A/N: Hey guys…so I recently started going onto Tumblr and I saw the Pendulumshipping/Pendulum Week thing and decided I wanted to give it a try.

Prompt: Showtime!

Rating: K

Warning: Despite my mostly reading Humor/Romance Fics, and being a Shipper, I have never written anything romantic. In fact, I have a talent for writing Tragedies and the like…despite my not liking Tragedies and never reading them. Funny how that works, huh? Anyways, the point is that these are probably gonna be awkward and end in pretty similar ways.

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Enjoy?

Between You and Me

It was about six months since the end of the Maiami Championship. Sakaki Yuya had won the Junior Youth division of the prestigious tournament sponsored by Leo Corporation. Pendulum summoning was now slowly spreading throughout the world and Yuya had become famous for being the pioneer of the new summoning method and for his winnings in the tournament and victory against the former Duel Champion, Strong Ishijima. In other words, he was now a public figure—and apparently, that meant that he absolutely MUST (according to Nico Smiley) act as an active member of the dueling community by making public appearances and promoting products and such. And it was thanks to that, that he was now in his current situation.

He was standing in the middle of a stadium of hundreds—maybe even thousands—of people with Akaba Reiji standing by his side. They were each holding a mic and dressed in their usual garb. Men, women, and children of all ages were cheering excitedly for the dueling tournament to begin. But, before that could happen, the two duelists would have to sing a song together. Yes, you heard it right—Sakaki Yuya and Akaba Reiji would be singing a song together to kick off the start of a tournament that neither one of them were actually participating in—and it was all Nico Smiley's fault.

It was only a few weeks ago that Nico had come bursting into You Show Duel School to ask Yuya to promote an upcoming tournament. The tournament was one of the lesser known ones and having public figures such as Yuya promote it would really bring it some much needed attention. Initially, Yuya had declined, he'd decided that it wasn't a necessary step to reach his goals and that he wouldn't be any help anyways, since he didn't know the first thing about promoting things. Eventually, however, he gave in—Nico had bugged him about it incessantly throughout the next week—and it was only after he'd already agreed that he'd been told what exactly he'd have to do, which meant that even though he wanted to, he could no longer back out.

It's not that he hated singing or anything, though. He just thought it was awkward to have to sing in front of an audience—and with his greatest rival, at that. Also, the only time he'd ever sung before was in music class at school, with his voice being mixed in with the voices of all his classmates; he'd never quite been in the position where his own voice was heard clearly and didn't know if he was any good or not. So, you can understand his apprehension at having to perform in front of so many people, despite his being an entertainer who usually thrives on the attentions of others.

To Yuya's right, Reiji cleared his throat. He looked at the older teen who was now readjusting his glasses. "It's time," Reiji told him, looking out at the crowd before them. "Alright," Yuya replied before he took a deep breath, smiled brightly, and yelled to the crowd, "Ladies and Gentleman! It's Showtime!"

The crowd roared in excitement as the music started, and Yuya started singing his lines.

"As long as those smiles are there,
Wanna keep on shining!"

Next, Reiji sang his lines and a whole section of fangirls screamed in happiness and excitement.

"I'll stake it all on my ultimate pride,
Wanna be the perfect!"

Then, the two teens sang in unison.

"No matter when, we'll believe in our tomorrow.
Now, on wings of courage, just fly away!
We are future fighters!"

People throughout the audience (girls, especially), cheered. The two actually sounded good together. Sooner than Yuya expected, the whole ordeal was over and the audience was cheering. The rest of the tournament went on without a hitch and the winner was some twelve year old synchro-user.

Afterwards, Yuya walked out of the stadium and happened to come across his rival. The two started walking together, and before long, they were surrounded by dozens of happy, squealing girls. The girls crowded around them like a bunch of piranha trying to get at a piece of meat. They were praising the two duelists' performance, saying how great the sounded and looked together, and asking questions like if they were together.

Upon hearing those kinds of questions, Reiji's eyes widened in shock and Yuya blushed in embarrassment.

"W-what are you saying," Yuya asked the girls.

One of the girls spoke up, "You two look so adorable together and your voices go together perfectly!"

The rest of the girls in the group squealed in the affirmative.

The girl standing to the left of the first one talked next, "So, are you two together? Cause' I totally ship you two!"

"Ship…?" Yuya asked, confused.

The girl nodded enthusiastically in the affirmative before looking up at the two with hopeful eyes. Reiji, who had been quiet up until then, finally spoke up, "Yes, that's right." He smirked and wrapped his arm around the the other's waist. Yuya blushed even redder than before and looked up at the older of the two. The girls squealed in happiness and made way for the two as Reiji ushered Yuya down the sidewalk, away from the place where they had sung their duet.

A/N: Obviously, the song used was Future Fighter! by Kensho Ono (Yuya's Seiyuu) and Yoshimasa Hosoya (Reiji's Seiyuu) and I have a slight obsession with fitting songs I like from an anime series into said series somehow which is how I came up with this fic.

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