Hell's Cradle - The First Trimester

Author's Corner: "Yawn" Yea, It's been awhile since I've updated this...so very sorry, end of the semester = hell. What can I say? I've done two chapters as promised! *smiles tiredly* As far as responses...I catch up with ya next time. ^^ Love ya lots and thanks to all who have been reviewing as well as the other readers responsible for the wonderful numbers on my hit counter!

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“Ya not killin’ mah gah-damn baby.”

Seto returns the hardened hazel glare with one of his own as he brush past the blond to get to his bedroom door.

“I think you should just leave. I don’t have time to deal with your bullshit right now.” His pale hand then grabs the doorknob and swings the door open.

Jou merely snorts as he briskly walks up to where the brunet is standing patiently.

“Well too fuckin’ bad, because I’m not gonna deal with ya bullshit eitha!” The blond grabs hold of the offered door and slams it shut.

The vibrations send ripples throughout the room…

“I’m not changing my mind.” The brunet makes a move to open the door again only to find that it won’t budge.

His blue eyes then trail up a lean body to see a plastered smirk on facial features.

Jou presses more of his weight further upon the wooden structure making it even more impossible for his male “baby-mama” to escape.

“No? Well guess what? Neitha of us are leavin’ till it does.”

“Y-you can’t tell me what to do with my body, you flea bitten mutt!”

The blond chuckles as he mentally beats himself for ever letting such names get to him in the first place. Now, it was just too damn…well cute!

“Heh, even if ya do revert ta callin’ me dat again... “ the hazel eyed teen gives a feral grin as he let his hand upon the door slide down to reach the stiff body as he continues, “After hearin’ da constant screamin’ of mah REAL name unda more passionate circumstances, it no longah has its…sting.”

Brunet growls lowly as he feels his wrist being gripped tightly, anger boiling within him.

This was exactly what he was afraid was going to happen.

If his lover no longer takes him seriously, then most likely everyone else won’t either.

This thing from hell that’s growing inside of him will destroy him if he doesn’t destroy it first!
And not even his Katsu-chan is going to stand in his way!

Shrieking, blinded by instant tears, the distraught CEO violently attacks with his free hand not at all caring where it was going, just as long as it hits tanned skin with a resounding smack.

“I’M A MAN! A FUCKING MAN! WHY CAN’T YOU SEE THAT THIS IS WRONG! IF YOU CARED ABOUT ME…”

Seto barely lets out a gasp as he finds himself being hurled off the door and back through the chaos that was his room at blinding speed.

He lets out a yelp as soon as his back collides against the debris over his bed, in which some of it falls upon the floor to join with the carnage there.

Not quite getting over the fact that he had just been man-handled like a rag doll, he exclaims, “All for, for this monstrosity!” The brunet balls his fist over his stomach in emphasis as he tries to sit up. “And here I thought you would be just satisfied with having me as your bitch to dominate!”

“DAMMIT ANGEL STOP SAYIN’ SHIT DAT YOU’LL LATA GONNA REGRET! Jou screeches as he pushes an equally hysterical brunet back down, effectively using his body as leverage.

“I Don't-"

“SHUT UP!!!”

The brunet stares in awe and shock at the heaving teen above him for what seems like eternity before he tentatively reaches up.

The blond’s breathe hitches as he feels the soft caresses upon his cheek, but he abruptly pulls away slightly as they come across one of many scratches marring his face.

Seto quickly redraws his hand at the flinch as he quickly looks away from the damage he had thoughtlessly caused.

Gozuburo, a bastard he may have been, was right.

He is a woman,

So fragile and so vulnerable…

It seems so foolish now to protect a manhood that he never even had…

Jou who have been staring at the emotional mess below him, leans down to kiss a forehead.

He knows his future child isn’t out of the woods yet, but it’s a start…

“Ya know, I do care…”

The blond nuzzles an exposed neck breathing in the natural scent that was his angel’s.

“I care more than ya ever know…for us…”

Cautiously, he trails his hand downward and let it float over an abdomen before gently placing upon skin.
“For ALL of us…”

Seto heaves a sigh as he lets his eyes close shut.

His hand immediately glides over the one placed upon him, not sure if he should let it stay or brush it away.

“How can you let yourself say such things about a freak?”

“Angel…please look at me.”

After seeing that the brunet isn’t going to budge anytime soon, Jou lifts his head further up with a sigh as he gently removes his hand to take hold of a chin.

The downtrodden blue eyes reluctantly look to sincere golden ones.

“Do ya even know why I call ya angel?”

“No, but it sure does annoy the hell out of me.”

The blond snickers silently as he struggles to regain his composure.

“Set, just because you’re different doesn’t make ya a freak. I had always thought ya weren’t of dis world.”

“Hmph, like some weird transsexual alien from some disgusting planet?”

“Iie, like a beautiful, lost angel dat had fallen from heaven.”

“Katsu…”

“Ya beauty, ya voice, hell even da way ya seem ta glide instead of walk, EVERYTHING about ya remind me of an angel.”

The brunet fights a losing battle in trying not to blush at the strangely comforting words; he quickly looks elsewhere, anywhere as long as it’s not at the grinning blond on top of him.

“And dat includes….having da ability ta create miracles…”

Jou confidently places his hand back upon his lover’s stomach smiling broadly now.

However, in turn, the brunet DID brush that very hand away.

“Don’t get all cocky!” Seto gently yet forcibly pushes the blond off of him as he struggles to sit up. “I still don’t know if I want to keep this travesty!”

The confused CEO then stands up to walk towards his bedroom window, hugging himself.

“All you’ve successfully done is having me think twice about having some practitioner’s house infiltrated with his or her family being held hostage until this ticking time bomb is removed. That’s all you’ve done.”

“Well, Set, its crawl before ya walk and besides, dat’s quite da success. Some practitioner is now in debt ta me!”

The blue-eyed teen whirls around in astonishment.

“C-can’t you be serious about anything?! I’m having a baby! I’m a GUY having a baby, and yet here you are jumping around like some idiot as if it’s the most natural thing in the world! I mean doesn’t ANY of this strike you as strange?!”

Jou sighs as he rubs his face repeatedly.

This argument is going end up being redundant with nothing being accomplished.

“Let’s just call it a night, k? We’ll talk more about dis over time but ya have ta promise me dat dere’s gonna be somethin’ ta talk about.”

The blond gives a stern look to his stubborn uke, waiting for a reply.

Seto scoffs as he shakes his head.

What can the blond possible do to him if he continues to express his desire of getting an abortion?

Hold HIM hostage?

“Sorry, Katsu-KUN, but I just can’t make a promise that I have no intention on keeping.”

“Yea, so I knew ya would say something like dat…” Jou with a mock sigh of reluctance pulls out the rather expensive cell phone he has in his pocket. “Little do ya know, mah angel, I actually have done somethin’ else ratha successfully.”

He uses a familiar programmed number in the device.

“W-what do you mean?” The brunet asks in a strong but quivering voice.

“I’ve planned ahead…Hai, Mokie? Remember that little discussion we had outside ya brother’s door?”

As the blond pauses to let the little Kaiba on the other end, speak, the elder one stares aghast at the events unfolding before him.

“Yea, well it turns out dat it was da best idea I had ever managed to come up with! No wonder ya were so happy about it!”

They share a laugh, Seto gives out a whimper.

He knew first hand just how devious it is to have THOSE two together.

“Heh, trust ya ta be three steps ahead of me!”

“K-Kastu…”

The blond immediately holds a finger up to temporarily silence his anxious lover.

“Great, have all of his things sent by morning while we’re at school. Ya know da address…Hai, ja ne!”

The conversation of doom is now over.

“Katsu, what…” The brunet backs away a little after seeing the smirk…HIS smirk on one Jounouchi’s face.

“Well ya see, Set-CHAN, Mokie and I had been talking while we were waiting for ya to get through ya tantrum and had came up with dis awesome idea!”

“Heh, heh yea well…please do tell of this awesome idea….” The baffled billionaire croaks out, knowing full well what ‘awesome’ meant in the Jounouchi dictionary.

“Of course at da time I had no idea of ya pregnancy but I had proposed da idea ta da little guy dat maybe it would be a good idea if ya were ta live with me for a while!”

Then with a rush of excitement, Jou glomps and tackles the dazed teen onto the bed.

“And I was thinkin’ dat if we were togetha A LOT more, dat whateva ya had, ya wouldn’t feel so alone!” Then with a grim expression on his face, he adds, “But now it seems I have to make some modifications to dat plan…”

The brunet finds himself sputtering.

“It hurts so much ta say dis ta ya angel…” Hazel eyes look deep into swirling blue. “…I don’t trust you. And until I am guaranteed the safety of our unborn child, you’ll be staying with me. ”

The sputtering continues…

“That also means that wherever I go you will go, and wherever you go, I’ll be right behind ya! And whenever it’s impossible for me to keep mah eye on ya...Uncle will be right dere ta fill in!”

Coughing and some whining now accompany the sputters.

Then the blond with a smirk leans over to whisper fondly into a right ear.

“Also now dat you’ll be living within mah domain, Kaiba just won’t suit ya….Jounouchi Seto.”

The sputtering turns into a snort as the overwhelmed brunet begins to laugh weakly.

And he had thought for sure he knew what hell was…

To Be Continued…