A/N: YAY! A THREE PERSON PROMPT!
Serena, Yuri, & Sora + Smile & Hold My Hand Prompted by kanmaru on Tumblr
Selenas' eyes grew wide and lit up like stars in the sky. Her hands, clenched tightly in front of her, trembled with excitement as she stared at the rows of booths in front of her. Candy booths, game booths, shop booths, and food booths, all lined up neatly on either side of the path.
Yuri stood next to her, both slightly annoyed and slightly amused. He watched as she bounced on her feet and bit her bottom lip. He ground inwardly as he crushed a confiscated, but empty, energy drink. He tossed the offending can into the nearest trash bin, never leaving the energized girls side.
"Go to the festival, they said… it'll be fun, they said…" he mumbled to himself. "I immediately regret everything."
They were both dressed in Yukatas, his was a simple light blue with dark blue stripes and a purple obi, hers a red and white moonflower pattern with a white obi. Her hair was pulled up into a bun with a lily hair ornament in her hair.
They were also standing at the entrance to one of Maiami city's biggest festivals; the Duel Fest. An entire festival dedicated to dueling and just having fun. While the game booths had prizes for winning, the actual festival duels had no winning prizes at all. The entire point of the festival was to show that dueling is meant to be fun whether you win or lose.
Yuri instantly felt out of place. He frowned at the festivities in front of him and was about to turn around and head home when Serena grabbed his hand and bolted.
"Fwaahaa?!" Yuri let out a startled sound as Serena dragged him to the nearest shooting booth.
"Yuri, let's try this!" The hyped up girl ordered. Yuri gave her a disgruntled frown. "Come on! Come on! Comeoncomeonco-"
"Alright!" he covered the girls mouth to stop her chanting. "How…. Much and how does this… work?" he reluctantly asked the booth keeper (who seemed to be doing her best not to laugh at their antics).
"First game is 100 yen. You just point the gun at the toy you want and shoot. If the toy falls it's yours if not then you can try again for 200 yen." Replied the booth keeper.
Yuris annoyed face never changed as he exchanged the money for the toy guns, one for him and one for Serena, and took aim at little black cat plush. He looked at the toys and side glanced at Serena and had a sinking suspicion he was about to be out classed by her.
He was proven right as they both pulled the triggers; her toy went flying off the shelf (a little rose plush), and his wobbled a bit but didn't fall. His annoyance only grew.
"Here you go miss," The booth keeper handed Selena the plush, "Would you like to try again?"
"N-" Yuri tried to decline.
"YES!" Serena cut him off.
He looked at her with what could have been disbelief but was most likely just his brain shutting down.
Serena exchanged the money for another gun and this time hit the little black kitty plush Yuri had been aiming for. Yuri blinked as she handed it to him.
"You wanted it right? She asked in a moment of clarity.
"Um…" Yuri was at a rare loss for words.
"Come on! On to the next booth!" Serena grabbed his hand again and dragged him from booth to booth, trying almost every game and every snack. Yuri was horrified every time she ate something sweet and was one hundred percent sure it was just increasing her energy levels.
Finally they reached the end of the booths, hands full of snacks and prizes (all won by Serena), and entered the dueling area. Unlike normal duels which used duel disks, the area was full of tables for old school dueling; no holograms, no solid vision, no duel disks, just old school table top dueling.
The tables were filled to the brim with people, old and young, just dueling for the sake of fun.
Yuri wasn't sure if he was inpressed or not. He just felt out of place.
"This way!" Serena, her left hand looped through his right elbow, dragged him to the side of the area to some tables set aside for reasting and eating. They plopped their prizes down on an empty spot and Serena immediately head for the nearest dueling table.
"Let's Duel!" she tried to rolled up her Yukata sleeve.
"I'll keep an eye on our stuff…" Yuri used every ounce of his strength not to collaps onto the bench.
"…" Serena stopped mid walk and stared at him. "you're… passing up a duel?"
"we can't just leave this stuff here alone. You go, have fun, I'm going to sort through all this… stuff… and get rid of the trash." He shooed her away.
"alright, if you say so." And off she went, challenging the first person she saw.
"Uhg…" Yuri plopped down head first onto the table as soon as serena was out of sight.
"what? Aren't you having fun?" a familier voice asked from behind him.
Yuri sat straight up and smacked away the hand tring to steal a lollipop from the pile of stuff and glared at the blue haired boy nursing his hand.
"Sora, the next time you give her an energy drink, I'm tossing you off a building." The annoyed teen threatened the grinning boy.
"Come on! You gotta admit it was fun, right?" Sora, clad in a dark blue and yellow stripped Yukata with a white obi, sat next to the grouchy teen.
"It was like trying to walk a giant untrained dog." He grumbled and frowned.
"Well, I had fun." Sora tried to grab something from the snack pile only to pull his hand back when Yuri raised a fan up in warning.
"So you were watching…" Yuri moved the pile of stuff away from Sora and began separating prizes from snacks, and snacks from trash.
"Yep, you're surprisingly docile when it comes to Serena."
"I've learned to deal with her energy…" came the tired and exhausted reply.
"Uh huh." Sora pulled a chocolate bar from his obi and unwrapped it. Yuri just took a moment to glare at the sweet addicted boy.
"So, who else was following?" Yuri asked, even though he was pretty sure he knew the answer.
"Yuya, Yuzu, Yugo, and Yuto; But only for a bit. When Rin and Ruri got here, Yugo and Yuto split, then not long after, Jack found Yuya and dragged him and Yuzu off to duel." Sora squinted at the duel tables. "I think that's them over there."
Yuri looked over his shoulder, turning slightly to get a better look, and sure enough he could just barely make out the red and green hair of one Yuya Sakaki. Actually, now that he was looking, the duel tables were filled with familiar faces.
He once again felt out of place. Frowning in discomfort Yuri returned to sorting the pile.
"…" Sora watched the pink and violet haired boy. "Is… something wrong?" he asked.
Yuri paused for a moment then continued sorting.
"No, nothing's wrong." He lied.
"If you say so…" Sora looked at the pile of stuff and then at the dueling tables. It was then that he noticed the lack of a duel disk on Yuris' arm.
He frowned a bit. Sure this was table top dueling only but most people still had their duel disks with them. Even he and Serena had theirs (hers was just hidden by her sleeves).
"I know you got a lot of stuff but… why aren't you dueling?" Sora asked the dreaded question.
Yuri's frown deepened to an almost comical level.
"…I'mnotallowedto…" He quietly grumbled. Sora blinked.
"What was that? I… didn't hear you…" the chocolate eating boy warily asked.
"I'mnotallowedtoduel." Yuri repeated, this time at normal volume but still too fast.
"…once more?" Sora hesitantly requested. The candy bar in Yuri's hand snapped in two as he spun in his seat and leveled a glare at Sora. Slamming his left hand on the table he stood up a little as he shouted.
"Yoko said I'm not allowed to duel!" Sora's eyes went wide at the unnatural outburst. "She smacked me over the head and took both my duel disk and cards away!"
A few heads turned towards them at Yuri's shouting but returned to whatever they were doing when they saw the menacing glare on his face.
Yuri huffed as he sat back down and tossed the candy bar at Sora, who caught it midair.
"…what… did you do?" Sora asked perplexed. Onee-san wasn't one to just dish out punishments for no reason and he was sure he would have heard something by now if Yuri had done anything to upset her.
"…" Yuri was quiet as he finished sorting the piles and began to fiddle with a little 'Riding Duel King Yuya' plushy Serena won from a Commons run booth.
"…" Sora sighed as he finished his chocolate and moved onto the broken candy bar. "You know n-"
"Carding the old man…" Yuri cut him off.
Once again Sora's eyes went wide but he didn't say anything.
"It's part of her punishment for carding her husband…" He made the little Yuya dance around the table, never looking up and purposefully avoiding eye contact with Sora. "She said I wasn't allowed to duel until I proved to her that I can have fun dueling… without…hurting…" He trailed off, not entirely sure why he was being so honest with Sora.
"Yeah… that sounds like something Onee-san would do…" Sora replied, now fully aware of why Yuri looked so uncomfortable here.
The boy grew up thinking winning and being the strongest was everything, that toying with his opponents was fun and making them scrim and cry, enjoyable. This entire festival was the complete opposite of that upraising.
"But…" Sora began, being careful with what words he chose to say, "You did have fun with Serena, right?"
Yuri gave him a tired and exasperated look but there was no sign of his earlier anger.
"What makes you think I had fun?" came the dry counter.
"What makes you think you didn't?" Sora raised an eyebrow at Yuri. "No matter how tired you looked, to me it looked like you were having fun." Sora pulled out his cell and pulled up a picture. He flipped the cell around and showed it to Yuri who did a double take, then began to turn red.
It was photo of him and Serena by one of the game booths; she was tossing rings onto bottles and he was off the side eating a candied apple, watching her with a small smile.
Yuri immediately tried to swat the offending cell phone out of Sora's hand but the boy jumped up from his seat laughing.
"Don't worry! I won't show anyone!" Sora grinned evilly. "Except maybe Onee-san." The boy laughed as he ran into the crowed.
"Sora!" Yuri stood up to give chase but was held back when Serena popped out of nowhere.
"Yuri! I'm hungry! What snacks are left?"
"Gya!" Yuri fell back onto his seat and tried to regain his composure. "DON't do that!"
"Don't do what?" Serena asked as she picked up a bag of konpeito, only to have it smacked out of her hands.
"No, no more candy for you. I'm not going to carry you back if you have an energy crash." He avoided the question. "How was your duel?"
"It was great! I dueled an old man who knew some really awesome techniques!" She started talking a mile a minute. Yuri inwardly sighed as he tried to catch what she was saying.
He looked at her, then sew their counterparts waving at them and walking towards them. Serena jumped up and down waving at the others and Yuri gave them a looked that said 'save me or else'.
He saw them laugh and it was then that a part of him had to realized, that yes, he was somewhat enjoying himself.
But he saw still going to smack them for leaving him with a hyper Serena.
A/N: WHY IS THE PSYCHO CHILD SO EASY TO WRITE?! like, redeemed Yuri is so much fun to think about and write!
on the other hand here, have some Sora & Yuri bro bonding and hinted at predatorshipping. - sorry for the wait and i hope you enjoyed it! sorry if it wasn't what you where expecting.
(Please, leave a comment if you liked it and feel free to leave a critique (just be please polite about it ^.~ ))
