Love is in the Café: 2. Love is in the… games?
A/N
Gosh! So sorry for the wait, but I had writer's block!
Warnings/Notes: AU Yaoi. Seto/Yami. Also, I forgot to say, but the caf's name is Sweet Kiss.
Disclaimer: Yu-Gi-Oh! belongs to Kazuki Takahashi.
Summary: Sweet Kiss is sponsoring a game day in Domino Park. Coincidence happens--Seto is there as well. ;
"So, what do you think, Yami?" the owner of Kame Game Shop asked.
Yami smiled kindly at the man, sipping on a cup of milk tea with pearls. [Pearl Tea/Bubble Tea! I love this drink! =-=]. "It's awkward of you," Yami mused, "to ask a café to sponsor a game day."
Sugoroku chuckled lightly, "Well, the world isn't normal. Say," he grinned, "wouldn't it be nice to see the King of Games back in action? You can play Magic and Wizards there."
Yami blanked out a moment, his eyes empty for just a second as his lips were sealed in a thin line. It was like he was staring pass Sugoroku, pass the world, pass space, and pass time.
Sugoroku's grin faulted before he placed a gentle hand on Yami's shoulder. "Yami… I'm sorry… I didn't mean--"
Yami snapped out of his trance-like state with a blink and spoke quietly, placing a hand on his forehead as if he had a headache, "No no… it's okay…"
Sugoroku stared at Yami intently but sighed, leaving the forgotten subject alone. He loosened his grip on Yami, not even noticing he had tightened it and dropped to his side.
Yami broke into a small meekly smile, "I'll sponsor it, if that's what you'd like. I feel like I still owe you."
Sugoroku made his way out the door, a light tinkle bell sound signaled his departure. It was still early in the morning, and the sun had just started to rise. The warm blushing hue peeked into the café and lighted the unlit shop. Yami sighed and thought about what Sugoroku said before. 'Say, wouldn't it be nice to see the King of Games back in action?'
Yami's crimson eyes saddened at the words and the hidden meaning behind it. He glanced at a picture that was faced down, and hesitantly lifted it up. Gazing at the picture fondly, he remembered dark past times, and good ones as well. He sighed, forcing a smile to his berry lips. Well, let's see what this game day is about anyways.
Back in Kaiba Mansion though, someone wasn't having a good morning either. But, instead of it being grieving, it was um… let's put it in Seto's terms, a shitty morning.
Seto woke up to the sound of an annoying beeping right next to his head. He growled and groaned, turning away from the sound and pulling the blanket over his head. His movement successfully knocking the alarm to the floor, breaking it. He sighed contentedly, just thinking about sleep and the peace it brought… Good thing there's always little Mokuba to wake you up though. [ Couldn't resist.]
"Big brother!" grinned the young Kaiba brother as he jumped, jumped, and jumped again until he achieved in getting on top of Seto's rather layered bed. "Seto! Seto! Seto!" he jumped up and down on the bed, the motion and annoying squeak of the springs just brought said older Kaiba to grab a pillow and place it over his head. It was an attempt to suffocate himself. Poor thing.
"Setooooo!!" Mokuba whined as he bounced on the bed to his knees and crawled to Seto's hidden body that was beneath a thick blanket. You couldn't even tell he was there, besides the fact that growling was heard faintly. Mokuba huffed, crossing his arms and pouted while staring harshly at his older brother's blanket lump. He then had an idea, its was an old idea, and he used it a lot on Seto, but, so far it never failed him yet. He grinned with a twinkle of mischief in his eyes. Carefully and slowly lifting his brother's blanket off his head, as well as shifting the pillow a bit, he exposed Seto's ear. Now, of course, Mokuba knew this was childish. But, hey, he was a child and he did it most of the times anyways. It isn't like he's going to purposely break Seto's ear drum or anything… ahem. Moving on…
To be blunt, he randomly turned into a chibi, and wailed. He wailed, cried, sobbed, whatever term you find most fitting. But it was an annoying sound and Seto couldn't help but whine a little. "Moooooookuuuuuuuuubaaaaaaaaa!! I'm sleeping!"
Mokuba grinned, not even looking like the sobbing chibi he was a few seconds ago, depending on how fast you read this, that is. "But that's the reason I called you in the first place! Anyways, tomorrow Kame Game Shop and some other game shops are having a game day in Domino Park!" He heard Seto groan and he rolled his eyes. "And it's not all child stuff, I have you know, Big Brother. They're going to have Magic and Wizards there too, of course." Mokuba smiled and playfully punched Seto on his shoulder. "You should go."
Seto threw his pillow on his head to the floor and stared at his brother through one sleepy eye. "Are you expecting me to fall for that?"
Mokuba blinked, tilting his head to the side innocently enough. "Fall for what?"
Seto still remained impassive as a tedious expression was set on his face. "You only suggested that I go, because you want to. It's obvious, Chibi Ichi." Seto grinned as he spoke his little nickname for Mokuba. He sighed though, giving up on their morning routine and reluctantly pulled his huge blanket off him. The weight was too much, considering he had just awoken and didn't have much strength in him this early. He growled, and decided to just kick it off, well, blindly and hardly, causing him to just practically 'kick himself off his bed'. With a snickering Mokuba grinning down at him, he found himself on his floor. It's just a good thing he didn't have to work today, he thought grimly. Since when was he an optimistic?
Mokuba's a bad influence…
[Harika: Quick A/N people. I know, Seto doesn't call Mokuba Chibi Ichi, but there's a plot with this now! Yay!! So don't worry about it, but I didn't want to do this without a plot, ya know? Okay, thanks for your attention, now, Salutes back to the fic!]
Yami was walking his way to Domino Park. By now, he knew, they would've already placed signs everywhere about the whole event. As well as beginning to set up the equipment. He saw, even from a far distance, all of the games they had, considering the large machines just happening to be just sitting there. What caught his interest though, was a whole 50 acres of land to have duels of Magic and Wizards. Domino Park was fairly large, and because it was spring, it was the most beautiful place you could be in Domino. He hopped onto a stool from where a stand stood, just looking around.
"Yo, Yami. Who told you, you can sit on my stool, huh?" a voice behind the stand asked with a grin.
Yami chuckled, not even bothering to turn around to speak to his old friend. "What? No hello? No how are you? No I miss you and haven't seen you for about 3 years?" Yami then turned, pouting a bit as he placed a hand on his heart in a touchingly manner. "Jonouchi, that hurts."
Jonouchi rolled his eyes, chuckling heartily. "Hi," he said blandly and dismissed it away with a wave of his hand. Yami's grin came back. "So, how has been Domino without me?"
Yami pursed his lips together and hummed as he placed his index finger on his chin thoughtfully. "Well, you know, same old same old. We were just glad that we didn't have to take care of a puppy anymore."
Jonouchi pouted, playing along and whimpered. Awww… what a cute little puppy…
Yami laughed, a delightful ring that was rarely brought out. A twinkle of amusement in his crimson eyes. "Well, truthfully, we did miss you," he then said with a wink, feeling satisfied with the lightness of his heart now after a good laugh.
His old friend chuckled, "Good to know I'm loved. Well, I'm guessing you're coming to the game day tomorrow, ne?" he asked with a raise of his brow. But, he knew it was a statement--no, a fact, and not a question. The King of Games would surely be there, he never gave up on his old obsession of Magic and Wizards, Jonouchi knew. He himself still plays it, considering his wife challenges him to a duel for who has to wash dishes, walk the dog [Who knew? A puppy owns a dog. Oo;;;], etc. Too bad she won every time. Poor puppy, his dog doesn't even like him.
Yami nodded, "Which I'm sponsoring. Speaking of which, why are you working at a stand?"
Jonouchi blushed, embarrassed and murmured something.
Yami rose an elegant brow, "What did you say?"
Jonouchi turned away and murmured a little louder this time, "Mai said I had to sell dog food for the dog race tomorrow."
Yami couldn't help but snicker as Jonouchi turned red with anger and embarrassment "Let me guess, y-you lost a duel against her, ne?" he managed to sputter out through his laughing fit. Ladies, let's just hope he doesn't laugh himself to death. Jonouchi glared at him quietly, the silence said it all. Well, as silent as you can call it with people around the stand murmuring about teenagers these days and Yami laughing his ass off but then choking himself to a stop when he overheard the murmurs. He blushed a bit, blaming his height about the comments. He muttered a stream of curses to his body, literally twitching like crazy. It was Jonouchi's turn to laugh now. Heh.
It was well into the afternoon as the sun was blazing hot, sending rays of sunlight and heat around the park. Yami cursed himself again, making a mental note to not wear leather tomorrow. He quickly found a cool stone bench under a large tree near a pond. His face was flushed by the heat and he took out a fan he had in his pocket. So, um… how'd he get a fan in the first place? Yami shrugged it off and whipped it open experimentally, starting to fan himself like crazy. The gust from the fan immediately cooled him down and he slowly faded to his normally lightly tanned self. Relief washed over him as he started fanning slowly and lightly now. He had his eyes half-lidded as he leaned his back on the tree's trunk, just gazing up at the sky through the branches. As peace was settled around him, all was heard was the bird's faint chirping. He felt a soft breeze play with his blonde bangs and it had set sort of a calm atmosphere around him. Never moving an inch, he slid his gaze to Jonouchi at the stand, fighting off a pack of stray dogs who had smelt the food. He chuckled lightly, his chest jerking with his laugh.
Seto looked at his brother while gulping down a bottle of water, "Why are we here again?"
Mokuba smiled cheerfully, "To check out the games of course!"
Seto sweat dropped at this response, and continued walking through Domino Park with Mokuba at his side. He saw an ice cream truck, and stopped in fear. His eyes wide with horror. Mokuba followed his gaze, and instantly squealed with anxiety and ran in a blur to the ice cream truck. But came back straight to a stunned Seto. "Big Brother?" he asked innocently with a slight pout and beam up to Seto with a sparkle in both of his eyes.
Seto groaned and reluctantly took out his wallet. This is what I fear, he thought bitterly. Mokuba might as well just snatch his whole wallet and buy the ice cream truck. Too bad… that's just what happened. Seto twitched. Hehe.
A/N
I'm sorry!!!!! It's so short, I know! But a reviewer of mine asked me in one of my reviews for Wait For Me to update this one! Pouts And how could I turn down a request? Also, I got inspired to write a goodbye poem for everyone of my fictions. Here's one that popped in my head.
Heartily I do regret
That I must take my leave
Though please I hope you do
To be remembering me
I see you cry with utter grief
And through my inward eye
I hope to not make amends
Even through heart wrenching cries
I walk away to only bear with shame
And as though you can sense my eternal pain
You send sweet words with touching tones
And there I walk with a smile to home
I reach my destination in quickly hour
Without slowing down in my power
Anxiety clearly fills my grinning face
As I finally reach my belonging place
I feel various of emotions radiating
With every letter written and every word being said
Tears burn my eyes in a happy manner
And I don't bother to brush away together
You touched my heart and that's what mattered
And I close the message with a sigh
On a process of replying quickly
Even though my words mean I was willing
To come to your wishes and your pleas
And to inform you of news of my plans and me
I wish to see that pleasant twinkle in your eye
To find that pleases you more than I
Hoping to then finally make amends
You squeal with delight and glee and then
As your words echo in my blissful mind
I try to keep them safe from passing time
I engrave your pure essence in my soul
And there pleasure fills heart's deepest hole
Umm…. The poem is kind of longer than I expected… -; I got carried away, but anyways, can you tell what the whole poem was about? Guess right and I'll make a request fic. of Seto/Yami for you, or you can just pick one of the ideas in the bio to do for you, or you can request a chapter of an already existing fic. of mine to be made and given to you a week before it's posted.
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Ja ne!
Harika Huynh
P. S. Long A/N… Shit… I babbled on everything. Damn me!!