Azzure-Hey guys this is the first of a large amount of pairing one-shots

Malik-She and her friend Hyper 4-Chan have started a writing project to improve their skills. They pick a shipping and each write a one-shot over it.

Azzure-Our first one-shot is Timidshipping (Yugi X Shizuka) and I do not own Yu-gi-oh. Enjoy ^^

"I'm gonna catch you Yug!" Jonouchi's voice rang through the house as the two tore through the halls of his mother's house. Yugi's hair whipped behind him as he ran, his heart beat furiously in his chest. He had to find somewhere to hide; and by the sound of Jou's footsteps, which were gaining in volume, he probably didn't have much time.

He grabbed the nearest door frame and slide around the wall into the living room; his feet hit the carpet and he had to wave his arms quickly to stop himself from face planting on the carpet. After steadying himself he looked up and quickly scanned the room. It was almost completely empty, with their decks lying abandoned on the far side of the room; the only other person in the room was Jonouchi's sister, Shizuka, who was lying on the couch with an open book in her lap. She looked up to see Yugi struggling to hide behind the couch as Jou's steps continued to echo down the hall. He ducked into his hiding place just as the blond entered the room, "Hey Shizuka."

From his hiding place he could see her face clearly; she had looked up from her book towards her brother, "Hi Katsuya."

He heard his friend shifting around, "Shizuka, have you seen Yugi around here anywhere? We were playing a game but I seem to have lost him." Yugi tensed and rolled his eyes, a game? As if, it wasn't as though he wanted to have Jou tearing around the house after him, it had just happened. Really, he didn't consider that a game, more like torture.

He held his breath as Shizuka spoke, "Sorry Katsuya but I haven't seen him." Yugi wanted to jump into the air and scream, thank you Shizuka.

He let out a sigh of relief but felt himself tense up again as he head Jou's voice, "Well he has to be around here somewhere; he's like a little mouse ya know sis? Those things can hide anywhere, but they always like small spaces." As he spoke Yugi could hear the sound of his voice working its way around towards the end of the couch, he started to move towards the other end when he realized that he was backed against a wall, and Jonouchi was gaining on the only way out. Great now he was really in for it.

He smashed himself as close to the wall as he could as he caught sight of Jou's brown eyes staring in at him, "Found you Yug!"

Yugi sprang to his feet and started to climb over the back of the couch, Jonouchi started around the end back towards his escape way direction and Shizuka was near the end of the couch until she fell back into the center with her hands over her mouth, "Katsuya look out!"

The three of them froze as a single lamp on the side table leaned to the side, rolled towards the edge, and fell towards the floor; Jonouchi just managed to reach out and catch it before it landed, however the blub must have been loose because unlike the lamp it continued to fall towards the floor. It shattered with a crash and seconds later Jonouchi and Shizuka's mother entered the room to in investigation of the noise.

She entered the room to the strange sight before her; Shizuka was sitting up on her knees in the center of the sofa, her hands placed over her mouth to hide her startled expression. Yugi himself was sitting on the back of the couch near the wall, as the woman entered the room he slid down onto the couch himself, his amethyst eyes wide and terrified. Jonouchi was standing at the far end by the table, he had the lamp in one hand and the shattered glass at his feet, he was by far the guiltiest looking one in the room. The woman raised an eyebrow, "Katsuya may I speak with you for a moment."

Jou nodded and winked at Yugi as he left the room, "Hang on Yug, this should only take a minute." Yugi nodded slightly and watched him slowly leave the room; his mother had been standing in the doorway the whole time, a frown plastered on her face. Something told him that this wouldn't be over as quick as Jou had been expecting.

He sighed and sat down in front of his duel monsters deck; he shuffled through the first few cards and set the stack down with a sigh as he looked over at the lamp. The strangest thing was that as far as he knew Jou hadn't even been anywhere close to that lamp. Of course he had been the closest in the area, but was he really the one that had knocked it over? Perhaps it had been his own fault for shaking the sofa and the couch had knocked into the table during his attempt to escape? He sighed, not that it mattered at this point, Jou was taking the punishment for what had happened either way. He just didn't like to see his friends in trouble, especially not Jonouchi.

He turned his attention back to the cards on the floor in front of him; he shuffled through a few more with mild interest until he turned up the Silent Magician. He was just about to flip over that card when he caught sight of Shizuka watching him slyly from the couch. It wasn't very noticeable, but she was staring at him over the top of her book. He placed the Silent Magician aside starting another stack, and briefly glanced up at Shizuka. The minute she noticed his eyes watching her, she ducked her head down into her book. Yugi continued to watch her, and the longer he did it the more she pressed her nose into her book to avoid his gaze.

He returned his gaze to his cards, but he could feel her gaze return to him in the background. He flipped over the next card and sighed as he looked down to see the Silent Swordsman staring back up at him. He sighed and set it aside with the Silent Magician, if the world was trying to make a point he wasn't going to give in. Just because maybe he actually did like Shizuka did not mean that she shared the feeling.

He couldn't help himself as he stole a glance in her direction and his own amethyst eyes surprisingly met her own brown ones. He heard himself draw in a sharp breath as they both hurriedly looked away from each other and turned their attention back to their own projects, Yugi with his cards and Shizuka in her book. It was a few minutes later that Yugi risked another look back up to see her again, and as he moved his up he noticed that she shifted hers back down.

He hesitated; did he dare confess his feelings to her? What if she turned him down? He looked back down at his cards and his eyes wandered over to where Silent Magician and Silent Swordsman sat next to each other. He frowned, he was sure that he had set them on top of each other, but now they were… He shook his head and looked back up at her nervously, if somehow the two of them could be together even as separate cards…well then he could be brave enough to tell Shizuka that he liked her. He bit his lip; well if he could work up the courage to even go over and talk to her that was. He looked once more down at the two cards and slowly rose to his feet, he paused but she didn't even look up or notice that he had moved. He tightened his jaw and walked over to lean on the couch, "What are you reading?"

She jumped as though not realizing until that moment that he had been standing behind her, she burrowed her head into her book and her reply was so soft that Yugi wasn't even sure that she had spoken at all, "It's nothing."

"Really?" Yugi leaned over to get a better look at the cover, and at her face, "It certainly looks like something to me."

She held it between them and Yugi caught sight of the title, his eyes widened as he caught sight of the title, Dracula. He pushed it away and looked into her eyes, "I wouldn't expect you to read something like that.

She gave him a brief smile, "Katsuya thought the same thing, but I really do like it."

Yugi moved and sat down on the opposite end of the couch, "So what's it about?"

Shizuka rolled her eyes at him, "Well it's about a vampire."

He leaned over closer, "And…?"

"And…" She giggled as she tried to push him away, "And…" She tried desperately to explain what she was thinking, but she just couldn't handle herself with his face only a short distance away from her own. She broke into another fit of giggles and turned her head to the side, "Yugi!"

He wrapped his arms around her and snuggled himself into the small thin space between her and the back of the couch, a wide grin on his face which dropped off to a frown, "What? You don't like it?"

She shook her head and pulled him closer, "It's not that…" She paused and bit her lip as she looked into his eyes, "It's just that…"

Yugi leaned over to where his nose was just inches from hers, "What?"

She closed her eyes, "There's something that I need to tell you."

Yugi felt his heart beat faster, "There's something I need to tell you too."

Shizuka opened her eyes again quickly, "You go first then!"

Yugi's eyes widened, "Oh no! L…ladies first! After all you said that you had to tell me something."

"What if we do it at the same time?" Her brown eyes trembled as she spoke.

Yugi nodded, "That'll work." He closed his eyes and drew in a deep breath, "Ok, one."

Shizuka too closed her eyes, "Two."

"Three!" The word left their mouth at the same time and only a second later they repeated the same phrase, "I love you!"

Two sets of eyes snapped open at the same time to stare into the other. Brown met amethyst and both gasped for breath. The two of them stared at each other for several minutes before Yugi finally broke the silence, "Do you mean it?"

Shizuka's face turned bright red, "I'd never lie to you Yugi."

Yugi leaned closer, "I'd never lie to you either."

They both closed their eyes and their faces moved closer and closer together until their lips were hovering only a few inches away from each other. But instead of leaning forward and completing a kiss they both hesitated. Finally Yugi opened his eyes and pulled away as Shizuka opened her own. His face turned red, "I…I don't know why I stopped." He looked away, "I'm sorry."

He watched as she too looked at the ground, "I think we're both just nervous about this, after all we've gone so long unsure of what the other one thinks. I'm not sure that…" She was cut off as Yugi leaned over and brushed his lips against her cheek.

She looked over at him, surprised, and he smiled, "Let's not be unsure anymore." She nodded and tackled him to the other side of the couch in a hug as she pressed her lips against his.

The two kissed passionately for several minutes before they had to separate for air, their eyes met and they leaned over again for another kiss. After about three more they finally separated and moved back to sitting position on the sofa. They held hands and Shizuka leaned over and let her head rest on his shoulder, "I love you."

He pressed his face into her hair, "I love you too."

She blinked and lifted her head off his shoulder and looked at him, "Yugi, there's something that I need to tell you."

Yugi smiled and pulled her closer to him as he nuzzled her neck, "You can tell me anything."

She smiled at him, her brown eyes sparkling mischievously, "Well, you know that lamp that was knocked over?" Yugi frowned and nodded, not catching on to what she was meaning as she continued, "Well I have a confession to make."

Yugi continued to watch her, "Go on."

Her cheeks turned red as she pressed her head into his chest, "I knocked over the lamp on purpose." She looked up at him, "So that I could get alone with you."

The teen stared down at her in shock; he might have expected something like that out of Jonouchi, but not Shizuka. He smiled to himself; of course they were brother and sister. "He's going to kill you later."

She curled up next to him, "I know, but my knight will protect me."

He smiled down at her, "Your knight is always here for you." He kissed her lightly on the cheek, "I love you."

She returned the kiss and pressed her own lips into his before breaking away, "I love you too."

Azzure-Alright people we want to know what you think ^^

Malik-So please review ^^

Azzure-And the next one-shot that will be posted happens to be Coerceshipping (Strings X Kotsuzaka) Look for it shortly.