Blue: Hello everybody!

Carrie: Get stuffed, this is a pain in the ass to fix your mistakes so you can't be happy while I'm slaving away here. It's bad enough this was posted when fanfiction still supported indents…

Blue: It's not my fault that I can't spell worth my life.

Carrie: Exactly or I wouldn't be here. And since I can't use the muses in before talk for this chapter, I get to tell you about a great new invention Blue should start using; it's called 'Spell Check'.

Blue: I'm deeply hurt here. My heart goes out to you dear.

Carrie: I'm just going to keep retyping this disaster…

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Making Room For New Pairings

The scene is a classroom at high school where Katsuya Jounouchi and his friends go to school. Jou and Kaiba Seto are arguing over some trivial thing, as you all know Jou and Kaiba are not very fond of each other, or so it seems. That's where our explanation stops and our story begins.

"Kaiba! You no good, lower than scum S.O.B.! Take back what you said or we might have to take this outside, or are you scared?"

"Never in a thousand years even if you were laying on your death bed, no, I'm not scared, maybe only that I'd be arrested for animal cruelty. Isn't that right, puppy?" Kaiba sneered.

Just then Yuugi butts into their argument, "What are you two fighting about?"

"Nothing Yuge." Jou reassured him.

The truth was that they had been arguing about Yuugi. Kaiba claimed that since Yuugi and Yami were the most flamingly gay couple to ever grace the earth, in his opinion that is, and because Jou was their closest friend he must be getting in on the action with them. The thought of being with his friends like that was an unpleasant one that made him twitch. Of course he would never tell Kaiba that he would rather be in bed with him than those two. A blush would always rise to Jou's face whenever he looked at Kaiba too long so he was constantly bickering with him to make people think he was red in the face from yelling at him.

None of that mattered as class was starting and Kaiba took his seat. Because of alphabetical seating arrangement he was sitting right behind that blonde haired mutt. 'It was absolutely fantastic that the teacher puts me right behind puppy boy, things can't get any worse.'

"Guess what everyone?" says their teacher as he walks through the door. "I'm assigning a group project!"

Everybody in class is excited except for Kaiba. "Now don't get those hopes up too high, I'm using 'The Fickle-Pick-of-Fate' to determine who is going to be partnered with who!"

The class now looked like all enthusiasm had been shot down with a rifle after he announced that. "Yuge," Katsuya whispered, "What the hell's 'The Fickle-Pick-of-Fate'?"

"It's something new he came up with to partner us off. See that little box? All our names are in there and he picks them out two at a time to decide who our partner is."

The teacher calls out names in pairs, "Ryou and Malik, Honda and Marik, Bakura and Yuugi, Yami and Anzu, Katsuya and Seto, Tetsuya and…" Jou stops listening after the teacher calls him and his partner.

Yuugi and Jou look at each other as looks of pure terror pass over both their faces. "Terrific! I've got a nasty CEO as my partner!" Jou says to Yuugi.

"You should talk! I've got a bondage master for mine!" Yuugi is clearly freaked by having to work with Bakura.

"Get over it, exactly what are we doing a project on?" Jou says to no one in particular. Then, "What class are we in?"

"Listen up class, I want you and your partner to pick out either a Shakespearean play or a classic novel, nothing from the twentieth century folks! I want you to create a visual that represents the book and be able to summarize the book in a speech a maximum of six minutes. I'll hand out the rubric with the guidelines. And NO ACTING! I don't want a repeat of the debate championships last year…"

Bakura put up his hand, "Sir, what exactly happened last year," he said in a deceptively innocent voice, knowing he was going to embarrass the teacher.

"A certain somebody in this class that will remain anonymous, MARIK ISHTAR, decided that in a debate about the founding fathers of America he would get up on a table and do a partial reenactment of George Washington crossing the Delaware!" The teacher yelled at Bakura to stay after class because he 'knew damn well what he was talking about'. Some laughed some didn't because the teacher was staring down at them.

"Now get with your partner and decide on a book, we wasted enough time on pointless questions." He turned his attention towards Bakura as he said this.

"But teach, it wasn't pointless," Bakura replied with a sarcastic sound and a roll of his eyes.

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"Mutt, turn your desk around, " Kaiba ordered.

Jou reluctantly turned his desk around and replied in a droning tone, "Yes Master."

Kaiba was taken back a bit by the puppy calling him master, but he kind of liked it. Kaiba watched as he sat down and faced him, 'God is he gorgeous,' he thought, 'Shit! What was he thinking? Focus!'

Jou's voice snapped him back to reality, "Hello? Mother ship to Kaiba… Do you copy?" Jou's fingers snapping wildly in his face as he came to.

"Will you shut up?"

"Okay, you're fine, now how about Romeo and Juliet?"

"Why puppy, I had no idea you had such fine taste in literature," Kaiba said almost playfully.

Jou grinned, "I don't, but I'm pretty sure that's the only one dat's a movie."

'Should have seen that one coming Kaiba, think again, but what else can you expect from a mutt? Thinking… Thinking… No, there's not much else you can expect then for him to try and take the slacker's way out of something.'

"Fine, we'll do Romeo and Juliet. Where do you want to start the project?"

"I have a feeling that no matter what I say we're gonna end up working on it at your place."

"Great deduction mutt. Since today's Friday I can pick you up tomorrow to work on it around two."

"Sure, that's cool. Do you know where I live?"

"No."

"Well it would kinda help to know where you need to get me from."

'Oh jeez, he wants to know where I live? I'd love to show him where I sleep… Bad Jou! Bad train of thoughts! Get your mind off of Kaiba!' He only succeeded in turning his thoughts away from Kaiba after remembering that Anzu had told them how she wanted to try out for the swim team… 'Ew Anzu in a bikini, sick thought, sick thought.'

Jou wrote his address and phone number on a piece of paper and handed it to Kaiba. Marik walks up to Kaiba, "Going on a date with your new boyfriend Kaiba?"

"Hah hah hah," he said with fake enthusiasm.

"I bet you'd be at least bi-sexual if you were with a guy once," that comment came from Yami.

"I don't need advice on my love life Yami," he said icily.

"What love life ya frigid bastard?" asked Jou. Some of the class snickered at that comment.

"You're canine got the better of you that time Kaiba," Bakura said coolly, "You should keep him on a shorter leash, oopps, I forgot, you do that in the bedroom."

"You would know too freak, with what I've seen in your locker," Kaiba shot back.

Bakura proceeded to clam up as he turned an even pastier white than he already was. The bell rang shortly after and everyone left for lunch.

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Kaiba Mansion, After school

"Mokuba, I'm home." He had to yell awful loud for Mokuba to hear him on their giant house.

Just then a child of approximately thirteen years of age, with long, dark hair, came running down the hall to meet his brother. He did what he always does. Slide down the banister, try to do a fancy landing, practically fall on his face but always ends up on his feet.

"Mokuba, you're thirteen, you have balls now, doesn't it hurt to slide down that banisters?"

"Nope, you could punch me there and it doesn't hurt, the girls in my grade say I have 'balls of steel'."

"If you're only in eighth grade and girls are saying that, what are they going to do to you in high school." He laughed at the thought of little pre-teen girls calling his little brother that.

Seto started to walk towards the den when his little brother came running up beside him. "Seto, you seem too… what is that foreign word not said in this house? Ah yes, happy. You seem very happy."

"I'm actually not, just very, very irritated but I'm trying not to show it with all my might."

"That's the thing big brother, I'm used to you coming home from school irritated, but when you come home happy I know one of two things happened. One: You're really, really pissed and trying to hide it from me, which might I add you never have or will. Or two: you were talking with Jounouchi and he wants you to ravish him." Mokuba grinned really big when he said the last one.

"Mokuba," he said softly, "I'll give you to the count of five to start running."

"Uh, Seto, I-I was just kidding!" He backed up.

"One, sure you were, two."

"Let's talk things out Seto!"

"I don't think so, FIVE!"

Kaiba went sprinting off after his brother into Mokuba's rec room. He pulled the runt out from underneath the couch. "That's not funny Mokuba!"

"Yes it is, it's hilarious to irritate you especially when you know I'm right, that is the best," he said between giggles and trying to squirm away from Kaiba.

With that said Kaiba picked up a down pillow and started swinging at Mokuba. He had him in a corner, "Do you surrender?"

"Yes," Mokuba said afraid he was going to get smacked with that pillow even if he did give up.

Kaiba let his brother up, "So what has you so irritated, Seto?"

"Jou is coming over tomorrow."

"Oh cool! Does that mean that you are like going on a date or something? Cause that would be awesome!"

"Would you like, shut up like?" said Kaiba using a high, feminine voice to imitate and embarrass his brother. "He's working on a project with me that's all."

"Did he ask to work with you? Or did you ask him with that girly voice of yours you just showed me if he would be your partner?" Now it was Seto's turn to be embarrassed and blush.

"No, the teacher put us together. Oh yeah, if you want to slide down that banister tomorrow and accidentally knock him on his ass so he can be used as your landing pad, that's fine with me. Maybe I could get the project done if he was knocked unconscious."

His last statement killed Mokuba's hopes. He didn't really like the fact that his brother was looking at the same gender, if fact Mokuba enjoyed it more when Seto would bring home his secretary for a round and they'd spend the weekend together. But it had been a long time since he liked someone. That didn't matter, he'd push those two closer somehow.

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Blue: Look at it shine! –polishes chapter-

Carrie: Crap be gone! I finished fixing it!

Blue: -lip trembles- B-but you changed some parts!

Carrie: Yes, I changed the crap, get over it.

Blue: -cries in the corner-

Carrie: We're currently working on chapter nine so don't get your panties in a twist… Or your boxers in a bunch… -.-;; Whatever, maybe now that the first chapter doesn't suck I feel better. Please review, I love reviews.

Blue: I love them too.

Carrie: I've been taking assertive lessons, SO SHUT UP THIS IS MY TURN!

Blue: -goes back to crying in the corner-

Carrie: But I love the readers!