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The Other Side of Hatred	By : DarkTemptations Category: Yu-Gi-Oh > Yaoi - Male/Male Views: 2716 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Title: The Other Side of Hatred 1/1

Author: Dark Temptations

Beta: Vash is my Angel

Rating: NC17 *smiles sweetly*

Summary: Joey learns the reason behind Kaiba's constant baiting and arguing over his abilities as a duelist, but will the discovery change anything in their lives?

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Dark Temptations Presents

The Other Side of Hatred

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I never knew.

All this time and I never knew.

A simple fact about him and I had no clue.

No. That's not true. There were clues. Lots of them.

I just didn't see them.

Until now.

They say hindsight is 20/20 vision. I never got that saying before. I get it now though.

Looking back, I can see all the clues I missed. The glances that made me so annoyed, because he kept his thoughts shuttered behind his eyes so I could never tell what he was thinking whenever he looked at me. The way he'd bait me, using his fancy words and that annoying bored tone. That smug smile that just made me want to wipe it off his face with my fist. How he never missed an opportunity to taunt me or criticise me. Even how, whenever I helped him with something, he'd never say thanks, he'd just stalk off as if he couldn't bear to admit that he'd needed help.

That was what I thought, anyway. I know different now.

In my mind, I guess I've known for a while now that something wasn't quite right about the way we argued. It was all too... convenient. He'd approach me, say something in that oh-so-superior tone he always uses and I'd respond. Predictable. Yeah, that's me. It was always the same. He'd approach me. Never the other way around. I usually tried to avoid him as much as I could. Maybe that's why his approaching me always annoyed me so much. I kept thinking how he couldn't resist the urge to bait me.

I really should listen to my thoughts more often. They're usually more right than I know.

It's been a couple of years since we first met. So much has happened. But nothing's changed between us, in all that time. It's always been the same old thing. Even our arguments were just covering the same ground each time! But our last argument changed all that.

Or I should say... what happened afterwards changed all that.

Usually, we just traded insults. He'd insult me; I'd insult him; he'd stalk away, getting in the last word in the process. It was normal. Familiar.

But not last time.

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Kaiba's sapphire eyes flashed as he glared at the irritating blonde boy standing in front of him. "You are nothing more than an ignorant mutt! A third-rate duelist who wouldn't know the meaning of the word 'strategy' unless he looked it up in the dictionary!"

Joey snarled, glaring back at Kaiba, his brown eyes bright with fury. "Oh yeah? I know what strategy means just fine, Kaiba. It means me working out a way to beat the pants off ya! One of these days, that's just what I'm gonna do! And then we'll see just which of us is the third-rate duelist!"

Kaiba smirked and turned away. "I already know the answer to that one, mutt."

Joey's eyes gleamed and he stepped forward, his rage causing him to overstep all the boundaries that he and Kaiba had established over the years, even though neither of them had ever said anything openly. It had just come to be accepted by both of them that their arguments would be verbal only, never physical. But in the heat of the moment, Joey forgot that.

He grabbed Kaiba's arm and pulled, the hard tug catching the brunette boy by surprise. His centre of balance thrown off by the unexpected movement, he fell against Joey.

"Hey! What's the big idea? Get off me!" Joey glared at Kaiba and tried to shove him away.

"Believe me, there is nothing I would rather do." Kaiba's glare was icy cold. "If you would refrain from moving for one minute, I would be able to regain my balance." His hands rested for a moment on Joey's hips as he steadied himself, his movement causing his lower body to brush against Joey's upper thigh. Then Kaiba stepped away, acting as if nothing unusual had happened. He sneered at Joey. "Now if you have quite finished manhandling me, I have work to do. Work that is far more important than arguing with a third-rate duelist." Turning, he stalked off.

Joey stood on the sidewalk and stared after Kaiba's retreating figure, a mix of shock and confusion in his eyes.

"Man... There is no way I felt what I thought I felt. Kaiba must have had something in his pocket or somethin'. No way he could have been... hard." Joey frowned at the thought and then shook his head. "Nah. It's impossible. Mr Freeze getting all hot and bothered like that? Never happen."

But still... Joey couldn't quite shake the memory of that hardness pressing into his leg.

Putting it to the back of his mind for the time being, Joey set his thoughts firmly on what he'd been doing before his argument with Kaiba. He had been walking to the game arcade to meet with Yugi and the others when Kaiba had approached him from the other direction and demanded that he step aside and make way for a 'real duelist'.

Joey frowned as the initial scene with Kaiba played out in his mind. There was something not quite right about it, but he couldn't quite... He blinked as the source of the wrongness suddenly clicked with him.

"Why did Kaiba go off in the direction I was headin' when it was the direction he'd come from in the first place?"

Joey looked around, very confused. "Did I get turned around in the argument? Nah. That's definitely the same direction. Maybe Kaiba doesn't know it." Joey sighed heavily. "I guess I'd better catch him up and tell him. Although... it would serve him right. Third-rate duelist..." He growled and glared in the direction Kaiba had gone. "On second thoughts, let him find out for himself. Man, I'd love to see the look on his face when he realises it."

Joey grinned as the thought took root in his mind and began to grow. "Yeah. Why not? I'll follow him for a bit. Just to see his reaction." Still grinning, Joey set off after Kaiba.

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I still don't know what possessed me to go after him. Maybe, deep down inside, I knew that it *had* been his hard cock pressing into my leg. But I let myself believe that it hadn't been. A part of me needed to believe that.

The same part of me that hated Seto Kaiba with every breath I took.

He was just so damn sure of himself all the time! Sure that the world revolved around him and that I was nothing. As far as he was concerned, the sun shone solely because he wished it too. Hell, he probably thought it shone out of his ass! Okay, that's an exaggeration. Probably. Point is, Kaiba was smug about everything. He had the world at his feet and he knew it. I had next to nothing and he knew that too. His favourite hobby seemed to be rubbing my face in that fact at every opportunity.

That was what I thought, anyway.

Hey, unlike Kaiba, I can admit when I make a mistake. And man... did I ever make a mistake when I followed him.

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Joey frowned in confusion at the building before him. It was a hotel. A cheap, rundown place. The kind of hotel where whores took their tricks when they weren't too sure that the guy had enough money to pay them, or when the guy was the kind of sleaze who didn't care where they did it as long as he got his money's worth. It was the last place in the world Joey would have thought of when he thought of Kaiba.

It was also where Kaiba was at that moment.

The blonde boy moved closer to get a better look.

From his position just outside the front door, Joey watched in stunned horror as Kaiba spoke to the hotel caretaker and then tossed him some bills before going on in.

Joey couldn't believe his eyes, but after a moment curiosity won out over his shock. He just had to know what was going on.

Slipping inside, the blonde took a deep breath and fixed a slightly dopey smile on his face. He ambled up to the caretaker with a slight wave, as if he had every right to be there. "My... friend just came in. I don't know the room number." He tried to keep from shuddering as the man gave him the once-over.

As Joey made his way further into the hotel, he made a mental note that there was something else he had to blame Kaiba for. Getting leered at by a fat, middle-aged, balding man smoking a foul-smelling cigarette and with a potbelly barely covered by a stained off-white singlet was definitely *not* Joey's idea of a good time. Neither was walking down a corridor that smelled of stale sweat and other odours that Joey was glad he couldn't place. He carefully kept to the middle of the hallway as he walked, not wanting to brush against any of the thankfully unidentifiable stains on the wall. He wasn't normally all that fussy about his surroundings, but even he had *some* standards. He looked out for the number the caretaker had told him and tried to breathe as little as possible.

Finding the room was easy, deciding what to do once he'd found it... That was another matter entirely.

Joey paced outside the room for a few minutes, trying to work out a course of action. Finally, he decided to use the simplest trick in the book. Feeling lucky that the hotel was so old it still used regular keys rather than cardkeys, Joey knelt down and put his eye to the keyhole.

What he saw on the other side made him gasp.

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Kaiba hadn't gone very far into the room.

He was standing barely two feet from the door, his neatly creased trousers pooled haphazardly around his ankles. His legs were spread slightly and he had his back against the wall, bracing himself as his hands moved, one pumping his cock as hard as possible while the other groped and fondled the two swollen balls beneath. Kaiba's position meant that he was side-on to the door, with his cock at almost the same level as the keyhole.

Joey couldn't have had a better viewpoint if he'd paid for one.

So close to the door, Joey could easily make out the harsh, animalistic grunts the brunette was making as he... What was he doing? Somehow, the term 'pleasuring himself' didn't seem to apply. There was no trace of pleasure in the loud, almost pained, grunts Joey could hear and the jerking motions of the hand around his cock were almost mechanical, and so hard that Joey winced and shifted in discomfort. The motions weren't the sensual glide of flesh on flesh that Joey associated with that particular act. Instead, what he was seeing through the keyhole was brutal and had a feel to it that it took Joey a moment to place. When he did, he had to bite his lip hard to keep from gasping in shock.

Desperation.

Joey could almost feel the emotion hanging in the air as he watched Kaiba's movements in horrified fascination.

As the hands began to move faster, pumping the straining cock even harder than before, Joey had to bite his lip again to keep a moan from escaping. His hand moved down to the front of his jeans of its own accord, but the tentative touch through the thick denim wasn't nearly enough. Without conscious thought, Joey tugged the zipper down. His shaft, hard and heavy with his need, sprung from his loins, its movements unhampered by any underwear. Not for the first time, Joey was glad of his preference to go commando. It certainly made life easier sometimes.

Life... and masturbation.

Joey's hand began to knead the heated steel between his legs, his breath coming in light pants as he avidly watched the source of his arousal through the keyhole.

As Kaiba's movements increased in tempo, so too did Joey's. But despite his every attempt, he knew he was fighting a losing battle in the race to achieve release. Kaiba had started sooner and therefore had the edge. Joey knew the only reason he was even still in the race was because the brunette's movements were so harsh that his pain was dulling the sensations enough to prevent him from coming right away.

It was no surprise to Joey when Kaiba suddenly tensed and let out a strangled, guttural cry, his hand pumping his cock hard several times as white cream spurted from the tip and arced through the air and out of sight.

The low moan that came from Joey's throat as a result of seeing it *was* a surprise though. A most unwelcome one.

As was the sudden movement behind the door, a moment before it swung open to reveal the furious, and rather red, face of Seto Kaiba.

Joey was so startled, he couldn't move or think. Then Kaiba opened the door wider and Joey found that he couldn't breathe either. The sight that was before him had stolen his breath away.

Kaiba hadn't pulled up his pants.

His cock, a massive length of muscle and flesh, was still hard. It was also quivering from its recent exertion, the shaft an angry red from where he had abused the tender flesh while the head still gleamed with the evidence of Kaiba's release.

It was also right at Joey's eye level, since he was still crouched down in his peeping-through-the-keyhole position.

Joey stared at it, unable to take his eyes away from that glorious, magnificent, perfect cock. Not even Kaiba's angry hiss was enough to distract him for more than a moment.

"What do you think you are doing? How dare you presume to... Wheeler!"

Kaiba never finished his lecture. He was too busy being shocked into silence as Joey lunged at him, knocking him to the carpet inside his hotel room and following him down. Kaiba barely had the presence of mind to kick the door closed before Joey's hot, wet, wonderful mouth was enveloping his aching cock. The wetness soothed the soreness from his member like nothing Kaiba had ever felt before and he couldn't keep back the moan that escaped him.

Joey held Kaiba's legs open with his hands, using only his mouth and tongue to ease the suffering of the tortured flesh. He licked every inch of the massive cock from the tip to the base, then ran his tongue back up the entire length from base to tip. Once there, he gently drew just the head into his mouth. As he sucked on it, his tongue stroked the soft flesh, dipping into the tiny slit every time it passed over it. Each time the slit was touched, it drew another low moan from Kaiba's throat.

By the time Kaiba came, ten minutes later, his voice was hoarse from his moans and Joey's hair was even more tousled than usual. Kaiba had clutched him to hold him to his groin as he'd emptied his juice into Joey's warm and willing mouth.

Kaiba lay on the faded and stained carpet, panting as he eyed the blonde Sex God towering over him in stunned disbelief. "W...Wheeler... Y...You..." This time, his voice was stopped by Joey's lips, pressing against his own.

Then Joey's soft lips parted and his tongue licked over Kaiba's mouth. Lost in sensation, the brunette barely had enough reason to part his lips so Joey's tongue could slip into his mouth. Then all reason left both boys as Joey deepened the kiss, his tongue not only tasting but also plundering Kaiba's sweet mouth.

As their moans filled the room, Joey moved until his body was covering Kaiba's. One hand went down to Kaiba's glorious cock, but Joey didn't stop there. Instead, he moved beneath it, brushing the brunette's balls and causing Kaiba to moan loudly. But still, Joey's hand continued to move down.

Kaiba felt the touch to his most intimate place and knew a moment of hesitation, perhaps even fear. But then Joey deepened the kiss and the hunger filled him.

He didn't know exactly what he needed, but he knew instinctively that Joey could give it to him.

That he was the only one who could.

Kaiba arched his body into the touch, wordlessly giving his assent and asking for more at the same time.

Joey pushed his tongue deeply into Kaiba's mouth, his free hand wriggling up beneath Kaiba's shirt until it latched on to one taut little nipple. He tweaked it harshly, at the same time pushing his finger gently inside Kaiba's entrance. Much to Joey's surprise, there was little resistance. Kaiba's reaction, a low moan and an arch of his back, also told Joey that the brunette was feeling no pain from the unlubed intruder.

His curiosity aroused almost as much as his weeping shaft, Joey continued to kiss Kaiba senseless as he tweaked and tugged and rolled his nipple with one hand, his other hand slowly and carefully preparing his entrance. Oddly, Kaiba still showed no signs of pain or discomfort of any kind. He was also far less tight than Joey had expected.

Was it possible that Kaiba wasn't a virgin?

Joey disregarded the notion almost immediately. After all, who would be crazy enough to try to stick their dick in Kaiba's ass?

Apart from himself, of course.

When Joey had stretched Kaiba as much as possible, he positioned himself and waited a moment to see if Kaiba was having any second thoughts.

Not that it was really possible for Kaiba to voice those thoughts, since his mouth was otherwise occupied in a mutual thorough plundering of each other's mouth, but at least the thought was there.

Taking Kaiba's low moan and restless movement of his body for agreement, Joey began to push steadily into Kaiba's ass.

Kaiba moaned and writhed beneath the smaller teen's body, but his movements and sounds were of pleasure rather than pain and Joey smiled into their kiss. As he kept pushing his cock in deeper, his hand tweaked his lover's nipple, the slight pain drawing another low and husky moan out of Kaiba's throat.

Then... Joey was in. Completely. Wonderfully. Incredibly. In.

He paused, not only to allow Kaiba to adjust to the intrusion, but also to give himself time for the shock to wear off. Judging by the increasingly restless movements of his body, Kaiba didn't need the time. Joey did. It was hard for him to get used to the single, incontestable, indisputable, absolute fact.

He was *inside* Seto Kaiba.

They were stuffing the sausage. They were squishing the banana. They were doing the rumpy pumpy. They were playing find the acorn. They were fucking each other senseless and screwing their brains out like horny bunnies.

In short, Joey Wheeler and Seto Kaiba were having sex.

Incredible sex.

Still kissing Kaiba deeply, his hand still tweaking, rubbing and rolling the taut nipple between his fingers, Joey began to move.

He thrust slowly at first, wary of causing his lover pain, but when Kaiba's only reaction was moaning and writhing, the blonde boy increased his pace. Before long, he was pounding into the brunette teen's ass, every thrust pushing his shaft in further and causing Kaiba to moan loudly into their shared kiss.

As Joey thrust, he was aware of a growing pressure against his belly. Kaiba's cock, limp since he had sucked him dry earlier, was beginning to stir again. Now Joey had a new goal to reach for. Not only did he desire to come inside Kaiba, but he wanted to have Kaiba come again as well! With that in mind, Joey shifted minutely, changing the angle of his thrusts.

Kaiba broke away from the kiss and screamed in pleasure.

Joey smirked. He'd found the motherlode.

Joey increased the tempo of his thrusts, pushing his shaft inside Kaiba faster, harder and deeper, every thrust angled so it hit the source of the brunette's pleasure. Kaiba continued to scream, his already hoarse voice growing croakier with every cry until Joey took pity on him and captured his mouth in another deep, soul-searing kiss. He continued to kiss his brunette lover until his body began to tremble and then shudder.

The feel of Joey's liquid heat flowing within him proved to be enough to send Kaiba spiralling over the edge also. His release coated their bellies, cooling into a sticky mess as they lay together, panting and still joined.

Kaiba's eyes were not cold sapphires as they looked into Joey's eyes. They were warm blue pools. It was as if all the ice in his gaze had been melted by the heat of their joining. "Wheeler..."

Joey frowned at the unwelcome reminder of their non-relationship. "Seto... we've just had mindblowin' sex and my dick is still up your ass. Can't ya at least call me by my first name?"

Kaiba somehow managed to look dignified even while blushing. "My apologies... Joey."

The brunette's voice was low and husky, the hoarseness from all his moaning and screaming all too obvious. Joey winced. "You should take somethin' for that throat."

The words were out before he could stop them and he tensed as he waited for the usual sneer and sarcastic comment. But when Kaiba's soft words came, Joey was stunned by them.

"Perhaps I will, although I would prefer it if we were at my home and in bed first. And after we have showered, considering where your... penis... is at the moment."

Joey stared at Kaiba for a moment, sure that he couldn't have just heard what he thought he had just heard. "Ya mean... You wanna.... do this again? With me?"

Kaiba nodded stiffly. "Unless you do not wish to." He looked away and Joey did the only thing he could think of. He thrust his cock a little deeper into Kaiba's ass, causing the brunette to gasp and look at him in surprise.

Joey grinned back at him. "I think I'd like that." He glanced around and grimaced. "Especially the part where we get out of here and go back to your place."

As Kaiba shuddered and nodded in agreement, Joey eyed him curiously. "Why *did* ya come in here, anyway?"

Kaiba sighed. "For the same reason I always do."

Joey frowned at Kaiba's words. "Always?"

Blue eyes with just a hint of anxiety met curious brown eyes and Kaiba nodded slowly. "Ever since... the first time we argued."

Joey stared at Kaiba. "Ya mean..."

Kaiba looked away. "I mean that I have been coming here... in every sense of the word... since the first time we argued. The mental stimulus caused by our arguments results in my becoming... physically erect. The first time it happened, I was passing this hotel on my way back to Kaiba Corp. when my... need... became too painful for me to continue on. Since then... this has become one of a number of places around the city where I go to after one of our... encounters."

"Whoa." Joey moved a little in Kaiba, just enough to keep himself erect. "So... do ya always abuse your cock like that? I mean... the way you were goin' at it... That was just brutal." He eyed Kaiba warily. "Your not one of those guys who gets off on pain, are ya? 'Cause I'm not into that."

Kaiba shook his head. "No. Neither am I. It is simply that my erection becomes extremely painful in a short amount of time unless I... satisfy my need. I have found that unless I treat myself in a certain manner, I am unable to find my release in the allotted time. I merely do what I must to ensure that my experience is more pleasurable than painful."

Joey frowned. "It sure didn't look like pleasure to me," he muttered.

"Once I satisfy myself once... I remain hard however the pain does not strike. I am able to reach satisfaction again, while feeling pleasure." Kaiba still looked away, refusing to meet Joey's eyes as he explained.

"Oh." The blonde teen blushed. "Sorry I interrupted ya today."

Kaiba looked at him, one eyebrow disappearing into his hair as he looked at Joey in disbelief. "Joey..." this time, the name came much easier to his lips, "I would much rather have had you inside me once than found my release a hundred times alone." The words were spoken without hesitation or embarrassment. They were the simple truth.

Joey's blush deepened. "Thanks."

"Which reminds me..." Kaiba frowned a little. "Why were you crouched down outside the door?"

It was Joey's turn to look away in embarrassment. "I... I was lookin' in on ya."

Kaiba sighed in frustration. "I realise that. However, I do not understand why you felt it necessary to have your pants undone and your... genitals... exposed."

"I like to watch." Joey's quiet words caused Kaiba's frown to deepen.

"That does not explain..."

"I *really* like to watch." Joey sighed. "Ever heard of something called voyeurism? I get off on watchin' other people gettin' off. Even watchin' a couple kissin' in the park can make me hard. Seein' you in here... I couldn't help myself. I had to jack off. Or start to anyway."

Kaiba nods slowly. "I see. So if I had not heard you and opened the door..." He frowned. "If you only enjoy watching, then why did you... do *that* to me?"

Joey shakes his head. "I like to watch but that's not the only thing I like. It's not like I can't come unless I'm watchin' someone else go at it. Truth is... if you'd stayed behind the door, I would have just run."

"So what stopped you?" Kaiba moved one hand and rested it lightly on Joey's back.

Moving a little to keep himself hard, Joey sighed. "Your cock."

"Excuse me?" Kaiba stared at him and Joey sighed again.

"I have this... thing... for cocks, okay?" Joey looked away once more.

"You like... penises?" Kaiba was having some trouble with the concept. "You like to look at them?"

Joey shook his head, then paused, reconsidering. "Well, yeah, that too. But what really gets me going is seeing a huge, hard, heavy cock that's just ripe for eating. It's not the taste, although I don't mind it. No, for me, it's the thrill I get from challenging myself to make that big, beautiful cock quiver just by taking the head in. Nothin' else. No hands or swallowing. Just my lips, my tongue and my mouth with the head of that cock."

Kaiba looked surprised. "I have not heard of that before."

Joey blushed and shrugged. "Not even sure there's a name for it. It's just somethin' I do. It's kinda like a game to me. I'm challenging myself to see if I can make that cock come for me." He looked away again. "It probably sounds stupid to you."

Kaiba was quiet for a minute before silently admitting the truth. "No, Joey. It does not sound stupid to me at all. Everyone has their own way of doing things. Their own style. Their own sexual needs. Their own quirks."

Joey smiled. "Their own kinkiness, hey Kaiba?" At Kaiba's smile, Joey looked at him thoughtfully. "One of your quirks wouldn't be takin' it up the ass would it?" Seeing the shock on the brunette boy's face, Joey shook his head. "No, I didn't think so. It's just that... you were awfully relaxed down there for a virgin."

"You are the first male I have lain with." Kaiba's words were soft and oddly hesitant. "The first lover I have had, period, for that matter. However... I enjoy..." He hesitated for so long Joey nudged him.

"You enjoy what, Seto?" He grinned. "I shared, now it's your turn."

Kaiba smiled wryly. "Very well. You have a 'thing' for penises. I have a 'thing' for... cucumbers." His cheeks flooded with colour.

Joey bit his lip to keep from laughing. "You put cucumbers up your ass? How often?"

More colour flooded into Kaiba's cheeks. "One each morning and night."

"Well, that explains why I didn't hurt ya." Joey smiled at Kaiba. "Think maybe you could show me how sometime? It sounds kinda interestin'."

Kaiba smiled back. "If you will show me how to... pleasure you orally."

Joey grinned. "Deal!"

"Perhaps we should... leave now?" Kaiba moaned softly as Joey moved within him. "Then again..."

"Maybe this hotel isn't so bad after all." Joey grinned as he began to move inside Kaiba again.

As Joey moved within him, his shaft pumping in a relentless rhythm as old as time itself, Kaiba had to agree with his assessment.

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The funny thing about hatred is that there is another side to it. Like a coin. In order to hate, your emotions have to be strong. Sometimes, one small thing can change those emotions. Just a little. Just enough to make the side flip over.

That little part of me that hated him... It had taken years to grow. But later that day, lying in his bed at his home, he said four small words that changed my life forever.

"Joey, I love you."

It surprised me. Okay, that's an understatement. It shocked the hell out of me. Let's face it. If the guy you thought had hated you for a few years suddenly reveals the fact that he's been deliberately baiting you because it makes him hard, and if you end up having unbelievably hot sex with him... several times... and if he then takes ya to his mansion and pampers ya and bathes with ya and has more unbelievably hot sex with ya... several times... Wouldn't you be shocked at it all? Exactly. Of course... once I realised he wasn't playin' some sort of sick and twisted game with me... which was when he screamed my name as he came three times in a row... I kinda got used to it.

I never got used to those cucumbers, though. Ow.

Yeah, it was a mistake for me to follow him, that day. A costly one. I paid a price I never thought I'd pay. I gave up something I never thought I'd give.

Especially not to him.

"Seto... I love you too."

I gave him my heart.

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