Tied Together

Ok I'm back. Woot! Sorry about no update last week was away so had no time for writing. I'm hoping this chapter will make up for it. This is quite a special one for me cos this is where it all started. The first part of this chapter was the first thing I ever wrote of this story. So it's kind of weird coming back to it now after writing all the stuff before. (I have a tentency to not write in a linear way. ^_^)

"Big hugs" for my reviewers

HiMokusei: Glad you're still enjoying it so much. Yeah Joey did go for it a little fast but he's always been quick to jump into things so I think it works. Ah yes the notes. Truth be told even I don't know what's on it yet...as soon as I do I'll let you all know.

KiraRaven: Awww I know poor Joey, but it has to get worse before it can get better. They do work really well together...I guess that's why I love this pairing so much. ;P Seto's chapter comes next. Hope you can wait till then. ^_^

margyy: Sorry but I have to make them suffer a bit...this one should make it better though.

Cody_Thomas: Oh dear. You might have to kick him harder!

yaoirose: I'm trying to get the love but Seto's being difficult.

Thankies for all

Deep breath...here we go

Enjoy ^_^


He didn’t know how long he was sat there or when it had started to rain, all he knew now was that it was dark, the only light coming from a nearby lamp post and he was soaking wet.

What the hell was he thinking!? Why did he have to say something? After all there was no way he was gonna feel the same way! Stupid Joey! Stupid, stupid! Being so busy chastising himself, head bowed and eyes screwed shut in regret, Joey didn’t notice the shadow that passed over him. It was only when he realised that he had stopped feeling the rain that he looked up to see Risa holding an umbrella over his head.

“I take it it didn’t go so well.” She asked, the smile on her face doing nothing to hide the sympathy in her eyes.

“What makes you say that?”

“The fact that you’re trying to drown yourself maybe.” Joey just sighs, his gaze falling to the ground again. “You’re gonna get pneumonia if you stay out here much longer.” Standing up straight Ohana extends a hand. “Come on, I’ll walk you home.” Joey seems to pause for a moment before taking Ohana’s hand, bringing himself to his feet.

“Thanks.”

“You don’t mind if we take a little detour do you?” she asks as they set off down the street.

Joey shakes his head. “No, it’s fine.” Not that he really cared where they went just as long as it helped to take his mind off of what he had done earlier. Try as he might, Joey was finding it very difficult not to think about Kaiba. Why!? Why did it have to be him?! Why couldn’t he have found a nice normal girl to fawn over like everyone else? Like it wasn’t bad enough to fall for a guy, the fact that it was Kaiba made him feel all the worse.

“Oh come on Wheeler it couldn’t have went that bad. You’re still standing after all.” Joey shot a sideways glare at Ohana who seemed completely oblivious to the attention as she had started to twirl a lock of hair between her fingers.

“You weren’t there.” Joey says grumpily.

“Can’t deny that.” Risa says coming to a stop, the hair dropping from her hand. “So you’ll have to tell me. What did he say?” Joey sighed. This really wasn’t what he wanted to talk about. He had already spent the past couple of hours agonising over it himself, now he was gonna have to relive it again for Ohana. He looked up, annoyed that his eyes had immediately sort out the looming countenance of the KC building.

“He said he didn’t have time for this and then stomped off.”

“Oh.” Risa contemplated for a moment before starting off down the street again adding, “Well that’s not so bad.”

“Not that bad!” Joey has to jog slightly to catch up. “He couldn’t get away fast enough.”

“He didn’t actually say no though, did he?”

“Huh?”

“Ah look at that! It’s stopped raining.” She exclaimed, taking down the umbrella and shaking it out. “I don’t think your worlds ended yet. You probably just surprised him. Give him some time and I’m sure he’ll give you a proper answer.”

“Yeah right.” Joey was finding it difficult to draw hope from her words, he seriously doubted he was gonna be seeing Kaiba any time soon and when he did it definitely wouldn’t be a sunny reunion. Ok so it was true that he actually didn’t specifically say “NO!” but it was pretty much implied with the way that he ran off. What worried him now was that he had completely ruined the fragile friendship they had briefly formed. Going back to the way they were before would have been bearable At least he would still have contact with the brunet. The thought that haunted him was that Kaiba would simply blank him and Joey didn’t think he would be able to cope with that. It was that that worried him the most right now.

“Oh here we are.” She stated breaking his train of thought. Joey stared. The Palladium?! Why the hell where they here? Risa stopped suddenly, bringing her arm up in front of Jou. “Uh-oh!” Joey looked up at her curiously, finding her staring wide eyed straight ahead. Joey followed her gaze to see a figure leaning against the building by the stage entrance. “Shit I made him wait.” Ohana slumped slightly, hanging her head. “He’s gonna kill me.”

“Huh? Who is it?” Joey squints ahead trying to see who is standing by the building. The only thing he can tell for sure it that the guy was blonde.

“Oh well,” She exclaims in a falsely bright voice, “this should be fun. Let’s go!” With that she grabs Joey pulling him forward and towards the figure by the door. The man turns as they approach, Risa waves and laughs nervously at the disgruntle look on the guys face.

“Where the hell have you been?”

“What? Am I late...” she says innocently checking her watch. The man grabs her wrist, pulling her towards him.

“You know full well that you’re late!”

“Yeah well, ok I know, but that’s because I met Jou here.” She reaches behind her and drags him over. Upon seeing Joey the guy immediately drops Risa’s arm.

“He’s a bit young for you isn’t he?” the man states blandly, lighting himself a cigarette.

“Ha Ha very good, no, this is Joey Wheeler. He’s a student from my school. Wheel...” Ohana stops when she sees Joey staring wide eyed at the man before him.

“That...that’s Gen....Gen Nikaido!” Joey couldn’t believe it! This man was supposed to be one of the world’s best pianists and here he was standing in front of him. Now Joey would be the first to say that he was not interested in guys, but it’s people like Kaiba and this guy here that can really mess that resolve up. He had known that the guy was good looking from the pictures he’d seen but that did nothing to help him when meeting him in the flesh.

“So it is.” Ohana says in a dreamy voice. Joey tears his eyes away from Gen to glare at Ohana in disbelieve.

“You know him!?”

“Of course, I’m going out with him.” Jou watched as an annoyed frown appeared on Gen’s face at Ohana’s words. “Ooh don’t pull that face, it’s your own fault.”

“How is it my fault?”

“Do you really want to go down this road again? You know you’ll lose.”

“Oh my god!” Joey blurted out and both turned towards him. “You’ve got his poster in your office!”

“What!?” Snapped Gen.

“Shut it Wheeler!” Risa hissed at Joey.

“I told you to get rid of that.” Gen said, narrowing his eyes at her.

“You told me to get it out of the house and I did.” Risa replied innocently.

“I told you to get rid of it completely.”

“But it’s in my office so you don’t have to look at it. I don’t see what the problem is.”

“You know I don’t like that stuff.”

“But you look so good in it.”

“I don’t care.” It seemed that he had had enough. Taking a last drag of his cigarette, Gen drops it on to the pavement and stamps it out. “Look…” He said rubbing his eyes. “I’m too tired to argue with you. It’s been a very long day that I’ve had to spend surrounded by people I can’t stand, so now all I want to do is go home and be alone with you...” he says gently reached out and brushing her hair behind her ear, “...so just throw the damn poster away.” With that he begins to walk off down the street. Joey glances at Risa and is surprised to find a look of barely restrained joy on her face.

“...he wants us to be alone...” She says to herself, seemingly unaware that Joey is still there. “...ooh...that’s one of the sweetest things he ever said to me.”

“Uh...Miss Ohana?”

“Huh? Oh sorry.” Risa was once again made aware of the other’s presence. “He’s just so adorable I can’t help it.” Joey gave her a very strange look. “Yeah I know, others may not see it but he’s always like that, so I guess I’m used to it.” Jou didn’t know what to say and he thought he had it bad with someone like Kaiba. “It helps that their good looking right?” She asks with a smile as if knowing exactly what he’s thinking.

“What...to make up for the major personality problem?”

“Hey he’s not...oh who am I kidding.” Risa concedes. “But you saw...he can be very sweet sometimes...”

“Risako!” Gen calls out suddenly. Jou looks past Ohana to see that he has stopped to wait couple of yards away. Risa sighs.

“He’s just really, really good at hiding it. Alright, I’m coming!” She calls back. “Are you gonna be ok?” she then asks Joey.

“Um yeah, it’s fine. I live just down there.” Joey points down a different street to the one Ohana and Gen are taking.

“Ok, take care Joey. See you at school.” She leaves waving before rushing off to join Gen. Jou watches them walk off side by side, noticing after a while that Gen slowly reaches out and takes Risa’s hand in his. Jou continues to watch them until they disappear around the corner, thinking that if they can work out then there maybe hope for him and Kaiba yet.

Feeling better than he had all day Joey headed home. He was just coming up to his apartment building when he noticed a person sitting on the steps outside. A horrible sinking sensation came over him as he finally made out who it was; after all there was no mistaking that trench coat. Joey considered that maybe he didn’t really need to go home that night but froze when he realised that he had been spotted.

“Where the hell have you been?!” Kaiba had gotten to his feet and was now glaring hard at Joey.

“Um...I was...” Joey was more than a little taken aback to see Kaiba on his doorstep, he wasn’t even aware that Kaiba knew where he lived. “...wait...why are you here?”

“Why? You ask why?” The clearly furious CEO replied, taking purposeful steps towards him. “Why do you think Wheeler!?”

“Oh...yeah...that.”

“Yes...that! I’m glad it’s so easy for tiny mind to forget but some of us don’t have that luxury!” Kaiba’s voice was steadily rising in volume and Joey was afraid he was going to attack him at any moment. He saw him glance off to one side and realised that they were starting to attract attention. “Come here.” Kaiba grabs Joey’s arm and pulls him towards the door. “Open it.”

“What?”

“Open the door. I’m not going to do this outside with an audience!”

“Fine! Then let go of me.” Joey shoves Kaiba off him and fishes his keys out of his pocket.

“Besides you’re soaked.” He says quieter now, wiping his damp hand from where he had touched the blond on his coat. “You’re gonna make yourself sick staying like that.” Joey got the door open and they ascended the stairs to his apartment in silence. Once inside Jou scuttled off to his room, leaving Kaiba alone in his living room without saying a word. He honestly had no clue what to say. The fact that Kaiba was here, now and in his house, was something that he hadn’t even considered. It was throwing him completely. He came back a short while later in dry clothes with a towel over his head for his hair. Kaiba was in the same place he had left him, barely inside the door.

“Look...what I said...I’m sorr...” Jou didn’t even get to finish his apology as he found himself being slammed against his own door, towel falling from his head. “Ow!” Jou choked out as Kaiba held him against the wall. “What the hell...!” he started out angrily but stopped when he saw the enraged and almost scared look in Kaiba’s eyes.

“What the hell is wrong with you?! Are you fucking stupid or something?! I mean what were you thinking?” Now as much as Joey hated to admit it, he had always been sort of intimidated by Kaiba. The brunet’s taller and impressive continence would always make you think twice before you tried to cross him, but he had never actually been scared before, not like now. Then again he had never seen Kaiba like this. Joey grabbed onto Kaiba’s hands trying to removing them from his clothes.

“Let me go!” he said when he had no such luck with prying Kaiba off him.

“No.” Kaiba snarled back. “Not until you tell me how the hell this happened? I just...I don’t understand! I mean what was it that I did right?”

“Uh...” Joey didn’t know what to say. He hadn’t even figured out what it was about the brunet that feel the way he did. “I...um...I don’t...”

“Tell me.” Kaiba said urgently, pulling him from the wall and slamming him against it again. “Tell me now! So that whatever it is I can stop it and this whole thing can go away.”

“What?” Joey spluttered, struggling against Kaiba’s hold, wanting nothing more than for this to end. “It doesn’t work like that moneybags! I don’t know what it is either and even if I did I couldn’t just make it “go away”, it’s not that simple.”

“But it must be! You weren’t yesterday, so just go back.”

Joey rolled his eyes. “Jesus Kaiba you really don’t have a clue do you? You can’t tell your emotions and feeling what to do. That’s not how it goes. But I guess you wouldn’t know that since you don’t have any! You cold hearted bastard.”

“Yeah, that’s right.” Kaiba stated calmly finally letting Joey go. “I am a-cold-hearted-bastard. So you have no right to…to fall in love with me.” Jou couldn’t miss the pained and uncomfortable look that crossed the brunet’s face when he mentioned love. As Kaiba moved away Joey lowered his head, his anger being quickly replaced with an empty kind of sadness.

“It is really that bad...being loved by me?” he murmured but loud enough so that he knew Kaiba would hear him. The silence he received as an answer said it all. Things were now becoming all too much for Joey. Picking up the nearest thing within his reach, which happened to be the television remote, he threw it hard at the brunet.

“Get out.” He says quietly at first before repeated it louder. “Get out!” He finds another thing to throw. “I don’t want you here anymore, get out!” Kaiba numbly stays where he is, raising his arms to protect himself from the objects flying his way. “Why are you just standing there...” he looks up towards the CEO, “...I told you to get out.” He didn’t know when he had started crying but he could feel it now, he could feel the trail his tears made as they travelled down his flushed cheeks. From the look on Kaiba’s face it seemed he was just as shocked to see Joey crying as he was. Jou hurriedly lowered his head, hiding his eyes beneath his bangs, worried that he now looked even more pathetic to the other teen. “Why you?” he sobbed. “Why did it have to be you?”

Kaiba takes a cautious step closer to the blonde. “Whe...Joey...” he tried to say softly.

“No!” Jou shouts cutting him off. “Stop it! Ever since the day I met you, you’ve been nothing but horrible to me!” He returns to throwing things again. “So how...how are you effecting me like this? This wouldn’t be happening if I had never met you! Everything would be as it used to be. This is all your fault. Why the hell should someone like you be getting me so upset!” By this point Kaiba had moved forward and grabbed both of Joey’s wrists, no doubt tired of having random projectiles thrown at him. “Why...I love you.” He conceded still hiding his face from Kaiba. “I love you! I love you damn it! Am I so wrong for loving you...you asshole!” As if physically drained Joey leans forward, resting his forehead against Kaiba’s chest. “Why someone like you? This is the worst...the complete worst.” Joey expected to be shoved off but he wasn’t. Kaiba let him stay where he was, sobbing uncontrollably into that familiar trench coat. After a while Kaiba gently forced Joey off him though still keeping him close. Jou wondering dimly if Kaiba was ever going to left go of his wrists when he felt soft lips connect with his. Jou eyes flow open to see Seto Kaiba, as close as that morning they had woken up together, kissing him. Letting his eyes slide shut, Joey opened his mouth allowing the brunet to claim his first kiss completely. When Kaiba’s tongue entered his mouth Jou’s mind started to go fuzzy. He just couldn’t believe that this was happening. For a walking chunk of ice Kaiba could kiss...oh..it felt so good. As Joey let lose a moan of pleasure, Kaiba pulled back.

Joey fought off a sigh thinking that Kaiba had finally realised what the hell he was doing and was stopping before things went any further. However he had to quickly rethink this as he was pushed flush against the wall, Kaiba holding his wrist to the wall, either side of his head and began to kiss him again. Not tenderly and gentle like before but much more passionately with a hunger that he had never thought to associate with the cold businessman. Kaiba moved closer still, as he continued to assault Joey’s mouth, pushing Joey harder to the wall with the length of his body. The brunet finally let go of Joey’s wrists, his hands trailing down the blonde sides until reaching the end of his shirt and after effortlessly sliding beneath the material, started back upwards. Upon feeling the brunet’s long, cool fingers on his heated skin Joey let out another moan, his own fingers sinking into the CEO’s silky hair, tightening as Kaiba’s hands brushed against Joey’s nipples. Joey’s head thudded against the wall as he broke contact to release a breathy “oh” from the sensations that were shooting through his body.
These sensations only escalated when Kaiba’s lips connected with his neck, nipping and sucking down his throat while his leg came up between Jou’s, pressing into his slowly constricting jeans. Now with his mouth free Jou could feel himself wanting to call the brunets name but feared that if he did Kaiba would come to his senses and stop and that was the last thing he wanted to happen at the moment. Suddenly he felt a hand ghost over crotch, gently cupping between his legs before pulling the zip down and stroking the prize within. Jou’s legs immediately buckled, it had never felt this good, so much better than when he touched himself. It seemed that Kaiba’s hands were just as talented as the rest of him. Unable to remain standing any longer, Joey slides to the floor taking Kaiba with him.

Kaiba began kissing him again, pulling his own coat off and quickly divested Joey of his jeans and underwear. Not wishing to be a passive participated anymore, Jou removed his hands from the brunets hair, running them down the CEO’s surprisingly toned chest stopping when they reached the top of Kaiba’s trousers. Returning the favour Joey released Kaiba’s straining manhood from it’s confides, rubbing it like Kaiba had done for him moments ago, pleased when the other teen breathing became much heavier and laboured. Encouraged by the other’s response Joey was a little disappointed when Kaiba’s hand hurriedly removed his own from his erection. Joey soon found himself being pulled from the wall as Kaiba flipped their positions, making Jou straddle him. Kaiba lifts his fingers to Jou’s lips who immediately took them into his mouth intent on making them as wet as possible, knowing where they were going to go. A hand on his back guided him forward and up onto his knees, allowing his cock to rub against the brunet’s stomach. Finger’s fell from between the blonde’s lips as his head fell back from the contact. Kaiba trailed a series of kisses down Joey’s now exposed neck, trying to relax him for what was coming next. Joey couldn’t help the sharp intake of breath as the first of Kaiba’s long fingers entered his tight channel. It wasn’t as bad as Joey had expected, although it probably helped that he was incredibly horny. However that began to change when Kaiba’s second finger followed the first. Jou’s eyes screwed shut at the discomfort as the fingers started a scissoring motion, stretching him further. Tears formed at the corners of his eyes which Kaiba kissed away before catching his lips again and removing his fingers.

Wasting no time Kaiba lined the weeping head of his erection at the blonde’s puckered opening. Taking the hint Joey slowly started to embed himself on Kaiba’s engorged flesh, feeling every bit as if his body was being torn in two so he clung to the older teen, willing his body to relax. Kaiba held onto Joey’s hips firmly, helping to guide him down while also stopping the blonde from hurting himself. Once he had Kaiba’s cock buried completely within his recesses, Jou could only remain still, his face hiding in crock of the taller teen’s neck. From where he was Jou could feel the other’s rapidly beating pulse, relieved to know that Kaiba’s heart was probably pounding just as hard as his was. Being where he was Jou couldn’t help but start to kiss his way up Kaiba’s neck, Kaiba just smelt so good and Joey wanted nothing more than to taste the skin in front of him. Jou continued upwards until their mouths collided again, each intent on devouring the other. After Joey’s body had finally adjusted to the strange sensation of having Kaiba in him, he lifted himself up before boldly slamming back down, Kaiba’s stiff member filling him each time he descended.

“Ahh!” Joey cried out suddenly when Kaiba began to make thrusts of his own, meeting Joey’s and striking his prostate dead on. The pleasure of it raced up his spine eliminated any remaining discomfort he had and it only increased with each of Kaiba’s strong thrusts inside him. Joey’s legs were beginning to shake and he wondered how much longer he would be able to keep this pace. As if reading his mind Kaiba leaned forward forcing Joey onto his back and ramming into the blonde to his own rhythm. Jou cried out again from this new assault on his most sensitive spot. Liquid flowed from his embarrassingly stiff member and Joey knew that he wasn’t going to last much longer especially when Kaiba began to stroke him in time with his thrusts. Joey’s body shuddered as his reached his climax, reviling under the pleasurable waves that washed over him. Kaiba was shortly to follow, plunging his cock hard and deep one last time, releasing against Joey’s prostate.

Pulling out Kaiba collapsed on top of Joey, breathing heavily. Joey ran a hand through the brunet’s hair, closing his eyes and indulged in the feel of having him so close. He couldn’t believe it, things had all happened so fast one minute they were shouting at each other like always the next barely being able to keep hands to themselves. Joey couldn’t think anymore, he’d worry about what would happen next later. Exhausted he fell asleep.

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