We're in day 1 of the 14 Pairings I Don't (Really) Ship!
Each day, I will force myself to write and post a genuine (and at least 50-75% competent) romance one-shot for a pairing that I don't actually ship. I will post them from the 31st of January to the 13th of February, and then on the 14th I will re-post any chapter of any of my fanfics that you people want me to redo HERE! Just go to my stories, look at the ones with romance in them, and pick the story and chapter you want me to re-post here (with edits of course so I'm not breaking any site rules). Sometimes it might just be a poem if I can't think of a story.
The two characters of this story will change day by day, depending on the pairing for that day.
Shippings I plan to do (as of 1/29/13) (so you don't repeat any requests): vexshipping (this chapter), psychoshipping, silentshipping, polarshipping (requested), servantshipping (requested)
I have asked 2 of my YGO fan friends from school for suggestions and might take one shipping from each of them if I don't get enough suggestions in time from you guys.
So what I'll be needing are A CRAPLOAD OF REVIEWS AND FOLLOWS. I'm not being a review whore or whatever its called; in order for this to work I'll need a lot of support and reviews and suggestions. I have no idea if I'm shipping some of them right, and I don't know if some of the characters are too OOC. I need you people to tell me what I'm doing right and wrong, and I need suggestions for what I should do next. To start, give me suggestions for things you think I don't ship, but want to see me ship or think I could manage shipping. (EVERYTHING WILL STAY AT A T!) Here is what I already ship (or mentally ship, but just don't write it):
~ thiefshipping ~ tendershipping ~ puzzleshipping ~ deathshipping ~ puppyshipping ~ heartshipping ~ replayshipping ~ laddershipping (Zorc&Pals, anyone? ;D) ~ halfshipping ~ genesisshipping ~ exoticshipping ~ peachshipping ~ revolutionshipping ~
Remember: ONLY PAIRINGS AND ONLY T AND BELOW! Not even T+.
I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh!, DDR, or any of the characters/songs in either of those (except for one that I made up).
R&R (and F&F!)
ENJOY~!
Shipping #1 of The Fourteen Pairings I Don't Ship
Téa Gardner (Anzu Masaki) X Yami Bakura
Vexshipping
~At the arcade~
/"PERFECT!"/ /"SUPER!"/
/"SUPER!"/ /"SUPER!"/
/"PERFECT!"/ /"GREAT!"/
/"FINISH!"/ /"FINISH!"/
The score screens came up. The two players' scores had a 5% gap between them.
The spectators cheered mostly for her, but some also cheered for the loser to congratulate him on a well-played game and console him for his failure to even break the typical 4% margin.
Téa Gardner had defeated another person at DDR. She pumped her fist in victory. "Yes! I did it once again!" She wore her favorite and most comfortable dancing outfit: a yellow strapless and sleeveless top that exposed her midriff and a short pink skirt.
The crowd had decreased by 50% in the past ten minutes. It was nothing new that she had shown up yet another challenger at the game that she couldn't be beat at: Dance Dance Revolution. No one had been able to even come within 2% of a tie with her. Absolutely no one.
She didn't do it for the victory or the glory, she did it for the fun of it. But she also did it because it would get her recognized by people so that someday she could be a professional dancer someday.
She still couldn't help but wish that someone would come along that could match her. Someone who would actually be a challenge. Or even better, her equal.
Little did she know that such a person would soon find her...
~On the street~
He walked casually down the street, bumped into a random pedestrian, then smiled at the shiny silver watch he had stolen right off the poor sucker's wrist.
[Yami] Bakura then pocketed the watch and continued walking slowly down the street, extremely bored and looking for something to do or something interesting to watch or some trouble to cause. He wore a simple tight black tank top and black skinny jeans. But they weren't so tight that he couldn't fit a lot of stuff in his pockets, of course.
He despite being the exact opposite of a people person, he secretly wished for someone to hang out with that would be worth his time and attention. Too bad there was no such person in existence for the awesome him.
Then he passed the arcade.
He stopped in front of the door for a moment and though. It was a game place. Maybe he could go inside and turn something into a Shadow Game. Of course, he couldn't really do that because his [former] host had the Millenium Ring at the moment. But perhaps he could steal something interesting or valuable from someone.
He pushed the door open and went inside the arcade.
Little did he know that he would indeed soon steal something...
.
Téa was playing the game yet again. This time solo, and this time she only played to enjoy the music and purposely didn't even do half of the steps. A few spectators new to her amazing skill gathered around, shocked to see her actually playing terribly. But everyone else knew that she did this often, and would never lose a game ever.
No game machine in the entire arcade that involved agility and/or fancy footwork was without the letters TEA at the top of the leaderboards.
However, Téa noticed that at least one machine of every game that involved speed and skill had the letters TK at the top of the leaderboards. She often wondered who TK was, and sometimes even desperately wished to meet him or her.
Bakura walked looked around. He suddenly realized that he didn't have any tokens with him. Then he saw some kid walking in his general direction whose pocket was bulging with tokens. He smiled.
As the kid passed, Bakura stuck his hand in his pocket. The kid noticed and slapped his hand. "Hey what are you doing?!"
Bakura reached in again and pulled out the watch. He used the innocent voice that he had to force his vocal cords to make when he was impersonating Ryou. "I was just giving you this. Could be worth a lot of money if you wanted to sell it. I was just trying to be discrete about it. Sorry."
The kid smiled. "Well thanks!" He walked away.
Bakura watched him go with a smirk on his face. He opened his fist and looked at the handful of tokens and silver watch that was in it. "Sucker," he said.
~•~
Téa and Bakura both moved to two game machines of the same game that were back to back. They inserted two tokens and started the game.
It was one of those games that both of them were good at.
They played for a while until...
"Looks like I beat my high score," Bakura said to himself quietly. He entered his gaming initials when the game asked him to.
Téa had reached the end of the game, not having broken her high score, but just reaching it again exactly. She stared at the high scores and blinked rapidly when they changed. The letters TK suddenly appeared in the number 2 spot, pushing the other TK score down one spot. "Huh? Again? TK is here?" She looked around wildly at the other machines next to her to catch a glimpse of TK. But suddenly a voice distracted her.
"You the Garden Girl?"
Téa turned around and saw a tall, slim girl, about 18 or 19, with long blond hair in a neat pony tail staring at her, hands on her hips and a smirk on her face. "Uh... Y-yeah that's me..." Some people called her 'The Garden Girl', or 'GG' for short. "Who are you?" The girl intimidated her a bit.
"Name is Rika. I'm the top junior professional dancer in my hometown. I've heard about you..." She peered at the top score on Téa's game screen. "...T-E-A. And I'm interested. I don't wanna put you down or anything. I know I'm intimidating. I get that a lot. I'm actually quite nice. But I wanna see for myself how good you are."
Téa boredly raised an eyebrow at her. "Lemme guess, you wanna challenge me to DDR."
"I do. Let's get right to it?"
Téa shrugged, then smiled. "Sure. Let's go." She walked away with Rika to the DDR machines.
Meanwhile, Bakura had been unintentionally eavesdropping on their conversation. Then at the last sentence, he had realized that he recognized Téa's voice, that she was TEA, and that she was the one who was supposedly better than him at those types of games.
He smiled and followed them.
The game went pretty much like most of her competitive games went. She beat Rika by a 4% lead. But unlike her other opponents Rika was actually laughing and smiling while they played: she clearly took joy in the dance, and not just the game in itself. Téa liked Rika's attitude. It was much like her own.
Meanwhile, Bakura stood in the crowd watched Téa dance skillfully and expertly. Hm... he thought as he watched her hips and feet move gracefully. She has talent. Somehow I find that appealing... I just might be a match for her. I think we need to have a go at this game.
Rika and Téa shook hands and then after a few encouraging words from Rika about Téa's dancing dream, they parted.
After her performance, she suspected that someone else probably wanted to face her. "Who's next?" she asked with a bored sigh.
"Me," a familiar voice called from the crowd.
"Huh?"
Bakura pushed his way to the front of the crowd. He grinned and waved at Téa.
"Bakura?!" she exclaimed. "Wait... Which one are you?"
"The hot and talented one," Bakura answered as he stepped up on to the platform. "Remember? Me and him separated a few months back?"
"Oh um... Interesting to see you here. Um..." The 'evil' Bakura always made her slightly uncomfortable. "What are you doing here?"
"Got bored. Came to play a game. Saw you dancing. Here I am."
"So...Why are you standing up here?"
"Isn't it obvious? I'm your next opponent."
Téa laughed a bit. "You sure? You've never seen me play this, have you?"
"I just did. And I have a feeling I could beat you."
Everyone gasped. Nowadays, no one who really knew her even thought about beating Téa anymore. All they could really do was hope to tie with her. But here was someone who was actually going to try and beat her!
"Really?" Her face went serious.
"Yes. Now..." He placed a token in the machine. "Ready?"
She had no choice but to do the same and accept him as her challenger.
"Since you're new to this," Téa said to him, "I'll let you pick the song and level."
"Fine by me." He picked a relatively well-known song and put it on the hardest difficulty of medium.
Interesting choice... Téa thought. The music started up. "Ready?"
The arrows appeared at the bottom of the screen. "Of course," Bakura said with a confident smile.
/"3, 2, 1, GO!"/
The dance had begun!
Téa immediately started moving her feet. She didn't miss a single beat. But she noticed Bakura not moving for the first ten steps. Then he started moving with just as much skill as she was.
"You do know that you missed the first ten steps, right?" she asked him with a curious look in her face.
He smiled at her. "Of course I do. I was just giving you the head start that you'll end up needing so desperately."
She watched his feet and hips and arms move for a few more seconds before turning her head towards the screen and looking at him from the side. She smiled confidently. "Sure, you can let yourself think that."
They kept this up. Bakura had picked a five minute song.
Téa got only PERFECTs and SUPERs, with only five or so GOODs. Bakura only got only PERFECTs and as many GREATs as SUPERs. Despite Bakura's ten-step miss at the beginning, with one minute left they were actually neck and neck.
Téa stole another side-glance at him, and found herself staring. She couldn't help but admire the way his body moved and remember his comment about being "The hot and talented one". She suddenly heard a single word coming from her side.
/"MISS!"/
Her eyes snapped back to the screen and she saw that her combo had restarted. She glanced at Bakura again. He looked back at her with a look that said "I caught you staring". He winked.
Téa suddenly realized that all of the nervousness she usually felt around him had disappeared completely. Now it was replaced with nervousness at idea of losing to him because he had distracted her.
She focused back on the game.
Twenty seconds left...
Bakura glanced at her again. He had caught her staring. And no one else but him had noticed her miss that step.
Ten seconds...
By then, the crowd had become twice as large as the one for Téa and Rika.
Five seconds...
Téa and Bakura's eyes met for an instant one last time...
Two seconds...
They both spun around twice in midair then slammed their feet on LEFT and BACK at the same time and threw their right arms up in the air in a beautifully dramatic finish.
/"FINISH!"/ the game said.
Everyone cheered and clapped and whistled.
Téa and Bakura looked each other in the eyes and breathed heavily with smiles on their faces.
They looked at the scores. Téa gasped when the percent difference in their scores came up.
2%!
And that was with Bakura's deliberate 10-step miss at the beginning and Téa's accidental 1-step miss near the end!
Téa looked at Bakura in slight awe, impressed at his skill.
/"New high score!"/
"Oh look at that!" Bakura said pridefully, still breathing a bit hard. "Looks like I beat one of your previous high scores." He entered his initials and winked at her.
Téa gasped at the letters. Then she looked at him even more awed. "Bakura... You're 'TK'? Wow!" She was suddenly next to him, shaking his hand in both of hers.
"Uh... What?" He pulled his hand away.
"Sorry! It's just that I've been wondering who TK is for a while now. I had no idea it was you! You're good! I like your style!"
"Same to you, I guess." He paused and looked out at the spectators. Then he looked back at her. "You know... That wasn't a really serious game."
"Huh?"
"It was only on medium. And I purposely missed and you let yourself get distracted. So how about we have a serious rematch? I think I can actually beat you this time."
Her eyes widened. Then she rubbed the back of her neck and took a step away. She averted her gaze. "Well... I don't know. I'm tired."
"Ok then." He also took a step away. "I'm a bit tired as well. We'll take a break."
They both stepped down from the stage.
The crowd gradually dispersed. Some other people got on the stage to play their own game.
Téa bought some water to hydrate herself. Not because she was dehydrated, but to prepare for the rematch with Bakura.
The way he had looked at her...
And the way she had looked at him...
She suddenly heard a squeal from a few feet away. She turned to look.
A trio of teenage girls, aged about 15 or 16, were standing around Bakura, who had probably had the same idea as Téa to get water before they found him. He looked surprised to see them. One had brown hair, one had black hair, and one had red hair. They were all about the same height.
"Oh Em Gee!" the black haired one cried. "Are you Kura-chan, Ryou-kun's super sexy evil alter ego?!"
"Uh... I think so... Why...?"
"Oh my gosh!" the brown haired one shouted. "We saw you dancing. You're absolutely amazing!"
"Omg Kura-chan you're so freaking sexy the way you dance!" the red haired one squealed. "Marry me! Augh!" The brown haired girl had shoved her head down and pushed her to the floor.
"Don't mind Lilly," she said. "She's too much of a fangirl. I'm much calmer. I just don't like to act like it. I'm Kira." She squealed again.
"I'm Kimiko," the black haired one said. Lilly still hadn't recovered. "Can I hug you?"
"N-" Bakura stopped when he noticed Téa staring at the scene. She had a slightly jealous look in her eyes, but probably had no idea of it. He met her gaze and smiled. "Sure."
"AAAAAHHHHH!" Kimiko glomped him.
Why had he agreed to this?! I REGRET THIS I REGRET THIS I REGRET THIS I'M SUCH AN IDIOT I REGRET EVERY MOMENT OF THI- He cut his own thoughts short when a hand grabbed his arm and pulled him out of the deadly grasp of the fangirl named Kimiko.
He looked up at his savior.
Téa.
She pulled him to his feet and stood between him and the fangirls. "What are you doing?!" she scolded them. "He has a rematch with me soon and needs to be in good condition for it!"
"Sorry, Téa!" Lilly said, recognizing Téa as she stood up again. "I didn't know that he would be doing to again! I thought he was done!"
"Well don't assume!"
"Hey, where did he go?" Kira asked.
"Huh?" Téa turned around and saw Bakura just returning with an almost empty bottle of water.
He downed the rest in two seconds. Then he threw the bottle at the fangirls and Lilly caught it. "Throw this out for me, will you? Now let's go, Téa." He put an arm over her shoulder and led her back to the DDR machines. Téa eyed the arm around her. But she left it there.
Lilly squealed and opened the bottle and brought it to her lips. But Kira snatched it from her hand hit her on the head with it. "Calm yourself down and let's go watch! Friggin idiot..." She tossed the bottle over her shoulder and led her two friends after Téa and Bakura.
The two stepped on to the platform once more. People noticed this and started crowding around again.
The two opponents looked at each other and grinned.
"You wanna pick the song this time?" Bakura asked as Téa inserted her tokens. "After all, you know this game better than I do."
"I do," Téa said as Bakura inserted his token. "And I will pick."
She selected the longest song there was: a song called Toxic Blue Electric Fireflies* that was six minutes long. And she selected the hardest difficulty: Ex-Ex. Expert-Extreme.
The fast paced music started up and the game looped the beginning for a few seconds to give the players time to prepare.
They finally looked away from each other and focused on the screen.
"Good luck," Téa said as the arrows appeared at the bottom of the screen.
"Won't need it. Neither will you."
/"321GO!"/
Their feet started flying and they stepped and maneuvered expertly. Within the first three minutes, they were already sweating a bit.
But they kept their focus and kept moving.
They both knew the song, and knew that a very short two second break in the flowing arrows would be coming up within a few seconds. They exchanged glances and nodded.
The break happened.
They jumped towards each other, slapped the other's hand as they passed, then landed on the other's dance field and continued stepping. They got right back into it and didn't miss a single beat.
Everyone gasped and clapped and oooooohhhed at the sheer awesomeness of their maneuver.
Téa and Bakura winked at each other then turned back to their game.
They stepped and twisted and jumped and stomped their way through the next two minutes easily. Both of them were still getting only PERFECTs and SUPERs. Their scores were neck and neck. They were perfectly in sinc.
Then with one minute remaining, they both sensed another two-second break.
They looked at each other again, breathing hard and sweating from all the action, and grinned. They nodded.
The two second break came in...
...and they switched sides yet again!
The crowd went wild!
Thirty seconds...
There were about ten seconds of a slower rhythm. They found themselves holding hands for these ten seconds. Then the music sped up again. They dropped their hands and kept dancing, without having noticed the contact.
Ten seconds...
They held the other's gaze for a second or two and smiled yet again. They didn't even need to see the screen anymore; their feet knew what to do. Their eyes could do whatever they wanted.
Bakura sent her a message with his eyes: "Don't lose focus..."
She sent back: "Right!"
Two seconds...
This song ended with pretty much the same moves and beat as the last one had. So they did the same fancy maneuver they had ended that song with.
They twirled in the air twice and stepped on LEFT and DOWN with a much louder BANG! than before as they threw their right arms up in the air.
/"FINISH!"/
Their audience went crazy! They cheered and whistled! Some of Téa's fanboys and Bakura's fangirls even threw roses at them!
The two dancers breathed hard. Their clothes were drenched in sweat. They didn't dare look at each other until the scores showed up.
/"TIE!"/
They both gasped loudly.
"Bakura!" Téa exclaimed as she turned to him."You tied with me! This is amazing!"
With a huge smile on his face, Bakura held out his arms and Téa jumped into them. He twirled her around and they both laughed. Then they realized what they were doing and stopped. Bakura set Téa back down on the stage.
They gazed into each other's eyes and blushed. It was then that they remembered how they had held hands at that slower ten second interval.
"Um..." Téa turned away. "I'm going to go clean up..." She stepped off the stage and headed for the restroom.
Bakura watched her go. He held out his arms and examined them. He had never been that cheerful or excited or elated before... What has she done to me...?
Téa reached under the sink for the little alcove that she had discovered there long ago. She put her empty reusable water bottle there and took out a small coin purse. She put her unused tokens in it, then put the purse back.
She took several paper towels out of the automatic paper towel dispenser and started wiping up the sweat from her face, arms, chest, stomach... Everywhere. She threw all the paper towels in the garbage. By then, her breathing had returned to normal.
Téa looked at herself in the mirror, then at the restroom door.
Bakura... she thought. You...
She turned away from the mirror and headed out.
The door closed behind her and she started walking to the arcade.
"Hey there."
"AAAHHH!" She jumped.
She turned around to find Bakura leaning against the wall.
"B-Bakura!" she cried. She started blushing again. "What are you-"
"Waiting for you, obviously." He walked around her and leaned on the wall on her other side, blocking her path. He had also wiped all the sweat off of his skin, and somehow his shirt had already dried. Maybe it was the material?
"What for?" she asked, suddenly becoming nervous again. She involuntarily took a step back.
"Well...Don't you know?" Bakura casually refocused the topic. "Great moves out there," he said nonchalantly. "You are a fantastic dancer."
Téa smiled at the comment. "Thanks. Great moves yourself. Never seen anyone actually tie me at dancing before. You don't give out compliments very often, do you?"
"No. I don't."
"Well then, don't I feel special now," she said with a laugh, trying to change the mood of their conversation.
It didn't work. "Well you should..." Bakura suddenly moved in front of her and placed a hand up against the wall on either side of her, effectively trapping her. "...because you are special."
Absolutely anyone could have been able to tell that things were escalating between them.
"Uh well... Bakura?"
"Hm?" He moved closer.
"What does TK stand for?"
He moved his face away to answer. "Oh! It stands for 'Thief King'. That's who I was known as in my past life. You remember, right? Well, if you were paying any attention that is."
"I was. And Thief King seems oddly appropriate right now..."
"How so?"
Téa suddenly put her hands behind Bakura's head.
"Because I think you've stolen my heart," she whispered. She pulled his head close to hers. Bakura's elbows bent and his hands slid lower on the wall as she pulled him closer. She kissed him on the lips.
Everything of Bakura's except for his face and heart locked up. Unexpected but... He started kissing back immediately.
Five seconds later, they ended it.
"That's not what was supposed to happen," Bakura said with a smile. "I was supposed to kiss you first. And I thought you were scared of me."
"I wasn't ever scared of you," she responded. "I just didn't like you. You know... Because you were evil and all..."
"Well I guess you'll be the one to change that."
"I will?"
"I caught you staring at me. You can see why I'm the sexier of the two Bakuras, right?" He took a step away and held his arms out on either side of him so Téa could see him from head to toe.
She giggled and admired his figured. "I can see why..."
He stepped closer again and gently put his hands on her exposed sides. "You've got quite the body as well, you know..."
She blushed even more than she already was and blinked shyly. "You really think so?"
"Of course. Now let's try this again..."
Bakura leaned closer and pressed his lips against Téa's once more. Her head bumped against the wall. Their eyelids slowly drooped closed. Téa put her hands on Bakura's sides.
Neither one ever though they would be here, kissing the other. Before that day, they hand never cared or even though about each and actually disliked each other because of what had happened in the past. But the past was the past; this was now...
A few seconds later, Bakura gently ran his tongue along Téa's bottom lip.
Her eyes opened, she tensed up, and turned her head a little.
Bakura opened his eyes and moved his head away. "Too soon?" he asked.
"A little," she replied shyly.
"No matter. You'll come around eventually. But I'll wait..."
He leaned back in.
Their eyes closed once more and so did the space between their lips.
~•~
Meanwhile, the end of the hallway leading to the arcade, a trio of females spoke in hushed whispers...
"Okay, I totally ship those two now!"
"But I still ship him with me!"
"I don't know about you two, but I ship me with her so we can have a love triangle and then I can kick her out."
"Alright though, that's enough. Let's give them their privacy."
"Shut up, Kira!" "I need to go to the bathroom though! And I wanna talk to him again!"
"You'll ruin the moment!"
"I hope I do! Kura-chan is mine!"
"Shut up, Lilly!"
They were whispering, but Bakura heard them anyway.
Without moving away from Téa, he reached in his pocket and took out three tokens. He threw them at the fangirls. Each coin hit each one of the girls right in the forehead and they were somehow knocked out without being injured.
Bakura pulled away at last. They stared into each other's eyes. "Wanna get something to eat?" he asked. "I'm starving."
"Sure."
"I'll buy."
"Fine with me." He took her hand and walked her back down the hall to the arcade.
Téa noticed Kira, Kimiko, and Lilly passed out on the floor. "What happened to them?" she said, turning her head to look at them as she and Bakura passed.
"Oh, thanks for reminding me!"
Bakura backtracked and picked up the three tokens. "These are mine," he told Téa.
Téa gasped and lightly slapped his arm. "Bakura!"
"What?"
"You can't just do that to people! If this is going to work out between us you're going to have to start being a better person!"
"What?" He looked a bit surprised and wary of her sudden change in attitude.
She grinned somewhat evilly at him. "People know me for my nice personality just as much as they know me for my dancing. And I'm going to show you why! Now let's go! You were going to buy me lunch? That's a start..."
She grabbed his hand again and pulled him along.
Oh no... Bakura thought as Téa led him away from his unconscious fangirls. What have I gotten myself into?
* This isn't a real song.
(lol I just realized that I was always spelling Tea's name wrong! It's "Gardner", not "Gardener". lol I fail~)
I also realized that I can't have Bakura as a character in anything without someone mentioning "Ryou" at some point. Must be my inner (and outer) tendershipper intruding on my writing.
Hurry and suggest! I won't ship anything unless you tell me to! Seeing as how I wouldn't ship it otherwise...
See you next chapter!
BYEEEEEEEEE~!
