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Seto entered the sitting room where the interview was to be held, Jou close behind him. The interviewer stood and extended her hand. "Mr. Kaiba, thank you for granting this interview."

"Not at all, Miss Aino," Seto replied graciously. "It is the very least I could do after you were so much help yesterday."

Miss Aino blushed. "Anyone else would have done the same," she demurred.

"Unfortunately, not everyone in your line of work would," Seto pointed out, then beckoned Jou forwards. "I'd like to introduce you to Jonouchi Katsuya, my personal assistant."

Jou held out his good hand and shook hands with the small woman. "You're the one that called the police yesterday?" he asked. "Thank you for that, I really appreciate it."

"It was nothing," she blushed. "So, is it true that you two are an item?" She asked.

"Miss Aino," Seto interjected coolly, "Please save the questions for the interview. Everything you wish to know will be answered then."

"Of course. I'm sorry, Mr. Kaiba," the interviewer replied contritely, not wanting to lose this chance.

"How long do we have until we are on air?" Jou asked.

"We can be on within a couple of minutes," Miss Aino replied. "The cameras are all set up and we're ready to go whenever you are."

"We're ready," Seto said, looking over at Jonouchi who nodded his agreement even though he looked a little unsure. Seto surreptitiously gave Jou's hand a small squeeze to communicate his support and Jou relaxed slightly. He was as ready as he could be in the circumstances.

Miss Aino made a gesture. "OK, places everyone," the cameraman called. Seto and Jou sat on a comfortable looking couch together, while Miss Aino sat on a provided chair that did not look nearly as comfortable.

"On air in 3... 2... 1..."

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"Good morning. This is Aino Mira for Channel 9 news and I'm privileged to be able to bring you an interview with none other than Kaiba Seto and his personal assistant, Jonouchi Katsuya." Jou and Seto nodded for the camera, Seto appearing cool and collected as usual and Jou doing his best to hide his nervousness. Part of his discomfort was due to the fact that his injuries were openly on show, not something he was used to exposing, least of all to the world.

"Now, Mr. Kaiba," the woman began, "the big question, the one on everyone's minds. Could you tell us about the photographs that were shown yesterday and are they genuine?"

"Yes they are genuine," Seto said with an incline of his head. "They were stolen from an album that was being sent by courier to Jonouchi's sister."

"Stolen, you say?" Mira said with raised eyebrows. "Do you know how that came to happen and what action have you taken?"

"The courier was a... friend of ours who trusted someone that he shouldn't have done, a rival that has been trying to get one over on me for a while." Seto paused for effect. "Unfortunately, publishing those pictures did not have the effect that this rival had hoped for and instead nearly cost Jonouchi his life."

"As for the action taken," Jou interjected before the woman could speak again, "our lawyers are looking into what action to take against channel 7, but we haven't taken any action against either the courier or the person that took the photos. Things have backfired against them badly enough as it is and I really don't want to see my friend lose his job."

"I see," Mira said. "So it's as a direct result of these photographs being shown that you ended up this way?" She directed her question to the clearly injured Jonouchi.

"Ah, yeah. My dad..." he faltered, not really wanting to speak about it.

"What Jonouchi is trying to say," Seto took up where Jou had left off, "is that his father is an unmitigated homophobe who was incensed after seeing those images and he would probably have killed Jou if your crew hadn't spotted what was going on and called the police."

"You are saying that Mr. Jonouchi's father was abusing him?" Mira asked with wide eyes. "Why were Social Services not involved?"

"Ah, now we come to the crux of the matter," Seto sat back in a semi-relaxed pose. "You see, it has come to my attention that Domino's Social Services have a very strange policy when it comes to minors in its care that are or were what they considered troublemakers or members of a gang, inasmuch as they send them away from Domino City as soon as an opportunity presents itself."

"Are you saying that your personal assistant, Jonouchi Katsuya, was actually a part of Domino's gang culture?" Mira's eyes were even wider at these revelations.

"Yeah, I was," Jou admitted. "It's not something I'm proud of, but I managed to get out a couple of years back and I've been striving to improve my lot ever since, but that don't seem to matter to some of them Social Worker types."

"And to go back to your previous question," Seto took up the narrative, "Yes, Jonouchi's father was, for want of a better way to put it, abusing his son. I've had to patch Jonouchi up on more than one occasion and I've done my best to help him, but due to the nature of Social Services in this city he refused to leave his father's... 'care' until he turned 18, something which is due to happen in just under two weeks time."

"Do you think that they will try to send Mr. Jonouchi away, even with it being so close to his majority?" Mira asked. She aimed her question at Seto, but it was Jou who answered.

"I couldn't say for sure, but I think they probably will," Jou said. "There are a couple of people in the department that made it clear that they hated my guts and I'm sure they'll take this chance to try and ruin things for me."

"That is quite the allegation," Mira said.

"To be fair, I know that his worries are not without merit," Seto added, "I've had my own issues with Social Services in Domino myself."

"Would this be with regard to the custody of your little brother?"'

"Yes," Seto said simply. "As is well documented, I was granted custody of Mokuba by the high court with certain conditions attached. Despite this, Domino Social Services have kept very close tabs on everything I've been doing and have regularly intimated that my keeping custody of him was on their sufferance. Part of the conditions imposed by the High Court was to ensure that I finished my High School education actually within the school system which, while not a necessarily bad thing, made things very awkward for me. However, to appease the local social services department I had to keep an almost perfect level of attendance and my grades had to stay above a certain, very high level, amongst other things, or they would start... interfering. I would have gone back to the courts to clarify my position but I didn't want to subject Mokuba to that kind of stress again and my lawyer, a man I trust implicitly, advised that I should wait until I was over 18 to take further action unless things reached a certain point as otherwise I would take the risk that I might get a less sympathetic judge and end up losing him."

"Mokuba really means a lot to you, doesn't he?" Mira asked gently.

"Yes." A soft expression came into Seto's eyes. "Everything I've done up to now has been for Mokuba. He is the only family I have left."

"Some would say," Mira began, "and I must stress that I do not agree with this sentiment, but some would say that perhaps Mokuba would be better off and at less risk if he were to be placed with a... 'normal' family. What have you to say in response to that?"

"I'm glad you asked me that question," Kaiba said with a steely glint in his eye. "I have heard that said many times before now and I'm pleased that I can finally air my position on the matter." He took a deep breath, "While it is true that this may not be the ideal situation, Mokuba is the only family I have left. Everything I do is with Mokuba in mind and I have always done my best to ensure that he has a stable environment." He gave a sharp look to the camera. "I also dispute the notion that Mokuba would be safer with what you refer to as a normal family. Although I have always done my best to keep my brother out of the public spotlight, unfortunately, mainly thanks to the same gutter press that exposed my relationship with Jonouchi, his face has become far too well known for that to be an option. He would now be far less safe as it would only take the wrong person to recognise him and he would have no protection from being kidnapped and used against me, so I'm sure you can understand that I really do have my brother's best interests at heart."

"I'm sure that anyone who has children or younger siblings of their own will understand that," Mira said with some sympathy.

Seto decided to bring the conversation back on track, "With regard to the original problem, now that I am eighteen and as a legal adult should have a firmer hold of Mokuba's custody, the social services department still haven't backed off. In fact they seem to be becoming more intrusive as, and I can only assume, they perceive that they've lost some kind of hold over me. I can only imagine how much worse this will become when I graduate shortly."

"So, from what you are saying, there is apparently quite some corruption within Domino Social Services and it's affecting people at both ends of the social scale," Mira observed.

"Quite," Seto nodded.

"How come this has never come to light before?" Mira asked.

"I can only surmise that it's all part of the same corruption and I've found that if you try to complain through official channels that it tends to get brushed under the carpet," Seto explained. "The higher authorities tend not to take me seriously because, to them, I'm little more than a child, despite the fact that I am the CEO of a major corporation, so they tell me to go through official channels." He shrugged, "I had been waiting for an appropriate juncture to begin legal action to get some kind of redress, but unfortunately it has now come to the point where both my brother and my partner are being threatened, so I am left with no recourse but to take some kind of drastic action."

"What kind of action are we talking about here?" Mira enquired.

"Simply put, if push comes to shove then I am prepared to leave Domino, taking Kaiba Corporation with me," Seto said almost nonchalantly.

"But Seto," Jou gasped, clearly having not expected such a proposition, "what about all the people who work for you? Are you going to leave them without jobs? And won't this cost an absolute fortune? That's too much. I'm not worth it."

"Jou, Katsuya," Seto turned towards his partner, "I won't leave anyone wanting. Anyone who wants to keep working for me will be helped to move and those who don't will get glowing recommendations and will be helped to find alternative employment. The cost is nothing compared to what I stand to lose and you are very much worth it to me."

Mira watched the interaction between the two very different teens. She could tell that they were completely serious about this and utterly devoted to each other. She hated to do this to them, but she still had questions that she needed answers to. "Moving Kaiba Corporation away from Domino will have massive repercussions for the local economy. Are you really prepared to do that?"

"Yes, I am," Seto said shortly. "I am prepared to do whatever is necessary to protect what is important to me and if that means leaving Domino, then so be it!"

Mira was about to speak again when there was a disturbance at the door and Mrs. Doyle came in, wringing her hands in distress. She was followed by an official looking man in a suit, a police officer and Isono. Jou's heart sank as he knew the man in the suit as being one of the social workers that had it in for him. The fact that the police officer was one of the few that had looked out for him didn't help all that much and he was sure that things would quickly go down the pan.

"I'm so sorry Master Kaiba," Mrs Doyle said. "These men insisted on seeing Mr. Jonouchi and I couldn't stop them."

"That's quite alright Mrs. Doyle," Seto stood as he replied in English. "Could you please bring tea in for us?" he asked, knowing that the familiar task would calm the distraught woman.

"OK, so," she replied, looking somewhat uncomfortable as she shuffled off, leaving Isono silently standing guard by the door.

"Now, Gentlemen," Seto addressed the two men that had entered the room. "What can we help you with?"

"First of all, I want you to end the broadcast." The suited man demanded.

"I don't think so," Kaiba said coldly, all CEO now. "Whatever business you have to conduct can be done in front of the cameras, unless, of course you have something to hide?" He raised an eyebrow as he looked at them.

"Considering that this is a matter concerning a minor, then yes, I think the cameras should be off," the suited man said belligerently.

And you are?" Seto crossed his arms, glaring at him.

"Yukimura Satoshi, Domino Social services," he replied.

"Funny how you care that Jonouchi is a minor now," Seto said with ill disguised irritation in bis voice. "Where were you when those images were being broadcast yesterday? Where were you when he's needed help for all this time? So tell me," he pinned the man with a steely glare, "do you intend to ship Katsuya out of Domino?"

"The decision is out of my hands," Yukimura replied, "but yes, Jonouchi Katsuya is due to be deported to America this afternoon." A gasp from Mira was the only sound in the room as this announcement sank in.

"So, you are telling me," Seto looked as cold as he was reputed to be, "that you are going to deport a young man that has lived in Domino since he was only a couple of weeks old, that didn't even know that he wasn't born in Japan until a couple of hours ago and only knows at all because I happened to look up his birth records this morning, simply because he used to be in a gang? And it doesn't matter that he got out and improved his life immensely? What kind of Social Services are you?," he asked in outrage. "What kind of message does that send to other young people who are in Jonouchi's position?" His tone of voice left no doubt as to what he thought of them.

"As I said, Mr. Kaiba," the man said again, unwilling to back down, "the decision is out of my hands." He gave Seto a frank look. "You aren't doing yourself any favours either, especially as you are associating with a minor."

"For your second point," Kaiba gave Yukimura a look so frosty that by rights he should have frozen solid where he stood, "we have been together since before I turned 18 and we are only three months apart in age, so that is not an issue." Yes, that was bending the truth of how long they had been together slightly, but Seto knew that it could not proved otherwise. "Apart from that, what you are essentially saying is that I should butt out or my custody of Mokuba will be questioned once again?" Kaiba's eyes narrowed, showing his displeasure.

Yukimura remained silent, perhaps sensing that he had crossed some invisible line, but he was saved from having to answer as the policeman spoke up. "I'm very sorry Mr. Kaiba, but I do have a warrant for the removal of one Jonouchi Katsuya," he held the document out for Kaiba to take.

Seto took it, crossed over to the desk, picked up the phone and dialled a number. He spoke for a moment, then hung up and crossed back over to sit beside Jou, who was sitting with his head bowed. "I do hope you don't mind, but I'm going to have my lawyer look into this."

"Of course," the policeman said pleasantly. "Take all the time you need."

"Please, take a seat," Seto said to the policeman as Mrs Doyle returned with the tea.

"Now hang on a minute," Yukimura said, all belligerence again, "you have a warrant there. I expect you to execute it."

"What's the rush?" the policeman replied. "It seems that you are ready to railroad this young man out of Domino without much good reason and without letting him have his right of appeal. I think that the least we can do is give Mr. Kaiba a chance to save his friend."

"Carry out that warrant now or I will be forced to go over your head." Yukimura was obviously getting desperate now.

"Go right ahead," the officer said calmly. "After all, my commanding officer is the one who specifically sent me here after I explained the situation to him."

Mira was looking at Jonouchi with some sympathy as the lawyer entered the room and began picking apart the warrant. "Mr. Jonouchi," she said, "how do you feel about all of this?"

Jou sighed, but did not look up. "I feel... numb," he said eventually. "I always thought that something like this might happen, but for it to happen so close to being out of Social Service's clutches is, quite frankly, heartbreaking." he sighed again and two wet blotches appeared on his sweatpants. "And now they want to ship me off to another country where I know no-one, making me leave my friends and family behind and the fact that I've improved my lot and got myself a decent job counts for absolutely nothing." His shoulders shook in silent sobs as Seto pulled him into an awkward embrace.

"Do you see what your corrupt policies do?" Seto said, looking at Yukimura with contempt. "And I will repeat myself both for your benefit and that of the viewers. Where you send Jonouchi, I will follow, taking Kaiba Corporation with me." He gave a wicked smile, "I'm sure that the Americans would jump at the chance to have such a large and profitable company as Kaiba Corporation adding to their economy." Seto sat back with a smile on his face, pulling Jou with him. He knew that such an announcement would have the government in a frenzied scramble for damage control as Kaiba Corporation was a fairly large part of the Japanese economy and the loss of such a large company would be extremely detrimental. Given that what was happening with Jou was certainly nowhere near government policy, he expected that, for once, they would move fairly quickly and he was sure that an intervention would soon be forthcoming.

Almost before he could finish that thought, Kaiba's personal cell phone rang. Jonouchi sat up and wiped at his eyes as Seto answered the call. Seto listened for a few moments, then thanked the caller and rang off. He looked expectantly at the social worker, making the man sweat under his gaze.

The reporter noticed the satisfied look on Kaiba's face. "May I ask what that was about, Mr. Kaiba?" Mira asked, reminding everyone of her presence. To be honest she was doing her best to contain her glee. This whole scenario was solid gold and to actually be on site as everything was going down... well, it could only do her career a power of good.

"Yes, you may," Kaiba said with bairly concealed smug satisfaction. "To put it quite simply, due to my assertion that I would take Kaiba Corporation out of the country, the government has now involved itself and the prime minister himself just called me personally to inform me that there is going to be a thorough investigation into what exactly is going on within Domino Social Services as shipping 'problems' out, especially when they have done their best to turn their lives around like Jonouchi has, is definitely not within their guidelines." He cast a sidelong look at Yukimura, "I am also certain that the judge that signed the warrant will be suitably investigated."

"Oh, this is preposterous!" Yukimura exclaimed, although he looked a lot less sure now. "I don't believe for one moment that the Prime Minister would trouble himself to call and I have a perfectly good, legal warrant for the removal of one Jonouchi Katsuya into the custody of Social Services for deportation to America." He glared at the police officer, "You have a duty of care to help me execute that warrant, so can we get to it now?"

Before the officer could reply, Kaiba's lawyer stepped forwards. "I'm sorry, sir, but I cannot allow that to happen. Putting any potential contact from the Government aside, Mr Jonouchi has a right of appeal that he is being denied and I have a duty of care to make sure that he is not disadvantaged by those who would wish to harm him."

"But what about all the harm he's done..." Yukimura tailed off as his phone rang. He paused a moment, then answered the call, listening for several moments then going red faced and storming out without speaking to anyone.

"And that would appear to take care of that," Kaiba said with no small satisfaction. "Thank you," he said to his lawyer. "You may go now, but please be on standby in case I need you again." The man bowed then left the room, taking the warrant with him.

"Does this mean that Mr. Jonouchi will no longer be deported?" Mira asked.

"Yes," Seto looked fondly at the stunned blond sitting next to him. "Jonouchi will no longer be harassed by these people and I was also given assurances that Mokuba's custody will no longer be held over me."

"Such is the power of the Kaiba name." Mira stated. "How does that make you feel, Mr. Jonouchi?"

Jou continued to look stunned for a moment, then he gave a beaming smile. "It's great, Miss Aino," he said with a small quaver in his voice. "It's nice to have people on my side for a change."

Seto put his arm around Jou as he looked over towards Mira. "Thank you for coming Miss Aino," he said coolly. "I think that this is a good place to conclude the interview." He wanted to get Jou off camera as he considered that he had gone through quite enough in the last couple of days.

"One last question if I may?" Mira asked, feeling that it may be time to take a chance now that the interview was all but over. Kaiba gave her a look, but indicated that she should continue. "What effect do you think the exposure of your relationship with Mr. Jonouchi will have on Kaiba Corporation as a whole?"

"I honestly couldn't say, although it would be foolish of me to say that it would have no effect at all," Kaiba said. "Rest assured that we will be working hard to minimise any negative effects, but I will not stand for any prejudice and anyone who does not want to do business with Kaiba Corporation simply because my partner is male is not the sort of person that Kaiba Corporation wants to do business with." He turned a steely eye to the camera, "I will also stress right now that Jonouchi will be remaining as my personal assistant. He is the only person I can trust enough to fill the position other than my brother, who is too young to take on the responsibility of such a role."

Mira stood and bowed. "Thank you for your time Mr. Kaiba, Mr. Jonouchi. And for the record, I'm pleased that things have turned out this way." She turned back to the camera to wrap up as Seto then stood, along with Jonouchi and walked from the room, leaving Isono and Mrs. Doyle to deal with the aftermath. They were followed by the Policeman, who had a smile on his face.

"Thank you for your help," Kaiba said once they were away from the cameras, inclining his head slightly towards the officer.

"It was the right thing to do," the man replied. "Those social worker types have gotten far too big for their britches and I'm sad to say that it needed something like this to bring them back into line. I know darned well that Kat didn't deserve that kind of treatment."

"Thanks, officer Tomatsu," Jou said with a tremulous smile. "I'm glad it was you who was sent here."

"Me too, now you two boys look after yourselves, OK?" Tomatsu said, then he turned to leave.

With that done, Seto wasted no time in leading Jou back to their bedroom, firmly closing the door behind them. "Katsuya," he pulled his trembling lover to him, "are you alright?"

Jou leaned against Seto and let out a deep breath. "Yeah, I'm just glad that's over with." He looked up at Seto. "Would you really have moved Kaiba Corporation?"

"Yes I would." Seto confirmed grimly.

"Even to America?"

"Even to America," he echoed. "You and Mokuba are the two most important things to me and I've had to put up with those people threatening to take Mokuba away from me for far too long. I'm sorry for not telling you about it, but I knew that you would try to talk me out of it and, to be fair, I'd been on the verge of leaving Domino anyway, at least before we got together so the plans for such a move have been in place for a while."

"Really?" Jou's eyes widened. "So you stayed here for me?"

"How could I do otherwise once we'd found each other again?"

"But.. we don't have to leave now, right?" Jou wanted to know.

"Not unless those people start threatening us again," Seto confirmed. "I had intended to try and wait until after I graduated but before Mokuba started his high school education to minimise disruption, but I think we'll be fine now. I'm also sorry for not telling that I was having that much trouble with those people myself. I didn't want to burden you with my problems when you had enough of your own."

"Yeah, I can understand that, Jou said, "but did the prime minister really call you?"

"He certainly did," Seto smirked. "He was most concerned that the authorities in Domino were acting in such a manner and he said that there was no way that someone with either of our circumstances should be treated in such a way, especially as you had done so much to improve yourself," Seto smirked, "and of course, he was very keen that Kaiba Corporation should stay in Japan. I am going to to talk to him again later, after all, we could not have a proper conversation as we were on live television at the time."

"So... that's it. I can stay with you?" Jou had tears in his eyes as everything finally sank in. "Thank goodness for that. I know that you'd have followed me, but not being able to see my sister or my friends again would have been far too much." He stopped. "Half-sister," he said sadly, reminding himself of the discovery that Seto had made that morning.

"Jou, she is still your sister," Seto reassured him. "I'm sure that just because you have different mothers, that won't make a difference to her."

"Yeah, you're right," Jou said, "but I'll have to try and call her later." Jou knew that Shizuka was almost certain to have seen the broadcast and, although mention of his parentage had not been made, Shizuka would likely have got the 'truth' out of her mother by now.

I know this may not be a good time to ask," Seto said, interrupting Jou's train of thought, "but do you have any idea what do you want to do with regard to your biological mother?"

"I don't want to know," Jou said, shaking his head for emphasis. "As far as I'm concerned she abandoned me as surely as both my stepmother and my father did. No, better to leave it be."

"If that's the way you want it," Kaiba said cautiously. He supposed that it would be for the best to drop the subject for now, but he would still undertake to research that side of Jou's family beyond the little he'd found out that morning. That way if an issue arose in the future he would be informed and ready.

"It is," Jou said with some finality. "I've got all the family I need right here."

Seto dropped a kiss onto Jou's unruly golden locks. "I'm glad you feel that way and I swear that I won't let anyone separate us without a fight."

Jou finally relaxed, knowing that Seto wouldn't push the subject of his 'real' mother any more, at least for now. "Thanks Seto, that means a lot."

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A/N - I'm... not sure that I'm totally happy with this chapter. I've looked it over, changed a bit, sat on it for a while, looked it over again, changed a bit more... you know the drill. I've looked at it until I've gone cross-eyed so I guess it's past time I posted it.

The next two chapters... there's something in them that I'm not really sure works all that well. I'm going to give it a good look over before I start editing it but I may end up writing those parts out and condensing the two chapters into one. we'll see. (Either way, it's going to take a while.)
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