IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT!! - This is the Yu-Gi-Oh! Yaoi portion of the Shipping List in order. Be forewarned. Some "pairings" will not be fluffy and cute. But they will all, hopefully, be believable. Rating's will vary.
Disclaimer: Yu-Gi-Oh! is the intellectual property of Kazuki Takahashi
Author's Notes: Kotsuzaka was renamed "Bones" in the English translation.
Rating: K+ - PG
Yu-Gi-Oh! Shipping List #11
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Apparishipping (Roba x Kotsuzaka) - "Soft"
It was well into the Battle City tournament, enough time maybe for someone to even have gathered enough locator cards to have already qualified for the finals. Kotsuzaka was getting desperate. Even pooling locator cards, he Sakate, and Takaido couldn't come up with six. It was becoming more and more obvious that they would have to resort to more…creative methods to get them.
Knowing it might have come to that, he had sent Sakate and Takaido out to find a good place to "set up camp" so to speak; somewhere they could lie in wait to prey on their fellow duelists. Meanwhile, Kotsuzaka was on his way to the corner store for junk food.
Passing by a pharmacy on the way, he happened to collide with a boy his own age who had run out the door without looking. The brown paper bag, clutched to the boy's chest was knocked from his grip, flying through the air to land several feet away on the sidewalk with a crash.
The boy cried out and Kotsuzaka turned on him angrily. "Watch where you're going bastard!" he snapped but the boy ignored him, running to his paper bag and dropping roughly to the ground.
The color red caught Kotsuzaka's eye as the boy tried desperately to hold it all inside of the sodden paper, pressing his hands to it as though he were trying to push the liquid back inside somehow. Shoulder-length pale green hair spilled around his shoulders, shaking as he sobbed.
Kotsuzaka wrinkled his nose. The bag was emitting a horrid smell and the boy's hands were staining red-orange but they were growing red too, dripping blood, Kotsuzaka realized, from broken glass piercing through the wet paper.
"What the hell do you think you're doing? Stop it!" he demanded, grabbing the boy's wrist and yanking it back, away from the bag.
"But the medicine!" the boy cried. "I need it, for my brother! My little brother is sick and I can't afford anymore!"
He cried in Kotsuzaka's embrace and the ghost duelist rolled his eyes. "Geeze, shut up." He pulled the other to his feet and gave the bag a discarding kick. "Next time watch where you're going."
"I'm sorry." the boy sobbed, looking down brokenly and Kotsuzaka sighed, releasing his hold disgustedly.
He couldn't believe he was doing this. "Come on, I'll buy you some more."
The boy looked up with wide, hopeful eyes. "Really?" he asked and Kotsuzaka looked away from those eyes, a faint blush tainting his otherwise pale face.
"Yea, if you hurry before I change my mind." Without another word the boy grabbed his hand and pulled him back into the pharmacy.
The boy emerged much more slowly the second time. "My name is Roba." he said, hugging the new bag to his chest protectively.
"Kotsuzaka." the ghost duelist replied mechanically.
"I can't thank you enough, Kotsuzaka-san." Roba said, making Kotsuzaka blush again. No one had ever added "san" to his name before. Especially no one as cute as Roba.
"Just Kotsuzaka." he answered, not wanting the boy to think of him so distantly.
This time it was the other who blushed. "Kotsuzaka." he repeated.
Without realizing, Kotsuzaka had apparently walked the other home, as Roba looked up at a cheep hotel and announced "Well, this is where I'm going."
Kotsuzaka blinked. When had they gotten here?
"Do you want to come up? I'll introduce you to my brothers. … I'll tell them what you did for me."
Kotsuzaka shook his head, as much to clear it as to decline. "No. Don't tell anyone." If anyone knew how soft he'd become it'd be the end of his reputation as a creep and granted, it wasn't much of a rep, but he intended to ride it clear to the finals.
"Oh…well, um…thanksanyway." Roba said quickly leaning over to give Kotsuzaka a peck on the cheek and darting away to run into the building.
Kotsuzaka's shock effectively stalled any good comebacks he might have had, like: 'You shouldn't be running.' or any action he might have taken as he watched the green-haired boy disappear through the front doors of the hotel.
It would be nice, Kotsuzaka mused, as he turned from the building to walk back in the direction they'd come from, to find Roba after the tournament. A nice big trophy would surely make him look even better…of course, he'd have to find locator cards first.
Kotsuzaka dropped his head as he realized that he'd just spent most of their snack money and would somehow have to explain that. He thought 'I got mugged!!' sounded good.
Post whatevers: This one was updated on time this week. Next up: Honda x Roba. As always, please review if you liked. And thank you so much to the peoples who have! Ja!
