Title: To Mean It
Author: Fenikkusu Ai
Claim: Ryo Marufuji/Edo Phoenix
Table: General #2
Prompt: #4 Lie
Rating: T
Summary: "Say it, Phoenix. Say it again. I dare you to." Word Count: 349
"Don't lie to me like that again!" Ryo growled in Edo's face. In Edo's mind right now, Ryo resembled a snarling black dog.
Edo felt something rip through his heart like a raging wind gust. All at once, he felt like that little blue-eyed boy holding his umbrella for dear life as the wind tried to drag it away his sole protection with all its strength.
"It…wasn't…meant to disturb you," he replied through gritted teeth. "And, for your information, it's not a lie."
The air rushed through his lungs as his breath rate intensified. He knew he looked a sight; tie unraveled on the floor like a snake with his shirt near ripped open…a vision of a male whore. On instinct, Edo backed away from Ryo until his shoulders bumped the wall.
Edo didn't get it. Had he said such a bad thing? Even Hell Kaiser had to hear it once in his life from his own mother, not to mention his brother.
"Do you think it's fun playing games with me?" Ryo growled. He was beginning to pace back and forth. "Do you?"
"But, I meant it."
Hell Kaiser punched the wall. Edo's own face was inches away from where Ryo's knuckles made violent contact.
All of a sudden, the vicious anger drained from Hell Kaiser's face. "Say it, Phoenix. Say it again. I dare you to." His voice contained an oddly detached calmness.
Edo never turned down a challenge. Not in Duel Monsters and certainly not in life. "I love you."
Edo's head snapped to the side as he was struck across the face yet again. He could have retaliated, but he did not. As it turned out, he didn't need to when moments later Ryo's lips brushed against his as a desperate noise gurgled in the older boy's throat; the noise of someone that had been starved of affection for the latter part of his life. Marufuji Ryo. A complicated boy that brought a punch in one hand and a kiss in another.
Edo Phoenix apparently liked the messed up ones. He knew from personal experience.