Hunt's Nose
Author's Note: I originally wanted to write a Yuga/Hunt fic during the Birth of Rush Duels arc, but the show keeps pushing Rook and Hunt interactions, so this is the result. Enjoy the story and R&R.
Disclaimer: I do not own anything related to or of the Yu-Gi-Oh! SEVENS series.
Pairings: One-sided Hunt x Rook. Referenced one-sided Hunt x Yuga.
Summary:
Goto Hunt shows up to his own abduction in blinged-out gear to impress the King of Fools.
In spite of being a child stolen from his home, Hunt dressed to impress.
Gold paleontology hat and new unmuddied shoes? Check!
Gold video camera and gold-handled selfie stick? Check!
"Don't talk to strangers," Rook warned of the weird astronauts and seagull girl, and yet Rook was awfully strange himself to begin with. And Hunt meant to begin with! Because Kamijo Tatsuhisa could go stranger! He radiated so much strange by himself, you could fill Mount Maximum with his supply of strange! Those astronauts were safer in their spacesuits, separated from this radiation!
Kidnapping, power trips, delusions of greatness, talking to himself, laughing to himself, duelling himself…Yeah, Rook wasn't the King of Duels (yet), so much as the King of Fools.
Hunt was in the fourth grade. The cliff between him and the fifth-graders at Goha 7th wasn't a cliff too far as far as his puppy dog crush on Ohdo Yuga was concerned. He and Yuga were both short boys/men of science, after all.
They'd bonded (from Hunt's perspective) while investigating the Relic. Plus, Yuga was the creator of Rush Duels, which Hunt obviously loved, though – as with Rook's name for his "sneezcavating power" – he begged Rook to stop referring to Yuga as the "Papa" of Rush Duels.
Since the first subterranean journey into Goha 6th grounds, Hunt's miracle smelling technique (that didn't sound any less lame) was leading him towards Rook.
At that age, Hunt was sifting. He wasn't gullible like Rook (no one was), but he was intrigued. Landing a dumb guy like Rook held no evolutionary advantages. Hunt had several theories why he fluctuated from Yuga over to Rook, but it'd take further study in the field to sniff out any concrete evidence. Concrete, he had experience with! Yuga debunked Gossie to the Duel Dinosaur Research Club in a place packed with concrete!
Getting indentured into Rook's Maximum hunt gave Hunt the chance to sniff around Rook without it seeming shifty.
Yuga or Gakuto would have speeches about Stockholm syndrome if even a trace of this got back to their ears.
Sniff sniff sniff.
"ACHOO!"
Yep.
The nose knows.
"Vice President Rook-san, requesting vice-vice presidency of the dig, hakutsu!"
"Of course, of course!"