Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ The School-Theater ❯ A dog and his owner ( Chapter 7 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

Title: School Theater 6

Pairing: Y/YY, R/B, M/M, K/J

Summary: It is now only one day after Ryou and Yugis decision to do something against Anzu and her casing after Yami and Bakura.
Someone asked for a whole chapter for Joey and Kaiba. Now, this is not only about the two of them, but mostly!
So don’t hesitate to ask if you have a special wish, just ask and I will see what I can do about it. Sometimes I get ideas from your reviews and I can try to consider them…
And sorry for the long wait, but I was somewhat busy with other stories…

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A dog and his owner:
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The story so far (since it is a while since I updated this, sorry):
Yugi, Malik and Ryou have detention for their escapades one week ago, ('I hate Mondays') and their Yamis, along with Kaiba and Joey were also dragged into it.
A new teacher wants them to play Romeo (Yami) and Juliet (Bakura), or the Hikaris will have detention a lot longer then just until a school-festival.
But nobody liked her ideas for dressing them, and so she is not really okay anymore after the Yamis had a little talk with her.
And to make it worse, Anzu is messing with Yugi and Ryou, since she is hitting on their lovers, claiming that they love her…
(Yeah, right, like plague and cholera *g*)
And now on with it:
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The next day, Yugi and Ryou went to school like nothing had happen the former day, as if Anzu never tried to make Bakura and Yami fall for her, (As if that would ever happen!), as if they never wished to drown her in boiling oil and hang her in a lion pit. (Poor lions….)

But for the moment they didn’t let anything out about their plans, and of course they never told their Yamis anything about it! That they saw her tormenting their poor lovers in the hall, or about the fact that they have enough from her and that they were currently plotting her destruction.
That shall be a surprise for their poor, suffering Yamis, to comfort them a little in this dark time and also as a reward for saving them from the evil teacher and her nasty plans...
And beside that, nobody would even believe that they could ever plot something as mean like that all alone without and any help from the Yamis. Everyone would think that their Yamis could do something like that, or maybe Malik…
But never the two sweet, innocent, kind, harmless Hikaris…
But at last, Anzu will learn that little fact soon…

Both of them stood together in the hall and were chattering happily, while they were searching in their lockers for the books and notes they need for their first class.
Every now and then, they glanced around to see if someone was maybe eavesdropping on them before they went back to plotting Anzus slow and painful death.
Joey shuddered as he passed them and they didn’t even notice him. He could clearly remember the weird looks they shared just the day before, and he just had the feeling that something wasn’t quite all right with that picture.
But then he got distracted as he could feel cold eyes in his back, and for a moment he couldn’t move as he had a funny feeling in his gut about who it was.

And really, as he turned around there was a familiar figure standing at the other side of the hall, watching every move the blond made.
Kaiba just leaned at the wall as blue eyes meet with honey-brown ones, and for a long moment everything around them seems to stop.
The noises disappeared, the students disappeared, and nothing else mattered except the person standing there on the other side of that crowed hall…

Joey didn’t show it, but the longer the moment went on, the more nervous he got, and he could feel himself blushing brighter and brighter.
And he couldn’t even figure out why Kaiba was starring at him like that, or why he could feel his cheeks heat up without a reason.
Did he do something he wasn’t aware of?

But suddenly the invisible spell was broken, the noises came back and the world begun to spin again.
Kaiba twisted his face suddenly and bared his white teeth.
Joey just blinked irritated; what the hell was now? Joey didn’t even think that maybe Kaiba wasn’t growling and snarling at him, but was actually smiling!
Bu this expression was that new and odd for the brunet, Joey didn’t even recognize it!

"What the hell are you looking at, moneybags!? Do you need a picture, or what? It lasts longer!!!!"
It wasn’t easy for Joey to keep himself from jumping up and down like mad and shaking his fists at the other teen like a crazy monkey.
Kaiba just grinned at him without saying anything, and then just went satisfied for his first class.
Joey was left behind alone and with the feeling that he did, yet again, exactly what Kaiba wanted him to do. Even when he really didn’t understand what that was.
He just stood there in the hall and scratched his head clueless.
At last until he noticed that the others students around him were watching him as if he was somewhat insane or something:
"What? Have you never seen me before, or what the hell is your damn problem!?"

Quickly, they turned back to what they did before, but they watched him from the corner of their eyes as if they were afraid that he is dangerous and would bite them any moment!
"Idiots, every one of you! Who do you think I am, I'm not Marik, even if we have both the same hair color! I should just kick your ass, and get it over with!
He always causes trouble, but I will get back at him for that… One day I will get back at him, just wait...!!!"

Joey wasn’t even aware of is as the others not only starred at him, but avoided to come anywhere hear him, as he stormed angrily grumbling to his class. He sat heavily down in his chair and hit his head on the table in frustration.
Today was just not his day!
Damn it!
At first he wasn’t able to sleep for half of the night, he couldn’t forget about the weird behavior of the two pure hearted Hikaris, the strange glances they shared, and that nobody but him seems to notice anything!
He just couldn’t get rid of the feeling that something wasn’t all right, and normally that means that there was danger lurking around the corner, and that there was no longer time for school and learning. (Not that this was a bad thing, except from the dangerous part, of course.)

For the rest of the night he was finally able fall asleep, just to have a dream about that bastard Kaiba, who had put him in that damn dog-suit, may they both go to hell!
And that wasn’t enough, on no, Kaiba came to him with a smug grin and chained him to a doghouse before his mansion!
Joey was just glad that his alarm went off just before he was supposed to bring Kaiba the newspaper and his slippers to his bed and do tricks for him!
But sadly, the sudden noise was also the reason that Joey fell off his bed and hit his head hard on the ground.
With a lot of swearing and cursing, the thing flew out of the window, and Joey scrambled back in his bed to take a quick nap.
And that was the reason why he hadn't any time for breakfast, but had to run to school.

And as he arrived there, he had to learn that this traitor of an alarm was going wrong, and that he was just in time. In fact, he had more then enough time to take a breath and get worked up about the fact that he didn’t eat any breakfast.
Still grumbling about the unfairness of live in general, he shoved his way through the mass of students just to get a glimpse of Yugi and Ryou whispering with each other again in a corner.
Malik was nowhere to see, and that could only mean one of two things:
He is either making out with Marik, or two: they are causing havoc and planning destruction.
But Joey didn’t want to know, whatever it was in that case.

And as if that wasn’t already enough to ruin his day, Kaiba just has to come in and glare at him without any reason! Joey hadn't even looked at him, much less said anything!
'He can't know anything about my dream, can eh?' Joey shook his head
'Of course he can't, maybe he can do a lot, but surely he can't read my mind.
I think.
I hope.
Right?!'

Then he felt that prickling again and turned around.
And who was standing behind him and glared at him?
Again?
Kaiba of course!

"What's wrong with you, don’t you have anything better to do? Scaring some of your employers, or loosing a game to little Yugi and his shadow…?"
Kaiba didn’t say anything and just starred at him as if he didn’t hear anything. But since Joey turned so quickly around, he couldn’t see the small grin on the CEO's face.
The bell rang.
The teacher yelled.
Kaiba grinned.
And Joey nearly wept as their history teacher told them that they have to work in groups and just answer the questions on the board today.
And just because he was too lazy to talk the whole lesson long and wanted them all just to shut up and work on their own!
And with his luck today, Joey shouldn’t have been that surprised as he got paired up with no other then Kaiba!

"I hate this day, I hate this day a lot, I want to go home and take a nap. This is so mean, everyone is mean…" Joey murmured to himself and buried his face in his hands on the table.
"What's wrong, puppy? No sleeping, work! Chop-chop!"
For a moment Joey could feel something like a hand brush softly over his hair, but as he looked up it was gone and he stared into cold blue eyes.

"What? The teacher said we have to work together, so don’t be so surprised that I'm here, mutt!" Kaiba scowled as he sat down beside the blond, and Joey let his head fall back down on the table again. All he could think was why the whole world seems to hate him today.
Was there some cosmic law he didn’t know about. Had he unknowingly broken this law, and this was now the punishment?
What crime could be so bad to deserve this hell?

Kaiba didn’t say anything and just grinned at his blond puppy.
"Why me, why me of all people?" Joey still ignored everything and everyone around him, but then he registered what exactly Kaiba called him:"Hey! I'm not a dog! Don’t call me that, moneybags!"

"Joey Wheeler! Is there a problem?" The teacher asked him as Joey leaped up so he could stand over the young CEO and glare down at him. Like always, Kaiba remained calm and cool as he answered for a fuming Joey.

"No, Sir, everything is all right." And he pulled him back on his seat:"What the hell is wrong with you? Do you need to go outside, visiting a tree, or why are you so jumpy today?"
Joey starred at him and wondered if he really should say something as he saw Kaiba baring his teeth again. Joey just blinked at him then, and asks himself again why Kaiba would always show his teeth and stare at him…

Why is he even doing that? 'And then he calls me a dog!' he pouted, but otherwise kept quiet. One of those days he will find a way to get back at the brunet…

He saw from the corner of his eyes that Kaiba was also watching him while they were working on the boring questions, and every time he caught him starring, Kaiba bared his teeth. And every time Joey saw that, he shuddered and looked back down in his book.

Joey nearly fell off his chair as Kaibas hand suddenly stroked over his, but the other just looked at him and shook his head:"What? I just want to show you what you have to read." And he pointed again at a certain paragraph in the book, near Joey's hand.
"Oh. Oh, yes, of course, you just startled me for a moment, that’s all…" Joey stuttered and sat back properly.
"Why? What did you think that I'm going to do? Or do you want me to do something?"
"No! Of course not! Who do you think you are, you…"
"Then shut up, sit down and concentrate! You can flirt with me later, as long and much as you want!"
"I don’t flirt with you, I never have and never will, who would even what that! Damn it! Just leave me alone, don’t talk with me, and…"

Never before in his whole live was Joey that glad about the end of an hour and the ring of the bell as today. As soon as the bell rang, Joey grabbed all his stuff and was out of the door before Kaiba could even do so much as closing his book.

Kaiba just sat back and watched his puppy vanishing out of the room. But there was no need to worry, he knew exactly where he could find him in his breaks, it was quite easy to track him down and follow him through school. The fact that they shared most of their classes, along with the other, was also quite helpful in that matter.

But sadly he noticed another problem: Every time Joey spotted him, he either runs away or pick up a fight, even before Kaiba was able to say something to him!
All it took was one look from the brunet, and the other acted as if he was going to be eaten raw!
But Kaiba had no intention to eat his little puppy, at last not in that way…

Kaiba shook his head as he frowned at the blond hair before him, instead of paying attention to those boring math lessons.
The whole time, since the beginning of class, Joey couldn’t sit still, he squirmed around and from time to time he turned around and glared angrily at Kaiba, who never did anything but look at him.

Joey couldn’t understand what the hell is going on around him: Kaiba keeps staring at him without saying a word to him, and just bared his teeth every now and then. Whenever he turned around, Kaiba was just a few steps behind him, silent and tall, following him like a shadow. (Or a Yami ^____^)
And to top it all, he couldn’t even get a hold on Yugi and Ryou, who were always whispering alone, and he didn’t even want to know where Malik was.
That meant, Joey was on his own with his blue-eyed shadow.

As the one-hour- break at noon came around, Joey plopped down in the school-garden under one of the big trees where the whole group often spent their breaks in peace, at last until Anzu would come alone and bother Yami with her ugly smelling lunch-boxes she keeps throwing at Yami.
Who threw them right back at her.

Joey was hungry, irritated, annoyed and hungry, and all he wants for the moment was eating in peace!
(I know that I wrote hungry twice, that is on purpose. Joey just likes eating.)
His quest for his friends had been in vain, but maybe it was better that he didn’t find them.
But the good thing was, he had also lost Kaiba somewhere on his way, and now he could eat in peace.
He also saw Ryou and Yugi a few times, always with their heads together and whispering about mysterious and unknown things.
Strange; now that he had time to think about it, he hadn't seen Yami or Bakura around today. But maybe they were just taking a little nap while their Hikaris had to suffer in school.

And Malik and Marik were probably plotting an attack at the chemistry-lab, the cafeteria or the teachers' room.
Again.
Anzu was somewhere around to spread friendship, or in other words: She proved yet again how annoying a single human being could be.
(If she is a human being! That’s not confirmed so far!)

Joey enjoyed the quiet, but to his annoyance it didn’t last for long:
"Hello, puppy! You are not running away from me, are you?"
"Kaiba!"
"That’s my name, yes. Nice to know that you remember it."
"How could I ever forget you!?" Joey muttered while he blushed a little, but he tried to hide it by looking away. But of course that wasn’t enough, Kaiba noticed it anyway and he grinned smugly.
"Thank you, puppy!" He smirked as he sat down on the ground beside the blond who glared again at him:
"That wasn’t a compliment!"
"It sounded different!"
"Then clean your ears, because I sure as hell didn’t mean it as a compliment!!!"
"Ouch, that hurts! Just there, right in the middle of my hearth!"

He took Joeys hand in his and laid it right over his hearth.
Joey hadn't expected that move and so he just blinked unbelievingly. He could clearly feel the strong, steady beating under his palm, and the heath from the skin hidden under the thin white shirt.
But then Joey blinked his sudden dizziness away and pulled his hand away quickly with a growl: "Well, this is unexpected! It seems that you really have a hearth, after all! I nearly can't believe it…"

Joey starred at Kaiba, waiting for his usual mean comment, and like so many times before, Kaiba didn’t disappoint him:
"You know that everyone has a hearth, right? Because you can't life without one! We already learnt that in school, even a mutt like you should know that!? But then again, you were probably asleep then, like so many times before!"
"Maybe, but I wouldn’t be surprised if you were an exception, they way you always act!" Snapped Joey while he shoved the last bits of his lunch in his mouth and stood up to leave.

Kaiba just grinned up to him as Joey glanced at him in irritation.
"What's wrong, puppy, are you running away from me again?"
"Why the hell should I do that, you moron? Just leave me alone, what is wrong with you today? Do you take some weird pills or are you a clone, or what? Or are Malik and Marik playing around with the millennium-rod again!?"
All Joey wanted to do at the moment was storming back into the school and maybe finding his friends. He really didn’t want to be alone with Kaiba since he was acting so strange today, always showing his teeth like a growling dog.
He didn’t really believe that something was wrong with Kaiba, but since he was following him the whole day…
But then again, a little voice in his head suspected that Kaiba did this just to get under his skin and bother him, and Joey really had more important things to do then fighting with that blue-eyed devil!

Something was off with Ryou and Yugi, and Joey would rather deal with that then with Kaiba and his sudden creepiness.
Said CEO was still sitting under the tree and watched Joey standing up.

"Ouch, my poor little puppy, doesn't even believe that I, too, have a hearth. That really hurt me, really!" Kaiba mocked him, and like he intended, Joey really stopped and turned back around. The blonde came the few steps back and glared down at Kaiba: "I'm not a dog, let alone yours!" He growled, and like so many times before he didn’t notice that he did exactly what Kaiba want him to do:

"And whose are you then? Well, doesn’t matter, its not important. I will train you…"
"Don’t hold your breath! You can do a headstand and waggle with your ears, for all I care! I will never, ever, not in hundred-thousand years, do anything you want me to!"

Kaiba just waved calmly with his hand and grinned up at the fuming blond without caring much about his yelling:
"Bark as much as you want, puppy, I doesn’t mind it! Makes it more interesting anyway. And you know how the saying goes: Barking dogs don’t bite!"

"Oh yes? You better not count on it, or you can quickly loose a few fingers!"
"Then I will have to get you a muzzle!"
"That wouldn’t stop me from kicking your ass, you rich bastard! I'm not a dog, and if you think I would ever do tricks or bring you your newspaper to your bed, then you are even more insane than Bakura, Malik and Marik together!"
And with that he turned around and finally just stormed away from here, without waiting for an answer. And this time he wouldn’t come back, no matter what Kaiba said to him!
Kaiba still sat there and watched as the other vanished into the school building.
If Joey had turned around a last time, he would have seen the brunet's pleased smirk.

But Joey didn’t turn around, and so he couldn’t see it.
But he saw something else, namely Yugi and Ryou, who were, for a change, not eating somewhere with their Yamis, or 'getting eaten' by them, as normally in their breaks if no one interrupted them.
To be exactly, neither Yami nor Bakura were anywhere in sight, and Joey had an odd feeling about it as he went over to the Hikaris, who were looking a little startled up at him:

"Äh, Hi Joey, everything alright?" laughed Ryou nervous and Yugi looked equally caught:"Hello, I didn’t see you coming, how long are you standing there?!"

"Not long…" Joey said hesitating, uncertain. What was wrong with them? "Something wrong?"
"No, everything is alright!"
"Why do you ask?!"
Both of them were a little too fast with their answers, and Joey looked around:"Hey, guys, where are your Yamis, anyway? They aren't up to something? Because normally they show up at last for lunch!"

"Oh right, they were here not long ago, but then they heard Anzus shrill voice calling for them and they fled."
Both Hikaris shared amused grins:"You really should have seen their faces!"
"As if the devil himself was after them!"
"Well, it was Anzu, after all. A devil can't be that much worse then her."

Both Lights giggled at the memory and Joey shook his head: Anzu was really playing with her life if she kept on chasing after the two Yamis. If you ask him, it was just a matter of time before she will keep that brainless teacher company…

The three of them then spent the rest of the break together, and luckily nothing bad happened:
Malik and Marik didn’t show up, and it was uncertain if they were in school at all.
Anzu was persistently searching for Yami and Bakura, who refused equally persistent to come out of the safety of their soul rooms.
Said Yamis even told their Hikaris that they refused to come out of there until it was time for the rehearsal. Because they had a short encounter with Anzu a little earlier, and she chased them through half of the school before they retired back into the golden items and the closeness of their Hikaris light.

And for Kaiba: After a while Joey noticed, as he looked up briefly from his conversation, that he was leaning against the wall, blue eyes never leaving 'his' puppy.
Joey did his best to ignore his stares, but he could clearly feel the others cold eyes in his back until he had enough and snapped.
With a growl Joey stood up, muttered a quick "I have to go." and stormed, shortly before the break was over, out of the cafeteria.
Yugi and Ryou watched with interest that Kaiba followed their friend high on his heels, his face never betraying his thoughts.

Apart from that the rest of the day passed by peacefully, if you don’t count Anzu and her terrorism. She snarled at everyone who made the mistake to cross her way, because she couldn’t find her victims, ähm, her future 'boyfriends'! She even saw them briefly in the hall, just this morning!
She even had called after them, but they never turned around to her! As if they couldn’t hear her, but if it's impossible! They should recognize her sweet voice everywhere, and surly they would come to her as soon as they lay eyes on her! But they were sure as hell not supposed to run away from her! She really need to do something against their shyness, it's cute, but bothersome.
And than Yugi came along and told her that the rehearsal today is called off, for whatever reason! She didn’t really care that much, that way at last she had the afternoon free to seduce Yami and Bakura…

But for now she stuck in school and was all alone for the long break, much to her annoyance! And she could have used that hour for so much better things, if only Yami and Bakura were here with her!
But there will be more than enough time for that later, she said to herself as some sort of comfort. Despite that she watched Yugi and Ryou closely, just in case their Yamis showed up to meet them. She was suspecting that Ryou and Yugi had something to do with the fact that their Yamis refused to spent time with her, but sadly she didn’t have any prove for it!
But much to her surprise, Joey was the only one who joined them for lunch, and so she left in a huff and empty-handed.

At the end of the lunch break she still couldn’t find a trace of the two Yamis, who never came along to carry her of for a date.
Kaiba on the other side had more luck with the hunt for his puppy; since he was still, much to the blonde's annoyance, always only a few steps behind him.
And since both of them were in the same classes, Joey couldn’t even say something because of it, even if he wanted to.
Not that Kaiba minded it much when Joey blushed and got flustered; he just bared his teeth and kept silent.
And Joey was agitated and confused…

Malik on the other hand hadn't as much luck as Kaiba this afternoon.
The principal called for him, just one hour before he was supposed to meet the others for their rehearsal. Originally he had hoped they would get away with their little prank the day before, since until now none of the teachers said anything about it. But it seems their deed was too noticeable to just forget about it, even if the girls calmed down since Anzu was the only one who was affected. And no one ever protested when something happened to her…

Slowly Malik walked through the hall to the office as his insane half suddenly showed up and hugged his Hikari affectionately. He looked left and right to the empty halls and leered happily down at the shorter one in his arms:
"What's the matter, Hikari-Pretty? Are you so lonely that you skip class just to meet me for a bit?
Now is not a break and school isn't over yet, but it we can still have some fun, my sweet light. You know, it never bothers me if we are still in school… my adorable kitty…" Marik whispered seductively into Maliks ear and enjoyed the shiver running down his spine, but then Malik shook his head:
"Not now, Marik! I have to go to the principal, and he wants me to be there right on time.
I think we have a little trouble because of yesterday, and I don’t want to piss him off even more with not showing up at all. I told you, it is too noticeable if we blow up a toilet, and then even laugh at her! It was obvious that someone will know who it was us! Hell, those witches had known it the moment we ran out of the room, that’s why they were after us with brooms!"

"Yeah, but you didn’t do anything to stop me. And I did it all alone anyway, you just watched me! That doesn’t even count as helping!"
"Yes, but he can't expel you from school! But they can expel me, and you can bet the Millennium-Rod on it that Ishizu will be not very happy about it! More like, she will chase us to hell and back with her heaviest frying pan. And you know that she has a very good aim, and she strikes hard…"
"Don’t worry, I'm with you, so nothing can happen. You can count on me; I will never leave you alone…"

'Is that a promise or a threat?' Malik thought sarcastically. He considered if it was better to send his Yami away for the moment, before he made everything worse, but it was already too late.
They stood before the (by now) well acquainted door of the office to hell.

Marik hugged his Hikari reassuringly to wish him luck and make him feel better.
At last, that was what Marik told him, but Malik couldn’t quite believe his selfless intentions.
Maybe it was because of the hand, which was thoroughly stroking and kneading his ass, together with the content purr beside his ear…

The dark ignored Maliks cold glance and just talked on:
"Don’t worry, I will protect you and I swear I will bite and scratch and kick everyone who wants to hurt you! Trust your Yami, and nothing will ever happen to you!"

And with that he shoved his skeptically Hikari inside (with his hand still on his ass, of course), without giving him any more time to protest:

//Just leave it to me, I know what I do, Hikari-Pretty! //
/Okay, now that was really a threat! /
//But Malik…// He pouted sadly at that rude comment //I just want your very best, and you know that! I will not let him expel you from this school! And I already have a foolproof plan to make sure of that! //
/You can't send him to the shadow realm! /
//Damn it! Well, then plan B. //

But before he had a chance to ask what exactly plan B was, Marik pointed before them, where the principal was already ranting about school property and its destruction by hyperactive students and their crazy experiments.
Marik sat all nice and good on his chair beside his Light, as if he could never do anything wrong, and Malik couldn’t help but wonder what the other was thinking.
Surely nothing good, like most of the time when Marik paid his full attention to anything without getting side tracked by the smallest things…

The principal sat on his chair behind his big table and Malik sat before him and looked like he was paying attention without actually listening to him.
The words went in by one ear and out by the other without a break.
It didn’t matter anyway to him; if he really got expelled, he would hear more of it from his sister, later when he got home. Maybe he should leave the country, but it is very likely hat she would hunt them down anyway…
Then again, it was just for a good cause.
And torturing Anzu clearly belonged to that category!
Maybe they had still a chance to get away alive…

And Marik?
He was just starring intently at a heap of paper, which was lying innocently on the table before them, and he leant more and more forward the more he starred. He barely even blinked as he watched the paper, for whatever reason.

Malik plain ignored him in hope it would pass quickly.
The director on the other hand, wasn’t used to such odd behavior, and lost his train of thoughts for a moment.
The Yami just sat there, by now on the edge of his chair, and frowned with big, shiny eyes at the unmoving paper heap.
After a while he reached with a trembling hand slowly out for it.
He ignored the coughing of the man behind his desk and the warningly looks his Hikari gave him, and spied carefully under the papers.

But suddenly he threw the papers in the air, jumped up from his seat and yelled: "A rat!"
He pointed wildly at the stack of paper and yelled again, just in case they didn’t hear him properly.
Marik kicked his chair away and it shattered at the wall, and he shouted again: "Rat! Rat! Rat! Everywhere! Rat!"
For a moment he starred with wide, shocked eyes at the floor to his feet, everyone was watching him curios.
For a moment no one said something, and Marik stood there, trembling and panting with wide eyes.
Until he suddenly jumped up and down, as if he was tramping at something that crawled there.
He stomped and mashed something there that only he could see, crushing the rest of his chair by the way to even smaller pieces.

Before they could even react, the Yami already kneed on the table and was just a few inches away from a very shocked principal:"Rat! Rat! Rat! RAT!!!!" He yelled him as loud as he could in his face before Marik stood up and kicked the telephone from the table and against the wall.
It accompanied one very destroyed chair there, while the Yami still yelled "Rat!" as he bounced around and made a mess.
Pencils, stamps, papers and whatever still was on this desk flew through the air as Marik killed invisible rats.

The poor, nameless principal starred at him with big, forlorn eyes, while Malik ignored his insane Yami and just buried his head in his hands.
So much for helping, he should have known that it was a big mistake!
'Ishizu will be sooo happy. I wonder if she found her baseball bat again... Marik buried it somewhere in the garden the last time I saw it, but I doubt that it will stay there forever…'

A loud bang tore him away of his thoughts, just in time to see the monitor of the computer burst under the weight of a full-grown Yami and his madness.
"Rats! Everywhere rats! Big rats, small rats, white rats, brown rats! Rats, rats, rats, RATS!!!!" (I love Psycho-Marik)

Malik glanced at him with a sigh until he noticed the principal looking at him, searching for any kind of help. But what was he supposed to do, he didn’t know himself what was wrong with his darker half!

"OUT! I want you out, both of you, and now! Take that psycho and get lost! I don’t want the both of you see again anytime soon! Go back to your class, knock him down, take him to a doctor, give him pills, I REALLY DON’T CARE! But shut him up, or I do it for you!!!!"
The director himself began to yell by now; he stressed and had enough of that maniac thrashing his office, while he looked straight at Malik.
He brought him with him, so he had to take care of that case for the nut house!
His yelling got Mariks attention, and he turned, still standing on the table, around to the principal who instantly looked like mouse in front of a very hungry cat.
Marik grabbed the poor man by the collar and lifted him out of his chair to be face to face with him.

Malik grabbed his Darkness by the waistband of his pants and quickly dragged him down from the table and out of the door while the other man cowered behind his chair.
Because you can never know, maybe Malik isn't strong enough to hold this insane being back, and he would come after him and bite him.
Marik was struggling like mad, still yelling his "Rats, rats." all over again; it was a small wonder that on one had called a doctor for him.

As soon as the door closed behind them, Marik stopped struggling and yelling and turned back to normal.
Or what he called normal, at last.
Instead he hugged Malik and said then, quiet and calm as if he wasn’t panicking about invisible rat just a few moments ago:

"You see, Hikari-Pretty, I told you that nothing will happen to you! Your Yami will protect you and keep you save, and keep you warm, and the evil man can't hurt you!" the darker half nearly purred and kissed him lightly on his forehead before he dragged him happily away:"And now, because your Yami was all nice and fine and good he should get a little reward, don’t you think?"
"I knew it… And you call that nice? You nearly gave him a fucking hearth-attack!"
Malik mumbled, but he didn’t feel nearly as reluctantly as he sounded, as he decided to skip the rest of his class until the rehearsal to take care of his Yami…
After all, the principal himself told him that he didn’t care if he did it, as long as he could get Marik out of his office.
And Marik wasn’t in the office anymore.

The last hour (rehearsal):

Anzu really did believe Yugi as he told her that the rehearsal today would be canceled. After all, the short Hikari would never lie to her; he isn't even able to tell a lie without blushing to save his life! And Ryou also confirmed it, so there was no reason why she shouldn’t believe them.

And that was the reason why she was now happily skipping her way home instead of being still in school. For some unexplainable reasons she was under the impression that Yami and Bakura would wait for her at her home.
And that this was also the reason that they didn’t show up at school with their bothersome Hikaris all day.
'Who know what those midgets told them to keep them away from me! They hide from me for a whole day, just because they think the midgets are honest and innocent and all! But my Yami is smart, and my thief is clever, they will never believe the lies they tell about me! And now they are waiting at home for me to surprise me, since neither Yugi nor Ryou can get in! But Bakura can… I bet they will finally tell me how much they love me and that they want to spend the rest of their lives with me…'

But of course, the rehearsal wasn’t canceled!
Yugi and Ryou just found a way to get rid of her, because they still needed a little time before they could start their plans the next day.
And that way, they could maybe even start to work a little on the play without her getting in the way!
Well, originally they just planned that everyone reads his script, just to get a feeling for it, but sadly, it couldn’t be so easy with this group.

Kaiba and Joey were nowhere in sight, and Marik was all over his Hikari and refused to let go of him, for whatever reason. He said, to keep him save from the evil principal, but most possible it was just because he wanted to…

Yami and Bakura were bored, and so they decided tat they wanted to start with the fighting-scene between Tybalt and Mercutio, because they found it funny. Without the part with Ryou dieing, of course. Bakura would try to murder Yugi, and Yami, too, if they did that now, and the Hikaris decided they would leave that part out for the moment.
And the Yamis wanted to help their Hikaris to look as intimidating and dangerous as their Yamis themselves!

And because of that, Yugi and Ryou were now standing opposite of each other with plastic-epees in their hands, and were trying to glare as scary and threatening as possible.
But sadly, that wasn’t much.
Their glares didn’t have the desired effect, and that resulted in Malik and Marik standing at the side and laughing their asses off.

Yugi didn’t look anywhere near angry, but rather as if he was pouting cutely. Of course this could be also a way to win a fight: Just look all huggable and sweet as a little kitten until the opponent is unable to anything other then cuddling him and squealing like a fan girl.
But in this case, the puppy dog- eyes were useless.

And Ryou with his fluffy white hair just resembled a cotton ball, and was just as intimidating.

Yami and Bakura tried, and failed, to silence the two Egypt's with a death glare, but they just laughed even harder. Especially as the two sweet lights tried to growl at them to support their Yamis.

"You see, you see, that’s how you have to do it, you should try it like that!" Marik giggled and pointed at Bakura, whose hair seems to stick out even more then normally, and his dark eyes promised a painful, slow death for the tanned pair.
"Stop laughing about my Light, he is doing his best!" He snapped and stroked lovingly over Ryous soft hair, as if he's a small, cute, big-eyed pet.
"It really isn't his fault that he looks like a fluffy cloud!"
"Thanks, Bakura, that makes me feel better…," muttered the lighter half sarcastically.
Yugi, too, tried and failed to copy his Yamis expression, and with his little growl, Yami just had to think of Kuribo. But of course he couldn’t tell him that, and so he just gave him a little kiss on his hair.

"Wait, try it with this." And Bakura, with a wide, excited grin, gave Ryou a small knife instead of the plastic-thing
"In the movie they didn’t have that boring plastic-thingy's. The teachers are crazy if they believe that someone can look dangerous with that cheap crap! Don’t be sad, it's not your fault, Ryou."
And he also gabbled Yugis epee and threw them out of the window without a care if someone got hit…
But about the piercing shriek that followed he laughed anyway.
"Sounds like we hit a witch. Sadly it wasn’t our wrench, or she would be gone!"

Yami sneered disdainfully:
"That’s just like you, thief!" and he gave his own Hikari also a new weapon, before both Hikaris had to stand again opposite of each other with a 'dangerous' glare.
"Yami, I don’t think this is a good idea…" Yugi muttered and blinked sweetly up at the former pharaoh, who nodded after a moment.
But sadly, Yugis relief didn’t held for long as he gave his knife back to Yami. Because instead of the small one he now became a bigger knife with a shimmering blade.

Bakura just growled and also changed Ryous weapon, because he couldn’t stand the thought of Yugi having a more intimidating weapon then Ryou.
The knifes turned to short-swords, which turned to long-swords until Yugi and Ryou stood there with broadsword, the weapon nearly taller then the Lights themselves.

Both shared a helpless look before his Yami yet again took Ryous sword from him, who threw the thing carelessly in a corner to all the other weapons before.
As he stared at his hands, he found a small, surprisingly harmless looking gun in his shaking grip.
"And you think you are the only one who can do that, thief?" and Yugis sword also flew into the same corner as Yami gave him something new.
Yugi looked unsure from the thing to Yami, who stood behind him, and whose hands now rested on his shoulders.
The dark one smile reassuringly down at his innocent light.
"Ähmmmm… Yami, it isn't a real gun, right? Right???"

Ryou also watched his own Yami now skeptically, unsure. He thought the thief was capable of a lot, nearly everything.
Bakura just laughed and, yet again, was patting his head lovingly:
"Silly Hikari, what do you think I would give you? Just some stupid toy for little children? Now how can you look dangerous with a fake gun." and even Yami himself shook his head as if the answer should be obvious.
In their shook, the Hikaris let the guns fall down as if they got burned by them and made a few steps back.
They collided with the broad chests of their boyfriends who still stood right behind them.
"What?!" both of the Hikaris shouted at the same time unbelievingly.

Yami looked for a moment from one to the other and shook his head to Bakura:"They still don’t look very threateningly…"
And he grabbed into some sort of black dust or fog, which seems to be connected with the shadow realm, and took an even bigger gun out of it to put it into the hands of a startled, paling Yugi.
Bakura growled disapprovingly as he saw that, and upgraded his own Light, too.

"What's that supposed to mean, stupid tomb robber?" asked Yami with a mocking grin, and Bakura snapped just "And yourself?" back.
Yami and Bakura glared threateningly, challengingly at each other over the heads of their shorter Hikaris.
'Lets see whose Hikari manage it first to look scary' was the silent (and a little childish) challenge.

With a mean glint in his dark eyes, Bakura reached once more into the fog to get an even bigger weapon out for his little mirror image. Of cause Yami couldn’t just stand by and watch, and so Yugi also got a new weapon without ever asking for it.

"And you call that a decent gun?!" Yami mocked Bakura, and Ryou got a machine-gun, just before Yami gave Yugi an even bigger one.
Yugi and Ryou shared a helpless look, while Malik tried hard to keep his own Yami away from the growing pile of disregarded weapons.
It seems that Marik just couldn’t understand why he wasn’t allowed to play with the toys for a little!
Malik had his Marik in a strong grip around his waist and tried dragging him away from the corner. The Yami had happily sparkling eyes, was giggling like mad and he attempt to get to them with flapping and stretching his arms out as much as possible.
Apparently he was under the impression he could get them if could just stretch enough, even as Malik dug his feet into the ground:

"But Hikari-Pretty, they don’t need them anymore, and I really just want to take a look!"
But Malik held tightly onto him, clutched his hands in the others shirt and kept him away from 'trying them out', while Ryou and Yugi got more and more upgraded, the weapons getting bigger every time they get a new one.

"Marik, you will keep your hands away from them!"
"But…"
"No buts! No if! No ands! Touch them and you can sleep in the bathtub for the next hundred years!"
"With-"
"Alone!"
"What?! But that’s mean! And injustice! And did I say mean? And I just want to take a single, small little look! I will even promise you not to kill anyone we like!"
"No!"
"And what about if I don’t kill anyone we knew?!"
"No! Get it? NO!!!!" roared Malik angrily, while Yugi and Ryou, helpful as ever, held their current weapons out to the insane one…

"It's all right, really! You can have them! We don’t need them anyway, Marik." Yugi smiled cheerfully, but Malik growled and dragged a fiercely nodding Marik away. Said Dark became shimmering eyes as he saw them and was nearly drooling at the prospect getting new toys: "Yes, please, give, give, give, give!"

Joey and Kaiba choose this very moment to finally show up for detention after sharing pleasantries outside in the hall, things like moneybags, mutt, snoopy bastard or brainless barker. Since noon Kaiba didn’t let his puppy out if his sight for even a moment, and slowly but surely it really drove him up the wall...
Insulting and cursing they came through the door without a care that they were too late.
After all, there was no teacher to bother them, so who cares…

And then both stopped death in their tracks and became silent at the picture before them!

By now Marik gave up his hope to convince his Hikari to let him go and play with all the shiny weapons and they were yet again on the floor, rolling around and laughing.
Because, like so many times before, Yami and Bakura made a competition out of everything, and tired to make their own Hikaris looking dangerous and intimidating before the other could do the same.

And that was the reason why both Hikaris now stood in the room with an oversized rocket launcher on their small shoulders and mad Yamis yelling profanities at the opponent.
The poor lights were looking somewhat lost with wide shocked eyes under soft bangs, while their darker halves stood behind them with a satisfied grin, but at the same time glaring like mad at each other.

Joey could only blink from one to the other as first Ryou, and then Yugi, too, lost their balance under the heavy weight to fall backwards in slow-motion to land on their behind.

By now their weapons really were taller than the boys themselves and gravity kicked in.
Surprised and irritated Yami blinked down at his Aibou, who was now lying on the ground to his feet, but luckily he wasn’t hurt by the fall.
"What are you doing down there, Aibou?"
"I take a nap, what do you think!"
More irritated blinking from beautiful, red eyes:
"Shouldn’t we rehearse?" Bakura wondered, he also couldn’t understand why Ryou would topple over all of a sudden, and without any reason and just sitting there.

In the background, the two tanned, insane teen were howling in laughter, and Joey also started to chuckle as he helped the fallen lights back on their feet.

"Damn it, Bakura, that thing is fucking heavy!"
"Come on, its half as bad. You will get used to it after a while, I promise! And now be a good boy and growl from me. Or laugh really mean! But don’t swear, it doesn’t suit you at all, Hikari."
(He wants Ryou to be mean and laugh like insane, but he shouldn’t swear?…)

But sadly, the only one laughing louder and louder were Malik and Marik, so the other two Yamis stamped over to put a stop on it.
They snatched them harshly by their collars and were shaking them rather violently, and yelling at them how they will be going to die if they keep it up.

It was not very often that Yami and Bakura agreed with each other on anything at all, but this was one of those very rare occasions:
Sadly, it is a well-known fact that their Hikaris looked as threatening as little kittens begging for a cup of milk, but laughing about it was clearly not helping the matter!

(Believe me; I know exactly what I'm talking about! Even the meanest and evilest cat can be as adorable and sweet as a kitten if he wants something!)

Kaiba was calmly leaning against the wall beside the fighting spirits and watched with interest as Marik and Maliks tanned skin turned an interesting shade of blue due to the sudden lack of air.
Like always he had no intention whatsoever to help them, since it can turn out to be rather unhealthy to get between two angry, murderous Yamis and their troublemaking prey.
And he had really better things to do then to watch two Egypt's die, as amusing as it was…

Ryou and Yugi stood back and just warned their Yamis that murder is forbidden, especially if it's happening in school or where witnesses were around.
And it didn’t matter that they can easily get rid of the corpses by sending them to the shadow realm, together with said witnesses!
But other then that they were glad that their Yamis were busy for the moment and they could get a little break from the insanity they called 'help'.

They joined Joey on the other side of the room, as he was watching them worried.
"Joey, are you all right?" Yugi asked with big eyes as he noticed that his blond friend was watching Kaiba from the corner of his eyes.
Joey just nodded absently and turned around to him:
"Well, you know, I'm all right, but somehow I think there is something wrong with moneybags! He's acting weird all day, you know?!
I have never before seen him like this, and slowly I am more than just a little worried about him, you know? Not to mention the fact that he is creeping me out, it’s not even funny anymore!
He is baring his teeth and growls at me like a hungry dog or something.
He is watching he and he follows me wherever I go, that’s not normal! He even followed me into the bathroom!
I tell you, that’s not our Kaiba, it is a cannibal, or an alien that took him over, that’s controlling him or posing as him or something like that!!!! We have to do something, we must help him…"

But as soon as he noticed the CEO watching him, Joey shut his mouth and shuddered under the intense gaze witch was running up and down his body. Yugi smiled as the blond tried to hide behind Ryous back with a quiet whimper like a kicked puppy.
Big, honey colored eyes peeked fearfully over the mass of fluffy white hair before him.
Kaiba looked questioningly in their direction as he saw this reaction, and showed them his white teeth, making Joey yelp yet again: "There! See, he does it again, did you see it, tell me you saw that!!!
You saw that, too, I'm not seeing things, right, he really did it!?
He wants to eat us all, he will cook us and eat us, or he eats us raw, or he put us in a cake and bake us in his big stove, or he throws us on the barbeque and serves us with dressing, or he puts us into a burger!
Now don’t just stay there and look at me like that, help me, we have to do something, we have to stop his evil plans, we can't let him get away with it!!!!"

Yugi tried to calm him down a little and patted his shoulder; he spoke soothingly to him with a calm, peaceful voice:"Now, now, clam down; I'm sure it's not that bad. Maybe you just misunderstood something?!"
"Yeah, maybe is just flirting with you!"
"What? Yugi, that’s not funny, don’t even say that as a joke!"
"Come on, Joey, I bet he likes you, and this is just his way to show it!" Ryou agreed, too.
"Bullshit! He always fights with me, because I sure as hell don’t start it always, I just tell him that shall stop insulting me! I bet he just wants to bother me again, that’s all! Why else would he always call me mutt and dog and such all the time!? He is an arrogant bastard and a pain in the ass, and there is no way in hell that he is flirting with me! Not even he would call it that, that's just impossible!"
But neither Ryou nor Yugi accepted his objections and just ignored them.

"Well, maybe he insults you because then he always has your undivided attention? You just forget everyone else around and just looks at him, and you know that it's true!"
"Perhaps it will be easier if you just give in and finally admit that you like him?!"
"You know Kaiba is very persistent."
"And patient."
"Yeah, he is really patient."
"He will follow you a lot longer then you can run away from him."
"You should give yourself a start…"
"…and him a chance."
Both Hikaris persuaded him with a very innocent tone in their voices. An innocent tone that totally not matched the cheeky grins on their cute faces… Or the mischievous glint in their eyes…

Joey didn’t like the whole thing a bit, and he told them exactly that as he watched them as if they were insane all of a sudden.
'Maybe they shouldn’t stay so much around Marik… Maybe I should be careful before it caught me, too…'

Joey squirmed around nervously as he noticed Kaiba coming over to them. Ryou giggled as Joey muttered a quick:"I have to go… over there… to the others… where it's save…"
And he hurried over to the Yamis, just to avoid being anywhere near Kaiba, who bared his teeth again, earning another low yelp.

But Joey had a rather weird idea of a save place, if you take in account that Bakura was busy smashing Mariks head against the wall over and over again. The insane Yami just chuckled and emphasized how ' much that didn’t hurt him' and how weak Bakura is for not hurting him more!
(Fuel to the flames, really!)
Of course made the mocking Bakura even madder and he snarled angrily at the other.

Beside them, Yamis is kneeing at Maliks back and slammed his head against the floor. But other than his Darkness, Malik didn’t laugh at the pharaoh. He knew that Yami wasn’t like Bakura, who just punched harder when someone provoked him enough. Yami would simply mind-crush his victim and then sent it to the shadow realm. A fight with Yami could end a lot nastier than a fight with Bakura…

'Sure, really save, with those two…' Ryou thought in a little bout of sarcasm as he watched his darker half grin like a child under the Christmas tree…

"Say, is he all right? Because he runs away from me the whole day… And I didn’t do anything to him." Kaiba asked the saner Hikaris as they watched Joey as he tried to drag Bakura away from Marik, which proved to be in vain. Marik really should stop snickering and rill him up even more!

"Bakura, you can't strangle Marik."
"And why not? He deserves it for laughing at my poor Hikari!" The thief growled, and Yami even agreed. But then he paused for a moment and thought again about it:
"Joey is right!" Yami told them then, and Joey and Bakura starred perplexed at him:
"What?" They both said at the same time.
"Well, Joey is right! Strangling is too easy, and way too painless! We should do something even worse than that, something they will never forget! Nobody is allowed to laugh at Yugi, no matter how cute and harmless he looks even with those heavy weapons!"

Yugi, Ryou and Kaiba just shook their heads before they turned back to their former conversation as Ryou finally answered:
"Joey told us that you are acting weird since this morning, because you bare your teeth as if you want to eat him. Are you all right?"
"What?!! Is he crazy, or what the hell is wrong with that stupid moron!? You call that 'smiling', you should think he would recognize it! Silly, idiotic mutt!"

The Hikaris shared a hesitant glance:
"Well, you know, that’s not really a common expression for you…"
"Right, maybe he just need to get used to it? You should give him time."
"Fuck it; this was the last time that I ever listen to Mokuba!"
"Mokuba? You let Mokuba give you tips in romantic matters? Your little brother Mokuba?"
"No! Yes! No, I mean, it isn't like that, I never actually asked him on propose! He just knew it, I don’t know how or why! He's just good at figuring such things out on his own!"

"And he told you to smile?" Ryou asked curiously, and Kaiba nodded reluctantly, while his blonde puppy still ignored him.
"Well, as stubborn as he is, it would probably be better when I just hit him with a club over the head and drag him away on his hair, just like in the stone-age! I'm sure he would understand that better than kindness!" growled Kaiba, who got a little frustrated by now.
He couldn’t quiet understand the problem at all: He smiled, he was friendly to his puppy and he kept him company the whole day long!
So why was Joey still running away from him?
He should understand and come to him by now.

"And you better not do this again, or we really have to hurt you!" Bakura yelled at Marik as he and Yami let go of their poor victims to get back at their Hikaris side.

Ryou glanced briefly at Joey as he passed him by, and then gave him a good push in Kaibas direction as nobody was looking at him.
Joey lost his balance, just as planned, and the brunet caught him happily.
Joey turned bright red the moment he felt strong hands around his waist, and he struggled to get a safety distance between the both of them.
Kaiba on the other hand just grinned a little at the thrashing puppy and he tighten his grip on him even more. Now that he finally had him in his arms, he had no intention to let him go anytime soon.
Sadly Joey didn’t see it quite this way, even when he was unable to form coherent sentences at the moment. Just like a few times before when they were as near as now, his thoughts began to trip over themselves.

But Kaiba had no such problems as he used the others struggling to 'accidentally' stroke Joeys stomach as his shirt rode up a bit, before Joey could find a way to really get away from persistent hands.

"What the hell are you doing, you bastard? Keep your paws with you, or I will break them!" Joey yelled irritated at Kaiba, who glared mockingly back at him:"Don’t play stupid, mutt! I know that your tripping was on purpose!"
"Purpose my ass; you were the one tripping me in the first place!!! And don’t call me a dog!"
"Liar! You just don’t know another way to get near me! But don’t worry, it's all right, I'm not angry with you. But you don’t have to trip if you want me to pet you. You just have to say so."
"I will pet you, you idiot, just wait! I pet you so much; you will need a doctor when I'm finished with you! And now stop this nonsense, and quickly, or I will have to kick your ass!"
"Puppy, if you don’t stop barking at me now, I will have to go to the obedience school with you later! And I somehow doubt that you will like it there."

"Kaiba should be glad that Joey isn't really a dog, or he would have bitten him long ago! I would certainly bite him if I were his dog." Malik giggled gleefully after he recovered surprisingly fast after Yamis attack at his life.
"You would bite everyone!"
Now they all stood together side by side and were peacefully watching the 'show' Kaiba and Joey put on for them.
Marik was leaning against his light and chuckling into his hair while Bakura beside them just rolled with his eyes in annoyance:"We should lock them away together, maybe then they stop to beat around the bush and finally admit that they love each other." He muttered, and even Ryou nodded in agreement!
"I think they enjoy their little fights more then they would ever admit."
"For them this is the same as foreplay…" Marik said with a dirty grin.

By now Joey was waving around with his hands right before Kaibas eyes and was still throwing insults at the blue-eyed brunet. Until said brunet had enough of it and slapped the pointing hand away from his face:"You don’t point with your naked finger at dressed peoples! It is rude, don’t you have any manners?!"
"Then take your clothes off, if you don’t like it!" Joey yelled back, until he noticed what exactly he just had said to him!
And as he, sadly a little too late, noticed his mistake, he paled at first, and then he turned bright red the next moment, his mouth gaping like a fish out of the water.
And then he tried desperately to explain what he really had meant:

"No, I mean, it is not my fault that you wear clothes when I point at you! No wait, that’s not right, what I mean is, so, I want to say, I…"
But the more he said, the more he got tangled up in his own words and the others chuckled at his funny faces as he tried to explain just to make everything worse.
"I hate you all!"
Eventually Joey just pouted upset and turned around. "And I'm hungry, too, from all the commotion, and now I need something to eat!"

Marik and Malik laughed and made some… unmistakable… noises as Kaiba followed his puppy out of the room, who just sneered before the door finally closed behind him.
"Well, were did we stop before we were so rudely interrupted?" Yami asked as he turned back around to an equally grinning Bakura.
"What, do you have problems with your memory? You are getting old, pharaoh!"
"I give you old, you crazy kleptomaniac!"

Growling and glaring at each other they turned back to their Hikaris to work more on their 'dangerous looks' and arming them a little more.
But sadly, their innocent Hikaris were also gone. They used the distraction to sneak away as long as their darker halves were busy with their own little argument.
Ryou and Yugi were not really worried about leaving the four of them alone in a room, with so many weapons and so little patience, because luckily, none of them was easy to kill.
The worst was that one or more of them find themselves again in the shadow realm, and they could always get Ishizu to bring them back, since she also had one of the millennium-items…

"Hey, puppy, wait!" Kaiba called out as he followed the other one with long steps. Joey stopped immediately and turned around to glare at his blue-eyed shadow:"Don’t call me a dog, you bastard!"
"I call you a dog because that is exactly what you are!" Kaiba snapped and made a quick step forward.
And then another one, and another one.
Joey moved back at the same pace as Kaiba went forward until the blonde was trapped with his back against a wall.
For a moment Joey stopped insulting the other and just blinked back at the wall as if he never had seen one in his whole life.
How did the get here?

"What the…"
"That’s right, doggy. Stay! And now 'Down'!"
"Now you are really insane! I would never obey you, you stupid moron!"
Joey clenched his fists irritated and tried to get away by ducking around Kaiba.
But Kaiba would have none of that and pressed him harder up against the wall, his elbows at both sides of Joeys face as he looked down at him with a smug smile.
Kaiba slowly bent down to whisper in his ear: "And now be a good puppy or I will have to punish you…" and he gave the ear a quick lick, breathing hot air over it.

Joey leant his head back and away to stare questioningly into the others blue eyes as he tried to think of any kind of answer.
And how could this self-conceited jerk dare it to talk like that with him!?! And more important, what was he doing to him, and why?!

Kaiba smirked satisfied as he saw Joey's reaction to their close proximity. Gold-brown eyes glared at him furiously, and he could see sparks of uncertainly, as it seems that the other didn’t know what to think about the whole thing. He could see his own reflection in those bright, passionate eyes, could feel the heat radiating from the shorter boy pressed against him.
Joey was heavily blushing and shivering, and he leant more against the wall for support and also because he was still trapped. He couldn’t, and he wasn’t sure if he even wanted to get away from him.

The brunet licked unconsciously over his lips by the delicious picture as he pressed himself a little bit more against him. He liked their cat-and-mouse-game a lot, and Joey also seems to be more irritated and confused then really unwilling, even as he tried to hide it from him.

"Seems that this is really the only way to shut you up…" Kaiba murmured and bent down to catch his puppy's warm, soft lips in a heated kiss.
Joey submitted with a surprised grumble to the tender touch as he also closed his eyes slowly.
He could feel a no longer foreign tongue asking for entrance as it brushed over his lips a few times.
Joey bent his head back and tried to glare halfhearted at the other without giving him what they wanted for the moment, pouting his wet lips, and Kaiba couldn’t look away from them as he watched them form words instead of submitting to him:
"You know that this is a low trick, right? A lame excuse, nothing more!" Joey whispered, and Kaiba just bent down to breathed just beside his ear again
"And? I don’t hear you complaining!"

But before Joey could really say anything Kaiba made sure his mouth was busy, and all you could hear now was soft, content sighing and moaning.
This time as he felt that warm tongue stroking and licking at his lips he gave in and welcomed the curious visitor.

As Kaiba held his puppy in place, he was clearly aware of one thing: If Joey really didn’t want to do this; he would seriously resist to get his point across.
He would do a lot more than just cursing and pouting at him.
If he really didn’t want this, the young CEO would have long since a knee in his stomach. Or a little more southwards.
Or maybe a fist in his face.
Joey wasn’t someone you can easily force to do something he didn’t want.
That’s why the math-teacher didn’t expect any homework from the blond!
For a moment he smiled into the kiss, and Joey used his distraction to turn the tables and take control.

Joey broke away for a moment to take a deep breath before he in turn attacked the taller one.
The last time he was too surprised to react, but now he too wanted to feel him, taste him.
After all, he couldn’t let Kaiba have all the fun alone, could he?
No, he couldn’t!
He pushed quickly against Kaibas shoulders to try to turn them around so Kaiba would stand with his back against the wall, but somehow it didn’t work the way he wanted it.
In the end he couldn’t do anything besides staying were the other wanted him as Joey deepen their kiss more to map out the others hot mouth, to taste every bit just as the other had before.

But his struggling and growling and pouting didn’t bother Kaiba at the last, and he just grinned contently while he, too, took deep breaths as they finally parted again.
His hands were no longer still beside Joeys face against the wall, now they were around a slender waist, his finger finding their way under the blond's shirt to draw invisible patterns on hot skin.
Kaiba growled softly at the feeling of that smooth skin shivering under his fingertips, while Joey had his own arms around Kaibas neck to drag him down for another long kiss.
Without a word they got lost in the others wonderful eyes as their hearths beat faster and the air around them seems to heath up until it seems to burn.

Kaiba tighten his grip at Joeys hips and rubbed their fronts together for a moment while they kissed again and again.
A moan escaped, but he couldn’t tell if it was his own, or Joeys, or both of them who making this deep sound.
Kaiba did it again, a bit harder, a bit longer, and Joey responded in the same kind. It was just so hard to stand still when everything seems to be moving.
Their kissed grew more intense, passionate; hands slipped under bothersome shirts to feel more warm skin, and they completely forgot the word around them.

They just broke apart for long enough to take a quick breath while they couldn’t let go of each other or keep their hands still. They squeezed and pressed against each other as Kaibas lips wandered from his mouth down to nibble at his neck and leave a good visible mark on the smooth skin.
Joey didn’t really noticed his new mark, or he would have protested, but now for the moment he just moaned quietly as warm hands stroked up to his chest and warm lips wandered down his neck.
Joey gave a surprised yelp as his nipples were pinched, and he could feel Kaiba smirk against his neck as he muttered a quite "Bastard", just before he did it again.

Joeys own hands weren't impassive either and they were now also wandering around all over the brunet.
One of them was now buried in silky brown hair to keep the others head were it was, and Joey tilt his head to the side to give him more space to roam.
And his other hand was on Kaibas back and traveling down the curve of his spine to squeeze his firm ass a little.
Kaiba gave an startled gasp at this, but (understandably ^___^) didn’t protest, but pressed the slowly growing bulge in their pants together again, rubbing them harshly to earn more moans and groans from his blond puppy.

Joey was so occupied with all those passionate touches, the feelings the other woke in him that he didn’t noticed it at first as all the warm, and touch was suddenly gone.
He just leant there against the wall with his eyes still closed and sighed quietly as his arms fell to his sides.
Warm breath washed over his ear once again, and a daring hand sneaked down to the front of his pants to give the harness there a short caress.
No one could blame Joey that it took him a moment to actually register the words that were whispered in a husky voice: "We better continue this later; here is not the right place for that!"

At first Joey only react with a pleasant shiver that runs down his spine, at last until he heard a cough that surly didn’t belong to his Kaiba.
Reluctantly he opened his eyes to come back to reality, which he had forgotten until this moment.
From the corner of his eyes he could only just see Kaibas coat vanishing around the corner.
But who was it then who brought him down from his cloud?
And how could he get rid of that person as fast as possible?

"It doesn’t look very tidy if you run around with your shirt hanging out of your pants like that! Don’t you want to change that!?"
The old teacher looked Joey critically up and down as said teen tried to shove his shirt as subtle as possible back in his pants while he blushed brightly.
She nodded, ignored Joey's apparent discomfort and still starred at him:"Right, we don’t want to run around so messy.
And the next time, I think you should consider buying your pants a size bigger. It is unhealthy for you when your pants are too small."

And with that she staggered away and left a brightly blushing Joey behind, who at the moment just whished Kaiba to hell!
He really could have warned him that someone was coming instead of vanishing and leaving him behind with a 'little problem' in his pants and a nosy teacher to deal with!

After all, it was all Kaibas fault, without that bastard he wouldn’t even have that problem!
'The world is so mean!' Joey thought with a pout before he also left.
He preferred not to go back to his friends; they would just ask too many questions…

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Someone please tell me honesty what you think about this chapter, because I don’t know if it's good or not.
I somehow liked the idea of a whole (or mostly) chapter with Puppyshipping, since it was originally just part of the next chapter, while Ryou and Yugi finally do something against Anzu and her flirting. (That will come in the next chapter, finally! I really, really promise it!)
But someone asked me for a chapter for Joey and Kaiba, and I thought, well, the idea is not bad, and that way the Hikaris have more time for their plotting and such…
Well, but I would like to know what you think about that…