Tied Together

Ok next chapter for you. Yeah I know it's a short one but that's just how it turned out. I promise the next one will be longer and it's pretty much already written so I'll be updating sooner this time.

"big hugs" for the reviews.

KiraRaven: Glad you like. Yeah I remember that bit in battle city, I think he was dreaming about Kaiba at the time. hee hee

yaoirose: Yes they have to sleep together, but don't get too excited just yet. ;P

kara: Oh wow thankies. I really tried to get their personalities right so it's great that you like so too! Of course that does make it difficult to get the two together. >.<

Tellnoone_Noonetells: Seto likes pocky! (It's true) I fear that this chap may not live up to your own yaoi thoughts. Their both being very stubborn and won't get it to together easily.

fire_lilly: Yeah I like Kaiba would sue but as you say it's more fun this way. XD

margyy: Awww poor Joey and Kaiba *evil grin* It's alright, they'll be ok.


Here it is...enjoy.


All in all the evening could have been a lot worse. Joey did has he was told and did his homework while Kaiba worked, the calm was only broken once or twice when Joey got stuck and Kaiba reluctantly put his own work aside to help the blonde. After all he was a man of his word.

Then came dinner, which Kaiba had no trouble knowing was Joey’s favourite part of the evening. Kaiba watched in a kind of morbid curiosity at the amount of food Joey managed to devour that night. It was amazing that he didn’t end up choking several times. After dinner the pair headed to Kaiba’s home office again. It was fine for about an hour then things started going down hill. Joey having finished his homework was now extremely bored. They argued for a while about having the TV on. Kaiba flatly refused, saying it was a useless distraction and didn’t know why he had one in here in the first place. Joey let the matter drop but still complained about having nothing to do. To which Kaiba suggested that he read a book. After much grumbling Joey picked out a book and sat quietly reading and Kaiba could finally get some work done.

The peace didn’t last long as Wheeler started complaining about the time. Mokuba had already been in to say goodnight 45 minutes ago and it was now almost 11.

“Come on Kaiba, you can’t keep working all night. Even you must get tired.” To which Kaiba replied each time, “Just a little longer.”

Now to Kaiba “just a little longer” roughly translated as “another hour at least”. It was something Mokuba should have warned
Joey about earlier at dinner.

At last Kaiba had finished what he wanted to get done for today, convinced that it wouldn’t have taken him so long if he didn’t have all those distraction. He glanced at the clock on the wall. 1:30 am. Oops. A brief pang of sympathy for Joey surfaced momentarily. He really hadn’t noticed how late it had gotten. It was then he realised that Joey had been unusually quiet for a while. He looked over at Wheeler to see him fast asleep, head resting on his arms, lying across the desk. Kaiba couldn’t help the small smile that pulled at his lips from the sight in front of him. He hoped that this smile was because Wheeler reminded him of how Mokuba used to do the same thing when he was younger and not because a sleeping quiet Joey was actually kind of cute. NO it was definitely the Mokuba thing. Still it was a shame to wake him. Kaiba didn’t mind him so much when he kept his mouth shut. Be that has it may Kaiba had no choice but to if he wanted to sleep in his bed that night. Not unless he was prepared to carry Wheeler there and that was definitely not gonna happen. Therefore Kaiba reached down and gentle shook Joey awake.

“Come on Mutt, I’m not spending the night in here.”

“Huh?” Joey mumbles has he lifts his head off of the desk. He looks around and spots Kaiba standing near the door. “Oh you’ve finished. What time is it?”

“1:30”

“What! No wonder I feel asleep. What’s the matter with you? We’ve got school in the morning!”

“It’s fine. I’m used to it. Now come on I’m tired.” Trying to put an end to their pointless conversation Kaiba strolled from the room making Joey follow him. Unfortunately this didn’t stop Wheeler from talking.

“Wow Kaiba you work like this regularly? I mean it’s not like you ever miss school at all and you never look tired or
anything.”

“It’s called discipline Wheeler. Didn’t think you’d recognise it. You never did finish your puppy training did you?”

“Stop with the dog jokes moneybags.” Joey said yawning. “I was just thinking that it’s amazing you can do so much and not show it. I know I’ll never be able to do that.” Kaiba stopped in front of his bedroom door, looking back at Wheeler. Kaiba never thought he’d see the day that Joey Wheeler would admit that he was better at something than him. Joey had always been keen to prove himself and for some reason it was always been Kaiba that he needed to have acknowledgement from. Why Wheeler had chosen him, Kaiba had never figured out but maybe this whole chained experiment would stop Joey looking to him for approval. After all Joey had his stupid friends to support him and cheer him on, why did he care what he thought?

“I don’t do it because I want to. You’re lucky you don’t have to.” With that Kaiba opened the door. His bedroom was quite a sparse space, not for lack of furniture it was just that it was such a large room that any furniture placed in it looked small by comparison. The only thing that fit the room perfectly was the bed. Kaiba had had it specially made as he couldn’t find a bed large enough that suited the space. Mokuba had asked why he had wanted such a large bed for surely it would be isolating having a huge bed just for him. Kaiba had found himself agreeing with his brother after the first few nights however now with the prospect of sharing a bed with Wheeler he was glad that he had it. It was almost like a premonition, if he believed in such things.

“Um…” Joey started. Kaiba looked round to see him nervously playing with the chain around his wrist. “…are you sure this is alright?”

“Look.” Kaiba said sighing. “I’m tired, you’re tired, it’s a huge bed. We’ll barely know the other is there. Plus we’ll both be asleep, I doubt even we’ll be able to annoy each other then. Now shut up and go to sleep.”

So their night ending with each of them at either side of the bed, the furthest they could get from the other and to the surprised of the pair, they both managed to drift off fairly quickly.

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