Baby Terror
Author's Note: Enjoy the story and R&R.
Disclaimer: I do not own anything related to or of the Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL series.
Pairings: Background Yuma x Shobee. Referenced one-sided (canon) Todoroki x IV.
Summary:
Tsukumo Yuma and III are paired up for a school assignment. They have to look after a doll for a week, something Yuatsu Shobee strongly objects to.
"What's eating him?" Shark noted Yuma's anxious head rubbing.
"Ukyo-sensei partnered me with III for the class assignment…" Yuma answered before anyone could answer for him.
"Each pair is given a doll and has to look after it for the week. Watch it. Feed it. Change it. Like it's a real child," Kotori filled in the blanks for the Kamishiro siblings.
"So Yuma's worried III will out-parent him?" Rio conjectured. "I can see it. He'll probably feed the baby his Duel meals."
The Numbers Club and Rio broke into laughter (excluding Vector, who wasn't present). Shark played it cool, but let a smile slip through.
"That's not the point, all of you! Man, what's Ukyo-sensei's deal? How is taking care of a stupid doll gonna teach me how to be a better Duelist?"
"If you spent more time paying attention and less time sleeping, you'd know we're onto Tag Duels in the textbook, Yuma!" Kotori lectured he wasn't following Ukyo-sensei's lectures.
"It's about improving teamwork!" Tetsuo nodded.
"I know all about teamwork! From Astral!"
"Yuma's just scared what the boyfriend's going to do to him when he finds out Yuma's raising somebody else's baby, ura!" Tokunosuke teased.
"YUMA!"
"Aaaaaand, there he is!" Kotori laughed again as Shobee bulldozed over a group of students who were minding their own business.
"The real terror baby, baby!" Todoroki whispered to his fellow club members.
Yuma didn't have the comfort of time to argue with his cold-blooded friends. He got on the floor and begged for mercy.
"It's an assignment, Shobee! I didn't pick III! I didn't have choice!"
"Yeah, well, allow me to assign my boot up your ass, damn you!"
"I believe I can offer an amicable solution," IV interrupted with III behind him. "Though it will require…assistance from Todoroki-kun here."
Todoroki swooned at the middle Arclight's arm around his shoulder. "Anything for you, IV-san!"
"IV-niisama, please don't resort to your unethical methods," the youngest brother requested firmly.
"Be quiet, III! The ends justify the means!"
Of course, "amicable" for IV was as unethical as III warned. Using Todoroki's position as Class Rep, IV gave the assignment an added gimmick. The lovestuck teacher's pet convinced Ukyo-sensei by his pushiness to adjust the criteria for III and Yuma only.
This wasn't a question of Shobee replacing III as Yuma's partner. Shobee was from another class and III still had to complete the assignment, after all.
No. The fix incorporated IV's nightmarish sense of humour.
His brother would continue on as Yuma's buddy for the project, with the caveat that the "doll" they'd be Florence Vaccingale-ing would be Yuatsu frickin' Shobee!
"You're dead, puppet freak!"
IV silenced Shobee with a pacifier while Yuma feared the retribution to everyone (especially himself!) in the inevitable future.
"Try it, Princess," Thomas dared him.
Oh, yes: When Shobee crawled out of the stroller, they were in for the tantrum of a real terror baby!