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Fandom: Yu-Gi-Oh GX
Title: Should've Known
Characters: Asuka, Fubuki
Word Count: 511||Status: One-shot
Genre: Family, Humor||Rated: G
Challenge: 31halloween: prompt #4, candy
Summary: [one-shot, 31halloween, prompt #4, candy, Asuka & Fubuki] Candy. Costumes. Tailor made for Fubuki. Asuka really should've known.
Candy. Costumes. From out of nowhere it seemed they appeared. One day the displays in all the stores had been normal, advertising sales and discounts. The next, spiderwebs, witches, and quite a few of the more popular and attractive dark-aligned Duel Monsters stared down at Asuka no matter which way she looked.
Kids ran this way and that, demanding everything from dressing up as their favorite Duel Monster or movie star to six bags of the latest candy. Asuka wondered if the looks of horror she saw in parents' eyes actually existed or if it were her imagination.
They can't be any worse than Fubuki. He'd never needed candy in order to exasperate her, much less terrify her. He did it sheerly by being Fubuki. And he did it very well.
The closer it grew to Halloween, however, the more she became of the opinion that some of these kids could give her brother a solid run for his money. No one actually asked for any candy; that was reserved for the big night itself, or so she gathered from what some of her classmates talked about. But the talk about costumes and who was going to wear what and who needed to make what or find what or buy what dominated more conversations than it didn't. So did talk about candy: who gave out the best, ways to get some even when one was technically too old to go out trick or treating in the first place, who gave the worst and what punishments some of her fellow students' younger siblings had in mind for people like that.
Yes. Fubuki would fit in like a hand in a glove here.
At least he wasn't here. She didn't know where he was, since his last e-mail to her hadn't mentioned anything and that had been over two weeks earlier. Fubuki was nearly as much a leaf blowing in the wind as Juudai was. She thought he would probably end up settling down somewhere eventually, though, once he got his fill of seeing the world and all the people in it. Until then, her brother would send her e-mails from who knew where and ask if she'd found a boyfriend yet. Once or twice he'd asked if she'd found a girlfriend, just in case he might've been barking up the wrong tree.
Some things never changed.
Such as the fact she was more than a little surprised to unlock her door and find Fubuki sprawled out on her couch, a bowl of candy in front of him. She closed and locked it behind her automatically. "How did you get in here? The door was locked." She knew she'd locked it. She knew. She'd just had to unlock it, after all.
"I know. I locked it after I came in." Fubuki smiled at her and offered the bowl. "Have you picked out a Halloween costume yet? And is this all the candy you plan to buy? I can finish this tonight!"
Asuka closed her eyes and leaned against the door. She should've known.
The End
Note: I originally posted this back in October 2012, but now am reposting these ficlets separately instead of as a collection, in order to have each listed under their proper character and rating.