All Yu-Gi-Oh Office AU 31-day Challenge

Day 7: Office Crush/Romance


Ryoken Kogami looked over the job synopsis once last time for the new Kuniyama District Arena Instructor. He dodged pretty much everyone in the building until noticing Yusaku and Aoi chatting over the computers going out. He ignored a small pain in his chest as he noticed Yusaku giving the girl a rare, tiny smile.

Tearing his eyes away he bee-lined towards the room where the new employee, Suika Teien, waited.

Opening the door into the room, Ryoken was met with a wave of nice-smelling perfume. On the red couch was a woman dressed in a black business outfit, her red hair cut short and covering one eye. Her eyes were closed until he stood in front of her, and opened them to reveal a set of light magenta-rose eyes.

"Mrs. Teien?" Ryoken questioned.

The woman nodded and stood, almost reaching his height in her heels. Ryoken noticed she wore red nail polish with black detail of spider webs. The tie around her neck had the same design.

"I'm Ryoken Kogami, your overseer in your training. I was notified you were overqualified for the job you applied for, so the Head of Signer Industries has high hopes for you."

Suika nodded her head curtly. "I don't wake up to disappoint my employers. I'm ready to begin, sir."

"Then let us start."


Shark and Kaito stared wide-eyed at the gifts on Yuma's desk. It was littered with red hearts, cupcakes, glitter cards, and lollipops of all sorts. For the fifth time in a row in the last five days.

When asked about it Yuma had the spine to mention that three girls in their wing were trying to win him over with treats.

And yes, for the most part, they are consumed within the week when he gets them. But right now it's been an all-out war between the three: Tori, Cathy, and Anna. And Yuma is falling behind his work.

The two boys shared a look and promptly dumped all of the early Valentine's treats for the smaller boy into the trash, tied it up and threw it down the chute immediately.

After the deed was done, they looked toward the door to see Yuma drag his feet across the floor to his table, followed by Astral who carried two cups of steaming coffee and two Utopia Energy Drinks.

Yuma plopped down into his seat, took the two energy drinks and his cup of coffee from Astral, and tore the lid open from the coffee to pour both energy drinks into the cup.

Kaito and Shark had to lunge at Yuma to stop him from drinking the caffeinated drink.


Ryoken was pretty amazed at the progress Suika took to handling the backed-up orders from the Kuniyama District's Arena. So much in fact that he dropped by Yusei's office to ask the man if he promoted Suika from an unknown wing and employed someone to take her job for her.

He expected the Head Signer to be in his office alone, working on his triple screen computer. Instead he found Yusaku curled up on Yusei's lap on the couch in his office while the latter was reading a book.

"Ryoken, come on in. Is something wrong?" Yusei placed a black feather that trailed into a silver feathering in his book before setting it down and casually massaging Yusaku's hair. The blue-haired duelist mumbled and snuggled closer to the Head Signer.

Ryoken took his phone out silently and took a quick photo of Yusaku sleeping before answering Yusei. "Nothing is wrong, but I did notice that Mrs. Teien had a very good grasp on the situation before I placed her into Kuniyama District's Arena. Almost like she knew about the problem beforehand and was instructed ahead of time on what to do in regaining lost time. I wanted to confirm some suspicions with you. You wouldn't have happened to promote her in place of the terminated Mazaki and employed someone in her prior place instead of hiring a whole new body?"

Ryoken brought a chair closer to the couch that they sat in, and very tenderly reached to pet Yusaku's hair as Yusei had casually done before.

"That would be the case. I found it much easier to promote someone with prior knowledge of both the Kuniyama District's history and had prior experience running a District Arena. Suika Teien came from Heartland City's Arena and is a retired Duel Star. She's won plenty of Heartland City's Duel Star Competitions in the last five years, as well as ran Heartland City's Arena for the past year. The Kuniyama District was close enough for her to understand the problem at hand and volunteered her service. The new employer who took her position is someone she found suitable for the job and has took it upon herself to train them on her free time, having done so before and her trainer has done to her." Yusei watched as Ryoken managed to get a few pets in before Yusaku stirred enough for Ryoken to withdraw his hand.

Yusei went back to petting Yusaku's hair himself and the younger male ceased his movement.

Ryoken raised an eyebrow at the Head Signer.

"Insomnia and night terrors don't go hand in hand when trying to sleep Ryoken. All three of us know this."

"Hai, sir."


Suika Teien walked quickly and silently to the XYZ's Wing of Signer Industries, following a young woman skipping down the hallways with a big red heart-shaped box of chocolates.

Anna didn't even notice the Duel Arena Instructor. She was more focused on getting the box of chocolates to Yuma's desk before he went home.

Which so happened to be the same thought running through Tori and Cathy. The three young girls met in the hallway, looking at each other in silence, noticing that the other two also carried boxes of chocolate with the name YUMA on them.

Suika barely had time before the three started to brawl in the middle of the hallway. A blast of a cannon went off and and smoke fogged the area.


Said cannon blast did not go unheard. Ryou and Bakura were taking stock underneath the building when the shelves shook in protest to the boom. Bakura laughed maniacally.

Ryou looked to his partner and shook his head gently. "You had to give her a cannon for her birthday. Everything you could have given her, and you picked a portable cannon!"

Bakura smirked at the snowflake. "I think it suits her."


Yusei's eye twitched to the sound of the walls crashing down. Older employees shrugged it off and tried to calm the younger ones. Ryoken mirrored Yusei's tired face and sighed heavily. "Did you warn our new employees about Kaboom?"

"I would be a fool if I haven't."


Yuma jumped out of his seat and made a mad-dash to the door, clocking out immediately. That sound meant one person and said person was close.

Running into where Yusei's wing belonged he knocked vigorously on the door, only opening it when Yusei's tired voice told him to enter.

Panting heavily, Yuma noticed that Yusaku slept unaware on Yusei. Ryoken rose an eyebrow at the panting boy. Yuma tip toed toward the couch, and reached out to pet Yusaku's hair.

Yusaku stirred and snuggled into Yusei more before resting.

"Is something wrong Yuma?" Ryoken asked, his eyes gleaming at the younger boy.

"Yeah, I clocked out, I'm heading home, don't tell Kaboom! Or any of the others. I wasn't here today!"

"You're behind Yuma" Yusei told him.

"Tell Astral to bring my work by my home. I just can't be here for the next three days!" Yuma dashed out of the room, but not before running into the door and yelping loudly.

Loud enough that Yusaku jumped in Yusei's lap and yawned. Blinking tiredly the Cyberse duelist noticed Yuma at the door, rubbing his head, and Ryoken staring at him.

Yusei ruffled his hair. "Evening Sunshine."


Suika managed to get to the wing of the building that she was told that Yusei could be found. She found the blonde receptionist, Alexis, looking at red letters on her desk.

"So this Yuma kid isn't the only one in a love square." Alexis jumped and turned in her chair to rest her eyes on Suika, who just walked in front of her.

"Uh, yeah. But these are just from one person. What can I help you with ma'am?"

"I'm Suika Teien, the new Kuniyama District Arena Instructor. I was told that I could find Yusei in this wing."

"Right, he's in the office all the way in the back down the fifth hallway. I'll let him know you want an audience with him."

"You have my thanks"

Yuma ran past both of them, still rubbing his head.