Scare Tactics
Author's Note: Enjoy the story and R&R.
Disclaimer: I do not own anything related to or of the Yu-Gi-Oh! SEVENS series.
Pairing: One-sided Ushiro x Luke.
Summary:
The bathroom at Seven Hells Hall is haunted…by the bone-chilling scream of Kamijo "Luke" Tatsuhisa.
Luke unzipped.
Urban legends and ghost stories already gave him the creeps, but Seven Hells Hall…
It was like somebody put a posthypnotic suggestion in his head to make him more susceptible to fear.
The slightest sound Gias Charged his fight-or-flight reflex. Dripping from the tap. Footsteps.
That Duel with RoaRomin's bassist had him spooked.
Life-size dolls coming to nail nails in him. Purple mirrors killing him on his twentieth birthday.
Hanako-san.
Dammit, what a time to pick to go to the bathroom!
He was safe, if you believed the version of the story Luke believed. Hanako-san would appear in third-floor school bathrooms by knocking on the third stall and asking if she was there.
This creaky number was located on the ground floor, not in a school, and only contained two stalls.
Three strikes against her appearing!
Drip.
Uh oh. Three strikes. Like the three dry knocks needed to summon the girl's spirit.
"There's no way Hanako-san's here!"
Aw crap. He challenged her to show herself.
Drip.
He waited. Nothing.
So whose shadow was that?
"Who's there?"
"OMAENO USHIRO!"
Luke immediately got a hold of himself. That was anticlimactic.
"What, it's you?"
"You aren't afraid anymore?" Ushiro wiggled his curled, "gonna getcha" fingers.
"Afraid? Can't scare me when I now know you're just saying your name! Can you leave? I'm peeing, here!"
"So you're suddenly unscarable?"
"Never mind, I'm finished." He went to wash his hands. "Try me."
"My next tale's the scariest yet."
"Are you going to tell me the one about human-faced dogs? Setsuko-baachan told me that one before."
Ushiro crept close to Luke's ear. It may have made him shiver.
"Other than the band, you're the first to bother remembering my name."
His breath grew colder.
His smile grew bigger.
"Wanna head back to my dressing room…and make out?"
The second Duel was starting soon. Gakuto was on the lookout for Luke when the loudest scream he ever heard rocked the bathroom.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
"Holy Holy Elf! Luke-kun, was that you just now?" The Student Council President banged three times.
After a protracted silence, a shaky voice answered: "Yes, it's me."
White as a ghost, Luke pushed open the door and shambled by, a frighteningly perky Ushiro stalking – you guessed it – right behind him.
Gakuto muttered a sutra for warding off evil spirits.
I think I just had a paranormal encounter with the folkloric Toilet-Bound Luke-kun!