"Yugi, what's your favorite flower?"
The smaller figure paused to think. "I don't know, I like a lot of them. Cherry blossoms are always nice, I suppose."
"But what's your favorite, the one you wish could cover all the parks and fields in the country, you find it so enchanting?"
Yugi laughed at that. "Yami, when did you get so dramatic and sensitive?" Yami only smiled at him playfully. "Well, I guess I really like… the dogwood. Pretty to look at, but hardy too. Though they don't last very long." He sighed and took on a pensive expression. "Yup, dogwoods."
TL: Wow, that came to me very quickly. I'm happy! does the famed happy dance Well, it's 6:15 AM and I haven't slept yet. I'm craaaaazy.
Jou: Why, yes, you are.
TL: I'm just so pleased with how quickly this came together! I thought it would take longer for me to think of everything. Anyway, short anecdote at the end to tell you how I came up with the idea. Rather odd, where my inspiration came from, actually.
Jou: No kidding… sidelong look
TL: Yes indeed, so here's your disclaimer: I don't own Yugioh, or it's characters, or any of that junk. I was not the first person to come up with this pairing (not by a long shot). So don't give me too much credit here, okay? Heh heh, I'm not that ingenious.
Jou: …Baka.
Favorite Flower
Yami wasn't liking his present situation very much.
It wasn't so much something wrong with him that was upsetting, but instead the way his hikari was acting. The young teen had been going about the last few days fairly normally, though he seemed to be a bit too possessive about the pendant he had received from his grandfather during the past week. But now he was acting very strangely.
The pendant was a small gift from one of Sugoroku's old archaeologist friends, and it had been handed off to Yugi when the boy took a liking to it. It was very simple in appearance; a small rectangle in bronze with plain black stones set into the middle and four corners, with a loop at one end for a string to go through. Why Yugi liked it so much, Yami couldn't understand. In his opinion it made a very tacky necklace, and wasn't useful for much of anything else. Apparently it had been unearthed in southern Egypt a month earlier, though the design did not even remotely hint at Egyptian origin, along with a small tablet adorned with a crude picture of a man and a dog on it. The significance of the picture was hardly looked into, as it was too vague and small. So the pendant which was of low value when they couldn't even determine its dates and origin, had been given as a small token of friendship.
And now, ever since acquiring it, Yugi refused to let it out of his proximity. During the day he kept it in his pocket, and at night when he slept he would set it carefully on the bedside table next to the alarm clock. He didn't seem to think his behavior was too strange, and brushed off his yami's questions about it, but this only made Yami more suspicious. There was something about that little piece of jewelry that just didn't seem right.
Once Yugi had started the panting phases, Yami was even more positive than before.
It had started four days after the pendant came into the boy's hands. While Yugi was asleep, Yami had been watching him, smiling slightly at his hikari's gentle breaths, when Yugi had begun panting. Loudly. Like a dog. It went on for near an hour, but Yugi denied knowledge of it come morning. The same thing happened the next night, only with a few small yips and twitches added. These odd symptoms had Yami on edge, and Yugi in disbelief.
"How did you possibly come up with that idea, Yami? Me, acting like a dog in my sleep? That's just ridiculous!" Yugi laughed it off. Yami frowned.
He did not trust that tacky little rectangle, that piece of metal that seemingly had no history. He didn't trust it one bit.
Yes, so, the anecdote. Well, I took a two-week intensive Japanese/anime class a while ago, and I used my old school binder, which had an insert in the back covered with YxY fanart. The one boy and youngest in the [four-person] class, 10 years old, name of Chad, was looking at them in slight confusion, though by now he had figured out my obsession. Anyway, he started going on about Yugi's choker, how it looks so weird. "It looks like a dog collar," he said. This was quite funny as both my fellow s-a-lover and I were wearing dog collars that day, I believe. Anyway, he went on to say, about Yugi in respects to Yami, "He looks like his dog, or something." Light bulb! And that is how it was born. The foreshadowing bit came from my desperate search for a title, when I thought of dogwood trees, one of which we have in our backyard. So I looked to see if dogwoods grow in Japan, and they do, and they are quite pretty, with their pink flowers. And, um, I apologize of this chapter was too much author-talk, I'll shut up for the next chappy.
(Oh yes, and in regards to the person who requested a Jou/Seto fic… I ish just to jealous for that, m'dear. I am terribly sorry. cries Jou is mine, min, I tell you! You can't take him away from me, never! Anyway, I'm sure you can find some delightful J/S fics by other authors. nodnod)
