The Prince and His Pauper
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Yu-Gi-Oh › Yaoi - Male/Male
Rating:
Adult ++
Chapters:
6
Views:
3,570
Reviews:
21
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I do not own YuGiOh!, nor any of the characters from it. I do not make any money from the writing of this story.
Part 6
Title: The Prince and His Pauper
Author: Kleptomaniac Can Opener
Rating: NC-17
Pairing(s): Seto x Jounouchi/Jounouchi x Seto, various side pairings
Disclaimer: Trust me, I don't own Yugi-Oh.
Summary: As the head of Katsuya Corp., Jounouchi isn't used to being ignored. Especially by some ordinary classmate with a stick up his rear-end.
~*~*~*~
The Prince and His Pauper
Part 6
~*~*~*~
The end of the month draws to a close, and as Seto had promised in the beginning, the product is ready for retail. It won’t go on the market immediately. Jounouchi is going to follow Seto’s suggestion of holding a Duel Monsters tournament to build up the hype to sell the Duel Disk to (and to do a few more tweaks to the system). The brunet even outlined the whole event for him.
Since the incident in the red-light distract, Jounouchi has tried to keep things professional between them. But it always inevitably ends up with them screwing like rapid llamas somewhere. The blond shakes his head. He needs to stop thinking, his metaphors are horrible.
He stares at the check on his desk and feels the sudden urge to tear it to pieces. The check also spells the end to their insane affair. Once Seto has his money, he won’t need Jounouchi for anything anymore. He’ll be able to get a normal job somewhere, one that people will approve of so he won’t have to worry about his image reflecting on his precious little brother.
It’s a good thing. It really is. But Jounouchi feels like pulling out his hair and destroying his office anyways.
There’s a knock on his door that gives him just enough warning to compose himself. Seto steps inside. “You did it, Seto. The damn thing works just like you said it would. I tried for months with a team of experts and you did it practically alone in a month.”
“Don’t burst a vein, puppy. Not everyone can be a genius.” Jounouchi doesn’t even react to the insult anymore. It began to feel more like a pet name than anything during week two. Though that may have been his business side kicking in so he wouldn’t strangle the brunet before the job was done.
“Yeah, whatever,” Jounouchi agrees with as much casual grace as he can muster while holding up the check. “The agreed amount, plus some extra for other uh, services rendered.” He feels a blush stain his cheeks in spite of his efforts. He coughs to cover up his embarrassment and continues speaking. “I doubt I have to say ‘use it wisely’, so I won’t.” He hands the valuable piece of paper to the other teen. Seto’s hand overlaps his own.
Jounouchi’s heart stops.
The check is slipped out of his lax fingers. He’s so caught up in Seto’s smoldering gaze he barely catches the brunet’s words. “Thank you.”
Once he’s alone, Jounouchi melts into his seat. “I hate it when he teases.” He shivers as he thinks of those eyes that have always managed to hold his attention. “I’m not going to miss your dumb ass,” he declares to the room. “I’m going to see you in school everyday.”
~*~*~*~
A week goes by without Seto showing up for school. It’s an unusual thing for a perfect attending student to do. But the teachers don’t look too worried, so the cold brunet must have given early notice. Most of the student body doesn’t care about Kaiba Seto, but the teenaged population does love its gossip.
Jounouchi, though he can guess where the blue-eyed teen is well enough, can’t help by worry anyways. This hasn’t escaped his friends’ notice. Honda sighs and sits next to his best friend at the usual lunch spot in the courtyard. “Come on, spit it out. Where is the jerk?” Yugi gives Honda a light whap on the arm for the unnecessary insult when their friend is in obvious distress. Miho has a seat with the rest of them.
“You said everything at work went fine, right?”
“Yeah, everything was dandy and I let my stupid ass get carried away,” Jounouchi mumbles into his soda can.
“So where is he?” Honda urges.
“He’s probably with his brother. He would have gotten the surgery done ASAP.”
“Why don’t you visit them?” suggests Yugi.
“No way. He probably wants nothing more to do with me.”
“Did he actually say that?”
“Well, no...” Miho rolls her eyes at the blond’s unusual hesitance.
“So go visit them, stupid.” Jounouchi’s brain tries to come up with excuses not to.
“But I promised to do stuff with Honda!”
“Nah, if that’s what it takes to make your sorry ass happy again, go for it. I have a date with Shizuka anyway.”
“Dammit, Honda! What did I say about dating my sister?!”
The majority of their lunch is spent with Jounouchi chasing Honda around for putting the moves on his sister, but at least the blond seems to be back to his normal self.
~*~*~*~
Jounouchi walks down the halls of Domino General Hospital. Seto never actually told him which hospital it was, but a little digging around made it easy to find out. In truth, he’s a little nervous about this trip. This will be the first time he’s ever met Seto’s little brother Mokuba. He doesn’t even know if Seto thought he was worth mentioning to the kid. Sure they got closer during that month together, but he’s pretty sure the brunet only thought of him as a quick fuck. Even if he did sometimes catch Seto looking at him when the other boy didn’t think he knew.
Even though sometimes, just sometimes, Jounouchi swore he could see more than lust in those blue eyes.
He reaches the room Mokuba is supposed to be recovering in. He swallows his nerves and knocks on the doorframe. “Hello? Who’s there?”
“Uh, hi. I’m a friend of your brother’s. Name’s Jounouchi Katsuya.” Bandaged eyes and a brilliant smile turn towards him.
“Oh! Oniisama’s told me lots about you, Jou-kun!”
“He has?” Jou can’t believe it! Not only did Seto bother mentioning him, but he did it often enough to warrant a ‘lots’?
“Yeah! You’re funny, and smart, and oniisama likes you lots and lots!”
“Uh, wow...I didn’t know he thought that highly of me.” Jounouchi thinks he might go into shock. This is way more than he could have hoped for. Mokuba giggles.
“I’m not surprised. Oniisama is really quiet about his feelings. He’s silly that way, you know?”
“Pup?” Seto brushes pass him to set a tray of food on the bedside table.
“Should I even bother telling you not to call me dog names?” Jounouchi grumbles. Even with the new revelations, he’s still a little sore about the brunet. There’s no guarantee that he wasn’t just a favored fling.
“You’ll only waste your breath,” admits Seto. Mokuba laughs at the two.
“Jou-kun, I want to thank you,” Mokuba says with another smile.
“Thank me? For what?”
“Oniisama said you paid for my surgery.” The blond blinks and looks at his sometimes lover who, for the first time in Jounouchi’s memory, is blushing. He will have to tease the taller teen for it later. “And you make oniisama happy!” the boy adds without any provocation. Seto grabs Jounouchi and drags him out of the room.
“We’ll be back in a minute, Mokuba. I need to talk to the puppy here.”
“Ow, hey! What’s the deal?” Jounouchi rubs his wrist once Seto drops his hold.
“What are you doing here, pup?”
“I thought I’d see how you and your brother were doing.” He grins. “So, you really think I’m funny and smart, huh?”
“Mokuba obviously exaggerated.”
“Uh huh, sure he did.” The fair teen’s grin grows when he sees a light blush spread over Seto’s cheeks again. “Was he exaggerating when he said you liked me?” Now it’s Jounouchi’s turn to blush as hope burns in his chest.
“Utterly and completely,” Seto answers with a dead serious tone.
Jounouchi’s brow twitches. “Jerk.”
“What? Were you expecting me to ask you out? Sorry, puppy. I don’t date outside of my species.”
“Shut up already!”
That’s it! He does NOT like Seto!
Seto smirks and pats Jounouchi on the head. “I’ll pick you up for a walkie at eight.”
“Okay.”
Maybe he likes him just a little.
Now if he can just break him of the dog jokes.
~*~*~*~*~*~
And it’s finished! Hurrah! This rewrite was a pain in the ass to finish. Mainly because my main beta dropped off the face of the earth, then my dad made me work more hours at the store. >_< So of course it takes me getting my wisdom teeth out to finally sit down and complete this little project. XD Yay for my new laptop that made it all possible because I can’t stay out of bed for more than a few minutes at a time without falling over!
I want to thank everyone who actually took the time to reread this thing. I’m proud to say it’s twice as long as the rushed original. Twice as smutty too. ^_____^ I finally got to flesh out a lot of the parts I originally wanted to play with, and was able to add things I didn’t even consider doing back then.
I may even start a sequel while I still have time off and the creative juices are flowing. I’m wondering what happens next. XD
Thank you, everybody!
>^_^<
MEOW!
Author: Kleptomaniac Can Opener
Rating: NC-17
Pairing(s): Seto x Jounouchi/Jounouchi x Seto, various side pairings
Disclaimer: Trust me, I don't own Yugi-Oh.
Summary: As the head of Katsuya Corp., Jounouchi isn't used to being ignored. Especially by some ordinary classmate with a stick up his rear-end.
~*~*~*~
The Prince and His Pauper
Part 6
~*~*~*~
The end of the month draws to a close, and as Seto had promised in the beginning, the product is ready for retail. It won’t go on the market immediately. Jounouchi is going to follow Seto’s suggestion of holding a Duel Monsters tournament to build up the hype to sell the Duel Disk to (and to do a few more tweaks to the system). The brunet even outlined the whole event for him.
Since the incident in the red-light distract, Jounouchi has tried to keep things professional between them. But it always inevitably ends up with them screwing like rapid llamas somewhere. The blond shakes his head. He needs to stop thinking, his metaphors are horrible.
He stares at the check on his desk and feels the sudden urge to tear it to pieces. The check also spells the end to their insane affair. Once Seto has his money, he won’t need Jounouchi for anything anymore. He’ll be able to get a normal job somewhere, one that people will approve of so he won’t have to worry about his image reflecting on his precious little brother.
It’s a good thing. It really is. But Jounouchi feels like pulling out his hair and destroying his office anyways.
There’s a knock on his door that gives him just enough warning to compose himself. Seto steps inside. “You did it, Seto. The damn thing works just like you said it would. I tried for months with a team of experts and you did it practically alone in a month.”
“Don’t burst a vein, puppy. Not everyone can be a genius.” Jounouchi doesn’t even react to the insult anymore. It began to feel more like a pet name than anything during week two. Though that may have been his business side kicking in so he wouldn’t strangle the brunet before the job was done.
“Yeah, whatever,” Jounouchi agrees with as much casual grace as he can muster while holding up the check. “The agreed amount, plus some extra for other uh, services rendered.” He feels a blush stain his cheeks in spite of his efforts. He coughs to cover up his embarrassment and continues speaking. “I doubt I have to say ‘use it wisely’, so I won’t.” He hands the valuable piece of paper to the other teen. Seto’s hand overlaps his own.
Jounouchi’s heart stops.
The check is slipped out of his lax fingers. He’s so caught up in Seto’s smoldering gaze he barely catches the brunet’s words. “Thank you.”
Once he’s alone, Jounouchi melts into his seat. “I hate it when he teases.” He shivers as he thinks of those eyes that have always managed to hold his attention. “I’m not going to miss your dumb ass,” he declares to the room. “I’m going to see you in school everyday.”
~*~*~*~
A week goes by without Seto showing up for school. It’s an unusual thing for a perfect attending student to do. But the teachers don’t look too worried, so the cold brunet must have given early notice. Most of the student body doesn’t care about Kaiba Seto, but the teenaged population does love its gossip.
Jounouchi, though he can guess where the blue-eyed teen is well enough, can’t help by worry anyways. This hasn’t escaped his friends’ notice. Honda sighs and sits next to his best friend at the usual lunch spot in the courtyard. “Come on, spit it out. Where is the jerk?” Yugi gives Honda a light whap on the arm for the unnecessary insult when their friend is in obvious distress. Miho has a seat with the rest of them.
“You said everything at work went fine, right?”
“Yeah, everything was dandy and I let my stupid ass get carried away,” Jounouchi mumbles into his soda can.
“So where is he?” Honda urges.
“He’s probably with his brother. He would have gotten the surgery done ASAP.”
“Why don’t you visit them?” suggests Yugi.
“No way. He probably wants nothing more to do with me.”
“Did he actually say that?”
“Well, no...” Miho rolls her eyes at the blond’s unusual hesitance.
“So go visit them, stupid.” Jounouchi’s brain tries to come up with excuses not to.
“But I promised to do stuff with Honda!”
“Nah, if that’s what it takes to make your sorry ass happy again, go for it. I have a date with Shizuka anyway.”
“Dammit, Honda! What did I say about dating my sister?!”
The majority of their lunch is spent with Jounouchi chasing Honda around for putting the moves on his sister, but at least the blond seems to be back to his normal self.
~*~*~*~
Jounouchi walks down the halls of Domino General Hospital. Seto never actually told him which hospital it was, but a little digging around made it easy to find out. In truth, he’s a little nervous about this trip. This will be the first time he’s ever met Seto’s little brother Mokuba. He doesn’t even know if Seto thought he was worth mentioning to the kid. Sure they got closer during that month together, but he’s pretty sure the brunet only thought of him as a quick fuck. Even if he did sometimes catch Seto looking at him when the other boy didn’t think he knew.
Even though sometimes, just sometimes, Jounouchi swore he could see more than lust in those blue eyes.
He reaches the room Mokuba is supposed to be recovering in. He swallows his nerves and knocks on the doorframe. “Hello? Who’s there?”
“Uh, hi. I’m a friend of your brother’s. Name’s Jounouchi Katsuya.” Bandaged eyes and a brilliant smile turn towards him.
“Oh! Oniisama’s told me lots about you, Jou-kun!”
“He has?” Jou can’t believe it! Not only did Seto bother mentioning him, but he did it often enough to warrant a ‘lots’?
“Yeah! You’re funny, and smart, and oniisama likes you lots and lots!”
“Uh, wow...I didn’t know he thought that highly of me.” Jounouchi thinks he might go into shock. This is way more than he could have hoped for. Mokuba giggles.
“I’m not surprised. Oniisama is really quiet about his feelings. He’s silly that way, you know?”
“Pup?” Seto brushes pass him to set a tray of food on the bedside table.
“Should I even bother telling you not to call me dog names?” Jounouchi grumbles. Even with the new revelations, he’s still a little sore about the brunet. There’s no guarantee that he wasn’t just a favored fling.
“You’ll only waste your breath,” admits Seto. Mokuba laughs at the two.
“Jou-kun, I want to thank you,” Mokuba says with another smile.
“Thank me? For what?”
“Oniisama said you paid for my surgery.” The blond blinks and looks at his sometimes lover who, for the first time in Jounouchi’s memory, is blushing. He will have to tease the taller teen for it later. “And you make oniisama happy!” the boy adds without any provocation. Seto grabs Jounouchi and drags him out of the room.
“We’ll be back in a minute, Mokuba. I need to talk to the puppy here.”
“Ow, hey! What’s the deal?” Jounouchi rubs his wrist once Seto drops his hold.
“What are you doing here, pup?”
“I thought I’d see how you and your brother were doing.” He grins. “So, you really think I’m funny and smart, huh?”
“Mokuba obviously exaggerated.”
“Uh huh, sure he did.” The fair teen’s grin grows when he sees a light blush spread over Seto’s cheeks again. “Was he exaggerating when he said you liked me?” Now it’s Jounouchi’s turn to blush as hope burns in his chest.
“Utterly and completely,” Seto answers with a dead serious tone.
Jounouchi’s brow twitches. “Jerk.”
“What? Were you expecting me to ask you out? Sorry, puppy. I don’t date outside of my species.”
“Shut up already!”
That’s it! He does NOT like Seto!
Seto smirks and pats Jounouchi on the head. “I’ll pick you up for a walkie at eight.”
“Okay.”
Maybe he likes him just a little.
Now if he can just break him of the dog jokes.
~*~*~*~*~*~
And it’s finished! Hurrah! This rewrite was a pain in the ass to finish. Mainly because my main beta dropped off the face of the earth, then my dad made me work more hours at the store. >_< So of course it takes me getting my wisdom teeth out to finally sit down and complete this little project. XD Yay for my new laptop that made it all possible because I can’t stay out of bed for more than a few minutes at a time without falling over!
I want to thank everyone who actually took the time to reread this thing. I’m proud to say it’s twice as long as the rushed original. Twice as smutty too. ^_____^ I finally got to flesh out a lot of the parts I originally wanted to play with, and was able to add things I didn’t even consider doing back then.
I may even start a sequel while I still have time off and the creative juices are flowing. I’m wondering what happens next. XD
Thank you, everybody!
>^_^<
MEOW!