Guest Review Reply:
Hawkfeather:
Aaaand I give in to my impulses to-again- request a ship. May I
please request Cunishipping (AnzuxMaixShizuka)? :D I was just looking at the
list of ships and am feeling highly amused and slightly guilty-I've requested
more than any other except possibly OvershadowedMedallion (shoutout to another
huge fan). I'm sorry for putting you through all that, but i can't help
myself...I'm such a huge fan! Thanks for putting up with us!
Me: It's hilarious, because Overshadowed Medallion gave you a shoutout of sorts (have a look at the replies on the Lampshipping chapter, XDD). They came up with a good idea, too - every five RQed ships, I'll grab the next alphabetical one off the list. I've also rearranged the chapters now to help people with finding a ship they want to see, XDD.
Aaanyway, I've added your request to the list - you two have actually RQed exactly the same number of ships, by my count. There's no need to feel guilty, it's great to see you guys RQing - you're both so supportive, and it always makes me pleased to see that someone likes the ship-list so much that they actually want me to keep writing these one-shots! :D
If you would like to request that a ship goes early, please check the RQing rules on the intro page before you leave your review with the request.
Revolutionshipping (Yami Yugi x Anzu) - Requested to go early, by Aqua girl 007.
The ship got its name from a story arc in the anime, in which Yami and Anzu went on a date. During this arc, Anzu accepted a challenge from local thug Step Johnny to battle on a 'Super Dancer' dancing arcade game. The game has been viewed as a parody of the Dance Dance Revolution series of games, made by Konami... yes, the same company responsible for the creation of the Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG, TCG, and other video games.
Flaws of the shipping: Aha, these two actually had a date together – and how can we forget how badly that went? Sure, they didn't fight – but Yami basically ignored Anzu throughout the whole thing, the only time he was happy being when he got some new trading cards. You can just imagine them trying to be flatmates, can't you?
Anzu: "Hello Yami! How was your day?"
Yami: "…"
Anzu: "Um… I made you dinner. Reheated Burger World burgers."
Yami: "…"
Anzu: "Oh, and there's a strawberry milkshake, too."
Yami: "…"
Anzu: "So, uh…"
Yami: *sits up* "Ooooh, lookee!"
Anzu: *startled* "What, what?"
Yami: "A DUEL MONSTERS TRUCK! RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET! They're probably delivering all the latest cards right to Kaiba's doorstep…" *drools*
Erm, anyway. Particulary in the early manga, Anzu has very strong feelings for Yami, but they're not really returned at any point, making this a canon ship if it's one–sided (with Anzu in love). Not sure how the anime handled it, but in the manga, the date sequence was in fact a setup by Yugi to try and make Yami feel a bit better – Yami never agreed to it. Yes, Yami did save Anzu multiple times in the early manga; but then again, he saved other people in the early manga as well (Ryo and Hanasaki spring to mind). Heck, he even saved Kaibaduring Duelist Kingdom, and Shadi during the early manga. EarlyManga!Yugi was all about saving innocents who'd been hurt, by bringing the wrongdoers to justice – and so you can't argue that he loves Anzu because he saves her in the early manga, not unless you want to argue that he also loves Kaiba, Shadi, Ryo, and Hanasaki…
And besides: Since when has Yami ever had time for romance? Isn't he always playing games?
Warnings: None.
Time Period: AU - sort of. It's loosely set after Duelist Kingdom, but only very loosely.
Names:
Atem/Yami /Yami Yugi/Yami Yuugi = Yami most of the time, and sometimes Yami Yugi.
Anzu Mazaki/ Teá Gardener = Anzu.
It was cold, bitterly cold. Squinting through the blizzard, the brown–haired girl felt rather than saw the door of the Kame Game shop swing open, and gracefully, poetically, in high–digital slow motion… it hit Anzu Mazaki in the face.
"Aieee!", she yelped as she fell backwards, voice muffled by all the scarfs she had wrapped around her head.
"Ah…!" A concerned teen with spiky, tri-coloured hair now stood over her, waving a hand in front of her nose. "Are you all right?"
Anzu Mazaki almost swooned in his presence, then checked herself – there was this one time she had actually done that, and she'd missed out on a golden opportunity to be carried around by her idol. (1) Today, she was absolutely determined not to let that happen – and so she dramatically placed a hand on her unblemished forehead. "Oww…"
That perfect brow furrowed, crimson eyes became full of worry. "Can you stand?"
"I… I think so." She obligingly leaned on her major crush and idol as they went inside, and to her delight he didn't even notice the smile that she almost let slip out. And he lay her on the plush couch by the light of a few candles, bending close to her.
"Is there anything you need?"
You, she wanted to say. But before she could, the boy with the tri–coloured hair abruptly turned. "Good, because I have a duel to get on with here." He bowed to his opponent; a ferocious – looking boy who just barely reminded Anzu of Ryo Bakura. But surely it couldn't be – Ryo was so shy and kind, and this guy seemed to enjoy giving himself papercuts on all of the cards, laughing manically…
She sighed in longing, watching the extremely sexy Yami play a smoking hot game of poker with the teen, and win. How she wished that she could have been a card in her idol's hand – or better still, if only the game had been strip poker…
Yami easily crushed the Ryo look–alike in the next few minutes. The teen casually booted his opponent out the door – very sexily, of course – and Anzu decided to let out a groan from the couch as he came back inside. "Could you possibly… get me an ice pack?"
Her idol nodded, face all worry and respect, and went to the kitchen. Anzu could practically feel that ice pack already, the way he would surely press it upon her forehead, and perhaps add a loving caress into the bargain–
WHAM!
"Okay, Yami! LET'S DUEL!", howled Seto Kaiba as he came barging into the room. The teen immediately forgot all about the ice pack, instead rushing over to duel Kaiba. Afterwards, Anzu's head ached from all the shouting, and Yami sighed.
"Sorry, Anzu. I'll get you an ice pack now, okay? And some painkillers, too…"
The girl shivered in delight, imagining Yami popping the hard, white pills into her open mouth, her tongue brushing his fingers. Imagined him pouring the water past her lips, gently holding her head back to let her swallow more easily…
And he indeed came, and he put the icepack next to her, and–
"Hey, Yug'! I wanna see if I'm a true duelist… and I brought pizza!"
"I will be sure to test your abilities, Jounouchi!"
Three hours of this torture later, and Anzu was feeling legitimately sick. Mokuba with an entire Capsule Monster Chess vending machine strapped to his back, Duke Devlin with his entire dice collection, a zombie Pegasus with a comic book, Bandit Keith with a gun, two duelists who claimed they were from the future (one of whom decided that coming through the window on a motorbike was a good idea), and even several aliens from the planet Zog… the list of challengers went on and on, and there was absolutely no room whatsoever for romance. Yami looked apologetically at Anzu after each one had come and gone – and after the aliens had departed in their spaceship, he returned to the couch with a cold slice of pizza for her. "Here – you can have this, after the pills."
At last! Gratefully, she opened her mouth, and he popped the cold tablets inside her mouth, lingering a moment with his fingers on her lips, looking worriedly into her eyes. "You're not... worried, are you? My hikari thinks that maybe..."
And she gazed back into those wonderful crimson pools, running a hand along his jawline. "It's fine... At least you're helping me now."
"LET'S JET!" A twelve year old with the dumbest hairstyle Anzu had ever seen landed on top of Yami, along with what appeared to be a naked, blue, glowy, man. Yami jumped as the kid slid off his back… and those delicate fingers went straight up Anzu's nose.
That was what finally made her snap. Yami backed away, muttering some sort of apology – and then turned eagerly to the boy. "So, how about that duel?"
And six seconds later, he had a face full of pizza, and an angry girl storming out the door and into the night.
Notes:
1. This is a reference to an early manga scene, when Anzu indeed swooned before Yami… having been chloroformed by the enemy–of–the–week, Kokurano.
