A Rock Star's Obsession

AO pt. 4


Joey entered the apartment he shared with Marik and Bakura, for some unknown reason he had become the keeper of the two slight unhinged yamis. He stripped out of his suit as he made his way to his room; a shower was the only thing on his mind. After taking on and changing into a t-shirt and some old faded blue jeans, he started dinner. It was his night to cook...it was always his night to cook.

It was safer for the kitchen that way. The last time Bakura tried to cook the stove didn't survive the ordeal and Joey had complete blocked out what happen the night Marik tired. Barkura still had nightmares and wouldn't go into the kitchen if Marik had been in there.

The pot roast and potatoes had been in the oven for about a half hour when the two yamis wandered into the apartment.

"So Retriever how'd the meeting go?" The white haired yami asked as he sat down at the kitchen table. Marik nodded curiously, as he got three sodas from the refrigerator.

"Yeah, inquiring minds want to know," he said throwing one soda to Bakura, who caught it with ease, and handed one to Joey.

"Well, Kaiba is still the CEO of KaibaCorp." Joey informed them.

"It would have been on the news by now if he wasn't." Barkura said as he opened his soda and took a drink.

"He's getting death threats." Joey told them with a serious look, as he started making salad from the fixings he had set out on the counter earlier, to go with dinner.

"The Priest got those in school," the sandy haired yami waved the comment off, as he hopped up on to the counter next to where Joey was working. Earning him a glare from the golden blond young man. "We should know after all," Marik reached in to the salad bowl and stole a tomato slice. Causing Joey to slap his hand with a wooden spoon, "We did send the most of them to him."

"Yeah, well now he's getting them from our fans."

Marik blinked at that and looked at Bakura who was sniggering, as he said "Well...that's new." When Bakura finally stopped he gave Joey a hard look, "You flirted with him-didn't you?" the white haired yami whispered in a mock scandalized tone, eyes wide in mock shock.

Joey sighed.

"Nah," Marik said, "He did something worse....He kissed him!" Then Marik made kissing noise to empathize his point.

Joey shook his head.

Bakura stood up suddenly knocking his chair over as he pointed at the golden blond in accusing, "You...you had sex on his office desk!"

"WHAT! NO!" Honestly the things Bakura came up with. "No," Joey repeated softer, "No it was much worse than that."

"THEN WHAT!" the two yamis yelled at Joey.

"I laughed at him."

That caused both yamis to draw in a breath. Because everyone knew you didn't laugh at Seto Kaiba.

"You moron!!" both yamis exclaimed.

Joey only sighed and wondered why he put up with the now bickering two as they fought over who was going to set the table.

@@@FlashBack@@@

Jounouchi Katsuya sat under his favorite tree in the schoolyard trying very hard not to cry. Cause boy's don't cry...no, boys got even.

Rumors.

It was all because of the rumors that were running around school that were causing him grief. They were things from his father abusing him(which was so not true.) Sure his dad drank but not like everyone thought. That was the most common one. Then there was the one about him, Yugi and Atem, Yugi's yami were in a threesome. Oh, but Jou's favorite so far and the one he was fighting tears over was the one that named him as Kaiba's bitch. And that only came about from a stray comment that was taken out of context. He knew this because he had hunted down the source of that rumor.

"Hey! Retriever!" came a cockney accent.

Jou looked up as he wiped at this face. He could see a white haired boy coming towards him. The accent gave away who it was. Ever since the yamis had gotten their own bodies, a story in which they hadn't told anyone but they're Hikaris how that happened. Jou knew it was Bakura for Ryou had a more genteel accent.

"Skipping class, huh?" Bakura asked as he sat down next to the blond then getting a good look ad Jou's face let out a low whistle, "Nice shiner. Who gave it to you?"

Now Bakura and Jou were not the best of friends but the white haired yami could stand the blonds company over some of the others in the Yugi-tachi. And Jou knew this and thought the same of the other boy after all you had to like some one who was always himself and made no apologies for it. Jou knew the other didn't dislike him because they actually had the most in common. Both of them being street savvy as they were had come to an understanding when Jou had thought Bakura had been abusing Ryou and tried to help Ryou. Luckily Bakura had found the whole thing funny especially when both boys had blush so red at the reasons for Ryou's bruises, which were the cause of Jou's concern. Bakura was glad that his other half had such a caring friend to look out for him.

"Ran into the towel holder in the boy's room.' Jou growled.

Bakura knew Jou was not clumsy so long as Kabia was not around. And then it was funny to watch the blond make a fool of himself. The boy at all other times was naturally graceful, it made Bakura wonder if Jou didn't pickpocket to sublament his income. Bakura had heard the rumor about Jou's dad losing his job. Still it was amusing to watch Jounouchi around his crush. What made it even more amusing was the fact Jou didn't realize he had one on the CEO.

At the look Bakura gave Jou it causes the boy to mutter, "I had help running into it."

"They better look worse than you." The yami growled.

"You dare to doubt the great Katsuya the 'Fist'?" Jou said with a self-mocking smile.

Bakura's eyes went wide at the use of that name. The rumors said that had been Jou's gang name. 'They must have really pissed him off if he went all the 'Fist' on them.' Bakura thought.

"They won't be bothering me or anyone else for a while."

"Good. Ryou would hate to find out the Pharaoh sent me to the Shadow Realm for sicking a Shadow Monster on them."

Jou had to smile at that. Bakura was complex and strange sometimes, but he could be a loyal friend to those he deemed worthy of his friendship and those were far and few.

"Soo, I heard an interesting rumor," Bakura said with a smirk.

'Oh, god!' thought Jou, 'I can't even begin to guess at what the new one might be...'

Bakura leaned over and whispered as if it were a state secret, "I heard you play the guitar and sing some."

Jou blinked, that hadn't been what he was expecting. He nodded slowly.

"Cool...see I play the drums, started last year, Ryou thought it would be a good way for me to work off some of my aggression. I think it's working too. Only threaten the Pharaoh four times a day now!"

That...that was actually an improvement Bakura usually threatened Yami three times that amount during the course of a school day.

"So, instead of beating on Yami or anyone else you beat on the drums?"

The white haired yami grinned, "Yeah, it's surprisingly therapeutic!"

"Ok. So what's your question?"

Suddenly Bakura looked a little shy as he said, "Well Marik and I had this idea..."
Jou groaned, when Bakura ever started a sentence like that it was never a good thing. Marik was Bakura partner in petty crime and world domination...it could only end badly.

Bakura glared at the golden blond, "As I was saying, Marik plays the keyboards, something I think he learned from Malik." Jou motioned fro he to continue Jou was curious now. "We've played together some. I think we sound pretty good, but we aren't the best singers and we need a guitar player. Whoever heard of a band without one?"

"You want to start a band?" Jou asked.

Bakura nodded. "Meet at Ryou's for practice today. We can see how we sound together."

"I don't know...I don't think I sing all that well and I only play a little." Jou said not wanting to get Bakura's hopes up.

"Just come over."

Jou sighed, "Alright."

"Cool!" Bakura said getting up. "See you after school, at Ryou's. Don't forget your guitar." He said before leaving.

Jou leaned back and rested his head against the tree and closed his eyes. 'What have I got myself into?'

@@@ENDFLASHBACK@@@

Joey blink when a wadded up paper napkin hit him in the face. "What?"

"You going to take whatever is in there," Marik asked pointing to the oven, "out?"

Joey looked confused.

"Cause there's smoke coming out of it." Bakura told him. Joey looked over at the oven and shouted in surprise as he saw the thin black trials of smoke. He cursed and turned off the oven.

Joey looked at the oven then over to the yamis, "How about pizza?"

For once the two yamis agreed.