Day 20: Heartshipping (Yugi/Ryou) - "Sledding"
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"C'mon, Ryou, let's go together this time!"
"Yeah, we'll get some good distance that way." Ryou tucked himself in behind Yugi on their little toboggan and wrapped his arms around his waist. They'd been running up and down this hill all afternoon like children, and it was great. Ryou tucked his chin over Yugi's shoulder. "Ok, let's go!"
With a laugh, Yugi used his legs to nudge them towards the edge of the hill. After a breathless moment of slowly tipping forward, they whooped when the sled went careening down the hill and skittered along the snow.
"Oh no, watch out!"
The problem with sledding is there really isn't much you can do if, say, you notice that you've veered off course and are about to zoom right over a large hunk of ice. There's also not much you can do if the aforementioned hunk of nice causes your sled to tilt wildly to the side and spew its passengers out into the snow like some sort of Hollywood car chase gone wrong.
Good thing the rest of the snow was fluffy.
"Whoops, that didn't go according to plan." Yugi shook as much show out of his hair as possible before turning to Ryou with a wide grin. Ryou was still flat on his back in the snow. He wasn't moving. "Ryou?"
Yugi crawled over to Ryou and saw that his eyes were closed. "Ryou?" Yugi leaned down to check for breath and that's when he saw the tiniest of twitches in the corner of Ryou's mouth. Oh, so that's how it is, hmm? Yugi blew a puff of air in Ryou's face. His eyelids twitched, but otherwise he didn't react.
Yugi decided to skip right to the end of this little game, and scooped up a handful of snow. "I'd miraculously regain consciousness if I were you." No reaction. Fine.
Yugi dumped the handful of snow right in the middle of Ryou's face. That got a reaction.
"Yugi! Why?!" Ryou burst out laughing and frantically wiped the snow from his face before it could sink into his scarf or hat.
"Because I love you?"
"Oh really." Ryou's grin shifted into a little smirk.
"Ryou, don't you dare." Yugi held up his hands to ward Ryou off and shuffled backward in the snow.
"But I love you too, and I simply must show it!"
"No, Ryou, really it's ok, I – ack!" Yugi laughed and flailed as he was tackled into the snow. The kisses were a little colder and wetter than he'd like, but he accepted them happily.
He could always shove show down the back of Ryou's shirt later, if it came to that.