YuGiOh/GW, Yaoi JkxSk, MixJk, 2x1, 4x3. BattleCity, Marik's out to get Jou but not just to get to Yami's powers. He likes him. In a nasty kinda way. GW cast entered BC Duels, Bakura's after Mokuba's body & Mil Items. My 1st YGO fic, R+R please!
(These are based on what I viewed in the series, Yaoi implications were screaming to be written and expanded upon!
Relational Pairing Key: '+'=is as in 'likes/interested in', 'x'=is as in 'loves/lusts after')
Warnings: Major YAOI, mild het. content.
The focus character switches per chapter and/or scene.
Limey Yaoi stuff later, maybe some lemon if I get inspiration and ppl want it.
There's gonna be a token-broken-friendship-rant too, by popular request.
I will be using YGO Jap. character names when I know them.
If there's humor then there's humor. I have been on my dark side lately. Don't worry, I won't kill anyone.
Spoilers for YGO- Battle City maybe, and anything after English ep12 or ep112j of YGO.
*Most of which I haven't seen...*
for GW- If there are spoilers then you have probably already seen them on the DHML...
Timeline: Alternate Universe definitly...
It's focused more on Yugioh, in Japan and in that time, but in a world with colonies...
Urhm... YGO-Battle City- English version, right after Jou duels Mako.
and GW- after the series and EW. Meiran is alive... there was a second Shenlong/Nataku type Gundam.
Theme: Duo gets a new obsession in the peacetime after the battles, dragging everyone along for the ride... they are still kids afterall...
Dark things happening in the Yugioh Universe. Marik's got evil plans, Bakura wants the Millenial items, and Yugi's friends are in trouble!
Based mostly on the Japanese version with my own interpretations of what YGO SHOULD be like, not what dubbing did to it. *eew*
Archive? Ask first.
Disclaimer: I don't own GW or Yugioh, some rich people do, do I look rich? No.
I only got several GW mangas and model kits.
( I spent all of my spare money today on Yugioh cards for this damn fic's Dueling system as references.
I got yelled at by a pissy cashier, who said you have to be over 18 to buy the cards at the cigarette counter, then got pissed when I lost my ID.
Got sweet revenge when she found out I was 19, the b*tch. 'Call the manager' now will you. :p~~! Do I look that young? Enter dark angsty mood. -end rant.)
Now that you've lived through the required fields... (Here's where my Muse usually takes a hike, heh. *yanks on his leash* Got that covered!)
Disclaimer/header will be shorter next time, sorry.
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All in the Cards 1/?
-Enter Battle City
The day before...
"I hate to say this but I think we're lost." Meiran said while wiping some dirt off her white pants. She'd been sitting on the curb as the boys had been huddled on the sidewalk, bent over the now torn map of Domino City. She could have sworn to Nataku that they had passed by this same building three times already. The graffitti covering the walls seemed to prove that theory. There's only so many times you can see the same gang marks and not know you're walking in circles. The five boys ignored her coment and decided to keep walking. She sighed then crossed her arms over her breasts as if she were cold, though her jean jacket was kind of warm in the sun. She stood to continue walking quickly behind Trowa, who was still holding the map. He'd been navigating them for the past half of an hour and in her observations, he had gotten them to nowhere fast.
"We should be on fifth..." Trowa said, turning the map to the side somewhat as he looked ahead at a green sign and then at the paper once more. "But the street signs say we're on seventeenth...We'll just double back again, right?" He stuck his free hand in his jeans pocket, glancing up from the map to Quatre's hovering face. Quatre nodded and took the map from his taller boyfriend, looking at it as if it held the key to the creation of the universe, something that, in Meiran's opinion, made him look like a little kid. At least the young blond still had that ability, while the rest of the boys seemed to be too old, with tired eyes. His aqua blue eyes were bright today and he had a slight skip in his step as he exclaimed that they were almost there. Well, of all times to go gaga over a silly little competition. That is, if they could ever FIND the registration desk...
Honestly, Meiran wanted nothing to do with it, but her husband was going, and he said she would enjoy it. 'Call it a little sight-seeing vacation' Wufei had said, 'You can Duel without killing people. Besides, I am certain the city is good for other recreation activities, what about the carnival?' He'd even bought her a damn deck of Dueling cards. They all had one, now that Duo had them visit the card shop when they stopped to switch planes in Hong Kong on their way to' Domino', Japan. Meiran knew that Duo's cards had something to do with Graveyards and Magic, Heero's with light, dark and elemental monsters, but Trowa and Quatre didn't tell her what theirs was all about. Apparantly they intended to duel her too.
She knew damn well what hers was, as she'd glanced at it once or twice. Something about Fairies. Of all things, Chang had chosen for her a deck of puny little fairies! He had focused his card deck on DRAGONS. That was more her style. She finally reasoned that once she met up with a duelist or two, she'd trade off her patheticly girly weakling cards for some with power, style and kick-ass magical abilites. Scales and sharp teeth were a plus, too. Then she'd show him who the fairy was...
As she was tagging along, she decided she'd had enough of letting the boys lead the way. She started to look for assistance, but most of the people around were business men heading off to work in a hurry, probably too busy to stop for a little chat. Five minutes and a lot of walking later, Meiran had finally stopped to ask a woman with a plastic grocerybag for directions.
The guys seemed a little surprised to find that the only girl in their little group had vanished somehow. They realized this about fifteen minutes after the fact, unfortunately. You'd think that they would pay more attention, all having been Gundam Pilots, trained in battle to notice their surroundings; however, it was peacetime, and she could hold her own as she had proven several times during the war, so they didn't really worry about her much. She was just another pilot to them, just one of the guys, only female. Besides, Duo had his headphones on loudly blasting some Jrock songs, Heero was leading the group with Quatre making observations, map in hand, pointing out street signs and deciding on a plan of action, while Trowa was quietly talking with Wufei about their strategies to beat Duo in the card game the braided baka had gotten them all obsessed with. They'd turned to ask Meiran what her strategy would be and that's when the mild panic set in.
To say the least, Wufei was pissed. How could she have ditched them like that? Silly women, in his opinion, should learn better than to run off without saying a thing! How did he ever get stuck with a girl like HER? But now that she was gone... well, he did sort of regret thinking that way. He supposed he should chalk it up to not knowing what you had until it suddenly disappeared right from under your nose. Fists clenched, he glared at the passing cumulous clouds and yelled, "Baka ONNA!"
Directions in hand, Meiran followed the inevitable sound of her husband's angry voice as it echoes off the skyscrapers.People were staring in the direction of his voice as well. She found him nearly a few blocks away. He was silently fuming as she strutted up the street to greet him, then waved the instructions in his face, and smiled sweetly. "Miss me, honey?"
Wufei lowered his head and mumbled, "Hai, baka..."
Meiran smiled and noded to Trowa. "We've been walking in circles because our map is outdated. This is a mini-map I was given of the surrounding area. Domino City went through some rennovations lately. There's the way we're supposed to be going written out here, see, the Kaiba Corp building. We'll find the registration center about five blocks that-a-way." She pointed it out to them and took Wufei's hand. He opened his mouth to scold her for wandering off, but Duo spoke up.
"Where'd you get a map like that?" Duo asked, headphones in hand, unconsciously shouting a bit from having had his music on too loud for much too long.
"A little birdie drew it on a napkin for me." She laughed and started walking toward the crosswalk, tugging her dark haired boy-toy along behind her. He grumbled about something that they couldn't hear and waved for the others to follow. They waited in line when they arrived at the center, though it didn't take long. Apparantly everyone there had dueled before and had been entered into a computer registration system.
The nerdy looking man at the counter called them up and adjusted his glasses. He frowned when he didn't find them in the computer's logs. There had been the token problem in registration, it seemed that not everyone who wanted to enter got to have a dueling disc, but compliments of the Yui Deathglare™ and another semi-shitfaced Kaiba employee, they headed out ot the city, guidebooks and dueling machines in hand. They had decided to buy the books at the registration center, which was well equipped for visitors from out of country. Apparantly a lot of foreigners were attending the duelist's competition that Kaiba had so recently thrown together.
After they were all registered and outfitted with their strange looking dueling machines, they were set to hit the town, or so they thought. The actual tournament didn't take place until the next day, of course, the man at the counter had explained. Oh, yeah, and they had to have rare cards to participate. Now they tell them! The man showed them which in their decks were rare cards, by the holographic and foil prints. Luckily, they each had one, but that meant they only had one real card each to keep them in the tournament. He was a bit surprised to see that Wufei owned a secret rare card, a Serpent Night Dragon. Meiran glared at her husband's card as he slipped it back into his deck after showing them the holographic picture. She wanted that card, damnit! A secret rare Dragon card was just perfect for her soon to be 'Dragons of Destruction' deck! (She'd been musing over that name for half a block on the way there. She decided to call what she had now a 'Petite fairy's pom-pom deck' Not suitable at all, in her own opinion.) She assumed that she would just have to duel him for it, or sweet talk him into handing it over.
Duo had had a little trouble with his machine. He didn't know what to do with the cards, and the instructions were all in Kanjis that were just too difficult for the American to read, as he had never really learned them all. Of course he knew the basic katakanas, hiraganas and kanjis, but he'd learned them all in four months, along with German, French, Italian, more studies in English, a little Arabic, a bit of Indian and some Mandarin. To say little of it, he'd crammed quite a bit of language studies in with physics, calculus and the like, due to G's insistance that he'd be travelling and not everyone knew the basic universal language. He just didn't know THAT much of each of them and reading it was harder than speaking and hearing it. Heero helped him out and showed him to place the deck in the center slot, where to put the magic and trap cards, and which row was designated for monster cards. It made sense to the braided boy then, as it looked just like a playing field, but curved a bit and with slots for the cards to slide into. He just hoped that it didn't decide to eat his rare card and spit it out as a mangled mess...
The machines seemed lightweight, which they all found quite odd, as you wore the bulky Dueling machines on your left arm and placed your cards in little slots that scan them then create holographic projections of the content of the card during a duel. The man at the counter had warned them that they do have some form of mass, but he wasn't allowed to explain it as it was Kaiba Corp's technology. In other words, "It would hurt if the fifty foot dragon decided to chomp you for dinner..." At this revelation, Duo laughed and slapped Wufei on the back, saying something about getting a Dragon Capture Jar and lots of ketchup. Wufei wasn't really listening. Meiran smiled at Duo's enthusiasm and resolved to get the biggest dragons she could get her hands on. It might actually be fun to duel Duo in that way.
"Well, that's taken care of, are you happy now Duo?" Quatre asked him after they had begun to walk back to their hotel. Duo shook his head, "No, we haven't even started yet. I wanna win some rare cards and beat this Kaiba guy. Did you know he has three rare Dragon cards?" At that comment, Wufei looked up with a curious epression. "What? You didn't know? They're Blue Eyes White Dragons, and they're major league kick-ass."
"It's just a card, Duo. Calm down." Heero said as Duo waved his arms around, miming the size of the massive dragons so that Wufei could see. Heero grabbed his friend's arms and pulled them down against his sides so that he'd hold still a moment. Duo had been really excited, and seemed to have reverted to a little kid again. Such occurences were rare, as he wasn't the stereotypical 'hyper' American that people often mistake him for at first glance. Though the guy could confuse you pretty good when he was in a happy mood. Duo smiled at Heero as he was released to keep walking down the street.
"But there's only FOUR of them in all of Duel Monsters! But it's a big thing around here, especially if you're into the game. Did you know it's based on some Egyptian thing? Then this famous guy brought it to the rest of the world as a card game, well, that's what made him famous really. They dueled with it in the past, you know, how they invented gaming? Well, they did. They played the game with stone slabs or something, and the winner got some awesome magic powers..." Meiran touched Duo on the shoulder. He was bouncing as he walked along much like a kid, but he had the most serious expression on his face. She thought he really believed it.
"What? I doubt that, Duo." Trowa blinked at Duo and shrugged when the violet eyed boy looked his way. "That's silly. There is no magic, you know?" Seeing that the braided boy didn't seem to be listening, as he'd gone back to looking through his card deck, Trowa turned to Quatre and elbowed his arm. "Tell him."
"Yes, well, I did hear something like that from somewhere, it's just a legend, I think." the blonde said. Trowa raised his eyebrows and let it drop. He obviously wasn't getting anywhere. He felt he was surrounded by little kids, well, except for Heero, who had only come along to keep his friend company. That and the fact that Duo had gotten Heero a paid vacation and the Preventers office's secretary said he had the week off. Duo dragged him along and that was the end off all protests. Duo said it would be good for the perfect soldier to learn to play a game or two, to loosen up, and maybe have some fun. He 'Totally intended to drag him off to an arcade,' as the 'games in Japan are choice!', he'd said.
He'd convinced Heero to join them in much the same way that Quatre had talked the taller brown haired boy into travelling to Japan with them as well. Trowa could use a vacation, too, Quatre had said and he'd noticed that the tourist's guide listed some nice beaches near Domino and a hot springs lay waiting just a little ways out of the city. Quatre had already called in the reservations.
Meiran had joked about dragging her husband off to the local mall to get him some new outfits or something, and Duo was interested in visiting the Museum for some reason that he had not disclosed to the rest of the group. It seemed that not all of this next week would be set aside for Dueling with little magic cards...
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