My World

Kaiba dragged Honda all over the mansion looking for ojiisan.

"You sure you want to do this?!"

"Yes."

"Whyyyyyy...?!"

"Stop it! No sense in lying or hiding, right?"

"Come on! I don't think..."

"I'm not going to lie to him..."

"I didn't lie to my parents! I told them... you were there!"

"Had I not been?"

"I'd have told them I was staying at Jounouchi's..."

"My point exactly. You want to work on my drinking, I want to work on your fear of honesty, which in case you didn't notice, didn't kill you."

"Fear? I guess you're right..."

"I told you..."

"...?"

"Get used to it." he joked as they rounded a corner to the library, which is where Kaiba figured he should have looked first.

To Honda's total dismay, not only was ojiisan there, so was Mokuba with his girlfriend.

"Shit..." he said through his teeth, and tried to escape only to have Kaiba grab him by the collar and lead him in.

"Hey guys! Ojiisan and I were just helping Erika with her Japanese..."

"Ohayou, shokei (friends)!" she said proudly. They looked at their watches; it was almost eight-thirty pm.

"Close enough!" Mokuba laughed, then exlained the different terms for the different times of the day.

Kaiba still had a tight grip on Honda's collar and a very serious, stern look across his face. Noting this, ojiisan finally asked what was wrong.

"What is it, Seto? Hiroto? You all right?"

"No! Tell him to let go...!"

"Ojiisan, Hiroto is staying the night. He's already spoken to his paren..."

"No, Seto... this isn't right..."

"I think it's cool!" Mokuba chimed in, "Nii-sama, you guys goin..."

"Mokuba! I think it's time you take Erika home." ojiisan was ready to keel over. He was fine with their feelings for eachother, but he was still an old man with old fashioned ways.

"Ok, ok... good luck, nii-sama!"

"Thank you," He kept his sights straight ahead. He could have bore a hole into the wall. Honda knew this stance from his dueling; he wasn't going to back down, "I respect you a great deal, ojiisan, you know that. I'm just asking..."

"And what did your parents say exactly, Hiroto?"

"Oh, you really, really don't want to know..." *sweat drop*

"Call them yourself." Kaiba said sternly.

"Well, I can see you aren't going to back down easy. Alright..." Kaiba went to speak, ojiisan raised his hand to stop him so he could finish, "I know better than to think you are asking my permission, more you are asking my blessings; I'm sorry, but, I can't give them. I do respect your feelings for one another, Hiroto you have been very good for him, but this..."

"Please, ojiisan..." Kaiba's stance was weakening. Honda could feel the grip on his collar loosening. It was aparent this was hurting him.

"You two have fun, just do me one favor..."

"...?"

"Keep it down."

"Never heard us before..." Honda nudged Kaiba, trying to lighten the mood. As much as Kaiba wanted to laugh with him, he wanted to make sure ojiisan knew he was hurt.

"Y-yea, ojiisan. Let's go, Hiroto."

"Now, don't be updet with me, please, Seto?" Ojiisan called just before Kaiba shut the door.

"I-I'm not." he hesitantly answered as he shut the door, "So, what should we do?"

"Don't want me to stay anymore?"

"No! I still want you to stay!"

"Ojiisan didn't upset you too much, did he?" Honda took him in for a reassuring hug.

"A little, but, like he said, I wasn't asking permission."

"Of course. Well, what do you want to do?"

"Go for a swim?"

"I don't have any swim trunks... for that matter, I don't have anything to..."

"You don't need them..."

"Oh... OH! I-I..."

"Never skinny dipped before?"

"No..."

"I do all the time..."

"You weren't when I came over that one night..."

"You had just missed Mokuba. I'm not going to..."

"Ok! Trust me, I get it!"


As they undressed, Kaiba caught from the corner of his eye what he thought the most beautiful sight he had seen in a long time; the moon shown so brightly against Honda's tanned skin, he practically glowed. His muscles were slightly defined by the shadows. He quickly shut his eyes and turned away.

Gods, give me strength!

"You ok, Seto-chan?"

"Yea, I'm fine..."

"Good, let's go!" he took him and hand in hand the jumped in together only to get one of the rudest awakenings of their lives...

"AAAAHHHHH! It's freezing!!" they cried as they scrambled to get out.

"W-what th-the hell w-was th-that?!" Honda chattered.

"I-I d-don't kn-know! I-it's either b-broken or s-someone t-turned it o-off... sh-shit!"

"Wh-w-what?"

"M-ma-tin-nace! I-I f-for-got!"

They ran into the house and collapsed to the floor huddled together under two huge soft towles trying to warm up.

Honda waited for the cursing and threats to whoever forgot to remind him, instead, he burst into hysterics.

"What's so funny?!"

"Y-you! Your... your face! It was priceless!"

"Me?! What about you?!" Honda crossed his arms and scoweled when it suddenly occurred to him; when was the last time Kaiba laughed? At least, not maniacly at anyone.

He needed this.

Honda relaxed and hugged him to him, then found himself laughing as well.

"Y-you need t-to cool it! It's catchy!"

"You know, Hiroto-chan, I love you so much!" he exclaimed, then tackled him, pinning him to the floor, when Honda's tapping his shoulder brought him back, "What? Something..." he looked over, lining his sights with Honda's.

"Are you two trying to give me a heart attack?!" Ojiisan roared.

They quickly stood and backed away from eachother, then followed ojiisan's gaze to the floor; they had dropped their towels.

Ojiisan threw them to their owners, "Go get dressed both of you!" he yelled, his face glowing red with anger.

"Y-yes... Sorry!" they exclaimed as they ducked and ran for the bedroom.


Kaiba ran straight for his bed and dove in to finish his laughing fit.

Wow, he's got a lot pent up! Honda thought, "That wasn't funny!"

"I can't remember the last time I had so much fun!"

"Fun?! That?!"

"Y-yea!"

"Your ojiisan walked in one us... naked! He was furious!" Honda found himself caught off guard by a pillow thrown full force against the back of his head, "So that's how it's ganna be?" he said playfully.

He marched over and began pummeling him with said pillow.

Kaiba managed a counter attack and Honda somehow found himself defenseless and pulled in for a deep kiss.

"Good move..."

"Thank you, love..." he went to pull Honda in for another, the suddenly changed his mind.

"What's wrong?" Honda asked, dissapointed.

"Nothing. I just don't think I have anymore in me..."

"Oh, right... thismorning and..."

"This afternoon." he smiled.

They both tried to think of something to do to kill time; going out was a bad idea, they could run into anyone... ojiisan included just trying to get out!

Kaiba really wanted to work on Honda's little honesty problem, so thought what better way than...

"Ever play "Truth or Dare"?"

"U-uh... yea... we played it one night on Duelist Kingdom to kill boredom. Why?"

"Just asking... want to?"

"What the hell..."

"Wonderful! You start..."

"Uhg, why me?! Alright... t-truth..." he wasn't sure why, but a sudden sense he was going to regret agreeing to play struck him like lightning.

"Good. What changed your mind about me?" Kaiba wasn't going to hold back. He went right for the jugular.

Honda squirmed a little. He wasn't sure how to answer, especially without possibly hurting him.

"Oh, well... I guess the whole thing with Noah and Gazabouro..."

"...?"

"See, we all just used to think of you as some spoiled rich brat, then that whole thing and... while I didn't have feelings for you, I did feel for you. As for the 'feelings for you' thing, I guess that just kind of happened..."

"Maybe that's for the best; to just let things happen..."

"Your turn."

"Truth."

Shit!, "Ok, why me?"

"Fair enough... you intrigued me..."

"WHat?! How in the...?!"

"I started to notice you durring Battle City; you are attractive, a very good friend, and while bravery seemed a test..."

"Hey!"

"Anyway, to sum it all up... you were everything I'm not..."

"Now hold on! You're way more attractive than me!"

"Let me finish..."

"Sorry..."

"This may seem a bit off, but, I think this may win the game for me... I'm going to be very honest with you now..."

"Shit... just go..."

"You were never a threat..."

"I get it, like Jounouchi and Yugi, or even Otogi, I could nver take away the fact you're one of the best duelists out there..."

"You do understand. You aren't upset with me?"

"No, course not."

"Thank you. Your turn."

Honda had to think about this, he really didn't want another question that would risk either of them gettin angery, He's not really playing fair... damn it! I know what he's doing!, "Dare."

"Dare you say?" Kaiba had this look in his eye that nailed Honda to the bed. There would be no getting out of this one, "You lucked out..."

"How's that?!"

"You will have one day..."

"...?!"

"One day til school starts again to figure out how you are going to tell everyone the truth about what happened..."

"What?! No!"

"Yes. And..."

"And?!"

"You will let me explain and apologize..."

"Are you insane?! They know what..."

"They don't! They just think Jounouchi was being his usual irrational self..."

"I won't do this. You win. Game over."

"Please, you can tell them you know it won't happen again..."

"Yea, sure, 'How do you know, Honda?! This is Kaiba Seto we're talking about! We don't care...'"

"Tell them you know it won't because it won't have to..."

*Seat drop*, "In other words, you don't care if they know we..."

"No. Why should I? Besides, I think they have some idea..."

"Well, Jounouchi knows..."

"So it's another case of 'Jounouchi knowing is enough for now'?"

"Yes!"

"Well, you have whole day to think about it..."

"And if I don't do this?"

"You lose the game, but, I think I may lose more..."

"What the hell does that mean?!" Honda shot daggers at him, only to have them returned.

"Look, you do this and I'll work even harder on my drinking... like an insentive! If we explain I'm working on it and will never even... I'll even lay off... my wine..."

"Wow, this is serious! Ok. I tell them what happened, and we explain it's being worked on..."

"Yes. I think they'll be understaning..."

"Jounouchi won't."

"Shit! That's right. He told me... damn it..."

"He'll never believe you'll change."

"He has every right to feel that way... so Jounouchi may be a hurdle, but, I think it will be all right..."

"So, "Negativity-san" is now thinking positive?!"

"I've been aware a long time drinking isn't the only thing needing work on."

Honda took him and cuddled into the thick blankets; Kaiba burrowing into him, snuggling close.

"If you think things will be all right, then I'll do my best to come up with something, but, if I... if I can't, you won't be too dissapointed, will you?" he waited for an answer, Shit, all ready mad at me for thinking this way! Not fair!, "Seto-chan? Will you be ang..." he looked down at him to find him fast asleep; another thing Kaiba needed; sleep.

"Trusting me to keep "Gazabouro the Boogie-Man" away, eh?" he said softly, noting the tight grip Kaiba had on him even in his sleep. He kissed him lightly on his forehead, took him in closer and though it took a while, finally fell asleep himself.