Notes: Elysium, or the final resting places of the souls of the heroic and the virtuous in Greek Mythology. Basically, the idea behind this is that post 5D's, our retired protagonists inhabit a living space together, and, of course, antics ensue.

This will feature: a plethora of ships, both het and slash; a whole lot of metafiction; completely unrelated one shots that probably won't be chronological, either.

acceleration! : ...and we head off!

acceleration!

Yusei slouches back into the black leather sofa and closes his eyes, relaxing for a moment. It's so… quiet here, without Jack or Crow or Aki or Bruno or the twins. He isn't sure if he's entirely okay with the sudden silence, but… he has to admit, it's nice, and yeah, he could get used to it.

"Hey, planetary particle, you there?"

…Well, okay, he could get used to most of it. Judai is something he doesn't think he'll ever be able to adjust properly to.

Yusei grunts, refusing to open his eyes. It's nice on the sofa; the entire place is nice, actually, and now Yusei gets to stay there permanently, too. 5D's is over; he graduated as a protagonist and now he can retire and live at one of the best apartments the studio has to offer, on the same floor as Yugi and Judai and even Atem.

Of course, having moved in with the inseparable Yugi and Atem and the uncontainable Judai, in the last few days Yusei saw a lot of leather and puzzleshipping, and, well—

"Yu~se~i!"

—A lot of Judai, who's apparently spent the last few years bored out of his mind.

Yusei opens his eyes to find his vision completely blocked by Judai's face, up close and personal. He blinks, hesitates a moment, but then lets it pass. "Yes?"

Now that he has Yusei's attention, Judai grins and draws back, holding up some cards in his hand to show Yusei. "How about a duel?" he asks, chipper, and reminds him that they never actually had a proper duel – in fact, Judai's barely even seen Yusei's deck.

Yusei's not just a little tired; he's spent all day moving his things from the run down garage he'd shared with Team 5D's upstairs and into his room, and had only just gotten back from plugging in his computers and setting up his D-Wheel when Judai attacked him. What he really wants to do is lie down and get some decent sleep on this obscenely comfortable leather sofa, but he can't turn down a duel – especially not one from Judai, since it's terribly obvious in the kid's—(actually, can Yusei even call him that, since Judai is technically older?)—big brown eyes that he's been dying to duel Yusei since the day the latter entered the business.

"Yeah, alright," says Yusei, getting up and suppressing a yawn, but Judai notices and frowns.

"You're tired," he says.

"I'm tired," Yusei agrees, and he takes out his deck, shuffles it idly as he looks around the room, a small smirk on his face. "Are we playing table-top traditionally? Maybe just standing up? Or"—he glances at the coffee table – which is less a table and more of a collection of Atem's old candy wrappers that they're all too lazy to throw out – where an unopened gift box reads From Yuma—"do you want to try out Yuma's presents?"

Judai crosses his arms and scowls. "Yusei, I'm not gonna duel you if you won't give it your all." His lips tilt upward a bit – "'Cause then when I win, you'll just say you were tired."

Yusei laughs. Judai's caught off guard – he's heard Yusei laugh maybe once or twice, ever, which is rare enough to make Judai think that something's definitely wrong.

"…Okay, never mind, Yusei, go to bed," says Judai, and he snatches a pillow from one sofa and sets it on the one Yusei'd been sitting on before. "I'll leave you alone, and we can duel when you're more awake."

Yusei's smirk grows as he puts his deck back into its case and lies down. "One condition, Judai," he says, laughing a little more, and Judai thinks this is bad, this is really bad and out of character and a side of Yusei he's never seen before, oh man it's like Atem all over again—

"What?" he asks.

"A riding duel," Yusei says, and he conks out.

Judai slowly grins.