"So, I think we just need some salt and that's everything- Yuugo?!"
Yuuya nearly drops the shopping list at the sight of his fifteenth year old brotherclimbing into a mall racer.
"Sorry, Yuuya," Yuugo says distractedly and Yuuya belatedly wonders how he even fit. "But that little bastard challenged me. My pride is on the line."
That little bastard on the other side of the aisle pulls down an eyelid and pops a raspberry. "Dream on, Synchro-scum!" he taunts with a toss of his blue hair. "Or should that be Fusion-scum, hm?"
A blood-vessel pops in Yuugo's temple and Yuuya takes an automatic step back. "Yuugo, c'mon," he pleads, looking around them nervously. He breathes a sigh of relief when he catches sight of Yuuto and thinks finally, a voice of reason, but that relief soon turns to betrayal when he takes up a spot behind the mall racer.
"Very well," Yuuto says with narrowed gray eyes, his voice low and grave and as serious as Yuuya's ever heard it. "If it's a fight you want, it's a fight you'll get."
Before Yuuya can protest just about everything in this situation, an elegant hand lands on the back of that little bastard's racer ominously.
"Is that so?" the newcomer says and never has Yuuya ever wanted to disown Yuuri has much as he does now. He is practically languishing against the silly little cart with a far too delighted grin stretching across his lips. "Tut, tut. Far be it for me to stand idly by while the two of you gang up on such a cute, defenceless little boy."
"Screw you, Yuuri," Yuugo snarls as he leans and braces himself… like Yuuto isn't going to be doing all of the actual work. "Prepare to eat our dust!"
Yuuya closes his eyes and prays for strength.
Just smile, he tells himself firmly as he rolls his cart up to the line, deliberately not flinching at either the chorus of unnecessarily loud battlecries or the resulting shrieking that follows. It is with resignation that bags his purchases to the sound of glass crunching and merely tugs his hood over his hair when the sprinklers go off.
He'll just pick up salt at the convenience store.