 

Yugi smiled up at his friend as they made their way to class. Jou looked away quickly, it never ceased to amaze him that Yugi's happiness could hurt the blond so much. He wished that he was the kind of person who could take comfort in his friends' happiness, but every time Yugi smiled at Jou, all the blond could do was wish that his own smiles were real.

 

:::In Class:::

 

`I don't know why I bother, even when I manage to get to school on time, I'm still late for class.' Jou thought as he stopped outside his classroom door. It wasn't like it was his fault he was late either. Blame his bladder for bad timing.

 

“It's really not that complicated, Mutt. Turn the doorknob and pull.”

 

`I hate Kaiba.' “I know how to open a door, Moneybags,” Jounouchi growled, turning around to meet the cold cerulean eyes of Kaiba Seto.

 

“Really? Then do it or get out of my way,” The brunette snapped.

 

Just as a Jou was about to open the door, a thought occurred to him. “What are doing here late anyway, you've never been late before?”

 

Instead of answering, Kaiba roughly pushed Jounouchi aside, causing the blond's back to collide with a locker, and walked calmly into class. Jou stood tall until the door closed behind the billionaire, before falling to his knees in pain.

 

He hadn't hit the lockers that hard, but the angle had managed to pull open one of the cuts on his back. Jou could feel that it was bleeding again, but he knew the bandage over the cut would keep the blood from showing through and staining his uniform. When the pain had subsided into a dull throbbing, Jou stood up and walked into class.

 

Just as the blond sat down, a small folded paper landed on his desk. Honda, who sat in front of Jou, had dropped the note over his shoulder. The blond picked it up and read it, Where'd you disappear to?

 

Picking up his pencil, Jou answered, Bladder needed to be relived, then had a run-in with Mr. High-and-mighty-see-how-far-this-stick-can-fit-up-my-ass.

 

Honda took the note, read it, and scribbled something else.

 

Want me to pound him into the ground for you?

 

Jounouchi answered that with a small drawing of a too-skinny Kaiba with a large stick properly placed and a too-muscular Honda sticking another stick up Kaiba's nose.

 

Love it. Was the brunette's reply. Jounouchi was just about to put the note away when a thought struck him,

 

Meet me after class in the usual spot

 

At this Honda glanced back worriedly at his friend and mouthed, `You okay?' Jounouchi gave a thumbs up and a smile that Honda could see through in a second.

 

By the time class had ended and Jou had made his way to the roof, the blond was slightly worried. It felt like his cut was still oozing blood, which was definitely not a good sign.

 

“What happened?” Honda asked the minute he had stepped onto the roof.

 

“Kaiba. He shoved me a little and I twisted wrong or something, because one of my cuts opened back up.”

 

Honda stepped to the blonds side immediately, and waited with as much patience as he could for Jounouchi to pull his shirt off. What he saw when the bandage was pulled away from the wound made him wince, and he had to push down the sudden surge of hate that went through his body.

 

The cut on Jou's back was deep, deeper than he had thought last night. It was also starting to look infected, and Honda hadn't brought the first-aid kit with him.

 

“I think you might need stitches, Jou,” whispered the brunette.

 

Jounouchi sighed, “You think you can manage them?”

 

Honda grimaced, remembering the last time he had attempted to stitch the blond up. “I'll try. I'm gonna sneak into the nurse's office and grab a first-aid kit, I'll try and find some numbing stuff too. I'll be back in a minute.”

 

With that the taller teen left, leaving Jounouchi to worry over the stitches. He remembered all too well how painful the last attempt had been. The blond silently prayed that Honda could find something to dull the pain.

 

After about ten minutes the door to the roof opened again and Jou looked over his shoulder, “Did you get the…”

 

His sentence was cut off when his gaze landed on the form of Kaiba Seto.

 

:::End Chapter:::

 

A/N: Well, watcha think? Let me know your thoughts and ideas…and if you like this one, then go check out my other fic Meeting. It's about how Jou met Honda. Yay!