To Keep A Katsu

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Yea, that chapter was insane! Lol I was beginning to worry that I’m going a lil overboard but as far as I can tell, it works! I think you’ll get a kick out of this chapter, so please enjoy. Oh as for Tea…she’ll be ok. I don’t care for character deaths, torturing them is a lot more fulfilling if ya ask me! *smirks*

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“What do you think you’re doing?!” shrieks the unstable red head as she tightens her grip around the gun. “I would think you of all people would want me to die!”

“Considering the fact that you’ve tried to kill me THREE times, it might have crossed my mind.” Kaiba drawls slowly, “but it would deeply hurt my lover…it would deeply hurt your BROTHER.”

Green eyes soften a bit but the grip on the gun is still strong.

“He wouldn’t miss me…he has you remember?” Shizuka replies back haughtily.

The brunet pulls back at the gun a little as he responds. “Since when does it have to be all or nothing? You really are pathetic. You do all this preaching about doin what’s best for Kat-chan. Kat-chan deserves this and Kat-chan deserves that. Have you ever stopped to consider just what he DOESN’T deserve?”

The strawberry blond becomes silent as her fingers loosening around the weapon’s handle.

“He doesn’t deserve this pain; He sure as hell doesn’t deserve this bullshit”, the blue-eyed teen explains, tugging at the gun in emphasis, “And I hope I don’t go too far when I say this but quite frankly…the way you are now…He doesn’t deserve you as a sister.”

Delicate hands finally collapse on itself as Kaiba carefully removes the offending weapon.

Shizuka in a last fit of rage balls her empty hands into fists and begins to pound upon a pale chest adorning a hospital gown, wailing.

“THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT! ALL YOUR FAULT! ALL YOUR FAULT!”

The blond stands motionless for a moment. He wasn’t exactly sure what to do or how to react, now that he knew the truth. Should he even show sympathy?

Wiping away the remaining tears and quickly making up his mind however, Jou promptly walks up the stairs and grabs his sister by the arm, the way a mother would to a misbehaved child.

“Stop it! You’ve got no one to blame but your damn self!” the blond hisses furiously.

Sniffling, “Y-You hate me now don’t you?” whispers the strawberry blond as she looks to her brother with pained eyes.

Jou falters for a minute but presses on to say. “I don’t hate ya, sis. I can nevah but...but….what ya done…”

“So what you going to do?” Shizuka asks, murmuring, looking down, “Call the police.”

“No, I’m going ta call mom and have ya sent back home”, the blond firmly states, “To tell ya da truth, I can’t trust mahself with ya. I’m so fuckin’ pissed off at ya right now.”

The hazel-eyed teen temporarily lets go of the delicate arm as he looks to the beautiful brunet standing quietly. Jou sees unruly black hair behind the tall legs as he witness the little Kaiba that looked like he had been crying peeking around at him.

The blond gives a pained smile at the both of them; so much suffering, all because of him. “I’m sor…”

Soft lips immediately press themselves upon Jou’s in a desperate manner, which of course is being returned in equal fervor.

Shizuka scrowls at the scene but didn’t say anything. She can’t afford to act upon her emotions now…

With a moan, Kaiba gestures to Mokuba to take the gun, which he does but immediately sits it down on the floor as if it has teeth. Instead he decides to dwell on the humor of Shizuka cringing and twitching in obvious torture as she witness her brother’s hand make a quick thrust downward to grab a pale cheek.

Chuckling deep within his throat, Jou lets up and smiles deviously. “I’m going ta have ta punish ya fer dis…paradin’ around here with no underwear on and lettin’ undeservin’ eyes look at ya cute lil’ bare ass dat I own. As if I’m not pissed off enough…”

Kaiba only had time to smirk before a stampede of footsteps makes their way towards them.

Quickly breaking out of their embrace, they turn just in time to see five uniformed cops running pass them to get to the figure sporting wide green eyes.

“Unbelievable, isn’t she the one that was supposingly attacked earlier”, one of the familiar cops asks the familiar female cop.

“You have the right to remain silent…”One officer begins to recite naturally as another slaps on cold handcuffs over fair wrists.

“Kat-chan!” Shizuka screeches in horror as she tries to move.

“Kat as in Katsuya of the Hirutani gang?” The officer who had light brown hair inquires in disbelief, but aftering seeing hazel eyes roll, “Well I be damned…hey you guys! Look who it is, Hirutani’s blondie!”

Kaiba snorts and frowns at the comment of the idiot cop. Well he certainly didn’t like the sound of that!

“We’ve received distressed calls from this floor that a strawberry-blond was roaming the halls with a gun in her possession fighting with a brunette girl who have just been rushed to the emergency room. Some also said that this girl, who fits the description, tried to use it on herself. So you know this girl or anything about this incident, Katsuya? And I must say I haven’t heard from you in quite a while, I was getting worried” A cop with a long braided black ponytail explains and quips with a smirk.

Jou swallows hard as he faces reality once again. “Yea, she’s mah sistah and…it’s all true. I think she’s sick, Yuichi-sama. Please don’t throw her inta jail, she just needs help.”

“eh? I didn’t know you had a sister but in any case we have to escort her downtown and get in contact with your dad”

Grabbing his angel’s hand for support, Jou explains, “Mah dad doesn’t have custody ovah her, she lives with mom in America.”

“Oh? And does mom know she’s here?” the Yuichi asks with a raised eyebrow.

Sighing, “I don’t think so and Dad had made sure dat he doesn’t hear from her…”

The senior officer sighs and shakes his head. He had seen it so many times, broken marriages and the wayward children that they would produce.

“I guess I could do this once, we’ll take her to Jounouchi Sr and see if we can get in contact with your mom.” Yuichi proposes.

“Mah dad is out of town until tomorrow…” the hazel-eyed begins.

“We’ll just have to place your sister in a holding cell until then…”

“I’m not going anywere unless Kat-chan comes with me!” Shizuka screams out.

Jou sighs as he turns to his lover. “I was planning’ on going anyway...I calls ya if I can from the police station.”

Kaiba grins as he let’s the blond take hold of his lips briefly before pulling away.

“It’s been a long, long, looong day…and night. Since I doubt any of us is going to school tomorrow…how about I just come by your place after I get released from here.” The brunet reasons as he idly pulls lint, real and imaginary from golden locks.

“Sounds like a plan, angel. Oh and do me a favor will ya?” Jou asks as he turns to leave.

“What’s that?” the blue-eyed male inquires back.

“Check on mah friends for me and tell dem dat I’m sorry…for everything.” With that, the blond blows a kiss as he follows the last cop, who had stopped to pick up and place the weapon in an evidence bag.

Blue eyes soften as the brunet catches the imaginary kiss and holds it close to his heart with a sigh.

***


The early rays of the sun pour into a small apartment living room, basking an older blond in his early forties in its warmth. The built body dressed in blue jeans and a white tank top splays unceremoniously over the green couch as his overnight bags lie in disarray over the carpet and three empty beer bottles stands on the coffee table.

Jounouchi Sr snores soundly before sharp taps at the door jolts him awake with a snort.

“Huh, what zuh fuck…” he mumbles, half awake. “Too early in da gah-damn morning…”

He gets up after the knocks at the door went on for what seems like an eternity.

“Damn! I’m coming!” the bronzed man calls out irritably.

After unlocking the door, he swings it open with some not too friendly words ready to escape his mouth. He never got to voice those words as he gazes upon the obviously high-maintenanced woman standing in front of him. She wears a white silk kimono-styled blouse with a long black skirt that had one huge split on the left side. The woman also adorns black stilettos that show off perfectly French pedicured toes. Her dark red hair holds high in a ponytail with one single small braid hanging loosely from the left side and her dark emerald eyes spoke volumes.

“L-Leiko?” the hazel-eyed man manages to spew out.

“Tatsuya…How very pleasant it is to see you again.” Leikp replies with a smile.

“Hmph! I would be lying if I said dat seeing YOU is pleasant...what do ya want?” Tatsuya spats.

“Well my daughter of course. You’ve been holding her from me long enough” the estranged wife said as she pushes through the muscled body to enter the apartment.

Growling, Jounouch Sr slams the door shut. “I told ya, I had nothin’ ta do with her being here! It’s not mah fault dat you’ve always had been a shitty mother!”

Sharp green eyes narrows dangerously. “You weren’t exactly father of the year material yourself! Now where is my daughter, her being here in this trash dump can’t possibly be healthy.”

“Fuck you, Leiko! And I told you, Shizuka’s not here! So go look somewhere else and get out of mah damn apartment!” Tatsuya bellows out, as he hastily walks in the kitchen to pull out a beer from the fridge.

“And you are calling me a bad mother! You don’t care about your own daughter; I bet you don’t even know where our son is!”

“MAH son! I believe dat was the agreement” the tanned man sneers, coming back and twisting the cap off the bottle, “Not get out…”

Getting desperate now, Leika pleads, “Tatsuya please! I came out here as soon as I was able to. I got to find my daughter! I’m scared!” The she said under her breathe, “She hasn’t been takin’ her medication…”

Hazel eyes widen. “Medication? What da fuck does Shizuka need medication for?”

For the first time since the confident lady had stepped through the door, she fidgets nervously.
“She isn’t…well. She hasn’t been for years…”

Before lips could form questions from the other man, another series of knocks assaults the door.

“Oh gah-dammit! It must be fucking tick off Tatsu day…” the blond mumbles as he opens the door again while quickly taking a sip of his beer.

Beer nearly finds itself outside of his mouth again as he saw not only his son and daughter but two police officer standing in the door way.

“This day keep getting better and better and its only 8:30 in da fucking morning…” the older Jounouchi mutters as he takes an even longer drink of his beer.

“It’s nice to see you again too, Jounouchi Tatsuya.” The senior officer replies with a smirk.

Sighing, the blond man looks to his blond son. “Well what ya done did dis time, boy.”

Jou starts to open in his mouth to respond but was cut off by Yuichi, as he motions his partner,Shinji, to bring a strawberry blond in handcuffs. “Actually…”

“Oh dear kami, Shizuka!” Leiko shrieks out as she rushes to her daughter side.

“Mom?!” the younger blond exclaims as he witnesses the woman he’s more likely to call stranger, hugs his frightened sister.

“Well isn’t this the big happy family” the senior cop quips at his partner, “I say, if it was always like this, I wouldn’t be standing here on the doorstep.”

“Why ARE ya standing here on mah doorstep?” Tatsuya inquires, but this time his voice sounds more curious than angry.

Clearing his throat, Yuichi enlightens, “According to several witnesses, your daughter here was terrorizing the private ward of the hospital with a gun.”

The older red-head grabs her daughter by the shoulders and stares in emotionless, yet tell-tale green eyes.

“Oh honey, you didn’t…a gun?!”

“Sooo dat medication ya was mentionin’ just earlier…dey’re looney pills, aren’t dey?” the elder Jounouchi asks suspiciously as he eyes his ex-wife, who turns rigid.

“She also…sent…a girl…to the emergency room…looney pills?” the black-haired cop asks with a confused expression.

“Yea, Leiko here said dat mah daughter wasn’t well and hasn’t been takin her medication.” Came the nonchalant reply.

Jou feels his blood boil as he glares daggers at his mother.
“You knew dat mah sistah is like dis and dat she’s capable of doing dese horrible things, you knew?!”

Leiko stands up straight from leaning over her daughter as she turns around with a pained expression. “It’s complicated…” She absentmindly plays in Shizuka’s hair.

“Like you know what complicated is!” Jou yells as he suddenly feels the need to sit down.

“Oh she knows what complicated is, believe me. Complicated is just what she do!” the older blond retorts as he finishes off the last of his bottle.

“Enough with you, Tatsuya! If you would’ve promptly had Shizuka sent back when I first called you…”

“Whateva bitch, you was screaming and crying about ya daughter being missing which at da time, I really didn’t even know she was here. Oh and let’s not forget ta mention dat somewhere down da line, you’ve neglected ta inform me dat mah lil girl had become just like you…crazy!”

“SHUT UP THE BOTH OF YOU!” the hazel-eyed teen screams out, rubbing his aching temples. “Mom, but Dad is right. You could’ve at least told us what’s going on with Shizu. Even though you don’t consider us family anymore…”

Temporarily leaving her daughter’s side, Leiko races to her son’s replying, “Oh baby! I’ve always consider YOU as family!” She cradles the weary tanned face with her hands. She then sighs and gets up.

“Phillip and I had tried everything with Shizuka. We tried therapy sessions, countless kinds of medication, which one finally did seem to work” the older strawberry blond pauses for a moment before continuing, “ We let her come to visit you for your little tournaments, hoping that would help. She kept worrying herself sick over you to the point it had became an obsession. She would only eat the things she knew you would eat, only would wear the colors that she knew you would like, she would even only play with the kinds of toys that she knew you liked to play with. Oh and all those drawings she would do…”

Drawings, oh so she had put those drawings in his locker the other day. Why he didn’t think of it before until now, he didn’t know. But he did remember now that he had made a promise to her…Jou sighs miserably. He didn’t like where his train of thought is leading him.

“Over the years, she did indeed have gotten more and more hostile to the point we had to homeschool her. She wouldn’t let the girls talk to any of the boys who had blond hair and hazel eyes. At first it was tolerable but then she had pushed this girl off the jungle gym for talking to such a boy. The girl had fractured her arm and her pelvis…she was only talking to her brother. The doctor said that it was the strangest case of major depressive disorder he has ever seen.” Leiko explains solemnly.

“It’s not that strange.” Yuichi interjects, “Such behavior is actually more common in children and adolescents than you think. You’re just one of the few to be fortunate enough to have it diagnosed. I’ve seen it in low-income broken homes all the time. Kids would run away never to be seen again, find family value within gangs, commit suicide, and just absolutely become completely insane with depression. All because you have adults that don’t want to be adults, this is what happens.”

While Leiko looks down at her hands, Tatsuya simply sighs and went back into the kitchen for another beer…or two.

“Okay, Tatsuya and I had messed up all those years ago, I admit that. But what am I to do about it now?

“How about if I was ta go back ta New York with ya guys…would dat help? The blond inquires suddenly, eyes boring into that of his mother’s.

“Excuse me?” Leiko asks as she sits down beside her son once more.

“If I was ta go ta New York with ya guys…” Jou repeats again, his voice quivering. So many lives had been shattered because of his fucked up life, and if it means to protect his friends, to protect…his angel. It’s a sacrifice he’s willing to take. No one should have to suffer because of him.

“Well I guess it would help a lot….”

“Den when would ya like me ta pack mah bags?”

No one seems to notice the satisfying smirk of a certain red-head girl in handcuffs. With her uncanny acting abilities, she suddenly finds herself wondering just why she didn’t fake a suicide attempt sooner…

To be continued…