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kaitou-RedButterfly — Outside - Ch.04
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Description #See your True colours#

Chapter 4

The sky was painted a deep velvet blue, with occasional charcoal clouds that pursued eachother across the last amber streaks of sunset. Several glowing gems had already become visible when a boy's stray figure arrived outside the silhuette of a small, deceptively neat bungalow. The tinkling sounds as he shuffled for his keys echoed the crystal stars. Numb fingers worked to push the key through the lock but the front door drifted open itself upon turning the handle, and he stumbled inside. Figures, Jou thought, he's passed out cold in a house with unlocked doors. Cupping his hands over his mouth the blond breathed on them to try and bring back the feeling the chill January air had stolen away.

"Back from our little escapades, are we Katsuya?"

Jounouchi shut his eyes momentarily and swore to himself; so the old man was not out cold. He sighed, knowing full well that his father was bordering blind-drunk, despite his remarkably coherent speech; although he could not prevent the slight undertonal slur from betraying his condition. Perhaps it was that which notified the teen of his current state; then again, it could have been the various empty liqour bottles scattered over the luminal floor, the acrid smell that was a mixture of alcohol and stale vomit, or the fact that it was the same everyday. Well, almost everyday - normally, the father-figure of the house would already be unconcious - or semi so.

The Mutt's father continued in a sickly ill-omened voice.

"Back from, from getting drunk with your little friends?"

Jou replied in a calm monotone, suggesting that this wasn't something he was unused to.

"I've come straight home from school, and i'm not old enough to buy alcohol."

It was true, school had finished barely an hour ago; perhaps the early dark was confusing to the drunken fool. Jou's father suddenly jumped up in anger, his mood changing with the wind; the blonde had barely enough time to hop aside before an empty liquor bottle shattered against the wall. Jounouchi panted in alarm at the unprovoked action, looking to his right where the bottle had struck over a metre away, momentarily thankful that his father wasn't in a more able condition to aim.

"You. Little. Thief." The older man hissed, a trail of foamy liquid trickling down his chin and onto his stained checkered shirt. "Stealing a bottle of gin, thought i wouldn't notice! Oh, and then, then you come staggering in in the middle of the night!"

Jounouchi retained his distance as his father absently staggered, clumsily feeling around the floor with a long arm for another projectile weapon. Picking up several bottles, he lashed out again, aiming the glass at his son inbetween every sentence.

"You and your retarded little criminal friends (throw) I bet you're in a cult aswell, with all that fucked up egyptian voodoo crap (chuck) You're a fucking imbecile (hurl) I should throw you out on your knees you little bastard (hurl)-"

The blonde ducked upon the last throw, surprised when it actually just narrowly missed his head. His father paused a moment as if concidering something, although it was more probably because he'd just ran out of ammo. He glared at Jou through glazed eyes.

"Get out! Get the fuck out you little-"

The boy needed no convincing. Yanking the front door open and pulling it shut in an instant. He sighed, wiping the back of a hand as he noticed that a shard of glass had scraped it. He sighed again, brushing dirty blonde hair from his eyes; it looked like it was gonna be 'one of those' days. A shiver went through the blond as a chill wind blew, and he made his way briskly to the side of the house, leaping up off the brick wall of the house and lifting himself up onto the garage roof in a single fluent motion. Jou flinched slightly as his aching body voiced its complaint, but knelt down at his window, which was conveniently located just above the garage. He crouched down and reached a hand deep under the thatched roof cover, increasingly numb fingers trying to coax out the small silver key he'd hidden there; with his father often like this, Jou being thrown out wasn't an uncommon occurance. His fingers enclosed around the familiar object and he drew it out, fiddling it into the old hatch lock on the chipped wooden frame. Turning the key he gently persuaded the window open, much to its reluctance, and swung a leg inside.

"Resorted to breaking into houses, Mutt?"

Jounouchi shut his eyes in prayer; why, why of all people did he have to show up? The 'Mutt' was definately in no mood for the egotistical CEO just then.

"Honestly, even I didn't think you'd be so mongr-"

"Shut it!"

The blond silenced Kaiba by swifty hurling his shoe down, hitting the brunette in the chest whilst managing to unbalance himself and topple in through the window and into his room. The scene remained still and silent for a moment, until Jou's somewhat feeble voice spoke out from his room.

"Um, Kaiba? Could you like, pass me that shoe back?"

No response. Jounouchi frowned and got up, making his way to the window - when said shoe flew through aforementioned window and struck said boy in the eye. The boy grunted angrily and shot back to his window, an insult ready on his lips - but the brunette was now nowhere to be seen, with nothing but an echo of "Baka Mutt..." residing into the night to suggest he was ever there. Jou frowned and cursed to himself. Giving up, he strode across his room muttering small curses at Kaiba, and proceeded to lean against the cabinet beside his door and push it across the door with his back. Finished, he flexed his shoulder muscles to massage away leftover pain from his bruises, thinking that he really ought to get a lock for that door. Finished, the boy was hit by sudden exhaustion, and collapsed atop his bed fully clothed.

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Jounouchi swore, voilently flinging the locker door shut as he answered back at the CEO.

"For your information, i feel a hell of a lot better today! Or atleast i did before you-"

Kaiba smirked, cutting the blonde off.

"Glad to hear it, Mutt. Later."

Kaiba strolled away down the hall, once again leaving a bewildered Jounouchi in his wake. The bell rang, making the blonde curse again and run off after Kaiba, towards his first class.

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"Therefore, to solve these inequalities one must first accumulate the solution of integers-"

-blah blah blah; who the hell made maths compulsary anyways? Jounouchi slumped forward ungracefully in his chair, one hand supporting his head, now hovering about two inches off the desk. His eyes drearily blinked from the blank wall before him to the plain white clock above the door. Twenty minutes left. Jou yawned and folded his arms on his desk, resting his head on top. Frankly he thought it a miracle he was still awake, considering how early he'd had to get up to climb out his window unnoticed. It's not so much that he was worried of his father catching him, which is unlikely in itself as he only ever awakes after midday, but he didn't like the pitying looks the neighbours would pout at him as he clambered half-asleep from the building.

The blonde shifted his gaze from the marker crawling lazily across the whiteboard, wondering who the hell had even invented cumulative graphs and not even daring to fathom what they were, when his eyes fell on something far more interesting. Or rather, someone.

Kaiba sat far back in his chair, his long outstretched legs knotted at the shins and one arm straight, his wrist resting on the edge of his desk. He looked the spitting image of Seto Kaiba, CEO, Mr. Too-Good-For-Anyone, cold and ruthless. Jou's amber eyes continued to study him. The brunette was consistently staring at the board, blue eyes following the blue marker as it danced loops across it. His dark hair though seemed a little ruffled and hung down unevenly across his forehead, somehow conveying that he wasn't paying the slightest attention to the lesson at hand. Fingers retracted and ran through his hair, and Jou's gaze followed them as they grasped a pencil and began twirling it absently. Seto Kaiba, CEO, Mr. Too-Good-For-Anyone, cold and rthless; but wasn't he the same person that came to his aid when he needed him? That then brought medicine in for him, so that he didn't hurt so much? The blonde smirked, yea, even if it did just about poison me. It was my fault anyways, but... His thoughts drifted off and he frowned. Why had Kaiba been outside his house last night? He didn't live anywhere near there, and even if he did he wouldn't have been walking. Did, did he go to check up on him? Jounouchi continued to watch, fascinated as the pencil flew up and twirled through the air before being caught effortlessly by the tips of two fingers that began to impossibly spin it again. He always acts so high and mighty, but perhaps thats all it is; an act.

Suddenly, the sapphire eyes flicked to Jou's face, as if they had known he was watching all along, giving him a questioning glare. For the first time, Jou held the gaze, his lips tugging up at one corner in an amused smirk and his eyes smiling softly. The CEO's glare held true several more moments, before Seto smiled back.
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Comments: 7

jinmuto1377 [2007-10-28 16:55:25 +0000 UTC]

awwwwwwwwwww he smiled back!!! so sweet!!! yup! still lovze it!!!!!

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KateRyou [2007-01-04 18:48:36 +0000 UTC]

I'm still loving this. You have a fan in me. ^_^

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kaitou-RedButterfly In reply to KateRyou [2007-01-05 23:13:55 +0000 UTC]

yaaay~ kates make the best fans. they're eccentric. +___+

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KateRyou In reply to kaitou-RedButterfly [2007-01-06 13:15:50 +0000 UTC]

Nope! And finally I'm recognized while reading something. ^_^ It's a really good story though. I write and have an account on FF.net, but I can never seem to finish anything.

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kaitou-RedButterfly In reply to KateRyou [2007-01-06 20:17:46 +0000 UTC]

lol same here +__+ i shall read something of yours some time, methinks; whats your ff account?

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KateRyou In reply to kaitou-RedButterfly [2007-01-06 23:50:16 +0000 UTC]

Kate Ryou. just like on here

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kaitou-RedButterfly In reply to kaitou-RedButterfly [2007-01-05 23:23:09 +0000 UTC]

Also, the next chapters up! GO! (bet you're regretting this now, huh? XD)

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