BEFORE AN: WELCOME WELCOME! WELCOME ALL! I am officially caught up to date on Yu-Gi-Oh Arc V and I am super proud! Took me a week or so with my work and all. But I present you an AU of nothing but drabbles. No real full-fledged stories are gonna be here, just one shot of chapters of drabbles.

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So, without further a do-do. Let's begin with the drabbles! Starting with the first

#1 Sick Bird

Includes Shun, Yuuto, Yuya and mentions of others!

~Alyss

Shun woke up early as per usual, not really feeling any energy though. He got a crappy excuse for a night's sleep. He trudged out of his room into the small living space of the house. He, his best friend and little sister were the occupants of the house, so it didn't have to be big. He entered the small kitchen and got a kettle out to boil some water for either tea or hot chocolate, he'd decide later. Ruri was staying at Rin's house for a 'Girls Night' along with Serena and Yuzu. Yuuto would probably sleep until noon like he normally did on weekends and breaks, so the only conscious occupant was Shun. He decided hot chocolate and made it, looking at the illuminated digits on the stove. Half past six. He walked over to the window and opened it to see the snow coating the ground and light flakes gently falling from the sky. He sat on the sofa and ended up spacing out while watching the snow, his mind snapping back when he heard a loud yawn and a door opening. Yuuto was awake, he trudged out, made himself a drink and trudged into the living room and sitting beside Shun.

"Mornin' Shun… Wh'time is it?" Yuuto mumbled, taking a sip of the hot chocolate he made himself. Shun blinked and glanced to the clock on the wall.

"Seven in the morning." He responded.

"Why're you up so early?"

Yuuto yawned and drank the rest of the drink.

"The drink smelt nice, I was drawn to it…" He smiled with a sleepy and goofy tone as he put the cup in the sink.

"Mnnight…" Yuuto smiled and trudged back to his room.

"It's seven in the morning, not seven in the night…" Shun mumbled and rolled his eyes and placed the empty glass in the sink. He concluded that he should probably try to sleep a little longer, anything more than an hour and a half would be nice. He pulled the blanket off of the back of the sofa and closed his eyes, hoping to be lulled into sleep.

At least he didn't wake up again from a night terror, but it was clattering and Yuuto humming. He shifted and sat up, glad that he got some sleep but unhappy for how terrible he now felt.

"Hey! Good afternoon~" Yuuto smiled, looking at Shun. Afternoon!? Did he sleep that long? He glanced over at the clock.

Ten Forty-five in the morning.

"Oh fuck you, Yuuto…" Shun groaned and rolled his eyes. Yuuto laughed and smiled, looking at Shun.

"I'm not even mad, your reaction was so worth it." He chuckled, leaning against the counter separating the kitchen and living room. Shun gave his usual scowl, no shock really.

"Oh yeah. Ruri sent me a text about an hour ago saying that she was going to stay another night at Rin's." Yuuto added, tapping his phone screen. Shun just simply shrugged, glad his younger sister was having fun.

"You're quieter than usual, what's up?" Yuuto asked, giving Shun a glare of his own, though his glare showed more concern than anything. His glare wasn't nearly as nasty as Shun's, but then again, Yuuto had never seen anyone give a nastier glare than Shun. He stood and grabbed a few things and headed to the door.

"Going for a walk?" Yuuto asked, leaning out of the kitchen.

"Yeah. I have to buy some stuff…" Shun said, finally responding to Yuuto.

"Oh! Can you get me another pair of headphones? I'll pay you back, mine finally fell apart." Yuuto asked followed by a light chuckle.

"Not a problem, you don't need to pay me back." Shun said, getting his boots, coat and scarf and leaving.

Yuuto gave him a wave as he left then looked towards his room with a small scowl.

"Who assigns homework over winter break?" He groaned.

Shun trudged through the snow, hearing kids yelling and throwing snowballs at each other.

"Let's see… See if I can get this stupid phone fixed… A few more notebooks… Yuuto's headphones… Stuff for dinner…" Shun mumbled to himself as he walked, the phone was going to be first. He and Yuuto had fought (per Yuuto's request, Shun was a great fighter and Yuuto got practice because of it) and Yuuto had knocked Shun's phone off the counter, shattering the screen to the point where it wouldn't turn on anymore. He hated touch screens, the screens were too damn delicate.

After nearly five hours (most of it was arguing with the phone people) he was done and could head home, it had gotten colder outside. After all that arguing, they just gave him a new phone. Great, now to try and get all those numbers back… Good thing that I transferred my photo's to my laptop before the stupid thing broke… He eventually reached the house, checking to see if the door was unlocked, it wasn't. He pushed the door open.

"I'm back…" He sighed and looked up, Yuuto was on the couch and his friend Yuya playing what looked like Mario Kart. Yuya seemed to perk up and he turned around, his red eyes brightly shining.

"Welcome back, Kurosaki!" He grinned his usual brightness then scowled at Yuuto.

"Don't cheat man!" He snapped at him, slugging his shoulder. Yuuto paused the game and turned around, watching Shun put the bags on the table.

"Wow, you look like a wreck." Yuuto bluntly commented. Shun raised an eyebrow in confusion and it caught Yuya's attention. He turned back to look at Shun.

"He looks fine, Yuuto… He's just not scowling like usual…" Yuya responded. I don't know which one I want to smack first. Yuuto rolled his eyes and unpaused the game.

"YOU CHEAT!" Yuya gasped and grabbed the controller. Shun sighed and began to put everything away, throwing the headphones at Yuuto, the package got caught in Yuuto's large mess of black hair. He was surprised that Yuuto hadn't invited the giant cluster of friends that he had. Despite Yuuto said that it isn't a 'giant' cluster. To Shun, it was he essentially had two or three friends if you didn't count his little sister. He could hear Yuya asking Yuuto why he didn't invite others to play.

"Yuuri?"

"He said he wanted to finish his homework before fooling around."

"Yuugo?"

"You know him, he never answers his phone."

"Sora?"

"He has a phone?!"

"No idea actually. I just thought I would suggest it…"

Yuuto rolled his eyes at Yuya. Yuya smiled and looked at Shun.

"Would you like to join the game, Kurosaki?" He asked.

"No." He simply responded. Yuya pouted and went back to the game. Within a half hour Shun was in the living room with them, reading while the two younger teens gamed. The two were so immersed in the game that the two flinched and dropped their controllers when Shun quietly coughed into his sleeve. He looked at the two startled teens blankly with a hint of amusement in his eyes. The two looked at each other slightly embarrassed that they were easily startled by that.

"Shun, did you get your phone fixed?" Yuuto asked, breaking the silence. Shun shrugged, with an annoyed look on his face.

"They just gave me a new one after hours of arguing…" Shun sighed, looking at his new phone then back to his book.

"Are you staying for dinner tonight, Yuya?" Shun asked, looking at the red and green haired boy.

"If you don't mind, can I?" He responded with a nice smile.

"Not at all. Stay as long as you'd like." Shun responded, looking back to his book and coughing quietly. Yuuto took mental note of that while looking at Shun quietly.

Shun made dinner for the two teens, something simple since he never really cooked anything extravagant.

"Thank you for the food, Kurosaki." Yuya smiled brightly and happily dug in, Yuuto looked up at Shun.

"Nothing for you?" He questioned.

"I'm not hungry." He responded, sitting back in the chair and reading again. After the two finished they cleaned up and went to Yuuto's room.

"Hang on, go get the game set up, I'll be there in a minute." Yuuto said, and Yuya giving a thumbs up. He leaned over the back of the chair, looking at Shun face-to-face.

"Can I… Help you, Yuuto?" Shun questioned, with a confused look. Yuuto just stared, his grey eyes locking with Shun's golden ones.

"Okay, way too close Yuuto." Shun broke the silence, Yuuto head leaned close enough to press their noses together. Yuuto blinked and moved his face away.

"You feeling okay? Your face looks a little flushed and you look paler than usual…" Yuuto bluntly asked. Hiding anything from Yuuto wasn't easy, especially if it reflected on your face. He was sharp. Shun pushed Yuuto's face away again as he leaned too close again.

"Is that why you were up so early?" He fired another question at him Shun's facial expression remained unchanged.

"If you keep leaving over the back of the chair you'll either tip it over or you're going to fall over." Shun bluntly replied, of course, the comment had to be about his height. Of the entire cluster of friends, Shun was the tallest. Yuuto huffed and moved, sitting on the arm rest of the sofa.

"You not feeling good or something?" Yuuto asked in a more serious tone.

"I'm fine, don't worry about it." Shun blandly responded, a silence hung between the two before Yuuto sighed and stood up.

"Alright." He said, the skepticism clear in his voice.

"Yuutooooooo…. It's been like two forevers…" Yuya whined, pouting at him. Yuuto sighed again and walked over to him.

"What game did you choose?"

"Town of Salem."

"Don't you suck at that?"

"Practice makes precise, no?" Yuya smiled at him, winking. The later hours of the night rolled around after the two complaining, yelling and actually helping each other. Yuuto perked up hearing shuffling outside his door. He took a breath and raised his voice enough for Shun to hear.

"Go to bed, Shun!" Yuya looked at Yuuto confused.

"Planned on it…" Shun's mumbles could barely be heard but Yuuto heard it. Yuya blinked and looked at Yuuto again with a confused expression. Yuuto had already caught on, he purposefully leaned in too close to Shun, he could feel a fever on him, and he could hear the different pattern in his breathing. Yuuto was very observant, after a while, nothing got past him.

An alarm clock rang. Oh shut the fuck up… Shun groaned and brushed against it with his hand to shut it off and pushed the clock down, he didn't care to know the time. He sat up slightly and searched for his phone. After finally finding it inside the pillow case (no idea why, considering that Shun barely moved in his sleep) He dialed the number of his work and waited.

"Hello?" A man's voice responded from the other end with a confused tone.

"Hello… It's Kurosaki…" Shun mumbled, trying to sound decent and alive. Attack failed.

"You… Sound pretty bad Kurosaki." The man responded.

"That's… Regrettably why I'm calling…" Shun sighed, pinching the bridge of his nose.

"Don't worry about it Kurosaki, you're our most vigilant worker. Rest up okay?" The man said with a reassuring tone then hung up. Shun hung up as well, dropping his phone back onto the bed. He hated being sick but he hated calling in sick more. In almost four years of working there, he only had to call in sick one other time, and that was because of strep throat, which Yuuto was technically calling because Shun essentially had no voice. He sighed and dropped his head back down in his pillow. He heard Yuuto and Yuya chatting, then hearing footsteps towards his door and open it. Yuuto had a plate of pancakes in his hand.

"Aren't you going to be late if you sleep in any longer?" Yuuto questioned, he already knew the answer. Shun gave what only could be explained as a half-assed glare.

"Yeah I figured." Yuuto responded to the glare with a nod, setting the plate down.

"Shut it…" Shun mumbled. Yuuto nodded in a 'whatever' type shrug.

"Well it isn't strep again if you can still tell me to shut up." Yuuto grinned and left the room, closing the door behind him. Yuya was making pancakes.

"Do you eat nothing but pancakes for breakfast?" Yuuto questioned, he didn't have a problem with Yuya's cooking it was fabulous.

"Eh-heh… My mom always makes pancakes for breakfast… So it's stuck with me… Force of habit you could say." Yuya smiled at him, flipping the few over.

"Didn't you say Kurosaki had work this morning?" He asked, placing the freshly cooked pancakes on a plate and handing it to Yuuto.

"Nah, not today, anymore at least." Yuuto responded after thanking Yuya for the pancakes and beginning to eat them.

"Eh? He didn't get fired did he?" Yuya gasped, looking at Yuuto.

"What? No. I doubt they'd fire their most vigilant worker. Nah he's sick… I figured as much, it was easy to tell." Yuuto responded with a shake of his head. Yuya clicked the pieces, Yuuto being blunt like that, he knew. Took Yuya too long to catch on, then again, he wasn't sharp with small details.

"Ehh? And we were making so much noise last night!" Yuya said, looking both concerned and apologetic.

Yuuto smiled with a shrug.

"Come on, it's Shun. He'll be fine."

Word Count: 2271

AFTER AN: YEP! MORE TO COME! JUST WAIT!

~Constructive criticism is always welcome~

~Alyss