To Want Love

P.S. Thats right keeping reading and then moving onto the next chapter. Good boy/girl.

Chapter Three: Its a WHAT?

As Seto and Jou continued to fight on the ground Yami reached a decision and stepped up to them. He waited until he noticed a good opening to use in order to interfere and then pushed both of the boys away from each other. Seto was pushed so hard he hit the wall on the other end of the hallway with a thud.

"YAMI, WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT FOR?" was the next thing out of the brunet’s mouth, accompanied by a look that could kill if you didn't look where you were walking.

"Yami, hey man, what’s up?” Jou questioned without any of the hostility from before. The blond had not been pushed away as roughly as Seto had. “I am actually really happy to see ya. Can you tell this thing to leave me alone and go hide under a rock?" Jou looked up at the demon before him. "He was trying to give me one of his weird drinks again and I bet ya it’s not the type of food I should eat."

Seto looked at the boy across from him with a flash of hurt visible in his eyes before he started up again: "Pup it is to help you with the mating..."

Just hearing the word made Jou get mad at the demon that sat not ten feet away from him again. The tan face turned red once more as the blond bellowed incredulously: "Mating, mating?!!! And what makes you think I would like to do this 'mating thing' with you? Why do you always bring that up? Get it though your head; I don't want to mate with you, I WANT YOU TO LEAVE ME THE HELL ALONE!!!" At that Jou got up, went into his room, slamming the door shut behind himself and then locking it from the inside.

The short second it took Seto to take in Jou's words was all the blond had needed for his escape and when the sound of the locking of the door reached Seto’s ears the brunet snapped out of his thoughts. Seto got up from his sprawled position against the wall, looked at the door and then started to walk away from it. The pain Seto was is was sadly nothing new to the house, but the soon to be hard yell from Seto was.

"Why can't my puppy like me even a little? I just want him to be my mate, is that so much to ask for? Okay, so maybe it is, but still I have tried to court him for three weeks now and he still shows no sings of changing his mind about it." This was the last thing Yami heard before the door to the hallway closed and cut off the rest of what Seto was most likely saying.

After Seto had disappeared, Yami heard the door next to him unlock and then open. Turning around he looked right into the face of a sad and tear-faced Jou. "Hey Yami what do you need?” The blond sniffed once as he rubbed at his wet cheek. “Sorry you had to see that but Seto doesn't get that I still miss my old life. Don't get me wrong, you guys are great and I love Seto but I am still mad at him too." Jou looked at Yami desperately. “I can’t just act like what he did was okay. He has to understand that I had to give up a lot and he did not even give me a chance to make the choice to live this life instead of my old one.”

Yami nodded his head, actually understanding the blond’s point of view, before starting to speak: "I know that, but you should tell Seto how you feel sometime soon or you may be taken with or without your say. Mating season for Seto is next mouth after all and if you don't say something you may not be able to go though with the whole mating show. After all Seto is the only one who is going to tell you what you have to do and help you along the way."

Yami knew that Jou had been happy when he found out that Seto wanted him for his life mate but because Seto had simply taken Jou away from the life he knew (aka kidnapped him) he was still mad at Seto, and clearly not about to forgive the brunet as long as Seto continued to ignore that reality.

"I know, I know”, Jou responded with a forlorn sigh. “I want him to take me as his mate but I wish we had met in another way. I love him, I knew that the moment I saw him.” The blond worried his lip slightly before continuing: “But you just don't take someone away from there life like that." At that part Jou looked down. "But that is not the reason you are here, is it Yami? So tell me what I can do for ya?"

"Well, I came to talk to Seto but maybe you could help me out more”, Yami started and nodded his head as he became more sure of his new decision. “You are human after all, and would know more about them than Seto would anyways.” The crimson-eyed man paused before starting his tale: “Okay, today I went for a walk. You know it’s not usual for me, right?"

Jou just nodded in response to Yami’s words, for it was a well-known fact that Yami went for walks a lot to get away from the noise that was constant in the house. Yami noted the gesture and continued on: “So, I found my self at the far end of the woods and I just about to turn to walk back when I saw a boy that looked a little like me. But he is cute and so much younger looking than me.” Yami paused briefly and breathed out almost tenderly: “I just know that he is the one."

"You sound like Seto, ya know. When is your mating season again?" was all Jou had to say and the unexpected question had Yami frowning. He looked at Jou like the blond had just grown a second head as he questioned: "It’s in three more months. Why?"

”Just wondering”, Jou replied easily before continuing in a more serious manner: "Then those feelings aren’t caused by the need to have a mate. Not yet, at least.” The blond smiled once more, this time gently and not playfully like a moment ago. “I think you’re in love Yami."