Disclaimer: Yugioh belongs to Kazuki Takahashi.
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"What were you doing on the roof, anyway?"
"Told you, I was duelling."
"On the roof."
"Hey, it's not the weirdest place I've ever duelled. Remember Kaiba's blimp?"
"Point."
"Besides, there wasn't enough room in Sato's apartment."
"Couldn't you have just duelled on the tabletop?"
"When we had our duel disks right there? C'mon, Mai!"
"...How old are you again?"
"Hey, no insulting my immaturity 'til I'm out of traction. Besides, it's not like you wouldn't have done the same thing."
"I would have found somewhere with railings, you idiot!"
"Yeah. Um." slight pause "We thought there was enough space..."
"Obviously there wasn't. So what was so important that you had to throw yourself off of a building?"
"Man, you shoulda seen it! I had my Flame Swordsman and two trap cards out, and he - "
"Katsuya."
"Huh?"
"Tell me about the duel later. Why were you there in the first place?"
"Like I said, there wasn't enough room in his apartment."
"No, I meant - Why were you dueling?"
"Do I need a reason?"
"You do when it just happens to coincide with your sister showing up to take me out to lunch for no apparent reason."
"Hey, she hardly ever sees you. Maybe she just wanted to spend some time together."
"Just when you have a duel that you'd obviously scheduled in advance? Riiiight. Spill, Katsuya."
"...How'd you know I planned it?"
"Oh, please. You've been working on your deck more than usual. It wasn't that difficult to figure out. So are you going to let me in on the big secret or not?"
"Eh, it's not much of a story. You know how Sato runs a jewellery store?"
"You were duelling over jewellery?"
"Yeah, exactly! I wanted something from his shop, see, but I couldn't afford it. So he said he'd give it to me if I beat him in a duel."
"Sato-san is a duellist? I had no idea."
"Yeah, he's pretty good. Won a few amateur tournaments. Anyway, today was the day, but it, uh... didn't work out so well."
A snort. "That's for sure. Are you going to reschedule?"
"Nah, he felt so bad about me getting hurt he just gave me the thing. Said he wanted to be invited - uh, wanted to duel some other time."
"Invited? To what?"
"To, uh, another duel! Yeah, that's it. He had such a good time with this one he wanted - "
"Katsuya."
"Eh?"
"Would you stop being evasive for five minutes and tell me what was so damn important about a piece of jewellery?"
"Aw, hell. I guess you had to know sometime."
"...It's not illegal, is it?"
"What? No! Look, I had a whole speech planned, but I, uh... Well, I guess I wanted to say, uh... Here."
Sound of lid being flipped up, followed by a choked-sounding gasp.
"Wha - ? Hey, Mai, are you all right?"
"I'm not - " Sound of nose blowing. " - upset, you idiot!"
"Then why are you crying?"
"I'm crying because I don't know whether to kiss you or strangle you!"
"Uh, okay. So you are gonna marry me?"