Title: The Phone Call (Drabble)
Author: Madyamisam
Beta: Jennie B
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: Don't own Yu-Gi-Oh
Summary: A small yet significant event that changed a boy's life.
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A boy of fourteen; so cold. His body is defiant, his glare is frightening, his lips tightened in neither a frown nor smile and his heart, that delicate heart, was encased in an abnormal ice. The older man, his opponent, trembled slightly. Never before had he encountered someone so cold. However the man gathered his courage and pushed the phone towards the child when it rang.
RING-RING, RING-RING
The boy falters, the coldness thawed just a little. He watched it vibrate on the table and in his ears before he hesitantly picked up the handle from its cradle.
"Moshimoshi" he answers with a dry throat.
"…On-on-oniichan?" replied a quiet stuttering, teary voice. That voice. That familiar voice. The ice melted ever so slightly. Ever so slowly and the first tear in years rolled down the boy's face.
"Hey Shizuka…"
From that day Jounouchi Katsuya vowed change.
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A/N: I was just playing with the idea of whether Jou was actually quite… erm… Seto-like as you will during that really violent period in middle school when he was in Hirutani's gang. A little farfetched but it could be another reason why he likes to argue with Seto because he sees a shadow of himself in him?