Bug-Me-Not
Author's Note: Set after episode 44. The episode's end credits were inconsistent with what we were already told about Roa, so I had to invent a reason for why he's afraid of bugs in the present day. Enjoy the story and R&R.
Disclaimer: I do not own anything related to or of the Yu-Gi-Oh! SEVENS series.
Pairing: Roa x Getta tension.
Summary:
How many times can Kirishima Roa and Taira Getta break up and make up?
"I am so over all of this! The band! This tournament! YOU!"
Roa sat there calmly, the abuser taking some of his best friend's abuse. Well…Roa still considered Getta that. Getta was clearly ready to throw quotation marks around whatever the hell their relationship status was.
Sure, Roa Released Royal Demon's Heavymetal and Royal Demon's Invasion to summon Royal Demon's Death Doom! But Roa was the main act! It was plum hierarchy!
"Getta-chan."
"Save it! I'm done listening to your excuses! They're barely that! You're only ever out for yourself, and every time, we're your sacrificial pawns! You know what people call that? Being a manipulative bastard, and it's NOT OKAY!"
He purposely used "we're" instead of "I" in order to emphasize the difference between himself and Roa. Unlike Roa, Getta could actually put aside his pride to include Ushiro.
Romin would have a spiel to say about her exclusion.
"Ouch! I'm hurt, Getta-chan! Is this how you want to play it? Because if it is, Roa likey!" The singer made a squishing motion with his fingers. "Get set, Getta-chan! I'm coming into your cell for a conjugal visit at Ane Go Rock!"
Getta turned Thunderbeat Hi-hat red, trying to shake the storylines of President Goha's horny jail monsters loose. "R-Romin was right! I need to get outta your head and find a new best friend who doesn't treat me like crap!"
"You'll never find one," Roa tsked arrogantly. "I'm worth a million best friends!"
"That's just it! Everything for you is me, me, me! Well, what about ME, Roa? Why don't I get a chance?"
"If you get down and beg me to let you come back, I'll consider it water under the bridge. Yes or no?" Roa brushed Getta's neck.
"Screw that!" The flustered Getta grabbed his vest to leave. His glove hugged the knob before Roa finally sought to intervene.
"I finished it."
Getta stopped.
"It's a few years late and I iced doing this to teach you how to duel, but I went to the park and caught you the beetle I promised." He placed a plastic container on the coffee table for Getta to see.
Sure enough, there was a beetle inside. But Getta wasn't buying it.
"You Kozmo mind tricked someone into catching that! I know you've changed and bugs freak you out now, so there's no way you caught it yourself!"
Roa bit the edge of his lip. His entomophobia was an imperfection. What Getta didn't know was Roa only developed his fear of insects because he tripped while carrying a box of them. A box he intended to show Getta.
All those tiny individual legs crawling all over him! It was a child's nightmare!
Getta waited.
"They freak me out…but I forced myself since it's you."
"Oh yeah? Let's just see!" Getta opened the container, and goaded the beetle onto the back of his hand. "You hold it!"
Roa winced uncomfortably each time the beetle was offered to him. Nonetheless, after a couple attempts, he reached by his own conviction and received the insect into his palm.
A single drop of sweat dripped off of Getta's headband.
SH-SHOCK!
"Roa…" Getta started breathing again.
"Why don't you stay here, and the kingly me can make you some pizza and stew?"
Getta was too touched to speak. He took a stunned seat.
With Getta under his spell once more, Roa flew into the kitchen, where Getta couldn't hear him. He drew his phone out of his pocket and swiped to his contacts, selecting Yuga.
Of course, Getta could hear him if he quit daydreaming. It simply wasn't happening.
"Hi~! Yuga-chan? Yes! It worked like a charm!" Roa chuckled at Yuga's Road – the robot bug – in his hand.